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1742SS13441London:: Printed for John and Paul Knapton. . . 1742-53. 1742. 5 volumes. 8vo. Vol.1: 4 x 11-456 16; Vol.2: 2 407 15 10; Vol.3: 2 422 16; Vol.4: 2 410 14 11-26; Vol.5: 2 426 14 pp. The first 10 pages of the "Addenda" are bound at the end of vol.2 pp.11-26 are bound at the end of vol.4. 44 of 45 engraved plates mostly folding I: 17; II: 6; III: 6; IV: 6; V: 9 of 10 plates pl. 10 supplied in facs. see p. 422 TOTAL: 44 2 folding tables vol. I tables some folding addenda indexes; 2nd wasp plate vol. V with small scrape effecting some of the image. Original speckled calf; rebacked and with later endleaves vols. I III & V with joints gently mended with kozo. PROVENANCE: Bookplates of Henry and Carol Faul mounted on top of the following engraved bookplate for the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: "Sub libertate Florent" dated 1780 "The Gift of . . ." -- also with their gilt-stamp applied to the foot of the later spines "American Academy"; Rubber stamps discarded of the Linda Hall Library Kansas City MO. Very good. HENRY FAUL'S COPY -- WORKED FOR ENRICO FERMI & BIKINI ATOLL TEST. A collection of early scientific papers from leading figures all belonging to the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris the French equivalent to the Royal Society of London. The abridged papers all appeared between 1699 and 1720 and include diverse topics such as anatomy apiculture astronomy incl. Moon chemistry electricity entomology gases geography geology herpetology invertebrates magnetism medicine meteorology mineralogy monsters music mollusks natural history optics physics scientific instruments including the barometer microscope zoology and more. / AMONG THE NUMEROUS CONTRIBUTORS OR NOTABLES MENTIONED: Agricola Amontons Baert Juan de Barros Bernoulli Bignon Borelli Bouvet Robert Boyle Carre Cassini Chazelles Chevalier Coronelli Dampier Descartes Dodart Fermat Fontenay Fontenelle Galileo Gandolphe Gassendi Gesner Gouye Halley Van Helmont de la Hire du Hamel Huygens Jeaugeon Kepler Kircher Leibnitz Lemery Leuwenhoek Malpighi de Marca Mariotte Mollard Gregory Nazianzen Isaac Newton de Nointel Ortelius Parent Picard Renau Riccioli Sanctorius Strabo Tournefort Varignon etc. PROVENANCE: 1 American Academy of Arts & Sciences bookplate: The Academy seal features Minerva the goddess of wisdom science and trade and the arts. Her temple on the Aventine Hill was a meeting place for skilled craftsman writers and actors. She is also depicted as a warrior a symbol appropriate for an organization created in the midst of the American Revolution. Around Minerva are representations of the new country—on her right a field of Indian corn a stand of oaks and the outline of a town; at her feet a hoe a plow and a sickle; on her left a quadrant and a telescope a ship heading for shore and the sun completely risen above the cloud. Over the whole is the motto SUB LIBERTATE FLORENT which suggests that arts and sciences flourish best in. -- 2 Rubber stamps discarded of the Linda Hall Library Kansas City MO. -- 3 Henry and Carol Faul. Henry Faul was a geologist working on Enrico Fermi's team at the University of Chicago. He was responsible for prospecting uranium ore in Colorado and Utah. He also travelled to Manhattan Project sites at Los Alamos and in Washington DC. Following the war Faul continued to work on nuclear projects and participated in the Bikini Atoll test. He received his M.S. from the University of Chicago during the war and went on to get his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ESTC T131275. Printed for John and Paul Knapton. . . , 1742-53. unknown books
1747LD15790Paris: Chez dHoury 1747. Hardcover. Very Good. French 16th-century crimson morocco gilt-stamped to both covers with central armorial device: three fleur-de-lis a label of three points after Henry III King of France as Duke of Anjou all surrounded by collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece and surmounted by royal crown gold tooled arabesque border spine gilt in six compartments repeating the armorial device 5 times and titled SEMAINE SAINTE blue silk endpapers inner gilt dentelles all edges gilt; corners bumped some light edgewear. Note in ink states arms of Philippe d'Orleans-Egalite. 8vo 195 x 127mm. 631 pp. 3. Sold as a binding specimen. <br/><br/> Chez dHoury hardcover books
