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1754027684Paris: Proult & Jombert 1754. Quarto. In two volumes with exceptionally wide margins. Volume I half-title 443 pages with printed errata at bottom of the last page Volume II half-title 204 pages with 25 engraved copper fold-out maps each exquisitely hand-colored. Lancelot de Turpin Crisse with plates illustrating all aspects of how armies might attack or defend in the various conditions of war forts rivers unusual terrain. General George Washington first learned of this book while serving with General Forbes who had used its ideas in the Duquesne campaign. Washington who could not read French immediately was able to understand the maps and their implications which he refers to it in his writings I 219. Many copies are lacking maps among the best and complete in American libraries are the one at West Point the U.S. Army War College Yale Princeton the Houghton at Harvard and NYPL. Both volumes beautifully bound in a full modern paneled calf raised bands red and green contrasting leather labels gilt renewed endpapers. A very handsome set. Proult & Jombert unknown
16621908290003Paris: Excudebat Antoine Vitre Regis & Cleri Gallicani typographus 1662. Hardcover. Good. Thick folio 44 cm. Bound in contemporary leather-backed boards. Joints cracked. Spine ends chips but binding holding. Collation: 4 pages leaves xvj 765 pages 1 leaf 222 16 12 lxxxviij 32 pages. 2 double-page folding maps engraved by Nicolas Sanson. The maps have been outlined in color. Printer's vignette on title as well as printer's devices throughout. Printed in two columns. Minor marginal worming to a few leaves. <br> 19th century signature of J. William Huttinger John or Johann Wilhelm b. 1836 in Germany signed by him while he lived in Paris and also when he lived in Beverly Burlington Co New Jersey. He married Alice E Reynolds Huttinger 1853-1918 who settled in Lansdowne Delaware County Pennsylvania. <br> Not in Darlow & Moule. <br> This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Paris: Excudebat Antoine Vitre, Regis & Cleri Gallicani typographus hardcover
0752-26Paris 1563. ex Gallico sermone in Latinum conversa per Ioannen Veterem. 12°. Titelbl. 44 fol. pag. Bl. 2 Bll.; Lagenkollation: A-E-1-8 u. F 1-6. Mit mehreren Initialen. HLdr.-Bd. d. 18. Jahrhunderts mit handschriftl. Rückentitel. Stellenw. braunfleckig. Titelbl. mit handschriftl. zeitgen. Namenszug u. Bibliotheksstempel sowie Ausgeschieden-Stempel mit Bleistift-Kaufvermerk der 1970er Jahre u. gedrucktem Antiquariats-Etiktett. Nicht bei Graesse; vgl. FRBNF30196846 - Seltene lateinische Übersetzung von Lancelot le Carles 1508-1568 im gleichen Jahr aber zuvor auf Französisch erschienenen Werkes zu den Taten des Herzogs François de Lorraine Duc de Guise 1519-1563. Lancelot le Carles war Bischof von Riez Jean Vetus ca. 1525-1593 war Kanzler des Kardinals Charles I. de Guise von Lothringen ein Bruder von Francoise de Guise. [Paris 1563]. unknown
107169London Printed by J.C. for William Crooke at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar 1676. . Second edition corrected by the author; 8vo engraved frontispiece trimmed close title-page printed in red and black contemporary sprinkled calf gilt morocco lettering piece rubbed short splits to joints. 12 247 5 pp.<br /> An interesting early account of life and customs of the Jewish community of the Barbary Coast.<br /><br />Lancelot Addison 1632-1703 was an English author and Church of England clergyman he was educated at Queens College Oxford and worked as a chaplain in Tangier for seven years in the 1660s. Some scholars point out that part of this work largely repeats material found in the English translation of Johannes Buxtorf's Synagoga Judaica: The Jewish Synagogue or an Historical Narration of the State of the Jewes. London 1657.<br /> ESTC R9967; Wing A 527. London, Printed by J.C. for William Crooke, at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar, 1676. unknown
108846London William Croke 1679. . First edition collation: 8 136pp 8vo 180 x 115 mm; pen trials to title verso and final leaf footer light dampstaining and browning mostly to margins upper margin shaved touching a few pagination numerals mispaginated but complete; contemporary sheep worn upper cover near detached housed in modern drop-box. <br /> The first edition of Lancelot Addison's 1632-1703 biography of the Prophet Muhammad and examination of Muslim teachings.<br /><br />A scholarly work much informed by Addison's seven years living amongst the Jews and Muslims of Tangier The Life and Death of Mahumed presented a revisionist account of the history of Islam 'free' from the 'many ridiculous but usual Stories. which the present Mahumedans laugh at as the malitious Inventions of the Enemies of their Prophet' Epistle Dedicatory.<br /><br />It was published during the short-lived English colony at Tangier in north western Morocco where Addison had been stationed from 1663 to 1670 as chaplain to the unfortunate garrison. The territory was acquired in the marriage treaty of Charles II with Portugal but proved a sore thumb in England's colonial ambitions from the beginning. Shortly after Addison's arrival the newly appointed governor Andrew Rutherford 1st earl of Teviot was killed in an ambush which left nearly 500 soldiers dead. Addison lamented the loss of man who 'would have made Tanger as famous an English Colony as it was once a Roman' The Moores Baffled pp.25-2.<br /><br />An uncommon work ESTC records only 11 copies in institutional collections. It was reissued the same year under the revised title The First State of Mahumedism.<br /> ESTC R33059; Wing A523. London, William Croke, 1679. unknown
