Bossuet (Jacques Benigne, évêque de Meaux) :Livre Rare Book
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réf. 17377Paris, Veuve de Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1689 ; fort in-8, bradel de percaline vieux rouge, pièce de titre réglisse (Lemardeley) ; 96 pp. y compris le titre ; 496 - [34] pp. ; p. 397-838, [31] pp. [1] p. blanche.
réf. 102495Paris, Club du Livre, collection Gravure Contemporaine, 1980, 2 volumes in-folio de 330x255 mm environ, 172 pages, 4 ff. (table, justificatif de tirage), plein cuir lie-de-vin, plats ornés d'un double visage (doré sur le premier plat) et de signes zodiacaux frappés à froid, tête dorée, sous jaquette avec dos en cuir lie-de-vin et intérieur velours et son étui avec ouverture en cuir assorti, les deux étant recouverts de soie noire, sur vélin d'Arches. Avec 23 lithographies originales en couleur de JACQUOT, en hors-texte et sous serpente, dont un frontispice représentant NOSTRADAMUS ainsi que les 22 arcanes du tarot initiatique, divinatoire. Tirage limité à 390 exemplaires, celui-ci étant numéroté 52 et signé par JACQUOT, un des 55 exemplaires sur Arches, auxquels on a joint une suite en couleurs tirée sur Japon nacré signé par l'artiste et une suite en couleurs sur Arches. Cuir épidermé sur le dos, toile légèrement effrangée par endroits avec trace de colle sur le dos du volume-livre, intérieur parfait état.
1507In-4°, 93pp, (1), illustrazioni, vignetta (cardinale nello studiolo), altra (Madonna in trono a carta Z5v). Marca editoriale doppia croce su cerchio a goccia con iniziali LSO, legatura in pergamena coeva, buone condizioni In-4°, 93pp, (1), engravings, xilographic vignette (Cardinal in his cabinet), and xylography (Madonna enthroned at leaf Z5v) Printer’s mark double cross upon drop-like circle with initials LSO, contemporary vellum binding, good copy
réf. DADAX078694854XNew unknown
1607réf. 191768Paris: Compagnie de la Grand-Navire Jacques Du Puis 1607. A collection of verse prophecies by the most important oracles of ancient Greece and Rome. Included are the oracles of Apollo in Delphi and Mylos of Jupiter in Dodona and Ammon Hecate and Serapis and other gods such as Aesculapius and Trophonius. The prophecies drawn from classical authors are concerned with health meteorological phenomena births and death including the death of Hannibal p. 63 the outcome of wars and more. The last text is Oneirocreticon an ancient manual on the interpretation of dreams attributed by Scaliger to Astrampsychus; in the manual specific dream events are interpreted as signs that predict real-life outcomes. The work was edited by the philologist Johannes Opsopoeus and first published in 1589 as part his collected edition of the Sibylline oracles. It was reprinted in the same work in 1599 and 1607 but also circulated separately. Octavo 177 x 108 mm pp. xxiiii i.e. xx mispaginated 114 6. Woodcut printer's device on title page. Later vellum over boards edges sprinkled red. Covers bowed and marked turn-ins lifting slightly from pastedowns a couple of leaves lightly foxed. A very good copy. Caillet 10179: Lynn Thorndike A History of Magic and Experimental Science vol. VI 1966 p. 492. hardcover
1627réf. ABC_48068Amsterdam: Broer Jansz. 1627. 19th-century gold-tooled brown morocco with the gold-tooled coat of arms of Victor Masséna 5th Prince dEssling and 3rd Duke of Rivoli 1836-1910 on both boards the title impressum and repeatedly the monogram "VM" lettered in gold on the spine gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins gilt edges marbled endpapers. Bound by the 19th-century French bookbinders Allô-Wampflug signed in the lower turn-ins at the front and back. 4to. With a large woodcut on the title page showing the Ottomans reaching Constantinople and 16 engravings in the text with emblematic scenes featuring sultans including Mehmet II and Sulaiman I animals such as unicorns nursing bears eagles ravens wolves snakes mythological figures rulers etc. Each plate is followed by an epigram and explanation. First Dutch edition of the divinations of the Byzantine Emperors Severus probably Lucius Septimius Severus 145-211 CE and Leo VI the Wise 866-912 CE on the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century. A second edition with the same plates appeared with the same publisher in 1640. The work is a separately published part of Historie van den oorsprongh geslacht geboorte opvoedinge en leere des grooten valschen progheets Mahomets also published by Broer Jansz in Amsterdam in 1627 and 1640. The 16 engravings are after the illustrations in the Codex of the Oracula of Leo Sapiens in the Amsterdam University Library MS 16.This copy was bound for Victor Masséna 5th Prince dEssling and 3rd Duke of Rivoli 1836-1910 by the famous 19th-century French bookbinders Allô-Wampflug. Masséna was a French army officer a member of Parliament for the Grasse constituency Alpes-Maritimes from 1863 to 1871 a Knight of the Légion d'honneur in 1859 and a bibliophile and scholar.With a small inscription on the verso of the first flyleaf "1847" washed. Overall in very good condition.l Livres à figures prov. De la biblioth. Du Prince dEssling. Vol. 2 1939 no. 228; STCN 841466505; USTC 1029656; Waller no. 1389. Broer Jansz., hardcover
