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- 1946, 9 feuillets in-8 (20,9 x 13,7 cm) foliotés , en feuilles. - Manuscrit autographe de l'auteur de seize pages et demi in-8 publié dans le numéro 20 (octobre 1946) de L'Arche et repris, légèrement retouché, dans La Part du Feu (1949). Manuscrit recto-verso complet, à l'écriture très dense, comportant de nombreux ratures, corrections et ajouts. L'Adolphe de Benjamin Constant, qui fut l'un des prestigieux collaborateurs du Journal des débats à l'époque de sa grandeur, intéresse Maurice Blanchot au moment même où celui-ci débute une relation passionnée avec Denise Rollin, ancienne maîtresse de Georges Bataille. Plus encore, « Adolphe ou le malheur des sentiments vrais » est un des rares textes de Blanchot ainsi consacré au désir amoureux : « On trouve presque à chaque page dans Adolphe la description des sentiments dont la cause a beau se renverser, tout les renvoie à eux-mêmes, tout en confirme la fatalité. C'est que le point est atteint où la diversité des évènements et tout l'infini du monde répètent inlassablement le mouvement en cercle dans lequel s'est enfermé le cur avide de vérité. » Afin d'étayer son analyse, Blanchot choisit de comparer l'approche de Constant à celle d'autres écrivains, et notamment à celle de Proust dans la Recherche : « [...] Proust ne désire pas cette absence comme le mouvement de toute communication, ainsi que le fait Constant : il ne la désire même pas, mais c'est elle qui lui rend un être désirable en le faisant souffrir de ne pouvoir l'atteindre. [...] Proust aime parce qu'il souffre, et il souffre de sentir tout ce qu'il y a d'absence dans une présence toujours fuyante ; mais c'est aussi, à cause de cette absence, que cette présence fonde des rapports véritables. Constant commence à aimer lorsqu'un être particulier éclaire, aimante tout le vide qui le sépare des autres et que la possession est loin de restituer sous la forme de l'inconnu. Dès que, par un engagement trop exigeant, la possibilité de ses relations avec tous qu'il a voulu vivre avec une personne unique est épuisée, il étouffe, il succombe. Il a besoin d'être libre, mais il est toujours lié. » Le biographe de Blanchot verra dans cette conception d'Adolphe le reflet de ses propres sentiments à l'égard de Denise Rollin (BIDENT Christophe, Maurice Blanchot : partenaire invisible, p. 275). Belle étude sur la passion et le désir à travers l'uvre de Benjamin Constant. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
pp. (14), 182, (18). The very thin paper used to cancel a4 and b4 has deteriorated - completely on a4. Text in Greek with Latin notes. Three engraved portraits have apparently been removed. ** Extensive manuscript translations into English. 8vo. (in 4). [18 5 x 113 mm.] Contemporary full calf binding. Boards tooled in blind with several frames. Cracked at joints. Early ownerships, including: Jacob Nash, Oxford and E.G. Davis, 1847. Dibdin I:487. Aeschine s (Ca. 390?314 B.C.), Athenian orator and polititian, was a great rival of Demosthenes (384??322 B.C.). He rose from humble circumstances and became powerful in politics because of his oratorical gift s. At first he opposed Philip II of Macedon, then later changed sides, arguing that resistance to Macedonian power was useless. Both he and Demosthenes were members of the embassy to Philip in 348 B.C ., and afterward Demosthenes bitterly and baselessly accused Aeschines of accepting Macedonian bribes. He was to have been joined in his action by Timarchus, but Aeschines prevented this by his oratio n Against Timarchus (345 B.C.). Aeschines defended himself well in his oration On the False Legation (342 B.C.)?a title also used by Demosthenes in his accusatory oration. The trouble between the orat ors grew and culminated in a dispute over a gold crown that the orator Ctesiphon proposed should be given Demosthenes in 330 B.C. Aeschines brought suit with Against Ctesiphon. Demosthenes replied wit h his sturdy defense On the Crown. Aeschines lost and was fined, and retired to Asia Minor where, according to Plutarch, he lived as a professional Sophist. This is offered as much for its manuscript interest as for it being an early printing. W120
SIGNED BY EDITOR, the eminent expert in codicology Prof. Qasim al-Samarrai with dedication to Malachi Beit-Arie, the father of Hebrew codicology and Ludwig Jesselson Professor Emeritus of Codicology and Paleography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. RARE critical edition of the Arabic text of al-Imrani's 'Information Concerning the History of the Caliphs', in which he treats the period beginning with the Prophet and ending with the beginning of the caliphate of al-Mustangid bi-llah, in 560 H. Contains b&w facsimile plates. 240x170mm. 15+366 pages. Softcover. Cover and spine yellowing. Cover edges and corners slightly worn/wrinkled. Spine wrinkled. Spine edges bumped. Spine hinge bottom edge tattered. Text block edges and whitepages yellowing. Small stain on page 305/306 upper upper corner - NO damage to text. Some pages corner/s slightly curved. Pages slightly yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare critical edition of a rare Arabic medieval historical treatise is in good condition.
