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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.
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
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
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.
1950mon0003239638Truth Seeker Company 1950T. hardcover. Good. . No jacket but minimal wear to the cover. Pages are tanning. Truth Seeker Company 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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
1952018730Phoenix: The Office Of L. Ron Hubbard 1952. First Edition . Green Wrappers. Near Fine. With Printed Greeting " Good Hunting! L. Ron Hubbard" On First Page. An Early Publication Showing Only Five Other Books Then Available: Dianetics What To Audit A Key To The Unconscious Handbook For Preclears Advanced Procedure And Axioms And Unspecified Courses Booklets Other Texts All Available From "The Office Of L. Ron Hubbard 1405 N. Central Ave. Phoenix Arizona." With Definitions Of Scientology And Dianetics On Rear Cover. Provenance Available From The Estate Of A. E. Van Vogt A Prominent Science Fiction Writer Who Was The Head Of This Organization And Who After Its Dissolution Founded A Separate Dianetics Organization And Remained A Life-Long Friend Of Lrh. Previous Ownership Signature Of Early Dianeticist And Scientologist W B Mckeen Dated 12/16/1952 And Van Vogt's Printed Note "E-Meter Diagram" On Front Cover. With A Loose Single Sheet 8 1/2" X 11" "Notes On Technique 100 By L. Ron Hubbard And Volney G. Mathison" With Mckeen's Handwritten Note "Issued With Archlight For 7/15/52"; This Discusses How To Use The Six "Acts" Of The 100% Honesty Technique For Experienced Or Completelyonexperienced Dianeticists And Auditors. <br/> <br/> The Office Of L. Ron Hubbard unknown
012481London: Published for James Watson by Frederick Farrah. Later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Mid-to later 19thC edition likely 1850-1870s. 8vo blind-stamped green ribbed cloth gilt spine titles yellow matte endpapers vi 202 32 8 frontispiece two foldouts. Modest loss spine foot corners gently worn solid binding. Of the many editions of this important work first published in France in 1791 and partly translated by Thomas Jefferson OCLC lists only 1 copy with Frederick Farrah as printer and dates it 1900. This copy is undated but the binding suggests a binding typical of much earlier plus there is an owner name dated Shanghai February 22 '76 which by period script and century could only refer to 1876. HISTORY OF IDEAS DEMOCRACY FRENCH REVOLUTION LAW GOVERNMENT SOCIAL CONTRACT. Published for James Watson by Frederick Farrah hardcover books
2010Paris Firmin Didot Frères, Fils et Cie, Libraires 1864 grand in 8 1 volume reliure demi veau clair, dos a nerfs, pièce de titre, tranches peignées; portrait gravé en frontispice, 778 pages et 11 planches hors-texte gravées sur acier dont cartes et vue dépliante des ruines de Palmyre. Bel exemplaire, bien relié ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
1826100741826 demi-reliure havane clair (half binding) grand in-octavo, dos 4 nerfs (spine with raised bands) - roulettes sur les nerfs (fillets on the raised bands) - entre-nerfs à fleuron mates (matt floweret) et entre-nerfs à fers spéciaux (specials blocking stamps) - titre frappé or (gilt title), papier marbré aux plats (cover with marbled paper), tranches peignées (painting edges), illustrations : frontispice (frontispiece portrait) 2 planches repliées (folding plates) in-fine (at rear), XLIX+423 pages, 1826 à Paris Parmentier Libraire - Froment Libraire,
19601P., Firmin Didot, 1864, fort volume grand in 8° relié demi-chagrin marron à coins, dos à faux nerfs, 778 pages ; texte sur deux colonnes ; quelques petits frottis dusage.
179298811792 demi-basane, dos lisse, plats papier vieux rose à c. (forte mouillure à qq. ff.). in-8, XVI-392pp., 3 planches dont deux depl., P. Desenne Janvier 1792,
025482Paris, Desenne, Volland, Plassan, janvier 1792 0 Un volume in-8°, [2] ff. (feuillet blanc, frontispice) XVI pp. 392 pp. Reliure en plein veau marbré, dos lisse orné d'une pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, caissons ornés, fers dorés, filet sur les coupes, tranches marbrées (reliure de l'époque). (volume un peu frotté, manque à la coiffe de tête, charnière faible sur 4cm au bas du second plat, petites galeries de ver sur le même plat, rousseurs parfois soutenues, présence de quelques tâches brunes sur une quinzaine de feuillet). Bien complet du frontispice gravé par MARTINI et des deux planches dépliantes (une carte hémisphérique et une carte astrologique). Édition parue peu après l'originale (qui sortit en août 1791). Tampon répété sur le titre.
2007Alibris.0032615Costa Mesa California: Cycle News. 2007. Trade paperback. Very good. 241 p. Includes illustrations. Cycle News paperback
M7371Firmin Didot Frères Fils et Cie Paris 1860. First edition. In-4 frontispiece 778 pages. Contempoary half-leather some worm holes along the spine and on inner hinges text itself in fine condition. A good copy. Language: French/Français. This book ships from Europe shipping costs will be updated accordingly BPF. Relevant subjects: Egypt: Travelers & Egyptologists. unknown
M7236bComplete set of 2 volumes. Bossange Frères Paris 1822. Cinquième edition. In-8 Vol. I: viii & 456 pages. Vol. II: 455 pages. With 2 geographical maps and two engraved plates depicting the ruins of the Sun Temple at Balbek and those of the town of Palmyra in the Syrian desert. Some worm damage on the boards and first pages of volume I and tiny worm holes throughout the two volumes. Ink note on top of first two pages of volume I and a decorative Arabic stamp. A good set. From the library of Egyptologist Charles Cornell Van Siclen III VSX. Language: French/Français. This set ships from the USA shipping costs will be updated accordingly TXR. Relevant subjects: Egypt: Travelers & Egyptologists. unknown