First edition

Stephano MORINO

Exercitationes de lingua primaeva

Apud Gulielmum Broedelet, Ultrajecti [Utrecht] 1694, (16) 448pp. (8), relié.

First edition
Copy to the arms of the city of Amsterdam

800 €

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Albert Joseph HENNET

Du divorce

Chez Du pont & Desenne, A Paris 1792, In-8 (11,5x18,5cm), xvj, 192pp. (4), relié.

Mention of third edition, the first having appeared in 1789.
Binding full marbled blond calf vintage. Smooth back decorated with 3 boxed florets. Roulette in the head and tail. Title piece in black morocco. Triple framing net on the boards. Golden slices. Headdress trimmed. A blunt corner. [...]

250 €

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Jean-Baptiste DEVILLE

Histoire des plantes de l'Europe, et des plus usitées qui viennent d'Asie, d'Afrique & d'Amérique

Chez Pierre Duplain, A Lyon 1766, In-12 (10x17cm), xxxvj, 342pp. et (2) 445-866p. (80), 2 volumes reliés.

New illustrated edition of about 850 in-text woodcuts. This famous edition was printed several times in the eighteenth, it seems to have appeared for the first time in 1680, first in one volume.
Bindings full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Ornate smooth backs. Title pieces in red [...]

600 €

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First edition

Samuel, Baron de PUFENDORF (ou PUFENDORFF) & Jean [...]

Le droit de la nature et des gens [ensemble] Oratio inauguralis de dignitate et utilitate juris ac ...

Chez Pierre de Coup, AAmsterdam 1712, In-4 (19,5x24,5cm), (2) CXXII (4) 613pp. et (4) 506pp. (32) ; (4) 28pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Second edition of the French translation of Jean barbeyrac, after the first published in 1706. Title pages in red and black. Absent to Brunet who speaks only editions of 1720 and 1734. The work in Latin was published for the first time in 1672. A portrait of the author frontispiece, which was not [...]

700 €

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First edition

KAWANABE KYOSAÏ

Ehon Taka Kagami (miroir de la fauconnerie)

Kinkadô, Edo 1879, 15,5x22,5cm, 12f., cousu.

First edition illustrated with 4 engravings on double page, 12 full page and 13 mid-page or vignettes, illustrating animated scenes between men, hawks and cranes; some scenes are frankly comical, others are descriptive.
Album stitched in Japanese, acordon.

850 €

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First edition

[Anonyme]

Almanach vétérinaire [Ensemble] Trésor champestre, ouvrage nécessaire aux habitans des campagnes

Chez la veuve Vallat-la-Chapelle & le Sr. Barbou, A Paris 1782, In-16 (8,5x15cm), xxiv, 216pp. ; (8) 305pp., relié.

First edition.
Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary. Smooth back adorned with the grotesque flowering branches. Title piece in Havana morocco.

250 €

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Jacques BOILEAU

De l'abus des nuditez de gorge

Chez J. de Laize de Bresche, A paris 1677, In-12 (8,5x15cm), relié.

Second edition corrected and augmented. This edition will be chosen by Paul Lacroix in the 19th century for a reprint.
Binding in full brown sheepskin marbled ice eyed. Back to nerves adorned. Title piece of tawny sheepskin. Golden slices. Triple framing net on the boards. Headdress torn off. [...]

700 €

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First edition, Signed book

[Anonyme]

Prophéties des convulsionnaires sur la Révolution Française. Oeuvre divine.

1800, (4) 84pp. 89p. non paginées, relié.

Original manuscript created around 1800
Vintage brown domed paperboard.
The thesis of the manuscript maintains that the convulsionaries are a divine work: "the work of the cross". The Ugenitus bubble that eradicated the Jansenist movement is recounted as a successful plot of the Jesuits. In [...]

2 500 €

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