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1730176140Lisbon: Joseph Antonio da Sylva Impressor da Academia Real 1730. The first history of Brazil First edition "much sought after by Brazilians" Borba de Moraes. Sebastiao da Rocha Pitta 1660-1738 was himself Brazilian having been born in Bahia. This is an attractive copy of this rare and important work in a carefully restored contemporary binding. The last copy to appear at auction was in 1985. "Though scornfully dismissed by Robert Southey as being 'a meagre and inaccurate work which has been accounted valuable merely because there is no other' the Historia does not deserve such censure. For all its Gongoric turgidity it contains some valuable and authentic information being on some points more fair-minded and accurate than Southey's better written but more prejudiced work" Boxer p. 160. Thomas Lindley writing in his Narrative of a Voyage to Brazil 1805 is less dismissive and certainly more specific in his criticisms describing Pitta as "an intelligent and well-informed Brazilian" who compiled his history "from the chronicles of the Jesuits and other authorities and some valuable local knowledge of his own. This work is copious in its details of the foundation of Brazil as a colony its successive governors its churches its monasteries and convents". However Lindley was less enthusiastic about Pitta's coverage of natural history manufacturing and commerce but the Historia is evidently more of an old-style chronicle than a practical up-to-the-minute guidebook. Lindley also remarks that the Portuguese government "publicly prohibited its being read under the severest penalties and it is now only met with carefully secluded in the cabinets of the curious". Quarto 295 x 197 mm pp. xxvi ii blank 716. Title printed in red and black woodcut headpieces; bound with the half-title and the integral blank before the main body of the text which are frequently lacking. Contemporary sprinkled sheep new dark red morocco label compartments gilt with scrolled foliate corner-pieces floral lozenge central tools edges sprinkled red and blue. Binding a little rubbed and worn in some places some stripping from the front cover. Judicious restoration to spine ends and joints expert repair to head of front board occasional professional paper repairs to margins. Short closed tear to half-title page pale tidemark in margin of last few leaves; overall a very good copy. Borba de Moraes 1983 II 678; Sabin 72300. C. R. Boxer The Golden Age of Brazil 1695-1750: Growing Pains of a Colonial Society 1962. unknown
15204636Lyon: Guillaume Huyon for Constantin Fradin 1520. First edition. <p>First edition extremely rare. La Roche was a student of Nicolas Chuquet and published for the first time in the present work large sections from Chuquet's Le Triparty en la Science des Nombres the most original mathematical work of the fifteenth century. The work also "presented an outstanding view of contemporary methods of computation and their applications in trade" DSB. Chuquet's work of which a single manuscript survives remained unpublished until 1881.</p>. Hardcover. THE FIRST PUBLISHED WORK ON ALGEBRA IN FRENCH. <p>First edition extremely rare of the first published work on algebra in French. This is a fine copy in a beautiful contemporary binding. Born in Lyon then the principal commercial centre of France La Roche was a student of Nicolas Chuquet and published for the first time in the present work large sections from Chuquet's Le Triparty en la Science des Nombres the most original mathematical work of the fifteenth century. Chuquet's work of which a single manuscript survives BNF Fonds français 1346 remained unpublished until 1881. La Roche's work thus printed for the first time several important innovations in arithmetic and algebra introduced by Chuquet: the use of exponents to denote powers of a number often credited to Descartes who introduced them in his Géométrie more than a century later; the use of the 'second unknown' see below in the solution of systems of linear equations which was an important step towards the invention of symbolic algebra by Viète; the use of negative numbers in the solution of equations; and the introduction of our terms 'million' 'billion' and 'trillion' for powers of 106. La Roche also includes Chuquet's 'règle des nombres moyens' according to which a fraction could be found between any two given fractions by taking the sum of their numerators and dividing by the sum of their denominators; this rule could be used to find the solution of any problem soluble in rational numbers once an upper and a lower bound for the solution had been found. La Roche intended his work to serve the mercantile class and his account of commercial arithmetic goes considerably beyond Chuquet. "The second and greater part of La Roche's work has apart from some geometrical calculations at the end a commercial character. The author states that as a basis he used 'the flower of several masters experts in the art' of arithmetic such as Luca Pacioli supplemented by his own knowledge of business practice . La Roche's work presented an outstanding view of contemporary methods of computation and their applications in trade" DSB. OCLC lists copies at Columbia and Harvard only in North America. ABPC/RBH list only the Macclesfield copy rebound in the 19th century since Honeyman Sotheby's April 14 2005 lot 1204 £19200 = $36409. The present copy was offered by Librairie Thomas-Scheler in 1996 Catalogue Nouvelle Série No. 15 n. 296 120000F. </p> <br /> <p>"We do not know much about de la Roche c. 1470-1530. Tax registers from Lyon reveal that his father lived in the Rue Neuve in the 1480s and that Estienne owned more than one property in Villefranche from which he derived his nickname. De la Roche is described as a 'master of argorisme' as he taught merchant arithmetic for 25 years at Lyon. He owned the manuscript of the Triparty after the death of Chuquet 1488. It is therefore considered that de la Roche was on friendly terms with Chuquet and possibly learned mathematics from him.</p> <br /> <p>"The importance of the Larismethique has been seriously underestimated. There are several reasons for this. Probably the most important one is Aristide Marre's misrepresentation of the Larismethique as a grave case of plagiarism. Marre discovered that the printed work by Estienne de la Roche contained large fragments that were literally copied from Chuquet's manuscript Marre Le Triparty . par Maistre Nicolas Chuquet 1881 introduction" Heeffer pp. 1-2. But Barbara Moss argues that "the charge of plagiarism against Estienne de la Roche is largely an anachronism . Before the spread of printing academic knowledge had been disseminated through the copying of manuscripts and Chuquet like many of his contemporaries must have written down for reference a large number of examples from the work of others with or without a note of their source . De la Roche's use of citations and sources is similar to that in a number of printed arithmetics of that period. Following the usual commendation of mathematics for its 'great utility and necessity' he continues: 'I have collected and amassed the flowers of several masters expert in this art such as master Nicolas Chuquet Parisian Philippe Frescobaldi Florentine and Brother Luke of Borgo Pacioli with some small addition of what I have been able to invent and test out in my time in its practice' first unnumbered page" Moss pp. 117-9.