Search Results: Authors starting with C from LIBRAIRIE CAMILLE SOURGET

Paris, Tournachon-Molin, 1825-1829.
14 volumes [166 x 93 mm], [iv], xxviii, 246 + [iv], 310 + [iv], 272 + [iv], 288 + [iv], 250 + [iv], 258 + [iv], 237, (1) l. + [iv], xii, 278 + [iv] + 292 + [iv], 299 + [iv], 288 + [iv], 292 + [iv], 284 + [iv], 346 pp.
Bound in full blond sheepskin, gilt border around the covers, flat decorated spines, hinges and extremities of the spine slightly rubbed. Contemporary binding.
"The first French edition" (J. Rives Childs) (1956).
"Quite rare" (J. Rive Childs).
Memoires.... Published in Germany, and translated by Sir Aubert de Vitry, translator of Goethe's Memoirs, etc. with a preface by de Vitry.
"The German edition of the Memoirs had been received so favorably that a Paris editor decided to bring out this pirated edition. It is thus the first French edition. However, it is not the first French edition of the original French text but a translation of the Schütz edition and is therefore a translation of a translation." (J. Rives Childs).
This first French edition of… Read More

Paris, de l'Imprimerie royale, 1740.
- [With] : II/ [Same author]. Tables astronomiques du Soleil, de la Lune, des planètes, des étoiles fixes, et des satellites de Jupiter et de Saturne ; Avec l'explication & l'usage de ces mêmes tables.
Paris, de l'Imprimerie royale, 1740.
[Followed by] :
Cassini de Thury, César François. Addition aux tables astronomiques de M. Cassini.
A Paris, chez Durand, 1756.
2 volumes 4to [252 x 187 mm] of: I/ xvi pp., (6) ll. of table, 643 pp., 26 folding plates; II/ xiv pp., (3) ll. of table, 120 pp., 222 pp. of astronomical tables, (1) bl. l., (1) l., 98 pp. of addition to the astronomical tables. Full marbled calf, double blind-stamped fillet around the covers, ribbed spines decorated, red morocco lettering pieces, mottled edges. Contemporary binding.
First edition of these two important astronomical works.I/ First edition of this very complete treatise, in which the author engages in an innovative research of the value of the main digital elements of astronomy, and… Read More

[Auguste Vindelicorum, Ant. Sorg], 1475.
Gothic folio [301 x 212 mm] of (1) bl. l., 484 leaves with 40 lines per page, thus complete, handwritten inscription at the bottom of the title, a few minor waterstains, annotations in the margins, contemporary bookmarks. Monastic binding in blind-stamped brown calf on wooden boards, rebound, richly ornamented covers, corner spandrels and central metal cabochon, title of the work handwritten in monastic hand on the upper cover. Binding made around 1475.
Rare princeps edition printed by Anton Sorg in November 1475.
ISTC ic00292000; BMC II 342; BSB-Ink D-189; Goff C292; GW 6277; HC 4711; IGI 2601.
"Rare edition described by Panzer, vol. 1. p. 106, and by Hain; it was sold for 9 pounds 19 sh. 6 d. Alchorne Library, in 1813; 20 and 48 flor. Butsch"
(Brunet I-1666).
This princeps edition reached considerable prices reported by Brunet: 9 pounds 19 sh or 200 F gold in 1813, a higher price than the first edition of Les Précieuses ridicules.
"First edition, very rare;… Read More

Amsterdam, M. Doornick, [1676].
[Bound with:] Commelyn, Johannes. Nederlantze Hesperides, Dat is, Oeffening en Gebruik van de Limoen en Oranje-Boomen Geftelt na den Aardt, en Climaat der Nederlanden.
Amsterdam, Marcus Doornick, 1676.
2 works in 1 folio volume of : I/ 1 frontispiece, (2) ll., 144 pp., (1) l., pp. 145 to 224, 2 colored engravings depicting gardens, 13 colored engravings of fruits and flowers, 15 in black and white of garden plans; II/ 1 frontispiece, (2) ll., 47 pp., (2) pp., 26 engravings out of text.
Mottled brown calf, spine ribbed with gilt fleurons, sprinkled edges. Contemporary Dutch binding.
319 x 198 mm.
Reunion of first editions of two works illustrating the Dutch flora and gardens of the seventeenth century.
I/ first edition of the most attractive of the seventeenth-century Dutch works on gardens.
Nissen BBI 339; Hunt 344; Piesch 173 f. STCN 096345950; Benezit, II, 601.
This beautiful collection, artfully illustrated by Hendrik Cause (1648-1699), is dedicated to William of… Read More

