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170338593Nurnberg: Wolfgang Maurice Endter 1703. Engraved title page 46 engraved equestrian plates numbered 1-34 on 42 leaves two folding two-page table; one wood engraving in text. 22 223 pp. 1 vols. Small folio. Nineteenth century maroon morocco upper board titled in gilt. Rebacked in later black morocco. Lower hinge weak closely trimmed at table loss of two lines of text and also at pp. 123-126 with loss of numbering. Plates 1&2 backed some loss to plate 2. Lacking plate 3 view of stable complex and plate 7; with 4 additional plates on 3 leaves. Engraved title page 46 engraved equestrian plates numbered 1-34 on 42 leaves two folding two-page table; one wood engraving in text. 22 223 pp. 1 vols. Small folio. Winter's noted work on the breeding of horses originally published in 1672 with the bold equestrian engravings. Mennessier de la Lance II p. 649; Nissen ZBI 4426 Wolfgang Maurice Endter unknown books
17745279Amsterdam: Pieter Meijer; Helders & Mars 1774; 1786. First edition. Acceptable/Collection of romantic tragedies by the husband-and-wife team of Van Winter and Van Merken. In fact all but one of the titles in this collection are by the wife Van Merken only "Monzongo" an anti-slavery drama is by Van Winter. Van Winter was the son of a trader in indigo and dyes and witnessed first-hand the kinds of abuses which led to his anti-slavery play Monzongo. Van Merken was an established poet and playwright when she married Van Winter the year his first wife died 1768. Her "Artemines" subtitled in French "La vertu pour guide" was first published in 1774 but was republished in 1786 to coincide with the second volume not present of the couple's collected works. Quarto 22 cm 45493 pages and 11 plates six portraits and five dramatic scenes engraved by Reiner Vineles and J. Houbraken. Engraved vignette on title page. "Artemines" ; 85 1 and one engraved dramatic scene; engraved vignette on title page. Part I only a second part was published in 1786 which included "Artemines". Bound in speckled paper-covered boards with leather backstrip. Spine vertically cracked but holding; joints the same. Basically clean sound and entire. Pieter Meijer; Helders & Mars hardcover books
17562053Frankfurt and Leipzig 1756. 8vo 170 x 100 mm. 12 292 pp. Typographic title ornament woodcut and typographic head-pieces and tail-piece. Some light spotting and discoloration small light dampstain to some upper blank corners but a very good copy. Old signature on title. Contemporary half parchment sides with speckled paper red edges.Only Edition. Winter's stark beauties are precisely described by a writer of deep learning and broad interests. Citing literature and the classics including Pindar Hesiod Aristophanes and Homer in Greek as well as contemporary sources from scientific journals to travel accounts the author examines the seasons the meteorological manifestations of winter its effect on humans and its aesthetic and bodily pleasures. He discusses "absolute cold" the causes of wind snow's qualities and colors superstitious beliefs in its healing powers frost and hoarfrost avalanches glaciers ice and its different qualities chemical experiments for manufacturing artificial ice and physiological and physical effects of winter and cold on animals for example whose fur changes color; on humans when they freeze to death or nearly so; or on windowpanes which "sweat" with condensed moisture. The seventh and final chapter on the "various pleasures of winter" contains a well-informed digression into music and opera with an appraisal of celebrated contemporary composers instrumentalists and singers including Händel Porpora G. Giacomelli Predieri Farinelli Caffarelli Francesca Cuzzoni the violinist Guignon the viola da gambist Desmarets and the flutist Blavet. While he praises the opera Härter quotes from some of the many contemporary diatribes against the genre by Gottsched Pluche and others who deplored its irrational and amoral pleasures. He concludes that neither adoration nor scorn of the opera are reasonable but that it can be a legitimate wintry pleasure. In the final pages he considers the spiritual benefits of winter so conducive to introspection and in his concluding remarks recommends it as the best season for experiments in electricity.The work is dedicated to Otto Christian von Lohenschiold 1720-1761 Rector of the Academy University of Tübingen. In a humorous preface the author's friend Johann Kies Professor of physics and mathematics at Tübingen and author of several physics treatises including a dissertation on the rainbow concedes that unwilling to be reminded of a season that he loathes he could not bring himself to read the book but should his friend write a treatise on one of the other seasons he promises to read it! No copies in American libraries; outside Germany OCLC locates a copy in Denmark. Holzmann-Bohatta VI 7444 apparently erroneously citing a Tübingen edition with the same date. unknown books
