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Antique books - Bibliophily - Art works
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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Alexander POPE
Oeuvres complettes
Chez la veuve Duschene, Paris 1779, 8 volumes in-8 (12,5x20cm), civ ; 290pp. (2) et (2) vj ; 471pp. et (4) 466pp. et (4)
New expanded the English text for the "best parts" and illustrated with a portrait of the author as a frontispiece by Kneller, decorated and engraved by Marillier Lebeau edition, as well as 17 beautiful figures carved by Dambrun by Marillier, Duflos, Left Godfrey and Al.Plein blond marbled calf [...]
800 €
First edition
William GILPIN
Observations Pittoresques sur différentes parties de l'Angleterre, particulièrement sur les ...
Chez Defer de Maisonneuve, à Paris 1789, in-8 (12X19,3cm), 2 volumes reliés.
Original French edition, very rare. Illustrated with 28 plates including 2 containing two figures in Volume 2, 15 for Volume I and Volume II 13, as announced by the descriptions of the figures at the beginning of the book. Most of these boards are in aquatint and was designed by the author. Some [...]
600 €
Carl LINNE
Philosophia botanica, in qua explicantur fundamenta botanica, cum definitionibus partium, exemplis ...
Iohannis Thomae De Trattnern, Vindobonae (Vienne) 1770, In 8 (13x22cm), (2) 364pp., relié.
Second edition revised and enlarged by Iohanne Gottlieb Gleditsch, after the original 1751 Illustrated with 11 boards related to plants. Only very few copies contain a portrait frontispiece of Linnaeus, unbound in ours.
half calf brown antique wedge. Back nerve nets. As part black. 3 small [...]
450 €
HELIODORE
Les amours de Théagène et Chariclée. Histoire éthiopique
S.n., à Londres 1743, in-12 (9,5x15cm), x, 213pp. et 190pp., 2 volumes reliés.
First printing of this illustrated edition whose translation of Father Desfontaine was published for the first time in 1729 a frontispiece, 5 figures for Volume I and Volume II 6, the chart entitled Conclusion often and 10 missing headbands title. The boards are not signed. Jolie edition, although [...]
600 €
First edition
François-Félix NOGARET
Podalire et Dirphé, ou La couronne tient à la jarretiere
Chez Louis, AParis 1801, 2 tomes en 2 Vol. in 12 (9x16,5cm), relié.
First Edition, iillustrée two headpieces designed by Bornet and engraved by Boivinet. Full Calf rooted contemporary. Smooth back features 3 irons and rollers. Piece of red morocco title and volume number in black morocco (pellet). Hat Volume 1 threadbare. Corners bumped. Brown and dark task page [...]
200 €
Antoine François PREVOST D'EXILES (dit Abbé PREVOST)
Le philosophe anglois, ou histoire de Monsieur Cleveland, fils naturel de Cromwel, Ecrite par ...
Chez Paul Vailant, à Londres 1777, 6 tomes en 6 Vol. in 12 (9,5x16,5cm), (4) xxiv, 429pp. et (4) 439pp. et (4) 424pp.
new edition, illustrated with 12 figures Desrais. Title pages in red and black. Volumes appeared successively in 1731, 1732, 1734 1739 and the entire novel published for the first time in 1741. Calf Full marbled time. Smooth back decorated. Parts of titles and volume numbers in red morocco. Marbled [...]
400 €
Simon THOMASSIN
Recueil des statues, groupes, fontaines, termes, vases, et autres magnifiques ornemens du chateau & ...
Au dépens de la Compagnie, à La Haye 1723, in-4 (15,5x20,5cm), 59pp. 218pl., 4 tomes reliés en 1 volume.
New edition in four languages after the one cited on p. 59 mortar in 1659. This is the third edition, the original was published in Paris in 1694, in 8, in French only. The remarkable illustration includes an allegorical frontispiece by Jan van Vianen, a great plan brochure of the city and castle [...]
2 500 €
First edition
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (dit) HORACE
Q. Horatius Flaccus cum erudito Laevini Torrentii commentario, nunc primum in lucem edito. Item ...
Ex officina plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, Antverpiae (Anvers) 1608, In 4 (18,5x25cm), (20) 839pp. (48) (1 bl.), relié.
First Edition. Large thumbnail of the printer on the title page, and back of the last page. Illustrated with a portrait of Torrentius and a second Horace copper. Text Horace Italique.Pleine sheepskin blond marbled early twentieth pastiche of a seventeenth binding. Back tooled raised. Part of title [...]
700 €
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