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68243s.l. 1789. 23 pages. 195x125 Cm. Dérelié. En tant que représentant de la sénéchaussée d'Anjou aux Etats-Généraux et membre de l'Assemblée Constituante Volney joua un certain rôle pendant la Révolution Française "comme défenseur résolu des libertés publiques et comme adversaire non moins résolu du clergé et en général de tous les cultes". Dans ce texte adressé aux habitants des campagnes et signé par "les Bourgeois associés pour la défense du droit du Peuple et l'instruction des Paysans" Volney conteste la hiérarchie des classes sociales et réclame notamment une refonte complète du système d'imposition avec la suppression de certaines taxes gabelle aides octrois corvées tailles et une nouvelle constitution. "Volney représente conjugués l'amour du progrès et l'attachement paysan à la terre avec une gravité constante et une sensibilité réelle mais mesurée. D'un courage entier pendant la Révolution et face à Napoléon qu'il aida d'abord il fut toujours partisan du silence philosophique devant toutes les folies individuelles ou collectives" Encyclopedia Universalis. Très rare. s.l., 1789. unknown
97310A Bourg Chez Louis Hyacinthe Goyffon s.d. c.1792. 2 feuillets blancs. Frontispice. Titre gravé. VIIJ. 242 pages. 2 planches dont une dépliante. 245x19 Cm. Demi-veau de l'époque. Dos lisse très frotté avec une partie partiellement décollée. Accidents aux coiffes. Charnières fendues. Coins très émoussés. Petites manques de papier. Accrocs et petites déchirures. Les deux planches dereliées. Taches et rousseurs éparces. Pages brunies. Rare édition de Bourg du célèbre oeuvre du philosophe Volney dans laquelle alternent souvenirs personnels philosophie et réflexions. Si le sujet général est un questionnement sur la disparition et la ruine des empires Volney débute son livre par une méditation sur l'effondrement de Palmyre l'ouvrage aborde de multiples thèmes qui lui sont liés : origines des cultes religieux symbolisme culte des astres. Volney se souvenant d'Hérodote ne fait confiance en tant qu'historien qu'aux faits et il interroge les ruines afin qu'elles lui révèlent la ruine d'un empire et d'une cité. "J'irai vivre dans la solitude parmi les ruines; j'interrogerai les monuments anciens sur la sagesse des temps passés ." llustrée de 2 planches dont une dépliante et un frontispice. Manque une planche. A Bourg, Chez Louis Hyacinthe Goyffon, s.d. (c.1792). unknown
0807136387.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1851604221851. Notiz. Geb. Nat. Heilk. 4 413415. - Anatomie und Physiologie 1.Bd. No. 4344. - Frorieps Tagsberichte. - Weimar November 1851 8° pp.321-336 2 Rückenbroschuren. First Edition of the comprehensive report partly published before! Ludwig Julius Budge 1811-1888 is known for his anatomical and physiological investigations of the autonomic nervous system discovering that sympathetic nerve stimulation brings about pupillary dilatation and that oculomotor nerve stimulus produces constriction. With neurophysiologist Augustus Volney Waller he was awarded the Prix Montyon by the French Académie des Sciences for research in identifying the segments of spinal cord that control operation of the ciliary muscles. unknown
190534915Raleigh: North Carolina 1905. 1st edition. Cloth. Very Good. 1st edition 1905. INSCRIBED by Pratt inside the front cover. A Very Good copy. 4to. 464 pp. bound in publishers burgundy cloth with titles in gilt on front cover and spine. Cloth has some spotting and wear; spine is sunned. Paper has some toning. End pages spotted. All plates present. A Very Good copy of this SCARCE title. North Carolina unknown
180436206Philadelphia: Published by J. Conrad & Co. 1804. xxviii 446 pp with the half title plus Map of North America and two plates. Lacking the second map scattered spotting. Bound in original sheep hinges starting but still firm. Good. <br /> <br /> Constantin François de Chassebœuf comte de Volney 1757-1820 French Philosophe and historian "spent three years in the United States ardently engaged in collecting facts for his work principally relating to the state and manners of the Indians and the climate" Field. <br /> FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Howes V141. BAL 1508. Field 1610. Published by J. Conrad & Co.... unknown
18250007201Paris: Parmantier Libraire / Froment Libraire 1825. New edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo; xix 478 pages small ink spot in 3 final leaves contemporary full sprinkled leather gilt rules marbled endpapers corners edgeworn spine rebacked with original spine laid down. Lacking the first map but has the rear map with some hand coloring shows the winds and currents of North America from the Gulf to American Siberia - aka Alaska including the Gulf Stream <br/><br/>Count Volney spent 3 years touring in the U.S.A. including visiting with Jefferson at Monticello Chapters on Florida Fort Vincennes Les Indiens Ou Sauvagesxxxxxxsxcv - with a short Appendix of a vocabulary of the Miamis tribe on the Wabash. Niagara Falls Gulf of Mexico climate. Sabin 100692: there were two variants of the 1825 edition of which this has no half-title and a different setting of type; see Sowerby 4230; Howes V141; Clark II:69; Field 2449; Buck ILLINOIS 49 - "an extensive account of the French settlements on the Wabash and in the Illinois country". "Contains an account of an extended interview at Philadelphia in 1798 with Little Turtle and Captain William Wells - Milo M. Quaife." Remarkably this folding map also shows a mountain range running east-west across lower Canada above the Great Lakes titled Chaine des Monts Algonkin Parmantier, Libraire / Froment Libraire 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. hardcover
1788040452G. G. J. And J. Robinson. Good with no dust jacket. 1788. Second Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover; Hardcover. Volume 1 only. Brown leather boards with title on spine in gold over red spine label. Boards are worn soiled and rubbed. Spine is rubbed and cracking ends frayed. Foredge foxing. Interior front hinge cracked. Endpaper soil. Previous owner's bookplate and notation on first paste down. Fold out maps of Egypt and Syria are in good condition. Text pages show occasional foxing. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase. ; 8VO . G. G. J. And J. Robinson hardcover
