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1703008765Bruxelles Belgium: Chez Eugene Henry Fricx 1703. Two volumes bound in late 19th c. quarter calf over marbled boards gilt back edges dyed red marbled end papers. The small label of Paul Revoil 1856-1914 French diplomat and Governor General of Algeria 1901-1903. Very Good Plus tiny rubs at corners small prior owner name dated 1735 scattered moderate toning. There are no plates present. . New Edition. Quarter Calf. Very Good Plus. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Chez Eugene Henry Fricx Hardcover books
183835862Paris: F. Bonnaire; Dupuis Dumarsais 1838. First editions of vols. I-IV; second edition of vol. V. Illustrated with folding charts maps facsimiles and numerous engravings after Johannot Raffet and others. 5 vols. 8vo. Mid-nineteenth-century quarter calf and blue marbled boards. Bookplates. Some rubbing to extremities. First editions of vols. I-IV; second edition of vol. V. Illustrated with folding charts maps facsimiles and numerous engravings after Johannot Raffet and others. 5 vols. 8vo. F. Bonnaire; Dupuis Dumarsais unknown books
1868CAT000125Paris: E. Dentu 1868. First Edition. Hardcover rebound in cloth. Very Good. Rebound in modern blue cloth original wraps bound in but worn and chipped with tape repairs. Otherwise only scattered foxing and a few inexpertly opened pages. Vicaire 623. xxiv 435pp.<br/><br/>Covers from Ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and through the Early Modern period up to Napoleon and the present day. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; History. Inventory No: CAT000125. E. Dentu hardcover books
1720045088Amsterdam: Michel Charles le Cene 1720. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary calf rubbed one corner creased but quite sound. Endpapers a little soiled a few minor stains but generally quite clean internally. One of three posthumous works by Madame de La Fayette author of La Princess de Clèves. viii 210pp. Likely published in France despite the imprint. Graesse M71. Size: Octavo 8vo. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 045088. <br/><br/> Michel Charles le Cene hardcover books
1733E05532 volumes. 8xxiv616471 pages with 4 maps ad view one folding and 3 plates one folding; 2693892 pages with 1 map and 6 plates. Quarto 10 1/4" x 10 1/4" bound in half leather with raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. Borba de Moraes page I:453; European Americana 733/146; Sabin 38591 First edition.<br /><br />Joseph-François Lafitau was a French Jesuit missionary ethnologist and naturalist. He is best known for his use of the comparative method in the field of scientific anthropology the discovery of ginseng and his writings on the Iroquois. Lafitau was the first of the Jesuit missionaries in Canada to have a scientific point of view. Lafitau is considered the first of the modern ethnographers and a precursor of scientific ethnology for his work on the Iroquois. He developed a model of studying peoples that involved describing existing cultures on their own terms—not in comparison to European society. He distinguished generic and specific traits transforming the "generic savage" into specific tribal groups. He explained that "only from specific identities can genetic relations be inferred."5 Furthermore he was the first to declare "contemporary primitive cultures throw light upon the culture of ancient people and vice versa. Lafitau is remembered for applying the comparative method with a greater level of competency than any of his contemporaries. Through original field observations he was able to critique the works of earlier writers on Primitive peoples. By using the Comparative Method Lafitau rejected all theories of social and cultural change and instead used his study to demonstrate the similarities in customs practices and usages of the Native North Americans with diverse peoples from different continents and centuries. He consistently relied on the doctrine of degeneration: all men originally shared one religion with one God but over time as people migrated to separate margins of the earth where they then lost touch with the values and traditions of this one true religion and culture. Therefore Lafitau believed in the "psychic unity of mankind" and the doctrine of primitive monotheism. His major work written in French was first published in 1724 in Paris. It is entitled <i>Customs of the American Indians Compared with the Customs of Primitive Times</i> <i>Moeurs des Sauvages Amériquains Comparées aux Moeurs des Premiers Temps</i> and is 1100 pages in total. In 1974 William Fenton and Elizabeth Moore made the first translation into English available. Lafitau published two other works. One <i>Histoire de Jean de Brienne Roy de Jérusalem et Empereur de Constantinople</i> Paris 1727 was released before he returned to Canada; it is little known and seldom seen. A two-volume <i>Histoire des découvertes et conquestes des Portugais dons le Nouveau Monde . . .</i> 1733 appeared after he came home to France. Frequently found in libraries it is not just a compilation of original sources but an attempt to make available to French readers a story of exploration and adventure otherwise denied to them; in the chronicles he sees a long development of customs hitherto unnoticed such as he had reported in the <i>Mœurs</i>; from them understood only he says in the original languages of the people who practice them he builds his "system" or philosophy of history and once more he is concerned too with the relation between custom and natural history or ecology.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Beautifully rebound in half leather. Faint dampening to second volume; early owner's signatures on title pages inked stamps of St Charles Borromeo Seminary on front paste-downs and first title page lacks frontispiece else a very good to fine set.<br /> Chez Saugrain pere, quai des Augustins, au coin de la rue Chez Saugrain pere, quai des Augustins, au coin de la rue Pavee, a la hardcover books
