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1878ST16926Paris: Printed by Ch. Unsinger for Alphonse Le Merre 1878. No. 12 OF 50 COPIES on Whatman paper and 50 copies on paper de Chine. 225 x 140 mm. 8 7/8 x 5 5/8". 2 p.l. 240 pp. 2 leaves.With notice of the author's life and notes on the text by Anatole France. <br/> FINE DARK BLUE JANSENIST CRUSHED MOROCCO BY MARIUS MICHEL stamp-signed in gilt on front doublure raised bands gilt titling CITRON MOROCCO DOUBLURES GILT AND INLAID diagonal gilt fillets intersecting to form lozenge-shaped compartments each containing an inlaid dark purple violet bud or flower on a slender gilt stem the intersection of the fillets inlaid with a small or large violet leaf the panel enclosed by a frame of repeated curling leaf tools leather hinges pale green patterned silk endleaves marbled flyleaves all edges gilt fore edges untrimmed. With original printed paper wrappers bound in. Portrait frontispiece and six etchings all before letters by P. E. A. Hédouin. A Large Paper Copy. Text framed in red. Tail margin of portrait with light pencilled inscription signed by the artist. ◆Trivial imperfections if you are very unkind but A VERY FINE COPY especially clean fresh and bright internally in a virtually unworn binding.<br/> <br/> The austere exterior of this Jansenist binding encloses a riot of luxury where the exquisite inlaid floral doublures by Marius Michel fils the stately margins of the Large Paper Copy printed on thick smooth Whatman paper and the elegant illustrations by Edmond Hédouin add to the allure of Saint-Pierre's popular romance. First issued in 1788 and subsequently widely translated and often printed "Paul et Virginie" is the tale of two childhood friends on the unspoiled French island colony of Mauritius who grow up to fall in love. Their island paradise governed by socialist principles embraced by a contented populace living in harmony serves as an allegory for the corrupting influence of the French upper classes on the innocent "child of nature." Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 1737-1814 was a botanist as well as a literary writer and spent time in Mauritius studying its flora. His love of the tropical island and the influence of his friend and mentor Jean-Jacques Rousseau are both evident in the present work. Our edition benefits from the notes on the text and on the life of the author by prominent man of letters Anatole France 1844-1924 who would win the 1921 Nobel Prize for literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements characterized as they are by a nobility of style a profound human sympathy grace and a true Gallic temperament." <br /> <br /> Considered the best binder of his generation as well as the founder of modern French bookbinding Henri Marius Michel 1846-1925 began his career in the atelier established by his father Jean in Paris in 1849 where they produced distinguished work in the prevailing historical styles for two decades. After the father's death in 1890 the firm came to even greater prominence when Henri began producing bindings in a completely new and original style that did nothing less than change the course of modern bookbinding in France. According to Duncan & De Bartha Henri believed passionately "that bookbinding needed a new vocabulary of ornamentation in order to express the mood and spirit of contemporary authors." The "vocabulary of ornamentation" he developed was based on nature the revolutionary "La Flore Ornamentale" style that he unveiled at the 1878 International Exposition. The doublures here give a hint of this new style using a delicate violet motif for the repeating mosaic design. [Printed by Ch. Unsinger for] Alphonse Le Merre unknown
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190313835Paris: A. Picard & fils 1903. Fine. A. Picard & fils Paris 1903 16.50 x 25 cm broché First edition published in a small number of copies of this offprint. Boards detached with small corner lacks interior in good condition. Rare. A. Picard & fils hardcover
18721011831872. Paris 1872. 32pp. 165 items described. Nineteenth century green half morocco marbled boards. The name of the collector added in ink in a contemporary hand. hardcover
