137 résultats
178920485Paris: S. n. 1789. Fine. S. n. Paris 1789 12 x 19 cm relié Stated third edition corrected. In original wrappers covered with 20th-century glazed paper. Handwritten title label on front cover. Complete set of rules for the bailliages following the Estates General of 1789. S. n. unknown
1770159238Paris: Chez l'Auteur sur le Quay de l'Horloge 1770. Updated edition of 1714 map. Near fine. 52 x 69 cm hand-coloured map. Centrefold. Bottom corner chipped. <br/><br/>An updated edition of Delisle's important map of the Northern Hemisphere. When first printed in 1714 Delisle's map was the first to correctly place the west coast of North America by moving it farther east from previous mapping. California is correctly shown as a peninsula not an island. However this edition continues the coastline of the Pacific Northwest with a large island labeled Foufang that is apparently Chinese and serves as the western boundary of a large Mer de l'Ouest. Other conjectural rivers and lakes including Lake Valasco appear to the north. A rudimentary Alaska is named Presqu'Isle du Nord-Ouest. Bauche improved upon the depiction of Japan although Hokkaido Isle du Jeso is still not shaped correctly. Only a small remnant of the Terre de la Compagnie appears near Hokkaido. <br /> <br />Delisle or de l'Isle 1675-1726 was the son of a cartographer and a pupil of Jean Dominique Cassini who among other important contributions aligned the study of astronomy to the study of geography. Under Cassini's direction observations were made from locations all over the world that enabled longitudinal calculations to be made with much greater accuracy. Delisle continued his work with dedication constantly revising and improving his maps. Chez l'Auteur sur le Quay de l'Horloge unknown
175028667Madrid 1750. 83473pp. Two folding maps folding view and folding table. Tear in margin of first map closed tear in the view. Contemporary mottled Spanish calf spine ornately gilt with leather label.<br/> <br/> Second Spanish edition translated from the French.<br/> <br/> A history of the kingdom of Algiers written by the French Consul first published in Amsterdam in 1725. The view shows Algiers while the map shows the greater Barbary states.<br/> <br/> Palau 328227. unknown
174569377Londres London: S. n. 1745. Fine. S. n. Londres London 1745 10 x 17 cm relié First edition rare. Contemporary marbled brown full calf binding. Decorated smooth spine. Red morocco title label. Blind-ruled frame on boards. Wide margins. Cracks to upper joint at head. Good copy. Collection composed of 5 gallant novellas: Mémoires de Mademoiselle de sous le nom de Lucilie; Dom Juan & Isabelle histoire portugaise; Mémoires du Chevalier d'Arbentieres; Les deux Anglois nouvelle; Lettre de M. à Mlle sur l'origine de la Musique. The Count of Caylus important archaeologist and antiquarian of the Enlightenment was at the same time a writer of tales and novellas in the 18th-century vogue; he even became a draftsman after taking courses with Watteau and managed to become a skilled engraver. S. n. hardcover
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
175655334Paris l'Imprimerie Royale 1756-58. 4to. 2 contemp. full mottled calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. A tear to joint at lower compartment on volumeStamp on title-pages. CLXXV372VIII614 pp. Faint scattered brownspots. Frontispiece lacks. <br/><br/><em>First edition. </em> hardcover
17909999_05382Berlin Imprimerie Royale; H. A. Rottmann 1790. Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Quarto. Pp. xii 40 310. Plus frontispiece portrait large folding copper-engraved map bound-in after the preliminary section hand-colored in outline and 14 other leaves of engraved plans some full-page some with multiple images to each often hand-coloured in outlines. Large handsome copper engraved allegorical head piece tail-piece with obverse and reverse of a medal engraved order of battle inside the text. HARDCOVER bound in contemporary calf and marbled boards gilt morocco lettering-piece to spine marbled endpapers; joints mended for split functioning well though still tender corner-tips bit chafed else a good copy with rather fine interior fresh plates. ~ First French edition translated from the German enlarged with plans and maps. C-1 <br/> <br/> Berlin, Imprimerie Royale; H. A. Rottmann hardcover