1784WRCAM34380Grenada: Printed by John Spahn 1784. 4pp. on a folio sheet folded once to quarto size. Splitting along most of the fold but the two leaves not detached. Stained along upper edge lightly tanned. Good. In a half morocco box. A very rare Grenada imprint printing extracts from the treaties which concluded the French and Indian War and the American Revolution especially those portions pertaining to Grenada and to Britain's guarantee of freedom of religion in her colonies. This proclamation was printed in Grenada by John Spahn and although undated was likely produced in 1784 following the news of Britain's re-acquisition of Grenada after the Treaty of Paris concluding the American Revolution. <br> <br> Four articles are reprinted from the Treaty of 1763 ending the French and Indian War: Article 4 passing all of Canada over to the British and ensuring freedom of religion to the former French subjects; Article 9 ceding Grenada the Grenadines St. Vincent Dominica and Tobago to the British and ensuring the same religious freedoms as those guaranteed to the former French subjects in Canada; and two articles pertaining to administrative matters. Four articles are also reprinted from the 1783 Treaty of Paris which ended the American Revolution: Article VII through which Britain ceded St. Lucia and Tobago to the French and in which the French guaranteed religious freedom to the Protestant inhabitants of the islands; Article VIII which gave Grenada the Grenadines St. Vincent's Dominica St. Christopher's Nevis and Montserrat and under which the British guaranteed religious freedom; and two other articles addressing legal and administrative questions. The third item reprinted is a proclamation by George III "given at Our Town of Fort Royal" in 1764 proclaims the sovereignty of British law on Grenada and the other recently acquired islands: "the laws of Great Britain are in force in this Island as far as the Nature and Circumstances of the Colony will permit; and that all other Jurisdictions Offices Commissions and Proceedings for the future not founded on those Our Laws of England are hereby declared to be absolutely determined utterly void and totally abolished." The Proclamation authorizes the calling of a General Assembly for the islands and gives the Governor General the power to institute laws and courts on the island until the legislature convenes. <br> <br> Printing on Grenada began as early as 1765 and continued through the French occupation of 1779-83. OCLC carries only one listing for John Spahn as a printer on Grenada - as publisher of the ST. GEORGE'S CHRONICLE AND GRENADA GAZETTE in 1800. Although the present extracts are undated it is most likely that they were printed shortly after the British regained control of Grenada in 1784. This document is not listed on OCLC nor are any Grenada imprints from the 1780s. A rare collection of treaty extracts carrying important information about the political and religious state of affairs in Grenada and the West Indies. Due to the humid climate in the area 18th-century imprints from the West Indies are virtually unobtainable. Printed by John Spahn unknown books
176014266Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Mortier 1760. Boards. Very Good. Vol 1: III-XVI 727 pages. Vol 2: 2 743 pages. Vol 3: 2 648 pages. Vol 4: 8 404 XXXVI 372 2 III-VIII 256 pages. 4 x 6 1/2 inches 12mo. Uniform period leather bindings with gold decoration to the spine panel leather labels and paper label as well on 4th volume. Leather is rubbed and scuffed corners worn spines hard to read. Second volume has tear to leather at top of spine. Bindings are fundamentally sound. Clean internally. First 3 volumes have decorated pastedown endpapers but plain flyleaves. Last volume has marbled endpapers. Not collated assumed complete sold as is. Boards. Roughly translated "A general table index of the matters contained in the history and the memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris from the year 1699 through 1734". Three volumes complete covering the alphabet A-Z. Together with the fourth volume not usually found covering years 1735-1751 and including a history of the Royal Academy of Sciences published in 1760 complete in one volume plus another index. Chez Pierre Mortier unknown books
172410445Paris: Antoine Urbain 1724. 2 parts in one: pp. i-viii 1-231; i-iv 1-204. 1 vols. 8vo. Full contemporary polished calf gilt spine. 2 parts in one: pp. i-viii 1-231; i-iv 1-204. 1 vols. 8vo. Antoine Urbain unknown books
175928993Paris: Chez Moreau Hochereau l'ainé 1759. Cancelled state of leaf L1. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled calf red morocco label. Some rubbing of extremities short cracks along upper joint light spotting hole in last page affecting a few letters else very good with a manuscript ex-libris on title-page. Cancelled state of leaf L1. 1 vols. 8vo. Chez Moreau, Hochereau l'ainé unknown books
