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196083668Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1960. Fine. Les Editions de Minuit Paris 1960 14 x 19.50 cm broché First edition one of 7 hors commerce copies out of 87 numbered copies on pur fil the only deluxe issue grands papiers. Signed and inscribed by Claude Simon using a sentence of page 306: ""Mais comment savoir que savoir"" But how to know what to know Rare first edition inscribed by the author. Les Editions de Minuit unknown
#[60728]Two different states of 'Liberum Belgium' allegorical representation of the prosperity of the Dutch Provinces. The plate was modified in three areas: the portrait above in the middle below in the coat of arms in the plynth below on which hangs a lion skin with inscription and in the signature and address below with dates. The first is dated 1624. Prince Maurice of Orange is seated at the top of a throne. Above two angels playing shofars and holding a wreath with the coat of arms of the seven United Provinces. Libertas and Religio are standing at the sides in front ot the prince personifications of Negotiatio Negotiation Politia Politic Prudentia Prudence and Victoria Victory. On the plynth at the bottom: 'LE MAINTIENDRAY / MAURITIUS PRINCEPS AURIACUS. Et nobilissimi Ordinis Garterij Eques.' Further 14 lines in Latin by Daniel Heyns: 'Hispaniae domitor gentis. omnibus aequa datur / Daniel Heynsius' and further the Privilege and the address: 'Adrianus a Nieuwlandt Inventor et Pictor Symon de Pas sculptor Anno MDCXXIIII' The second is dated 1628. On the throne an orange tree its branches encicling a bust portrait of Prince Frederick Henry of Orange. On the plynth the inscription reads: 'PATRIAEQ PATRIQ / FREDERICO HENRICO D.G. PRINCIPI / Arausionensium Comiti Nassaviae. et Equiti Regii Odinis Garterii.' Further 14 lines in Latin by Daniel Heyns: 'Hispaniae domitor gentis. omnibus aequa datur / Daniel Heynsius' and further the Privilege and the address: 'Adrianus a Nieuwlandt Inventor et Pictor Symon de Pas sculptor Anno MDCXXVIII Amstelodami C. Dankaertz. Excudit'. The two states are sold as a set. l Engravings on paper trimmed within plate mark; total 1: 728 x 435 mm total 2: 730 x 445 mm; states I/4 and II/4; both prints pasted on thicker paper; second state creases on the top left corner; Hollstein 7 Franken/Passe 342 Frederik Muller 1545 a unknown
172325150à La Haye The Hague: Aux dépens de la Compagnie 1723. Fine. Aux dépens de la Compagnie à La Haye The Hague 1723 15.50 x 20.50 cm 4 tomes reliés en 1 volume New edition in four languages after that cited on p. 59 at Mortier in 1659. This is the third edition the original having been published in Paris in 1694 in 8vo in French only. The remarkable illustration includes an allegorical frontispiece by Jan van Vianen a large folding plan of the city and castle of Versailles and 218 numbered plates five of which are folding all engraved by P. le Gros Garnier I. la Clerion N. Coustous Cornu after drawings by Thomassin. The work is divided into four parts with 3 title pages in red and black for the whole one in Dutch one in French and one dated 1695 at Pierre Mortier and 4 title pages in red and black for each of the volumes detailed as follows: vol. 1. The ancient & modern statues of Versailles fig. 1-53 -- vol. 2. The groups of Versailles fig. 54-85 -- vol. 3. The fountains and other ornaments of Versailles fig 86-172 -- vol. 4. The thermal baths and vases of Versailles fig. 173-218. Contemporary full vellum binding. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Marbled edges. Some leaves browned at the end of the index. Fine copy in good condition. The work in question is considered to form the finest achievement of Simon Thomassin 1653-1732 engraver to the king who created numerous works. The work was commissioned by Louis XIV himself in 1689. Aux dépens de la Compagnie hardcover
199893990Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr. New. 1998. Hardcover. 083863821X . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 190 pages; illustrated in black and white and in color. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr hardcover
198781601987 Luzern: Faksimile-Verlag, 1991. Un volume enluminé fac-similé in-12, 12,5 x 17 cm, 223 ff. chiff. [manuscrit enluminé chiff. 1 à 219, colophon moderne in fine]. Reproduction à l'identique de louvrage enluminé original conservé sous la cote Clm 23637 à la Bayerische Staatsbibliothek à Munich. Il a été reproduit par procédé photolithographique par latelier Burckhardt à Mönchaltorf-Zurich et imprimé par Mengis et Sticher à Lucerne. Ouvrage relié en velours rouge. Exemplaire décoré de 46 rubis véritables montés sur des fermoirs en argent massif sterling (925), émaillés et dorés en reproduction de l'original. Édition tirée à 980 exemplaires numérotés en chiffres arabes (no. 57). Ex-libris: «André Gutzwiller». Fac-similé en parfait état. Un des rares exemplaires avec les fermoirs ornés de 46 rubis veritables !!!
