Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Richardson. Translated by Abbé Prévost, author of Manon Lescaut. Perhaps this translation inspired the dear abbé for his heroine, Manon Lescaut, who follows a path diamet[...]
This beautiful edition of Vauvenargues' Complete Works, revised and augmented from manuscripts provided by his family, is quite rare; accompanied by notes and concluding with an analytical table of co[...]
Memoirs of Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, Volumes V, VI, VII, and VIII, 1768. The life of Henry IV's closest advisor. Maximilien de Béthune, born in 1559 and died in 1641, was a statesman and S[...]
Course in Fine Literature Distributed by Exercises, Volume Two, 1748, by Charles Batteux. What if you could learn the basics of literature during the reign of Louis XV? Written by Charles Batteux and [...]
A very fine and uncommon copy in two quarto volumes, bound in full mottled calf with raised bands, decorated with gilt tooling in the compartments, red morocco titles and volume numbers, marbled endpa[...]
In its fresh, raw green vellum (pigskin) binding, quarto format, raised bands on the spine, garnet morocco title, red edges, this important composite collection of documents relating to the trial of P[...]
"On the Prussian Monarchy, under Frederick the Great"; With an appendix, Containing research on the current situation of the principal regions of Germany. By the Count of Mirabeau. 4 Volumes in Quarto[...]
Almanac of Shows for the year 1791. In 18, full red morocco binding. Covers embroidered with a triple gold fillet, flowers in the corners, gilt edges. Title page missing.
A rare and illustrated treatise by Abbé de Bertholon in two volumes, bound in mottled calfskin, octavo format, illustrated with 7 engraved plates. Printed in Paris by Croulbois, rue des Mathurins, and[...]
A true curiosity, this charming little miniature book, beautifully bound in full tan morocco with a smooth spine decorated with scattered flowers and ermine blossoms, red morocco title, lace-trimmed b[...]
It's hard to imagine today the importance of Easter celebrations in the 18th century. Indeed, this central culmination of the Christian liturgy unfolded through a succession of services extending day [...]
Placard, very interesting judgment concerning Monsieur Lalanne, immigrant, rendered by the Military Criminal Court of the Army sitting in Pau in 1792, which sentenced him to death. Dimensions 55 cm x [...]
Placard of Brigadier General Castellanne, Prefect of the Department of Basses-Pyrénées, prohibiting all foreign and French goods and persons from entering the territory of the French Republic. Dated 2[...]
Poster of Monestier du Puy-de-Dôme, representative of the people in the departments of Hautes-Pyrénées and Basses-Pyrénées, for the establishment of the Revolutionary Government. Given on 20 Germinal,[...]
Placard issued by the People's Representative Monestier to the Western Army, captured at Bayonne on 7 Nivôse 1792, concerning arrests and confinement, and the establishment of lists against them. Plac[...]
NOTE FROM THE ADMINISTRATION REASSURING THE POPULATION ABOUT THE DISTURBANCES IN PARIS ON 27 THERMIDOR YEAR VII PERSONAL COLLECTION NO. 10. CUPBOARD OF 48 CM X 36 CM.
A masterpiece engraved with coats of arms, quarto format, in a contemporary half-bound dark blue binding. A rare work that gathers and disseminates, in a late 18th-century edition, the famous series o[...]
RARE PLACARD DECREE STATING THAT THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE JUST PUNISHMENT OF THE LAST KING OF THE FRENCH WILL BE CELEBRATED BY ALL THE COMMUNES OF THE REPUBLIC AND BY THE ARMIES, ON JANUARY 13, 1796. TH[...]
A rare and beautiful octavo copy on large paper in a tortoiseshell glazed calf binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt tools, green morocco title, triple gilt fillets on the covers, inner dentelles,[...]
A superb collection of approximately forty-five antique volumes, presented in period bindings, mostly in full calf, half-leather, or full leather, comprising several historical, religious, legal, and [...]
A delightful set of five Cazin-format paperback books: full red morocco, spines decorated with gilt thistle motifs, gilt titles and volume numbers, covers with triple gilt fillets, green silk endpaper[...]
A rare copy from the Château des Ormes, with the bookplate of Voyer d'Argenson, Minister of Foreign Affairs under Louis XV, and a great bibliophile, one of the founding fathers of a collection that fo[...]
[VANDERMONDE (Charles-Augustin)] - A Portable Dictionary of Health, in which everyone can gain sufficient knowledge of all diseases, the various signs that characterize each one in particular, the saf[...]
TRINCANO (Didier-Grégoire) - Elements of Fortification, Attack and Defense of Fortresses. Paris, JBG Musier, 1768; octavo, XXVI-420 pp. + 36 plates, contemporary full mottled calf binding, spine decor[...]
THOMAS - Various Works of Mr. Thomas. Lyon, Chez les frères Périsse, 1767; 12mo, 2 unnumbered pages + 132 pages, contemporary full marbled calf binding, smooth spine with gilt decoration, marbled edge[...]
Complete in three handsome octavo volumes, in 19th-century half-binding with reinforced corners in red morocco, marbled boards, raised bands on the spine, gilt titles and volume numbers, wide margins:[...]
Annette and Lubin. Pastoral set to music by Monsieur DLB with separate parts. The words are by M. Marmontel. Engraved by Mlle Vendome, at Mr. Moria's. In Paris, at Mr. Moria's, Music Master at the Com[...]
The first of the Romantics: Florian, author of the late 18th century, in 21 volumes, 16mo, exquisitely illustrated in this meticulously produced edition: bound in marbled calfskin with smooth spines a[...]
