Rare and antiquarian books
Art and architecture

Showing all 44 results

• Buy CORROZET, Gilles Les Antiquitéz, histoires et singularitez de Paris, ville capitale ... Unique copy in contemporary binding of this description of Paris at the time of Michel de Montaigne to appear on the public market since half a century.
• Buy [MANUSCRIT] JOURNAL HISTORIQUE DE TOUTES LES BATAILLES. Produit Dedication manuscript illustrated with 9 large drawings of fortified places, watercolored on double-page including Ath, fortified by Vauban, in red morocco with dentelle and the...
• Buy RAMELLI Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli. The most important illustrated technical treatise from the 16th century
• Buy DUGOURC, Jean-Démosthène. Recueil de dessins et aquarelles originaux Collection of original drawings by Dugourc, one of the great French ornamentalists on the eve of the Revolution.
• Buy BERTIUS, Petrus Commentariorum rerum Germanicarum Libri Tres. The German Empire at the very beginning of the 17th century.
• Buy RECUEIL DE GOUACHES DU CHÂTEAU DE CHENONCEAU Original collection painted in gouache in the XVIIIth century coming from the chateau de Chenonceau
• Buy BOUCHER, Juste-François. Recueil de décorations intérieures. First edition of the utmost rarity of this precious collection of interior design by the son of the painter François Boucher, illustrated with 60 plates in first issue.
• Buy Torelli, Giacomo. Scene e machine preparate alle Nozze dit Teti… Décorations et... An exceptional collection of Baroque sets of theatre, architecture and decoration, engraved in first issue under the Regency of Anne of Austria and preserved in its contemporar...
• Buy ARNAULT, Antoine-Vincent. Les Souvenirs et les regrets du vieil amateur dramatique, ou Lettre... Very beautiful copy preserved in its elegant romantic blind-stamped binding by Thouvenin.
• Buy 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.
• Buy CERILLO, Edoardo Dipinti murali di Pompei. Medaglie Istituto d’Incoraggiamento di Na... Pompeian wall paintings
• Buy GRIGNETTE, Bégnine.  Les Armes Triomphantes de son Altesse, Monseigneur, le duc d’Espernon. Édition originale de cette superbe Entrée à Dijon.
• Buy AMMAN Icones Novi Testamenti A set of 93 engravings by Jost Amman. “His masterpiece”, in very attractive contemporary vellum.
• Buy BARBARO, Daniele. La Pratica della perspettiva, opera molto profittevole a pittori, s... Precious and rare first edition of Barbaro's great architectural treatise, the first work of practical perspective published in Italy.
• Buy GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco Los Proverbios. Colleccion de diez y ocho laminas invetadas y graba... The complete suite of “Los Proverbios” by Goya
• Buy CORROZET, Gilles Les Antiquitez croniques et singularitez de Paris, ville Capitalle ... The Antiquitez de Paris by Corrozet
• Buy PAAW, Petrus. Galerie de Rubens, dite du Luxembourg : ouvrage composé de vingt-ci... Superb collection of 24 paintings dedicated by Rubens to Marie de Medici’s life and intended to decorate the Luxembourg Palace.
• Buy GRANDE ENLUMINURE DE STYLE MEDIEVAL, SUR PEAU DE VELIN. Scène de cour médiévale représentant Charles VII (1403-1461) et Mar... Illumination from the workshop of the Spanish Forger (Pierpont Morgan Library’s exhibition, New York, 1978).
• Buy FELIBIEN DES AVAUX, Jean-François Description de la nouvelle église de l’Hostel royal des Inval... First 12mo edition of the "Description des Invalides"
• Buy [BERNARD, P. J.-B] La Reconstruction de l’Eglise Sainte Geneviève [Le Panthéon]. Ode, ... The reconstruction of the Pantheon by Soufflot
• Buy 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 ANDROUET DU CERCEAU, Jacques Livre d’Architecture de Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, Contenant les ... The greatest architecture masters of Renaissance
• Sold CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène (1786-1889). De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs, et de l’assort... First edition of this color theory’s founding text, extremely influential on arts.
• Sold BRAUN & HOGENBERG Civitates Orbis Terrarum.
• Sold Turgot Plan de Paris, commencé l’année 1734, dessiné et gravé sur les ordr... The map of Paris by Turgot
• Sold Produit Collection of the most beautiful Parisian frontshops in the 19th century
• Sold GLEIZES / METZINGER Du cubisme The centennial of the cubist movement
• Sold [MASTER GU BING].TANI BUNCHO. Florilège de la peinture chinoise.
• 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 BOCH, Jean Historica narratio profectionis et inaugurationis serenissimorum be... A masterpiece of baroque illustration
• 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 [DU BELLAY, Joachim] / LE ROY, Louis Le Sympose de Platon, ou de l’amour et de beauté, traduit de Grec e... Extremely rare first edition of this French interpretation of Plato’s Symposium
• Sold LORIS, Daniel Le thresor des parterres de l’univers, contenant les figures ... "Le thresor des parterres de l'univers" by Loris
• Sold ANDROUET DU CERCEAU, Jacques Livre d’Architecture de Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, Contenant les ... Exceptional collection of three major classics of architecture
• Sold LABORDE, Alexandre de. Description des nouveaux jardins de la France et de ses anciens cha... First edition of the most beautiful book on the gardens of France under the First French Empire
• Sold NAPOLEON Ier - COMOLLI, J. B. Projet d’une fontaine publique. Remarkable presentation copy printed on large imperial paper offered to the Emperor Napoleon I (1769-1821). Parma, Bodoni, 1808.
• Sold PIRANESI / PIRANESE Diverse maniere d’adornare i cammini… / Divers manners of ornamenti... Large collection of ornaments by the "Rembrandt of the architecture"
• Sold RAMEAU Castor et Pollux, tragédie mise en musique. First edition of Rameau's great opera: Castor et Pollux
• Sold BOECKLER, George André. Theatrum machinarum novum, Dast ist : Neu-vermehrter Schauplatz der... First edition of the two great Baroque works of the German engineer George Boeckler
• Sold BERGIER, Nicolas. Histoire des grands chemins de l’Empire romain, Contenant l’origine... The rare first edition of the Grands Chemins de l’Empire romain
• Sold Les Plaisirs de l’Isle enchantée. Course de bague ; collation ornée...
• Sold Produit Anne of Britanny’s Book of Hours
• Sold KRAFFT, Jean-Charles. Constructions, plans et décorations des Jardins de France, d’Anglet... Very sought-after definitive edition of the Constructions, plans et décorations des Jardins de France, d’Angleterre et d’Allemagne
• Sold BOSSE, Abraham Traité des pratiques geometrales et perspectives, enseignées dans l... Art and science of perspective by A. Bosse