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Frech catalogue of a collection of books and curiosities View picture(s) 61 DESAVARY. Catalogue des livres, estampes sous glaces, tableaux, objets de curiosité, délaissés par feu Mr. Desavary, propriètaire, a Lille. Lille, Martin-Delahay, 1831. 8vo. 51 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Art  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  Cabinet of Curiosities  France  Libraries & Collections  Prints  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) 62 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) 63 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) 64 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) 65 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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A lovely little atlas with an interesting political origin View picture(s) 66 DUVAL, Pierre. Cartes et Tables de Geographie, des Provinces eschûës a la Reine Tres-Chrétieñe, par le decrez de la Reine Elisabeth sa mere, du Prince Dom Balthazar son frere, et du Roy Catholique Philippe IV. son pere. Paris, P. Duval, 1667. Small 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt, ribbed spine, gilt boardedges, red speckled edges. Double-page engraved title in a wreath decorated with the French royal arms at the top and the arms of the 14 regions to which they claimed rights in the wreath on either side, 14 double-page engraved maps; and 10 double-page engraved tables. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Atlases, General  Belgicana  France  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) 67 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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Everything you need to know before emigrating to Brazil View picture(s) 68 EXPILLY, Charles. La traite l' émigration et colonisation au Brésil. Paris, Lacroix & Verbroeckhoven, (with label pasted over of Guillaumin & Cie), 1865. 8vo. Original yellow wrappers. (IX), 336, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, South  Brazil  Colonial History  Discovery & Exploration  France  Slavery  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) 69 FANIEL, S. & P. 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) 70 FARRENC, A. 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) 71 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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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) 72 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 one. Oblong folio. Contemp. full calf, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. 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) 73 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) 74 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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A French naval officer wins the gold medal of the Zeeland Society of Sciences View picture(s) 75 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. Flushing, (Vlissingen), 1785. 8vo. Contemporary marbled wrappers, uncut. With 5 figures on 3 folding engraved plates 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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Collected tragedies by one of the most important French 16th century poets View picture(s) 76 GARNIER, Robert. Les tragedies. Au roy de France et de Pologne. Rouen, Raphaël du Petit Val, 1596. 12mo. Eighteenth century mottled calf, richly gilt spine with red morocco title label lettered in gold. Woodcut printer's mark on title-page. 646 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  France  Judaica  Theatre  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) 77 GERSAINT, E.F. 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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3 auction catalogues of Gersaint in one View picture(s) 78 GERSAINT, E.F. 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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The paintings, prints, atlases & maps and a large collection of shells of Quentin De Lorangere View picture(s) 79 GERSAINT, E.F. (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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Rare historical work on the history of the Haute Savoie and Bourg-en-Bresse View picture(s) 80 GRANET, Pierre. Stylus regius Galliarum iuridicus olim Salucianis praescriptus. In quem fuse tractatur de foro competenti nobilium, ecclesiasticorum, plebeiorum, & eorum qui in dignitatibus vel officiis sunt constituti: et praesertim de casibus regiis, & privilegiatis ... Burgi Sebussianorum (= Bourg-en-Bresse), Johannes Taintvrier, 1630. 4to. Contemporary speckled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold in the second compartment. With woodcut coat-of-arms on title, woodcut head-pieces and initials. (12), 748 (=644: pp. 381-6, and 624-723 omitted; 481-2 repeated), (27) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  France  History  Law  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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