177753029à Paris: Chez Panckoucke 1777. Fine. Chez Panckoucke à Paris 1777 10 x 17 cm 2 tomes en 2 volumes reliés Edition illustrated with 16 folding plates 8 per volume. Contemporary full marbled brown calf bindings. Spines with raised bands decorated. Red morocco title labels and black wax volume labels. Head of volume I with headcap partly missing. One hole along the upper joint of volume I. 2 corners slightly bumped. Worming throughout the first volume in the lower margin the holes progressively becoming galleries then reverting to holes. Good set overall. Notable articles to be retained in each of the mentioned sections include: Remarks on the construction of geometric loci & equations by M. de La Hire; General construction of magic squares by M. Sauveur; Use of a given integral by M. le Marquis de L'hôpital by M. Varignon; On breaking points of figures by M. Parent; General method for the construction of circular arcs by M. de La Hire; Observations on bezoar by M. Geoffroy; Remarks on the movement of planets by M. de la Hire. Numerous astronomical observations by Cassini Maraldi. Chez Panckoucke hardcover
175053039à Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Mortier 1750. Fine. Chez Pierre Mortier à Amsterdam 1750 10 x 17 cm 2 tomes en 2 volumes reliés Illustrated edition with 16 folding plates 8 per volume. Contemporary full marbled brown calf bindings. Raised band spines with gilt ornaments. Red morocco title-labels and black wax volume labels. Small lack to head of volume I. One corner slightly bumped. Rubbing. Last errata leaf frayed at margin. Good copies. Notable articles to be retained in each of the mentioned sections include the following: On beam resistance by M. Parent. On conchoids in general by M. de La Hire. Observations on coral analysis by M. Geoffroy. Reflections on magnetic variations by M. Houssaye. General method for finding an infinity of new curved lines by M. Réaumur. Physical explanation of the vertical and natural direction of plants by M. de La Hire. Method for describing large arcs of conic sections by M. de La Hire. Conjectures on the position of the island of Meroë by M. Delisle. Numerous astronomical observations by Cassini Maraldi. Chez Pierre Mortier unknown
174753054à Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Mortier 1747. Fine. Chez Pierre Mortier à Amsterdam 1747 10 x 17 cm 2 tomes en 2 volumes reliés Second edition statement illustrated with 26 plates most of them folding including a frontispiece. Title pages in red and black. Contemporary full marbled brown calf bindings. Decorated raised band spines. Red morocco title labels and black wax volume labels. One lack at head of volume I. One corner bumped. Rubbing. Good copies. Among the remarkable articles mentioned in each section we note the following: Reflections on spaces more than infinite by M. Wallis by M. Varignon. Observations on the methods of Maximis & Minimis where the identity & difference of that of the analysis of the infinitely small with those of M. Fermat and Hudde is shown by M. Guisnée. Continuation of the establishment of some new genera of plants by M. Tournefort. Reflections on the appearances of the body of the moon by M. de La Hire. Discovery of a new star by M. Maraldi. Supplement to the memoir on voice and tones by M. Dodart. Observations on iron under burning glass by M. Homberg. Solution to the problem proposed by Bernouilli by M. Bernouilli his brother. On honey and its chemical analysis by M. Lemeri. Treatise on roulettes by M. de La Hire. Different ways of finding the osculating radii of all sorts of curves by M. Varignon. Various astronomical and meteorological observations for the year 1706. Chez Pierre Mortier unknown
17372<p>Original edition of this essential book where Rameau continuing his theoretical demonstrations about music theory and harmony takes strong positions.</p><p>A very decent copy.</p><p>Génération harmonique ou Traité de musique théorique et pratique. Par M. Rameau. A Paris Prault fils MDCCXXXVII. In-8 195 x 121 mm veau marbré dos orné à 5 nerfs pièce de titre de maroquin vieux rouge roulette sur les coupes tranches rouges Reliure de l'époque. 16 227 17 pp. et 12 planches dépliantes hors-texte. Première édition d'un des plus importants ouvrage théoriques de Jean-Philippe Rameau. Diverses petites restaurations à la reliure coiffes coins haut des plats charnières. Coups taches et petites griffures. Deux petits manques à la pièce de titre. Ouvrage sain. Découpe comblée à la page de titre qui a enlevé un ex-libris manuscrit sans manque au texte imprimé. Intérieur frais. Quelques feuillets brunis salissures à la page de titre. Bon exemplaire dans l'ensemble.</p> Prault hardcover
17372674DB1737. Paris Prault 1737. 4°. 16 201 13 S. Mit 12 Kupfertafeln. Grässe VI 20. - MGG dtv X 1904. - Eitner VIII 120. - Fétis VII 175. - Erste Ausgabe. - "Hatte Rameau im Traité Zarlinos 'duale' Theorie mit der nach unten gehenden Reihe zur Erklärung der Mollharmonie scharf zurückgewiesen und dafür den schwachen Versuch unternommen die Lage der Terz zwischen den beiden bestimmenden Eckpfeilern von Grundton und Quinte willkürlich zu vertauschen so greift er in der 'Génération' zum Zwecke einer befriedigenderen Abteilung der Mollharmonie auf die sympathetische Vibration von Saiten und eine sich daraus ergebende arithmetische Proportion zurück was praktisch eine Anerkennung von Zarlinos ursprünglicher Erklärung bedeutet" MGG. - Gioseffo Zarlino 1517-1590 ital. Musiktheoretiker und Komponist. - Papier zu Beginn etwas gebräunt und stockfleckig. Mit alten Besitzereinträgen auf dem Vorsatz. Einband berieben. unknown
