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[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).

WEIS, Jean-Martin.

Représentation des fêtes données par la Ville de Strasbourg pour la convalescence du Roi; à l'arrivée et pendant le séjour de Sa Majesté en cette Ville.

Paris, Aubert, 1744.

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4000 €

Unique edition of the festival celebrating the arrival of Louis XV in Strasbourg in October 1744. Published at the city's expense, the work is composed of a calligraphic title, 20 engr. calligraphic explanation pp.,- an equestrian portrait of Louis XV and 11 etchings on double pages swarming with 1000 lively details (onlookers, dances, acrobats...). They depict the arrival and the procession of the king into the town, the Cardinal of Rohan's welcome in the front of the cathedral, the night festivities (fireworks on the Ill, illuminated buildings) and the day festivities (water jousting, games, dances and sword exercises). Some foxing or otherwise soiled, armorial binding (joint split, sides and corners rubbed...).

[GRAVURE].

Portrait de Jean-Baptiste PERRONNEAU.

s.l., s.n., [v. 1745].

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30 €

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (1715-1783), engraved by Nicolet after Cochin.

[GRAVESANDE, Willem Jacob].

Introduction à la philosophie, contenant la métaphysique et la logique.

Leide, Jean et Herm Verbeek, 1748.

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100 €

Willem Jacob's Gravesande (1688 – 1742) was a Dutch jurist and diplomat, known today for his scientific work: he contributed to the introduction of Newton's theories and the experimental method. Interestingly, Gravesande presents his revolutionary method of coding and decoding encrypted letters ("De l'art de déchiffrer des Lettres", p. 391-408).

[GRAVURE].

Portrait de Pierre François BASAN.

s.l., s.n., [v. 1750].

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30 €

Portrait of Pierre François BASAN (1723-1797), engraved by Marais after Cochin.

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.

LEMERY, Louis.

Traité des alimens.

Paris, Durand, 1755.

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500 €

Third greatly enlarged edition of this famous book on food, which became the leading book on the chemistry of dietetics.

[FORMEY, Jean Henri Samuel].

Conseils pour former une bibliothèque peu nombreuse mais choisie.

Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1756.

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200 €

New edition augmented.

BOUHOURS, Dominique.

La manière de bien penser dans les ouvrages d’esprit.

Paris, Charles-Nicolas Poirion, 1756.

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50 €

[ALMANACH].

Almanach royal année 1757.

Paris, Le Breton, 1757.

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150 €

Beautiful royal almanac.

PETITOT, Ennemond Alexandre.

Raisonnement sur la perspective, pour en faciliter l'usage aux artistes. Dédié aux mêmes.

Parme, Frères faure, 1758.

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800 €

First edition.
Beautiful perspective manual, written in French and Italian.

Petitot was a French architect who joined Parma in June 1753 with the title of first court architect and instructor at the newly created Academy of Fine Arts.

Copy with large margins.

BALLET, François (Abbé).

Histoire des Temples des Payens, des Juifs et des Chrétiens.

Paris, Cailleau, 1760.

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250 €

First edition.

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

Paris, Jean-Thomas Hérissant, 1762.

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100 €

[DEZALLIER-ARGENVILLE].

Abrégé De La Vie Des Plus Fameux Peintres, Avec Leurs Portraits Gravés en Taille-douce, Les Indications De Leurs Principaux Ouvrages, Quelques Réflexions sur leurs caractères, Et La Manière De Connoitre Les Desseins Et Les Tableaux Des Grands Maitres.

Paris, De Bure l'ainé, 1762.

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500 €

Second edition.
A veritable biographical dictionary of great painters, most biographies are adorned with a portrait outside the text.
It is thus one frontispice and 254 portraits that adorn the text.

[BOUTET, Claude].

L'école de la mignature, dans laquelle on peut aisément apprendre à peindre sans maître, ainsi que les secrets de faire les plus belles couleurs; l'or bruni, & l'or en coquille.

Paris, J. B. G. Musier fils, 1766.

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150 €

This book, written by Charles Boutet (French painter of the 17th and 18th centuries), is intended for all painting lovers wishing to master the art of miniature painting.
He explained the technique of miniature in great detail such as the representation of draperies, skin tones, landscapes and flowers and how to paint with gold and silver.

VALIN, René-Josué.

Nouveau Commentaire sur l'Ordonnance de la Marine du mois d'Août 1681.

La Rochelle, Jerôme Légier, 1766.

