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200734573Boston: MFA Publications 2007. First edition. With well over 200 stunning colour illustrations all throughout of artifacts photographed by Michael Gould of the Imaging Studios Boston MFA except where otherwise noted. 4to publisher's original green buckram lettered on the spine in gilt in the original photographically-decorated dustjacket. ix 261pp. A very fine copy book and jacket both as pristine and mint. A BEAUTIFULLY PHOTOGRAPHED CATALOGUE FROM THE BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ART'S HOLDINGS OF VIETNAMESE CERAMICS.<br> "The focus of conflict from the colonial era to the cold war Vietnam at long last is emerging as a global force in trade and culture. Likewise its ceramics tradition a fusion of eclectic influences and unique forms and forces is exciting the imagination and delighting the senses of a widening circle of collectors and connoisseurs. The Elephant and the Lotus explores this vital tradition by highlighting over two hundred objects in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston." - Jacket MFA Publications hardcover
175022474London: R. Griffiths 1750. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Good. A just about good copy in a worn leather binding which lacks the title-piece. Five raised bands on spine. Old ownership inscription. Two old newspaper cuttings tipped-in to front end-papers. Pp.xiv368. Folding plan of Algiers and map of Barbary the latter with a 2.5 inch repaired tear. Originally published in 1725 with a different title this edition has two additional sections on the history of Tunis and Tripoli by the translator. Quite a clean copy which would benefit from rebinding. Photograph available on request. <br/> <br/> R. Griffiths hardcover
193214646Paris:: Crosby Continental Editions 1932. publisher's printed wrappers. . Two attractive letterpress bookplates inside front wrapper; 3" tear to rear wrapper not affecting any lettering; cream-colored lightly and uniformly tanned. An attractive copy. 12mo. Preface by T. S. Eliot. Modern Masterpieces in English. Crosby Continental Editions, unknown
1749mon0004042909Paris: Desaint & Saillant 1749. Hardcover. Good. . Volume 5 only. Bound in full leather with 5 raised bands on the spine and gilt decoration cover shows moderate wear tear edgewear rubbing cracks on the spine joints starting. Marbled endpapers torn and fused. Pages show minor holing throughout. Paris: Desaint & Saillant hardcover
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
1979200146AB1979. Munchen Prestel-Verlag 1979. 24 cm x 31 cm. 107 pages. Illustrated throughout with numerous colour and black-and-white plates. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Excellent monograph on Gallé. Gallé was the son of a faience and furniture manufacturer and studied philosophy botany and drawing in his youth. His early work was executed using clear glass decorated with enamel but he soon turned to an original style featuring heavy opaque glass carved or etched with plant motifs often in two or more colours as cameo glass. After success at the Paris Exhibition Gallé reached international fame and his style with its emphasis on naturalism and floral motifs was at the forefront of the emerging Art Nouveau movement. He continued to incorporate experimental techniques into his work and revitalized the glass industry by establishing a factory to mass-produce his as well as other artists' designs. hardcover
1744010900Paris: Imprimerie de S. A. S. a Trevoux 1744. Book. Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. Full Leather. Second Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. xvi 4 355p. 575-621pp. 1p. this page has been pasted to p. 621 and can be read when held up to the light 8p. A good ex-library copy with the library's bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper and the library's identification stamp on the verso of the title-page on page 21. and on the last page of the book the front cover is soiled there is a 1 1/2" crack in the back outer joint starting at the bottom but the hinge is still tight there is a three-inch tear in p. 621 with no text loss a quarter-size piece of the back paste-down endpaper has become loose and can be repasted down and the former owner's signature is on the back of the front free endpaper. The pages of this copy are very clean. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Imprimerie de S. A. S. a Trevoux, Hardcover