38730Nuremberg, Wolfgang Moritz Endtern, 1703. In-4°, [24]-223-[5]pages Reliure plein veau d'époque, dos muet à nerfs, avec attaches en soie verte.
1885126946Amsterdam & Hellevoetsluis: 1885. First and only edition classified as "Geheim" secret copy no. 8 of an unknown number of copies. WorldCat lists only one copy in the Haagse Defensiebibliotheek. This report was written by two Dutch marine engineers after their inspection tour of cruisers at the Marine Department of the International Inventions Exhibitions in London and various British shipyards including the well-known Newcastle-based firm Armstrong Mitchell & Co. The report starts with a brief introduction to the purposes and itinerary of the trip followed by background information on cruisers in general detailed descriptions of various types and specific examples such as the Japanese vessels Naniwa-Kan and Takachiho-Kan and the torpedo-cruisers Scout and Fearless. Cop was appointed professor of naval architecture at the Polytechnic School in Delft in 1887 while Van Veen 1859-1935 published several technical works and wrote journal articles on naval policy. This copy was held by the "Bureau van den Inspecteur o.d. Stoomvaartdienst" Office of the Inspector for the Steamboat Service with an inked inscription on the front board. It is a nice copy of this timely and somewhat elusive work. Foolscap folio 335 x 215 mm. With 5 lithographed extensive folding plates of ship plans 2 of the Japanese cruiser Naniwa-Kan built by the firm Armstrong Mitchell & Co. the first of these measuring c. 320 x 1350 mm Original black cloth-backed pale grey paper-covered printed boards. A little rubbed boards browned at the margins pale toning and light foxing to the text remains very good. hardcover
1759137120Paris: J. Barbou 1759. Full period French binding in Calf five raised bands gilt ornamentation on spine author and title in gilt on red leather spine label in second compartment. 8vo. Full period French binding in Calf five raised bands gilt ornamentation on spine author and title in gilt on red leather spine label in second compartment. 263 pages. First edition Bigmore and Wyman p.228. Minor soiling to the text block else a fine copy.<BR> <br /> <BR> <br /> In this volume Fournier sets out to prove that Gutenberg was not the inventor of the printing press by examining the history of printing. He believes that the technology Gutenberg made popular existed long before the German printer's work. <BR> <br /> <BR> <br /> "Peter Simon Fournier a French engraver and letter-founder was born at Paris 1712 and died 1768. He studied under Colson painter of the Academy of Saint Luc and devoted himself first to the art of wood-engraving; he afterwards as an engraver on steel rendered himself famous in all countries. In some of his works he seeks to prove that Gutenberg is not the inventor of printing and maintains that long before Gutenberg engraving on wood had been employed for printing images and inscriptions; that during his residence in Strasburg Gutenberg attempted the application of this art to the printing of books and that on his return to Mayence he first printed the Donatus and the Catholicon of Johannes de Janua with engraved and solid blocks. Fournier's ingenious theories were ably refuted by Baron Heinecken in his "Idée Générale d'une Collection complette d'Estamples" Leipsic: 1771" Bigmore & Wyman p 229. J. Barbou unknown