180190455Paris: Sans nom d'éditeur 1801. Fine. Sans nom d'éditeur Paris s. d. 1801 19.3 x 25 cm Relié Rare group of six fascicules all in the original edition.Bradel-style binding in green mottled boards smooth unlettered spine printed title label mounted at the centre of the upper cover; modern binding.Not recorded by Polak. Apparently no copy located in the CCFr.A stain at the head of the title page.This curious compilation bearing almost no identifying information appears to be particularly rare.It contains:- 1. A notice to mariners concerning the change in the lighting of the lighthouse in the Bay of the Somme scheduled for 25 Pluviôse Year IX 14 February 1801.- 2. An instruction on filters for purifying water signed by the health officers Dubrueil Thaumur Dupré and Billard.- 3. A notice on naval provisions signed by Rivoire.- 4. A description of the sillomètre an instrument for measuring longitude at sea addressed to the editor of the Moniteur by the former journalist Charles Mozard 17551810 who had served as Commissioner of Frances commercial relations in Boston from 1794 to 1799 and was at that time among the contributors to the Moniteur.- 5. A discourse by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre delivered at the Institut Nautical experiments and dietary and moral observations proposed for the benefit and health of sailors on long-distance voyages. This contribution had already been printed in La Décade philosophique littéraire et politique of 30 Vendémiaire Year IX 22 October 1800.- 6. Two practical notices on means of preserving ships from fire water and rats. The nature of these texts and their immediate sources suggest that this publication was probably conceived as a trial maritime periodical intended to make available sea-related articles previously published in other journals. For reasons unknown the experiment was not continued a circumstance that is fairly common in the history of periodicals. Sans nom d'éditeur hardcover
1797850P4Londres; London: L'Imprimerie de Baylis; Vernor & Hoos; Boosey 1797. Hardback. Good. 7" by 5". Not Stated. A scarce early edition of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's best novel work a touching novel set in Mauritius complete with the original plates. An early and scarce edition of this popular work in the original French.ESTC citation number T130651.Half-title is present.'Paul et Virginie' follows the titular characters set on the island of Mauritius whilst under French rule. The two friends have been raised as brother and sister since birth and grow to fall in love.Illustrated with five plates.By Bernardin de Saint-Pierre a botanist and author who is best known for this novel.Collated complete. Collated from Jisc from a copy held at the University of Oxford Libraries. Rebound in patterned paper covered boards with new endpapers. Externally smart with only a few light marks. Very light rubbing to the joints. Spine is a little discoloured. Ribbon marker is present but a little worn. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front free endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages are age toned with some spots and a tide mark to the textblock including to the plates. Repair to the reverse of the half-title. Leaf E4 is torn with a small repair to the margin no loss of text. Small repair to leaf B8. Good L'Imprimerie de Baylis; Vernor & Hoos; Boosey hardcover
1789AQ33108London: Printed for J. Dodsley 1789. In two volumes. 3 vi-xii 191pp 1; 2 158pp. Without half-titles. Contemporary half-calf tooled in gilt and blind marbled paper boards. Rubbed some surface loss to dulled spines. Marbled endpapers armorial bookplates of Charles Barclay to both FEPs later armorial bookplates of W. Douro Hoare to both FFEPs recent bookplate of Liam Sims to verso of FFEP of Vol. I early gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf of Vol. I: 'Rachel Juliana and Caroline Barclay from their papa' blank fly-leaves of Vol. II torn away very occasional light spotting. The first English translation from the French of Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint Pierre's 1737-1814 popular romantic novel Paul et Virginie 1788. Set on the island colony of Mauritius the work serves as an allegory for Enlightenment France criticising the social inequalities of the state prior to the Revolution extolling the virtues of harmony between men and arguing for the emancipation of slaves. The translator of this first English edition has been widely given as Daniel Malthus father of influential economist Thomas; and although Malthus was involved in the publication the translation was actually executed by Jane Dalton d. 1817. Provenance: Charles Barclay 1780-1855 