Asher Rare Books

Literature & Linguistics / French Literature

With signed autograph presentation inscription by the author, creator of the “French cantate”

ROUSSEAU, Jean Baptiste. Odes sacrées ..., détachées du corps de ses ouvrages.
Brussels, Gilles Stryckwant, 1738. 4to. With a woodcut coat of arms of Austria on title-page. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine and board edges. [6], 109, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 8,000

France French Literature Music, Theatre & Dance

Savary’s literary letters on Egypt, in attractive contemporary binding

SAVARY, (Nicolas) Claude Étienne. Brieven over Egypte.
Amsterdam, Martinus de Bruyn, 1788-1789. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 4 numbered engraved folding plates, including maps of Egypt and northern Egypt, a plan of Alexandria, and a cross-section of the Great pyramid. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spines and binding edges. XVI, 446, [1], [1 blank]; XVI, 364, [2 blank], [1], [1 blank]; “XIV” [=XXIV], 390, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Bindings Egypt French Literature North Africa Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Middle East

Very rare Latin poem presenting the rules of tournaments and carrousels

SAVARY, Jacques. (= Jacques TIMENT). Album hipponae sive hippodromi leges. Ad Christianissimum et invictissimum Galliae et Navarrae regem Ludovicum XIV deo-datum.
Caen, Claudius Le Blanc, 1662. 4to. With a woodcut title-vignette and several woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. 19th-century marbled paper over boards, red sprinkled edges. [6], 2, 72 pp. Full description

€ 4,250

Falconry, Fishing & Hunting French Literature Horses & Horsemanship

Very rare first French edition of an important Dutch jestbook printed in Antwerp,
no copies in Belgian libraries

TIRON, Antoine (translator). Recueil de plusieurs plaisantes nouvelles, apophtegmes, et recreations diverses ...
Antwerp, Hendrick Henricsz, 1578. 8vo. With 18 half-page woodcuts in the text, including the one on the title page. 19th-century brown morocco, with the title, year of publication, and name of the bookbinder (Bauzonnet) lettered in gold on the spine. [6], 165, [8], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 25,000

Bindings Dutch Literature Early Printing - 16th century French Literature

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Literature & Linguistics / French Literature

With signed autograph presentation inscription by the author, creator of the “French cantate”

Savary’s literary letters on Egypt, in attractive contemporary binding

Very rare Latin poem presenting the rules of tournaments and carrousels

Very rare first French edition of an important Dutch jestbook printed in Antwerp, no copies in Belgian libraries

Very rare first French edition of an important Dutch jestbook printed in Antwerp,
no copies in Belgian libraries