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• Sold CHARLEVOIX, Father de Histoire du Japon ; où l’on trouvera tout ce qu’on a pu apprendre d... The History of Japan printed in 1754 illustrated with many engravings.
• Sold CHARDIN Voyages du chevalier Chardin, en Perse, et autres lieux de l’... First complete edition of Chardin’s travels in Persia, enlarged with several parts and with Suleiman III’s crowning.
• 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 GRAFFIGNY, Françoise d'Isembourg de Lettres d’une Péruvienne. Important 18th century literary first edition
• Sold GRANDPRE, Louis Ohier de Voyage à la côte occidentale d’Afrique, fait dans les années 1786 e... An expedition to Africa with Captain Grandpré
• Sold Madame de Sévigné Lettres de Madame Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigné, à Madame la... Partly original edition of Madame de Sévigné’s "Letters"
• Sold EDWARDS, George. Histoire naturelle d’oiseaux peu communs: et d’autres animaux rares... One of the most beautiful ornithology books of the 18th century
• Sold MARIVAUX, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Le Jeu de l’amour et du hazard. Comédie en trois actes. Représentée... First edition of Marivaux’s most accomplished comedy
• Sold VOLTAIRE Le Micromégas de Mr. De Voltaire. Avec une histoire des croisades &... Rare second edition of “Micromegas”
• Sold RECUEIL D’ESTAMPES représentant les Grades RECUEIL D’ESTAMPES représentant les Grades, les Rangs & les Dig... First edition of one of the most famous costumes and historical portraits collection.
• Sold Discours du roi, Prononcé le 5 mai 1789, jour où sa Majesté a fait ... The historical speech pronounced by Louis XVI on May 5th 1789 in Versailles to open the Estates-General
• Sold CHAPPE D'AUTEROCHE, Jean Voyage en Californie pour l’observation du passage de Vénus sur le ... First edition of Chappe d’Auteroche’s scientific expedition to California
• Sold GRANDPIERRE DRALSE Relation de divers voyages dans l’Afrique, l’Amérique, & aux In... The rare travel relation by Dralsé de Granpierre in Africa, in America and in the Western Indies
• Sold D'ALEMBERT, Jean le Rond Traité de dynamique, dans lequel les Loix de l’Equilibre & du M... D'Alembert's great treatise of dynamics.
• Sold CARRACHE, Augustin L’Arétin d’Augustin Carrache, ou recueil de postures érotiques, d’a... “The most artistic of the erotic books...” according to Cohen
• Sold FAUCHARD, Pierre Le chirurgien dentiste, ou traité des dents, Où l’on enseigne les m... Pierre Fauchard, the creator of the art of dentistry
• Sold CORNEILLE, Pierre Théâtre de Pierre Corneille, avec des commentaires par Voltaire. Precious copy of Corneille’s Théâtre printed by Voltaire
• Sold ZUDA ROKASHI (Hotan Priest) Nansenbushu Bankoku Shoka no zu (= carte d’ensemble de tous les pay... A superb and rare map of the Japanese Buddhists of the world by Zuda Rokashi.
• Sold CHORIER, Nicolas. Le Meursius François, ou Entretiens galans d’Aloysia. Orné de... The most famous erotic book of the 18th century
• Sold ZOLA, Emile  Carte manuscrite de la Chine. Superb manuscript map of China executed at the height of the Chinese Empire,
• Sold Magne de Marolles, G.F. La Chasse au fusil, ouvrage divisé en deux parties contenant :La pr... “Complete first edition. This book is the first French book devoted exclusively to the hunting rifle and the gun hunting...” (Thiébaud, 621-622)
• Sold Bloch, Marcus-Elieser. Ichtyologie, ou histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des po... The most spectacular work dedicated to fishes
• Sold MONTESQUIEU De l’Esprit des Loix. Ou du Rapport que les Loix doivent avoir avec... First edition of De L’Esprit des Lois in a pure contemporary binding.
• Sold MENON Les Soupers de la Cour, ou l’art de travailler toutes sortes d’alim... The Soupers de la Cour by Menon
• Sold Doctor Navier, Physician of King Louis XVI. Contre-poisons de l’arsenic, du sublimé corrosif, du verd-de-gris e... Precious volumes that belonged to the author, the doctor of King Louis XVI, offered to Queen Marie-Antoinette and contemporary bound in red morocco decorated with her wide arms.
