Baltasar GRACIAN

L'homme de cour

Chez Abraham Troyel, A Amsterdam 1701, In-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (60) 372pp., relié.

Mention of fifth edition.
Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back with nerves richly adorned. title label in brown morocco. A tiny missing tail. A corner of the title room missing. Friction. Good copy.111

350 €

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Bertrand de MOLLEVILLE

Costumes des Etats héréditaires de la Maison d'Autriche

Imprimé pour William Miller, Londres 1804, In-Folio (26x36cm), xxviij (2) 50 Pl. 50f., relié.

First edition, beautifully illustrated with 50 engraved plates and watercolors, all are numbered and signed William Ellis. Bilingual text, first English, then French on the following pages.

1 500 €

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Claude-François MENESTRIER

L'art des emblemes

Chez Benoist Coral, A Lyon 1662, Grd. in-12 (10,5x17,5cm), (4) 160pp. (6), relié.

First Edition illustrated with 9 emblem figures and some in-text figures.
Binding full brown sheepskin speckled contemporary. Back with ornate nerves. title label of brown sheepskin. Upper hat pulled off. Upper joint open in tail. Trace of wetting on the upper dish. Small scattered foxinges, [...]

250 €

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François BEDOS DE CELLES

La gnomonique pratique, ou l'art de tracer les cadrans solaires avec la plus grande précision, par ...

Alexandre Jombert, A Paris 1780, In 8 (12,5x19,7cm), xl, 510pp. 39 Pl., relié.

New edition, the original seems to have appeared in 1755; it is illustrated with a frontispiece by Gazot, engraved by Maniere, and 38 folding planks at the end of the volume engraved by Meunier, as well as a large folding map of France drawn by Bonne. These boards include different types of dial, [...]

700 €

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Fulvio ORSINI

In omnia opera ciceronis notae

Ex officina Christophori Plantini, Antverpiae (Anvers) 1581, In-8 (11x16,5cm), 293pp. (1), relié.

Plantinian edition. We could not determine if it was a first edition, these notes having been able to serve in an edition of the works of Cicero. It is probable, however, that it was the first time that they appeared in this form.
German binding in full eighteenth glossed brown [...]

500 €

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VASSETZ

De l'obligation que les peres et les meres ont l'obligation d'instruire eux-mêmes leurs enfants

Chez Jean-baptiste Coignard, A Paris 1695, In-12 (9,5x16,2cm), (20) 255pp. (1), relié.

First edition.
Binding full brown sheepskin speckled contemporary. Back with ornate nerves. title label in brown morocco. Headdress torn off. Split joints in the lead. Coins very blunt. Friction.
Treaty of education seeking the inalienable causes of natural instruction, that of children by [...]

200 €

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Pierre Jean-Baptiste NOUGARET

De l'art du théâtre en général

Chez Cailleau, A Paris 1769, Fort in-12 (10x17cm), xxiv, 382pp. ; viij, 5-368p. (2), 2 tomes en un volume relié.

First edition.
Posterior restoration binding, ca 1815. Half

350 €

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Pierre NICOLE

De l'éducation d'un prince divisée en trois parties, dont la derniere contient divers traittez ...

Chez la veuve Charles Savreux, A Paris 1670, In-12 (9x15,5cm), (24) 426pp. (3), relié.

First edition, rare.
Binding full brown sheepskin speckled contemporary. Back with ornate nerves. title label of brown sheepskin.

300 €

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