Volney C. F.ABAA
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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
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 books
1821135320Paris: Bossange Freres 1821. hardcover. very good. Frontispieces folding maps and charts and other illustrations. 8 volumes. 8vo full red straight-grained morocco gilt-dec. bands; light foxing on some pgs. Paris: Bossange Freres 1821. A very good set.<br/><br/> Bossange Freres unknown books
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
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
1803WRCAM51639Paris: Courcier 1803. Two volumes. 3xvi300; 4301- 5342pp. plus two foldings maps and two folding plates. Half titles. Three-quarter calf and marbled boards spines gilt leather labels all edges stained red. Hinges rubbed edges and corners slightly worn. Bookplates on front pastedowns. A few scattered fox marks and small dampstains but generally clean. About very good. Volney came to America to avoid imprisonment by the French government and brought with him a large measure of education and sophistication as well as a small bundle of prejudices: he was a vehement anticlericalist and opponent of things Rousseauian. Jefferson felt he might have been a catalyst for the Federalist Alien Acts. There is a small map of North America and a much larger map of the United States all east of the Mississippi. The map of the continent small as it is still represents fairly advanced cartographical knowledge. This copy is of the variant no priority with the Miami vocabulary separately paginated. The work is valuable for its notes on French colonies in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. HOWES V141. CLARK II:69. PILLING 4061. FIELD 2449. MONAGHAN 1472. BUCK 49. Courcier hardcover books
182271235Paris: Bossange Freres 1822. Hardcover. Good. Tome Premier ONLY of 2. 5th ed. 2 folding maps 2 folding plates viii 456p. Contemporary quarterbinding marbled boards backed in red leather. 20cm. Covers scuffed. Moderate foxing on plates and a little elsewhere. Half moon shaped stain in margin on both maps. French text. <br/><br/> Bossange Freres hardcover 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 books
1807SW1692Paris:: Courcier 1807. 1807. 2 volumes. 8vo. 6 x 487 1; iv 492 pp. Half-titles 5 folding engraved plates including detailed engravings of the Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza 3 folding maps incl. frontis. a folding map of Egypt p. 288 Syria II p. 400 Turkey ads in front & rear. Original full mottled calf gilt spine red leather spine labels; joints rubbed but strong. Ownership Signature of Benjamin B. Wood. Very good. Fourth edition first issued in 1787 here printed with additional plates. This is a key source for the study of Ottoman Egypt Syria and modern day Lebanon sometimes called the Levant. Volney describes the geography of the region the climate its history cultures the militia economy and trade diseases the monuments natural history politics people law religions farming and agriculture craftsmen merchants commerce arts sciences and character of the inhabitants. All this is set within the presence of the years just prior to the outbreak of the French Revolution which started in 1789. "In 1783 Volney gave up the thought of following any particular profession and set out for the East. He arrived at Cairo ostensibly on a scientific mission although many there regarded him as a spy he was later accused of spying on America by John Adams' administration. In order to master Arabic he shut himself away in a convent for eight months then journeyed to the pyramids at Giza and moved to Suez where he lived with the Bedouin. While there he entertained the notion of constructing a canal to link the Mediterranean with the Red Sea. Sailing from Alexandria in September 1783 he visited Syria and the Lebanon concluding his journey at Acre =Akko in 1785. After a brief halt at Alexandria he returned to France where his documents turned out to be of enormous value in the planning of Napoleon's campaign to Egypt. Volney however persistently opposed such intervention despite producing a pamphlet which uncannily anticipated French involvement in the region." – Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800 V61. / "The French author and traveller Constantin-Francois de Chasseboeuf 1757–1820 adopted the pen name Volney which combined the name of Voltaire and Ferney where the great philosopher lived. A friend of Thomas Jefferson and other Enlightenment figures Volney used an inheritance to further his education by travelling to Ottoman Egypt and the historical region of Syria visiting areas of present-day Lebanon and Israel. He chose these lands as he believed he would gain political and philosophical insights from their ancient heritage. Very little had been written in the West about these areas before he published this two-volume account in 1787. It enjoyed great popularity and even accompanied Darwin aboard the Beagle on his own voyage of discovery decades later. Reissued here is the revised and corrected French second edition which also appeared in 1787. The volumes explore geography history ethnic divisions religious beliefs commerce politics and customs." – Cambridge University Press 2014. / De Volney was a French philosopher and historian and a member of the Estates-General during the French Revolution. Alexander Cook who believes that Volney's influence is as a "key thinker" though often forgotten in today's sense of that history examines this books as a specimen of geo-politics of both French anti-imperialist thought and French imperial practice in North Africa and the Levant where France was seeking to expand its global influence and power during the following decades. Cook is at Australian National University School of History received his PhD from University of Cambridge. CONTENTS: Volume 1: Preface; - Part I. Etat physique de l'Egypte: - 1. De l'Egypte en general et de la ville d'Alexandrie; - 2. Du Nil et de l'extension du delta; - 3. De l'exhaussement de delta; - 4. Des vents de l'Egypte; - 