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Two rare and important humanist studies on ancient Dutch and German history View picture(s) 81 ORTELIUS, Abraham & Johannes VIVIANUS. Itinerarium per nonnullas Galliae Belgicae partes. Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1584. With woodcut printer's device on title, 2 folding engraved plates, and 3 large engravings and some woodcut inscriptions in text. 76, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Archaeology  Dutch  France  Geography  History  Mercator  Plantin  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the library of Willem I, King of the Netherlands View picture(s) 82 POISSONNIER-DESPERRIERES, Gabriel Adrien Marie. Vie politique et militaire, écrite par lui-même, et publiée de son vivant. Paris, C.J. Trouvé for the author, 1824. 8vo. Contemporary full-grained orange morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt with gilt plumed helmets in the compartments and dark-brown title-label, with richly gilt and blind-stamped borders on sides and large richly gilt armorial supralibris of the Dutch King Willem I on both covers. With lithographed frontispiece-portrait of Louis Charles, the French Crownprince, by Constans after a drawing by Eugénie Lebrun. XII, 512 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Bindings  France  History  House of Orange  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The art of war explained by an expert View picture(s) 83 PUYSEGUR, [Jean-François DE CHASTENET, MARQUIS DE]. Art de la Guerre, par Principes et par Règles. Mis  au jour par M. le Marquis De Puységur son Fils. Paris, Ch.A. Jombert, 1749. 2 vols. 4to. Contemp. calf, spine ribbed, with red and black title-label. With large engraved vignet on 2 titles, engraved headpiece to the dedication, 2 fine engraved headpieces to the beginning of each vol., and illustrations of war camps, battle arrays, formation of marches, plans etc. on  51 folding engraved plates. (12), 411, (5); (12), 547, (5) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  France  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A follower of Paracelsis and physician of Henry IV in conflict with the University at Paris View picture(s) 84 QUERCETANUS, Josephus (or CHESNE, Joseph du, DUCHESNE, QUESNE or QUERCETANUS). Traité familier de l'exacte preparation spagyrique des medicaments, pris d'entre les mineraux, animaux & vegetaux. Avec une breve response au livret de Jacques Aubert, touchant la generation & les causes des metaux. Paris, Charles Morel, 1680. 8vo. Contemporary goatskin, spine interestingly gilt in compartments, with a - not the - title in the second compartment lettered in gold, sprinkled edges. 152, (16) pp., last lv. blank. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  France  Medicine  Pharmacy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Eighteenth-century biography of a famous seventeenth-century commander View picture(s) 85 RAMSAY, Andrew Michael de Histoire du Vicomte de Turenne, maréchal général des armées du Roy. Paris, The widow Mazieres & J.B. Garnier, 1735. 5 parts in 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary full mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments with red and green title labels, lettered in gold, marbled edges. Titles and half-titles printed in red and black, full-page portrait of Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, by N. de Larmessin after Meissonier, 13 folding engraved plans (ca. 26 x 39 cm) of battles sieges and camps by Coquart, 8 large beautiful head- and end-pieces by J.B. Scotin, 2 engraved initials. Vol. 1: (12), 494 pp.; vol. 2: (4), 495-597, (1), 596-600, (601), (2), CL, LXXXVIII, CCIX pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  Biography  France  History  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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887 items from the important art collection and cabinet of curiosities of Pierre Louis Paul Randon de Boisset (1708-1776) View picture(s) 86 REMY, Pierre & C.F. JULLIOT. Catalogue des tableaux & desseins précieux des maîtres  célebres des trois écoles, figures marbres, de bronze & de terre cuite, estampes en  feuilles & autres objets du cabinet de feu M. Randon de Boisset, receveur géneral des finances. On a joint  à ce catalogue celui des vases, colonnes de marbres, porcelaines, des laques, des meubles de boule & d'' autres effets précieux, par C.F. Julliot. La vente se fera le jeudi 27 février 1777... Vêndome. Paris, London, Amsterdam, Brussels, printed by Didot, 1777, for Musier, Pierre Remy, Julliot etc. 1777. 