Search Results: Titles starting with H from LIBRAIRIE CAMILLE SOURGET

Venice, Giacomo Franco Forma in Frezzaria al Insegna del Sole con privilegio, s.d. [1610].
Small folio volume.
"1 . (title engraved with same view of Venice than the one for "Habiti delle Donne"), 1 l. not numbered (dedication to Vincent de Gonzague de Mantoue dated 1st January 1610 and printed in roman characters ), 25 plates out of pagination and not numbered.
Those plates represent 34 figures of men and women in very rich Venitian costumes, life scenes,
festivities." (Colas, n° 1108).
360 x 260 mm. Dimensions of the engravings: 258 x 190 mm.
Very rare first edition of one of the most famous books on Venice, its festivities, costumes and activities around 1600.
Colas, Bibliographie Générale du Costume, n°1108, col. 384-5; Katalog Der Freiherrlich Von Lipperheide'schen Kostümbibliothek (repr. 1963), n°1324, p. 527.
"This collection offers great interest in the costumes of Venice during its greatness. It is sought after today especially as it has become extremely rare ". (Vinet, Bibliographie… Read More

Rome, Giovanni Maria Salvioni, 1728.
Folio [380 x 250 mm] of 1 frontispiece, viii pp. including the title-page printed in red and black, 92 pp., 10 plates out of pagination including 4 folded, 3 engravings in the text. A tear without loss of text in the margin of p. 29. Bound in recent light-brown mottled half-roan, spine ribbed, red morocco lettering piece, mottled edges.
Rare first edition relating for the first time the presence of dark spots on Venus. It is the first atlas of this planet, in which Bianchini determines its axis of rotation.
Riccardi, I, 132; Graesse, I, 437.
" It is in this work that Bianchini recorded his observations of the dark spots of the planet Venus. He determined the rotating movement of this planet. He had his book printed splendidly, dedicated it to the King of Portugal John V, to whom he offered at the same time a machine representing the system of this planet, decorated with gilt silver figures. The king sent in return to the author, in addition to an important sum of… Read More

Lyon, Jean Pillehotte, 1604.
8vo of (2) ll., 953 pp., (47) pp. of table. Few foxing, small wormtrack starting p. 915. Full red morocco, gilt fillets around the covers, ribbed and decorated spine. Elegant binding from the 17th century.
171 x 116 mm.
First edition of the French translation of the most famous work by the Hesuit Jean-Pierre Maffei(1535-1603) "Historiarum Indicarum".
De Backer & Sommervogel, V, col. 299 ; Sabin 43782.
It is one of the earliest missions of Jesuits to the Far East, including the letters and the life of Ignace de Loyola.
The great work of the Italian Jesuit Giovanni Pietro Maffei (1538-1603) about the general history of the Indies, relates the history of the Portuguese Jesuit missions to Brazil, the Indies, Japan and China. It is the first French translation of the work, given by the Perigord canon François Arnault de la Borie.
"Based on primary materials and written in elegant Latin, Maffei's Historiarum Indicarum received an enthusiastic reception all over Europe. The way… Read More

Imprimée en la ville de Luce Nouvelle, par Brisaud Chasse-diables [Genève, François Perrin], 1567.
Large 8vo of (4) ll, 190 pp, (1) bl. l., few spotting, pale waterstain in the lower part of the last 7 ll.
Red morocco, triple gilt fillet around the covers, flat spine decorated with gilt fillets and lyres, decorated edges, gilt inner border, gilt edges. Bound by Derome le jeune with his label.
229 x 143 mm.
Very rare first edition of this violent satire against the court of Rome.
The work has long been attributed to Theodore de Bèze; in reality, under the Rabelaisian pun of the pseudonym Frangidelphe Escorche-messes is hidden the identity of Jean-Baptiste Trento, an Italian from Vicenza who converted to the Reformation in 1541 and took refuge in Geneva. He was received as a citizen of the city in 1559.
Copy from the second issue whose title bears the date of 1567 and not the one of 1566.
"Violent satire against the court of Rome. Copies are rare and sought after. The common opinion is that it is… Read More

