Books & Manuscripts

The manuscripts describe the events of the War of the Austrian Succession that followed the defeat of the King of Sardinia in his camp in Alexandria, the siege of Valencia and the route from Cazal to Alexandria in 1745.

Manuscript report on the capture of the port of Muscat by d'Estaing.

Exceptional, unsophisticated example of the first state of Abraham Ortelius’s Theatrum, one of the most important works in the Western Canon.

Very exceptional ticket for the funeral of Emperor Napoleon I.

Red morocco with the arms of Armand-Thomas Hue, marquis of Miromesnil

Good copy of this rare encyclopedia on arts and techniques bound in 22 folio volumes and illustrated with more than 1500 plates.

An unregistered German world atlas.

Superb medicinal herbarium

Second edition of this monument to the history of the book

The coronation of the first emperor of Haiti.

Rare first edition of this relation composed in the form of notes or letters

Five handwritten plans of the hotel are attached to the book.

The Paris edition of Religious Ceremonies

Exceedingly rare manuscript atlas of the 17th century

Complete collection of the Gazette du Bon Ton, an elegant magazine of contemporary fashions founded by Lucien Vogel, illustrated with more than 700 plates, most of them stenciled.

First French translation of the first reliable source on the Mongol dominations of Central Asia

Unique edition printed in a very small number

Reunion of two rare works and in first edition a volume, printed in Greek and Latin type.

Spectacular binding with the arms of Ferdinand I

"The best editions of Arrien are those of Jacques Gronovius, Leiden 1704 [...] with a Latin translation by Bonaventure Vulcanius."

Third edition of this treatise on Baker's microscopes.

French first edition of Henry Baker's work

Rare first edition of the French translation by Pierre Demours.

"One of the author's masterpieces" (Carteret I, p.109)

Bellin’s most important work, with royal coat of arms.

Precious copy enriched with a suite signed on Japon.

First edition illustrated with sixty superb plates.

Superbement relié dans une reliure néerlandaise d'époque

Beautiful small atlas of 36 maps, all but one colored at the time, composed by Bonne, Janvier, Rizzi-Zannoni and de L'Isle.

Beautiful copy with the arms of Louis XV.

Extremely rare work on Scottish Masonry also containing the polemic Masonry dissected by Samuel Prichard.

First edition of this detailed study, which gives an excellent overview of the mores in Constantinople in the early nineteenth century

40 colored boundary maps in 48 sheets

First edition with arms

First edition and first printing of this beautiful album dedicated to the Isle of Wight.

First edition, complete in a fine binding signed by Alphonse Giroux

"It is mainly on this work that the reputation of the famous scholar rests" (Brunet).

First edition of this important optical treatise

The first book on exotic butterflies ordered according to the new system developed by Carl von Linné, enriched with his supplement, and superbly illustrated with 442 plates engraved and colored at the time.

Very rare Chaldean grammar and hagiographic lexicon of Chaldeanism.

Composite atlas with 16 maps by d'Anville

With 21 original plates including 14 hors-texte signed in the plate.

Well-preserved main work of a 16th century Flemish lawyer

A very attractive atlas of the world.

Very rare

Deluxe edition in a sublime mosaic binding

"In The 300 Meter Tower, Eiffel gave in a scientific and technical way the descriptions, calculations, and drawings of all the parts of his tower"

Lisbon, 1582.

One of the most beautiful books on India.

Copy of the collection of Richard Benyon de Beauvoir.

Signed first edition, illustrated with 21 lithographs of which one on double page.

First editions and first prints of Gavarni's beautiful Fantasy

Exemplaire de l’auteur dédicacé à sa nièce Marguerite Toiton.

Delightful collection of marine by Guéroult du Pas including 3 suites of various buildings evolving in Europe, in the Mediterranean Sea and in the oceans.

with 250 colored plates

Second edition, 25 copies

with 13 maps in period colors.

Le Traité de la peste, par le maître apothicaire et écrivain philanthrope parisien Nicolas Houel, fondateur du jardin et de l'école des apothicaires de Paris.

Edition originale de la célèbre expédition d'André Citroën avec suite en couleur.

Tthe fifth work to be printed by Ibrahim Muteferrika

A precious testimony on the daily life of couples during the Renaissance.

Contains 13 large miniatures, 6 mid-page miniatures and 33 small miniatures.

Precious copy enriched with 6 original preparatory drawings for the illustration .

First edition of one of the greatest scientific expeditions of the 18th century.

Beautiful work of devotion and piety, for the personal use of the author, Father Guilelmi Langenberger.

Bel ouvrage apprécié pour sa riche iconographie sur l'Orient dessinée d’après nature et reproduite en taille-douce annonçant plus de 320 gravures.

First edition of this long and interesting scientific voyage to the East Indies and the Indian Ocean.

Beautiful and rare collection

Atlas of 208 maps and 41 photographic plates reproducing the itineraries of the trips made in the Pei Tcheuly Gulf basin between 1916 and 1923, by the Jesuit missionary Emile Licent.

Exemplaire de Ferdinand Ier (1793-1875), Empereur d’Autriche, Roi de Lombardie-Vénétie, couronné en septembre 1838.

Rare illustrated work from the end of the 16th century.

First edition of this methodical geography book for school children.

Milano, [1838]. Seul exemplaire connu.

"Very rare first edition of one of Prosper Merimee's most famous works" (Carteret)

First edition with the watercolor plates enhanced with gold.

Founding catalog of the first large-scale scientific exhibition devoted to the Arts of Islam.

The first printed collection of voyages and discoveries.

First edition of one of the most beautiful atlas of obstetrics illustrated with 60 plates.

The most complete edition of Olearius' report on Muscovy, Tartary and Persia, containing a large number of details on each country visited, politics, manners, customs and inhabitants, etc., and numerous illustrations.

Un des ouvrages écrits par Alexandre Louis Marie Pétis de la Croix sous le pseudonyme Hadji Mehemmed Efendy.

First edition of Plato by Froben from the commented Latin translation by Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) and revised by Simon Grynaeus (1493-1541).