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PROCES-VERBAL des séances de l'Assemblée Provinciale du Berri, tenue à Bourges dans les mois de septembre & d'octobre 1780 (- Octobre 1783). Précédé du projet de Réglement proposé pour cette Administration, & des détails relatifs aux principaux objets qui ont occupé les Assemblées de 1778 & 1779.
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Berri Bourges, B. Cristo, 1781-1784. With 11 folding tables. 2 volumes. iv, 315, (1) pp.; 304 pp. 4to. Half calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering (first volume somewhat rubbed). De Lavergne, Assemblées provinciales, pp. 33-66. First edition. Proceedings of the first session of the Assemblée provinciale of Berri, the very first to be held as planned by Turgot and created by Necker. During the years of its existence, the Assemblée made important decisions: the corvée was abolished and in this respect Berri became the example for all other provinces; improvement of waterways, extensively dealt with in the proceedings, was promoted because of the high costs of transport by land; the new doctrine of Turgot of 'liberté du travail' was adopted. Sessions were held also in November 1783 and in October 1786. - Copy from the library of Laussat, with bookplate.
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PÜTTER, Johann Stephan,
Teutsche Reichsgeschichte in ihrem Hauptfaden entwickelt.
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- Göttingen, Vandenhoeck, 1778. Gr.-8vo. 8 S. m. gestoch. Titelvign. von J. M. Meil, 8 Bl. Inhaltsverz., 544 S., 16 Bl. Register. Interims-Ppbd der Zeit (beschabt und bestoßen, unbeschnitten, innen durchgehend etwas braunfleckig). (IBA/0046) Erste Ausgabe der mehrfach aufgelegten Reichsgeschichte Pütters, von der kurze Zeit später auch ein Auszug erschien. In einem sehr breitrandigen Exemplar, mit zahlreichen Ergänzungen von alter Hand. [Attributes: First Edition]
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Holwell, [John Zephaniah]:
Merkwürdige historische Nachrichten von Hindostand und Bengalen nebst einer Beschreibung der Religionslehren, der Mythologie, Kosmogonie, Fasten und Festtage der Gentoos und einer Abhandlung über die Metempsychose. Aus dem Englischen. Mit Anmerkungen, und einer Abhandlung über die Religion und Philosophie der Indier begleitet von J. F. Kleuker.
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Leipzig, Weygandsche Buchhandlung, 1778. 8°. XVI, 610 S. Mit gest. Titelvign. und 2 Kupfertafeln auf 1 Faltblatt. Marmorierter Pappband d. Zt. mit späterem hs. Rückenschild. Aus der Bibliothek von Georg August von Breitenbauch (Historiker u. Landwirt; 1731-1817); mit seinem von Thoenert gest. Exlibris im Innendeckel.. . Erste von Kleuker herausgegebene deutsche Einzelausgabe. - Die erste deutsche Übersetzung der "Interesting historical events relating the provinces of Bengal and the Empire of Indostan" (1765) erschien in der von Joh. Tobias Köhler herausgegebenen "Sammlung neuer Reisebeschreibungen aus fremden Sprachen" (1. Band, 2. Abt., Göttingen 1769). - Der Orientalist und Gouverneur von Bengalen, Holwell (1711-96), schreibt hier in seinem Vorwort: "Während meines dreyßigjährigen Aufenthalts in Bengalen, wandt' ich meine müßigen Stunden dazu an, Materialien in Beziehung auf die Vorfälle, Revolutionen und Begebenheiten dieses unschäzbaren Landes, und die Religionslehren seiner Einwohner, der Gentoos, oder alten Eingebornen von Hinstostand, zu sammeln ..." (S. IV) - Der ev. Theologe Johann Friedrich Kleuker (1749-1827), Freund von Herder, leitete mit seinen religionsgeschichtlichen Forschungen die "indische Periode" in Deutschland ein. - Einband stärker berieben und an den Kanten bestoßen; Innendeckel mit Wurmspuren im Gelenk; Text sauber und wohlerhalten. - Vgl. Cox I, S. 297 (EA); Oxford Dict. of Nat. Biography XXVII, S. 845 ff.; Price, English Humaniora S. 94/95; BLSH III, S. 173.
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DES BILLONS François-Joseph TERRASSE
FABULAE AESOPIAE
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reliure plein veau brun à écailles in-douze (binding full calfskin duodecimo), dos long (spine without raised band) - compartiments à fleurons au centre et aux angles (compartment with flowerets in the center and in the angles) - pièce de titre sur fond grenat avec filet or (garnet label of title with gilt line), coiffes supérieure et inférieure manquantes (are missing the head and tail of the spine), encadrement à triple filets droits sur les plats - avec des fleurettes aux angles (framing with triple straight line on the cover - with small flowerets in angles), coin émoussés (corners blunt), roulettes sur les coupes (fillets on the cuts) - manque de dorure (blurred gilding) - coupe de queue du quatrième plat épidermé jusqu'au carton (cut in the bottom of the back cover rubbed up to the cardboard) - dentelle intérieure, toutes tranches dorées (all edges gilt), marque-page en tissu (bookmark in tissue), pages de garde peignées à motif "coquille sur fond caillouté" (painting endpaper), illustrations : frontispice et orné de bandeaux - lettrines et de culs-de-lampe (illustrations : frontispiece and illuminated of headpieces and dropped initials and of tailpieces), naissances de rousseurs (beginning of the redness marks), sans mouillure (without scar of waterstain), XXXVI+504 pages, 1778 Parisiis Typis J. Barbou via Mathurinensium, Curis posterioribus mones fere emendatae quibus acceserunt plus quam clxx novae quinta editio - texte en Latin (in Latin language) - quinta edition (cinquième édition - fifth edition) - bon état malgré les petits défauts signalés (very good condition in spite of the smalls defects indicated)
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(WIELAND), (CHRISTOPH MARTIN)
Rosamund. Ein Singspiel in drey Aufzügen. Für die Chur-Pfälzische Hof-Singbühne. (Das Stück ist von Hrn. HR. Wieland in Weimar. Die Musik von Hrn. Kapellmeister [Anton] Schwei[t]zer in Gotha. [...]).
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Mannheim, in der Akademischen Buchdruckerey 1778. 34 ungez. Blätter (Titelbl., Vorbericht, A-D 8). Wohl etwas spätere Broschur aus altem, marmoriertem Papier, der Rücken mit graublauem Papierstreifen bezogen. Kl.-8° (ca. 14:9,2 cm). (fs) - Papier des Titelblatts am unteren Blattrand alt ergänzt, gebräunt und fleckig. Am oberen Blattrand knapp beschnitten, Blatt D1 mit etwas Textverlust. Eine Unterstreichung im Text. Das Papier des hinteren Umschlags angestückt. Im Bug durchgehend mit zwei kleinen Stichen. Günther/Zeilinger, 515. Einer der drei Drucke der Erstausgabe des Textbuchs, sehr selten. - Die Bühnendekorationen waren v. Quaglio, Ballett von Lauchery, Ballettmusik Cannabich.
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Pierre Joseph CHEMIE - Macquer
Dictionnaire de Chimie, contenant la theorie et la pratique de cette science.
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Seconde edition, revue et considerablement augmentee. 2 Baende. lij, 687S./ 856 S., mit 2 gestochenen Titelvignetten. 4°, Ganzledereinbaende Ruecken auf fuenf Buenden in reicher Goldpraegung, Rotschnitt, Spiegel und Vorsaetze in gebluemtem Papier. Ecken und Kapitale bestossen, Kapitale am oberen Rand leidcht beschaedigt. Aussen etwas berieben und fleckig. Eigentuemereintrag bzw. -stempel auf den ersten Seiten. Erste und letzte Seiten etwas stockig, bei Band 2 an der oberen Ecke mit kleinen Feuchtigkeitsraendern. Insgesamt gut erhaltene Baende. [Publisher: Paris, L´imprimerie de Monsieur,,]
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Winckelmann, (J.J.)
