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1880RW1075Paris:: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion 1880s 1880. Sm. 8vo. iv iii 1 247 3 pp. 18 figs. Contemporary quarter brown gilt-stamped morocco marbled boards raised bands; extremities slightly rubbed. Waterstains to corners of early pages. Very good. C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, [1880s?] hardcover books
1870RW1089Paris:: Librairie de L. Hachette 1870. 1870. 4to. iv 612 pp. 117 engravings 6 chromolithographic plates. Original quarter crimson and gilt-stamped leather red blind-stamped cloth all edges gilt; extremities worn joints cracked. Very good. An interesting collection of writings by 4 very different men joined by their fascination with aeronautics. Flammarion was a French astronomer and prolific author of works on popular science Glasiher was an English meteorologist and aeronaut Fonvielle was a dedicated balloonist while Tissandier was a chemist meteorologist and aviator. This work describes many of their experience and experiments relating to air travel principally in balloons. Includes some very nice illustrations. Librairie de L. Hachette, 1870. hardcover books
1892445311892. <p>The Planet Mars—Author's Possibly Unpublished Autograph Draft</p> <p> Flammarion Camille 1842-1925. Voyage à la planète Mars. Autograph manuscript in French signed by Flammarion on last leaf. 4to. 3-16ff. in ink rectos only. Paris or Juvisy 1892. Loose sheets. Lightly creased browning slight soiling & chipping but very good.</p> <p> Flammarion's signed autograph draft of what appears to be a popular article based on a section of his classic La Planète Mars et ses Conditions d'Habitabilité published in 1892. Some of the text in our manuscript particularly that on ff. 8 and 9 appears in the first volume of La Planète Mars in the chapter titled "Changements actuellement observes" pp. 547-578; however the remainder of the manuscript's text varies widely from the printed book's and appears to be geared toward a more general audience. La Planète Mars was the most comprehensive work on Mars to yet appear and Flammarion's views on Mars dominated the field in Europe much as Percival Lowell's did in America Lowell began his observations and writings in the mid-1890s after Flammarion. </p> <p> The manuscript shows some revisions by Flammarion on most leaves ranging from crossing out of a few words to the interpolation of several lines of text. A second editor has marked the text in a few places in the margin in plain and colored pencil and the first leaf bears the pencil date July 28 1944 in the upper margin. The first leaf is numbered 3 in Flammarion's hand; however the title and beginning of the text occur on this leaf. Despite the presence of editorial markings we have found no evidence that Flammarion's article was published.</p> <p> The date of this text is important not only for preceding Flammarion's great work on Mars but also because it represents an early date in the acceptance of Mars's "canals" a supposed network of lines crisscrossing the planet these lines are actually optical illusions caused by the human brain's tendency to impose patterns on visual data. First described by Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli in 1878 the Martian "canals" led to a great deal of popular speculation about the possibility of intelligent life on Mars and became a staple of science fiction. It was not until the Mariner flights to Mars in the late 1960s that the notion of canals on Mars was finally put to rest. </p> <p> In the present manuscript Flammarion referring to Schiaparelli's observations of 1877-86 accepts that the Mars canals exist that they are not optical effects and that they show variation linked with the seasons on Mars. Flammarion is cautious to say that one can use the term "canal" without it being the last word on the supposed structures' actual physical constitution. Flammarion considers the canals and their fluctuations the most "bizarre" feature of Mars unlike anything on earth. He warns against applying physical terms appropriate to earth to Mars without more knowledge of the atmosphere of Mars. He writes that our knowledge of Mars might be comparable to that of a balloonist over Mont Saint Michel trying to explain the fluctuations in its appearance without any concept of tides. His examples of Martian features include the region of Lacus Solis and its affluents Ambrosia and Nectar which had disappeared from view although seen by Dawes Lockyer and Kaiser in years past and the Kepler Ocean.