• Sold L'HERITIER, Marie-Jeanne. La Tour tenebreuse. Et les jours lumineux, contes anglois, Accompag... First edition of Melle L’Héritier most famous fairy tales, forerunner author of this genre and close relative of Charles Perrault, inspired by Richard the Lionheart.
• Sold ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. Lettres de deux amans, Habitans d’une petite Ville au pied des Alpe... First French edition, first edition for sale in France of La Nouvelle Héloïse and first edition of the Recueil d’estampes pour la Nouvelle Héloïse.
• Sold Le Hay. Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant... The most beautiful book about the nations of the Levant illustrated with 102 watercolored engravings.
• Sold LACLOS, Choderlos de. Les Liaisons dangereuses. The finest 18th century edition of the Dangerous Liaisons illustrated with 15 engravings in first state.
• Sold [PELLETIER DE FREPILLON]. Essai sur la taille des arbres fruitiers. Par une Société d’amateurs. The art of pruning fruit trees.
• Sold CARMONTELLE, Louis Carrogis, known as, reader to the Duke of 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 AUBERT, Jean-Louis. Fables et Œuvres diverses Beautiful copy in red morocco with the arms of the Queen Marie-Antoinette.
• Sold PERRAULT, Charles Contes des Fées, par Ch. Perrault, de l’Académie française. Contena... First collective and definitive edition of the Contes de Perrault “including, in addition to the previous one from 1742, Donkey Skin, in prose and verse’, Griselidis and The Ri...
• Sold EMBROIDERED AND COAT-OF-ARMS BINDING IN VELVET - ANTIPHONARY. Antiphonae, Capitula, Hymni, & Orationes Ad Vesperas in Solemni... Rare specimen of illuminated handwritten antiphonary preserved in its contemporary binding embroidered with silver thread and emblazoned.
• Sold MERIGOT. Promenades ou itinéraires des Jardins de Chantilly, Orné d’un Plan ... First edition of the Jardins de Chantilly, printed on large vellum paper, preserved in its contemporary inlaid binding.
• Sold [LA FORCE, Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de].  Les Fées. Contes des Contes. Par Mademoiselle de ***. The fairy tales of Mademoiselle de La Force, inspirer of the Brothers Grimm, literary friend of the Countess de Murat.
• Sold MADAME D'AULNOY. Les Contes des Fées par Madame d’Aulnoy. Very rare and precious edition of the Fairy Tales of Madame d’Aulnoy, the creator of the French fairy tale, even rarer than the one of Perrault’s tales.
• Sold ZURLAUBEN, The Baron de. Tableaux topographiques, pittoresques, physiques, historiques, mora... First edition, first issue, of the great illustrated book on Switzerland.
• Sold GREGOIRE, Gaspard. Explication des cérémonies de la Fête-Dieu d’Aix-en-Provence, Ornée... The Corpus Christi procession and celebrations in Aix en Provence printed in Aix in 1777.
• Sold BOCCACCIO. Il Decamerone di M. Giovanni Boccacio. "The proofs of the figures and especially the tail-pieces are generally more beautiful in the Italian edition than in the French edition”. (Cohen, 260).
• Sold DIDEROT, Denis / RAYNAL, Abbé Thomas-Guillaume-François. Histoire philosophique et politique Des Établissemens et du Commerc... First edition of Diderot and Raynal of “one of the key works of the crisis of the Ancien Regime” bound in contemporary red morocco.
• Sold [MANUSCRIPT]. Cayer de canonage du Sieur Jean-François Marie Icard de Saint-Trope... A fascinating historical manuscript testifying to the activity of a gunner assistant from Saint Tropez who embarked on a warship at the end of the 18th century.
• Sold SALERNE, François. L’Histoire naturelle éclaircie dans une de ses parties princi... French first edition of the ornithology of Salerne (1706-1760).
• Sold SADE, Donatien-Alphonse-François count, known as marquis of. Justine ou les malheurs de la vertu. Extremely rare first edition of Justine by the marquis de Sade, “whose copies could be counted on the fingers of one hand.” (Pierre Berès). One of the most sublime lessons of m...
