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Recherches sur la Bibliotheque Publique de l’Eglise Notre-Dame de Paris au XIIIe Siecle d’Apres des Documents Inedits. Paris: Auguste Aubry, 1863. [4], vii, [1], 184, [2]pp., with half-title. [Bound with:] ----. Recherches sur la Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Medecine... Paris: Auguste Aubry, 1864. [4], 177, [3]pp., with half-title and frontispiece plan. [Bound with:] ----. Histoire de la Bibliotheque de l’Abbaye de Saint-Victor a Paris....

FRANKLIN (Alfred) · 1865 · Forest Books

£317.13 (€380.19 | $419.04 | ¥66,924)

Paris: Auguste Aubry, 1865. [4], 158, [2]pp., with half-title. 3 Works bound as one, small 8vo (200 x 130 mm), all limited to 300 copies and each with a presentation inscription from the author to his friend O. Thirrey, marbled endpapers, nicely bound in nineteenth-century Frenc…

Auguste Comte et la philosophie positive.

COMTE, A. LITTRÉ, E. · 1863 · Antiquariaat Brinkman, sinds 1954

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.05 | ¥10,562)

Par.1863. Demi-veau. xi,687 pp. (Prem.éd.,rousseurs)

MÉLANGES Auguste Pelzer: études d'histoire littéraire et doctrinale de la scolastique médiévale.

PELZER, A.] · 1947 · Antiquariaat Brinkman, sinds 1954

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

Louvain 1947. Gr-8. xix,662 pp. Broché (Un.de Louv.3/26)

Histoire Auguste, tome III/1: Vies de Macrin, Diaduménien, Héliogabale. Texte, trad.& comm.p. R.Turcan.

HISTORIA AUGUSTA. · 1993 · Antiquariaat Brinkman, sinds 1954

€32.00 ($35.27 | £26.69 | ¥5,633)

Paris 1993. xv,241 pp. Rélié (Budé)

La littérature grecque à la lumière de l'appréciation esthétique des auteurs romains (depuis Auguste jusqu'au IIe siècle après J.-Ch.).

STYKA, J. · 1987 · Antiquariaat Brinkman, sinds 1954

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

Wroclaw 1987. 183 pp. Broché (Polska Ak.Nauk)

Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France. Ed.p.M.J.J.Brial. Tome 17. La première livraison des monumens des règnes de Philippe-Auguste et de Louis VIII, depuis l'an MCLXXX jusqu'en MCCXXVI.

DELISLE, L. (éd.) · 1968 · Antiquariaat Brinkman, sinds 1954

€70.00 ($77.15 | £58.39 | ¥12,322)

Farnborough, Gregg, 1968 (reprint ed.Paris 1878). Folio. Vol 17. xlviii,865 pp. Toile. (réliure tachée)

L'écriture des actes de Louis VI, Louis VII et Philippe Auguste.

GASPARRI, F. · 1973 · Antiquariaat Brinkman, sinds 1954

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

Genève, Droz, 1973. In-4. 149,[6] pp et 70 planches. Broché. (HE.Méd. & Mod., 20; couv.av. rousseurs)

Philippe Auguste et Bouvines. Av.8 pl.& 1 crt.

HADENGUE, A. · 1978 · Antiquariaat Brinkman, sinds 1954

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

Paris 1978. 269 pp.

Le fauconnier parfait, ou méthode pour dresser et faire voler les oiseaux.Paris, pour la Société des Bibliophiles (back of the half-title: printed by Ch. Lahure), 1866. 8vo. Half-title, title-page with a wood-engraved medallion portrait of Jean-Auguste de Thou. 20th-century panelled calf.

BOISSOUDAN, Jacques Elie Manceau de. · 1745 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)

[4], XII, 72 pp.Written at Poitou ca. 1745, this falconry manual was published only in 1864, at the end of an edition of Jacques du Fouilloux’s La venerie. Harting recommends it and writes that Boissoudan’s "treatise conveys a good idea of the state of falconry in the 18th centu…

Physiologie du gout, ou méditations de gastronomie transcendante, ouvrage théorique, historique et à l'ordre du jour, dédié aux gastronomes Parisiens.Paris, Auguste Sautelet et Cie. (back of title-page: printed by David), 1826 [1825]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a woodcut device on both title-pages. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spines, marbled edges and endpapers.

