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A shining example for all French Protestants View picture(s) 1 AMIRAULT (AMYRAUT), Moise. La Vie de François, Seigneur de la Nouë, dit Bras-de-Fer. Ou sont continës quantité de choses memorables, qui  servent à l'éclaircissement de celles qui se sont passées en France & au Pays-Bas, depuis le commencement des  troubles survenus our la religion, jusques à l'an 1591. Leyden, Jean Elsevier, 1661. 4to. 19th century half vellum. With 2 folding genealogical tables. (8), 368 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Biography  Elzevier  France  History  Protestantism  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Convolute of very rare, early French works on (filtering) fountains and water sanitation, with handcoloured plates View picture(s) 2 AMY, [Joseph]. Nouvelles fontaines filtrantes. Approuvées par l'Académie Royale des Sçiences en plusiers rencontres, dont quelques-unes sont présentées dans ce livre, pour la santé des armées du Roi. Sur mer & sur terre, & du public, le tout accompagné de figures expliquées par lettres indicatives. Paris, A. Boudet, 1752. Two parts in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with gilt compartments. 6 folding woodcut plates, 1 other woodcut plate and 7 (almost) full-page woodcut illustrations in the text. VIII, 72, 46 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Architecture  France  Illustrated Books  Medicine  Metals  Militaria  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Article on the journey through the province of Hida in Japan by a professor of law at the university of Tokyo View picture(s) 3 APPERT, Georges. Un coin du Japon. La province de Hida. Extrait de la Revue de Géographie. Paris, Institut Géographique, Ch. Delagrave, 1890. 8vo. Original green wrappers. Lithographed map in text. 31 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  France  Japan  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A revolution in food preservation: the food can! View picture(s) 4 APPERT, [Charles or Nicolas or François]. Le livre de tous les ménages : ou l'art de conserver pendant plusieurs années, toutes les substances animales et végétales. Paris, Barrois l'aine, 1813. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gilt spine with red gilt title label, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. Folding engraved plate with machinery for preserving food, engraved by Gaitte. XLVIII, 176 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Coffee & Tea  France  Gastronomy  Industry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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French cuisine in the 19th century View picture(s) 5 AUDOT, Louis-Eustache. La cuisinière de la campagne et de la ville, ou la nouvelle cuisine économique. Précédée d'instructions sur la dissection des viandes à table, et suivi de recettes précieuses pour l'economie domestique, et d'un traité sur les soins à donner aux caves et aux vins. Dédiée aux bonnes ménagères. Seizième édition. Paris, Audot & Sons, 1834. 12mo. Original grey boards. With one full-page handcoloured woodengraving, and many woodengravings in text. (4), 436, 24 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  France  Gastronomy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A 'Papillon'- as well as a 'j'accuse' avant-la-lettre View picture(s) 6 AYMÉ, Jean-Jaques (Job). Déportation et naufrage de J.J. Aymé, ex-législateur; suivis du tableau de vie et de mort des déportés, a son départ de la Guyane, avec quelques observations sur cette colonie et sur les nègres. Paris, Maradan, (1800). 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine richly gilt decorated with red morocco title label, paper board sides. 269, (26) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colonial History  France  French  History  Shipwrecks  Slavery  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Auction catalogue with a.o. lots from the collection of the bibliophile Duc de la Vallière View picture(s) 7 BACHELIN-DEFLORENNE, Librairie. Catalogue de livres anciens et modernes, rares et curieux dans tous les genres. Provenant des collections du Duc de la Vallière, de M. le Baron J. Pichon, de M.  Hochart, de M. Hilaire Grésy, de M. William Martin, du Marquis de Hasting. Et plusieurs biblohèques importantes de France, d' Allemagne et d' Angleterre. Paris, Librarie Bachelin-Deflorenne, 1869. 8vo. Original boards. 364; 96 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibliophily  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  France  History  Libraries & Collections  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Paris during the July Revolution of 1830 by an eye-witness View picture(s) 8 BAZIN, Anaïs (Anaïs de RAUCOU, dit BAZIN). L'époque sans nom esquisses de Paris 1830-1833. Paris, Alexandre Mesnier, 1833. 2 vols. 8vo. Nineteenth-century half mottled calf, gilt and decorated spine with red morocco title-label lettered in gold, gilt-stamped central ornament of the Society of Writers to the Signet on both sides of both vols., speckled edges. (6), VI, 307; (6), 323 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  France  History  Paris  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Scarce, beautifully illustrated 17th century herbal View picture(s) 9 BOCCONE, Paulo. Icones & descriptiones rariorum plantarum Siciliae, Melitae, Galliae, & Italiae. Quarum unaquaeque proprio charactere signata, ab aliis eiusdem classis facile distinguitur. (Oxford), e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1674. 