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How to navigate in the air: first edition of a rare early brochure on a dirigible (manoeuvrable balloon)

SANSON, Alexandre-Jacques and Jean-François 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. With a large folding lithographed plate (40 x 23,5 cm) of the dirigible, and a smaller woodcut of the same dirigible on p. 5. Original green wrappers in a protective plastic wrapper, with a large lithographed plate on the front, showing a dirigible flying over the globe underneath a floating angel, who is blowing a trumpet with the motto "Conquête de l'aire". 31, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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Laughing at the throne: political satire under Louis-Philippe

[SATIRE - FRENCH]. [Eight lithographs from La caricature journal].
[Paris], Aubert, [1831-1833]. Various sizes. With 8 lithographs. Including:
(1) PHILIPON, Charles. Misère toujours misère.
Paris, [1831].
(2) PHILIPON, Charles. Misère toujours misère.
Paris, [1831].
(3) PHILIPON, Charles. La Carcicature (journal) no. 59.
[Paris], on s'abonne chez Aubert, [1831].
(4) BOUQUET, Auguste. Père-scie.
[Paris], Aubert, [1832].
(5) DAUMIER, Honoré. Primo saignare, deinde purgare, postea clysterium donare.
[Paris], Aubert, [1833].
(6) DAUMIER, Honoré. La Cour du Roi Pétaud.
[Paris], Aubert, [1832]
(7) WILLIAMS, B. Laboratore infernal.
[Paris], Aubert, [1831].
(8) WILLIAMS, B. Laboratore infernal.
[Paris], Aubert, [1831].

Ads 3-4 are tipped in a white and gold passe-partout, ads 5-6 tipped in a white passe-partout. Full description
€ 1,250
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A French treatise on swordfighting and a matching treatise against dueling, from 1610

SAVARON, Jean (Sieur de Villars). Traicté de l'espee Francoise.
Paris, Adrien Périer, 1610. With engraved emblematic heraldic device on title-page (right hand holding a sword, emerging from a cloud, with crosses and fleurs-de-lis on the sword's blade and in the background, the whole representing King Louis XIII protecting France and the Church) with the motto "Pro religione et regno".
With: (2) SAVARON, Jean (Sieur de Villars). Traicté contre les duels. Avec l'edict de Philippes le Bel, de l'an M.CCC.VI. non encores imprimé.
Paris, Adrien Périer, 1610. With Périer's woodcut compasses device on title-page with motto "labore et constantia", borrowed from Christoffel Plantin. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. 18th-century sprinkled calf. 56; [16], 125, [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
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On Swedish algae and seaweed

SCHARSTRÖM, Theodoro and Jacob Georg AGARDH. Novitae florae Sveciae ex Algarum familia, quas in itineribus ad oras occidentales Sveciae annis 1832-35 collegit et cum observationibus diagnosticis et geographicis, ...
Lund, Berling, 1836. 4to. Disbound. [4], 16 pp. Full description
€ 225
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