</p> <br /> <p>Moreover "giving a transcription of the problem text only Marre withholds that for many of the solutions to Chuquet's problems de la Roche uses different methods and an improved symbolism. In general the Larismethique is a much better structured text than the Triparty and one intended for a specific audience. Chuquet was a bachelor in medicine educated in Paris within the scholarly tradition and well acquainted with Boethius and Euclid. On the other hand de la Roche was a reckoning master operating within the abbaco tradition. It becomes clear from the structure of the book that de la Roche had his own didactic program in mind. He produced a book for teaching and learning arithmetic and geometry which met the needs of the mercantile class. He rearranges Chuquet's manuscript using Pacioli's Summa as a model. He even adopts Pacioli's classification in books distinctions and chapters. He moves problems from Chuquet's Appendice to relevant sections within the new structure. He adds introductory explanations to each section of the book such as for the second unknown discussed below. With the judgment of an experienced teacher he omits sections and problems from the Triparty which are of less use to merchants and craftsmen and adds others which were not treated by Chuquet such as problems on exchange and barter" Heeffer p. 2.</p> <br /> <p>"As far as the first book of the Triparty is concerned de la Roche is reasonably faithful to his teacher. He does include an extra chapter on the connotations of the numbers 1 to 12 which he took from Pacioli and Pacioli from St Augustine's Civita Dei. He also prefers some of the more conventional names like 'rule of false position' rather than 'rule of one position' and disagrees with Chuquet's assessment that the rule of apposition and remotion for solving indeterminate equations in integers 'is a science of little recommendation'. However he includes two of the distinctive contributions of the Triparty: nomenclature in terms of the powers of 106 up to the nonillion 1069 and the rule of intermediate terms or 'rule of mediation between the greater and the less' règle des nombres moyens" Moss p. 121.</p> <br /> <p>"Chuquet employs the words byllion trillion quadrillion quyllion sixlion septillion octillion nonillion 'et ainsi des aultres se plus oultre ou voulait proceder' to denote the second third etc. powers of a million. Evidently Chuquet had solved the difficult question of numeration. The new words used by him appear in 1520 in the printed work of La Roche. Thus the great honour of having simplified numeration of large numbers appears to belong to the French. In England and Germany the new nomenclature was not introduced until about a century and a half later. In England the words billion trillion etc. were new when Locke wrote about 1687 Human Understanding Chap. XVI. In Germany these new terms appear for the first time in 1681 . but they did not come into general use until the eighteenth century" Cajori p. 144.</p> <br /> <p>"De la Roche's algebra contains several topics that are not found in the Triparty . he has chapters on algebraic fractions on the rule of quantity a mixture of algebra and the rule of false position used for solving equations in more than one unknown and on equations with more than one solution. He also gives methods for 'proving' or checking results on algebra analogous to Chuquet's proofs in arithmetic.</p> <br /> <p>"The four canons of the rule of the first terms one for solving generalized linear equations and three for the three acceptable forms of the generalized quadratic with all coefficients positive are stated in Chuquet's terms although de la Roche gives more elementary examples and fewer which require solution by means of compound roots or roots of high order. However special cases of cubic equations with no constant term are included among the quadratics.</p> <br /> <p>"The fourth canon for solving equations of the form x2 b = ax which may have two positive roots gave rise to a minor controversy. In 1559 Jean Buteon in his Logistica attacked de la Roche's rule and claimed that it is impossible for an equation to have more than one solution. De la Roche's example to the contrary should be disallowed because he gives 1 as one of the roots and 1 according to Buteon should not be considered as a number ! .</p> <br /> <p>"The weaknesses in de la Roche's algebra are essentially those of conservatism though his work like Chuquet's is not free from careless errors. As in the case of radicals he presents the concepts of algebra both in the terminology and notation of the Triparty and in a more traditional restricted and qualitative system involving symbols not involving numbers for powers of the unknown and he prefers to use the latter . However the index notation is presented. It attracted the attention of Michel Chasles in the nineteenth century . Chasles saw no anticipation of Viete's ideas among the Italians; but he instanced the German Stifel Arithmetica integra 1544 and the Frenchmen Peletier L'Algèbre 1554 and Buteon because they used letters for unknowns and a crude form of index notation. The development of an adequate notation for exponents had hitherto been accredited to Descartes; but Chasles claimed that such a notation is already present in de la Roche's Larismethique nouellement composee" Moss pp. 121-4.</p> <br /> <p>"That de la Roche made an important contribution to the emergence of symbolic algebra during the sixteenth century can best be argued by his treatment of the second unknown sometimes called 'Regula quantitatis' or 'Rule of Quantity' . The importance of the use of letters to represent several unknowns goes much further than the introduction of a useful system of notation. It contributed to the development of the modern concept of unknown and that of a symbolic equation. These developments formed the basis on which Viète In artem analyticum isagoge 1591 could build his theory of equations . De la Roche first mentions 'la regle de la quantite' in the beginning of distinction six together with 'la regle de la chose'. He properly introduces the second unknown in a separate chapter titled Le neufiesme chapitre de la regle de la quantite annexee avec le dict primier canon et de leur application in the sixth distinction of the first part f. 42v .