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
179713514London: Published by P. J. de Loutherbourg and Sold by V. & R. Green No 14 Percy Street Bedford Square 1797. Coloured aquatint. Printed on wove paper watermarked 1794. In excellent condition. Image size: 9 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches. A wonderful early separately published impression of Loutherbourg's celebrated image of fishermen on Brighton Beach.<br/> <br/> This delicate aquatint is an early separately published state of a print which was later included in Phillip Jacques Loutherbourg's seminal work "Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain." The print which was re-engraved in 1801 by J. C. Stadler was enlarged and re-titled "Brighthelmstone Fishermen Returning." This early example of Loutherbourg's work wonderfully shows his skill as an artist. The composition and arrangement of the image provides a fluidity to the picture that is truly compelling and demonstrates Loutherbourg's abilities as a draftsman. The son of a court painter in Darmstadt the versatile artist Philippe Jacques Loutherbourg was born in Fulda Germany and was a pupil of J. H. Tischbein and Carle Vanloo and Francis Casanova the elder in Paris. His romantic landscapes battle scenes portraits and biblical subjects were highly esteemed and lauded by influential colleagues such as Diderot. He frequently exhibited at the Salon and became a venerated member of the Académie Royale in 1767. In 1771 he moved to England where he was employed as the principal scenery designer at London's Drury Lane Theatre. His creative and minutely detailed sets revolutionized the genre of scene painting and he soon began dabbling in costume design. Loutherbourg once again astounded contemporaries in 1782 with his pioneering invention of the "Eidophusikon" a novel variety of moving panorama that was accompanied by music. His substantial and varied oeuvre also included book illustrations and a series of aquatints of British scenery that was published in 1801 and 1805. Aside from a brief trip to Switzerland in 1782 he remained in London for the duration of his life and became heavily engrossed in mysticism. Published by P. J. de Loutherbourg, and Sold by V. & R. Green, No 14 Percy Street, Bedford Square unknown
174546589Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1745. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1742". Pp. 371-378 and 3 folded engraved maps 1. Premier Plan Cours de la Seine dans l'etendue de Paris 20x23 cm - 2. Second Plan ou l'on voit les Rues dont on à les pentes.les diverses Quartiers de Paris 195x22 cm - 3. Coupe de la Ville de Pars. Plan des Rues. 225x30 cm. Clean and fine. unknown
1784505972Joannis Henrici Heitz 1784. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. 349pp. Demi 8vo Tree-patterned paper over boards backed in brown sheep with leather spine label and gilt ruled panels all edges red. Title page engraved with butterfly alighting on floral arrangement; illustrated throughout with woodcut culs-de-lampe ornaments. Extremities rubbed contemporary owner's signature to front pastedown with penciled prayer in French and Greek beneath. A critically restored text of the Greek Gnomic poets Pythagoras Hesiod etc. by the Strassbourg Hellenist Richard Brunck. Joannis Henrici Heitz hardcover
178090166Batavia Jakarta Jakarta Amsterdam: s. n. 1780. Fine. s. n. Batavia Jakarta Jakarta Amsterdam s. d. 1780 12.5 x 18.7 cm Broché This critical survey of the Dutch possessions in Indonesia survives in three versions English French and Dutch without it being possible to determine with certainty which constitutes the original edition.Only three copies are recorded in the CCF. Written at the outset of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War 17801784 triggered by the early recognition of American independence by the United Provinces this pamphlet seeks to highlight the weaknesses of the administration of the Dutch East India Company and the vulnerability of its possessions to a French or British attack.In fact hostilities quickly turned to the disadvantage of the Dutch who in 1784 were compelled to make numerous colonial concessions following the Treaty of Paris. Philippe Fermin or Firmin 17201790 was a colonial physician who spent most of his life in Suriname which he famously described but he also published on various other colonial subjects.A disbound copy presented in a modern temporary marbled paper wrapper; page 13 has been slightly trimmed resulting in the loss of a letter at the end of certain words; a few light spots of foxing. s. n. unknown
