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Ruvres choisies. Les Ruines.

182824371Paris Libraires du Palais- 1828 In-18, veau bordeaux orn sur chaque plat d'une plaque romantique pousse froid et borde d'un filet dor, dos quatre nerfs orn de fleurons et filets dors et froid avec deux pices de titre en veau noir; doublures et gardes de papier peigne, tranches jaspes (reliure de l'poque).Edition orne d'un portrait-frontispice grav sur acier et comportant in fine une carte du monde galement grave sur acier. Agrable reliure romantique.

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Tableau du climat et du sol des Etats-Unis d'Amerique : suivi d'eclaircissemens sur la Floride sur la colonie francaise au Scioto sur quelques colonies canadiennes et sur les sauvages : enrichi de quatre planches gravees dont deux cartes geographiques et une coupe figuree de la chute de Niagara 2 volumes

18032510010043Courcier imprimeur-libraire quai des Augustins no. 71 ; Dentu imprimeur-libraire Palais du Tribunat Galleries-de-Bois no. 240 Paris an XII--1803 1803. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volume set. xvi 534 pages: 2 folded leaves of plates 2 folded maps of North America and the United States. 21 cm. Includes the vocabulary of the Miami Indians. Includes American geology and natural science as well as observations on Indians. Volney was a philosopher abolitionist orientalist and extensive traveler. He came to America to avoid imprisonment by the French government during the Reign of Terror. A friend of Jefferson he was expelled in 1798 by President John Adams under the Alien and Sedition Act due to the fear he was acting as a French agent to allow for the reoccupation of the Louisiana territory. He visited the United States from 1795-1798 and this book was the result Jefferson translated most of the work but it was ultimately completed by John Barlow. Refs: Sabin 100692 Howes 10675; Clark II:69; Pilling 4061; Monaghan 1472; Buck 49. Courcier, imprimeur-libraire, quai des Augustins, no. 71 ; Dentu, imprimeur-libraire, Palais du Tribunat, Galleries-de-Bois, no. hardcover

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Tableau Du Climat Et Du Sol Des Etats-Unis D'Amerique Two Volumes in One

180355052Paris: Chez Courcier & Dentu. Very Good. 1803. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary full leather gilt decorated spine 5 raised bands red morocco label marbled eps red page edges. Two volumes in one with continuous pagination. First edition of this study on American geology with info on the customs of the Indians and colonists. Four folding plates three in color including a geological survey a section of Niagara Falls and two maps smaller one of North America and larger one of the United States. Includes 8 page Vocabulaire de la Lange des Miamis at the end. Table des matieres notice to the binder and errata page are bound at the beginning. Hinges a bit weak but holding. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xvi524 pages . Chez Courcier & Dentu hardcover

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VOLNEY (Constantin-Francois de CHASSEBOEUF, comte de)Livre Rare Book

Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte pendant les années 1783, 84 et 85. Quatrième édition

1807205481807 Paris, Courcier, 1807, 2 tomes en 2 volumes in-8 de (4)-X-487-(1) pp. ; (4)-492 pp., belle reliure de l'époque de plein veau brun raciné, dos lisses ornés de fers romantiques dorés, pièces de titres de maroquin rouge et de tomaisons de maroquin vert, encadrements de roulettes dorées sur les plats,

