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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.

DU FRESNOY, Charles-Alphonse || DE MARSY, François-Marie || [MEUSNIER DE QUERLON, A.-G.].

L'école d'Uranie, ou l'art de la peinture.

Paris, Saugrain & Lamy - Barrois, aîné, 1780.

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90 €

This book is devoted to the poetic work of the painter and art critic Charles-Alphonse Du Fresnoy (1611-1668), who was a student of Simon Vouet and a friend of Pierre Mignart.
It consists in the poem "De Graphica" in Latin and French, the notes by Roger de Piles on the poem, a text by Du Fresnoy on the great painters, an index of pictorial terms and the poem "Pictura" in Latin and French.

[MAGNÉ de MAROLLES, François-Gervais].

Essai sur la chasse au fusil contenant un détail de ce qui concerne la fabrication des canons soit ordinaires, tordus, à ruban ou filés: l'examen de plusieurs questions touchant leur porté, eu égard à leur longueur, à leur calibre, à la charge, &c. & quelques notions sommaires sur les autres parties du fusil de chasse, avec des règles & instructions pour parvenir à bien tirer.

Paris, Chez Théophile Barrois jeune, 1781.

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300 €

First edition.
Very interesting book on the weaponry of the hunter. With an interresting the chapter on rifled guns, which were not generalized until the nineteenth century.

[CAILLEAU].

Les Misères de ce monde ou Complaintes facétieuses sur les apprentissages de différens arts et métiers de la ville et fauxbourgs de Paris.

Londres et Paris, Cailleau, 1783.

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650 €

First edition.
Very curious collection of texts on the miseries of apprentices.
Published by the bookseller Cailleau, the work brings together the History of the good man Misère, a popular tale from the 17th century, and nine pieces in burlesque verse describing the living conditions of apprentices and servants. It thus includes: the Mirror of patience or the misery of the attorney's clerks, the Misery of the surgeons' boys, the Patira or complaint of a attorney's clerk on his miserable apprenticeship, the Misery of the apprentice printers, applied in detail to each function of this noble Art, the Misery of the apprentice papermakers-gluers, bookbinders and book gilders, the Misery of the bakers' boys of the city and suburbs of Paris, The State of servitude or the misery of the servants, the Misery of the husbands and the Misery of the bailiffs' clerks.

HOWARD, John.

État des prisons, des hôpitaux et des maisons de force.

Paris, Lagrange, 1788.

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700 €

First french edition of Howard's pioneering work on prisons and penal reform.

NECKER, Jacques.

De l'importance de la morale et des opinions religieuses.

Londres - Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1788.

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150 €

Edition published the same year as the first one, with a new title (the first edition is untitled "De l'Importance des opinions religieuses").

Jacques Necker was one of Louis XVI's finance ministers. This book deals with the link between religion and sovereignty, philosophy and morality, and Necker highlights social inequalities.

STEIN, Elias.

Nouvel essai sur le jeu des échecs, avec des réflexions militaires relatives à ce jeu.

La Haye, Aux dépens de l'auteur, 1789.

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600 €

First edition.
Work which appeared at the expense of the author on subscription.
Elias Stein (1748-1812) was a strong Dutch master, chess teacher and author.
After the analyses in this book the Dutch Defence was called [Lindörfer].

LE COINTE, Jourdan.

La cuisine de santé, ou moyens faciles & économiques de préparer toutes nos Productions Alimentaires, de la manière la plus délicate & la plus salutaire, d'après les nouvelles découvertes de la Cuisine Françoise et Italienne.

Paris, Briand, 1789-1790.

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2500 €

Scarce first edition.
Each volumes with 2 title pages, first dated 1790 and a second dated 1789, as the Bitting [278] copy.

Le NOSTRADAMUS MODERNE. Almanach national et patriotique, avec des changemens notables dans le Calendrier et des Prédictions pour chaque mois.

Liege, s.n., 1790.

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450 €

Rare Almanach.

[GRAVURE] DE MARE, Pieter.

Portrait de Jean Louis Baudelocque.

Hollande, s.n., 1790.

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50 €

Engraving before the letter by Pieter De Mare after Le Camus by Jean-Louis Baudelocque (1746-1810), formerly commented with a pen.

This engraving probably stayed in the Baudelocque family, there is a handwritten note on the back of the frame: "The great Baudelocque who gave his name to the birthing center at Bd Port royal. E. Brandicourt". As well as an announcement of the death of Madame Brandicourt née Baudelocque.

MARTINI, Jean Paul Egide.

Mélopée moderne ou l'Art du chant réduit en principes composé et dédié à Monsieur Lenormant d'Etioles.

Paris, Naderman, [ca. 1791].

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750 €

First edition.
Entirely engraved book, composed mainly of scores. Martini, is a composer of German origin. In 1788 he was appointed Superintendent of the King's Music and responsible for religious music. At the same time, he directed the biggest Parisian stages.