200986933Deutscher Kunstverlag. New. 2009. Hardcover. 3422068155 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in German with portions in English. 792 pages; more than 800 illustrations including 296 in color. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Leben Und Werk Oeuvre-Katalog Kritischem Oeuvrekatalog Raisonnee Deutscher Kunstverlag hardcover
18022311210021A. Strahan Printers Street for T.N. Longman and O. Rees Paternoster-Row London MDCCCII--MDCCCIII 1802-1803 1802. First English Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Southern Russia Ukraine Crimea During the Reign of Catherine the Great : Color Plates 2 volumes. Large Quartos 29 x 22.5 cm. Bound in 19th century brown calf. Rebacked. Gilt spines and gilt ruled covers. Some shelf wear to cover extremities. Speckled edges. xxiv 552 pp. 25 plates most folding includes one map 14 colored vignettes; xxxii 523 1 pp. 27 plates 14 colored vignettes three folding maps at end. Four text leaves in first volume provided in facsimile leaves 265-272. "An extremely charming colour plate book which deserves a place in every colour plate book collection for its numerous attractive coloured vignettes an unusual feature" - Abbey Travel 222. Wellcome IV:288. Lowndes 1766. Nissen ZBI 3065. <br> Pallas was a German naturalist who served as a professor of natural history at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg during the reign of Catherine II. He famously was part of an early scientific expedition through Russia and Siberia and made important discoveries of mammoth and rhinoceros fossils from Siberia. In 1793-4 he made a second expedition to southern Russia exploring Crimea the Black Sea and the Dnieper valley. In 1799 this work "Bemerkungen auf einer Reise in die Sudlichen Statthalterschaften des Russischen Reichs" was published contributing to early geologic ecologic and ethnographic knowledge of the region. A. Strahan, Printers Street, for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, Paternoster-Row, London, MDCCCII--MDCCCIII [1802-1803] hardcover
#[53892]12° geheel perkament 8277 pag. met gegraveerd frontispice en 4 paginagrote gravures. Titelpagina beschadigd doch een facsimilé van deze pagina toegevoegd. Verder goed exemplaar. C0796 l Leemans Het woord is aan de onderkant pag. 97-99; Van de Pol Het Amsterdams hoerdom. Uiterst zeldzaam boekje slechs 4 ex. in STCN waarvan 2 in buitenland. De drukker was volgens Van Eeghen J. Bouman. Franse vertaling van ''t Amsterdamsch hoerdom' ui unknown
1680CLL-614Amsterdam, Elzevier, 1680 In-4 de (15) ff., 612 pp., maroquin rouge, trois filets dorés sur plats, dos à nerfs orné de caissons de fleurons dorés, coupes et bordures décorées, tranches dorées (reliure de l'époque).
19623185Éditions Cercle d'Art, Paris 1962. Un volume in-folio (390 x 330 mm) relié sous cartonnage toilé illustré, dans l'étui de l'éditeur décoré de deux compositions en couleur de Picasso. - 45 LINOGRAVURES DE PABLO PICASSO EN PLANCHES HORS-TEXTE réalisées d’après les linogravures originales. - PREMIER TIRAGE. Édition originale française, le texte de W. Boeck est traduit par Jacques Chavy. Remarquable publication d'art. Très bel exemplaire en parfait état. Infimes imperfections à l'étui, en excellent état. Très recherché.-- ENGLISH DESCRIPTION : 1 volume oblong folio in the original slipcase. Introduction by W. Boeck. Illustrated with 45 colour plates engraved and remarkably printed on one side only after the original linocuts by Pablo Picasso (approx. 13" x 15"). A state of the art production by Cercle d'Art in 1962. 1st printing. In perfect condition and complete. The decorated slipcase is in excellent condition. Scarce in this condition.
