Search Results: Authors starting with A from Patrick Olson Rare Books

FOR PROVINCIAL SURGEONS --- [24], 255, 255-413, [17] p. | 12mo | ã^12 A-K^12 L^12(L7+chi1) M-R^12 S^12(-S11) | 142 x 90 mm --- First and only edition of the provincial surgeon's only book, a medical treatise blending the scientific and the spiritual. The author divides his work into three parts: (1) an overview of the various natural beings (estres naturels), including an examination of the soul; (2) a discussion of conception, the fetus, and birth, a comprehensive account that must have been useful for those tasked with delivery; and (3) a broad overview of the body and soul, which covers the heart, breathing, and blood circulation, in addition to some metaphysical topics. ¶ We learn from the preface that Golles has 40 years' experience as a surgeon, a dozen of them as surgeon to the poor (Chirurgien ordinaire des pauvres). He wrote the book for the benefit of his young colleagues, covering everything that should make a skilled surgeon (toutes les parties qui peuvent faire un habile… Read More

4 volumes | 12mo | 160 x 100 mm ¶ Volume 2 dated 1812, all others 1807. First and only edition of Martin Smart's translation, excepting the large paper edition here reported by the publisher. ¶ Illustrated with 100 copper plates, including several library scenes, and many signed by Tomlinson or Warner (some misbound, but all present). Publisher's ad at end of v. 4 for a large paper edition of Gil Blas and a matching edition of Don Quixote. Includes a translator's preface and life of the author. ¶ Apparently an unrecorded variant of this Phillips edition, as records in OCLC and Copac offer no evidence for any volumes dated 1812, as found here with a cancelled v. 2 title page. --- CONDITION: Contemporary sprinkled brown calf; spines with black leather labels and gold tooling. ¶ Lacking final leaf of v. 4 (additional publisher's ad?); spines badly rubbed, the first two volumes lacking their labels; mild scattered foxing; light dampstaining to last two plates in v. 1; v. 2 frontispiece and… Read More

DATA-DRIVEN PROVINCIAL GRIEVANCES ON THE EVE OF REVOLUTION ¶ [6], 46; xj, [1]; 64 p. | 4to | pi1(=F1?) 2pi^2 A-E^4 F^4(F1=pi1?); A-C^2; a-h^4 | 246 x 193 mm ¶ First and only edition of this provincially produced report that both expounds local injustices and exposes corruption of the ancien régime at the national level. The author himself was born into a noble, but destitute, family, and had to earn his own in the Bourgogne army regiment. In the preface, he stakes out his position for an increasingly restive populace: "All those who can serve to develop the oppressive administration's disadvantages, under which we moan, should be placed in broad daylight by those who have succeeded in being well informed." In this spirit, the authors—Romainville uses nous, underscoring a cooperative effort—have worked from "knowledge that few people have been able to obtain, having given much time to the accuracy of the research and the results that we have drawn from it." ¶ More than an eloquent call to arms,… Read More