178833060Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin 1788. 32pp. Disbound and lacking the half title. Good. <br/><br/> Reverend Trumbull an orderly and considerate man "nominated the preacher at his funeral and directed what neighbouring ministers should be desired to attend on that occasion; and who should insert in the public papers the account of his death: he also desired some of his particular friends and leading members of his church to take care that his funeral was conducted with propriety and christian decency. He also ordered the joiner to prepare him a decent but plain unornamented coffin." <br/> The Reverend's "nephew was Connecticut's Governor Jonathan Trumbull the only colonial governor to support the war for independence. Gov. Trumbull's son was the artist John Trumbull whose paintings of the Revolutionary War including the signing of the Declaration of Independence are on view in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol building." Trumbull also owned a few slaves. "Rev. John Trumbull" Waterbury's Slave Owners Fortune's Story Website of the Mattatuck Historical Society accessed February 4 2019. <br/>Evans 21574. Trumbull 1568. Hudson and Goodwin unknown books
1733WRCLIT56765London: Printed for John Watts 1733. 123186pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf sympathetically rebacked in matching calf with raised bands and gilt labels. Engraved frontis signed "G. Van der Guchte". Early stamped insignia on front pastedown modest tanning but a very good copy. First edition in English of a significant imaginary voyage of particular import for its relation to early conceptions of Australia. The first edition was published under a false Bordeaux 1710 imprint and three other editions appeared similarly dated. Recent authorities have sorted out the precedence with the first edition being identified with some confidence as actually Rouen 1714. The translator's dedication is signed Stephen Whatley. Tyssot de Patot's novel "is a carefully written well authenticated story of travel and adventure in Europe in Africa in Asia and in an unknown land far beyond the Cape of Good Hope. The realism of the setting is based upon a close following of accounts of real travelers such as Dellon Tavernier Mocquet and Lahontan. There is nothing fantastic unbelievable or overdrawn in the descriptions of the Austral continent. Tyssot seems to restrain himself consciously in order to write an apparently true story. Indirect criticism by the example of an imaginary and virtuous community is used here as in all the previous novels of the type. The journey to the unknown land is very carefully authenticated as is the return journey. Discussions of science and religion are fitted into the adventures much more artistically than in the case of the novels of Foigny and Vairasse.From the point of the history of ideas.it is a very interesting document."- Atkinson. It is also notable for a reference to the Wandering Jew as well as for a well-constructed bee fable. Howgego . INVENTED AND APOCRYPHAL NARRATIVES OF TRAVEL T25. Atkinson THE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE IN FRENCH LITERATURE FROM 1700 TO 1720 pp. 67-97. ESTC T68558. NEGLEY 1118. Gove THE IMAGINARY VOYAGE IN PROSE FICTION pp. 217-19. Printed for John Watts hardcover books
171439159A Bourdeaux ie. The Hague: James L'Aveugle 1714. First Edition. 12mo pp. viii 508. Bound in contemporary calf neatly rebacked in antique style little rubbed some minor foxing soiling a very good tight copy. Rosenberg "A" Gove 217-219; Cioranescu 62587; Barbier IV 1103; Atkinson 'The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature' p. 70; Rosenberg pp. 84-5. The genuine first edition falsely dated. An important imaginary journey to Australia called a "landmark" by Atkinson. Based on a variety of real voyages the descriptions are believable and realistic. The author offers a detailed account of making a camp building a raft. While the book did not range much beyond the confines of the traditional Utopias of the times it did however include "living fossils" giant birds and strange flora that survived from prehistoric eras arguably making it one of the first modern Lost World novels. After being shipwrecked on the continent the narrator and a friend pressed on and developed a farm in "a plentiful fruitful country" until forced to flee by a treacherous woman. Tyssot de Patot 1655-1727 was a Huguenot who lived most of his life in Holland where he pursued a career as professor of Mathematics at the Athenaeum Illustre in Deventer the capital of the province of Overijssel. James L'Aveugle unknown books
1770262898Lausanne: Francois Grasset 1770. First. paperback. very good. xiv 212 4 pages. Small 8vo contemporary marbled wrappers with manuscript spine label paper on spine is mostly missing but still firmly sewn; pages quite clean. Lausanne: Francois Grasset 1770. First Edition. Very good.<br/><br/> First published in the spring of 1770 this book of advice to "people of fashion" particularly women had such an immediate vogue that many pirated editions soon followed. -- Norman 2083; Blake 452.<br/><br/> Francois Grasset unknown books
