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Europe fortified: the fortifications of Vauban, Maroloys and Stevin beautifully mapped: in the Amsterdam edition of ca. 1702 with the original titles, together with the Atlas of the coasts of France View picture(s) 41 FER, Nicolas de. Les forces de l' Europe [...], ou description des principales villes; avec leurs fortifications. Dessignées par les meilleurs ingenieurs, particulierement celles qui sont sous la domination de la France, dont les plans ont esté levez par Monsieur de Vauban, avec la description de tous les instrumens servans à la fortification à l' attaque & deffense des places, ensemble ceux qui servent pour l' artillerie, des magazins; la maniere de dresser un camp devant une ville assiegée. [= Amsterdam, Petrus Mortier, ca. 1702]. 10 parts in 1 volume. With the titles of the edition: Paris, chez l'auteur (= Nicolas de Fer), 1695-1696 printed in red and black to all 10 parts; engraved titles to the first 5 parts, 4 of which with the title "Introduction à la fortification" and one, for part 4, with the title "Suitte des forces de l'europe" (the engraved title to part 2 and 5 is the same and is dated 1696; with in total 234 full-page beautifully engraved plates of maps and views of 366 fortified cities: part 1 containing 19 engravings with 2 extra plates; part 2: 24 plates; part 3: 23; part 4: 20; part 5: 23; part 6: 24; part 7: 25; part 8: 26, with 5 extra plates. The additional part 9 and 10 contain 22 plates each. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Europe  Fortification  France  Militaria  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ship building for the French navy on the eve of the Revolution View picture(s) 42 FORFAIT, Pierre Alexandre Laurent. Traité élémentaire de la mâture des vaisseaux, à l'usage des élèves de la marine, composé & publié, d'après les ordres de monsigneur le Maréchal De Castries, ministre et secrétaire d'Etat au Département de la Marine. Paris, Clousier, 1788. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with red title-label, lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, marbled end-papers. With 190 illustrations and figures on 24 folding engraved plates by Benard. XL, 294 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  France  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Charming Nimes View picture(s) 43 FROSSARD, Emilien. Tableau pittoresque, scientifique et moral, de Nismes  et de ses environs, a vingt lieues a la ronde. Nismes, Bianquis-Gignoux, 1834-38. 3 parts in 2 vols. 8vo. Original wrappers, uncut. With 2 wood-engraved titles, 94 wood-engraved plates, one folding, and including folding plan of Nîmes, and 8 wood-engravings in text. VIII, 160; (4), 104; XII, 232 pp Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  France  French  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The dedication copy to the Duchesse d'Angoulême of a very rare educational work View picture(s) 44 GALLAND, P.J. Cours pratique d'éducation à l'usage des jeunes demoiselles, et convenable aux jeunes gens qui ne sont pas à porté de suivre les études de collège, ou qui les ont suivies sans succès; contenant la grammaire, précédée de principes de lecture servant d'introduction; la rhétorique, l'arithmétique, la cosmographie, la géographie, l'histoire et la mythologie, traitée séparément pour l'enfance et pour l'adolescence, par demandes et par réponses. Dédié à Son Altesse Royale Madame, Duchesse d'Angoulême.  Paris, Librairie d'Éducation d'Alexis Eymerie, chez l'Auteur, 1816 (vol. 3!)-1817. 3 vols. 12mo. Contemp. full-grained green morocco, spines gilt, with richly gilt borders on sides and the large gilt crowned coat- of-arms of the Duchesse d'Angoulême (double French Royal arms, each with three fleur-de-lis) in centre, gilt inner dentelles, g.e., pink silk endpapers. With 3 titles set within typographical borders, large folding engraved map of France in 1816 by Hérisson, large folding synoptical table of French grammar, numerous arithmetical sums and figures in text, and astronomical and cosmographical figures on 3 full-page engraved plates. (4), 515, (1); 552, (2); 492, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Education  France  Women  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare Album with music composed by Queen Hortense of Holland, together with six lithographs of her paintings View picture(s) 45 GARDE-CHAMBONAS, Le comte August Louis Charles de la --, & HORTENSE de Beauharnais, Reine de Hollande Livre d'art de la Reine Hortense. Une visite à Augsburg, esquisse biographique, lettres, dessins, et musique. (second decorated title: Album artistique de la Reine Hortense). Paris, Heugel & Cie. (Typographie Plon frères), ca. 1850-60. Folio oblong (lvs: 27 x 38 cm). Original fine publisher's binding: half green morocco, boards covered with dark green velvet with gilt coat-of arms of Queen Hortense (front cover) and her son Napoleon III (back cover) and gilt corner pieces: honeybees (a symbol for Napoleon), gilt edges, silk end-papers (Olivier, a.o., Manuel de l'amateur de rel. armorisées françaises, Pl. 2658, nr. 2 (reproduces after the present ed.!), and nr. 2659 (Napoleon III)). With a dedication leaf printed in gold, second coloured lithographed title hightened with gold, lithographed portrait of Queen Hortense (13 x 19 cm) by Léon Noel, 7 chromolith. decorated lvs. (with a bouquet of flowers in the centre with banderol containing 7 different texts; printed in two colours: green/gold, blue/gold, green/silver, rose/silver, and yellow/silver, the first with the bouquet coloured by hand), a facsimilé of the Queen's handwriting, 6 lithogr. plates (ca. 13 x 19 cm) by F. Sorrieu after paintings by the Queen, and 24 pp. with musical scores; all text lvs. within a decorated gold border, all printed by the Lithogr. firm Lemercier at Paris.  