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Photo VUILLEMIN, Alexandre Aimé. 

VUILLEMIN, Alexandre Aimé. 

[Atlas Illustré de Géographie Commerciale et Industrielle présentant les grandes divisions physiques, la distribution géographique, des végétaux et des minéraux]. 

Paris, Fatout, 1859.
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Scarce decorative map of North America, published in Paris by Vuillemin.
Collection of 7 maps: Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Oceania and France.
Maps drawn by A. Vuillemin, Geographer; Engraved by Langevin and Gérin.
Illustrations drawn by A. Testard and engraved by Guesnu
All maps are dated 1859.

Rare maps among the most decorative of the nineteenth century with for each, side panels containing numerous meticulously engraved vignettes with explanations on the regions making up the continents or the departments for the map of France.
For the map of North America :
- The map includes 16 decorative side panel vignettes showing indigenous scenes in America, flora and fauna.
The map shows Russian America, Utah and New Mexico, extending to the Rocky Mountains, and massive Oregon, Northwest and Indian Territories. Interesting notes on early discoveries, including a reference to Alvaro Nunez in Texas, in 1528, Cabrillo's discovery of the Pacific in 1548, Francis Drake, Lewis & Clark, Edwin James, etc.
Early railroads, forts, canals, military reserves, Indian lands, ports of commerce and other details noted.
One of the most decorative large format maps of North America from the period, finely engraved by Gerin and illustrated by A. Testard.

Photo GRAND-CARTERET, John. 

GRAND-CARTERET, John. 

XIXème siècle (en France) Classes - Moeurs - Usages - Costumes - Inventions. 

Paris, Librairie Firmin Didot, 1893.
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Photo SUETONIUS. 

SUETONIUS. 

XII Caesares. Ex vetusto exemplari emendatiores multis locis. 

Paris, Robert Estienne, 1543.
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1300 €

One of the most important old editions of the Life of the Twelve Caesars.
The text has been compiled from the best and oldest manuscript of the work, dating from the 9th century, together with comments by G. B. Cipelli, Erasmus's Notice to the Reader (1518) and translations of the Greek passages by Egnazio.

Photo FAULCON, Felix. 

FAULCON, Felix. 

Voyages et Opuscules. 

Paris, Debray, 1805.
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100 €

First edition.
Excerpts from the author's travel journal in Belgium, Holland and on the Rhine, in Allier and Puy-de-Dôme. Felix Faulcon, deputy under the Constituent, then the Empire and the Restoration, he became a corresponding member of the Institut de France (Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres) on June 3, 1803.

Photo YRWIN, Eyles. 

YRWIN, Eyles. 

Voyages à la Mer Rouge, sur les cotes de l'Arabie, en Egypte, et dans les déserts de la Thébaide. 

Paris, Briand, 1792.
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350 €

Second french edition.
Eyles Yrwin (1751-1817) was an Irish writer who joined the East India Company and then became the Company's superintendent in China.

Photo [FLEURIOT DE LANGLE, Jean-Marie-Jérôme]. 

[FLEURIOT DE LANGLE, Jean-Marie-Jérôme]. 

Voyage en Espagne Par Mr. Le Marquis De Langle. 

s.l., s.n., 1785.
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200 €

In this work, the author makes a biting satire of the government, religion and morals of the Spanish. King Charles III complained to the French government and threatened to close the entrance to his kingdom to all French people. Parliament ordered, in February 1786, that a copy of "Voyage en Espagne" would be delivered to the flames by the hand of the executioner. This auto-da-fé delighted de Langle who had written: "My work will surely be reduced to ashes: so much the better! (...) It brings good luck; the public likes burnt works.".

Photo AMPERE, Jean-Jacques. 

AMPERE, Jean-Jacques. 

Voyage en Egypte et en Nubie. 

Paris, Michel Levy frères, 1868.
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150 €

First edition.

Photo NIEBUHR, Carsten. 

NIEBUHR, Carsten. 

Voyage de M. Niebuhr en Arabie et en d'autres pays de l'orient. 

