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178466690à Amsterdam: S. n. 1784. Fine. S. n. à Amsterdam 1784 9 x 14.7 cm relié Several editions appeared the same year in Paris London Berlin. Full brown flamed sheep binding late 19th century. Smooth spine richly decorated in Restoration style. Red morocco title label. Fine copy. Armorial bookplate engraved from a private library. Satirical and cynical description of Parisian life and customs. The author discusses theaters prisons fashions promenades the Tuileries. S. n. unknown
1749BCG 34706London: A. Miller 1749. Translated from the French with Notes; Polished calf gilt spine title & decorations raised bands all edges red & marbled endpapers/pastedown; A good copy with boards detached & small loss to head of spine; 198 pages Index. Size: 4"x6.5". Hardcover. A. Miller Hardcover
177825120Genève: Du Villard fils & Nouffer 1778. First edition 2 vols. 8vo pp. 272; 334; title within printed border; woodcut ornaments; contemporary full mottled calf red and black morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines; short crcaks in 2 joints else generally very good and sound. Quérard II p. 440. Du Villard fils & Nouffer 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
176110491Dublin: G. Faulkner. Dublin G. Faulkner 1761. First edition first impression. Hardback. A good copy. First Dublin edition. An imaginary voyage ala Gulliver and a taproot for science fiction proto sf if you like. An important work presaging television and still photography in a manner; as important to the history of photography as to science fiction. An important book. There was a London edition too dated 1761 on the first part's title page and 1760 on the second part. The Dublin issue has 1761 on both title pages. That doesn't tell us much about which precedes. Contemporary calf heavily rubbed and worn. The endpaper has an inkstain with a collector's plate to the front pastedown. Prelims have some waterstaining but not too bad similar to the last few leaves. A nice copy overall. 10491 Hyraxia Books. . Good. Hardback. 1st Edition. 1761. G. Faulkner 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
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
1784115565Dublin Neuch‰tel : de lÕImprimerie de Wilson Et se trouve ˆ Paris chez les Libraires qui vendent des NouveautÂŽs Samuel Fauche pÂre & fils 1784. 185x115mm. VIII - marque de la STN sur page de titre cartonnage de lՎpoque piÂce de titre au dos et filets dorÂŽs. Ex libris Ernest Gloor. Bon ÂŽtat.Barbier IV-954. Michel Schlup - Un imprimeur dans lÕEurope des LumiÂres Samuel Fauche 392. 215 de lÕImprimerie de Wilson, Et se trouve ˆ Paris, chez les Libraires qui vendent des NouveautÂŽs (Samuel Fauche pÂre & fils) unknown
176338819Amsterdam: Chez Marc-Michel Rey 1763. 2 parts in 1 vol. Small 8vo 14x8 cmContemporary leather spine gilt faded with morocco title-label covers with loss of small pieces of leather marbled endpapers. xl128;ii189iii pp. First title soiled otherwise good copy. Barbier I171 mentions 2 editions: This first edition and Londres 1789 Chez Marc-Michel Rey hardcover
