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Bid on the lot list Audap & Associés : 23 March 2021 - Salle 7 - Hôtel Drouot - Paris

PRECIOUS BOOKS FROM THE GEORGES HEILBRUN COLLECTION DROUOT

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Lot n° 1

ADANSON Michel. Famille des plantes....

ADANSON Michel. Famille des plantes. Paris, Barrois, 1763 ; 2 vol. in-8 of 2 ff., CCCXXV and 190 p. ; 1 f., 24 p. ; 2 ff, 640 p., 1 folded plate, contemporary bindings in brown calf, spines decorated with gilt designs. First edition of this CAPITAL...

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Lot n° 2

ALUNNO Francesco del Bailo dit....

ALUNNO Francesco del Bailo dit. Le osservationi di M. Francesco Alunno da Ferrara sopra il Petrarca. Venice, (Comin da Trino di Monferrato for) Pauolo Gherardo, 1550; in-8 ruled of 8 ff. including the woodcut title, 527 ff, 3 ff, contemporary binding...

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Lot n° 3

ARDENE Jean-Paul de Rome d'. A...

ARDENE Jean-Paul de Rome d'. A treatise on ranunculus which contains, besides what concerns these flowers, many physical observations & useful remarks, either for agriculture or for gardening. Third edition. Avignon, Louis Chambeau, 1763; in-8, bound...

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Lot n° 4

ARIOSTE Louis. Orlando furioso...

ARIOSTE Louis. Orlando furioso di Lodovico Ariosto. Birmingham, da' Torchi di G. Baskerville per P. Molini, librajo dell'Accademia Reale, e G. Molini, 1773 1775; 4 vols. in-8, contemporary red morocco bindings, the boards decorated with a large gilt lace,...

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Lot n° 5

ARISTOPHANE. Comoediæ novem (græce)....

ARISTOPHANE. Comoediæ novem (græce). Venice, Aldus Manutius, 15 July 1498; in-folio of 347 ff. the boards and the smooth spine entirely decorated with compartments, fillets and cold patterns, on the upper board name and title pushed in cold, original...

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Lot n° 6

BALBUS Johannes, Januensis. Summa...

BALBUS Johannes, Januensis. Summa que Catholicon appellatur fratris Johannis Januensis diligenti castigatione emendata per prestantem virum magistrum Petrum egidium Lyon, Nicolas Wolff for Jacques I Huguetan, 29 May 1503; large gothic two-column vol....

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Lot n° 7

BERNOUILLI Johann. Opera omnia....

BERNOUILLI Johann. Opera omnia. Lausanne and Geneva, Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1742; 4 vols. in-4, contemporary brown morocco bindings, gilt lace framing the boards, central gilt motif with small irons, spines with six very ornate gilt motifs, gilt edges. First...

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Lot n° 8

BOCCACE Jean. Il Decamerone di...

BOCCACE Jean. Il Decamerone di M. Giovanni Boccacio novamente correto et con diligentia stampato. Florence, heirs of Philippe Giunta, April 14, 1527; in-4, 18th century binding in red morocco with long horizontal grains, small lace on the the boards,...

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Lot n° 9

BRANT Sébastien. Stultifera navis....

BRANT Sébastien. Stultifera navis. Basel, Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1 March 1497; in-4 of 145 ff. 18th century, polished mottled calf, spine highly decorated with gilt, gilt decoration on the edges, red edges. First edition of the first translation...

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Lot n° 10

BRÉCOURT Guillaume Marcoureau de...

BRÉCOURT Guillaume Marcoureau de In reality: Jean-François Juvenon dit LA THUILLERIE. Les fragmens de Molière. Comedy. By Monsieur Brecourt. The Hague, Adrian Moetjens, 1682; small in-12 (128 x 78 mm) of 41 p., bound in jansenist red morocco, spine ribbed,...

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Lot n° 11

BUFFON Georges-Louis Leclerc de....

