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Ainsi finissent les Grandes Passions;
ou les Dernières Amours du Chevalier de... Première [-Seconde] Partie.
Paris, Poinçot, 1788.
First Edition, Second Issue. Two volumes, 12mp (180 x 105 mm), pp. [iv], 5-240; [iv], [5]-247, II F1 torn at base with loss to margin, not touching text, uncut throughout in the original drab wrappers, paper labels and small paper shelf mark labels, lettered and numbered in ink, a little worn but a nice, unsophisticated copy.
See MMF 8754bis; Gay I, 39.
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Amusemens des eaux de Passy par M. Lasolle, Auteur des Mémoires de Versorand. Tome Premier [-Troisième]. Paris, Poinçot, 1787.
First Edition. Three volumes, 12mo, (178 x 110 mm), pp. [xx], 368 (final leaves misbound), [4] contents, approbation & privilege, 4 advertisements; [iv], 514; [iv]; 423; advertisements printed on verso of half-title of volume one, uncut throughout, a lovely unsophisticated copy in the original (faded) blue paper wrappers, printer’s waste used as pastedowns, pages a little dog-eared, faded white paper labels on spines, lettered in ink, small shelfmark labels at foot of spines.
OCLC lists BN, BL, Cambridge, Zurich and the Harold B. Lee Library.
MMF 87.51; Cioranescu 37327.
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Angola, Histoire Indienne;
Ouvrage sans vraisemblance. I. [-II] Partie.
‘Agra’, the Grand-Mogol, ie Paris, 1746.
First Edition. 12mo, (162 x 92 mm), pp. [ii], 20, [vi], 162; [iv], 199, in contemporary calf, rebacked retaining the original spine, red morocco label lettered in gilt, spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, red edges.
Cioranescu 36472; Jones p. 92; Gay I:221; Darnton 38; Hartig p. 50.
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Anti Rousseau,
par le Poëte sans Fard.
Rotterdam, Fritsch and Böhm, 1712.
First Edition. 12mo, (153 x 92mm), engraved frontispiece and pp. xii, 534, folding engraved plate, title page in red and black, in contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, slightly worn especially head of spine, red morocco label lettered in gilt, with Lachèvre's book, feather and snake device gilt on the upper cover and his Le Vésinet bookplate (skull and books on table).
See Lachèvre, ‘Bibliographie des ouvrages de Gacon’, 1927, in Bulletin du Bibliophile.
Cioranescu 29968 (calling for pp. 512, ie the second edition, see above).
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Apologie du célibat chretien.
Par M. l’Abbé *** Prêtre & Licencié
Paris, La veuve Damonneville, Musier fils, Vatel, la veuve Berton, 1761.
[with] Sentimens desFirst editions. Two works in one volume, 12mo (168 x 92 mm), pp. [ii], [xii], [2], 414, [2]; [2], 14, with occasional slight browning, small paper flaw to lower outer blank corner of I5, bound in handsome contemporary crushed crimson morocco, with an elaborate border of double gilt fillet, feather tools, fleurons and tendrils along inner border, gilt centrepieces with the arms of Cardinal G. Doria Pamphili, spine with raised bands, gilt in compartments, with green morocco label lettered in gilt, with blue silk endpapers, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, the upper joint partly split at head with small loss, minimally repaired at foot, head and foot of spine a bit rubbed, endpapers a little faded, with the nineteenth century ownership inscription of Pietro Ceriani and the nineteenth century bookplate of Bernardine Murphy, with manuscript shelfmark to front pastedown, red ink stamp of Libraria Colonna to front free endpaper, title and final blank, with some offsetting.
1: OCLC lists BN, Sainte-Geneviève, Cornell and Penn.
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Aristée ou de la Divinité. Paris, 1779.
First Edition. 12mo, (162 x 94), pp. x, 208, preserving the initial blank, the engraved vignette on the title-page and the head- and tail-pieces are unsigned, in contemporary green morocco, unsigned binding, possibly by Thomas Van Os, with elaborate floral tooling to covers, spine gilt in compartments, slightly rubbed, red morocco label lettered in gilt, simple gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
See Roger Eliot Stoddard, 'François Hemsterhuis: Some Uncollected Authors VIII', in The Book Collector, Summer 2001, pp. 186-201; Jan Storm van Leeuwen, 'Frans Hemsterhuis' Binders and some bindings on Lettre sur l'Homme, ibid, pp. 202-216.
Stoddard 9.