21317Paris: Francois Fournier.� 1710. Two volumes. Second edition revised by the author. Handsome contemporary full calf with five raised bands to the spines compartments decorated in gilt and with titles in gilt. Red speckled edges. Marbled endpapers. Green silk ribbon page markers. A very good set indeed the bindings square and firm with a little rubbing to the extremities. The contents with the attractive early nineteenth-century ink inscription of the physician Michele Nicolao Chiazzari to the front endpaper of each volume "1804. 19. Juni. / Ex Libris Michaelis Nicolai Chiazzari / M.D. Liguris" a little toning to the edges of the preliminary pages some very occasional minor scorch spots the odd one with a tiny hole at the centre and light scattered foxing are otherwise in very good order throughout.� The most celebrated work by the French physician and pioneer of the vegetarian diet Philippe Hecquet 1661-1737. A highly accomplished doctor Hecquet received the official hat of the University of Paris in 1697 after an examination of "rare success" and was made Dean of the Faculty in 1712. Widely known for his medical writings Hecquet was one of the most notable and outspoken early advocates of vegetarianism. Influenced in particular by Porphyry Hecquet argued that the consumption of meat interfered with digestion and the circulation of the blood developing a digestive theory of "trituration" which emphasised the importance of the ability of the body to break down matter with foods which were the most difficult i.e. meat being those most likely to have a negative impact. For this reason Hecquet favoured the consumption of fish although asserted that a diet in which fruits grains nuts and seeds replaced meats was the ideal bringing humans closer to what he believed was their original state. � In the present work an attempt to prove that Lent is in fact beneficial as opposed to harmful to health Hecquet lays out many of his key arguments for vegetarianism and in so doing provides one of the first scientific defences of a vegetarian diet. This second edition published one year after the 1709 first edition incorporates the author's considerable revisions and additions developed in response to public reaction and further research and is also prefaced with the testimonies of several "doctors regent" of the Faculty of Medicine of the Paris University declaring their approval and commendation of the work. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Paris: Francois Fournier.� 1710 hardcover
176652783Paris Lacombe 1766. 8vo. In two nice contemporary full calf bindings with richly gilt spines and royal coat of arms "Honi soit qui mal y pense" to front and back board of both volumes. Wear to extremities and front board of volume 1 party detached. Part of tome-label on both volumes missing. Internally fine. XXIII 1 588 pp.; 4 715 1 pp. <br/><br/><em>First edition of Marcquer's Dictionnaire in applied chemistry. "In the avertissement Philippe states that his brother's dictionaire de chymie had recently appeared and he suggests that the present work will form a logical sequelto the Dictionnaire raisonné d'histoire naturelle. Rare. Not in Blake Collison Watt or the usual chemical bibliographies". Neville vol. 2 p 110. </em> unknown
19212416Bruxelles 1921. Original illustrated paper. In fine condition. Original illustrated paper. 4 p. First edition of this score edition of which is 500 copies. Poem by Philippe Soupault and music by E.L.T. Feel. The cover was designed by Man Ray. unknown
184442<p><strong>Collection of two very rare italian medical treatises on Surgery and dermatology</strong></p><p><strong>No copy of both treatise recorded in WorldCat</strong></p><p>Blandin Philippe Frédéric. <em>Degli accidenti che possono sopraggiungere nelle operazioni chirurgiche e dei mezzi per rimediarvi / tesi di Federigo Blandin ; prima traduzione italiana con note del dott. </em><em>Alessandro Foresi.</em> Firenze : D. Passigli 1844.</p><p>8° 220 x 150 mm original brown paper boards blind tooled glit titles at spine pp. 280 1-errata</p><p>bound with</p><p>Lepelletier Almire. <strong><em>T</em></strong><em>rattato della erisipela e delle differenti varietà che può presentare . / di Alm. </em><em>Lepelletier.</em> Livorno : Bertani Antonelli e c. 1838.</p><p>8° 220 x 150 mm original brown paper boards blind-tooled gilt titles at spine 136-223.</p><p><strong>Many illustrations along the text of first work</strong></p><p>The first work consists of the first Italian edition translated and commented by the Tuscan doctor and art collector Alessandro Foresi of the treatise on accidents that can occur during surgical operations and on how to remedy them printed in first absolute edition in Paris with the title <em>Des accidents qui peuvent survenir pendant les opeÌrations chirurgicales et des moyens d'y remeÌdier</em>. Paris : Felix Locquin 1841.</p><p>The work is divided into two parts. The first part pp.1-138 is formed by the translation of Blandin's original work where it deals with the main accidents that can happen in an operating room grouping them into three main families:</p><p>1 Nervous accidents</p><p>2 Bleeding accidents</p><p>3 Spontaneous introduction of air into the veins</p><p>The second part pp139-289 is represented by the commentary accompanied by explanatory illustrations by the doctor Alessandro Foresti who is also responsible for the translation of the original work.</p><p>Foresti bases his comment on the theory that most of the accidents in the operating room are due to a lack of knowledge of human anatomy by most of the surgeons and reports several real cases in support of his thesis enriching the treatise with explanatory images.