281 résultats
1780136971No place no publisher 1780. First edition of Condorcet's attack on the corps of engineers responsible for France's major canal building projects. Turgot looking to finish the large and ambitious Picardy and Burgundy canal systems placed Condorcet in charge of experimental research on canals. "Condorcet's research was instrumental in demonstrating the flaws in existing proposals for the tunnels for the new canals whose design would have made it impossible for boats to pass through. In the course of the demonstration a whole new branch of physics was invented. Apart from technical issues Condorcet also soon found himself immersed in research of a more sociological nature in Flanders and Picardy on the impact of the new canals on local communities. This resulted in an angry report to Turgot published in 1780 as the Mémoire sur le canal de Picardie in which the corps of engineers and the inadequacies of their professional training were strongly criticised" Williams p. 21. Octavo 194 x 120 mm. Disbound. Contemporary note of Condorcet's authorship to title page. Slight loss at bottom fore corner of pp. 11-14 not near text contents clean; very good. David Williams Condorcet and Modernity 2004. unknown
0332578879.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
273842693X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1789Condorcet2<p><strong>CONDORCET de Nicolas 1743-1794</strong></p><p>Autograph letter to Jacques Pierre Brissot<br />N.p.n.d. 25 June 1789 2 p. in-12° on laid bi-folio<br />Watermark cropped: Cornet à courroie double sur écu coiffé d'une couronne / pendentif petite fleur de lis renversée / "D & C BLAUW"<br />An ink blot on the first page evidence of a fold by Condorcet while the ink was still wet.<br />Five redactions and an interlinear insertion in his hand with very browning</p><p><strong>Nice letter on his fight against slavery in the early days of the Revolution</strong></p><p><em>" J'ai l'honneur de vous envoier Monsieur <strong>un petit ouvrage que je viens de publier</strong></em> <em>Sur l'admission des députés des planteurs de Saint Domingue dans l'Assemblée nationale</em>. <strong><em>Je</em></strong><em> <strong>crois ce que j'y propose propre á concilier le droit et la paix</strong>. Je n'ai point ecrit a M. de Clermont-Tonnerre ma lettre etait faite mais j'ai appris diverses circonstances particulieres qui en rendaient l'envoi dangereux pour notre cause. <strong>Les amis des noirs sont dans une minorité que la majorité cherche à humilier</strong> le president du comité rapport à qui on aurait renvoie la lettre est un colon les planteurs effraient nos commercans en parlant de separation et auraient effrayé les gens moderés en parlant de revolte á Saint Domingue. J'ai donc cru devoir attendre.</em><br /><em>Quand aurons-nous donc enfin le plan de municipalité de Paris á examiner dans les districts plus on tardera plus l'idée d'independance fera de progrès dans les districts. <strong>On prend aisement l'habitude de gouverner et on a peine à le quitter.</strong></em><br /><strong><em>Agreez je vous supplie les assurances de mon inviolable attachement.</em></strong><br /><em>Comme je vais à Versailles et que j'y reste quelques jours je vous prie de vouloir bien vous charger de ces deux billets pour M. de Gramagnac en le priant de passer chez M. Mazzei chargé d'affaires du Roi de Pologne hotel des colonies rue des Prouvaires afin de terminer avec lui. Il manque encore un nom mais comme le Roi connait M. l'abbé Piatoli qui demeure dans le même hotel que M. Mazzei je crois qu'il faut preferer sa signature á une autre "</em></p><p>Condorcet and Brissot jointly carried out during the Revolution a decisive action against slavery within the <em>Société des Amis des Noirs</em>. The parliamentary debate crystallized in June 1789 around the question of admitting a deputation of colonists from Saint-Domingue to the <em>Assemblée nationale constituante</em>. By sending Brissot <em>" un petit ouvrage "</em> of his own writing on this subject <em>Sur l'admission des députés des planteurs de Saint Domingue dans l'Assemblée nationale</em> Condorcet nevertheless explains that he had to give up sending a memorandum in the name of the <em>Société des Amis des Noirs</em> to Deputy Clermont-Tonnerre who was then presiding over the Assembly to oppose this admission. As the majority of the Assembly was in favor he rightly considered that such a claim would be <em>à contre-emploi</em>.