• Sold ADANSON, Michel. Histoire et description de plusieurs plantes tant indigènes qu’exot... Original botanical manuscript of great scientific interest, calligraphed, drawn and water colored in the year 1768 in the Dominican Dijon abbey following the method of Michel Ad...
• Sold VOLTAIRE Lettres chinoises, indiennes et tartares, à Monsieur Paw, par un be... First edition of this work by Voltaire exposing his opinion on China and the Chinese people.
• Sold LA CRUZ, Manuel and 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 LACLOS, Choderlos de. Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Rare first edition of the Dangerous Liaisons in contemporary binding.
• Sold REGNAULT, Nicolas-François and Geneviève. La Botanique mise a la portée de tout le monde ou collection des pl... One of the most beautiful botanical books from the 18th century. 472 engravings of natural sciences entirely watercolored at the time.
• 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 POUGET SONS. Traité des pierres précieuses et de la manière de les employer en p... First edition of the most beautiful French book on jewelry, precious stones and the art of adornment published in the Age of Enlightenment, with 79 plates coloured at the time, ...
• Sold SUN TZU / AMIOT, Joseph. Art militaire des Chinois, ou recueil d’anciens traités sur la guer... First edition and first European edition of the famous Art of War by the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu (544-496 B.B.) “a work of wide-ranging influence on both Eastern and Western ...
• Sold FIELDING, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Precious copy of Tom Jones adorned with 12 beautiful contemporary hand-coloured figures.
• Sold ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques Les Confessions de J.J. Rousseau, suivies des Rêveries du Promeneur... Very rare first edition of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions and Rêveries,"the true masterpiece of the author", in a uniform contemporary binding, with wide margins.
• Sold ZOCCHI, Giuseppe Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali Contrade, Piazze, Chiese e P... Superb copy printed on large Holland paper of the “Zocchi”, the most beautiful engraved and illustrated book about Florence.
• Sold BECKFORD, William Vathek. Precious first edition of Vathek, unique masterpiece of one of the rare French-speaking English writers, William Beckford (1760-1844), Byron and Mallarme’s bible, the forerunner...
• Sold BEVERLEY, Robert. Histoire de la Virginie ; contenant I. L’histoire de son étab... The delicious volume on the Histoire de la Virginie printed in 1707 bound with Madame de Pompadour’s arms.
• Sold RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE Les Contemporaines. First edition of the Les Contemporaines by Restif illustrated with 283 beautiful figures by Binet.
• Sold MONTESQUIEU De l’ Esprit des loix ou du rapport que les loix doivent avoir avec... First edition.
• Sold ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques Discours sur l’origine et les fondemens de l’inégalité parmi les ho... First issue "of this momentous event in the history of political doctrines".
• Sold CONSTITUTION OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC Lois relatives à la Constitution (tomes I et II). The "Constitution" of 1791 preserved in its elegant contemporary red morocco binding.
• Sold SABATIER DE CASTRES, Abbot Les trois Siècles de la Littérature française ou tableau de l’espri... The precious volumes of Queen Marie-Antoinette bound in Versailles by Fournier, intended for her personal library at the Petit Trianon with the monogram C.T. at the tail of the...
• Sold LA CONDAMINE, Charles-Marie de  Relation abrégée d’un voyage fait dans l’intérieur de l... First edition of this remarkable account by La Condamine of the first scientific descent of the Amazon.
• Sold GILLIERS, Joseph. Le Cannameliste Français, ou Nouvelle instruction pour ceux qui dés... First edition of the Cannaméliste, famous gastronomic work of Louis XV’s century.
• Sold [FREDERICK THE GREAT, KING OF PRUSSIA] Œuvres du Philosophe sans souci. Partly first edition of the Odes and Epistles of Frederick II of Prussia printed in Potsdam in 1760.
• 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 WARBURTHON, William. Essai sur les hiéroglyphes des Égyptiens, où l’on voit l̵... « Diderot's Lettre sur les sourds et muets (1751) was also influenced by the ‘Essai sur les hiéroglyphes’.
• Sold PERAU, the abbot. Description historique de l’Hôtel royal des Invalides. The famous magnificent royal copy offered by King Louis XV to the Russian Empress Elisabeth 1st (6 December 1741- 5 January 1762).
• Sold RACINE, Jean Œuvres. The most beautiful illustrated edition of the 18th century of Racine’s Works bound in contemporary red morocco.
