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• Buy PLATON / DU BELLAY, Joachim Le Timée de Platon, traittant de la nature du monde, & de l’hom... Precious volume comprising 59 poetic pieces by Joachim du Bellay, as well as the second French edition of Plato’s Timaeus
• Buy ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond d’ (1717-1783). Histoire des membres de l’Académie françoise, Morts depuis 17... "The powers of Versailles were frowned upon, and the Encyclopédie was courted. We preferred a word of praise from d'Alembert, from Diderot, to the most signal favour of a prin...
• Buy CHARRON, Pierre Les Trois veritez. Seconde édition, revue, corrigée & de beauco... The first work of Pierre Charron, the friend of Montaigne.
• Buy BOSSUET, Jacques Bénigne Traitez du libre-arbitre, et de la concupiscence. Ouvrages posthume... Magnificent copy of the first edition of the Traité du Libre-Arbitre by J.B. Bossuet contemporary bound in red morocco with the arms of Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, nephew of the gr...
• 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 BOECKLER Theatrum machinarum novum, exhibens aquarias, alatas, iumentarias, ... Boeckler’s theater of inventions
• Buy RAMELLI Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli. The most important illustrated technical treatise from the 16th century
• Buy LE GANGNEUR, Guillaume (1553-1624). La Rizographie ou les Sources, élémens & perfections de l’écrit... Very rare first edition of this superb treatise on calligraphy engraved in 1599.
• Buy FRANÇOIS-MARIE, R. Père Jean. Nouvelle découverte sur la lumière, Pour la mesurer & en compte... First edition of the utmost rarity of this scientific work by Father François-Marie in which he presents two new means of measuring light.
• Buy [ARNAULD, Antoine / NICOLE, Pierre]. La Logique ou l’Art de penser : contenant, outre les Regles commune... Extremely rare first edition of the Port Royal " Logic”, by the Great Arnauld and Nicole, “this jewel of classical humanism and this masterpiece of Cartesian clarity”, extremely...
• Buy ZEISING, H. Theatri machinarum… Zeising’s theater of inventions
• Buy HELVETIUS. De l’Esprit. First edition of De l’Esprit burned in public on February 10, 1758.
• Buy CHARRON, Pierre Les Trois veritez. Seconde édition, revue, corrigée & de beauco... "Les Trois veritez" by Charron
• Buy Alphatbetum hebraicum, in quo diligentius & sincerius quam ante... Charles Estienne's Hebrew alphabet
• Buy GALLUCCI, Giovanni Paolo. Theatrum mundi, et temporis, In quo non solum precipuae horum parte... First edition of the “first modern celestial atlas using the coordinates of Copernicus”.
• Buy Lettre du roi et règlement, pour la convocation des Etats-Généraux ... Precious copy of the letter written by the King on January 24th, 1789
• Buy [MAUPERTUIS, Pierre-Louis Moreau de] Lettre sur la comète Lettre sur la comète by Maupertuis
• Buy [CROME ou CRUCE] Dialogue d’entre le maheustre et le manant. Contenant les raisons d... Rare third edition, enlarged and modified compared to the first one published a few months before, of this famous lampoon redacted by a member of the League
• Buy Hancarville, Hugues, dit d'. Monumens de la vie privée des douze Césars d’après une suite ... The famous erotica from Louis XVI’s century illustrated with 100 erotic engravings, lavishly bounded in citron mosaic morocco.
• Buy MORE, Thomas Omnia, quae hucusque ad Manus nostras pervenerunt, Latina Opera, qu... First edition mentioned by Brunet of Thomas More’s Works in Latin
• Buy DIDEROT, Denis Lettre sur les sourds et muets, A l’Usage de ceux qui entendent �... True first edition of the “Essay on the Beautiful” by Diderot in an attractive contemporary binding bearing the arms of the marquis of Choiseul-Stainville.
• 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 HERBIN, Auguste F.J. Développemens des principes de la langue arabe moderne, suivis d’un... First and only edition of Herbin's Arabic grammar sought-after for its essay on calligraphy and for its plates.
• Buy LAET, Jean de Notae ad dissertationem Hugonis Grotii De Origine Gentium Americano... Jean de Laet refutes Grotius' theories about the origin of primitive populations of America
• Buy DESCARTES, René. Les Passions de l’âme. First edition of the "Passions of the soul" by Descartes
• Buy MANUSCRIT ENLUMINE ÉTHIOPIEN. Manuscrit liturgique illustré écrit en ge’ez. Precious Ethiopian bible handwritten on vellum skin illuminated with 13 full-page polychrome figures.
• Buy PELLISSON-FONTANIER, Paul. Relation contenant l’histoire de l’Académie françoise. Rare and sought-after first edition "of this excellent piece of literary history".