- Gallimard (Folio Junior), Paris 1985, 11x18cm, broché. - New edition. Autograph inscription from the author. Illustrated. [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Nouvelle édition. Envoi de l'auteur. Iconographie.
Ink on paper, 15 segments mounted on cloth (ca. 138 x 72 cm). Folded. Large-scale genealogy of the House of Medici beginning in the early 13th century and ending with Gian Gastone de' Medici, the seventh and last Medicean Grand Duke of Tuscany. With his death in 1737, nearly 300 years of Medici rule over Florence came to an end. He was survived by his sister Anna Maria Luisa, Electress Palatine, for less than six years, and was succeeded as Grand Duke of Tuscany by Francis Stephen of Lorraine, soon to be Emperor Francis I. The present chart, apparently drawn up shortly after the extinction of the family in 1743, is decorated with several designs of the Medici arms dangling from the family tree's branches, and the names of the last three scions - Ferdinando, Gian Gastone, and Anna Maria - are drawn with their appropriate crowns, as are those of Popes Leo X, Clemens VII, and Leo XI. As the title announces, the genealogy includes the secondary branch of the Medici Family known as the Princes of Ottaiano (near Naples), here ending with Alessandro de' Medici (1560-1606), General of the Papal States. Descendants of this last remaining line, which still flourishes, unsuccessfully claimed the title of Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1737, and the Ottaiani's pretensions to the title would seem to have played a role in the preparation of this chart. - Some brownstaining and ink corrosion; slight edge defects professionally repaired. Residue of the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872).
1 vol. in-12 oblong reliure pleine chevrette imitation plein maroquin rouge à grain long, circa 1852, une dizaine de pages manuscrites, la plupart manifestement en allemand ou en dialecte alsacien, ou en français, avec plusieurs scènes découpées sur papier contrecollées sur papier de couleur, un dessin joint, une fleur séchée contrecollée avec texte, etc. Etat satisfaisant (premiers ff. découpée, charmant document par ailleurs) Allemand
1 album in-8 format à l'italienne reliure de l'époque plein maroquin rouge, filet doré d'encadrement aux plats, "Anaîs" gravé au premier plat, circa 1826-1828 avec 7 pages annotées par divers annotateurs, et 5 dessins et aquarelles dont : Vues des ruines du château de Brandennburg ; Petit chemineau ; Hussard ; Le dessous du Palais de Capodi Monti à Naples Joli "album amicorum", resté assez largement vierge, dans sa jolie reliure du temps. Bon état. Français
Hardback, IV 800 pages ., 450 b/w ill. 32 colour ill., 156 x 234 mm, Languages: French. ISBN 9782503543154. De tous les ecrivains du Moyen Age, Christine de Pizan est celui dont le plus grand nombre de manuscrits originaux sont conserves, certains autographes, les autres realises sous sa direction. Ces cinquante-deux manuscrits forment donc un ensemble inestimable et representent un objet d?etude d?une exceptionnelle richesse d?enseignements, tant pour les historiens du livre et les codicologues que pour les historiens de l?art ou de la litterature. Fruit de trente ans de travaux menes par Gilbert Ouy et Christine Reno, auxquels s?est jointe l?historienne de l?art Ines Villela-Petit, l?Album Christine de Pizan a beneficie du precieux concours d?Olivier Delsaux, James Laidlaw et Tania Van Hemelryck, ainsi que des conseils avises de Marie-Therese Gousset, pour offrir une etude complete du corpus des manuscrits de l?auteur. Les peintres enlumineurs et les ornemanistes a son service, pourvus de nom de convention lorsqu?ils n?en avaient pas encore, sont aussi etudies, beaucoup pour la premiere fois.