Mexico, Francisco Salbago, 1637.
4 parts bound in 1 volume folio [278 x 196 mm], (2) ff., 31 ff., 41 ff. (misnumbered 42), 41 ff. numbered 1 to 28 and 29 to 39 ( ff. 17-18 are repeated), (1) l., 11 ff. Complete copy.
Bound in contemporary brown calf, decorated spine, new endleaves, edges red. Joints rubbed.
Very rare first edition of this precious work for the history of Mexico City.
Leclerc, Bibliotheca Americana, 1095 ; Brunet, I, 1739 ; Graesse, Trésor de livres rares, 103 ; Sabin 11693 ; Medina, La imprenta en México, II, 484.
Written 8 years after the terrible flood that devastated Mexico City in 1629, " this very rare book contains an official account of the celebrated Desaque, or canal of Gueguetoca, called, by Humboldt, Huehuetoca, which was constructed to carry off the superabundant waters of the lake of Mexico. Humboldt gives a full account of this stupendous undertaking. Rich". (Sabin).
The fourth part of the book was printed 3 months after the publication of the work and is often… Read More

Paris, chez Delloye et Leipzig chez Brockhaus et Avenarius, 1838.
2 volumes 8vo [208 x 125 mm] of : I/(2) ll., III pp., 488 pp.; II/ (2) ll., 476 pp., (2) ll. A few browned ll. in volume 2. Aubergine half-calf, flat spines decorated, sprinkled edges. Contemporary binding.
First edition of this "text which importance ended up appearing".
Vicaire, Manuel de l'amateur, I, 289 ; Carteret, I, 163 ; Sabin 12252.
"Text which importance ended up appearing, it is indeed a part, and not negligible, of 'Mémoires d'Outre-tombe.'" (Clouzot, p. 66)
Chateaubriand published it in 1838 to justify his activity as Minister of Foreign Affairs to the public opinion.
We recognize the dazzling style of the writer in it, the polemists' verve, the imagination of the poet. The book contains many passages from Mémoires d'Outre-tombe, Chateaubriand having hesitated for a long time to reinstate this text in his major work.
"This book is by no means void of interest; it is really written with great cleverness; and although… Read More

Bruxelles, Meline, Cans et Compagnie, 1848-1850.
6 parts in 12 volumes 12mo of : I/ (2) ll, 140 pp; II/ pp. 141-356; III/ (2) ll, 180 pp; IV/ pp. 181-374; V/ (2) ll, 232 pp; VI/ pp. 233-471; VII/ (2) ll, 228 pp; VIII/ pp. 229-490; IX/ (2) ll, 180 pp; X/ pp. 181-483; XI/ (2) ll, 212 pp; XII/ pp. 213-516. Original wrappers, folders and slipcases.
191 x 120 mm.
Extremely rare pre-original edition of
"one of the most important texts of 19th century. literature" (Clouzot).
It is the only complete edition of which the text of the first volume was published before the Paris edition.
Paul Van der Perre, Les préfaçons des Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe, Bulletin du bibliophile, 1931.
"Sought-after edition of which the first volumes were published before the French edition.
Clouzot, 66; En Français dans le texte, 268.
This pre original edition is so rare that in an article published in the Bulletin du bibliophile of 1931, Paul van der Perre said that he had searched for this edition without ever finding it.… Read More

Paris, Lefèvre, 1821-1825.
30 8vo volumes [223 x 140 mm]. A portrait of Cicero as frontispiece.
Straight-grained red morocco from Simier, three volumes (1-2 et 30) signed "Simier. R. du roi", covers decorated with a rich border composed of gilt and blind-stamped fillets with fleurons in the corners, with the arms of Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, Duchess de Berry (1798-1870) in the center of the covers, (Olivier 2554 tool n° 2), spine ribbed abundantly decorated with gilt and blind-stamped patterns, gilt inner border, gilt edges. Contemporary armorial binding signed by Simier, the king's binder.
First collective edition of the translation of Cicero'sWorksinto French.
It is the first one quoted by Brunet (II: 49-50) that he describes like this:
"This edition, outstanding in many aspects, deserves the success it got. The text presents a new recension, for which the author made use of the variations of a large number of manuscripts, and of the help that philology abundantly provided him. Latin… Read More

I- Collaert, Adriaen. Piscium Vivae Icones inventae ab Adriano Collardo et Excusae.
[Amsterdam], Nic. Jos. Visscher, 1634.
Title and 19 plates numbered from 2 to 20.
First edition given in Amsterdam in 1634, complete with its 20 fish plates, and second general edition different from the first printed in Antwerp around 1610.
Nissen, Zoologische, p. 98.
II-Bruyn, Nicolaes de. Libellus varia genera piscium complectens Pictoribus, sculptoribus, caelatoribus, aurifabris etc. mire utilis et necessarius.
Nicolaes de Bruyn inventor, Claes J. Visscher, ca. 1630.
Antwerpen um 1550 - 1656 Rotterdam (Th.-B.)
4to with 1 frontispiece and 12 prints of fishes and amphibians numbered from 2 to 13. First plate spotted, small tears restored in the margin of pl. 3, 4, 11 and 12.
First edition described by Nissen, Zoologische, p. 69.
III- Collaert, Adriaen. Avium Vivae et artificiosissimae Delineationes.
Amstelodami, impressae apud Nicolaum Visscher, Anno 1659.
Oblong 4to, 1 frontispiece and 23 bird prints numbered 2… Read More

Paris, Jacques Kerver, 1561.
Folio of (6) ll., 157 ll. illustrated with 181 woodcuts including 13 full-page, (1) leaf with Kerver's mark. Tiny tear in the corner of l. 49, marginal waterstain on few ll. more visible on the last 5 ll. Full marbled sheepskin, triple blind-stamped fillet around the covers, ribbed spine decorated, red edges. Binding from the 18th century.

