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Paris, Desray, 1802.
5 parties réunies en 2 grands volumes in-folio de : I/ (2) ff., x pp., 128, 70 planches numérotées à pleine page, 8 pp., 6 planches numérotées à pleine page, 28 pp., 9 planches numérotées à pleine page ; II/ (2) ff., 128 pp., 89 planches numérotées à pleine page (numérotées 88 car il y a une 26 bis), 40 pp., 16 planches numérotées à pleine page dont une sur double page (n°14). Soit au total 190 planches.
Qs. légères piqûres sans gravité. Demi-chagrin rouge à coins, dos à nerfs ornés. Reliure de l'époque.
505 x 333 mm.
Edition originale ornée de 190 estampes gravées sur cuivre d'après les dessins de Jean-Baptiste Audebert, imprimées en couleurs et rehaussées à l'or pur selon une méthode originale mise au point par Audebert.
Fine Bird Books p. 56 ; Nissen IVB, 47; Ronsil 103; Wood, p. 206; Zimmer, p. 17; Sander, Illustrierten franz ö sischen Bücher des 18. Jahrhunderts, 58 ; Balis 52 ; Buchanan, Nature into Art 105 ; Copenhagen / Anker… Read More

Paris, Jean Richer et François Gueffier, 1618.
Large 8vo [174 x 107 mm] of (24) ll., 970 pp. wrongly numbered 968, (15) ll. Bound in full contemporary red morocco, gilt border on the covers, gilt stamped coat of arms on the center, flat spine decorated with the same border, gilt title on the spine, gilt edges. Contemporary binding.
Superb and rare illustrated edition of Alciato's Emblems illustrated with 211 beautiful woodcuts (55 x 55 mm) placed within gracious frames.

This edition is enlarged with new comments given by Fédéric Morel that are published here for the first time.
"Andrea Alciato was born in Milan on May 8th, 1492. He went to study law in Pavia and Bologna.
In 1521, he is appointed professor of law at the university of Avignon; he got in this city such great successes, that up to eight hundred people were counted in his audience; but the lack of accuracy put into paying his fees convinced him to go back to Milan. Alciato was one of the first to feel that studying history is… Read More

Bologna, 1599-1667.
11 works in 13 folio volumes [338 x 228 mm]. Red morocco, spine ribbed and decorated, border on the covers in the style of Du Seuil, arms on the center of the covers, gilt edges. 17th century binding.
Nissen ZBI, p. 17-18, n° 66, 68, 70-72 & 74-78; Nissen, IVB, 18; Nissen, BBI, 14; Paul Delaunay, La zoologie au seizième siècle, 1962, p. 4 passim; DSB, I, 108-110.
Exceptional reunion of works by the naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi.
These wonderful volumes, printed in Bologna, are illustrated with copper-engraved titles and portraits. The text is illustrated with over 4 500 woodcuts showing birds, fish, reptiles, mammals, insects, crustaceans, human monsters, minerals, trees …
The eleven titles in thirteen volumes constitute Aldrovandi's complete works: each are in first edition except the De quadrupedis solidi pedibus.
Composition of the series:
1 – Ornithologiae, hoc est de avibus historiae. 1599-1603. 3 volumes.
2 – De reliquis animalibus exanguibus libri quatuor.… Read More

Argentorati, Iohannem Heruagium, 1525.
[Followed by]: Erasmus.
De octo orationis partium constructione libellus, tum elegans imprimis, tum dilucida brevitate copiosissimus. Erasmo roterodamo autore.
At the end "Augustae Vindelicorum, in officina D. Sigismum Grim, 11 Aout Anno 1523."
[Followed by]: Valla.
Laurentii vallae elegatiarum adeps, exeius de lingua latina libris per Bonum Accursium Pisanum studiosissime collectus. (Les élégances de la langue latine).
Apud Sanctam Romanorum Colonia, 1525.
In total three texts bound in one 8vo volume [148 x 100 mm] of: I/ 184 ll., the last one blank; II/ (28) ll. ; III/ (1) title-page, 148 pp., (10) pp. of index, (1) bl.p. Numerous handwritten notes on the last 2 ll. of the 1st text. Bound in blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, brass clasps. Contemporary binding.
Collection in quite rare and very early editions of 3 important founding works of the Renaissance, in philology and grammar, by Erasmus and by his master Laurent Valla.
Laurent Valla, "the… Read More

Dijon, P. Palliot, 1643.
Folio [358 x 220 mm] of (13) ll. including 1 engraved frontispiece, 725 pp., (19) pp. including 1 full-page plate, 43 engravings in the text, 1 folding plate out of pagination. A marginal tear on pp. 105 and 465 without loss, lower corner of p. 505 torn up not affecting the text, small wormtrack in the margin of pp. 247 to 270, some light marginal foxing, outer margin of the first 3 ll. slightly trimmed, small burnhole in the frontispiece. Stiff vellum, blind-stamped double fillets around the covers, blind-stamped fleurons at the corners, blind-stamped medallion in the centre with the motto Animis Illabere Nostris, spine ribbed and decorated with blind-stamped fleurons, red mottled edges. Contemporary binding.
First and unique edition of the first encyclopedia dedicated to the maritime world.
Sabin 50723; Borba de Moraes 598.
The present copy belongs to the first issue with the dedication to King Louis XIII dated January 1643.
"A kind of encyclopedia of everything relating… Read More

London, James Madden, [1848].
30 coloured plates on single sheets plus 1 frontispiece.
Superb complete illustration about Egypt and Nubia out of text; each plate measuring 422 x 303 mm belongs to the first issue of the first edition from 1848.
The coloured plates were drawn by Prisse d'Avennes, who worked in Thebes from 1839 to 1843 with the botanist George Lloyd.
Atabey 1001 ; Blackmer 1357 ; Lipperheide 1599.
Nomenclature :
Portrait of the late George Lloyd.
Arnaout and osmanli soldiers, Alexandria.
Ghawazi, or dancing girls. Rosetta.
Camels resting in the sherkiyeh. Land of Goshen, lower Egypt.
Egyptian lady in the harem. Cairo.
Nizam, or regular troops. Kanka.
Habesh, or Abyssinian slave. Cairo.
Zeyat (oilman), his shop and customers. Cairo.
Janissary and merchant. Cairo.
Young arab girl returning from the bath. Cairo.
Cairine lady waited upon by a galla slave girl.
Bedouins, from the vicinity of Suez.
Fellah, dressed in the haba.
Female fellah.
Female of the middle class drawing water from the… Read More