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Promenades de Monsieur de Clairenville. Où l’on trouve une vive peinture des Passions des hommes, avec des Histoires curieuses & véritables sur chaque sujet. Par Mr. D***. Cologne, 1755.
Third Edition. 12mo, (162 x 93 mm), pp. [iv], 362, [3] table of contents, in contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, red speckled edges, from the library of Claude Lebédel.
OCLC lists the 1723 edition at BN, Berlin, Toronto and Texas; the 1743 edition at Berlin, Newberry, Harvard, Tulane, Kansas and Boston PL and the present edition at Vanderbilt only.
Jones p. 35; MMF 55.R.6.
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Receuil des plus belles pieces des Poetes françois
depuis Villon jusqu'à Benserade. Tome Premier... [-Sixième].
Paris, Compagnie des Libraires, 1752.
Six volumes, small 12mo, pp. [xi], [i], 322; [ii], 314; [ii], 292; [ii], 312; [ii], 296; [ii], 260, [2] approbation, in contemporary mottled calf, blind rule to covers, flat spines elaborately gilt in compartments, red and black morocco labels lettered and numbered in gilt, with the contemporary bookplate of 'G.D.M.', a member of the Guillebon family, and the typographic booklabel of Madame Guillebon, la jeune, circa 1800: an excellent set with a nice provenance.
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Recherches sur l'origine du Despotisme Oriental.
Ouvrage Posthume de Mr. B.I.D.P.E.C...
Londres, Seyffert, 1762.
Second Edition; First Edition. Two volumes, 12mo, pp. xviii, [19]-264; xiv, [15]-216, folding engraved plate at ii, 94, in contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments with red morocco labels lettered and numbered in gilt, all edges red.
Recherches: see Cioranesco 13420.
Dissertation: Cioranesco 13421.More details Price: £500.00 -
Regole per le maestre pie nelle scuole di carità per le povere figlie.
Milan, Gartano Motta al Malcantone, 1807.
First Edition. 8vo (198 x 132 mm), pp. 19, [1] blank, some light staining on the inside wrappers but text clean and printed on good quality paper, in contemporary red and olive green patterned paper wrappers,
Not in OCLC; one copy traced at the Biblioteca Salita dei Frati at Lugano.
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Revolution de l’Amerique.
Par M. l’Abbé Raynal, auteur de l’Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Etablissemens, et du Commerce des Européans dans les deux Indes.
Londres, 1781.
Same year as the first edition. 8vo, pp. viii, 173, [3], D2 cut along the margin with loss, but nowhere near text, contemporary ownership inscription of ‘B.Imbert fils’ on the title page, in contemporary mottled calf, flat spine gilt in compartments with green morocco label lettered in gilt, some slight erosion to boards but generally an attractive copy.
ESTC n12895, at the BL, Cambridge, Reading, Amsterdam, American Philosophical Society, Brown, Gonzaga, Harvard, Lehigh, Princeton, San Antonio College and the Lilly Library.
See Cioranescu 52363 and 52364; Sabin 68103.
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Rose
ou les Effets de la Haine, de l’Amour et de l’Amitié, Première [Seconde] Partie.
‘Londres’ & Paris, Robin, 1765.
First Edition. Two volumes, 12mo (178 x 108 mm), pp. [iii]-xvi, 122; [ii], 142, [1], the second volume stained throughout in the lower corner, wanting the half titles, uncut throughout in the original pale blue wrappers, rather tatty, headcaps chipped and lower part of the spine largely missing, but preserving the circular shelf mark paper labels, white paper label across the top of the spine, lettered and numbered in ink, small circular shelf marks on the lower spines.
ESTC t220632, listing BL and BN only; OCLC addds a handful of copies in Germany.
MMF 65.26; Gay III, 1049.
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Salmi Cantici ed Inni Cristiani del conte Luigi Tadini posti in musica popolare dai maistri Giuseppe Gazzaniga e Stefano Pavesi. Opera preceduta da alcune considerazione sulla Musica e sulla Poesia. Crema, Antonio Ronna, 1818.
First Edition. Folio (350 x 245 mm), pp. 60, [2], 25 engraved music, title-page dampstained, in the original red paper boards, flat spine gilt in compartments and lettered in gilt, with attractive red and green patterned endpapers.