</p> <p> Flammarion states that it would not be completely absurd to consider that the canals could be the work of intelligence. He paints a poetic picture of evening on earth contrasted with morning on Mars and speculates that if there were Martians their intelligence would be superior to ours. He expresses the hope that Mars may provide the long-sought evidence of the "plurality of worlds" a subject on which he had written. His poetic conclusion to this article is very much in keeping with Flammarion's other persona as one of the first great writers of modern science fiction with several novels to his credit. Glasstone The Book of Mars 19-31 reproducing several maps from Flammarion's La Planète Mars. Ley & von Braun The Exploration of Mars 1956 45-46 48-52 61 174 also reproducing Flammarion's maps. DSB. </p> . unknown books
1891108591London: Chatto & Windus 1891. Octavo pp. 1-2 i-v vi 1-3 4-245 246: printer's imprint 247: publisher's colophon 248: blank note: first leaf is a blank 32-page publisher's catalogue dated "Sept. 1900" inserted at rear numerous illustrations by de Bieler Myrbach and Gambard original pictorial tan cloth front panel stamped in light brown dark brown black and gold spine panel stamped in black and gold publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel all edges untrimmed endpapers with floral design printed in silver. First British edition first binding later issue with September 1900 inserted catalogue. Translation of URANIE 1889. "A mixture of mysticism and science fiction which sold well in its day; spirit travels through space and time and a visit to an advanced Mars." - Locke Voyages in Space 75. "Popular narrative recipe of mixing astronomy with spiritualism made Flammarion worldwide success." - Suvin Victorian Science Fiction in the UK p. 44. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-408. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 776. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 84. Bleiler 1978 p. 74. Reginald 05461. 1905 Christmas gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper. Slight spine lean cloth lightly soiled a very good copy. #108591 Chatto & Windus unknown books
1890RW1074Boston:: Estes and Lauriat 1890. 1890. 8vo. 314 pp. Illustrations. Original burgundy gilt-stamped cloth top edge gilt; rubbed. Inscribed: "Presented to Mrs. May Belle Vail by her nephew & Stepson E. Morris Vail Christmas 1895." Very good. Illustrated by De Bieler Myrbach and Gambard. Translated by Augusta Rice Stetson. Provenance: E. Morris Vail 1872- the son of Fannie & John D. Vail. Estes and Lauriat, 1890. hardcover books
189021984Boston: Estes and Lauriat Publishers 1890. Large octavo pp. 1-5 6 7-9 10-314 315-316: blank note: last leaf is a blank fly leaf precedes half title leaf illustrated by de Bieler Myrbach and Gambard original decorated maroon cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold slate coated endpapers t.e.g. First U.S. hardcover and first illustrated edition. Translation of URANIE 1889. Preceded by a paperbound subscription library edition issued by Cassell as their "Sunshine Series" number 46. "A mixture of mysticism and science fiction which sold well in its day; spirit travels through space and time and a visit to an advanced Mars." - Locke Voyages in Space 75. "Popular narrative recipe of mixing astronomy with spiritualism made Flammarion world-wide success." - Suvin Victorian Science Fiction in the UK p. 44. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-408. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 776. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 84. Bleiler 1978 p. 74. Reginald 05461. Binding lightly rubbed at head and tail of spine panel and corners 15 mm split in cloth at lower outer rear hinge a near fine bright copy with tight inner hinges. An excellent copy of an attractive book that is scarce in superior condition. #21984 Estes and Lauriat Publishers unknown books
