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ERAGON

2003108087NY: Knopf 2003. First trade edition first prnt. First hardcover edition. Preceded by a self-published paperback edition. Signed by Paolini on the title page. Shallow short wrinkle on the dustjacket spine topedge not immediately apparent; otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover books

Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA · États-Unis200,00 $US≈ 169,22 €

EVERGREEN TALESABAA

The Evergreen Tales; or Tales for the Ageless.; The Tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood; The Ugly Duckling

1949216905New York: Limited Editions Club 1949. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Everett Gee Jackson. 3 volumes.The Tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Translated by E. Powys Mathers. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. By Charles Perault. Translated by P.H. Muir. Illustrated by Sylvain Sauvage. The Ugly Duckling. By Hans Christian Anderson. Translated by Jean Hersholt. Illustrated by Everett Gee Jackson. Tall slim 4to pictorial cloth slipcase rubbed. New York: The Limited Editions Club 1949. Near Fine. Limited numbered edition. Last volume signed by Jean Hersholt and the illustrator; first volume signed by the illustrator. Limited Editions Club unknown books

Argosy Book Store · États-Unis250,00 $US≈ 211,52 €

CHILDRENS BOOKS FAIRY TALESABAA

RAYS OF SUNSHINE

1893162993NY MCLOUGHLIN 1893 1893. GILT STAMPED NAVY BLUE CLOTH OVER GLAZED BLUE PICTORIAL BOARDS FRONT FREE ENDPAPER DETACHED. VERY GOOD. Hardcover. NY, MCLOUGHLIN, 1893 hardcover books

Houle Rare Books & Autographs · États-Unis275,00 $US≈ 232,68 €

Conte Guidubaldo De'Bonarelli. Figure da Sebastien LeClercABAA

Filli di Sciro Favola Pastorale

1678001927Amsterdam; Paris: D. Elsevier; Thomas Jolly 1678. Full Morocco. Very Good Plus. 24mo. 10 by 6 cm. 168 pp. With seven woodcuts including the half-title. First published in 1607 this play is in the tradition of Tasso's "Aminta" or Guarini's "Il Pastor Fido". Aminta is in fact the name of a character within the play. Brunet I 1088. Leaves are age toned with a light dampstain affecting a few leaves in the corner. Otherwise tight and clean. Modern red full morocco with marbled endpapers. D. Elsevier; Thomas Jolly books

White Fox Rare Books and Antiques · États-Unis300,00 $US≈ 253,83 €

Il Conte Castone Della Torre Di RezzonicoABAA

Versi Sciolti E Rimati Di Dorillo Dafneio P.A.

1773045263Parma: Stamperia Reale 1773. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Full navy cloth bearing gilt Harvard University stamp on spine bookplate on pasted endpaper and library stamp on first page. Some discoloration to spine where sticker was removed minor wear to corners extra engraved titlee dedication to Duke Ferdninand I and Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria. Interior bright with limited foxing to some pagesand vignette illustrations. Overall an attractive book of verse. 18 137 1pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Poetry. Inventory No: 045263. Stamperia Reale hardcover books

Pazzo Books · États-Unis300,00 $US≈ 253,83 €

SHIELDS BROOKE & TALES FROM THE CRYPTABAA

Tales From the Crypt - Came the Dawn - Teleplay by Ron Finley

199314826JNew York: Home Box Office 1993. Original 27 page shooting script printed on yellow and pink pages. Boldly signed on the title page by actress Brooke Shields whose copy this was. In the tale Shields is a hitchhiker who gets picked up and winds up in a murder house. Very good. Home Box Office unknown books

James Pepper Rare Books, Inc. · États-Unis450,00 $US≈ 380,75 €

Vidoni Conte Bartolommeo de SoresinaABAA

La Pittura Cremonese

182436381Milano: Dalla Societa Tipog. De' Classici Italiani 1824. Hardbound. VG Ex archival library copy with letters at base of spine. A beautiful copy with a hint of foxing at front end papers. Green library buckram. 142 pp. 27 engravings printed on recto only. Tissue guards over plates. A superb example of this rare title. The book measures 11" x 15". Beautiful collection of the main painters in Cremona during the Renaissance as well study of some of their works and their relevant illustrations: Bonifacio and Gianfrancesco Bembo Cristoforo Moretto Boccaccio and Camillo Boccaccino Altobello Melone Bernardino Gatti Tommaso Alessi the "Campi Brothers" Galeazzo Giulio Antonio Vincenzo Bernardino Sofonisba Angussola Giambattista Trotti et al. Text in Italian in lovely large font on soft rag paper. Dalla Societa Tipog. De' Classici Italiani hardcover books

Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB · États-Unis495,00 $US≈ 418,82 €

Lamotte Fouque Conte de M. de.; Guiramand PaulABAA

Ondine. Lithographies originales de Paul Guiramand. Traduit de l'allemand par Isabelle de Montolieu

197536981Paris: Les Francs Bibliophiles 1975. First edition. Loose folded sheets in stiff paper wrappers in illustrated cloth chemise in silk slipcase. A fine copy in fine wrappers in very good chemise with faded spine in a very good slipcase sunned at edges. 136 pp. illus. Illus. with 26 color and b/w lithographs incl. 7 dbl. page color. Folio 42 cm. Publication No. 23 of Les Francs bibliophile. No. 157 of 170 copies on large vellum of a total limitation of 205. Cet ouvrage le vingt-troisiÃ¨me publiÃ© par la Societe de Francs-Bibliophiles a Ã©tÃ© rÃ©alisÃ© sous la direction de J.-M. Delettrez et J.-C. Romand. Il a Ã©tÃ© tirÃ© 170 exemplaires sur grand vÃ©lin de Rives numÃ©rotÃ©s de 1 a 170 ainsi que 35 suites complÃ¨tes dont 15 sur japon nacrÃ© Kaji et 20 sur velin de Rives. Les Francs Bibliophiles hardcover books

Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB · États-Unis500,00 $US≈ 423,05 €

Paolini ChristopherABAA

ERAGON

200310522NY: Knopf 2003. First trade edition first prnt. 1st issue dustjacket. Preceded by a self-published paperback edition. Signed and dated "'03" by Paolini on the title page. A 4 x 6 inch color digital photograph of Paolini at the booksigning laid in. One dustjacket corner just touched not immediately apparent; otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Volume 1 in Paolini's Inheritance trilogy. Paolini's first novel. Signed & Dated by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover books

Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA · États-Unis500,00 $US≈ 423,05 €

French Literature in Translation. Camus Jean Pierre; Bishop of Belly 1584 1652. Bevilacqua Conte Honofrio also Onofrio. 1ABAA

ELISA Ouero l'Innocenz a Colpeuole. Historia Tragica del Vescouo di Belley Seguita Durante il Regno del Christianiss. Henrico III. rè di Francia e di Polonia . Tradotta dalla Lingua Francese Nell'Italiana dal Sig. Co. Honofrio Beuilacqua

165433704In Venetia: Per Giacomo Bortoli 1654. 1st edition thus i.e. by this publisher with the first Italian translation research suggests appearing in 1630. Early drab paper binding with hand inked title to spine. Spine a bit sun-tanned. Bookplate. Period pos to t.p. Leaves D1 & D2 rounghly opened with top corner lacking just touching but not removing page numbers. Paper defect to M12 no text affected. Withal a pleasing VG copy. 12 348 pp. Untrimmed. Printer's device presumed to t.p. Head- tailpieces. Decorative initial capital letters. 12mo: a6 A - O12 P6. P3 mis-signed a3. 6-1/4" x 3-3/4" This a translation of Camus' Élise ou L'innocence Coupable which was first published in 1621. "Jean-Pierre Camus was one of the most prolific authors of the period 1620-1648. His prose is succinct without the elaborate rhetoric of authors -- such as Antoine de Nervèze -- from the previous generation. He also shows a vast knowledge of poetry. Camus's first works were strongly influenced by the Essays of Michel de Montaigne albeit with more religious content. His spiritual works were directly inspired by Saint François de Sales; he was critical of mendicant orders and wrote extensively on poverty grace and spiritual reflection. His fictional works encompass both novels and short stories. His dark and violent stories often based on contemporary anecdotes or criminal incidents he wrote over 1000 such works were in the tradition of the horrific tales "histoires tragiques" of Matteo Bandello popular in France in the late Renaissance and early seventeenth century. His longer works show the influence of ancient Greek novels such as the works of Heliodorus of Emesa and Achilles Tatius with their scenes of tempests and kidnappings. Much of his fiction has a moralistic intention showing human folly the unruliness of passions the dangers of illicit love and the saving grace of divine love." Wiki; see also: Sollier Catholic Encyclopedia. All Italian editons are rare. OCLC records just one holding of this edition Harvard. KVK locates 2 copies in Italy. Per Giacomo Bortoli unknown books