• Sold VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet. Dictionnaire philosophique, portatif. Extremely rare first edition of one of the greatest texts of the Age of Enlightenment, Voltaire's master book for “crushing the infamous”.
• Sold LE ROUGE, George Louis. Recueil des Côtes Maritimes de France Sur quatre Lieues de large en... Second enlarged edition of this important coastal atlas of France, compiled by Georges-Louis Le Rouge and revised by Louis Brion de la Tour.
• Sold Les Mille & un Jour, Contes Persans. Traduits en françois par M. Petis de La Croix. 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 SALERNE, François. L’Histoire naturelle éclaircie dans une de ses parties princi... French first edition of Salerne's (1706-1760) ornithology.
• Sold DUTENS, Louis. Des Pierres précieuses et des pierres fines, Avec les moyens de les... Rare first edition of this highly sought-after gemmological treatise.
• Sold LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, François de. 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 ROBERTSON (1721-1793). L’Histoire de l’Amérique, Par M. Robertson, Principal de l’Universi... First 12mo edition, published 3 years after the English original.
• Sold Montaigne, Michel de. Essais. One of 25 copies of Montaigne's Essais printed on large Holland paper in 1783.
• Sold INTERESTING GIFTS 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 MAINTENON, Marchioness of Mémoires pour servir à l’Histoire de Madame de Maintenon et à... Prestigious copy bound in green morocco with the arms of the Duchess of Berry (1798-1870).
• Sold BUFFON, Georges Marie Leclerc, Count of. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description d... First edition of Buffon's Natural History illustrated with 1201 copper engravings.
• Sold ERNST J.J. et ENGRAMELLE. Papillons d’Europe peints d’après nature par Ernst, gra... The most beautiful French book of the eighteenth century dedicated to butterflies illustrated with 352 full-page engravings watercolored at the time.
• Sold MENON Le Manuel des officiers de bouche ou le Précis de tous les Apprêts ... First edition of this important treatise on gastronomy for catering officers.
• Sold CHARDIN, Jean. Voyages de M. le chevalier Chardin, en Perse, et autres lieux de l’... First complete edition, partly original, of Chardin's Voyages en Perse illustrated with 78 folding plates.
• Sold LA BRUERE, Charles-Antoine Le Clerc de. Histoire du règne de Charlemagne. Rare first edition of the Histoire du règne de Charlemagne and the Mémoire de l’Académie des Belles-Lettres dedicated to the partition of Pepin.
• Sold CORTEZ Histoire de la conqueste du Mexique
• Sold ELWE Nederlandsch bloemwerk
• Sold POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). Œuvres complettes d’Alexandre Pope, traduites en François. Nouvelle... Very beautiful copy adorned with ‘very beautiful illustrations’ (Cohen), belonging to the luxury print on large Dutch paper, bound in period morocco bindings.
• Sold HEARNE, Samuel Voyage de Samuel Hearne, du Fort du Prince de Galles dans la Baie d... First French edition of the travel to the Hudson Bay in the North Ocean illustrated with 5 maps and 4 engravings.
• Sold ROBERTSON, William L’Histoire de l’Amérique par M. Robertson, Principal de l’Uni... The famous illustrated “History of America” by William Robertson first printed in French in 1778 bound at the time for the La Rochefoucauld family.
• Sold NIEBUHR Carsten Description de l’Arabie, faite sur des observations propres et des ... Niebuhr’s Description of Arabia adorned with 26 highly interesting engravings.
• Sold DELISLE DE SALES Philosophie de la Nature, ou Traité de morale pour le genre humain. A fine collector's copy printed on large vellum paper, entirely hand-colored in 1789, bound in contemporary red morocco.
• Sold VOLTAIRE. Candide ou L’optimisme. Traduit de l’allemand de M. le ... The most beautiful copy of the original edition of Candide recorded on the market for half a century.
• Sold QIANLONG, Emperor of China (1711-1799) – CASTIGLIONE, Giuseppe (1688-1766, artist) – COCHIN, Charles-Nicolas (1715-1790, engraver). [Pinding Xiyu zhantu. Suite de seize estampes représentant les conq... Les Conquêtes de l'empereur de la Chine, appelées également Les Batailles de l'empereur de Chine, sont une série d'œuvres dessinées, gravées et imprimées en France au XVIIIè siè...