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179541061Paris 1795. Uncolored oval bust portrait of a bespectacled Benjamin Franklin. 8-1/4" x 9-3/4" on a 10-1/2" x 13-3/4" sheet. Portrait surrounded by a black oval border. The portrait is captioned "Francklin." Directly beneath the oval border in small type is printed "Vanloo Pinxt" to the left and "P.M. Alex Sculpt" to the right. Very Good. <br /> <br /> According to Sellers's BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IN PORTRAITURE the engraving was done after an original portrait by the famed French painter Charles Philippe Vanloo in which Franklin was wearing fur-trimmed costume. The original portrait was painted while Franklin resided in Paris a "life portrait" dated between 1777 and 1785 and is now in the collection of the American Philosophical Society which was founded by Franklin. <br /> Sellers discusses our print: "the substitution a simple gray coat for the fur-trimmed costume of the original was undoubtedly in deference to the revolutionary feeling." It is one of a series of portraits begun in July 1790 and finished in September 1797. The 'Francklin' was exhibited in 1795 so the estimated date of the portrait is between July 1790 and 1795. This print was engraved after Vanloo's portrait by the noted French engraver Pierre-Michel Alix who was known for his portraits of leading French citizens and prominent personalities. Sellers Charles Coleman: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IN PORTRAITURE Yale University Press: 1962 pp. 393-394.<br /> Charles Philippe Amedee Vanloo 1715 -1795 was the member of a Flemish family of painters that settled in France. He was known for painting landscapes and portraits and he had an affinity for scientific subjects. Pierre-Michel Alix 1762-1817 was a French engraver and printmaker specializing in multiple-platecolor printing. He studied under Jacques-Philippe Le Bas and was best known for his portraits of notable figures during the French Revolution and First French Empire. unknown
1761891021761. CAYLUS Anne Claude Philippe de Tobieres de. RECUEIL D'ANTIQUITES Egyptiennes Etrusques Grecques et Romaines. Paris Chez Duchesne 1761-1767. Seven volumes. Second edition of Volume I with two title pages dated 1756 and 1761. First edition of Volumes II-VII dated 1756 1759 1761 1762 1764 and 1767. Xix 3 348pp. 104ff. plates; viii4293pp. 129ff. plates; xxxvi448pp. 121ff. plates; xx4181pp. 125ff. plates; xxvi2348pp. 121FF. PLATES; XX 132ff. plates; 4xxviii336pp. 85ff. plates. Lacking only 4 out 107 plates to Volume I one plate out of 121 to Volume III and seven out of 97 to Volume VII leaving 818 of 830 numbered platesand 829 in total including four unnumbered plates and seven frontispieces. Several plates are out of order or misnumbered. A compendious and learned account of a formidable collection of antiquities with over 800 plates each with up to five objects depicted plus headpieces and initials. Each object is discussed in detail in the text. Le Comte de Caylus was noted for many reasons not all of them reputable but primarily as a pioneer in the study of ancient objects focussing on their subject matter and style with a critical eye. He left his collection to the King. He also studied the archaeological remains of the Gauls and Volumes III-VII are titled "Recueil d'Antiquites Egyptiennes Etrusques Grecques Romaines et Gauloises." Bound in full calf the spines in six compartments gilt with rococo floral tools and two morocco lettering-pieces. Wear to extremities; one board detached from each of Volumes III and III; rear board of VII loose; some superficial splits to hinges and abrasions to boards. Light spotting here and there faint dampstain to margins of two volumes discoloration to tops of a few boards but on the whole internally clean. An extraordinary record of early antiquarian scholarship. unknown books
