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16857SOCRATES Jacques Vernet. Dialogues Socratiques Ou Instructions Sur Divers Sujets De Morale. 1754 First Edition. Duodecimo. 286 pages. A scarce first edition of Vernet's Socratic Dialogues Or Instructions On Various Moral Topics. Socratic dialogues present a discussion of moral and philosophical problems between two or more characters and may be either dramatic or narrative. These Dialogues were composed for the instruction of the hereditary prince of Saxe-Gotha likely Ernest II which was a center of the Enlightenment throughout the 18th century. In good condition. Several 1800s ex libris inscriptions on the final page. Some shelfwear bumping to corners and dampstaining to several pages. Small tear to final leaf. Only 2 copies in any US institutions per OCLC wolrdcat. unknown books
1675SAV142Paris: Chez Damien Foucault for the workshop of Pierre Rocolet 1675. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 170 x 240mm. Pagination: 26 476 12pp of table. Signatures: A-Z4 Aa-Zz4 Aaa-Ppp4.Woodcut printers device of Rocolet official printer of Paris with crowned arms of Louis XIV and heraldry of the Foucault and Rocolet supported by muses and with their monograms on plaque. With dedication on title Dediee a Monseigneur le Dauphin and letter by Cousin. Contemporary French mottled brown calf by Rocolet or his workshop with the arms of Louis XIV 1643-1661 three fleur-de-lis stamped in central medallion on covers surrounded by a blind-tooled roll of fleur-de-lis spine with five raised bands with a fleur-de-lis and tan morocco label all edges gilt marbled endpapers; title with small spots and residue not-severe covers slightly bowed and corners lightly bumped otherwise crisp and clean. This book is a fine specimen of such characteristic work from the Rocolet printers. This copy is exemplary for its royal provenance; this church history work which would have been presented at court to Louis XIV and the dauphin the kings son Louis of France 1661-1711. The dauphin would have been about 14 years old at the time of this edition. Louis XIV and other royals often had works printed and bound for presentation in the court and gave them to special members in their circle. The title has an unidentified impression monogram GDV in lower right corner probably dating to the 18th century. First edition and second volume of four containing Socrates Scholasticuss history of the Christian Church; this title part of a en ecclesiastical series by Rocolet published in 1675 and 1676; a reissue was made in Holland in 1686. This set is frequently found as the singular volume in usual institution catalogs. Louis Cousin was the translator of this great compilation corpus on church history written by the fifth century Church Father Socrates which continued the great magnum opus of his forefather Eusebius of Caesarea. Among Cousins law and theological acumen he was an academician royal censor and president of the court of currencies Cour des Monnoyes. This translation was highly regarded by his contemporaries as translations from the Greek of Church Father writings were becoming common in the ecclesiastical language of the Western Church. Pierre Rocolet the printer by appointment for the city government was active in Paris from 1640 until 1662 when his son-in-law Damien Foucault succeeded him in the business. Importantly this work is one of the last that Foucault would produce under the workshops name. He died in 1675 and his widow Anne Bonjean succeeded him until 1686 and then a son Hilaire Foucault continued until 1723. The Rocolet workshop was known for collaborating with select binders and gilders to producing luxurious decorated bindings which dominated the French booksellers markets in the mid and late seventeenth century. This copy is a notable armorial presentation binding within the circle of Louis XIV. <br/><br/>First edition and second volume of four containing Socrates Scholasticuss history of the Christian Church; this title part of a en ecclesiastical series by Rocolet published in 1675 and 1676; a reissue was made in Holland in 1686. This set is frequently found as the singular volume in usual institution catalogs. Louis Cousin was the translator of this great compilation corpus on church history written by the fifth century Church Father Socrates which continued the great magnum opus of his forefather Eusebius of Caesarea. Among Cousins law and theological acumen he was an academician royal censor and president of the court of currencies Cour des Monnoyes. This translation was highly regarded by his contemporaries as translations from the Greek of Church Father writings were becoming common in the ecclesiastical language of the Western Church. Pierre Rocolet the printer by appointment for the city government was active in Paris from 1640 until 1662 when his son-in-law Damien Foucault succeeded him in the business. Importantly this work is one of the last that Foucault would produce under the workshops name. He died in 1675 and his widow Anne Bonjean succeeded him until 1686 and then a son Hilaire Foucault continued until 1723. The Rocolet workshop was known for collaborating with select binders and gilders to producing luxurious decorated bindings which dominated the French booksellers markets in the mid and late seventeenth century. This copy is a notable armorial presentation binding within the circle of Louis XIV. Chez Damien Foucault (for the workshop of Pierre Rocolet) hardcover books
1926D5872Paris: The Pleiad 1926. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Marbled paper over boards. Number 21 from a limited edition of 475 copies printd for The Pleiad under the supervision of Frederic Warde and being the first use of the Officina Bodoni typeface. Boards scuffed along the edges; spine tips chipped. Internally bright and clean. <br/><br/> The Pleiad hardcover books
19951316704Jerusalem: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1995. Softcover. Octavo; G; Paperback; Spine black with white print; DJ has slight edgewear but is clean and bright; Cover has slight edgewear creasing to hinges slight shelfwear; Text block clean and tight; In Arabic and English; 207 English pages Arabic pages separately numbered. 1316704. FP New Rockville Stock. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem unknown books
021948Beirut; 1974: Librairie Du Liban. Octavo. The first edition of this work was published in 1897. 602pp. bound in green cloth spine lettered and ruled in gilt. near fine in very good rubbed dust jacket printed in white. Librairie Du Liban unknown books
198055369Beirut:: Librairie Du Liban. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. A later impression. Very good in a very good dust jacket. . Librairie Du Liban, hardcover books
201147280Cambridge : Cambridge U. P 2011. Softcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Cambridge U. P paperback books
1975212697San Francisco: printed by Clifford Burke at Cranium Press for the Sacramento Book Collectors Club 1975. 16p. 8.25x11.25 inches illustrated with a crude frontis portrait of the author and a reproduction of an unremarkable wood-engraving of the Capital Building; the "etchings" spoken of are Powers' word-picutres of fledgling Sacramento and its elder rival city San Francisco. Find his controversial first-hand reports of Native American tribes visited in person. A fine first edition limited to 300 copies in sewn cream wraps. Keepsake no. 12 of the Sacramento Book Collectors. printed by Clifford Burke at Cranium Press for the Sacramento Book Collectors Club unknown books
