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Extremely rare and richly woodcut illustrated chapbook containing two popular knight's tales

[CHAPBOOK - FRENCH]. L'Histoire des nobles proüesses et vaillances de Gallien restauré, fils du noble Olivier le marquis, & de la belle Jacqueline, fille du roi Hugon, empereur de Constentinople. Avec les figures propres, mises de nouveau sous chacun chapitre.
Troyes, Jacques Oudot, 1709. 2 works in 1 volume, the 2nd in 2 parts. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page of each work, 35 woodcut illustrations in the text of ad 1; 2 woodcut headpieces and a woodcut tailpiece in ads 2 and 3. With: (2) [CHAPBOOK]. Histoire de Huon de Bordeaux, pair de France, et Duc de Guienne.
Troyes, Jacques Oudot, [1705]
(3) [CHAPBOOK]. Livre second de Huon de Bordeaux, pair de France, et Duc de Guienne.
Idem. Later dark blue leather 138; 141, [1]; [136] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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The powers of the four elements

[CHILDREN'S BOOK]. Les quatre elemens.
Comprising:
(1) La terre.
(2) L'air.
(3) L'eau.
(4) Le feu.
[Paris], Imprimerie de Maulde et Renou, [ca. 1840]. 4 volumes. 32mo. With 8 full-page steel-engraved plates (2 in each volume). Original publisher's glazed pastel boards (light blue, yellow, pink, or light green), with the title and a steel-engraved illustration of one of the four elements in the centre of the front board, within an embossed ornamental border. Each 24 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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'Very charming harlequinade'

[CHILDREN'S BOOK - FRENCH]. Petite histoire grotesque de Pierrot Goulu.
Paris, Marcilly, typographie de Firmin Didot frères et compagnie, [ca. 1835]. Oblong 32mo (ca. 5.6 x 7.3 cm). With a hand coloured engraved title, and 7 hand coloured full-page engraved plates. Contemporary publisher's pink boards, with the title on the front board, an illustration of Pierrot printed in the centre of the front board, surrounded by an ornamental embossed border, marbled edges. [4], 122, [2] pp. Full description
€ 950
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Rare early edition of a classic and profusely illustrated work on Roman military practice
and establishment of encampments, and Roman baths

CHOUL, Guillaume du. Discorso ... Sopra la castrametatione & bagni antiche i Greci & Romani. Nivamente revisto & ricorretto dallistesso Auttore. Con laggiunta della figura del campo Romano.
[Padua], Marc Antonio Olmo, 1558. 8vo. The word "Discorso" printed in woodcut border at the top of the title-page, with woodcut printers device: an elm with the words: "Ulmus amica viti" (the elm is friendly for vines). With 43 full-page woodcuts (ca. 11 x 7.5 cm), a large folding woodcut plate in two leaves (as issued, in total ca. 40.5 x 36 cm) of a plan of a Roman camp: "Figura del Campo de Romani", and 2 large historiated woodcut initials of 10 lines and 3 capital spaces with guide letters for initials of 5 lines. Modern vellum. 80, [4] ll. Full description
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One of the most popular Hebrew grammars of the 16th century

CLENARDUS, Nicolaus. Tabula in grammaticen Hebraeam.
Paris, Christian Wechel, 1534. 8vo (15 x 9 cm). With a woodcut printers device on the title page and the verso of the final leaf, a decorated metalcut initial. 20th-century blind-tooled half light brown calf. 155, [5] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
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Important source on the Reformation, in a contemporary signed binding

CRESPIN, Jean. Actiones et monimenta martyrum, eorum qui a Wicleffo et Husso ad nostram hanc aetatem ... veritatem evangelicam sanguine suo constanter obsignaverunt.
Genève, Jean Crespin, 1560.
With: (2) [PIBRAC, Guy du Faur, seigneur de]. De rebus Gallicis, ad Stanislaum Elvidium, epistola. Et ad hanc de iisdem rebus Gallicis responsio.
[Paris, Fédérique Morel], 1573.
(3) [A. Q. F]. Memoriae Casparis Coligni Chastilonaei com. ductoris classis Gallicae ... una cum aliis ex nobilitate Gallica insidiose interfecti D. XXIIII. M. Vil. ann. Christi M. D. LXXII.
1572. 3 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page of ad 1, several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary richly blind-tooled panelled pigskin, with the arms of the Holy Roman Empire in the central panel on the front, and the arms of August of Saxony on the back, surrounded by two figurative and one ornamental border, the initials G.F.N. and the date 1573 on the front, signed by bookbinder S. Rab(e). [18], 321, [1] ll.; 102, [2 blank]; [1], [1 blank], 5, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,000
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A personal address to the imperial government

CRONBERG, Hartmuth von. Meyn ... personlich fürbringen fuer dem hochlöbliche[n] keyserliche[n] regime[n]t zu Nürnberg, das heilig eva[n]gelium un[d] wort gottes betreffend.
Zwickau, [Jörg Gastel], 1523. 4to. With an architectural woodcut title frame. Modern purple painted paper wrappers. [4] ll. Full description
€ 6,500
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Interesting account of an exploration journey to India and Southeast Asia

DELESSERT, Adolphe. Souvenirs dun voyage dans lInde execute de 1834 a 1839. Ouvrage enrichi de trente-cinq planches.
Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie & Langlois et Leclercq (facing title-page: printed by Béthune et Plon), 1843. 2 parts in 1 volume. Large 8vo. With engraved title-vignette signed by A. Vien, 8 lithographed plates in the first part by V. Dolet showing Ile Bourbon, Pondichéry, Malacca, Chase au tigre, Madras, a bivouac and Chûte de la Rivière de Gutpurba; 27 numbered full-page engraved plates in the natural history part by Forget, Annedouche, Sebin, Mme. Douliot, Bourgeois, Giraud, Davesne and Dumesnil after Jean Gabriel Prêtre, Delahaye, Mme Bury and Vaillant of mammals, birds, insects and butterflies, 24 of which are exquisitely coloured by hand by "Gérard". Also with one folded map (43 x 44 cm) of the world (except for the Americas) with Delessets journey marked, coloured in outline and printed by Kaeppelin, Paris. Half calf, decorated paper sides. [6], III, 134; [4], 107 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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Exquisitely embroidered devotional prints

[DEVOTIONAL PRINTS]. [Collection of two devotional prints and a drawing].
[Antwerp, mid 17th century].
With: [DRAWING]. De liefde alleen maeckt twee maer een.
[18th century?]. 2 prints and 1 drawing. Prints: ca. 9 x 7 cm; drawing: ca. 12.5 x 9.5 cm. With 2 full-page engravings on vellum, silk embroidered, hand coloured, and heightened with gold, and 1 ink drawing on vellum, partly made with golden ink. The three works are housed in a clear plastic folder. Full description
€ 1,250
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