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Although the author is unknown, he was an officer of the squadron commanded by Comte d'Estaing which was sent by France in 1778 to aid the American patriots. He gives a detailed account of the encounter with the British fleet under Lord Howe near Newport. He also gives a valuable firsthand report of the violent storm that separated the two fleets, making it necessary for d'Estaing to retire to Boston for repairs instead of remaining to support the American land forces. This compelled General Sullivan to evacuate Rhode Island and leave Newport to the British.Charles-Hector, Comte d'Estaing was a vice-admiral in the French navy and the senior naval officer in American waters during the Revolutionary War. He transported the first contingent of French land forces to Rhode Island in 1778 and participated in 1779 in the siege of Savannah. He supported the Revolution in France after 1789 and died on the gallows during the Reign of Terror.12mo. Disbound. A Bruxelles, 1782. Written in response to: Extrait du…
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Campagne de M. le Comte d’Estaing en Amérique, ou Mémoire pour servir de réfutation au Libelle contre ce Vice-Amiral.
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Code Géneral des Impots. Text Officiel. (Tax Code.): Extraits choisis et commentés par X. G. Renard et J. Edward.
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Illustrated with 42 color illustrations, in and out of text, by Albert Dubout. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. Maurice Gonon (Neuilly sur Seine 1958). First Edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies, with an extra suite of black-and-white illustrations. This copy #445. Albert Dubout was French cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor, who was considered to be one of the great European satiric artists. He was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1953. The Albert Dubout Museum in Palavas-les-Flots, France is dedicated to his work. Code Géneral des Impots is a fine example of Dubout's humor, with his fabulous satirical drawings. Book and extra suite inserted in printed poster board folding sleeve, enclosed in printed poster board slipcase. Slipcase soiled, seam of bottom edge opened; front wrapper of book has been folded; interior of book clean, with bright illustrations; unopened.
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Descrizione Istorica, ed Antiquaria DellAntico Teatro di Tavormina Presentata A S. E. Signor Marchese di Bombelles . . .
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1733. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Illustrated with 7 tipped-in folded engraved plates; woodcut initials. 8vo. Modern beige wrappers. (Messina li 13 Settembre 1773). First Edition. 20 pages. A rare work on the ancient Theater in Taormina, Sicily. A fine copy with clean, engraved folding plates. Scarce
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Dissertation Physique à L’Occasion du Nègre Blanc.
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8vo. Full 18th century-style morocco binding by Philip Dusel, gilt ruled, gilt decorations on spine, 5 raised bands, spine label with gilt letters. A Leyde 1744. First Edition of Maupertuis' pioneering work on embryology and genetics. Maupertuis, a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters, was the Director of the Académie des Sciences, and the first President of the Prussian Academy of Science, at the invitation of Frederick the Great. This present dissertation "was written after an albino Negro appeared in Paris. A scientist, philosopher, and original thinker, Maupertuis was years ahead of his time in many aspects of biology, particularly embryology and genetics. His arguments against the then-prevailing theory of peformation and for epigenesis were so close to the idea of evolution that he is a true forerunner of Darwin and Mendel. His theories and observations are contained in this work, which he may have had published anonymously to avoid repercussions from Church authorities."…
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Du Fanatisme Dans La Langue Révolutionnaire, Ou De La Persécution Suscitée par les Barbares du dix-huitième siècle, contre la Religion chrétienne et ses Ministres.
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THE CONCEPTUAL ORIGIN OF "NEWSPEAK"8vo. Contemporary full calf; gilt decorations on spine; spine label; green silk bookmark. A Paris, Chez Les Marchands De Nouveautés, 1797. First Edition.La Harpe was the first to denounce an essential mechanism of terror, the manipulation of language; or the concept of "Newspeak," as developed by George Orwell in 1984.La Harpe shows how revolutionaries gave words new meanings to handle the crowds. They established a "reverse language" that allowed spying in the name of freedom, tyranny in the name of equality, massacre in the name of fraternity, persecution in the name of tolerance, etc. This inversion of language - which led to the guillotine and the Vendée "genocide" - was set up by the so-called Enlightenment philosophers, including Voltaire who consistently associated the word "fanatical" with Catholic. Binding worn and chipped at lower spine and bottom edge; endpapers refreshed; generally clean internally. Scarce.
