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1776979F7London: S. Hooper 1776 . First edition. Leather. Very Good. 11.5" by 8". Sparrow; Chambars. Illustrated throughout with engraved plates and vignettes this is the first English language translation of Salomon Gessner's charming pastoral poetry. The first English language translation of Salomon Gessner's 'Idyllen' translated from the original German by W. Hooper.Illustrated with an engraved title page and with nine plates by Sparrow or Chambars after Gessner alongside further engraved vignettes. Collated complete.ESTC T94317Retaining half title.Including a letter to M. Fuslin on landscape painting and the 'Two friends of Bourbon a Moral Tale' by M. Diderot.Rebacked retaining original endpapers.In his poetry Gessner represents the Enlightenment era's artistic and intellectual trends focusing on idealized natural landscapes and simple rural life. Rebacked in a full calf binding. Retaining original boards and endpapers. Significant rubbing to fore edge of boards with small losses of calf to back strip head and tail. Joint heads and tails starting with boards a touch tender. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good S. Hooper hardcover
176530-1736<p>Rebound hardcover with weak and split hinges. Interior good.</p><p>38 plates in line art. Includes descriptions. All text in French.</p><p>This is a section from Diderot's famous encyclopedia.</p> hardcover
17781305170029Les freres de Bure 1778-79 1778-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. 7 volume set. Contemporary full leather binding. Wear along spine hinges with a few starting. 18 cm. All edge gilt. Marbled end pages. Some chipping with loss to spine labels. Interior pages are unmarked.This is an oversized or heavy set which will require additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Les freres de Bure 1778-79 hardcover
177259266France 1772. First edition. Disbound. This listing consists of several groupings of pages containing plates and descriptions of those plates which were removed from the first edition of Diderot's Encyclopedia. Pages measure 39 x 27 cm which are still bound together in signatures. Plates are either full page or two page plates. Description of each signature follows: <br /> <br /> Potier D'etain Tin consisting of a description of 9 plates of which 8 our present. Plate I is missing of this group. Bound with this: Potier D'etain Bimblotier consisting of a description of 6 plates all of which are present. <br /> <br /> Next grouping: Following this are 4 plates with no description page with titles like "Travail du Bas au Metier". Planche # III IV V VI.<br /> Next Grouping: "Forge des Ancres" anchor forging. Consisting of a description of 13 plates all of which are present.<br /> <br /> Next Grouping: "Potier de Terre". Consisting of a description of 19 plates all are present. Planche XVII is a fold-out plate titled "Potier de Terre Fours".<br /> <br /> Final Grouping: "Draperie". Consisting of a description of 11 plates all are present. <br /> <br /> In general the plates are in nice condition with no tearing. These are the plates with descriptions no binding and they are not a complete set. The original Encyclopédie was published in 17 volumes with 11 volumes of plates published by 1772. Later printings did not include plates to cut down the costs and allow a wider audience to read the work. This was the first encyclopedia to describe the mechanical arts and also the first to include contributions from many important named contributors. These include such famous enlightenment figures as Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. unknown
17512605210193Chez Briasson David Le Breton Durand A Paris; Amsterdam 1751 - 1777 1751. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. The Organization of Enlightenment Thought: The Revolution in Ideas. A first edition of this foundational encyclopedia of 18th century knowledge. A massive thirty-five volume set. Large folios volumes 39.5 x 25 cm. Bound in 18th-century French calf. Spines gilt with raised bands. One volume non-uniformly bound in light calf. <br> The set includes: Encyclopedie Paris: 1751-57 & Neuchatel 1765. 17 volumes; Recueil de planches. Paris: 1762-72. 11 volumes 1 2 part I 2 Part II 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 11; Supplement a l'Encyclopedie. Paris & Amsterdam: 1776-77. 