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180157475Philadelphia: printed for John Conrad & Co. No. 30 Chestnut-street M. & J. Conrad & Co. no. 140 Market-street Baltimore; and Rapine Conrad & Co. Washington City. J. Bioren printer 1801. Ostensibly the first American edition see below; 16mo pp. xvi 186 2 ads; contemporary full sheep red morocco label on spine; upper joint cracked extremities rubbed; a good sound copy. Volney 1757-1820 the French savant undertook a journey to the United States in 1795 where he was accused in 1797 of being a French spy "sent to prepare for the reoccupation of Louisiana by France. He was obliged to return to France in 1798. The results of his travels took form in his Tableau du Climat et du Sol des Etats-Unis 1803" EB-11. Page 186 contains a note from the translator. Both Jefferson and Barlow had translated Volney's Les Ruines ou méditations sur les révolutions des empires published in 1802 in Paris but there's no evidence they had any part in this translation. The translator remains unknown. Evans 29822 records a 1795 edition under a slightly different title no copies located in Evans and of which no copy in OCLC either; this may be a ghost. American Imprints 1592. <br/><br/> printed for John Conrad & Co. No. 30, Chestnut-street, M. & J. Conrad & Co., no. 140, Market-street, Baltimore; and Rapine, Conr unknown books
180157475Philadelphia: printed for John Conrad & Co. No. 30 Chestnut-street M. & J. Conrad & Co. no. 140 Market-street Baltimore; and Rapine Conrad & Co. Washington City. J. Bioren printer 1801. Ostensibly the first American edition see below; 16mo pp. xvi 186 2 ads; contemporary full sheep red morocco label on spine; upper joint cracked extremities rubbed; a good sound copy. Volney 1757-1820 the French savant undertook a journey to the United States in 1795 where he was accused in 1797 of being a French spy "sent to prepare for the reoccupation of Louisiana by France. He was obliged to return to France in 1798. The results of his travels took form in his Tableau du Climat et du Sol des Etats-Unis 1803" EB-11. Page 186 contains a note from the translator. Both Jefferson and Barlow had translated Volney's Les Ruines ou méditations sur les révolutions des empires published in 1802 in Paris but there's no evidence they had any part in this translation. The translator remains unknown. Evans 29822 records a 1795 edition under a slightly different title no copies located in Evans and of which no copy in OCLC either; this may be a ghost. American Imprints 1592. printed for John Conrad & Co. No. 30, Chestnut-street, M. & J. Conrad & Co., no. 140, Market-street, Baltimore; and Rapine, Conr unknown
181764348Cinquième édition, soigneusement corrigée par l'Auteur ; on y a joint La Loi Naturelle, 1 vol. in-8 reliure de l'époque pleine basane marbrée, dos lisse, roulette d'encadrement en plats, Mme Vve Courcier, Paris, 1817, viii-367 pp. avec frontispice et 2 planches dépliantes
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
181927406Paris Firmin-Didot, Imprimeur Du Roi 1819 In-8 V tableaux dépliants, 223 pp , petite trace d'humidité en fin de volume sans gravité , bon état de fraicheur de l'impression et du papier
182114241Paris Bossange Frères 1821 In-8 XLIX+438+VIII+456+455+XII+513+457+407+XX+494+XIX+510 pp, série complétée par un volume d'une autre édition ( tome VIII) : Parmantier, Froment, Paris, 1826, 1/2 basane. Planches dépliantes en fin de chaque volume, sauf le VIII, un frontispice ; dos ornés de quintuples filets dorés et roulettes, dentelles d'encadrement sur les plats et roulettes intérieures et sur coupes. Epidermures et galeries de vers, faibles rousseurs éparses.
