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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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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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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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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Jean-François Paul de Gondi, 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 [...]

1 500 €

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Claude Henri Fusée Comte de VOISENON

Tant mieux pour elle

De L'imprimerie de l'hymen, A Ville-Neuve 1760 (S.d), In-16 (8x13,5cm), 137pp. (3), relié.

First edition, rare. Title page in red and black.
Exemplary to the arms of CFA Barbarat de Mazirot, president of the parliament of Metz.

550 €

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Jacopo SANNAZARO

L'Arcadie, traduite de l'italien

Chez Nyon, A Paris 1737, In-12 (10x17cm), xx, 226pp. (2), relié.

First edition of the translation.

Binding full brown marbled vintage calf. Smooth back decorated with acorns. Headdress torn off. a very dull corner. Friction. Spiked tail. trace of wetness at the bottom right corner of p. 161 at the end.

260 €

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James MORIER

The adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan

John Murray, London 1824, In-12 (10,5x17cm), lxxv, 272pp. et (4) 403pp. et (4) 387pp., 3 volumes reliés.

First Edition, rare, published anonymously.
Binding half calf blonde with slightly posterior corners. Back with nerves with ornate caissons. Title and volume pieces of brown shagreen. Golden heads. Lack the title room of Volume I, with the title present cold. Missing the title coin of Volume [...]

1 200 €

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