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1957003740New York: Museum of Modern Art 1957. Paperback. Near Fine. 28 p. 2 leaves of tissue plates: six wood engravings and one woodcut; 26 x 29 cm. Stitched blue-grey wrappers with label printed in red and black. Within original portfolio covered in the same glue-grey paper with matching printed label on the front and a spine label printed in red. Designed illustrated and printed by Leonard Baskin at the Gehenna Press Nov. 1957. Handprinted in Perpetua type. "The illustrations have been printed from six original boxwood engravings and one cherry woodcut on Amalfi Italian hand-made paper and on Moriki and Mending Tissue both hand-made in Japan." This is no. 635 of a limited edition of 975 copies from an edition of 1000; signed by Leonard Baskin. It was honored as one of the "Fifty Books of the Year 1957" by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Book is in Near Fine Condition: front wrapper lightly creased from upper corner along fore-edge; clean and crisp. Portfolio is in Good Condition: both front sections are starting to separate along the front joints from the tail; color is faded; lacking small part of spine label; front label is complete and bright. Museum of Modern Art paperback
201835251Folio Society 2018. 8vo. with very numerous illustrations in the text; orange cloth upper board blocked in gilt backstrip lettered in black gilt top a fine copy in publisher's printed slip-case. Folio Society, hardcover
186410338Paris: Furne & Cie 1864. Fine. Furne & Cie Paris 1864 12 x 19 cm broché Second edition followed by 'mélanges tirés de quelques bouquins de la boîte à quatre sols. A tiny lack to head of spine some light foxing otherwise a handsome copy. Furne & Cie unknown
192722631Paris: Kra 1927. Fine. Kra Paris 1927 19 x 21 cm broché First edition one of 50 numbered copies on Holland paper under double wrappers deluxe printing with 15 on Japan paper. Autograph inscription signed by Alphonse de Chateaubriant. Spine sunned with a dampstain in its center a tear at head of first board a full-margined copy. Provenance: from the library of André Castelot. Kra unknown
183166803Paris: BaudryAimé André 1831. Fine. Baudry Aimé André Paris 1831 - 1833 13 x 21.50 cm 5 tomes en 3 volumes reliés First edition composed of the first 3 volumes of 1831 and volumes 4 and 5 published in 1833. Binding ca 1850 in brown glazed half calf. Back with nerves adorned with series of fat and lean fillets and wheels in tail and head. Title and volume coins in black morocco. Valery was unanimously hailed for the accuracy of his travels particularly distinguished for his literary research the examination and description of libraries such as that of Ravenna the Laurentian Library and so on. This new trip to Italy is not only another trip it is led by a clear literary and artistic vision Valery was indeed a curator of the Crown libraries and will be librarian of the Palace of Versailles. We will also appreciate the great precision in the description of the monuments. Geneva - Glaciers - Lakeside; Entry of Italy; Milan; Surroundings of Milan - Pavia - Come; Bergamo -Brescia - Verona - Vicenza; Venice; Padua - Ferrara; Bologna; Modena - Parma - Mantua; Florence; Around - Pisa - Livorno; Romagna - Abruzzo; Naples; Surroundings - Rome Road; Rome; Surroundings of Rome; First road from Florence - Viterbo - Orvietto - Siena - Volterre; Second route from Florence - Perugia - Cortona -Abezzo; Route from Florence to Genoa - Prato - Pistoia - Lucca - Massa - Sarzana; Genoa - Route of Nice; Route from Genoa to Turin - Turin - Mont-Genis. NB: This book is available at the bookstore on request within 48 hours. BaudryAimé André unknown
187327609Paris: La Revue des deux mondes 1873. Fine. La Revue des deux mondes Paris 1873 - Agrafé 3 articles extracted from the Revue des deux mondes. First edition. Rare. In plain wrappers. La Revue des deux mondes unknown
187314365s. l. Paris: Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes 1873. Fine. Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes s. l. Paris s. d. 1873 15.50 x 25 cm agrafé First edition. Plain paper cover. Rare. Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes unknown
185467102Paris: Michel Lévy frères 1854. Fine. Michel Lévy frères Paris 1854 11.50 x 18.50 cm relié First edition. Half dark green morocco binding with corners spine with five raised bands decorated with double compartments and black fillets gilt monogram of Gabriel du Tillet at foot of spine one joint slightly cracked at head and foot marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns top edge gilt corners slightly bumped contemporary binding signed Petit successeur de Simier. Some foxing mainly at beginning and end of volume. Michel Lévy frères hardcover