17164057fParis: Pierre Ribou 1716. 12mo 157 x 86 mm. 8 517 3 pp. Woodcut headpiece and initials typographic ornaments. A few pages faintly printed occasional light foxing minor staining to pp. 280-281. 19th-century jansenist red morocco turn-ins gold-tooled gilt edges extremities scuffed. Provenance: Martine-Marie-Pol de Béhague comtesse de Béarn 1870-1939 by descent to her nephew Hubert de Ganay and thence to his heirs; bookplate with initials H H.A traveler's guide to Paris in the final days of the Sun-King's reign filled with information on Parisian gastronomic and material culture and its many purveyors First Edition second issue with the same sheets as the 1715 edition and only the title reset.Louis Liger whose name is given in the title of the 1715 issue replaced here by the price quarante-cinq sols was an agronomist and compiler of several popular works on domestic economy gardening and agriculture. The present anecdotal guide to Paris an outlier in his oeuvre is narrated by a fictional visitor from Germany who relates 13 days spent exploring the city: a conceit familiar to modern readers of guidebooks and the NY Times but which must have had the snap of novelty then. Each day is devoted to a different neighborhood starting with the Ile de la Cité Notre-Dame etc. moving on to the Marais the Halles Faubourg St. Honoré St. Germain etc. and ending with several faubourgs all now part of Paris: the hospice of the Salpêtrière the Invalides the Observatory and the Champs-Elysées at the time a pleasant leafy esplanade where masked couples partied and flirted. Described are the churches monuments private residences and inhabitants of each quartier including local thugs madames prostitutes and their johns: the descriptions are interwoven with personal anecdotes meals concerts a mugging a brawl over a woman etc. Following this narrative section are 13 chapters or "Articles" on specific topics with practical information on lodging and commodities. The first five chapters cover churches not previously mentioned schools academies lectures private tutors and libraries including the Bibliothèque royale previously open on Tuesdays but now because of the overflow of books closed to all except those who "are known and have friends there" although foreigners are well received p. 316 the Bibliothèque of the Abbaye de Saint-Victor designated a public library in 1654 and private or monastic libraries such as the Bibliothèques Ste-Geneviève and libraries of the Cordeliers or the Jacobins Dominicans. Follow a couple of chapters listing hôtels garnis hotels and hôtels particuliers private grand houses. Having dispensed with culture the narrator cuts loose and goes shopping. The remaining Articles portray a Paris chock full of riches culinary sartorial artisanal mechanical and artistic. A litany of the many public plazas where markets are held introduces chapters on butchers the fish market vegetable markets cheese vendors cork vendors very important candle-vendors mouth-watering descriptions of melons and pastries no need to single out the best patisseurs as they are in every quartier and a brief account of the "caffez" filled with mirrors and lights where nouvellistes and beaux esprits meet to hold conversations on les belles lettres to fortify themselves for which they consume prodigious amounts of coffee chocolate and various drinks no longer known like rossolis and populo both made with spirits cinnamon and sugar. Reluctantly leaving the Parisian table the author turns to every other item for sale in the city. While individual merchants are not named the clustering of professions by street in Paris made it easy to advise the reader where to find linen and textiles haberdashery fans ribbons and lace ready-made clothes used clothes tailors dress-makers theater costumes embroidery tapestries of many different kinds including of gilt leather tortoiseshell boxes children's toys coffee tins furniture mirrors crystal chandeliers objets de curiosité such as antiques porcelain paintings shells or gold and silver-inlaid objects and the goldsmiths and silversmiths who made them and conservators who restored them. For simpler needs the affluent male or female reader learns where to find bonnet-makers glove-makers perfumers furs and leather goods. And let's not forget wig-makers all 200 of them on the Quai des Augustins the many gadgets needed for carriages weaponry for war or the hunt garden implements construction materials such as pierres de taille and their manufacturers the metalworkers glaziers paper-makers shoemakers sculptors engravers and architects and finally laborers and domestic servants.Scarce. OCLC lists two copies of the 1715 issue in N. America Columbia and Northwestern. Dufour Bibliographie artistique historique et litteraire de Paris avant 1789 1882 pp. 322-23. Pierre Ribou hardcover books
