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1880995H35London: Farrah c1880. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 4". None Stated. A later English edition of Volney"s landmark meditation on the rise and fall of civilisations including The Law of Nature illustrated with two fold-out plates and a frontispiece. In the publisher"s original green cloth.Illustrated with two fold-out plates and a frontispiece. Collated complete. This edition includes The Law of Nature Volney"s exposition of secular ethics and political philosophy a text that proved especially influential among radical and freethinking audiences in Britain and America.A later English edition of Volney"s celebrated philosophical and historical meditation on the rise and fall of civilisations first published in France in 1791 and shaped by the intellectual and political aftermath of the French Revolution.Constantin François de Volney 1757-1820 was a French philosopher historian and committed Enlightenment rationalist closely associated with the ideals and reformist spirit of the French Revolution. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Very minor blistering to boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean if characteristically age toned with one or two light spots. Slight cockling to pages. Very Good Indeed Farrah hardcover
180456588Philadelphia: J. Conrad. Very Good. 1804. First Edition. Hardcover. Rebacked with original boards new eps. First US edition. Retains two original front blanks and three rear blanks half title page with edge tear. PO name to title page. Pp. Xviii 446 with two folding plates and two folding maps. Mild foxing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . J. Conrad hardcover
180451284Philadelphia J. Conrad & Co. 1804. Hardcover. Released Harvard College Library" stamped on half-title page. Blind stamped private ownership embossments on front and rear blanks. Two folding maps and two other folding plates all in good condition with no tears but some foxing and a small piece of the margin of one of the maps missing. Although the book has been rebound brown morocco over marbled boards the edges have not been trimmed with the result that the margins are ample. . 466p. Maps and folding plates. Includes a chapter on the Indians of North America and another on the vocabulary of the Miami Indian language. Philadelphia, J. Conrad & Co. hardcover
1895111026282NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY 1895. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Clean pages with general mild cover soil and some small stains. Secure binding with nice pages. Beautifully illustrated. 11 x 9-1/4 with 78 pages. Rare!. FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY Hardcover
180456357Philadelphia: J. Conrad. Good. 1804. Hardcover. Contemporary full leather with morocco spine label. Foldout frontis and three other foldout plates two are maps. Three of the plates are linen mounted with small part of the margins cut away. Xxviii 446pp. Scattered foxing some stains and damping. PO name at rear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . J. Conrad hardcover
1804C000016195London: J. Johnson 1804. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition in English 1804. 8vo rebound in late 19th century half leather and marbled boards brown leather black spine label flat spine 503 1 pp. including errata two folding maps and two plates. Leather a little rubbed and discolored modern bookplate on pastedown possibly lacking first blank or half title as it begins with the title page contents nice and bright as are the folding plates and maps. J. Johnson hardcover
183588767Boston: Charles Gaylord 1835. Early US Edition. Twelvemo. 17cm. Publisher's original linen spine lacking paper title label over decorated publisher's paper covered boards. 216pp. Strong and solid scuffed to the corners with the paper worn allowing the board to show through rubbed and a little battered in places with some light cosmetic fraying to the spine ends and a general unform wear that is oddly not unappealinig; internally foxed in a pale similarly uniform fashion with some truly eccentric oak gall ink inscriptions to the preliminary blanks stating that the book was part of the library of the Transylvania Whig Society of Kentucky and presented by a visiting Englishman the inscriptions seem to serve as a kind of lending record denoting that the book was especially approved of by Kathleen O'Pinkerly who seems to have borrowed it twice; the page block is worn and a little stained but solid and eminently handleable and the rear flyleaf blank is covered with small neat pencil annotations with a corner of the blank torn away. Cosmetically unappealing perhaps but aesthetically rather charming and undeniably a survivor. A very good copy by dint of completeness eccentricity and stubbornness.