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Essai d'un Art de Fusion, a l'Aide de l'Air du Feu: Par Friedrich Ludwig Ehrmann. Traduit de l’Allemand par M. de Fontallard & revu par l’auteur. Suivi des Mémoires de Mr. Lavoisier . . . sur le même sujet.
by Friedrich Ludwig Ehrmann, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier.
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Illustrated with 3 folding engraved plates. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf binding, leather label on spine, 5 raised bands, gilt decorations. Strasbourg: Jean George Treuttel; Paris: Cuchet 1787. First Edition in French of Ehrmann's work; First Edition of Lavoisier's Mémoires. "Friedrich Ludwig Ehrmann, professor of physics at Strasbourg, was one of Lavoisier's correspondents and one of the earliest converts to his new chemical theories. A series of experiments on which Ehrmann's work... is based were conducted at the same time as Lavoisier was working on the effects of high temperatures on various substances. The results that both obtained... were so similar that Lavoisier, who must have seen Ehrmann's manuscript before its publication, requested that his own memoirs on the subject be printed together with Ehrmann's essay" Binding slightly worn; the text block bright and clean; one plate with some extra vertical creases from mis-folding; o/w Fine.
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Esthétique du Mal. A Poem.
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Illustrated by Wightman Williams. 8vo. Green Natsume straw-paper-covered boards with black mor spine. Cummington Press, Cummington 1945. First Edition. One of 300 numbered copies illustrated by Williams. Spine scuffed, o/w fine.
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Examen du System des Cours de Vienne, de Petersborug, et de Berlin. Concernant le demembrement de la Pologne.
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CONTEMPORARY ANALYSIS OF THE FIRST PARTITION OF POLAND8vo. Disbound. London 1773. (The imprint is purposefully false; all examples of this pamphlet were actually printed in Amsterdam.) First Edition. The pamphlet concerns the 1772 first partition of Poland, judging the partition neither just nor useful. "… an unjust system by virtue of the violation of all the rights of Men; pernicious to Europe by an example that destroys the ties of society; dangerous to two Powers interested in the unmeasured and free elevation of the third, of which both Powers have much to fear." (Translated from the Polish)The First Partition of Poland, or the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, took place in 1772 as the first of 3 partitions that ended the existence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795. Frederick the Great engineered the partition to prevent Austria, jealous of Russian successes against the Ottoman Empire, from going to war. The weakened Commonwealth's land, including what was already controlled by…
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A French Grammar, or Plain Instructions for the Learning of French
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8vo. Original paper boards; paper label on spine. Printed by B. Bensley; Published by the Author; London 1829. "A New Edition." Cobbett had spent his youth in the army, stationed in New Brunswick, where he felt the officers were corrupt and the soldiers underpaid and mistreated. He published The Soldier's Friend in 1792, complaining on these grievances, which caused him to fear reprisal, and so he fled to France. Unfortunately, he arrived at the height of the French Revolution, so his plan to learn French more thoroughly was sidetracked as he continued on to the United States. Once there he found employment teaching English to French exiles, learning their language in the process, resulting in his French Grammar.Board corners and edges are bumped a bit, with some staining; leaves are clean and amply margined; uncut; with the last leaves of quire K unopened, and with some mild foxing and occasional mild toning; o/w Very Nice.
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La Sagesse Dans Le Sang.: (Wise Blood).