BUFFON Georges-Louis Leclerc de. Les Époques de la Nature. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1785; 2 vol. in-8 of 2 ff. 234 p. and 6 plates; 2 ff. 260 p., 2 folded maps, contemporary marbled basane bindings, spines decorated with gilt designs. Very rare surreptitious...

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Lot n° 12

CANEVARIUS Demetrius. Ars medica,...

CANEVARIUS Demetrius. Ars medica, seu Curandorum morborum affectumve præter naturam accurata absolutaque methodus. Geneva, Jos. Pavo, 1626; 2 parts in one volume in-folio, antique brown calf binding. The most complete posthumous edition, published...

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Lot n° 13

CHATEAUBRIAND François-René de....

CHATEAUBRIAND François-René de. Vie de Rancé. Paris, Delloye ; Garnier frères, 1844 ; in-8, bound in contemporary olive half-basin. Second edition. - A long-ignored masterpiece, its pathetic accent, its incomparable fire" were only recognized in the...

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Lot n° 14

CHAUSSIER François. Anatomical...

CHAUSSIER François. Anatomical collection for the use of young people who intend to study surgery, medicine, painting and sculpture. Paris, Chanson, 1820; in-4, contemporary binding in long-grained red morocco, lace on the boards on the boards, smooth...

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Lot n° 15

COLONNA Francesco. Hypnerotomachia...

COLONNA Francesco. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Venice, Aldus Manutius, December 1499; folio (300 x 205 mm) of 4 and 230 ff. 230 ff, bound in the Second Empire red morocco, the boards decorated in cold with compartments of rosettes and various motifs in...

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Lot n° 16

COTTE Father Louis. A Treatise...

COTTE Father Louis. A Treatise on Meteorology containing the History of Observations. A Treatise on Meteors, etc. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1774; large vol. in-4, contemporary binding in tortoiseshell calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt designs, red...

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Lot n° 17

DANTE. De la volgare eloquenzia....

DANTE. De la volgare eloquenzia. Vicenza, Tolomeo Janiculo da Bressa, June 1529; in-folio of 26 ff. in contemporary soft vellum bindings, some browning, fragment of spine detached. First edition of this rare text written by Dante in Latin around 1303-1304,...

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Lot n° 18

DANTE. Commedia con l'espositioni...

DANTE. Commedia con l'espositioni di Christoforo Landino et d'Alessandro Vellutello con tavole, argomenti & allegorie per Francesco Sansovino. Venice, (The heirs of Francesco Rampazetto for) Giovannibattista, Marchio Sessa e fratelli, 1578; in-folio...

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Lot n° 18. 1

DEGUIGNES Chrétien-Louis de Guignes...

DEGUIGNES Chrétien-Louis de Guignes said Deguignes son. Chinese celestial planisphere. With explanations, the alphabetical catalogue of the stars & the continuation of all the comets observed in China since the year 613 before J.C. until 1222 of the Christian...

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Lot n° 19

DICTYS Cretensis. Belli Trojani...

DICTYS Cretensis. Belli Trojani scriptores præcipui Dictys Cretensis. Dares Phrygius & Homerus. Basel, Pierre Perna, 1573; large vol. in-8 of 8 ff. 1042 p., contemporary red morocco binding, gilt fillets and arms on the boards, smooth spine decorated...

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Lot n° 20

DIDEROT Denis. Jacques le Fataliste...

DIDEROT Denis. Jacques le Fataliste et son maître. Paris, Buisson, 1797; 2 volumes in one vol. in-8, contemporary binding in basane basane, small lace on the boards, smooth spine decorated with gilt designs, red parts. First edition. Good copy with...

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Lot n° 21

DIDEROT Denis and Jean Le Rond...

DIDEROT Denis and Jean Le Rond d'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de Lettres. Paris, Neuchâtel, 1751-1780; 35 vol. in-folio, contemporary bindings in marbled calf, spines decorated with gilt...

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Lot n° 22

DIOSCORIDES. De medicinale materia...