1761891021761. CAYLUS Anne Claude Philippe de Tobieres de. RECUEIL D'ANTIQUITES Egyptiennes Etrusques Grecques et Romaines. Paris Chez Duchesne 1761-1767. Seven volumes. Second edition of Volume I with two title pages dated 1756 and 1761. First edition of Volumes II-VII dated 1756 1759 1761 1762 1764 and 1767. Xix 3 348pp. 104ff. plates; viii4293pp. 129ff. plates; xxxvi448pp. 121ff. plates; xx4181pp. 125ff. plates; xxvi2348pp. 121FF. PLATES; XX 132ff. plates; 4xxviii336pp. 85ff. plates. Lacking only 4 out 107 plates to Volume I one plate out of 121 to Volume III and seven out of 97 to Volume VII leaving 818 of 830 numbered platesand 829 in total including four unnumbered plates and seven frontispieces. Several plates are out of order or misnumbered. A compendious and learned account of a formidable collection of antiquities with over 800 plates each with up to five objects depicted plus headpieces and initials. Each object is discussed in detail in the text. Le Comte de Caylus was noted for many reasons not all of them reputable but primarily as a pioneer in the study of ancient objects focussing on their subject matter and style with a critical eye. He left his collection to the King. He also studied the archaeological remains of the Gauls and Volumes III-VII are titled "Recueil d'Antiquites Egyptiennes Etrusques Grecques Romaines et Gauloises." Bound in full calf the spines in six compartments gilt with rococo floral tools and two morocco lettering-pieces. Wear to extremities; one board detached from each of Volumes III and III; rear board of VII loose; some superficial splits to hinges and abrasions to boards. Light spotting here and there faint dampstain to margins of two volumes discoloration to tops of a few boards but on the whole internally clean. An extraordinary record of early antiquarian scholarship. unknown
1718M9192Paris c. 1718. Very Good. Notes: Fifth State. Scarce. "De l'Isle's map of Canada is one of the most outstanding maps of Canada of the 17th and early 18th centuries. Typical of all of his work the information that went into his map of Canada was the result of careful and painstaking research. It thus seems somewhat surprising that the dubious discoveries of Lahontan should have been so readily accepted and included on his map of Canada. De l'Isle's careful research resulted in the first map of Canada to present the whole of the Great Lakes correctly. In addition the position of the lakes relative to Hudson Bay is also correct and the Avalon Peninsula is shown much more realistically than in previous maps of Canada. Of considerable significance the geography of the coastal regions of James and Hudson Bays together with their major river systems is presented b De l'Isle with a surprising degree of accuracy."-Kershaw I page 275. Size : 497x645 mm 19.57x25.39 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Reference: Karpinski p.40 and XXXI Tooley p.20 Kershaw 310 Schwartz pl. 80. Category: Maps Canada; Maps North America Great Lakes; unknown
1746CLL-317La Haye, 1746 In-12 de XXIV, 182 pp., (1) f. bl., (2) ff., 128 pp., (1) f. d'errata, maroquin rouge, triple filet gras et maigres doré en encadrement sur les plats, dos lisse orné de caissons de fleurons dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin vert, filet doré sur les coupes, roulette intérieure dorée, tranches dorées (reliure de l'époque).
1725J319ML17AD8LAmsterdam: Marten Schagen 1725. Contemporary calf richly gold-tooled spine with a red morocco title-label gold-tooled boards gold-tooled board edges marbled edges. 4to. With engraved title page letterpress title page printed in red and black with engraved vignette folding engraved map of Algeria folding engraved view and a folding engraved birds eye view of Algiers. 3 parts in 1 volume. Rare first and only edition of the Dutch translation of an influential description of Algeria published in the same year as the original French and expanded here with a detailed list of 73 Dutch ships captured by Algerian pirates. Algeria was at this time nominally ruled by the Ottoman Empire but retained a great deal of independence in practice. After more than a century as a French colony 1830-1954/62 it regained its independence and is now a member of the Arab League the United Nations and a founding member of the Maghreb Union. The work begins with a description of the various in habitants including separate chapters on the Arabic and Turkish populations followed by chapters on its architecture military navy politics slavery trade etc.It was written by the Jacques Philippe Laugier de Tassy a former diplomat in Algeria and at this date commissioner of the French navy and consul in the Netherlands. It was translated into English as A complete history of the piratical states of Barabry a title that emphasized the notorious Algerian pirates.With owner's inscription. A good copy; some minor thumbing a couple smudges and the bird's eye view has some restorations. Binding slightly rubbed along the extremities and some restorations to the spine but otherwise good.l Cat. NHSM p. 201; STCN 8 copies; Tiele Bibl. 644; WorldCat 6 copies; cf. Cox I p. 382; Gay Bibl. de l'Afrique et l'Arabe 917 French eds.; Playfair 220; not in Blackmer. Marten Schagen, hardcover