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First French Edition. 1 of 36 numbered copies.O'CONNOR, FLANNERY. La Sagesse Dans Le Sang. (Wise Blood). Translated into French by M.E. Coindreau. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, in glassine sleeve. Gallimard (Paris 1959). First French Edition.1 of 36 numbered exemplaire copies on vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre. This is copy #25. Flannery O'Connor was heavily influenced by several contemporary French writers, the most important being Simone Weil. It is an interesting study to examine the French translation of such a heavily influenced American novel. Uncut. Unopened. Tear to edge of glassine, o/w clean and bright.
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Le Faucon de Malte.: (The Maltese Falcon)
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Translated into French by Henri Robillot. Illustrated with original Frontispiece and full-page color lithographs by Garcia-Fons. 8vo. Padded faux leather, gilt design. André Sauret; de la Collection des Douze Meilleurs Romans Policiers. No. 11. Lithographs printed at Les Presses de Mourlot Frères, Paris 1969. First French Illustrated Edition. Limited to a small number on alfa paper, unnumbered. Fine.
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Le Premier Tome de lArchitecture.
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THE GREATEST BOOK OF RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTUREIllustrated with 205 large woodcuts, including 74 full-page and 7 double-page blocks; magnificent allegorical woodcut title border; large woodcut head-pieces and large floriated and grotesque woodcut initials; leaf I4 slightly taller than the rest of the text block, to accommodate a tall column woodcut, with about 2 cm section at top folded in. Royal Folio. 19th-century ¼-vellum over marbled boards; spine decorated and lettered in gilt; edges gilt. Paris: Fédéric Morel, 1567. First Edition. First Issue. The most influential and most lavishly illustrated handbook of French Renaissance architecture. The first and only published volume. A second volume was planned by the author but never completed.Mortimer, Harvard College Library Cat.: French 16th-Century Books, no.355; Brunet, Supple. I, 888-9; Fowler Architect. coll. 99; Clouzot, Philibert de l'Orme, pp. 90-107; Berliner Ornamentstichkatalog 2362; Pettegree, French Vernacular Books 15434; cf. Adams L…
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Le coeur est un chasseur solitaire. (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.)
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INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPYFirst French Edition of McCullers first book. One of 100 hors commerce copies, of a total edition of 2750 copies printed on velin blanc suedois. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For Francis Ambriere from Carson McCullers."Francis Ambrière was a French author. He was selected for the Prix Goncourt in 1940, for his book Les Grandes Vacances.Soft cover. Fine. Traduit de lAnglais par Marie-Madeleine Fayet. Preface de Denis de Rougemont 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Éditions Stock, Paris 1947.A fine, partially unopened copy. McCullers presentation copies are scarce.
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Les Aventures d'Antoine Doinel
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Les Aventures dAntoine Doinel. Les Quatre Cents Coups. LAmour à Vingt Ans. Baisers Volés. Domicile Conjugal.Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. Original paper wrappers, in dust wrapper. Paris Mercure de France 1970. First Edition of Truffauts second book. Presentation copy inscribed by Truffaut, "Pour Mrs Ingrid Hjerting avec les hommages de François Truffaut."The book contains screenplays for the first four Antoine Doinel movies. Antoine Doinel, realized onscreen over a number of years by Jean-Pierre Leaud, was Truffauts autobiographical double. The Doinel films compiled here begin in Doinel's childhood with The 400 Blows and continue through adolescence and early manhood with Antoine and Colette, Stolen Kisses, and Bed and Board. A very nice copy. Scarce in dust wrapper.
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Les Metamorphoses d’Ovide, en Latin et en Francois.