Genève, Jean-Leonard Pellet, 1780.
10 volumes 8vo and one atlas volume 4to : I/ 1 portrait, xvi pp., 532 pp., (2) bl.ll. ; II/ (2) ll., 1 engraving, viii pp., 582 pp. ; III/ (2) ll., 1 engraving, vii pp., 580 pp. ; IV/ (2) ll., 1 engraving, viii pp., 472 pp. ; V/ (2) ll., 1 engraving, vii pp., 405 pp. ; VI/ (2) ll., 1 engraving, vii pp., 484 pp., pp. 281-304 bound in duplicate; VII/ (2) ff., 1 engraving, table of pp. v à xvi, 558 pp. ; VIII/ (2) ll., 1 engraving, viii pp., 548 pp. ; IX/ (2) ll., 1 engraving, table pp. v à viii, 412 pp. ; X/ (2) ll., 1 engraving, table of pp. v à vi, 538 pp.
Atlas : (2) ll., 28 pp., 1 folding map, 49 maps on double page, 23 tables including 12 folding and 1 on double page. Red morocco, double gilt fillet around the covers, flat spines very nicely decorated with special irons, inner gilt edges, gilt edges. Contemporary binding.
202 x 123 mm ; 257 x 203 mm for the atlas.
"First edition" of this "key work of the crisis of the Ancien Regime", filled with pieces of the… Read More

Paris, at Nicolas & Jean de la Coste, 1660.
4to, (30) pp., 776, (24), tear at the corner of p. 121 not affecting to text.
- [Followed by] :.
HERRERAHistoire [generale]. Seconde Decade, Contenant les differens Voyages de plusieurs Capitaines dans ce nouveau Monde, & les divers succès qu'ils eurent contre les Indiens, La descouverte de la Riviere de la Plata. L'entrée de Fernand Cortés dans la nouvelle Espagne, Les batailles qu'il eut contre la Republique Tlascala, Son entrée dans la ville de Mexique, La prise du Roy, & sa mort, Les cruelles batailles que les Mexiquains livrerent à Cortés pour le chasser de leurs Terres, Sa retraite, & les preparatifs quil fait pour le siege de cette grande Ville.
In Paris, at Nicolas & Jean de la Coste, 1660.
4to, (24) pp., 784, (28).
- [Followed by] : HERRERA. Histoire Generale des Voyages et Conqvestes des Castillans dans les Isles & Terre-ferme des Indes Occidentales. Traduite de l'Espagnol d'Antoine d'Herrera, Historiographe de sa Majesté Catholique,… Read More

Dijon, 1768.
1 volume large folio [423 x 270 mm] of (1) l. of table, (1) frontispiece, 262 pp. including 124 full-page plates.
Yellow cardboards, original water colored label in the middle of the upper cover bearing in calligraphic letters: VIII – Famille, Les Liliacées. IX Famille, Les Gingembres and in the center of the lower cover : X Famille, Les Orchis. XI Famille, Les Aristoloches ; spine in decorated green paper. Contemporary Dominican binding.
Original botanical calligraphed manuscript of 262 pages, of a distinct rarity, drawn and water colored in 1768 by brother Jean Vernisy, religious Dominican in Dijon, illustrated with 124 out of pagination plates drawn and water colored on imperial paper describing 338 flowers, plants and shrubs in the most gracious colors following the Michel Adanson's method.
The plates are accompanied by insects or mammals. The manuscript opens with an "alphabetical table of pants contained in this collection" followed by a superb drawn title, water colored and… Read More

Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1667-1671.
Four 4to volumes [242 x 195 mm]. Bound in granite-like brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt fleurons, sprinkled edges. Contemporary binding.
First edition and "one of the most valuable work we possess on the West Indies" (Sabin).
It is decorated with 2 engraved frontispieces, 5 maps, 17 engravings and coats of arms of A. de Harlay.
"It is very difficult to find a complete copy of this work. The P. Dutertre, says in his Foreword that he printed his book in 1654, because his copy was stolen. While he was printing it, Father Breton was asked, from M. de Poinçy, to give his lexicon of the savages' language, and some memoirs he had composed, to an unknown person, who wanted to write a history of the West Indies. He found out later that it was Mr. Rochefort, minister of Rotterdam who, after having received the lexicon from P. Breton, and informed of the printing of his work, published his own in 1658, under the title "Histoire naturelle des Antilles de… Read More

Paris, H. Launette, 1883.
Folio [279 x 221 mm] of (4) ll., 224 pp., (8) ll. of notes, table and colophon, 2 full-page colored engravings in the text. Original wrappers and spine bound in.
Bound in full straight-grained black morocco, covers richly decorated with a frame of gilt fillet, double red morocco fillet and aubergine morocco fillet, aubergine morocco feurons at the corners, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt inner border, superb red velvet with gilt patterns doublures, gilt over untrimmed edges. Case. Binding dated and signed Noulhac 1911.
The most beautiful illustrated edition of this text inspired by a Middle Ages legend, illustrated on each page with colored compositions by Eugène Grasset.
Vicaire, IV, p.142.
"Beautiful work, very rare and highly rated, especially on large paper, that left its mark in the history of illustration of modern illustrated book; beginning of the 'Gillot' invention, said 'gillotage' in colors.
Issue: 100 China paper and 100 Japan paper, and on tinted vellum. Seek… Read More

