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156 HANGARD - MAUGÉ ET CIAPPORI. LES ARTS SOMPTUAIRES. Histoire du Costumes et de l'Ameublement et des Arts

et des Industries qui s'y rattachent. Dessins par Clus Ciappori, Introduction Générale et Texte Explicatif, par Ch. Louandre. Impressions en couleurs par Hangard-Maugé. Two vols. of text and two of plates. The plates in colors, and heightened with gold, silver and bronze. 4 vols. 4to, half crimson polished levant morocco, gilt tops and uncut edges, by DAVID. $120 00.

Paris, 1858 The engravings in the above volumes, of which there is a great number, are of the most magnificent character. Copies of rare missals in the gorgeous colors of the original; costumes of the middle ages, in which the brilliant tints are copied to perfection, etc., etc. Many of the designs are reproductions of old weapons, Swords, Daggers, Lances, Hallebards, Stoves, Jewels, Knives, Candlesticks, Cases, Copies of old Byzantine Works, Portraits and Paintings-Crowns, Coronets, Furniture, Armour-Agricultural Utensils, various sorts of Cloths, and hundreds of other things relating to the civilization of the "Dark Ages." The articles of luxury and ornament represented in this work show, to a certain extent, that those periods were not quite so benighted as they have been pictured by our historians.

157 DE LA MOTTE. FABLES NOUVELLES. Avec un Discourse sur la Fable. Engraved Frontispiece, and ONE HUNDRED remarkably pretty engravings by Coypel and Gillot, engraved by Tardieu, Simoneau, etc. 4to, full polished levant morocco extra, elaborately tooled sides, and inside borders, by CHAMBOLLE-DURU. $75 00.

Paris, 1719

On page 199 occurs the poem "L'Amour et la Mort," with a very fine plate by Picart-" Cupid" giving a bundle of arrows to “Death,” and Death using them against sundry “pairs.”

158 CASANOVA, JACQUES DE. MÉMOIRES DE, écrit par lui-même. 4 vols. 12mo, half morocco, gilt. $25 00.

Very Scarce.

159 AFFAIRE CASTAING.

half calf. $2 50.

Paris, 1843

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A famous poison case, in which M. Berryer, the celebrated lawyer and legitimist, who died recently in Paris, was counsel for the defence.

160 DESCAMPS, I. B. LA VIE DES PEINTRES FLAMANDS, ALLEMANDS ET HOLLANDOIS, avec des portraits, une indication de leurs principaux ouvrages et des réflexions sur leurs différentes manières. With many portraits, by Ficquet, Le Bas, etc. 4 vols. 8vo, full dark polished levant morocco, gilt edges, by CAPÉ. $75 00. Paris, 1753 161 DESCAMPS, I. B. VOYAGE PITTORESQUE DE LA FLANDRE et du Brabant, avec des réflexions relativements aux arts et 8vo, full dark polished morocco, uni

quelques gravures.

form with the preceding.

RARE.

$30 00.

Paris, 1769

Generally sought after by collectors to accompany the "Vie des
Peintres."

Both of the above works are bound with that exquisite good taste
that gave CAPÉ the precedence over all other binders.

162 DIDEROT. Jacques le Fataliste et son Maître. 12mo, calf. $4 50.

163 VALLIERE.

Paris, 1822

LA VIE DE LA DUCHESSE DE LA VALLIERE où l'on voit une relation curieuse de ses Amours, et de sa Pénitence. Par -12mo, half calf. $1 50.

164 MALFILATRE. NARCISSE DANS L'ISLE DE VÉNUS.

quatre chants. With plates by Eisen and
8vo, full calf. $5 00.

Paris, 1695

Poëme en

St. Aubin. Paris, N. D. Poëme.

165 DORAT. BAISERS (les), précédés du MOIS DE MAI. Avec supplément contenant imitations des Poëtes Latins. With charming designs, vignettes, and tail pieces, by EISEN, engraved by LONGUEIL. 8vo, old red French morocco extra. $78 00. La Haye, 1770

VERY RARE.

