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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
18461875Firmin Didot Freres Libraires Editerurs 1846. Hardcover. Firmin Didot Freres, Libraires Editerurs hardcover
18260021977Parmentier Paris 1826. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good/not applicable. Constantin François de Chasseboeuf Comte de Volney 3 February 1757 - 25 April 1820 was a French philosopher historian orientalist and politician. He was at first surnamed Boisgirais after his father's estate but afterwards assumed the name of Volney which he had created as a contraction of Voltaire and Ferney . Volume I: Les ruines ou meditation sur les revolutions des empires. Volumes II and III: Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie pendant les annees 1783 1784 et 1785. Volume IV: Tableau du Climat et du sol des Etats-Unis d'Amerique. Volumes V and VI: Recherches Nouvelles sur l'histoire ancienne. Volume VII: Lecons d'histoire.Volume VIII: L'alfabet Europeen applique aux langues Asiatiques. An eight volume set in contemporary quarter calf French bindings. Gilt lettered and decorated. Marbled paper boards. Tight and sound copy. Bindings rubbed at extremities but all sound and presentable. Text clear and legible throughout. A decent set and quite scarce. Complete set with all engraved plates maps and tables. Each volume approx. 8.5" by 5". Quantity Available: 1. Category: History ; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0021977. . Parmentier hardcover
185149884Paris Bachelier 1851. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome 33 No 14. Pp. 361- 392 entire issue offered. The paper: pp. 370-374. <br/><br/><em>First printing of a pioneer research in the physiology of the nerves. The authors describes here for the first time the cilio-spinal centre controlling the dilatation of the pupil.Garrison & Morton No 1267. </em> unknown
1825175624Paris: Parmantier 1825. Broché. Etat satisfaisant. in-8. Demi reliure 3 planches Parmantier unknown
180440723Weimar Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs 1804. Unbound but stitched. VIII283 pp. and one folded engraved map "Charte vonn Nord-America zur Erläuterung des Systems der Winde und Strömungen. Weimar 1804" <br/><br/><em>Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen.hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel 8. Bd.: 2. Theil. Having the general titlepage this with a stamp.- Sabin: 100690. </em> unknown
1852401691852. Arch. Anat. Phys. 1852. - Berlin Verlag von Veit et Comp. 1852 8° pp.391-418 Broschur. Important neurological treatise by the founder Augustus Volney Waller 1816-1870 of the "law of nerve degeneration" -cf. Garrison p.524 unknown
18032510010043Courcier imprimeur-libraire quai des Augustins no. 71 ; Dentu imprimeur-libraire Palais du Tribunat Galleries-de-Bois no. 240 Paris an XII--1803 1803. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volume set. xvi 534 pages: 2 folded leaves of plates 2 folded maps of North America and the United States. 21 cm. Includes the vocabulary of the Miami Indians. Includes American geology and natural science as well as observations on Indians. <br> Volney was a philosopher abolitionist orientalist and extensive traveler. He came to America to avoid imprisonment by the French government during the Reign of Terror. A friend of Jefferson he was expelled in 1798 by President John Adams under the Alien and Sedition Act due to the fear he was acting as a French agent to allow for the reoccupation of the Louisiana territory. He visited the United States from 1795-1798 and this book was the result Jefferson translated most of the work but it was ultimately completed by John Barlow. Refs: Sabin 100692 Howes 10675; Clark II:69; Pilling 4061; Monaghan 1472; Buck 49. Courcier, imprimeur-libraire, quai des Augustins, no. 71 ; Dentu, imprimeur-libraire, Palais du Tribunat, Galleries-de-Bois, no. 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
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
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
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
185020511Cincinnati:: John D. Thorpe 1850. First edition. disbound. Vey nice. 8vo. John D. Thorpe, unknown
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
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
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
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
1804002794EELondon: J. Johnson 1804. First Edition. Very good. A very good and tight copy. First English Edition Translated From the French of C. F. Volney. Listed in Howes USiana V-141 and Sabin 100693. 504pp. 3/4 leather in original boards. Rubbing and chipping to leather along spine folds corners rubbed. Top edge gold gilt. Two fold out maps and two fold out plates as called for. One of the plates has edge wear and split which has been repaired. Maps are in very good condition with the larger map having a couple of tears to fold. Some foxing to preliminaries. View all Seven Photo's. J. Johnson unknown
1804lib000185J. Johnson 1804. Hardcover. Very Good. nicely rebound fold-outs pages and fold outs are all very good J. Johnson hardcover
