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Monograph on coral fossils in France, with 79 plates

MICHELIN, Jean Louis Hardouin. Iconographie zoophytologique, description par localités et terrains des polypiers fossiles de France et pays environnants.
Paris, P. Bertrand (back of title-page: printed by Fain & Thunot), 1840-1847. 4to. With 79 lithographed plates by Ludovic Michelin and Delarue fils. Contemporary half calf. XII, 348; [4] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Earth Sciences Fossils / Palaeontology France Shells & other Invertebrates
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First English edition of a classic on the 16th-century French military

MONLUC, Blaise, Seigneur de. The commentaries of Messire Blaize de Montluc, Mareschal of France.
London, Andrew Clark for Henry Brome, 1674. Folio. With engraved frontispiece full-length portrait of the author. Contemporary blind-tooled mottled calf. Expertly rebacked in similar blind-tooled calf. [18], "404" [= 400], [12] pp. plus engr. frontispiece. Full description
€ 1,500
Armory, Military Science & Technology France Law & Politics Military History (17th Century)
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A fantastic copy of this attractively illustrated work on molluscs, with 54 plates

MOQUIN-TANDON, Alfred. Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de France. Contenant des studes sur leur anatomie et leur physiologie et la description particulière des genres, des espèces et des variétés.
Paris, Bailliere, 1855. 2 text volumes and 1 atlas volume. Royal 8vo. With 54 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf. VIII, 416; 646; 92 pp. Full description
€ 875
France Shells & other Invertebrates
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On French-English relations and hostilities early in the French and Indian War:
rare 4to edition with a false Paris imprint

[MOREAU, Jacob-Nicolas]. Lettres d'un François a un Hollandois au sujet des differends survenus entre la France et la Grande-Bretagne, touchant leurs possessions respectives dans l'Amerique Septentrionale.
"Paris" [The Netherlands?], "P. La Rive", 1755. 4to. Early 20th-century half cloth, with the original marbled wrappers bound in. 90 pp. Full description
€ 4,000
Canada & Greenland France Law & Politics Military History (18th Century) North America UK - United Kingdom
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The first ever study on cocaine

MORÉNO Y MAÏZ, Thomas. Recherches chimiques et physiologiques sur l'erythoxylum coca du Perou et la cocaïne.
Paris, A. Parent, imprimeur de la faculté de médecine, 1868. 4to. With a lithographic plate of coca leaves and 7 figures in the text showing the tension on the arteries after ingesting coca in various ways. Side stitched through 2 holes. [8], 90, [2] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
France Latin America Medicine & Pharmacy (19th Century) Peru South America
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Colourful set of 3 jigsaw puzzles depicting scenes from the life of Napoleon

[NAPOLEON BONAPARTE - PUZZLES]. La veille d'Austerlitz.
With:
(2) La Nuit de Lodi.
(3) Clémence de l'empéreur.
Paris, Ulysse, [1814 or 1815]. Three (from a set of four?) jigsaw puzzles (each 19.5 x 24.5 cm), each comprising an engraved print mounted on thin wood, coloured by a contemporary hand and cut to form a jigsaw puzzle, with an engraved caption and short description below the image. Kept in the original publishers paperboard box covered with green paper, with an etched and engraved sample print for a fourth puzzle (with a caption headed "Équité de l'empereur") mounted on the top, coloured by a contemporary hand and framed with strips of gilt paper embossed with a decorative pattern. Each puzzle with the original pink paper wrap-around slip preserved. Full description
€ 3,000
France Games & Sports
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Memoirs of a Minister of Finance of Louis XVI - his bitter and final apologia for his policy
during the last years of the Ancien Regime

NECKER, Jacques. Sur ladministration de M. Necker. Par lui-même.
Amsterdam, Daniel Jean Changuion & Gabriel Dupour, 1791. 12mo. With a small tailpiece on the final page. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf, with a large gold-tooled centerpiece on both boards (a crowned shield with a "W", flanked by a crowned lion and a wild man with a club), with red morocco author and title labels lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, red edges, marbled endpapers. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], "328" [= 340] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
Economic History & Trade France Law & Politics
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Some of the founding documents of the Dutch Republic and memorabilia of the Eighty Years' War

[NETHERLANDS - STATES GENERAL - TREATIES]. Recueil van de tractaaten, gemaackt en geslooten tusschen de Hoogh Mog. Heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenighde Nederlanden ter eenre ende verscheyde koningen, princen en potentaaten ter andere zyde. Eerste deel.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, [between 1742 and 1759]. 4to. With a general title page, followed by an index and 73 treaties, nearly all with their own title page containing the original imprint and a woodcut of the Dutch lion (the arms of the States General) and a few with Van Wouw's printer's device of a snail with the motto "Avec le temps paulatim". Contemporary vellum, straight-sewn on 3 vellum tapes laced through the joints, with a hollow back, with manuscript title on spine. Full description
€ 2,950
Belgium France Law & Politics Military History (18th Century) Netherlands Portugal Scandinavia UK - United Kingdom VOC WIC
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