VERY RARE POSTER OF THE CITY OF BAYONNE FROM 1689, WITH BEAUTIFUL VIGNETTES. SHIPPING WILL BE BY REGISTERED MAIL, THE POSTER FOLDED IN HALF OR IN A ROLL. PRIVATE COLLECTION
A large octavo volume in blond calfskin, spine with raised bands, red morocco title, gilt edges, in a rich binding with a lace border, scattered fleurs-de-lis and Maltese crosses, stamped with the arm[...]
Complete works of the great humanist Justus Lipsius. 4 volumes. Bound with the heraldic bookplate of Jean Alexandre Van der Broecke. Magnificent leather binding, skillfully restored at the spine. Nume[...]
HAUTE EPOQUE Rare and striking embossed leather box on a wooden base, with a rounded profile. Italy ? 17th century The leather is partly raw and partly tanned, creating a gradient of both color and te[...]
Rare copy in vellum (pigskin) from the very beginning of the 17th reign of Henry IV, in Cologne; by Jean de Tournes. M. DC. XIX. (1609). Contemporary binding in vellum with flaps, flat closing laces, [...]
Decretals of Gregory IX In Lyon at Pierre Rousselet 1613 38x24.5cm More than 2000 pages Title page printed in red and black with vignette. Large full-page woodcut at the beginning of the work and two [...]
Beautiful and strong full-skin copy, original ribbed binding, fillets in the boxes, gilded titles, fillet on the framing boards, two-tone title printed in Genevea, TypisIacob Stoer M. DC. XXXVIII. (16[...]
Beautiful folio proudly bearing the "Arms of Knight", unidentified; for an important and very interesting book printed in Paris, at Claude Sonnius, rue Saint Jacques, at the Escu de Basle, & at the Co[...]
From a rare and prestigious provenance this magnificent In-folio of the Works of Saint Gregory printed at Lutétiae Parisiorum. Apud Claudium Morellum, via Iacobea ad insigne Fontis. Mr. DC. XII. (1612[...]
Beautiful and rare in this beautiful period binding in 4to format in Havana morocco, spine with raised bands decorated with fleurons, cover with gilt fillet frame, oval cartouche in its center with a [...]
JUSTINIAN - The four books of the institutes of the Emperor Justinian in Latin and French, newly translated by Mr. Du Teil, lawyer in parliament. Paris, Chez la veuve G. Loison, 1655; in-12, printed t[...]
CONTARENI (Gaspard) - De republica Venetorum. Amsterdam, Chez Elzevir, 1631; in-32, 2 ppnch. + 506 pp. + table, contemporary full calf binding, decorated spine, marbled edges, fillets on the covers. P[...]
Extremely rare set of 5 volumes of L'ASTREE, a novel by Honore D'Urfe, in their contemporary green gilt vellum binding. The first part in Paris, published by O. de Varenne in 1615. The second part in [...]
[BIBLE] - Novum Jesu-Christi domini nostri testanum. Followed by Liber psalmorum and the Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis. Paris, Chez Sebastien Martin, 1658; in-12, 200 + 75 + 81 + index, conte[...]
Rare and beautiful Regional publication of Arras, from the Printing House of Guillaume de la Rivière, with the Ensign of the Good Shepherd. MDC XIIII. (1614) of the youth and the Regency of Louis XIII[...]
This precious copy of Ovid's Metamorphoses richly illustrated with 15 figures and with an engraved title bound at the head of the first English edition of 1632. The fifteen magnificent full-page figur[...]
Rare and beautiful impression of the Poems of Dominique Baudi, a Lugduni Batavorum, ex officina Godefridi Basson; 1616. Full ivory vellum with flap for this large volume in 12: "DOMINICI BAUDII" POEMA[...]
Exceptional and beautiful folio in white vellum, cold-framed covers, ribbed spine, handwritten upper title in ink; two-color title page for this copy of Livy's Roman History, illustrated with woodcuts[...]
In its beautiful period binding in Havana morocco, beautiful cartouches on the covers with an oval laurel wreath with fine gilt iron, spine with raised bands decorated with iron in the compartments, g[...]
Roman poetry can range from the elegiac to the perfectly scatological. Catullus (84-54 BC) is a perfect example of this diversity of tone. Here the book seller will have retained only the polite and d[...]
Summary of the Law of the Spanish Netherlands Zype, François van den (Franciscus) [c.1578-1650]. Notitia Iuris Belgici. Editio Nova Tertia Parte Auctior. Antwerp: Apud Hieronymum Verdussium, 1665. Gil[...]
Very interesting book, study of geometry, by Christophoro Clavio whose first edition was born in 1574. Book -in 8, vellum cover, title gilt on the edge, presented in an average condition. Indeed 19 le[...]
Rare law book from the Henri IV period; in two large volumes in 4, in a beautiful binding, called marbled, light ultramarine blue, titles and volume number in black on bistre paper: "The First and Sec[...]
Published from 1604 to 1608 and wonderfully brought together in beautiful and rare fresh decorative bindings from the original early 17th century, these three large volumes in 12, full tinted calf, sp[...]
The Parallels of Caesar and Henry III by Anthoine de Bandole (alias Jean Baudoin) With Caesar's commentaries and Blaise de Viginere's annotations In Paris at Jean Richer 1609 Title-frontispiece engrav[...]
Extremely rare work in a parchment binding, spine enriched in the 18th century in golden blond calf, flat spine decorated with golden irons, red morocco title, small in 4; printed in Lille, from the I[...]