Nothing could be more exquisitely delicate than the above designs of Eisen. That artist possessed great talent for illustrating such authors as La Fontaine, Ovid, Longus, and the preceding, and his beautiful works are much sought after by collectors in France, Germany, and England, at the present day. The plates in the above are most brilliant impressions.

Another copy. More recent edition.

166

morocco, gilt top. $21 00.

8vo, half

167 BERNIS, CARDINAL. EUVRES DE. François Joachim de Pierre, Cardinal de Bernis. On y a jointe la poëme de la Réligion Vengée Ouvrage posthume de l'auteur. With a series of most delicately drawn original designs inserted. 8vo, full crimson morocco, gilt back and sides, and blue silk linings, by BoZERIAN. $10 00. Paris, (Didot,) 1799 LARGE PAPER. Papier Velin. ONLY 250 COPIES PRINTED. From the library of M. VAN DER HELLE.

168 POËTE (LE), OU MÉMOIRES d'un Homme de Lettres, écrits par lui-même. Plates. 8 vols. 16mo, half calf extra, gilt tops,

uncut edges. $18 00.

Hamburg, 1799

169 DUMAS, ALEXANDRE. FILLES, LORETTES ET COURTISANES. 8vo. half calf. $2 50.

170 BRINVILLIERS.

Paris, 1843 MÉMOIRES DU PROCÈS EXTRAORDINAIRE contre la dame de Brinvilliers et contre de La Chaussée, valet de M. de Sainte Croix, pour raison des empoisonnements de diverse personnes, etc., and, Arrest de la Cour de Parlement, les Chambres Assemblées, contre Dame Marie Marguerite d'Aubrey, Épouse du Sieur Marquis de Brinvilliers, du 16 Juillet, 1676. Paris, l'an 1676. 16mo, exquisitely bound in full red levant polished morocco, gilt edges. $9 00. Amsterd. Hen. and Theo. Boom, 1676

VERY RARE.

Brunet, in speaking of the Holland edition, says, "It was based on
that of Paris, in 1676, but is much more sought after than the
original. Sometimes the Amsterdam edition has another, or second
title, commencing, "Factum," etc.

The above copy contains the extra title-page referred to by him.
The annals of crime do not furnish a more fearful case of hu-
man depravity than the career of Brinvilliers. In conjunction with
her lover, Chevalier La Croix, she poisoned her father and her two
brothers, and tried to poison her sister and her femme de chambre.
De Croix died in his laboratory, from the effect of the fumes of poi-
sons that he was concocting, and Madame Brinvilliers was beheaded,
and with them, it is said, the secret of making the subtlest poisons
was lost.

171 VILLENAVE. ABELARD ET HELOISE, leurs Amours, leurs Malheurs, et leurs Ouvrages. 8vo, half red morocco, by ALLO. $2 00.

Paris, 1834

172 LURINE ET BROT. Baron, etc.

LES COUVENTS. Illustrées par Johannot,
Imperial 8vo, half levant morocco, extra gilt

top, by DAVID. $12 00.

Paris, 1846

173 VÆNIUS, OTTO. AMORIS DIVINI EMBLEMATA. Studio et ære

Othonis Væni Concinata.

two plates of Emblems.

marbled edges. $9 00.

Good impressions of the sixty-
Small 4to, full tree calf, gilt,

Antverpia, 1615

174 DE LA SERRE, SIEUR. Le Tombeau des Délices, et Plaisirs du Monde. Nouvelle Édition. Revue et corrigée. Enrichie de plusieurs figures. Plates by Matthews. 16mo, bound in full polished crimson morocco, gilt, by CHAMBOLLE-Duru. $13 75.

FROM THE VAN DER HELLE COLLECTION.