OCLC lists BL and Glasgow only.
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Soirées du Bois de Boulogne,
ou Nouvelles Françoises et Angloises. Par M. le Comte de ****. I. [-II.] Partie.
1754.
Second Edition. Two volumes, 12mo, (138 x 68 mm), pp. xii, 265; iv, 280, text fairly browned in part, in contemporary red morocco, covers with triple filet gilt, flat spines ruled in compartments with sunburst tool in each compartment, lettered and numbered in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, gilt dentelles, with an unidentified red heraldic booklabel stamped in gilt and the heraldic bookplate of Baron James de Rothschild in each volume.
OCLC lists BN, BL, Leeds, Danish Royal Library, Augsburg, Goettingen, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Sainte Genevieve; for the 1742 edition, OCLC adds Princeton and Ottawa.
Cioranescu 16256; Jones p. 78; Gay III, 1123.
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Specimen prius historico-criticum de Poetatis Ossianis, approbante Ampl. Fac. Phil. a Mag. Jac Axel. Lindblom, V. Bibl. Extr. Ord. Respondente Johanne Swartz, Norcopia - Ostrogotho. In Auditorio Gustav. Maj. Die IVC. Junii, Anno MDCCLXXVIII. Publicæ Exhibitum Censuræ. Uppsala, Typis Edmannianis, 1778.
First Edition. 4to, (220 x 162mm), pp. [ii], [3]-28, uncut throughout, small marginal tear from the corner of the title-page, with loss, some foxing and browning of text, dog-eared, stitched as issued with some of the stitching loose.
OCLC lists BL, Berlin, the National Libraries of Scotland and Ireland, UCLA and NYPL.
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Tableau de l'Angleterre et de l’Italie, par M. d’Archenholz, ancien capitaine au service de S. M. le Roi de Prusse. Traduit de l’Allemand. De l’Angleterre. Tome Premier [-Tome Second]. De l’Italie [Tome III though not so designated]. Strasbourg, J.G. Treuttel, 1788.
First Edition in French? Three volumes, 12mo, (190 x 125 mm), pp. xii, 288; [ii], 326; [ii], 376, marginal dampstaining throughout volume I, pagination erratic in volume I between p. 97 and p. 121, tear to III Z3 (p. 269) across the text but with no loss, uncut throughout in the original brightly coloured printed wrappers, blue and red spotted, spines faded and chipped at head and foot.
OCLC lists copies at BN, Lyon, Yverdon, Institut Catholique de Paris, Yale, Newberry and Queens University Library.
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Tableau du siècle.
Par un Auteur Connu.
Geneva, 1759.
First Edition. 12mo, (165 x 88mm), pp. [iv], xix, [i], 227, [1], in contemporary mottled calf, flat spine gilt in continuous pattern, red morocco label lettered in gilt.
OCLC lists Princeton, Minnesota, Santa Barbara and Cornell.
Cioranescu 48360.
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Tableaux de la Bonne Compagnie
de Versailles et de Paris; ou Traits caractéristiques, Anecdotes secretes, Politiques, Morales & Littéraires, recueillies dans les Sociétés du bon ton, pendant les Années 1786 & 1787. Par M. le Ch. de B***. Tome Premier [-Second].
Paris, tous les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1787.
Third Edition. 8vo, (197 x 112 mm), pp. [ii], [3]-198; [ii], [3]-176, tear on E2 (pp. 67-8) through the page number but with no loss, in contemporary mottled calf, rubbed at extremities, spine gilt in compartments, brown morocco label lettered in gilt, head and foot of spine chipped, marbled endpapers, red edges.
MMF 87:19; Jacob, Bibliographie et Iconographie de tous les ouvrages de Restif de la Bretonne, pp. 333-334; see Cohen-de Ricci 879 (under Restif).
OCLC lists this edition at the BN and Biblioteca Nacional de Espana.
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Testament Politique
du Maréchal duc de Belle-Isle.
Paris, aux dépens des Libraires associés, 1762.
Small 8vo, (154 x 87mm), pp. v [ie viii], 184, in contemporary Germany speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments with black morocco label lettered in gilt, covers gilt with heraldic arms and lettered ‘AWGVDS’, with the elegant heraldic bookplate of Achatz Wilhelm, ReichsGraff von der Schulenburg, marbled endpapers.