DIOSCORIDES. De medicinale materia libri sex. Lyon, Balthazard Arnoullet, 1552; large vol. small in-8 of 16 ff. 790 p. ; 8 ff, 18th century binding in porphyry calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt designs, red parts, small chip on lower headpiece. Edition...

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Lot n° 23

DORAT Claude-Joseph. Les Baisers,...

DORAT Claude-Joseph. Les Baisers, preceded by Le Mois de Mai, poem. The Hague and Paris, Lambert ; Delalain, 1770 ; small in-4 (217 x 148 mm) with a frontispiece, 119 p., bound in the Second Empire green morocco, on the boards wide gilt lace with small...

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Lot n° 24

DORTOUS DE MAIRAN Jean-Jacques....

DORTOUS DE MAIRAN Jean-Jacques. Physical and historical treatise on the aurora borealis. By Mr de Mairan. Paris, Imprimerie royale royal, 1733; in-4 of 4 ff., 281 p., 14 folded plates, contemporary binding in porphyry calf, gilded fillets on the boards,...

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Lot n° 25

DRYDEN John. The Fables, ornamented...

DRYDEN John. The Fables, ornamented with engravings from the pencil of the Right Hon. Lady Diana Beauclerc. London, T. Bensley for J. Edwards, 1797; in-folio of 2 ff. xviij p., 241 p., 9 plates, bound in contemporary havana Russian leather with gilt...

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Lot n° 26

EGINHARD. Vita et gesta Karoli...

EGINHARD. Vita et gesta Karoli Magni. Karolus I. Karolus V. Cologne, Johann Soter, 1521; small in-4 of 14 ff. 169 +1 p., 1 f., contemporary binding in black calf, the boards decorated in cold with crosses and discs containing a radiant sun, spine with...

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Lot n° 27

ERASMUS. VITA DES. ERASMI ROTERODAMI...

ERASMUS. VITA DES. ERASMI ROTERODAMI ex ipsius manu fideliter repræsentata Additi sunt epistolarum libri duo. Leiden, Thomas Basson, 1607; in-4 of 12 ff. 214 p.; contemporary binding in soft ivory vellum, smooth spine, title formerly in calligraphy. First...

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Lot n° 28

EURIPIDES. Tragoediæ nempe XX Fragmenta...

EURIPIDES. Tragoediæ nempe XX Fragmenta Epistolæ V (Græce), Cambridge, John Hayes for Richard Green, 1694; 2 parts in a large vol. in-folio of 2 portraits, 4 ff. lvj pages, 330 pages ; 529 pages, 21 ff. red, gilt fillets on the boards, spine with six...

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Lot n° 29

EURIPIDE. Hippolytus stephanephoros....

EURIPIDE. Hippolytus stephanephoros. Cum scholiis (græcæ). Oxford, (Clarendon Press), 1796; large in-4 of 8 ff. 293 p., 3 ff. ; 92 p. of Addenda (printed in Paris), 99 p., waiting boards without spine, entirely untrimmed. Beautiful bilingual edition...

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Lot n° 30

FOURNIER Pierre-Simon dit le jeune....

FOURNIER Pierre-Simon dit le jeune. A useful typographical manual for people of letters and for those who practice the various of the art of printing. Paris, printed by the Author and sold at Barbou, 1764-1766; 2 vol. in-12 of xxxij ff. including a frontispiece,...

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Lot n° 31

FRANÇOIS DE SALES Saint. Introduction...

FRANÇOIS DE SALES Saint. Introduction to the Devout Life. By François de Sales, bishop of Geneva. Fourth edition in which everything has been revised, corrected and increased by the author. Paris, de l'imprimerie des nouveaux caractères inventez par Pierre...

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Lot n° 32

GALILEO Galileo. Systema cosmicum...

GALILEO Galileo. Systema cosmicum in quatuor dialogis. De duobus maximis mundi systematibus, Ptolemaico & Copernicano Augustæ Treboc. (Strasbourg). David Hauttius for Bonaventure and Abraham Elzevier of Leide, 1635; in-4 of 495 p., 12 ff. in contemporary...