1891WRCLIT21407London: Chatto & Windus 1891. Gilt pictorial cloth. Illustrations. White cloth moderately soiled with a few pink stains on the front cover. Internally very nice and clean. First British edition of this important novel of interplanetary speculation by the largely self-educated astronomer and prolific scientific popularizer. A different translation was published in Boston the year previous. BLEILER p.74. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
193221565Paris: l'Édition d'Art H. Piazza 1932. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Illustrations by Charles Guérin. 8vo. 169 11pp. Half green morocco binding signed by Flammarion. Spine intricately gilt with red and green onlays gilt rules on the boards marbled paper panels and endpapers top edge gilt. Spine lightly sunned else a fine copy.<br/> <br/>Illustrated in color by Guérin. <br/> <br/>One of 3200 copies from a total edition of 34300. This is number 1343.<br/> <br/>In French. l'Édition d'Art H. Piazza hardcover books
1880RW1076New York:: Humboldt 1880. 1880. Series: Humboldt Library Series 14 20 49. 8vo. iv 51-128 2 397-450 2 47 48 pp. 32 illustrations. Original maroon black- and gilt-stamped cloth; joints reinforced with kozo. Bookplate of Henry H. Ficken 1872-1940; signature of E.J. Ficken Sept. 1900. Else near fine. This book brings together 3 popular science articles written in the late 19th century: "The Wonders of the Heavens" by Flammarion translated by Mrs. Norman Lockyer "The Romance of Astronomy" by R. Kalley Miller and "The Sun: its Constitution its Phenomena its Condition" by N.T. Carr. Also included are nearly 50 pages of advertisements for other works published by Humboldt. Humboldt, [1880?]. hardcover books
25073FLAMMARION Camille. THE FLAMMARION BOOK OF ASTRONOMY. New York: Simon and Schuster 1964. 4to. Cloth spine boards. 670 pages 2 fold-out maps. Being the English edition of this Astronomy textbook translated from the Fre edition of 1955-1960. Camille Flammarion was one of the great scientific popularizers of the nineteenth century. Rubbing to edges and tips light browning to edges of leaves outer edge of one map browned and brittle. A go to very good copy. unknown books
187389835Boston: Roberts Brothers 1873. 12mo pp. i-ii iii-iv 5-287 288: blank flyleaves at front and rear original green cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind brown coated endpapers. First edition in English. LUMEN first appeared in French as RECITS DE L'INFINI in 1873; an enlarged edition followed in 1887 as LUMEN. The revised text of LUMEN was translated into English and published in New York in 1892 by Cassell apparently an unauthorized edition and in London in 1897 by Heinemann apparently an authorized edition with further revisions by Flammarion. The earlier Roberts Brothers text follows Flammarion's original 1873 text. LUMEN is a story in a series of dialogues "of a being who has undergone a number of incarnations on other worlds including planets round Capella Gamma Virgo Sirius and in the constellation Orion." - Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 84. LUMEN is "perhaps the single most innovative work in the entire literature of the scientific imagination. It is the first work to offer any real idea of the scale of the universe; the first to investigate the implications of the finite speed of light and thus to toy with the notion of the relativity of space and time; and the first to examine the implications of evolutionary theory in the modeling of alien life-systems. In all these endeavors it was ahead of its time . It is in Flammarion's work that we find the fountainhead of the mythology of alien beings . Flammarion originated the mode of thought which is effective in modern science fiction's dealings with the category alien. LUMEN's affinity with modern science fiction goes further than this because it is a work expressly directed to the cultivation of the sense of wonder in whose cultivation according to many readers the prime virtue of modern science fiction lies." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature III pp. 1294-98. The two other stories "History of a Comet" and "In Infinity" the first a panoramic history of the solar system narrated by a passing comet the second a spirit description of the universe do not appear to have been reprinted in English after their initial appearance here. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-406. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 638. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 638. Locke Voyages in Space 73. Suvin Victorian Science Fiction in the UK p. 67. Reginald 05460. Small private owner's book label affixed to front paste-down and his name address and date 25 February 1878 on verso of front flyleaf. Underlining and interesting marginalia by the owner a student or professor at Urbana University penciled throughout the text. Slight spine lean corner tips rubbed a bright tight very good copy. An interesting copy of an uncommon book. #89835 Roberts Brothers unknown books