Title page signed by the publisher.

MOMORO, Antoine-François.

Traité élémentaire de l'imprimerie, ou le Manuel de l'Imprimeur.

Paris, A.F. Momoro, 1793.

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2000 €

The scarce first edition.
Manual which will remain a reference for printers for a long time.
Momoro was very active during the French Revolution, member of the Cordeliers club, printer for Père Duchesne d'Hébert, he put his career at the service of the Revolution but died on the scaffold in 1794 with his Hébertist friends. It would be to him that we owe the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity".
Complete copy of the 36 plates required. The error which announced 40 plates on the title page was crossed out on our copy. This notice will be modified in the second edition.

GIRARD, Gabriel.

Synonymes françois.

Lyon, Imprimerie Lerou, An VII [1798].

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90 €

New edition reviewed by Beauzee.

[RELIURE MAROQUIN].

Diurnal ou office complet pour les laïques, latin et français à l'usage du diocès de Bayeux.

Caen, s.n., [v.1800].

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100 €

FOURCROY, A.F.

Discours prononcé par A.F. Fourcroy, orateur du gouvernement, sur un projet de loi relatif à l'instruction publique. Séance du 30 germinal an X.

Paris, Imprimerie nationnale, 1802.

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75 €

First edition.

CADET-DE-VAUX, Antoine Alexis.

Mémoire sur la gélatine des os.

Paris, Xhrouet, [1803].

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350 €

Rare first edition of this work on bone gelatin.
Cadet demonstrates that:
- A bone is a stock cube formed by nature.
- The bone broth, under dietary reports, is better than meat broth. (Oberle).

[DULAURE, Jacques-Antoine].

Des divinités génératrices, ou du culte du phallus chez les Anciens et les Modernes.

Paris, Dentu, 1805.

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80 €

First edition.

Jacques-Antoine Dulaure (1755-1835) was a French archaeologist, historian and politician.

[CONFRERIE DE LA BONNE MORT].

Confrérie de la Bonne Mort ; son origine, son rétablissement, ses obligations.

[Poitiers], Catineau, 1806.

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350 €

First edition.
The brotherhoods of the good death were prayer groups that spiritually accompanied the dying.
The brotherhood of Poitiers, one of the oldest in France, was active from 1380.

ROMAN, Jean Joseph Thérèse (Abbé).

Les Echecs, Poëme en quatre chants.

Paris, Leopold Collin, 1807.

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80 €

First edition.

CHAPONE, Hester.

Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Young Lady.

London, John Mourray, 1807.

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1250 €

The 'Letters on the Improvement of the Mind' aim to cultivate a rational understanding in young women through the study of the Bible, history, and literature.
Girls are also encouraged to pursue subjects such as accounting, household management, botany, geology, and astronomy.
Binding with the coat of arms of Marie Caroline of Bourbon-Sicily, the Duchess of Berry, this book came from her extensive library at Château de Rosny.\newline Known for her refined taste, she collected a wide range of books, especially in the arts, history, and literature, including many in English.
The library also contained numerous works suitable for educating her children, Louise d'Artois and Henri Dieudonné.

[MILITARIA].

Ordonnance Provisoire sur l'exercice et les manoeuvres de la cavalerie.

Paris, Magimel, 1810.

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220 €

Second edition.
The 1804 ordinance governs the doctrine of the use of cavalry in the Napoleonic armies, the manners of charging, the use of the sabre, etc. Our very complete copy of all the plates: musical scores, anatomy of the horse, uniforms of riders, troop movements.

[GRAVURE] BAUDEMANT, Pierre.

Buste de Pierre Jean Grosley.

s.l., s.n., [1811].

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20 €

Bust of Pierre Jean Grosley (1718-1785) engraved by Bovinet after Baudemant for the frontispiece of "Historical and critical memories for the history of Troyes" in 1811.

FERRI DE SAINT CONSTANT, Giovanni.

Rudimens de la traduction, ou l'art de traduire le latin en français.

Paris, Auguste Delalain, 1811.

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1200 €

Second edition.
Precious copy with the arms of Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Siciles Duchess of Berry (1798-1870). Romantic heroine of the Legitimists, Marie-Caroline, daughter of the King of the Two Sicilies Francis I Xavier and Marie-Clementine of Austria, married in 1816 the Duke of Berry Charles-Ferdinand (1778-1820), son of Charles she had a son, the Duke of Bordeaux. Exiled during the revolution of July 1830, she returned to France in April 1832 and tried without success to raise the people in Vendée and Brittany with the aim of a legitimist restoration: arrested in Nantes in November 1832, she was imprisoned in Blaye. It was released in 1833.

Beautiful binding signed by Simier binder of the king.

CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René.