19212132Paris, Éditions de la Galerie Simon, 1921. Un volume in-4 (324 x 228 mm) broché, couverture illustrée. Édition originale. 13 BOIS GRAVÉS ORIGINAUX PAR VLAMINCK : COUVERTURE, UN FRONTISPICE À PLEINE PAGE ET 10 GRANDS BOIS ENTOURANT LES POÈMES. Un grand bois illustre également le colophon. Tirage à 112 exemplaires : 10 Japon impérial + 100 sur Hollande van Gelder et 2 pour le dépôt légal. Chaque exemplaire est numéroté au composteur et signé par Vlaminck. Celui-ci 1 DES 100 SUR VÉLIN DE HOLLANDE signé à l'encre noire par Vlaminck. Tel que paru, broché, condition "sine qua non" pour un "Kahnweiler"! Photographies supplémentaires sur demande. More pictures on request.
1830129509Lille France: Imprimerie de Blocquel 1830. contemporary sheep gilt-stamped. oblong 32mo. contemporary sheep gilt-stamped. viii 96 pages. Text in French. Attributed to Lille printer Simon-François Blocquel. A guide for children in two sections. The first entitled "Savant de huit ans: sciences arts et métiers;" the second entitled "Petit coloriste: de enluminure." Describes the printing trades. With six color plates entitled Peintre frontispiece Sculpture Graveur en taille-douce Relieur Imprimeur en caractères mobiles. Also with color title. Numerous black and white illustrations include the human anatomy and musical scores. Simon-François Blocquel 1780-1863 was a Lille printer and bookseller. Born in Douai he was orphaned and was raised by his aunt who was married to a printer and bookseller of Lille. He became an apprentice in his uncle's printing trade. He worked in association with Lille bookseller Jean-Baptiste Castiaux from 1809 to circa 1835. Blocquel published a number of works related to geography and foreign cultures see Roger J.D. Collins "Simon Blacquel Imagier et Éditeur Lillois" in the Journal de la Société des Océanistes 41 1985. He was active in the Lille business community and he also served on the municipal council of that city from 1820 to 1857. Covers rubbed and scuffed at edges worn at extremities of spine. Gilt stamping on front cover partly worn. Outside joints and inside hinges cracked. Front free endpaper loose. Imprimerie de Blocquel) unknown books
197986828Leigh-on-Sea. As New. 1979. Hardcover. 0853170622 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 47 pages; 30 illustrations. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Complete Works Leigh-on-Sea hardcover
170441629London: Printed for the Author in the Old Palace Westminster; and Sold by W. Rogers and H. Rhodes in Fleet Street; E. Harris and B. Barker in Westminster-Hall 1704. Oblong 4to. 8 x 10 inches. First edition. I-IV A4 B-M4 I-IV. 56 ff. 1-112. 112 pp. 56 copper engraved plates 50 each with 12 cyphers; 6 other engraved plates with text in French and English. Coronets Frontispiece Title English Advertisement French Advertisement 50 Leaves of Cyphers. Frontispiece reads: "A book of cyphers composed by Col. Parsons. Imprimatur Carlisle. E. M. 1703." Priced bound at 12 shillings. 18 leaves with extensive contemporary ink manuscript penmanship editions on versos. Bound to style in quarter 18th-century morocco over 18th-century marble paper boards<br/> <br/> Extensively annotated first edition Parsons's enigmatic cypher book draws on heraldy cryptography and typography and led a craze for monogrammatic systems of which many imitators followed.<br/> <br/> "Such cyphers were extremely popular on both sides of the Atlantic during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. For inspiration in preparing clients' personal designs engravers typically relied on guides by designers such as William Parsons's New Book of Cyphers." - DDW Parsons's New Book of Cyphers was at the forefront of a publishing craze for cyphers in the 1700s; it was the fourth such book to be printed and dozens of nearly identical ones followed. Samuel Sympson released books with the exact same title as the present in 1739 and 1750. Phillip Barraud meanwhile had the good taste in 1782 to change Parsons's title by one word to "A New Book of Single Cyphers." Cyphers were used to create heraldic devices and monogrammatic signatures to embroider on clothing use as trademarks or store signs or to incorporate into bookplates as many book collectors have and continue to do. Cyphers differ from monograms in that the individual aspects of a cypher system can be exchanged without affecting the overall system; the letterforms in monograms must be redesigned each time. The cypher system with its internal algorithmic rules and capacity for