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19185A Troyes, Chez Sainton, André, 1791-1792. Two volumes. (4), 518, (12) pp.; 429, (13) pp. 4to. Contemporary calf, spines gilt with red and green labels and gilt lettering, gilt fillets on sides, gilt inside dentelles, all edges gilt, some minor imperfections. Not in Martin & Walter; not in Monglond; Lecestre, p. 18 & p. 19. First edition. The first volume deals with the session from 3 November upto 15 December 1790 and dealt with a great variety of subjects: population du département, sur l'agriculture, sur l'industrie, sur le commerce, sur les arts, sur les grands communications, sur les rivières, sur les routs, travaux publics, ateliers de charité, encouragemens et secours de bienfaisance, biens nationaux, contribution patriotique, etc., etc. Henri Picot Dampierre was the president of the Assembly.The second volume covers the session that was held from 15 November upto 14 December 1791: this session covered a great variety of subjects: Frais d'administration, dépense de l'ordre judiciaire de l'année 1791, frais du culte, pensions et secours accordés aux ecclésiastiques et communautés religieuses, dépenses relatives aux travaux des routes, aux travaux de charité, au bien public, à la mendicité, population du département, sur l'agriculture, sur l'industrie, sur le commerce, sur les arts, sur les grands communications, sur les rivières, sur les routs, travaux publics, ateliers de charité, encouragemens et secours de bienfaisance, biens nationaux, contribution patriotique, etc., etc.The first volume has the gilt stamped name of H.P. Dampierre in the center of both sides with above a gilt stamped fleuron with the text "La Nation, la Loi et le Roi", the second volume has the gilt stamped name of T. Cobin, Pr. Général in center of both sides with above the gilt stamped fleuron 'Droits de l'Homme'. H.P Dampierre was the President of the Assembly.
Oblong 4to. (16) pp. With several black-and-white illustrations. Stapled brochure. Extremely rare publication on the oppression of the Armenian people by the Ottoman Empire, preceding the terrible genocide by only a couple of years. This is a German translation of the equally rare French work "L'Arménie persécutée", published in Lausanne. Not a single copy s traceable in libraries internationally; only one single copy of the French version is known in libraries (Lausanne). - Among the impressive illustrations are reproductions of two paintings by the British artist Charles Joseph Staniland relating to the massacre of Constantinople on 30 September 1895, as well as depictions of Armenian costumes, a group of orphans, farmers, Ottoman troops, and the torture of an Armenian prisoner. - Co-edited by the German "Hilfsbund für Armenien", a charity organisation active only from 1896 to 1900. German society, which at this point was still very much stuck in colonialist thinking, was not ready to face the misery of the Armenian people, given that their oppressor, the Ottoman Empire, was an ally to Germany. The international lack of interest in the tragic situation of the Armenians ended up enabling one of the worst genocides of the 20th century that was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert. - Evenly browned throughout; somewhat foxed. With several small marginal tears and flaws; a portion of pp. 13f. clipped (ca. 65 x 130 mm, presumably with loss of image, but no loss to text).
229478Paris, Antoine Boudet, 1743 3 vol. in-4, veau fauve marbré, dos à nerfs cloisonnés et fleuronnés, pièces de titre cerise, encadrement de triple filet à froid sur les plats, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque). Restaurations aux coiffes, charnières et coins, qqs épid. sur les plats.