Briefe an seine Freunde in der Schweiz.
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Zürich, Orell Füßli 1778. 8°., 234 SS., mit gestochener Titelvignette von Salomon Gessner. Interims-Broschur d. Zt. Goedeke IV,1, 300, gamma; Borst 375; Rühmann 1274. Erste Ausgabe der von Usteri gesammelten Briefe des 1768 in Triest ermordeten Winckelmann. Enthält Briefe an C. und H. Fussli, S. Gessner, C. von Mechel, L. und P. Usteri. - Gut erhalten, nur gering gebräunt, Rücken etwas beschabt. Alter Besitzvermerk und kleiner Namensstempel "Wilhelm von Platen". Authentisches, sehr breitrandiges und ganz unbeschnittenes Exemplar in der ersten Broschur.
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WUNSCH, CHRISTIAN E. (ed.).
Kosmologische Unterhaltungen für die Jugend.
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2 volumes (of 3). Johann Gottl. Immanuel Breitkopf, Leipzig 1778-1779. 8°. (16)+506+(6) + (16)+560 pages. 14 + 14 folding engraved plates. Uniform half-calf bindings with gilt spines. Top spine-ends slightly worn. Otherwise well preserved crisp copies. * Volume 1: Von dem Weltkörpern. Volume 2: Von den auf der Erde sich ereignenden Phänomenen. A third volume - "Von dem Menschen"- was published in 1780. Popular science for young people of the enlightened era: On astronomy, the physical laws and on meterology.
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Schwäbisches Magazin von gelehrten Sachen auf das Jahr 1778. [Hrsg. von Balthasar Haug]. 12 Hefte in 1.
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Stgt, Erhard 1778. Kl.8°. 3 nn. Bll., 994 S., 8 nn. Bll. HPergamentband der Zeit Kirchner I/188. Diesch 24/290 Kosch VII/500. Der Gymnasialprofessor Balthasar Haug rief die Zeitschrift ins Leben, die zuerst den Titel "Gelehrte Ergötzlichkeiten und Nachrichten" trug, später (1775-1780) "Schwäbisches Magazin..". Sie wurde weiterhin mit wechselndem Titel und Verlagsort bis 1783 fortgeführt, um dann durch die "Tübingischen gelehrten Anzeigen" ersetzt zu werden (Kirchner). - Rücken gebräunt. Wappen-Exlibris. Stellenweise stockfleckig.
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BERTRAND, Louis
Développement nouveau de la partie élémentaire des mathématiques: prise dans toute son étendue
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Aux dépens de l'auteur; se vend chez I. Bardin, Geneva 1778 - Modern boards (small tear in spine of one volume) 4to . FIRST EDITION of this massive introductory mathematical text. Although Poggendorf notes only 1774 edition this appears to be either a misprint or a ghost since we have not been able to fine any copy earlier than the present one. Bertrand (1731-1812), a Swiss mathematician and geologist, was a disciple of Euler with whom he studied for many years. He became professor of mathematics at the Academy of Geneva, succeeding Jallabert and Trembley. He wrote a number of works on mathematics with the present being one of his largest 2 volumes. [4], XXXII, 676 pp.: [2], 646 pp. With 19 Engraved plates. Added table after page 138 in vol. II and errata leaf to both volumes after prelims of vol. I. Uncut and partly unopened set. Engraved vignette on both title-pages; fine set. §Southeran 374; Poggendorff I, 171; Cantor, Geschichte der Mathematik IV, 332 (long description); Wolff, Biographien I, 416. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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Chauncy, Charles.
The Accursed Thing Must be Taken Away.A Sermon Preached at the Thursday-Lecture in Boston.
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- Boston: Thomas and John Fleet, 1778. 8vo, 27pp. Original uncut wrappers with some wear to edges and some staining to a few pages. Housed in an elegant, glass front brown cloth clamshell box. Signed on the title page by William Gordon, Chaplain to the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts and author of a four volume history of the American Revolution. With two library stamps and a later owner's signature on the title page. Scarce. A very good copy. First edition. Charles Chauncy was the most influential clergyman in Boston at the time of the American Revolution. This sermon is a plea to remove sin from a people at war. It discusses the catastrophic depreciation of currency and its effects, and gives an account of the expedition to expel the British from Rhode Island. Evans 15759. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]
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KLÜGEL, GEORG SIMON.
Analytische Dioptrik in zwey Theilen. Der erste enthält die allgemeine Theorie der optischen Werkzeuge: der zweyte die besondere Theorie und vortheilhafteste Einrichtung aller Gattungen von Fernröhren, Spiegelteleskopen, und Mikroskopen.
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- Leipzig, Johann Friedrich Junius, 1778. 4to. Contemp. marbled boards, titlelabel with lettering. 2 corners a little bumped. Some fine repairs to hinges. (24),303.(1) pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. With notes on front free endpaper in a contemporary hand. First edition of this importent work on Dioptrics. The work is dedicated to Euler, who wrote his famous work "Dioptrica" from 1769-71. Klügel continued and improved Euler's work, making some importent corrections.Klügel became professor in mathematics at Helmstadt. His extensive work in mathematics - e.g. Lambert, one of the outstanding forerunners of non-euclidean geometry, expressly referred to Klügel, who is also cited by most later critics of the problem of parallel lines - and physics began then and increased after his transfer to the chair of mathematics and physics at the University of Halle. His works included papers, textbooks, and handbooks on various branches of mathematics. (DSB VII:405). - Poggendorff I:1277. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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William Shakspeare [ Shakespeare
The Plays of William Shakspeare. In Ten Volumes with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens.
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Printed for C Bathurst and others , London , 1778. , volume one contains prefaces by Samuel Johnson, Mr Pope, Mr Theobald and by Dr Warburton, and much other interesting and relevant material to the study of Shakespeare and the plays, volume 1 illustrated with frontispiece portrait, 2 figures and a facsimile of part of Shakespeare's will William shakspeare [ Shakespeare ], The Plays of William Shakspeare. In Ten Volumes with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. 15 x 23 cm Hardback Second Edition. , the books are in good condition, lacking some title and volume labels, volume one has old back strip professionally re-laid on new spine, rubbing to gilt on spine, volume 3 has a small 3cm oil stain on front cover, front joint on vol 4 partly split, several volume's shoulders are slightly worn, some corners bruised, some minor foxing, nice and clean internally, a nice looking set in very good condition , Full cross hatched calf binding, with 5 raised bands, gilt designs in compartments, red title and volume labels, gilt ruled boarders and small gilt designs on back and cover, inner gilt dentelles, all edges marbled, ribbon markers
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SIGAUD DE LA FOND, Joseph
Essai sur différentes especes d'air, qu'on désigne sous le nom d'air fixe fixe, pour servir de suite & de supplément aux elémens de Physique du méme auteur
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P. Fr. Gueffier, Paris 1778 - Contemporary calf backed speckled boards (rubbed and worn) 8vo . FIRST EDITION. "This important treatise in which are described the preparation, properties, and chemical reactions of several gases, including carbon dioxide, nitric oxide, hydrogen, oxygen, sulphur dioxide, hydrogen chloride, hydrogen fluoride, and ammonia. There are numerous references to the earlier experiments of Boyle, Hales, Helmont, Magellan, Nooth, et al. The author repeatedly extols the great work of Priestley and also speaks highly of Black, Chaussier, Fontana, Gerardin, Lavoisier, Meyer, Venel, Volta, and others. In 1776 Sigaud assisted Macquer in experiments showing that water is produced when hydrogen burns in air. Pages 227-284 describe these experiments, which greatly helped Cavendish, Lavoisier, and Monge in their later investigations on the composition of water" (Neville Collection, II, p. 475) [4] leaves, XVI, 400 pp. With 5 folding engraved plates. Pages 25/26 with neat marginal repair. § Duveen 550; Neu 3840; Cole 1213; Partington, pp. 105-6; Bolton 833; Ferchl 503; Blake 418; D.S.B. XII, p. 427. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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New Hampshire]:
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED & SEVENTY- EIGHT. AN ACT FOR REPEALING THE LAWS RELATING TO WOLVES, AND FOR FIXING THE SUMS HEREAFTER TO BE GIVEN FOR KILLING WOLVES.
