2008 Salon International du Livre Ancienc, Grand-Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill, Paris
17 April vernisage 17:00 - 22.30 hours
18- 20 April: 11.00 - 20.00 hours
Booth E6
 | RARE COLLECTION OF WORKS ON WATER SANITATION [AMY, Joseph].Nouvelles fontaines domestiques. Premiere édition. Paris, Jean-Baptiste Coignard Antoine Boudet, 1750.WITH: Filtroirs militaires marins et domestiques. Paris, Antoine Boudet, n.d. WITH: Instruction générale & sommaire, pour la conduite des Nouvelles Fontaines, Paris, Antoine Boudet, n.d. WITH: AMY, [Joseph]. Nouvelles fontaines filtrantes... pour la santé des armées du roi, Sur Mer & sur Terre, & du Public. Paris, Antoine Boudet, 1752. WITH: AMY, [Joseph]. Suite du livre intitulé nouvelles fontaines filtrantes. Paris, Antoine Boudet, 1754. WITH: BERTHIER. Projet d'une pompe publicque pour la ville de Paris. [Paris], de l'Imprimerie Chardon, [after 1769]. 4 works and 2 tracts in 1 volume. 12mo. With 16 folding plates (2 double) , 13 woodcut and 3 engraved, 3 full-page woodcut plates, 7 woodcuts in text, 9 of these illustrations are hand-coloured. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with gilt compartments with morocco label. Full description »
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 | PLAYING CARDS FROM SEVEN CENTURIES WITH THOUSANDS OF ILLUSTRATIONS ALLEMAGNE, Henry-René d'.Les Cartes a Jouer du XIVe au XXe siècle. ... Ouvrage contenant 3200 reproductions de cartes dont 956 en couleur, 12 planches hors texte coloriées a l'aquarelle, 25 phototypies, 116 enveloppes illustrées pour jeux de cartes et 340 vignettes et vues diverses.Paris, Librairie Hachette et cie, 1906. Imperial 4to (33 x 25 cm). 2 volumes. Title-pages in red and black, with a colour-halftone frontispiece, reproductions of 3200 historical playing cards (956 in colour), dozens of other plates (some in collotype), and hundreds of illustrations in the text. Some illustrations are printed in colour, but many are hand coloured. The original wrappers and many of the plates show numerous different colours (some more than ten), and some include gold and silver. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Full description »
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 | LOUIS XIV AT VERSAILLES AND BATTLES IN AMERICA & SPAIN, WITH MAP & PLAN [ALMANAC - WALL PRINT].Le Merite Recompensé par Louis le Grand dans la Distribution des Dignitez de l'Eglise et des Charges de l'Etat[.] Et les expeditions militaires de l'année 1695. ... Almanach pour l'année bissextile M. DC. XCVI.Paris, Nicholas Langlois I, [1695]. Engraved scene on 2 large sheets (together 85 x 57 cm) with 14 smaller compartments in 10 cartouches containing scenes, a map and the plan of a Canadian fort, all showing events of 1695, and an almanac for the leap-year 1696 printed letterpress in red and black in a blank space with a decorative frame left for that purpose. Full description »
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 | CORONATION OF LOUIS XV AT REIMS [ALMANAC - WALL PRINT].L'Auguste Ceremonie du Sacre de Louis XV. Roy de France et de Navarre faite à Reims, le 25. Octobre 1722.Paris, François-Gérard Jollain, [1722]. Large engraved wall print (74 x 51 cm) with the title in the head margin, scenes from the year 1722, and a letterpress almanac for the year 1723, in red and black, pasted over a blank space left for the purpose at the foot. Full description »
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 | ILL-FATED DUKE OF BURGUNDY DECLARED DAUPHIN [ALMANAC - WALL PRINT].Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne declaré Dauphin a Marly le 16 Avril 1711.Paris, Gabriel Landry, [1711]. Large engraved wall print (79 x 53.5 cm) with the title in the head margin, with four smaller scenes in cartouches and roundels, and a letterpress almanac for the year 1712, in red and black, pasted over two blank spaces left for the purpose on plinths in the lower left and right corners. Full description »
