First edition

Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX

Oeuvres diverses du Sr Boileau Despreaux : avec le traité du sublime, ou du merveilleux dans le ...

Chez Denys Thierry, A Paris 1701, In-4 (19x25cm), (16) 446pp. ; 200pp. (6), relié.

Last edition of the works of Boileau corrected and published during the lifetime of the author. The latter admits to prefer this ultimate edition in his preface. This edition is also the first to bear the name of the author.

500 €

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First edition

Nicolas HEINSIUS

L'avanturier hollandois, ou La vie et les avantures divertissantes d'un Hollandois

Chez les Westein & Smith, A Amsterdam 1729, Fort. in-16 (7,5x13,5cm), (10) 448pp. et (8) 480pp., 2 volumes reliés.

French rare first edition, illustrated with 2 frontispices (the same repeated) and 12 pretty unsigned figures. Translation of the author himself. The novel was only reprinted in 1801 under another title. Title pages in red and black.
Binders full brown calf vintage granite. Back with ornate [...]

650 €

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First edition, Signed book

Claude Joseph ROUGET DE L'ISLE

Essais en vers et en prose

De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'Aîné, Paris An V de la République, 1796, 11x18,5cm, (4) 157 pp. ; 5 pp., relié.

First edition illustrated with an engraving

9 000 €

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First edition

Catherine Caillot de LINTOT

Histoire de Mademoiselle de Salens

Chez Jean Neaulme, A La Haye 1740, In-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (8) 384pp. et (4) 417pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition, rare. Title pages in red and black.
Bindings in full icy and marbled brown sheepskin. Back with nerves richly decorated with small irons. Burgundy morocco title pieces, red morocco tomaison pieces. Headdress of Volume II very faded. 6 blunt corners. Friction at the nerves, [...]

400 €

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First edition

Elis BENNET

Henry Bennet et Julie Johnson, ou les esquisses du coeur, roman traduit de l'anglais, et orné de ...

Chez Louis, A Paris 1794, In-18 (8,5x13,8cm), (4) 192pp. ; (4) 188pp. et (4) 184pp. ; (4) 207pp. et (4) 216pp. ;

First edition of the French translation, illustrated with 6 anonymous figures.
Reliquure in half calf around 1820. Smooth backs decorated with 2 mirrored central irons, wheels. Title and volume pieces in black calf. Marbled slices.

450 €

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First edition

Jean de LA BRUYERE

Les caracteres de Theophraste traduits du grec : avec les caracteres ou les moeurs de ce siecle

Chez F. Changuion, A Amsterdam 1744, In-12 (9,5x16,8cm), (10) liij (1) 394pp. et (6) 464pp., relié.

New edition realized by Coste with notes, the key, and of the defense of the characters.
Bindings in panda rose basoon speckled with time. Back with ornate nerves. Title pieces in red morocco, and tomaison in morocco morocco. Slit at the head of the volume I. Small lack in the lower cap at the [...]

300 €

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First edition

Cardinal de RETZ

Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz

Chez Frédéric Bernard, A Amsterdam 1731, In 12 (9,5x15,6cm), (36) 390pp. et (2) 399pp. et (2) 452pp. et (2) 331pp. (31), 4 volumes reliés.

Final edition, rare; "more complete than the preceding and the best that was given in the eighteenth century ..." Tchemerzine V, 396. A portrait engraved by Thomassin on the frontispiece. This will be the only edition of the Mémoires cited by De Bure in his bibliography.
Full sheepskin marbled [...]

1 400 €

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First edition

Claude Henri Fusée Comte de VOISENON

Zulmis et Zelmaide

S.n., A Amsterdam 1745, In-12 , (4) 160pp., relié.

First edition, rare.

750 €

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