politician related to the prominent Barclay and Gurney banking dynasties cousin of social reformer Elizabeth Fry. Barclay evidently gifted the book to his two young daughters Caroline and Rachel Juliana the latter of whom married Jospeh Hoare son of educational author Louisa Gurney Hoare 1784-1836. The Barclays resided at Bury Hill House Westcott Surrey not far from The Rookery the home of the Malthus family 1768. It appears probable that Charles Barclay - or perhaps his father Robert 1751-1830 - acquired this copy due to their friendship with the Malthus clan and presumably acquaintance with Jane Dalton. Later in the library of William Douro Hoare 1862-1928 sometime Director of the Bank of England. ESTC T70721. First edition in English. 8vo. Printed for J. Dodsley hardcover
1775AAIVo[SA84London: Printed for W.Griffin 1775. 1775. 8vo. pp. 6 p.l. 291. contemporary calf gilt back joints cracked spine ends chipped occasional stains. armorial bookplate of John Peachey. First Edition of the English Translation abridged from the original French. An epistolary account of the French military engineer and writer's travels in Mauritius 1769-70. Included are observations on the voyage out flora and fauna meteorology manners of the white inhabitants the Indian and negro populations agriculture &c. Part II pp. 183-291 relates his return voyage with visits to and descriptions of Île Bourbon Réunion the Cape of Good Hope and Ascension Island. Mendelssohn IV p. 119. F. Hardcover. London: Printed for W.Griffin, 1775. Hardcover
182844998New-York: S. King 1828. Very good plus. Early Republic American edition of an altered version of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's work featuring a happy ending not present in the original. This is the story of two French colonist children who grow up side-by-side and fall in love in Mauritius only to be torn apart by class expectations. PAUL AND VIRGINIA is punctuated by abolitionist themes which this version makes more explicit: rather than dying in a shipwreck as in the original work Virginia is rescued by a formerly enslaved man. OCLC located only two holdings of this edition the first published by S. King in New York. 12mo. 7.25'' x 4.25''. Modern half-calf binding with marbled boards. Hand-colored etched frontispiece. 32 pages followed by 18 modern blank leaves collated complete. Binding with a bit of edgewear to spine. Leaves with light scattered soil mild bleedthrough of colors to back of frontispiece. Sharp. S. King unknown
1841549089Philadelphia: J.J. Woodward 1841. Hardcover. Good. American edition. Translated by Henry Hunter. Octavo. 398pp. illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and facing engraved title page. Contemporary bookseller’s blind-embossed stamp and near contemporary bookseller’s ink stamp each on front free endpaper. Contemporary speckled calf gilt spine with black leather spine label. The boards are sunned and rubbed at the edges lacking front fly leaf the conjugate pair of facing engraved plates is partly sprung a good or better copy with light scattered foxing. A scarce well-preserved copy. OCLC locates only three copies. J.J. Woodward hardcover
179417555Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by William Spotswood 1794. 12mo. Original leather-backed marbled paper over boards 1.5" wide horizontal piece missing from bottom front cover. 79pp. Rubberstamp and light pencil writing on front free endpaper. Scattered light fox light wear. Good. <br /> <br /> According to ESTC this is the second title of PAUL AND MARY Evans 27667 and Welch 11401. Printed and Sold by William Spotswood unknown
190749287Los Angeles: San Pedro Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad 1907. 1907. First edition. 3 3/4" circular wrappers in the shape of an orange. A view book from the Salt Lake Route showing and describing destinations in Southern California to include San Bernardino and Arrowhead Mountain; Riverside Redlands the King of Bridges located west of Riverside Ontario Pomona Pasadena Los Angeles Long Beach San Pedro Island etc. Wrappers lightly soiled. In residue to top edge of first 20pp. Interior 20 pages loose from staple. San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, 1907. unknown