</p><p>The second work initially published as the 4th part of the <em>Collezione di monografie memorie tesi ec. estratte dal repertorio medico-chirurgico-ostetrico che si pubblica a Bruxelles sotto la direzione di una società di medici / compilata e tradotta dal D. Niccola Orsini </em>but often given the heterogeneity of the topics of the 4 treatises bound individually it is a dermatology treatise on Erispela by the French doctor and writer Lepelletier Almire.</p><p>Lepelletier summarized the main current opinions of his times on the disease its causes symptoms possible complications and the main methods proposed for its treatment.</p><p>Erysipelas from the Greek εÏυσίπελας - red skin is an acute skin infection involving the deep dermis and partly the hypodermis caused by pyogenic bacteria; the main culprit is group A beta-haemolytic streptococcus but sometimes staphylococcus aureus or other less common germs are involved.</p><p>CONDITION: Light foxing along the volumes due to the quality of the paper but a good copy of a fascinating collection of extremely rare medical treatise.</p> Passigli paperback
1983164281Paris: Sygma 1983. Original oversize borderless photograph of Monty Python members Eric Idle Terry Gilliam Graham Chapman Terry Jones and Michael Palin taken during the group's stay in Cannes for the 1983 film festival. Mimeo snipe on the verso. <br /> <br /> "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life" would land the group the Grand Prix at Cannes. The film was the last to star all six Python members before Chapman's death in 1989. <br /> <br /> 11.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Sygma unknown
1989PMV408106EParis: Paris-musées 1989. Trade paperback. Good/Not issued. 220 x 280 x 35 cm. Paperback • Illustrations en noir et en couleurs couverture illustrée en couleurs • <b><i>French text original</i></b>. Paris-musées paperback
1827143929Brussells: P.M.G. Vandermaelen 1827. Very Good. Brussells P.M.G. Vandermaelen 1827. A lithographed map printed surface 471 × 547 mm sheet size 533 × 665 mm printed in black and blue. Vertical centrefold crease as issued; remnants of hinge mounts and an old guard on the verso; paper lightly tanned and foxed; in excellent condition. Plate 55 from Vandermaelen's monumental 'Atlas Universel' showing the New South Wales coast from around Batemans Bay to the Solitary Islands. Sydney the Blue Mountains and hinterland are shown including much of the Lachlan River. Vandermaelen's atlas was 'the first world atlas on a uniform scale. The sixth volume covered "Océanique" and it included seventeen maps of Australia. All the sheets were made on the same scale and projection and they were so constructed that they could form a globe of about 1000 gores 7.775 metres in diameter' Clancy: 'The Mapping of Terra Australis' 1995. P.M.G. Vandermaelen unknown
16655Dimensions : 306 x 198 mm. Tirage argentique. Timbre ˆ sec du photographe au revers. TrÂs belle condition. b42961 unknown
1999mon0002916108Antiquorum 1999. Hardcover. Good. . A copy that's been read but with minimal wear and handling. Pages are lightly tanning but clean. Antiquorum hardcover
#[17732]8º: A 4 A4 A5 2 A-B 8 C 2 gepag.: 10 36 pp. op de titelpagina het vignet van 'Nil Volentibus Arduum'. Papieren omslag. Van Aken II p.312; Dongelmans NVA 128; CBMNL 4671 De Haas Het repertoire van de Amsterdamse schouwburg 1700-1772 Maastricht 2001 p.250 unknown
40498with a printed signature under the image showing him as a young man seated backwards on a chair with his arms folded on the back 4¼" x 2½" no place 11th February unknown
68-8675NY NY: Philippe Halsman 1951. B&W Photograph 9.5 x 15 cm. Very Good Provenance: From the collection of British army veteran and noted Churchillian Major Alan Taylor-Smith 1928-2019 of Westerham Kent. [NY, NY: Philippe Halsman, 1951.] unknown
37323Very Good. Two striking original photographs taken during the filming of Hans Richter's "8 x 8". One of the two photographs is signed in red ink by Philippe Halsman the photographer of both. A note on the back of the signed photo notes that Halsman signed this picture and that the film's cinematographer Arnold Eagle is visible in the background. The photos are mounted on discolored pieces of cardboard. In his original script for the film's prologue Richter wrote: ".my film 8 x 8 is a bizarre comedy-drama signs and sounds not only out of this world probably not even in the next. 8 x 8 mixes equal parts of Freud and Lewis Carroll with Venice Venus and Old Vienna Cocteau and Bullfights surrealism magic dreams girls and practically anything else that may currently be in your minds." Hans Richter undertook 8 x 8 at the suggestion of Marcel Duchamp a chess enthusiast after The Minotaur a planned sequel to the 'Narcissus' episode of Dreams That Money Can Buy failed to secure funding although 8 x 8 engaged similar concerns. 'Chess is so universal' wrote Richter to Jean Cocteau about this new project 'that practically every human situation has its corresponding move among the countless possibilities of chess.' The filmmaker further recognized a kinship between the work which took its title from the layout of a chessboard and Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. Some of the artists who appeared in this film included Max Ernst Fernand Léger Marcel Duchamp Man Ray and Alexander Calder. The photographs are accompanied by a reprint of an article that was written by Lewis Carroll collectors August and Clare Imholtz for the Fall 2019 issue of "Knight Letter" about the film and its participants along with a discussion of each of the photos. The photos are in very good condition. They measure 10.5 x 13.5 inches. PHOTO/062424. unknown
