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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
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
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
1924264069Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company 1924. Pamphlet. 64p. light blue stapled wraps 3.5x5 inches frontispiece portrait of Volney wraps lightly toned along edges large chip at top edge of rear wraps pages evenly toned pp9-16 trimmed too tight in outer margin with some loss of text else good condition. Little Blue Book No. 564. Haldeman-Julius Company unknown books
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
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
113197hardcover. illus. 854pp. 8vo cloth. N.Y.: Holt 1950. vg<br/><br/> unknown books
1958288359Quincy. : N.E. School of Hypnotis. 1958. . Reprint. Softcover blue printed stapled wraps. . Covers lightly soiled and worn at edges with some loss owner’s ink name to front cover a good copy with very good contents. 4to. N.E. School of Hypnotis. paperback books
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
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
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 books
191764125New Haven: Yale University Press 1917. 8vo. 23 cm. x 2 269pp. Burgundy cloth with gilt stamped spine. Very good. <br/><br/> Yale University Press hardcover 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
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
1852WRCAM48878Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office 1852. 13pp. Folded signature. Fine. Untrimmed and unopened. Congressman Howard commits about half of the present work to the question of the border between Texas and New Mexico and also discusses how such boundaries will effect a railroad to the Pacific Ocean and subsequent westerly steamship routes from California to China and beyond. OCLC locates only ten institutional copies. <br> <br> THE HANDBOOK OF TEXAS outlines Howard's experience in Texas as follows: <br> <br> "In 1840 he was defeated for election to the House of the Twenty-seventh Congress in Mississippi. Shortly afterwards he moved to New Orleans where he practiced law until December 1844 when he moved to San Antonio Texas. He was a delegate to the Convention of 1845 and represented Bexar County in the House of the First Legislature. On February 27 1846 Governor James Pinckney Henderson appointed Howard attorney general of Texas but he declined the appointment. Howard was a representative from Texas in the House of the Thirty-first and Thirty-second congresses but was defeated for reelection in 1852 by Peter Hansborough Bell." SABIN 33281. OCLC 5081497. Printed at the Congressional Globe Office unknown 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
2010UGAYPRO00afColumbia University Press 2010. Very Good. Gay Volney. Progress and Values in the Humanities: Comparing Culture and Science. NY: Columbia University Press 2010. 231pp. Indexed. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Columbia University Press hardcover books
1950182172Toulouse: Universo 1950. 47p. 5.25x8 inches text in Spanish very good booklet in stapled wraps. El Mundo al Dia #26 15 Avril 1950. Second part of Constantin François de Chassebœuf comte de Volney's "Ruins of Palmira. Universo unknown books
193127079New York: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company 1931. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. vii 458 pages. 8vo. Blue cloth gilt. Spine faded. Pasted image of plane on front pastedown. Endpapers foxed otherwise clean internally. Cloth. Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company 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
1776008154London: Printed for J. Bew / Printed for the Author and Sold by B. Crosby 1776. "Memoirs of an Unfortunate Queen" published 1776 "Authentic Memoirs.Catherine II" published 1797. Each book RARE in its own right "Unfortunate Queen"last seen in Maggs Catalogue 1955 "Catherine II" last seen at auction in 1920 Rare Book Hub. 3 260 pp. vi 6 291 7 pp. Frontispiece engraved portrait of Caroline Matilda. Catherine II with half-title and title page. Very Good in early 19th c. quarter calf over marbled boards the back gilt with two stag decorations edges mottled boards rubbed interiors of both books exceptionally clean and bright. A unique and quite attractive book. . First Edition. Quarter Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Printed for J. Bew / Printed for the Author and Sold by B. Crosby Hardcover books
1798045137Paris: A.J. Dugour et Durand 1798. Third Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. Bound in marbled paper covered boards old spine labels modest wear; old stamp to title occasional staining and foxing but mostly clean. A good copy of this popular enlightenment narrative. Published in Year VII of the Republican calendar corresponding to 1798-99. 3 plates 2 folding. 412pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 045137. <br/><br/> A.J. Dugour et Durand 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
1903239531New York: Brentano 1903. hardcover. very good. Unpaginated. Tall & slim 12mo. New York: Brentano 1903. Slight foxing throughout and lightly edge-worn near the spine and corners still a very good copy.<br/><br/> Signed by compiler Volney Streamer in pencil across the entire half-title. Includes many charming and heartfelt quotes about the values of friendship.<br/><br/> Brentano unknown books
19051314829n.p.: The Lakeside Press 1905. Hardcover. 12mo; unpaginated; G/no-DJ; brown spine with gilt decoration; double gilt border to boards; dark green boards; full leather binding; noticeable wear to joints; rubbed corners; light wear to exterior; text block shows slight age toning to exterior edges; gilt scroll to pastedown edges; marbled endpapers; previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown; slight writing to second endpaper; top edge gilt; some illustrations with tissue guards; interior lightly toned. Shelved Ephemera Box 8. 1314829. FP New Rockville Stock. The Lakeside Press hardcover books
