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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
178717572Paris: Chez Desenne & Chez Volland. Very Good. 1787. Seconde Edition Revue et Corrogee. Hardcover. The second edition reviewed & corrected published in 1787 the same year as the first edition Two volumes bound with vellum spines over decorative boards with 4 spine bands & black lettering. Marbled endpapers. Deckle page edges. xvi I383pp viii 458pp 4 llustrated with 2 fold-out maps and 3 fold-out plates 2 engravings & 1 plan. Hinges and text are tight clean & intact. The book chronicles the cultures history and languages of the areas Volney visited. Armorial bookplate of W. Arthur Jeffery: motto "supra spem spero". French text. Middle East Syria Egypt. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 821 pages . Chez Desenne & Chez Volland hardcover
1788110521788 Paris, chez Volland, Desenne, 1788; 2 volumes in-8°, demi-basane marbrée à très petits coins de velin, dos lisse orné de fers à la tulipe et petites palettes dorées, titre et tomaison doré sur 2 étiquettes rouges, tranches mouchetées, plats de papier imitant la basane du dos; 383pp.; 458 -(3)pp. 2 cartes dépliantes (Egypte et Syrie), 3 planches dépliantes hors texte, déchirure sans manque au plan du Temple du soleil de Balbeck. Edition originale.
17923624jJ. Johnson 1792. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. With the original boards. Complete with frontis and 2 fold-outs. The front and back hinges have been reinforced. The boards are rubbed and worn but remain strong and sturdy. Internally there is light tanning and scattered foxing throughout but there are no other markings or inscriptions and the text is neat and clear. The binding is sound. In very good condition indeed considering its age! JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. J. Johnson hardcover
17872657Reliure demi-basane mouchetée à petits coins. Dos à nerfs avec pièce de titre rouge et pièce de tomaison verte. Coiffes courtes. Coins frottés. Trois tranches rouges. Intérieur propre. Les ouvrages sont enrichis de deux cartes dépliantes et trois planches gravées dépliantes, représentant les Ruines du Temple du Soleil à Balbek, un plan du Temple, celles de la ville de Palmyre, toutes en très bel état.Seconde édition revue et corrigée.
200282Paris Parmantier, libraire, rue Dauphine. 1825-1826 XLIXp+423p (toma I)+436p+447p+478p+495p+400p+448p 8 tomes en 8 volumes IN8. Reliure d'époque en demi veau noir. Dos titrés estampés à froid Ouvrage orné de 3 planches dépliantes (tome I) 1 crte et deux gravures dépliantes (tome II) 4 p.d (tome III) 2planches dépliantes (tome IV)2 p.d (tome V) 2 tableaux
17872649A PARIS. VOLLAND, LIBRAIRE. DESENNE, LIBRAIRE. 1787 2 VOLUMES IN-8 (13,5 X 20 X 6,5 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE 14 + (2) + 383 ET 6 + (2) + 458 + (3) PAGES, RELIURE D'EPOQUE PLEIN VEAU HAVANE, DOS A CINQ NERFS ORNE DE CAISSONS A FLEURONS DORES, TITRE DORE SUR ETIQUETTE MAROQUIN VERT, FILET DORE SUR COUPES, TRANCHES MOUCHETEES ROUGES. ILLUSTRE DE DEUX CARTES, UN PLAN ET 2 VUES REPLIES HORS TEXTE. EDITION ORIGINALE (CHADENAT. 720). PETITS DEFAUTS EXTERIEURS SANS AUCUNE GRAVITE, SINON BEL EXEMPLAIRE.