1790WRCAM45754Paris: Marie Francois Drouhin 1790. Handcolored oval mezzotint portrait 10 x 8 1/4 inches on a 12 1/2 x 9 1/4-inch sheet. Sheet lightly browned more so around the edges. Overall very good. Matted. An attractive mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin with delicate contemporary coloring. The engraving was done after an original portrait by the famed French painter Charles Philippe Vanloo sometimes spelled Van Loo. The original portrait was done while Franklin resided in Paris in the years during and after the American Revolution and is now in the collection of the American Philosophical Society which was founded by Franklin. Sellers asserts that it is "beyond question a life portrait" done between 1777 and 1785. In Vanloo's original portrait Franklin wears a fur coat. In this print of the painting the fur coat has been replaced by a simpler cloth coat. Franklin wears glasses his hair is long and gray and he has a slight smile on his face. In the caption below the image his name is spelled "Francklin." "The substitution of a simple gray coat for the fur-trimmed costume of the original was undoubtedly in deference to revolutionary feeling" - Sellers. This print was engraved after Vanloo's portrait by the noted French engraver Pierre-Michel Alix who was known for his portraits of leading French citizens and prominent personalities. A handsome contemporary portrait of the American who dazzled France as a diplomat scientist philosopher and gentleman of society. SELLERS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IN PORTRAITURE p.394. Marie Francois Drouhin hardcover books
177089949Imprimerie royale | Paris 1770-1783 | 20 x 26.4 cm | relié
177089949Paris: Imprimerie royale 1770. Fine. Mrs Necker: ""Animals seemed to be the most distant from us and Buffon's art lay in constantly bringing them closer"" our own translation Imprimerie royale Paris 1770-1783 20 x 26.4 cm relié First edition from the Imprimerie Royale complete in nine quarto volumes with all 262 black-and-white engraved plates. Contemporary full mottled calf spines with raised bands decorated with guilloche tooling and gilt ornaments in the compartments red morocco lettering-pieces and numbering-pieces triple gilt fillet border on boards double gilt fillet on board edges marbled endpapers and pastedowns marbled edges. Minor variations in the tooling on volume 3. In this set some headcaps missing 6 cm joints split at foot of volume 1 6.5 cm and 6 cm at foot of volume 2 3.5 cm at head of volume 3 corners bumped scratches and minor restoration to boards including a more significant repair on volume 7 measuring 11 cm browning in left margin of lower board of volume 4. In this copy: some worming several instances of dampstaining throughout the set more pronounced in volumes 1 3 and 8 some tears restored on the title page and on pp. ix and xxiii of volume 1 also restored on p. 496 of volume 2 on pp. 259 and 260 of volume 3 on pp. 481 and 482 of volume 4 and on pp. 173 to 176 of volume 5. Copy with some marginal annotations: in volume 2 a manuscript footnote added in ink on p. 541 ""Voyez les Planches enluminures n°491"" erroneous manuscript dates in ink in volumes 2 and 8 the number ""18"" annotated in ink in the upper right corner of the rear endpaper of volume 9. Copy richly illustrated with drawings by Jacques de Sève engraved by Robert de Launay Lucas Michel Madeleine-Thérèse Rousselet C. Baron Hubert Catherine Haussard Carl Gottlieb Guttenberg Jean-Guillaume Blanchon Menil Dufour Louis Claude Legrand Claude Mathieu Fessard Elisabeth Haussard François Hubert A.