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A Lyon, chez Barthelemy Vincent, 1626.
In-8 de (4) ff., 342 pages, (1) p. et 9 superbes estampes hors texte. Plein maroquin vert janséniste, dos à nerfs, double filet or sur les coupes, roulette intérieure, tranches dorées. Reliure signée de Chambolle-Duru vers 1875.

173 x 107 mm
Edition originale de la traduction française de Jacques Veyras avec titre de relais à la date de 1626, de l'un des plus importants ouvrages relatifs au tabac.
Graesse IV, 652 ; Waring II, 709 ; Ferchl 379 ; Leclerc,
Bibliotheca Americana, 407; Sabin XII, 576.
Arents 148 a : " The little that is new in this treatise is of very definite value in the history of tobacco, and that little is rendered more impressive by the novel and accurate illustrations which decorate the work. Among them are the earliest representations known to us of American natives engaged in cultivating and curing tobacco, of curious pipes, and of the kalian of Persia ".
Jean Néander (1596-1630), médecin de Brême, propose une réflexion sur le… Read More

Londres, n.d. [Paris, Cazin, 1782].4 parts in two 16mo volumes [124 x 80 mm] of : I/ (2) ll., 1 frontispiece, 159 pp., (2) ll., pp. 160 to 352, 13 plates out of pagination ; II/ (2) ll., 204 pp., (2) ll., pp. 205 to 396, 10 plates out of pagination.Burgundy shagreen, triple gilt fillets framing the covers with fleurons at the corners, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt inner border, gilt edges. Nineteenth century binding.Superb illustrated edition of this important erotic novel by André de Nerciat which was in fact his first book, " one of the most charming productions of the century " (Gay).B.N., Enfer, 442-445 ; Cohen 749 ; Galitzin 645 : " The 24 free figures, engraved by Eluin, after Borel, are very shiny, see on this charming erotica book the analysis that Monselet gave in his Galanteries du XVIIIe siècle " ; Gay, II, 267 ; Pia 248 ; Sander 1428.Most of the works that Nerciat published are written in a free way, we can only judge on the following confession that he made in one of his forewords:… Read More

Antwerp, Guillaume Silvius, 1576.
Small 4to [200 x 143 mm]: (8) ll., 325 pp. (some mistakes in the pagination), (15) ll., 60 full-page plates of costumes. Bound in full contemporary overlapping vellum, flat spine with the handwritten title. Contemporary binding.
First edition in Italian, translated from the French edition published at the same date and by the same printer.
Atabey 871; Colas 2203 (second issue); Göllner 1663; cf. Mortimer, Harvard Italian, 319 (1580 edition); not in Blackmer.
The woodcuts are reduced copies, by Antonij van Leest, of the engraved plates of the first edition (printed in Paris in 1567). The second Italian edition, printed at Venice in 1580, contains engraved copies of the original plates, together with seven additional plates.
After having described the customs of Algiers, Tripoli, the Barbary States and Scio where he landed when he was going to Constantinople, Nicolay (1517-1583), a traveler from the Dauphiné, insists on what concerns the Turks, the Greeks and the… Read More

[Cologne, Ulrich Zell, n.d. (not after 1472)].Ia (Table) : [A] Borsus cause q sint. v. … 29a. Incipit prologus ī expositionē decalogi scŏm fratrē Iohānē Nider. sacre theologie professorem ordinis predicatoч. 329a Colophon : Explicit preceptoriū diuine legis frīs Iohānis. Nyder sacre theologie professoris eximij ordinis predicatoч. conuentualis Nurēbergensis. Folio [*10, a10, b8, c-p10, q12, r-y10, A-K10] (330) ll., the last one blank. Gothic characters. Type 2-BMC 115. 2 columns. 37 lines. Small tear in the upper margin of l. 27, not touching the text, waterstain in the upper margin of l. 212 until the end and in the margin of the last 30 ll.Full brown calf, covers decorated with triple blind-stamped fillet with a diamond shaped decoration, leather and brass ties and clasps preserved, spine ribbed preserved (very rare) with tiny restorations, vellum skin endleaves. Very well preserved contemporary binding.297 x 215 mm.Princeps edition, complete with the last blank leaf. First printed… Read More