• 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 GREGOIRE, Henri. De la Littérature des Nègres, ou Recherches sur leurs facultés inte... Rare first edition of this great text of modern thinking printed in Paris, under the First French Empire, in 1808.
• Buy AUZOLES LAPEYRE Le Mercure charitable, ou contre-touche et souverain remède pour dé... First edition of this work dedicated to chronology
• Buy SOREL, Charles De la Connoissance des bons livres, ou examen de plusieurs autheurs. "De la Connaissance des bons livres" by Charles Sorel
• Sold HAUY, Valentin. Essai sur l’éducation des aveugles, ou exposé de différens moyens, ... « The first printed book intended to be read by the blind"
• Sold SEVERT, Jacques De Orbis Catoptrici seu mapparum mundi principiis, descriptione ac ... First edition of one of the rarest astronomical treatises of the 16th century
• Sold DESCARTES Epistolae Epistolae by Descartes
• Sold DESCARTES De Homine figuris et Latinitate donatus a Florentio Schuyl. First edition of Descartes' treatise "De Homine Figuris"
• Sold GROTIUS, Hugo De Jure Belli ac Pacis Libri tres. The foundation of modern international law
• Sold VOLNEY La loi naturelle
• Sold PASCAL, Blaise Pensées de M. Pascal sur la religion et sur quelques autres sujets,... First edition of Pascal’s "Pensées"
• Sold DIDEROT Jacques le Fataliste et son maitre. Jacques le fataliste by Diderot in first edition
• Sold ALMANACH ROYAL. Année bissextile 1780 présenté A sa Majesté pour la... Superb copy of this 1780 Royal Almanac
• Sold VOLNEY, (Constantin François de Chasseboeuf, comte de) Simplification des langues orientales ou méthode nouvelle et facile... The earliest Arabic grammar written in French
• Sold RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE La Découverte australe par un Homme-volant ou le Dédale français ; ... First and only edition of « one of Restif de la Bretonne’s rarest works ». (Rahir)
• Sold HAUY, Valentin. Essai sur l’éducation des aveugles, ou exposé de différens moyens, ... Revolutionary method to educate the blind by Haüy
• Sold LOBACHEVSKI Geometrische Untersuchungen zur Theorie der Parallellinien. The founding text of non-Euclidian geometry
• Sold CROS Solution générale du problème de la photographie des couleurs par C... The chromatic synthesis by Cros
• Sold BALZAC, Honoré de Physiologie du mariage ou méditations de philosophie éclectique, su... A precious copy preserved in its binding signed at the time, an extremely rare condition.
• Sold CHATEAUBRIAND De la Restauration et de la Monarchie élective, ou réponse a l’inte... A virulent political pamphlet by Chateaubriand
• Sold PISTOFILO, Buenaventura. Il Torneo… First edition of this precious treatise on tournaments.
• Sold BESSON Théâtre des Instrumens Théâtre des instrumens by Besson
• Sold DIDEROT Œuvres complètes. Diderot's "Complete works"
• 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 MENDELEIEV / MENDELEEV O barometricheskom nivelirovanii i o primenenii dlia nego vysotomer... The precusor of the altimeter by Mendeleev
• Sold ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques Collection complète des œuvres de J.J. Rousseau citoyen de Genève. First collective edition of the “Confessions” by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Sold DESCARTES, René. Lettres de Mr Descartes Où sont traittées les plus belles Questions... First edition of Descartes’ correspondence
• Sold DUDUICT, Jacques Le nouveau Sciatere, pour fabriquer toutes sortes d’Horloges solair... Extremely rare first edition of this treatise about sundial
• Sold CICERON, Marcus Tullius Der Teütsch Cicero. [Traduit par Johann von Schwarzenberg]. "Rare and fascinating German Renaissance woodcut book"
• Sold VOLTAIRE Le Philosophe ignorant. Interesting compilation of three philosophical texts of the utmost interest, including one original by Voltaire
• 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 KETHAM, Johannes Fasciculus medecine… The first illustrated medical book
• Sold TACITE (Les Annales). P. Cornelli Taciti Libri quinque noviter inventi… Editio princeps of Tacitus’ Annals
• Sold FLAMSTEED Atlas céleste de Flamsteed, publié en 1776, par J. Fortin, Ingénieu... Flamsteed’s famous celestial atlas
• Sold ARISTOTE La Rhétorique d’Aristote en François. The best French translation of Aristotle’s Rhetoric
• Sold FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Barthélémy. Description des Expériences de la Machine Aérostatique de MM. De Mo... « The first Aerial Voyage ». (P.M.M., 229).