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Oeuvres De C. F. Volney

18260021977Parmentier Paris 1826. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good/not applicable. Constantin François de Chasseboeuf Comte de Volney 3 February 1757 - 25 April 1820 was a French philosopher historian orientalist and politician. He was at first surnamed Boisgirais after his father's estate but afterwards assumed the name of Volney which he had created as a contraction of Voltaire and Ferney . Volume I: Les ruines ou meditation sur les revolutions des empires. Volumes II and III: Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie pendant les annees 1783 1784 et 1785. Volume IV: Tableau du Climat et du sol des Etats-Unis d'Amerique. Volumes V and VI: Recherches Nouvelles sur l'histoire ancienne. Volume VII: Lecons d'histoire.Volume VIII: L'alfabet Europeen applique aux langues Asiatiques. An eight volume set in contemporary quarter calf French bindings. Gilt lettered and decorated. Marbled paper boards. Tight and sound copy. Bindings rubbed at extremities but all sound and presentable. Text clear and legible throughout. A decent set and quite scarce. Complete set with all engraved plates maps and tables. Each volume approx. 8.5" by 5". Quantity Available: 1. Category: History ; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0021977. . Parmentier hardcover

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Oeuvres complètes

182654574Paris, Parmentier 1825 1826 8 volumes, in-8, pleine basane blonde marbrée, dos lisse richement orné de fleurons, filets et dentelles dorés, guirlande d’encadrement des plats., xlix- 423- 436- 447- 478- 495- 448- xi- 400- xix- 510 pp. Portrait et 37 planches gravées hors-texte, la plupart dépliantes : vues, cartes dont celles de la Corse et deux des Etats-Unis, tableaux. Quelques charnières usées et mors fendillés, lég. usures et frottements. Un dos restauré. Accroc de cuir au dos à 2 volumes. Int. frais.

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Volney's Ruins; or Meditation on the Revolution of Empires. Translated Under the Immediate Inspection of the Author from the Sixth Paris Edition. To which is added The Law of Nature and a Short Biographical Notice by Count Daru: Also the controversy between Dr. Priestly and Volney

183567296Printed in the USA: Charles Gaylord 1835. 1835 edition. Cloth and paper over boards. As described. Hardcover cloth tan over paper illustrated over boards. 12mo. 216 pp. Illustrated with a b/w engraved frontispiece. No edition marks. Remnants of a paper label on the spine. Faded partially legible inscription on the front flyleaf. Ownership signature P. S. Van Wagner Hamilton 1844 R. R. on the front flyleaf and title page. Small enclosed tear on the back flyleaf. Text block is age browned around the edges and mildly foxed throughout. Binding is strong and square. Spine and boards are soiled rubbed and worn. Edges of the boards are frayed in sections. Small enclosed tear on the fore edge of the front board. Crack in the bottom of the front hinge. Bumped corners. Despite its appearance this copy's bindings are still strong and its pages legible. Charles Gaylord unknown

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A View of the Soil and Climate of the United States of America: with Supplmentary Remarks Upon Florida; on the French Colonies on the Mississippi and Ohio and in Canada; and on the Aboriginal Tribes of America

180493024Philadelphia: J. Conrad & Co. 1804 1804. First Edition. unknown_binding. Used-Very Good. Octavo xxviii 446 pp.4 fold-out plates 2 of which are maps. New Quarter leather over marbled paper covered boards with red leather gilt stamped spine label. First fold-out plate is worn around edges with an ink marking over plate number. Otherwise a very good copy in a new attractive binding. Philadelphia: J. Conrad & Co., 1804 unknown

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VIEW OF THE CLIMATE AND SOIL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: To Which are Annexed Some Accounts of Florida The French Co. Lony on the Scioto Certain Candian Co. Lonies and the Savages or Natives

1804002794EELondon: J. Johnson 1804. First Edition. Very good. A very good and tight copy. First English Edition Translated From the French of C. F. Volney. Listed in Howes USiana V-141 and Sabin 100693. 504pp. 3/4 leather in original boards. Rubbing and chipping to leather along spine folds corners rubbed. Top edge gold gilt. Two fold out maps and two fold out plates as called for. One of the plates has edge wear and split which has been repaired. Maps are in very good condition with the larger map having a couple of tears to fold. Some foxing to preliminaries. View all Seven Photo's. J. Johnson unknown