174863934CBBerlin, Verlag Christian Albrecht Gäbert, 1748. 2°. 33 x 21 cm. 2 Blatt, 328 Seiten, [3] Blatt, 20 Seiten. Brauner Ganzlederband der Zeit auf drei Zierbünden mit schlichtem, blindgeprägtem Buchschmuck und rotem Sprengschnitt. [7 Warenabbildungen]
4to. (32), 533, (3), 25, (73) pp., final blank. With engraved frontispiece (dated 1704). Contemporary full vellum with handwritten spine title. Reissue, with new title only, of the only bilingual Italian and Dutch edition, which had been published in 1704 by J. du Vivie and J. Severinus of Leiden. An important legal sourcebook, the "Consolato" contains the most complete systematic survey of medieval maritime customs. The first dated edition appeared at Barcelona in 1494; later Italian editions incorporated maritime laws of Italian cities, and the "Consolato" came into force throughout the whole Mediterranean, and as supplementary law for Northern European countries. It exercised influence on maritime legislation in various West European countries, including the French "Ordonnances de la marine" and the "Code de commerce". - Italian and Dutch versions are printed on opposite pages. Translated into Dutch by Abraham Westerveen; the Italian version appears to date from the 15th century. The appendix ("Ordinacions de tot vexell qui armara per anar en cors e de tota armada ques faca per mar") is in the original Catalan. - Slight browning, but a good copy. Kress 2415. Goldsmiths' 4054.
51 pp. Original staple-stitched printed wrappers. 8vo. English translation of Lenin's article ("Uroki revoliutsii"), written in late July 1917 and first published in mid-September with an added postscript reflecting on the events of August 1917. During a period when the future form of governance was still undecided, Lenin's pamphlet promotes the idea of the "Soviet" (workers' council) rather than parliamentary democracy. Importantly, the appendix presents one of the first English overviews of the new political reality, defining and discussing such terms as the "Essers," "Mensheviks," "Fist (Kulak)," and "Soviet." The booklet was first published in 1917 by the same publisher (34 pp.); the second edition is presumably updated to reflect political developments in the interim. The pamphlet was also reprinted in San Francisco in 1919 by the People's Institute. This 1918 edition is quite scarce, with KVK and OCLC showing copies at the Danish National Library, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Harvard (Houghton Library), and Zurich. - A very good copy of a fragile title. OCLC 80165990.
240267Lisbonne, monastère de S. Vincent hors les murs, 1749 2 vol. in-folio, [3] ff. n. ch. (titre avec belles armes des Bragance, avertissement, autorisations), 326 pp., un f. vierge, 80 pp. d'index, texte sur deux colonnes ; [4] ff. n. ch. (titre, avertissement, approbations), 498 pp., un f. n. ch. d'errata, avec une belle vignette en-tête gravée par O. Cor d'après Debrie, demi-basane fauve à coins, dos à nerfs ornés de fleurons et guirlandes dorés, pièces de titre cerise, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque). Une coiffe rognée, coins abîmés.
21381et enluminé sur velin ivoire (380 x 485 mm) en faveur de Petrus Ybod, reconnu comme docteur en droit, en date du 10 septembre 1622, sous l’autorité de Joanne Le More, son professeur et de Julius Pacius, premier docteur régent de la faculté de droit, sous la présidence de Petrus Andrea de Gelas de Léberon, évêque de Valence et de Die de 1600 à 1622 en sa qualité de Chancelier de l’Université. On peut noter que le jury était composé aussi de Paul Gaspard, Elie Millet et Jacques Crespe, docteurs en théologie et Antoine Galliot et Claude Rondet docteurs en médecine. Absence des lacs, signature autographe de Joannem Crose notaire du Roi et secrétaire du Dauphiné.
235981Paris, 1790 - 1802 26 pièces en un vol. in-8, demi-veau fauve, dos à nerfs, pièce de titre cerise, tranches rouges (reliure un peu postérieure). Un mors supérieur légèrement fendu.
151398871513 daim sur carton, lies ( 1 subsiste sur 4), dos à n. in-8, (20ff.), cxxxvi ff., Lxxxiij ff. (3ff)., Lyon Johannus Thomas 1513
Large 8vo. 3 vols. (16), 790, (2) pp. (2), "770" (but: 707), (11) pp. (2), VI pp., 1076 cols. Contemporary calf, gilt spines on 5 raised bands and red label; covers with gilt ornamental border. All edges red. Fifth and best edition of one of the most widely used German handbooks for merchants, first published in 1719 with a second volume in 1726/27. The first volume and the first part of the second volume treat the commercial practices of the cities of Germany, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, the Dutch Republic, Great Britain, the Austrian Netherlands (Belgium), Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, and the United States. The second part of the second volume deals with business correspondence, business travelling, book-keeping, and letters of exchange. The third volume, published separately, is an alphabetically arranged dictionary of commodities. - Usual mild browning but a fine set. Kress B.1540.