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Lot n° 33

GREW Nehemiah. Anatomy of plants...

GREW Nehemiah. Anatomy of plants translated from English. Paris, Lambert Roulland, 1675; small in-8, frontispiece, 12 ff, 216 p., 6 ff. in old calf binding, gilt fillets on the boards, smooth spine decorated with gilt designs. First edition of the...

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Lot n° 34

GREW Nehemiah. The anatomy of plants....

GREW Nehemiah. The anatomy of plants. With an idea of a philosophical history of plants London, W. Rawlins for the author, 1682; in-folio of 11 ff, 304 p., 10 ff, 83 plates, 18th century English calf binding, spine ribbed. Complete first edition with...

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Lot n° 35

GUTTERY Gabriel de. La Camilletta...

GUTTERY Gabriel de. La Camilletta di Gutterry clugnicese. In Parigi, after Gulielmo Giuliano, August 4, 1586. - La Priapea Al. Mag. Sig. L.D.M.M.D.C. No place, 1586; 2 works in one volume in-8 of 172 p., 1 f. (mark), one blank f.; 29 p., one blank f.,...

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Lot n° 36

HALES Stephen. The Static of Plants...

HALES Stephen. The Static of Plants and the Analysis of Air. New experiments read at the Royal Society of London. Paris, Debure, 1735; in-4 of xviij p., 1 f., 408 p., 4 ff. 10 plates, contemporary binding of speckled calf, gilt fillets on the boards,...

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Lot n° 37

HARANGUE OF HERMIONNE TO HER LITTLE...

HARANGUE OF HERMIONNE TO HER LITTLE NEW NOSE CAT; heroic-burlesque poem. By the sieur C M*. Nancy, Jean de la Rivière, 1715; in-12 of 70 p., old plum half-bound, smooth spine, title in full. First edition. This witty pochade in praise of cats...

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Lot n° 38

HOMER. Odyssea, et in eandem scholia...

HOMER. Odyssea, et in eandem scholia & interpretatio Didymi Leide, Franciscus Hackius, 1655; in-4 of 536 p., 22 ff, contemporary red morocco binding, on the boards double gilt fillet with gilt crowned monograms, interior lace and gilt edges. Greek-Latin...

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Lot n° 39

17TH CENTURY PRINT ON WHITE SATIN....

17TH CENTURY PRINT ON WHITE SATIN. La Puissance d'Amour. No place or date, France, 17th century (?); booklet in-4 (253 x 133 mm) of 8 satin leaves printed on one side only, the last one blank (A-D2), stapled, in red morocco spine folder, slipcase with...

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Lot n° 40

Saint ISIDORE. De interpretatione...

Saint ISIDORE. De interpretatione divinæ Scripturæ. Epistolarum libri IV. Heidelberg, ex officina Commeliniana, 1606; large in-folio of 6 ff. 358 p. miscalculated 357, 1 blank f., 112 p., 66 ff. the last one blank, contemporary binding in olive morocco,...

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Lot n° 41

JARDIN DES PLANTES, LE. Complete,...

JARDIN DES PLANTES, LE. Complete, historical and picturesque description of the Museum of Natural History. Paris, L. Curmer, 1842-1843; two parts in 2 large vol. in-8, contemporary bindings in lemon morocco, gilt fillets and large romantic plate on boards,...

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Lot n° 42

JOACHINO DA FIORE Abbate. Prophetia...

JOACHINO DA FIORE Abbate. Prophetia dello Abbate Joachino circa li Pontifici & R.E. Venice, 1527; in-4 (206 x 155 mm) of 20 ff. in brown half morocco binding, transparent plexiglas covers, slipcase (D.H. Mercher). These prophecies are erroneously...

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Lot n° 43

LA BRUYÈRE Jean de. Les Caractères...

