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Dedication copy View picture(s) 21 CALLIGARIS, C.D.H. Louis. Histoire de l'empereur Napoléon Ier. Kitab sirat Napoleon al awwal (Arabic text). Paris, [Imprimerie Orientale de Pilloy & Ce], 1856. Large 8vo (26 x 18 cm). Contemporary green morocco, spine ribbed and compartments richly gilt with crowned N, front cover with gilt dedication "Offert à S.E. Le Ministre d'Etat", back cover with Napoleonic crowned eagle, silk endpapers, g.e. With in the beginning of the Arabic text an ornamental vignette printed in green, text framed by typographical border, 16 plates with portraits and historical scenes (7 lithographed and 9 steel-engraved), wood-engraved maps in the text. [4], 7, [1] (= French preface), 584 (Arabian text) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arabia  France  Napoleon  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Basic principles of pharmacy View picture(s) 22 CAP, Paul-Antoine. Principes élémentaires de pharmaceutique, ou exposition du système des connaissances relatives a l'art du pharmacien. Paris, J.-B. Baillière, 1837. 8vo. Half cloth. With 3 folding tables. XVI, 431 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  France  Medicine  Pharmacy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The private life of Napoleon View picture(s) 23 CASES, Comte de Las, Emmanuel. Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène, ou journal ou se trouve consigné, jour par jour, ce qu'a dit et fait Napoléon durant dix-huit mois; par le Comte de las Cases.- IDEM. Suite au Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène, ou observations critiques, anecdotes inédites pour servir de supplément et de correctif à cet ouvrage. Brussels, Paris, H. Remy, P.J. De Mat, Raynal, Roret, 1822-25. 10 vols. 12mo. Contemporary red blindstamped cloth, marbled edges. With 3 folding engraved plates and full-page engraved portrait of Comte de las Cases. 350; 330; 319; 324; 331; 326; 323; 400; 468; 472 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Biography  France  History  Napoleon  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Anthrax in the 18th-century View picture(s) 24 CHABERT, Philibert. Traité du charbon ou anthrax dans les animaux. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1782. 8vo. Later half calf,  red gilt title label, marbled endpapers. With woodcut vignette on title. 109 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  France  Veterinary Medicine  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A close friend of Montaigne on morality: into the breath for freedom of thought! View picture(s) 25 CHARRON, Pierre. De la sagesse, trois livres. Leiden, Jean Elzevier, ca. 1659. 12mo. 19th century green morocco, ribbed spine with title and imprint lettered in gold, gilt binding edges and inner dentelles, g.e., marbled endpapers. With engraved allegorical frontispiece. (24), 1-264, 295-366, 377-621, (12), (3 lvs. blank). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  Elzevier  France  French  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic on fortification View picture(s) 26 CLAIRAC, Louis André, Le Chevalier de. L'ingenieur de campagne, ou traité de la fortification passagere. Seconde édition. Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1757. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt, red title label lettered in gold, with the arms of the 'Hotel de l'école royale militaires' stamped in gilt on both covers, marbled endpapers, e.g. With 36 numbered folding engraved plates with fortifications, and engraved arms of the dedicatee, some signed by C.C. Riolet. (3), IV-XXIV, 248 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Fortification  France  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a work against all religions by 'L'une des figures les plus curieuses de la Révolution' View picture(s) 27 CLOOTS (or CLOOTZ), dit Ana(r)charsis, Jean Baptist de. La certitude des preuves du mahométisme, ou réfutation de l'examen critique des apologistes de la réligion mahométane. Par Ali-Gier-Ber, Alfaki. London (= Holland, probably Amsterdam), 1780. Sm.8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt, with red title-label, gilt binding edges. (4), 1-336, 313*-336*, 313**-330**, 337-636 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: France  Hebraica & Judaica  Islamitica  Philosophy  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare fables from France View picture(s) 28 COINTÉ, Camilia. Recueil de fables amusantes et très morales, a l'usage de la jeunesse, et dédié aux enfants de France. Paris, T.M. Aubry Dile-Roupe, 1847. Sm.8vo. Contemp. half dark green morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt, marbled