De Buonaparte y de los Borbones.

Madrid, Repullés, 1814.

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70 €

Second edition in spanish.
Translated in the second edition given in France by Ramón Vicente Palero.
Pamphlet in which Chateaubriand overwhelms Bonaparte in a first chapter, pleads for the return of the Bourbons to the throne in a second, and explains the attitude of the allies towards France in the last.
.

[CURIOSA].

Célestine ou la petite bonne.

Paris, Tiger, [1818].

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150 €

First edition.
The amorous adventures of Pierrette, a young Norman woman sent to her Parisian aunt because she had committed an offence with a young man. She will be placed as a maid under the name of Célestine.

PETIT RADEL, Louis Charles François.

Recherches sur les bibliothèques anciennes et modernes jusqu'à la fondation de la bibliothèque Mazarine, et sur les causes qui ont favorisé l'accroissement successif du nombre des livres.

Paris, Rey et Gravier, 1819.

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250 €

First edition.
First edition. Very interesting history of the Mazarine library by the one who was its curator during the Restoration.

Note the chapters on the history of medieval libraries, a subject little known at the time.

[ALMANACH] BREE.

Cadeau des Muses ou almanach universel, etrennes utiles et agréables années 1821.

Falaise, Brée, 1821.

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60 €

Norman edition of this charming little almanac.

[GRAVURE].

Esquisses.

s.l., s.n., 1822.

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20 €

Line sketches of characters, pretty hand which remains unknown (signature and date in the board in the upper left corner).

[ENFANTINA].

Le Livre des Jeunes Braves, ou Etrennes militaires, recueil d'anecdotes remarquables, de beaux-faits d'armes, de traits généreux, etc.

paris, Rapilly, 1823.

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950 €

Fine copy containing twelve hand-colored plates.
A reworking in octavo format of the work "Les délassements des braves" published the previous year by the same publisher, containing only the 11 announced plates. Our copy additionally contains the plate of Marshal Ney.

One of the rare copies with the plates in color.

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Miscellany

D'HOURY, Laurent.

Almanach royal, année bissextile 1780.

First edition.

CLOUET, Jean-Baptiste Louis.

Atlas with 68 watercolor plates. Commplete.

DU FRESNOY, Charles-Alphonse || DE MARSY, François-Marie || [MEUSNIER DE QUERLON, A.-G.].

L'école d'Uranie, ou l'art de la peinture.

[MAGNÉ de MAROLLES, François-Gervais].

First edition.Very interesting book on the weaponry of the hunter. With an interresting the chapter on rifled guns, which were not generalized until the nineteenth century.

[CAILLEAU].

Les Misères de ce monde ou Complaintes facétieuses sur les apprentissages de différens arts et métiers de la ville et fauxbourgs de Paris.

HOWARD, John.

État des prisons, des hôpitaux et des maisons de force.

First french edition of Howard's pioneering work on prisons and penal reform.

NECKER, Jacques.

De l'importance de la morale et des opinions religieuses.

STEIN, Elias.

Nouvel essai sur le jeu des échecs, avec des réflexions militaires relatives à ce jeu.

First edition.Work which appeared at the expense of the author on subscription.Elias Stein (1748-1812) was a strong Dutch master, chess teacher and author. After the analyses in this book the Dutch Defence was called [Lindörfer].

LE COINTE, Jourdan.

La cuisine de santé, ou moyens faciles & économiques de préparer toutes nos Productions Alimentaires, de la manière la plus délicate & la plus salutaire, d'après les nouvelles découvertes de la Cuisine Françoise et Italienne.

Scarce first edition. Each volumes with 2 title pages, first dated 1790 and a second dated 1789, as the Bitting [278] copy.

Le NOSTRADAMUS MODERNE. Almanach national et patriotique, avec des changemens notables dans le Calendrier et des Prédictions pour chaque mois.

Rare Almanach.

[GRAVURE] DE MARE, Pieter.

Portrait de Jean Louis Baudelocque.

MARTINI, Jean Paul Egide.

Mélopée moderne ou l'Art du chant réduit en principes composé et dédié à Monsieur Lenormant d'Etioles.

First edition.Entirely engraved book, composed mainly of scores. Martini, is a composer of German origin. In 1788 he was appointed Superintendent of the King's Music and responsible for religious music. At the same time, he directed the biggest Parisian stages.Title page signed by the publisher.

MOMORO, Antoine-François.

Traité élémentaire de l'imprimerie, ou le Manuel de l'Imprimeur.

GIRARD, Gabriel.

Synonymes françois.

New edition reviewed by Beauzee.

[RELIURE MAROQUIN].

Diurnal ou office complet pour les laïques, latin et français à l'usage du diocès de Bayeux.

FOURCROY, A.F.

