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• Buy FOY DE LA NEUVILLE Relation curieuse, et nouvelle de Moscovie. Contenant, l’état prése... The mission of Foy de La Neuville to Russia in 1689
• Buy Tapisseries du Roi, où sont représentez les quatre éléments et les ... The Tapestries ordered by Louis XIV for Versailles
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• Buy OSIANDER Harmonie Evagelicae libri quatuor, in quibus evangelica historia […]. Extremely rare edition of this Protestant book
• Buy NODIER Journal de l’Expédition des Portes de Fer rédigé par Charles Nodier... One of the rare copies not issued for sale of the Duke of Orleans' travel through Algeria
• Buy LUSIGNAN DE CYPRE, le R.P. Estienne de Les généalogies de soixante et sept très nobles et très illustres m... An interesting genealogical study conducted in the 16th century on the Lusignans
• Buy LE BLANC, Jean-Bernard Lettres de Monsieur l’Abbé Le Blanc, historiographe des bastimens d... Portrayal of the English customs of the 18th century by the protégé of Mme de Pompadour
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• Buy ELUARD, Paul. Voir. Poèmes Peintures Dessins. "Voir" by Paul Eluard
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• Buy FLOQUET, Jean-André Canal de Richelieu en Provence et dépendances. Délibérations de l’A... First edition of the report of the general assembly’s deliberations held by the company of the Provence Canal on April 1752.
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• Buy DAVILA, Henri-Catherin Histoire des guerres civiles de France. Contenant tout ce qui s’est... The great history of the French Wars of Religion by Davila.
• Buy [BERNARD, P. J.-B] La Reconstruction de l’Eglise Sainte Geneviève [Le Panthéon]. Ode, ... The reconstruction of the Pantheon by Soufflot
• Buy CERVANTES Histoire de l’admirable Don Quichotte de la Manche.
• Buy OVIDE / OVID Metamorphoseos libri moralizati. [Commentaires par Lactantius Placi... First illustrated edition from Lyons of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, illustrated with 16 beautiful woodcuts in first issue.
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• Buy TORY, Geoffroy. Bréviaire. The breviary of the Benedictine nuns of Saint Susan illustrated by Geoffroy Tory in 1533, decorated with gorgeous fanfare binding from the 16th century in a perfect state of con...
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• Buy MORISOT, Claude Barthélémy Orbis maritimi sive rerum in mari et littoribus gestarum generalis ... First and unique edition of the first encyclopedia dedicated to the maritime world.
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• Buy AUBERT, Jean-Louis. Fables et Œuvres diverses Beautiful copy in red morocco with the arms of the Queen Marie-Antoinette.
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• Buy : Codice di Procedura Civile. Codice di Procedura Civile Pel Regno d’Italia. Edizione originale e... First edition of the Code of Civil Procedure for the Kingdom of Italy.
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• Buy VAN DER MEULEN, Adam François. Recueil de 34 estampes, la plupart doubles ou plusieurs fois replié... Presentation copy offered by King Louis XIV of the famous collection of Van der Meulen, the most beautiful seventeenth century French illustrated book bound in contemporary red ...
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• Buy LA FONTAINE Fables choisies, mises en vers par M. de la Fontaine et par luy rev... First collected edition of La Fontaine’s Fables, the only one printed and corrected under the author’s direction. It is of the highest interest and of the greatest importance.
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• Buy ISOCRATE. Orationes omnes [Graece], quarum nomina in sequenti invenies pagina... The Works of Isocrates printed in Greek in 1540 bound at the time for Marcus Függer (1529-1597), rival of Giovanni Batista Grimaldi.
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• Buy AGRICOLA, Georgius De re Metallica. The only known copy of this original scientific edition preserved in its beautiful contemporary blind-stamped pigskin binding from Basel with its original clasps preserved.
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• Buy BALBUS, Johannes (d. 1298). Catholicon. The famous "Catholicon" completed by Koberger on 21 August 1486, complete, preserved in its decorated workshop binding of the time.