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TABLEAU DU CLIMAT ET DU SOL DES ETATS-UNIS D'AMERIQUE. SUIVI D'ECLAIRCISSEMENS SUR LA FLORIDE SUR LA COLONIE FRANCAISE AU SCIOTO SUR QUELQUES COLONIES CANADIENNES ET SUR LES SAUVAGES

1803WRCAM51639Paris: Courcier 1803. Two volumes. 3xvi300; 4301- 5342pp. plus two foldings maps and two folding plates. Half titles. Three-quarter calf and marbled boards spines gilt leather labels all edges stained red. Hinges rubbed edges and corners slightly worn. Bookplates on front pastedowns. A few scattered fox marks and small dampstains but generally clean. About very good. Volney came to America to avoid imprisonment by the French government and brought with him a large measure of education and sophistication as well as a small bundle of prejudices: he was a vehement anticlericalist and opponent of things Rousseauian. Jefferson felt he might have been a catalyst for the Federalist Alien Acts. There is a small map of North America and a much larger map of the United States all east of the Mississippi. The map of the continent small as it is still represents fairly advanced cartographical knowledge. This copy is of the variant no priority with the Miami vocabulary separately paginated. The work is valuable for its notes on French colonies in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. HOWES V141. CLARK II:69. PILLING 4061. FIELD 2449. MONAGHAN 1472. BUCK 49. Courcier hardcover books

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VOLNEY Constantin Francois de ChassebAuf comte de 1757 1820.ABAA

Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte pendant les annees 1783 84 et 85. Quatrieme Edition. 2 volumes

