VOLNEY, C. F. ; [ VOLNEY, Constantin François Chasseboeuf de La Giraudais (1757-1820) ]Livre Rare Book
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55859Deuxième édition complète, 2 vol. in-8 reliure demi-chagrin brun, dos à 5 nerfs dorés, Tomes 2 et 3 des "Oeuvres complètes de Volney", Parmantier, Libraire, Froment, Libraire, Paris, 1825, 2 ff., 447 pp. avec 2 planches dépliantes et 2 cartes dépliantes ; 2 ff., 436 pp. avec 2 planches dépliantes et 1 carte dépliante
52101Volland.Desenne.1789.2 vols.in-8 reliés.Complets des 2 cartes et 2 planches.383 et 458 p.Reliures en basane avec pièces de titre et tomaison à restaurer.Coins usagés,coiffes manquantes.Intérieurs parfois roussis ou avec piqûres.
179287826London: for J. Johnson 1792. First edition in English. Hardcover. Engraved frontispiece. 1792 First edition in English. 8vo. Later calf backed marbled boards lettered in gilt. A landmark Enlightenment meditation on the cyclical rise and collapse of civilisations arguing that empires fall through superstition political corruption and the misuse of religious authority rather than divine design. Through a pioneering comparative analysis of ancient religions Volney treats Christianity as one mythic system among many anticipating the Christ Myth thesis and establishing the work as a foundational text of modern secular history and comparative religion. Minor foxing slight offsetting from frontispiece. No jacket for J. Johnson hardcover
M7236aComplete set of 2 volumes in the first edition. Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson Pater-Noster-Row London 1787. In-8 418 & 500 pages. Contemporary full leather rubbed a tape repair on the title page of volume I reinforcing leather strip on front inside hinge of both volumes occasional moderate foxing traces of an erased stamp on the last page of vol. II otherwise 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
M7236Complete set of 2 volumes. Chez Volland & Desenne Paris 1787. Second edition revised and corrected. In-8 Vol. I: xvi & 383 pages. Vol. II: viii & 458 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. Full calf with 5 raised bands with leather labels a fine set. From the library of Egyptologist Andrew H. Gordon. Language: French/Français. This set ships from the USA shipping costs will be updated accordingly TXR. Relevant subjects: Egypt: Travelers & Egyptologists. unknown
1804lib000185J. Johnson 1804. Hardcover. Very Good. nicely rebound fold-outs pages and fold outs are all very good J. Johnson hardcover
1795906Paris De l'Imprimerie de la République An III (1795) In-8 - 21,5X13,5cm. Broché. 2ff, 136pp, 2ff.
1822455221822 Paris. Bossange frères. 1822. 1 volume in-8, plein veau marbré, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre noire.(2) ff. ; XX pp. ; 494 pp. ; 2 cartes dépliantes.
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
18919S.l., s.n. 1788 [suivi de:] La Haye, Pierre Gosse, 1788 [suivi de:] Londres, s.n., 1788. In-12, V-88-84 pp. + [4]-VII-131 pp. + [2]-140 pp. 1 pl., demi-basane havane, dos à nerfs orné de filets dorés, pièces de titre rouge, tranches mouchetées (reliure défraîchie, rousseurs).
18304107Pisa, Tipographia Nistri, 1830 ; in-8 ; plein maroquin bordeaux à grain long, dos lisse à faux-nerfs décoratifs dorés et à froid, titre doré, roulette décorative dorée d’encadrement des plats avec à l’intérieur roulette décorative à froid et cinq décors à froid de fleur dans un double cercle disposés en écoinçons et au centre, roulette décorative dorée et à froid sur les coupes, tranches mouchetées (reliure de l’époque) ; XV, 144 pp.
1792180257A Paris Chez Desenne, Volland, Plassan. 1792 XVI p+391p 1 volume IN8. Reliure d'époque en plein veau blond. Dos lisse orné avec pièce de titre. Plats ornés d'un filet doré. Ouvrage orné de 2 planches dépliantes et d'un frontispice. Seconde édition.
ORD-16259De l'Imprimerie de Didot Jeune. paris. Sallior. 1793, L'an deuxième de la République. In-16 (72 x 114mm) plein veau raciné, dos lisse entirement orné, pièce de titre maroquin rouge, filet et guirlande sur les plats, gardes et tranches marbrées, 107 pages. Mors du 1er plat fendu sur 1 cm près de la coiffe supérieure, page de titre renforcée dans sa partie inférieure et un peu salie, sans manque, assez bon état de cet ouvrage fragile. Edition originale, rare.
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
1787620600London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson 1787. Hardcover. Very Good. First English-language edition translated from the French. Volume II only of two. Octavo. iii ii-iv 1 2-500 16 index and errata pp. Illustrated with three fold-out engravings as called for: ruins of Palmyra in Syria following the table of contents "Plan of the Temple of the Sun at Balbec" between pages 232-3 and "View of the Square Court of the Temple of the Sun at Balbec" between pages 235-6. Later half polished leather and marbled papercovered boards spine in six compartments red and brown leather spine labels gilt page edges sprinkled. Owner name "James Robb New York 1863" on front fly. Binding rubbed and edgeworn text with occasional toning foxing and corner creases plates somewhat foxed with a bit of creasing and one small stain and one small marginal chip two instances of small relatively amateur paper repair in the margins title page and a leaf of the index index somewhat tanned and foxed a sound very good copy of the second volume of this highly respected 18th Century travelogue. Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson hardcover
179714112Paris: Libraires Associes 1797. Hardcover. Very Good-. Meditations on the Revolutions of Empires". Written on the eve of the French Revolution and published during it. This 12mo version could be an early printing of the 3rd edition but I rather think it is a later printing of the 2nd. Vg- in half leather with marbled boards; has about an inch and a half of worm damage on one side of the spine of vol. 2. All corners are worn. Tops are dust-darkened but the text is as clean as you could wish as are the frontispiece and 2 folding maps in vol. 1. 246 272 pp. <br/> <br/> Libraires Associes hardcover
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
