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MARAT, Jean-Paul.

Découvertes de M. Marat sur la lumière constatées par une suite d'expériences nouvelles qui ont été faites un très-grand nombre de fois sous les yeux de MM. les Commissaires de l'Académie des Sciences.

Londres et Paris, Jombert, 1780.

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3000 €

First edition of this rare work by Marat on light.
In fact, the french revolutionary published several scientific works in his youth.
In this treatise on light, Marat discusses Newton's doctrine on the decomposition of sunlight by the prism.

DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector.

Traite sur la Cavalerie.

Paris, Imprimerie de Guillaume Desprez, 1776.

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7500 €

First edition of this famous treatise on cavalry, one of the most spectacular ever published.

The treatise itself, adorned with a beautiful frontispiece by Pierre Charles Ingouf, depicting Louis XVI reviewing the mounted troops, a title vignette by Macret, and four headings and three tailpieces engraved by various artists after Van Blaremberghe, is illustrated with 11 copper-engraved tactical plates, seven of which are double-page spreads and one folded.

This copy bears the coat of arms of the Duke of Condé, second in the list of 69 subscribers to the work, after the Duke of Chartres, who was the author's godfather.

Text volume only. The atlas, bearing the coat of arms of the Prince of Condé, was sold at the 1988 Biennale des Antiquaires, Librairie Léonce Laget, Paris, and then at Christie's in 2016.

COUTAN.

Le Grand Oeuvre dévoilé en faveur des enfans de la Lumière.

Paris, Delalin, 1775.

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950 €

III. Scarce first edition of the "Grand oeuvre dévoilée".

First are bound two other works :
I. LE CHOYSELAT, Prudent. Discours oeconomique, non moins utile que recreatif, monstrant comme de cinq cens livres pour une foys employées, l'on peult tirer par an quatre mil cinq cens livres de proffict honneste, qui est le moyen de faire profier son argent. Rouen: Martin le Menestrier, 1612 [but c. 1745].
II. LE BRETON. Divers Objets d'économie rurale et domestique. Chez l'Auteur. Paris [1788].

AILHAUD, Jean Gaspard.

L’Ami des malades, ou Discours historique &
apologétique sur la poudre purgative.

Paris, Méquignon Le Jeune, 1774.

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750 €

The famous purgative powder of Ailhaud true "universal medicine" is a preparation of scammony that cured all diseases.
Its success was enormous and made the richness of its inventor.
This book is a defense of this remedy against the growing criticism of the physicians of the time.

FINE COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO BINDING.

PRESSAVIN, Jean Baptiste.

Nouveau traité des vapeurs, ou traité des maladies des nerfs.

Lyon, V. Reguilliay, 1771.

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600 €

Second edition.
The "vapors" mental disorder popularized by Pierre Pomme, foreshadows what will be discussed under the term Hysteria in the 19th century.

"Contrary to Pomme, Pressavin does not condemn passions without restriction [...] vapors would correspond to a dysfunction of the relational system which binds living beings to the outside world; vapors can just as easily be passionate, in the grip of an overexcited sensitivity , that an indifferent, vegetating in a state of torpor. " Paul Hoffmann, "The Woman in the Thought of Lights", Slatkine, 1995

Beautiful copy in contemporary morocco.

HUME, David.

Histoire de la maison de Plantagenet sur le trône d'Angleterre, depuis l'invasion de Jules César, jusqu'à l'avènement de Henri VII.

Amsterdam, s.n., 1765.

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450 €

First edition in french.

Office de la Semaine Sainte à l'Usage de Rome.

Paris, Jean-Thomas Hérissant, 1762.

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100 €

BOCCACE, Jean.

Le décaméron.

Londres [Paris], s.n. [Prault], 1757-1761.

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5500 €

Rare when bound in contemporary morocco.
Very good copy.

VAUBERT, Luc.

La Dévotion à Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ dans l'Eucharistie.

Paris, Gabriel Charles Berton, 1752.

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180 €

Good copy in contemporary morocco bindings.

[RELIURE MAROQUIN].

