First edition

Antoine LE ROUX DE LINCY

Le livre des proverbes français précédé de recherches historiques sur les proverbes français ...

Adolphe Delahays, Paris 1859, 10x16,5cm, 2 tomes reliés.

Second edition, partly original as revised, corrected and enlarged and printed on laid paper.
Bindings in half navy blue morocco with corners, back with five nerves, golden dates in tails, plates of marbled paper, guards and counterplates of paper in the tank, golden heads on witnesses, [...]

180 €

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First edition

Claude-François HOUBIGANT

Racines hebraiques sans points-voyelles, ou dictionnaire hebraique par racines

Chez Claude Simon, A Paris 1732, In-8 (12,5x20,5cm), (4) LXXXVII (1) 368pp., relié.

first edition. Handwritten pages on Jean Buxtorf and his family on the cover pages and Hebrew alphabet

Binding in full marbled contemporary sheepskin. Smooth decorated back. title label of fawn morocco. Head cap eliminated, with a lack of the lower joint in the head. 3 blunt corners. [...]

450 €

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First edition

Johann Amos COMENIUS

Janua linguarum reserata cum graeca versione

Amstelodami, D. Elzevirium 1665, In-12 (10,5x16,5cm), (22) 266pp. ; 238pp., relié.

Second edition among the Elzevir (the first in 1640), after the original in 1631.
Pastiche binding late nineteenth in full brown sheepskin. Ornate nerved back. title label of brown sheepskin. Friction.
This new method of learning languages, no longer word by word, but by sentence, was very [...]

350 €

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Abel PAVET DE COURTEILLE

Dictionnaire Turk-Oriental destiné principalement à faciliter la lecture des ouvrages de Baber, ...

Imprimerie Impériale, Paris 1870, 18,5x26,5cm, broché.

First edition.
Back broken and with missing, missing boards, ex-libris manuscript on the title page, nice interior state.
Rare but in the state.


 

300 €

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First edition, Signed book

Jean PSICHARI

Efendi

Hachette & Cie, Paris 1908, 15,5x23cm, broché.

New edition of the French translation illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous in-text vignettes of Grandville.
Binding half blue shagreen, smooth back decorated with quadruple golden threads, golden friezes on the head and tail of the back, traces of rubbing on the back and upper caps, [...]

120 €

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First edition

LADVOCAT

Grammaire hebraïque, à l'usage des ecoles de Sorbonne

De l'imprimerie de Vincent, A Paris 1755, In-8 (12,5x20cm), xvj, 192pp. (3), relié.

First edition.
Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back with ornate nerves. title label in beige morocco. Headdress torn off. On the upper plate, the owner's golden iron, Camille Aboussouan, Mount Lebanon. a lack of the upper bit in the lead. Coins very blunt. Some scuffs on the [...]

400 €

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First edition

Isidore LOWENSTERN

Essai de déchiffrement de l'écriture assyrienne pour servir à l'explication du monument de ...

A. Franck, Paris & Leipzig 1845, 18,5x26,5cm, broché.

First edition.
Absence of the back and the second board, first board marginally soiled, pleasant interior state.
Fascicule full of his 3 folding boards.
Autograph of Isidore Löwenstern to Monsieur de La Roquette.

150 €

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First edition

Joachim MENANT

Exposé des éléments de la grammaire assyrienne

Imprimerie impériale, Paris 1868, 17,5x26cm, relié.

First edition.
Binding half black shagreen, back slightly cleared with five nerves adorned with caissons and nets cold, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper.
Some small foxinges.

60 €

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