2 parts in one. 12mo. Contemporary red morocco, gilt spine with green gilt title label, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. XII, 149, 158 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  Cabinet of Curiosities  Catalogues  France  Painting & Drawing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The art collection of De Merval View picture(s) 87 REMY, Pierre. Catalogue de tableaux, peintures a gouache, bas-reliefs de marbres & de bronze, une très belle pendule qui joue differens airs de flûte, des porcelaines & autres objets qui composent le cabinet de M. De MERVAL. Paris, Didot the Elder, 1768. 8vo. Contemporary wrappers. 58 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art  Collections  France  Painting & Drawing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Neo-classicist painter of Louis XV on the art of painting View picture(s) 88 RESTOUT, Jean. Essai sur les principes de la peinture. Publié avec des notes par A.R. R. de Formigny de la Londe. Caen, A. Hardel, Imp. de la Société des Beaux-Arts, 1863. 8vo. Original light green wrappers. Full-page woodengraving with a portrait of the author. 64 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  France  Painting & Drawing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Original edition of an account on the Jesuit mission in the south of Vietnam View picture(s) 89 RHODES, Alexandre de. Relation des progrez de la Foy au Royaume de la Cochinchine vers les derniers quartiers du Levant. Envoiee au R.P. General de la Compagnie de (J)esus. Paris, Sebastien & Gabriel Cramoisy, 1652. Small 8vo. Later boards, gilt title on spine, gilt edges. (12), 134 (=136), (2) pp. After p. 5 two unnumbered pages. Full description >> Related Subjects: France  Jesuits  Mission  Vietnam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Spectacular binding with heightened embroidered arms of the marquis and marchioness de Verneuil on front cover View picture(s) 90 ROQUES, Pierre. Le vray pietisme ou traité, dans lequel on explique la nature & les éffets de la piété, la juste étendue du renoncement au monde, où l'on remonte à la source générale du peu de vertu qu'il y an entre les Chrétiens, où l'on indique les moyens d'acquérir une piété solide & où l'on fait connaître comment la piété nous dispose à l'égard de ceux qui ne pensent pas comme nous en matière de religion. Basle, Jean Brandmuller, 1731. 4to. Contemporary vellum with a large embroidered coat-of-arms pasted on front cover, red painted edges. Engraved frontispiece with a portrait of the author by F.A. Störcklein. (24), 596, 70, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Bindings  France  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Trade with Japan during the years 1853-65 View picture(s) 91 ROUSSIN, Alfred. Une campagne sur les côtes du Japon. Paris, Hachette, 1866. 12mo. Original yellow wrappers. Double-page plan of the straits of Shimonoseki. [4], 285, [2], 4 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Discovery & Exploration  England  France  Japan  Maritime History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A large collecton of books and manuscripts on heraldry and genealogy View picture(s) 92 ROZIÈRE, Ernest de. Catalogue de livres et manuscrits composant la bibliothèque héraldique et généalogique de M. Ernest de Rozière. Paris, Honoré Champion, (1879). 8vo. Half red morocco, spine ribbed with title in gilt on spine. V, 321 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Book History  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  France  Genealogy & Heraldry  Libraries & Collections  Manuscripts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Being young in the first half of the 19th century View picture(s) 93 SAILLET, Alexandre de Les Enfans peints par eux-mêmes, sujets de composition, donnés a ses Élèves. Paris, Desesserts, 1841. Large 8vo. Original green boards, decorated with white lacework surrounding two purple ovals with the title and imprint on the front, and drawing boy under a tree on the back cover with the address 'Cutlich et Bust, Rue Jacob 56'. With wood-engraved vignette on title, 3 wood-engraved illustrations in text, 22 wood-engraved headpiece illustrations, 22 illustrated woodcut initials, and 34 full-page lithographed plates, incl. the frontispiece, mainly of children's trades and professions, all after designs by the author (4), XV, (1 blank), 248 with 84 unnumb. pp. with chapter titles, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  France  Professions  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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French fencing masters View picture(s) 94 SAINT-ALBIN, Albert DE. Les salles d'armes de Paris. Paris, Glady Frères, 1875. 