Petit Eucologe, ou livre d'Eglise, à l'usage des fidèles du Diocèse d'Auxerre.

Auxerre, François Fournie, 1746.

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150 €

Pleasant copy in morocco from the period of this Auxerre printing.

[PERNETY, Jacques || BOUGEANT, Guillaume-Hyacinthe ].

Lettres philosophiques sur les Physionomies.

La Haye, Neaulme, 1746.

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250 €

First edition.

[LIVRE DE FETES].

Description des festes données par la ville de Paris à l'occasion du mariage de Madame Louise-Elisabeth de France, et de Dom Philippe, Infant & Grand amiral d'Espagne, les vingt-neuvième & trentième août mil sept cent trente.

Paris, Le Mercier, 1740.

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6000 €

First edition.
One of the most beautiful festival books published in the 18th century to commemorate the festivities held in Paris for the wedding of Madame Première, Louise-Élisabeth de Bourbon, eldest daughter of Louis XV, to Philippe de Bourbon.

Beautiful copperplate engraving with 13 plates outside the text, including 8 double-page spreads, by Jacques-François Blondel based on his own drawings and those of the architects Jacques-Ange Gabriel and Giovanni.
There are also two vignettes in the text, one by Pierre Soubeyran after Edmé Bouchardon (coat of arms of the city of Paris), the other by Jacques Rigaud (nautical jousting scene).

[MAROQUIN].

Manuel du Chrétien.

Cologne, Aux dépens de la compagnie, 1740.

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150 €

LONGUS.

Les amours pastorales Daphnis et Chloé.

[Paris], [Coustelier], [1731].

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1500 €

Edition normally illustrated with a frontispiece and 8 figures by Scotin, and 4 unsigned vignettes.
In this copy, the illustrations from Scotin have been replaced by the famous suite "de Regenté, including a frontispiece by Coypel (replacing the title page dated 1731) and 28 superb figures including 13 doubles, engraved by Benoît Audran after the drawings of the regent Philippe d'Orléans.
The engraving "Petits pieds", engraved in 1728 and attributed to the Comte de Caylus has been, as often, added.

[HOET, Gérard] || [PICART, Bernard] || [HONDT, Pieter de] || [SAURIN, Pierre] ||.

Figures de la Bible. Taferelen der voornaamste Geschiedenissen van het oude en nieuwe testament.

La Haye, Pieter de Hondt, 1728.

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6000 €

First edition.
One of the most beautiful illustrations of the Bible in the eighteenth century.
This remarkable iconograph of the Bible in which Gérard Hoet and Bernard Picart mainly participated includes 214 full-page plates (29 double-page), the legend of which is written in Hebrew, English, German, Latin, French and Dutch.
The two frontispieces are captioned in French, the rest of the text is written in Dutch. Each chapter ends with a beautiful engraved cul-de-lampe.
This set of prints was first started by Picart in 1720 with the assistance of the Dutch painter Gérard Hoet, for what would undoubtedly become the pinnacle of the "Figures of the Bible". The Figures of the Bible are collections of engravings, which represent or signify Scripture through cycles of prints covering the entire Bible, a single Testament, or even a single biblical book. It is a genre that became popular with printing in the sixteenth century.
Pierre de Hondt, recovers the engravings of Picart, who with his multilingual legends already had a desire for European distribution, to accompany texts by Pierre Saurin (cf. Brunet). Everything is newly decorated with typographic ornaments.

Beautiful copy of Talleyrand at Chateau de Valençay with his ex libris in each volume.

[ROCHEFORT, Jean (de)].

Le Passe-tems agréable, ou nouveaux choix de bons-mots, de pensées ingénieuses, de rencontres plaisantes.

Rotterdam, Jean Hofhout, 1728.

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300 €

A pleasant copy with the arms of the princes of Bourbon Condé, azure with three golden fleurs-de-lys, with a red bastion, probably having belonged to Louise-anne de Bourbon Condé, known as

Mademoiselle de Charolais. Attributed by Barbier to a lord of Rochefort.

GROLLIER DE SERVIÈRE, Gaspard.

Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière avec des figures en taille douce.