5. Du climat et de l'air d'Egypte; - Part II. Etat politique de l'Egypte: - 6. Des diverses races des habitans de l'Egypte; - 7. Precis de l'histoire des Mamlouks; - 8. Precis de l'histoire de d'Ali-bek; - 9. Precis des evenemens arrives depuis la mort d'Ali-bek jusqu'en 1785; - 10. Etat present de l'Egypte; - 11. Constitution de la milice des Mamlouks; - 12. Gouvernement des Mamlouks; - 13. Etat du commerce; - 14. De l'isthme de Suez; - 15. Des douanes et des impots; - 16. De la ville du Kaire; - 17. Des maladies de l'Egypte; - 18. Tableau resume de l'Egypte; - 19. Des ruines et des pyramides; - Part III. Etat physique de la Syrie: - 20. Geographie et histoire naturaelle de la Syrie; - 21. Considerations sur les phenomenes des vents des nuages des pluies des brouillards et du tonnerre; - Part IV. Etat politique de la Syrie: - 22. Des habitans de la Syrie et de la langue usitee; - 23. Des peuples errans ou pasteurs en Syrie. Volume 2: - 24. Des peuples agricoles ou sedentaires de la Syrie; - 25. Precis de l'histoire de Daher; - 26. Distribution de la Syrie par pachalics; - 27. Du pachalic d'Alep; - 28. Du pachalic de Tripoli; - 29. Du pachalic de Saide; - 30. Du pachalic de Damas; - 31. De la Palestine; - 32. Resume de la Syrie; - 33. Du gouvernement des Turks en Syrie; - 34. De l'administration de la justice; - 35. De l'influence de a religion; - 36. De la propriete et des conditions; - 37. Des paysans et de l'agriculture; - 38. Des artisans des amrchands et du commerce; - 39. Des arts des sciences et de l'ignorance; - 40. Des habitudes et du caractere des habitans de la Syrie. PROVENANCE: Benjamin B. Wood unknown as there are many with this name. / See: Alexander Cook "The Great Society of the Human Species': Volney and the Global Politics of Revolutionary France" Intellectual History Review Volume 23 2013 - Issue 3: Discourses of Humanity in the Enlightenment: Local Mediations of a Global Aspiration; Alexander Cook "Volney and the Science of Morality in Revolutionary France" Humanities Research Vol. 16 No. 2 May 1 2010; Samir Khalaf Protestant Missionaries in the Levant: Ungodly Puritans 1820-1860 Routledge 2012. Courcier, 1807. hardcover books
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
180493024Philadelphia: J. Conrad & Co. 1804 1804. First Edition. unknown_binding. Used-Very Good. Octavo xxviii 446 pp.4 fold-out plates 2 of which are maps. New Quarter leather over marbled paper covered boards with red leather gilt stamped spine label. First fold-out plate is worn around edges with an ink marking over plate number. Otherwise a very good copy in a new attractive binding. Philadelphia: J. Conrad & Co., 1804 unknown
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
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
180355052Paris: Chez Courcier & Dentu. Very Good. 1803. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary full leather gilt decorated spine 5 raised bands red morocco label marbled eps red page edges. Two volumes in one with continuous pagination. First edition of this study on American geology with info on the customs of the Indians and colonists. Four folding plates three in color including a geological survey a section of Niagara Falls and two maps smaller one of North America and larger one of the United States. Includes 8 page Vocabulaire de la Lange des Miamis at the end. Table des matieres notice to the binder and errata page are bound at the beginning. Hinges a bit weak but holding. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xvi524 pages . Chez Courcier & Dentu hardcover
18112222177<p>Fifth edition. 16mo. Frontispiece pictorial title page with secondary title "The Ruins or A Surrey of the Revolutions of Empires." Later full gilt stamped green leather. Folding map; folding astrological chart at end. Very good. 232 pages.</p><p>Printed by Plummer and Brewis Love-Lane Little Eastcheap.</p><p>Bookplate of poet and critic Vivian De Sola Pinto 1895-1969.</p> Printed for Thomas Tegg hardcover
1890019691NY: Peter Eckler Pub. 1890. Book. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. Clear plastic jacket over cloth. Age toning to pages document repair tape to secure front endpapers at hinge. 219pp appendices and catalog. Peter Eckler Pub. Hardcover
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
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
18217749759Bossange Freres 1821. Volumes 1 2 4 5 6 8. Ex-library may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. Hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. 8vo. Orange marbled boards half calf with gilt trim. Ridges gilt lettering and embellishments on spines. All spines are partially torn with volumes 2 4 and 8 heavily torn with most of backstrips missing. Front board of volume 4 missing. Front boards of volumes 1 and 2 detached. Rear boards of volumes 1 4 and 8 detached. Leaves foxed. French text. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item3450grams ISBN: 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
18803134204Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg 1880. XII, 245 Seiten. Frakturdruck. Mit Kupferstich auf Falttafeln und Frontispiz. 8° (17,5-22,5 cm). Kartonage. [Softcover / Paperback].
180411501804. VOLNEY Constantine F. A View of the Soil and Climate of the United States of America: With Supplementary Remarks Upon Florida; on the French Colonies on the Mississippi and Ohio and in Canada; and on the Aboringinal Tribes of America. Translated With Occasional Remarks By C.B. Brown. With Maps and Plates. Phila.: J. Conrad & Co. 1804. 1st ed. in English. 8vo. Illus. with two folding maps and two folding charts. Very good in later antique style calf-backed marbled boards. Howes V-141. Sabin 100693. Field 1610. "The author spent three years in the United States ardently engaged in collecting facts for his work which principally related to the state and manners of the Indians and the climate. unknown
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
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
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