LA BRUYÈRE Jean de. Les Caractères de Théophraste et de La Bruyère with notes by M. Coste. Paris, Hochereau and Panckoucke, 1765; large in-4, contemporary binding of porphyry calf, gilt fillets on the boards, spine ribbed with gilt designs, red and green...

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Lot n° 44

LA FONTAINE Jean de. Selected Fables,...

LA FONTAINE Jean de. Selected Fables, set in verse. By M. de la Fontaine. Paris, Claude Barbin, March 31, 1668; in-4° (Height : 245 mm) of 28 ff, 284 p., 2 ff the last one blank, Second Empire binding in midnight blue morocco, spine ribbed and decorated...

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Lot n° 45

LAMARCK Jean-baptiste de. System...

LAMARCK Jean-baptiste de. System of animals without vertebrae or General table of classes, orders and genera of these animals. Paris, l'auteur et Deterville, 1801; in-8, contemporary binding in marbled basane, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt designs. First...

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Lot n° 46

LA MOTTE Antoine Houdar de. Fables...

LA MOTTE Antoine Houdar de. Fables nouvelles dédiées au roi. Paris, Grégoire Dupuis, 1719; in-4, frontispiece, xiij and 358 pages, 3 ff, bound in midnight blue morocco, wide gilt lace on the boards, spine highly decorated with gilt motifs, inner lace...

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Lot n° 47

LONGUS. Daphnis and Chloe. Complete...

LONGUS. Daphnis and Chloe. Complete translation according to the manuscript of the Abbaye of Florence. Printed in Florence, by Piatti, 1810; in-8 of 152 p., 1 f., bound in the Second Empire half-maroquin with corners, spine ribbed with gilt designs, gilt...

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Lot n° 48

LONGUS. Daphnis and Chloe. Complete...

LONGUS. Daphnis and Chloe. Complete translation according to the manuscript of the Abbaye of Florence. Printed in Florence, by Piatti, 1810; in-8 of 152 p., 1 f., antique tan basane binding, gilt fillets on the boards, spine with gilt designs, entirely...

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Lot n° 49

MAGNON Jean. Les Heures du Chrestien...

MAGNON Jean. Les Heures du Chrestien divided into three days Paris, the author ; Sébastien Martin, 5 March 1654 ; in-8 ruled, contemporary red morocco binding, double framed with gilt fillets and fleuron at the corners, spine decorated with gilt motifs,...

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Auction PRECIOUS BOOKS FROM THE GEORGES HEILBRUN COLLECTION DROUOT - Paris

Bid on the lot list Audap & Associés : 23 March 2021 - Salle 7 - Hôtel Drouot - Paris

PRECIOUS BOOKS FROM THE GEORGES HEILBRUN COLLECTION DROUOT

ADANSON Michel. Famille des plantes....

ADANSON Michel. Famille des plantes. Paris, Barrois, 1763 ; 2 vol. in-8 of 2 ff., CCCXXV and 190 p. ; 1 f., 24 p. ; 2 ff, 640 p., 1 folded plate, contemporary bindings in brown calf, spines decorated with gilt designs. First edition of this CAPITAL...

ALUNNO Francesco del Bailo dit....

ALUNNO Francesco del Bailo dit. Le osservationi di M. Francesco Alunno da Ferrara sopra il Petrarca. Venice, (Comin da Trino di Monferrato for) Pauolo Gherardo, 1550; in-8 ruled of 8 ff. including the woodcut title, 527 ff, 3 ff, contemporary binding...

ARDENE Jean-Paul de Rome d'. A...

ARDENE Jean-Paul de Rome d'. A treatise on ranunculus which contains, besides what concerns these flowers, many physical observations & useful remarks, either for agriculture or for gardening. Third edition. Avignon, Louis Chambeau, 1763; in-8, bound...

ARIOSTE Louis. Orlando furioso...