[TABOUROT (Étienne)] - The fourth of the variegated pages of the lords of Accords. Rouen, Chez David Geuffroy, 1625; in-12, VI ppnch. + 50 pages, 19th century binding, half red morocco, spine decorate[...]
[MONTALVO (Garci Rodriguez de)] - Thrésor of all the books of Amadis de Gaule, containing the Harangues, Epistles, Concions, Missive Letters, Requests, Responses, Replies, Sentences, Cartels, Complain[...]
[VIGNIER] - The True Origin of the Very Illustrious Houses of Alsace, Lorraine, Austria, Baden and a Quantity of Others with the Genealogical Tables of the Descents of the Said Houses, & of the Branch[...]
SILVESTRE (Israel) - View of the landscape of Tomblaine near Nancy. Nancy, Chez l'auteur, circa 1650; 110/210 mm, 1 pp., steel engraving with burin. Israël Silvestre, born in Nancy in 1621 and died in[...]
It is the split heart, that I saved from destruction, this fascinating work, probably one of the first medical sums translated into French and therefore readable for all. This work, in folio, publishe[...]
Rare et bel exemplaire de grande taille in folio en veau blond glacé du tout début du 17ème siècle (de la régence de Louis XIII) : " L'Histoire du Monde de C. Pline Second " ; riche et précieuse reli[...]
Louis in golden fleurons gilded title, large ex-libris Aux Armes, two-tone title for this work by FN Coeffecteau: "Roman History containing all the most memorable things that happened from the beginni[...]
Very beautiful and rare old book, Joannes Petrus Camusius, Homiliae de Passione Domini nostri Jesu Christi, Coloniae Agrip, Kinchius Joannes, 1621, In used condition, very beautiful and rare cover, on[...]
First edition from 1655 of this work by Michel de Marolles (1600-1681): Table of the temple of the Muses, taken from the cabinet of the late Mr Favereau, published by Antoine de Sommeville, Paris 1655[...]
FABERT (Abraham) - The remarks of Abraham Fabert, Knight, Sieur de Moulins and Master Alderman of Metz, on the general customs of the Duchy of Lorraine, the bailiwicks of Nancy, Vosges and Germany. Me[...]
BESSE (Pierre de) - Theological conceptions on the octave of the holy sacrament & main feasts from Easter to All Saints' Day. Follow-up of theological conceptions on the main festivals from All Saints[...]
BEAUVAU (Henry de) - Daily account of the journey to the Levant made and described by the high and powerful lord Henry de Beauvau, baron of the said place and of Manonville, lord of Fléville, Sermaise[...]
Work at the top of the Spanish mystical lyric. Saint John of the Cross: spiritual works. French edition of 1665 with many comments and additions 24X18cm
the divine Ariosto or the furious Roland. translated into French by F. de Rosset and dedicated to Marie de Médicis Paris 1615, beautiful edition adorned with extraordinary full-page engravings
Rare monograph on rings: De annulis liber singularis 1657. Parchment binding. Scholarly and exhaustive monograph on the rings and their classes and uses, with a compilation of abundant ancient Greek a[...]
Het Schilder-Boeck or Schilder-boek (known in French as Le livre des peintres) is a book written by the Flemish painter and writer Carel van Mander. It was first published in 1604 in Dutch in Haarlem.[...]
Germania Antiqua, Philippi Cluveri. Published in Leiden, Officina Elzeviriana 1631. Folio, 16-748-8 pages. 11 double-page maps and 26 high quality engravings. contemporary parchment binding
BILLAUT (Adam) - The Ankles of Me Adam carpenter of Nevers. Paris, Chez Toussaint Quinet, 1644; in-4, frontispiece-315 pp., period full vellum binding, mute smooth spine, marbled edges. Brunet I, 46. [...]
ROSTAGNY - Treaty of Primerose on the vulgar errors of medicine, with very curious additions. Lyon, Chez Jean Certe, 1689; in-8, epistle, table, approval, privilege, preface, 860 pp., contemporary ful[...]
PLINY THE SECOND (C.) - The history of the world by C. Pliny the second. Collated & corrected on several old Latin copies, both printed and handwritten, & enriched with annotation in the margin, servi[...]
BOCCACE (Jean) - The Decameron of Florentine master Jean Bocace. Paris, Chez Arnould Cotinet, 1662; in-8, preface, table, 967 pp., contemporary full vellum binding, decorated smooth spine, author and [...]
QUERCETANI (Joseph du Chesne) - Jos. Quercetani doctoris regii diateticon polyhistoricon. Opus utique varium, magna utilitatis ac delignationis, quod multa, historica, philosophica, & medica, tam conf[...]
OVID (Publii Ovidii Nasonis) - Fastorum lib VI. Tristium Lib V. De Ponto Lib IIII. In Ibim. Ad liviam. Antwerp, Plantin, 1667; in-12, 176, 283 pp., old cardboard in orange and black cover paper, smoot[...]
LA CHAPELLE, CORNEILLE, SCARRON ET CHARLES PIETERS - Collection of some new and gallant pieces in both prose and verse. Cologne, Chez Pierre du Marteau, 1667; in-12, VI-180, VI-232 pp., contemporary f[...]
HOMER - Homeri quae exstant omnia Ilias, Odyssea, Batachomyomachia, Hymni, Poëmatia aliquot cum latina versione omnium quae circumseruntur emensattiss, aliquot iam castigatiore. Basle, Chez Sébastien [...]
HIBERNICUM (Thomam) - Flores doctorum pene omnium qui tum theologiia, tum in philosophia hactenus claruerunt. Sl, Jocobi Stoer, 1614; in-12, index-1054 pp., full contemporary vellum binding, smooth sp[...]
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