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[Exeter?, N.H. ]. 1778 - pp.101-104. Folio. Unbound signature. Soft creases from folding. Lower inner margin stained and tattered, with very little loss to text; small tears and chips elsewhere in edges, not affecting text. Good overall, untrimmed. Early law of new Hampshire, setting a bounty for killing wolves. With "AN ACT for the better Preservation and Increase of DEER within this State" and "AN ACT to repeal sundry ACTS of this State, relating to Taverners, Innholders, Retailers, and common Victuallers. And for regulating Taverns, Inns, and Retailers within said State." NAIP locates only one copy, at Harvard. BRISTOL B4736. SHIPTON & MOONEY 43506. WHITTEMORE 225. [Attributes: Soft Cover]
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Matlock, John (Reverend)
APOSTASY. The Broad Way to Hell; or, the Restless State and Soul-Deceiving Sin Breeding Travels of the Unclean Spirit, when He is but Gone Out of a Man
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London, UK Printed for the Author, and sold at the Meeting-House on the Cannon-Street New Road, near the London Hospital; or at his meeting in Rose-Lane, Ratcliff, Middlesex 1778, First (presumed) edition Hardcover Good+ condition xxiii, [i] blank, 228 pages of text. Leather spine and corners is heavily worn, with both boards almost detached, and in desperate need of rebinding. Marbled-paper covered boards heavily worn. Moderate age-toning and soiling to title page and last page of text; some ink writing on final page. Title page affected by glue near spine (gutter), skinning the paper so that most of the word "by" in title is removed. Engraved bookplate of Thomas W. Blatchford on front pastedown.
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NASMITH, James (ed)
Itineraria Symonis Simeonis et Willelmi de Worcestre. Quibus accedit Tractatus de Metro.
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Cambridge, Typis Academicis excud J Archdeacon, 1778, (16), 388, (8)pp 1778 - Sl spotting; pencil marks in margins; stain to top margin of first few leaves, small RHS stamps on fly-leaf & title. Cont marbled calf, spine gilt, rubbed, cnrs worn, joints sl cracked. The only edn of a 14C Franciscan's account of his travels from Wales to the Holy Land; the first edn of William of Worcester's journey from Norwich to Cornwall, incl topographical data particularly relating to Norfolk and Bristol. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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LALANDE, Joseph Jerome Le Francois
Des Canaux de Navigation, et spécialement du Canal de Languedoc
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14 engraved plates (5 are folding). 2 p.l., xix, [1], 588 pp. Folio, cont. mottled calf (two corners a little worn), spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: la Veuve Desaint, 1778.pFirst edition of this handsome work written by the great astronomer. "This is the first major account of the 17th century Canal du Midi. It covers the background history of Riquet's extraordinary and influential project together with details of its construction, administration, and 'Anecdotes Diverses'...The work is a valuable source of information on many other French canals such as the Briare (forerunner of the Midi) and the Orleans as well as smaller regional waterways and various unexecuted schemes. It also contains sections on canals all over Europe, Asia, Africa, America and China. All his life Lalande was known for his love of the spectacular; in this case it has resulted in the most splendid of all canal books."!Julia Elton in Weinreb, Cat. 50, item 130. Very good copy.. First Edition. Hard cover.
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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.
THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. IN TEN VOLUMES. WITH THE CORRECTIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF VARIOUS COMMENTATORS; TO WHICH ARE ADDED NOTES BY SAMUEL JOHNSON AND GEORGE STEEVENS, THE SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND AUGMENTED.
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C. Bathurst, W. Strahan (and 31 others), London 1778 - TEN VOLUMES. Sprinkled calf. Original red and green spine labels lettered in gilt. All edges sprinkled red. Some peripheral browning of endpapers, Internally crisp and clean throughout. Circular book-plates of Johannes Duroure on pastedowns. Neat ink ownership inscriptions at top of half-title pages, the first dated 1781. This second Johnson-Steevens edition, first published in 1773, was notable for the size of the prefatory matter, or the Prolegomena, expanded to 350 pages, and including for the first time Malone's "Attempt to Ascertain the Order in Which the Plays attributed to Shakespeare were Written". In Volume 1 is a portrait frontispiece, a folded facsimile of his writing, and another portrait of the author. A large folding plate of Morris dancers is found in Volume 5. A handsome, well-preserved set in mellowed contemporary bindings. See Courtney and Smith, p.109 and Jaggard, p.504. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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SANTINI, Paolo
Royaume d'Irlande
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1778-[84] Venice 475 x 535 mm., good early outline colour on strong paper with large margins. This map of Ireland comes from the second edition of Paolo Santini's 'Atlas Universel' first published in 1776. He sold the plates in 1781 to Giuseppe Antonio Remondini who published this issue in 1784. It is in the second state of three and contains a beautifully engraved title cartouche upper left. Bonar-Law 117 ii; Cremonini 75; Tooley Dictionary.
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Gramatica indostana a mais vulgar que se practica no Imperio do gram Mogol, offerecida aos muitos reverendos padres misionarios do ditto Imperio.
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Rome, na Estamperia da Sagrada Congregaçao de Propaganda Fide, 1778. 8vo. 138 pp. Contemporary half vellum, marbled boards; old stamp on title, title somewhat waterstained. Aside from Benjamin Schultze’s Grammatica hindostanica, Halæ Saxonum 1745, and the grammar appended to John Ferguson’s A dictionary of the Hindostan language, London 1773, this is the first grammar of Hindustani printed in the West. It was twice reprinted, in 1805 and 1878.
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Robert de Vaugondy
Map of Canada, Sea of the West, Louisiana Territory, English Possessions): Canada, Louisiane, Possessions Angl. Par le S. Rober De Vaugondy.
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Chez le Sr. Fortin, Paris 1778 - VG+, minimal edge browning and foxing. Folds as issued. Plate 43 from atlas. Nicely hand colored outlines, heavy paper, of this regional map of Canada, Lousiana Territory, and English possessins in North America. An inset with a distinct view of the mythical Mer de L'Ouest. This is from a 1778 edition (later issue) of the family's "Nouvel Atlas Portatif" (see Pedley's "Bel et Utile" re: historical details for this prominent mapmaking family). The image measures 9.5x11.5 inches.
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[VIVARAIS] - FAUJAS de
Recherches sur les volcans eteints du Vivarais et du Velay ; avec un discours sur les volcans brulans, des Memoires analytiques sur les Schorls, la Zeolite, le Basalte, la Pouzzolane, les Laves et les differentes Substances qui s'y trouvent engagees, etc.
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Grenoble, Cuchet, et P., Nyon, Nee et Masquelier, 1778, in folio, XVIII-1f.non chiffre-460pp. et 2ff.non chiffres (noms des souscripteurs), relie fort cartonnage d'attente a la bradel du XIXeme ; qq. rousseurs, mouillure claire marginale en tete ou en pied de qq. ff. ; cartonnage frotte, coiffes usees.(R) Edition Originale ; exemplaire a grandes marges de ce splendide ouvrage illustre d'une vignette de titre, 2 en-tetes, 4 lettrines ornees et 20 BELLES PLANCHES hors-texte, dont une depliante, gravees sur acier d'apres Veyrenc et Gautier d'Agoty. RARISSIME.