1789BOOKS025445IParis: Volland & Desenne. Very good set in contemporary leather. 1789-90. early ed. leather. 8vo 383 458 pp. Volume 1 has two folding engraved maps; volume 2 has three folding engraved plates both as called for Light edge and corner wear hinges generally tight; all edges stained red; maps and plates clean and bright; former owner's name on both title pages; bound in full brown calf with five raised bands and contrasting title and volume number labels . Volland & Desenne hardcover
1788121627London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson 1788. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2 vols.: xii 418; iv 500 15 p. 22 cm. 5 engraved fold-out plates including 2 maps. 1. Full tree-calf leather. Corners lightly bumped. Vol. 2. Small dent on bottom of rear board in vol. 1 as well as a bit of soiling to lower edge of text block. Vol. 2 has large horizontal tear in p. 327 chip in third plate and dampstains to front pastedown and inner margins of first pages. Paper bright and clean. <br/><br/>Title continues: "Containing The present Natural and Political State of those Countries their Productions Arts Manufactures and Commerce; with Observations on the Manners Customs and Government of the Turks and Arabs." Volney 1757-1820 was a well-travelled learned man. He embarked on a journey to the Near East in late 1782 and spent nearly seven months in Ottoman Egypt. Afterwards he lived for nearly two years in Greater Syria in what is today Lebanon and Israel in order to learn Arabic. He returned to France in 1785 where he spent the following two years compiling his notes and writing these volumes. He continued to travel in later years being expelled from the U.S.A. as a suspected spy in 1797. It seems his life was always an adventure for he narrowly escaped the guillotine during the French Revolution. Of interest in these well-preserved volumes is the account given of the Arabic press at the convent of Marhanna vol. 2 pp. 190-191 with a catalogue of books printed there p. 196. On the macabre side is the extensive discussion of diseases prevalent in Egypt including smallpox blindness cutaneous eruptions plague and Neapolitan Disease which seems to be syphilis vol. 1 pp. 240-258. Indexed. G.G.J. and J. Robinson hardcover
1853London: printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson Pater-Noster-Row 1788. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Two volumes. I:iv xii 418pp.; II: iv iv 500 xvpp. Second English edition. I: 2 A6 B8-Z8 Aa8-Dd8 Ee2; II: 4 B8-Z8 Aa8-Ii8 Kk2 Ll8. With half-titless to both volumes present. Contemporary calf rehinged at an earlier date. Some scuffing and wear to covers hinges still tender. With two folding maps of Syria and Egypt and two plates of buildings in the two countries plus a folding plan. ESTC T12218. <br/> <br/> London: printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row, 1788 hardcover
179241541London: Printed for J. Johnson 1792. First English Language edition. Later patterned cloth with morocco spine label. Split along top half of front joint chips to head and heel of spine occasional foxing still very good. xv 400 pp. Illus. with 1 frontispiece & 2 folded maps after the French edition engr. by T. Conder. 8vo. Translated from the French of "Les ruines ou Méditation sur les révolutions des empires" by Thomas Conder.<br /> <br /> Volney's work which was first published in 1791 argued by analyzing the arc of ancient civilizations that the primacy of equality before the law was necessary to prevent the deterioration of religious and political institutions into tyranny.The work had a profound influence on Thomas Jefferson who translated it beginning in 1796 when Volney visited him at Monticello. A new translation of the work had just been published and both Jefferson and Volney were not happy with it nor this earlier first edition in English. The project went on hold once Jefferson became president and was not published until 1802 in France and 1828 in America. Printed for J. Johnson hardcover
70669Quatrieme édition. Paris Chez Courcier 1807. 6 X 487 1; 4 492 pp. 3 folding engraved maps. 1 folding engraved plan and 4 folding engraved plates. Contemporary three calf gilt spine green leather labels. Binding a little rubbed. . <br/><br/><em> </em> hardcover
42564A Paris. chez Courcier Imprimeur-Libraire quai des Augustins no. 71; Chez Dentu Imprimeur-Libraire Palais du Tribunat Galleries-de-Bois no. 240 An XII. 1803. 8vo. 19.8cm The First Edition 2 volumes in One 8xvi300 & 4 301-532pp. paginated continuously with 2 folded engraved plates & 2 folded maps in contemporary quarter calf marbled boards gilt titles and panel borders marbled endpapers. "Vocabulaire de la Langue des Miamis" on pp. 525-532. fine condition. cgc. T.P.L. 723. Gagnon I-3676. Clark II-69. Howes V-141. Not in Lande. Sabin 100692 mentions that there were two issues of this edition: our copy includes the "Vocabulaire" in the continuous pagination" in the other issue the "Vocabulaire" is paged separately. Constantin Francois de Chasseboeuf comte de Volney was a philosopher historian and politician. A member of the noble Boisgirais family of Anjou France he travelled extensively and wrote about his observations of the people and lands he visited. He spent time in Egypt Lebanon and Palestine "Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie " J 787 and later in Turkey and Russia "Considerations sur la guerre des T urcs et de la Russie " I 788. After the French Revolution he participated in the Estates-G‚n‚ral and Assembl‚e constituante. He later journeyed to the United States where he stayed for three years and came to know Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson translated twenty of twenty-four chapters of Volney's "Les Ruines" "Ruins of Empires " I802. Volney's "Tableau du climat" is his analysis of American politics and laws as well as the physical and cultural geography of the people he studied during his visit. "This work includes a description of the Niagara frontier and a review of French-Canadian enterprise on the Ohio and Mississippi. The author toured the United States 1795-1798 but did not apparently travel in Canada". TPL. Worldcat cites only Queen's Un Library Kingston. A Paris. chez Courcier, Imprimeur-Libraire, quai des Augustins, no. 71; Chez Dentu, Imprimeur-Libraire, Palais du Tribunat, Gall 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
17870051331787 Paris, Desenne, Volland, 1787. Deux volumes in-8 (198 X 130 mm) veau fauve moucheté, encadrement de filet noir sur les plats, dos lisse cloisonné et orné de filets et fers dorés, pièces de titre et de tomaison maroquin rouge et vert, tranches marbrées (Reliure de l'époque). Tome I : XVI-383 pages - Tome II : VIII-458 pages, (2) ff. d'approbation et privilège, 5 planches dépliantes.
