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1679045233Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale 1679. Second Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Willem Swidde. Contemporary full mottled calf gilt with armorial stamp to both boards. Dry and cracked hinges weak but holding. Tide mark to bottom corner of the volume heavy at the beginning largely effecting the text but lightly to the plates as well. On Perrault's advise Louis XIV included 39 fountains in the gardens of Versailles each illustrating one of the fables of Aesop. The 41 plates here are of the 39 fountains plus a map of the garden and a view of the entrance. The first edition was published in 1677 later editions followed in Dutch English etc. Tchemerzine - Volume 9/10 167 Brunet III p.723 the 1st edition. Size: Quarto 4to. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Illustrator: Willem Swidde. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Myths Legends & Folklore; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045233. <br/><br/> De L'Imprimerie Royale hardcover books
17003805Paris: Chez Antoine Dezallier 1700. First edition. First edition. Two volumes. Large folios. Contemporary full calf over boards seven raised bands with one one morocco label and the rest ornately gilt. Volume one: 100pp. 3ff. including table; Volume two: 2ff. 102p. 1f. with various mispaginations owing to placement of portraits. A portrait of Perrault and 202 portraits engraved in intaglio by Edelinck Lubin Van Schuppen and Duflos including the two censored portraits of Arnauld and Pascal. First edition of this famous work a wonderful copy with scuffing to calf covers internally clean and bright. With contemporary owner inscriptions on both leaves opposite title pages: "Henry and Jane Birkbeck April 1820." <br/><br/> Chez Antoine Dezallier hardcover books
168333221Paris: Jean Baptiste Coignard 1683. Folio 37.3 cm 14.75". 8 xxvii 1 124 pp.; 6 plts. <br><br>First edition of this influential treatise on the five orders of classical architecture written by the physician and scientist generally credited with the design of the eastern façade of the Louvre. => Perrault's theory of proportion introduced a lasting debate over ideas of positive and arbitrary beauty.<br>Â Â Â Â In addition to the => six leaves of plates done by Pierre Le Pautre Louis de Chastillon and Sebastien Le Clerc the work is illustrated with several in-text uses of a woodcut diagram comparing the five types as well as a title-page vignette of the arms of Louis XIV and a distinctively rendered headpiece signed by Chastillon of the Colbert serpent coat of arms supported by a dog and a unicorn.<br>Â Â Â Â And yes Claude was related to brother in fact of Charles Perrault the fabulist and reteller of the Cinderella story and other tales. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Brunet IV 507; Graesse V 207; Cicognara I 607. Contemporary speckled calf spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations board edges with gilt roll; joints and extremities carefully and unobtrusively repaired and refurbished edge gilt rubbed. Pages slightly age-toned with scattered spots; last few leaves with margins a bit darkened. Small area of pinhole worming to outer margins not touching text three plates each with tiny portion of one line touched; some instances nicely refurbished with long-fiber tissue. => A clean wide-margined attractive copy of an attractive book. Jean Baptiste Coignard unknown books
1669D6035Paris: Frederic Leonard 1669. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 242 x 185 mm. 120pp. Printers woodcut device on title depicting the winged lion of Evangelist Mark and motto Virtute invidiam vince Virtue overcometh envy and the legend Pax tibi marce Evangelista meus. 5 engraved folding plates 4 by Sebastien Le Clerc and one by Abraham Bosse depicting a chameleon on a branch and a plate with chameleons skeleton and organs in the upper part on a trompe-loeil sheet; and the same anatomical analysis for the beaver the camel the bear and the gazelle decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary mottled calf spine gilt in compartments plates with some tears along folds repaired on verso some light darkening minor marginal worming at end; light edgewear. From the collection of Charles Philippe Robin 1821-1885 French doctor anatomist and politician bibliographical note at foot of title. Other early inscriptions to title referring to the engraver M. LeClerc and on rear pastedown to the state of the engravings. <br/><br/>First Edition and second publication dealing with the comparative anatomy of the animals the chameleon the beaver the camel the bear and the gazelle. Perrault