5 volumes including the Suite de recueil de planches; Table Analytique. Paris: 1780. <br> Profusely illustrated with engraved plates. <br> Diderot's famous Encyclopedie was initially a modest translation of Chambers's Cyclopaedia. It grew as a project into a massive project which attempted to collect human knowledge from a rationalistic perspective instead of by nature or theology. In organizing knowledge from a position where human reason was paramount the supremacy of the Church was imperiled. As a result the Encyclopedie was widely controversial and placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum by the Catholic Church. In discussing fundamental philosophical issues such as on political authority and natural rights articles in the Encyclopedie shifted the basis of governmental authority from the divine right of Kings to radical concepts popular consent was the basis of legitimacy and the ideals of a social contract. The work was banned by the King of France. It spread the foundational ideas of the French Revolution and enlightenment thinkers. "No encyclopaedia perhaps has been of such political importance or has occupied so conspicuous a place in the civil and literary history of its century. It sought not only to give information but to guide opinion." "It was a war machine; as it progressed its attacks on both the church and still more on despotic government as well as Christianity itself became bolder and more undistinguished and it was met with persecution and opposition unparalleled in the the history of encyclopedias." - Encyclopedia Britannica 11th ed p. 1483. "A monument in the history of European thought; the acme of the age of reason; a prime motive force in undermining the ancien regime and in heralding the French Revolution" Printing in the Mind of Man 200. Refs: Grolier/Horblit 25b; Norman 637; PMM 200. <br> Includes: 17 v. : ill. ; 41 cm. supplement 4 volumes plates 11 volumes plates supplement 1 volume. Table Analytique 1 volume. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Chez Briasson, David, Le Breton, Durand, A Paris; Amsterdam (1751 - 1777) hardcover
1765370549Paris 1765. Unframed Print. Very Good Condition. An original 18th century engraved print not a modern reprint. The blank unprinted margin spaces and corners are mildly creased but the image is not affected. Folded as published. There are no text pages. The size shown is the approximate image size the whole page with margins is slightly larger. The Encyclopedia a monumental work edited by Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert was a groundbreaking endeavour that aimed to systematically catalogue all human knowledge spanning 28 volumes published between 1751 and 1772. As a product of the Enlightenment era the Encyclopedia embodies the spirit of rational inquiry intellectual exchange and the scientific method as its contributors known as encyclopedists sought to understand the world through reason and empirical evidence. The editors Diderot and d'Alembert defined their goal : "As an Encyclopedia it is to define as well as possible the order and structure of human knowledge. As a Reasoned Dictionary of the Sciences Arts and Trades it is to contain the general principles that form the basis of each science and each art liberal or mechanical and the most essential facts that make up the body and substance of each". The emphasis on arts and trades during the Enlightenment period shifted the focus from the refined pursuits of the aristocracy to the everyday accomplishments of working people. This movement celebrated the skills and crafts of artisans farmers and other labourers recognising their importance in society and the value of their contributions to the economy. By highlighting the applied arts and crafts the Encyclopedia promoted a more egalitarian view of society where all individuals regardless of social class had a vital role to play in shaping culture and society. Size: 32 x 43 cms. Text is in French. Category: Diderot Encyclopedia; French Language; Printed before 1800; PRINTS : Antiquarian Interest; French Language; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. unknown
1776z010903London: S. Hooper/ G. Robinfon 1776. Hardcover. Very Good. 1776. Hardcover 4to. in old half calf and marbled boards. 129pp. with engraved title 6 full copper plates and numerous engraved vignettes. Very good. Rubbing to boards cracking shallow loss to leather of spine and corners. Front inner hinge reinforced with paper strip. Brief handwritten biographical sketch of Gressner to flyleaf. faint foxing to titles page extremities else contents remain in lovely condition bright and unmarked. Housed in mylar. The Idylls of 18th century Swiss poet painter and bookseller Salomon Gessner whose work was held in popular regard throughout Europe despite contemporary critics finding him monotonous. Digital images available upon request. S. Hooper/ G. Robinfon hardcover
177616220AB1776. Yverdon 1776. 255 : 205 cm. 4 Pages 5 engraved plates with many illustrations. Board. Brunet II 701. - Exemplare der 4. Ausgabe in 4° fleckenfrei mit Titelblatt und beschriebendem Text und 5 Kupfertafeln. unknown