1807SW1692Paris:: Courcier 1807. 1807. 2 volumes. 8vo. 6 x 487 1; iv 492 pp. Half-titles 5 folding engraved plates including detailed engravings of the Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza 3 folding maps incl. frontis. a folding map of Egypt p. 288 Syria II p. 400 Turkey ads in front & rear. Original full mottled calf gilt spine red leather spine labels; joints rubbed but strong. Ownership Signature of Benjamin B. Wood. Very good. Fourth edition first issued in 1787 here printed with additional plates. This is a key source for the study of Ottoman Egypt Syria and modern day Lebanon sometimes called the Levant. Volney describes the geography of the region the climate its history cultures the militia economy and trade diseases the monuments natural history politics people law religions farming and agriculture craftsmen merchants commerce arts sciences and character of the inhabitants. All this is set within the presence of the years just prior to the outbreak of the French Revolution which started in 1789. "In 1783 Volney gave up the thought of following any particular profession and set out for the East. He arrived at Cairo ostensibly on a scientific mission although many there regarded him as a spy he was later accused of spying on America by John Adams' administration. In order to master Arabic he shut himself away in a convent for eight months then journeyed to the pyramids at Giza and moved to Suez where he lived with the Bedouin. While there he entertained the notion of constructing a canal to link the Mediterranean with the Red Sea. Sailing from Alexandria in September 1783 he visited Syria and the Lebanon concluding his journey at Acre =Akko in 1785. After a brief halt at Alexandria he returned to France where his documents turned out to be of enormous value in the planning of Napoleon's campaign to Egypt. Volney however persistently opposed such intervention despite producing a pamphlet which uncannily anticipated French involvement in the region." â€“ Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800 V61. / "The French author and traveller Constantin-Francois de Chasseboeuf 1757â€“1820 adopted the pen name Volney which combined the name of Voltaire and Ferney where the great philosopher lived. A friend of Thomas Jefferson and other Enlightenment figures Volney used an inheritance to further his education by travelling to Ottoman Egypt and the historical region of Syria visiting areas of present-day Lebanon and Israel. He chose these lands as he believed he would gain political and philosophical insights from their ancient heritage. Very little had been written in the West about these areas before he published this two-volume account in 1787. It enjoyed great popularity and even accompanied Darwin aboard the Beagle on his own voyage of discovery decades later. Reissued here is the revised and corrected French second edition which also appeared in 1787. The volumes explore geography history ethnic divisions religious beliefs commerce politics and customs." â€“ Cambridge University Press 2014. / De Volney was a French philosopher and historian and a member of the Estates-General during the French Revolution. Alexander Cook who believes that Volney's influence is as a "key thinker" though often forgotten in today's sense of that history examines this books as a specimen of geo-politics of both French anti-imperialist thought and French imperial practice in North Africa and the Levant where France was seeking to expand its global influence and power during the following decades. Cook is at Australian National University School of History received his PhD from University of Cambridge. CONTENTS: Volume 1: Preface; - Part I. Etat physique de l'Egypte: - 1. De l'Egypte en general et de la ville d'Alexandrie; - 2. Du Nil et de l'extension du delta; - 3. De l'exhaussement de delta; - 4. Des vents de l'Egypte; - 5. Du climat et de l'air d'Egypte; - Part II. Etat politique de l'Egypte: - 6. Des diverses races des habitans de l'Egypte; - 7. Precis de l'histoire des Mamlouks; - 8. Precis de l'histoire de d'Ali-bek; - 9. Precis des evenemens arrives depuis la mort d'Ali-bek jusqu'en 1785; - 10. Etat present de l'Egypte; - 11. Constitution de la milice des Mamlouks; - 12. Gouvernement des Mamlouks; - 13. Etat du commerce; - 14. De l'isthme de Suez; - 15. Des douanes et des impots; - 16. De la ville du Kaire; - 17. Des maladies de l'Egypte; - 18. Tableau resume de l'Egypte; - 19. Des ruines et des pyramides; - Part III. Etat physique de la Syrie: - 20. Geographie et histoire naturaelle de la Syrie; - 21. Considerations sur les phenomenes des vents des nuages des pluies des brouillards et du tonnerre; - Part IV. Etat politique de la Syrie: - 22. Des habitans de la Syrie et de la langue usitee; - 23. Des peuples errans ou pasteurs en Syrie. Volume 2: - 24. Des peuples agricoles ou sedentaires de la Syrie; - 25. Precis de l'histoire de Daher; - 26. Distribution de la Syrie par pachalics; - 27. Du pachalic d'Alep; - 28. Du pachalic de Tripoli; - 29. Du pachalic de Saide; - 30. Du pachalic de Damas; - 31. De la Palestine; - 32. Resume de la Syrie; - 33. Du gouvernement des Turks en Syrie; - 34. De l'administration de la justice; - 35. De l'influence de a religion; - 36. De la propriete et des conditions; - 37. Des paysans et de l'agriculture; - 38. Des artisans des amrchands et du commerce; - 39. Des arts des sciences et de l'ignorance; - 40. Des habitudes et du caractere des habitans de la Syrie. PROVENANCE: Benjamin B. Wood unknown as there are many with this name. / See: Alexander Cook "The Great Society of the Human Species': Volney and the Global Politics of Revolutionary France" Intellectual History Review Volume 23 2013 - Issue 3: Discourses of Humanity in the Enlightenment: Local Mediations of a Global Aspiration; Alexander Cook "Volney and the Science of Morality in Revolutionary France" Humanities Research Vol. 16 No. 2 May 1 2010; Samir Khalaf Protestant Missionaries in the Levant: Ungodly Puritans 1820-1860 Routledge 2012. Courcier, 1807. hardcover books

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View of The Soil and Climate of the United States of America: With

180411501804. VOLNEY Constantine F. A View of the Soil and Climate of the United States of America: With Supplementary Remarks Upon Florida; on the French Colonies on the Mississippi and Ohio and in Canada; and on the Aboringinal Tribes of America. Translated With Occasional Remarks By C.B. Brown. With Maps and Plates. Phila.: J. Conrad & Co. 1804. 1st ed. in English. 8vo. Illus. with two folding maps and two folding charts. Very good in later antique style calf-backed marbled boards. Howes V-141. Sabin 100693. Field 1610. "The author spent three years in the United States ardently engaged in collecting facts for his work which principally related to the state and manners of the Indians and the climate. unknown

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VIEW OF THE CLIMATE AND SOIL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: To Which are Annexed some Accounts of Florida the French Colony on the Scioto Certain Canadian Colonies and the Savages or Natives. Translated from the French of C.F. Volney.