</p> <br /> <p>"In the Rule of Quantity de la Roche sees a perfection of algebra itself. The use of several unknowns allows for an easy solution to several problems which might otherwise be more difficult or even impossible to solve . After this introduction de la Roche gives six examples of the rule of quantity applied to the typical linear problems though he removes the practical context. Then he presents five indeterminate problems under the heading 'questions which have multiple responses' without use of the second unknown. Finally he solves five problems using the second unknown under the heading 'other inventions on numbers'. At the end of the book there is a chapter on applications in which four more problems are given ff. 149v-150r. In total there are twenty problems solved by the regle de la quantite" Heeffer pp. 3-7.</p> <br /> <p>The section on commercial arithmetic provides information about the economic life of fifteenth-century Lyon which had become one of the most important commercial centres of the Western world after Louis XI gave royal protection to the fairs established there in 1464. De la Roche discusses the currencies in use the weights and measures and the financial arrangements between partners in business enterprises. The various currencies mentioned come from different parts of France and from Germany and Italy probably all to be found in the market at Lyon. From some examples one can infer that exchange rates fluctuated considerably. Other examples may relate to actual methods of counting used by money-changers.</p> <br /> <p>"La Roche begins the commercial section independently of Chuquet by stating that numbers can be considered in three ways according to the Bible's Book of Wisdom that God the creator ordered all in measure number and weight. And thus all the affairs of the world are governed and managed by these three things which la Roche continues to examine from the monetary perspective . Dealing with numbers la Roche returns to the basic arithmetic operations in relation to the monetary and coinage system then in relation to measure and third as weight. La Roche divides the entire second part into ten chapters each divided into a number of subsections .</p> <br /> <p>"La Roche first states that all countries use the £ Lire Pound the solz sous shilling and deniers penny. The Lire is always worth 20s solz and the solz is 12d denier penny. But the £ of one country has a different value from that of another country . The section 'numbers as measure' is divided into three kinds according to the three dimensions in geometry: length ell toyse cane brasse palme etc. which is used for cloth measures. The second is the square toyse pye etc. used for tapestries mural work fields. The third way number can be considered is as weight of silver copper lead saffron ginger pepper etc. The weights systems are similar but the values differ. After the introduction follow a number of examples of calculation of different monetary values by addition and subtraction. The examples la Roche mainly took from Chuquet.</p> <br /> <p>"La Roche proceeds to explain multiplication by taking a fraction of a fraction of a higher unit . The method is very simple and easy to explain: if you buy 1200 items at 1 Euro per item the total price will be 1200 Euro; if the price is ½ Euro 50 cents the price is half the number of items which is 600 Euro etc. . The second chapter is about merchandise sold by length or size such as linen . Similar counting methods are followed in calculating the price of merchandise sold by weight in the third chapter and in the fourth chapter which describes selling merchandise by number dozen gross hundred thousand. Subsequent chapters deal with liquid measures 5 corporations 6 barter 7 exchange of money and banking 8 profit and discount 9 and gold and silver 10" Ulff-Møller.</p> <br /> <p>The final section of the book on the application of the science of numbers to geometry includes the measurement of areas and volumes. There are problems on circles triangles and polygons including many examples about inscribed figures the representation of square and cube roots various simple constructions and notes on the quadrature of the circle. This last presented some results about lunes the triangulation of the circle and series of inscribed and circumscribed circles and squares. Algebra is applied to problems of volumes leading to simple cubic equations. Thus geometry is viewed as an area to which algebra can be applied rather than a means of justifying algebraic rules.</p> <br /> <p>"The last few pages are devoted to gauging and show the same instrument as was described by La Court La fabrique et usage de la jauge 1588" Tomash. This gauge or compass so called because of its shape was used in measuring barrels. The results achieved with this instrument were at best approximate as only the bung diameter and a diagonal distance were measured - the shape of the individual barrels was not taken into account.</p> <br /> <p>A second edition of la Roche's book was published at Lyon in 1538. There is no modern edition.</p> <br /> <p>Bechtel L-47; Brunet III 842; Hoock & Jeannin L5.1; USTC 30158; von Gültlingen Huyon 12. Cajori History of Elementary Mathematics 2007. Smith Rara Arithmetica p. 128. Ulff-Møller 'Estienne de la Roche. Larismethique nouellement compose. Lyon 1520 and second edition 1538' in Rechenmeister und Mathematiker der frühen Neuzeit Gebhardt ed. 2017. For Chuquet see Flegg Graham Hay C. Moss B. Nicolas Chuquet Renaissance Mathematician. A study with extensive translation of Chuquet's mathematical manuscript completed in 1484 1985.</p> <br/> <br/> Folio 255 x 178 mm ff. iv 230 title printed in red and black within a beautiful woodcut border woodcut printer's device on title-page woodcut initials and diagrams small tear to head of title-page ink stains on n4v lacking front free endpaper. Contemporary binding using a fifteenth-century vellum manuscript leaf slightly soiled. / Hardcover. Guillaume Huyon for Constantin Fradin unknown
1404JC100<p><strong>A Génese do Mundo Novo.</strong> Por Academia das Ciências de Lisboa. Primeira edição. Edição de Organizações Crisális. Lisboa 1953-4.</p>_x000d_<p>2 volumes de 25x19 cm. Com 637 e 772 pags.</p>_x000d_<p>Encadernações do editor. Ilustrado.</p> I-30-B-26 unknown
173060026Lisboa Occidental na Officina de Joseph Antonio da Sylva 1730. Folio 29 x 195 mm. In recent green half calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Title-page mounted and with repair to outer margin no loss of text. Last leaf with repair to lower outer corner also with no loss of text. First and least few leaves with brownspotting. Very light browning in margins throughout. Title printed in red and black woodcut initials and head-pieces. A fine and clean copy. 14 716 pp. Here with the often missing half title but wanting the final blank. <br/><br/><em>Rare first edition here with the often missing half title of the first general history of Brazil – “This work is extremely copious in the details of its foundation as a colony its successive governors its churches its monasteries and convents†Sabin. "This first edition is becoming rare and is much sought after by Brazilians . since it is the first history of Brazil to have been printed and since it was written by a Brazilian" Borba de Moraes. The author's purpose was to narrate the events that had taken