4to. Early 19th century treecalf, spine ribbed in 6 compartments, 5 with gilt flowers, 1 with black morocco title-label, black sprinkled edges. Title-engraving depicting the Sheldonian Theatre, 52 fine engraved illustrations showing numerous plants and flowers. (8), 96, (7, 1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Botany  France  Italy  Natural History  Sicily  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic on sovereignty by the founder of political science in France, if not in Europe View picture(s) 10 BODIN, Jean. Les six livres de la république. Ensemble une apologie de René Herpin. Paris, Jacques du Puys, 1583. 8vo. Half nineteenth-century black painted calf, ribbed spine lettered in gold, marbled boards and endpapers. With woodcut printer's device on title (Silvestre 1098), woodcut head-pieces and initials in text. (24), 1060, (44) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  France  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Opposing the fencing ideas of his father View picture(s) 11 BOËSSIÈRE the younger, Texier la. Traité de l'art des armes, a l'usage des professeurs et des amateurs. Paris, Didot l'Ainé, 1818. 8vo. Conteporary polished calf, decorated gilt spine with title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. With 20 numbered folding engraved plates depicting various fencing positions, by Adam after Bodem. xxii, 309, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Fencing  France  Manuals  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two charming pocket-atlasses of France View picture(s) 12 BONNE, [Rigobert]. Petit tableau de la France, ou cartes geographiques sur toutes les parties de ce Royaume. Avec une description abregée. Paris, Lattré, 1764. 12mo. Contemporary burgundy morocco, spine gilt with black title label lettered in gold, sides with gilt ruling and gilt cornerpieces, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e. With handcoloured engraved title by Delongueil after H. Gravelot and 28 handcoloured double-page engraved numbered maps, engraved table at the end, engraved plate 'Echelle'. Extra: engraved plate with plan of the centre of Paris in roundel. Full description >> Related Subjects: Atlases  Atlases [Europe]  Atlases [Pocket]  Atlases [Town]  France  Maritime History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the coins of Ancient France by the intendant of Quebec View picture(s) 13 BOUTEROUE D'AUBIGNY, Claude. Recherches curieuses des monoyes de France depuis le commencement de la monarchie. Paris, Edme Martin, 1666. Folio. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, ribbed spine with red title label lettered in gold, covers with gilt central armorial piece of 'The Society of writers to the Signet' and gilt triple ruling, gilt binding edges and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e. Title printed in red and black with engraved allegorical vignette by N. Bonnart, showing a press for coinage, numerous engravings in text of which seven full-page (on pp. 336, 342, 349, 354, 359, 364 and 370), engraved headpiece and initial, woodcut head- and tailpieces. (16), 398, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Canada  Classical Antiquity  Economy  France  Numismatics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important 18th-century book on gardening View picture(s) 14 BRADLEY, Richard. Nouvelles observations physiques et pratiques sur le jardinage et l'art de planter, avec le calendrier des jardiniers. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois de Bradley, enrichi de figures en taille-douce. Paris, Pierre-Aug. Paulus du Mesnil, Jean-Luc Nyon, & Siméon-Prosper Hardy, 1756. 3 vols. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments with red title labels lettered in gold, red painted edges. Engraved frontispiece depicting the gardens of a country estate, and 12 numbered folding engraved plates by Pierre-François Legrand, showing all kinds of flowers, garden lay-outs, insects etc., including 3 very interesting plates of a greenhouse (plan, in- and outside views) in vol. 3 XXXVI, 358, (2): Privilege; (5), X-XVI, 510; (2), 12, 1-430, 433-442 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: England  France  Gardens  Horticulture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the last publications by the famous Parisian printer Henri Estienne: important for the history of the Reformation in France View picture(s) 15 BRIÇONNET, Guillaume. Sermo synodalis R. in Christo Patris D. Guillermi Meldensis Episcopi, habitus Meldis, anno 1519, die 13 Octobris: quo monentur quibus ouium cura credita est, illis praesentes invigilare. Paris, Henri Estienne, 1520. 