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Avis respectueux et désintéressé à Guillaume V Prince d’Orange, Stadhouder, Capitaine et Amiral-Général de l’Union; sur le parti à prendre, dans l’état actuel de la République, par Un vrai Ami de la Patrie & de l’Illustre Maison de Nassau-Orange. ‘En Holland’, ie. Leiden, De Does, 1783.
8vo (202 x 115 mm), pp. xvi, 72, in contemporary quarter calf over speckled boards, slim spine gilt in compartments with orange and green morocco labels lettered (’Guillaume V’) and stamped in gilt, a little rubbed at extremities, the Starhemberg copy with the usual stamp and crayon shelf mark on the half-title and with typically lovely patterned endpapers in red and green with cross-hatching and floral strips, red edges.
OCLC lists BL, BN, Koninklijke, Berlin, Augsburg, Bamberg, Trinity Dublin and Harvard.
Cioranescu 11370.
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Bibliotheque des Amans.
[Odes Erotiques; par M. Sylvain M***. ] A Gnide.
Paris, Veuve Duchesne, 1777.
First Edition. 18mo, (135 x 80 mm), pp. [iv], viii, [9]-212, pagination includes the attractive engraved title page, unsigned but attributed to Marillier and the half-title, which gives the alternative rubric ‘Odes Erotiques’ and supplying the author’s name, in an elegant nineteenth century binding, half green morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, from the library of Claude Lebédel.
Cioranescu 42496; Cohen-de Ricci coll. 678-679; Gay I 388.
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Caroline de Lichtfield. Par Madame de ***. Publié par le Traducteur de Werther. Tome Premier [-Second]. Londres, Buisson, 1786.
Second Edition; First edition under this title. Two volumes, 12mo (170 x 100mm), pp. [iv], [5]-292; [iv], [5]-257, with half-titles, a lovely copy in contemporary tree-calf, flat spines gilt in compartments with palm trees, red morocco labels lettered and numbered in gilt, with the pictorial bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst in the first volume.
Not in ESTC; see MMF 86.52; see Cioranescu 47072-47076.
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Commentaire Historique
sur les Oeuvres de l’Auteur de l’Henriade, &c. Avec les Piéces originales & les preuves.
Basle, Héritiers de Paul Duker, 1776.
First Edition. 8vo, (193 x 115mm), pp. iv, 282, in contemporary mottled calf, flat spine gilt in compartments, yellow and red morocco labels lettered in gilt.
Cioranescu 64527; BN Voltaire Catalogue 4350.
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Confidence Philosophique.
Londres, ie. Geneva, 1771.
First Edition. 8vo (212 x 145 mm), pp. [viii], 381, [1], uncut throughout and partly unopened, in the original blue wrappers, some light browning, considerably worn to extremities and spine but cords holding and part of the spine preserved, an unsophisticated copy with generous margins, with a colour postcard bookmark dated 1822, without free endpapers, printer’s waste used for the pastedowns, with a section of reverse calligraphy on the front pastedown.
OCLC records a number of copies in France, and BL, NLS, Leeds, Texas, Princeton, Minnesota, Illinois, Delaware and UCLA.
MMF 71.42.
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Contes Philosophiques et Moraux.
Par M. de la Dixmerie. Tome Premier [- Second].
Londres & Paris, Duchesne, 1765.
First Edition. Two volumes, 12mo, (165 x 90 mm), engraved frontispiece, by Danzel after Larrieu, to the 1st volume and pp. [xx], 360; [iv], 360, frequently misnumbered, in contemporary marbled calf, spines with raised bands gilt in compartments, red and brown morocco labels lettered and numbered in gilt, marbled endpapers, red edges.
ESTC t165438, listing Cambridge, Brotherton, Berlin, Corvey, Wisconsin-Madison and Clark.
Cioranescu 13879; MMF 65.17
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Del Teatro Olimpico di Andrea Palladio in Vicenza.
Discorso del Signor Conte Giovanni Montenari Vicentino.
Padova, Conzatti, 1733.
First edition. 8vo (217 x 140 mm), engraved portrait frontispiece and pp. [ii], 84, [2], five further engraved plates, all folding, with plans and rooms, all edges uncut, very light browning to a few areas of text block on first couple of gatherings, the odd marginal spot, bound in contemporary carta rustica, spine covered with marbled paper, fairly heavily chipped, remnant of early ink titles to spine, old shelfmark label to upper cover, with the nineteenth century bookplate of the Biblioteca Giuliari on the front pastedown.
OCLC lists plenty of copies throughout Continental Europe, but only V & A, Rylands and Liverpool in the UK and only the Canadian Center for Architecture and Chicago Art Institute in North America.