[BRILLAT-SAVARIN, Jean Anthelme]. · 1755 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)

[2], XIV, [1], 6-390; 442 pp.Very rare first issue of the first edition of the most influential work on cultured eating ever published; only 500 copies were printed. In this first issue the “e” of printer’s address is printed horizontally. This is the only edition that was publi…

Mémoires relatifs a l'expédition Anglaise partie du Bengale en 1800 pour aller combattre en Égypte l'armée d'orient.Paris, Imprimerie Royale (back of half-title: [Auguste] Nepveu), 1826. 8vo. With 2 folding lithographed maps, partly coloured by hand, and 19 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Contemporary red half morocco, gold-tooled spine, marbled sides.

NOÉ, Louis Pantaléon Jude Amédée, Comte de. · 1728 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)

[3], [1 blank], III, [1 bank], 288 pp.First edition of an illustrated account of a British campaign in Egypt, with all the plates coloured by hand, posthumously published from the memoirs of the French count Louis-Pantaléon de Noé (1728-1816). De Noè had sailed for India when hi…

Bagneres de Luchon et ses environs.Paris, Charles Boivin; Pau, Auguste Bassy, [ca. 1850]. Oblong folio (26.5 x 37.5 cm). With a lithographed title-page with a hand-coloured vignette, and 29 numbered lithographed plates, all coloured by hand and some double-page (including 1 folding out vertically) or folding panoramas. All plates mounted on thick wove paper with letterpress captions. Contemporary gold- and blind-blocked dark green cloth, gilt edges.

PETIT, Victor Jean-Baptiste. · 1817 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)

Attractive colour-plate book depicting the spa towns of Bagnères-de-Luchon, an area in the Pyrenees of southern France, adjacent to Spain. The illustrations show waterfalls, lakes, mountains, valleys, glaciers and some villages, each with a caption below the image and sometimes …

Album du musée du Boulaq comprenant quarante planches photographiées par MM. Delié et Béchard, avec un texte explicatif rédigé par Auguste Mariette-Bey.Cairo, Mourès & Cie, 1872. Folio. With 40 original, albumen photographic prints (ca. 24.5 x 18 cm) on stiff paperboard mounted on hinges. Original publisher’s half brown morocco, blind stamped cloth over boards, with title and figures in gold, gilt edges.

MARIETTE-BEY, Auguste. · 1863 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€35,000.00 ($38,577.24 | £29,195.08 | ¥6,161,024)

[3], [42] ll. plus 40 mounted photographic prints.Beautiful photograph album made in Cairo, the first illustrated catalogue of the first Egyptian Museum. The photographs by Hippolyte Délié and Émile Béchard, show the halls and antiques of the Bulaq Museum, founded in Cairo in 18…

Les chevaux de course[:] pedigree - description - historique. 60 portraits en couleur par V.-J. Cotlison, L. Pénicault et Le Nail. Texte orné de 182 vignettes … = Historique des étalons pur-sang Anglais et Français et des juments Françaises les plus célèbres ayant paru sur le turf de 1764 à 1887.Paris, J. Rothschild, 1889. Oblong folio (24.5 x 37 cm). With 2 title-pages in red and black, each with a different vignette; 60 chromolithographed plates, highlighted with gum arabic and lithographed by Thurwanger, each facing an inserted letterpress leaf with a pedigree of the horse portrayed. Further with 182 lithographed vignettes in the text. Contemporary gold- and blind-blocked brown morocco, with the original publisher's front wrapper (lithographed and hand-coloured) mounted on the front board in a wide decorated gold frame, gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges, white glazed endpapers with a watered-silk pattern, signed on the front board, "A SOUZE A. LENEGRE REL.", meaning Auguste Souze and Antoine Lenègre the younger in Paris.

[TEYSSIER des FARGES, George Aimé]. TOUCHSTONE, S.F. (pseudonym). · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

XXV, [1 blank], 165, [1 blank] pp.An impressive record of 60 famous English and French thoroughbred racehorses. After a 26-page history, the series opens with the Godolphin Arabian, a legendary 18th-century Arabian horse, named after Francis, 2nd Earl of Godolphin, and the subje…

[Two autograph letters, signed, attempting to secure promised payments for the booty of the captured English frigate HMS Liverpool by the French privateer Le Grand Décidé, one addressed to Auguste-Anne de Bergevin, Commissaire principal de Marine in Bordeaux, and the other to the brothers Amédée & Eugene Larrieu in Bordeaux, who sold the booty].Bordeaux, 30 June & 18 November 1820. Folio (32.5 x 21 cm) & 4to (19.5 x 20.5 cm). In dark brown ink on paper.