15374403Venice: Francesco Bindoni & Mapheo Pasini compagni 1537. 8vo 145 x 94 mm. 48 leaves. Italic types. Large title woodcut of the prison of love in flames 19 woodcut text illustrations printed from 13 blocks most showing two scenes; initial spaces with guide letters unrubricated. 19th-century green straight-grained morocco sides with double fillet border enclosing central gold-blocked arms of Gómez de la Cortina his gilt crowned ciphers in the corners gilt edges. Provenance: Joaquin Gómez de La Cortina 1st Marquis de Morante 1808-1868 supralibros & bookplate; with Quaritch their collation note at end; sold in 1996 to Kenneth Rapoport bookplate. <br /> <br /> Lelio Manfredi’s Italian translation of the Carcel de amor 1st ed. 1492 was among the most popular sentimental romances of its time. Many wept over the thwarted love of the noble Leriano and Laureola heir to the throne of Macedonia. Captive in an allegorical tower of love communicating with his beloved only through mediators the hero eventually renounces her in order to preserve her honor threatened by a rival’s false aspersions. There are duels and battles Leriano stops eating and finally dies after shredding and swallowing her letters. The tragedy touched a nerve and dozens of editions appeared in Spain as well as translations into Italian French English Catalan and in the 17th century German. Few remembered the true author whose name is omitted from most of these editions.<br /> <br /> One of several Castilian romances that were widely adapted and translated into other western European languages the Carcel de amor was the only one to appear first in print and to be consistently illustrated. It permeated the European reading public. The tale is told through letters and monologues rather than dialogue and much has been written about its hybrid forms and elaborate rhetoric “a reflection of vernacular humanism and a fictional tour de force of rhetorical precepts†Francomano p. 10 and about its literary sources and later influence or lack of it: While many scholars note its influence on the development of later European Renaissance fiction through its use of epistolary exchanges and of a narrative voice L’autore who acts as intermediary as well as its tragic ending and exploration of class differences between the lovers one commentator has called it “a dead-end in the history of literature†A. West: “In general the Prison of Love is a book of vestiges: of ways of believing that no longer obtain of customs that already were dying out of a manner of writing soon to be eclipsed by the realism of the picaresque novel.â€<br /> <br /> The humanist Lelio Manfredi d. 1528 translated the work into Italian at the request of Isabella d’Este to whom the printed editions are dedicated the first appearing in Venice in 1514. Eight more editions of his translation are recorded by USTC all but one Venetian the last in 1546. This edition is the third of four recorded editions by the partners Fr. Bindoni & Maffeo Pasini who specialized in vernacular literature and devotional works. <br /> <br /> The title woodcut used in the Bindoni and Pasini editions is a close copy of woodcuts from earlier Venetian editions see for example an anonymously published Spanish edition from 1523 Sander 6729 not in USTC whose title is reproduced in the Heredia catalogue vol. 2 no. 2468. Its iconography dates to the earliest Spanish editions as does that of the small primitive text woodcuts which relate to the text and are based on the more elaborate cuts from the Spanish incunable editions cf. Deyermond. Blind copying was the order of the day: note the anachronism of a cheaply printed edition of the 1530s retaining blank initial spaces with guide letters to be filled by nonexistent rubricators or illuminators who by this late date would only have been hired to embellish costly imprints or luxury manuscripts. <br /> <br />  I locate two US holdings of this edition UCLA and Folger and six holdings of other editions of Manfredi’s translation. <br /> <br /> USTC 854438; EDIT-16 CNCE 66994; Sander 6732 note; Palau 293388; Brunet V 112. Not in Essling. Cf. Alan Deyermond “The Woodcuts of Diego de San Pedro's Cárcel de Amor 1492-1496â€Â Bulletin hispanique 2002 104-2: 511-528; Emily Francomano The Prison of Love: Romance Translation and the Book in the Sixteenth Century Toronto 2018; Adrian West “On Translating Diego de San Pedro's The Prison of Love†Asymptote Oct. 2012 online. Francesco Bindoni & Mapheo Pasini, compagni unknown
600103Vintage photograph on photographer's mount ca. 1900. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". F. Soft cover. paperback
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