174871856vi 6 1-243 pages section of seven fold-out plates at the back attractive vignettes headpieces on the prelims Published by Durand, and Pissot hardcover
1780EBS100248Lausanne and Berne Chez les Sociétés Typographiques 1780. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Small 4to Format Collection of the Chemistry Section of Eighteenth Century Diderot Encyclopedia 9 pages of descriptions of plates plus 4 19 plates; Title page Vol. 2 of plates volumes supplied in facsimile on lad antiquarian paper with new endpapers on same paper and bound simply with paper spine. Although the title page to Chimie of the Diderot encyclopedia advertises 24 plates 1 double plate the complete number is 5 19 plates with the first of the 5 being a folding double plate and there being both a Planche XV as well as Planche XVbis. Very slight browning to plates.VG. Lausanne and Berne, Chez les Sociétés Typographiques unknown
1770BB35716Livorno: Diderot 1770. paperback. gebraucht gut Original-Kupferstich unterhalb der Darstellunf in der Platte signiert mit: Goussier del. Prevost fecit / bzw. Defehrt fecit linker Blattrand leicht perforiert durch Fadenbindung Papier altersbedingt leicht lichtrandig und fleckig außerhalb der Darstellung sonst GUTE EXEMPLARE. 40 x 255 cm. Für Ihre Zufriedenheit versenden wir mit DHL und ausschließlich mit Trackingcode für eine sichere Sendungsverfolgung! Weitere Angebote unter antiquariat-kastanienhof Diderot paperback
1751029352Paris 1751. 1st Edition . No Binding. Fine. Six Plates. Four Plates 23.7 X 39 Cm. On Growing And Manufacture Of Cotton Illustrating Aspects Of Cotton Processing. Fine. With A Copy Of The Two Pages Of Text Describing These Plates. <br/> <br/> unknown
17651378717Paris: Briasson David Le Breton 1765. Quarto 23 1 pages 64 plates. In Very Good minus condition. In later rough paper wraps. Front wrap detached but present. Some wear and rubbing to extremities of text block. Some foxing and toning throughout.<br /> <br /> <br /> PB consignment. Shelved in Room A Oversized. The 64 plates were engraved by Bernard after drawings by Goussier. They cover large format from pendulum clocks grandfather clocks and tower clocks to small carrying watches and pocket watches. Also depicted are star clocks calendar clocks and gear related mechanicals such as music boxes gear trains and extravagant dials.<br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> From the collection of Silvio Bedini. Bedini spent twenty five years at the Smithsonian Institution serving as curator in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in the new Museum of History and Technology now the National Museum of American History before serving as first Assistant Director then Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. He then served as Keeper of Rare Books at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology a branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries before becoming a Historian Emeritus. He specialized in early scientific instruments. 1378717. Special Collections. [Briasson, David, Le Breton] unknown
1765901061765. 1765 Diderot Denis LE PERE DE FAMILLE COMEDIE EN CINQ ACTES ET EN PROSE Besancon: Fantet 1765 100pp Text in French 8vo Bound in contemporary vellum without boards; faded ink notation of title on spine With only minor soiling on covers else Fine. unknown
174861041Au Monomatapa Paris 1748 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary Cambridge-style mirror bindings with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Wear to spines some of gilting worn off. Internally nice and clean. 8 370 pp. 5 plates; 4 420 pp. 2 plates complete. <br/><br/><em>The rare first edition of Diderot’s first novel published anonymously being an allegory portraying Louis XV of France as Mangogul Sultan of Congo who owns a magic ring that makes women's vaginas talk. For unspecified reasons Diderot did not venture further into this subject however he did make sure to portray Madame de Pompadour the mistress Louis XV in a flattering light most likely to ensure her support for his Encyclopedie – a support he received and in 1751 he together with D'Alembert published their seminal ‘Encyclopédie’. Tchemerzine IV 430 </em> hardcover