187161092Paris: Hachette 1871. Fine. Hachette Paris 1871 16 x 24 cm relié First French edition illustrated with 37 wood-engraved plates and several in-text illustrations as well as a map. The first English edition appeared in 1868 the American edition in 1869. Contemporary half red shagreen binding signed Magnier. Spine with false raised bands decorated with radiating compartments. Red grained cloth boards with blind-ruled borders. Edges gilt. Rubbing to headcaps and joints. Corners slightly bumped. Some scattered foxing particularly at the beginning of the work quite rare thereafter. A member of several scientific expeditions the author before reaching the Yukon the principal river crossing Alaska from east to west whose exploration forms the central part of the work begins with a description of Vancouver Island British Columbia then upon his return from the voyage describes California and its evolution over 3 chapters notably San Francisco. Hachette hardcover
176663132à Amsterdam: Chez Marc Michel Rey 1766. Fine. Chez Marc Michel Rey à Amsterdam 1766 10.50 x 17 cm 2 volumes reliés The rare and sought-after French first edition. Translation from German by Dumas. The large folding map placed at the end of volume II is missing and has been replaced by a photocopy of the reduced map provided by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France on its Gallica website. It was drawn by French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin 1703-1772 and published by Abbé Prévost. This has been refolded to insert in place of the original map. Contemporary full marbled calf bindings. Decorated smooth spines. Red morocco title and volume labels. One wormhole at the head of volume I. Evidence of rubbing to headcaps and corners. Lacking the half-title of the second volume. Handsome copy. The first volume surveys all the voyages of discovery carried out in eastern Russia Kamchatka Siberia and notably and especially that of Vitus Bering who in 1728 was the first to discover the northwest passage leaving his name to the famous Bering Strait. The latter made a voyage by the same route to southern Alaska in 1741. The work relates numerous voyages notably that of Simon Dejnev around the Chukchi Peninsula that of Mikhail Gvozdev and Ivan Fedorov across the Bering Strait to Cape Prince of Wales Alaska in 1732. The second volume deals with the history of the Amur River based on Witsen's work on northern and eastern Tartary. This history details the reports and relations between the Russians and Chinese as well as Jesuit interventions. Chez Marc Michel Rey unknown
185315998s. l. Paris: Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes 1853. Fine. Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes s. l. Paris 1853 15.50 x 25 cm agrafé First edition. Plain paper cover. Rare. Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes unknown
188116579s. l. Paris: Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes 1881. Fine. Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes s. l. Paris 1881 15.50 x 25 cm agrafé First edition. Plain paper cover. Rare. Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes unknown
183057981Paris: Imprimé aux frais du gouvernement 1830. Fine. Imprimé aux frais du gouvernement Paris 1830 13 x 25 cm relié New edition after the very rare first edition of 1617. Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with restoration tools roulettes and multiple fillets. Havana morocco title label. Framing frieze on boards. Central medallion with the emblem of the Hallays-Dabon Institution famous educational institute in Paris. Joints restored as well as the upper headcap some cracks remain visible but the volume is now solid. 2 corners slightly bumped. Overall rubbed. Scattered foxing. Mocquet apothecary to the king obtained authorization from King Henri IV to travel in order to bring back curiosities to supply the royal collections. Over a period of eleven years Mocquet made six voyages; the first to the western coast of Africa in 1602; the second to Cape Verde Brazil on the Amazon and to Guiana January-August 1604; the third to Portugal and Morocco April 1605 - March 1606; the fourth to Mozambique and as far as Goa 1610; then the fifth to Syria and Palestine September 1611 - July 1612 and the last to Spain not without bringing back to the king each time numerous curiosities of all kinds to which the author bears witness. Endowed with profound curiosity the author's travel narrative is full of singular details and anecdotes. The whole is not without critical spirit notably on Morocco and the Portuguese in Goa or commerce. It is a most agreeable and entertaining account of a traveler from the very beginning of the 17th century. Imprimé aux frais du gouvernement hardcover
