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A highly influential work on French 18th century garden and landscape design View picture(s) 61 LABORDE, Alexandre, Comte de. Description des nouveaux jardins de la France et de ses anciens chateaux, mêlée d'observations sur la vie de la campagne et la composition des jardins.- Description of the modern gardens and ancient castles in France with local observations on rural life and gardening.- Beschreibung der neuen Gärten und alten Schlösser in Frankreich mit Bemerkungen über Landleben und Gartenanlagen. Paris, Delance, 1808 (-1814). Folio. Contemporary three-quarter green morocco with marbled boards, gilt spine. Engraved vignette on title by Baltard, engraved title with view on the gardens of Méréville by Constant Bourgeois, engraved map of Northern France indicating the gardens and chateaux which are described and illustrated, 2 engraved plans of Malmaison and Ermenonville and 130 engraved plates with views of gardens on 91 lvs. and one plate with engraved figures depicting geological figures. (6), 226 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Castles  Engravings  France  Gardens  Horticulture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Limited edition printed on velin de Cuve of Marais View picture(s) 62 LACRETELLE, Jacques DE & Marie LAURENCIN. Lettres Espagnoles. Paris, Societe d'edition ''Le Livre', 1926. Contemporary half, green morocco with marbled boards, gilt and ribbed spine, top gilt, orig. wrappers preserved (E.P. VAN BOMMEL?). With 11 etchings by Marie Laurencin. (8), 181 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: France  Illustrated Books  Painting & Drawing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The manners of the North American Indians View picture(s) 63 LAFITEAU, Joseph François. De zeden der wilden van Amerika zynde een nieuwe uitvoerige en zeer kurieuse beschrijving van derzelver oorsprong, godsdienst, manier van oorlogen, huwelyken, opvoeding, oeffeningen, feesten, danzeryen, begravenissen, en andere zeldzame gewoonten. The Hague, Gerard vander Poel, 1731. 2 volumes bound as 1. Folio. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. With title-pages printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, full-page engraved map of the America's, and 41 full-page engraved plates. [6], 36, [18], 300; [4], 301-555 [= 560] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America, North  Canada  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  France  Jesuits  Native Americans  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of one of the best descriptions of Indian life in Canada, greatly contributing to the image Europeans had of North America in the 18th century View picture(s) 64 LAHONTAN, Louis-Armand de LOM d'Acre, Baron de. Nouveaux voyages de Mr. Le Baron de Lahontan, dans l'Amerique Septentrionale, qui contiennent une rélation des différens peuples qui y habitent; la nature de leur gouvernement; leur commerce, leurs coutumes, leur religion, & leur maniere de faire la guerre. The Hague, Freres l'Honoré, 1703. 2 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. Contemporary brown panelled calf with gilt lettering on ribbed spine, gilt binding edges, marbled and gilt endpapers. Titles printed in red and black; with two full-page engraved emblematical plates ('Orbis Patria' and 'Et leges et sceptra terit') bound in front of both parts, 2 large folding maps of 575 x 415  and 680 x 290 mm. of Northern America (Canada), and 23 engraved maps & plates illustrating the life of the Indians and the animals of Northern America. (22), 279; 220, (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America, North  Canada  France  French  Native Americans  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Treatise by the favourite astronomer of King Louis XV on a wide range of subjects View picture(s) 65 LE MONNIER, Pierre-Charles. Mémoires concernant diverses questions d'astronomie et de physique. Lûs et communiqués à l'Académie Royale des Sciences, &c. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1781. 4to. Modern half brown mottled calf, spine gilt, red morocco title label lettered in gold. With woodcut vignette on title, woodcut head-and tailpieces and one engraved folding plate with 3 illustrations of eclipses, signed Y. le Gouaz. VIII, XXIV, 34 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Cartography  France  Physics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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60 designs of interior decorations for the houses and palaces of the French nobility at the end of the 17th century View picture(s) 66 LE PAUTRE, Jean. [Collection of 10 print series of 6 plates each with model leaves for the design of Altars, tabernacles, armorial trophies, chimney-pieces, monumental doors, wainscotting, panelling, and ceilings.] Paris, Pierre Mariette, Le Blond, [ca.1655-1670]. 