place in Brazil with the help of "truthful reports" these largely from Jesuit sources and "modern information" given by those who had traveled in the vast Brazilian territory. This was the only history of Brazil available to Pitta’s contemporaries since most of the others composed in the first two centuries of colonization remained in manuscript form until the nineteenth century. Rocha Pitta was born in Bahia in 1660 and died in the year 1738. At the age of 22 he left the University of Coimbra where he took his degree to return to Bahia where he got married. He made up his mind to write a history of Brazil and he spent years in collecting documents in the Monasteries of Brazil and Portugal where he went in order to study French Dutch and Italian for the purposes of his history. “In 1728 after 40 years of study he began to print his history which appeared in 1730. It was universally well received and King John V. appointed him a member of the household in consequence yet in a few years the Portuguese government publicly prohibited its being read under the severest penalties.†Sabin.Sabin 72300 Borba de Moraes 1983 p. 748 </em> hardcover
31599Paris Gallimard mars 1953. 1 vol. 125 x 190 mm de 252 p. 1 et 1 f. Reliure souple en veau naturel teinté gris perle et estampé tranches dorées sur témoins couvertures et dos conservés reliure signée de Louise Bescond 2018. . Édition originale. Un des 55 premiers exemplaires sur vélin pur fil n° 6. . Exemple étonnant de premier roman écrit à l'âge de soixante-quatorze ans Jules et Jim a inspiré un film célèbre à François Truffaut qui adaptera également Les Deux Anglaises et le continent. « Je peux dire que la lecture en 1953 de Jules et Jim premier roman d'un vieillard de 74 ans a déterminé ma vocation de cinéaste. J'avais 21 ans et j'étais critique de cinéma. J'ai eu le coup de foudre pour ce livre et j'ai pensé : si un jour je réussis à faire des films je tournerai Jules et Jim. J'ai peu après rencontré l'auteur du livre que l'idée d'un contact avec le cinéma enchantait. Au début 61 j'ai pensé que le moment était venu de concrétiser ce vieux rêve. J'ai essayé de transposer fidèlement ce beau livre que l'éditeur Gallimard présentait ainsi : « Un pur amour à trois ». » Avant d'être élevé au Panthéon du Cinéma français le film échappe de peu à l'interdiction totale pour sa prétendue immoralité. Il sort en France avec une interdiction aux moins de 18 ans. Jules et Jim est la célèbre histoire d'un amour à trois : Jules un poète juif allemand séjournant à Paris avant la première guerre mondiale rencontre Jim poète français qui devient son inséparable ami. Ils font de concert quelques conquêtes féminines jusqu'à ce que Jules épouse Kathe allemande elle aussi en visite culturelle en France également. l'amour de Jules pour Kathe ne fonctionnant vraiment que s'il est complété par celui de Jim. Monument fondateur du polyamour il est largement autobiographique : Jules et Jim se sont rencontrés à Paris alors qu'ils étudiaient ensemble. Henri-Pierre Roché va raconter l'histoire de leur amitié et de leurs amours entre la France et l'Allemagne à 10 000 lieues des soubresauts de la Grande Guerre. Jim c'est lui ou presque ; et Jules et Kathe sont directement inspirés par l'écrivain autrichien Franz Hessel et par Helen Grund Berlinoise fille d'un banquier prussien protestant : ils sont les parents de Stéphane Hessel. Mais l'histoire remonte aussi à un peu plus loin : Henri-Pierre Roché fut un bourreau des coeurs peintre écrivain et marchand d'art qui rencontre en 1916 Marcel Duchamp. À Paris Roché se faisait le mécène des femmes artistes qu'il séduit fréquente le Montmartre du Bateau-Lavoir avant d'être missioné aux États-Unis par le Haut-commissariat de la République française chargé d'encourager l'entrée en guerre des États-Unis. C'est là qu'a lieu la rencontre avec Marcel Duchamp alors la coqueluche des élites à New York. Duchamp vient de rencontrer Beatrice Wood le 27 septembre 1916 pour laquelle il éprouve tout de suite un fort penchant. ce qui ne l'empêche pas de la présenter à Roché qui devient le premier amant - l'initiateur - de la jeune femme tout en restant officiellement avec Marcel Duchamp. Cet étrange trio franco-américain Roché s'en souviendra vraisemblablement aussi au moment de rédiger son roman comme beaucoup d'autres histoires de sa prime jeunesse où pendant ses études à Paris entre 1898 et 1900 « Hachep » comme l'appelle Duchamp mène « une double vie au cours de laquelle il enterre sa vie de garçon avec une rouerie systématique en abusant d'annonces matrimoniales . et diverses manipulations sentimentales qui resteront une constante de sa vie . L'expérience est assez déstabilisante pour qu'en mars sa mère l'envoie quelques semaines en cure hydrothérapeutique à l'institut Sonnenberg de Carspach en Alsace ». Paris, Gallimard, (mars) 1953. 1 vol. (125 x 190 mm) de 252 p., [1] et 1 f. Reliure souple en veau naturel teinté gris perle et unknown
4368Taschen Books 2015. Limited Numbered Art Edition "B. Cloth. New. Still in the original shrinkwrap! A scarce copy of this Bowie publication this is the beautiful Limited Numbered Art Edition "B" of only 100 copies numbered 101-200 this book is numbered 110 that features an extra print 'UK Summer Tour 1973' with an original signature by photographer Mick Rock the extra print is included only in the Art Editions. THE BOOK: The set features a teal cloth hardcover volume with 3 foldouts in a clamshell box lenticular cover 31.5 x 44 cm 12.4 x 17.3 in. 310 pages. Both David Bowie and Mick Rock have signed on the limitation page which features the number of this edition. We know the number because it is printed on a label on the outside of the unopened box. The front cover features a brilliant colorful hologram which shows several views of Bowie depending on the angle you view it. Our accompanying images capture some of those views. THE PRINT: Enclosed in its own separate teal cloth cover this striking image is a pigment print 27.7 x 40 cm on 32 x 45 cm paper 10.9 x 15.7 in. on 12.6 x 17.7 in. paper and is signed by Mick Rock in black felt pen. THE CONTENT: This limited Art Edition brings together the best of Rock s Bowie portfolio with spectacular stage shots as well as intimate backstage portraits. Pictures for press album jackets and stills from promo movies sit alongside around 50 percent previously unseen images offering unprecedented access to the many facets of Bowie s personality and his fame. Through the aloof and approachable the playful and serious the candid and contrived this tribute bursts with the daring and energy of its unique and flamboyant star who defined and defied a generation. Genesis Publications Also issued in an Art Edition "A" numbers 1-100 with a different but no less brilliant signed print and a Collector's edition numbered 201-1972. A beautiful and scarce set. No discounts. Taschen Books unknown