plein vélin ivoire d’époque à fermoirs, tit. manuscrit à l’encre sur dos lisse, p. de tit. rouge et noire, vignettes, lettrines, impression avec commentaire en marge, (fermoirs manquants, épidermures et taches sur la couv. avec qq. mq., trous de vers en début et fin d’ouvrage, qq. mouillures en marge, qq. p. avec papier acidifié, rares rousseurs et piqûres), int. frais malgré les défauts soulignés Par cette somme complète du droit français de la fin du XIVe siècle (la première édition est de 1387), B. fut un des premiers avec Beaumanoir à ouvrir la voie à l’unification du droit et à la réformation-rédaction des coutumes. L’édition ici présentée est la dernière qui ait été imprimée. Elle contient des importantes annotations de Charondas. Outre les passages fondamentaux sur les pouvoirs du Roi de France, les fondements du droit civil coutumier, il y a naturellement dans ce recueil une multitude de choses curieuses (spécialement en matière pénale) ; on ne peut s’empêcher d’en citer quelques unes - sur les personnes « refroidy de nature », les juges et avocats corrompus (p. 293) et pour terminer, (p. 1493) « destre sodomites item qui est prouvé sodomite doit perdre les coüilles pour la première fois & pour la seconde fois doit perdre le membre, & pour la tierce fois doit estre ars ». Il est à noter que Charondas, annotant cette partie de la somme rural souligne que pour lui il doit être puni de mort dès la première fois. Frappante manière de montrer le plus grand libéralisme des mœurs médiévales qu’à l’époque classique. Texte d’une grande rareté.
8vo. (8), 262, (2) pp. With woodcut device above colophon. Contemporary blindstamped full vellum. Exceedingly rare second Spanish edition of the military treatise "I Carichi Militari" by the Neapolitan commander of the Habsburg armies in Italy, the Low Countries and Catalonia and aide-de-camp to Albert, Archduke of Austria, Brancaccio, which was first published in Antwerp in 1610. The first Spanish edition appeared in 1639, while a third one was published in 1710. Includes the duties and functions of the soldiers and generals of the infantry, cavalry, and artillery, as well as the sovereign's responsibility to ensure order within the military. - Contemporary handwritten ownership to title-page deleted. Last in the collection of Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe (1862-1956), commander of the Territorial Army and president of the Society for Army History Research. The invoice he received from Grafton & Co is loosely inserted. - Binding somewhat waterstained, hinges cracked. A few minor edge flaws, tiny holes to the right margin of the first 150 pages, not touching text; a few marks in pencil. Amost unobtainable edition of this standard work: no other copy of any edition in auction records; the 1671 edition could not be traced in OCLC/Worldcat. STC V 6915169. Palau 263. Peeters-Fontainas, Impressions espagnoles 163.
8vo. (14), 1037, (19) pp. Title-page printed in red and black. With additional engraved title-page and 58 engraved plates (one double-page, 6 folding). Contemporary full vellum with hand-lettered spine title. Rare second, expanded edition of Böckler's "compendious manual of the art of warfare for the practitioner's immediate use" (Jähns), first published in 1665. A total of ten editions appear to have been printed until the end of the century. - Uppermost quarter of spine painted red in the manner of a label. Small rust hole on leaf Q2. - Provenance: armorial bookplate of Ignaz Dominik Graf Chorinsky (1729-92), governor of Silesia and the son-in-law of the Austrian Chief of Police Franz Joseph Graf Saurau, notorious for his crackdown on the so-called Jacobin conspiracies. Later in the collection of Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe (1862-1956), commander of the Territorial Army and president of the Society for Army History Research (purchased from Sotheran's, December 1936). VD 17, 39:120556W. Cf. Jähns 1152. Jordan 363 (counting only 56 plates).
