French Rare Books
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Recherches sur la Constitution des Spectra d'Émission des Éléments Chimiques.
RYDBERG, J.R.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00The precursor to bohr's quantum theory. First edition of this significant work that lays out the empirical formulae governing the frequencies of at...
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Le Nouveau Candide.
PENROSE, Valentine.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00Superb association copy - inscribed to André Breton. A superb association copy, inscribed by the author to André Breton on the half-title, 'à André...
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L'Architecture et Art de Bien Bastir
ALBERTI, Leon Battista.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00First edition in French. The first edition in French of Leon Battista Alberti's (1404-1472) monumental treatise on the art of building, De re aedif...
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Pour Eugenia.
PICASSO, Pablo.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00Specially printed presentation copy inscribed by Douglas Cooper to his adopted son & heir William [Billy] McCarty. Limited edition of Picasso's...
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Calligraphic manuscript:
PONCET DE LA GRAVE, Guillaume.Original price £27,500.00 - Original price £27,500.00Original price £27,500.00£27,500.00£27,500.00 - £27,500.00Current price £27,500.00A unique manuscript on the French navy presented from Louis XVI to Marie-Antoinette. An exceptional presentation & association manuscript, boun...
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[Set of Nineteenth-Century Scientific and Mathematical Treatises]:
AVOGADRO, Amadeo; BELLANI, Angelo [et al]; CAUCHY, Augustin-Louis; LEGENDRE, Adrien Marie; MONGE, Gaspard; PRONY, Gaspard de.Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00An attractive set of nineteenth-century scientific and mathematical treatises, bound to match.. I) First edition of Avogadro's magnum opus, contain...
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Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des européens dans les deux Indes.
RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas.Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £0.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00The definitive edition. The final, expanded edition of this radical tour-de-force of global commerce and politics. The definitive version of the te...
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Essai sur la Théorie des Nombres [with] Supplément a l'essai sur la Théorie des Nombres.
LEGENDRE, Adrien Marie.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00Second edition of this important work by Adrien Marie Legendre (1752-1833), first printed in 1797-98, complete with the first supplement published...
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La Vie Mahomed;
BOULAINVILLIERS, Henri, Comte de.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00Second 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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Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard.
[MONTMORT, Pierre Rémond de].Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00Pierre Rémond de Montmort (1678-1719) was a French mathematician who is considered a pioneer of probability theory. He is best known for Essay d'a...
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Les Nouvelles Amoureuses.
AUBERT, Charles.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00Complete sets of these racy French novelettes are very scarce. Titles include Une Mission delicate, La Jarretiere, Le Ballon Rouge, Le Fruit Defen...
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Les plans, profils, et élévations des ville [sic] et château de Versailles, avec les bosquets et fontaines, tels qu'ils sont à présent[...].
[VERSAILLES].Original price £5,750.00 - Original price £5,750.00Original price £0.00£5,750.00£5,750.00 - £5,750.00Current price £5,750.00A record of Versailles as completed for the Sun King: Louis XIV. A collection of plans and views of the Palace of Versailles, made between 1714 and...
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Les Amours de Ronsard.
ROSNARD, Pierre de.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Finely bound illustrated edition. First appearing in the 1550s, Les Amours recount two of Ronsard's love affairs: the first with Cassandre, the sec...
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Les Après-Midi de Montmartre.
BAUDU, René.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Presentation copy. An excellent edition of René Baudu's Les Après-Midi de Montmartre. Inscribed by the author, enhanced with an original sketch sig...
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Le Capital.
MARX, Karl.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00First edition in French of the first volume of Das Kapital. This is the first issue with the publisher Lachâtre's imprint. The book was published ...
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