Tavistock Books, ABAA · États-Unis600,00 $US≈ 507,66 €

Euclid; Giovanni Ricci Riccatai ConteABAA

Elements De Gli Elementi Di Euclide Li Primi Sei Libri: Tradotti En Lingua Italiana

1651028068Bologna: Presso Gio. Batt. Ferroni 1651. 12mo in 8s. 2271pages diagrams. Giovanni Ricci 1607-1664 was noted for his keen observations in astronomy confirming Galileo's measurements. He dealt not only with astronomy in his research but also with physics arithmetic geometry optics geography and chronology. Bound in full vellum Euclide written in brown ink to spine lacking one front and rear blank previous owner's gift inscription wear to binding joints and hinges fine light dampstaing to last 1/4 of book. A very good copy. Presso Gio. Batt. Ferroni unknown books

Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB · États-Unis650,00 $US≈ 549,97 €

Radicati Alberto conte di Passerano 1698 1737ABAA

Comical and true account of the modern canibals's sic religion. By Osmin true believer. To which is added a select piece call'd The story of stories. taken from the Canibals's chronicle

173453392London: printed for J. Martin and sold at Lycurgus's Head in Warwick-Court Holborn 1734. First edition 8vo pp. 57 1; later wrappers; near fine. A translation of Radicati's RÃƒÂ©cit fidÃƒÂ¨le et comique de la religion des cannibales modernes. ESTC locates 12 copies only 2 both at the BL in the UK and the rest in North America including 2 at Harvard Huntington NYPL Newberry Princeton UCLC Illinois Minnesota and North Carolina. printed for J. Martin, and sold at Lycurgus's Head in Warwick-Court, Holborn unknown books

Rulon-Miller Books · États-Unis690,00 $US≈ 583,81 €

Cooney Barbara; text adapted from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesABAA

Chanticleer and the Fox

1958008319New York: Thomas Y Crowell & Co. 1958. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at title page - "from Sandra Cooney to Dana Ericson". Caldecott Medal Winner for 1959. SCARCE in the First Edition and SIGNED. Near Fine original orange decorative cloth with patterned end papers tiny rubs at bottom corners in a Near Fine dust jacket faint closed tear bottom edge front panel tiny chips at corners. Caldecott Medal front panel correct price of $3.00 front flap. A sweet copy and tough to find in this condition and signed/inscribed. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/Nea Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Thomas Y Crowell & Co. Hardcover books

Dale Steffey Books · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

Lewis Milestone director; Darryl F. Zanuck story; Jerome Cady screenwriter; Dana Andrews Richard Conte Farley Granger starringABAA

The Purple Heart Original screenplay for the 1944 film

1943147112Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1943. Second Revised Final draft script for the 1944 film. A few annotations of names or checks in holograph pencil on the top outer corner of verso. A dramatization of the trials that took place in Japan during World War II eight American aircrew members are taken prisoner by the Japanese Army. They are forced to endure systematic torture and abuse and finally accused convicted and executed as war criminals. This film brought opposition from the Department of Defense fearing strong reactions from the Japanese. Set in Japan shot on location in Washington DC. Beige titled wrappers noted as SECOND REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 229 and production No. 936 dated OCT. 14 1943. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated October 14 1943 noted as 2nd Revised Final. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/20/43 and 12/6/43. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books