1738045053London: Paul & Isaac Vaillant 1738. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. 3 volumes in contemporary calf gilt. Hinges a bit rubbed wear at corners ding to one spot on the spine of volume 1 leather repair to one corner - an attractive set overall. Title pages in red and black scattered light foxing but an attractively printed and clean set. The history covers 1490-1534. xxxxii 620pp; xi 604pp; viii 476pp index. Size: Quarto 4to. 3-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045053. <br/><br/> Paul & Isaac Vaillant hardcover books
1700E0566xxiii43313 table pages with two folding maps of the Marsianes and Guam. Duodecimo 6 1/2 x 3 1/4" bound in contemporary full sheep with red label in gilt spine and five raised spine bands speckled red end pages. Brunet 28230 Cioranescu 41783 First edition.<br /><br />Charles Le Gobien was a French Jesuit writer founder of the Lettres édifiantes et curieuses a collection of reports from Jesuit missionaries in China. It is a major source of information for the history of Catholic missions and life in China in those times. Le Gobien was born at Saint-Malo Brittany. He entered the Society of Jesus on 25 November 1671. As professor of philosophy and especially while procurator of the Franco-Chinese mission he sought in a series of papers to awaken interest in the work of Christianizing Eastern Asia. In 1697 appeared at Paris his Lettres sur les progréz de la religion à la Chine. Apropos of Chinese Rites controversy he published among other things Histoire de l'édit de l'empereur de la Chine en faveur de la religion chrétienne avec un éclaircissement sur les honneurs que les Chinois rendent à Confucius et aux morts Paris 1698; and in the year 1700: Lettre à un Docteur de la Faculté de Paris sur les propositions déférées en Sorbonne par M. Prioux. Under the same date there appeared in Paris the Histoire des Isles Mariannes nouvellement converties à la religion chrétienne. The second part translated into Spanish by J. Delgado is found in the latter's Historia General de Filipinas Manila 1892. In 1702 Père Le Gobien published Lettres de quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus écrites de la Chine et des Indes Orientales; this was the beginning of the collection soon to become celebrated under the title of Lettres édifiantes et curieuses écrites des missions étrangéres par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus. The first eight series were by Le Gobien the latter ones by Fathers Du Halde Patouillet Geoffroy and Maréchal. The collection was printed in thirty-six volumes duodecimo Paris 1703–76 and reissued in 1780-81 by Fathers Yves de Querbeux and Brotier in twenty-six volumes duodecimo omitting the prefaces. New editions appeared in 1819 1829–32 and 1838-43. One abridgment in four volumes octavo was entitled Panthéon Littéraire by L. Aimé Martin 1834–43. A partial English translation came out in London in 1714. The publication incited the Austrian Jesuit Stöcklein to undertake his Neuer Welt Bott about 1720 at first considered merely a translation but soon an independent and particularly valuable collection five volumes folio in forty parts substantially completing the Lettres Edifiantes.<br /><br />This is a history of the Christian missions in the Marianas or Ladrones Islands in the north-western Pacific the principal island of which is Guam. Reprinted in the text are several letters from early missionaries Medina Clain Sanvitores &c. The Jesuit mission was established there by Diego Luis de Sanvitores. Father Le Gobien never visited the Mariana islands but based his account chiefly on the relations and letters of missionaries sent to him from Rome Spain the Netherlands etc. Includes a letter by P. Clain about the discovery of the Caroline Islands.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Rebacked with original spine laid down provenance: Jesuit College library with old stamps to front free endpaper half title and title page else about very good. Nicolas Pepie hardcover books
1940008960Tientsin China: Reprinted in China 1940. Four volumes bound in blue/grey cloth Good the cloth worn and soiled one hinge each in Vols. I and II and both in Vol. IV broken the bindings still holding well. Faint damping bottom edges Vol. III. Interiors clean and unmarked. Prior owner name stamp of Richard W. Powell noted University of Hawaii anthropologist. From the collection of noted East Asian scholar Ruth Meserve her business card for The Mongolian Society which she served as Secretary laid in. The 1940 Chinese reprint of the original 1834 first edition SCARCE in either edition. The first serious study of Genghis Khan. Three folding genealogical charts one in Vol.I and two in Vol. IV; large 1824 folding map of Asia in the13thcentury in pocket at rear of Vol. IV. The charts and the map are Fine. A sturdy and usable set of this important history. . Reprint. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Small 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Reprinted in China Hardcover books
