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18th-century BOOKS. BINDINGS. HISTORY.
See original version (French)
238
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18th-century BOOKS. BINDINGS. HISTORY.
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
18th-century BOOKS. BINDINGS. HISTORY.
LOT of works bound between the 17th and 18th centuries
-HELVETIUS, Claude Adrien.
On the Mind [&] On Man and his Intellectual Faculties, and on his Education.
London, 1776.
2 works, each in 2 volumes, making a total of 4 in-8 volumes. Marbled and polished fawn calfskin of the period, plain decorated spine, red title label and fawn volume number, gilded floral panels, marbled edges, and whirl-pattern endpapers (bindings very slightly rubbed, 2 very small wormholes on one spine, a few rubbed corners and 3 worn caps).
The first volume of *De l’Homme et de ses facultés intellectuelles* is illustrated with a
portrait of the Enlightenment philosopher, engraved in black on copper by H. Godin after Van Loo in 1755, in volume 3 and the first volume of *De l’Homme...*
A fine copy of the combined edition of the two philosophical treatises, one of which is a posthumous edition.
- [HOLY WEEK LITURGY] for Palm Sunday. (17th century). In-8, pp. 3–464 (excluding the title page). Contemporary red morocco, Duseuil binding, smooth spine richly decorated with three frames of triple gilt fillets featuring gilt fleurons in the spandrels, gilt chases and cut-outs adorned with gilt scrollwork and lace, gilt edges (slight rubbing and wear, dulled corners, 2 ff. of endpapers missing, title page missing, volume possibly re-bound). Illustrated with fine full-page copperplate engravings in black, signed S. or Sebas. Huré and Saulte f(ecit) in the engraving. Text printed in black and red on laid paper.
- ANONIMIANA, or A Collection of Poetry, Eloquence and Erudition. Paris, Jacques Collombat, 1700. In-12, (6) preliminary leaves, 311 pp., (3) f. (table of contents). Contemporary mottled fawn calfskin, decorated ribbed spine, red title label, small gilt metal fittings, edges mottled with red (defects including exposed top cap, stained covers). First edition (Aude, 8).
-DEBRY, J.
Individual statement on the assassination of the French ministers at Rastadt. Paris: Dabin, Year VII (1799). In-8, paperback in a slipcase. Only edition. Rare. Only one copy in the CCFr (BnF). Complete with the large folding topographical map of Rastadt and its surroundings, pantographed and engraved in black by F. Voijsard, including a view of the Palace and a large site plan of the area around the palace. Diplomacy.
-BROCHURE ON THE 100 DAYS
EX LIBRIS COUNT OF MALET.
-LAMARTELIERE. Buonaparte’s conspiracy against Louis XVIII, King of France and Navarre. Paris, Dentu, 1815
Stitched in a grey temporary paper cover.
-CALLOT (Jacques), after. [La Petite Passion]. A series of 12 black copperplate engravings, mounted in leporello format on heavy paper. Published by Pasquier in Paris c. 1750. Each plate (approx. 10 x 13 cm) is numbered and titled in Latin, with Callot’s signature reproduced at the bottom and the note ‘chez Pasquier’ on the right. Complete and rare. Blue percaline square in-12, decorated and reinforced with gilt clasps and gilt metal corners; one cover features a gilt plaque with scrollwork and foliage, whilst the other has the title and date embossed in gold. This cover does not appear to match the contents and is incorrectly titled *La Grande Passion par Jacques Callot 1630* (slight oxidation of the paper but a lovely item).
- *Oeuvres de M. le Chevalier de Bert***. Second volume. Published in London and available in Paris from Hardouin and Gattey, 1785. In-16, contemporary fawn sheepskin.
- Historical Account of Cromwell… 1789. In-8, contemporary root-tanned sheepskin.
- FERON. The Literary Year, Year M. DCC. LVIII. Volume V. Amsterdam: Michel Lambert.
- Three ‘Almanachs des Muses’ for the years 1783 (unbound), 1798, 1810.
- *Mercure de la France*. Missing the title page. Volume V, Year IX (on the spine). 8vo, contemporary speckled fawn sheepskin.
- *Le Chevalier Robert, or The Story of Robert, nicknamed ‘the Brave’*. Second edition. Paris: Giguet… 1800. 8vo, contemporary light brown half-basane.
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