1778224844Zürich: Orell Geßner Füeßlin und Compagnie 1778. l 578 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf black morocco spine label. Some minor rubbing text block fresh near fine copy. l 578 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Attractive Zürich edition of Tissot's influential 'Avis au peuple sur la santé' one of the most widely translated popular medical works of the late eighteenth century.<br/><br/>From the library of Dr. Ernst L. Wynder co-author of the first large-scale study of smoking and lung cancer JAMA 143:329 and FOUNDING EDITOR of the journal Preventive Medicine. Orell, Geßner, Füeßlin und Compagnie unknown books
179738875London: G. Whitfield 1797. 12mo. Disbound. Moderate toning edges of some leaves frayed scattered foxing. G. Whitfield unknown books
17026781Edinburgh ca. 1702. Folio. 1 p. <br><br>The tenants of the Lovat estate petition for a delay in producing the writs and securities of their holdings as the protracted dispute between the Lovat family and the infamous Capt. Simon Fraser of Beaufort who attempted a forced marriage to the family's heiress young Amelia Fraser before successfully kidnapping and wedding her mother the dowager Lady Amelia Murray has left them in a sorry state regarding the payment of creditors.<br>Â Â Â Â Not only does this broadside touch on the common perspective of a great contemporary scandal but it is of interest for its scarcity as well. => No holdings are listed by WorldCat ESTC or NUC Pre-1956. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in ESTC. On Fraser see: Dictionary of National Biography XX 21622. Excellent clean condition with two small sewing holes at inner margin one very small spot of foxing and ink traces from printing process to outer edge. Tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper. unknown books
172745318London: J. Walthoe and 18 others 1727. Second Simon edition folio pp. 12 540; engraved vignettes throughout woodcut printer's device initials and head- and tail-pieces; text printed in double column; contemporary blind-tooled panelled calf recently rebacked in calf top edge of rear cover also re-bound in calf spine in 7 compartments stamped in red and gilt; boards scuffed and scratched with some shallow loss of leather along edges both covers ring-stained; off-setting to preliminaries else a very good copy. ESTC T144011. <br/><br/> J. Walthoe [and 18 others] hardcover books
179010334London: H. Gardner; J. Evans; and J. Axtell 1790. 8vo. 3 84115 1 blank pp. <br><br>Part four only of ten parts. Title-page with an engraved vignette. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC T122204. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page rubber-stamped with a six-digit number and with an early inked number in top right corner. Title-leaf slightly chipped at top edge one page corner of second leaf folded. Light stains from p. 103 to end. H. Gardner; J. Evans; and J. Axtell unknown books
177838832Madrid: Imprenta de Miguel Escribiano 1778. 4to 20.3 cm; 8". 354 pp. <br><br>with the same authors' Preparación próxima para la muerte en lengua castellana para el uso de los clérigos y asímismo muy últil para el pueblo. Madrid: Miguel Escribano 1778. 2 ff. 122 pp.<br>Â Â Â Â First edition in Spanish of both works. Regla originally appeared in Latin in 1757 and Preparacion also in Latin in 1717. Both are here translated by Pedro Escobar de Castro. Texts are aimed at teaching one how to be a good priest and to lead a truly religious and pious life as a member of the cloth and how to prepare for one's death. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Palau 285968. Stiff vellum; text block starting to loosen. Lacks the ties. A few small areas of either water or other staining.<br>Â Â Â Â Overall very nice. Imprenta de Miguel Escribiano hardcover books
1797013025Edinburgh: Excudebat Adamus Neill 1797. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. vi 47 pages of text. Disbound from a larger volume. On the reverse of the dedication page is inscribed by the author "Mr. Farrel with best wishes from his friend signed S. Reardon." Complete with front blank endpaper and a half-title page. Many pages have a now superfluous number handwritten at the top corner from the previous nonce volume numbering system. Minor browning to several pages of text. Title continues ".quam annuente summo numine : ex auctoritate reverendi admodum viri D. Georgii Baird SS.T.P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti : necnon amplissimi senatus academici consensu et nobilissimae facultatis medicae decreto : pro gradu doctoratus summisque in medicina honoribus ac privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis eruditorum examini subjicit. Excudebat Adamus Neill Paperback books