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Annual Register .
THE ANNUAL REGISTER, OR A VIEW OF THE HISTORY, POLITICS, AND LITERATURE, FOR THE YEAR 1777.
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J Dodsley. 1778 Contains relevant passages concerning the American War of Independence, such as: 'Retrospective view of American affairs in the year 1776'; 'Articles of confederation and perpetual union between the 13 revolted Colonies'; 'Debates upon a proclamation issued in America by the Commissioners'; 'Genuine Correspondence between Lord Howe and Benjamin Franklin'; a speech addressed by the Lords to the King in which they declare ' we earnestly hope, that your majesty's paternal object of restoring your distracted colonies to the happy condition which, by their own misconduct, they are wretchedly fallen, will be speedily attained', etc. Of particular interest are 'A Circular Letter of Lord Howe to the Governors of the American Provinces', followed by 'Declarations' by the 'Commissioners for restoring Peace to his Majesty's Colonies', by a 'Copy of the free Pardon granted by his Majesty's Commissioners', by the 'American Oath of Allegiance', and by a 'Proclamation by his Excellency George Washington'. It also contains biographies of David Hume and Voltaire, an 'Account of the Savage Tribes of America', an 'Account of a Journey into Africa', an article 'On the Climate of America', the review of 'The History of America' by William Robertson,An account of several grand statues found on Easter Island by Capt. Cooke and several other interesting accounts of social, political, and scientific events that happened in 1777. Small 4to, 20.4cm. iv,303,[i],249,[xi]. Publisher's marbled boards, later reback in period style, all edges uncut: a very good copy.
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FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND
Recherches sur les volcans eteints du Vivarais et du Velay; Avec un Discours sur les Volcans brulans, des Memoires analytiques sur les Schorls, la Zeolite, le Basalte, la Pouzzolane, les Laves & les differentes Substances qui s'y trouvent engagees, etc.
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1778 A GRENOBLE, Chez Joseph Cuchet, Imprimeur-Libraire de Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans / A PARIS Chez Nyon aine, Libraire - Nee et Masquelier, Graveurs - 1778 - R.45x31,5 - Demi-chagrin rouge a coins, dos a 5 nerfs [auteur, titre et filets sur dos, et doubles filets sur plats en dore]; (4), XVIII, (2), 460 et (4) pages; vignette de titre, bandeaux et lettrines illustrees, 7 lettrines ornees et 20 planche a pleine page dont une a double page, graves en noir P.C. LE BAS, Cl. FESSARD, P. BOULLAND, LEPINE et MAGNE, d'apres A.E. GAUTIER-DAGOTY et de VEYRENC; papier verge. Bon exemplaire en reliure posterieure, cuir frotte, interieur frais a grandes marges: mouillures claires marginales et rousseurs sur quelques pages. Edition originale rare tiree a petit nombre (environ 350 exemplaires souscripteurs), complete de ses 20 planches . ******************************************************************************************************************************* FERMETURE DU 18 AU 30 JUIN. TOUTES LES DEMANDES ET COMMANDES SERONT PRISES EN COMPTE A MON RETOUR. MERCI.
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ASTI Felice
Compendio di notizie interessanti circa il veleno de' rabbiosi animali.
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In Mantova, erede di Alberto Pazzoni, MDCCLXXVIII (1778), in-4, pp. (12), 109, (1), leg. coeva in cartancino dorato. Fregetto al tit., iniziali vegetali. Interessante studio corredato di esempi pratici sulle modalità di trasmissione della rabbia tra animali e da animale a uomo dello studioso Felice Asti (1714-1798). Prima edizione. Bell’esemplare. Wellcome, Cat. Medical Library, II, 64.
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Piccinni, Nicolo.
Roland. Opera en trois Actes. Representee pour la premiere fois par l'Academie royale de Musique le mardi 27 Janvier 1778. Mis en Musique et dedie a La Reine. Partitur. Mit gestoch. Titel u. gestoch. Noten. Paris, l'Auteur, De la Chevadiere, d'Enouville, 1778. 2 Bll., 466 S. Folio. Lwd. d. 19. Jhs. (VGelenk beschabt, RDeckel fleckig).
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. Erste Ausgabe. - Die erste Oper Piccinnis für die Academie Royale, ebenso wie die Vertonung von Lully nach dem Libretto von Philippe Quinault komponiert (nach "Orlando furioso" von Ariost). Großer Erfolg Piccinnis, Synthese italienischer und französischer TRaditionen, gleichzeitig Auslöser für den Streit zwischen Gluckisten und Piccinnisten. - Auf dem Titel doppelt von Piccinni signiert. - Die ersten 3 Seiten vom Falz her wasserfleckig, untere Ecke des Vorsatzes mit Abriss. - RISM P/PP 2162; Hirsch II, 739..
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Goldsmith (John).
Almanack For The Year of our Lord God, M.DCC.LXXIX. .Wherein are contain'd, Necessary Rules And Useful Tables; With a new Chronology of remarkable Events; also, the proper Days and Hours for transferring Stocks and receiving Dividends; .
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London : Printed for the Company of Stationers. [1778]. - Printed in black and red; with Revenue Stamp to verso of title-page;[48]pp. + 2 prepared leaves for use with stylus; (as well as several blank preliminary and final leaves and blank interleaving to calendar); 32mo. [100 x 55mm]; fine contemporary crimson goatskin "cottage roof" binding gilt, with circular embossed silver clasps fastened with original silver stylus, the sides with an outer border composed of small gouge, annular, and pointille tools, the architectural elements with dotted line and pallet outlines, the central and outer reserves with small floral and leafy spray tools, the spine in five compartments within decorative rules gilt, each with leafy spray tools, all edges gilt, with double dutch floral gilt endpapers to form wallet compartments at front and rear, each with green silk folding sides, (sides lightly rubbed, silk siding folds perishing but present, biblical quotation in ink to first blank leaf, pencil annotations in a childish hand to facing blank, but overall a fine copy). For a very similar binding see the B.L. online Bookbindings Gallery shelfmark c108c58 (on The Court and City Register. 1758). [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Panorama vom Uetliberg bey Zürich, vermehrt und verbessert 1842. Von Heinrich Keller (1778-1862).
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Zürich bey Heinrich Keller, Untre Zäune, N° 367. - gef. kl.-8°, 9.5 x 157.5 cm. (14 x 161.5), teilkolorierter gestoch. Leporello, aus 3 Teilen zusammengesetzt, in Hlwd Orig.-Umschlag, Titelschild auf Umschlag. Hübsches Leporello mit Blick auf Zürich und den Zürichsee. Kaum fleckig. Very fine copy of the original partly coloured 'Panorama of Uetliberg' near Zurich, folded in orig. boards.Für Schweizer Kunden kommen noch 2,4 % MWST hinzu. Our books are stored in our warehouse, not in the shop. Please notify beforehand, if you want to visit and see a specific book. Cf. Graf BSL II/481-482. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Diderot & D'Alembert
L'Encyclopedie...( Encyclopedie, Encyclopedia ) 36 Volumes Plus Plates
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Geneva Pellet 1778. N jacket 3rd edition, 1778-1779. Condition: 4to (26 x 20 cm), contemporary sprinkled calf boards, all volumes re-spined in late 19th century, in heavily gilt decorated calf with raised bands and spine labels. Light corner rubbing and minor rubbing to extremities, all volumes tight and in very good condition, but two volumes (#s 3 & 4) are in an 8vo edition, in contemporary quarter calf and patterned paper-covered boards, from the Berne 1781 edition, which, as the title page states, "Edition exactement conforme a celle de Pellet in-quarto. " Thus, all text is present, with 2 of the 36 volumes in contempo rary replacements. The 3 plate volumes are all present but in mixed states; first volume is Geneva, 1778 in contemporary speckled calf and is 1 cm shorter than text volumes; 2nd vol. is Lausanne 1780 and is 4 cm shorter than text volumes; 3rd volume is uniform with text volumes. All three have hundreds of plates and are complete. Signed: n.