Folio (ca. 285 x 410 mm). (28) pp. With engraved title and 10 engraved plates. Contemporary gold-brocade wrappers. Second, enlarged 25th anniversary edition. An attractive work of imperial representation commemorating the ninth centenary of the founding of the Holy Roman Empire. It features brief biographies of the monarchs from Charlemagne to Charles VI, as well as ten magnificent triumphal arches, those for Rudolph I of Habsburg and Charles V constituting two of the most splendid examples. The engraved title shows a triumphal procession for Charles VI, featuring the Emperor on horseback, led by a group of angels and warriors as well as by Christ himself. The engravings were created by Johannes Andreas Pfeffel, Johann Ulrich Kraus, and Christian Engelbrecht. First published in 1700 in Vienna. - The pretty brocade wrappers are slightly rubbed. Paper somewhat dusty; corner tears to first two leaves repaired with paper. De Backer/S. I, 1569f., 8. OCLC 179996450. Kat. der Ornamentstichslg. Berlin 3624. Not in Ruggieri.
Small folio (220 x 310 mm). (4), 58 ff. With large woodcut portrait of the author on title-page and 96 woodcut illustrations in text. Later blindstamped English calf. Third edition of an early artillery manual by Capobianco (d. 1610), the artillery captain of the Italian city of Crema. First published in 1598, it "provides an excellent overview of Italian artillery in general at the end of the 16th century [...] and includes a highly interesting construction of a distance meter" (cf. Jähns). Capiobianco's newly invented instrument is discussed on ff. 51v-54; the corresponding illustrations show its construction and use. Other chapters deal with fortifications, the manufacture of guns, artillery wheels, and ballistics, the latter with references to Tartaglia's work on the subject, as well as festive fireworks and warnings of the same. - Ownership by "W. W. Radford", dated 1871, to flyleaf. Later in the collection of Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe (1862-1956), commander of the Territorial Army and president of the Society for Army History Research, with his armorial bookplate to pastedown. - Binding slightly worn. Title-page limp, somewhat soiled, a small hole near the gutter; a few pages narrowly cut at upper margin. Cockle 673. USTC 4023336. Cf. Spaulding/Karpinski 69 (second edition 1602). Jähns 657 (1598 ed.).
202895Pintiae [Valladolid], excussum apud heredes Bernardini de Sanctodomingo, 1588 in-4, 10 ff. non chiffrés-394 ff.-28 ff. non chiffrés, portrait gravé au verso du dernier feuillet préliminaire, vélin ivoire souple, dos lisse, titre manuscrit au dos (reliure de l'époque). Traces de lacet, gardes refaites. Qqs rousseurs et mouillures. Qqs erreurs de pagination, sans manque. Qqs annotations anciennes à l'encre. Feuillet d'errata contrecollé sur les dernières gardes. Etiquette et ex-libris Charles de Launet.
4to. 2 parts in one volume. (2), 3, (1), 8, 91 (but: 83), (1) pp. With engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title-page ("Treatie of fortifications"), and 27 engraved and woodcut plates (14 of which are single-sided). Contemporary blindstamped full sheepskin. First edition. - Second part of this rare treatise on fortifications by the Anglo-Dutch courtier, diplomat, spy, art agent, miniaturist, and architectural designer Gerbier (1592-1663), itself subdivided into two parts, printed in English and French parallel text. It discusses the proper shape, angles and proportions of fortresses in part one, providing tables for their calculation and displaying model fortifications including pentagons, hexagons, and dodecagons. Part two covers the actual construction of forts, describing walls and gates as well as irregular forts, using Breda, Antwerp, Mannheim, Geneva and others as examples. - In 1646 Gerbier inherited a house in Bethnal Green, where from 1649 to 1650 he operated an academy for young gentlemen, the curriculum including horsemanship, foreign languages, cosmography and the construction of military fortifications. The present work probably served as a manual for his students. After the Restoration and, having received royal disdain, Gerbier turned to architecture and entered the service of William, 1st Earl of Craven. - Pagination jumps from 40 to 49; French title-page of part two not included in pagination. Binding chafed in places; small tear to head of spine. Frontispiece and engraved title somewhat browned and brownstained; occasional creases throughout; tear to final plate rebacked with a strip of paper. From the collection of Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe (1862-1956), commander of the Territorial Army and president of the Society for Army History Research. Brunet II, 1549. OCLC 65824474. Cf. Wing G563; ESTC R202107 (parts I and II); Alston X.44.