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• Sold Produit Anne of Britanny’s Book of Hours
• Sold MAYERBERG, Augustin, baron de Voyage en Moscovie d’un Ambassadeur, Conseiller de la Chambre Impér... Account of travel to Russia in the 17th century by a German diplomat
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• Sold PILES, Roger de Dissertation sur les ouvrages des plus fameux peintres. Dédiée à Mo... Treatise on painting by Roger de Piles with the monogram of the duke of Richelieu
• Sold [MAUGARD, Antoine] Remarques sur la noblesse. Dédiées aux Assemblées provinciales. A study conducted on the French nobility on the brink of the Revolution
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• Sold LE LIVRE DES MILLE NUITS ET UNE NUIT. Traduction littérale et compl... The Thousand and One Nights illustrated with oriental design on the covers
• Sold BOSSUET Traitez du libre-arbitre, et de la concupiscence. Ouvrages posthumes. Treatises by Bossuet composed for the education of the future sovereign
• Sold BOSSE, Abraham Traité des pratiques geometrales et perspectives, enseignées dans l... Art and science of perspective by A. Bosse
• Sold VOLTAIRE Théâtre complet Voltaire's "Theatre"
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• Sold GAUTIER, Théophile Le Roman de la Momie. Quarante-deux composition originale de Alex. ... "The Romance of the Mummy" by Théophile Gautier, illustrated by Alexandre Lunois
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• Sold Heures Nouvelles Outstanding book of Hours
• Sold PROUST A la recherche du temps perdu. "A la recherche du temps perdu" by Marcel Proust
• Sold CURMER Imitation de Jésus-Christ. The "Imitation of Jesus-Christ" by Curmer
• Sold PESSELIER, Charles-Etienne Fables nouvelles. Pesselier's Fables
• Sold CAZOTTE Le Diable Amoureux Rare and beautiful illustrated edition of Cazotte's "Devil in Love"
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• Sold ANTIPHONAIRE. Recueil des antiennes a chanter accompagnant les priè... Monumental antiphonary from the 15th century
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• Sold FROMENTIN, Eugène. Dominique. First edition of “Dominique” by Eugene Fromentin, a masterpiece dedicated to George Sand.
• Sold FENELON Les Avantures de Télémaque fils d’Ulysse. Par feu Messire Fr. de Sa... Telemachus with the arms of Maria Feodorovna
• Sold HEURES A L’USAGE DE ROME. Somptuous book of Hours illuminated by Gillet Hardouin
• Sold SORBIERE, Samuel de. Relation d’un voyage en Angleterr où sont touchées plusieurs ... Dedication copy to King Louis XIV of a travel relation through England
• Sold LARBAUD Enfantines. “The charm of childlike loves memory”
• Sold SAINT-AUGUSTIN De Civitate Dei. Cum Commento – De Trinitate. Precious reunion of two main treatises by Saint Augustine
• Sold LA FONTAINE, Jean de Je vous prens sans verd. Comédie. “Rare first edition” (Tchemerzine) of this play in verse by La Fontaine
• Sold ALMANACH ROYAL. Année bissextile 1780 présenté A sa Majesté pour la... Superb copy of this 1780 Royal Almanac
• Sold PATAS Sacre et couronnement de Louis XVI, roi de France et de Navarre. A ... First edition and first issue of Louis XVI’s Coronation
• Sold LE GOBIEN, Charles Histoire des Isles Marianes, Nouvellement converties à la Religion ... Rare first edition of Le Gobien
• Sold PIGANIOL DE LA FORCE Nouvelle Description de la France : Dans laquelle on voit le gouver... First enlarged edition of the "Nouvelle description de la France"
• Sold [MIRABEAU] L’Ami des hommes, ou Traité de la population. Nouvelle édition, Aug... First complete edition of “L’ami des Hommes”, extremely rare
• Sold PLAUTE Comoediae. Plautinae viginti comoediae emendatissimae, cum…, interp... First incunabula edition of Plaute’s Comedies, with Valla's comments.
• Sold TITUS LIVIUS Historiarum quod extat, Cum perpetuis Gronovii et Variorum notis. Precious edition of Titus Livius’ Histories
• Sold LORRIS, Guillaume & MEUNG, Jean de. Cy est le Rommant de la Rose. The "Romance of the Rose" printed in Paris in 1531 by Galliot du Pré, illustrated with 60 figures.
• Sold LA LOUBERE, Simon Du Royaume de Siam. Par Monsieur de La Loubère Envoyé extraordinair... First edition of the best work about Thailand published in the 17th century
• Sold Amoris divini et humani effectus varii Sacrae Scripturae Sanctorumq... Emblems illustrating Love
• Sold Biblia Sacra Iuxta vulgatam editionem ad vetustissima exemplaria ca... The Biblia Sacra in 5 volumes
• Sold FENELON Les Avantures de Télémaque, fils d’Ulysse.Suite du quatrième livre ... Extremely rare first edition of the first publication of the Avantures de Télémaque by Fenelon
• Sold MERCATOR, Gerard. Atlas Sive Cosmographiae Meditationes De Fabrica Mundi Et Fabricati... Mercator’s famous atlas illustrated with 162 engravings, most of them on double-page, all watercolored at the time.