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DE FELICE (Fortunato
Code de l'Humanité, ou la Législation universelle, naturelle, civile et politique, Avec L'Histoire Littéraire des plus Gands Hommes qui ont contribué à la perfection de ce Code.
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Dans l'Imprimerie de M. de Felice 1778 13 vol. in-4, basane taupe mouchetée, dos ornés à nerfs teintés noir, gardes de papier dominoté, pièces de titre en veau blond, tranches marbrées (reliure de l'époque). 5000 Edition originale avec un titre renouvelé. Savant et lexicographe, De Felice (1723-1789) enseigna d'abord les sciences à Rome et à Naples, désireux de diffuser les Lumières en Italie. Suite à une intrigue amoureuse, il s'exila en Suisse, s'y lia avec Albrecht von Haller et embrassa la religion protestante. En 1762, il fonda une imprimerie à Yverdon et s'imposa comme un éditeur important dans le domaine des travaux sur la législation civile et pénale, publiant notamment Burlamaqui, Beccaria et Servan. Il entreprit l'édition de l'Encyclopédie d'Yverdon (1770-1780), création originale dans laquelle tout le processus de réalisation suivi par Diderot et son équipe a été entièrement revu par De Felice et la quarantaine de ses collaborateurs ; refonte totale de l'Encyclopédie de Diderot et d'Alembert, l'Encyclopédie d'Yverdon est une oeuvre essentielle pour comprendre les Lumières protestantes. En 1770, De Felice commença la publication du Code de l'humanité, dont le premier titre était Dictionnaire universel raisonné de justice naturelle et civile. Il s'assura d'une part le concours d'auteurs qui avaient déjà collaboré à l'Encyclopédie, et d'autre part, de la collaboration de nouveaux rédacteurs dont Mathieu-Antoine Bouchaud, Pierre Toussaint Durand de Maillane, Louis de Jaucourt, Joseph-Jérôme lde Lalande, Molé et Formey. ' Ce Dictionnaire (...) est particulièrement représentatif de la façon dont les dictionnaristes de l'époque parvenaient à combiner ' recyclage É éditorial et esprit d'innovation. D'un côté, adepte de la formule ' faire d'une pierre deux coups É, De Felice ne s'est pas privé de réutiliser des pans entiers de son Encyclopédie pour confectionner son dictionnaire, mais en même temps, la refonte complète de certains textes, la rédaction de nombreux articles inédits, la sollicitation de nouveaux collaborateurs, et l'intérêt sincère et ancien du Napolitain pour les questions morales et juridiques, témoignent du fait que la publication de ce dictionnaire de justice ne relevait pas uniquement d'une stratégie commerciale, mais aussi d'une réelle volonté de contribuer au progrès des connaissances dans un champ spécifique du savoir. Or, ce savant mélange de recyclage et d'innovation mérite d'être examiné de près, tant il est constitutif de la dynamique éditoriale des Lumières É. ( L. Burnand et A. Cernuschi, Circulation de matériaux entre l'Encyclopédie d'Yverdon et quelques dictionnaires spécialisés, in Revue du XIIIe siècle). Très bon exemplaire. Infimes trous de ver sur l'ensemble des dos, avec petits manques de cuir au dos des tomes V, XI et XII ; traces de mouillure angulaire atteignant les 100 dernières pages et le 2e plat du tome XII.
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FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND,
Recherches sur la Pouzzolane, sur la Théorie de la Chaux et sur la Cause de la Dureté du Mortier, avec la Composition de différens Cimens en Pouzzolane, & la maniere de les employer, tant pour les Bassins, Aqueducs, Réservo
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4 p.l., x, 125 pp. 8vo, attractive antique calf-backed speckled boards, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Grenoble: J. Cuchet; Paris: Nyon, 1778.p First separate edition. The chemistry of cement is very complex and was only fully understood in the mid-19th century. This work, by the great geologist Faujas (1741-1819), describes the chemical properties of pozzolana, similar to cement, which was known to and utilized by the ancient Roman builders and engineers. Faujas also discusses its uses in civil engineering works in modern times. !In 1775 he discovered a rich pozzolana mine on Mount Chenavary, which was used by the French government for building the port of Toulon. The use of pozzolana (a volcanic ash containing silica, alumina, lime, etc.) for the preparation of mortars and hydraulic cements is covered in this work, as is the chemistry of these materials.!!Neville, I, p. 447. A fine copy. ❧ D.S.B., IV, pp. 548-49.. First Edition. Hard cover.
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GUICHENON (Samuel);
Histoire généalogique de la Royale Maison de Savoie, justifiée par titres, fondations de monastères, manuscrits, anciens monuments, histoires, et autres preuves authentiques. Enrichie de plusieurs portraits, sceaux, monnaies, sépultures et armoiries. Nouvelle édition avec des supplémens jusqu'à nos jours, suivis d'une dissertation contenant des remarques, et additions pour servir d'éclaircissement à cette histoire. Bibliotheca Sebusiana seu variarum chartarum, diplomatum, fundationum, privilegiorum, donationum, et immunitatum...
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chez Jean-Michel Briolo 1778-1780 5 tomes en 2 vol. in-folio de XXVIII-435-(1) pp. ; 458 pp. ; 444 pp. ; (4)-406-(6) pp. ; (8)- 675-(3) pp. ; (4)-147 pp., veau brun, dos à nerfs orné, pièces de titre en veau rouge (reliure de l'époque). 4000 Nouvelle édition augmentée. Quelques épidermures à la reliure. Frontispice et page de titre restaurés avec renfort de papier en marge (n'affecte pas la gravure du frontispice), des rousseurs et des feuillets brunis. Saffroy III, 50107.
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SHAW (William)
An Analysis of the Galic Language. The Second Edition.
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Edinburgh: Printed by W. and T. Ruddiman; For R. Jamieson.,. 1778 - Tall 8vo, pp. [iii] - 171 [172 blank], early 19th century calf, gilt spine, morocco label; front joint very slightly rubbed and slightly cracked at top, but a good copy. Shaw (1749 - 1831) published two editions of this work in 1778 (the first was a quarto), and he was the first to compile a grammar of the Gaelic language. He was friendly with Dr. Johnson, of whom he wrote a life and memoirs in 1785. Johnson spoke highly of this work and wrote proposals for publishing the work in 1777. In 1976, Dr. K. D. MacDonald said that it was "a rudimentary grammar, with no claim to distinction beyond its being the first published work of its kind." Still, it was the first of its kind and perhaps made possible the improved grammar published by Alexander Stewart in 1801, Elements of Gaelic Grammar. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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CAVE, W.
Het eerste Christendom, of de godsdienst der oude Christenen, in de eerste eeuwen des evangeliums. Weleer vertaalt door Sam. Bor.
