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Eight magnificent and very rare suites of eighteenth-century, uniformly coloured costumes plates: the Ottoman Empire - Germany (Nürnberg, Strassbourg) - Switserland (Zürich) - World (incl. American Indians) - French army View picture(s) 1 (COSTUMES). Eight suites with 180 engraved coloured costume plates. Augsburg, Jean André Pfeffel (1), Jeremias Wolff (2-6) & Paris, F. Chereau (7) and Le Rouge (8), ca. 1720-1750. 8 suites. Folio. Contemporary half calf with red morocco title label lettered in gold: "Costumes en Couleurs", red painted edges. Two engraved titles, one engraved dedication leaf, and 180 costume plates, all uniformly coloured by hand and most of them heightened with gold (ca. 1750), many within yellow painted frame. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America, Central  America, South  Costumes  France  Germany  Militaria  Ottoman Empire  Print Series  Switzerland  Turkey  The price of this book is only available on request, it cannot be ordered online. Please contact us for more information. E-mail a Friend

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Catalogue of an in interesting art exhibition held at the Palais de Luxembourg in 1818 View picture(s) 2 EXPLICATION DES OUVRAGES DE PEINTURE ET SCULPTURE, l' école moderne  de France, exposés le 24 Avril 1818, dans le Musée Royal du Luxembourg, destiné aux artistes vivants. Paris, P. Didot, the elder, 1818. 12mo. Blue boards, gilt spine and covers, marbled endpapers. 87 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art  Catalogues  France  Museums  Painting & Drawing  Paris  Sculpture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Prohibiting the import of Dutch cheese View picture(s) 3 ARRÊT DU CONSEIL d'état du roi, qui interdit & prohibe jusq'à nouvel ordre, l'entrée des fromages de Nord-Hollande, dans le royaume. Du 18 septembre 1779. Extrait des registres du conseil d'état. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1779. 4to. Unbound. With a woodcut headpiece comprising the royal coat of arms. 3 (last blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: France  Gastronomy  Netherlands  Trade  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Catalogue of the last 'Salon', of the ancien régime (1789) View picture(s) 4 EXPLICATION des peintures, sculptures et gravures, de Messieurs de l' Académie Royale, dont l'exposition a été ordonnée, suivant l'intention de Sa Majesté, par M. le Comte De la Billardrie d'Angiviller ... Directeur & Ordonnateur-général ... de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Paris, Imprimerie des Bâtimens du Roi & de l'Academie Royale de Peinture, 1789. 12mo. Later half green buckram, with gilt title on spine, marbled boards. 64 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Art  Exhibitions  France  Painting & Drawing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare ironical imaginary journey and 'Utopia' in the century of Enlightenment View picture(s) 5 FILOSOFO viaggiatore, Il -, in un paese incognito alli abitanti della terra. Scritto in francese a dall'autore trasportato in italiao conaggiunte e correzzioni. (Selenopoli) (Florence?), For sale: Florence, Stamperia Bonducciana, 1771. 2 parts in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary half vellum, marbled boards. Engraved title t both parts within a nice rococo cartouche, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. 246; 280 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  France  Imaginary Voyages & Utopias  Italy  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Charming game inspired by Darwin View picture(s) 6 GAME OF PEOPLE'S TRANSFORMATION. (Probably Paris, 19th century). Half cloth portfolio. 20 strips of paper with colour-printed lithographed full-length portraits of circus-people, costumes and professions on front side, and 6 small parts of similar people, also in colour-printed lithographs, on the back side. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colour Printing  Darwin  France  Games & Pastimes  Lithographs  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Comes in a brown paper bag View picture(s) 7 HEURES DE PAPHOS, LES-, Contes moraux. Par un sacrificateur de Venus. (No place), 1787. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, green morocco title label with gilt lettering on spine, gilt spine, sides gilt, marbled endpapers. Engraved title, 12 full-page engraved plates with erotic scenes. (24 lvs.). Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Erotica  France  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare account of seabattle between the people of Dieppe and the Flemish in 1555 View picture(s) 8 HISTOIRE de la bataille navalle faite par les Dieppois & Flamans: qui est l'une des plus furieuses & soudaines expeditions de mer, qui ayt esté entreprise de nostre temps sur les ennemis du Roy. Paris, Estienne Denise, (ca. 1557). Small 8vo. Modern red morocco, spine ribbed with gilt lettering, gilt inner dentelles and marbled endpapers, g.e. 26 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Belgicana  France  History  Maritime History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautifully illustrated French bible View picture(s) 9 LA SAINCTE BIBLE EN FRANÇOIS, translatee selon la pure & entiere traduction de Sainct Hierome, derechief conferee & entierement revisitee selon les plus anciens & plus correctz exemplaires. Ou sus ung chascun chapitre est mis brief argument. Antwerp, Antoine de la Haye, 1541. Two parts in one vol. Folio. Modern blindstamped pigskin, red edges. Title and calendar in red and black; title within border of four woodcut blocks, one with the arms of Charles V, another with the arms of M(artin de) K(eyser), second title within the same border; a full-page woodcut of the six days of Creation; over 200 woodcut illustrations and numerous woodcut initials in text. (19), 396; (6), 101, (1) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bibles  France  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two nicely illustrated fable books by the Krausses at Augsburg View picture(s) 10 NOUVELLES FABLES CHOISIES, et mises en vers par les plus celebres auteurs François de ce tems. Traduites & mises en prose Allemande. AUSSERLESENE FABLEN, von denen berühmtesten Frantzösischen Autoren dieser Zeit in Reimen gebracht; Anjetzo aber in ungebundener Teutscher Rede verfasset. In Zweij Theil. Augsburg, Johann Jacob Krauss, 1721. Two parts in 1 volume. 4to. Later half calf, ribbed spine with 'Fables' lettered in gold. With 2 engraved allegorical frontispieces, engraved allegorical plate for the preface, and 2 series of 24, resp.28 fable illustrations on 12, resp. 14 full-page engraved plates by Johann Ulrich Krauss. (10), 51, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Classical Antiquity  Fable Books  France  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Sonnius issue of the popular romance View picture(s) 11 PALMERIN D'ANGLETERRE, Histoire du Preux, Vaillant et Tres-Victorieux Chevallier -, fils du Roy Dom Edoard, contenant plusieurs faits d'armes & Amours, & les estranges adventures par luy mises à fin: ensemble les proësses admirables des Princes Florian du desert, son frere, & Florendos, fils de Primaleon de Grece. Premiere Partie.- La Seconde Partie, ou prendront fin les amitiez qu'il eut avec l'enfante Polinarde, pour laquelle il feit tant de proësses qu'il s'acquit immortel renom, & le sembable feirent Florian du desert, son frere & le Prince Florendos, fils de Primaleon de Grece. Traduite du Castellan en François & revuë & corrigee mieux qu'au paravant. Paris, Jean d'Ongoys for Michel Sonnius, 1574. 2 parts in 1 vol. Small 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and black-lined with small gilt ornaments in the compartments, with single gilt fillet borders and fine gilt oval ornament in center on both sides. With woodcut printer's device on first title, small typographical woodcut vignette on second title, and numerous fine woodcut initials, flowered and historiated, and some woodcut headpieces and larger and smaller vignettes in text. (8), 346; (6), 280 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  France  Literature  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early 19th century Paris fashion for ladies and gents View picture(s) 12 PARIS COSTUMES PLATES, taken from: Costumes Parisiens, Journal des dames et des modes; Modes de Paris, Petit courrier des dames; Paris Élégant, Journal de Modes; Journal des Demoiselles. Paris, London, 1836-1845. Large 8vo. Contemp. half red morocco, spine gilt. With 156 steel-engraved plates, nicely coloured by hand. 156 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Costumes  France  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Letters by a patriotic "dame Hollandaise" View picture(s) 13 PUISSANCES, LES TROIS-, ou correspondance entre le temps, la politique & l'équité, sur les affaires actuelles. Utrecht, 1785. Wrappers. 76 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  France  Low Countries  Pamphlets  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The French mocking the Dutch and vice versa View picture(s) 14 SPOT-PRINTEN, Eenige-, der Francen tegen de Hollanders. By haar uytgegeven in't jaar 1673. Doch nu verrijkt met de antwoorden der Nederlanders op dezelve.- Diverses figures satyriques que les Francois on faites contre les Hollandois en l'an 1673. Suivant la copie imprimée à Paris. Avec la reponse des Hollandois aux Francois. (N.p.), 1673. 4to. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine, paper label on front cover. 12 engraved satirical plates, probably by J. Harrewijn, numbered 1-6, and A-F. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Dutch  France  History  Netherlands  Print Series  Satire  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare original edition of the statutes of Forcalquier in southern France View picture(s) 15 STATUTA PROVINCIAE Forcalqueriique comitatum. Cum commentariis L. Massae I.C.... Accesserunt F. Fortii, I.C. Andini, in illa curia advocati, notae ad marginem. Cum indice. On à ajousté un livret, de la genealogie des Comtes de Provence, tiré du livre en Latin de feu Maitre F. de Clappiers, sieur de Vauvenargues, conseiller du Roy, en la Cour des Aydes, & Chambre des Comptes en Provence. Aix-en-Provence, Nicolas Pillehotte & Jean Tholosan, 1598. 2 parts in 1 vol. Large 8vo. Later vellum with printed title on spine. Title printed in red & black with woodcut fleur de lis (coat-of-arms of the Départ. Alpes-de Haute-Provence), woodcut coat of arms of Forcalquier and initials in text; the second part with woodcut coat-of-arms of Henri IV on seperate title and woodcut initials. (15, 1 blank), 216; (24) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Economy  France  Genealogy & Heraldry  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The starting point of Great Britain's sea-borne empire View picture(s) 16 TRATADO DEFINITIVO de paz, e uniaõ entre os serenissimos, e potentisimos principes D. Joseph I. Rey fidelissimo de Portugal, e dos Algarves, Jorge III. Rey da Gram Bretanha, de huma parte; Luiz XV. Rey Christianissimo de França, D. Carlos III. Rey catholico de Hespanha, da outra parte: assignado em Pariz a dez de Fevereiro de mil setecentos sessenta e tres: com os plenos poderes, e ratificaçoens dos quatro Monarcas Contratantes; ajuntado-se os actos que se passaraõ no dia 9 de Marco de mesmo anno, em que as ditas ratificaçoens foraõ trocadas na mesma Corte de Pariz. Lisboa, Miguel Rodrigues, 1763. 4to. Brown calf, spine gilt, with red morocco title label lettered in gold, gilt vignette with the coat of arms of Portugal as well as gilt title on front cover. Vignette with the coat of arms of Portugal on title. 91 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Cartography  France  Great Britain  Militaria  Politics  Portugal  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a rare eroticum, with eight (in stead of four) hand coloured plates View picture(s) 17 ZÉPHIRIN, ou l'enfant du plaisir. Conte qui n'en est pas un. Paris, les Marchands de nouveautés, An VII (= 1799). 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with red title label, gilt borders alonmg the edges on both sides, marbled end-papers. With 8 hand coloured engraved plates with erotic scenes. 108 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colour Plate Books  Erotica  France  Literary History  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare Elzevier edition of essays by a famous French Jesuit View picture(s) 18 (BOUHOURS, Dominique). Les entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugene. Dernière edition. Sur la Copie imprimée à Paris. Amsterdam, Jacques le Jeune [= Daniel Elzevier], 1671. 12mo. Nineteenth century panelled polished red morocco, spine richly gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, panelled covers with triple fillet borders and corner ornaments, gilt board edges and inner dentelles, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (MULLER). Engraved frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe (Willems), woodcut printer's device (sphere) on title-page. (8), 438, (9) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Bindings  Elzevier  Emblem Books  France  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Frivolous Utopia View picture(s) 19 (CAHUSAC, Jean-Louis de). Grigri, histoire véritable. Traduite du Japonnois en Portugais par Didaque Hadeczuca, Compagnon d'un missionnaire à Yendo; & du Portugais en François par l'Abbé de ***, Aumônier d'un vaisseau Hollandois. Derniere édition moins correcte que les premières. Nangazaki (Paris?), Klnporzenkru, seul imprimeur du très auguste Cubo, L’an du monde 59749 (=1739). 2 parts in one vol. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine with title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, blue marbled edges. XXIV, 167, (1 blank); (4), 221, (3 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Erotica  Forbidden Books  France  Imaginary Voyages & Utopias  Literature  Utopia's  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Revealing the most mysterious secrets of the bridal bed View picture(s) 20 (CHORIER, Nicolas) (MEURSIUS). Nouvelle traduction du M(e)ursius, connu sous le nom d'Aloïsia, ou l'académie des dames; revue, corrigée et augmentée. Cythere, Impremerie de la Volupté, 1776. 2 parts in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine, sprinkled edges. Woodcut vignettes on two titles, 11 full-page engraved erotical plates, woodcut headpieces. VIII, 191; 192 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Erotica  France  Literary History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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