Fowler 201.
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Des Principes des Négociations,
pour servir d’Introduction au droit public de l’Europe, fondé sur les traités. Par M. l’Abbé de Mably.
‘A La Haye’, ie Paris, 1757.
First Edition. 12mo, (163 x 92 mm) pp. viii, 278, initial blank removed, in contemporary mottled calf, extremities a little worn, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, red edges, from the library of Claude Lebédel.
Cioranescu 41170; Tchemerzine VII, 265.
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Discours sur la liberté de penser,
par Mr. A. Collins. Traduit de l’Anglois & augmenté d’une Lettre d’un Médecin Arabe; avec l’Examen de ces deux Ouvrages par Mr. de Crouzas. Nouvelle Edition, corrigée. Tome Premier [-Second].
Londres, 1766.
Second Edition; First Collected. Two volumes in one, 8vo, (155 x 90 mm), pp. xii, 256,157-168 (ie 268); viii, 211, B4 and B5 partly loose at the gutter, in contemporary calf, triple gilt filet on the covers, brown morocco labels on the spine lettered and numbered in gilt, flat spine gilt in herringbone pattern, marbled endpapers, red edges, from the library of Claude Lebédel.
See Cioranescu 57557 & 21911; Quérard II, 253.
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Dissertationes duae criticae-historicae.
Una de vigintiquinque annis Romanae Petri Cathedrae adversus utrumque pagium. Altera de actis SS. Martyrum Cosmae, et Damiani necnon de monumentis Basilicae ipsis in urbe erectae.
Rome, Salomoni, 1750.
First edition. 4to (233 x 170 mm), pp. [xxiii], [3], 90, with two folding engraved plates representing interiors of Roman churches, woodcut initials and ornaments, first two leaves minimally toned, occasional very minor marginal spotting, bound in contemporary, probably Roman, crushed crimson morocco, bordered with gilt double fillet and gilt roll of palmettes to inner border, large cornerpieces with feather tools, acorns and fleurons, large centrepiece with the arms of the Altieri family, spine with raised bands, gilt in compartments, lettered in gilt, marbled edges, joints minimally worn at head and foot, pink pastedowns.
OCLC lists half a dozen copies in Continental Europe only.
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Emilie de Varmont, ou le Divorce Nécessaire, et les Amours du Curé de Sévin, par l'Auteur de Faublas. Tome Premier [-Troisième]. Paris, Bailly, 1791.
First Edition. Three volumes in one, 12mo in sixes, (124 x 75mm), engraved frontispiece by Lorieux after Chaillou to each volume and pp. [iv], [5]-160; [iv], [5]-174; [iv], 191, [1], occasional light dampstaining, in contemporary quarter green calf over marbled boards with vellum tips, flat spine ruled and decorated in gilt, lettered in gilt, with the contemporary heraldic bookplate of E.W. Wynne Pendarves.
Cioranescu 40897; MMF 91.34; Oberlé 142; Cohen-de Ricci p. 661 (1794 edition).
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Essai de Philosophie Morale.
Par M. de Maupertuis.
1751
First Authorised Edition. 12mo, (157 x 92 mm), pp. [ii], xxx, 125, [2], in contemporary dark mottled calf, extremities a little bumped and some surface wear to the covers, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers and edges, from the library of Claude Lebédel.
Cioranescu 43865.
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Essai historique et philosophique sur le Goût.
Par M. Cartaud de la Vilate.
Londres, 1751.
12mo, (162 x 90mm), pp. [viii], 327, with the half-title, in contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with sun-burst tooling, yellow morocco label lettered in gilt, a few small surface abrasions, red edges, marbled endpapers.
ESTC t101745, at BL, Cambridge, Taylorian; Getty, NYPL, Illinois, Toronto and Yale. OCLC adds Cincinnati.
See Cioranescu 15737.
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Essai sur le Caractère, les Mœurs et l’Esprit des Femmes
dans les différens siecles, par M. Thomas, de l’Académie Françoise.
Paris, Moutard, 1772.
First Edition. Four works in one volume, 8vo (188 x 115 mm), engraved frontispiece by Cochin and pp. [iv], 210, [2]; Boufflers: pp. 26; Voltaire: pp. 12; Voltaire: pp. 11, [1], in contemporary plain calf, triple gilt filet to covers, flat spine gilt in compartments, morocco label lettered in gilt, marbled blue endpapers and matching blue marbled edges, with the contemporary heraldic bookplate and printed booklabel of M. Ch. Millon de Montherlant.
Cioranescu, 61765; Gay: II: 167.
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