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A. Blussé en Zoon, 1778., Dordrecht, - Vyfde druk, nu van nieuws overzien, en in styl en taal verbetert. Als mede verrykt met de voortreffelyke voorredens der Utrechtse professoren H. Wits, voor de eerste druk, en H.S. van Alphen, voor de derde druk. 3 parts in 1 vol. Large 8vo. Contemp. marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with red title-label, with decorative gilt borders on sides and gilt inner panel with gilt ornaments at the four corners and in centre, and with the initials G. V. D. R. on front cover, and Anno 1793. With 16 illustrations on 8 full-page engraved plates. 32, (8), 773, (35), 8 publisher's cat. pp. Very popular history of the early Christians by William Cave (1637-1713), first published in English in 1673, and first in Dutch in 1692. The present fifth edition with extensive prefaces recommending the book by H. Wits and H.S. van Alphen, professors in Theology at Utrecht. Good copy. Van der Haar, From Abbadie to Young I, 657. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Tickell, Richard
ANTICIPATION: CONTAINING THE SUBSTANCE OF HIS MAJESTY'S MOST GRACIOUS
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[SATIRE] Tickell, Richard. ANTICIPATION: CONTAINING THE SUBSTANCE OF HIS MAJESTY'S MOST GRACIOUS SPEECH... WITH A FULL AND AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE DEBATE WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE... London: T. Becket, 1778. 3 vols. bound in one. Ninth edition, corrected, of the first title. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, label, gilt. General rubbing, and joints split (but strong and sound), but a tight clean sturdy copy, bound with the second edition of Tickell's similar work for the 1779 sessions of Parliament, and a third edition of a similar 1787 work. Complete with the half-title and terminal ad leaf. Final leaf of the third volume torn with slight loss. Long contemporary annotation on front fly about the author. The first volume was a popular work, a witty satire that correctly forecast the speeches of the King, Edmund Burke, and others on the subject of the American Revolution. Howe T258. Sabin 95788.
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VOET (Jean)
JOHANNIS VOET JCTI & ANTECESSORIS IN ACADEMIA LUGDUNO-BATAVA COMMENTARIUS AD PANDECTAS. IN QUO PRÆTER ROMANI JURIS PRINCIPIA AC CONTROVERSIAS ILLUSTRIORES, JUS ETIAM HODIERNUM, & PRÆCIPUÆ FORI QUÆSTIONES EXCUTIUNTUR. Tomus primus, continet duos & viginti libros priores. Tomus secundus continet octo & viginti libros posteriores. Editio ultima accuratior. Cum novo indice generali locupletissimo Materiarum in duobus Tomis contentarum, alioque Titulorum
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Coloniæ Allobrogum (Genève) apud Fratres de Tournes 1778 - , 2 vol. in-folio, veau blond moucheté, dos à nerfs ornés, tit. dorés sur pces. bordeaux, tr. rouges, roulette sur les coupes, ex libris ancien, impression en 2 colonnes, (épidermures sur les plats, manques aux coiffes, aux coins et aux coupes, attaques de vers et mouillures en marge de pied fragilisant le papier), (7 f.)-792 / 978 p.-(80 f.).
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Mably, (G. Bonnot de.)
De l'étude de l'histoire, à Monseigneur le Prince de Parme. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée.
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- A Mastreicht, chez Cavelier, librairie; et se trouve à Paris, chez Barrois l'aîné, Bailly, 1778. (4), 380 pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, gilt lettering. Tchemerzine-Scheler, iv, 252; Quérard, La France Littéraire, v, 405. First separate publication. This work 'was a byproduct of Mably's brother's tenure as tutor to the young Prince of Parma after 1758; a princely advice-book written in the early years of the 1760s, Mably's contribution to Condillac's Cours d'Études was first published with the set as a whole in 1777. (.) The principal focus of De l'Étude de l'histoire. is a sustained critique of social inequality, accompanied by a serious and approving reflection on the notion of a communauté des biens' (J. Kent Wright, A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France. The political thought of Mably, pp. 97 ff.) [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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COOK, Captain James
Voyage dans l'Hemisphere Austral, et autour du Monde...
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Hotel de Thou [and Barrois aine] Paris, 1778.. Six volumes, octavo, with a quarto atlas volume containing 66 engraved maps, portraits, and plates, mostly folding; in fine condition in contemporary mottled French calf, the atlas in quarter calf and marbled boards, spines ornately gilt in compartments, red & gilt labels, red edges.. A handsome set of the first French appearance of Cook's great second voyage, originally written and prepared for publication by Cook himself. For this French version, translated by Suard, the narrative account by Forster has been incorporated throughout (where such sections occur they are identified as the alternative account by being in quotation marks). Although the publisher of the work was given as "Hotel de Thou" in all the volumes, in this copy the first volume has an original cancel imprint pasted at the foot of the title-page of the bookseller "Barrois, aine". This is one of two editions published in the same year: the other, also with the imprint of "Hotel de Thou", appeared as five volumes. Beddie, 1224.
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SENEBIER (Jean).
Eloge Historique d'Albert Haller. Avec un Catalogue coomplet de ses Œuvres.
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Genève, Isac Bardin, 1778. - in-8. 1f. 104pp. Broché, couverture postérieure à l'ancienne. Edition Originake de cette étude sur la vie et l'œuvre du grand médecin, naturaliste et poète allemand Albert de Haller (1708-1777). L'auteur, Jean Senebier 1742-1809), était lui-même un naturaliste suisse distingué. Il fut le premier à établir clairement le mécanisme d'absorption du gaz carbonique (CO2) par les parties vertes des plantes, sous l'influence de la lumière.
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Jourdain, A.L.B.B.
Traite des maladies et des operations reellement chirurgicales de la bouche et des parties qui y correspondent
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Paris, Valleyre, 1778. Mit 7 gefalteten Kupfertafeln, 2 Bände, Pappände der Zeit mit Rückenschildern, 2 Bll., XLVIII, 535 SS.; 2 Bll., 662 SS., 1 Bl. Erste Ausgabe des ersten kieferchirurgischen Lehrbuches "des glänzenden Fachschriftstellers" (Hoffmann-Axthelm). - "The first volume deals with diseases of the maxilla; and the second with diseases of the mandible. Jourdain was particularly expert in diseases of the maxillary sinus and describes all forms of inflammation, and cystic and tumourous alterations of the sinuses. The appendix to volume one deals with specific problems exclusive to oral surgery and quotes for the first time case histories of other physicians" (Garrison-M. 3676.1). - "Jourdain ist der wissenschaftlichste Schriftsteller der Zahnheilkunde Frankreichs im 18. Jahrhundert" (Neuburger/Pagel III, 374). - Hoffmann-Axthelm, S. 243 ff. Poletti 110. Guerini 311 ff: "by far the most important of all the works of this author"; ausführlich dazu). - Teilweise leicht gebräunt; Einband etwas berieben.
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(OUDERMEULEN, C. VAN DER.)
Recherches sur le Commerce, ou Idées rélatives aux intérêts des différens Peuples de l'Europe.
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A Amsterdam, Chez Marc-Michel Rey (vol. 4: Chez S.N. van Vlissingue), 1778 (vols. 1-2)-1779 (vol. 3)-1784 (vol. 4). With 5 engraved plates and 10 engraved folding tables and maps. 4 volumes. xvi, 234 pp.; (8), 200 pp.; (4), 250 pp.; vi, 268 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf with gilt ornamental border on sides, spines gilt with raised bands, all edges gilt (very slightly rubbed). Kress B.137; Goldsmiths 11748; INED 3424; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli. First edition. - INED erroneously lists as dates 1778-1779; a title-edition appeared in 1791 at D.J. Changuion. Somewhat browned throughout, but a fine copy of a rare work. 'Histoire financière: monnaies, prix et salaires, banques, circulation monétaire, usure, monts-de-piété, cours de l'intérêt, etc., principalement en France, Angleterre et Hollande' (INED). Cornelis van der Oudermeulen was administrator of the Dutch East India Company from 1769-1788, served at the board of Directors of the West Indian Colonies in 1792 and was Director of the colony of Surinam.'Les deux ouvrages suivants (among which the present one), ..... , sont très estimés (Coquelin et Guillaumin, vol. ii, p. 300).