1796k5947London: J. Johnson printed for. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Modern rebind with new endpapers. 1796. Third Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover on marbled boards. 220mm x 150mm 9" x 6". xvi 395pp. Engraved frontis plate; two folding rear plates depicting a view of the Astrological Heaven of the Ancients and a folding map of the world. A handsome copy. Translated from the French. A French linguist historian politician and philosopher Constantin François Chasseboeuf Comte de Volney was the author of 'Les Ruines; Ou Méditations sur les Révolutions des Empires'. The work enshrined the ideas and values of the French Enlightenment. A meditation begun at the ruins of Palmyra on the natural causes of the rise and fall of great cities and nations. . J. Johnson [printed for] 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
18147173Paris: Madame veuve Courcier 1814. First edition. Full Calf. Very Good. 3 vols. 4x2902;63133;vi350pp. With a hand colored copper engraved folding map of ancient Chaldea a copper engraved plate and 12 folding letterpress tables. Cont. diced calf a bit soiled gilt decorated spines rubbed hinges rubbed & with hairline cracks but holding nicely. A few neat marginal and interlinear notes in the early part of Vol. I. Madame veuve Courcier unknown books
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
1950mon0003239638Truth Seeker Company 1950T. hardcover. Good. . No jacket but minimal wear to the cover. Pages are tanning. Truth Seeker Company hardcover
40200Paris.Seconde édition.Janvier 1792.In-8 relié.392 p.1 frontispice gravé par Martin.2 pl.dépliantes. BE.Jolie reliure d'époque avec motifs à la grecque.Mouillure légère en fin d'ouvrage sur les pages de garde.
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
179915890Philadelphia / Dublin: - / Printed for James Moore 1799. Volney: 2nd US Evans 33141. Foster: 1st edition cf. Goldsmith 17557. 19th C. brown sand-grain cloth with spine lettered in gilt: "Volney's Law of Nature - 1797". VG expected browning to text/Volney leaves G3 & G4 have brown spot inner upper rt quadrant/'Paul Elder & Co' bookseller label on rear paste-down. Foster probably lacking F4 presumed a blank. NB. A duplicate gathering 'C' bound in Volney. v 6 - 24 17 - 56; 46 pp. Volney: 8vo bound in 4s. A - C4 C4 D-G4. Foster: 8vo bound in 4s. A - E4 F3. <br/><br/>Volney a respected French philosopher & historian was in the United States from 1795 - 1798 and though he was well received by Washington he alienated Adams & was ultimately forced to leave the US under accusations of espionage. The Volney a scarce 18th C US imprint- OCLC records no copies in the US and Evans notes solely the AAS copy. - / Printed for James Moore hardcover books
182648921826 Paris, Baudouin Frères, Editeurs, 1826, 1827, Edition Originale, De l'Imprimerie de Honoré de Balzac,"Au milieu des années 1820, Balzac renonce à la littérature commerciale mais ne parvient pas à vivre de sa plume et se lance dans les affaires. Devenu homme du livre, il sera, successivement éditeur, puis imprimeur, et enfin fondeur de caractères typographiques. Son activité périclite, ruiné, l'homme de lettres retrouve l'écriture."5 Tomes en 2 Volumes reliés, 105 x 70 mm. Reliure demi cuir, dos à 4 nerfs, Tome I, Frontispice, Les Ruines ou Méditation sur les Révolutions des Empires, précédé d'une Notice sur l'Auteur par le comte Daru, 133 pp.Tome II, Les Ruines, 126 pp. Tome III, Les Ruines, 124 pp. 2 Planches dépliantes,Tome IV, La Loi naturelle ou Principes physiques de la Morale, Histoire de Samuel, 126 pp.Tome IV, Histoire de Samuel, II, Inventeur du Sacre des Rois, 133 pp.Tome V, Leçons d'Histoire prononcées à l'Ecole Normale, 198 pp.
18212696Paris Bossange Frères 1821 8 volumes in-8 demi veau glacé brun, dos à nerfs ornés de voiliers au noir et d'entrelacs dorés, dentelle en queue, pièces de titre et de tomaison en maroquin noir, frontispice, 438 pp. et 2 pl.; viii, 456 pp. et 3 pl.; 455pp. et 5 pl.; xii, 511 pp. et 3 pl.; 457pp. et 5 tableaux hors-texte; xii, 407 pp. et 5 pl.; xx, 494 pp. et 2 pl.; xviii, 537 pp. 2 pl. et 14 tab. h-t., soit au total 42 gravures (cartes dépliantes, plans dépliants, planches alphabétiques, tableaux, ...). Vicaire indique 38 hors-texte pour cette édition. 1ère édition collective. Très importantes rousseurs.