Paris, 1668

175 TRAICTE tres plaisant et recreatif de l'amour parfaicte, de Guisgardus et Sigesmonde fille de Tancredus prince des Solernitiens. With fac-similes of plate and monogram. 12mo, full dark blue calf, gilt, by BAUZONNET. $7 50.

ONLY SIXTY-SEVEN COPIES PRINTED.

Aix, France, 1834

This is a reprint of an old and unique work, in gothic characters, without pagination or date, a copy of which is in the Bibliothèque Publique, of Aix.

176 LE MONDE plein de Fols, ou le Théâtre des Nains (The World full of Fools, or the Theatre of Dwarfs), enrichi d'un discours de leurs personnages. Folio, full calf, gilt. $75 00. Amsterdam, 1720 (?)

An exceedingly curious and interesting volume, containing 78 plates of caricatures of the most extraordinary kind, in the Rabelais vein. Each one is surrounded with a border burlesque and grotesque in conception. The designs are by Wm. Koning, and were engraved by FOLKEMA, and others. Fine impressions.

177 ETRENNES DE LA ST. JEAN.

et augmentée, par les d'esprit. LARGE paper. gilt leaves. $15 00. VERY RARE.

Seconde Edition, Revue, corrigée auteurs de plusieurs morceaux

12mo, full green morocco extra, Troyes, chèz la veuve Oerdot, 1742

But few copies were printed on large paper. The work was the joint production of the Comte de Caylus, Comte de Maurepas, Crebillon, Fils, l'Abbe Voisenon, and others.

178 SEGLA GUILLAUME. HISTOIRE TRAGIQUE, et Arrests de la Cour de Parlement de Tholose, contre Pierre Arrais Burdens, religieux Augustin, Maistre Françoise Gairaud, Conseiller au Seneschal de Tholose, Damoiselle Violante de Bats du Chasteau et autres. Avec CXXXI. Annotations sur ce subiet. Par M. Guillaume de Segla, Sieur de Cairas, Conseiller du Roy en sa cour de Parlement de Tholose. 12mo, full crimson levant morocco, polished, broad inside borders, gilt leaves, by CHAMBOLLE-DURU. $10 50. Paris, 1613

The above is an account of a singular partnership in crime that existed between Burdens, a member of the religious order of Augustins, Gairaud, Conseiller, Antoine Candolas, Francis Esbaldit, and Demoiselle Violante de Bats. The first mentioned were lovers of the lady, and finding her husband unwilling to wink at her infidelities, they conspired together and murdered him. Burdens was condemned to death, but before carrying out the sentence he was "condamner a la Question," the legal name for a species of exquisite torture to which delinquents, until the last century, were submitted, in order to compel a confession of their accomplices. Burdens confessed that Gairaud was concerned in the homicide, and the latter, upon being subjected to the same process, gave the names of the others. They were all executed, each accusing the others of having been the instigator of the crime. A most interesting trial. 179 PLACY, COLIN DE. LE DIABLE peint par Lui-Même, ou Galerie de petits Romans et de Contes Merveilleux sur les Aventures et le caractère des demons, leurs intrigues, leurs malheurs, et leurs amours, et les services qu'ils ont pu rendre aux hommes. With plates of the interview of 8vo, half plain polished levant $12 00.

the author with the devil.

morocco, gilt top, uncut edges.

Paris, 1825

"Les Diables peuvent faire de bien tout ainsi que les Anges peuvent

faire du mal."-Bodin Demonomanie.

180 CODE, OU NOUVEAU REGLEMENS sur les lieux de Prostitution dans la ville de Paris. 12mo., half calf. $1 50.

Londres, 1775

181 FLORIAN, M. DE. NUMA POMPILIUS, Second Roi de Rome.

Frontispiece by Dambrun.
leaves, by DEROME, JUNIOR.

8vo, full green morocco extra, gilt $12 00.

Paris, (Didot,) 1786

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