SÉVIGNÉ (Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de) - Collection of letters from Madame de Sévigné to Madame de Grignan, her daughter. New edition. Amsterdam, Par la Compagnie, 1775; 12mo, approximately 3[...]
SERRES (C.) - The institutions of French law following the order of those of Justinian, adapted to modern jurisprudence, and to the new ordinances. Paris, Chez Jean de Nully, 1771; in-4, table, 548 pp[...]
A rare memoir on the danger of hasty burials and the necessity of regulations to protect citizens from the misfortune of being buried alive! Published in Niort by Pierre Elies in 1776 by M. Pineau, Do[...]
SARNELLI (Pompeo) - Lettere Ecclesiastiche Di Monsignor Pompeo Sarnelli. Venice, Chez Antonio Bortoli, 1740; in-4, XII-200 + XII-112 + VIII-170 pp., period full vellum binding, smooth spine. Text inde[...]
Copy in new condition, this complete set in three volumes in 8vo, full speckled glazed calf, spine with raised bands decorated with beautiful gilt bronze stamps, titles and volume numbers in ochre and[...]
RODIER (Marc-Antoine) - Questions on the ordinance of Louis XIV of April 1667, relating to the uses of the courts of parliament and mainly that of Toulouse. Toulouse, Chez Dupleix, Laporte et Cie, 177[...]
Beautiful series in 8 volumes in a sober Revolutionary period binding in sheepskin with smooth spines, fillets and titles & volume numbers in fawn and black morocco, covers with gilt frieze frames, in[...]
[RELIGION] - Saint Louis de Gonzague proposed as a model of a holy life; by considerations, prayers, practices of piety & examples suitable for fruitfully using the 6 Sundays dedicated to the honor of[...]
[RELIGION] - Long live Jesus and Mary. Rules of Saint Augustine and constitutions for the Prioresses & Nuns of the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity. Caen, Chez A. Cavelier and JC Pyron, 1737; in-12[...]
Justificatory memoirs of the Countess of Valois de La Motte, written by herself. London 1789. An octavo volume half-sheepskin from the first half of the 19th century. 258 pp. Waterstains on the last f[...]
Presented in 3 large volumes in 4o in marbled tinted calfskin, spine with raised bands decorated with gilt irons in the boxes, titles and volume numbers, Havana morocco, marbled endpapers, red edges; [...]
PICART THE ROMAN - The temple of the muses, decorated with LX. paintings where the most remarkable events of fabulous antiquity are represented. Amsterdam, Chez Zacharie Chatelain, 1742; folio, approx[...]
Bearing the Arms of the Robert de Massy Family, a beautiful large copy in blond calfskin, ribbed spine decorated with gilt irons with a parrot in the boxes, red morocco title, triple fillets on the co[...]
MONTAIGNE - Essays by Montaigne with notes by M. Coste. London, Chez Jean Nourse, 1745; in-12, approximately 400 pp. per volume, contemporary marbled full calf bindings, decorated spines with 5 raised[...]
[MERCIER (Louis-Sébastien)] - Tableau de Paris. Amsterdam, se, 1783-1788; in-8, approximately 250 pp. per volume, contemporary marbled full calf bindings, spines decorated with 5 raised bands, edges p[...]
[MAZEAS (Guillaume)] - The pharmacopoeia of the poor, accompanied by observations on each formula by Doctor W** Member of the Royal College of London. With Notes on the application of the same remedie[...]
Rare: Complete series in 26 volumes in 12 of the "Edifying and Curious Letters", written by the Foreign Missions, new edition. Comes from the library of Château-Gontier. A rare set for this ancestor o[...]
LIGUORI (Alphonse de) - Visits to the Blessed Sacrament and to the Blessed Virgin for each day of the month. Pontarlier, Chez Faivre l'Ainé, 1782; in-12, 242 pp., contemporary full calf binding, spine[...]
In a large volume In 12 in two volumes "The Feasts of Louis XV", of his Ministers; Mistresses, Generals, and other notable Personages of his Reign. At Ville-Franche, at the home of the Widow Liberté. [...]
Rare copy in mint condition from the private library of Louis XVI in red morocco in 8vo format: "The Ornamental Gardens, or the French Georgics, Poem in four songs, followed by Philosophical Poems, Ne[...]
[JANSENISM] - Jansenism Abattu, or Instruction on the Bull of Our Holy Father Pope Clement XI Condemning Heresy & the Book of Jansenius. Liège, Chez François Broncard, 1708; in-12, 10 ppnch. + 180 pp.[...]
HOMER - The Iliad and the Odyssey. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Didot l'Ainé, 1787; small duodecimos, portrait of M. Bitaubé and portrait of Homer by Cochin, 279 + 260 + 256 +260 + 367 + 414 + 280 + 223 [...]
GUYARD DE BERVILLE - History of Pierre Terrail known as the knight Bayard without fear and without reproach. Lyon, Chez Bernuset, 1786; in-12, XXXII-434 pp., contemporary full calf binding, spine with[...]
FRACASTOR (Jérome) - Syphilis or the Venereal Disease, Latin poem. Paris, Chez Jacques-François Quillau, 1753; in-8, 204 pp., contemporary full speckled calf binding, spine decorated with 5 raised ban[...]
FONTENELLE (Bernard Le Bovier de) - Entretiens sur la pluriélisation des mondes. Marseille, Chez Jean Mossy, 1780; in-12, X- folding map + 362 pp., contemporary marbled full calf binding, spine decora[...]
Work in two parts divided into 4 volumes, printed in Paris, at Maret, Bookseller, Maison Egalité, cour des Fonaines, No. 1081. Year IV. 1796. Volume 1: "History of the Conspiracy of Maximilien Robespi[...]
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