Books - Rare & Modern
Location: 1788
Published: Potzdam, Strasbourg, Paris, 1788
Size: 590 x 640 mm.
Color: In original o/l colours.
Condition: 4to. 92pp. with large folding map. Contemp. mottled calf, with raised spine in 6 compartments. Richly gilted with coats of arms of Ducs of Luynes, and title on red morocco label.
MULLER, L. - Tableau des guerres de Frédéric le Grand: ou plans figurés de vingt-six batailles rangées, ou combats essentiel..
4,500€
Location: 1790
Published: Lyon, Bruyset Père & Fils, 1790
Size: 130 x 170mm.
Color: In original colours.
Condition: Small 8vo. Contemporary brown calf.
Atlas for the children with 24 maps of the World and continents and maps of European countries. Size of the maps: 13x17cm siz..
700€
Location: 1811
Published: Paris, Treuttel et Wurtz, 1811
Size: 200 x 130mm.
Color: Uncoloured.
Condition: In-8 de (2) ff., X -160 pp., 1 frontispice gravé et 4 tableaux dépliants gravés par Miller ; veau jaspé, dos plat orné de motifs dorés, roulette dorée sur les coupes (reliure de l'époque). Dos refait.
Rare première édition. "Médecin (Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat), il étudie le chinois et publie un Essai sur la langue et la litté..
2,500€
Location: 1816
Published: Paris, Desray, 1816
Size: 690 x 520mm.
Color: In attractive original o/l colours.
Condition: Large folio (69 x 52 cm), contemp. half-calf, spine damaged. Containing 8 general one-sheet maps, and 8 detailed four-sheet maps. Printed on heavy paper.
Large folio atlas containing 8 general one-sheet maps, and 8 detailed four-sheet maps: Containing2 World maps- "Mappe-monde s..
5,750€
![CH'ONHA CHIDO - [Atlas of all under Heaven].](https://www.loeb-larocque.com/eshop/image/cache/catalog/image/new_upload/33625-275x210h.jpg "CH'ONHA CHIDO - [Atlas of all under Heaven].")
Location: 1820
Published: Korea, ca. 1820
Size: 330 x 390mm.
Color: In original colours.
Condition: Manuscript atlas ([13] folded double leaves) : colour maps mounted on thick rice paper ; sheets 33 x 39 centimeters, folded to 33 x 19,5 centimeters. Korea, early or mid nineteenth century.
The Ch’onha chido [Atlas of all under Heaven] is a 19th century copy of the traditional Korean atlas produced in the early Ch..
28,000€
Location: 1824
Published: New-Orleans, Benjamin Levy, 1824
Size: 300 x 190 mm.
Color: Uncoloured
Condition: 4°. 164 pp. Half gold Havana calf leather, spine ribbed and decorated, marbled edges (original binding).
LIVINGSTON, E. - System of Penal Law, prepared for the State of Louisiana ; comprising codes of offenses and punishments, of..
3,000€
Location: 1839
Published: Florence, Gaspard Ricci, 1839
Size: 192 x 120 mm.
Color: In original o/l colours.
Condition: 8vo. (1), 288 pp. Original publisher's paperboard. With 1 engr. folding plan and 12 copper plates with views in Florence. Very clean copy.
BULGARINI, A. - Guide de Florence et de ses environs Redige´ sur un plan entierement nouveau par l'Abbé A. Bulgarini et Trad..
500€
Location: 1850
Published: Paris, ca. 1850
Size: 4to.
Color: Uncolored.
Condition: In-4 oblong de (1) f. de titre et 21 pl. ; pleine toile bordeaux, titre et adresse bibliographique dorés sur le plat supérieur, tranches dorées (cartonnage de l'époque). Cartonnage passé et taché, rousseurs éparses tout au long de l'ouvrage.
GORSE. - Luchon et ses environs. - 23749 - - GORSE. - Luchon et ses environs. - 23749 -..
400€
Location: 1860
Published: Clermont-Ferrand, Talbot, ca. 1860
Size: 445 x 310mm.
Color: Uncoloured.
Condition: In-folio de 1 p. de titre et 20 pl. lithographiées brillamment coloriées à l'époque ; pleine percaline bleue, plats estampés à froid, décor doré sur le premier plat avec titre doré. (Cartonnage d'éditeur). Cartonnage légèrement sali, infimes rousseurs affectant les planches.
Album illustré de 21 lithographies (dont page de titre) sur fond bistre, sur vélin fort. Les planches d'après Ch. Bour ont ét..
2,000€
Location: 1865
Published: Paris et Nantes, Charpentier, 1865
Size: 330 x 480 mm.
Color:
Condition: 3 volumes in-folio demi-chagrin violine, dos 4 nerfs, compartiments ornés d'hermines dorées, titre or, filet or sur les nerfs. Plats encadrés de filets à froid, frappés des armes du Duché de Bretagne, tranches dorées (reliure éditeur).
BENOIST, F. - La Bretagne contemporaine. Sites pittoresques, monuments, costumes, scènes de mœurs, histoires, légendes, tra..
3,200€
Location: 1875
Published: Paris, Guérin and Cie, 1875
Size: 450 x 315 mm.
Color: Uncoloured.
Condition: Two volumes (of 3) in tall 8vo (275 x 175mm.). 4 unnumbered leaves, XXXI, 446 pp.; 2 unnumbered leaves, 466 pp. + Atlas folio (450 x 315mm.), title, 30 plates, index. Contemporary red quarter-leather binding, spines with raised bands, title gilt. Bindings a bit soiled, very few browning.
MOREAU de SAINT-MERY, Médéric Louis Elie. - Description topographique, physique, civile, politique et historique de la parti..