Lyon, David Forey, 1719.

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2200 €

First edition.
Among the mechanical inventions depicted in Grollier de Serviere's Cabinet are those for propelling ships, making elevations, various kinds of clocks, lamps, mechanical figures, mills, optical contrivances and geometrical instruments.

[ROBERT, procureur au Châtelet].

Observations sur la culture des arbres fruitiers.

Paris, Jacques Collombat, 1718.

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950 €

Scarce first edition of this works on fruit trees.

Good copy, binding with arms of la Rochefoucauld on covers.

[LAMY, François].

Le nouvel athéisme renversé, ou réfutation du sistême de Spinosa tirée pour la plupart de la conoissance de la nature de l'homme.

Paris, Jean de Nully, 1696.

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900 €

Rare first edition in a morocco bilding with gilt arms on covers.

[MONTFAUCON DE VILLARS , Abbé].

Nouveaux entretiens sur les sciences secrètes, ou le Comte de Gabalis. Nouvelle édition augmentée d'une lettre sur le sujet.

Cologne, Paul de la Tenaille, 1693.

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950 €

HUET, Pierre Daniel.

Traitté de la Situation du Paradis Terrestre.

Paris, Jean Anisson, 1691.

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1500 €

First edition.
Curious work in which Huet try to find the location of Paradise.
Rare in morocco binding (not in Caillet, Dorbon as only the 1701 edition).

[BAILLET, Pierre], DESCARTES.

La vie de Monsieur Descartes.

Paris, Daniel Horthemels, 1691.

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2000 €

First edition. The best biography of Descartes, written by one of his contemporaries.

Rare in its contemporary morocco with arms on covers.

SAINT DISDIER, Alexandre-Toussaint Limojon de.

Histoire des Négotiations de Nimègue.

Paris [Hollande], Claude Barbin, 1680.

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300 €

Counterfeit edition of the title à la sphere (probably Dutch), taken from the Barbin edition in Paris.

The peace of Nijmegen marks the end of the Dutch war, it places France at the forefront of European geopolitics. On this occasion, France annexed Franche-Comté. It is the triumph of Louis XIV as a warrior king.

Beautiful copy in morocco.

Les plaisirs de Saint-Germain en Laye, et de la Cour, et le tableau de la vie humaine, ou le solitaire.

Paris, Gabriel Quinet, 1665.

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600 €

Unique edition.

RANTZAU, Henrik.

Traité astrologique des jugemens des thèmes genetliaques pour tous les accidens qui arrivent à l’homme après sa naissance.

Paris, Pierre Ménard, 1657.

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2000 €

Very rare first french edition of one of the most comprehensive and esteemed treaties of astrology.
Our copy contains the eight pages "de la façon de construire la figure céleste" which are often missing.

COMMINES, Philippe de.

Les Mémoires De Messire Philippe De Commines, Sr. D'Argenton.

Leide, les Elzeviers, 1648.

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950 €

BEVERWYCK, Jan van.

De calculo renum & vesicae liber singularis. Cum epistolis & consultationibus magnorum virorum.

Leyden, Elzevier, 1638.

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1500 €

First edition of this famous work in urology, one of the earliest medical books to accept William Harvey's account of the circulation of the blood.

Bound after, two rare books on the plague :
- PAAW, Pierre. Tractatus de Peste. Leyde, Abraham Commelini, 1636
- Theodore de BEZE. De Pestis Contagio et Fuga. 1636

RARE COPY WITH THE ARMS OF FRANÇOIS-AUGUSTE DE THOU.

FLORUS, Lucius Annaeus et alii.

Historiae Romanae epitome.

Amsterdam, Guibel Lanss Caesius, 1625.

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500 €

Selections from Roman Historians.

Rare binding with the arms of François-Auguste de Thou (1604-1642), his coat of arms on the covers, flies on the boxes. Eldest son of Jacques-Auguste de Thou, François-Auguste succeeded his father as Grand Master of the King's Library in 1617. take an active part in it himself; he was however condemned to death in Lyon and beheaded on September 12, 1642 on the Place des Terreaux. He had inherited his father's library, which he kept carefully and which passed after his death to his younger brother, Jacques-Auguste. He had the volumes struck, the paternal collection of which he augmented with the simple arms of the de Thou.

