First edition

Jean LEPAUTRE

Fontaines & Jardins avec sujets d'Histoire, tires de la Fable, Inventés & gravés par J. le ...

Nicolas Langlois, Paris 1660 (S.d.), In-8 oblong (20,5x31cm), broché.

First print of this set of plates illustrating 6 metamorphoses of Ovid. The collection contains no title or frontispiece. The title that we give is in fact that which Jombert in one reprage in the XVIIIth century, when he publishes all of Lepautre's works, will publish it; but we don't know much [...]

600 €

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First edition

Jean LEPAUTRE

Veue grottes et fontaines de jardins à l'italienne inventez et gravez par I. le Pautre

Chez Pierre Mariette, Paris 1650 (S.d.), In-8 oblong (20,5x31cm), relié.

First print of this suite

500 €

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First edition

Jean LEPAUTRE

Grottes & veües de Jardins inventées et gravées par Jean le Pautre

Pierre Mariette, A Paris 1650 (S.d.), In-8 oblong (20,5x31cm), relié.

First print of this suite composed of 6 prints. Copy similar to that held by the Biblioteca historica Marques de Valdocilla in Madrid (UCM)

600 €

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François MAZOT

Le tableau de la croix représenté dans les cérémonies de la Sainte messe

Chez F. Mazot, A Paris 1653, Pet. in-8 (11,5x16cm), 53f., relié.

Second edition with the privilege of 1653, rare. Entirely engraved work of 92 pages (with text and figures), and illustrated with a portrait of Charles de l'Aubespine by Guillaume de Gheyn, with a beautiful frontispiece by Collin. This edition differs from the first by some notable points. Besides [...]

1 500 €

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Vue d'optique - Décoration du feu d'artifice tiré à Londres en réjouissance de la paix en 1763

Chez Mondhare1734-1799, Paris circa 1765, 32x46cm, une feuille.

Original engraving. Optical view highlighted in watercolor, representing a view of the fireworks shot in Green Park, London in celebration of peace in 1763
Optical views, also called views, perspectives or "mondo nuovo", are engravings very fashionable between the late eighteenth [...]

230 €

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MARILLIER

Recueil de gravures pour les oeuvres de Lesage et Prévost d'Exiles

Hôtel Serpente, Paris 1783 - 1785, Pet. in-4 (16,5x22,5cm), relié.

Compendium of portraits of Lesage and Prevost, 32 figures for Lesage's works and 77 figures for the works of Prevost d'Exiles at the Hôtel Serpente, ie 109 boards not clipped and mounted on tabs.

450 €

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Sébastien LE CLERC

Divers habillemens des anciens grecs et romains

Jeaurat, Paris 1706, In-8 (13x20,8cm), 25 Pl., relié.

"For the usefulness of young people who exercise in drawing & painting, Le Clerc collected 25 small prints on the different habillmens Greek and Roman, he engraved in 1706."

500 €

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François CHAUVEAU, Eustache LE SUEUR

La vie de St. Bruno, fondateur de l'ordre des Chartreux

Chez René Cousinet, à Paris 1660 S.d., In-folio (27,5x41cm), (4) 22pl., relié.

first edition, rare, illustrated with a title frontispiece and 22 plates from the tables of Eustache Le Sueur and engraved by Francois Chauveau.
Binding half shagreen iced chocolate ca 1860 with corners L. signed Fixon bottom of the last page. Back to jansenist nerves. Engraved title and the [...]

1 200 €

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