-B. Duhamel Mlle Mansard C. Baquoy Heinrich Guttenberg Laurent Guyot Benazeth Schmitz Marie-Anne Rousselet M. R. veuve Tardieu Louis-Gabriel Monnier Pierre-Étienne Moitte Jean-Louis de Lignon Levillain N. du Four Thomas Chambars Nicolas Thomas Luigi Valperga and George Louis Biosse. Accompanied by two additional plates heightened in color numbered XX and XXII from a volume 7 of the Histoire naturelle des oiseaux. The illustrator Jacques de Sève's main work was unquestionably the Histoire naturelle générale et particulière for which he executed nearly 2000 drawings. Unlike the illustrations he produced for other sections of Buffon's monumental work made primarily from stuffed specimens his work on birds was essentially executed from living models. To accomplish this vast project Jacques de Sève drew inspiration from the works of the king's ""Peintre ordinaire"" Jean-Baptiste Oudry. This judicious decision won him the favor of the queen a great admirer of the master of animal painting. By incorporating small Boucher-style putti in the introductory vignettes of certain volumes of the Histoire naturelle des oiseaux Sève also gained the good graces of the king's mistress. These illustrations at once decorative and scholarly which appear in the present first edition were not retained in the duodecimo edition. A superb complete copy of Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux by the French Pliny. As Ferdinand Hoefer wrote this work maintains the same ""magnificence of style"" as the other publications in the Histoire naturelle générale et particulière. Imprimerie royale hardcover
1777001671Utrecht: G.T. van Paddenburg and J. Visch 1777. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio. Etc. en Andere Voornaame Gebouwen van dit Hertogdom. Four volumes in one Vols. 2-4 dated 1770. Second Edition. Four volumes in one. Separate title pages and pagination. Full vellum binding with decorative blind tooling on front and rear boards. Raised bands and red leather spine label. In tan custom slipcase. Vol. 1: 3 39 p.p. 1 9 leaves of engravings showing castles and countrysides 1 folding; Vol. 2: 43 p.p. with 40 leaves of engravings 3 folding. Vol. 3: 30 p.p. 1 35 engravings 3 folding. Vol. 4: 24 p.p. errors to pagination 13 engravings 2 folding. A historical and genealogical description of the villages cities and prominent buildings in the province of Brabant Netherlands. Illustrations of castles architectural buildings countrysides and coats of arms. Upper front joint cracked and rear joint starting. Some scuffs and black smudges to boards and spine. Light soiling to upper rear board. Pages and endpapers lightly foxed. Otherwise a very good copy with nicely detailed engravings. G.T. van Paddenburg and J. Visch hardcover
1760M7182Paris: Desnos c. 1760. Very Good. Notes: These maps was originally designed by de la Hire 1640-1718 in 1705. Size : 461x461 mm 18.15x18.15 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Reference: Tooley III:72 Category: Maps Celestial; Desnos unknown
17102811Paris: A l’Entrée de la Porte de l'Academie Royale de Musique …: Henry de Baussen 1710. The first illustrated and the first edition engraved full score of Lully’s Persée. Engraved music. Folio. In somewhat later green half maroquin. Spine and front panel gilt. Supra ex-libris: M.me Adolp. de Lanneau - Partitions. With six engravings by Scotin and Deplaces after Duplessis. Binding rubbed at the extremities. Water stain to the lower edge of the first and last leaves. Sporadic foxing pages toned due to aging. Otherwise in fine condition. The first illustrated and the first edition engraved full score of Lully’s Persée. Engraved music. Folio. In somewhat later green half maroquin. Spine and front panel gilt. Supra ex-libris: M.me Adolp. de Lanneau - Partitions. With six engravings by Scotin and Deplaces after Duplessis. 4 229 1 p. The first illustrated and the first edition engraved full score of Lully’s Persée.<br /> Full score of Lully’s tragédie en musique with Philippe Quinault libretto. The opera premiered on 7 April 1682. This is the Persée’s first engraved edition adorned with six engravings illustrating scenes from the opera the first for the prologue and one for each of the five acts.<br /> Provenance: Madame Adolphe de Lanneau wife of A. de Lanneau 1796–1881 a French school director and politician to whom George Onslow dedicated his Violin Sonata No. 6 Opus 31.<br /> RISM L 2993. A l’Entrée de la Porte de l'Academie Royale de Musique […]: [Henry de Baussen] unknown