<br />Later he also asks Brissot for news of the <em>" plan de municipalité "</em> then under discussion which aimed to allow the <em>" patriote "</em> municipality—created on June 25 1789 and in which Brissot sat—not to remain hostage to the sixty Parisian districts which were showing <em>" indépendance "</em> tendencies that Condorcet deemed harmful.<br />Finally Condorcet asks his correspondent to deliver <em>" deux billets "</em> to M. de Gramagnac secretary of the <em>Société des Amis des Noirs</em>. He recommends that Gramagnac visit the Florentine merchant Filippo Mazzei 1730–1816 also a fervent abolitionist and member of the <em>Société des Amis des Noirs</em> to obtain the <em>" signature "</em> of Abbé Scipione Piattoli 1749–1809. Piattoli's membership in the <em>Société des Amis des Noirs</em> was all the more valuable because he was <em>" connu "</em> to the king for having been a member of the court of the King of Poland Stanislas-Auguste Poniatowski for whom Mazzei was then acting as agent in Paris.</p><p><u>Provenance:</u><br />Drouot 2 Apr. 2003 n°19<br />M.L.M. N°40234<br />Bertrand Loevenbruck's estate</p><p><u>Reference:</u><br /><em>Inventaire Condorcet</em> dir. Nicolas Rieucau n°1661</p>
1777SZEPEBKS007360IParis: Claude-Antoine Jombert 1777. First edition . Hardcover. Good. 12mo. - 4232 pp. plus plates. - Jombert Paris 1777. - Recent full dark-blue cloth with title stamped in gilt on spine. - Ex-library university with small bookplate embossed stamp and with stamped release; else fine no markings on the plates. - First Edition. - Bibliotheca mechanica p. 9. - With 5 fine quadruple-folding plates with altogether 4612 engraved illustrations as well as with engraved title- page vignette head and tail pieces. - These pioneering fluid mechanics experiments on the resistance of various solid bodies to flow were sponsored by the government of France in connection with inland navigation. - Detailed description of the experimental apparatus of the preparations for the experiments and of the experiments themselves. Tabulated are the data of altogether 293 experiments followed by mathematical modeling and analysis. <br/> <br/> Claude-Antoine Jombert hardcover
1021761079.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1020301317.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1021660647.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1022788248.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1020236639.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1146095872.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1019080272.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
101907535X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
114464139X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1145047076.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1148565205.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1147989389.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
114680251X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
18331209170012Paris: Pourrat freres 1833-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. A quality set. 20 volume set. 21 cm. Green leather spines with green marbled boards. All bindings sound. Minor rubbing to extremities. Unmarked pages. Scattered foxing. 4 folding color engraved maps and 181 color engravings of mammals and birds.<br>Includes: T.I: Theorie de la terre. <br> T.II: Theorie de la terre suite. Histoire des mineraux: introduction. <br> T.III: Histoire des mineraux. Epoques de la nature. <br> T.IV a VII: Histoire des mineraux. Experiences sur les vegetaux <br> T.VII--T.VIII a IX: Histoire des animaux. de l'homme. <br> T.X a XIV: Histoire des animaux. <br> T.XV a XX: Oiseaux.<br><br> Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon was a noted scientist whose monumental works in natural sciences influenced the next two generations of naturalists including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier. Mayr The Growth of Biological Thought. p 330 Buffon's work was based on the methods of observation and experimentation. He raised many of the fundamental problems of biology in a scientific context. One of Buffon's most important contributions was the popularization of the old earth theory in opposition to Archbishop Ussher's biblical earth time-line. <br><br>Buffon was an important pre-cursor to Darwin. Cited as the father of biogeography Buffon's Law postulated that creatures "improved" and "degenerated" after dispersing from a center of creation. He based his theory on comparative anatomy studies. Buffon tried to explain the origin of living things by spontaneous generation of elementary particles and its development as a consequence of climate and diet. Buffon argued that all members of a family of species descended from the same ancestors a "unity of type". <br><br> This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US. Pourrat freres hardcover