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250 €

Second edition.
The great naval ordinance of July 31, 1681, also called the naval code or simply royal ordinance of 1681, also known as Colbert's Ordinance, is a major French royal ordinance drawn up on July 31, 1681 under the reign of Louis XIV, which codifies comprehensively the uses in maritime transport (merchant marine). Inspired by the customs and statutes of the United Provinces (Amsterdam and Antwerp), it was established under the aegis of Colbert; its principles were adopted into positive law in 2006.

ANDRÉ, Yves-Marie || FORMEY.

Essai sur le Beau Avec un Discours Préliminaire et des Réflexions sur le Goût par M. Formey.

Amsterdam, J.H.Schneider, 1767.

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45 €

[WOUTERS, Jan Ludewig].

Beschryvinge van het zeven honderdjaerig Jubile van den Heyligen Macarius, bezonderen Patroon tegen de peste, het welk geviert zal worden binnen de stad van Gend Hoofdstad van Vlaenderen.

Tot Gend, Jan Meyer, [1767].

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350 €

First edition.
Description of the seven hundred year Jubilee of S. Macarius...which will be celebrated in the City of Ghent in 1767.
Engravings by Jan Ludewig Wouters.

DOMAT, Jean.

Les Loix civiles dans leur ordre naturel le droit public, et legum delectus.

Paris, Veuve Savoye, 1767.

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250 €

"Civil laws in their natural order" is considered a monument of French civil law and is one of the sources that will lead to the Napoleonic Civil Code
. The 1767 folio edition is one of the best editions of the "Domat" in the 18th century.
The title of the book will inspire in Montesquieu his "De l'Esprit des lois".

CICERON, Marcus Tullius || BARRETT, Jean-Jacques de.

Les Offices de Cicéron.

Paris, Barbou, 1768.

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Second edition revised by Mr. de Barrett, in Latin and French.

Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) is one of the best-known authors of Roman antiquity and renowned for his intelligence and eloquence. Lawyer and statesman, he has written many political and philiosophic books as this treatise on ethics.
It is divided into three parts whose subjects are: Duty and Honest, Useful, and the comparison between both subjects. It was dedicated to the new generation of citizens destined to rule and perpetuate the Roman Republic.

OCELLUS, Lucanus.

De la nature de l'univers Avec la Traduction Françoise & des Remarques, par M. l'Abbé Batteux.

Paris, Saillant, 1768.

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150 €

First edition of the Batteux's translation in french. With the text in greek.
Bound after, Timée de Locres "De l'Ame du Monde" and Aristote "Lettres d'Aristote à Alexandre sur le Système du Monde", also with the translation of Batteux.

SABATIER DE CASTRES, Antoine.

Dictionnaire de littérature. Dans lequel on traite de tout ce qui a rapport à l'éloquence, à la poësie & aux belles-lettres, & dans lequel on enseigne la marche & les régles qu'on doit observer dans tous les ouvrages d'esprit.

Paris, Vincent, 1770.

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First edition.

[GRAVURE].

Portrait de Jean RESTOUT.

s.l., s.n., [v.1770].

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50 €

Portrait of Jean Restout (1692-1768)) engraved by Levasseur from a paint of his son.

REGEMORTES, Louis de.

Description du nouveau pont de pierre, construit sur la rivière d'Allier a Moulins; avec l'exposé des motifs qui ont déterminé son emplacement, et les dessins et détails relatifs à sa construction.

Paris, Lottin, 1771.

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2000 €

First edition.
Monumental impression for the description of the Moulins bridge built from 1754 to 1762 under the direction of Louis de Règemortes, engineer of bridges and roads: Plans, sections, elevations and maps.
Note the impressive fifth plank measuring over 1.80m long representing the foundations of the bridge.
"The work that has illustrated his name is the construction of the Moulins bridge, for which several unsuccessful attempts had been made in the previous century. The success of the project drawn up by Louis de Règemorte is mainly due to the establishment of a general masonry base. , strongly defended against the action of water, with unsinkable longitudinal levees attached to the wedges, to prevent the disastrous effect of scouring and flooding which had brought the ruin of the works undertaken on the same point from 1679 to 1689. " Tarbé de Saint-Hardouin (Biographical notes on the engineers of the bridges and roads since the creation of the body, in 1716, until our days, Baudry, 1884)

The now "Pont Règemortes" still crosses the Allier more than 250 years more late proof of the success of the engineer.

MICHAÉLIS, Johann David.

Recueil de questions, proposées à une société de savants, qui par ordre de Sa Majesté Danoise font le voyage de l'Arabie.

Utrecht, S.J. Baalde, 1774.

