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1880027837Paris: Derveaux 1880. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Xvi 89 Pp 1 Pp Catalog At End. Simply Bound With Brown Binder's Tape Spine And Brown Card Wrappers Two Preliminary Blanks Two Final Blanks. Pages Square And Unworn No Marks. Small Area Of Light Damp-Spotting At Part Of Top And Bottom Of Most Pages No Waviness To Pages. Émile Jean-Marie Gautier 1853 - 1937 Was An Anarchist And Later A Journalist. He Coined The Term "Social Darwinism". He Obtained A Doctorate In Law. He Became A Disciple Of Jules Vallès. Gautier Attended The Anarchist Congress That Met In London From 14 July 1881. Other Delegates Included Peter Kropotkin Errico Malatesta Saverio Merlino Louise Michel And Marie Le Compte. While Respecting "Complete Autonomy Of Local Groups" The Congress Defined Propaganda Actions That All Could Follow And Agreed That "Propaganda By The Deed" Was The Path To Social Revolution. He Was Implicated During The Trial Of Peter Kropotkin And On 19 January 1883 Was Sentenced By The Criminal Court Of Lyon To Five Years In Prison. On 15 August 1885 He Was Pardoned. Renouncing Political Activism Gautier Worked At Various Newspapers Including L'écho De Paris Where He Met Octave Mirbeau And Le Figaro Where He Published "Documentary Chronicles". These Were Published As A Collection In 1992 Under The Title Les Étapes De La Science Steps Of Science. According To The Historian Of Social Thought Mike Hawkins Emile Gautier Was The First To Use The Term "Social Darwinism" In His Pamphlet Of The Same Name Published In 1880 In Paris. He Became A Well-Known Popular Science Writer. His 1902 Fleur De Bagne Prison Flowers Written With His Childhood Friend Marie-François Goron Was An Ancestor Of Techno-Thrillers And Crime Dramas With Science Themes. <br/> <br/> Derveaux paperback
18972092902144200899Not Available 1897. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1857CHINESEL007987London Mission Press Shanghai. 1857. First edition. Octavo. pp viii 264 2 errata. Recently rebound in blue cloth gilt.Very good indeed. Rare - even the second edition of 1864 is scarce. London Mission Press, Shanghai. hardcover
1871025478Paris: Gauthier-Villars 1871. First Edition . Original Blue Printed Wrappers. Very Good . 8 7/8" Tall. 40 Pp. Original Blue Printed Wrappers. Preserved Nicely In A Well Made Maroon Chemise And Slipcase With Morocco Spine Label Gilt. Inscribed And Signed By Pasteur " Hommage De L'autour / L. Pasteur" In Small Handwriting At Upper Right Of Front Cover. A Scarce Book In The Trade Particularly Scarce When Inscribed And Otherwise Unmarked As Here And A Very Early Inscription From Pasteur In Any Case. <br/> <br/> Gauthier-Villars unknown
1872036246Munich / Berlin: Friedrich Bruckmann 1872. 1st Edition Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good . 97 Pp With Mounted Plates. Red Cloth Heavily Embossed In Gilt Beveled Edges With Double Borders Embossed In Blind All Edges Gilt Cloth Endpapers. Bookplate Of Leopold Duke Of Albany. Inscription On Second Free Endpaper From Queen Victoria Of England To Her Son Leopold "For Dear Leopold From Illegible Two Words Dea---- ---A---A Shortened Name Used By Queen Victoria Osborne January 1 1873." Leopold Was Then A Student At Oxford. A Fine New Year's Gift With What May Be Viewed As Exceptionally Romantically Maternal Germanic-Victorian Plates. <br/> <br/> Friedrich Bruckmann hardcover