1909027740Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann 1909. Autorisierte Ãbersetzung von Gustav Meyrink. xx 428p. original stiff wrappers. Julius Hoffmann unknown books
192721559Paris: Le Musée du Livre 1927. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Illustrated by Ramiro Arrue.`. 8vo. 339 3 pp. Half deep blue morocco brightly decorative paper and endpapers. Spinetooled simply but effectively in gilt with a small beige onlay. Top edge gilt. Original wrappers bound in. Trace of wear else a fine copy.<br/> <br/>Illustrated with designs and aquarelles by Arrue. One of 1200 copies on Rives laid paper from a total edition of 1300 copies. This copy unnumbered.<br/> <br/>In French. Le Musée du Livre hardcover books
193715783Paris: Pere Castor 1937. First edition. Paperback. Good. Small oblong quarto. Illustrated stiff paper wrappers. Text in French by Rojankovsky with beautiful color illustrations by Flammarion. A good copy with some toning to cover edges. Small chip lacking at lower front corner. A fragile piece. <br/><br/> Pere Castor paperback books
1892RW1071Paris:: Librairie Marpon et Flammarion 1892. 1892. 16 cm. 267 1 pp. 64 engravings. Early quarter brown gilt-stamped cloth marbled boards; rubbed. Very good. Scarce. Librairie Marpon et Flammarion, 1892. hardcover books
1877RW1070Paris:: Hachette 1877. 1877. 2 volumes in 1. Sm. 8vo. 2 219 1; 2 254 2 pp. 2 frontis. folding map of constellations 100 63 figs.; foxing. Contemporary quarter red gilt-stamped morocco red blind-stamped cloth. Very good. Two works bound together being introductory astronomy featuring chapters on such topics as "Le Ciel Etoile" "Les Grosses Planetes" "Etoiles Doubles Et Multiples" and "Etoiles Variables" and accompanied by engravings of nebulas planets and celestial phenomena. Hachette, 1877. hardcover books
189489834New York: The Cosmopolitan Publishing Company 1894. Octavo pp. 1-6 7-287 288: blank note: first leaf is a blank numerous illustrations by Jean Paul Laurens Saunier Meaulle Vogel and others original two-part blue cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition in English. A translation of LA FIN DU MONDE Flammarion's best and most imaginative novel a panoramic view of humanity from the twenty-fifth century to the far future Stapledonian in scope. "A work of remarkable scope and vision one of the earliest and most ambitious cosmic histories certainly worth reading if only as a historical document. Of considerable historical importance since it was probably read and absorbed by authors as diverse as W. H. Hodgson and Olaf Stapledon." - Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 778. LA FIN DU MONDE is Flammarion's "boldest scientific romance . an epic of the future. Although it is as much essay as story this is a notable work akin to H. G. Wells's THE TIME MACHINE 1895 and William Hope Hodgson's THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND 1908 in presenting a striking vision of the end of the world." - Clute and Nicholls eds The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction 1993 p. 432. Anatomy of Wonder 1981 1-73 and 2004 II-407. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 639. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 299. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 84. Locke Voyages in Space 74. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV pp. 1592-95. Bleiler 1978 p. 74. Reginald 05459. Early Christmas gift inscription dated 1894 on front free endpaper. Cloth worn at spine ends and corner tips a sound very good copy. An uncommon book rarely found in nice condition. #89834 The Cosmopolitan Publishing Company unknown books