PLEUC or PLEVE?, Jacques René. · 1799 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)

[2], [2 blank]; [2], [2 blank] pp.Two letters by Jacques René Pleuc (or possibly Pleve), officer of the infamous French 18-gun privateer Le Grand Décidé which had been operating out of Bordeaux since 1799 under its captain Duchesne Lasalle for its owner Pierre Leleu. With the ca…

Société anonyme des mines et fonderies de zinc de la Vieille Montagne[.] Album de 30 vues.Paris, (printed by Auguste Bry), 1850-1851. Oblong 1mo (55.5 x 38.5 cm). Tinted lithographed title page and 30 tinted lithographed plates (55.5 x 38.5 cm, one slightly smaller: 35 x 50.5 cm), all in fine contemporary hand-colouring. Loose in modern clamshell box.

MAUGENDRE, Adolphe. · 1809 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€22,500.00 ($24,799.66 | £18,768.26 | ¥3,960,658)

Extremely rare first edition of an impressive series of lithographed views showing the zinc mines, foundries and factories in Belgium and Germany owned by the "Société Anonyme de Mines et Fonderies de Zinc de la Vieille Montagne". The series includes views of Moresnet, Welkenrae…

[Signed letter to Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine].Versailles, 27 April 1710. Half sheet (32 x 21 cm). French letter in dark brown ink on laid paper in a legible hand, written on both sides, with a small part of the letter ending on the back, followed by the address and the Voysin's signature; the latter in black ink.

[LETTER]. VOYSIN, Daniel. · 1655 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.07 | ¥88,015)

[2] pp.Manuscript letter by the French minister of War Daniel Voysin de La Noiraye (1655-1717), addressed to "Monseigneur de V.A.S.". V.A.S. stands for "Votre Altesse Sérénissime" (Your Serene Highness ), which in this case is Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine (1670-1736), …

La fauconnerie au Moyen Age et dans les temps modernes. Recherches historiques, didactiques et naturelles.Paris, Auguste Ghio, 1879. 8vo. With half-title and errata leaf. Contemporary gold-tooled half morocco, with the original publisher’s printed wrappers bound in at the end.

MAGAUD D’AUBUSSON, Louis. · 1827 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

[8], 272 pp.Good association copy of the first and only edition of a "work which no student of the history of falconry should neglect" (Harting). The author argues that people in the Middle Ages particularly honoured the falcon as the star of the hunt. He goes into the Medieval …

Les ordonnances[,] statutes, & edictz, que lEmpereur Charles cinquies. de ce nom, tousjours auguste, a faict publier en la ville de Bruxelles ...Brussels, Marck Martens; Antwerp, “en l[‘]escu dArtoys, sur le Pont de Chambre” [= the printing office of Jacob van Liesvelt], [privilege dated from Brussels, 7 October 1540]. 4° (20.5 × 15 cm). Title-page with an elaborate large woodcut showing the Imperial coat-of-arms. 20th-century half sheepskin parchment, boards covered with 2 leaves from Froben & Petri’s 2° Latin Bible, Basel, 1498, red edges.

[CHARLES V, Emperor]. · 1540 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)

[20] pp.Very rare first edition of the ordinances, statutes and edicts issued by Charles V at Brussels on 4 October 1540, partly new, partly confirming a number of earlier ordinances, etc. on trade customs, contracts and monopolies, money and currency, merchants from abroad, the…

La Fontaine en estampes, ou nouvelle édition des fables, plus complète que les précédentes; précédée de la vie de l'auteur, extraite du nouvel ouvrage de M. Walckenaer.Paris, Auguste Nepveu, 1821. 4to. With an engraving on the title-page (Aesop talking with the animals before a bust of La Fontaine) and 110 half-page engravings illustrating the fables. Contemporary half brown sheepskin, sewn on recessed supports, purple decorated paper sides, gold-tooled spine with title and author in gold, gilt edges, silk endpapers and paste-downs.

[LA FONTAINE, Jean de]. · 1668 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

XXIV [= XXVIII, pp. XXV-XXVI and XXVII-XXVIII are misbound), 462 pp.Beautifully illustrated edition of the French verse fables of Jean de La Fontaine, loosely based on fables by Aesop, Horace and others and first published in the years 1668-1694 here including a "Précis de la vi…