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164151041à Paris: Chez Cardin Besongne 1641. Fine. Chez Cardin Besongne à Paris 1641 10.50 x 16.80 cm relié Statement of eleventh edition. Printer's device on title page. Contemporary full vellum binding. Smooth spine with title in black ink. One cm lacking to spine. Stains to boards. Lack to edge of upper board. Collection of letters by Guez de Balzac written between 1620 and 1627. The author died in 1654. Two collections were originally published the first in 1624 the second in 1636. This is one of the first editions to bring together both collections. Chez Cardin Besongne hardcover
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1658EXP2-B-12London: Thomas Dring 1658. Leather. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". None. An English translation of Jean-Louis Guez Balzac's letters. A very scarce work. Not seen at auction for over thirty five years. With a portrait frontispiece of Balzac. With two title pages the first title page is in Red and Black and with the title 'Balzac's Remaines or his Last Letters' the second is 'The Choyce Letters of Monsieur de Balzac.' One of these title pages is clearly a cancel. The running title of the work is 'Choise Lettres' and therefore it is likely the cancel is the red and black title page. There are two copies held at the British library one with the first title page and one with the second title page. It is unusual to have both. Wing B616. Collated using both British library copies of this work Complete. From the antiquarian library of Christopher Rowe. Christopher Rowe was a schoolmaster in Norwich and then in Bristol. Throughout his career he inspired many to love literature history and music. He was a specialist on 17th century printer and bookseller Humphrey Moseley and began his unfortunately unfinished PhD dissertation on him. Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac was a French author noted for his epistolary essays. This volume comprises of his letters to notable courtiers which gained him a great reputation. This work mostly contains his letters to Jean Chapelain a French Poet who organized and founded the Academie Francaise. In a full calf binding. rebacked with original boards preserved. Externally generally smart with rubbing to the extremities and to the head and tail of spine. Small worm holes to the tail of spine and also to the head. The worming only seems to have slightly affected the front endpaper at the gutter and the rear hinge. Both hinges are slightly strained but firm. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown Christopher Rowe. Internally firmly bound. Pages are age toned with light spotting throughout. Very Good Thomas Dring hardcover
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180925825Paris: Imprimerie Impériale 1809. Fine. Imprimerie Impériale Paris 1809-1829 54 x 71 cm une feuille Original unshaved full-page etching from the Imperial edition of the Description de l'Égypte or Recueil des observations et recherches faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition française publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand A Collection of the observations and research carried out in Egypt during the French expedition published on the orders of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon the Great'.Produced between February 1802 and 1830 on the orders of Naopleon Bonaparte and published between 1809 and 1828 1000 copies were printed and distributed to institutions on vergé paper with an 'Égypte ancienne et moderne' watermark visible when held up to the light. Light marginal spotting not touching image otherwise in very fresh fine condition. An engraving from the Description de l'Egypte one of the masterpieces of French printing and the birth of a new field: Egyptology. A gigantic survey of Egypt at the time of Bonaparte's conquests in 1798 and 1799 the work is divided into 13 volumes of engravings making up 892 plates of which 72 colored as well as presenting the splendors of the Egypt of the Pharaohs in 9 volumes. The other volumes discuss natural history and present a fascinating portrait of Coptic and Islamic Egypt as it was seen by Bonaparte's Eastern Armies. The Egyptian campaign' militarily a disaster demonstrates through the engravings of the Description d'Egypte the scientific success it nonetheless became thanks to the 167 expert members of the Commission of the Sciences and Arts of the Institut d'Egypte Egyptian Institute who followed Napoleon's army. The Institut gathered together in Egypt the mathematician Monge the chemist Berthollet the naturalist Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire as well as numerous artists engineers architects and doctors. They were tasked with re-discovering modern and ancient Egypt and displaying its natural treasures as well as the know-how of its inhabitants.This edition the so-called Imperial edition of the plates for the Description de l'Egypte was printed in four large formats two of which were specially created for it and christened Moyen-Egypte and Grand-Egypte. A special press was built to print it the process extending over 20 years from 1809 to 1829. The Imperial edition proved so popular that a second edition this time in black and white and without the Egypte ancienne et moderne watermark known as the Royal Edition was published during the Restoration by the printing house of C.-L.