1804018128London: Printed for J. Johnson 1804. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. xxiv vi 503 pages of text followed by i errata. Rebound in full black cloth with a leather spine label; new endpapers. Complete with two folding maps in excellent condition and two folding plates. The two maps have had previously torn folds archivally mended. There is very minimal soiling to a few pages and the first and final few pages are lightly foxed. Constantin-Francois Volney 1757-1820. Howes V-141; Sabin 100692. First edition. Printed for J. Johnson Hardcover books

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Constantin Francois de Chasseboeuf, comte de Volney; Adolphe BossangeBiblio.com

Oeuvres completes de C.F. Volney 8 volume set

18211907190050Paris : Bossange freres 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8 volume set. Bound in contemporary tree calf. Handsome bindings. Gilt ruled spines with double red morocco spine labels. Very good bindings. Marbled end sheets. 8vo 22 cm. Half-titles 14 plates including frontispiece in vol.1 8 folding maps 15 folding tables. Lacks portrait. Engraved armorial book plates of William Fullerton Lindsay Carnegie. Carnegie 1788-1860 lived at Kinblethmont House Inverkeilor Angus Scotland. Contents: I. Notice sur la vie et les ecrits de Volney. Les Ruines. La Loi naturelle. Lettre de Volney au docteur Priestley. Discours sur l'etude philosophique des langues. ; II. Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie. T.I. : Etat physique de l'Egypte etat politique de l'Egypte etat physique de la Syrie etat politique de la Syrie. ; III. Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie. T. II : Etat politique de la Syrie ; Etat du commerce du Levant en 1784 ; Considerations sur la guerre des Turks en 1788. ; IV. Recherches nouvelles sur l'histoire ancienne. T.I : Examen de l'histoire des juifs jusqu'e la captivite de Babylone ; Chronologie des rois Lydiens ; Chronologie d'Herodote. ; V. Recherches nouvelles sur l'histoire ancienne : Suite de la chronologie d'Herodote ; Chronologie des Babyloniens ; Chronologie des Egyptiens. ; VI. Leçons d'histoire prononcees e l'Ecole normale en l'an III de la Republique française 1795. Histoire de Samuel inventeur du sacre des rois. Etat physique de la Corse. 1re et 2nde lettre e M. le comte Lanjuinais sur l'antiquite de l'alphabet phenicien. Lettre au directeur de la Revue sur une nouvelle traduction d'Herodote. Questions de statistique e l'usage des voyageurs. ; VII. Tableau du climat et du sol des Etats-Unis. Eclaircissemens sur divers articles. ; VIII. L'Alfabet europeen applique aux langues asiatiques. Simplification des langues orientales ou Methode nouvelle et facile d'apprendre les langues arabe persane et turke avec des caracteres europeens : grammaire de la langue arabe l'hebreu simplifie par la methode alfabetique. Vues nouvelles sur l'enseignement des langues orientales. Paris : Bossange freres hardcover

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Tableau du Climat et du Sol des Etats-Unis D'Amérique. Suivi d'éclaircissemens sur la Floride sur la colonie Française au Scioto sur quelques colonies Canadiennes et sur les Sauvages

180341748Paris: Chez Courcier et Dentu 1803. First edition two volumes 8vo. Two folding plates in volume I two folding maps in volume II marbled endpapers and sides later bookplate of the collector Stuart W. Jackson. Contemporary green half calf gilt banded spines slightly sunned some mild rubbing head of the spine of volume II repaired Paris: Chez Courcier [et] Dentu unknown

