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Item #003557 Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies...

The Price of Revolution

Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event, in a Letter Intended to have been sent to a Gentleman in Paris.

London: J. Dodsley, 1790. 8vo (212 x 130 mm). iv, 356 pp. Small woodcut vignette to p. iv ponting to the right. Bound in contemporary calf, rebacked with original gilt-lettered and gilt-decorated spine leather laid down, gilt-tooled boards, board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers (extremities rubbed, corners..... More

Price: 6,500 €

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Item #002947 Commentariorum de bello Gallico liber primus (-septimus). Caius Julius CAESAR

Exceptionally rare early incunabula edition of Julius Caesar's chronicle on the Gallic war

Commentariorum de bello Gallico liber primus (-septimus).

Treviso: Michele Manzolo, 1480. 30 June 1480. Folio (288 x 198 mm). 167 (of 168) unfoliated leaves, lacking the initial blank leaf only. Signatures: a8 (-a1) b6 c8 d6 e8 f6 g8 h6 i8 k6 l8 m6 n8 o6 p8 q6 r8 s6 t8 u6 x6, A-B8 C6. 44 lines..... More

Price: 25,000 €

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Item #002781 De Bello Peloponnesiaco libri VIII, iidem Latine, ex interpretatione Laurentii...

De Bello Peloponnesiaco libri VIII, iidem Latine, ex interpretatione Laurentii Vallae, ab Henrico Stephano recognita.

[Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1588. Folio (348 x 221 mm). [20], 621, [15], 73, [7] pp. Signatures: (par)6 2(par)4 a-3n6 3o4. Double column Greek and Latin text, woodcut device on title. Bound in 17th century morocco, regilded and rebacked. Text little browned, occasional foxing, two leaves in signature ss misbound. Very..... More

Price: 5,000 €

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Item #003344 Opera [with the commentary of Servius]. Publius VERGILIUS MARO

From the Hans Fürstenberg library and in its first binding

Opera [with the commentary of Servius].

Venice: Antonio di Bartolommeo da Bologna (Miscomini), 1476. October 1476. Folio (340 x 235 mm). 291 (of 292) leaves, lacking the final blank leaf only. Roman type 4:78R, 63 lines. Signatures: a-y10 z8 A8, <1-5>10 <6-10>10 <11-15>10 <16-20>10 <21-24>8 <25-28>8. Rubricated throughout with capital strokes and initials opening paragraphs painted..... More

Price: 49,000 €

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Item #003737 Les Ruines de Palmyre, autrement dite Tedmor, au desert. Robert WOOD, James DAWKINS

Wood's famous work on the ruins of Palmyra

Les Ruines de Palmyre, autrement dite Tedmor, au desert.

London: chez A. Millar, dans le Strand, 1753. Large folio (540 x 375 mm). [6], 50 pp. With 3 full-page engravings of inscriptions in text and 57 full-page engraved plates numbered I-LVII, including double-page folding panoramic plate I assembled in 3 folding sheets, mounted on stub and bound-in before p.37..... More

Price: 8,000 €

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