10 parts in 1 volume. Oblong 4to. Contemporary marbled gold-tooled calf. With a total of 60 full-page engraved plates. 60 ll. (numbered in pencil: 4-63). Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Architecture  France  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Collection of 4 catalogues View picture(s) 67 LE VER, Le Marquis. Catalogue de la bibliothèque de feu M. le Marquis le Ver membre de la Société des Antiquaires de la Normandie, de l'Académie de Rouen, de l'Académie Ebroïcienne, de l'Académie des Antiquaires de la Morinie, de la Société d'émulation d'Abbeville, Inspecteur divisionnaire des monuments historiques des départements de la Somme, du Pas-de-Calais et de l'Oise, etc., etc. Paris, Bacheline-Deflorenne, 1866. 4 catalogues in 1 vol. Large 8vo. Half calf, spine ribbed with gilt title; marbled end papers and marbled edges. XV, 354 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Book History  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  France  Libraries & Collections  Manuscripts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to plan your own garden View picture(s) 68 LECOQ, [Louis-Marie]. Le Paysagiste. Nouveau traîté d'architecture de parcs et jardins. (École moderne). Paris, Chez l'auteur, 1860. Folio. Original green cloth. With over 100 steel-engraved garden plans on 32 plates. XII, (148) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Architecture  France  Gardens  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare handbooks on heraldry View picture(s) 69 MAIGNE, W. Abrégé méthodique de la science des armoiries suivi d'un glossaire des attributs héraldiques d'un traité élémentaire des ordres de chevalerie et de notions sur les classes nobles, les anoblissements l'origine des noms de famille les preuves de noblesse, les titres, les usurpations et la législation nobilaires. Paris, Garnier Frères, 1860. 8vo. Contemporary red buckram, spine ribbed and gilt, single gilt fillet border on sides. Many woodengraved figures of coats-of-arms in text. VII, 488 (last blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: France  French  Heraldry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A friend of Voltaire View picture(s) 70 MARMONTEL, [Jean-François]. Contes moraux. Paris, J. Merlin, 1765. 3 vols. Sm. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf with gilt coat of arms of ''The Society of writers to the Signet''. Engraved title to each volume, 23 full-page plates after Gravelot engraved by Baquoy, Legrand, Le Mire, Le Veau, de Longeuil, Pasquier, Rousseau and Voyez. XVI, 345; (6), 376; (6), 312 , (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  France  Literary History  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With 17 original prints by Louis Legrand View picture(s) 71 MAUCLAIR, Camille. Louis Legrand. Peintre et graveur. Paris, H. Floury & G. Pellet, (1910). 4to. Contemporary half burgundy morocco, spine  gilt & decorated with Jugendstil design, sides covered with green silk, top edge gilt, original wrappers preserved. With 23 full-page plates by Louis Legrand including 3 original etchings, 3 original drypoints, 11 heliogravures &  6 coloured plates, numerous illustrations in text. (4), 274 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Art  Etchings  France  Prints  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare first edition of the letters of the favourite disciple of François de Malherbe View picture(s) 72 MAYNARD, François. Les lettres du President Maynard. Paris, Toussaint Quinet, 1652. 4to. 18th-century full mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with title letttered in gold, double gilt lines along edges of sides, gilt and decorated binding edges, marbled edges. Full-page frontispiece portrait of François Maynard aged 64, title with engraved vignette by N. Picart, woodcut head-pieces and initials. (24, incl. frontispiece), 854, 853-873, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Correspondence  France  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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French notables satiricaly disguised as Arabs View picture(s) 73 MELON, [Jean-François]. Mahmoud le Gasnevide, histoire Orientale. Fragment traduit de l'Arabe, avec des notes. Rotterdam, Jean Hofhoudt, 1730. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt, triple fillet borders and gilt coat of arms on both covers, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. With several woodcut head- and tailpieces. (2), VI, 162, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  France  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Bible of materialism. The book that provoked even Voltaire to reply in defence of religion View picture(s) 74 MIRABAUD (= HOLBACH, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'). Système de la nature. Ou des loix du monde physique & du monde moral. London (= Amsterdam), (no publ.), 1770 2 parts in one. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf with gilt borders along the edges of the boards, gilt spine with green morocco title label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e. (12), 366; (4), 408 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Diderot  Enlightenment  France  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Recipes and gastronomic verses by 19th-century French authors, collected by 'Le roi des gastronomes' View picture(s) 75 MONSELET, Charles. La cuisinière poétique. Avec le concours  de MM. Méry, A. Dumas, Th. de Banville, Th. Gautier, Ém. Deschamps, C. Carguel, A. Barthet, E. Solié, Xavier Aubryet, Aur. Scholl, Charles Bataille, etc. Leipzig, A. Durr (printed by J. van Buggenhoudt, Brussels), (1859). 16mo. Contemporary half brown morocco with marbled boards, spine ribbed with gilt title, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. With the vignette of the 'Collection Hetzel' on title. 199, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  France  Gastronomy  Literature  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting issue of the periodical of the Société des Études Japonaises, Chinoises, Tartares et Indo-Chinoises View picture(s) 76 MONTBLANC, Charles Le Comte DE (Ed.). Mémoires de la Société des Études Japonaises, Chinoises, Tartares et Indo-Chinoises. Publiés avec le concours de MM. em. Burnouf, Imamura Warau, Madier de Montjau, Le Comte de Montblanc, Louis Rochet et Léon de  Rosny. Session de 1877. Nihon Gwai-Si. Les Iles des Philippines by Montblanc. Les distiques populaires du Nippon. Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1878. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt title on spine, original orange frontwrappers preserved. 112 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: China  France  Indochina  Japan  Periodicals  Philippines  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An early Modernist View picture(s) 77 MORAND, Paul. U.S.A.- 1927. Album de photographies lyriques. Ornementation de Pierre Legrain. Paris, 1928. 12mo. Orig. wrappers. With numerous ornamental illustrations. 139, (5) pp.- Limited edition.- Good copy, uncut and partly unopened. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Drawings  France  French  Literature  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very much sought after work on the history of Amiens View picture(s) 78 MORLIÈRE, Adrian DE LA. Les antiquitez, histoires et choses plus remarquables de la ville Damiens. Troisième édition dédiée au Roy.- IDEM.- Recueil de plusieurs nobles & illustres maisons vivantes & esteintes en l'estendüe du diocèse d'Amiens. Et à l'environ, des alliances et vertueux actes des seigneurs et des abbayes, prieurez et églises collégiales par eux fondées. Paris, Sébastien Cramoisy, 1642. 2 works in one vol. Folio. Contemp. mottled calf, gilt spine with red title label, both covers with gilt coat of arms of the Earl of Malmesbury. Engr. allegorical printer's device on first title, woodcut printer's device on second title, woodcut head-& tailpieces & initials. (14), 409, (8); (6), 335, (22), (2), 361-441, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Armorial Bindings  France  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of 60 copies on Japon Imperiale View picture(s) 79 NERVAL, Gérard de. La main enchantée. Histoire macaronique. Augmentée d'une préface de Henri Regnier. Paris, Léon Pichon, 1920. 8vo. Contemporary half morocco, spine gilt and ribbed, original wrappers preserved. With illlustrations by Daragnès. 89, (6) pp.- Fine copy.- One of 60 copies on Japon Imperiale. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  France  Illustrated Books  Literary History  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Thousands of famous people from all over the world between two covers View picture(s) 80 OETTINGER, Eduard Maria. (Ed.). Bibliographie biographique universelle. Dictionnaire des ouvrages relatifs a l'histoire de la vie publique et pricée des personnages célèbres de tous les temps et de toutes les nations, depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'a nos jours. Enrichi du répertoire des bio-bibliographies générales, nationales, et spéciales par Edouard-Marie Dettinger. Paris, A. Lacroix & Cie, Paul Daffis, 1866. 2 parts in 1 vol. Large 8vo. Half red morocco, spine ribbed with title in gilt. IV pp., 2192 cols. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Bibliography  Biography  France  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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