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A View of the Soil and Climate of the United States of America: With Supplementary Remarks Upon Florida; On the French Colonies on the Mississippi and Ohio and in Canada; and on the Aboriginal Tribes of America

180489997Philadelphia: Published by J. Conrad & Co 1804. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Full contemporary calf with red leather spine label titled in gilt. Two folding engraved maps and two folding engravings. Early owner name a small portion of the second blank torn away removing another name foxing on the plates but otherwise clean and undamaged rubbing and wear to the extremities and a very small split at the edge of one joint still a tight and sound very good copy. Published by J. Conrad & Co hardcover

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M C-F Volney [Constantin-Francois Chasseboeuf, comte de Volney]Biblio.com

Travels Through Syria and Egypt in the Years 1783 1784 and 1785

1805965F7London: G. Robinson; T. Davison 1805 . Leather. Very Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. The third English language translation of comte de Volney's detailed and charmingly illustrated account of his late eighteenth century travels in Syria and Egypt. The third edition in the English language of this work complete in two volumes.Volney a French philosopher and historian travelled extensively through the Levant documenting his observations on the geography climate agriculture society and political conditions of the regions he visited.Volney combines empirical observation with critical analysis of Islamic societies and ancient ruins studying the decline of the once-prosperous civilisation.Illustrated with a folding frontispiece two folding maps to volume I and with two folding plates to volume II.Collated complete.With the bookplate of G. A. F. H. Bridgeman to front pastedowns and Weston Library bookplates to rear pastedowns. Rebacked in calf retaining original calf boards. Endpapers renewed. Significant rubbing to board perimeters otherwise externally excellent. Armorial bookplates to front pastedowns library bookplates to rear pastedowns. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean with only the odd spot. Significant spotting to plates. Very Good G. Robinson; T. Davison hardcover

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Volney Constantin Francois Chasseboeuf Comte deABAA

Tableau du climat et du sol des Etats-Unis d'Amerique. Suivi d'eclaircissemens sur la Floride sur la colonie FranÃ§aise au Scioto sur quelques colonies Canadiennes et sur les Sauvages

1803264642Paris: Courcier and Dentu 1803. First edition. One folding plate one full-page folding map plate two folding plates. 8-page Miami vocabulary at end paged consecutively with the rest of the text. 1-300 4; 301-532 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 8 x 5 inches. Contemporary quarter calf. Rebacked preserving spine new endsheets. Very good. First edition. One folding plate one full-page folding map plate two folding plates. 8-page Miami vocabulary at end paged consecutively with the rest of the text. 1-300 4; 301-532 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 8 x 5 inches. "Volney was an educated Frenchman of some distinction and merit . . . When he came to America he was an experienced traveler and anticlericalist and an opponent of the philosophy of Rousseau. His departure from his native land was no doubt determined upon when the government he hoped to serve threw him in prison. . . This work is not a narrative of travel. The author described in some detail the geography of the United States noting topography soil climate winds and diseases" Clark. The plates herein are sophisticated and are as follows: Plate I shows the composition of the earth in the areas of Pennsylvania and Ohio and at Louisville Ohio; Plate III contains two views of the St. Lawrence River one showing the river stretching eastward from Lake Ontario the other showing a waterfall Niagara Falls; Plate II is a map of North America; and Plate IV is a large map measuring 25-1/4 x 18-1/4 inches of the United States East of the Mississippi by L Collin. Howes V141; Sabin 100692 ; Clark II:69; Field 2449; Monaghan 1472; Buck 49; Servier 776 Courcier and Dentu unknown books

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Tableau du climat et du sol des Etats-Unis d'Amerique. Suivi d'eclaircissemens sur la Floride sur la colonie Française au Scioto sur quelques colonies Canadiennes et sur les Sauvages

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VOLNEY CF. C. F.ABAA

Oeuvres Completes

1821135320Paris: Bossange Freres 1821. hardcover. very good. Frontispieces folding maps and charts and other illustrations. 8 volumes. 8vo full red straight-grained morocco gilt-dec. bands; light foxing on some pgs. Paris: Bossange Freres 1821. A very good set. Bossange Freres unknown books

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Oeuvres Completes

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uvres Complètes.