41237showing him full length his hat in his left hand leaning against a studio balcony 4¼" x 2½" no place no date circa Exiled friom France in 1848 the Count of Paris and his brother the Duke of Chartres were brought up in Germany and then in England. They both spent time in America in the Union Army during the Civil War of which the Count compiled a history. unknown
55454showing him full length almost full face in morning dress his hat in his left hand leaning against a studio balcony 4¼" x 2½" no place no date circa Exiled friom France in 1848 the Count of Paris and his brother the Duke of Chartres were brought up in Germany and then in England. They both spent time in America in the Union Army during the Civil War of which the Count compiled a history. unknown
5437Manuscript letter single folio sheet dated 16 February 1716 signed Louis in the hand of Louis XV's secretary countersigned by Louis Phélypeaux Marquis de La Vrillière Secretary of State addressed to Cardin Le Bret member of the parliament of Provence and nephew of the regent the Duc d'Orléans stating that a royal edict has been sent to the parliament of Provence 'which explains the circumstances in which merchants of my Kingdom must obtain passports from me to which edict I append a declaration forbidding any of my subjects to conduct commerce in the South Seas'; the verso with address of Le Bret; the document is complete legible and remarkably fresh with original folds. In France the period 1715-1723 is known as the Régence during which time Philippe Duc d'Orléans was in charge of the country's affairs owing to the fact that Louis XV was still a minor. In 1716 when this letter was written the War of the Spanish Succession had only recently ended and a member of the French House of Bourbon Philip V was now on the Spanish throne. The royal edict alluded to in the present letter ostensibly forbidding French subjects to conduct trade in the Pacific was typical of French diplomacy towards Spain in the early part of the eighteenth century. It was designed to allay Spanish fears that its monopoly of the rich resources along the western seabord of the Americas - namely the silver mines of Mexico and Peru - was under threat from the French but in reality the situation was quite different. While flattering the Spanish and officially appearing to discourage this type of trade France turned a blind eye toward its own merchants rounding Cape Horn and from the end of the seventeenth to well into the eighteenth century French private companies including the Compagnie de la Mer Pacifique or Mer du Sud and other private adventurers out of ports such as St Malo and La Rochelle conducted many voyages to the west coast of the Americas. These merchants carried royal passports which described the purpose of their voyages as being non-commercial in nature - they were simply exploring or acquiring scientific knowledge. Paradoxically these voyages proved so lucrative resulting in massive volumes of silver bullion for the French coffers that a genuine voyage of exploration in the Pacific was not carried out by the French until Bougainville 1766-69. Throughout this period England the new rival of France as a maritime superpower adopted an official policy towards the Spanish similar to that of the French - one of non-interference with the Spanish trading empire on the Pacific seaboard of the Americas - and it was not until the voyages of Wallis Carteret and Cook that it undertook serious exploration of the Pacific. unknown
1957168392Brussels: Plus 1957. The first issue of influential avant-garde French periodical "Plus" which only published three issues in total. Text in French.<br /> <br /> Features contributions by Dylan Thomas Sanguinetti Alechinsky Verbruggen and others. Cover art by Karel Appel. <br /> <br /> Wrappers lightly toned on the edges else Near Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers. Plus unknown
1853AQ16413London: Published for the Author by Simpkin Marshall and Co. 1853. xix 189pp 3. Original publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt. Slight marking to extremities. First gathering protruding from text-block contemporary ink ownership inscription to head of title-page. An Italian reader intended for the instruction of children compiled by influential linguist and educator Louis Philippe R. Fenwick de Porquet and first printed in 1837. . New edition. 8vo. Published for the Author, by Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. hardcover