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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...
• Buy BOSSUET, Jacques Bénigne Méditations sur l’Evangile. Ouvrage posthume. First edition of Bossuet’s Méditations sur l’Evangile bound in contemporary red morocco with the arms of Charles-Gaspard Guillaume de Vintimille du Luc, successively bishop of...
• 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 CHARRON, Pierre Les Trois veritez. Seconde édition, revue, corrigée & de beauco... The first work of Pierre Charron, the friend of Montaigne.
• Buy RABELAIS Œuvres de maître François Rabelais, publiées sous le titre de Faits... First critical and commented edition of Rabelais’ Works illustrated with the portrait of the author, with the map of the region of Chinon and with 3 engravings by la Devinière.
• Buy BOSSUET Catéchisme du diocèse de Meaux Catéchisme du diocèse de Meaux by Bossuet
• 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.
• Buy CALENDRIER DES BERGERS Le Grand Kalendrier et Compost des Bergers composé par le berger de... The great "Calendrier des Bergers" illustrated with more than 80 woodcuts.
• Buy ARISTOPHANE. Comoediae novem, en grec. Editio princeps of Aristophanes’ "Comedies".
• Buy ALMANACH ou calendrier pour l’année 1697 Exactement supputé sur l’élévation et le méridien de Paris. Où sont... « These volumes have become of the utmost rarity, better to say to be true, unobtainable». (Comte de Montgrand, year 1862).
• Buy ABRAHAM BAR HIYYA. Sefer Zurat ha-Erets… Sphaera mundi, describens figuram terra... Exceedingly rare first edition, bilingual Hebrew-Latin, of the most famous treatise on astronomy by Abraham bar Hiyya.
• Buy ALMANACH DU COMMERCE DE PARIS, des départements, de l'Empire français, et des principales villes du monde; par J. de la Tynna, de la Société d’Encouragement pour l’Industrie ... The Trade Almanac for the year 1812 contemporary bound with the arms of the Emperor Napoleon 1st (1769-1812).
• Buy ALMANACH IMPERIAL AN BISSEXTIL 1812 PRESENTE A. S. M. L’EMPEREUR ET ROI. Produit Imperial Almanac bound in green morocco with the supposed monogram of Joseph Fouché, an exceedingly rare provenance.
• Buy CALMET, Dom Augustin, Abbé de Senone. Histoire des Juifs et du Nouveau Testament (titre de départ du volu... Don Calmet’s "Histoire des Juifs" sumptuously bound in contemporary citron morocco with lace with the arms of Comte Henri de Calenberg (1685-1772), one of the most famous biblio...
• Buy Le Comte, Louis. Nouveaux Mémoires sur l’état présent de la Chine. Complete first edition of the "Mémoires sur la Chine" by Louis Le Comte.
• Buy Album pintoresco de la isla de Cuba. One of the few testimonies of daily life in Cuba in the 19th century, illustrated with 27 chromolithographs.
• Buy CÉLINE, Louis-Ferdinand Voyage au bout de la nuit. First edition of the “Journey to the End of the Night” by Céline
• Buy DU VERDIER, Gilbert Saulnier. Rozemire ou l’Europe délivrée. Dédiée à Madame la Duchesse de Merco... “Rozemire ou l’Europe délivrée” with the arms of the comtesse de Verrue
• Buy FROISSART Le Premier [Second / Tiers / Quart] volume de l’Histoire et Croniqu... Froissart's Chronicles
• 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 CATO, Valerius. Ethica, cum comment. amplissimis Philippi Bergomensis. This "rare" princeps edition (Brunet), of great reputation in the Middle Ages achieved considerable prices at public auction, higher than the famous original of Les Précieuses r...
• Buy BEVY, Abbé Charles-Joseph de. Histoire des inaugurations des rois, empereurs, et autres souverain... 81 French costumes from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century.
• Buy NIDER, Johannes. Praeceptorium divinae legis. Remarkable copy of this princeps edition (not after 1472) by J. Nider printed in Cologne by Ulrich Zell.
• Buy MARGUERITE DE VALOIS, reine de Navarre. Les Marguerites de la Marguerite des Princesses, très illustre royn... Rare copy bound in a red morocco binding with “grotesques” by Padeloup. From Horace de Landau’s library (1885).