1821160633Paris: Bossange Frères 1821. With autograph material by the author First complete collected works. Bound into this set are five letters by Volney including one dated only a week before his death addressed to his friend Colonel Pierre Jacotin the head geographer responsible for all mapping operations during Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign. The letters underscore Volney's keen engagement with the contemporary discourse surrounding the geography of the Arabian Peninsula Egypt and the Levant. Jacotin met Volney in Corsica in the 1790s while working as a cadastral mapper. His conversations with Volney - who had travelled extensively to Egypt and Syria - eventually inspired him to pursue a career in Egypt where he was later assigned as military cartographer to the Napoleonic expedition. Jacotin's account of the cartographic survey work conducted in the area later formed the basis of the monumental Description de l'Égypte. Bound in at the beginning of the first volume are three letters sent by Volney to Jacotin from Paris respectively dated 20 March 11 April and 17 April 1820 Volney died on 25 April. A fourth letter at the end of vol. IV is dated 24 October. In the first letter Volney apologises for not having been able to receive Jacotin who had come to visit him the day before due to a bad fever. In the others Volney asks Jacotin for help and advice with preparing the plates specifically the maps for an English edition of his Ruines which "a bookseller" had asked him permission to publish; he also points out misspellings appearing in earlier states of the plates for example correcting toponyms in the Arabian Peninsula. No details are given concerning the edition in question. The first translation of the Ruins appeared in 1792 and was followed by numerous others. Further manuscript pages in Volney's hand are tipped into the first volume with a note gifting them to Jacotin. These contain an extract from an anonymous article published on 1 July 1819 in The Monthly Magazine London with the title "Account of Newly-Discovered Antiquities in Arabia Petraea Derived from the Personal Inspection of a Recent British Traveler". The traveller was William John Bankes 1786-1855 and the article is concerned with the projected publication of his voyage. Bankes travelled from Jerusalem to Wadi Musa passing through Kerak Castle Mount Hor and Petra; he describes the ancient Roman ruins that he saw during the trip and recounts sojourning with the Bedouin transcribing a Bedouin love song. Volney translates part of the article into French and adds his own comments and questions. A philosopher and orientalist Volney 1757-1820 wrote extensively on history religion politics and linguistics. His major works include Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte published in 1787 which had a profound impact on the Western view of the region and inspired Napoleon to undertake his invasion of Egypt in 1798 and Les Ruines 1791 a philosophical treatise on the history of social political and religious institutions and the rise and fall of empires. According to the distinguished American historian Ussama Makdisi holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University Volney's Voyage en Égypte et en Syrie "was simply the first of the great works of modern travel writing and description. Volney was a man of the Enlightenment. His work was suffused with its vocabulary and his humanism motivated him to travel to Asia to better understand the nature of 'despotism' under which his native France laboured" Makdisi p. 17. 8 vols octavo 204 x 123 mm. With 40 engraved plates many folding including portrait of author tables and maps. Contemporary quarter calf smooth spines divided by gilt fillets gilt and black ornaments in compartments black calf labels marbled boards endpapers and sides black silk bookmarkers. Embossed library stamp lettered "Ct Perret Havre" on front free endpaper of vol. I perhaps Auguste Perret 1874-1954 French architect active in Le Havre. Extremities rubbed couple of small chips short superficial splits at foot of front joints of vols. V and VIII remaining firm patches of stripping to leather of vols II and III occasional light foxing to contents faint damp stain to lower margin of final leaves and folding plates of first 5 vols otherwise generally bright and clean. A very good set. Ussama Makdisi The Culture of Sectarianism: Community History and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon 2000. hardcover

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