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188318111601Paris: P. Ducrocq 1883. Hardcover. Very good. Edmond Morin; Gerlier; Fortune Meaulle. Octavo size 222 pp. in French. "Les Accidents de l'Enfance" is a series of stories depicting children in horrible accidents framed as a warning and advice to children to listen to their parents and to not get into trouble. The stories are accompanied by a variety of illustrations of the accidents described in the text by French illustrator and engraver Edmond Morin 1824-1882 who illustrated many books and periodicals such as "Children's Week" French illustrator Gerlier and Fortune Meaulle 1844-1901 a French engraver best known for providing engravings for Victor Hugo's "The Toilers of the Sea" based on drawings by Francoise Chifflart 1825-1901. <br/><br/>This volume has a lovely cloth binding with bright gilt floral patterns on the front board; it is one of only a very few online as of this writing.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full red cloth with title inside floral pattern in black and gilt inside gilt ruled borders on the front board gilt lettering and floral decorations on the spine black floral pattern with publisher's name inside black ruled border bevelled boards all edges gilt blue endpapers frontispiece a black-and-white illustration by Edmond Morin title page with publisher's device in black black-and-white engraved headpieces by Gerlier and Meaulle throughout black-and-white drawings by Morin throughout; octavo size 8.25" by 5.5" pagination: i-vi 1-216. Please note the text is in French.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is very good with a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; boards are clean overall with some slight soiling some rubbing to the edges of the board to the corners and to the head and tail of the spine sunning to the spine and some minor foxing to some of the interior pages. Although the exterior has some wear the interior pages are clean overall and the text block is strong with bright gilt on the front board.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Â International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. P. Ducrocq hardcover books
183328365Philadelphia: Published by order of the Association; Printed by Wm. F. Geddes 1833. First edition. Removed. 20 pp. 8vo. John Morin Scott 1789-1858 grandson of the Revolutionary War leader of the same name was a mayor of Philadelphia. Here he argues against disunion and that the South with its smaller population "comparative seclusion from the world and from the assimilation process of constant intercourse with men have given in those states a tone of society less favorable to republican doctrines as we understand them there and more allied to the sentiments belonging to the aristocratic form." It ends with this pleas "Young men without distinction of party beloved sons of our beloved country - she cries to you for union union union." OCLC list a single copy in Easton Area Pub. Lib Pennsylvania. Not in Sabin. Not in NYS Lib 4th July Orations. Not in Univ. Missouri. American Imprints 21111. Published by order of the Association; Printed by Wm. F. Geddes unknown books
180925035Philadelphia: Mathew Carey Printed by A. Small 1809. First edition. Full calf with red morocco spine label gilt title and rules to spine. Boards rubbed a few small splits to the joints occasional scattered foxing binding firm a good copy but for the missing portion. viii 136 pp. Illus. with 6 engraved b/w plates. 12mo. Lacking bottom half of pp. 105-6 which is provided in reproduction. Not in Paltsits. Scarce. Last auctioned at Christie's Nov. 18 1988 lot 282. Shaw & Shoemaker 17136; BAL vol. 3 p. 253. Mathew Carey, Printed by A. Small hardcover books
1835S9943Paris:: Academy of Sciences 1835. 1835. 4to. 275 x 218 mm pp. 641-783. Unopened 9 large folding engraved plates. Modern quarter morocco over marbled boards gilt-stamped spine title. Fine. "Morin. . . had spent much time undertaking research into problems of mechanics and between 1833 and 1835 he had submitted a number of important memoirs to the Academy of Sciences. These memoirs presented the results of a series of carefully executed experiments on friction which he began planning in 1829. Due to the complicated experimental apparatus used built under the supervision of Poncelet the experiments only began in May 1831. They then continued without interruption until September of that year when funds given for the research were used up. The results confirmed and extended Coulomb's work on friction verifying its three general laws: friction is proportional to the normal force exerted; friction depends upon the nature of the surfaces in contact but is independent of the area of contact; and within large limits friction is independent of velocity. He also devised an apparatus to study the laws of falling bodies. It consisted of a cylinder rotating beside the falling body set up in such a way that a marker on the falling body describes a curve on the cylinder. He was able to give an accurate experimental proof of Galileo's result that distances travelled by a falling body increase as the square of the times. In 1849 Morin working with Poncelet invented the dynamometer of rotation which together with later refinements became the basic investigative tool in the study of work. He had already published work on dynamometers in Notice sur divers appareils dynamometriques Paris 1841 a work which describes the recording mechanism onto paper as well as describing a mechanical integrator used so that results of longer experiments could be read off directly. His results on mechanics were all published in the five volume work Lecons de mecanique pratique a l'usage des auditeurs des cours du Conservatoire des arts et metiers 1846-1853. Joseph Bennett