<br /> <br /> An early US reprint the US first was issued in New York in 1828 by Dixon and Sickles and it is likely there is a Gaylord edition from 1833 with all US imprints being pretty thin on the ground especially with illustrated publisher's boards. This is in addition an uncredited Jefferson-Barlow translation translated with the approval and co-operation of the author by none other than Thomas Jefferson who managed the first 20 chapters or so before distracting himself with political fripperies whereupon it was subsequently completed by Joel Barlow. Of the various translations the Jefferson-Barlow is considered superior by dint of Volney's close relationship with Jefferson their common views and sympathies and frankly the fact that it renders the whole piece rather more poetically than might be found elsewhere. <br /> <br /> Controversial and madly popular it's far more a work of radical philosophy than anything else; like Jefferson Volney was a committed Deist and a firm believer in the separation of church and state for reasons clearly expressed by him through Jefferson in this work. Even more radically for the time he was a propogator of the "Christ Myth" which suggested that there was little or no evidence for the actual existence of Christ as a historical personage and that He was far more likely to be an inspiring assemblage. As might be expected such views were polarizing engendering either inspired revolutionary support or cries of heresy and treason depending upon the reader. The upshot of this and a number of other controversies was that Volney in common with the Founding Fathers not being a man known for keeping his mouth shut was ejected from the United States on more or less invented charges of espionage and his philosophical musings on the ashes of Empires and the sad destiny of mankind somewhat discredited. This had little effect upon the historical importance of Volney's "Ruins" however and it was for example widely embraced by the Romantics and their followers with Shelley having a virtual addiction to its evocative embracing of decay and his wife Mary for reasons of her own making it the text from which Frankentein's monster learned what he could about the nature of mankind and developed a rather stereotypically male interest in the Roman Empire. An unusual edition of an influential and incendiary work. Charles Gaylord unknown
180454891London: J. Johnson. Good. 1804. First Edition. Hardcover. First English edition. Contemporary full leather morocco label. Old library bookplate from Rensselaer-Ville Federal Library. PO name of Dr. Platt Wickes dated 1839. Wickes was a medical doctor who apparently at his death was one of the oldest practicing physicians in NY. Two foldout maps and two foldout plates; one of the foldout plates is half in facsimile. The foldout maps have some tears. In protective slipcase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxiv 4503 pages . J. Johnson hardcover
1804lib000185J. Johnson 1804. Hardcover. Very Good. nicely rebound fold-outs pages and fold outs are all very good J. Johnson hardcover
1807029967Paris: Chez Courcier 1807. Octavo. Fourth edition. In two volumes: Vol. I x 487 pages 1 p. advertisement and Vol. II 492 pages half-titles present in both volumes printed on laid paper with each map and image on very thick paper to enhance the preservation. The French academic philosophers of the late 18th century found that with advances in mathematics geodesy and field mapping previous works were limited for serious work. Comte de Volney 1757-1820 was a French orientalist whose study was impressive though he himself was not considered at the time a geographer. However modern geographers realize his work was closer to modern methods than his contemporaries see Anne Godlewska on Modern French Discipline of Geography p. 192-193. Originally published in 1787 this set produces not only the images of The Spinx the Pyramids of Giza Balbek and the Ruins of Palmyre but also the maps of Syria Egypt and of North Africa and the folding plan of the Temple of Balbet. Bound 1/4 red leather over red paper covered boards spine lettered and decorated in gilt all edges marbled with matching endpapers boards rubbed light wear to corners. A very good set. Chez Courcier unknown
180440723Weimar Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs 1804. Unbound but stitched. VIII283 pp. and one folded engraved map "Charte vonn Nord-America zur Erläuterung des Systems der Winde und Strömungen. Weimar 1804" <br/><br/><em>Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen.hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel 8. Bd.: 2. Theil. Having the general titlepage this with a stamp.- Sabin: 100690. </em> unknown
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. <br> 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. <br> Engraved armorial book plates of William Fullerton Lindsay Carnegie. Carnegie 1788-1860 lived at Kinblethmont House Inverkeilor Angus Scotland. <br> 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
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
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
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
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
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.<br/> <br/> Bossange Freres unknown
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