ARIOSTE Louis. Orlando furioso di Lodovico Ariosto. Birmingham, da' Torchi di G. Baskerville per P. Molini, librajo dell'Accademia Reale, e G. Molini, 1773 1775; 4 vols. in-8, contemporary red morocco bindings, the boards decorated with a large gilt lace,...

ARISTOPHANE. Comoediæ novem (græce)....

ARISTOPHANE. Comoediæ novem (græce). Venice, Aldus Manutius, 15 July 1498; in-folio of 347 ff. the boards and the smooth spine entirely decorated with compartments, fillets and cold patterns, on the upper board name and title pushed in cold, original...

BALBUS Johannes, Januensis. Summa...

BALBUS Johannes, Januensis. Summa que Catholicon appellatur fratris Johannis Januensis diligenti castigatione emendata per prestantem virum magistrum Petrum egidium Lyon, Nicolas Wolff for Jacques I Huguetan, 29 May 1503; large gothic two-column vol....

BERNOUILLI Johann. Opera omnia....

BERNOUILLI Johann. Opera omnia. Lausanne and Geneva, Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1742; 4 vols. in-4, contemporary brown morocco bindings, gilt lace framing the boards, central gilt motif with small irons, spines with six very ornate gilt motifs, gilt edges. First...

BOCCACE Jean. Il Decamerone di...

BOCCACE Jean. Il Decamerone di M. Giovanni Boccacio novamente correto et con diligentia stampato. Florence, heirs of Philippe Giunta, April 14, 1527; in-4, 18th century binding in red morocco with long horizontal grains, small lace on the the boards,...

BRANT Sébastien. Stultifera navis....

BRANT Sébastien. Stultifera navis. Basel, Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1 March 1497; in-4 of 145 ff. 18th century, polished mottled calf, spine highly decorated with gilt, gilt decoration on the edges, red edges. First edition of the first translation...

BRÉCOURT Guillaume Marcoureau de...

BRÉCOURT Guillaume Marcoureau de In reality: Jean-François Juvenon dit LA THUILLERIE. Les fragmens de Molière. Comedy. By Monsieur Brecourt. The Hague, Adrian Moetjens, 1682; small in-12 (128 x 78 mm) of 41 p., bound in jansenist red morocco, spine ribbed,...

BUFFON Georges-Louis Leclerc de....

BUFFON Georges-Louis Leclerc de. Les Époques de la Nature. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1785; 2 vol. in-8 of 2 ff. 234 p. and 6 plates; 2 ff. 260 p., 2 folded maps, contemporary marbled basane bindings, spines decorated with gilt designs. Very rare surreptitious...

CANEVARIUS Demetrius. Ars medica,...

CANEVARIUS Demetrius. Ars medica, seu Curandorum morborum affectumve præter naturam accurata absolutaque methodus. Geneva, Jos. Pavo, 1626; 2 parts in one volume in-folio, antique brown calf binding. The most complete posthumous edition, published...

CHATEAUBRIAND François-René de....

CHATEAUBRIAND François-René de. Vie de Rancé. Paris, Delloye ; Garnier frères, 1844 ; in-8, bound in contemporary olive half-basin. Second edition. - A long-ignored masterpiece, its pathetic accent, its incomparable fire" were only recognized in the...

CHAUSSIER François. Anatomical...

CHAUSSIER François. Anatomical collection for the use of young people who intend to study surgery, medicine, painting and sculpture. Paris, Chanson, 1820; in-4, contemporary binding in long-grained red morocco, lace on the boards on the boards, smooth...

COLONNA Francesco. Hypnerotomachia...

COLONNA Francesco. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Venice, Aldus Manutius, December 1499; folio (300 x 205 mm) of 4 and 230 ff. 230 ff, bound in the Second Empire red morocco, the boards decorated in cold with compartments of rosettes and various motifs in...

COTTE Father Louis. A Treatise...

COTTE Father Louis. A Treatise on Meteorology containing the History of Observations. A Treatise on Meteors, etc. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1774; large vol. in-4, contemporary binding in tortoiseshell calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt designs, red...