170417661Paris: De l'Imprimerie de L.V. Thiboust 1704. Books""Description et explication des globes With the Arms of the Sun King Octavo. Contemporary speckled calf gilt. In 1678 the Cardinal d'Estrées commissioned Vincenzo Coronelli to make an enormous pair of globes as an unparalled gift for Louis XIV: the celestial globe depicts the constellations as they would have been on the evening of Louis XIV's birth. This monumental pair - a terrestrial and a celestial globe - was constructed in Paris between 1681 and 1683 eventually measuring four metres in diameter supported on bronze stands. To this day these globes remain unequalled in both beauty and technical prowess. The giant globes were originally intended for display at the equally opulent Palace of Versailles but they were transferred to the King's Marly """"retreat"""" in 1703. Completely hidden in a thick forested valley Marly took more than five years to complete. Louis XIV first visited in November 1683 but only stayed there for the first time in 1686. In the centre of the grounds was a large pavilion for the King surrounded by twelve smaller pavilions for guests like the planets circling the sun. Next to the Royal pavilion were four service pavilions and in 1688 baths for the guests were added and in 1703 two further pavilions on either side of the central pool were refurbished to house Coronelli's magnificent globes. There they stayed until they were moved to the Royal Library in 1722 where a room of globes was installed in 1731. Afterwards they were displayed in the Grand Palais but are now on permanent display in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Once installed at Marly two permanent curators were appointed to care for the globes: Robert Crosnier for the celestial; and François Lelarge for the terrestrial. Lelarge transcribed the inscriptions and described the figures which ornamented the terrestrial globe. Philippe de la Hire 1640-1719 the Astronomer of Paris was commanded by the King to write the current treatise on the use of the globes. A large paper example bound in red morocco also emblazoned with the Royal arms and described as being printed for the Sun King's """"own use"""" was offered by Sotheby's in 1859 as part of the 'Choicer portion of the magnificent library formed by M. Guglielmo Libri'. It is likely that Louis had a number of examples of the book bound for presentation including this one. La Hire was the son of Laurent de la Hire a renowned painter and engraver. An early interest in geometry led to surveying work particularly with Jean Picard on his map of France and diverting the Eure to the grounds of Versailles. His earliest major work was 'Nouvelle method de Geometrie pour les sections de superficie coniques et cylindriques qui ont pour base des cercles ou des paraboles des ellipses ou des hyperboles' 1673 but he published numerous treatises on various scientific subjects and became a member of the Academie Royale des Sciences in 1678. Rare: only one other example offered in available records the Macclesfield copy Sotheby's 2005 Provenance: 1. With the supra-libros of the Sun King Louis XIV of France 1638-1715 on each cover; 2. Armorial bookplate of a Viscomte on front paste-down De l'Imprimerie de L.V. Thiboust, unknown
177230530Paris: Edme 1772. Folio. 19 3/4 x 13 1/8 inches. Engraved frontispiece by B.L. Prevost after Sullier engraved portrait frontispiece by J. Baptiste Michel after Harguinier engraved title vignette by and after Prevost engraved arms of Charles-Eugene de Lorraine on dedication 56 hand-coloured engraved plates by B. Michel Adam femme Fessard F.A. Aveline C. Baquoy Benard Ch. Beulier L. Bosse Prevost and others after Harguinier Lafosse Saullier 19 folding and 7 engraved headpieces by Delaunay Hubert Levilain Lucas Mlle Massard Mesnil Michel after Le Carpentier type-ornament headpieces woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Contemporary calf covers bordered with gilt double fillet expertly rebacked to style spine gilt retaining the original red morocco lettering piece period marbled endpapers<br/> <br/> Deluxe hand-coloured first edition of the best 18th century French work on equine medicine and the anatomy of the horse.<br/> <br/> Cours d'hippiatrique is distinguished not only by Lafosse's anatomical skill and knowledge of equitation gained through both study and practice of the subject but also by the excellence of its execution: "Ce livre est un veritable monument eleve a l'Hippologie. Papier impression dessin gravure sont egalement signes" Mennessier de la Lance. The vivid colouring of the anatomical plates elevates this hand coloured issue far beyond the regular black and white edition. "Ouvrage fort bien execute et qui a ete longtemps le meilleur que l'on eut sur cette science" Brunet.<br/> <br/> Brunet III 765; Cohen-de Ricci col.587; Huth p.46; Mellon Books on Horses and Horsemanship 61; Mennessier de la Lance II pp.20-21; Nissen ZBI 2360. Edme unknown