1 album format à l'italienne grand et long in-8, reliure pleine percaline estampée, contenant (pour l'essentiel) : 1 - un grand et beau dessin d'époque (débroché) au crayon sur double avec titre volant : "Mostaganem en 1847. Demeure du "Général" logé par le Génie, signé Chamut (Chamuet ? Charnut ?) ; 2 - 4 aquarelles de bouquets (de facture naïve) ; 3 - 12 lithographies contrecollées (Château, portrait, paysan breton, ...) ; 4 - Dessin naïf au crayon (château) ; 5 - 6 lithographies (d'après Hans L. Reusch, tiré des recueils de Georg Prahl) rehaussées à l'aquarelle de vues pittoresques norvégiens : Fra Jedderen C.S. - 1,2,3 fra Soelbo, 4 fra Saelbo, 4 fra Byenaesset T.S. - Sans titre - Fiskere fra Selloe, samt Prospect af St. Synneve Kloster-Ruiner, B.S. - Bonder fra Wigoer - Hallingdoler Album de dessin, intéressant par le très beau dessin panoramique au crayon représentant la demeure du "Général" (Bugeaud ? Lamoricière ?) à Mostaganem en 1847, et par les lithographies coloriées et pittoresque de la Norvège de l'époque (qq. ff. faibles ou débrochés, rel. frottée). Français
New English Paperback. 4to. (28 x 23 cm). In English and Turkish. [14], 106 p., color ills. [Album of the illuminated manuscripts in the Akseki Yegen Mehmet Pasha Library].= Akseki Yegen Mehmet Pasa Kütüphanesi tezhipli kitaplar albümü.
4to (159 x 218 mm). Latin and Italian manuscript on vellum. 16 leaves, the first part containing notarial records of land ownership paginated 1-15; the second half with 14 pages of symbols, diagrams and cipher text, in red ink. Stored in custom-made morocco-backed clamshell case. An unusual and sophisticated alchemical manuscript showing a range of influences from Paracelsus to the Kabbalah. - Beginning in the middle of the single gathering, the manuscript contains a series of complex symbols and diagrams with cipher text, encoding alchemical processes. The illustrations start off with a symbol incorporating four watchtowers, a Star of David, and alchemical glyphs; later images include various furnaces, stills, and other apparatus, a seven stage ascent beginning with a flask and culminating in a throne (probably representing chemical processes), a fountain (similar to the opening image of the Rosarium Philosophorum), an alchemical rebis, a tree growing on a tomb with seven mountains in the background, a fruit bearing tree growing from a male figure impaled on a sword, a bird (apparently an owl) with an alembic on its head, and a distillatory furnace, many of the images partly composed of lines of cipher characters and incorporating various glyphs, also with diagrams of geometrical speculation, tables with Hebrew letters (perhaps showing permutations of solar and lunar qualities), and related material (ff. 9-15v). - Paracelsian influence is in evidence in the manuscript's list of the three essential ingredients of the Philosophers' Stone (Mercury, Sulphur, Salt), while the geometric representations of these tria prima resemble those found in the works of the Belgian alchemist Gerard Dorn (1530-84). Jewish elements include the use of Hebrew characters and the appearance of a Menorah in the rebis figure. The accompanying text is entirely in a cipher which resembles that of the Aiq Bekr or Kabbalah of the Nine Chambers. This manuscript reveals an alchemist whose work combines in a unique way many features found in contemporary practitioners such as, in England, John Dee. - Prefixed to the alchemical section is a series of notarial records including land transactions and a will, dating from 1537 to 1561 (providing the terminus post quem for the succeeding part) and localisable to northern Italy, specifically the Veneto (there is mention of a church of "Sancti Floriani de Rippa", or Riva, and of Venice itself). - Some staining, smudging to a few images and tears to outermost leaves. - Provenance: Sotheby's, 26 November 2008, lot 7.