53 leaves, including (8), 24, (48) pp. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  France  Music  Napoleon  Royalty  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A French naval officer wins the gold medal of the Zeeland Society of Sciences View picture(s) 46 GARNIER DE SAINT-JULIEN. Mémoire en réponse a deux questions sur l'art nautique, proposées, en 1781, par la Société Zélandoise des Sciences, établie à Flessingue, pour le compte de celle de Batavia, qui a remporté le prix au jugement de la première, dans son assemblée générale tenue à Flessingue le 7 octobre 1783. Présenté à Mgr. le Maréchal de Castries, par l'auteur, le 2 avril 1784. Par M. Garnier de St. Julien, Capitaine en 1er au Corps-Royal du génie. Vlissingen, 1785. 8vo. Contemporary marbled wrappers, uncut. With 5 figures on 3 folding engraved plates printed on blue paper. 64 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: France  Maritime History  Navigation  Ships & Shipbuilding  Zeeland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Presentation copy of a rare extract from a travel account in South America View picture(s) 47 GENDRIN, Victor-Athanase. Récits historiques, exacts et sincères, des sept voyages par mer et par terre, faits au Brésil, au cap-Horn, au Chili, aux Cordillères des Andes, à Mendoza, dans le Désert, et à Buénos-Ayres. Versailles, Gendrin, auteur-éditeur, 1860. 8vo. Contemporary cloth. Lithographed portrait, 39 pages with lithographed letters, 9 lithographs. 24, [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Americana  France  Lithographs  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The nine scientific curiosity cabinets of Bonnier de la Mosson (1702-1744) View picture(s) 48 GERSAINT, Edme François [Quentin de LORANGERE]. Catalogue raisonné d'une collection considerable de diverses curiosités en tous genres, contenuës dans les cabinets de feu Monsieur BONNIER DE LA MOSSON, Bailly & Capitaine des Chasses de la Varenne des Thuilleries & ancien Colonel du régiment Dauphin. Paris, J. Barrois and P.-G. Simon, 1744. Sm. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, red sprinkled edges. Engraved frontispiece by Boucher, engraved by Duflos. (4), XIII, (3), 234, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cabinet of Curiosities  Catalogues  Collections  France  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The paintings, prints, atlases & maps and a large collection of shells of Quentin De Lorangere View picture(s) 49 GERSAINT, Edme-François [Quentin de LORANGERE]. Catalogue raisonné des diverses curiosités du cabinet de feu M. Quentin De Lorangere. Composé de tableaux originaux des meilleurs Maîtres de Flandres: d'une très-nombreuse collection des desseins & d' estampes de toutes ecoles; de plusieurs atlas & suites de cartes; de quantité de morceaux de topographie, & d' un coquillier fait avec choix. Paris, Jacques Barois, 1744. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gilt & ribbed spine, marbled endpapers, red edges. Engraved frontispiece by Cochin. XVIII, (4), 294, 96 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  Cabinet of Curiosities  Conchology  France  Libraries & Collections  Painting & Drawing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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3 auction catalogues of Gersaint in one View picture(s) 50 GERSAINT, Edme-François. Catalogue Raisonné,  des bijoux, porcelaines, bronzes, lacqs, lustres de cristal de roche et de porcelaine, pendules de goût, & autres meubles curieux ou composés; tableaux, desseins, estampes, coquilles, & autres effets de curiosité, provenans de la succesion de M. Angran, Vicomte de Fonspertuis. Paris, Pierre Prault& Jacques Barrois, 1747. 3 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. Contemp. calf, spine ribbed and gilt title. Frontispiece designed and engraved by Cochin, woodcut vignettes on titles. XII, 306, LV; 22; IX, (1),48 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  Cabinet of Curiosities  France  Porcelain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the Colettines from Ghent to their asylum at Poligny and the translation of the relics of St. Colette View picture(s) 51 HAREL, Maximilian M. (Le père Elie Harel). Histoire de l'émigration des religieuses supprimées dans les Pays-Bas, & conduites en France par M. l'Abbé  de Saint-Sulpice, envoyé de Madame Louise de France & du Prince-Evêquede de Gand, pour la translation des Reliques de Sainte Collette à Poligny en Franche-Comté; rédigée d'après les mémoires de l'Abbé de Saint-Sulpice. Bruxelles, (B. le Franq), 1784; for sale: Paris, Guillot, & Verdun, Guillot, 8vo. Later half calf, spine lettered in gold, marbled covers and edges. With 4 full-page engraved plates, woodcut head- and tail pieces. (4), 134, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  France  Religious Orders  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An impassioned defense of Jay's Treaty translated into Portuguese View picture(s) 52 HARPER, Robert Goodloe. Reflexoens sobre a questaõ entre os Estados Unidos e a França. Traduzidas em Portuguez. Philadelphia, London, 1798. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt spine divided in 5 compartments, red morocco title label. 322 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  England  France  History  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Influential treatise on physics View picture(s) 53 HAÜY, Abbé René Just. Traité élémentaire de physique. Trosième édition, revue et considéralement augmentée. Paris, Widow Courcier, 1821. 2 vols. 8vo. Original wrappers with printed title labels to spines. With 19 folding etched plates by Adam. (2), lxij, 510, (2); (4), 452 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  France  Physics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Charming lithographes View picture(s) 54 HÉDOUIN, [Pierre]. Souvenirs Historiques et Pittoresques du Nord de la  France, ou Collection des plus belles Vues et des plus  beaux Monumens, de cette partie de la France. Paris, Dondey-Dupré, Père et Fils, 1830. Folio. Modern half calf, old boards. With 25 full-page fine lithographed views of Northern France by Langlumé after various artists. (56) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  France  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch adaptation of a very influential early 17th century French story View picture(s) 55 HEERMAN, Jacob (adaptor). Chryseide en Arimants treur-bly-eynde-spel. Amsterdam, Nicolaes van Ravesteyn for the author, 1639. 4to. Later blue wrappers. Large woodcut coat of arms of Amsterdam on title-page, large and small woodcut initials and a woodcut endpiece. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  France  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On selling immovable property View picture(s) 56 HERICOURT, Louis DE. Traité de la vente des immeubles par decret, avec un recueil des édits, declarations & réglemens des cours souveraines sur le sujet. Nouvelle edition. revue, corrigée & augmentée. Paris, La veuve Cavellier, 1752. 2 vols. in one. 4to. Contemp. mottled calf, spine ribbed and gilt. Woodcut head- and tailpieces & initials. XII, 364, (56); (2), 493, (11), 26, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Economy  France  Law  Trade  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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View picture(s) 57 JARRY, Alfred. Gestes suivis des paralipomenès. Paris, aux éditions du 'Sagittaire', 1920. 4to. Orig. wrappers. With 7 coloured etchings and numerous illustrations in text by G.A. Drains. 164 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Art  Bibliophily  France  French  Literature  Painting & Drawing  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of these important documents and letters paving the way to the 'Twelve Year's Truce (1609) View picture(s) 58 JEANNIN, Pierre. Les negotiations de monsieur le President Jeannin. Paris, Pierre Petit, 1656. Folio. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red title label lettered in gold. Title vignette with two angels holding a cross with a banderol 'In hoc signo vices', fill-page portrait of Jeannin in oval by R. Nanteuil, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, and initials. (12), 757, (11) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  France  History  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare fables View picture(s) 59 JOLIVEAU, Adeline. Fables Nouvelles en Vers, divisées en Six Livres, suivies de quelques Poésies. Paris, Cordier et Legras, La veuve De Vaux, An X - 1801. 12mo. Contemp. half green morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, red mottled edges. With fine engraved frontispiece showing King Lion carrying away a lamb caught by the wolf. 252 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Education  Fable Books  France  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A very fine uncut copy on large paper View picture(s) 60 LABAT, Jean-Baptiste. Nieuwe reizen naar de Franse eilanden van America. Behelzende de natuurlyke historie van die landen, derzelver oorspronk, zeden, godsdienst, regering der oude en tegenwoordige inwoonders; als ook die der zwarte slaaven: beneffens de oorlogen en voornaamste gevallen, die in het lang verblyf van den auteur in dat land zyn voorgevallen. Als ook een naauwkeurige verhandeling van het maken der suiker, indigo, cochenille, cacao, en andere nuttigheden. tot den koophandel dienende. Amsterdam, Balthasar Lakeman, 1725. 4 parts in 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary half polished calf with red and green morocco labels, lettered in gold. With engraved frontispiece bound in both vols., 4 titles printed in red and black, 11 folding engraved maps and plans, and 83 full-page plates. (2), 18, 350; 1 blank, (1), 404; (2), 235, 254; 1 blank, (4), 200, 167, (32) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [Caribbean Islands]  America, North  Cacao  Coffee & Tea  France  French  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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