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500 €

Johann David Michaélis (1717-1791) is a German scholar and professor, renowned for his work and research at the University of Halle.
His specialties are Eastern civilizations and languages, Hebrew civilization, Philosophy, History, Literature, Geography and Natural Sciences. In particular, he was associated with the great German spirits of his time as Auguste Schlegel (scholar and forerunner of the Romantic movement).
With this collection of articles devoted to the Arab civilization, he exposes a diversity of knowledge and interests on a multitude of domains such as Architecture, Linguistics, Morals, etc ...

Very good second edition in French. This book retraces a brief state of knowledge on the Arab world, presented to the court of the King of Denmark.

[GUYTON DE MORVEAU, Louis Bernard].

Discours Publics et Eloges. Auxquels on a joint une Lettre où l'Auteur développe le plan annoncé dans l'un de ses Discours, pour réformer la Jurisprudence.

Paris, P.G. Simon, 1775.

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250 €

First edition.
Coming from a family of lawyers in Dijon, Louis-Bernard Guyton-Morveau began his career as an attorney general at the Parliament of Burgundy.
He was also interested in chemistry, participated in the Encyclopedia and became one of the founders of the Ecole Polytechnique.

[SCATOLOGIE].

Le Dieu des vents ou les aventures d'Eole métamorphosé en P-t, ou le simplement le Dieu Pet.

La Haye, s.n., 1776.

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500 €

First edition.
Badinage in free verse and twenty-seven little songs.
An unusual work whose author will remain in the shadows, under the scatological aspect it seems to have been written as a snub to Marmontel's "Poetics". Marmontel, as our petomane recalls, declared that it is not necessary for a thing to be beautiful in nature for it to be beautiful in poetry and that coarseness or finesse lies in the treatment of the subject rather than in the subject itself. Marmontel, by instituting the "moral tale" and rejecting the comic, had given rise to a wave of "immoral tales" in which this God of the winds participates.

[GRAVURE].

Portrait de Johann Caspar Füssli.

s.l., s.n., [v. 1778].

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50 €

Portrait of Johann Caspar Füssli (1706-1782) engraved by Aug. Vind. after John Elias Haid.

D'HOURY, Laurent.

Almanach royal, année bissextile 1780.

Paris, D'Houry, 1780.

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150 €

First edition.

CLOUET, Jean-Baptiste Louis.

Géographie Moderne avec Introduction. Ouvrage utile à tous ceux qui veulent se perfectionner dans cette Science, on y trouve jusqu'aux notions les plus simples dont on a facilité l'intelligence par des figures pour le mettre à la portée de tout le monde, Chaque Carte à sur les marges l'explication de celle qu'elle renferme, la méthode qu'on y suite a pour objet de developper les connaissances qui tiennant a l'Histoire, ce qui rend cette Géographie très intéressante.

s.l., s.n., 1780.

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1300 €

Atlas with 68 watercolor plates. Commplete.

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Miscellany

[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.

WEIS, Jean-Martin.

Représentation des fêtes données par la Ville de Strasbourg pour la convalescence du Roi; à l'arrivée et pendant le séjour de Sa Majesté en cette Ville.

[GRAVURE].

Portrait de Jean-Baptiste PERRONNEAU.

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (1715-1783), engraved by Nicolet after Cochin.

[GRAVESANDE, Willem Jacob].

Introduction à la philosophie, contenant la métaphysique et la logique.

[GRAVURE].

Portrait de Pierre François BASAN.

Portrait of Pierre François BASAN (1723-1797), engraved by Marais after Cochin.

VAUBERT, Luc.

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

Good copy in contemporary morocco bindings.

LEMERY, Louis.

Traité des alimens.

Third greatly enlarged edition of this famous book on food, which became the leading book on the chemistry of dietetics.

[FORMEY, Jean Henri Samuel].

Conseils pour former une bibliothèque peu nombreuse mais choisie.

New edition augmented.

BOUHOURS, Dominique.

La manière de bien penser dans les ouvrages d’esprit.

[ALMANACH].

Almanach royal année 1757.

Beautiful royal almanac.

PETITOT, Ennemond Alexandre.

Raisonnement sur la perspective, pour en faciliter l'usage aux artistes. Dédié aux mêmes.

First edition.Beautiful perspective manual, written in French and Italian.Petitot was a French architect who joined Parma in June 1753 with the title of first court architect and instructor at the newly created Academy of Fine Arts.Copy with large margins.

BALLET, François (Abbé).

Histoire des Temples des Payens, des Juifs et des Chrétiens.

First edition.

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

[DEZALLIER-ARGENVILLE].

Abrégé De La Vie Des Plus Fameux Peintres, Avec Leurs Portraits Gravés en Taille-douce, Les Indications De Leurs Principaux Ouvrages, Quelques Réflexions sur leurs caractères, Et La Manière De Connoitre Les Desseins Et Les Tableaux Des Grands Maitres.