184333039Paris: Victor Masson; Matthieu Bonafous; Felix-Edouard Gurrin-Menevill. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Plates; Natural History; Nature; Science; Maritime; Voyages; Color lithos; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 134 107 pages; SOUVENIRS D'UN VOYAGE DANS L'INDE EXECUTE DE 1834 A 1839 COLOR PLATES OUVRAGE ENRICHI DE TRENTE-CINQ PLANCHES. Delessert's voyage to India. 8 uncolored lithographed plates of Indian landscapes and cities; 27 engraved zoological plates all but 4 hand-colored; folding engraved map is present in back. Half title. 2 parts in one volume. Large 8vo later 19th-century 1/2 morocco gilt spine ends and raised bands rubbed cover corners worn; occasional marginal fingersoiling half-title and title chipped along fore edge plate 5 in part 1 badly foxed stain in blank lower outer corner of plate 10 in part 2. Paris 1843 . Contents generally VG with plate colors bright. First edition. Nissen ZBI 1067; Vicaire III 119. French Language text. . Victor Masson; Matthieu Bonafous; Felix-Edouard Gurrin-Menevill hardcover
1878027250Breslau: S. Schottlaender 1878. First Edition 1st Printing. 1/4 Leather. Very Good. 88 Pp; 170 Pp. Watered Endpapers. Very Scarce Early Book By German Science Fiction/Utopian Literature Pioneer Kurd Lasswitz 1848-1910. "As The First Major Sf Writer In German He Holds The Same Place In Germany As Do H. G. Wells In England And Jules Verne In France. He Taught Philosophy For Many Years At The Gymnasium Ernestinium In Gotha And It Is Symptomatic Of 19Th-Century Gerrman Intellectual Culture That He Irradiated His Fiction With Theoretical Speculation; There Is Not Kl Fiction Without A Lesson. William N. Fischer Claims On Kl's Behalf That Many Of His Ideas Directly Prefigure Later Critics' Use Of Terms Like 'Extrrapolation' And 'Analogue'.The Seriousness Of His Didactic Impulse Can Be Seen In The Strong Emphasis He Places In His Fiction On Establishing A Plausible Imaginary World Whose Hypothetical Nature Will Be Governed And Given Verisimilitude By Resemblance To Scientific Method Evident In Its Realization. Unsurprisingly The Stories That Embody These Overriding Concerns Tend To Be More Effective As Broad Technological And Scientific Canvases Than As Studies In Character; The Tales Collected In Bilder Aus Der Zukunft Read Consequently Almost Like Illustrated Tours Of Various 'Superior Terrestrial Cultures Located In The Future." John Clute In The Science Fiction Encyclopedia. "Many Inferences About The Future Can Be Drawn From The Historical Course Of Civilization And The Present State Of Science; And Analogy Offers Itself To Fantasy As An Ally". William B. Fischer In Science Fiction Studies 1978. A Well-Worn Copy Spine Leather Entirely Perished Recently Re-Backed To Style Preserving Original Marbled Endpapers Publisher's Internal Cloth Hinges Still Holding. Very Scarce With Only A Few Examples Shown In Institutional Holdings Indexed In Worldcat. From The Collection Of Sf Collector/Dealer/Publisher Forrest Ackerman. <br/> <br/> S. Schottlaender hardcover
18765677Bangkok: Royal Publishing House 1876. Together good plus. Two volumes. 448; 442pp. Large quarto. First volume in contemporary quarter sheep and pebbled boards; second volume in later library buckram. Even tanning heavier to second volume. Scattered chipping small closed tears worming and moisture damage to second volume. A substantial and complete two-year run of the Royal Gazette a rare landmark Thai newspaper. "The Royal Gazette was first published in 1858 during the reign of King Rama IV. It was launched because ‘the traditional practice of manually copying various announcements was slow’. The content included government announcements legal regulations and statements that countered misinformation in relation to government news as well as notifications of births and deaths. It was distributed to various ministries and provinces coming to be regarded as the first newspaper published by the Thai people" -- Suveeranont.<br /> <br /> The first version of the gazette lasted for about a year before it was discontinued but the paper was revived in 1874 by King Rama V also known as King Chulalongkorn. The present volumes represent the first two years of this second incarnation of the Royal Gazette complete with forty-eight issues each. Royal Publishing House unknown