OCLC lists BL, Cambridge, NLS, Yale, College of the Holy Cross, Princeton and Syracuse.
See Cioranescu 19479; Einaudi, 1076; Goldsmiths, 9713; INED, 379; Higgs, 2627
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Theoria & Praxis Linguae Arabicae,
h.e. Grammatica Arabica.
Leipzig, J. Grossius, 1729.
First edition thus. 4to (210 x 160 mm), pp. 46, 6-230, [10], light toning throughout, sometimes fairly browned, edges a bit dusty, small worm trail to lower blank margin of first few leaves, bound in contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink, a little soiled, with small loss to spine, foot of spine chipped, with a couple of early annotations, pencil annotations on front endpaper and some in text, with the ownership inscription of Walter Fisher on the title-page.
OCLC lists a handful of copies in Continental Europe and BL, Bodleian, Cambridge, SOAS, Harvard and Chicago.
Schnurrer 95.
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Traité du Beau.
[with: De la Philosophie des Chinois.]
Amsterdam, ie Paris, 1772.
12mo (164 x 90 mm), pp. [ii], 3-118, [2], 121-180, corner torn from final page and restored, not touching text, occasional browning in text, in modern green vellum with new endpapers, spine lettered in gilt, red edges, from the library of Claude Lebédel.
Adams, Bibliographie des œuvres de Denis Diderot, A1 (3).
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Versi sciolti e rimati
di Dorillo Dafneio.
Parma, Stamperia Reale, 1773.
First edition. 8vo (208 x 135 mm), pp. [ii], [viii], 137, [1], lacking the final blank as usual, including engraved title with carved marble stone surrounded by garlands and an urn, small engraved head- and tailpieces, lower edges uncut, light ink marks to H7-8 and G5-6, occasional very slight marginal spotting, K1 unobtrusively strengthened at gutter, bound in contemporary block-stamped plain paper boards with olive-green zig-zag pattern, stitched as issued, a bit faded (old water stain) towards foot of spine, extremities a little worn.
Worldcat lists BL, Northwestern, Case Western, SMU, UCLA and St Catherine.
Brooks 40; Cicognara 1343. Not in De Lama.
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Vita Costumi e Scritti
del Conte Giammaria Mazzuchelli, Patrizio Bresciano.
Brescia, Bossini, 1766.
First Edition. 8vo, engraved portrait frontispiece and pp. [iv], 5-120, title-page vignette, in contemporary vellum, a little bit dusty and stained but sound and internally a clean and crisp copy, red morocco label lettered in gilt, with the contemporary inscription ‘1767 di Faustino Gussago’, all edges marbled.
OCLC and RLIN list copies at Oxford, Göttingen, Stanford, Berkeley, Newberry, Illinois, Harvard and Duke.
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Voyage de Milady Craven
à Constantinople, par la Crimée, en 1786. Traduit de l’Anglois, par. M. D***.
1789.
Second Edition in French?; First Edition. [with:] FRIESEMAN, Hendrik. Description historique et geographique de l’Archipel, rédigé d’après de nouvelles Observations, & particulièrement utile aux Négocians & aux Navigateurs. Newied sur le Rhin, Chez la Société Typographique. 1789. Two works in one volume, 8vo (190 x 115 mm), pp. [iv], 281; [vi], 143, [1], in contemporary quarter calf over red mottled boards, spine ruled and lettered gilt gilt, worn at extremities.
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Zadig, ou la Destinée, Histoire Orientale par Mr. de Voltaire. Londres, G. Sidney for Polidori, 1799.
First Polidori Edition. 24mo, (123 x 70 mm), engraved frontispiece portrait and pp. [iii], 4-204, with thirteen further engraved plates, bound without the terminal colophon leaf, the plates with small impression within wide borders, slightly foxed, in contemporary red morocco, single filet gilt to covers, flat spine gilt in compartments, lettered in gilt, rubbed at extremities and along the edges, some light staining, marbled endpapers, with the armorial bookplate of ‘Belper’ and the inscription of John Beaumont
ESTC t178499, at BL, Cambridge, Bodleian, New York Public Library and Texas only.
Cohen-de Ricci 1038; not in BN Voltaire Catalogue.
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