Librairie Nicolas Malais
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MONTLOSIER, F.-D. de Reynaud, Comte de Essai sur la théorie des volcans d’Auvergne, Paris, Belin et Ancelle, Year X-1802.
Octavo, 184 pp. Contemporary paper binding. Note that quire A is bound in incorrect order but complete. Paper restorations to the binding; minor corner flaws, browned title page, some foxing. Dimensions: 20.5 x 12.7 cm. A significant edition of this treatise on volcanology by Comte de Montlosier (1755–1838), in which he examines the formation, activity,…
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[ GREEK TRAGEDIES, ERASMUS ] AESCHYLUS, SOPHOCLES, EURIPIDES Tragoediæ selectæ Æschyli, Sophoclis, Euripidis cum duplici interpretatione Latina… Geneva, Estienne, 1567
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2 parts bound in 4 volumes, 16mo: (I) (2) ff., 379 p., 2 blank leaves; (II) p. 1–383 (p. 384 blank); (III) p. 385–735 (p. 736 blank); (IV) p. 737–955. Bound in early 19th-century red long-grain morocco, gilt fillet borders on the boards, spines with raised bands and gilt decorations, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt,…
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LACTANTIUS, Lucius Coelius Firmianus, Opera. Venice, Andrea de Paltasichis and Boninus de Boninis of Ragusa, 1478
Folio. (213) leaves (signatures: a2–9, b–d8, e10, f–m8, M8, N6, n–r8, s–t6, u–x8, y6, z8, &8, £10). Lacking leaf a10 (table); a1 (blank) not preserved. Early 19th-century half blond calf, smooth spine decorated with red long-grain morocco title label. Hinges restored, rubbing on spine, corners worn, small marginal dampstains, worming, slight foxing on the first…
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HEISTER, Lorenz L’Anatomie d’Heister avec des essais de physique sur l’usage des parties du corps humain Paris, Vincent, 1724.
PRECIOUS COPY FROM BUFFON’S LIBRARY Octavo, (4) ff., 716 pp., (2) ff., 24 pp. Contemporary brown calf binding, spine with raised bands and gilt decoration, title label in aged red morocco (headcaps and corners worn, some rubbing on spine, leather missing at head of rear cover, title page somewhat soiled, slight water stains affecting the…
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Tibullus, Catullus, Propertius cum comento (sic). [Elegiae, Carmina, Elegiae].
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Venice, Simone Bevilacqua, June 26, 1493. Folio, modern vellum, (157) f. (signature: a-c8, d-e6, f-s8, t-u6, x5, without final blank). Beautiful Venetian incunable printing of Catullus and the Latin elegiac poets, with the commentary of Antonio Partenio. A precious copy annotated by two enlightened readers: one contemporary to the edition and the other from the mid-sixteenth century. The…
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DIONYSIUS PERIEGETES, Cosmographia sive de situ orbis habitabilis, Venice, Bernhard Maler, Erhard Ratdolt, and Peter Löslein, 1477.
Quarto, (41) ff. (a-d⁸, e¹⁰). 18th-century vellum binding, smooth spine with gilt title and date (the last blank leaf not preserved, small losses to the vellum on the spine, and a snag at the top of the lower board; slightly trimmed margins after the 18th-century rebinding, affecting notably the coat of arms where the base…
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BARTHES, Roland, Fragments d’un discours amoureux, Paris, Seuil, 1977.
First edition of what can be considered as one of the Roland Barthes’ most popular work among readers & scholars. Exceptional autograph dedication from Roland Barthes to the writer and critic François-Régis Bastide: “To François-Régis Bastide, always so kind to me, this book, half-novel, half-essay, with the friendship of a compatriot, Roland Barthes.” Notably, Barthes…
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1st EDITION – ONE OF THE EARLIEST BOOK ON OPHTHALMOLOGY
PORZIO (Simone) and Ps.-ARISTOTLE. De coloribus libellus (…) Florence, Lorenzo Torrentino, 1548. Quarto (22 x 13.4 cm), 197 pages, [1] leaf. Contemporary limp vellum with overlapping edges. Occasional light foxing. The last two leaves and the final endpaper bear the imprint of a tree leaf, evidently onced place between the last leaf and the endpaper.…
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THE EXTREMLY RARE FIRST GREEK BOOK EVER PRINTED IN OXFORD.
JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, Homiliae VI, ex manuscriptis codicibus Novi Collegii Joannis Harmari (…) opera et industria nunc primum græce in lucem editæ. Oxford, Joseph Barnes, 1586. 16vo, (6) ff. 138 p. (signed : A6 , A-H8 , I4 , L1 ). Brown mid-19th century boards, (some rubbing to binding, corners dulled, pp. 103-104 crossed by a…
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WILD, Johann, Sommerteil der Postill. Evangelischer… Mainz, Franz Behem, 1558 & Sommerteil der Postill. De Sanctis. Mainz, Franz Behem, 1559
Two parts in one folio volume, [6], 501 (i.e., 500) leaves; [4], 161 (i.e., 162), [1] leaves. Pigskin over wooden boards. Contemporary German binding, blind-stamped. Spine with four raised bands; outer borders adorned with floral motifs; inner borders featuring figures of Christ, David, Paul, and John the Baptist. Central panels decorated with floral designs. Traces…