1786008749Paris: Leclerc Knapen Savoye Cussac Desenne 1786. Uncommon. Two volumes bound in contemporary mottled calf morocco labels and ornate floral gilt backs marbled end papers edges dyed red some leaves printed on blue paper ribbon markers. Near Fine small rubs at corners light soilng at end papers. . . First Edition. Calf. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Leclerc, Knapen, Savoye, Cussac, Desenne Hardcover books
167736147Sur la Copie a Paris: Chez Frederic Leonard 1677. Second French edition. Engraved title two parts continuous pagination. 24 550 38 pp. 1 vols. Sm. 12mo. Vellum. Title in pen on spine upper joint torn some soiling of binding light browning of text mostly marginal else a very good copy. Second French edition. Engraved title two parts continuous pagination. 24 550 38 pp. 1 vols. Sm. 12mo. Amelot de la Houssaye was secretary to the French embassy at Venice and his account of the Republic for the first time revealed the policy of the Venetian governement. When the book appeared the Venetian state complained to the French court and Amelot was sent to the Bastille for six weeks. Chez Frederic Leonard unknown books
1730043619Paris: Jacques Vincent 1730. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. 5 volumes in contemporary gilt calf worn dry hinges and joints split boards attached but precariously in a few cases. Scattered browning internally and occasional creased pages spine labels bookplates and old embossed theological library stamps to title but generally clean and unmarked otherwise. 36 plates many folding and 4 maps hand colored in outline. Published 1730-1745. Size: Folio. 5-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 043619. <br/><br/> Jacques Vincent hardcover books
1666046908Paris: Robert de Ninville 1666. First Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary vellum old stamp and name to title scattered very minor foxing - a nice clean copy of the first and only edition of the French translation of Boate's natural history of Ireland. 8334 4pp<br/><br/>Published in 1652 it is cited as the first work in English on regional natural history. It was written primarily as an attempt to restore man's Protestant man's dominion over the earth and encourage settlement in Ireland - it praises the land and reproves the Catholic population for their indolence. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 046908. Robert de Ninville hardcover books
175428549Londres: Aux dépens de la Compagnie 1754. First edition. 2 vols. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf leather spine labels. Despite a small chip at foot of spine of volume I this is a very pretty set. First edition. 2 vols. 12mo. Barbier II 827 Aux dépens de la Compagnie unknown books
1865803921865. LAHURE Ch. HISTORY - FRANCE. HISTOIRE POPULAIRE CONTEMPORAINE DE LA FRANCE TOME DEUXIEME - QUATRIEME 3 VOLS. Publication de Ch. Lahure. Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie 1865-1866. 396/412/420 pp. 4to. black cloth stamped in gilt and blind AEG. Good heavy to moderate foxing spines and corners shelfworn. Gilt lettering and decoration bright. Ink ownership to front flyleaf. Volume 3's backstrip is partially detached at heel. Well-illustrated hundreds of engravings. As is. unknown books
1862827141862. LAHURE Ch. HISTORY - FRANCE. HISTOIRE POPULAIRE DE LA FRANCE TOME PREMIER - QUATRIEME 4 VOLS. Publication de Ch. Lahure. Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie 1862-1863. 416/416/432/428 pp. 4to. black cloth stamped in gilt and blind AEG. Good heavy to moderate foxing spines and corners shelfworn. Gilt lettering and decoration bright. Ink ownership to front flyleaf. Volume 4's backstrip is partially detached at heel. Well-illustrated hundreds of engravings. As is. unknown books
1582045463Geneva: Jacob Stoer 1582. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary rolled calf over wooden boards. Calf dry and degraded missing in spots wood worn at the edges with some loss. Remains of clasps; binding still quite sound. Light age toning to pages scattered creases and minor flaws generally very clean internally. Attractively printed with historiated initials head and tail pieces and a vignette portrait of Livy. 14 623 29 leaves. Adams 1355 Graesse IV 234. The first French edition of the complete Livy and a monumental work of Renaissance scholarship. It was also printed in an octavo edition by Stoer in 3 volumes also 1582 and reprinted in folio by Chouet in 1607. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045463. <br/><br/> Jacob Stoer hardcover books
1703046283London: John Hartley 1703. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Contemporary paneled calf worn and dry rear board detached scattered minor browning and foxing generally quite clean internally. 16 423 1pp. In a custom leather backed slipcase and chemise. Size: Octavo 8vo. Previous owner's book-plate on endpaper. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046283. John Hartley hardcover books
1562046899Antwerp: Bellerum 1562. Second Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Old colored vellum worn lacking front endpaper title browned and stained mild browning and a few light stains scattered marginalia in an early hand; generally clean. The second edition of the abridgment of Magnus's important history of the Northern people. 8 192 leaves with in text illustration throughout.<br/><br/>Magnus's history of Sweden and the North was enormously successful and popular and was translated early on into Italian German English and Dutch. It describes much folklore and customs not recorded elsewhere - including the first description of making the questionable Northern delicacy lutefisk. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Travel & Places; History. Inventory No: 046899. Bellerum hardcover books
