Search Results: Titles starting with L from Herman H. J. Lynge & Son

1831. Paris, Ladvocat, 1831. Bound in 6 contemp. hcalf. Titlelabels pasted on lower parts of spines. Spines gilt but rubbed. Stamps on titlepages.Ca. 2300 pp. Some browning and scattered brownspots.

1872. Bruxelles, Muquardt, 1872. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and somewhat rubbed. Top of spine worn. Stamps on titlepage and htitle. (2),250 pp., textillustr., 4 tinted lithographed plates and 1 large table "Table Synoptique" With presentation inscription on halftitle "A Monsieur Engelhardt, honneur de l'Auteur, E. Dupont". Engelhardt was a well-known Danish archaeologist.

1915. Paris, Chapelot, 1915. Oblong 8vo. Orig. full cloth. 97 pp. With 11 maps. Library stamps.

1783. Paris, chez le Sr Desnos, (ca 1783). 46,5x64,5 cm. Engraved map of Africa with the Mediterranean Sea at north. Contemporary handcoloured. Cartouche uncoloured. A few tears showing in right grade-scale, no loss. Jaillots fine impressive map of the continent of Africa from 1695 in Brion de la Tours revision from 1783 giving much new information and details of this continent.

1860. Small 8vo. Cont. hcalf. Slightly rubbed. Slightly brownspotted. (6),403 pp. Half-page woodcut illustrations and 1 folded lithographed map.

1926. Paris, Les Éditions de la Roseraie, 1926. 4to. Uncut and unopened in the original wrappers. Slight fading to spine and minor, very light soiling to wrappers. Otherwise very fine. With the ex libris of "Henri Barthélemy" to front free end-paper. Laid in two leaves of the author's manuscript. No 7 of 12 copies "sur japon imperial" (prémier papier), out of a total of 250 copies. This magnificent copy includes 11 original lithographs in colour, 1 suite of lithographs on "japon" in colours, 1 suite on "japon imperial" in black, 4 plates showing 4 states of one plate, 2 plates showing 2 states of one plate. Furthermore is laid in 2 pp. in 4to., closely written, of the author's manuscript (numbered in his hand pp. 38-39), in his own hand, with additons and corrections. These 2 pages constitute the original manuscript for the last 4 pages of the printed book, i.e. chapter X. The manuscript leaves are signed at the end "Raymond Hesse".One of the 12 fabulous copies with the extra suites of what is… Read More

1856. Paris, L. Hachette et Cie, 1856. Fine later full cloth. (4),VII,417 pp.

1905. (Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1905. Small 8vo. Orig. hcloth. 100 pp. + Publishers Catalogue 11 pp. First edition. (Scientia, Mars 1905, Phys.-Mathématique No 24).

1844. Paris, Furne et Cie, 1844. Royal8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. Upper part of first hinge with a tear. Top of spine taped. Wear to edges. Stamp on title-page. Engraved frontispiece. IV,637,(2) pp., textillustrations in woodcut, many steelengraved plates (views etc.) and 11 coloured plates with uniforms, 1 large folded map in colour. A tear in folding. Plates with a stamp in upper right corners.

1690. Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1690. 4to. In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges and title in contemporary hand to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light soiling and miscolouring to extremities. Small worm-tract on pp. 295-457, 210 far from affecting text. Worm-tract to upper outer margin of Pp. 1-47 (of 'Discours Historique de L'election') slightly touching text, otherwise a fine and clean copy. (4), 457 pp.; 219, (49) pp.; (2), 266, (1) pp. Later expanded edition, first published in 1682, of Wicquefort’s work on ambassadors and international relations in general. From 1626 to 1658, Wicquefort served as Brandenburg's envoy to the French court. However, Cardinal Mazarin suspected him of involvement in a dubious correspondence and had him imprisoned in the Bastille. After a year he was released with a French pension and moved to The Hague as the representative of the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg. In 1675 he faced imprisonment again this time by the Dutch government, on… Read More

1924. Paris, Gauthier-Villars, (1924). No wrappers. VI,154 pp. Light dampstaining to foot of margins on some leaves. First edition of one of Lefschetz's main works. He took up Poincaré's study of curves on a surface, which he generalized to the study of subvarieties of an algebraic variety.

1690. Paris, Laurent d'Houry, 1690. Contemp. full mottled calf. Richly gilt spine in 6 compartments, raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Wear to top of spine. A small nick in leather in middle of front hinge. Fronthinge weakening, but still holding. Engraved portrait. (24),550,(14) pp. and 19 engraved anatomical plates. A few brownspots. Some scattered inkspots. A faint dampstain on foot of portrait. A dampstain to lower right corners of the last 5 leaves. Last leaf and errata-leaf repaired in right margin, no loss of letters. Scarce first edition of this surgical textbook that opened a new era in which French surgical teaching dominated Europe."A native of Paris, Dionis studied surgery at the Confraternity of St. Côme and was first surgeon to Queen Maria Theresa until her death in 1684. When Louis XIV established a demonstratorship in operative surgery at the Jardin Royal in the early 1670s, he appointed Dionis to the position. Dionis remained there until 1680 when he returned to… Read More

1930. Paris, Hermann et Cie, 1930. Royal8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. Part of backstrip lacks. Frontwrapper loose and a little worn. (4),418 pp.

1923. (Paris, 1923). Lex 8vo. Entire issue present, with the original printed wrappers. Some tears to spine and a bit of wear to extremities. A fagile publication. Ff. (6-7). [Entire issue: 8 ff.). Sartre's extremely scarce first publication, in the also exceedingly scarce first number of the "La Revue sans titre", here in the second edition from the same year, which is of equal scarcity to the first. When Contat and Rybalka were making the bibliography of the writings of Sartre, they had great difficulty in finding the interesting rebellion publication "La Revue sans titre", which was - and is - not present in any French library. In fact, they finally borrowed a run of the magazine from M. Jean Gaulmier, professor of literature in Strasbourg, who possessed the only collection of the periodical that they could track down. The "L'Ange du morbid" had been reproduced in 1947 by Marc Beigbeder in his "L'Homme Sartre", but not quite in its entirety, and Contat and Rybalka thus printed the text again,… Read More

1815. Paris, Alexis Eymery, 1815. Cont. full mottled calf. Gilt leather title on back. Spine end a little worn, tear along forst hinge, but not broken. VII,498 pp. Occasionally brownspotted. A small worntract in the htitle. First edition.

1863. Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1863-80. Small8vo. Bound in 16 uniform contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Light wear to spine-ends on a few volumes. Some maps.

1878. Paris, Hachette 1878. Contemp.hcalf. Gilt spine. Frontispiece. 574 pp.

1926. Paris, Challamel, 1926. 4to. Hcloth. gilt lettering to spine. 172,(4) pp., 16 plates.

1842. Paris, Chez les Editeurs, 1842-45. Royal8vo. Bound in 2 contemp. worn hcalf. Having 44 (of 47) fine lithographed portraits with biographies. Text seems to be incomplete in relation to 3 portraits.

1952. Milano, Firenze, Electa Editrice,(1952). Orig. boards with dustjacket. Small tears to jacket. 74,(7) pp. and 8o plates. First edition.