MICHAËLIS, P.F. Sébastien.

Histoire admirable de la possession et conversion d'une pénitente, séduite par un magicien, la faisant sorcière & princesse des sorciers au païs de Provence, conduite à la Scte Baume pour y estre exorcizée l'an M. DC. X. au mois de Nouembre
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Discours des esprits en tant qu'il est de besoin, pour entendre & résoudre la matière difficile des Sorciers.

Lyon, Charles Chastellain, 1613.

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2000 €

The "Histoire admirable de la possession et conversion d'une pénitente, " is a rare work of sorcery which traces the history of Louis Gaufridy, burnt alive as a sorcerer, by a decree of the Parliament of Aix of April 30, 1611, and which contains the record of the exorcisms practiced from 27 November 1610 to 23 April 1611 on two Ursulines of Aix, Magdaleine of Demandouls and Louyse Capeau

Bound after is the "Discours des esprits", a rare Treaty of demonology, one of the most complete (Dorbon).
The first edition was published in 1587 under the title "Pneumalogie ou discours des esprits".
This work is on the devil, witches, incubi and succubi, ...
A very good copy.

JODELLE, Étienne.

Les Œuvres et Meslanges poetiques. Reveuës & augmentees en ceste derniere edition.

Lyon, Benoist Rigaud, 1597.

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1800 €

Third edition.
Rare.

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Fine Bindings

MARAT, Jean-Paul.

Découvertes de M. Marat sur la lumière constatées par une suite d'expériences nouvelles qui ont été faites un très-grand nombre de fois sous les yeux de MM. les Commissaires de l'Académie des Sciences.

First edition of this rare work by Marat on light.In fact, the french revolutionary published several scientific works in his youth.In this treatise on light, Marat discusses Newton's doctrine on the decomposition of sunlight by the prism.

DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector.

Traite sur la Cavalerie.

COUTAN.

Le Grand Oeuvre dévoilé en faveur des enfans de la Lumière.

AILHAUD, Jean Gaspard.

L’Ami des malades, ou Discours historique & apologétique sur la poudre purgative.

PRESSAVIN, Jean Baptiste.

Nouveau traité des vapeurs, ou traité des maladies des nerfs.

HUME, David.

Histoire de la maison de Plantagenet sur le trône d'Angleterre, depuis l'invasion de Jules César, jusqu'à l'avènement de Henri VII.

First edition in french.

Office de la Semaine Sainte à l'Usage de Rome.

BOCCACE, Jean.

Le décaméron.

Rare when bound in contemporary morocco. Very good copy.

VAUBERT, Luc.

La Dévotion à Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ dans l'Eucharistie.

Good copy in contemporary morocco bindings.

[RELIURE MAROQUIN].

Petit Eucologe, ou livre d'Eglise, à l'usage des fidèles du Diocèse d'Auxerre.

Pleasant copy in morocco from the period of this Auxerre printing.

[PERNETY, Jacques || BOUGEANT, Guillaume-Hyacinthe ].

Lettres philosophiques sur les Physionomies.

First edition.

[LIVRE DE FETES].

Description des festes données par la ville de Paris à l'occasion du mariage de Madame Louise-Elisabeth de France, et de Dom Philippe, Infant & Grand amiral d'Espagne, les vingt-neuvième & trentième août mil sept cent trente.

[MAROQUIN].

Manuel du Chrétien.

LONGUS.

Les amours pastorales Daphnis et Chloé.

[HOET, Gérard] || [PICART, Bernard] || [HONDT, Pieter de] || [SAURIN, Pierre] ||.

Figures de la Bible. Taferelen der voornaamste Geschiedenissen van het oude en nieuwe testament.

[ROCHEFORT, Jean (de)].

Le Passe-tems agréable, ou nouveaux choix de bons-mots, de pensées ingénieuses, de rencontres plaisantes.