• Buy MELANCHTHON, Philip / [CARION]. Des Faictz et gestes du roy François, premier de ce nom ; précédé d... First edition in French of legendary rarity preserved in its pure and beautiful contemporary binding from Lyons with coloured wax.
• Buy CORNEILLE, Pierre et Thomas. Les Chef-d’œuvres dramatiques de Mrs. Corneille, avec le Jugement d... Nice edition of Pierre and Thomas Corneille’s “Masterpieces”
• Buy DELLILE, Jacque. Les Jardins. Poëme. Rare and beautiful specimen of “en vernis Martin binding” recovering a book printed by Herhan with his new method of stereotyping.
• Buy [ORDRE DE SAINT MICHEL]. Le Livre des Statuts & ordonnances de l’ordre Sainct Michel, es... Precious volume printed in Paris circa 1550.
• Buy NAUDOT, Jean-Jacques. Chansons Notées de la très vénérable Confrérie des Francs-Maçons Pr... The dedication copy bearing the arms of Louis de Bourbon-Condé.
• Buy 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)
• Buy APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume. Alcools. Poèmes. Unique copy, specially printed for the printer Arrault.
• 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 BOCK, Hieronymus. Kreutterbuch darin vnderscheidt Name(n) vnnd würckunng der Kreutter... The famous herbarium by Bock from 1572, illustrated with 500 engravings in contemporary colors.
• Buy LEMERCIER DE NEUVILLE, Louis. Théâtre des Pupazzi. The Pupazzi of Lemercier de Neuville through 18 plays each illustrated with a beautiful etching.
• Buy Tapisseries du Roi, où sont représentez les quatre éléments et les ... The Tapestries ordered by Louis XIV for Versailles
• Buy GOETHE, Johann-Wolfgang. Les Souffrances du jeune Werther. Traduction nouvelle orné de trois... The Sorrows of Young Werther: Goethe's fame is made and his name will long remain attached to this literary event, to the first German novel that truly crossed the borders of Ge...
• Buy MAMEROT, Sébastien Les passages doultremer faitz par les francoys. Nouvellement imprim... Turkey, Syria, Palestine.
• Buy Boileau-Despreaux. Œuvres diverses avec le Traité du sublime ou du merveilleux dans le... First edition of Boileau’s Works bound in contemporary morocco.
• Buy Amoris divini et humani effectus varii Sacrae Scripturae Sanctorumq... Emblems illustrating Love
• 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.
• Buy LONDON, Jack. The Call of the Wild. First edition of this adventure novel by Jack London which action takes place during the gold rush era.
• Buy FRIZON, Pierre. La Saincte Bible Françoise, Selon la vulgaire Latine reveuë par le ... “We believe that this heraldic iron (combining a fleur-de-lys and a dolphin, both surmounted by the crown of the princes of the blood, here repeated 3 times on the back of each...
• 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.
• Buy [PELLETIER DE FREPILLON]. Essai sur la taille des arbres fruitiers. Par une Société d’amateurs. The art of pruning fruit trees.
• Buy [MAUPERTUIS, Pierre-Louis Moreau de] Lettre sur la comète Lettre sur la comète by Maupertuis
• Buy BLUMENSTRAUSS Für Musen und Menschen Freunde zum Neujahrsgeschenke 1808. Very rare Empire binding with musicians, painted on enamel.
• Buy Le Capitaine Fracasse. Rare first edition of the Capitaine Fracasse, Théophile Gautier's masterpiece, preserved in its elegant contemporary binding.
• Buy OSIANDER Harmonie Evagelicae libri quatuor, in quibus evangelica historia […]. Extremely rare edition of this Protestant book
• Buy Homère. L’Odisee d’Homère Traduict de grec en françois, par Claude Boitel A... The first French prose translation of Homer's entire Odyssey.
• Buy CICERO, Marcus Tullius Cicero, 103-43 B.C. Œuvres complètes de M. T. Cicéron, traduites en français, avec le t... The first and most precious French collective edition of Cicero’s Works sumptuously contemporary bound in red morocco by Simier, the king’s binder, with the arms of the Duchess ...
