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16861335530Amsterdam: Abragam Wolfgangh 1686. Second Edition. Hardcover. 16mo 496 pages; VG; bound in full contemporary vellum; minor edge wear and bumping; text block clean; some end-paper markings; shadow of lost bookplate; index 18 illus. complete with frontispiece engraved title-page; and folded plates; plate 14 bound at pg. 358 instead of at 458 as listed; other decorative figures; light foxing; spine sunned; boards spot staining and discoloration; else very good; shelved case 3. 1335530. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Abragam Wolfgangh hardcover books
1685D7313Amsterdam / Utrecht: chez Jean Wolters et Ysbrand Haring / Frans Halma 1686 / 1685. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo 155 x 88 mm. 432pp. 7. Full-page engraved portrait of Chardin above his heraldry bearing arms of two rosettes chevron and bird additional engraved title 16 engraved plates including two chapter headpieces 12 folding are maps city panoramas or charts. The first English edition appeared in 1686 in London by Moses Pitt of 1686; Chardin having settled in England after his travels and was knighted there by Charles II. The title was reprinted twice in Amsterdam in the original French at different locations. First at Abraham Wolfgang and then at Wolters and Haring as in this copy. Contemporary vellum ms. title on spine with foldover edges speckled edges; light soiling and few small stains few minor tears on engraved title or marginal wear to plates. A very nice copy with plates in excellent shape. Bound after: SPON Jacob 1647-1685. Histoire de la Ville Et de l'Estat de Genève. Utrecht: Frans Halma 1685. 522pp. 16 of table. Woodcut printers device of Halma with motto Vivitur ingenio one lives on in spirit to title additional engraved title 6 plates of which 3 are folding among which the view of the Geneva region with placenames highlighted in yellow woodcut headpieces and decorative initials; one small fold-tear to Geneva plate. Formerly in the collection of famed bibliophile Henri Burton of Geneva his morocco bookplate neatly to front endpaper. <br/><br/>French sammelband of the Travels of Sir Jean Chardin; one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Persia and India and Spons History of Geneva from the collection of Henri Burton. A great deal of European travel writing details the history of Europes relationship to the Orient a place highly exoticized by western observers. Jean Chardin was a trader and the son of a jeweler who first went to the Levant in 1665 to purchase gems. He made a second journey in 1671 in the company of the artist Guillaume Grelot whom he met in Istanbul and whose drawings inspired the engravings in the present work. This edition comprises the first volume of the authors manuscript dealing with the period 1671-1673 and is all that was published until 1711. His work is divided into four parts: the first recounts his journey from Paris to Ispahan 1671-77 the second describes Persia and Ispahan the third the ruins of Persepolis and the fourth gives a history of Persia based on Persian writers. /// Spon 1647-1685 was a doctor and pioneering archaeologist of Greek antiquities. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes he fled France for Switzerland dying not long after in Geneva. His history of Geneva first published in 1680 was translated into English in 1687. Chardin an experienced trader is in a position to give detailed accounts of trade-routes prices articles bought and sold customs problems and so on whereas Spon is primarily interested in Antiquity concentrating on giving the exact wording of inscriptions illustrations of medals and ancient buildings and the comparison of towns and landscapes with the descriptions which appear in Classical texts. A fine sammelband neat and sturdy contained two important travel texts printed within just one year of each other. chez Jean Wolters et Ysbrand Haring / Frans Halma hardcover books
172319664Paris: André Cailleau 1723. 8vo 16.5 cm 6.5". 10 vols. I: Frontis. 10 254 pp.; 1 fold. map. II: 334 pp.; 4 fold. plts. 5 plts. III: 285 1 blank pp.; 4 fold. plts. 3 plts. IV: 280 pp.; 2 fold. plts. 3 plts. V: 312 pp.; 4 fold. tables 5 plts. VI: 328 pp.; 4 plts. VII: 10 15448 i.e. 446 pp. VIII: 255 1 blank pp.; 10 fold. plts. 6 plts. IX: 308 pp.; 1 double-spread fold. plt. 8 fold. plts. 19 plts. X: 22 3220 82 index pp. <br><br>Attractive French edition of Sir John Chardins Persian travelogue originally published in 1686. Brunet calls the account which covers Chardins voyages through India Russia and Persia un des plus intéressants que lon ait publiés in the 18th century; the work was and continues to be a major source of information on contemporary Persian politics government religion and culture.<br>Â Â Â Â The title-pages are printed in red and black and the 10 volumes are illustrated with a total of 79 plates many folding and tables including one map and one frontispiece. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Brunet I 1802. Contemporary speckled calf spines extra gilt; edges joints and extremities rubbed leather in some cases cracked or starting along joints or chipped at spine extremities two spines with compartments chipped. All edges speckled. Front pastedowns each with institutional bookplate front free endpapers rubber-stamped and with inked ownership inscriptions dated 1867 title-pages except for vol. I rubber-stamped reverse of map in vol. I rubber-stamped some vols. with first text page rubber-stamped. Additional plate creased laid in seemingly excised from another work. André Cailleau hardcover books
31082 p.l. lvi 502 pp. 8vo 19th-cent. sheep-backed marbled boards flat spine gilt red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: Dessain 1779. A most unusual copy very probably Chardin's own copy of this sale catalogue; it is the first of several sales here held under the maiden name of his wife "Filheul" by which Chardin one of the most important Parisian booksellers of his time periodically disposed of a portion of his vast stock. We know of later sales in 1806 1819 in London and 1824. This did not prevent Chardin from selling many rare books and MSS. directly to collectors throughout his career - the most outstanding was no doubt the Psalter of St. Louis which he sold to a Russian Grand Duke and which Louis XVIII acquired from him for the Bibliothèque Royale. The above catalogue especially rich in early French books is extremely well compiled and has been long held in high esteem. According to Longchamp I p. 496 La Vallière purchased heavily at this sale. One of the remarkable features of this catalogue is the large number of heterodox and politically subversive books betraying Chardin's sympathies which years later made him an enthusiastic supporter of the Revolution: of 122 lots only the number is given and their authors and titles are indicated by dots. In our copy these have been supplied by a contemporary annotator. According to Jean Viardot from whose library this comes this is Chardin's own copy. He has signed it on page 424 "Chardin A Paris en Juillet 1780." Another slightly later annotator has provided extensive notes on Chardin on pages 424-25. Chardin was eulogized at length by Dibdin who had him portrayed by Lewis in his Tour in France and Germany II pp. 400-404. Very good copy. 2544 lots; priced throughout in a contemporary hand. This copy lacks the final leaf with the list of 15th-century editio princeps. ❧ Gustave Brunet Dictionnaire de Bibliologie Catholique col. 459-"Il s'y trouve un assez grand nombre de livres rares et singuliers." Grolier Club Printed Catalogues of French Book Auctions.1643-1830 277. Peignot p. 98-"Catalogue intéressant par le grand nombre d'articles précieux qu'il renferme.". hardcover books
