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• Sold CHAUFFOURT, Jacques de. Instruction sur le faict des Eaues & Forests, Contenant en abr... This "first edition of 1603 is very rare, as we have never encountered it" (Souhart, 98).
• Sold MOLIERE, J.-B. Poquelin. Le Sicilien, ou l’amour peintre, Comédie. A copy with very good margins
• Sold SAGARD-THEODAT, Gabriel Le Grand Voyage du Pays des Hurons, situé en l’Amérique vers la Mer... Very rare first edition of Gabriel Sagard’s famous travel account to Canada printed in 1632.
• Sold HERRERA, Antonio de Histoire generale des Voyages et Conquestes des Castillans, dans le... First French edition of this travel book "dans les Isles et Terre-ferme des Indes Occidentales".
• Sold PASCAL, Blaise. Pensées de M. Pascal sur la religion et sur quelques autres sujets,... A superb copy bound in contemporary red morocco.
• Sold LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, François de. Réflexions ou Sentences et Maximes morales. First edition of La Rochefoucauld's Maximes.
• Sold LE TASSE, Torquato. La Gerusalemme liberata. Magnificent illustrated edition of The freed Jerusalem illustrated with 20 superb full-page figures and two frontispieces.
• Sold LA VARENNE Le Cuisinier françois. Enseignant La Manière de bien apprester ... One of the mythical books of international bibliophily in the Elsevier collection next to the famous ‘Patissier françois’ of 1655 and the copy of high bibliophily quoted and d...
• Sold VISSCHER, Nicholas Atlas Minor Sive totius Orbis Terrarum contracta delinea (ta) ex co... La dorure des cartes de l’Atlas Mellon est si impressionnante que Cornelis Koeman, le célèbre spécialiste néerlandais d’Atlas, l'a décrit comme « l’Atlas le plus spectaculaireme...
• Sold ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAM Morias enkomion [Greek-letter] / Stultitiae laus. Des. Erasmi Rot. ... First edition of "In Praise of Folly" by Erasmus (1467-1536) illustrated by Hans Holbein (1497-1543) with 81 engravings made directly from the original drawings the artist com...
• Sold BOGUET, Henry (1550-1619). Discours des Sorciers, avec six advis en faict de Sorcelerie. Et un... « Edition très rare et la plus complète de ce livre rare et recherché. » (Caillet)
• Sold BOGUET, Henry (1550-1619). Discours des Sorciers, avec six advis en faict de Sorcelerie. Et un... “Very rare and most complete edition of this rare and sought-after book.” (Caillet)
• Sold DUMOLINET Le Cabinet de la bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève
• Sold KIRCHER Turris Babel