1767214865Hamburg: Im Verlage der typographischen Gesellschaft 1767. ii 118 724 4; 166 2 ads pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Contemporary speckled calf. Joints rubbed with some old repairs; closed tear in margin of pp. 80/81. Fresh and attractive copy. ii 118 724 4; 166 2 ads pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Early German edition of Tissot's influential 'Avis au peuple sur la santé' first published in Lausanne in 1761 here translated with two related texts on the imperfection of other German medical works and a Swedish work on longevity<br/><br/>From the library of Dr. Ernst L. Wynder co-author of the first large-scale study of smoking and lung cancer JAMA 143:329 and FOUNDING EDITOR of the journal Preventive Medicine. Im Verlage der typographischen Gesellschaft unknown books
1784262551Utrecht: Privately Printed 1784. First. hardcover. very good. Seven philosophical dialogues. Two volumes in one. 2 6 2 97 1; 2 10 2 11-48 pages. No main title page but appears to have been printed without. 4to bound in full contemporary polished calf; ornate gilt-stamped spine edgeworn; joints starting. Utrecht: Privately Printed 1784. Overall a very good copy of this scarce book.<br/><br/> Title is the half-title as per copy in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Imprint supplied from Hoefer Nouv. biog. gen. 43:116 and Querard 8:376. -- Cioranescu A.18. 59298.<br/><br/> Privately Printed unknown books
1798042512Amsterdam: J.B. Elwe 1798. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. Early Dutch edition of Pallas's work on Corals first published in 1767 and first published in Dutch as Lyst der plant-dieren 1768. This appears to be an exact republication It details the discoveries that he made in the Dutch Museum including several new to science. All editions are uncommon. 1/4 contemporary calf with red morocco spine label . Corners bumped a little worn faint dampstain occasionally in top margin otherwise clean and bright internally with 14 fine hand colored plates of corals. A few slight creases to plates one plate a little loose otherwise unusually bright. 654pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Science & Technology; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 042512. <br/><br/> J.B. Elwe hardcover books
1794LD13011Paris: Maradan c. 1794 1802. Hardcover. Very Good. Eight volumes of text plus an atlas. Contemporary tree calf gilt-stamped lettering in red and green leather spine labels ornately gilt-stamped spine compartments; 8 text volumes 8vo; pp. xl 422; 4 half-title p. title-p. 490; 4 492; 4 499; 448; 455; 448; 4 viii 463. Text volumes c. 1794. Some light scuffing along spines and edges of boards; occasional very light spotting; but text volumes are nice and bright indeed! /// Old boards with antiphonal leaf folded over as a cover; atlas volume folio 370x270mm; contains large folding map and 108 plates including large folding map uncut. Atlas volume c. 1802. Boards worn and front hinge split; stain across half-title p.; atlas detached laid-in; extra title-page quire laid-in; uncut edges just the tiniest bit chipped and toned but plates are overall bright and clean. <br/><br/>Over 6 years Pallas visited the Caspian the Altai Mountains Tomsk the Yenisei Tobolsk Lake Baikal Kolyvan and the frontiers of China. The results of his explorations and scientific investigations were of the greatest significance for botany zoology geology geography and ethnology. The narrative of Pallas's travels was first published in German at St. Petersburg in 1771-76 but the French edition incorporates the natural history results of the expedition. Maradan hardcover books
179651670bdPhiladelphia: Printed for John Ormrod 1796. First American Edition. Four volumes in two. Duodecimo original calf calf labels viii 1 - 416 pp; vi 1-410 pp 2 blank 4 subscriber list pp. Very Good; manuscript notation that this set “belongs to the Republican Library of Co. Chatham Jany 23 1799â€; early 19th century bookplate in each volume of The Portland Library Company; front joint of Volume I is tender; title page of Volume II has several short rips but appears to be complete. Printed for John Ormrod, 1796. First American Edition. unknown books
1794006817London: Printed by W. Bulmer & Co. Shakspeare Printing-Office for John & Josiah Boydell and George Nicol. From the Types of W. Martin. 