Royal Books, Inc. · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

EHON FAIRY TALES BARBATOU P.ABAA

FABLES CHOISES DE FLORIAN

1895830091895. EHON - FAIRY TALES BARBATOU P. FABLES CHOISES DE FLORIAN. The first volume only. Paris: Librairie Marpon & Flammarion; Tokyo: Shueisha Meiji 28 1895. Fukuro toji cord-bound in printed paper covers. This first volume is 26.6 X 19.8 cm with 14 full page color woodcuts by Kano Tomonobu and Kajita Hanko. #167 of 200 from a deluxe edition on Japanese hosho paper. Covers soiled and a bit edgeworn one cvorner chipped. The contents are very good and the impressions and colors are quite lovely. This work despite its French text may be seen as squarely in the tradition of the Japanese ehon and it shares many characteristics of the revival of picture book printing in mid to late Meiji demonstrated by other works: an emerging Nihonga style skilled printed increasingly restrained coloration etc. In that context the large scale of its illustrations renders it particularly interesting. The first volume only of two. unknown books

Boston Book Company · États-Unis975,00 $US≈ 824,95 €

Grandville J. I. Jean Ignace illustrator; text by Alphonse Karr Taxile Delord and Le Conte Foelix; plates retouched by M. MABAA

Les Fleurs Animees 2 volumes

1867001538Paris: Garnier Freres 1867. Quarter Morocco over Pebbled Cloth. Very Good . Grandville. 4to French text. 667 pp total. 50 hand-colored plates of women personified as flowers 2 hand-colored frontispieces 2 black and white plates and also black and white text illustrations. Probably Grandville's most famous work and one that epitomizes best his fantastical imagination. Plates and text clean and attractive. Quarter red morocco with blindstamped red pebbled cloth covers which perfectly match appears full red leather. Raised spine bands and gilt. Rubbing around gutters and the raised bands and some typical shelfwear besides. Endpapers are a silky moire material and they have some soiling. Gilt foreedges. Garnier Freres hardcover books

White Fox Rare Books and Antiques · États-Unis1 000,00 $US≈ 846,10 €

MUSSCHENBROEK Petrus van 1692 1761; Lorenzo Magalotti conte 1637 1712; Accademia del Cimento Florence Italy.ABAA

Tentamina experimentorum naturalium captorum in Academia del cimento sub auspiciis Serenissimi Principis Leopoldi Magni Etruriae Ducis. . .

1731S13115Lugduni Batavorum:: Joan. et Herm. Verbeek 1731. 1731. Two parts bound as one. 4to. xvi xlviii vii 193 1; 192 xiv pp. Title printed in red & black 32 engraved folding plates 1 folding table index; margin of p.99 trimmed 1 Â¾ x 2" away. some foxing browning of leaves title very browned due to offsetting. Beautifully preserved original mottled calf raised bands gilt spine compartments red leather spine label. Ownership mark on title of "Mr. Al. Liotard." Very good. FIRST EDITION incorporating the first Latin edition of the Saggi di naturali esperienze 1667 prepared by the Accademia del Cimento Florence with substantial additions throughout by Musschenbroek. Musschenbroek was one of the great physical experimenters and lecturers of the eighteenth century and the teacher of Nollet. This book contains the first description of the pyrometer an instrument for measuring the expansion of solid bodies under the influence of heat. Like many of Musschenbroek's books the Tentamina contains fine illustrations and is concerned with experiments in measuring humidity magnets and electricity air pressure the structure of ice heat and cold capillarity optics the motion of sound etc. / "He devised many of his experiments in the process consulting records of other experimenters among them those of the Accademia del Cimento. Musschenbroek translated their accounts into Latin adding reports concerning his own work 1731." :: Encyclopedia. / The work opens with Musschenbroek's Oratio de Methodo Instituendi Experimenta Physica regarding his views on experimental philosophy as inspired by Newton. "Underlying Musschenbroek's lectures demonstrated with experiments was the experimental philosophy the principal source of inspiration was Newton but Galileo Torricelli Huygens Reaumur and others were important to this school." :: DSB IX p. 596. The Accademia del Cimento Academy of Experiments was founded in Florence in 1657. Among the founding members were Borelli Steno Redi Cassini Viviani and Torricelli these final two being disciples of Galileo. This makes the Accademia older than either the Royal Society or the Academie des Sciences. Count Lorenzo Magalotti's text includes accounts of experiments on temperature and air pressure including Torricelli's invention of the barometer the velocity of sound and light phosphorescence magnetism amber and other electrical bodies the freezing of water etc. The many fine plates in this translation illustrate the Accademia's work as well as Musschenbroek's own subsequent experiments. :: Wolf History of science I pp. 55-59.2 parts in 1. / Musschenbroek 1692-1761 professor of natural philosophy and mathematics at Utrecht and later professor of experimental physics at Leyden. He was one of the most celebrated physicists and investigators of his time; the experiments he describes are classics in primary instruction. / "Musschenbroek's earliest account of electricity 1731 the estimable notes to his Latin translation of the Saggi is fuller more circumspect and less coherent than 's Gravesande's which he later entertained favorably. Two curious points emerge from the notes. To resolve the discrepancy between the results of Boyle and Hauksbee who respectively did and did not succeed in generating electricity in vacuo Musschenbroek hit on an unprecedented and prescient idea; remarking that Boyle used amber and Hauksbee glass he concluded that these substances have different electricities. . . The second point concerns repulsion. Musschenbroek records without emphasizing Hauksbee's observation that light bodies are sometimes repelled farther than they are attracted; he squeezes it into a note that also gives an excellent prescription for rubbing the tube :: always end with your hands together :: and a warning about atmospheric humidity. He does not recognize that the Saggi require updating about repulsion and concentrates on the perplexing behavior of screens the opacity of muslin and the transparency of glass." :: J. L. Heilbron Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics 1979 p.242. / Wheeler Gift 276. Not in Bakken. FULL TITLE: Tentamina experimentorum naturalium captorum in Academia del cimento sub auspiciis Serenissimi Principis Leopoldi Magni Etruriae Ducis et ab ejus Academiae Secretario Conscriptorum: Ex Italico in Latinum Sermonem conversa. Quibus commentarios nova experimenta et orationem de methodo instituendi experimenta physica addidit Petrus van Musschenbroek Joan. et Herm. Verbeek, 1731. hardcover books