1894122441New York: The Cosmopolitan Publishing Company 1894. Hardcover. VG- Corners bumped; Some wear and soil to cloth; Inscription on second page; Sporadic light wear to pages throughout but overall tight and clean. White cloth over boards; Light blue cloth at spine; Gilt titling at spine and front cover; 287 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw. An early example of science fiction written by French astronomer and author Nicolas Camille Flammarion; Set in the 25th century the novel deals with the philosophical and political consequences of the world ending due to a Carbonic-Oxide comet; A clear influence on Jules Verne and H.G. Wells; Wonderful illustrations. The Cosmopolitan Publishing Company hardcover books
1911RW1067Paris:: Ernest Flammarion 1911. 1911. Sm. 8vo. iv 556 pp. Plates figs. Contemporary quarter tan blind- and gilt-stamped leather marbled boards. Ownership inscription of V. Beerstecher. Fine. Flammarion was a French astronomer and author notable for his works on popular science and astronomy particularly Mars as well as his works of early science fiction. Ernest Flammarion, 1911. hardcover books
187753093Paris: Libraire Académique Didier et Cie 1877. Second edition. 8vo. v 600 pp. engraved frontispiece 97 engravings in text 6 blue toned lithographic plates and 2 mounted woodburytype photographic plates with tissue guards. Scattered foxing. Contemporary half morroco and marbled paper over boards spine titled and decorated in gilt; lightly rubbed. SIGNED dated 1878 and presented by the author. A very good copy. Camille Flammarion 1842 - 1925 was a French astronomer and prolific author whose works were widely read. His interests in spiritualism reincarnation and alien life throughout the universe were explored in both his scientific and science fiction publications. <br/><br/>Two photographic plates illustrate this title: a three-quarter view of the moon by L. M. Rutherfurd and a constructed view of the moon's surface by James Nasmyth from his classic THE MOON: CONSIDERED AS A PLANET A WORLD AND A SATELLITE. <br/><br/> Libraire Académique Didier et Cie hardcover books
188440794Paris: C. Marpon & E. Flammarion 1884. Flammarion Camille 1842-1925. Les terres du ciel: Voyage astronomique sur les autres mondes. 6 773 3pp. 8 plates including two mounted lunar photographs; text illustrations. Paris: C. Marpon & E. Flammarion 1884. 267 x 181 mm. Quarter morocco c. 1884 rebacked preserving original spine slight edgewear rear free endpaper partly detached. Minor foxing but very good. Owner's signature G. Gustave Chandoir on flyleaf. Eleventh edition revised of this popular work on astronomy first published in 1877 under a slightly different title. The illustrations include two impressive mounted photographs of the moon the first showing the moon at about three-quarter phase and the second illustrating several lunar craters and mountains. C. Marpon & E. Flammarion unknown books
1925RW1425Paris:: Ernest Flammarion 1925. 1925. 26th edition. Sm. 8vo. iv viii 599 1 pp. Early quarter turquoise gilt-stamped calf marbled boards raised bands crescent moon device on spine with original wrappers bound in; paper browned. Very good. Ernest Flammarion, 1925. hardcover books
1875RW1068Paris:: Hachette 1875. 1875. Sm. 8vo. viii 373 1 pp. note: some pages misnumbered. 3 celestial maps 84 engravings; lightly foxed. Contemporary quarter crimson gilt-stamped leather brick-red blind-stamped cloth raised bands. Prize bookplate: "Ecole professionnelle Loritz. Annee 1876; Prix de Bonne Conduite . . . Le Directeur Tabellion." Near fine. Fifth edition. An introduction to astronomy by one of the great popular science writers of the late 19th century with chapters on "The Milky Way" "Saturn" "Jupiter" "The Comets" etc. Hachette, 1875. hardcover books
1897RW1069Paris:: Hachette 1897. 1897. 8vo. viii 313 3 pp. 107 engravings; paper browned. Contemporary quarter brown blind- and gilt-stamped morocco brown blind- and gilt-stamped cloth raised bands a.e.g. Very good in a beautiful binding. Hachette, 1897. hardcover books
1896199871Paris. : Flammarion. 1896. Publisher's black cloth gilt spine decorations. . Good plus spine faded inner hinges starting moderate foxing mostly marginal some pages toned. . 4to. French text. Numerous plates and vignettes two chromolithograph plates. Flammarion. hardcover books