8vo. VI, 51, (1) pp. Contemporary full navy-blue morocco gilt with cover rules and gilt spine title and ornamentation. Leading edges and inner dentelle gilt. All edges gilt. White glossy endpapers. First edition of this rare study of poverty, its various types and causes, and the best ways for the state to counter it. A second edition appeared in 1836. - Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf to the Russian statesman Karl Robert Graf Nesselrode (1780-1862): "Son Excellence, Monsieur le Comte de Nesselrode est priée de vouloir bien daigner accepter ce petit écrit comme un faible hommage de l'auteur. Hambourg, ce 22 Avril 1834". The Hamburg-born diplomat Carl Godeffroy (1787-1848), a childhood friend of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, served as resident minister at St. Petersburg from 1822 to 1832, representing the Hansa cities of Hamburg, Lübeck and Bremen at the Imperial Russian court, where he had known Nesselrode as the Russian vice-chancellor. - A few minute repairs and reinforcements to the inner hinges and inscription. A finely preserved presentation copy in a luxury binding. Stammhammer (Social-Politik) I, 206.
8vo. XII, 403 pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First edition, first impression of what is generally considered the author's magnum opus, the book widely credited with creating the terminology and shape of modern macroeconomics. One of the iconic books in the development of economic thought by one of the outstanding economists of his generation. "The composition of this book", Keynes declares, "has been for the author a long struggle of escape, and so must the reading of it be for most readers if the author's assault upon them is to be successful, - a struggle of escape from habitual modes of thought and expression. The ideas which are here expressed so laboriously are extremely simple and should be obvious. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds" (Preface, p. VIII). "In 1936, although Roosevelt's 'New Deal' had utilized Keynesian prescriptions, 'The General Theory' ('on which', says the DNB, 'his fame as the outstanding economist of his generation must rest') threw the economists of the world into two violently opposed camps. Yet eight years later Keynes was to dominate the international conference at Bretton Woods, out of which came the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank; and his influence during the ensuing decades, even on his theoretical opponents, has been such that a highly placed American official recently remarked that 'we are all Keynesians today'" (PMM). - Very light discoloration to the upper margin (ca 3 cm) of the front side. A fine copy. PMM 423. Moggridge A10.1. OCLC 167708. Books That Made Europe, p. 322.
32 pp. Original printed self-wrappers. 8vo. First and only edition of a brochure that gathers six of Lenin's articles and speeches on the agrarian question, from April to October 1917, as well as two Bolshevik decrees on the matter. During this period, the Bolsheviks had widely disseminated Lenin's demand for complete nationalization of the land, which helped garner broad support for the Bolshevik cause among the Russian peasants. - Wrappers detached; old Soviet bookstore mark to last page; internally good. KVK and OCLC locate copies at Chicago, Harvard, Hoover, Indiana, Melbourne, Michigan, Ohio State, Yale, the British Library, IISG, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, and the Swedish National Library. The copy at Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin is marked a war loss. OCLC 38784005.
19 pp. Original printed wrappers. 8vo. A very unusual edition of Lenin's speech, also published the same year by the State Publishing House as part of the series "Rechi i besedy agitatora." The present edition is not priced and features the words "A gift to the peasant from Moscow printers" ("Podarok krest'ianinu ot moskovskikh pechatnikov"). It appears to be abridged and the text differs somewhat from the "Rechi i besedy agitatora" edition. OCLC 38810923 (a single copy at Hoover).
