Europe / France

[VOC]. THOU, Jacques Auguste du. Continuatie van klaghte van den ambassadeur van Vranckryck, ende hoe het daer mede gelegen is, volgens de respectieve advijsen van de admiraliteyt, ende van de bewinthebbers van de Oost-Indische Compagnie.
[Copy imprint:] "Naer de Copye, 1660." [1660 or shortly after]. 4to. With Du Thou's complaint/request in the original French, a Dutch reaction from the admiralty and the VOC's request to the States General to reject Du Thou's request. Set in roman and textura types. Modern brown wrappers with a printed label on the front wrapper. [8] pp. Full description

[PAMPHLET - DUTCH REVOLT]. Blyde inkomste vanden Hertoghe van Alencon in date den neghenthienden februarij int jaer vijfthien-hondert ende twee-en-tachtentich besloten tot Antwerpen.
The Hague, widow and heirs of Hillebrandt Jacobsz van Wouw, 1634. 4to. Large woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials. Modern beige paper wrappers, with a white label ("574") on the front wrapper. [1], [1 blank], 33, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[PAMPHLET- SPANISH - MARITIME]. Relacion de las presas, que los vageles, y fragatas de la real armada de Dunquerque, y navios de particulares hizieron en las costas de Francia, Inglaterra, y otras partes, desde primero de Mayo hasta ultimo de Diziembre del año de 1638.
Madrid, Diego Diaz, 1639. Folio (c. 29 x 20.1 cm). Unbound, housed in a plastic folder. [2] ll. Full description

PARADIN, Claude. Alliances genealogiques des rois et princes de gaule.
Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1561. Folio. With 1068 contemporary hand-coloured woodcut armorial devices, a woodcut title frame, the woodcut device of De Tournes, a woodcut headpiece, and two woodcut decorated initials. 17th-century gold-tooled mottled calf, with the title lettered in gold on the spine. With a separate paper bearing the number 1311 at the head of the spine, and with brown sprinkled edges. [12], “1201” [= 1021], [3] pp. Full description

[PASCAL, Blaise]. Les provinciales ou les lettres escrites par Louis de Montalte a un provincial des ses amis, & aux RR. PP. Jesuites: Sur le sujet de la morale, et de la politique de ces peres.
Cologne, Pierre de la Vallee [= Amsterdam, Lodewijk & Daniel Elzevier], 1657. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, and several decorated woodcut initials in the text. 19th-century blind-tooled black morocco. [24], 398, [2 blank]; 111, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[PECQUET, Antoine]. Memoires secrets pour servir a l'histoire de Perse.
Amsterdam, La Compagnie, 1745. Small 8vo. With a very fine allegorical woodcut vignette on the title page: "Vis Unita Major", the title is printed in red and black. Further with a woodcut headpiece and two woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco. (12), 265, (39) pp. Full description

PÉRIN, René. Beautés historiques de la maison d'Autriche.
Paris, Delaunay, 1811. 2 volumes. 12mo. With 16 illustrations on 8 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary light brown mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine. XX, 360; [4], 388 pp. Full description

PETIT, Victor Jean-Baptiste. Bagneres de Luchon et ses environs.
Paris, Charles Boivin; Pau, Auguste Bassy, [ca. 1850]. Oblong folio (26.5 x 37.5 cm). With a lithographed title-page with a hand-coloured vignette, and 29 numbered lithographed plates, all coloured by hand and some double-page (including 1 folding out vertically) or folding panoramas. All plates mounted on thick wove paper with letterpress captions. Contemporary gold- and blind-blocked dark green cloth, gilt edges. Full description

POISSONNIER-DESPERRIERES, Gabriel Adrien Marie. Vie politique et militaire du général A.M.G. Poissonnier-Desperrières …, écrite par lui-même, et publiée de son vivant.
Paris, C.J. Trouvé, 1824. 8vo. With lithographed frontispiece-portrait of Dapuhin by Constans after a drawing by Eugénie Lebrun. Contemporary richly gold-tooled straight grained orange/brown morocco, gold- and blind-tooled boards with the arms of William I on each side, gold-tooled spine with plumed helmets, a dark-brown title-label and the name of the binder ("SIMIER.R.DU.ROI"), gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. XII, 512 pp. Full description

[PORTRAIT BUST - NAPOLEON BONAPARTE]. [Bust of Napoleon Bonaparte].
[Early 20th century]. Ca. 15 x 9.5 x 6 cm (base ca. 4.5 x 4.5 cm). Patinated bronze portrait bust. Full description