1771AQ34504Londini i.e. London: J. & F. Rivington 1771. 6 191pp 1. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked with splitting to joints light damp-staining to upper board. Armorial bookplate of Earl Nelson to FFEP. Browning to endpapers and initial leaves. The fourth edition of a guide to Latin language pronunciation by prolific French Jesuit writer Philippe Labbe 1607-1667 who in his lifespan authored over 80 literary philosophical and theological texts intended for the use of 'all who must speak recite and perorate in Latin either from writing or from memory'. ESTC T153993. Fourth edition. 8vo. J. & F. Rivington unknown
17961163London: F & C Rivington 1796. Reprint. Original full tan leather binding. Six raised panels to the spine - but no label. Owner's bookplate to the inside board. Overall a decent copy of this bibliographical work. The leather boards are clean and tidy with a little rubbing and bumping to them. Very slight cracking to the edges but no loss. Internally the book is generally clean and tidy. The end paper has a large tear with loss of about a third of the end paper. The rest of the book is in excellent condition. Neat owner's contemporary bookplate and inscription to the inside board. viii 1-192 pp. hardcover
1771120244London: J. & F. Rivington 1771. Leatherbound. Good . 191 p. 18 cm. Full leather with raised bands and burgundy spine label. Very slight chip to spine head. Some scratches to front boards. Bookplate on front pastedown for Thomas Penrice. Dampstain to bottom of first leaves. Worm holes in bottom corners up to p. 5. One or two spots but most of the interior after p. 5 is clean and neat. <br/><br/> J. & F. Rivington hardcover
1716009704Paris: Jacques Collombat 1716 In-4 10 96 271 1 pp. engraved additional allegorical title by Richardou depicting a seated figure of Astronomy surrounded by putti with scientific instruments and maritime motifs; printed title in red and black with woodcut device; woodcut diagrams throughout. Contemporary sprinkled calf spine with raised bands gilt sprinckled edges rubbing to extremities endpapers browned. From the library of the Earl of Macclesfield with his 1860 armorial bookplate on the paste-down and embossed armorial stamps on the title-page and the first page. Philippe Desplaces 1659-1736 an astronomer attached to the Paris Observatory belongs to the generation following Jean-Dominique Cassini and Philippe de La Hire whose observational and computational work helped establish France as a leading centre of astronomical science in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Drawing directly on La Hire's tables he produced the official Paris ephemerides for the years 1715-1744 issued in three volumes between 1716 and 1734 of which the present volume is the first. The work reflects the increasing precision and institutionalization of astronomical calculation serving both scientific inquiry and practical needs such as navigation calendrical reform and the standardization of time across different meridians. It includes a preface and introduction comprising among other elements a historical account of the calendar and tables of the sun’s declination followed by the ephemerides for each year 1715-1724 giving movable feasts eclipses and tables of planetary motions. The volume also contains detailed instructions for adapting the ephemerides to different meridians with worked examples for Paris Rome Quebec City and other cities. Houzeau-Lancaster 15464. Jacques Collombat hardcover
1737KJ7670Avignon 1737. First Edition. HB. Full leather double gilt border front and back covers gilt lettering and designs on spine 5 raised bands 12mo 321 pp table de matieres at rear. Marbled end papers rear endpaper needs reglueing. Lallemant 1660-1748 a French Jesuit wrote series of books from 1734-1743 attempting to refute the Jansenists. Book shows edge wear 2 corners worn through to boards 1" split head of spine 1/2" split heal of spine owners name ffep minor foxing minor moisture stain last few pages not affecting text. Binding tight no marks in text. Book condition VG-. (Avignon) hardcover
1760185531760. A Paris chez Le Bas s.d. circa 1760. Dimensions coup de planche : 652 x 508 mm. Estampe originale prÂŽsentÂŽe dans un format des plus attractifs : 652 x 508 mm. Elle est signÂŽe dans la plaque Joesph Vernet et Philippe Le Bas. Elle figure une vue d'ensemble de la baie de Naples avec au premier-plan pÂcheurs et embarcations. PrÂŽsentÂŽe sous imposant cadre moulurÂŽ et dorÂŽ XIXÂme. BÂŽnÂŽzit X Dictionnaire des peintres p. 465. Rousseurs ÂŽparses. Cerne claire affectant principalement les marges. Deux dÂŽchirures sans manque au niveau de la cuvette. Du reste belle condition. b42961 unknown
1720359CG1720. Berlin o.J. um 1720. Kupferstich Brustbild mit ovaler Umrahmung von Johann Georg Wolfgang nach Joh. Heinr. Schwartz. Bildgrösse: 25 x 17 cm. Blattgrösse: 255 x 18 cm. Wolfgang Johann Georg 1662-1744: Dt. Kupferstecher. - Knapp beschnitten. unknown
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