185431094Paris: L. Maison 1854. Fine. L. Maison Paris 1854 17 x 25 cm broché sous étui First edition. With two maps. Spine cracked with small lacks principally at head upper cover detached small angular lacks to covers a little foxing. A rare copy housed in a protective case. L. Maison unknown
184639486Paris: J.J. DubochetLe Chevalier & Cie 1846. Fine. J.J. Dubochet Le Chevalier & Cie Paris 1846 18.50 x 28 cm relié Second edition. Half black shagreen binding spine with four fine raised bands decorated with double gilt compartments frame of gilt fillet on black paper boards some tears to leading edges cream watered silk endpapers and pastedowns. Work illustrated after drawings by the author as well as 15 hors-texte drawings by Calame. Occasional light foxing affecting mainly the beginning and end of the volume. J.J. DubochetLe Chevalier & Cie hardcover
178863076à Paris: Chez Regnault 1788. Fine. Chez Regnault à Paris 1788 12 x 20 cm relié Second edition after the first published in 1786 by the same publisher. It is illustrated with 3 folding maps on heavy paper one of Europe a second of central Asia a third of the North Pole. Contemporary full brown marbled calf bindings. Smooth spines decorated with 4 fleurons. Red morocco title labels and volume labels. Head of volume 1 slightly worn; that of volume 2 largely missing. Tail of volume 2 worn. 6 corners very bumped. One incision to the last compartment of volume 2. Rubbing and surface wear to boards. Some scattered foxing. One tear on a fold to the large map of Asia. Composed of a series of letters Mackintosh's travels aim essentially at describing the situation of Hindustan and the English presence in India. This journey nevertheless passes through Europe description of the Netherlands Antwerp Nantes and Lorient the Cape of Good Hope and Bourbon Island where Mackintosh was held prisoner. Some letters appear to have very diverse subjects but all in fact relate to England's situation and its future in the Indies such as letters concerning the war between the Americans and the English or those concerning the principal English chiefs of the Indies. Interesting appendix On the ants that attack sugar cane. Capper's Journey colonel of the East India Company reveals to us the ancient overland route to the Indies from Egypt. At the end extract from Sparrmann's journey to the Cape of Good Hope. Chez Regnault hardcover
181935184Paris: Gide filsLouis JanetDelaunay 1819. Fine. Gide fils Louis Janet Delaunay Paris Octobre 1819 13 x 20.50 cm relié Second edition of the French translation published only a few months after the first edition of the French translation. Half wine-colored sheep binding smooth spine very slightly faded decorated with gilt romantic decorative motifs marbled paper boards contemporary binding. Light foxing mainly at beginning and end of volume. Gide filsLouis JanetDelaunay hardcover
172381601à Paris: Chez Pierre-Michel huart 1723. Fine. Chez Pierre-Michel huart à Paris 1723 9.50 x 17 cm 10 tomes en 5 volumes reliés Second collective edition published by various booksellers including Michel Almaury. It is illustrated with 75 figures including a frontispiece portrait of which 30 are folding a map and 6 folding tables. Title pages in red and black. Contemporary full glazed brown sheep binding. Raised band spine richly decorated. Red morocco title labels brown sheep title label with frame of roll tooling. Head caps of volumes 1 to 8 torn off tail caps torn off except for the second volume 3 and 4. 9 corners very bumped. Rubbing. A lack to the lower joint at head of volume 9 10. Lacks to edges of volume 1. Set relatively worn. In volumes 9 10 worming to margins of 4 folding plates extending a few millimetres onto the engraving and to margins of 8 text leaves up to page 72; one to 2 wormholes afterwards on a few leaves; p.80 the engraving has a tear which has been amateurishly restored with pieces of paper. A tear in volume 7 8 p. 332. Trace of light dampstain on the title page of volume 1. 3 engravings with short margins. Title pages yellowed the first with a light dampstain. Bookplate of Henry Gouin. Considered the best ancient account and description of Persia Les voyages du Chevalier Chardin provides a complete survey of this region for the first time in history. Besides the different voyages volumes 5 6 7 and 8 examine the situation of arts government religion; volume 8 concerns the city of Isfahan. Chez Pierre-Michel huart unknown