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 | 11-YEAR-OLD LOUIS XV INSTRUCTED BY MARS & MINERVA[ALMANAC - WALL PRINT].Louis XV Instruit dans l'Art Militaire par Mars et Minerve. ... Almanach pour l'Année M. DCC. XXI.Paris, François-Gérard Jollain, [1720]. Large, wholly engraved wall print (80 x 53 cm plus the caption at the foot) including an almanac for the year 1721, with 1 large and 5 smaller scenes of events from the year 1720. Printed from two copperplates on two large sheets. Full description »
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 | 12-YEAR-OLD LOUIS XV BESIEGES FORT MONTREUIL[ALMANAC - WALL PRINT].Les Premieres Exercices Militaires de Louis XV Roy de France et de Navarre par le siege du fort de Montreüil, et les revuës des troupes du Camp de Porché-fontaine, proche Versailles le 19 Septembre 1722. ... Almanach pour lAnnee MDCCXXIII.Paris, François-Gérard Jollain, [1722]. Large, wholly engraved wall print (79 x 52 cm plus the title above and caption below) including an almanac for the year 1723, with 1 large and 3 smaller scenes of events from the year 1722. Printed from two copperplates on two large sheets. Full description »
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BARLA, Jean Baptiste.Flore Mycologique illustrée. Les champignons des Alpes maritimes avec l'indication de leur propriétés utiles ou nuisibles.Nice, Gilletta, 1888-1892. Folio. With 69 chromo-lithographed plates. Later half cloth. Full description »
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EXTREMELY RARE WORK ON PRE-LINNEAN ORNITHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION BARRÈRE, Pierre.Ornithologiae Specimen Novum, sive Series Avium in Ruscinone, Pyrenaeis Montibus, atque in Galliâ Aequinoctiali Observatarum, in Classes, genera & species, novâ methodo, digesta.Perpignan, G.S. Le Comte, 1745. 4to. With 1 folding engraved plate. Contemporary calf, spine gilt. Full description »
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 | 140 LARGE MANUSCRIPT BATTLE PLANS IN COLOUR [BATTLE PLANS]. P., F. M.Desseins, ou Delineations des Batailles et Campements. Faites et formez des Turcs et contre eux, de meme des Puissances Chretiennes de la plupart de l’Europe à Savoir, des Empereurs Romains, et de leurs hauts Allier, du grand Czaar de Moscovie, des Couronnes de l’Angleterre, Dennemarc, Suede, Pologne, Espagne et de la France gagnées ou perdües ou Seleument formez depuis l’an: 1620. jusqu’ à 1716.Dresden, [ca. 1716]. Oblong Royal folio (31 x 58 cm). Manuscript in pen & ink and watercolour, with a calligraphic title-page, 8-page index and 140 (of 153) numbered battle plans and plans of army camps (6 folding and 134 full-page) for major continental European battles over a period of nearly a century. Modern half red morocco, marbled sides. Full description »
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 | POCKETSIZE COLLECTION OF 8 BOOKS FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT[BIBLE - OLD TESTAMENT - LATIN].Biblia Sacra. Iuxta vulgatam editionem ad vetutissima exemplaria castigata.Paris, Sebastian Gryphius, 1556. 8vo. With the woodcut publisher's device of Sebastian Gryphius on the title page, and with 9 decorative woodcut initials from 2 series. Richly gold tooled contemporary calf, gilt edges. Full description »