0265946360.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
026073862X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
46393057like new. unknown
8812327like new. unknown
178486383Kehl Baden: Imprimerie de la Société Littéraire-Typographique 1784. Leather Bound. Very Good. L 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. Imprimerie de la Société Littéraire-Typographique Kehl Baden 1784. In French. Famous first posthumous collected edition of Voltaire's 1694-1778 works known as the 'Kehl Voltaire' produced by Beaumarchais who created a print foundry at Kehl to carry out this great work. Set contains 69 of the 70 Volume 8vo edition smaller 12mo 90 volume edition was also produced. Volume 23 Histoire de Charles XII missing. Volumes 10 and 27 printed 1784 summary volume 70 printed 1789 all other volumes printed 1785. Uniform 18th century calf full brown leather. Spines decorated in gold floral designs titles volume numbers within 6 boxed compartments. Boards have a natural brown mottled leather finish slanted gold lines on the narrow board edges. All page ends stained a very light yellow finely bespeckled with green. Green silk reading ribbons. Moderate wear of leather at spine tops light stress wear along exterior leather hinges some boards show minor leather loss at edges. All interior hinges firm untorn. Volume 20 upper rear board tip charred. Otherwise no volume damaged or repaired uniform light general wear. Only endpapers show browned bands along margins from pasted endpaper glue chemistry. Volumes 1 to 69 containing all the works and massive correspondences of Voltaire. Volume 70 contains Condorcet's Life of Voltaire and Condorcet's 'Memoires' of Voltaire index and 'Additions et Corrections' to the 70 volumes. Volume 1 frontispiece engraving of Voltaire by Moreau.; Volume 10 frontispiece engraving of Henry IV; Volume 16 frontispiece portrait of Voltaire; Volume 24 frontispiece engraving military map camp plan; Volume 31 14 engraved plates of scientific diagrams. Provenance: Each volume has the small ink stamp 'William H. Floyd Collection No.' on the rear of the title page. Floyd was a late 19th century American antiquarian collector. The numbering sequence 5098-5166 shows that volume 23 was missing even when cataloged by Floyd. Size: L 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. A major cultural event of the last decade of the ancien regime a beautiful monument to Voltaire the greatest man that literature had produced. Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais led a controversial life. Playwright The Marriage of Figaro politician publisher entrepreneur spy supplier of munitions for the American Revolution and an early champion of the rights of artists and intellectual property. Shortly after the death of Voltaire in 1778 Beaumarchais set out to publish Voltaire's complete works many of which were banned in France and vehemently condemned by the Church. Royal letters would be censored by Frederick II of Germany Catharine II of Russia and others. He bought the rights to most of Voltaire's many manuscripts from publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke in 1779. To evade censorship printing presses were set up in the small neutral independant state of Baden at Kehl. Beaumarchais bought with exclusivity the complete foundry of the famous English type designer John Baskerville for the Societe Litteraire Typographique an organization he established to produce editions in which he was interested. Three paper mills were purchased. Seventy volumes were published between 1783 to 1790. While the venture proved a financial failure Beaumarchais was instrumental in preserving many of Voltaire's later works which otherwise might have been lost. The Kehl edition was banned on French territory until 1789. Baskerville font was revived by Americans in the 20th century. Voltaire Kehl Condorcet Pierre Beaumarchais Charles-Joseph Panckoucke RBR4 RBR4 Imprimerie de la Société Littéraire-Typographique hardcover
0265426014.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