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
72352London T. Davison 1826. 8vo 21.0 x 13.4 cm. xii 459 pp.; engraved frontispiece portrait of the author; ten tables several folding one engraved folding map of the Arabian Peninsula and one folding plate of a plan of Babylon. Later half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands compartments with gilt lines and floral vignettes. Black morocco label with gilt title. = Virtually unknown edition of an interesting work in relation to the growth of scientific and historical knowledge by the French philosopher orientalist and historian Constantin François de Chassebuf Comte de Volney 1757-1820 first published in French in 1808 as Recherches nouvelles sur l'histoire ancienne. A first English edition was published in 1819 by Simpkin Marshall in London; this edition however is not dated and is widely different. Its publication is announced in Cobbett's Political Register volume 586 on 6 May 1826. Thomas Davison was a printer of radical works between 1819-1830 and served two years in prison for blasphemous libel. The work deals with various philosophers mythology culture etc. but mainly with Middle Eastern people and persons in particular those of historical importance for instance Moses Herodotus Flavius Josephus etc. Former owners autograph on front flyleaf otherwise a very good clean copy in a nice contemporary-style binding. Apart from the above publication announcement and one doubtful listing in OCLC with an 1830 date we found no records of this edition. hardcover
178713015Paris, Desenne et Vollard, 1787. 2 volumes in-8 de XVI-383 et VIII-458-[4] pages, demi-veau brun à coins, dos lisses ornés de filets dorés, pièces de titre et tomaison beige et noire, coins frottés, pâle auréole d'humidité à la fin du second volume. Tampon de propriété: "Fs. Sautter, Pasteur, Ch.[evali]er de la légion d'honneur".
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
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
1787585531 vol. in-8 reliure début XIXe demi-basane verte, Chez Volland, Desenne, Paris, 1787, Tome I : 14 pp., 1 f. (errata et avis au relieur), 383 pp. avec 2 cartes dépliantes ; Tome II : 6 pp., 1 f. (errata), 458 pp. et 2 ff. n. ch. (approbation) avec 3 planches hors texte (dont deux dépliantes)
49021Paris.Volland.Desenne.1787.E.O.2 vols.in-8 en reliure d'époque.383 et 458 p.Tome I: 2 cartes dépliantes. Tome II: 2 planches dépliantes. Parfait état.Veau raciné avec dos ornés de chardons et ornements dorés.Pièces de titre et de tomaison.Ex-libris.
Paris, Bossange Frères, 1821. 8 volumes in-8° ; demi-veau marron, dos à nerfs plats orné de fleurons à froid et de roulettes et filets dorés, tranches marbrées (reliure époque). T 1 : portrait-frontispice et 3 planches, dont 2 dépliantes. T II : 2 cartes repliées et 2 planches dépliantes. T III : 2 cartes repliées et 3 planches dépliantes. T IV : 1 carte repliée et 1 planche dépliante. T. V : 3 tableaux dépliants h.t. Et 1 planche dépliante. T. VI : 2 cartes repliées (Ajaccio et la Corse) et 1 planche dépliante. T. VII : néant. T. VIII : 17 tableaux hors-texte dont certains dépliants. Vicaire. VII. 1129. Coins frottés au tome VIII mais BEL EXEMPLAIRE, absolument sans rousseurs (papier vélin ?).