178784167Paris 1787. 1st ed. in octavo. Hardcover. Fair. 2 vols. 2 folding maps plan and 2 folding plates ix 10-14 2 383 6 2 458 4p. Mismatched bindings Vol. 1 in a modern Greek quarterbinding; Vol. 2 in worn old leather. 20cm. Circular "Hoyt Public Library" stamp at base of both title-pages. Vol. 1 Tome Premier is sound and attractive with both maps still crisp and unworn. Vol. 2 Tome Seconde is quite worn binding heavily worn; joints splitting; the folding plate of the Temple at Baalbek is split at one of the folds and has remnants of yellowed tape along that fold to repair the split; Binding is almost completely split between pages 222 and 223. French text. The half-titles were not preserved in these volumes but this set is otherwise complete. This first edition was also published in a seldom seen larger format about 26cm. quarto edition. <br/><br/> hardcover books
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
40523Weimar F. G. privil. Landes-Industrie-Contoirs 1804. 8vo. 2 VIII 1 1 blank 283 pp. fold. engr. map. Spotting throughout. Contemporary green paper boards spine faded. From the library of L. F. Rääf at Forsnäs with its book plate. Part 14 of Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten reisebeschreibungen. herausgegeben von M. C. Sprengel fortgesetz von T. F. Ehrmann. Sabin 100690. First german translation of this important book on the climatology meteorology geography history and Indians of North Amerika. The French original was published the same year as “Tableau du climatâ€. hardcover
1804009073London: C. Mercier J. Johnson. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1804. First Edition. 3/4 Leather. First edition in English also first English edition. Three-quarter black leather with gilt imprint over marbled paper boards. Rubbed and bumped corners and edges with gilt on spine bands worn. Soiling on speckled edges. Endpapers have light soil. Two plates and two folding maps as called for with some wear spots at map corners. Errata page at rear. Maps are of the North American continent and the United States at the time. The French author's account of his three years of travel in the US with an emphasis on environmental conditions of interest to prospective emigrants. He includes observations on many phenomena such as lake effects and the effects of deforestation in areas. Also included are a basic Miami vocabulary and views of Niagara Falls. Volney's time in the US was cut short by being accused of spying for the French. Howes V141. ; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; 503 pp . C. Mercier, J. Johnson hardcover books
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
41680Weimar. Weimar. im Berlage des E.G. privil Landes = Industrie = Comptoirs. 1804. 8vo 19.6cm. in 8's viii283p. rear folding map text block no binding in clam shell box fine condition thus hoL. ~ Sabin: 100690. cf. T.P.L. 724.724 listing the French editions. Howes V-141. Not in Lande. No recent auction records the last being 1983; 1974; 1936. Weimar. Weimar. im Berlage des E.G. privil, Landes = Industrie = Comptoirs. 1804 unknown
18599London: Printed for Edward Edwards 53 Newgate Street 1822. Bound in quarter red leather and marbled boards and marbled end papers; A FINE COPY. Translated from the French. Frontispiece engraving still under original tissue; Fold out plate of a map of the Astrological Heavens of the Ancients. Not uncommon except in the 1822 edition a favorite of Neuberg who gifted his copy to the Leicester Library. xii 47 404 pages indexed. Octavo. London: Printed for Edward Edwards, 53, Newgate Street, 1822 hardcover
179647915Philadelphia: T Stephens 1796. First Edition. Full calf. Near fine. 161p 16mo frontispiece. Lightly foxed name on inside front panel otherwse a lovely copy bound in full calf with leather abel slight warping. A near fine copy <br/><br/> T Stephens unknown
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