184544719Tours: R. Pornin & Cie 1845. Fine. R. Pornin & Cie Tours 1845 13 x 21.50 cm relié First edition. Full glazed fir calf binding smooth spine decorated with gilt romantic arabesques with a restored tear at head joints cracked at head and foot minor rubbing to spine upper headcaps missing single gilt fillet border on boards stamped with a large romantic arabesque in blind scuffing to boards corners bumped marbled endpapers and pastedowns gilt edges to cuts marbled edges contemporary romantic binding. Work illustrated with 3 plates outside the text including the frontispiece. Occasional light foxing a small ink stain of no consequence on page 3. R. Pornin & Cie hardcover
183869105Paris: Furne et CieH. Fournier 1838. Fine. Furne et Cie H. Fournier Paris 1838 13 x 21 cm 2 volumes reliés First printing of Grandville's illustration. A frontispiece on flying China paper and 450 wood-engraved vignettes in-text and 5 hors texte the four titles of the four voyages and the literary allegory as frontispiece to the notice. New translation biographical and literary notice on Jonathan Swift by Walter Scott. Contemporary grey glazed calf half-binding in Romantic style. Smooth spine with a long Romantic tool and 2 mirrored tools with fillets. Light traces of rubbing. Some scattered foxing mainly marginal. Handsome copy. ""This complete illustration occupies one of the first ranks in Grandville's work."" Carteret III 578. This very beautiful illustrated Romantic work is extremely rare in fine condition. It is printed on tinted laid paper."" Carteret III 578. Furne et CieH. Fournier unknown
172585900A Paris: Chez Etienne Ganneau 1725. Fine. Chez Etienne Ganneau A Paris 1725 9.50 x 16.40 cm 2 volumes reliés First French edition after the first English edition of 1696. This edition is much rarer than the English original. Contemporary full marbled blonde sheepskin binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Beige morocco title label black wax volume label. Traces of rubbing. Gilt faded on volume labels. Worming to upper board of volume II also to lower joint at head with losses. Some scattered foxing. Good copy. 18th-century armorial bookplate Morel Depeisses. Ovington joined the East India Company and was assigned to a voyage as chaplain in 1689. His voyage made a first stop at Madeira Ovington already displaying his interest in the religious customs of the Portuguese. After several stops at different islands off the African coast notably Saint Helena the ship stopped briefly at Bombay which the author describes in rather unflattering terms a place for drunkards and alcoholics. Finally Ovington settled for more than two years in Surat. There he extensively comments on Moghul influence and Muslim and Hindu religions and customs notably tea drinking and fakirs. His descriptions of English manufactories in Surat are of the greatest interest. One will also find a description of the kingdom of Golconda in India as well as the Cape of Good Hope. Chez Etienne Ganneau hardcover
194344963s. l. Paris: S. n. Journal des débats 1943. Fine. S. n. Journal des débats s. l. Paris s. d. 1943 13.50 x 21.50 cm 4 1/2 pages in-8 Autograph manuscript by the author of 4½ pages in-8 published in the September 8 1943 issue of Journal des Débats. Complete manuscript with very dense handwriting containing numerous deletions corrections and additions. The complete typescript is included. Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of Les Voyages de Montesquieu prefaced by Marcel Arland. This artificial collection of Montesquieu's travel notebooks gives Blanchot the opportunity to praise a form of ""natural"" writing ""pure of all concern for readership"". These intimate notes indeed testify to an art of ""concision which delivers facts to us naked pressed by the meaning that illuminates them"" and which from ""considerable material drew only a small book discreetly reduced to the essential."" Between April 1941 and August 1944 Maurice Blanchot published 173 articles on recently published books in the ""Chronique de la vie intellectuelle"" of Journal des Débats. In half a newspaper page about seven octavo pages the young author of ""Thomas l'obscur"" takes his first steps in the field of literary criticism and thus inaugurates a theoretical work that he would later develop in his numerous essays from ""La Part du feu"" to ""L'Entretien infini"" and ""L'Écriture du désastre"". From his first articles Blanchot demonstrates an analytical acuity far exceeding the literary current events that motivated their writing. Oscillating between classics and moderns first-rate writers and minor novelists he establishes in his chronicles the foundations of a critical thought that would mark the second half of the 20th century. Transformed by writing and by the war Blanchot breaks through a thought exercised ""in the name of the other"" with the violent Maurrassian certainties of his youth. Not without paradox he then