En Suisse, Chez les libraires associés, 1780.
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1500 €

Second edition in french.
Travel journal of scientific exploration that King Frederick V of Denmark has to send to Egypt, Arabia and Syria. Our copy sees all its maps enhanced with colors, in particular the large folding map of the Red Sea, as well as certain engravings of landscapes.

Photo LA PEROUSE, Jean-François de Galaup (Comte de). 

LA PEROUSE, Jean-François de Galaup (Comte de). 

Voyage de la Pérouse autour du Monde, publié conformément au décret du 22 Avril 1791, et rédigé par M. L.A. Milet-Mureau. 

Paris, Imprimerie De La Republique, 1797.
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8000 €

First edition.
A complete copy.

Photo SPARRMAN, Anders. 

SPARRMAN, Anders. 

Voyage au cap de Bonne-Espérance, et autour du monde avec le capitaine Cook, et principalement dans le pays des Hottentots et des Caffres. 

Paris, Buisson, 1787.
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150 €

First french 8vo edition.
A student of Linnaeus, Sparrman (1748-1820) stayed in Cape Town and studied the flora and especially the fauna of the region. From Cape Town, he took part in James Cook's second voyage as a botanist's assistant and was thus one of two disciples of Linnaeus to have circumnavigated the world.

Photo [CHARLES VII]. 

[CHARLES VII]. 

Vollständiges Diarium von den merckwürdigsten Begebenheiten, die sich vor, in und nach der Höchst-beglückten Wahl und Krönung, des Allerdurchlauchtigsten, Großmächtigsten und Unüberwindlichsten Fürsten und Herrn Carls des VII. 

Frankfurt am Main, Johann David Jung, 1742-1743.
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1200 €

First edition.
A remarkable work that offers a detailed and illustrated account of the significant events that occurred before, during and after the election and coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles Albert of Bavaria, known as Charles VII. Thanks to its detailed descriptions of the ceremonies, parades and festivities, enriched by numerous iconographic documents.
A very complete copy of all the required plates: 1 frontispiece, 19 portraits, 20 plates (including numerous double plates and 2 folding plans).

Photo MAYER, Charles-Joseph de. 

MAYER, Charles-Joseph de. 

Vie publique et privée de Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, ministre d'état; discours couronné par L'Académie d'Amiens, le 25 août 1788. 

Paris, Maradan, 1789.
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150 €

First edition.

Book on the life and career of Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes (1719-1787), who was Foreign Minister of Louis XVI from 1774 until his death.

Photo RICHER, Henri. 

RICHER, Henri. 

Vie De Mécenas Avec Des Notes Historiques et critiques. 

Paris, Chaubert, 1746.
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100 €

First edition.
Maecenas (c. 70 BC-8 BC) was a Roman politician and close friend of the Emperor Augustus, famous for devoting his wealth and influence to promoting the arts and literature.

Photo TRONCHAY, Michel. 

TRONCHAY, Michel. 

Vie de M. Lenain de Tillemont, avec des reflexions sur divers sujets de morale, et quelques lettres de pieté. 

Cologne, s.n., 1711.
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150 €

First edition.
Michel Tronchay (1668-1733) was for many years the secretary of the historian Lenain de Tillemont (1637-1698) with whom he worked on his monumental ecclesiastical history.
From this collaboration he draws this book of moral reflections very imbued with Jansenism.

Photo STRAUSS, David Friedrich. 

STRAUSS, David Friedrich. 

Vie de Jésus ou examen critique de son histoire. 

Paris, Librairie philosophique de Ladrange, 1856.
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120 €

New French edition translated by Emile Littré on the last German edition. Strauss's works precede those of Renan on the historical approach to the life of Jesus. This book caused a scandal when it was first published in Germany and led to its author being dismissed from his post as philosophy tutor at the Protestant seminary in Tübingen.
Inspired by the Hegelian philosophy of history, this book founded the movement of the Young Hegelians which will inspire all left movements in Germany in the nineteenth century.

Photo VALOIS de La MOTTE (Comtesse). 

VALOIS de La MOTTE (Comtesse). 

