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One of the most important sources of British law

[LAW - GREAT BRITAIN - John SELDEN (editor)]. Fleta, seu commentarius juris Anglicani sic nuncupatus, sub Edwardo Rege primo, seu circa annos abhinc CCCXL ab anonymo conscriptus, arque è codice veteri, autore ipso aliquantulum recentiori, nunc primum typis editus.
London, printed by S. R., for Henry Twyford, Thomas Bassett, John Place and Samuel Keble, 1685. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a half-page engraved plate after a Medieval historiated initial on p. 462. 18th-century blind-tooled calf. [8], 452, [2 blank], 453-553 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
History / 17th Century Law & Politics UK - United Kingdom
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Lickable! Stamps designed by T. E. Lawrence for the Arab Revolt

[LAWRENCE, T. E]. [Four stamps designed by T. E. Lawrence for the Arab Revolt, with a signed handwritten note in the hand of King George V of England].
[1916 CE =] 1334 H. Folio (21.5 x 27.5 cm). With the letterhead of Mohamed El-Chafai Bomboatman, a stamp dealer in Port Said. Four stamps pasted down, and handwritten signed note. 1 p. Full description
€ 15,000
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Law & Politics Military History (20th Century) UK - United Kingdom
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A rare guide to Moscow, with 8 plates

LECOINTE DE LAVEAU, Georges. Guide du voyageur à Moscou, contenant ce que cette capitale offre de curieux et d'intéressant...
Moscow, August Semen, 1824. 8vo. With lithographed frontispiece, 7 lithographed plates, 4 folding tables, and several tables in the text. Contemporary gold-tooled, half purple sheepskin, spine faded to brown, marbled sides and edges. [4], VI, 11-459, [1] pp. Full description
€ 2,250
Charts & Maps Eastern Europe Russia (incl. Siberia) Travel & Voyages Europe
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Drilling the Austrian Imperial infantry, with 49 manuscript formation plans in colour

LEEUWEN, Engelhard August Baron van. Plans des neu herrauss gegebene Exercittii nach den dermahligen Kayserl: Königl: kriegs Fuss Volck eingerichtet. Herausgegeben im Jahr 1765. Zugehörig Titl. Herrn Obrist Wacht M[ei]st[er] Baron v[on]: Engelhard.
Austria, 1769[?]. Oblong 4to (18.5 x 23 cm). With title and the explanation of the key letters used in the plans written in red, the key to the colour coding in the troop formations in 8 colours, and 49 (of 55) numbered colour-coded plans of infantry exercises. Each text leaf and each plan (except no. 26) in a frame of rules, nos. 2-35 in red, the rest in black. Plans 1, 24, 32, 33, 42, and 46 have been torn out, in 2 cases leaving a small piece of the drawing. Contemporary mottled tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [3], 16 ll. plus 49 (of 55) numbered plans. Full description
€ 5,000
Austria Battle Plans & Siegecraft Central Europe Fortification & Military Architecture Manuscripts & Documents Military History (18th Century)
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Journal of a 1674/75 overland voyage through India, Iran, Iraq and Syria to Amsterdam

LEEUWENSON, Joannes (Pieter Arend LEUPE, ed. & intro.). Eene overlandreis uit Indië naar Nederland, in 1674-1675.
[Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 1863]. 8vo. Offprint, retaining the original pagination and collation, of an article in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië, 6 (1863). 20th-century stiff paper wrappers, with a printed label on the front. pp. [89], 90-142. Full description
€ 1,250
Germany India & Sri Lanka Iran / Persia Italy Netherlands Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Middle East Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia Turkey & Ottoman Empire VOC
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French Polynesia and Somaliland. On occasion of the Exposition Universelle of 1900

[LEMASSON, Henry]. Notice sur les etablissements Français de l'oceanie.
[Paris, Alcan-Lévy, ca. 1900]. With 11 half-tone reproductions of photographs and a map in text.
With: (2) VIGNÉRAS, Sylvain. Notice sur la Cöte Française des Somalis.
Paris, Paul Dupont, 1900. With a folding lithographed map and 26 half-tone reproductions of photographs in text. 8vo. 2 works in 1 volume (ad 2 bound before ad 1). Contemporary black half sheepskin. 127, [1 blank]; 85, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 250
East Africa France Geography Pacific Islands Photography
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Astronomical, atmospheric and riverine physics by King Louis XV’s favourite astronomer

LE MONNIER, Pierre-Charles. Mémoires concernant diverses questions d'astronomie et de physique. Lûs & communiqués à l'Académie Royale des Sciences, &c.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1781. 4to. With woodcut vignette on title-page (with an armillary sphere and other instruments), and an engraved folding plate with 3 illustrations of eclipses engraved by Y. le Gouaz. Near contemporary half mottled calf. VIII, XXIV, 34 pp. Full description
€ 5,000
Astronomy & Cosmography France Physics & Chemistry
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60 designs for interior decorations (10 complete series) in the age of Louis XIV:
houses, palaces and chapels for the French nobility

LE PAUTRE, Jean. [Collection of 10 print series of 6 plates each with model designs for altars, church tabernacles, armorial trophies, chimney-pieces, monumental doorways, wainscoting, wall panels and ceilings].
Paris, Jean I Le Blond, Pierre II Mariette, [ca. 1655-ca. 1670]. 10 print series in 1 volume. Oblong small folio & oblong 4to (20 x 26.5 cm). With 60 engraved plates (plate size ca. 15 x 22 cm). 17th-century sprinkled, gold-tooled calf, each board with the same unidentified coat-of-arms in the centre. 3, [3]; [6]; [6]; 6; [6]; 6; 6; 6; [6]; 6 ll. (numbered in pencil: 4-63). Full description
€ 9,500
Architecture Armorial Bindings Bindings Castles, Gardens & Mansions France Prints & Print Series
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Remarkable collection of 40 print series of ornamental architectural designs

LE PAUTRE (POUTRE), Jean. [Extensive overview of the architectural and ornamental work].
Paris, François Jollain, Pierre Mariette, Jean Le Blond, Nicolas Langlois, 1651-1670. 41 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With 40 engraved print-series nearly all by Jean Le Pautre. Further with 1 duplicate series and 6 individual plates not in these series. With a total of 253 full-page engraved plates: 33 complete series of 6 plates, 1 complete series of 12 plates, and 6 incomplete series (lacking 10 of 42 plates) plus an incomplete duplicate of one of the complete series (5 of 6 plates), and the 6 individual plates. About half the series cut down and mounted on blank leaves or on the back of engraved leaves. 18th-century mottled calf. [248] engr. ll. Full description
€ 22,500
Architecture France Prints & Print Series
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