177230530Paris: Edme 1772. Folio. 19 3/4 x 13 1/8 inches. Engraved frontispiece by B.L. Prevost after Sullier engraved portrait frontispiece by J. Baptiste Michel after Harguinier engraved title vignette by and after Prevost engraved arms of Charles-Eugene de Lorraine on dedication 56 hand-coloured engraved plates by B. Michel Adam femme Fessard F.A. Aveline C. Baquoy Benard Ch. Beulier L. Bosse Prevost and others after Harguinier Lafosse Saullier 19 folding and 7 engraved headpieces by Delaunay Hubert Levilain Lucas Mlle Massard Mesnil Michel after Le Carpentier type-ornament headpieces woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Contemporary calf covers bordered with gilt double fillet expertly rebacked to style spine gilt retaining the original red morocco lettering piece period marbled endpapers<br/> <br/>Deluxe hand-coloured first edition of the best 18th century French work on equine medicine and the anatomy of the horse.<br/> <br/>Cours d'hippiatrique is distinguished not only by Lafosse's anatomical skill and knowledge of equitation gained through both study and practice of the subject but also by the excellence of its execution: "Ce livre est un veritable monument eleve a l'Hippologie. Papier impression dessin gravure sont egalement signes" Mennessier de la Lance. The vivid colouring of the anatomical plates elevates this hand coloured issue far beyond the regular black and white edition. "Ouvrage fort bien execute et qui a ete longtemps le meilleur que l'on eut sur cette science" Brunet.<br/> <br/>Brunet III 765; Cohen-de Ricci col.587; Huth p.46; Mellon Books on Horses and Horsemanship 61; Mennessier de la Lance II pp.20-21; Nissen ZBI 2360. Edme unknown books
178951612Paris: chez Dezauche 1789. Updating the work of "one of the key figures in the development of French cartography" First edition thus and uncommon with just four listings on WorldCat three of these for the BnF and no complete copy at auction for 30 years; an excellent complete and inclusive French atlas of the 18th century. Jean-Claude Dezauche 1745-1824 was one of the geographer-publishers most influential in the establishment of the French theoretical approach to cartography. This movement which downplayed the decorative elements valued by the Dutch school in favour of scientific rigour and accuracy can be traced back to the work of Guillaume Delisle - "one of the key figures in the development of French cartography" Tooley - who had studied under Jean-Dominique Cassini director of the Paris observatory. Delisle's business was inherited by his son-in-law Philippe Buache who had studied with him and who entered the Depôt des Cartes et Plans de Marine in 1721 in 1729 being appointed "premier géographe du roi" a position previously held by his father-in-law. On Buache's death his widow sold his work to Jean Nicholas Buache de la Neuville Philippe's nephew and in 1780 Dezauche bought it from him together with work by Delisle Jaillot and others. He in turn made his own alterations and improvements to the maps and then re-issued them in a revised form. For example the twin- and four-hemispheric world maps in volume I the former dated 1792 have been revised to include the latest discoveries from Cook's voyages. 2 vols folio 453 x 375 mm. Engraved allegorical title page and contents leaves to each and 151 double-page or folding maps all coloured in outline. Contemporary calf rebacked red morocco labels. Somewhat rubbed and with some restoration at the corners light dampstain in the lower margin of vol. I slightly heavier at the title page which has been reinforced with archival tissue map of Paris shaved to the ruled border at the upper margin a few minor splits and chips in the margins but overall very good. unknown