change can easily encrypt secret messages and has done so from mysterious medieval codices like the Voynich Manuscript to the communiques of British generals during the American Revolution to the blockchain and "crypto" today. Cyphers were so faddish in the 1700s that people kept albums full of printed cyphers they had collected from their family friends and celebrities of the period. Cyphers in other words were treated something like autographs something like business cards something like keepsakes and they were devices people and their families identified with strongly. The 600 engraved cyphers across 56 plates in this first edition of Parson's book each show how to interlink two separate letters within Parsons's larger system of encipherment. Parsons gives instructions in both French and English on how to use them to compose longer texts. Parsons comments severely in his preliminary "Advertisement" preface that the earlier works on the subject contained only half the required number of cyphers necessary to complete their alphabets. By extrapolating from Parsons's text and his supplied two-letter cypher building-blocks one could create cyphers of any length that would maintain a consistent coherent design and be able to be deciphered if one knew the system. This book of cyphers seems oriented toward a striving merchant class not an aristocracy born into their family's symbols from the beginning of their lives. Anyone with access to pen and paper could make a cypher of their initials using this book. This interpretation is bolstered by the early-19th century ink manuscript editions found in the book. Numerous pages of repetitive handwriting exercises express upright moral sentiments: "By a commendable deportment we gain reputation." "Compassionate men never prove extortioners." "A flattering companion is a dangerous enemy." "Brave spirits promote the public good." These didactic lines were copied out of Fisher's The American Instructor: or Young Man's Best Companion . . . How to Qualify Any Person for Business without the Help of a Master. More manuscript editions present includes numerous pages of budgetary ledgers for a construction worker or carpenter an architectural sketch calligraphic practice lyrics from a song called "Mr. Clark and His Bacon" by G. Colman and two poems: "The Essex Spark" and "The Model." Parsons was the younger son of a baronet and attended Christ Church Oxford. He entered the army in 1682 and took part in the Glorious Revolution in 1688. Afterward he turned to publishing especially popular works of learning. His translation of Guillaume Marcel's Tablettes chronologiques chronological tables listing the dates of Kings Popes and Emperors ran through many editions. Parsons helped produce a new set of globes but none survive. For the present work Parsons commissioned Michel Tauvel an engraver in the Strand to work on his cypher designs in 1698. Permission to print the complete work was finally given in 1703. The finished book engraved throughout includes a fine frontispiece engraved by Simon Gribelin to Parsons's design and a title-page and text leaves by Joseph Nutting. Parsons's own cipher is visible in the bottom left-hand corner of each leaf.<br/> <br/> Berlin Katalog 5315. Collins "The Modern Monogram" Print Magazine 08.06.19. DDW "No. 14 Waiter" in American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago p.59. ESTC T116152. Francis Edwards Catalog No.800. Hale Treasures from Lord Fairhaven's Library at Anglesey Abbey cat.8 pp.58-9. O'Donoghue "Nutting Joseph" in DNB 18885-1900 Vol.41. Printed for the Author, in the Old Palace Westminster; and Sold by W. Rogers and H. Rhodes in Fleet Street; E. Harris and B. Bar unknown
420881New York: Saturday Morning 1978. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Edited by Simon Pettet. Tall octavo. Unpaginated. Stapled wrappers with illustrated covers by David Morris. Some modest age-toning on the wrappers else near fine. This copy with a printed limitation at the bottom of the front cover: "This is number 4 in a set of 10 signed editions." Signed by virtually all of the contributors including Pettet John Cage Ted Berrigan Allen Ginsberg Anne Waldman Peter Orlovsky Gerard Malanga Alice Notley John Giorno Dick Higgins Ron Padgett Carl Solomon Eileen Myles Maggie Dubris John Godfrey Jim Brodkey Bob Rosenthal Michael Scholnick Gary Lenhart Harris Schiff Annabel Levitt Michael Lally Maureen Owen Greg Masters Bob Holman Rose Lesniak Paul Violi Tom Savage Steve Carey and artist David Morris.