176611625Amsterdam and Paris: P.-F. Gueffier 1766. Contemporary cat’s paw sheep neatly restored slightly defective gilt spine and label red edges pink silk marker; interleaved throughout — a vertical crease divides the interleaves in two columns. <p>With: Jousse Daniel-Charles.       1742-1769.<br />        Lettre D’Un Orléanois…Sur La Nouvelle Histoire De L’Orléanois. Bruxelles and Paris E. Flon and J. Debure 1766. 12mo 173 x 110 mm. inlaid in blank quarto sheets for binding. 40p.</p> <br /> <p>      Ad I-II: This volume belonged to the local historian and Orléans Cathedral canon Louis-Eusèbe Loiseau 1721-95.<br />       Ad I: ALL PUBLISHED SUPPRESSED. Only Edition. Luchet believed “Good history is a long fable†p. iv tr. Immediately upon publication of this first volume of a projected five Luchet’s fanciful account of the history of Orléans and environs 52 B.C.E. to 1428 C.E. came under fire. He had manufactured personal information abandoned the facts cloven to the marvelous and doubted Jeanne d’Arc’s divine mission pp. 307-419. This last angered the clergy and THE DUC D’ORLÉANS FORCED THE AUTHOR TO BUY UP AND DESTROY THE EDITION.<br />       COUNTERING LUCHET’S FANTASIES LOISEAU COMPILED HIS OWN THIRTY THOUSAND WORD DOUBLE-COLUMN CHRONOLOGY filling 115 interleaf pages. Its preface summarizes Luchet’s History — “detestable in substance and form†tr. lists errors and sketches a damning biography of Luchet. One column of the manuscript chronology draws on Polluche’s Essais historiques sur Orléans 1778 and the other on articles in Calendrier historique d’Orléanois by the Orléans Maurist librarian Louis Fabre 1710-98.<br />       The longest and earliest inserted manuscript is A FIFTEEN-PAGE ESSAY UNFAVORABLE TO LUCHET’S HISTORY identifying still more inaccuracies nine concern Jeanne d’Arc. The Mémoire takes a statistical and economic perspective on Orléans its architecture and exports. Signed by Loiseau the Observations treats the by-laws of the new Orléans learned society born of the 1786 merger of two earlier groups. Loiseau was secretary of one for 25 years 1761-85.<br /> ¶Lanéry d’Arc Le Livre d’or de Jeanne d’Arc. Bibliographie 700; Lelong Bibliothèque historique de la France III: 35603-4; Brainne et al. Les Hommes illustres de l’Orléanais I: 250-2.<br />       Ad II: Only Edition the author’s sole book and the first published attack on Luchet’s History. Exposing 108 blunders with context and secondary source proof Jousse used material gathered by his father 1710-81 who supplied all the entries related to Orléans in Lelong’s Bibliothèque historique 1768-78.<br /> ¶Lanéry d’Arc 700; Lelong III: 35604; Conlon Le Siècle des Lumières 66:976.<br />       All items are in good condition.</p> P.-F. Gueffier unknown
168235Guildford: Genesis Publications 2013. Signed by Lour Reed & Mick Rock Signed limited edition number 257 of 350 deluxe copies signed by Lou Reed and Mick Rock on the title page. The total edition was 2000 but Reed died before he could sign the 1650 non-deluxe copies which consequently only bear his facsimile signature alongside Rock's signature. Lou Reed's 1972 album Transformer established his reputation as a solo artist with Mick Rock providing the photograph used as the cover art. Rock continued to photograph Reed throughout the 1970s and the present book gathers these photographs alongside commentary and recollections by Reed and Rock. Folio. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Original sheep spine lettered in gilt cover design after the original album art pictorial endpapers gilt edges. Also enclosed is a 7 inch vinyl with the tracks "Walk on the Wild Side" and "Coney Island Baby" and a print signed by Mick Rock in a black envelope. Housed in the original black cloth folding box with illustration to front cover. A fine copy. hardcover
160485Guildford: Genesis Publications 2013. Signed by Lou Reed & Mick Rock Signed limited edition number 150 of 350 deluxe copies signed by Lou Reed and Mick Rock on the title page. The total edition was 2000 but Reed died before he could sign the 1650 non-deluxe copies which consequently only bear his facsimile signature alongside Rock's signature. Lou Reed's 1972 album Transformer established his reputation as a solo artist with Mick Rock providing the photograph used as the cover art. Rock continued to photograph Reed throughout the 1970s and the present book gathers these photographs alongside commentary and recollections by Reed and Rock. Folio. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Original sheep spine lettered in gilt cover design after the original album art pictorial endpapers gilt edges. Also enclosed is a 7 inch vinyl with the tracks "Walk on the Wild Side" and "Coney Island Baby" and a print signed by Mick Rock in a black envelope. Housed in the original black cloth folding box with illustration to front cover. A fine copy. hardcover
63768Guildford: Genesis Publications 2003. Rock and Pop SIGNED DELUXE EDITION. Folio. Number 256 of 350 deluxe copies SIGNED by Lou Reed and Mick Rock on the title page. The total edition was 2000 but Reed died before he could sign the 1650 non-deluxe copies which consequently only bear his facsimile signature alongside Rock's signature. Illustrated in colour and in black and white throughout. Original sheep spine lettered in gilt cover design after the original album art pictorial endpapers gilt edges. Also enclosed is a vinyl with the tracks "Walk on the Wild Side" and "Coney Island Baby" and a print signed by Mick Rock in a black envelope. Housed in the original black cloth folding box within the cardboard box as issued. A fine as new copy still in the original card mailer. Lou Reed's 1972 album Transformer established his reputation as a solo artist with Mick Rock providing the photograph used as the cover art. Rock continued to photograph Reed throughout the 1970s and the present book gathers these photographs alongside commentary and recollections by Reed and Rock. Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2003 unknown
17603006485Babylone" in fact Paris: n.p. 1760. Octavo with four engraved plates by Cochin after Desfriches illustrating the second work "Mon Odyssée ou le Journal de Mon Retour de Saintonge"; contemporary mottled calfspine gilt with red label. <p><p>First edition: a marvellous imaginary work describing an utopian community and prefiguring the uses of photography television and the telephone.</p> <p>Tiphaigne de la Roche 1729-1774 was a physician polymath and much-published writer. In Giphantie an anagram of the author's name the protagonist is lifted semi-conscious and transported by air to a beautiful garden where a charming spirit guide shows him around a 'vaguely utopian society' Lewis. The book is a good example of the imaginary voyage genre using a quite plausible African setting but is more renowned for the fantastical series of technical advances that are discussed in striking detail including everything from prototype televisions to telephones. The discussion of the way in which the ruling spirits of the land have learnt to 'fix' the fleeting images formed by light is so detailed that the novel is considered a milestone in the pre-history of photography. A relevant passage in the subsequent English edition of 1761 is often quoted: 'You know that the rays of light reflected from different bodies form a picture and paint the image reflected on all polished surfaces for instance on the retina of the eye on water and on glass. The elementary spirits have sought to fix these fleeting images.'.</p> <p>This copy is bound together with Pierre Honoré Robbe de Beauveset's rococo poem in four verses Mon Odyssée ou le Journal de Mon Retour de Saintonge La Haye 1760 illustrated with four engraved plates. De Beauveset was an influential French writer known for his satires and erotic works.</p> </p> . n.p. unknown