1794 1795 1797. First Edition. Full Gilt and Blindstamped Morocco. Near Fine. Folio 32 by 26 cm. cxxxiii 3 213 286 300 pp. 32 hand-colored mezzotint plates within the 3 volumes one plate folding. Among them are three reproductions of Milton portraits including Milton as an infant as a boy and the famous Romney painting of the blind Milton dictating to his daughters this plate being the folding one. To our knowledge this copy of the Boydell Milton is an uniquely hand-colored copy. All the plates other than the Milton portraits are the artwork of Westall. These have an unmistakable affinity to the heroic style of Blake his contemporary. The men and even the women can have exaggerated bulging muscles as found most famously in Michelangelo. As invited by Milton's epic light contends with dark and the illustrations serve up a phantasmagoria of imagery with swirling shadows and specters. The hand-coloring is of a very high caliber and we think greatly enriches the mezzotints. The three volumes contain all the major poetry of Milton -- "Paradise Lost" "Paradise Regained" "Samson Agonistes" "Comus" etc. etc. Note all half-titles are present. Binding of a rich russet/crimson straight-grained morocco with bands of blindstamping and gilt-stamping decoration on the boards and gilt decoration within and on the raised bands. Decoration consists of ruling Greek palmettos and more floral rinceaux bands. Conditiion: morocco binding with minor abrasions and wear. One leaf with repaired tear Vol. II pp. 103/4. Pages generally clean plates bright. All volumes tight. Printed by W. Bulmer & Co., Shakspeare Printing-Office, for John & Josiah Boydell, and George Nicol. From the Types of W. Marti books
180014404Paris: Printed by Langlois 1800. Rare colour-printed copper engraving on wove paper. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling minor foxing and a tiny nick at the edge of the right margin. A beautiful plate with stunning early colour from Lacépède's "La Menagerie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle" an important scholarly work and one of the finest examples of eighteenth-century French natural history illustration.<br/> <br/>A professor of zoology at the Museum of Natural History the French naturalist Bernard-Germain-Étienne Delaville Comte de Lacépède 1756-1825 was a versatile and precocious scholar who published a number of books on zoology physics and music. He was greatly influenced by the pioneering naturalist Georges Louis Marie Leclerc comte de Buffon whom he succeeded as Intendant at the Jardin du Roi which later became the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793. During his tenure Lacépède completed a comprehensive study of amphibians and reptiles Historie Naturelle des Quadrupèdes Ovipares et des Serpens which was published as a supplement to Buffon's magnum opus on animal classification Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière. In 1800-1 he published the first edition of La Menagerie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle a thorough survey of the various species of quadrupeds reptiles and amphibians in the impressive collection of the Museum of Natural History. This magnificent work was comprised of descriptive text written by Lacépède and his colleague Georges L. C. Baron Cuvier 1769-1832 as well as a number of finely rendered plates after the most eminent natural history artists of the period Nicolas Maréchal 1753-1803 Nicolas Huet 1770-1830 and Léon de Wailly 1801-1824. Painted from life on vellum these beautifully detailed illustrations faithfully captured the appearance of the wondrous animals in the Paris menagerie. A pupil of J. G. Wille and C. N. Cochin Simon Charles Miger was a royal academician and a talented engraver who executed numerous portraits and natural history plates.<br/> <br/>Benezit Dictionnaire des Peintres Sculpteurs Dessinateurs et Graveurs vol. 9 p. 611; Anker 275; BMNH IV p. 1517; Brunet III 725; Nissen ZBI 2353. Printed by Langlois unknown books
180014410Paris: Printed by Langlois 1800. Rare colour-printed copper engraving with some additional hand-colouring. Printed on wove paper. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling and minor foxing. A beautiful plate with stunning early colour from Lacépède's "La Menagerie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle" an important scholarly work and one of the finest examples of eighteenth-century French natural history illustration.<br/> <br/>A professor of zoology at the Museum of Natural History the French naturalist Bernard-Germain-Étienne Delaville Comte de Lacépède 1756-1825 was a versatile and precocious scholar who published a number of books on zoology physics and music. He was greatly influenced by the pioneering naturalist Georges Louis Marie Leclerc comte de Buffon whom he succeeded as Intendant at the Jardin du Roi which later became the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793. During his tenure Lacépède completed a comprehensive study of amphibians and reptiles Historie Naturelle des Quadrupèdes Ovipares et des Serpens which was published as a supplement to Buffon's magnum opus on animal classification Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière. In 1800-1 he published the first edition of La Menagerie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle a thorough survey of the various species of quadrupeds reptiles and amphibians in the impressive collection of the Museum of Natural History. This magnificent work was comprised of descriptive text written by Lacépède and his colleague Georges L. C. Baron Cuvier 1769-1832 as well as a number of finely rendered plates after the most eminent natural history artists of the period Nicolas Maréchal 1753-1803 Nicolas Huet 1770-1830 and Léon de Wailly 1801-1824. Painted from life on vellum these beautifully detailed illustrations faithfully captured the appearance of the wondrous animals in the Paris menagerie. A pupil of J. G. Wille and C. N. Cochin Simon Charles Miger was a royal academician and a talented engraver who executed numerous portraits and natural history plates.<br/> <br/>Benezit Dictionnaire des Peintres Sculpteurs Dessinateurs et Graveurs vol. 9 p. 611; Anker 275; BMNH IV p. 1517; Brunet III 725; Nissen ZBI 2353. Printed by Langlois unknown books