Discours prononcé par A.F. Fourcroy, orateur du gouvernement, sur un projet de loi relatif à l'instruction publique. Séance du 30 germinal an X.

First edition.

CADET-DE-VAUX, Antoine Alexis.

Mémoire sur la gélatine des os.

Rare first edition of this work on bone gelatin. Cadet demonstrates that: - A bone is a stock cube formed by nature. - The bone broth, under dietary reports, is better than meat broth. (Oberle).

[DULAURE, Jacques-Antoine].

Des divinités génératrices, ou du culte du phallus chez les Anciens et les Modernes.

First edition. Jacques-Antoine Dulaure (1755-1835) was a French archaeologist, historian and politician.

[CONFRERIE DE LA BONNE MORT].

Confrérie de la Bonne Mort ; son origine, son rétablissement, ses obligations.

First edition.The brotherhoods of the good death were prayer groups that spiritually accompanied the dying. The brotherhood of Poitiers, one of the oldest in France, was active from 1380.

ROMAN, Jean Joseph Thérèse (Abbé).

Les Echecs, Poëme en quatre chants.

First edition.

CHAPONE, Hester.

Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Young Lady.

[MILITARIA].

Ordonnance Provisoire sur l'exercice et les manoeuvres de la cavalerie.

Second edition.The 1804 ordinance governs the doctrine of the use of cavalry in the Napoleonic armies, the manners of charging, the use of the sabre, etc. Our very complete copy of all the plates: musical scores, anatomy of the horse, uniforms of riders, troop movements.

[GRAVURE] BAUDEMANT, Pierre.

Buste de Pierre Jean Grosley.

Bust of Pierre Jean Grosley (1718-1785) engraved by Bovinet after Baudemant for the frontispiece of "Historical and critical memories for the history of Troyes" in 1811.

FERRI DE SAINT CONSTANT, Giovanni.

Rudimens de la traduction, ou l'art de traduire le latin en français.

CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René.

De Buonaparte y de los Borbones.

[CURIOSA].

Célestine ou la petite bonne.

First edition.The amorous adventures of Pierrette, a young Norman woman sent to her Parisian aunt because she had committed an offence with a young man. She will be placed as a maid under the name of Célestine.

PETIT RADEL, Louis Charles François.

Recherches sur les bibliothèques anciennes et modernes jusqu'à la fondation de la bibliothèque Mazarine, et sur les causes qui ont favorisé l'accroissement successif du nombre des livres.

First edition.First edition. Very interesting history of the Mazarine library by the one who was its curator during the Restoration. Note the chapters on the history of medieval libraries, a subject little known at the time.

[ALMANACH] BREE.

Cadeau des Muses ou almanach universel, etrennes utiles et agréables années 1821.

Norman edition of this charming little almanac.

[GRAVURE].

Esquisses.

Line sketches of characters, pretty hand which remains unknown (signature and date in the board in the upper left corner).

[ENFANTINA].

Le Livre des Jeunes Braves, ou Etrennes militaires, recueil d'anecdotes remarquables, de beaux-faits d'armes, de traits généreux, etc.

First edition.
Very interesting book on the weaponry of the hunter. With an interresting the chapter on rifled guns, which were not generalized until the nineteenth century.

First edition.
Work which appeared at the expense of the author on subscription.
Elias Stein (1748-1812) was a strong Dutch master, chess teacher and author.
After the analyses in this book the Dutch Defence was called [Lindörfer].

Scarce first edition.
Each volumes with 2 title pages, first dated 1790 and a second dated 1789, as the Bitting [278] copy.

First edition.
Entirely engraved book, composed mainly of scores. Martini, is a composer of German origin. In 1788 he was appointed Superintendent of the King's Music and responsible for religious music. At the same time, he directed the biggest Parisian stages.

Title page signed by the publisher.

Rare first edition of this work on bone gelatin.
Cadet demonstrates that:
- A bone is a stock cube formed by nature.
- The bone broth, under dietary reports, is better than meat broth. (Oberle).

First edition.

Jacques-Antoine Dulaure (1755-1835) was a French archaeologist, historian and politician.

First edition.
The brotherhoods of the good death were prayer groups that spiritually accompanied the dying.
The brotherhood of Poitiers, one of the oldest in France, was active from 1380.

Second edition.
The 1804 ordinance governs the doctrine of the use of cavalry in the Napoleonic armies, the manners of charging, the use of the sabre, etc. Our very complete copy of all the plates: musical scores, anatomy of the horse, uniforms of riders, troop movements.

First edition.
The amorous adventures of Pierrette, a young Norman woman sent to her Parisian aunt because she had committed an offence with a young man. She will be placed as a maid under the name of Célestine.

First edition.
First edition. Very interesting history of the Mazarine library by the one who was its curator during the Restoration.

Note the chapters on the history of medieval libraries, a subject little known at the time.