Second edition.A veritable biographical dictionary of great painters, most biographies are adorned with a portrait outside the text.It is thus one frontispice and 254 portraits that adorn the text.

[BOUTET, Claude].

L'école de la mignature, dans laquelle on peut aisément apprendre à peindre sans maître, ainsi que les secrets de faire les plus belles couleurs; l'or bruni, & l'or en coquille.

VALIN, René-Josué.

Nouveau Commentaire sur l'Ordonnance de la Marine du mois d'Août 1681.

ANDRÉ, Yves-Marie || FORMEY.

Essai sur le Beau Avec un Discours Préliminaire et des Réflexions sur le Goût par M. Formey.

[WOUTERS, Jan Ludewig].

Beschryvinge van het zeven honderdjaerig Jubile van den Heyligen Macarius, bezonderen Patroon tegen de peste, het welk geviert zal worden binnen de stad van Gend Hoofdstad van Vlaenderen.

First edition.Description of the seven hundred year Jubilee of S. Macarius...which will be celebrated in the City of Ghent in 1767. Engravings by Jan Ludewig Wouters.

DOMAT, Jean.

Les Loix civiles dans leur ordre naturel le droit public, et legum delectus.

CICERON, Marcus Tullius || BARRETT, Jean-Jacques de.

Les Offices de Cicéron.

OCELLUS, Lucanus.

De la nature de l'univers Avec la Traduction Françoise & des Remarques, par M. l'Abbé Batteux.

First edition of the Batteux's translation in french. With the text in greek. Bound after, Timée de Locres "De l'Ame du Monde" and Aristote "Lettres d'Aristote à Alexandre sur le Système du Monde", also with the translation of Batteux.

SABATIER DE CASTRES, Antoine.

Dictionnaire de littérature. Dans lequel on traite de tout ce qui a rapport à l'éloquence, à la poësie & aux belles-lettres, & dans lequel on enseigne la marche & les régles qu'on doit observer dans tous les ouvrages d'esprit.

First edition.

[GRAVURE].

Portrait de Jean RESTOUT.

Portrait of Jean Restout (1692-1768)) engraved by Levasseur from a paint of his son.

REGEMORTES, Louis de.

Description du nouveau pont de pierre, construit sur la rivière d'Allier a Moulins; avec l'exposé des motifs qui ont déterminé son emplacement, et les dessins et détails relatifs à sa construction.

MICHAÉLIS, Johann David.

Recueil de questions, proposées à une société de savants, qui par ordre de Sa Majesté Danoise font le voyage de l'Arabie.

[GUYTON DE MORVEAU, Louis Bernard].

Discours Publics et Eloges. Auxquels on a joint une Lettre où l'Auteur développe le plan annoncé dans l'un de ses Discours, pour réformer la Jurisprudence.

First edition.Coming from a family of lawyers in Dijon, Louis-Bernard Guyton-Morveau began his career as an attorney general at the Parliament of Burgundy.He was also interested in chemistry, participated in the Encyclopedia and became one of the founders of the Ecole Polytechnique.

[SCATOLOGIE].

Le Dieu des vents ou les aventures d'Eole métamorphosé en P-t, ou le simplement le Dieu Pet.

[GRAVURE].

Portrait de Johann Caspar Füssli.

Portrait of Johann Caspar Füssli (1706-1782) engraved by Aug. Vind. after John Elias Haid.

D'HOURY, Laurent.

Almanach royal, année bissextile 1780.

First edition.

CLOUET, Jean-Baptiste Louis.

Atlas with 68 watercolor plates. Commplete.

First edition.
Beautiful perspective manual, written in French and Italian.

Petitot was a French architect who joined Parma in June 1753 with the title of first court architect and instructor at the newly created Academy of Fine Arts.

Copy with large margins.

Second edition.
A veritable biographical dictionary of great painters, most biographies are adorned with a portrait outside the text.
It is thus one frontispice and 254 portraits that adorn the text.

First edition.
Description of the seven hundred year Jubilee of S. Macarius...which will be celebrated in the City of Ghent in 1767.
Engravings by Jan Ludewig Wouters.

First edition of the Batteux's translation in french. With the text in greek.
Bound after, Timée de Locres "De l'Ame du Monde" and Aristote "Lettres d'Aristote à Alexandre sur le Système du Monde", also with the translation of Batteux.

First edition.
Coming from a family of lawyers in Dijon, Louis-Bernard Guyton-Morveau began his career as an attorney general at the Parliament of Burgundy.
He was also interested in chemistry, participated in the Encyclopedia and became one of the founders of the Ecole Polytechnique.