First edition

Francesco Petrarca, dit PETRARQUE

Le Petrarque en rime francoise avecq ses commentaires

Chez Rutger Velpius, A Bruxelles 1600, Pet. in-8 (9,5x15,2cm), (24) 547pp. (13), relié.

First edition of the translation of Philippe de Maldeghem.
Posterior binding late eighteenth half blond sheepskin. Smooth back decorated with 2 florets and 2 caissons to the grotesque. title label in red morocco.

450 €

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Charles de SAINT-GILLES

La muse mousquetaire. Oeuvres posthumes

Chez Guillaume de Luynes, A Paris 1709, In-12 (10x16,8cm), (4) 280pp. (4), relié.

First edition.

Binding half calf glossy blonde ca 1860. Back with nerves adorned with nets. title label of black calf. Date in queue.
King's Musketeer, the Chevalier de Saint-Gilles had a marked fondness for literature. He is the author of several fables from Aesop and gallant [...]

300 €

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Madeleine de PUISIEUX

Mémoires d''un homme de bien

Chez Delalain, A Paris 1768, x, 234pp. ; (2) 203pp. et (2) 317pp. (3), relié.

First edition.
Binding half brown sheepskin at small corners' time. Back with ornate nerves. title labels in red morocco, pieces of black sheepskin tomaison. A lack of volume I, a lack of tail, a slot in the upper bit in tail. Friction. 5 blunt corners. Good copy.
One of the leading novels [...]

280 €

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VIRGILE

Oeuvres de Virgile

De l'imprimerie de P. Plassan, A Paris 1796, lxj, 478pp. et 437pp. et 447pp. et 510pp., relié.

Illustrated edition First printing of a portrait frontispiece and 17 figures, including 5 after Moreau the young and engraved by Simonet, Dambrun, Delvaux and Ponce, and 12 by Zocchi, engraved by Baquoy, Delignon, Thomas, etc.
Bilingual edition with French in comparison, in the translation of [...]

700 €

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Antoine de LA SALLE

L'histoire plaisante, et chronique du petit Jehan de Saintré, de la jeune dame des belles cousines

1750, In-4 (18,5x24,5cm), 400pp., relié.

Manuscript realized on the original Gothic edition of 1523, with the black pen, of a relatively readable writing. The manuscript is paginated from p.1 to 400. About 28 lines per page.

Binding full icy blond calf vintage. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco. 2 corners [...]

600 €

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CARTIER DE SAINT PHILIP

Le je ne sais quoi. Nouvelle édition augmentée de XXXI articles nouveaux par M. de Mirone

Chez jean Broedelet, A Utrecht 1741, In-12 (9,5x17cm), xx, 392pp. et (2) 414pp. 54pp. (25), 4 parties en 2 volumes reliés.

New edition, partly original because augmented by a volume.
Binding full brown marbled and glazed vintage calf. Back with richly decorated nerves, wheels. Title and volume piece of red morocco.

500 €

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Gaspard GUILLARD DE BEAURIEU

L'élève de la nature

Chez Panckoucke, A Amsterdam & se trouve à Paris 1764, In-12 (10x17cm), iv, 307pp. ; (4) 212pp. (3), 2 parties en un volume relié.

First edition, rare.

Binding full marbled and glazed vintage calf. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco.

500 €

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Jacques de TOURREIL & DEMOSTHENE

Oeuvres

Chez Brunet, A Paris 1721, In-4 (20x26cm), (2) lxvj (2) 532pp. et (2) 733pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Collective first posthumous edition, composed on manuscripts by Guillaume Massieu. A portrait with a frontispiece and a large vignette of repeated title.

Binding in full brown sheepskin mottled and icy. Back with ornate nerves, wheels. title label of brown calf, piece of brown [...]

700 €

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