• Sold Les Plaisirs de l’Isle enchantée. Course de bague ; collation ornée...
• Sold Homère. Illias (L’Iliade). Superb copy of Homer’s Iliad preserved in its Italian binding from the time in blind-stamped morocco.
• Sold La Bible des Croisades ou Bible de Maciejowski. The superb reproduction of "The Crusader Bible" illustrated with 283 full-page miniatures enhanced with gold.
• Sold BOCK, Hieronymus. Kreütterbuch, darin underscheidt, Nammen und Würckung der Kreütter,... First illustrated edition of the culinary Treatise of Hieronymus Bock (1498-1554), the father of German botany.
• Sold CARMONTELLE, Louis Carrogis, dit, lecteur du duc de Chartres (1717-1806) Proverbes dramatiques Carmontelle (1717-1806), painter, architect, engraver and dramatic author, reader of the duke of Chartres, brings here at completion point this genre born in the previous centur...
• Sold GALLAND, Antoine / SILVESTRE DE SACY, le Baron.   Les Mille et une nuits contes Arabes traduits par Galla... Superb romantic edition of this French translation of the Thousand and One nights.
• Sold LA CRUZ, Manuel et Juan de. Coleccion de trajes de Espana, tanto antiguos como modernos, Que co... A very rare collection of Spanish costumes entirely contemporary hand-colored.
• Sold NOVERRE, Jean Georges(1727-1810). Lettres sur la danse, sur les ballets et les arts (Observations sur... Definite edition of the famous “Letters on dancing and ballets” by J-G. Noverre (1727-1810) printed in St Petersburg in 1803-1804.
• Sold GAUTIER, Théophile Emaux et camées. "Charles Baudelaire said of this book that it was a pure masterpiece of a language magician. The first edition is very rare.” (Carteret).
• Sold LA FONTAINE, Jean de Fables choisies mises en vers par J. de La Fontaine. Undoubtedly the most spectacular and prestigious copy of La Fontaine's Fables illustrated by Oudry
• Sold MOLIERE, J.-B. Poquelin. Amphitryon, comédie. Attractive copy of "Amphitryon", one of Moliere’s masterpieces.
• Sold BIBLE DE GUTENBERG (Reproduction). [Ou la « Bible à 42 lignes »]. Exemplaire de luxe de ce superbe fac... The Gutenberg Bible entirely illuminated and enhanced with gold.
• Sold [ORDRE DE SAINT MICHEL]. Le Livre des Statuts & ordonnances de l’ordre Sainct Michel, es... Precious volume printed in Paris circa 1550.
• Sold [COUNCIL OF TRENT]. Le Sainct, sacré, universel et général concile ... Partly original edition of the "Concile de Trente " (1545-1563) requested by Charles V sumptuously bound at the time by the Great Clovis Eve for the young king Louis XIII.
• Sold VAUDONCOURT, Frédéric Guillaume de. Quinze années d’un proscrit. Rare first edition of this highly valued work in which a general of Napoleon retraces his atypical itinerary.
• Sold LE QUIEN DE LA NEUFVILLE, Jean Usage des Postes chez les Anciens et les modernes : Contenant tous ... L''Usage des Postes' by Lequien de la Neuville with his coat of arms on the covers.
• Sold RACINE, Jean Œuvres. The most beautiful illustrated edition of the 18th century of Racine’s Works bound in contemporary red morocco.
• Sold Les Mille & un Jour, Contes Persans. Traduits en françois par ... 'Les Mille et un Jours, Contes Persans', preserved in their contemporary bindings with Maria Feodorovna's coat of arms.
• Sold Maximes et Réflexions morales du duc de La Rochefoucauld. A superb copy on large paper bound in red morocco with the arms of the Duc de Rohan, quoted by Olivier.
• Sold ETRENNES INTERESSANTES des quatre parties du monde, et des troupes de France pour l’an sex... One of the most precious revolutionary bindings to appear on the market for several years.
• Sold Pensées. Pascal's "Pensées" printed on fine vellum paper decorated with Pascal's portrait