Jeff Weber Rare Books · Suisse1 100,00 $US≈ 930,71 €

Andersen Hans ChristianABAA

The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

18992221708ORIGINAL 14 PARTSFirst edition in the original 14 parts. 11" x 8 1/2" circa 400 b/w illustrations by Lemercier and Helen Stratton who gets sole credit on the title page. Original stitched green pictorial wrappers. Part 14 with half title title page contents and list of illustrations 320 pages. No dust jacket. Very good minor rubbing; signs of handling and some light foxing. Scarce.Printed by Butler & Tanner The Selwood Printing Works.Some illustrations in first two parts are signed "Lemercier" in the plate. George Newnes paperback books

Houle Rare Books & Autographs · États-Unis1 250,00 $US≈ 1 057,63 €

EHON FAIRY TALES BARBATOU P.ABAA

CHOIX DE FABLES DE LA FONTAINE

1895389441895. EHON - FAIRY TALES BARBATOU P. CHOIX DE FABLES DE LA FONTAINE. 2 volumes in 1. Tokio: MDCCCXCIV. Imprimerie de Tsoukidji-Tokio. Printer: Kimura TokutarÃ´; First Series printed September 20th published September 30th; Second Series printed October 10th published October 20th Meiji 27 1894. Large format plain paper book bound with the original covers into a contemporary Western style half leather binding. The first volume is 20 X 30 cm with 14 double page color woodcuts by Kano Tomonobu Kajita Hanko Kawanabe KyÃ´sui and Okakura ShÃ´sÃ´ called for. The "deuxieme serie" is similarly bound 20 x 30 cm with 14 prints by the four previously listed artists along with Eda Sadashiko. This work with its French text and literary origins may be placed in the mainstream of an emerging international style in Japan. Yet it may be still be seen as squarely in the tradition of the Japanese illustrated book. It shares many of the characteristics of the revival of Japanese picture book printing in general at the end of the 19th century: an emerging Nihonga style which was an amalgam of theme and technique from East and West skilled printing increasingly restrained coloration etc. An interesting document of East-West cultural and artistic accommodation which gave rise to such hybrid vigor in world art. The bound-in covers and contents are perfect. However the leather binding is worn and was rebacked at some point. The two volumes complete and bound as one. unknown books

Boston Book Company · États-Unis1 250,00 $US≈ 1 057,63 €

AUCTION CATALOGUE: BORROMEO Antonio Maria ConteABAA

A Catalogue of the Celebrated Library of the late Count Borromeo of Padua. Containing the most rare and curious Assemblage of Italian Novels of the XV. and XVI century both Printed and Manuscript which has ever been submitted to Public Sale. with a second title on the following leaf: Catalogo de' Novellieri Italiani.Edizione terza con aggiunte. One engraved plate of facsimiles. 2 p.l. 77 pp. 8vo modern red sheep-backed marbled boards spine lettered in gilt. London: "which will be sold by Auction by Mr. Evans.on Friday February 7 and Saturday February 8 1817."

