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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
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
179840475Paris: Firmin Didot 1798. <p>Strength of Materials</p> <p>Girard Pierre Simon 1765-1835. Traité analytique de la résistance des solides et des solides d'égale résistance . . . 4to. lv 238 2 incl. errata 48pp. 9 folding engraved plates. Paris: Firmin Didot; Dupont an VI 1798. 248 x 196 mm. Tree sheep c. 1798 gilt spine with black gilt-lettered label "Ecole royale regimentaire d'Artillerie de Metz" tooled in gilt on front cover light rubbing corners and upper spine extremity a bit worn. Very good.</p> <p>First Edition of the work that named the discipline known as the strength of materials. Girard was trained at the École des Ponts et Chaussées and was one of the few engineers of his time with sufficient mathematical knowledge to read the works of Euler. In 1787 Girard began investigating the strength of wood as a structural material and was able to apply his first results in this field in 1790 when he won the Académie des Science's competition on the theory and practice of canal and harbor lock construction. In 1798 he published his Traité analytique de la résistance des solides containing the results of his researches on the strength and resistance of building stone timber and wrought iron; it was the first book published in France to deal with the theory of beams in all its aspects strength flexural strength elastic stability yield strength. In the same year Girard traveled with Napoleon's army to Egypt where he studied the surface elevation and bed characteristics of the Nile; on his return to France Napoleon appointed him director of the Paris water supply. Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Nouvelle biographie générale. </p> . Firmin Didot unknown books
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
1767670181767. An Ideal Form of Government Linguet Simon Nicolas Henri 1736-1794. Theorie des Loix Civiles Ou Principes Fondamentaux de la Societe. "A Londres" i.e. Paris: S.n. 1767. Two volumes iv 496; iv 528 pp. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 3-3/4". Contemporary mottled calf red and green lettering pieces and gilt ornaments to spine edges rouged marbled endpapers ribbon markers. Light rubbing and a few tiny scuffs to boards somewhat heavier rubbing to spine and extremities corners bumped. Light toning to text slightly heavier in places light foxing to a few leaves in each volume tiny inkspot to title page of Volume II. An attractive set. $650. From the same year as the first edition with corrections. Linguet was a conservative lawyer and journalist who was executed during the Reign of Terror. Theorie des Loix Civiles perhaps the author's most important work went through several editions and issues the last in 1787. It outlines an ideal form of government and proposes reforms in taxation customs and the law. It also defends absolutism and attacks the politics of Montesquieu. Volume I contains extensive discussion of divorce and the position of women in society. Catalogue of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature 10377. 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
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
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
173856251Dublin: reprinted by and for George Faulkner 1738. 8vo pp. xiv 310; contemporary calf boards; 19th-century rebacking; leather scuffed around board edges; head of title page clipped and mended; otherwise very good. A fictional story about an Italian man who discovers a mythical paradise called Mezzoramia in the African desert. The author Simon Berington 1680-1755 was a Catholic priest. The title page states that the text was copied from a manuscript in St. Mark's Library in Venice but this is a fictional account; the text was initially written in English and first published in London in 1737 and received a number of reprints. <br/><br/> reprinted by, and for George Faulkner 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
179738875London: G. Whitfield 1797. 12mo. Disbound. Moderate toning edges of some leaves frayed scattered foxing. G. Whitfield 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