<br /> <br /> Perhaps most amusing is an angry contribution by Kathy Acker purporting to be a public service announcement by the Chase Manhattan Bank of North America Signed by Acker as "The Chase Manhattan Bank of North America." Berrigan's signature notes himself as "Ted Berrigan on Ibogaine." The only signature that appears to be lacking is that of contributor Ray Bremser. Seemingly the last issue of this short-lived poetry zine. OCLC locates just two runs four issues of Vol. I and this double issue of Vol. II and only one in the U.S. with no mention of the limitation. Undoubtedly rare and a considerable achievement in corralling so many of the contributors to sign the issue in what might be considered an exercise in "herding cats. Saturday Morning unknown
200291511Frederick Baker Inc. New. 2002. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 194 pages; 294 works catalogued. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee Frederick Baker Inc. paperback
1945627959New York: National Bureau of Economic Research 1945. xxxiii 599 pp. 24 x 17 cm. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titling to spine in a plain beige dustjacket with black titling and printed price of $4.50 on inside flap. Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. Number 45. Sunning to spine of jacket with uneven sunning to rear panel. Moderate soil to jacket with some chipping to extremities. Large closed tear extending from tail of front panel over the spine of the jacket with another closed tear to head of rear panel; both with resulting creasing. Jacket is protected in a mylar cover. Some very light rubbing to spine ends and corners of boards. Very light soil and some light speckling to edges of text block. Pasted at the tail of the title page is a printed slip stating "Submitted by Milton Friedman in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Faculty of Political Science Columbia University". Pasted onto the final page which is a blank leaf is a printed copy of Friedman's curriculum vitae. Interior is otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding firm. An excellent first edtition copy of Friedman and Kuznet's appraisal of the "quantitative effect on the incomes of persons in independent professional practice." and a study of the "fluctuations in the incomes of professional persons from year to year". First Edition. Very Good/Good. National Bureau of Economic Research hardcover
178312066Pavia: P. Galeazzi 1783. Contemporary gilt green morocco extremities rubbed spine rubbed and faded POUR MR TISSOT gilt-lettered on the front panel. <p> Only Edition bound for the recipient of the volume’s adulation.<br /> This tribute to the retiring medical professor and prolific author — famous for his work on the dangers of onanism — contains poems in Italian German Greek English and Latin by seventy-two former students and professional colleagues. The odes sonnets elegies canzoni and a single distich praise Tissot as the Swiss Asclepius and meditate on the practice of medicine. In nice condition.<br /> ¶Buck The Dawn of Modern Medicine 103.</p> P. Galeazzi unknown
1755129343Amiens Chez la Veuve Godart et se vend à Paris chez Ganeau Chaubert & Lambert 1755. Economic disputes in the middle of the 18th century A remarkable tract volume of economic writings from the mid-18th century all in first edition. The above work a prize essay on the effect of interest rates on trade is bound with: i Discours en forme de lettre sur l'esprit universel à Messieurs de la Société royale d'agriculture de Paris; Brussels Chez Van Dem Bergen 1765. An anonymous work purporting that there is a "universal spirit" animating all nature and that agriculturalists should endeavour to understand this. ii Réponse du Magistrat du Parlement de Rouen à la Lettre d'un Gentilhomme des États de Languedoc Sur le Commerce des Bleds des Farines & du Pain. Amsterdam et se trouve à Paris Chez Durand 1768. Part of the considerable stream of anonymous publications on the question of liberalising the French bread trade with this tract opposing liberalisation. A few pencilled marginalia. iii Clauses Et Conventions Les Plus Ordinaires Des Contrats de Mariage avec des notions directes ou relatives sur leur étendue & les effets qu'elles produisent. Par l'auteur des Principes Généraux de la Coutume de Chaumont i.e. Jean-Baptiste-Francois-Nicolas Thieriot Paris: Chez Antoine Boudet 1768. A tract on the law surrounding marriage contracts. A few pencilled marginalia. All are rare items with WorldCat listing four copies of the first tract three of the second two of the third and two of the fourth. Each is complete with half-titles errata and privilege leaves where issued. Four works bound in a single vol. duodecimo 158 x 95 mm. With folding table. Contemporary mottled sheep gilt floral motifs to compartments. Ink notes on verso of front endpaper. Spine label lacking light insect damage to sheep some faint foxing but generally clean and crisp. A very good copy joints and hinges intact folding table without tears. unknown
