HISTORY and miscellaneous. XVIe-XVIIesiècles. -Set of 15 vol - Lot 141

HISTORY and miscellaneous. XVIe-XVIIesiècles. -Set of 15 volumes; some defects and incompleteness. AGRICOLA (Georg Bauer, known as Georgius). De Re metallica libri xii. Quibus officia, instrumenta, machinæ, ac omnia denique ad metallicam spectantia [...] describuntur. Basilæ, sumptibus typis Emanuelis König, anno 1657. In-folio, brown granulated and ornate leather; binding with numerous unsightly restorations, occasional heavy foxing, one fold-out plate missing (period binding). Originally published in 1556. Extensive woodcut illustrations in and out of the text. Following, other treatises by Georgius Agricola: DeAnimantinbus subterraneis; Deortu causis subterraneorum; DeNatura eorum quæ effluunt ex terra; DeNatura fossilium; DeVeteribus novis metallis; Bermannus sive de re metallica, dialogus. Provenance: notably convent des Minimes d'Aix-en-Provence (manuscript bookplate and stamps). -Antonin of Florence (Antonino Pierozzi, known as). Confessionale. [On the colophon:] stampato in Venetia per Bernardino de Viano [...] neli anni del Signore .1527. a di .3. de setembrio. Small in-8, antique replacement vellum. Fine Venetian printing in Roman type. Woodcut portrait on title. -Bossuet (Jacques-Bénigne). Maximes et réflexions sur la comédie. ÀParis, chez Jean Anisson, 1694. In-12, brown marbled calf, worn binding (period binding). First edition. Bound with an anonymous libel: Dissertation épistolaire sur la comédie, par un ecclésiastique. ÀBruges, chez Pierre Vande Cappelle, [1744]. Small in-8. First edition. -Bossuet (Jacques-Bénigne). Relation sur le quiétisme. ÀParis, chez Jean Anisson, 1698. Small in-8, half-simili-parchment (modern binding). Published the same year as the original. Provenance: Cardinal-Archbishop Louis-Ernest Dubois. -Brantôme (Pierre de Bourdeille de). Mémoires. ALeyde, chez Jean Sambix le jeune, 1699. 2 parts in 3 volumes bound in one large volume in-12, granulated brown calf; worn binding (period binding). Includes LesVies de dames galantes de son temps, and LesVies des dames illustres de France de son temps. Without the 2 other parts on illustrious men and great French and foreign captains. Provenance: Engineer officer, cartographer, diplomat and man of letters Charles-Emmanuel Gaulard de Saudray (1740-1832, ex-libris vignette). -Charron (Pierre). De la Sagesse. ALeide, chez les Elseviers, 1646. Small in-12, decorated morocco, gilt edges (19th-century binding in the taste of the previous century). Copper-engraved title. Copy enriched with an allegorical engraving by Étienne Delaune representing Astrology. -Comenius (Jan Amos Komenský, known as). Janua aurea linguarum. Amstelodami, apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1649. In-12, threaded basane (modern binding in the style of the period). Famous Latin and Greek vocabulary ordered according to a systematic plan, long used by Jesuits. Provenance: library of the Dominicans on rue Saint-Honoré, Paris (handwritten bookplate on second leaf); Antoine Moriau, procureur du roi et de la ville de Paris (1699-1759, bookplate stamp on title); "Berry" (handwritten bookplate on title). -Helvetiorum Respublica. Lugd[uni] Bat[avorum], ex officina Elzeviriana, anno 1627. In-24, vellum, remnants of cloth binding; title in modern ink on spine (contemporary binding). Collection of treatises devoted to Switzerland, principally Jonas Simmler's DeRepublica Helvetiorum libri duo. Engraved title. -Suetonius (Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, known as). [Opera]. Parisiis, e typographia regia, 1644. In-12, garnet-red morocco, gilt edges (18th-century binding). Contains mainly the DeVita Cæsarum. Copper-engraved illustration: title, and portraits in the text. Provenance: Gabriel Eustache, de l'Oratoire (handwritten bookplate dated Le Mans, 1772, on verso of first endpaper); Maurizio Giachetti (bookplate vignette). -PLINO THE YOUNG (Gaius Plinius Cæcilius Secundus, known as). Epistolarum libriX, Panegyricus Trajano principi dictus, de Viris illustribus in re militari et in administranda rep[ublica]. 1529. [On the colophon:] Lugduni excusum pr¾clarum hoc opus in ¾dibus Laurentii Hilarii sumptu honesti viri Vincentii de Portonariis [...], 1529. Small in-8, filleted tan granite calf (binding circa 1820). Handsome Roman-style impression printed in Lyon by Laurent Hilaire for Vincent de Portonariis. Printed ˆ suite, SuŽtoneŽs DeClaris grammaticis rhetoribus. -Etc.