A pleasant copy with the arms of the princes of Bourbon Condé, azure with three golden fleurs-de-lys, with a red bastion, probably having belonged to Louise-anne de Bourbon Condé, known as Mademoiselle de Charolais. Attributed by Barbier to a lord of Rochefort.

GROLLIER DE SERVIÈRE, Gaspard.

Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière avec des figures en taille douce.

First edition. Among the mechanical inventions depicted in Grollier de Serviere's Cabinet are those for propelling ships, making elevations, various kinds of clocks, lamps, mechanical figures, mills, optical contrivances and geometrical instruments.

[ROBERT, procureur au Châtelet].

Observations sur la culture des arbres fruitiers.

Scarce first edition of this works on fruit trees. Good copy, binding with arms of la Rochefoucauld on covers.

[LAMY, François].

Le nouvel athéisme renversé, ou réfutation du sistême de Spinosa tirée pour la plupart de la conoissance de la nature de l'homme.

Rare first edition in a morocco bilding with gilt arms on covers.

[MONTFAUCON DE VILLARS , Abbé].

Nouveaux entretiens sur les sciences secrètes, ou le Comte de Gabalis. Nouvelle édition augmentée d'une lettre sur le sujet.

HUET, Pierre Daniel.

Traitté de la Situation du Paradis Terrestre.

First edition. Curious work in which Huet try to find the location of Paradise. Rare in morocco binding (not in Caillet, Dorbon as only the 1701 edition).

[BAILLET, Pierre], DESCARTES.

La vie de Monsieur Descartes.

First edition. The best biography of Descartes, written by one of his contemporaries. Rare in its contemporary morocco with arms on covers.

SAINT DISDIER, Alexandre-Toussaint Limojon de.

Histoire des Négotiations de Nimègue.

Les plaisirs de Saint-Germain en Laye, et de la Cour, et le tableau de la vie humaine, ou le solitaire.

Unique edition.

RANTZAU, Henrik.

Traité astrologique des jugemens des thèmes genetliaques pour tous les accidens qui arrivent à l’homme après sa naissance.

Very rare first french edition of one of the most comprehensive and esteemed treaties of astrology. Our copy contains the eight pages "de la façon de construire la figure céleste" which are often missing.

COMMINES, Philippe de.

Les Mémoires De Messire Philippe De Commines, Sr. D'Argenton.

BEVERWYCK, Jan van.

De calculo renum & vesicae liber singularis. Cum epistolis & consultationibus magnorum virorum.

FLORUS, Lucius Annaeus et alii.

Historiae Romanae epitome.

MICHAËLIS, P.F. Sébastien.

JODELLE, Étienne.

Les Œuvres et Meslanges poetiques. Reveuës & augmentees en ceste derniere edition.

Third edition. Rare.

First edition of this rare work by Marat on light.
In fact, the french revolutionary published several scientific works in his youth.
In this treatise on light, Marat discusses Newton's doctrine on the decomposition of sunlight by the prism.

L’Ami des malades, ou Discours historique &
apologétique sur la poudre purgative.

Rare when bound in contemporary morocco.
Very good copy.

A pleasant copy with the arms of the princes of Bourbon Condé, azure with three golden fleurs-de-lys, with a red bastion, probably having belonged to Louise-anne de Bourbon Condé, known as

Mademoiselle de Charolais. Attributed by Barbier to a lord of Rochefort.

First edition.
Among the mechanical inventions depicted in Grollier de Serviere's Cabinet are those for propelling ships, making elevations, various kinds of clocks, lamps, mechanical figures, mills, optical contrivances and geometrical instruments.

Scarce first edition of this works on fruit trees.

Good copy, binding with arms of la Rochefoucauld on covers.

First edition.
Curious work in which Huet try to find the location of Paradise.
Rare in morocco binding (not in Caillet, Dorbon as only the 1701 edition).

First edition. The best biography of Descartes, written by one of his contemporaries.

Rare in its contemporary morocco with arms on covers.

Very rare first french edition of one of the most comprehensive and esteemed treaties of astrology.
Our copy contains the eight pages "de la façon de construire la figure céleste" which are often missing.

Third edition.
Rare.