-F. Panckoucke Paris.The engravings of the Description d'Egypte owe a great deal to Baron Dominique-Vivant Denon illustrator diplomat collector and later Director of the Musée Napoléon the Louvre. His exploration of the South of Egypt gave Bonaparte the idea of sending the experts of the Institut there thus creating a faithful and complete portrait of the area. This was the research gathered together from 1802 in the mammoth Description de L'Egypte.Denon embarked on this story of archeological exploration at the age of 51 reaching first Alexandria and then Cairo before exploring Upper Egypt. Along with the members of the Institut d'Egypte the Natural History Museum's painter H.J. Redouté brother of Pierre-Joseph Redouté author of Roses the mineralogist Dolomiue and the draughtsman Joly Denon then explored the Nile Delta and Lower Egypt. When however he joined the 21st Light Infantry Regiment as it marched across Upper Egypt in pursuit of the retreating Mameluks in November 1798 he found himself the only civilian. In the very midst of the battle itself he reeled off sketches of the works of art that peppered his path right up to the threshold of the Sudan. He said that he had crossed a country that is apart from its name entirely unknown to Europeans and therefore everything was worth describing Voyages dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte pendant les campagnes de Imprimerie Impériale unknown
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184286562à Paris: Chez Hetzel et Paulin 1842. Fine. Chez Hetzel et Paulin à Paris 1842 18 x 27 cm 2 volumes reliés First edition admirably illustrated with 201 hors-texte figures and 120 vignettes by Grandville. Hetzel's publisher's preface most often absent is here present before the prologue. Most copies begin directly with the prologue. 2 frontispieces. Contemporary half-navy shagreen bindings with corners. Spine with false flat raised bands with 4 compartments composed of thick and thin fillets one with fleuron mirror tooling on the raised bands gilt title. In a way not perceptible at first glance there exist small differences between the 2 volumes which were bound by the same binder but not at the same time: thus the typography of the title is noticeably different the compartment with the fleuron has no thick fillet framing. The volumes bear no volume numbering. We know that the 2 volumes did not appear at the same time and that the first volume appeared separately and that a second part a continuation was added afterwards. The binding seems to have followed the publication process. Traces of rubbing. Some pale foxing on well-white paper however foxing on the half-titles and the last page of the table of contents. Handsome copy. This famous publication needs no introduction a satire of contemporary Parisian society of the Second Empire whose enterprise is due to Hetzel who under the pseudonym of Stahl signed several texts and commissioned texts from the most famous pens of the time: Balzac Musset Sand La Bedollière. The last chapter recounts the imprisonment of the different writers whom one can see in locations at the Jardin des plantes where we see Grandville from behind drawing them. One of Grandville's great works of imagination full of verve and fantasy. Chez Hetzel et Paulin hardcover
184279090à Paris: Chez Hetzel et Paulin 1842. Fine. Chez Hetzel et Paulin à Paris 1842 17.70 x 27 cm 2 volumes reliés First edition admirably illustrated with 201 plates and 120 vignettes by Grandville. This first volume correctly has the first third of the work printed on tinted paper while the rest is on white paper a characteristic of the first printing; most copies are from a second printing as the leaves are also white like the rest of the work. Moreover Hetzel's publisher's preface usually absent is present here before the prologue. Most copies begin directly with the prologue. The frontispiece of volume 1 has been placed facing p. 32 the engraved half-title entitled Scène de moeurs serving as frontispiece; this half-title is often absent from most copies. The frontispiece and engraved title of volume 2 as well as an engraved half-title also entitled 2e partie have been preserved without the title page of the second volume which has not been bound in this copy. These 2 half-titles in the first volume Scène de moeurs in the second volume 2e partie are very often absent from copies. Near-contemporary half red shagreen bindings with corners. Spines with raised bands with 3 decorated compartments gilt title and volume number. Separation fillets on boards. Combed edges echoing the pattern of the endpapers. Signs of rubbing. On the upper board of volume 1 a 2 cm area exposing the cardboard. Superb freshness of the paper completely free from foxing. Handsome copy. This famous publication needs no introduction a satire of contemporary Parisian society under the Second Empire an enterprise due to Hetzel who under the pseudonym Stahl signed several texts and commissioned texts from the most famous writers of the time: Balzac Musset Sand La Bedollière. The last chapter recounts the imprisonment of the various writers who can be seen in enclosures at the Jardin des plantes where we see Grandville from behind drawing them. One of Grandville's great works of imagination full of verve and fantasy. Chez Hetzel et Paulin hardcover
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3764BULLETIN DU BIBLIOPHILE. Paris, L. Giraud-Badin, mai à décembre 1934. 7 fascicules in-8, brochés.
19721031Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Gallimard, Paris 1972. 1 volume de 220 pages, in-12, relié cuir souple, jaquette blanche illustrée, rhodoïd. 467 illustrations en héliogravure. Album n°11 de la Bibliothèque de la pléiade.