333 x 220 mm.
"The most important of the three editions given by Kerver of the first translation by Jean Martin, of the most beautiful and most famous Italian book of the Renaissance, published in Venice in 1499 by Aldus." (Pierre Berès).
Brunet, IV, 779 ; Harvard, French, n°147 ; Jean Martin, Un traducteur au temps de François Ier et de Henri II (Cahiers V.-L, Saulnier, 16), Paris, 1999 ; D. Cordellier, Luca Penni, un disciple de Raphael à Fontainebleau, Paris, 2012, pp. 111-113.
It is illustrated with 181 woodcuts including 13 full-page.

The illustration of the beautiful engraved title was recently attributed by Dominique… Read More

Paris, Simon le Moyne, 1635.
4to [226 x 165 mm] of (8) ll. 238 pp. including 68 full-page plates, (1) l. of privilege, lower white margin of the title restored not affecting the text. Full shipskin, spines ribbed and decorated, red morocco lettering-piece, red edges. 18th century binding.
First edition of the first book on the flora of Canada, one of the earliest herbaria in north America.
Its importance was recognized by Linnaeus, who still consulted it for his classification work some hundred years after its publication.
Hunt, R.M.M. Botanical books, 227. Hunt 227; Nissen, BBI 406; Pritzel 1894; Stafleu & Cowan 1233.
Imbued with the renaissance herbalist tradition, Canadensium Plantarum Historia is already distinguished by its modern classification: The book contains the very first descriptions of 78 plants of the Canadian flora by the Parisian botanist and physician Jacques-Philippe Cornut (1606-1651).
Cornut was a French botanist and physician who never visited North America, but instead received… Read More

Paris, Simon le Moyne, 1635.
4to [226 x 165 mm] of (8) ll. 238 pp. including 68 full-page plates, (1) l. of privilege, lower white margin of the title restored not affecting the text. Full shipskin, spines ribbed and decorated, red morocco lettering-piece, red edges. 18th century binding.
First edition of the first book on the flora of Canada, one of the earliest herbaria in north America. Its importance was recognized by Linnaeus, who still consulted it for his classification work some hundred years after its publication.
Hunt, R.M.M. Botanical books, 227. Hunt 227; Nissen, BBI 406; Pritzel 1894; Stafleu & Cowan 1233.
Imbued with the renaissance herbalist tradition, Canadensium Plantarum Historia is already distinguished by its modern classification: The book contains the very first descriptions of 78 plants of the Canadian flora by the Parisian botanist and physician Jacques-Philippe Cornut (1606-1651).
Cornut was a French botanist and physician who never visited North America, but instead received… Read More

Paris, Barrois l'aîné, 1783.
8vo [189 x 120 mm.] of viii pp., 290 pp., 5 plates and 2 maps out of pagination including one folded, (1) l.
Full marbled calf, blindstamped filet around the covers, flat spine decorated with gilt fillets, red morocco lettering piece, red edges. Contemporary binding.
First edition of this very rare work which is capital for the history of New Zealand and Tasmania. It's the account of one of the first French expeditions to Australia and New Zealand.
Sabin, XVII, 439 ; Davidson, A Book Collector's Notes, pp. 98-99 ; Dunmore, t. I, p. 182 ; Du Rietz, Bibliotheca Polynesiana by Kroepelien, 1104 ; Hill, 401 ; Hocken, pp. 21-22 ; Howgego, I, C222, p. 285 ; Le Nail, Explorateurs et Grands Voyageurs Bretons, p. 32 ; New Zealand National Bibliography, t. I, 1502.

"The first printed French maps of New Zealand were Marion Dufresne's maps of 1772 in this account of Crozet's voyage." (Tooley, The Mapping of Australia, p. XII et p. 308, 158).
"Crozet's narrative, apart from the… Read More

Paris, chez G. Dufour et E. D'Ocagne, 1825.

5 tomes en 7 volumes in-4. Illustrés de : 1 portrait, 38 planches et 1 tableau sur double-page pour le tome 1 ; 43 planches pour le tome 1, 17 planches dont 1 carte en couleurs et 1 carte dépliante dans le tome 3 ; 81 planches dont 1 dépliante pour le tome 4 ; 41 planches pour le tome 5 ; 27 planches pour le tome 6 ; 32 planches pour le tome 7, soit un total de 1 portrait, 278 planches et 1 carte dépliante.
Mostly foxed, here and there brownstained, some plates cropped close, 1 inner joint slightly broken.

Maroquin rouge avec 2 pièces de titre vertes au dos, riche dorure florale au dos, supralibros dorés en relief des armoiries de la "House of Commons Library" sur les deux plats, double filet doré sur les coupes, roulette intérieure dorée, tranches dorées. (J. Wright).

285 x 216 mm.

Nouvelle édition entièrement remaniée, corrigée et augmentée de 3 volumes par rapport à l'originale, de cette somme consacrée aux ossements fossiles qui… Read More