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One of the finest works of illustration ever published, marking the transition from Rococo to the Neo-Classical Era of European art.Illustrated with 139 full-page plates by Boucher, Eisen, Gravelot, Monnet, Moreau, and others. Plus engraved title, 3 pages of dedications, 4 fleurons on title pages, 30 engraved vignettes and 1 full-page cul-de-lampe by Choffard and Monnet closing Volume 4. Engraved by Le Mire and Basan. Large 4to. Full 18th century French marbled calf; spine with 5 raised bands; red and green morocco labels; gilt spines, gilt borders and edges; original hand-marbled endpapers. A Paris, Chez Leclerc. 1767 to 1771. 4 volumes. Ovid's Metamorphoses are of course, are some of the most famous stories to survive from antiquity; they tell, essentially, a history of the world in dactylic hexameter, the meter of the epics. Ovid's stories are as foundational to Western literature as any other book written; they include the story of Io and Jupiter, the stories of Cadmus, Pyramus and Thisbe (of…
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Les Volcans et Les Tremblements de Terre.
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Illustrated with 16 colored lithograph plates and 40 black-and-white illustrations of volcanoes, some full page, by Eugene Ciceri.Original publisher's ¼-red crushed morocco, gilt decorated spine, over matching red cloth boards; spine with 4 raised bands and gilt lettering; aeg. Paris: Paul Ducrocq, Libraire Editeur, N. D. ca.1865. First Illustrated French Edition. A comprehensive and well-illustrated study of technical and spectacular aspects of volcanoes. Some light foxing, o/w Very Nice.
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Manifeste ou Declaration, des Hauts & Puissans Seigneurs les Estats Generaux des Provinces Unies des Pays-Bas, Contenant une Vraye Relation de la Sincerite des Intentions qu’ils on eues, & des Justes Procedures, qui’ils ont tenues, en ce qui s’est Passe au Traitte Entre Eux & les Ambassadeurs . . . de ceux qui Gouvernent a present l’Angleterre . . . comme aussi des injustes & violentes Procedures de ceux dudit Gouvernement
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With United Provinces state emblem vignette on title. 8vo. 10 leaves, stitched. The Hague. August 2, 1652. Addressed to Europe's public opinion, this declaration by the States-General of the United Provinces argues that the blame for the failure of its negotiations with England lies entirely with the Commonwealth of Oliver Cromwell. An important historical document concerning the conflict that is known in Dutch history as the First English War. Fine.
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Mémoires sur les Hôpitaux de Paris.
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Illustrated with 15 large folding plates. 4to. Modern ½-leather-backed boards. Paris, Ph.-D. Pierres, 1788. First Edition. In 1785 the French surgeon Jacque René Tenon was required by royal command to make a scientific study of European hospitals. He traveled for 18 months in France, England and Germany, after which he prepared and published his report, which revealed the appalling conditions prevailing in Parisian hospitals. This was particularly true of the Hotel-Dieu. With great foresight, he proposed a series of reforms. He believed particularly that "there must be rooms in which to prepare for operations, for the operations themselves, and for those who have undergone operations; these rooms must be removed from noise and from infection." Tenon's work had a prodigious effect and profoundly influenced the King and the public. His proposed reforms were upset by the French Revolution, but nevertheless served during the 19th century as the conceptual guide for the majority of European hospitals. A…
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Poèmes. Léone – Allégories – La Crucifixion – Neiges.
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First Edition.Inscribed and signed by Cocteau with an original profile line drawing by Cocteau on the half-title. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, enclosed in modern cloth box. Paris: Gallimard 1948. Covers with splitting along spine, short tears and soiling, as usual, o/w Fine.
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Rapport Fait au Nom de la Commission Chargée de L’examen des Papiers Trouvés Chez Robespierre et Ses Complices
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REPORT ON THE PERSONAL PAPERS OF ROBESPIERRESEIZED FROM HIS HOUSEFirst Edition of this report on the personal papers of Robespierre, intended to be evidence of his guilt8vo. 19th century leather-backed marbled boards, gold lettering on spine. A Paris, De L'Imprimerie Nationale Des Lois . (1794 or 1795).Spine worn, boards scuffed; title page toned; tear to page 51/52 missing some text; small tears to margins of a few pages.
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