5019After Borromeo's death in 1813 his library was purchased en bloc by Payne and Foss who sold it by auction through Evans. The catalogue most interestingly is written in Italian throughout with its own title-page the only English sale catalogue in that language. The catalogue was based on Borromeo's own catalogues of 1794 and 1805 but with additional notes marked with three asterisks. It contained the true first edition of the Decameron GW 4440 bought by Lord Spencer for 121.6.0 pounds now in the John Rylands Library. Fine copy priced throughout in a contemporary hand with buyers' and prices realized. Small embossed stamp on titles and elsewhere of the Athenaeum Library 1850. Bookplates of Wilfred Merton and A.R.A. Hobson. ❧ Gustave Brunet Dictionnaire de Bibliologie Catholique col. 560. unknown books

Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €

CICOGNARA Leopoldo ConteABAA

Catalogo ragionato dei Libri d'Arte et d'Antichità posseduti dal Conte Cicognara

6204xiv 415 pp.; xiv one leaf 333 lxxvii 1 pp. Two vols. 8vo cont. marbled boards minor wear & foxing uncut orange & green morocco lettering pieces on spines. Pisa: N. Capurro 1821. First edition of "the catalogue of the vast library on archaeology and art history collected by Cicognara himself a notable art historian. It is tantamount to a bibliography of the pre-1820 literature on these subjects owing to the detailed bibliographical and critical notes to the 4800 works and is still frequently consulted and quoted."-Grolier Club Bibliography 121. In 1824 Cicognara 1767-1834 sold the entire library to Pope Leo XII who incorporated it into the Vatican Library. Very good uncut set. From the library of Helmuth Domizlaff the great German bookseller with his discrete small stamp on each title. hardcover books

Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. · États-Unis2 750,00 $US≈ 2 326,78 €

Conte Giuseppe; de Villena Antonio; Grasso Sebastiano; Patrikios Titos text; Paladino Mimmo; Arroyo Eduardo; De Maria NiABAA

Mediterranea

20087281Belluno Venezia: Colophonarte 2008. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Tight bright and unmarred. Blue suede leather boards pale blue paper onlay black ink lettering laid in plates. fo. np. 32pp. Illus. color plates. Numbered limited edition this being 38 of 90. Four poems by Giuseppe Conte Antonio de Villena Sebastiano Grasso Titos Patrikios and four works by Mimmo Paladino linoleumgraph Eduardo Arroyo serigraph Nicola De Maria etching Medhat Shafik etching numbered and signed by the Artist. Text set by Rodolfo Campi on Garamond c14 printed on Amatruda pure cotton 200g by Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione. Binding by Sandro Francescon. Proposte dÂ’arte Colophon Colophonarte has emerged as a major force publishing new artistÂ’s booksÂ–in lavish limited editionsÂ–illustrated by noted European artists. The goal being to bring create living testimony to contemporary artististic-literary culture. The editor/publisher Egidio FiorinÂ–animated by an equal passion for literature and visual artÂ–explained his intentions thus: Â“. the book has been and is still now one of the fundamental pillars of advanced societies. But the book can be something more: it can be a work of art . an object which in its paper the composition of its text its printing the involvement of literary figures artists and artisans of quality represents an exaltation of human activity of human capacity for reflection sublimation and synthesisÂ”. Colophonarte hardcover books

Lux Mentis, Booksellers · États-Unis4 750,00 $US≈ 4 018,98 €

Le Conte JosephABAA

A JOURNAL OF RAMBLINGS THROUGH THE HIGH SIERRAS OF CALIFORNIA BY THE "UNIVERSITY EXCURSION PARTY."