Montauban, chez Jerosme Legier, et se vend à Paris, chez Claide-Jean-Baptiste Herissant, n.d. [1752].
12mo [162 x 91 mm] of (8) ll., 556 pp., (1) l. Brown calf, blind-stamped fillet around the covers, spine ribbed with gilt fleurons, mottled edges. Contemporary binding.
The first edition of these annals recounting the creation in Quebec City of the first hospital by the Hospitallers of Dieppe under the auspices of the Duchess of Aiguillon, niece of the cardinal de Richelieu.
Barbier, II, 686.
Driven out of New France after the fall of Quebec to the Kirke brothers in 1629, the Jesuits went back there three years later after the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1632) gave France back its colony and, for a time, "the Canadian Church will be missionary", with Father Paul Le Jeune at its head. It was him who, in 1634, expressed the need for a hospital to care for the natives and the few settlers there.
It was with the Natives in mind that Father Le Jeune asked for hospital nuns to come to Quebec City.… Read More

Lyon, Melchior et Gaspard Treschel, 1538.
12mo [165 x 113 mm] of 48 leaves. Brown morocco, double frame of triple gilt fillet on the covers, foliage fleurons in the corners, large oval of vine branches with green morocco mosaic pattern in the center, spine ribbed decorated with gilt fleurons and green inlaid morocco, gilt inner border, gilt over marbled edges. Binding signed by Lortic.
First edition of this super series of 92 fine woodcuts after Holbein's drawings.
The distinction of two issues of this very first edition has been made possible in 1948 thanks to the study dedicated by Philip Hofer in "Holbein's Old Testament woodcuts", pp. 161-174.
"In the first issue of 1538, Judith, Esther and Job appear respectively in the order of leaves I1 verso –I4 recto. In the second issue, Job is in I2 instead of Judith".
It is the case in our copy with Job's figure placed instead of the one of Judith in I2. (Harvard p. 341 with reproduction).
Brunet, III, 252, Suppl. 1646; Baudrier 5 p. 175; Rotschild, I,… Read More

Paris, Simon de Colines, 1543.

4to [233 x 164 mm] of 176 ll. (a-y8), 14 full-page engraved plates. Text printed in red and black. Almanac for 1543-1568. Printed title in an architectural frame, all the pages bordered with composite frames, 14 full-page woodcuts with architectural borders specially conceived for each scene, and large decorated initials. Dark brown full calf, covers with a Grolier decoration made of gilt fillets, geometric tracery painted in black and gilt fleurons, spine decorated with small gilt fleurons inside the panels, gilt and chiseled edges, former restoration in the lower part of the front cover. Bookcase.
Rich contemporary binding made by one of the Parisian workshops working for Jean Grolier, the "Pecking Crow" workshop.
Harvard II, 306; Brunet, V, 1661-1662; Renouard, pp. 378-379; Rothschild, vol. 3 n° 2537; Brun p. 233, 8th ed.; Bernard pp. 209-212; Bohatta n° 1212; Lacombe 426, 426 bis; Pichon cat 1897; Rahir 1931; Mortimer 306 ("First Colines quarto edition");… Read More

Paris, Germain Hardouyn, 1518.
8vo [171 x 110 mm] printed on vellum skin of (84) ll. in 11 quires signed A-K by 8 and L by 4. Roman characters, 31 lines. The mark of the Hardouins is printed on l. A1.
17 large figures including the anatomical Man. 21 small illuminated vignettes, 4 illuminated borders. Complete.
Full brown velvet from the 18th century, signs of wear.
Precious Book of Hours printed on vellum skin decorated with 17 full-page engravings illuminated with gold at the time, with 21 small vignettes equally illuminated and with numerous gilt initials on a blue or red background.
The calendar is dated 1518.
Lacombe 290 ; Van Praet Catalogue, p. 112, n°135 ; Brunet, Heures, n°251.
The iconography is composed, besides the printer's mark and the anatomical man, of 16 large full-page figures all colored with shimmering colours and inserted inside gilt framings.
The 16 engravings represent:


- St John the Evangelist.
- Arrest of Jesus.
- Adam and Eve.
- Annunciation.
- Visitation.
- Nativity.
-… 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