178839924Lisboa: Na Regia officina typografrica 1788. Small 8vo 15.5 cm 6". 166 2 pp. <br><br>Sole Portuguese translation of Paris' treatise on the plague Mémoire sur la peste originally printed in 1778. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Blake NLM 18th Century p. 338. Contemporary mottled sheep nicely gilt to spine with a black leather title label a bit sprung and with edges corners and spine tips rubbed; front hinge inside open but board holding strong with front free endpaper lacking. Paper shelving label of a private library on spine with another inside front cover; another label on title-page once obscured part of the title but this was partly sometime reversed; same leaf with small hole to blank area. Text of last page offset to pastedown with a light circular stain to pastedown and final four leaves. In fact a rather nice little book! Na Regia officina typografrica hardcover books
1749D4444Paris c. 1749. Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong 2o 325 x 440 mm. Engraved title-page engraved explanation of plates with pasted overslip adding a description of plate 6 and 6 engraved plates some staining to title-page and margins of plates. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers worn; cloth folding case. The plans and drawings illustrating the public festivities held in Paris to celebrate the TREATY OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE on 12 February 1749. The treaty signed on 18 October 1748 was mainly a diplomatic agreement between Britain and France but it also marked the end of the War of Austrian Succession. Although the celebration called for fireworks at the Place de l'Hotel de Ville with numerous orchestras playing and buffets set up around the city the affair was rather gloomy due to French resentment over the terms of the treaty. Berlin 3019; Vinet 524. <br/><br/> hardcover books
175929000Paris: Chez Moreau Hochereau l'ainé 1759. With uncancelled state of leaf L1. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary stained sheep red morocco label spine gilt. Rubbed head and tail of spine chipped some soiling and light browning else very good with an 1811 ex-libris on the title. With uncancelled state of leaf L1. 1 vols. 8vo. Chez Moreau, Hochereau l'ainé unknown books
1786403054Paris 1786. 4to 231 x 183 mm. 44pp. Three large folding engraved plates. Late 19th-/early 20th-century boards. Intermittent foxing. Provenance: with contemporary ink annotations in French on the title identifying designers of other plans; Bibliothèque Imperiale inkstamp on some text leaves and plates duplicate stamp; Louis Greenbaum bookplate. BOUND WITH: Two copies of: Supplément au mémoire. Paris: Desenne Bailly Petit 1786. 4to. 63pp. FIRST EDITIONS. The plates depict an aerial plan of the hotel and its environs; a detailed plan of the first floor; and two perspective views on one sheet. The Hôtel-Dieu de Paris is the oldest hospital in the city. The present texts document the plans for reconstructing it after the ascension of Louis XVI who unlike his father favored renovation rather than demolition of the existing structure. The architect Bernard Poyet was supervisor of works in the city of Paris. He proposed a new façade based on Rome's Colosseum. The design was composed of a series of pavilions converging towards a center like the spokes of a wheel merging at the hub. His plan was rejected in favor of a more utilitarian design. Duveen & Klickstein pp. 272-273. See also our inventory numbers 403055 and 403056. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1783WRCAM34362Paris: Ph.-D. Pierres Imprimeur Ordinaire du Roi. 1783. 4pp. Quarto. Modern marbled boards leather label. Near fine. The final proclamation of peace between England and France in the American War of Independence. This is the version issued by the Paris police. Other editions were printed regionally in the same format. No copy of this printing is located on OCLC. Ph.-D. Pierres, Imprimeur Ordinaire du Roi... hardcover books