Vie de Jeanne de St-Rémy de Valois, ci-devant comtesse de La Motte ; contenant un récit détaillé & exact des évenemens extraordinaires auxquels cette Dame infortunée a eu part depuis sa naissance, & qui ont contribué à l'élever à la dignité de Confidente & Favorite de la Reine de France ; avec plusieurs particularités ultérieures, propres à éclaircir les transactions mysterieuses relatives au collier de diamans,...écrite par elle-même. 

Paris, Garnéry, An I [1793].
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150 €

Sentenced to life imprisonment in the Affair of the Necklace, the Countess de La Motte fled to London and published her memoirs, in which she formally accused Marie Antoinette of complicity.
First edition under this title and greatly expanded.

Photo CARLONE, Auguste. 

CARLONE, Auguste. 

Vestiges epigraphiques de la domination Greco-Massaliote et la domination romaine dans les Alpes Maritimes. 

[Caen], s.n., [1868].
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75 €

Extract from the sessions of the French Archaeological Congress of 1867.

Photo [COMITE NATIONAL DES ECRIVAINS] MALHERBE, Henry || CLAUDEL, Paul || ARAGON, Louis. 

[COMITE NATIONAL DES ECRIVAINS] MALHERBE, Henry || CLAUDEL, Paul || ARAGON, Louis. 

Un Village de France. 

Paris, La Bibliothèque française, [1945].
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350 €

First edition.
Presentation copy signed by Aragon to Jacques Faizant.
The National Writers' Committee is an organ of the literary resistance, an emanation of the National Writers' Front, close to the French Communist Party.
Led by Aragon, the committee brings together many great French authors.
This publication in the aftermath of the war aims, through the example of an “ordinary” French village, at the abuses committed by the Nazis. Thus, Plomion in Aisne, where on August 31, 1944 fourteen inhabitants aged 16 to 72 were shot by the SS.
The photos of the victims are accompanied by a text by Henry Malherbe and a poem by Paul Claudel. Amusing send-off from one of the most fervent communist writers to the one who was on the front page of Le Figaro for decades.

Photo DAIN, Charles || CONSIDERANT, Victor || D'IZALGUIER, Eugène. 

DAIN, Charles || CONSIDERANT, Victor || D'IZALGUIER, Eugène. 

Trois discours prononcés à l'Hôtel-de-Ville, par MM. Dain, Considerant et d'Izalguier faisant complément à la publication du Congrès historique. 

Paris, P.-H. Khrabbe, 1836.
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300 €

First edition.

This book contains three speeches based on the ideas of Charles Fourier and his theory of the Utopian Socialism.
- "Quel est le but de l'Histoire", delivered at the "congrès historique", on the 15th november 1835, by Charles Dain (1812-1871, lawyer in Paris, close to the ideas of Victor Considerant, and who campaigned for the abolition of slavery).
- "Déterminer par l'Histoire si les diversités physiologiques des peuples sont entre elles comme les diversités des systèmes sociaux auxquels ces peuples appartiennent", delivered at the "congrès historique", on the 11 december 1835 by Victor Considerant (1808-1893, philosopher and economist polytechnician).
- "Loi de corrélation de la forme sociale et de la forme esthétique", delivered by Eugène D'Izalguier.

Photo DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector. 

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.

Photo GARNIER, Francis Xavier Paul. 

GARNIER, Francis Xavier Paul. 

Traité des chemins de toute espèce, comprenant les grandes routes, chemins de halage, vicinaux et particuliers, arbres et fossés qui les bordent, les rues et les places publiques ; suivi d'un appendice au régime des eaux. 

Paris, Imprimerie Pillet ainé, 1827.
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100 €

Third edition signed by the author.

Photo [JESUITES][ABRESSEVIN, Claude]. 

[JESUITES][ABRESSEVIN, Claude]. 

Tout le monde a tort, ou jugement impartial d'une dame philosophe, sur l'affaire présente des jésuites [Suivi de] Remarques sur le livre intitulé, extrait des assertions dangereuses & pernicieuses en tout genre...[Suivi de] Préjugés légitimes contre le livre intitulé: extrait des assertions dangereuses...[Suivi de] Réponse aux objections publiées contre l'institut des jésuites. 

