Search Results: Titles starting with F from LIBRAIRIE CAMILLE SOURGET

Cologne, 1587.
Folio [277 x 185 mm] of (142) ll. A few tears formerly restored. Full light-brown roan, blind-stamped border around the covers, spine decorated with a gilt Greek pattern, restorations on the spine and on the back cover, mottled edges. Binding from the end of the 18th century.

First edition of this celebration book "of the utmost rarity".
(Vinet, Bibliographie Méthodique et raisonnée des Beaux-arts, n° 722).
"There were several editions of this volume of the utmost rarity, omitted by Brunet. The first issue, published without date in 1585, is composed of 10 etchings by Hogenberg, with engraved text, in German verses, by Th. Gramjn. The second issue is composed of 36 engraved leaves. The third is the present one, published as a volume, with a German text, printed in mobile characters, and double plates printed inside the text." Vinet.
Actually, both first issues are only booklets (10 plates for the first one, 36 leaves for the second one), only the third state offers a complete… Read More

Londres, n.d. [Paris, Cazin, 1782].4 parts in two 16mo volumes [124 x 80 mm] of : I/ (2) ll., 1 frontispiece, 159 pp., (2) ll., pp. 160 to 352, 13 plates out of pagination ; II/ (2) ll., 204 pp., (2) ll., pp. 205 to 396, 10 plates out of pagination.Burgundy shagreen, triple gilt fillets framing the covers with fleurons at the corners, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt inner border, gilt edges. Nineteenth century binding.Superb illustrated edition of this important erotic novel by André de Nerciat which was in fact his first book, " one of the most charming productions of the century " (Gay).B.N., Enfer, 442-445 ; Cohen 749 ; Galitzin 645 : " The 24 free figures, engraved by Eluin, after Borel, are very shiny, see on this charming erotica book the analysis that Monselet gave in his Galanteries du XVIIIe siècle " ; Gay, II, 267 ; Pia 248 ; Sander 1428.Most of the works that Nerciat published are written in a free way, we can only judge on the following confession that he made in one of his forewords:… 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