edges. With small woodcut on title, 22 woodcut illustrations at the head of fables, and 38 woodcut head- and tail-pieces in text. 144 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  Fable Books  France  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Collection of 11 suites with 120 engraved and etched plates of Parisian buildings, churches, altars and architectonical details View picture(s) 29 COTTART, Pierre. Receuil, des plus beaux portails de plusieures eglises de Paris. Paris, Van Merle, 1660. Oblong 4to. Contemporary limp vellum with a round label lettered in ink pasted to the front cover. Engraved title within a chimney piece design and 11 full-page engravings (ca. 160-210 x 112-135 mm) of Parisian churches, portals and altars, numbered 3-12 (Nr. 2 missing). The plates,  by Pierre Cottart (ca. 1648-1686), give elevations and plans of 17th-century baroque church portals in Paris. The plates are unsigned, though some captions credit the architect: Mansart, Brosse, and Le Mercier. New issue of the original edition of 1648. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Engravings  France  Modelbooks  Ornaments  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The physiology of French theatre visitors in the 19th century View picture(s) 30 COUAILHAC, Louis. Physiologie du théatre à Paris et en province. Par L. Couailhac, vignettes de H. Émy, gravées par Birouste. Paris, Jules Laisné, Galerie Véro-Dodat, Aubert et Lavigne, 1842. 12mo. Half red morocco with spine in compartments, gilt title, name of author and place and date, original yellow wrappers preserved. ( V.CHAMPS). Engraved title-page and numerous illustrations after drawings by Henry Émy, engraved by Birouste in text  many head and tail pieces. 128 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  France  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Contemporary criticism to Nostradamus prophecies View picture(s) 31 COUILLARD, Antoine. Les contredicts du Seigneur du Pavillon, lez Lorris, en Gastinois, aux faulses & abbusifves propheties de Nostradamus, & autres astrologues. Adiousté quelques oeuvres de Michel Marot, fils de feu Clément Marot, prince des poètes Francois. Paris, Charles l'Angelier, 1560. Small 8vo. 19th century Jansenist style red morocco, spine ribbed with title lettered in gold, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (JOLY). Woodcut printer's device on title. (6), 116, (8) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astrology  France  Occult  Occult Sciences  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First The Hague edition of one of the most popular general handbooks on garden architecture of the 18th century View picture(s) 32 DEZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE, Antoine -Joseph. La theorie et la pratique du jardinage. Ou l'on traite a fond des beaux jardins, appellés communément les Jardins de proprieté, comme sont les parterres, les bosquets, les boulingrins, &c. contenant plusieurs plans et dispositions generales de jardins; nouveaux desseins de parterres, de bosques, de boulingrins, labirinthes, sales, galeries, portiques & cabinets de treillages, terrasses, escaliers, cascades, & autres ornemens servant à la decoration &  embélissement des jardins. Avec la Maniere de dresser un terrain, de le couper en terrasses, & d'y tracer & executer toutes sortes de desseins, suivant les principes de la geometrie; & la méthode de planter & élever en peu de tems tous les plants  qui conviennent aux beaux jardins; comme aussi celle de rechercher les eaux, de les conduire dans les jardins. The Hague, Pierre Husson, 1711. 2 parts in one. Large 4to. Contemporary sprinkled calf; spine richly gilt in compartments with red title label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges. Title printed in red and black, and 32 large double-page engraved plates by J. Lamsvelt (only 3 of the plates are signed by him), 17 woodcut illustrations in the text, engraved head- and tail-pieces. (12), 208 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  France  Gardens  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A French military man with an interest in the great Dutch painters View picture(s) 33 DOUBLE, Lucien. Promenade a travers deux siècles et quatorze salons. Paris, Ch. Noblet, 1878. 