1772005261Amsterdam: Chez Marc-Michel Rey. 1772. Full-Leather. Originally published in 1748 this edition of Les Bijoux Indiscrets was published in Amsterdam in 1772 by Chez Marc-Michel Rey probably a pirated edition. A scarce edition: OCLC lists only two libraries with copies. <br> Contemporary mottled calf binding with worn gold edging gold flower pattern on spine. Octavo 389 pp plus a 3 page preface to Zima two parts published together in one volume with Table des Chapitres at end. Marbled paper pastedowns and free end papers front end paper missing. <br> Four copper plate illustrations - frontispiece title vignette and full-page plates tipped in opposite pages 12 and 113. <p> Spine missing about 1" at top including about half of title and 1 1/2" at base with some shallow insect holes in exposed portion. Edge wear and chipping to boards especially corners. Bottom corner of back board missing. Some scuffing particularly to back board. <br> Large dampstain across center of text block diminishing in size to center of book. Several pages of front and back matter have corners creased. Pages 125-9 have bottom corner folded over. All pages are present but pages 113 - 206 are loosely attached to or detached from binding. Signatures before and after are still sewn in. A little foxing mostly to edges. Table des Chapitres and back free end paper detached as a unit.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . Chez Marc-Michel Rey hardcover
1772290108Paris.: Diderot. Circa 1772. Sewed binding no covers. Very good no covers. Folio. 43.5x27 cm. French text. Full section illustrating various sorts of musical instruments and luthier’s tools with index extracted from Diderot’s Encyclopedia. weight: 1.0 lb. 34 engraved plates. Diderot. unknown
176730163Paris 1767. The following plates come from a defective copy of Volume 5 and are generally in excellent condition with full margins: 32 plates divided into six suites showing engravers in ateliers equipment<br /> tools and several types of engraving: 8 plates containing attractive drawings of different steps in the art of engraving such as etching copper-plate engraving mezzotint engraving crayon engraving black engraving and including the tools needed. With their accompanying 9 text pages . Plates are numbered 1-8 and plate 1 is a double plate. unknown
176730162Paris 1767. The following plates come from a defective copy of Volume 5 and are generally in excellent condition with full margins: 3 plates and 1 text sheet. The plates display a vignette that represents the interior of the atelier where the furnace is seen in the chaudiere from which the lead is melted ; and where the mixture of the oprin is done plus the drawings of all the tools and equipments for the casting of bullets. unknown
176730159Paris 1767. The following plates come from a defective copy of Volume 5 and are generally in excellent condition with full margins. 17 text pages plus one folio and 25 plates . plates numbered 3 6 7 8 24 and 25 are all double plates.<br /> This 25 fascinating plates detail the art of casting cannons the machines the moulds for the casting of cannons bombs and bullets. In fact each plate from 1 to 25 is a fascinating journey through drawings of craftsmen working on different design of cannons specially on the double plates also on plates 1 2 3 display general plans of impressive furnaces foundations on minute detail. unknown
176730161Paris 1767. The following plates come from a defective copy of Volume 5 and are generally in excellent condition with full margins. 6 plates and 2 descriptive text sheets.<br /> The first plate represents the interior of an atelier in which several craftsmen of this profession are engaged in various operations and the planes of the double furnace. Plates 2- 6 are drawings of interesting tools plans and molds used in the sand foundry. unknown
176730160Paris 1767. The following plates come from a defective copy of Volume 5 and are generally in excellent condition with full margins. 8 plates followed by their 4 text sheets. Plates are numbered 1-8. <br /> Plate 1 is a double plate showing samples and tuning forks.<br /> Plates 2 3 4 5 are drawings of the fabrication the molds plan and elevation of the furnace and the operation. Plate 6 is a drawing of a factory where the operation of cooling the bells is in the process. Plates 7 8 are drawings of the towers and the suspension of the bells. unknown
176730191Paris 1767. The following plates come from a defective copy of Volume 5 and are generally in excellent condition with full margins: This suite of 71 plates comes in divided sections and each section is devoted to the explanation of a different branch of science thus each one of these 17 sections is numbered individually followed by 16 text pages. <br /> <br /> GÉOMÉTRIE <br /> 5 plates numbered 1-5 are an extensive work showing all the figures and instruments used in the practice of science of geometry.<br /> <br /> TRIGONOMÉTRIE <br /> 2 plates numbered 1-2 demonstrate the relationship involving lengths and angles of triangles and shows how this science emerged from applications of geometry to astronomical studies.