1783WRCAM34311Paris: de l'Imprimerie Royale 1783. 3pp. Quarto. Later marbled boards leather label. Near fine. The proclamation by Louis XVI calling for a cessation of hostilities with Great Britain in the American War of Independence according to the agreements of Jan. 20 1783. This ordinance particularly addresses the end of naval hostilities between the two nations. Not in Wroth and Annan ACTS OF FRENCH ROYAL ADMINISTRATION. OCLC lists only a printing in Lille locating three copies. Rare. de l'Imprimerie Royale hardcover books
1783WRCAM20840London 1783. 14pp. Quarto. Antique half calf and marbled boards. Some minimal old ink underscoring else a near fine copy untrimmed. The first British publication of the terms of peace agreed upon between France and England after the American Revolution. The French had hoped to obtain more from England in the final peace settlement but De Grasse's catastrophic naval loss to Rodney in the Caribbean in 1782 weakened their position and the American commissioners forced their hand by coming to their own accord with the British on Nov. 30 1782. By this treaty the British cede Newfoundland fishing rights return St. Lucia and Tobago to France and France gives back Nevis Grenada St. Kitts Montserrat and St. Vincent to the British as well as territorial exchanges in India. This treaty was vital to the final resolution of the American Revolution since the United States was pledged to move with France as an ally and was not in a position to settle without her. The final treaties of all the warring powers were signed on Nov. 3 1783. DAVENPORT 169. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 83-45. hardcover books
1783WRCAM34310Paris 1783. 4pp. printed in double columns. Quarto. Later marbled boards leather label. Near fine. On January 20 1783 terms for a general armistice between England and France and Spain were reached two months after terms with the United States had been worked out. A general armistice was agreed upon for February 4. This supplement to the ROYAL GAZETTE was probably the first publication of the terms of the British-French agreement. The French advantage after Yorktown had been largely lost with De Grasse's defeat in the Caribbean in 1782 so the net effect was largely a return to status quo with Caribbean possessions of both sides restored. Furthermore England's claims to Newfoundland were maintained and mutual fishing rights off the Canadian coast were agreed upon. DAVENPORT 169. hardcover books
1783WRCAM12795Lyon: L'Imprimerie du Roi 1783. 12pp. Quarto. Modern marbled boards leather label. Very good. An unrecorded contemporary Lyon printing of the peace treaty between France and England at the end of the American Revolution. Concluded on the same date as similar treaties between England and the United States and Spain this treaty enhanced the French position in the Caribbean and their position with regard to fishing rights off Canada. See Davenport 171. L'Imprimerie du Roi hardcover books
1783WRCAM34309Paris: de l'Imprimerie Royale 1783. 35pp. Quarto. Later marbled boards leather label. Very minor marginal dampstain throughout. Near fine untrimmed. The official French printing of the final treaty of peace between France and England in the American War of Independence concluded Sept. 3 1783 the same day as the final peace between the other powers in the conflict. Because of the French naval setbacks in 1782 the treaty resulted in little territorial loss for England and the powers returned each other's Caribbean possessions. Furthermore England's claims to Newfoundland were maintained and mutual fishing rights off the Canadian coast were agreed upon. The NUC and OCLC together locate nine copies of this scarce printing. DAVENPORT 171. SABIN 96557. OCLC 25450771 21984761. de l'Imprimerie Royale hardcover books
1783WRCAM15744Bilbao 1783. 10pp. Quarto. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Very good. A rare Spanish edition of the preliminary articles of peace between Spain and England which ended their conflict in the American Revolution. The primary impact of this treaty was to return the Floridas to Spain thus setting the stage for conflicts between the United States and Spain on its southern and western borders and ending twenty years of British control of the Floridas which had effectively been lost when Galvez seized Pensacola in 1781. DAVENPORT 170. SERVIES 597 Madrid ed. hardcover books