180014405Paris: Printed by Langlois 1800. Rare colour-printed copper engraving with additional hand-colouring. Printed on wove paper. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling and minor foxing. A beautiful plate with stunning early colour from Lacépède's "La Menagerie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle" an important scholarly work and one of the finest examples of eighteenth-century French natural history illustration.<br/> <br/>A professor of zoology at the Museum of Natural History the French naturalist Bernard-Germain-Étienne Delaville Comte de Lacépède 1756-1825 was a versatile and precocious scholar who published a number of books on zoology physics and music. He was greatly influenced by the pioneering naturalist Georges Louis Marie Leclerc comte de Buffon whom he succeeded as Intendant at the Jardin du Roi which later became the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793. During his tenure Lacépède completed a comprehensive study of amphibians and reptiles Historie Naturelle des Quadrupèdes Ovipares et des Serpens which was published as a supplement to Buffon's magnum opus on animal classification Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière. In 1800-1 he published the first edition of La Menagerie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle a thorough survey of the various species of quadrupeds reptiles and amphibians in the impressive collection of the Museum of Natural History. This magnificent work was comprised of descriptive text written by Lacépède and his colleague Georges L. C. Baron Cuvier 1769-1832 as well as a number of finely rendered plates after the most eminent natural history artists of the period Nicolas Maréchal 1753-1803 Nicolas Huet 1770-1830 and Léon de Wailly 1801-1824. Painted from life on vellum these beautifully detailed illustrations faithfully captured the appearance of the wondrous animals in the Paris menagerie. A pupil of J. G. Wille and C. N. Cochin Simon Charles Miger was a royal academician and a talented engraver who executed numerous portraits and natural history plates.<br/> <br/>Benezit Dictionnaire des Peintres Sculpteurs Dessinateurs et Graveurs vol. 9 p. 611; Anker 275; BMNH IV p. 1517; Brunet III 725; Nissen ZBI 2353. Printed by Langlois unknown books
179228996"A Parme de l'imprimerie de Bodoni" 1792. Two volumes 164 168 pp. 19th c. half morocco by Lebrun signed at the foot of the spine. Very good condition with some discoloring to the margins in a portion of vol. 1. Ownership inscription dated 1938. One of 25 copies all on vélin paper.This copy nearly matches one recorded in the BNF however ours has additional title pages to both parts both of which carry the author's name and also has the supplementary pages 25 bis. - 44 bis. lacking in the BNF copy. First published in 1787 in an edition limited to 15 copies. OCLC locates only a single copy of each edition. Not in Brooks Edizione Bodoniane the publication data is likely fictitious. "On trouve des ex. de ces fables avec les dates de 1787 de 1792" Grasse IV 493. Apparently the text sheets were printed in 1787 & later supplied with new t.-p.'s & preliminary matter when copies were distributed by the author. Simon-Pierre Mérard de Saint-Just 1749-1812 was for a time in charge of the household for the king's brother Louis Stanislas the future Louis XVIII; after retiring in 1783 he devoted his fortune to collecting books and publishing his works in small editions. <br/><br/> unknown books
17956348Venice: n.p. 1795. Original edition. Very Good/Libretto of the 1795 oratorio David in the Cave of Engedi by the German-born composer Simon Mayr who emigrated to Italy at age 25 and as choirmaster at Bergamo was Donizetti's music teacher. The current oratorio debuted in Venice with this libretto apparently by Giuseppe Foppa according to Franz Steiger "Opernlexikon I 301. Bound in genuine Remondini 3-color woodblock wraps illustrated in Milano and Villani "Le carte decorate della Raccolta Bertarelli" #59. Octavo 19 cm; 20 pages. Woodblock vignette on title page. Text in Latin. Bound in red green and gold woodblock-printed decorated wraps finished by hand by Remondini. Stain across upper margin mostly on first and last pages. Old vertical fold. Reference for wrappers: Milano and Villani "Le carte decorate della Raccolta Bertarelli" #66 n.p. paperback books
