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Antique books with engravings

This name generally refers to the books from the XVIth to the XVIIIth century enriched with engravings off-text copies sometimes reserved for luxury copies. Always prepared with art, antique books with engravings perpetuate ancestral tradition of illumination.

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Claude-Prosper Jolyot de CREBILLON (dit CREBILLON FILS)

L'ecumoire, Histoire japonoise. [Tansaï et Neadarné]

Chez Arkstée et Merkus, à Amsterdam 1743, In-16 (8x13,5cm), (2) XVIII (4) 208pp. ; (6) 328pp., 2 tomes en un volume relié.

Dutch counterfeiting of the illustrated edition of 1743 to Pekin, the first edition of the only text dating back to 1734. A frontispiece repeated in the 2 volumes (the Chinese emperor and his court with monkeys in trees). Title pages in red and black.
Bindings in full calfskin from the icy era. [...]

650 €

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First edition

Jacques BASNAGE DE BEAUVAL & Abbé GIUSTINIANI

Histoire des ordres militaires ou des chevaliers, des milices seculieres et regulieres de l'un & de ...

Chez Pierre Brunel, à Amsterdam 1721, In-8 (11,5x18cm), XXXII (16) 163pp. (10) 254pp. et (4) 441pp. (1) et (4) 471pp.

Edition originale illustrée de 188 planches, la plupart de costumes et d'autres d'insignes ou décorations de ces ordres, dessinés par Bernard Picard et par Schoonebeck, gravées au burin par W. Jonkman. Pages de titre en rouge et noir. une page de titre spécifique pour la Dissertation [...]

1 500 €

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Giulio Cesare CROCE

Bertoldo con Bertoldino et Cacasenno

Lelio dalla Volpe, In Bologna 1736, In-4 (21,5x29,5cm), (16) 346pp. (2) 128pp., relié.

First edition. The original dates from 1606. The illustration includes a frontispiece, a title vignette and 20 figures as well as 16 vignettes placed at the end of certain songs, all by Giuseppe Maria Crespi. Neat impression.
Binding in full vellum of the nineteenth ca1880. Back to nerves [...]

2 500 €

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First edition

Thomas A KEMPIS & Jacob STRATIUS, Christoffel van [...]

Die Alleen-Spraecke Der Zielen met Godt. Door den Eerw. Heere H. Thomas van Kempen, Regulier der ...

by Jan Maes, Loven (Louvain) 1628, in 12 (15,5x10,5cm), (8) 135ff. (5)., broché sous étui.

First illustrated edition of 20 engravings by C. Van Sichem (initials, ornaments, and text in a frame) and printed in Gothic.
Our copy is presented paperback in a contemporary case in half morocco with old rose nerves, golden date in the tail, cardboard vellum boards.
Jacob Stratius [...]

500 €

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Lorenzo PIGNORIA

De servis et Eorum apud Veteres Ministeriis, Commentarius, In quo familia, tum erbana, tum rustica, ...

Sumptibus Andrea Frisius, Amsterdam 1674, In-16 (7,5x13,3cm), (36) 582pp. (38), relié.

New, rare edition, illustrated with 6 full-page figures and 21 vignettes. Printer's mark on the title page, in pine. The boards include musical instruments, jewelry, kitchen utensils
Binding in full brown calf of marbled and glazed era. Smooth back decorated with 5 boxed florets. title label in [...]

750 €

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First edition

François-Augustin Paradis de MONCRIF

Oeuvres

Chez la veuve Regnard, à Paris 1768, In-12 (9,8x16,5cm), (2) xiv, 233pp. et (2) 200pp. (2) et (2) 233pp. (1) 21pp.

New edition
Binding in full marbled and glazed calf of time. Ornate nerved back. title label in red morocco, volume number with black wax. red slices. A small lack in the lower joint at the head of volume I. Gallery of worms at the end of volume II. 5 blunt corners. Traces of friction. Very [...]

650 €

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First edition

Felice Maria NERINI

De templo et coenobio sanctorum Bonifacii et Alexii historica moumenta

Auod Jo. Laurenti Barbiellini, Romae 1752, In-4 (19,5x26cm), XXXI (1) 600pp. (12), relié.

Original illustrated edition of 13 plates out of text, including several fold-outs, including the famous image of Notre-Dame d'Édesse. Title page in red and black, with a vignette bearing the coat of arms of Cardinal Quirino.
Binding in full soft vellum of time. Smooth back. title label of [...]

800 €

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First edition

René-Antoine Ferchault de REAUMUR

Art de faire eclorre et d'élever en toute saison des oiseaux domestiques de toutes especes

De L' Imprimerie Royale, à Paris 1749, In-12 (9,5x16,8cm), xij, 342pp. et (4) 339pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Original illustrated edition of 9 fold-out plates for the first volume, and 6 for the second, as well as 11 header.
Binding in full speckled and glazed brown calf of time. Ornate nerved back. title label in red morocco, volume number decorated in green morocco. Small gaps at the head of the 2 [...]

1 000 €

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