8vo. Contemporary three-quarter green morocco, ribbed spine gilt, marbled boards. Title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece and 20 engraved portraits. (8),191, (13) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Fencing  France  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Amsterdam edition of the collected works of a pioneer of the Enlightenment View picture(s) 95 SAINT-EVREMONT, Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, Seigneur de. Oeuvres de Monsieur de Saint-Evremond publiées sur ses manuscrits avec la vie de l'auteur par Mr. des Maizeaux. Cinqiéme édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée. Enrichie de figures gravées par B. Picart le Romain. Amsterdam, Arkstee & Merkus, libraires à Leipzig, 1739. 5 vols. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, with blind stamped titles on spines, as well as labels lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. With 5 engraved frontispieces (3 different frontispieces: 2 allegorical and one by J. v. Schley, dated 1738), engraved printer's devices on titles (3 different vignettes, one by B. Picard (1725), one by J. v. Schley (1738) and one with the portrait of Saint-Evremont), half-page engraved coat of arms of the Earls of Macclesfield ('Sapere aude'), by B. Picard, dated 1725, 4 full-page engraved plates, engraved head-pieces by B. Picard, dated 1725. (2), XXVIII, 367, 5, 169, (19); (2), 460, (12); (2), 443, (17); (6), 490, (17); (10), 418, (12) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Amsterdam  France  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautiful aquatint picture book View picture(s) 96 SAMS, William. A Tour through Paris, illustrated with Twenty-one Coloured plates, accompanied with descriptive Letter-press. London, William Sams, (ca. 1825). Folio. Contemporary half morocco. With 21 beautifully coloured aquatint plates showing vivid scenes of life in Paris. (21) lvs. of explanatory text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Costumes  Europe  France  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to navigate in the air: first edition of a rare early brochure on a dirigible (manoeuvrable balloon) View picture(s) 97 SANSON, A.J. & M. DUPUIS-DELCOURT. Navigation dans l'air. Le point d'appui aérien applicable a l'aérostation, précédé d'un projet de société aéronautique ... suivi d'une lettre sur l'aérostation et de la liste des principeaux aéronautes, de M. Dupuis-Delcourt. Paris, De Boulé et Comp., for Ledoyen March 1841. 8vo. In the original wrappers with a large fascinating lithographed plate on the front cover with an angel floating over the globe and a flying dirigible, and blowing a trumpet with the motto 'Conquête de l'aire'. With large spectacular folding lithographed plate (40x23,5 cm) by the Imp. Lithogr. Bouis (Rue Montesquieu, Paris) of the dirigible, titled 'Navire Aèrien dirigeable, Système Sanson Père et Fils'; the various units separately illustrated: a 'Mécanisme de transmission de mouvement aux ailes, vue de profil', the 'Regulateur', and the 'Roues locomotives vues de profuil. Manivelle vue de face', a smaller woodcut of the same dirigible  on p. 5. 32 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Aviation  Ballooning  France  French  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Stories for the holidays by Alida de Savignac View picture(s) 98 SAVIGNAC, Alida de. Les vacances. Paris, (ca. 1835). 4 vols. Sm.8vo. Orig. illustrated wrappers preserved in orig. illustrated cardboard box. With in total 4 coloured and 3 b/w engravings. 31, (1); 27 (1); 35, (1); 34 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  Engravings  France  French  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fundamental work in the history of economic thought View picture(s) 99 SAY, Jean-Baptiste. Traité d'économie politique, ou simple exposition de la manière dont se forment, se distribuent, et se consomment les richesses. Paris, L'imprimerie de Crapelet, 1803. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary auburn half morocco, spine gilt with beautiful tooled ornamental flowers, branches and birds, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. (4), XLVI, 528 (last blank); (4), 572 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Economy  France  Napoleon  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first good edition of the letters and poems of a fifth-century diplomat and bishop in Gaul View picture(s) 100 SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS, Caius Sollius Modestus. Opera. Jo. Savaronis studio & diligentia castigatiùs recognita. Paris, in officina Plantiniana, apud Hadrianus Perier, 1598. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, ms. title in ink on spine, remains of ties. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut head- and endpieces and initials. (24), 362, (5) pp. *8, **4, A8-Y8, Z4, Aa4. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  France  History  Plantin  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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