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1816062618Paris: A La Libraire d'Education d'Alex Eymery 1816. Book. Fair. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. In original blue paper covers bearing most of the original paper label to spine. Volume 1 of Jauffret's work for young people. Frontis plus 11 pages of engravings depicting various skills and trades. Housed in a custom made folding case with gilt title to spine 204pp. A La Libraire d'Education d'Alex Eymery Paperback
1817994W6London: Printed for M. J. Godwin and Co. 1817 Undated as lacking title page. Dated from copy held by the University of Cambridge Libraries. Leather. Good. 6" by 4". Not Stated. An incredibly scarce children's title in quarter morocco containing a selection of short children's plays with the occasional illustration. An incredibly scarce title bound in yellow marbled boards with red quarter morocco.Features a monochrome frontispiece and 3 further unlisted monochrome plates. Collated from a copy held by the University of Cambridge LibrariesLacking title page.A collection of brief plays to be performed by children.This title is credited to Louis-Francois Jauffret who wrote the original French and to Mary Jane Godwin translator publisher editor of children's literature and step-mother to Mary Shelley. Bound in marbled boards and half morocco. Externally a little worn. Front joint broken. Cracking and rubbing to leather spine. Loss to leather to tail. Front board weak may detach with further handling. Bumping to spine tips. Rear joint slightly starting. Hinges starting. Contemporary hand-written contents page in ink to front free endpaper. Internally generally firmly bound. First signature almost entirely loose. Pages generally bright and clean with infrequent spotting. Dirty mark to p.23. Missing title page. Good [Printed for M. J. Godwin and Co.] hardcover
1816062619Paris: A La Libraire d'Education d'Alex Eymery 1816. Book. Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. In contemporary tree bark calf loss to lower spine; marbled endpapers. Volume 4 of Jauffret's work for young people. Frontis plus 11 pages of engravings depicting various skills and trades. Housed in a custom made folding case with gilt title to spine. 264pp. A La Libraire d'Education d'Alex Eymery Hardcover
182060614vi 160 pages 4-page publishers catalogue at the rear complete with 5 plates Published by J. Souter hardcover
182829586Paris : A. Delamain 1828. 170x100mm. XII - 255Êpages cachet de bibliothÂque. ReliÂŽ demi-veau plats papier marbrÂŽ titre et ornementations dorÂŽs au dos. 300 A. Delamain unknown
186910032Paris: FurneJouvet et Cie 1869. Fine. Furne Jouvet et Cie Paris 1869 12 x 19 cm broché First edition. Spine cracked foxing. Rare. FurneJouvet et Cie unknown
186056894Paris: E. Dentu 1860. 2 vols. Half leather hardcovers. viii480 pp. & iv496 pp.; 22x14.5 cm. Text in French / Français. - small signs of use paper slightly browned/ some spots/foxing Although very good see picture E. Dentu hardcover
1813005991London: Richard Phillips 1813. Book. Very Good. Hardback. Third Edition. 12mo. Complete in 4 volumes pp. Vol I: viii ii 220; Vol II: iv 224; Vol III: iv 228 & Vol IV: iv 220 iv adverts. Large folding map of Hindoostan to vol I small tear at fold at point of attachment 8 engraved plates throughout each dated 1804. Title page to each volume. Original quarter plain red leather binding with marbled boards gilt to spine some scuffing and chipping to head/tails of spines boards rubbed edges and corners worn with several of the latter rounded. Contents good and tight missing front free end paper from vol I and rear free end paper from vol III title page to vol I somewhat rubbed and worn some general light finger soiling and light staining. A good plus to very good set of this rare early edition. This work was first published in 1804 in the same four volume format as this set the second edition appeared in 1808 followed by this edition in 1813. Later in 1823 a 2 volume edition was published. The work was translated from the French by L. F. Louis Francois. Richard Phillips Hardcover
1839982N6Paris: Chamerot 1839-1842. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5". None. A scarce and engaging popular history of France with volumes 1-4 covering their formative years in the Ancient and Medieval periods. Decorative leather covered boards. The scarce first edition of Histoire de France by French historian Eugene Jauffret published by Chamerot.Volumes 1-2 printed in 1839. Volumes 3-4 printed in 1842.In decorative full calf with intricate blind stamp detail. Each volume containing contents pages at the back. Volume 1 contains a small errata table at the back with Jauffret's corrections. A fruit of long labour volumes 1-4 of Jauffret's popular history delves into France's formative years during the ancient and early to high medieval periods. In his history Jauffret aims to unravel the causes of how France formed in accessible and entertaining fashion.Volume 1 begins with their ancient beginnings first as a collection of Gallic tribes followed by Caesar's conquest of Gaul Roman occupation and rise of the Franks. Volume 2 centers on the formation of the Carolingian dynasty and the glorious reign of Charlemagne while both volumes 3 and 4 focus on the French kingdom as it struggles with exercising control over its vast territories from the hands of neighbouring powers like the kingdom of England. In decorative full calf with intricate blind stamp detail. Externally in very smart condition. Minimal bumping to the board extremities. Bumping slightly more pronounced to volume 3. Minor rubbing to boards resulting in slight loss to leather hue. Fading to edges of pebble end papers. Fore-edges in lovely condition. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the odd spot to the extremities. Small puncture to final leaf of volume 2. Spotting heavier to pages of volume 3 and 4. Very Good Indeed Chamerot hardcover
180117755Weimar: Friedrich Justin Bertuch 1801. 140 by 90mm. 5.5 by 3.5 inches. Prints""N. Baudin Nicolas-Thomas Baudin Stipple-engraved portrait. Nicolas-Thomas Baudin 1754-1803 was a French explorer cartographer naturalist and hydrographer best known for his expedition to map the coast of Australia then New Holland which he undertook from 1800 to 1803. While moored at the British base in Sydney for supplies he prepared a report for Napoleon on a potential French attack on the colony and later named the coastline from Wilson's Promontory to Cape Leevwin 'Terre Napoleon'. Baudin died of tuberculosis at Mauritius in 1803 aged only 49. Baudin's portrait featured in Volume Seven of 'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' published in 1801. The magazine's engraver Conrad Westermayer based the portrait on an earlier image of Baudin made the previous year by painter Joseph Jauffret. The portrait which shows Baudin in a formal coat with embroidered collar is accompanied by a caption in German briefly is explaining his rank and naming his most important voyage. See Kivell & Spence: Pg. 24 - not in Friedrich Justin Bertuch], unknown
180790326Paris: Perlet 1807. Half leather binding 21 cm 384 pp. Ills.: color illustrations door Maradan. Very nice 24 handcolored pictures. Some pages with light waterstains. Cond.: goed / good. . Perlet hardcover
1810326<p><strong>First U.k. Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp 4 250 2 7 plates. Bound in contemporary quarter red leather over grey papered boards Spine sympathetically rebacked by the Heritage Bindery with a refreshed label. The sheets are chiefly translated from a small French work by Jauffret. Aimed at young people with the facts communicated in a question and answer mode. A very good copy with some rubbing and marking to boards - otherwise sound with complete uncut text and plates in clean condition showing the parts of the eye the skeleton the system of nerves in the body and digestive organs. OCLC records 4 copies in America UCLA Princeton Texas Medical College of Wisconsin. Rousseau Nervous Acts 31.</strong></p> Richard Phillips hardcover
180752869<p>Paris chez Perlet 1807. FIRST EDITIONS THE ARPAD PLESCH COPY 2 WORKS BOUND IN ONE VOLUME WITH COLOUR PLATES 1807. LA CORBEILLE DE FLEURS: FIRST EDITION 1807. French text 8vo approximately 205 x 115 mm 8 x 4¾ inches 24 plates of FLOWERS printed in colours and finished by hand after drawings by J.G. PRETRE and his daughter Mlle Josephine Pretre plus 12 folding leaves of engraved music pages: viii 1-384. LE PANIER DE FRUITS ou descriptions botaniques et notices historiques des principaux fruits cultives en France; suivies de differens morceaux de litterature et de morale; ouvrage orne de vingt-quatre planches coloriees; destine aux jeunes gens. FIRST EDITION 1807 French text 24 plates of FRUITS printed in colours and finished by hand after the Pretres pages: viii 1- 384. Bound in full contemporary mottled sheep narrow gilt floral border to covers gilt decoration to spine 2 gilt lettered red morocco labels edges and endpapers marbled. A few hair-line surface cracks to spine small bump to upper corner of lower cover small oval ink stamp removed from blank area of first title page now neatly patched a total of 8 further ink stamps of E. Tessier 1 to blank veso of 1 plate and the rest to lower margins of text throughout the 2 works not affecting text or images blank piece torn off lower corner of page 77/78 first work now neatly repaired no loss to text pale brown stain to lower margin of pages 267-270 first work lower blank margin torn off final page of second work now neatly repaired with loss of the word finis very good copies. This is the Plesch copy with the gilt red leather bookplate of the collection of Arpad Plesch on the front pastedown. See: Sotheby's Catalogue of The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung fur Botanik Collected by Arpad Plesch Part 2 page 183 No. 532 listing our copy; Gordon Dunthorne Flower and Fruit Prints 18th & 19th centuries Catalogue Raisonne page 172 Numbers 15 & 16; H. Frederic Janson Pomona's Harvest An Illustrated Chronicle of Antiquarian Fruit Literature page 306; Sandra Raphael An Oak Spring Pomona No. 45 pages 122-124. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.</p> Paris, chez Perlet, 1807. hardcover