1567046211Petri: Heinrich 1567. Early Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Modern half leather over marbled boards author penned to page edge lacking any blanks and lacking the full page map of Northern Europe with a facsimile tipped in. Collijn in his Swedish Bibliography suggested that the map was printed and inserted separately and only in some copies of the Basel edition. First Basel and Second Latin edition a reprint of the Rome edition of 1555. Illustrated with small woodcuts throughout. Dampstain to upper right from around page 500 on a few scattered dampstains modest foxing - generally a clean copy. 96 854 2 pp. Brunet III 1302. Magnus's history of Sweden and the North was enormously successful and popular and was translated early on into Italian German English and Dutch. It describes much folklore and customs not recorded elsewhere - including the first description of making the questionable Northern delicacy lutefisk. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Travel & Places; History. Inventory No: 046211. <br/><br/> Heinrich hardcover books
1684044178Madrid: Bernardo de Villa-Diego 1684. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Later tree calf light wear at the edges quite sound and attractive. Lacking the front blank and the frontispiece title torn with significant loss at the edges and laid back down. generally mild but pervasive soiling and foxing and a number of tears with loss and repairs to the fore edge of the pages: on page 301/2 with loss of a couple of words 135/6 287/8 221/2 and 269/70 touching a few letters 187/8 touching a few letters and additionally an unrepaired tear with no loss in the gutter page 11/12 with a long unrepaired tear touching a few letters and the gloss 5/6 touching a few letters and 543/4 with a tear on the bottom corner losing a word and a few letters; last two index pages with loss at edges old notes to rear blank. Some other minor loss at the edges which may obscure some glosses scattered stains small tears etc. Otherwise complete 32-548-15 p with pagination errors of 26-27 repeated 382-3 repeated and 399-400 absent. A flawed but essentially complete copy of the first edition the only edition printed in Solís's lifetime. Translated into French Italian English Danish and German the Historia was an enormously influential history of the Spanish conquest of Mexico as well as a much imitated piece of prose. Sabin 86446. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044178. <br/><br/> Bernardo de Villa-Diego hardcover books
1593046826Cologne: Birchmannica 1593. Later Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Contemporary vellum soiled and worn but sound title page torn with loss to the right edge age toning and foxing light stains lacking rear blank a few old stamps. 435pp index<br/><br/>Long attributed to John of Damascus this story of the martyrs Barlaam and Josaphat a Christianized version of the Buddha story was written down in the 10th century. Size: duodecimo 12mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 046826. Birchmannica hardcover books
1600046554Coloniae Vbiorum Cologne: Cholini 1600. Later Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Contemporary full pigskin soiled and stained but sound. A few private library marks old names crossed out on title signatures to front blank modest browning to text block with scattered minor wear and worming to margins mispgination neatly corrected;generally quite clean overall with in text portraits throughout. 8 532 16 83pp blanks intact. <br/><br/>Platina's history of the popes first printed in 1479. He was also the author of the first printed cookbook a collection of recipes from Martino di Como 1475. His description of events in the Vitis Pontificum around the 1456 appearance of Halley's comet during the reign of Pope Callixtus III gave rise to the persistent tale that the comet was excommunicated. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Religion & Theology. Inventory No: 046554. Cholini hardcover books
1982046529Mexico: Fomento Cultural Banamex 1982. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Near Fine Condition. Quarter calf over red silk marbled endpapers. One of 500 sets slight sunning to cloth slipcases split to cloth on one edge of one slipcase spines faintly sunned. A lovely set. Incorporating text and images from the original manuscript of the Historia known as the Florentine Codex. xviii4 355; 6359-745 1pp and 80 color plates outside of the pagination. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Inventory No: 046529. Fomento Cultural Banamex hardcover books
1625WB18308Amsterdam: Apud Guildjel: Lanss. Caesium 1625. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo. 886 pp. Full reddish brown leather antique style marbled ednpapers spine nicely gilt in 5 compartments. Engraved title; old inscription at bottom. Scattered later marks to text. A nice copy. <br/><br/> Apud Guildjel: Lanss. Caesium hardcover books
1629045230Dilingen: Caspari Sutoris Kaspar Sutor 1629. Later Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Contemporary vellum soiled but sound with the remains of leather ties. Old signature to title mild persistent foxing some wormholes in the right margins just touching a few letters mostly clean. A nice little Jesuit edition of Livy. 2646pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 045230. <br/><br/> Caspari Sutoris (Kaspar Sutor) hardcover books