made an English translation under the title Fundamental ideas of mechanics and experimental data which was published in 1860." "The teaching of mechanics at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers had begun in 1819 and other theoretical subjects had been introduced in the 1820s. As professor of mechanics Morin who never renounced his army commission drew heavily on the theoretical and practical work of his friend and teacher Poncelet and of other military officers. He also used the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers to promote a two-way flow of theory and practice between the military and private industry. Morin was Professor of Mechanics for ten years and then in 1849 he became Director of the Conservatoire. He served in this leading role for 30 years and greatly improved the efficiency and influence of the Conservatoire. One of his greatest achievements was opening the first teaching laboratory of engineering in 1852." Morin's works include: Nouvelles experiences sur le frottement faites a Metz en 1831 1832 Experiences sur les roues hydrauliques a axe vertical appelees turbines 1838 Experiences sur le tirage des voitures faites en 1837 et 1838 1839 Notice sur divers appareils dynamometriques 1841 Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers. Catalogue des collections 1851 Notions geometriques sur les mouvement et leurs transformations o elemens de cinematique 1857 Rapport de la commission sur le chauffage et la ventilation du Palais de Justice 1860 Etudes sur la Ventilation 1863 Des machines et appareils: destines a l'elevation des eaux 1863 Notes sur les appareils de chauffage 1866 and Salubrite des habitations. Manuel pratique du chauffage et de la ventilation 1868. His work on ventilation made him a leading world expert on the topic and he used this knowledge in undertaking research into carbon monoxide in rooms heated by iron stoves in 1869 and research into the preservation of flour in 1870. St. Andrew's University J.J. O'Connor and E.F. Robertson. [Academy of Sciences], [1835]. hardcover books
1895001393Paris: Librairie A. Rouquette 1895. First Limited Edition. Half Morocco. Near Fine. One of 100 copies issued on Japon paper with extra suite of illustrated plates on chine paper. 8vo 21 by 14 cm 41 pp not counting the extra suite. With superb vignette color illustrations by Morin depicting characters at a masque described by Vaucaire's witty verse. Many of the characters derive from the Commedia dell'Arte Pantalon Arlequin. The entirety of the production captures the spirit of the Belle Epoque or Fin de Siecle at least as we like to remember it. Complementing the work itself is the spine decoration of masked figures linked by a floreate vine. Some foxing on the chine extra suite leaves. The half morocco leather is sunned. Spine gilt decorations though remain vividly bright. <br/><br/> Librairie A. Rouquette unknown books
189100007755Paris: Librairie L. Conquet 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Small 12mo. 10 51 9 pp. Bound by the well-known French artisan and bookbinder Leon Gruel in red Morocco top edge gilt. Stylized gilt borders and gilt rules on the boards gilt lettering and decorations on the spine red fabric with floral design on endpapers and matching fabric used on the pastedowns surrounded by elaborate gilt designed border on red Morocco with a light blue silk bookmark bound in. Vignette title page in color along with a frontispiece and eleven plates and numerous decorations all by the author. This is the publisher's presentation issue on vellum paper signed by publisher and bookseller Leon Conquet with his indication that this copy is for Monsieur Legrand. This almost certainly was the well-known French illustrator Louis Legrand. Legrand moved to Paris in 1884 and began studying printmaking with the Belgian artist Felicien Rops who was under exclusive contract to Conquet from 1883 to 1885. Conquet's bookshop in Paris was a kind of salon for Parisian bibliophiles and illustrators and Conquet Rops Morin and Legrand would have been well-acquainted by the time of this book's publication in 1891. Although there are no other ownership markings the foregoing and Conquet's eschewal of using initials or a first name to identify the intended recipient suggests that there was only one person named Legrand who could be the intended recipient of a presentation copy of this book Louis Legrand himself See W. Z. Silverman The New Bibliopolis for illuminating discussion of each of these individuals and the Parisian book world during this era. A beautiful copy of this wonderful confluence of associations in the world of late 19th century French book arts and illustration. A Near Fine book with offsetting from the bound in bookmark on pages 22 - 23 where it presumably laid for many years and a faint dampstain on the front flyleaf but otherwise a clean and attractive example. Librairie L. Conquet hardcover books
18913453Paris: Librairie L. Conquet 1891. First edition presentation issue on vellum paper signed by the publisher. Hand-tinted title page 12 drypoint plates and 20 ornaments by the author. 51 3 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary citron morocco sides elaborately gilt spine in six compartments lettered on one raised bands gilt turn-ins satin endpapers with embroidered roses a.e.g. Front joint repaired. First edition presentation issue on vellum paper signed by the publisher. Hand-tinted title page 12 drypoint plates and 20 ornaments by the author. 51 3 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. With an Original Watercolor. With a charming original watercolor and pen and ink drawing of 9 characters from the book by the author/artist on the recto of the half-title inscribed beneath: "Ã mon ami Pelletan Louis Morin Librairie L. Conquet unknown books