• Buy PISO, Willem et MARCGRAF, Georg Historia naturalis Brasiliae, Auspicio et Beneficio Illustriss. I. ... “The only illustrated work on Brazilian natural history”
• 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 [PHILIPPE D’ORLEANS REGENT]. Reglement du Roy, et instructions touchant l’administration des har... The regulations of the Regent Philippe d’Orléans enacted between 1717 and 1719 bound in 1724 in red morocco with the arms and crowned cypher of the young Louis XV (1715-1774).
• 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.
• Buy Docteur Navier, Médecin du roi 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.
• Buy ELUARD, Paul. Voir. Poèmes Peintures Dessins. "Voir" by Paul Eluard
• Buy GRESSET, Jean-Baptiste Louis Œuvres choisies de Gresset précédées d’un essai sur sa vie et ses é... An exceptional mosaic binding by Vogel
• Buy MADAME DE GENLIS. Théâtre à l’usage des jeunes personnes. First edition of « the first modern work of education focused on the truth, the reality and the beautiful”.
• Buy FLECHIER, Esprit. Oraison funebre de tres-haut et puissant Seigneur Messire Michel Le... The illustrious funeral oration of Michel Le Tellier, chancellor of France, pronounced by Esprit Fléchier. Precious and magnificent copy printed on large paper bound with the a...
• Buy [LAMOIGNON, Guillaume de] Recueil des arrêtés de Monsieur le premier président de Lamoignon. A project of reform of the French legislation by Lamoignon
• Buy PERRAULT, Charles La Marquise de Salusses, ou la patience de Grisélidis. Nouvelle. Extremely rare first edition of the first fairy tale by Charles Perrault « La Marquise de Salusses, ou la patience de Grisélidis », preserved in its contemporary binding with th...
• Buy ANCIENNES DENTELLES BELGES. formant la collection de Feue Madame Augusta Bnne Liedts, et donnée... Magnificent and impressive binding in blue morocco with gilt dentelle and large arms in mosaic in the center of the covers, signed Desamblancx-Weckesser.
• Buy SIMON DE COLINES.  Horae en Laudem beatissimae virginis Mariae ad usum Romanum. The iconographic genius from the Renaissance preserved in a contemporary binding with a decoration inspired by Francis I of France and Jean Grolier.
• Buy La Bible des Croisades ou Bible de Maciejowski. The superb reproduction of "The Crusader Bible" illustrated with 283 full-page miniatures enhanced with gold.
• Buy MOLIERE, J.-B. Poquelin. Amphitryon, comédie. Attractive copy of "Amphitryon", one of Moliere’s masterpieces.
• Buy Chateaubriand, François René de. Congrès de Vérone. Guerre d’Espagne. Négociations : colonies espagn... First edition of the Congrès de Vérone preserved in its elegant contemporary binding.
• Sold VOLTAIRE Théâtre complet Voltaire's "Theatre"
• Sold BRAUN & HOGENBERG Civitates Orbis Terrarum.
• Sold FAVART, Charles Simon L’Anglois à Bordeaux ; comédie en un acte et en vers libres ; Par M... Comedy by Favart celebrating peace with England
• Sold CAZOTTE Le Diable Amoureux Rare and beautiful illustrated edition of Cazotte's "Devil in Love"
• Sold CURMER Imitation de Jésus-Christ. The "Imitation of Jesus-Christ" by Curmer
• Sold SAINT-AUGUSTIN De Civitate Dei. Cum Commento – De Trinitate. Precious reunion of two main treatises by Saint Augustine
• Sold LE GOBIEN, Charles Histoire des Isles Marianes, Nouvellement converties à la Religion ... Rare first edition of Le Gobien
• Sold GLEIZES / METZINGER Du cubisme The centennial of the cubist movement
• 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 LA FONTAINE, Jean de Je vous prens sans verd. Comédie. “Rare first edition” (Tchemerzine) of this play in verse by La Fontaine
• 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 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
• 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 [MIRABEAU] L’Ami des hommes, ou Traité de la population. Nouvelle édition, Aug... First complete edition of “L’ami des Hommes”, extremely rare
• 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 MONTFORT, le Père Alphonse de   Produit Mourning binding made for the queen Anne of Austria.