Avignon, Aux dépens des libraires, 1762.
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100 €

Four memories on the debate in France on the order of the Jesuits which will lead to their banishment by the Parliament of Paris in August 1762.
The point of view here is that of the company of Jesus.

Photo MILTON, John || [SALAVILLE, Jean-Baptiste]. 

MILTON, John || [SALAVILLE, Jean-Baptiste]. 

Théorie de la royauté, d'après la doctrine de Milton. 

s.l., s.n., 1789.
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200 €
Photo [JOLY DE MAIZEROY, Paul-Gédéon]. 

[JOLY DE MAIZEROY, Paul-Gédéon]. 

Théorie de la guerre. 

Lausanne, Aux dépens de la Société, 1777.
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500 €

First edition.
Inventor of the term "strategy", it is with the Theory of War (1777) that Maizeroy completed his work of theorization, because although History is much less present there, it is a manual intended for instruction of young officers on elementary tactics and major tactics.
In this work he states that the use of thin or deep order is a choice belonging to the general and thus gives more flexibility to systems on the battlefield.
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Photo ALBERONI, Jules. 

ALBERONI, Jules. 

Testament Politique Du Cardinal Jules Alberoni, Recueilli De Divers Mémoires, Lettres & Entretiens De Son Eminence. 

Lausanne, Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1754.
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60 €

First edition.
Jules Alberoni (1664-1756) man of the Church and of the State, in the service of the Duke of Vendôme and Philippe V of Spain.

Photo [MOSCH, August Wilhelm (von)]. 

[MOSCH, August Wilhelm (von)]. 

Tactique de l'Infanterie et instruction sur le choix d'une Position & sur les Dispositions des Manoeuvres. 

Dresde, Frères Walther, 1787.
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350 €

First edition published with the agreement of the author.
August Wilhelm von Mosch (1735-1815) was a Prussian major general. The Prussian army was renowned since Frederick II for its rapid troop movements and the use of the Oblique Order (military maneuver consisting of reinforcing and advancing one of its wings first, while stealing the other wing). This required perfect mastery of maneuvers by the officers.

Photo KOCH, Christoph Wilhelm von. 

KOCH, Christoph Wilhelm von. 

Tableau Des Révolutions De L'Europe, Depuis Le Bouleversement De L'Empire Romain En Occident, Jusqu'À Nos Jours. 

Paris, Gide fils, 1814.
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150 €

Interesting summary of European history decorated with 7 maps enhanced with colors and 154 genealogical tables of European dynasties.

Photo DELANDINE, Antoine François. 

DELANDINE, Antoine François. 

Tableau des prisons de Lyon, pour servir à l'histoire de la tyrannie de 1792 et 1793. 

Lyon, Joseph Daval, 1797.
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120 €

First edition.
The Author deputy of the States General opposed the Republicans, which earned him to be imprisoned during the Terror.
On his release from prison after 9 Thermidor, he gave this striking testimony from inside Lyon prisons.

Photo AZUNI, Domenico Alberto. 

AZUNI, Domenico Alberto. 

Système Universel Des Armemens En Course Et Des Corsaires En Tems De Guerre Suivi D'un Précis des moyens propres à diminuer les dangers de la navigation des Neutres. 

Gènes, Bonaudo, 1817.
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1000 €

First edition.
Dominique Albert Azuni was president of the chamber of the Genoa company under the Empire and a specialist in maritime law.
This work is a real law manual of the privateer in which we explain his rights and duties.

An unusual work on corsairs at the time when Surcouf was sailing the seas.

Photo D'AUDIFFRET, Charles Louis Gaston. 

D'AUDIFFRET, Charles Louis Gaston. 

Système Financier De La France. 

Paris, Guillaumin et Cie, 1854.
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400 €

Second edition.
French politician, administrator and economist, Gaston d'Audiffret, was president of the Court of Auditors and one of the founders of the CIC.

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