transforms literary criticism into a philosophical act of intellectual resistance to barbarism at the very heart of an ""openly Maréchaliste"" newspaper: ""To burn a book to write one are the two acts between which culture inscribes its contrary oscillations"" Le Livre In Journal des Débats January 20 1943. In 2007 the Cahiers de la NRF brought together under the direction of Christophe Bident all the literary chronicles not yet published in volumes with this pertinent analysis of Blanchot's critical work: ""novels poems essays give rise to a singular reflection ever more sure of its own rhetoric delivered more to the echo of the impossible or to the sirens of disappearance. . Not without contradictions or sidesteps and in the feverish certainty of a work that begins . these articles reveal the genealogy of a critic who transformed the occasion of the chronicle into necessity of thought."" C. Bident. Autograph manuscripts by Maurice Blanchot are extremely rare. S. n.[ Journal des débats] unknown
197364186Paris: Arthaud 1973. Fine. Arthaud Paris 1973 15 x 20 cm broché First edition on current paper. Binding half blue half shagreen corners smooth back discolored and brightened adorned with nets and gold friezes marbled paper plates guards and contreplats of handmade paper gilded head. Iconography. Signed autograph of Henri Gheon: ""To the unknown reader under the sign of"" spiritual ""."" Arthaud unknown
182418402Paris: Chez Masson et fils. 1824. Fine. Chez Masson et fils. Paris 1824 13 x 20 cm relié Journeys to the interior of Central America: including those from Buenos Aires to Assumption by way of the Plata river and back from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso by way of the Mendoza plain and the town of Santiago de Chile into the valleys and peaks of the Cordillera over a distance of almost 450 leagues containing some of the richest mines in Chile the return from Valparaiso and Santiago the navigation of the Coquimbo to Lima the capital of all Central America the tortuous route from Lima to Guayaquil and around Quito province including to an ancient Inca city. Also including the voyage from the aforementioned capital to Santa Fe de Bogota by way of Cuença Calil and Popayan an extraordinary and interesting region in terms of its trade a description of the environs of Santa Fe the centre of the Colombian Republic as well as of the nature and liveliness of its trade likewise for all the territory on the way to the port of Cartagena where the author embarked for Cuba and Jamaica whose most remarkable features he also records. With detailed accounts of the mores customs and character of the inhabitants local products and the riches of the vast expanse of this new continent the best way of travelling there the best places to stop and pause the merchandise to take for exchange as well as worthwhile precautions against being cheated by the inhabitants and against the innumerable reptiles to be found there; a useful work for sailors and for any commercial traveler Marked the second edition the first apparently being that of 1823 published in Agen with a slightly different title. Rare. This second edition appears to be even scarcer than the first. Held only in the Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève in Paris. The French Bibliothèque Nationale and the British Library as well as UK libraries hold no copies. The Bibliothèque Nationale and the British Library each have only one copy of the first edition. Contemporary light brown sheep. Spine with 2 compartments with grotesques 2 fleurons and roulettes. Red morocco title-piece. A one centimeter-long split to head and foot. The author spent 12 years in South America. He left in 1808 on the brig Le Consolateur. Obliged to move endlessly through the various provinces of this vast tract of the New World I began to study the mores characters and habits of its inhabitants. I was particularly keen on learning how to travel in these climates.and lastly the various branches of commerce undertaken there. Chez Masson et fils. unknown
182130486Paris: Arthus Bertrand 1821. Fine. Arthus Bertrand Paris 1821 12.50 x 20.50 cm 3 volumesreliés New edition of this fictional voyage which was highly successful and saw numerous editions. Half brown sheep binding spine with four false raised bands decorated with triple blind-stamped compartments and gilt fillets double gilt fillets on marbled paper boards minor traces of rubbing to joints without significance corners slightly bumped marbled endpapers and pastedowns speckled edges contemporary binding. Work illustrated with 3 frontispiece engravings and complete with its folding map of Antenor's voyages at the end of the first volume. Some foxing. Arthus Bertrand hardcover