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 | BÈZE'S GREEK & LATIN NEW TESTAMENT CONTEMP. BLIND-TOOLED & PANEL-STAMPED PIGSKIN [BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT - GREEK & LATIN]. BÈZE (BEZA), Théodore de.Jesu Christi D.N. Novum Testamentum, sive Novum Foedus.(Geneva), (Henri Estienne), 1582. Folio (34.5 x 22 cm). Text in 3 parallel columns giving De Bèze's Greek text, his Latin translation from the Greek, and the Latin Vulgate, with extensive commentary at the head and foot. With the large Estienne woodcut publisher's device on the title-page, 8 woodcut head- and tailpieces plus numerous repeats, and about 20 decorative woodcut initials (4 series, 1 including Greek) plus numerous repeats. Contemporary, richly blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, in a panel design (front and back board the same) with a panel-stamp portrait of Johann Freidrich II (1529-1595), Duke of Saxony (with monogram MB), and three rolls (1 with initials CS). With a 1780 owner's inscription of Johan Heinrich Wepler and earlier and later indications of provenance. Full description »
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 | 24MO HUGENOT PSALMBOOK (1659) WITH BOURGEOIS & PIERRE'S MUSIC RICHLY GOLD-TOOLED CONTEMP. MOROCCO [BIBLE - PSALMBOOK]. MAROT, Clement and Theodore de BEZE.Les CL Pseaumes de David. Mis en Rime Françoise, ... Les nottes de la musique sont mises sur un clef, a la commodité des chanseurs, par Jean Pierre. Musicien.Amsterdam, Paulus van Ravesteyn, 1659. 24mo in 8s (11.5 x 5.5 cm). French-language metrical psalmbook with miniature diamond-head music notes (the 5-line staff measures less than 3 mm), title-page with a woodcut of King David, 2 woodcut tailpieces, 1 woodcut decorative initial letter and a decoration built up from fleurons. Contemporary French(?) red morocco, richly gold-tooled boards and spine (à petit fers), gilt edges, headbands in white and blue-green, lacking fastenings. Lacking 2 leaves of the 4-leaf confession of faith (wholly lacking in some copies). Full description »
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 | UNNOTED 1ST USE OF WELL-KNOWN ILLUSTRATION BLOCKS PRINTED ON VELLUM & WITH NEARLY 100 WOODCUTS [BOOK OF HOURS - ROMAN USAGE - FRENCH].Les P(re)sentes Heures a lUsaige de Ro(m)me ...Rouen, Jehan le Marchant at the sign of "Des Deux Licornes"; Paris, [Francois Regnault] at the sign of "De lElephant" (colophon: printed for Francois Regnault, Paris & Jehan Marchant, Rouen), 1537. (16 x 9 cm). Printed in red and black throughout, with Marchant's nearly full-page woodcut publisher's device (2 unicorns & "ILM") on the title-page, 12 nearly full-page woodcut illustrations for the months of the calendar, 44 full-page or nearly full-page woodcut illustrations plus 3 repeats (mostly 10 x 7 cm), 2 slightly smaller (7 x 5 cm) and about 34 much smaller (2.5 x 2 to 5 x 4 cm). 26 of the large blocks are signed "IM" for Jehan Le Marchant. Further with more than 100 decorative woodcut initials from several series (12-33 mm), hundreds of 1, 2 and 3-line uncial initials printed in red. Set in 2 textura types with many words or passages in red. Printed on vellum. Gold-tooled calf (ca. 1800), marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With the armorial bookplate of and a genealogical inscription by Edward Paston (ca. 1782-post 1826) of Norfolk, grandfather of the 7th Baronet Paston-Bedingfeld. Full description »
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 | PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION IN PERSPECTIVE INCL. IRREGULAR SURFACESBOSSE, Abraham.Moyen Universel de Pratiquer la Perspective sur les Tableaux, ou Surfaces Irregulieres.Paris, Abraham Bosse, 1653 (1669 issue). 8vo in 4s. With engraved frontispiece, plus engraved part-title and 32 numbered engraved plates printed on 18 leaves (15 printed on both sides), including 2 folding. Contemporary mottled calf with gold-tooled spine and board edges. Red sprinkled edges. Full description »
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