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JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph, Freiherr
Miscellanea Austriaca ad Botanicam, Chemiam, et Historiam Naturalem spectantia
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44 finely handcolored engraved plates (several are folding). 2 p.l., 212 pp.; 423, [1] pp. Two vols. 4to, cont. marbled half sheep & marbled boards, flat spines richly gilt, contrasting vellum lettering pieces on each spine. Vienna: Kraus, 1778-81.p First edition. !This, like its continuation of larger format, the Collectanea (1786-96), was a device for publishing articles of Jacquin et amicorum...Among the friends, Franz Xaver von Wulfen (1728-1805) is especially important for his !Plantae rariores Carinthiacae.!...Great Flower Books notes that the drawings for the plates were by Jacquin and the engravings by Adam.!!Hunt 655!(their copy lacks five plates). This work contains the first printings of von Wulfen!s two treatises on Carinthina wulfenite. These are contained in his articles !Minera Plumbi Spatosa Carinthiaca! and !Exploratio Chemica Plumbi Spatosi flavi Carinthiaci.! The other articles deal with botany, chemistry, mineralogy, entomology, pharmacology, zoology, etc. Jacquin (1727-1817), professor of chemistry and botany in the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna, made important contributions to botany and chemistry. !He was the most important of the younger contemporaries of Linnaeus. He was the first writer in German to utilize to any large extent Linnaeus! system of binary nomenclature, and was foremost in his time with respect to the number of new species described precisely and in a consistent way.!!D.S.B., VII, p. 58. Jacquin also formed a magnificent collection of minerals which !was ultimately purchased for the enormous sum of 20,000 gulden by Archduke Johann and eventually incorporated with his own collection in the !Joanneum! in Graz.!!Wilson, The History of Mineral Collecting 1530-1799, p. 102. Very pretty set in a most attractive contemporary binding. ❧ B.M. (N.H.), Vol. II, p. 918!(with a list of the contents). Pritzel 4367. Schuh, Mineralogy: A Bio-Bibliography 2426!!Volume two contains !Minera Plumbi spatosa Carinthiaca! by F.X. Wulfen.! Stafleu & Cowan 3248.. First Edition. Hard cover.
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Gellert, Christian Furchtegott
Blyspelen. Vertaald uit het Duits. Amsterdam, G. Warnars en P. den Hengst, 1778.
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8°: * 8 A-2I 8, gepag.: [16] 511 [1] pp. Met vier gravures door en naar R. Vinkeles, gedateerd 1778. Half leer, met op schutblad geplakt ex-libris van W.F. Lichtenauer. Mooi exemplaar. Lit.: Noordhoek, Gellert und Holland (Amsterdam 1928); Spoelstra, De Invloed van de Duitsche Letterkunde op de Nederlandsche in de tweede helft van de 18e eeuw (Amsterdam1931) Waller 586; Arpots (toneel) 631 In deze uitgave zeven blijspelen van Gellert: 'De verliefde zusters', 'De schynheilige vrouw', 'Het lot in de lotery', 'De zieke vrouw', 'Het orakel', 'Sylvia' en 'De band of het lint'. In hun voorwoord delen de uitgevers mee dat de vertaling van de stukken aanzienlijk verbeterd is. In 1769 hadden zij onder de titel 'Vier Blijspelen' de eerstgenoemde vier stukken al eens uitgegeven. Op dat moment liepen zij voorop met de introductie van vertaalde Duitse literatuur in Nederland. 'Het orakel' en 'Sylvia' waren in 1777 ook al door Teunis Hormeer uit Gorinchem op de markt gebracht in een vertaling in alexandrijnen van E.J.B. Schonck, rector van de Latijnse school in Nijmegen. De vertaler van deze uitgave is niet bekend. Opgevoerd zijn Gellerts stukken naar alle waarschijnlijkheid niet in Nederland.
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POMPEO CAMBIASI
LA SCALA 1778-1906 NOTE STORICHE E STATISTICHE MILANO - ROMA-NAPOLI-PALERMO-PARIGI-LOND G. RICORDI & C.
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In 4. Dim. 28x20,5 cm. Pp. XLI+523. Importante e rara opera completa in un volume scritta da Pompeo Cambiasi senza data ma dei primissimi anni del 1900. Si tratta della storia del Teatro La scala di Milano dal 1778 al 1906 con numerosi documenti storici ed informazioni raccolte dall'autore. L'autore fornisce una descrizione storica e fisica del teatro (numero di posti, grandezza palcoscenico ecc..) con una planche ripiegata che mostra la pianta dell'edificio. Segue la cronologia di tutte le notizie varie, i cartelloni, i programmi e le rappresentazioni del teatro pubblciate e diffuse a partire dal 1778, il tutto arricchito da numerose illustrazioni di manifesti originali. Nella seconda parte la lista delle rappresentazioni e dei balli in ordine cronologico con la data, il titolo dell'opera, il nome dei maestri e cantanti, l'esito ed il numero delle esecuzioni. L'autore dedica una parte al teatro della Carabbana con relativa lista di rappresentazioni. Infine una lista con foto dei maestri di musica, opere rappresentate ed un'altra con la data della loro prima e dell'ultima rappresentazione. Molto interessante la lista dei proprietari dei palchi dei seguenti anni: 1795, 1815, 1830, 1847, 1862, 1886, 1906. All'interno sono presenti 350 illustrazioni; ritratto dell'autore in antiporta. Timbro di appartenenza. Copertina in tela decorata in buone condizioni generali con lievi usure ai margini e dorso; cuffia superiore con rotture. Legatura in discrete condizioni con rotture alle sguardie e prime otto pagine ed ultime quattro quasi staccate ma nessuna mancante. All'interno le pagine si presentano in buone condizioni generali con rare fioriture a parte le prime otto pagine con usure ai margini e strappi riparati con del nastro adesivo. Important and scarce complete work in one volume written by Pompeo Cambiasi not dated but of the very first years of 1900. It is the history of the Theatre La Scala in Milan from 1778 until 1906 with different historical documents and information collected by the author. The author provides an historical and physical description of the theatre (number of places, size of the show etc..) with a folded planche showing the plant of the building. Then the chronology of the different information, the posters, the programmes and the representations of the theatre published from 1778, all enriched with a series of original posters. In the second part the list of representations and dancing in a chronological order with the date, the title of the work, the name of the masters and singers, the success and the number of executions. The author dedicates a part to the theatre of Carabbana with relative list of representations. At the end a list with the photoes of the music masters, the works represented and the date of their first and last apparition. Very interesting list of the names of the owners of box in the fiollowing years: 1795, 1815, 1830, 1847, 1862, 1886, 1906 Inside there are 350 illustrations; portrait of the author in the frontspice Stamp of the ex owner. Cloth decorated cover in good general conditions slightly worn in the edges and spine; upper cuff with cracks. Binding in fair conditions with cracks in the endpapers; the first eight pages and the last four pages almost detached but no one is missing. Inside pages are in good conditions with occasional foxings apart for the first eight pages with tears in the edges and tears repaired with adhesive tape.
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Beaumont, Francis and John
THE DRAMATICK WORKS OF BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER; COLLATED WITH ALL THE FORMER EDITIONS, AND CORRECTED; WITH NOTES, CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY, BY VARIOUS COMMENTATORS; AND ADORNED WITH FIFTY-FOUR ORIGINAL ETCHINGS. Ten volumes
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London Printed by T. Sherlock, for T. Evans, etc. 1778. 8vo., engraved portrait frontispiece and 53 additional engravings. Contemporary tree-calf, spines richly decorated in gilt with two labels on each volume. Spines and hinges are lightly rubbed, with one label chipped and one spine chipped along the hinge and slight wear to the top of three spines. A very good and clean set.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von:
Leiden des jungen Werthers. Erster und zweiter Theil. Sowie: Erwin und Elmire. Ein Schauspiel mit Gesang.
