Gabriel Bonnot Abbé de MABLY

Entretiens de Phocion, sur le rapport de la morale avec la politique

S.n., à Amsterdam 1763, In-12 (10x16,5cm), xxxvj 238pp. (1), relié.

Second edition, published the same year as the original, and like this one at the address of Amsterdam alone.
Binding in full veal blond marbled. Smooth back decorated. Title piece in red morocco. Worn head cap. Split upper bit at the top. A blunt corner. Friction.
It is undoubtedly the [...]

300 €

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Johann Heinrich Samuel FORMEY

Mélanges philosophiques

Elie Luzac, fils, à Leyde 1754, in-12 (10x16,5cm), x, 462pp. et (4) 422pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Collective Edition.
Binders full calf antique brown. Back with nerves decorated. As pieces of red leather and black sheepskin volume number. Headdresses threadbare. Mors split head 1cm. Coins very blunt. Preliminary browned leaves. Good copy.

450 €

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Johann Thuresson OXENSTIERNA

Pensées de Monsieur le Comte d'Oxenstirn

Chez Jean Van Duren, à La Haye 1750, in-12 (9x17cm), (22) 308pp. ; (6) 266pp., 2 tomes en un volume relié.

New edition, decorated with a frontispiece repeated in Volume II.
Bound in full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back with nerves decorated. as Exhibit in Havana morocco. upper joint cracked head. Lack head. A blunt corner. Good copy, fresh.

250 €

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Louis Jean LEVESQUE DE POUILLY

Théorie des sentimens agréables

Chez de Bure père, à Paris 1774, in-8 (10,5x17cm), xxxij, 352pp., relié.

Fifth and best edition, plus the praise of Mr. Pouilly (Lieutenant General presidial of the city of Reims that Levesque Pouilly endeavored to beautify), by the abbot of Saulx, the text to be engraved on a fountain erected in his honor, the 2 speech he gave in Reims March 6, 1748 and February 17, [...]

600 €

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René Louis Voyer de Paulmy Marquis ARGENSON d'

Les loisirs d'un ministre, ou essais dans le goût de ceux de Montagne, composés en 1736

Chez C. Plompteux, à Liege 1787, In-8 (13,5x21,3cm), viij, 230pp. ; (4) 231pp., 2 tomes en un volume relié.

first edition.
Binding in full mottled brown sheepskin. Back smooth decorated with 4 irons in the ballot box, nets and rollers. Triple net framing on the boards. part of title in red morocco. Very nice copy.

600 €

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Nicolas FRERET

Lettre de Thrasibule à Leucippe. Ouvrage posthume de M. F

S.n., à Londres 1766 (S.d), In-12 (9,5x17cm), 264pp. (1), relié.

Posthumous Edition
Binding full glossy veaublond contemporary. Back smooth decorated with irons in the glans. part of title in red morocco. Lack head. Gallery to tail. Scuffs on the boards, with a lack of 2 cm in diameter.

300 €

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Antoine-Augustin BRUZEN DE LA MARTINIERE

Le Grand dictionnaire géographique, historique et critique

Chez P. G. Le Mercier & Le Mercier & Boudet, à Paris 1739-1741, in-4 (25,5x38,5cm), (4) XII pp. (2) 525 pp. (3) 334

original and complete well Editing six volumes
Binders of the time in the open marbled brown calf,

1 000 €

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Giovanni Andrea UGONI

Dialogo della vigilia, et del sonno del magnifico signore Ugoni, gentilhuomo Bresciano [Ensemble] ...

Apresso Pietro da Fine, In Venetia (Venise) 1562, Pet. in-8 (10x14,5cm), (10) 80pp. (3) (2bc.) (8) 116pp. (3) (1bc.) (6) (24), relié.

First edition of these three editions, operating as three separate parts (the signature notebooks connects indeed the parts together). 3 title pages with marks from the printer to cock.
Bound in full vellum early twentieth. Smooth spine with title pen in red and black. Stains and dirt. Good [...]

1 800 €

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