175228099Dublin: Re-printed by and for George Faulkner 1752 1752. Second Dublin edition stated "The Fifth Edition" on the title-page; the first edition was published in London in 1737. Gove The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction pages 295-300; ESTC T59630. Edges gently rubbed; very good copy. 8vo contemporary calf maroon leather label gilt rules and lettering. A celebrated utopian-philosophical imaginary voyage that went through numerous editions and translations in the 18th century. It was originally attributed to the Bishop of Ireland and prolific writer-philosopher George Berkeley. Berington was not identified as the author until 1935. Lee Ellison in his essay on Gaudentio di Lucca in the PMLA 1935 comments on Berington's believable realistic narrative compared with earlier imaginary voyages: "The earlier utopias lacked concreteness . . . Berington's Mezzorania on the other hand is as real as Mexico and Peru; and integrated with his philosophy and social theory is a narrative that runs the whole gamut from idyllic romance to luscious intrigue and bloody adventure." Contemporary ink signature of "Thos. Moore" on the title-page. <br/><br/> Dublin: Re-printed by, and for George Faulkner, 1752 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
1715WRCAM39741London 1715. Small folio broadsheet. 1p. plus printed docket title on verso. Ornamental initial. Dbd. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Some foxing. Else very good. Different from the 1714 work of the same title the text here begins: "Whereas by an Act of Parliament." A rare document petitioning Parliament to further government protections of the coach business through stricter licensing rules. This document is among the earliest examples of lobbying literature which first began proliferating in the lobby of the House of Commons at the time of the accession of King George I and the British general election of 1715. Rare with Hanson and ESTC recording only one copy at Oxford. HANSON 2193. 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
1776609141776. Disbarred by the Parlement of Paris Linguet Simon Nicolas Henri 1736-1794. Requete au Conseil de Roi Pour M. Linguet Avocat. Contre les Arrets du Parlement de Paris Des 29 Mars & 4 Fevrier 1775. Amsterdam: Chez Marc-Michel Rey 1776. 12mo. ii 260 pp. 12mo 6-1/2" x 4". Contemporary mottled sheep gilt spine marbled endpapers. Light rubbing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities. Some toning to text internally clean. A nice copy. $200. First edition. Also issued the same year in Geneva. This book concerns the sanctioning of Linguet's disbarment by the Order of Barristers by the Parlement. The complicated circumstances had to do with competition within the Order of Barristers and tensions between the Order and the Parlement. Linguet admitted to the bar in 1764 was a formidable advocate. The immediate cause of his disbarment was "a tirade in which the author seems to have lost his temper and denounced the Order. This convoluted affair is described in Michael P. Fitzsimmons The Parisian Order of Barristers and the French Revolution 24ff. OCLC locates 4 copies in North America 1 in a law library UC-Berkeley. Another copy located at George Washington University Law School. Not in the British Museum Catalogue. 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
179081557Paris: de l'Imprimerie Nationale 1790. Paperback. Very Good. 40p. Pamphlet. 21cm. No separate wrapper present. Old stitch marks. French text. <br/><br/> de l'Imprimerie Nationale paperback books
175622766Paris: n. p. 1756. First edition 12mo pp. 4 124; lacking the errata leaf; head- and tail-pieces throughout; contemporary mottled calf the spine gilt in six compartments red morocco label in 1 and all edges red; light wear to extremities small worm trail on back cover affecting leather only and a small 1-inch diameter illegible stamp in red on title-page; overall a very attractive clean copy. An important treatise on crop rotation. La Salle de l'Etang d. 1765 provides one of the earliest systematic plans for rotating food crops with "artificial" pastures allowing tilled lands to rebuild nutrient reserves. In addition the author advocates raising livestock for manure to fertilize dry and sterile lands. In order to facilitate his plan he calls for the establishment of a national bureau of agriculture that would be responsible for record-keeping distributing produce throughout the country in times of famine and regional crises regulating foreign trade in agricultural products and maintaining fair prices. A second edition of La Salle de l'Etang's treatise appeared in 1758 and a third expanded version of 330 pages in 1762 both with a Brussels imprint. Six copies in US libraries: Harvard Yale Delaware UC-Davis and 2 others. <br/><br/> [n. p.] hardcover books
1789291069Geneve.: Barde Manget & Compagnie. 1789. 1st Edition. Marbled boards. . Very good spine had pulled small hole in title page. . 4to. 25x20 cm. French text. A nice copy of this work by the Swiss mathematician noted for his work in mathematical analysis and topology. weight: 0.8 lb. 2 folding plates. Barde, Manget & Compagnie. hardcover 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
1797132939London: George Nicol 1797. hardcover. good. 8vo original leather backed marbled boards; worn. London: George Nicol 1797. Good.<br/><br/> Simon Fraser Lord Lovat a Scottish Jacobite intriguer was the last man to be beheaded in The Tower.<br/><br/> George Nicol unknown books
