First edition

Louis Sébastien MERCIER

Tableau de Paris

A Amsterdam 1782 - 1783, In-8 (12,5x20cm), (2) xvj, 319pp. ; (2) 352pp. et (2) 352pp. ; (2) 331pp. et (2) 351pp. ; (2)

Partly first edition
Binders in full brown calf of marbled time. Back with ornate nerves. title labels in red morocco, pieces of tomaison in morocco green. A small lack at the top of Volume 4, tail accident with epidermis along the upper joint tail; upper joint split in the lead. Several blunt [...]

800 €

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Gilles CORROZET

Les antiquitez, histoires et singularitez de Paris, ville capitale du royaume de France

Au Palais En la boutique de Gilles Corrozet, A Paris 1550, In-8 (10x16,8cm), (16f.) 200ff. (2f.), relié.

First edition, rare and precious.
Binding full brown calf vintage. spine with silent nerves and Jansenist. A central jewel framing cold on the boards. Framing rectangle with small fetishes in the spandrels. Caisson de tail ripped off. 2 restored boxes. A lack in the second box. Missed in [...]

900 €

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Maximilien MISSON

Nouveau voyage d'Italie

Chez Henry Van Bulderen, A La Haye 1702, In-12 (10x16,5cm), (56) 339pp. (20) et (2) 356pp. (23) et (2) 414pp. (18), relié.

Mention fourth edition. Title pages in red and black.
Copy to arms of Armand Louis de Clerc de Juigné
Binders in full brown sheepskin contemporary.

1 200 €

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ROBBE

Methode pour apprendre facilement la Geographie, contenant un abrégé de la sphère, et un traité ...

Chez Antoine Dezallier, AParis 1689, Fort in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (22) 592pp. (20) et (4) 414pp. ; (8) 140pp. (20), 2 volumes reliés.

first edition, rare, illustrated with a frontispiece by Guérard, a figure and 25 folding cards engraved by De Fer.
Binders in full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back with ornate nerves. Title and volume pieces of brown sheepskin.

800 €

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Arthur William COSTIGAN

Lettres sur le gouvernement, les moeurs et les usages en Portugal

Le Normant, Paris 1811, In-8 (12,5x20,5cm), viij, 550pp. (1), relié.

First edition. A sheet of errata in fine.
Binding half blond sheepskin contemporary. Smooth back decorated with 2 irons and 2 caissons grotesque, fat and lean fillets. Title piece in red morocco. Marbled brown paper plates. Nice copy, also very fresh.

500 €

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John BARROW

Histoire chronologique des voyages vers le pole arctique, entrepris pour découvrir un passage ...

Librairie de Gide fils, Paris 1819, In-8 (13,5x20,5cm), (4) 357pp. et (4) 336pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First french edition
Bindings half glazed glossy havana contemporary. Smooth backs decorated with wheels and jewels. Pieces and tomato pieces of chocolate glazed veal. Headdress of the torn volume 1 (it is inside the volume). Split upper joint. Grip of volume 2 very narrowly split at the head [...]

450 €

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John BARROW

Voyage dans la partie méridionale de l'Afrique ; fait dans les années 1797 et 1798

Dentu, Paris 1801, In-8 (12,5x20,7cm), xvj, 403pp. (1) et (4) 326pp. (2), 2 volumes reliés.

First edition
Bindings in full brown sheepskin vintage flamed. Smooth back decorated with 2 florets and 2 grotesque boxes, and multiple wheels. Title pieces in red morocco, pieces of tomaison in morocco green. Frieze framing on the boards. Epidermures on the boards, near the external borders. [...]

900 €

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Jean-François LAHARPE

Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages

Chez Ledoux et Tenré, A Paris 1816, In-8 (12,5x20,5cm), 24 volumes reliés.

New edition, without the folio atlas of 15 boards.
Bindings half blond sheepskin contemporary. Smooth back nicely adorned with anchor and ship irons, wheels and ornaments. Title pieces in red morocco, pieces of tomaison in morocco green. Little lack in the tail of Volume I and at the head of [...]

1 800 €

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