156743Cologne: Taschen 2015. First edition first impression signed limited issue one of 1972 copies signed by both Bowie and Rock. This collection features many iconic images by Bowie's official photographer and videographer from the year Bowie launched his album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. The limitation number was created specifically to match the date of the album's release in 1972. Folio. Photographs and illustrations throughout. Original blue paper boards titles to spine white hologram of several pictures of David Bowie to front board. Housed in a blue clam shell box. With the original pink cardboard packing box and the unopened shrink wrap. An excellent copy the shrink wrap a little torn but still unopened. hardcover
mon0000144542Genesis Publications. leather_bound. New. in x in x in. Beautidful de luxe limited boxed edition. This edition is limited to 2500 numbered copies of which copies numbered 1 to 350 are deluxe copies bound in leather. This being NO: 180. Signed by Mick Rock Brian May an Roger Taylor. Superb black and white leather hand binding by craftsman of Abbey Bookbindery - A collector's joy Genesis Publications hardcover
106305Taschen. 2015. Collector's Edition folio No.1396 of 1972 copies signed by both David Bowie and Mick Rock pp.310 profusely illustrated with colour plates including 3 fold-outs original blue cloth boards with lenticular cover of David Bowie to front cover of book housed in clamshell box same colour as boards in the original pink box.Very heavy please inquire regarding postage. Collector’s Edition No. 201–1972. Signed by David Bowie and Mick Rock. "This book takes readers to the heart of Bowie’s inner circle and boundary-breaking superstardom during the groundbreaking Ziggy Stardust world tour. Showcasing the work of Mick Rock Bowie’s official photographer between 1972–1973 spectacular stage shots and intimate inner circle portraits celebrate Bowie’s musical theatrical and sexual revolution and the eternal inspiration of a fearless outstanding artist". Collector's Edition. Boards. Taschen hardcover
140949360Guildford UK: Genesis Publications 2013. First edition. First edition trade issue. Signed by Lou Reed and Mick Rock on title page; copy #453 of 2000 total. One of the few early copies in the non-deluxe issue comprising copies numbered 351-2000 and not having a laid-in print to get Reed's signature before he passed away. Unpaginated. Folio. Bound in publisher's black leather with gilt white green and red stamping; vinyl picture disc laid in pocket at rear. Fine with just a hint of rubbing to gilt Near Mint album in a Fine slipcase housed in publisher's cardboard mailing box. Complete as issued. <p>The heyday of the former Velvet Underground frontman's solo period in photographs. Showcases several of Lou's album covers beginning with Transformer one of the most iconic images of modern music. The book also features unseen outtakes studio sessions spontaneous shots and friends including Andy Warhol Mick Jagger Iggy Pop and David Bowie. Genesis Publications unknown
162053Guildford: Genesis Publications Limited 2002. Signed by David Bowie and Mick Rock First edition signed limited issue number 2204 of 2500 copies signed by David Bowie and Mick Rock. "Published to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Ziggy Stardust LP's original release Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust is a collaboration between David Bowie and photographer Mick Rock and the first and ultimate authorised piece of Ziggy Stardust legend. David Bowie's sharp often humorous text discusses the origins of this fascinating stage persona comments on Mick Rock's photographs and overall gives unprecedented insight into Ziggy's stratospheric two-year career" publisher's online prospectus. Folio. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Original blue quarter morocco-grain roan lettering in silver and gilt to spine silver and gilt lightning motifs to pictorial boards all edges silver photographic green and orange endpapers. A fine copy. hardcover
1883170791London: Bernard Quaritch 1883. Myths are history not yet developed First edition of this ambitious work of comparative religion delineating the continuities between world cultures throughout human history. Among the civilizations and religions it covers are the Babylonians Zoroastrians Ancient Greeks and Romans Hindus Buddhists and cultures from across Scandinavia Polynesia and Africa. The publication was issued to subscribers only. An engineer by training Forlong's 1824-1904 interest in world religions stemmed from his time in Asia serving as a Major General in the Indian Army. He categorized all religions into six types of worship: tree phallic serpent fire sun and ancestor. These types formed "streams" flowing throughout human culture with their progression and interactions here visualized in the large accompanying chart. Forlong's interpretations and his abandonment of Christianity were scandalous to many particularly his emphasis on the sexual nature of religious symbolism but his work was influential among such as Helena Blavatsky and Aleister Crowley who described it as "an invaluable textbook of old systems of initiation" Crowley p. 211. 2 quarto text vols 278 x 221 mm and linen-backed chromolithographic folding chart 236 x 65 mm; "A Student's Synchronological Chart of the Religions of the World". With 14 engraved plates 2 colour maps double-page and folding respectively 4 folding tables illustrations within text. Recent green half morocco spine lettered in gilt raised bands top edges gilt others uncut original cloth front covers bound at rear of each volume. Chart with original green cloth slipcase housed within custom green half morocco box. Pencil ownership signatures of Paul Backer perhaps the professor of dramatic arts 1957-2016 on title page of first volume and map verso of second; sporadic pencil annotations. Contents lightly browned occasional chips to margins closed tear to folding map. Chart verso a little soiled else colours bright; slipcase cockled and worn with a little loss. Overall in very good condition. Aleister Crowley Magick in Theory and Practice 1929. hardcover