1783WRCAM20839London 1783. 10pp. printed in double-column format in parallel French and English. Small quarto. Dbd. Some old minor ink underscoring. Else very good. Untrimmed. In a half morocco box. The official English publication of the preliminary articles of peace between Spain and England. By this treaty an armistice was concluded Britain gave back the Floridas to Spain and Spain restored the Bahamas to England. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 83-44. DAVENPORT 170. unknown books
1783WRCAM15743Paris 1783. 8pp. Tall folio designed to be folded with docket title sideways on last leaf. Later marbled boards leather label. Near fine. A French printing of the treaty between Spain and England adopted as part of the general peace of Sept. 3 1783. Through this treaty Spain reacquired the Floridas and the Mediterranean island of Minorca while Britain retained Gibraltar and acquired the Bahamas. This printing is unrecorded so far as we can discover. It seems to have been printed for the use of the French commissioners at the time of signing and is in folio form with docket printed on the side so that it could be folded and put in a file. It probably represents a printing during the later stages of the negotiation process. OCLC locates only microfiche copies made from an original in the Public Archives of Canada. Rare. DAVENPORT 174. OCLC 19494242. A different printing of this treaty is recorded as: SERVIES 598. SABIN 96558. PALAU 339315. hardcover books
1783WRCAM20585Madrid: En la Imprenta Real 1783. 494pp. in Spanish and French plus a map. Small quarto. Original plain wrappers. Spine bit chipped. A crisp near fine copy. In a half morocco and cloth case. This is the official Spanish printing of the treaty in which England and Spain make peace in the American Revolution. England gives the Floridas back to Spain and Spain returns the Bahamas to England. The navigation of the Belize and Hondo rivers is made common to both nations. They also settle all hostilities concerning the Revolution a necessary component of the final Peace of 1783. England's returning Florida to Spain provided the U.S. with a headache not resolved until the U.S. purchased Florida from Spain in 1819. The engraved map depicts the Hondo and Belize rivers. DAVENPORT 174. SABIN 96558. PALAU 339315. SERVIES 598. En la Imprenta Real hardcover books
1783WRCAM21253London 1783. 10pp. printed in double columns in parallel English and French. Small quarto. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. A very good crisp copy. This preliminary settlement had been a stumbling block to the general settlement of the other parties in the American Revolution. All other treaties were concluded the day after this one. It revolves mainly around questions of trade with various colonies. England's final treaty with Holland was not concluded until the following year. This is the official English edition of the preliminary articles. SABIN 65045. hardcover books
1783WRCAM51461Caen 1783. 2pp. Quarto. Antique-style marbled boards gilt leather label. Near fine. Untrimmed. A regional printing of the official French proclamation of "bonne ferme stable & solide" peace between France and Great Britain bringing an end to the war of the American Revolution and warfare in other colonies and Europe. Although a preliminary peace had been negotiated in Paris as of Nov. 30 1782 with an armistice in effect as of Jan. 20 1783 the final treaty took many more months to conclude both because of last minute wrangling over fishing rights on the Grand Banks and delays in Trans-Atlantic ratification. The final treaties between France England and the United States were originally proclaimed on Nov. 3 1783 and this version of the announcement was printed at Caen on Dec. 27 1783. As a Channel port the notice of peace would have been of particular interest there. hardcover books
1783WRCAM34308Paris: de l'Imprimerie Royale 1783. Broadside 9 1/2 x 7 inches. Bound into later marbled boards leather label. Very good. A supplement to the ROYAL GAZETTE announcing that the peace treaties had been signed between France Spain England and the United States. No copies listed in OCLC. Rare. de l'Imprimerie Royale hardcover books
1783WRCAM12780Paris 1783. 2 leaves printed in double-column format. Quarto. Later marbled boards leather label. Good. An unrecorded contemporary printing as a supplement to the official GAZETTE produced by the Imprimerie Royale of the peace treaty between France and England at the end of the American Revolution. Concluded on the same date as similar treaties between England and the United States and Spain this treaty enhanced the French position in the Caribbean and improved their position concerning fishing rights off Canada in India and elsewhere. hardcover books
