First edition

Pietro GIANNONE

Histoire civile du royaume de Naples

Chez Pierre Gosse & Isaac Beauregard, à La Haye 1742, In-4 (21x25cm), (2) XXVIII, 656pp. et (2) VIII, 755pp. et (2)

First french edition, the translation of which is attributed to Louis de Bochat and Desmonceaux. It is illustrated with a portrait on the frontispiece, 4 title vignettes and a plate of medals.
Binding in half brown sheepskin, small corners. Back to nerves decorated with nets. title label of [...]

1 200 €

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Signed book

Gabriele d' ANNUNZIO

La figlia di iorio

Presso i fratelli Treves, Milano 1904, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

Edition of the year of the original.
Binding full carton vellum style, smooth back, title label of brown shagreen, boards struck at their centers of the golden arms of Count Paul Biver, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, covers and back preserved, gilded head, binding of l [...]

2 000 €

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First edition

Charles de BROSSES

Lettres sur l'Italie

Chez Ponthieu, à Paris 1799 (An VII), In-8 (12,5x19,5cm), viij, 415pp. et (4) 455pp. et (4) 400pp., relié.

First edition.
Binding half brown sheepskin speckled flat flamed yellow paper, cunning pastiche of the late nineteenth. Smooth back decorated with fat and lean fillets. Black shagreen pieces. Tiny traces of friction. Nice copy, very fresh.

1 300 €

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Antoine Claude Pasquin VALERY

Voyages historiques, littéraires et artistiques en Italie. Guide raisonné complet du voyageur et ...

Baudry & Aimé André, Paris 1831 - 1833, In-8 (13x21,5cm), 487pp. et 307pp. ; 443pp. et 359pp. ; 315pp., 5 tomes en 3 volumes reliés.

First edition composed of the first 3 volumes of 1831 and volumes 4 and 5 published in 1833.
Binding ca 1850 in brown glazed half calf. Back with nerves adorned with series of fat and lean fillets and wheels in tail and head. Title and volume coins in black morocco.
Valery was unanimously [...]

450 €

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First edition

Edouard AUBERT

La vallée d'Aoste

Amyot, Paris 1860, 34x27cm, relié.

Amyot, Paris 1860, 11.5 x 18.5 cm, bound
First edition published the same year the Aosta Valley became part of Italy. The work is illustrated with 97 wood engravings in the text, 33 steel insert engravings, 6 chromotypographies and a map.
Bound in half red shagreen, spine decorated [...]

7 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Yves BONNEFOY

Rome, 1630 suivi de Un des siècles du culte des images

Flammarion, Paris 2000, 11x18cm, broché.

First Edition in paperback format.
Nice copy.
Autograph signed by Yves Bonnefoy Georges Raillard.

40 €

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First edition

Henri II de Lorraine Duc de GUISE

Les memoires de feu Monsieur le Duc de Guise

Chez Edme Martin et Sébastien Larbre-Cramoisy, AParis 1668, In 4 (19x25,8cm), (16) 795pp. (6) (1bc.), relié.

First edition, uncommon. A title sticker with the arms of the Duke of Guise, Henry II of Lorraine (1614-1664). These memoirs were published by the Duke's secretary, the Sieur de Saint-Yon, who asked Philippe Goibeau to draft them. It will be noted, however, that Augustin Calmet, (bbl lorraine 594) [...]

900 €

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First edition

Marie-Joseph Marquis de FORESTA

Lettres sur la Sicile, écrites pendant l'été de 1805 par le Marquis de Foresta

Chez Pillet aîné, à Paris 1821, In-8 (13x20cm), xxij (2) 299pp. et (4) 299pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition.
Bindings in full sheepskin rooted and icy. Smooth backs decorated with 2 boxes to the grotesque

500 €

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