One Original Signed Letter, written Springfield Newnham, Cambridge, Nov 24 [1879]. 2 pages, 8vo. Bi-folium on headed paper with mourning border, "Down, Beckenham, Kent, Railway Station, Orpington S.E.R." Leaf measures approximately 11,5cm x 18cm (4.5 inches x 7 inches), when folded. Very Good Condition, nicely preserved. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. The Letter reads: My dear Frances, I see in the papers that you have lost your dear mother. I remember when you kindly wrote to me by her wish, that she felt herself that her end could not be very distant. I should be very grateful for a line, and I trust you will be able to tell me that she did not suffer very much; but rather that her placid & happy nature remained with her to the last. Believe me , Very sincerely yours, Emma Darwin" Frances Julia "Snow" Wedgwood (9 July 1833 – 26 November 1913) was an English feminist novelist, biographer, historian and literary critic. She was described as "a young woman of extreme passions and fastidious principles" and "at once a powerful reasoner and an inexorable critic of reason” Manuscript
One Original Signed Letter, written ca.1889, 2 pages 8vo. Bi-folium on headed paper, "Down, Farnborough R.S.O, Kent". Leaf measures approximately 11,5cm x 18cm (4.5 inches x 7 inches), when folded. Very Good Condition, nicely preserved. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. The letter reads: My dear Frances, I am anxious to know how your cousin is today, & whether you have hopes of being able to move tomorrow. If you had leisure to come & see me this afternoon for a short time, I should be glad; but only send me a verbal answer at all events. yours very sincerely, E. Darwin, (Mrs. Charles Darwin)" Frances Julia "Snow" Wedgwood (9 July 1833 – 26 November 1913) was an English feminist novelist, biographer, historian and literary critic. She was described as "a young woman of extreme passions and fastidious principles" and "at once a powerful reasoner and an inexorable critic of reason. Manuscript
Original letter penned and signed by Layard after the Bulgarian uprising in the Balkans. The letter measures 7 x 9 inches dated February 23, 1878 while he was HBM Ambassador in Constantinople. The letter provides a reference for a James Long, MA who was a humanitarian. Long was about to go to Bazandjik on the Danube in Bulgaria which had recently been occupied by the Russians during the Russo-Turkish War. Together with the letter is an original portrait photograph of Layard measuring 8 x 10 inches as well as a contemporary bigraphical sketch from the 1880's. Letters from Layard while abroad are rare. Manuscript
London, 26 February 1900. Signed Manuscript Letter by Admiral Sir Albert Hastings Markham, naval officer and pioneering arctic explorer, addressed to S. C. J. Freeman-Mathews in Cape Town, South Africa. Small 8vo. Double-leaf measuring approximately 15 x 15cm. Together with original cover, opened on three sides, bearing three postal marks and one stamp, and measuring 11 x 8 cm. Both in very good condition, from the autograph collection of Seymour C.J. Freeman-Matthews. The addressee, Seymour C.J. Freeman-Matthews was a collector of autographs and amassed a sizeable treasure of signatures with solicitations such as which led to this letter and autograph being penned by a great Arctic navigator. The letter reads as follows: "Dear Sir, I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 5th inst. and, in reply, have much pleasure in complying with your request, Believe me. Yrs. faithfully, A. Markham [signature] Vice Admiral." Manuscript
Manuscript Signed Letter, dated 21 January 1897, discussing matters pertaining to the settlement era of Perth, Western Australia. 8vo. Two double-leafs, 5 pages. Very good condition. Fascinating content such as a poverty, drought, general health issues in Perth from the conditions, problems of the homeless, and in contrast the increase in land values, and prospects for youngsters, The writer also talks of the Music Society and of singing the Messiah at Christmas. Written by M. Barigh of Havelock Street, her home located on a hill above the central town, who may have been a relative of Richard Henry Barigh, an immigrant to Australia, possibly originally as a convict. Excerpts from the letter: "Lately we have had a water famine and all day long the water is cut off but we fill a tank and so it does not cause us much inconvenience... We do not like W.A. half so much as N.Z. it is too hot and dry and this town is not healthy." "The place must have grown half since we came and building is going on all the time and the values of property increasing - our land cost about four pounds a foot and a lady has just bought this piece adjoining ours and given over eleven pounds for it and thinks she has got it cheap." "There are scores of people here with nothing who a little while since in Melbourne were living in luxury." End Excerpts. Perth had only been established since 1829. In 1850, Western Australia was opened to convicts at the request of farming and business people looking for cheap labour. Queen Victoria announced the city status of Perth in 1856.