<br /> <br /> ARPENTAGE<br /> 3 plates numbered 1-3 illustrate the science of surveying it's tools and the way are used in land and sea mapping . These science is known since human built the first large structures.<br /> <br /> ALGEBRE ET ARITHMÉTIQUE <br /> 2 plates numbered 1-2 demonstrat figures practiced in this science and on plate two we have the Machine of Arithmétique de Pascal figures in three dimensions.<br /> <br /> SECTIONS CONIQUES<br /> 3 plates numbered 1-3 contains figures practiced in conic section .<br /> <br /> ANALYSE <br /> 2 plates numbered 1-2 display figures used in this branch of science.<br /> <br /> <br /> MECHANIQUE<br /> 5 plates numbered 1 to 5 illustrate simple machines levers balances screws pulleys etc. and diagram their functions.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> HYDROSTATIQUE HYDRODYNAMIQUE et HYDRAULIQUE <br /> 3 plates numbered 1-3 display fountains instruments such as the Archimedan Screw <br /> <br /> MACHINES HYDRAULIQUES<br /> 2 plates numbered 1-2 show detail Marli’s impressive machine.<br /> 1 plate unnumbered contains different views of sewer reservoir pump.<br /> 1 plate unnumbered describes the fire pump and arm pump. This plate has 2 inches nicely repaired tear at top.<br /> 2 plates numbered 1-2 are drawings detailing the machine of scientist Dupuis.<br /> 1 plate unnumbered displays the windmill of Meudon. This mill is located in the park of the castle of Meudon near the farm of Vibon. We see all the internal mechanism in this plate and it is to show it the cage which contains it all around has to destroyed.<br /> 2 plates numbered 1-2 these plates show six figures detailing the harmonious work of the implements in the Machine of Nymphembourg. This machine is the invention of the Count de Whal. It is empowered to raise the water at sixty feet in height.<br /> 5 plates numbered 1-5 describe and display all the parts internal and external of the Water Mill.<br /> 4 plates numbered 1-4 are impressive views of the Noria water wheel. This is an ancient invention <br /> 1 plate unnumbered contains a scene of Canal et Écluses Canal and Locks.<br /> 6 plates numbered 1-6 are figures and plans of fire pompe. Thaïs machine has been employed in the Bois de Boffu near Saint-Guilain in the Province of Hainault. Plates 4 5 are internal views of the steam pompe while is it on pate 6 is profile of the Giant cylinder and other tools.<br /> 1 plate unnumbered showing four aspects of the filtering fountain.<br /> <br /> <br /> OPTIQUE <br /> 6 plates numbered 1-6 show attractive images of optics such relative to glasses lenses colors magnitude lanterns virtual focus and more.<br /> <br /> <br /> PERSPECTIVE<br /> 2 plates numbered 1-2 represent drawings of perspective distortion visual graphical aerial and geometry and the effect of visual perspective in graphic arts.<br /> <br /> <br /> ASTRONOMIE<br /> 26 plates numbered 1-26 are beautifully representing the instruction and the making of instruments used in this science and the way are used <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> GEOGRAPHIE<br /> 3 plates numbered 1 1 2 represent construction and usage of maps and world map measurement of inaccessible distances. Plate tow is construction des globes.<br /> <br /> GNOMONIQUE<br /> 2 plates numbered 1-2 showing projections and equipment<br /> <br /> NAVIGATION<br /> 1 plate showing an astrolabe maps and other instuments.<br /> <br /> .<br /> <br /> INSTRUMENS DE MATHEMATIQUES<br /> 3 plates numbered 1-3. First plate opens with an attractive atelier displaying two craftsmen involved in the making of the instruments described on the rest of the plates.<br /> <br /> PHYSIQUE<br /> 5 plates numbered 1-5. Aurora borealis water spouts snowflakes scientific instruments<br /> <br /> PNEUMATIQUE<br /> <br /> 3 plates barometers thermometers an air-gun wind mills anenometer. unknown
176730190Paris 1767. The following plates come from a defective copy of Volume 5 and are generally in excellent condition with full margins: 14 plates including one double-page plus 1 page of descriptive text.<br /> 253 x 393mm. The folio represents all the buildings of all the royal manufacture of Langlee close to Montargis seen from the channel of Montargis and shows details of the giant mills.<br /> The drawings illustrate beautiful giant mills each one in it's own atelier & details of their mechanism plus the tools needed in the making of this art. unknown
176730185Paris 1767. The following plates come from a defective copy of Volume 5 and are generally in excellent condition with full margins: 3 plates of engraving on gemstones including equipment and tools. One descriptive text sheet. Plates are numbered 1-3. unknown
