Search Results: Authors starting with R from LIBRAIRIE CAMILLE SOURGET

Paris, Richard Breton, 1565.
8vo [160 x 98 mm] of (63) ll., 18th century French polished calf, red edges, arms Sir Charles Bagot on covers, morocco slipcase.
The first edition of this mysterious series of grotesque illustrations "for the recreation of witty spirits."
The woodcuts are now generally attributed to François Desprez who three years prior provided similar illustrations for different work printed by Breton. While Rabelais is invoked in the title, his name seems to have simply served to advertise the nature of the work - providing a shorthand for a playful, Pantagruelist posture. Some of the iconography can clearly be related to images by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Breughel, coming from a longer tradition of absurd and entertaining images which had only somewhat recently been made literary by the work of Rabelais. Much ink has flowed on the potential hidden meanings in these cuts, published in an age when esoteric symbolism was very much in vogue (cf. Cesare Ripas Iconologia and… Read More

Venetia, Stamperia de Giunti. 1563, 1559, (1558 au colophon) & 1606.3 folio volumes [335 x 223 mm] p. d. t. on the spine, [4], 34 ll., 3 double-page maps, (num. 394) ; [2], 28 ll. 156 ll. ; [6], 36 ll. 430 ll. 7 double-page maps [396] ; leaves 108 and 109 of the first volume calligraphed in the eighteenth century replace the original missing leaves. Full ivory vellum, spine ribbed, title page in full gold lettering, edges blued. Antique binding circa 1740.First edition of volume II, third enlarged edition of volumes I and III, rare in uniform antique binding. Ramusio's Viaggi are always or almost always composed of volumes of different editions.Thus the copy offered in catalog 180 of one of the major international bookstores published on June 18, 2019 at a price of $95,000 was described as follows: " First editions of volumes II and III, third edition of volume I.Folio. Three volumes. 3 folding plates in volume I, 7 double-page maps in vol. III, numerous woodcut illustrations, maps, and… Read More

Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1689.
In-8 de (6) ff. dont un frontispice, 117 pp., 25 pl. dépliantes hors texte. Maroquin rouge, triple filet doré sur les plats, dos lisse orné à la grotesque, pièce de titre de maroquin vert, coupes décorées, dentelle intérieure, tranches dorées. Reliure ancienne.
175 x 115 mm.
Édition originale rare du meilleur livre du " célèbre marin de Louis XIV ", ornée d'un titre frontispice dessiné et gravé par F. Ertinger représentant un galion devant une ville fortifiée et de 25 planches dépliantes de technique de navigation.
Polak, 8108.
Baptisé à Armandaritz (Pyrénées Atlantiques) en 1652, mort à Pougues les Eaux en 1719, Renau d'Elissagaray fut remarqué par Duquesne avec lequel il travailla aux constructions navales à Brest.
" Il proposa un nouveau système de construction navale, que Vauban fit adopter et qu'il fut chargé de mettre en pratique. Un conflit ayant éclat en 1680 entre la France et le dey d'Alger, Renau proposa de bombarder la ville avec… Read More

Paris, Octave Doin, 1888.
Folio [355 x 265 mm] of (2) ll., xcviii pp., (1) bl. l., 265 pp., xii pp., 72 numbered plates in full page.
Bound in contemporary quarter green buckram, flat spine decorated with gilt title.
Rare first edition of this treatise dedicated to comestible and toadstool mushrooms of France and its bordering countries.
G.C. Ainsworth, Introduction to the History of Mycology, p. 320; Nissen BBI, 1691.
The Atlas des champignons comestibles et vénéneux de la France is composed of a first scientific part and a second one illustrated.
The first part deals with the history and the development of mycology, and presents a classification of mushrooms as well as a study of the 229 principal species of comestible and toadstool mushrooms of France.
The second part is made of coloured plates representing the mushrooms from different point of views and in cross section.
The abundant illustration of the present work is actually composed of 62 figures in the text reproducing antique engravings… Read More

Augsbourg, 1729.
Large oblong folio, Jesus paper. Engraved frontispiece with a dedication and 36 engravings lengthwise and widthwise, with explanations in French and German.
- [Bound with] : Ridinger, Johannes-Elias. Contemplatio Ferarum Bestiarum!
Augustae Vind [elicorum], 1736.
Large oblong folio. Engraved title in German and in Latin, 40 copper engravings.
Set of 2 works bound in 1 volume [396 x 475] oblong folio, full marbled calf, decorated ribbed spine, sprinkled edges, few former restorations on the binding. Contemporary binding.
First editions of Ridinger's major work, "Fürstenlust", and "contemplatio Ferrarum Bestiarum".
I - Fürstenlust, 1729.
References:
Huzard, II, n° 5279, Jeanson, 1793 ; Thiébaud, 784; Schwerdt, III, P. 134; Thiennemann, 13-48.
First edition, first issue.
" Fine impressions of one of Ridinger's important and highly instructive sets, engraved by himself ".
(Schwerdt, III, 134).
Precious set in the state before numbering, wide-margined, in its contemporary binding.… Read More

2 volumes 4to of: I/ (2) ll. including the half-titre and the title, viii pp, 266 pp, 72 hand-colored plates including the engraved frontispiece; II/ (2) ll. 278 pp, 61 hand-colored plates, (1) l. of errata. The plates are protected by silky paper. Illustrated with 133 watercolored engravings. Bound in half-roan, spines finely decorated, lettering-pieces in old red morocco, scratched on the cover. Contemporary binding.
240 x 178 mm.
First edition of the first great French pharmacopeia of the nineteenth century.
Pritzel 509; Graesse, Trésor de livres rares, VI, 160; Nissen BBI 1674; Stafleu-Cowan TL2 9496.
This work is the result of the collaboration of Joseph Roques, an eminent physician and botanist, and Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, a prolific aquafortist, draftsman, and polygrapher.
"M. Roque preceded his work with a detailed description of the various external parts of plants; there he successively examines the roots, the stems, the leaves, the flowering parts, the sexual organs [...]; and,… Read More

Paris, 1667.
[Followed by] : Le Mercure Indien ou le Trésor des Indes, seconde partie dans laquelle est traitté des Pierres précieuses, & des Perles. Ensemble de leur origine, de leur formation, de leur usage, & de leur valeur. Avec un traitté sommaire des autres Pierres moins précieuses, sçavoir de l'Agathe, du Iaspe, du Lapis & autres. Et mesmes des Pierres plus communes, telles que le Corail, le Crystal, l'Ambre & le Bezoard.
Paris, 1667.
2 parts in 1 volume 8vo of: (8) ll., 64 pp. ; (8) ll., 176 pp. (occ. stains, ink stain on 1st title). Contemporary brown calf, spine on 5 raised bands (corners and joints restored), sprinkled edges. Binding somewhat used otherwise good copy.
178 x 111 mm.
Rare first edition, first issue, of this much esteemed and sought-after mining and metallurgical treatise by the Parisian goldsmith P. de Rosnel (" orfèvre ordinaire du roy ").
Réf : Sinkankas 5569 (extensive description) ; Sabin 73297 ; Ferguson, II, 295 ; Cp. Duveen p. 516 ; Caillet 9597 ; Hoover 692;… Read More