1767172269Théorie: "Londres" though Paris; Lettres: Amsterdam no publisher 1767; 1770. Defending despotism in the final years of the ancien régime First edition of Lettres together with the presumed first edition of Théorie. These controversial tracts oppose political reform in the run-up to the Revolution. Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet 1736-1794 argues that free workers are worse off than enslaved people in a market economy and that despotism is a more effective protector of the poor than liberalism - arguments which would lead to his execution under the Reign of Terror in 1794. This collection comprises the Théorie des loix civiles arguably Linguet's major political work and his Lettres sur la théorie a response to criticisms of Théorie. These works outline a stinging attack on Montesquieu's theories on laws and the state and challenge physiocratic arguments including their objection to grain regulation. Linguet a habitual controversialist was among the most renowned lawyers in France during the 1760s and 1770s until his attacks on other lawyers led to his expulsion from the bar in 1775. Initially a friend of the philosophes he gradually came to reject much of their philosophy - in the Lettres he rejects the argument that English liberties provide a model for France a popular claim among philosophes. Linguet's critique of Enlightenment liberalism in these works has been identified as an influence on Karl Marx. Two distinct editions of Théorie have been identified with a London/1767 imprint. This edition runs to 507 and 532 pages and includes three pages of errata following the "Discours Préliminaire". Many of these errata have been corrected in the other edition which runs to 496 and 528 pages. 3 vols duodecimo 165 x 98 mm. Woodcut ornament to title pages head- and tailpieces. Contemporary mottled calf spines with panelling and floral decoration in gilt raised bands and red brown and yellow morocco labels covers ruled in blind Lettres marbled endpapers edges red red and blue silk bookmarkers. Contemporary engraved bookplate of "C. T. Noel du Payrat" to front pastedown of Lettres. Light bumping and rubbing a couple of spots of foxing to endpapers and content margins: a very good collection. Einaudi 3420 3415; Goldsmiths' 10377; INED 2919; Kress 6459. hardcover
1964177540New York: no publisher 1964. The richest comedy Simon has written and purest gold for any theatergoer" Nadel An early script inscribed on the title page "To Clive Neil Simon". There are significant differences between this script dated 10 August 1964 on the title page and that first published in 1966 by Random House. The Broadway production was a notable early success for Simon. It won the author a Tony award and was be adapted for a film. The original version presented at Boston's Colonial Theater excluded the Pigeon sisters in the third act. The present script includes the character of Cecily Pigeon in the third act but presents an entirely different version of the text from the published text. The name of the Broadway producer Saint-Subber appears on the title page. Arnold Saint-Subber 1918-1994 would produce seven of Simon's plays on Broadway. Quarto. Original red wrappers front wrapper lettered in gilt comprising title and "studio duplicating service inc." name and address. 140 mimeographed leaves printed on rectos only additional leaf numbered "3-9A" in Act 3 secured by two brass screw brads. Housed in a custom brown cloth folding box. Some creases and loss to wrappers first leaf trimmed at fore-edge some insect damage to first and second leaves: a very good copy. Norman Nadel within Harold Bloom Neil Simon 2002. hardcover
197391074Allen & Unwin. As New. 1973. Hardcover. 0046550119 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 261 pages. Includes a catalogue raisonne of books published by the Curwen Press between 1920 and 1932. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee - Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee Allen & Unwin hardcover