8vo (140 x 195 mm). 64 pp. Original printed wrappers. First Russian edition of the influential political pamphlet by the German socialist Wilhelm Liebknecht, with a foreword by Lenin. Prepared with a view to the upcoming election in Prussia in 1899 under the title "Kein Kompromiss - kein Wahlbündnis", Liebknecht's text appeared to Lenin a suitable means of fighting revisionism and opportunism among the socialist party, and had it translated into Russian by Dmitry Leshchenko. - Frayed at edges. Several phrases underlined with pencil. 3 small bookseller stamps to lower wrapper. Cf. OCLC 610341341 (1919 ed.).
(16), 151 (recte: 149), (1) SS., l. w. Bl. Pergamentband der Zeit mit Wappensupralibros (Kaiserwappen als König von Böhmen und Ungarn, Orden des Goldenen Vlieses) auf Vorder- und Hinterdeckel in Goldprägung (oxidiert). Reste von Bindebändern. Dreiseitiger Goldschnitt. 8vo. Erste deutsche Ausgabe, im selben Jahr wie die lateinische erschienen: ein in der Art von Heiligenkalendern angelegter Index aller Tage des Jahres, denen jeweils die Geburts-, Todes- und sonstigen Gedenktage der Habsburger zugeordnet sind. Einer von Megisers "Versuch[en] an der Genealogie der Habsburger - ein Thema, welches dazumal vielfach erörtert wurde. Die Arbeiten eines Laz und Cuspinian darüber waren ihm bekannt; seine Darstellungen im Diarium Austriacum (1614) [...] lehnen sich an den vorsichtigeren Guillimannus und den Niederländer Pontus Henterus (+ 1602) an" (Doblinger, S. 455). Gewidmet der Gemahlin von Kaiser Matthias, der Kaiserin Anna von Österreich-Tirol (1585-1618), Stifterin des Wiener Kapuzinerklosters und der Kapuzinergruft. Der aus dem Schwäbischen gebürtige Polyhistor und Sprachgelehrte Megiser (1554-1619) wurde 1612 von Erzherzog Karl als Geschichtsschreiber nach Linz berufen wurde; 1615 wurde er Historiograph der oberösterreichischen Stände. - Einbanddeckel etwas aufgeworfen; innen mit durchgehendem kl. Wasserrand im oberen Rand. Hübscher Pergamenteinband mit dem kaiserlichen Wappen an beiden Deckeln. Am Titel radierter zeitgenöss. hs. Besitzvermerk des Kapuzinerklosters St. Ulrich in Wien (gegr. 1600; aufgelassen 1811) mit entsprechendem hs. Rückenschildchen in roter und schwarzer Tinte. Im Auktionsweg aus einer österreichischen Privatsammlung erworben. Selten. VD 17, 23:276157B. ADB XXI, 184. Max Doblinger, Hieronymus Megisers Leben und Werke (MIÖG 26.3 [1905]), S. 431-478, hier: S. 478, Nr. 35.
8vo. XLV, (3), 176 pp. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. Second German edition, published three years after the English original ("The Subjection of Women") and the first German edition. A landmark in the history of women's emancipation. The ideas Mill here put forth were developed in collaboration with his wife, Helen Taylor Mill, who had died in 1858. In this work, Mill states that "the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes - the legal subordination of one sex to the other - is wrong in itself [...] and ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality [...]". Mill remained a campaigner for the emancipation of women; he "declared for women's suffrage in his election address at Westminster in 1885 and from that time forward a new bill was introduced into Parliament every few years to promote it" (PMM 398). - This second edition has an extensive new introduction by the translator Jenny Hirsch, in which she sketches the state of the women's movement in various European countries. Hirsch (1829-1902) was a well-known German feminist, a member of the Women's Congress of 1865 and for many years active in the "Lette-Verein", an association for promoting the education, training and employment of women. - Provenance: ownership of Betty Figdor (1827-1903), wife of the Viennese merchant and banker Gustav Figdor (1816-79), to front free endpaper. A good copy. Stammhammer (Socialismus) I, 150, 9. Stammhammer (Social-Politik) I, 344, 4.