scientist and naturalist was the leader of a team of comparative anatomists called the Parisians that included Guichard-Joseph Duverney Jean Pecquet Moyse Charas and Philippe de la Hire. Their investigations began in June 1667 with a thresher shark and lion from the royal academy and went on to encompass forty-nine vertebrate species. The detailed reports and exact descriptions on these dissections were the first of a long series of anatomical descriptions which ultimately included those of twenty-five species of mammals seventeen birds five reptiles one amphibian and one fish. Perrault and the team of Parisians prided themselves on several discoveries and in the process debunked many popular myths attached to certain species such as the legend that salamanders live in fire or that chameleons subsist on air. The scientists also recorded how they obtained their results providing a glimpse of how such anatomical research was conducted in the seventeenth century. The work is illustrated beautifully with five large folding plates by the expert painter engraver and writer Sebastian Leclerc 1637-1714 four of which were engraved by Leclerc and one by the watercolor painter writer and printmaker Abraham Bosse c. 1604-1676. Very fine work; the large folding plates remain fresh and intact. No such detailed and exact descriptions and illustrations had been published before. It is hard to measure another such important addition to the anatomical study of animals. Frederic Leonard hardcover books
167144411Paris: S. Mabre-Cramoisy for Imprimerie Royale 1671. <p>Perrault Claude 1613-88. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux. Bound with: Picard Jean-Félix 1620-82. Mesure de la terre. 12 91 1; 2 30 2pp. Frontispiece and 14 plates by Sébastien LeClerc Mémoires; 5 plates Mesure. With: Perrault. Suite des mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des animaux. 4 93-205 3pp. 15 engraved plates by LeClerc. Together 3 works in 2 vols. double folio. Paris: Imprimerie Royale 1671-76. 561 x 403 mm. Mottled calf ca. 1676 rebacked arms of Louis XIV in gilt on front and back covers light wear edge of Vol. II back cover a little bumped. A few leaves creased light marginal dampstains on 2 or 3 plates but very good. 19th century armorial bookplate; bookplate of Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow.</p> <p> First Editions. Perrault was the leader of a team of comparative anatomists that included Guichard Joseph Duverney Jean Pecquet Moyse Charas and Philippe de la Hire; they were often called the "Parisians" in contemporary literature because of their membership in the Académie Royale des Sciences. Their investigations began with a thresher shark and lion from the royal menagerie and went on to encompass forty-nine vertebrate species. "Although some of the discoveries on which the Parisians most prided themselves—including the nictitating membrane that Perrault first observed in a cassowary the external lobation of the kidneys in the bear and the castoreal glands of the beaver—had been observed earlier no such detailed and exact descriptions and illustrations had been published before" Dictionary of Scientific Biography. In the spirit of rationalism Perrault and his team investigated and debunked many popular myths attached to certain species such as the legend that salamanders live in fire or that chameleons subsist on air. They also recorded their methods of work along with their results providing the only contemporary disclosure of how such anatomical research was conducted in the seventeenth century.</p> <p> The Mémoires were originally issued in two parts in 1671 and 1676 as in our copy; they were later reissued in 1676 with slight changes as one volume with a new title-leaf. The two volumes of the Mémoires contain descriptions of twenty-nine species including the lion the chameleon the shark the lynx the porcupine the eagle the cormorant and the ostrich. Our copy was bound for presentation by Louis XIV patron of the Académie des Sciences; a significant portion of the edition was bound this way. </p> <p>Vol. I of our copy also includes the first edition of Jean-Félix Picard's Mesure de la terre 1671 which contains the first reasonably accurate calculation of the size of the Earth. Picard based his calculation on his measurements of a degree of latitude along the Paris meridian. Using sophisticated instruments Picard obtained a value for the Earth's polar radius of 6328.9 kilometers only 0.44% below the correct value of 6357 km.; his results were thirty to forty times more precise than any that had been obtained previously. Dibner Heralds of Science 84. Norman 1687 Perrault.</p> . S. Mabre-Cramoisy for Imprimerie Royale unknown books