8vo. Contemp. half calf with marbled boards, black gilt title label, marbled endpapers. With 26 plates including one colour lithograph, etchings, steel engravings etc. depicting paintings, furniture and decorative table wear. (5), 6-53 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Bibliophily  France  Libraries & Collections  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Still important for the history of the Normans and their conquests; many first editions of relevant medieval texts View picture(s) 34 DU CHESNE, Andreas. Historiae Normannorum scriptore antiqui, res ab illis per Galliam, Angliam, Apuliam, Capuae principatum, Siciliam, & orientem gestas explicantes, ab anno Christi DCCCXXXVIII, ad annum MCCXX. Insertae sunt monasteriorum fundationes variae, series episcoporum ac abbatum: genealogiae regum, ducum, comitum, & nobilium ... Paris, for Robert Foüet, Nicolaus Buon & Sebastien Cramoisy, 1619. Large folio. 19th century red morocco, richly gilt in the style of the 17th century, spine gilt in compartments, gilt borders on both sides with gilt crowned monogram (a 'V' between 'E' and 'B' ?) in centre, marbled endpapers, gilt binding edges, inner dentelles, g.e. With engraved printer's device on title: a beehive surrounded by four emblematic medallions and the marks of the three publishers; many woodcut head- and tail pieces. (12), 1104, (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: England  France  History  Italy  Middle Ages  Sicily  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important work which drew the attention of Voltaire and Turgot View picture(s) 35 DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel du. Philosophie de l'univers. Troisième édition. Augmentée de plusieurs notes, et d'une table des matières. Paris, Goujon fils, Fructidor an VII (1799). 8vo. Later half calf, spine gilt with title lettered in gold on red morocco label, speckled edges. Full-page engraved author's portrait for frontispiece by I.J Cathelin after J. Ducreux. 339 (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Economy  France  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting financial history by an even more interesting, extravagant and intriguing author View picture(s) 36 ÉON DE BEAUMONT, Charles G.L.A.A.T. d'. Memoires pour  servir a l'histoire generale des finances. Amsterdam, Aux depens de la Compagnie, 1760. 2 vols. in one. 12mo. Contemporary calf, red gilt title label on ribbed spine, red edges. Two titles printed in red & black with engraved printer's device. (4), LXVIII, 108; (4), 216 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Economy  France  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interiors of the rich in famous in 17th century France View picture(s) 37 FANIEL, Stephane & Pierre LEVALLOIS. Le XVIIe siècle Français. Hachette, 1958. Folio. Illustrated boards. Illustrated. 232 pp.- (Collection connaissance des arts 3).- Good copy. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Art  Catalogues  France  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Catalogue of the bibliophile, music professor and flautist Aristide Farrenc (1794-1865) View picture(s) 38 FARRENC, Aristide. Catalogue des livres rares et curieux Français et Italiens composant la bibliothèque de M.A. Farrenc ancien professeur et éditeur de musique, ou l'on remarque principalement: une belle et riche collection d'ouvrages Italiens des XVe et XVIe siècles, dans les éditions du temps (poètes de divers genres, poésies en patois, pièces de théatre, romans et nouvelles), écrits sur l'histoire d'Italie et de ses différents états et villes sur les beaux-arts, l'histoire littéraire, etc. Paris, L. Potier, Libraire, 1866. 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. 159 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  France  Habsburg  Italy  Literary History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The origins of French civilization View picture(s) 39 FAURIEL, Charles Claude. Histoire de la Gaule méridionale sous la domination des conquérants germains. Paris, Paulin, 1836. 4 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half marbled calf, spine gilt and decorated with title and volume number lettered in gold on red respectively green morocco label, marbled boards. X, 586 (1, 1 blank); (3, 1 blank), 530 (1, 1 blank); (3, 1 blank), 530, (1,1 blank); (3, 1 blank), 546 (1, 1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  France  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An Englishman abroad View picture(s) 40 FELLOWES, William Dorset. A visit to the monastery of La Trappe, in 1817. Fourth edition. London, for Thomas M'Lean, 1823. 8vo. Contemporary green morocco, covers with gilt & blind-tooled borders, gilt spine, all edges gilt. Full-page handcoloured aquatint view of the monastery of La Trappe for frontispiece and 12 full-page handcoloured acquantint plates by I. Clark after the author's original drawings, 2 full-page black & white etched plates. XII, 188 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Belgicana  Colour Platebooks  France  Paris  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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