DANTE. De la volgare eloquenzia....

DANTE. De la volgare eloquenzia. Vicenza, Tolomeo Janiculo da Bressa, June 1529; in-folio of 26 ff. in contemporary soft vellum bindings, some browning, fragment of spine detached. First edition of this rare text written by Dante in Latin around 1303-1304,...

DANTE. Commedia con l'espositioni...

DANTE. Commedia con l'espositioni di Christoforo Landino et d'Alessandro Vellutello con tavole, argomenti & allegorie per Francesco Sansovino. Venice, (The heirs of Francesco Rampazetto for) Giovannibattista, Marchio Sessa e fratelli, 1578; in-folio...

DEGUIGNES Chrétien-Louis de Guignes...

DEGUIGNES Chrétien-Louis de Guignes said Deguignes son. Chinese celestial planisphere. With explanations, the alphabetical catalogue of the stars & the continuation of all the comets observed in China since the year 613 before J.C. until 1222 of the Christian...

DICTYS Cretensis. Belli Trojani...

DICTYS Cretensis. Belli Trojani scriptores præcipui Dictys Cretensis. Dares Phrygius & Homerus. Basel, Pierre Perna, 1573; large vol. in-8 of 8 ff. 1042 p., contemporary red morocco binding, gilt fillets and arms on the boards, smooth spine decorated...

DIDEROT Denis. Jacques le Fataliste...

DIDEROT Denis. Jacques le Fataliste et son maître. Paris, Buisson, 1797; 2 volumes in one vol. in-8, contemporary binding in basane basane, small lace on the boards, smooth spine decorated with gilt designs, red parts. First edition. Good copy with...

DIDEROT Denis and Jean Le Rond...

DIDEROT Denis and Jean Le Rond d'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de Lettres. Paris, Neuchâtel, 1751-1780; 35 vol. in-folio, contemporary bindings in marbled calf, spines decorated with gilt...

DIOSCORIDES. De medicinale materia...

DIOSCORIDES. De medicinale materia libri sex. Lyon, Balthazard Arnoullet, 1552; large vol. small in-8 of 16 ff. 790 p. ; 8 ff, 18th century binding in porphyry calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt designs, red parts, small chip on lower headpiece. Edition...

DORAT Claude-Joseph. Les Baisers,...

DORAT Claude-Joseph. Les Baisers, preceded by Le Mois de Mai, poem. The Hague and Paris, Lambert ; Delalain, 1770 ; small in-4 (217 x 148 mm) with a frontispiece, 119 p., bound in the Second Empire green morocco, on the boards wide gilt lace with small...

DORTOUS DE MAIRAN Jean-Jacques....

DORTOUS DE MAIRAN Jean-Jacques. Physical and historical treatise on the aurora borealis. By Mr de Mairan. Paris, Imprimerie royale royal, 1733; in-4 of 4 ff., 281 p., 14 folded plates, contemporary binding in porphyry calf, gilded fillets on the boards,...

DRYDEN John. The Fables, ornamented...

DRYDEN John. The Fables, ornamented with engravings from the pencil of the Right Hon. Lady Diana Beauclerc. London, T. Bensley for J. Edwards, 1797; in-folio of 2 ff. xviij p., 241 p., 9 plates, bound in contemporary havana Russian leather with gilt...

EGINHARD. Vita et gesta Karoli...

EGINHARD. Vita et gesta Karoli Magni. Karolus I. Karolus V. Cologne, Johann Soter, 1521; small in-4 of 14 ff. 169 +1 p., 1 f., contemporary binding in black calf, the boards decorated in cold with crosses and discs containing a radiant sun, spine with...

ERASMUS. VITA DES. ERASMI ROTERODAMI...

ERASMUS. VITA DES. ERASMI ROTERODAMI ex ipsius manu fideliter repræsentata Additi sunt epistolarum libri duo. Leiden, Thomas Basson, 1607; in-4 of 12 ff. 214 p.; contemporary binding in soft ivory vellum, smooth spine, title formerly in calligraphy. First...

