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• Buy PALISSY, Bernard. Discours admirables, de la nature des eaux et fonteines, tant natur... First edition of Bernard Palissy's "Discours naturalistes".
• Buy LE MUET, Pierre. Maniere de bastir Pour touttes fortes de personnes par Pierre le Mu... The great architectural work of Pierre Le Muet (1591-1669) in 106 full-page engravings.
• Buy LE BLANC, Jean-Bernard. Lettres de Monsieur l’Abbé Le Blanc, historiographe des bastimens d... The first food critic aimed at the English by a French « Des plaisirs de la table chez les anglais… ».
• Buy GREEVEN, H. Collection des costumes des provinces septentrionales du Royaume de... First edition of this superb collection of costumes from the Netherlands.
• Buy VAUDONCOURT, Frédéric Guillaume de. Quinze années d’un proscrit. Rare first edition of this highly valued work in which a general of Napoleon retraces his atypical itinerary.
• Buy MONTESQUIEU Lettres Persanes. Troisième édition. The "third original edition" (Rochebilière) of Montesquieu's Lettres Persanes.
• Buy MONTESQUIEU De l’Esprit des loix ou du rapport que les loix doivent avoir avec ... First edition.
• Buy MONTESQUIEU Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des romains et de leur... Definitive edition given by Montesquieu himself.
• Buy DIDEROT, Denis Pensées sur l’interprétation de la nature. Definitive original edition of Diderot's exposition of encyclopaedic ideas.
• Buy 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".
• Buy [CHINA]. ALBUM OF CHINESE PAINTINGS. [CHINA]. ALBUM OF CHINESE PAINTINGS.
• Buy SAINT-AUGUSTIN Les Confessions de St Augustin, Traduites en François par M. du Boi... "The Confessions" of Saint Augustine from the presses of the Imprimerie Royale.
• Buy MIRABEAU, Marquis de. L’Ami des hommes, ou Traité de la population. Nouvelle édition. Aug... Precious edition in elegant contemporary binding of which four volumes are here in first edition.
• Buy VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet. La Henriade. Imprimé par ordre du Roi pour l’éducation de Monseigne... The first work published by Didot Fils and one of the rarest and most beautiful illustrated books of the eighteenth century.
• Buy MONTESQUIEU Œuvres Complètes, Nouvelle édition, avec des notes d’Helvétius sur ... "A masculine and fast genius". Voltaire.
• Buy DIDEROT, Denis La Religieuse. First edition.
• Buy CERVANTES Histoire de l’admirable Don Quichotte de la Manche.
• Buy COLONNA, Francesco Hypnerotomachie ou Discours du Songe de Poliphile, Déduisant comme ... The “Hypnerotomachia Poliphili”, one of the most important works of Renaissance illustrated literature.
• Buy CORNEILLE, Pierre Le Théâtre de P. Corneille. Revue & corrigé par l’Autheur. I. ... A superb copy with wide margins bound in red morocco by Cuzin from the library of the sculptor Weber.
• Buy [BIBLE]. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM SKIN. Superb Capetian manuscript from the School of Paris.
• Buy SCAPPI, Bartolomeo Opera di M. Bartolomeo Scappi, cvoco secreto di Papa Pio Quinto, di... Scappi, "The Michelangelo of the cooking".
• Buy HUGO, Victor Œuvres complètes de Victor Hugo. Poésie. VII. Les Rayons et les Omb... First edition of this rare and sought-after work, which was printed in a limited edition of 1500 copies.
• Buy JAUME SAINT-HILAIRE, Jean Henri. Plantes de la France décrites et peintes d’après nature par M. Jaum... First edition, first issue of this famous work depicting the flowers and the plants of France.
• Buy MOLIERE, J.-B. Poquelin. Le Sicilien, ou l’amour peintre, Comédie. A copy with very good margins
• Buy [GHEERAERTS, Marcus] / VONDEL, Joost van Den. Vorsteliicke Warande der dieren […] Oock met aerdige Afbeeldi... Precious collection of two very rare illustrated fable books, in editio princeps,
• Buy RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE Les Nuits de Paris ou le spectateur nocturne. The original edition is preserved in its strictly uniform contemporary binding, a rare condition.
• Sold [COUNCIL OF TRENT]. Le Sainct, sacré, universel et général concile ... Partly original edition of the "Concile de Trente " (1545-1563) requested by Charles V sumptuously bound at the time by the Great Clovis Eve for the young king Louis XIII.
• 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).