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  • [Odes, in Greek] Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia.

    PINDAR.
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    The first Greek book printed in Rome. First separate edition, first edition with the scholia, and the first Greek book printed in Rome.The editio p...

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  • Enkhuizer Almanak voor het Jaar 1845.

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    This excellent copy is the year 1845 of the best known dutch almanach, published since 1595 until today. It is one of the eldest almanach to be st...

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  • Marie Antoinette

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    This lovely small binding narrates the life of Marie-Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria and Queen of France. Her husband, King Louis XVI of France...

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  • Erotica: The Prosper de la Pastanade Collection.

    CAVALCADOUR, Casimir [pseud.]
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    First edition, one of 331 copies; 3 vols, small folio (35 x 25.5. cm); 1092pp; with numerous illustrations throughout; original publisher's cloth,...

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  • Blasone Veneto,

    CORONELLI, V[incenzo].
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    Heraldry of the Veneto.. Vincenzo Coronelli depicts in this small volumes 78 arms of the cities of the Veneto region, (drawn by the cosmographer P....

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  • Historia ecclesiastica.

    EUSEBIUS, Caesariensis; AQUILEIENSIS, Rufinus (translator).
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    By the most important historian of late antiquity. One of the earliest printed editions of Eusebius of Caesarea's Historia ecclesiastica, translate...

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  • La Maison Philibert.

    LORRAIN, Jean; COURBOULEIX, Léon & FARNETI, Carlo (illustrators).
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    With an extra suite of plates & original watercolours. One of 50 copies with an extra suite of plates and a copper plate. This copy also includ...

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  • Veneres uti observantur in gemmis antiquis.

    [EROTICA]. [HANCARVILLE, Pierre-Francois Hugues, d'].
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    Fine hand-coloured copy of this fully engraved work, printed on papier verge de Hollande extra-fort - one of these 'rarissimes exemplaires dont le...

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  • Aristophanis comoediae undecim,

    [ARISTOPHANES]; KUSTER, Ludolf (editor).
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    'editio optima' (Dibdin). A finely bound example of the eleven extant comedies of the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes (446-386 BCE), together...

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  • Opus mathematicum octo libros complectens,

    TAISNIER, Jean.
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    Rare first edition of Taisnier's major work on chiromancy (palmistry) and astrology. USTC lists just three copies in UK institutions.Born in c. 15...

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  • De situ orbis habitabilis.

    PERIEGETES, Dionysius; BECCARIA, Antonius (translator).
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    Second separate edition of Dionysius' didactic compendium of geographical descriptions of the known world, translated from the original Greek in p...

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  • Oeuvres complètes de Molière,

    MOLIÈRE.
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    Extra-illustrated copy with fine provenance. This beautiful set has been bound by the art deco binder Henri Noulhac (1866-1931). Noulhac set up his...

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  • Histoire générale des cérémonies, moeurs, et coutumes religieuses de tous les Peuples du Monde.

    PICART, Bernard (artist).
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    Fine, fresh example, attractively bound, of the most elaborate history of world religion published up to that time, profusely illustrated with mor...

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  • Madame Bovary. Moeurs de province.

    FLAUBERT, Gustave; HUARD, Charles; van ELSEN, Théodore; FARNETI, Carlo (illustrators).
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    A unique copy with original watercolours. A unique example extra-illustrated by Charles Huard with two copper plates and numerous original drawings...

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  • La Maison Tellier.

    MAUPASSANT, Guy de; LOBEL-RICHE, Almery.
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    Limited edition - one of 100 copies. A finely bound example with intricate onlay designs inspired by the story.Limited edition, one of 100 copies o...

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  • La Nuit Venitienne; Fantasio; Les Caprices de Marianne.

    BRUNELLESCHI, Umberto (artist); MUSSET, Alfred de.
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    A handsomely bound example of Brunelleschi's illustrated edition of three works by the French dramatist, poet & novelist Alfred de Musset, kno...

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  • Defense du Christianisme.

    [BINDING]. FRAYSSINOUS, M. D.
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    This is the second edition of an important French Restoration polemic. Duplanyl was a master of mosaic/onlay binding.Second edition, 3 vols, tall ...

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  • Moriae Encomium.

    ERASMUS, Desiderius.
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    First dated edition. The first dated edition of the most well-known of Erasmus' works. It followed the undated Paris printing by Gilles de Gourmont...

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  • La Vie Mahomed;

    BOULAINVILLIERS, Henri, Comte de.
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    Second edition of this scarce work on the prophet Muhammed by Henri de Boulainvilliers. This book is a thorough history of Muslim and Islamic cult...

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  • De rebus gestis Antonj Caraphaei libri quatuor.

    VICO, Giambattista.
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    First edition of this intriguing work by Vico that chronicles the deeds of one of the most famous Neapolitan men of arms of the seventeenth centur...

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  • De gli Automati, ouero Machine se Moventi, Libri due,

    HERON OF ALEXANDRIA; BALDI, Bernardino (translator).
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    Rare first edition of Baldi's translation into Italian of Heron of Alexandria's Automata, a treatise on self-propelled machines which enable wonde...

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  • Dello Scalco

    ROSSETTI, Giovanni Battista.
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    Editio princeps. The rare editio princeps of this famous treatise containing a compendium of all the culinary literature that appeared during the s...

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  • Cosmographia, sive De situ orbis.

    MELA, Pomponius.
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    Rare fourth edition. Mela's Cosmographia is the earliest surviving Latin work on geography and the only treatise devoted exclusively to that subje...

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