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, broché.

One of the very rare copies enriched with an autograph - there are fewer than a dozen - of this first edition, featuring the Marseillaise.
First edition illustrated with an engraving inset engraved by Charles-Etienne Gaucher after Jean-Jacques Le [...]

8 000 €

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Jean-François REGNARD

Les oeuvres

Chez Pierre Ribou, A Paris 1708, In-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (4) 357pp. (3) et (2) 278pp.(2) ; 103pp. (3) ; (2) 11pp. (1), 2 volumes reliés.

First collective edition of Regnard's works.
Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back to nerves adorned. title labels in red morocco, pieces of tomaison in red morocco. Headdress of Volume II partly torn off. Misses in the tail of the volume I. Friction. Blunt and bare corners.

450 €

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Claude-Etienne SAVARY

Les amours d'Anas-Eloujoud et de Ouardi, conte traduit de l'Arabe

Chez Onfroy, A Bagdad se trouve à Paris 1789, In-18 (7,5x12,5cm), (2) 4p. (4) 96pp., relié.

First Edition posthumous, rare. After the subtitle, 4p. catalog.
Binding full porphyry vintage calfskin. Smooth back decorated with 4 florets. Title piece of black calf. Frieze framing on the boards. Small slot on 0,5cm with the upper joint in head and in tail, tiny. Nice copy.

500 €

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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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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 [...]

700 €

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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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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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