• Sold ALMANACH ROYAL. Année bissextile 1780 présenté A sa Majesté pour la... Superb copy of this 1780 Royal Almanac
• Sold CRAMER Papillons exotiques des trois parties du monde l’Asie, l’Afrique et... Tropical butterflies from around the world
• Sold 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 Le Roman de la Momie. Quarante-deux composition originale de Alex. ... "The Romance of the Mummy" by Théophile Gautier, illustrated by Alexandre Lunois
• Sold OVIDE / OVID Publii Ovidii Nasonis Operum. Ovid's Works in wonderful bindings by Dubuisson
• Sold Biblia Sacra Iuxta vulgatam editionem ad vetustissima exemplaria ca... The Biblia Sacra in 5 volumes
• Sold BARBE, Simon Le Parfumeur royal "Le Parfumeur royal" by Barbe
• Sold PLAUTE Comoediae. Plautinae viginti comoediae emendatissimae, cum…, interp... First incunabula edition of Plaute’s Comedies, with Valla's comments.
• 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 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 TACHARD, Guy. Voyage de Siam, des Pères Jésuites, Envoyés par le Roy aux Indes &a... The illustrated "Journey in Siam" by Tachard, bound for the Grand Condé
• 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 TITUS LIVIUS Historiarum quod extat, Cum perpetuis Gronovii et Variorum notis. Precious edition of Titus Livius’ Histories
• 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 MOURADJA D'OHSSON, Ignace de Tableau général de l’empire Othoman, divisé en deux parties, dont l... The most important book from the 18th century dedicated to the Ottoman Empire
• Sold TAVERNIER, Jean-Baptiste Les six voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, en Turquie, en Perse, e... The six journeys in Asia by Tavernier with illustrations
• Sold [RELIURE] Vocabularius utriusque iuris perutilis ac valde necessarius… A superb ornamental binding from the very early XVIth century
• Sold [MAUGARD, Antoine] Remarques sur la noblesse. Dédiées aux Assemblées provinciales. A study conducted on the French nobility on the brink of the Revolution
• Sold PESSELIER, Charles-Etienne Fables nouvelles. Pesselier's Fables
• Sold BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE. Paul et Virginie et la Chaumière indienne. Paul et Virginie in a splendid binding "in the Indian manner"
• Sold Homère. Illias (L’Iliade). Superb copy of Homer’s Iliad preserved in its Italian binding from the time in blind-stamped morocco.
• Sold ANTIPHONAIRE. Recueil des antiennes a chanter accompagnant les priè... Monumental antiphonary from the 15th century
• Sold MAETERLINCK / LEPAPE L’Oiseau bleu. Décors et costumes pour l’Oiseau Bleu. "L'Oiseau bleu" wonderfully bound by Georges Baudin
• Sold Heures Nouvelles Outstanding book of Hours
• Sold FROMENTIN, Eugène. Dominique. First edition of “Dominique” by Eugene Fromentin, a masterpiece dedicated to George Sand.
• Sold PROUST A la recherche du temps perdu. "A la recherche du temps perdu" by Marcel Proust
• Sold TITE-LIVE Titi Livii Historiarum Libri. Titus Livius, Jules Janin's wonderful copy
• 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 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 FENELON Les Avantures de Télémaque fils d’Ulysse. Par feu Messire Fr. de Sa... Telemachus with the arms of Maria Feodorovna
• Sold BOSSUET Traitez du libre-arbitre, et de la concupiscence. Ouvrages posthumes. Treatises by Bossuet composed for the education of the future sovereign
• Sold HEURES A L’USAGE DE ROME. Somptuous book of Hours illuminated by Gillet Hardouin
• Sold LARBAUD Enfantines. “The charm of childlike loves memory”
• Sold Les Plaisirs de l’Isle enchantée. Course de bague ; collation ornée...
• Sold Produit Anne of Britanny’s Book of Hours
• 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 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 BOSSE, Abraham Traité des pratiques geometrales et perspectives, enseignées dans l... Art and science of perspective by A. Bosse