[circa 1660]. 343 x 511 mm.
Reference : LBW0028e
Représentation gravée de Genève, avec titre dans une bannière flottante flanquée des armoiries de la ville. Accompagnée d'un texte de 5 lignes et d'une table de renvois des 25 principaux lieux de la ville. Peintre, graveur et marchand d'estampes à Paris, Balthazar Moncornet fut actif entre 1622 et 1664. Il est connu pour ses Portraits des princes, seigneurs et personnes illustres. Pliure restaurée. Très rare, manque à Tooley et à la BNF.
Librairie Le Bail
Didier Le Bail
13 rue Frédéric Sauton
75005 Paris
France
33 01 43 29 72 59
Geneve, Fabri & Barrillot, 1730. 4to. 2 fine cont. full mottled calf, raised bands, title-and tomelabels gilt. Back slightly rubbed, corners and top of spines neathly repaired. Inner hinges reinforced. With 2 htitles and titles printed in red a. black with engraved vignettes. (4),XVI,556,(14),518 pp. A small marginal brownspot in lower left corner on the last ab. 50 lvs. in vol. 1. Having 10 engreved plates (seals and coins), 2 maps, one full-page and one large and folded (ca 58x80 cm): Carte du Lac de Geneve par Antoine Chopy, and 2 large folded town views (24x7o cm. and 24x68 cm). Textillustrations.
Paris & Geneve, 1786 - 1795. 16mo. 13 cont. nice uniform sprinkled full calf w. leather tome- and title-labels on backs. Backs gilt. W. 8 engr. frontispieces and half-titles stating ""Oeuvres de M. de Florian"" in all but one volume (Numa Pompilius). Internally clean.
Utrecht, François Halma, 1685. 12mo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities, some of gilting to spine worn off. Lower left corner of the large folded cityscape of Geneva torn off but laid in, othewise internally fine. (22), 435, (9), 413-522, (17) pp + frontispiece, 2 fold-out Geneva cityscapes and 4 plates.
Third edition, revised and corrected, of this extensive history of Geneva.
Orig. wrappers., uncut. No 110 of 1000 ""sur vergé crèmes"", a total of 1220 copies.
Lyon, 1796. Small 8vo. Bound in 33 contemp. hcalf, richly gilt backs. Slightly rubbed. Internally fine. 9 engraved plates, incl. portrait, 1 folded table and music in the text.