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16652305911Paris: Chez Iacques d'Allin Jacques 1665. Second Edition. Second Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. Second edition. Small internal chip from spine boards rubbed with minor loss from corners light stain to edges of endpapers only. 1665 Full-Leather. xliv 554 pp. 16mo. French text. Original full leather gilt titles and decorations.A work by the French philosopher and physician discussing human knowledge the soul etc. "Marin Cureau de La Chambre 1594-1669 was a physician from Le Mans who advised and treated two French Kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV as well as his patron Chancellor Pierre S Chez Iacques d'Allin [Jacques] unknown books
1648045421Paris: Pierre Rocolet 1648. Second Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. 2 volumes in 19th century morocco backed marbled boards. Modest wear at corners spines rubbed with some damage at tops of spines. Light browning early on scattered foxing and faint waterstains a bit of marginal worming to a few spots not touching any text old signatures to titles title and frontis loose and possible reattached when rebound - nice wide margined copies attractive frontispiece in volume one. Volume one is the second edition volume two the first. 243871;1046880pp. Graesse IV 62. La Chambre physician to Louis XIII wrote a number of influential works on medical and philosophical subjects. Size: Octavo 8vo. 2-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Philosophy; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045421. <br/><br/> Pierre Rocolet hardcover books
1683001262Paris: A. Soubron 1683. Full Calf. Very Good. 14 412 pp. 100 emblem plates all full page. 12mo. 6 by 4 inches. Decorative devices head and foot pieces throughout in the form of bouquets friezes vases baskets as well as decorated letter at the beginning of each section 100 in all. Plates are wonderful baroque woodcuts each illustrating a moral. This would appear to be a second or third edition the first being in 1646. Brunet II 1658 who describes the work as "now a bit rare" mentions a 1684 edition without citing this earlier one and clearly meaning a different edition. Graesse III 114 mentions a 1681 edition without detail and thus this might essentially be. Tight. With some light scattered soilage but overall impression is clean other than on some of the plates a prior owner wrote Latin translations of the maxims beneath the printed captions -- never affecting the pictorial image. Also old handwritten cursive notes on title and blank verso. Attractively rebound in full modern calf with green and red spine labels. <br/><br/> A. Soubron unknown books
165037850Paris: Pierre Rocolet 1650. 4to. 9 1/4 x 7 inches. 6 340 6pp. Engraved printer's device on title-page engraved head-piece and initial on the dedication leaf 26 engraved illustrations including one full-page. Contemporary mottled calf expertly rebacked to style spine gilt with raised bands red morocco lettering piece<br/> <br/>First edition of an important work of optics and the musical nature of the refraction of color.<br/> <br/>La Chambre a protege of Cardinal de Richelieu served as physician to Chancelier Seguier and Louis XIII and entered the Academie Royale in 1666. The present work was instrumental in the development of French mathematician Pierre de Fermat's eponymous principle as well as the experiments by Newton which led to his publication of Opticks in 1704. Following Aristotle in deriving a link between the color specturm and musical theory La Chambre theorized all colors being encompasses within white light and arranged colors over two octaves with the seven colors of Aristotle at successive fourths fifths and octaves. Thus arranged symmetrically the "scale" could be read in either direction both up and down with white as the highest or lowest notes. La Chambre hoped to establish a universal theory of color and musical harmony; i.e. if a musical interval was dissonant the colors it represented would similarly clash. In Newton's Opticks this parallel between the color spectrum and a musical scale was further refined. A second edition of this work would be published in 1662; the first edition is scarce.<br/> <br/>Krivatsy 3017; Brunet III 726; Grasse IV 62; Cioranescu 22651. Pierre Rocolet unknown books
1648262348Paris: Pierre Rocolet 1648. First. hardcover. near fine. Printer's device on title and some other decorative woodcut initials and headpieces throughout. 8 30 10 390 pages. Short 4to full contemporary calf with gilt spine. Paris: Chez Pierre Rocolet; Jacques Langlois Imprimeur du Roy 1648. First edition. Scarce. A near fine copy with clean pages and wide margins.<br/><br/> An uncommon title on animal psychology. The author a doctor from Le Mans who was the personal physician of the Chancelier Seguier and founding member of the Academie Francaise examines the likely relationships of animals and classifies them under the broad categories of love and hate. In terms of intelligence he concludes that animals indeed have feelings and are able to express them. OCLC lists 21 copies including those at Harvard Cambridge National Library of Medicine & Bibliotheque Nationale de France.<br/><br/> Pierre Rocolet unknown books
16631752Paris: Jean du Puis/Widow of Langlois 1663. Scarce edition of this important treatise on perspective by the most scientifically rigorous of 17th-century French theorists of particular interest for its contention that the illustrations to earlier treatises were often defective Millard thus making it the first work on the subject to treat the problem of didactic illustration in a deliberate and self-conscious manner. A comprehensive textbook Book I gives basic geometrical definitions and an introduction to perspective construction; Book II treats simple and deformed perspectivenamely the curved or irregular surfaces found in vaulted ceilings niches etc. and examines the necessary surface distortion anamorphosis to bring a picture painted on such a surface into perspective; Book III deals with more complex cases of anamorphosis such as reflections on flat cylindrical and conical surfaces; and Book IV covers the use of dioptrics for placing figures on flat surfaces. The sections of books II and III dealing with anamorphosis were particularly important whether in Nicerons own practice as a painter or for later artists or theorists see the chapter on Niceron in Baltruaitis and according to Mahoney DSB the discussion of refraction in Book IV possibly contains the first published reference to Descartes derivation of the law of refraction X.104. The work first appeared in French in 1638; reprinted in 1646 and 1651 in the latter with the first appearance of Mersennes treatise. This edition is a second edition of that reprint. Millard French 124 1663; Wiebenson III.b.18; Kemp The Science of Art pp. 129ff.; Baltruaitis Anamorphosis 51ff. Folio 35 x 22.5 cm engraved frontispiece signed Daret 6 ff. including half-title and title engraved portrait of Niceron signed M. Lasne 191 1 pp. with 7 woodcut diagrams in text and 50 numbered plates 49 full-page 1 double page; 6 ff. 134 pp. Note: plates bound at back. Bound in contemporary calf covers ruled spine with raised bands elaborately gilt; covers abraded and some small chips to spine on bands; former ownership stamp on verso of title; spotting and even toning or light browning on scattered leaves often seen in this work; wormhole in margin of plates 27 and following repaired extending into printed surface generally only printed border. Otherwise very good. Jean du Puis/Widow of Langlois hardcover books