4to. 19th century vellum, spine lettered in ink. Printed in Estienne's beautiful roman type; one criblé initial at the beginning. (14) leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: France  Reformation  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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France elaborately mapped: a famous and rare atlas including key maps for travellers View picture(s) 16 BRION DE LA TOUR, Louis & Louis Charles DESNOS. Coup d'oeil général sur la France, pour servir d'introduction au tableau analytique et géographique de ce Royaume. Dressé par différens géographes, dont les ouvrages sont aussi connus qu'estimés, faisant partie de l'Atlas historique de la France ancienne & moderne, mise au jour & dirigé par le sieur Desnos, ingénieur-géographe pour les Globes & Sphéres. Paris, Grangé, Guillyn, Desnos, a.o., 1765. Large 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt with red title label, with blind-stamped tripple fillets on sides, gilt binding edges, red painted edges, marbled endpapers. With a double-paged frontispiece by Le Charpentier after De Sève, with a view of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, a double-page engraved title: "Tableau Analytique de La France dans lequel on donne une connoissance générale et detaillédu Royaume, ... dirigé par le S. Desnos. Paris, Chez l'auteur, 1765", followed by a large folding engraved geo-spherical map of France by Rizzi Zannoni and 29 double-page engraved analytical maps of France, all set within ornamental borders and all nicely coloured by hand, 2 "Cartes odographiques" with the distances between French cities, both dated 1763, a double-page engraved title "Le Petit Neptune François ou carte des côtes maritimes du Royaume (1765)", followed by 3 double-page charts of the French coasts, all coloured by hand, a large folding engraved map of France by Croisey after Rizzi Zannoni (1765), also hand-coloured, a double-page engraved title "L'Indicateur Fidèle ou Guide des Voyageurs", followed by a double-page engraved general road-map of France with circles with Paris in the center, indicating the distances between the capital and other French cities, and 10 folding and 8 double-page engraved French road-maps, all coloured by hand. 15 (4), 8, 10 pp. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Atlases [Europe]  Atlases [Sea]  Cartography  France  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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9 catalogues in one binding View picture(s) 17 BRISART, R. Catalogue de la magnifique et précieuse collection de livres, manuscrits, dessins et estampes, formant le cabinet de Mr. R. Brisart, Rentier, a Gand. Gand, Ad. van der Meersch, 1849. 9 catalogues in 1 vol. 8vo. Half calf. With ms. annotations of the prices in margins. X, 264 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Belgicana  Book History  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  France  Libraries & Collections  Manuscripts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First French edition of The Pied Piper of Hamelin View picture(s) 18 BROWNING, Robert. L'homme à la flûte. Interprétation de J. Girardin. Paris, Librarie Hachette et Cie, 1889. Boards. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. 64 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  France  Illustrated Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A French description of the world with 18 maps View picture(s) 19 BUFFIER, Claude. Géographie universelle, exposée dans les differentes métodes qui peuvent abréger l'étude & faciliter l'usage de cette sience. Avec le secours des vers artificiels. Sixième édition. Revue, corrigée & augmentée des changemens de domination arivés récemment dans les Etats de'l'Europe: 2. d'une préface sur la méthode d'aprendre la Géographie ... 3. d'une table des noms de pays en françois & en latin ... Paris, Pierre-François Giffart, 1739. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title-label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, red painted edges, marbled endpapers. 18 engraved folding maps, 12 of which are signed by 'Desbruslins' and three are dated 1744: World, Europe, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, German Empire, Rhine, Italy, Spain, England, Scandinavia, Poland, Turkish Empire, Greece, Asia, Middle East, Africa and the two America's. XXIV, 413 (3), (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  America, North  Antarctica  Asia  Atlases [General]  Atlases [Pocket]  Cartography  Engravings  Europe  France  Geography  Jesuits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautifully illustrated second Aldus edition of Caesar View picture(s) 20 CAESAR, Gaius Julius. Hoc volumine continentur haec. Commentariorum de bello Gallico libri VIII. De bello civili pompeiano libri IIII. De bello Alexandrino liber I. De bello Africano liber I. De bello Hispaniensi liber I. Pictura totius Galliae, & Hispaniae secundum C. Caesaris commentarios. Nomina locorum, urbiumque, & populorum Galliae, & hispaniae, ut olim dicebantur latine, & nunc dicantur, secundum orinem alphabeti. Pictura pontis in Rheno. Item Auarici, Alexiae. Uxelloduni. Massiliae. Venice, Aldus Manutius & André d'Asola ('In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri'), January 1518 - November 1519. 8vo. Later vellum, gilt and gauffered front edge. With three woodcut Aldine printer's' devices, 2 double-page woodcut maps of France and Spain, and 5 full-page woodcuts. [15], 296 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Aldus Manutius  France  German  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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