176188236London: Robert Horsfield 1761. First edition in English. Hardcover. 1761 First edition in English. 2 vols. 8vo. Main title printed in red & black part title with woodcut decoration. Uniformly bound by Glenn Malkin in modern speckled calf with geometric gilt design and blind-tooled roll & cogs decorations to covers spines with raised bands and gilt rules with contrasting leather title labels. Housed in leather-backed marbled board compartmentalised slipcase. A scarce imaginary voyage considered to be one of the earliest works of utopian science fiction. This work is also considered a cornerstone book in any collection of photographic literature and photography's first fictional work see Roosens & Salu <em>History of Photography</em> No. 10421. <br /><br />Originally published in France in 1760 as <em>Giphantie</em> an anagram of the author's name this work is credited with one of the earliest mentions of photography in Chapter 17: "That window that vast horizon those thick clouds that raging sea are all but a picture. Thou knowest that the ways of light reflected from different bodies make a picture and paint the bodies upon all polished surfaces on the retina of the eye for instance on water on glass. The elementary spirits have studied to fix these transient images; they have composed a most subtile matter very viscous and proper to harden and dry by the help of which a picture is made in the twinkle of an eye. the impression of the images is made the first instant they are received on the canvas which is immediately carried away into some dark place; an hour after the subtile matter dries and you have a picture so much the more valuable as it cannot be imitated by art nor damaged by time" pages 95-96.<br /><br />Glenn Malkin began binding professionally in 2008 and has since won numerous awards for his design bindings in national and international competitions. Some foxing and other marking all pages uncut; bindings and solander very good. ESTC T99917; Gernsheim History of Photography p. 26. No jacket Robert Horsfield hardcover
19242729Paris: Imprimerie Croutzet et Depost 1924. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION of Roche's surreal dadaist roman à clef exposing the misogynistic world of the French avant-garde. With annotations likely in Roche's hand. Like too many women artists of the early twentieth century French writer and artist Juliette Roche 1884 - 1980 has been long overshadowed by her male contemporaries. Roche came of age amidst leading artistic and literary salons of early 20th century Paris. She studied at Académie Ranson then considered the absolute best art school in Paris and was an early adopter of Cubism. However she is most closely associated with Dadaism. Despite Dada being a movement of absolute rebellion it harbored the normalized misogyny of the early twentieth century. Roche's most explicit critique of this discrepancy of rebellion vs repression can be found in La Minéralisation de Dudley Craving Mac Adam her groundbreaking novella.<br /> <br /> Part satire and part Dada nonsense the thinly veiled roman à clef is a prime example of the daring poetic style that Roche developed while living in New York during World War I. Having watched artistic vanguards come and go in Paris' salons and exhibitions Roche observed the New York City hijinks of Francis Picabia French 1879 - 1953 and Marcel Duchamp 1887 - 1968 with a level of detachment that alluded their American peers. She had close access to Picabia perhaps too close: in 1917 he and his wife Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia moved into an apartment directly beneath one Roche shared with her husband Albert Gleizes a French artist and philosopher who helped popularize Cubism on the Upper West Side. While Roche admired Picabia's iconoclasm she was disturbed by the misogyny she saw in works like his manometres where woman as 'la machine' was at best a manipulable object at worst the butt of a private joke. If taking Roche's ambivalence towards and her neighborly proximity to Picabia into consideration the novella could be inspired in part by an age-old story: pure contempt of one's neighbor.<br /> <br /> The novella is an indirect indictment of certain illicit behaviors Roche found annoying and dangerous. She synthesizes her fellow expatriates' personalities and physical traits to create the decadent Mac'Adam and the men he encounters on the day of his demise. Picabia becomes Mac'Adam. Swiss writer and boxer Arthur Craven 1887 - 1918 lends his name to the protagonist while becoming Lloyd Willow. Juliette Roche herself appears as Juliette Granite a play on words since roche means rock in French. Roche spins the narrative in poetic and surreal fragments at turns absurd and others told in a stream-of-consciousness style. La Minéralisation moves beyond conventional storytelling to allow readers into the minds of her characters through rich interior monologues revealing in each case her estimation of the particular model's idiosyncrasies. Roche seemed to find the antics of the all-male world of the Dadaists to be too limited and they're wickedly satirized among these pages.<br /> <br /> Written in ink on the first page is "Publié dans 'La Vie des Lettres' en 1921 / New York 1918" and there are a few words written on page 20 in the same hand. It appears to be Roche's handwriting from the few samples we've seen but we can't guarantee it.<br /> <br /> Paris: Imprimerie Croutzet et Depost 1924. Thin octavo 33pp terminal blank original printed wrappers stapled as issued; custom box. Small tear and split at top of spine; a near-fine extremely well-preserved copy.<br /> <br /> EXCEEDINGLY RARE: We can find records of no other copies that have been on the market.<br /> <br /> References:<br /> <br /> Burke Carolyn "Recollecting Dada: Juliette Roche." Women in Dada: Essays on Sex Gender and Identity edited by Naomi Sawelson-Gorse MIT Press 1998 557. Imprimerie Croutzet et Depost unknown
2000mon0000144541Genesis Publications 02/09/2002 00:00:01. leather_bound. New. in x in x in. Beautiful boxed leather bound signed By David Bowie & Mike Rock edition in pristine condition - A collector's dream only 25000 copies produced this copy number is1464 Genesis Publications hardcover
1760263025Babylon Paris 1760. First. hardcover. fine. Two parts in one volume. 16mo old calf later rebacked in leather; marbled end-leaves & edges. Babylon i.e. Paris 1760. First Edition. Fine.<br/> <br/> A fantasy voyage comparable to Gulliver's Travels and often considered an early work of science fiction predicting both photography and television. Early writing on the title page identifies the author as "M. Tiphaigne Medecin" and notes that the title is an anagram of his name.<br/> <br/> unknown