EURIPIDES. Tragoediæ nempe XX Fragmenta...

EURIPIDES. Tragoediæ nempe XX Fragmenta Epistolæ V (Græce), Cambridge, John Hayes for Richard Green, 1694; 2 parts in a large vol. in-folio of 2 portraits, 4 ff. lvj pages, 330 pages ; 529 pages, 21 ff. red, gilt fillets on the boards, spine with six...

EURIPIDE. Hippolytus stephanephoros....

EURIPIDE. Hippolytus stephanephoros. Cum scholiis (græcæ). Oxford, (Clarendon Press), 1796; large in-4 of 8 ff. 293 p., 3 ff. ; 92 p. of Addenda (printed in Paris), 99 p., waiting boards without spine, entirely untrimmed. Beautiful bilingual edition...

FOURNIER Pierre-Simon dit le jeune....

FOURNIER Pierre-Simon dit le jeune. A useful typographical manual for people of letters and for those who practice the various of the art of printing. Paris, printed by the Author and sold at Barbou, 1764-1766; 2 vol. in-12 of xxxij ff. including a frontispiece,...

FRANÇOIS DE SALES Saint. Introduction...

FRANÇOIS DE SALES Saint. Introduction to the Devout Life. By François de Sales, bishop of Geneva. Fourth edition in which everything has been revised, corrected and increased by the author. Paris, de l'imprimerie des nouveaux caractères inventez par Pierre...

GALILEO Galileo. Systema cosmicum...

GALILEO Galileo. Systema cosmicum in quatuor dialogis. De duobus maximis mundi systematibus, Ptolemaico & Copernicano Augustæ Treboc. (Strasbourg). David Hauttius for Bonaventure and Abraham Elzevier of Leide, 1635; in-4 of 495 p., 12 ff. in contemporary...

GREW Nehemiah. Anatomy of plants...

GREW Nehemiah. Anatomy of plants translated from English. Paris, Lambert Roulland, 1675; small in-8, frontispiece, 12 ff, 216 p., 6 ff. in old calf binding, gilt fillets on the boards, smooth spine decorated with gilt designs. First edition of the...

GREW Nehemiah. The anatomy of plants....

GREW Nehemiah. The anatomy of plants. With an idea of a philosophical history of plants London, W. Rawlins for the author, 1682; in-folio of 11 ff, 304 p., 10 ff, 83 plates, 18th century English calf binding, spine ribbed. Complete first edition with...

GUTTERY Gabriel de. La Camilletta...

GUTTERY Gabriel de. La Camilletta di Gutterry clugnicese. In Parigi, after Gulielmo Giuliano, August 4, 1586. - La Priapea Al. Mag. Sig. L.D.M.M.D.C. No place, 1586; 2 works in one volume in-8 of 172 p., 1 f. (mark), one blank f.; 29 p., one blank f.,...

HALES Stephen. The Static of Plants...

HALES Stephen. The Static of Plants and the Analysis of Air. New experiments read at the Royal Society of London. Paris, Debure, 1735; in-4 of xviij p., 1 f., 408 p., 4 ff. 10 plates, contemporary binding of speckled calf, gilt fillets on the boards,...

HARANGUE OF HERMIONNE TO HER LITTLE...

HARANGUE OF HERMIONNE TO HER LITTLE NEW NOSE CAT; heroic-burlesque poem. By the sieur C** M***. Nancy, Jean de la Rivière, 1715; in-12 of 70 p., old plum half-bound, smooth spine, title in full. First edition. This witty pochade in praise of cats...

HOMER. Odyssea, et in eandem scholia...

HARANGUE OF HERMIONNE TO HER LITTLE NEW NOSE CAT; heroic-burlesque poem. By the sieur C M*. Nancy, Jean de la Rivière, 1715; in-12 of 70 p., old plum half-bound, smooth spine, title in full. First edition. This witty pochade in praise of cats...