London, 20 September 1947. Manuscript Signed Letter by the Right Honourable Montgomery of Alamein, to well known fiction writer Lady Anderson, mentioning an unpublished book by Anderson which precedes her formal writing career. 8vo. Single-leaf measuring approximately 14 x 18cm (5.5 x 7 inches). Very good condition, and accompanied by the original postally used envelope. Graciously confirming receipt of what appears to be an unpublished book by a well known female author, and perhaps the first she had written, this letter is penned and signed by Bernard Law Montgomery (1887-1976), 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, and British Army Field Marshal nicknamed "Monty" and the "Spartan General" whose illustrious military career spanned both World Wars, during which time he earned numerous honours and awards. The recipient is Barbara Anderson, Lady Anderson (1926-2013) née Barbara Lillian Romaine, an internationally recognized fiction writer from New Zealand, and later, the wife of Sir Neil Dudley Anderson, Chief of New Zealand Defence Staff. Only a few months to this letter being written, Barbara had graduated with a BSc from Otago University. She subsequently worked as a medical technologist and teacher, though her passion had always been in writing. She finally pursued her formal writing career in her sixties, publishing a volume of short stories, for the first time, in 1989. The book mentioned in this letter does not appear on common lists of her published works, and pre-dates her writing career by approximately thirty years. The letter reads as follows: "Dear Lady Anderson, I have just got back from Germany and found your book 'Lend Me Your Ears'. Thank you so very much. Yrs. ever Montgomery of Alamein" [signed] Manuscript
One Original Signed Letter from Sir John Barrow to Davies Gilbert. 8vo. 1 page on a single-leaf, dated 22 August, (content reveals the year is 1831). Leaf measures approximately 18cm x 11,5cm (7 inches x 4.5 inches). Very good condition. In 1831, the Royal Astronomical Society deemed it imperative for advancement in navigation, to form "New Requisite Tables" which would be introduced in the impending publication of the New Nautical Almanack. At the behest of Captain Beaufort, Hydrographer to the Admiralty, RN Lieutenant Henry Raper, a revered authority on navigation, was in charge of constructing the charts. Here Sir John Barrow, Secretary of the Admiralty, is evidently responding to an enquiry by Davies Gilbert, mathematician and President of the Royal Society. Barrow assures Gilbert that he has directed the question to Captain Francis Beaufort, who is an integral member of the committee charged with making the nautical charts. Signed in the original by Sir John Barrow, the letter states: "The subject of the New Requisite Tables is in the hands of the Astronomical Society and has been for some time, but as yet they have not made any report. I have shown your note to Capt Beaufort who is one of the Committee." A report published in the Nautical Magazine, March 1831, corroborates the significance of this work, and the involvement of such leading authorities in navigation. Manuscript
New New Turkish Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (32 x 22 cm). In Turkish. 96 p., color ills. Biography of an Ottoman doctor living in Amasya City. Amasyali hekim ve cerrah Sabuncuoglu Serefeddin, (1385-1470).
8vo. Italian manuscript on paper. Calligraphed title, (156) pp. on 157 ff. With 142 initals in capitals and calligraphed ornaments on each page. Contemporary gilt-stamped calf. All edges gilt. Wants ties. Beautiful example of high baroque love poetry written in an elegant cursive hand with calligraphed and coloured title, initals, and ornaments. This manuscript of this unpublished poem was dedicated to Giuseppe Pagani of the noble Pagani Cesa family from Belluno, with a dedication dated to 8 August 1645. The author Lodovico della Chiesa, probably a pen name and not to be confused with the like-named Savoyard historian, only appears as the author of one other manuscript, "Spine delle rose poetiche" from 1636, held at the Civic Library of Verona. In the title of the manuscript at hand, della Chiesa claims membership of the Accademia degli Umoristi, the most prestigious Roman learned society of the 17th century, which would have made him a co-academician of several popes, including Alexander VIII, scientists like Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc and Pietro della Valle, and poets such as Giovanni Battista Guarini and Giambattista Marino. - Binding somewhat stained, showing slight defects to the corners and margins. Some of the initials and ornaments affected by ink corrosion. The final 20 ff. with a continuous trace of worming, more pronounced near the lower cover but only affecting the calligraphed ornament on the final page.
