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172457559à Paris: Chez André Cailleau 1724. Fine. Chez André Cailleau à Paris 1724 9 x 16.50 cm relié The rare first edition. Contemporary brown full calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated. Red morocco title label. Headcaps torn. One lack to the tail compartment. One corner slightly bumped. The privilege continuation has been placed at the end of the novel probably because it contains the table on the verso. Story of the son of the King of Sweden who finds himself transported through the air by means of a cloud and winds and finds himself in Spain where we witness his adventures. The reader's notice specifies: ""Les avantures dont je parle ne sont pas chimériques . Elle sont tirées de l'histoire secrette de Suède."" ""The adventures I speak of are not chimerical . They are drawn from the secret history of Sweden."". The approbation is signed by Father Richard and notes the sweet pleasure and amusement of this tale which follows in the footsteps of Cyrano. La vieille précieuse is a short comedy in which we see an elderly lady whose new attire allows her to seduce again. Legrand was a famous actor and playwright of the 17th century; he wrote about forty plays including one about Cartouche the famous bandit whom he even visited in his prison to give his play more realism. Blue stamp on title page: Jouaunnau de Nully. Lunay. La Vaudourière. NB: This work is available at the bookshop on request within 48 hours. Chez André Cailleau hardcover
176790644Lyon: Benoit Duplain 1767. Fine. Benoit Duplain Lyon 1767 10 x 17.4 cm Relié First edition. Contemporary full mottled fawn calf smooth spine gilt with floral tools and gilt geometric tooling tan calf lettering-piece gilt rolls to the headcaps now largely faded a small loss to the upper headcap some rubbing to the joints single blind fillet framing the covers marbled endpapers gilt fillets to the edges of the boards mostly worn away yellow sprinkled edges corners just a little softened; a period binding. Sole edition of this history of travel since Antiquity considered from the standpoint of its benefits to trade and commerce. The work is nominally presented as a translation though it is in fact by the Marseille man of letters Marc-Antoine Eidous 17241790 one of the industrious but somewhat pedestrian contributors to the Encyclopédie. Benoit Duplain hardcover
176533004A La Haye. Paris, chez Desaint, 1765. Small8vo. Cont. full mottled calf. Back richly gilt. Top of spine end with a little wear. XVI,326 pp.
171342311Paris (Hollande), Pierre le Grand, 1713. In-12 de (4)-222-(2) pp. (1 f.n.ch. de titre relié entre les pages 104 et 105), frontispice gravé, veau blond glacé, dos orné à nerfs, pièces de titre en maroquin rouge et vert, triple filet doré d'encadrement sur les plats, tranches dorées (Petit-Simier).
1760340901760 Paris - Paris - La Compagnie des Libraires - 1742 - 4 volume in8 de 355; 501; 411; 432 pages - Reliures plein veau blond d'époque - coins un peu émoussés - toutes tranches dorées - Dos cinq nerfs - Mors un peu frottés - Triple filet doré d'encadrement et Chiffre couronné sur les plats - Taille de premier volume légérement inférieure à celle des autres -
171217086Benevento: Typographia Archiepiscopali 1712. Contemporary limp vellum with the manuscript title on the spine blue marbled edges. 4to. With the title in a double-line frame built up from short rules a woodcut tailpiece a factotum plus one repeat with a different letter and a factotum and other decorations built up of typographical ornaments. First and only edition of a very rare essay on the philosophical and scientific theses of René Descartes 1596-1650 by Marco Antonio Sancti dates unknown from Siena who lived in Benevento at the time. After the half-title and title-page follow the authors dedication to Cardinal Vincentio Maria Ursino archbishop of Benevento Ad lectorem two imprimaturs dated 1 & 4 February 1712 respectively and the Praeambula. The text is divided into two parts but they share a single series of page numbers 1-63 with a drop-title for the second part on F2 p. 43 so they were never issued separately. The work ends with indices and errata.The vellum is somewhat stained. Some of the leaves are somewhat water stained mostly in the margins. Otherwise in good condition.l WorldCat 27076303 458924247 4 copies. Typographia Archiepiscopali, hardcover
