Search Results: Titles starting with M from Comellas Rare Books

Paris, Henri Jonquières et Cie, 1926. Small 4to. Frontispiece. 2 leaves. (1 blank leaf). 183 pages. 1 leaf. 7 plates, out-of-text. Crimson morocco, spine with gilt embossed ornaments, gilt upper edge (contemporary binding, the printed covers were preserved). One of the 60 copies on Holland paper (copy n°83) of this nice edition illustrated by Jean Oberlé (including 8 out-of-text compositions). It contains a manuscript dedication by Colette to Marcel Bertrand: "Pour Marcel Bertrand ces petits plaisirs et ces petites peines de la "Grande Guerre", avec l'amitié de l'auteur". A handsome copy, nicely bound.

Fuligno, Feliciano Campitelli, 1810. 8vo. 126 pages. Contemporary wrappers, uncropped. Very rare offprint, printed in small numbers in the small Italian town of Foligno, of two memoirs published the previous year in the Description of Egypt. Dubois-Aymé (1779-1846), engineer of bridges and roads was part of the expedition to Egypt as 'member of the Commission of Sciences and Arts of Egypt'. Good copy at all margins, in its original brochure (trace of worm in the inner margin of some leaves).

2 works in 1 small 12mo. 1). XXIIII leaves. + 31 leaves (lacks perhaps a blank leaf at the end) + 17 unnumbered pages + 6 leaves + 19 unnumbered pages + 8 leaves + 8 leaves + 11 leaves (1 blank leaf). 2). 8 leaves. Full red morocco, gilt spine, gilt fillet round sides with flowerets in the corners (binding of the early 18th century). 1). Precious collection of legal pamphlets, printed in gothic letters in the first years of the 16th century and collected under a single title thanks to the editorial project designated by Stintzing under the name of "Kölner Sammelwerke" ("The Cologne compendium"). This project, perhaps the only one of its kind, had gathered several printers and booksellers from Cologne in order to print and put together various legal texts very much sought after by students and jurists. Published separately, as well as under the form of collections, more or less complete, these pamphlets did not show any printing date nor printing address, and they had the extraordinary ability to… Read More

Paris, les éditions Isis, 1931. 8vo. 178 pages. 2 leaves. Paperback, color illustrated cover. A handsome, entirely uncut copy, presented "to Monsieur Edouard Schneider, director of L'Intransigeant", with the autograph signatures of both authors and Joséphine Baker, who was the inspiration for this novel based on her life. Edouard Schneider (1880-1960) was a French writer and publisher.

4 works in 1 volume, folio. 1). 6 leaves. 36 numbered leaves. 2). 6 leaves. 46 numbered leaves. 3). 2 leaves. 142 numbered leaves. 1 leaf. 4). 8 leaves. 133 numbered leaves (i.e. 135). 1 leaf. Later vellum, title inscribed in letterprint on the spine. Precious collection of four scientific works of the Renaissance on cosmography, mathematics and astronomy. 1). First Edition of the first book of Jean François Fernel (1497-1558), who had spent some time studying mathematics and astronomy before dedicating himself to medicine, a discipline in which he became famous. It's a treatise on the movement of celestial bodies where the author describes in particular an instrument invented by himself and a method to represent a whole sphere in a single flat drawing. It also contains numerous astrological observations. 2). First Edition (second issue with the title dated 1528), much rarer than his preceeding work, in which the author describes in particular the empirical method he had used to measure a degree of… Read More

Bruxelles, Editions Alde, 1916. Small 4to. Frontipiece. (1 blank leaf). 1 original drawing in ink. 108 pages. (2 blank leaves). Quarter morocco, gilt spine with raised bands, double gilt fillet on joints, top edge gilt (contemporary binding). First Edition. First performed at the Théâtre Le Bois Sacré in Brussels on September, 19th, 1916, "Morphinomanes" is a realistic drama that depicts a Parisian writer struggling with artificial paradises. In the aftermath of World War I, the play met with great success in Paris where it was performed at the Fontaine theater (now La Nouvelle Eve cabaret). The text of the play is preceded here by a dissertation entitled "Morphinism", by a certain "Doctor B***", a friend of the author who offers a short historical study of the dangers of drug abuse. Precious present copy, one of the 50 numbered copies of the deluxe issue, inscribed by the author. Also features an inked miniature signed "Jotes" (a. k. a. Jerzy Szwajcer, a Polish cartoonist based in Brussels),… Read More

Parisiis, Sumptibus Simeonis Piget, 1666. 4to. 256 leaves. Full soft vellum, handwritten title on the spine (contemporary Spanish binding). First Edition published in France of these astronomical tables calculated after Tycho Brahe and Kepler by Johann Hecker (1625-1675), who had published them for the first time in 1662 in Gdansk. Calculated until the year 1680, these ephemerides are important in that they are among the first astronomical ephemerides published in France. They also set the variations of the calculations applicable to 206 cities including cities in Asia or Africa such as the Chinese city of Quinsai (now Hangzhou), Algiers, Calcutta, Goa, Mecca, Moscow, etc. A cousin and collaborator of Hevelius, the Polish astronomer Hecker was notably a detractor of astrology. Having studied in several universities in Europe, he had met René Descartes. In 1672, he was at the origin of a vast international scientific cooperation by calling on astronomers from all countries to communicate to him… Read More