1,500€
Location: 1890
Published: France, ca. 1890
Size: 8 oblong
Color: In original colours.
Condition: In-8 oblong de 8 pl. ; demi-bradel rouge à coins.
Charmant atlas manuscrit illustré de 8 cartes et un trompe-l'œil finement coloriés à l'époque, représentant un planisphère, l..
1,500€
Location: 1897
Published: Leipzig, 1897
Size: 270 x 190 mm.
Color: Uncoloured.
Condition: 4to. Two volumes bound in one. Second edition. Würzburg und Leipzig Verlag der K.U.K. Hofbuchhandlung von Leo Woerl, frontisp. and a map of Japan. XXXV 421p vii 342p.
The book has been re-bound early this century in full leather binding. Plates covered with snake-skin imitation leather. Edge..
1,500€
Location: 1904
Published: Leipzig: Spamer, 1904
Size: 240 x 160 mm.
Color: Uncoloured.
Condition: 8vo. XXXI, 296 pp.
HAMILTON, A. - Korea. Das Land des Morgenrots. Nach seinen Reisen geschildert von Angus Hamilton. Autorisierte Übersetzung a..
150€
Location: 1913
Published: Paris, 1912-1913
Size: 255 x 205mm.
Color: In original colours.
Condition: 2 volumes in original cover, volume I: [2], 192, viii pp., with 60 numbered plates. Volume II: [2], 193-384, viii, with 60 numbered plates.
La Gazette du Bon Ton was a leading French fashion magazine that was published from November 1912 to 1925. The extremely rich..
3,200€
Location: 1931
Published: London, 1931
Size: 275 x 220 mm.
Color: Colour printed.
Condition: Orig. half cloth with title on publisher's glazed boards in black and silver. With much of the glassine wrapper. Some repair to spine and boards. The publisher's slipcase wanting.
TOMER, A. - The theory and practice of layout en Page. The Studio Ltd. - 46211 - - TOMER, A. - The theory and practice of la..
1,000€
![[BALDUINO (Giacomo)], ZUCHI (Andrea) / WOLFF (Jeremias). - Recueil de costumes. Imagini degl'abiti con cui Va uestita la Nobiltà della Serenis.ma Republica di Venezia. Suivi de: [Augsburger Kleidertrachten].](https://www.loeb-larocque.com/eshop/image/cache/catalog/image/new_upload/48425-275x210h.jpg "[BALDUINO (Giacomo)], ZUCHI (Andrea) / WOLFF (Jeremias). - Recueil de costumes. Imagini degl'abiti con cui Va uestita la Nobiltà della Serenis.ma Republica di Venezia. Suivi de: [Augsburger Kleidertrachten].")
Location: 715.
Published: Venezia, Ragheno, 1702 / Augsbourg, J. Wolff, ca. 1715.
Size: 380 x 255mm.
Color: Uncoloured
Condition: In-folio. 1 f. (titre), 12 planches non chiffrées gravées sur cuivre. / Deuxième suite : 24 planches gravées sur cuivre en coloris d’époque. Etiquette de maroquin rouge recollée sur le plat supérieur portant l’inscription « M. de Souzy ». Vélin rigide (reliure de l’époque).
Imagini degl'abiti con cui Va uestita la Nobiltà della Serenis.ma Republica di Venezia. Dedicate all'Illmo et Ecc.mo Sig.r An..
8,000€
Location: 848.
Published: Nantes, Charpentier, 1848.
Size: 375 x 280 mm.
Color: In attactive original colours.
Condition: 2 vol. in-folio, demi-basane brune, dos à faux nerfs (reliure de l'époque). Rousseurs éparses tout au long de l'ouvrage. Coiffes usagées, mors frottés.
Ouvrage illustré de 100 planches lithographiées. Les planches de
costumes sont en coloris d'époque rehaussées de gomme arab..
4,000€
![CALLOT, J. / GAULTIER, Léonard. / De WEERT, J. - [Estampes de dévotion].](https://www.loeb-larocque.com/eshop/image/cache/catalog/image/new_upload/CALLOT-J-GAULTIER-Léonard-De-WEERT-J-[Estampes-de-dévotion]-275x210w.jpg "CALLOT, J. / GAULTIER, Léonard. / De WEERT, J. - [Estampes de dévotion].")
Location: cles
Published: [Paris], XVI-XVIIIe siècles
Size: 160 x 102 mm.
Color: Uncoloured.
Condition: In-12, reliure début XVIIIe siècle, veau havane marbré, dos à 5 nerfs, pièce de titre maroquin grenat, roulette dorée aux coupes, tranches rouges (petits accrocs aux bords des coiffes, un coin frotté, salissures sans gravité).
Recueil de 157 estampes religieuses gravées sur cuivre. La majeure
partie des gravures porte l'excudit de Pierre Gallays, g..
1,700€
Location: 1735
Published: Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, 1735
Size: 430 x 280mm.
Color: Uncolored
Condition: 4 volumes folio ; (2) leaves, viij-lij-iv-592 pp. — (2) leaves, iv-725 pp. — (2) leaves, iv-564-(2) pp. — (2) leaves, ij-520 pp. Contemporary calf, spines divided in compartments by six raised bands, contrasting red morocco labels in two, others richly gilt with floral tools, leaf sprays, etc., sides ruled in gilt with three-line fillet, marbled endpapers, red edges. With 65 maps and plates (all but one double-page or folding); titles in red and black incorporating engraved pictorial vignette by Baquoy after Humblot; with all half-titles; woodcut head- and tailpieces, typographic ornaments, historiated and decorative initials.
First edition of this cornerstone of any collection of books on China, which is also among the rarest and most desirable of i..
30,000€