1875WRCAM41643ASan Francisco: Francis & Valentine 1875. 103pp. plus nine original mounted albumen photographs. 20th-century three-quarter morocco and blue cloth spine gilt. Spine sunned. Frontispiece photograph with three small stains and the final two photographs exhibiting some moderate fading else quite clean internally. A very good copy. A rare photographically illustrated account of a tour of Yosemite and the High Sierras by one of the pioneer founders of the University of California. Le Conte studied with Agassiz at Harvard before going to California to serve as professor of geology and he was among the charter members of the Sierra Club. This work describes Le Conte's first expedition with students of the University into the Sierras and the text wonderfully conveys Le Conte's enthusiasm for the region and its natural beauty. In his autobiography he describes his first years in California as "very active ones for me the wonderful new country so different from any that I had previously seen the climate the splendid scenery the active energetic people and the magnificent field for scientific and especially for geological investigations." "A record of an excursion by Prof. Le Conte and nine members of one of the early classes of the university. It is stated that but 20 copies were printed" - Cowan. The actual number of copies printed was almost certainly higher perhaps as many as 120 twelve for each member of the party. A beautiful book with superb photographs depicting the range of northern California's natural splendor. The images are captioned on the mounts as follows: 1 ".Great Yosemite Fall" frontispiece group portrait of the party. 2 "The Grizzly Giant." 3 "The High Sierras." 4 "The Gates of the Valley." 5 "Bridal Veil Fall." 6 "The Heart of the Sierras. Lake Tenaya." 7 "Day-Dawn in Yosemite. The Merced River." 8 ".North Dome South Half Dome." 9 "Montgomery St. San Francisco. Where our trip ended." HOWES L175. COWAN 1914 p.137. FARQUHAR 14a. CURREY & KRUSKA 230. KURUTZ CALIFORNIA BOOKS ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS 27. ZAMORANO SELECT 64. Francis & Valentine hardcover books

William Reese Company · États-Unis9 000,00 $US≈ 7 614,90 €

FAGNANO Giulio Carlo Conte di Marchese de'ToschiABAA

Produzioni Matematiche

2378Engraved vignettes on titles depicting the lemniscate & 16 folding engraved plates. xxiv 528 pp.; xii 536 pp. Two vols. Large 4to mid-19th cent. half-vellum & marbled boards occasional minor stains entirely uncut. Pesaro: Stamperia Gavelliana 1750. First edition of a rare work containing the important collected writings of Fagnano 1682-1766 Italian nobleman and mathematician. Many of the texts printed here appear for the first time. Fagnano's advances in algebra and geometry were very far-reaching and his work on the rectification of the lemniscate made him according to Legendre the true founder of the theory of elliptic functions. This breakthrough was of great importance and was employed in the recent proof of Fermat's last theorem. "In algebra Fagnano suggested new methods for the solution of equations of the second third and fourth degrees. He also organized in a rational manner the knowledge that scientists had of imaginary numbers establishing for them a special algorithm that was far better than BombeIli's primitive one. "In geometry Fagnano formulated a general theory of geometric proportions that is more noteworthy than the countless writings published previously that were intended to illustrate book V of Euclid's Elements. Much more important however is his work on the triangle for which he may well be considered the founder of the geometry of the triangle. "'The most important results achieved by Fagnano however were in analytical geometry and in integral calculus."-D.S.B. IV pp. 515-16. "In his study of the rectification of the lemniscate Fagnano introduced ingenious analytic transformations that laid the foundation for the theory of elliptic integrals and his work was to lead to elliptic functions. Fagnano collected many of his published works and a few unpublished ones and produced the two volume treatise Produzioni matematiche in 1750. In 1751 Euler was asked to examine Produzioni matematiche and he found in this treatise relations between special types of elliptic integrals that express the length of an arc of a lemniscate which were quite unexpected to him. Generalising Fagnano's results Euler went on to create a general theory of these integrals in particular giving the famous addition formula for elliptic integrals. Fagnano had proved the duplication formula a particular case of the addition formula for the integrals. "In fact Fagnano had proved remarkable properties of the lemniscate including the fact that its arcs may be divided in equal parts using a ruler and compass construction. "Fagnano made many other major contributions but his mathematical work was not without controversy. He was involved in priority disputes with Nicolaus I Bernoulli and not surprisingly the big dispute of the day which was between the supporters of Newton and those of Leibniz."-The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive on-line. hardcover books

Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. · États-Unis9 500,00 $US≈ 8 037,95 €

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