1761006246London: Robert Horsfield 1761. The title in French Giphantieis an anagram of the author's name. The book is compared with Swift's Gulliver's Travels and is considered to be an early work of science fiction. It is also held to be predictive of television and also the photographic process describing the "fixing" of an image as held by a mirror. This volume consists of the two parts of Giphantia bound together in one book each with seperate paginations and seperate title pages dated 1761 part 1 and 1760 part 2.Original full calf with five raised bands gilt decorated compartments and red title compartment with title in gilt spelled "Gibhantia". Marbled endpapers two blank leaves then the title page dated 1761 2 page dedication from the translator to Honourable Miss Ross then two page contents or "Table of Chapters. Then Giphantia part the first 130 pages. Then the title page to part 2 dated 1760 contents to part two 2 pages part two126 pages one page of publishers ads with the verso blank then two blank leaves. 4 X 6.5 inches approx.Overall the book is quite good with the outer hinges cracking boards holding well Intenally all complete and in good order and quite clean throughout with no foxing etc. First Edition. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Robert Horsfield Hardcover
54641Coimbra: Imprensa Académica July 1930. Small quarto 25.5 × 19 cm. Original staple-stitched wrappers with two-color printed linocut; 22 pp. including insides of wrappers with an original graphic illustration and numerous linocut title headings. Binding with barely noticeable export restoration; sporadically somewhat fox-stained; else very good. Rare sole issue of the avant-garde journal which resulted from Branquinho da Fonseca's departure from the periodical "Presença" which was of central importance for the Portuguese avant-garde "Segundo Modernismo". "Presença" was previously founded by Branquinho da Fonseca not only as an experimental and innovative publication in terms of typography and art but above all as the medium of new Portuguese literature and poetry. Poems by Fernando Pessoa who was not so well known during his lifetime and is now considered one of the most important poets in the Portuguese language were published here for the first time. When Pessoa died in 1935 "Presença" printed a special issue in his honor with tributes and excerpts from Pessoa's letters. However "Presença" not only provided a forum for the avant-gardes of its own tongue but also promoted experimental exchange across borders: texts by Proust Gide Joyce Valéry and contemporary Brazilian authors were made accessible to the Portuguese public for the first time in many cases. Furthermore "Presença" ensured that the earlier Orplieu generation was firmly established in the canon of Portuguese modernism. Today Branquinho da Fonseca is best known as the author of the novel "O Barão" which is considered a Portuguese "masterpiece of its genre" in literary history. Cf. Gerhard Wild Kindler Kompakt: Portugiesische Literatur 20 Jahrhundert Heidelberg 2015 pp. 16-18 and 113-115.<br /> <br /> As of November 2024 OCLC lists only one copy in Portugal and none in North America. unknown
1884173626Shanghai: Printed at the "Celestial Empire" office 1884. China is like a large pie. For many years covetous nations have been nibbling at the edge of the crust First edition of this eyewitness account of clashes between French and Chinese naval forces following the collapse of the Li-Fournier Agreement. Two tables show detail each side's ships and their specifications as well as the damage they sustained. The Tonkin War developed out of a tussle between France and China for influence in Vietnam. Following a number of engagements diplomatic exchanges between Li Hongzhang and Captain Ernest François Fournier produced a tentative agreement that China would withdraw from Tonkin and legally recognize a French protectorate. Negotiations however eventually broke down and the French launched an attack on Fuzhou on 23 August 1884. Foreign military observers including the two American authors of this report saw the engagement as a chance to evaluate the success of recent Chinese attempts to modernize the imperial navy. For the Qing empire the Battle of Fuzhou was a disaster the French fleet eight ships outgunning its eleven vessels all of which were eventually sunk. The defeat "paved the way for the dynasty's downfall" Po p. 206. The eight plates are after sketches made during the battle and show several Chinese ships before and after they were sunk. The final sketch is of a dog which drowned while trying to escape from the Yangwoo the Chinese flagship. Octavo. With 8 plates tables in text. Original light orange wrappers front cover lettered in black within ornamental black frame. Wrappers only lightly creased and marked contents sometime neatly consolidated into covers with adhesive text and plates clean: a near-fine copy. Cordier 2500. Ronald C. Po The Blue Frontier: Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire 2018. unknown
1516Paris: Ph.-D. Pierres 1782. Three volumes complete. FIRST EDITION of this scholarly encyclopedic and highly entertaining history of French gastronomy. XIII 3 373 1; 4 383 1; 4 363 1. Half-titles present they are often missing. SIGNED in pencil ON THE HALF-TITLE OF VOLUME I BY JORDI JOSEP AND JOAN ROCA OF EL CELLER DE CAN ROCA IN GIRONA SPAIN THE BEST RESTAURANT IN THE WORLD according to the highly prestigious San Pellegrino survey FOR 2013-2014 AND 2015-2016. Signed at the restaurant by all three FOR ME on August 30 2013 shortly after the restaurant was named the finest in the world for the first time a printed menu from that evening is included. And SIGNED in pencil ON THE HALF-TITLE OF VOLUME II BY FERRAN ADRIA OF EL BULLI winner of the San Pellegrino survey a record five times. Signed FOR ME on the evening of October 29 2013 right after Adrià gave a lecture at the Elisava design school in Barcelona. And SIGNED in ballpoint ON THE FRONT FLYLEAF OF VOLUME III BY EDUARD XATRUCH AND ORIOL CASTRO OF DISFRUTAR winner of the San Pellegrino survey for 2024-2025 it is no longer possible to win more than once. Signed FOR ME at the restaurant on July 8 2025 a beautifully-presented printed menu is included. The author originally set out to write an extensive work covering all facets of private life in France but only this first part--which covers everything related to cooking wine eating and hunting--was published. Discusses the origins of cooking tools and techniques the provenance of all kinds of foods including of course foodstuffs that came from the New World and much more including an extensive section on hunting. A classic. PRINTED ON FINE LAID PAPER. 8vo. ELEGANTLY BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY HALF RUSSIA AND MARBLED BOARDS SPINE IN SIX COMPARTMENTS WITH RAISED BANDS. Minimal traces of wear to bindings upper joint of volume I cracked else a fine and bright copy with very large margins and very white paper. Vicaire 510 "Ouvrage tres interessant et tres utile."; Bitting 280 "This is one of the finest works upon the social life of the French people."; Thiebaud 576. AN OUTSTANDING SET OF A RARE AND IMPORTANT WORK SIGNED BY THE PRINCIPALS OF ALL THREE RESTAURANTS THAT WON THE COVETED SAN PELLEGRINO AWARD AND THUS SPEARHEADED THE CATALAN GASTRONOMY BOOM OF THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE 21ST CENTURY. I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF ALL OF THESE SIGNATURES BECAUSE THE CHEFS ALL SIGNED THESE BOOKS FOR ME IN MY PRESENCE. <br/><br/> Paris: Ph.-D. Pierres, 1782 hardcover