1108493106.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0275920461.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
18363598881Paris.: Librería Americana de Rosa. 1836. Hardcover. Cubierta deslucida. Good. 16 cm. 380 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura artesanal en plena piel con tejuelo. Se halla a continuación La ley natural . Cubierta deslucida. Librería Americana de Rosa. hardcover
0791450996.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1971x-0837152089Praeger Pub Text 1971. Hardcover. New. reprint edition. 340 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches. Praeger Pub Text hardcover
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4-80288Prato Giachetti 1845 8vo mezza pelle pp. 188 con illustrazioni nel testo e 6 tav. inc. in acc. f.t. pp. 70 con 2 tavole di 4 f.t. Marmocchi XVIII unknown
120374Paris Bossange Frères Libraires 1822. XXV1 blank3831 blank p. engraved portrait engraved frontispiece 1 engraved plate and 2 folding tables showing a map of Europe Africa & Asia and a celestial map with the signs of the zodiac. Half calf 13.5 cm Condition: Boards and corners somewhat scuffed. Some slight foxing Note: The French historian philosopher and orientalist Constantin François de Chassebuf de Volney 1757-1820 is one of the founding fathers of the Black Athena theory. After a trip to the Middle East in 1782 he suggested that the ancient Egyptians were originally black Africans and that the Egyptians of his time were mulats with mixed blood. 'Les anciens Égyptiens étaient de vrais Nègres de l'espèce de tous les naturels d'Afrique; et dès-lors on explique comment leur sang allié depuis plusieurs siècles à celui des Romains et des Grecs a dû perdre l'intensité de sa première couleur en conservant cependant l'empreinte de son moule originel .; de penser que cette race d'hommes noirs aujourd'hui notre esclave et l'objet de nos mépris est celle-là même à qui nous devons nos arts nos sciences et jusqu'à l'usage de la parole'. Voyage en Syrie et en Égypte pendant les années 1783 1784 & 1785 Paris 1785 p. 75/6 § In 1791 Volney published his 'Les Ruines ou méditations sur les révolutions des empires' an essay on the philosophy of history. 'L'auteur se met en scène sur les ruines de Palmyre; et là il se livre à de profondes méditations sur la destruction de tant d'empires à qui leur puissance colossale semblait promettre une éternelle durée et qui n'en ont pas moins obéi à cette loi de la nature qui veut que tout périsse. Dans ce même ouvrage Volney établit la nécessité de la tolérance religieuse reconnue aujourd'hui par tous les esprits éclairés. . Les Ruines n'en passent pas moins pour une des productions les plus remarquables de la littérature de la fin du XVIIIe siècle'. Wikipédia s.v. Volney Some of the central ideas in Les Ruines stirred the imagination of its readers. It predicted the final union of all religions by the recognition of the common truth underlying them all and stated that empires rise if government allows enlightened self-interest to flourish Photographs on request hardcover
18940800078New York: Volwalt Publishing Company. 1894. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". 7th Edition / 1st Printing. Paperback. Good. Seventh Edition / First Printing actually Fourth Revised edition with type re-set. Very good in good dust jacket. Book : slight bumping at bottom of spine. Jacket : slight spotting & over-all darking to covers. 15 x 23cm. soft cover. Approx. 100pp. B1406 Volwalt Publishing Company paperback
1019137053.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1296987639.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
18221013N40Paris: Bossange Frères 1822. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 5.5" by 3.5". Various. The eleventh edition of an intriguing work arguing against revolutions written during the Reign of Terror by French public intellectual C.F. Volney. The eleventh edition of Les Ruines ou les Méditations sur les Révolutions des Empires The Ruins or Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires also included with La Loi Naturelle The Law of Nature written by French historian philosopher and public intellectual Constantin François De Chasseboeuf Comte De. Volney. Published in 1822 two years following his death first published in 1791 and 1796 respectively. In full calf with a frontispiece of Volney one engraved plate and two folding plates to the rear. First achieving fame with his Voyage en Syrie et en Égypte Travels in Syria and Egypt his seminal work Les Ruines explored the origins of civil society and argued that revolutions were an abandonment of natural law of which he discsuses further in his treatise La Loi Naturelle adjoined to the rear. Published during Robespierre's Reign of Terror Volney fled to America. There he formed a friendship to Thomas Jefferson who later translated the work to English. In full calf. Externally mostly smart with minor rubbing to joints and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A couple of minor rubbing marks to spine and boards. Marble end papers are mostly bright and clean with minor fading. Internally firmly bound with minor wear to hinges between blank and half-title and blank and final index leaf. Pages are generally bright and clean with the odd spot to leaf extremities. Very Good Indeed Bossange Frères hardcover
3368401319.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1985SONG0275920461Bloomsbury Academic 1985-12-31. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.14x0.62x9.21. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Bloomsbury Academic hardcover
1985DADAX0275920461Bloomsbury Academic 1985-12-31. hardcover. New. 6.14x0.62x9.21. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Bloomsbury Academic hardcover