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Frankfurt - Leipzig 1778 - Frankfurt - Leipzig, 1778. 302 S. Priv. Pp. im Stile der Zeit. 2. Auflage. Apart. - J. W. Goethens Schriften, 1. Band. - Hds. Notizen a. V., Besitzsign. a. Reihentitel, Ebd. fleckig, Gbrsp., Seiten leicht gebräunt, etw. fleckig. - ". Um sich, wieder in Frankfurt, von den schmerzlichen Erfahrungen des Sommers 1772 zu befreien, brachte er 1774, in gut vier Wochen, in Form brieflicher Mitteilungen an einen Freund die Leiden des jungen Werthers zu Papier. Der Roman wurde in alle europäischen Sprachen übersetzt und war ein Welterfolg. Freunde und Fremde, u.a. der Erzieher Carl Ludwig von Knebel mit den beiden Prinzen von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, fanden sich bald bei dem "literarischen Meteor" ein" (Zitat nach DBE). Deutsch
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[RELIURE AUX ARMES.] NEUVILLE
Sermons du père Pierre-Claude Frey de Neuville, l'aîné, dédiés au roi.
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A Rouen, chez Laurent Dumesnil, 1778. Deux volumes in-8, plein maroquin grenat de l'époque, dos à cinq nerfs cloisonnés et fleuronnés, encadrement de triple filet doré et armes centrales sur les plats, tranches dorées, [4]-X-332-[2] + [2]-351-[1] pages. Exemplaire en grand papier. (Deux coins et une coupe un peu usés, restauration au plat inférieur du tome II, pique de ver à un mors.) Exemplaires aux armes de Armand-Thomas HUE de MIROMESNIL (1723-1796). Premier président du Parlement de Rouen en mai 1757. Exilé par Maupeou en 1771, lors de la supression des parlements, Miromesnil doit sa fortune politique à la protection de Maurepas qui lui fait donner les sceaux en août 1774. On peut considérer qu'il eut une part importante dans la décision de Louis XVI de rappeler les parlements. GUIGARD, II, 359. OLIVIER 2311, variante du fer 10. BON EXEMPLAIRE. ***___***___*** Two volumes in-8, full garnet-red morocco of the time, back with five partitioned and blossomed nerves, framing of triple net gilded and central weapons on the dishes, gilded sections, [4] - X-332- [2] + [2] - 351- [1] pages. Specimen in large paper. (Two corners and a cut a little used, restoration with the lower dish of volume II, spade of worm to a bit.) Exemplary with the weapons of Armand-Thomas MIROMESNIL (1723-1796) HOOTS. First president of the Parliament of Rouen in May 1757. Exiled by Maupeou in 1771, during the suppression of the Parliaments, Miromesnil its political fortune must with the protection of Maurepas which makes him give the seals in August 1774. One can consider that it had a part significant in the decision of Louis XVI to point out the Parliaments. GUIGARD, II, 359. OLIVIER 2311, alternative of iron 10. GOOD. ..(REPRO)..
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Alberti di Villanova, Francesco d', M.
Nouveau Dictionnaire Franois-Italien, composŽ sur les Dictionnaires de l'AcadŽmie de France et de la Crusca, Enrichi de tous les Termes propres des Sciences et des Arts
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Nice: Chez Gabriel Floteront, A Turin chez Les Freres Reycends, -80 1778 - (FRENCH-ITALIAN DICTIONARY) Second edition, corrected and enlarged. 4to. . Contemporary mottled sheep, morocco labels. Rubbed, scuffing, tears to head and tail of spines and wear to lower corner of cover of first volume, else a very nice copy.
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MURR, Christoph Gottlieb von
Beschreibung der vornehmsten Merkwürdigkeiten in des H.R. Reichs freyen Stadt Nürnberg und auf der hohen Schule zu Altdorf. Nebst einem chronologischen Verzeichnisse der von Deutschen, insonderheit Nürnbergern, erfundenen Künste, vom
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Three folding engraved plates (on two sheets), 5 folding woodcut facsimiles, one printed table (found on the same sheet as the final woodcut facsimile), & several woodcuts in the text (two full-page). 8 p.l., 762 pp., one leaf of errata. Thick 8vo, cont. boards (corners a bit worn, light foxing). Nuremberg: J.E. Zeh, 1778.p First edition. This is a wonderful and detailed record of the art and book treasures of Nuremberg and Altdorf. Murr (1733-1811), art historian, wrote widely on art, library history, and manuscripts. He describes here the most important art works of the churches, museums, private art collections, natural history cabinets, and public and private libraries of these two cities. Murr has provided really useful accounts of many collections now dispersed or destroyed, including the famous Wunderkammern of Paul von Praun (1548-1616) and Johann George Volckamer (1616-93). The final chapter describes the city of Altdorf, the university library, medical garden, and the chemical laboratory, as well as the museum of Christoph Jacob Trew which boasted a magnificent Chinese book on natural history, acquired by a Russian in Peking in 1742. It is described here in 35 pages with a facsimile of the Chinese title. !This guidebook contains a reference, in its chronological section to the Ulman Stromer mill and to Stromer!s diary, as well as to von Murr!s earlier Journals in which he discusses Germany!s first papermaker at greater length.!!Schlosser, An Exhibition of Books on Papermaking (1968), no. 7. Fine copy. ❧ Hunter, Literature of Papermaking 1390-1800, p. 40. Schwenke, Adressbuch der Deutschen Bibliotheken, pp. 281-82 & 116-17.. First Edition. Hard cover.
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La Morliere, Ch.-Jacq.-Louis-Aug.
Angola, histoire Indienne, ouvrage sans vraisemblance. Nouvelle édition revue & corrigée. 2 Teile in einem Band.
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Agra (= Paris), o.Dr., 1778. - 200, 214 SS. Mit 4 Kupfertafeln. In-12°. Späterer Pbd. Barbier I,191; Cioranescu 36472; Weller, Druckorte II,114. Die Erstausgabe von La Morlière's (1719-1785) bekanntestem Werk war 1746 erschienen, weitere 11 Auflagen wurden bis 1786 gedruckt! Mit den vier hübschen, dezent erotischen Kupfern.
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GUICHENON (Samuel);
Histoire généalogique de la Royale Maison de Savoie, justifiée par titres, fondations de monastères, manuscrits, anciens monuments, histoires, et autres preuves authentiques. Enrichie de plusieurs portraits, sceaux, monnaies, sépultures et armoiries. Nouvelle édition avec des supplémens jusqu'à nos jours, suivis d'une dissertation contenant des remarques, et additions pour servir d'éclaircissement à cette histoire. Bibliotheca Sebusiana seu variarum chartarum, diplomatum, fundationum, privilegiorum, donationum, et immunitatum...
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A Turin chez Jean-Michel Briolo 1778-1780 5 tomes en 2 vol. in-folio de XXVIII-435-(1) pp. ; 458 pp. ; 444 pp. ; (4)-406-(6) pp. ; (8)- 675-(3) pp. ; (4)-147 pp., veau brun, dos à nerfs orné, pièces de titre en veau rouge (reliure de l'époque). Nouvelle édition augmentée. Quelques épidermures à la reliure. Frontispice et page de titre restaurés avec renfort de papier en marge (n'affecte pas la gravure du frontispice), des rousseurs et des feuillets brunis. Saffroy III, 50107.
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BIANCARDI BASTIAN
LE VITE DEI RE DI NAPOLI PITTERI 1778
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Raccolte succintamente con ogni accuratezza, e distese per ordine cronologico. Con la continuazione (con un secondo frontespizio) nella gloriosa persona di D. Carlo di Borbone, e Farnese Re delle Due Sicilie scritte dal medesimo Autore. Stimata opera storico-cronologica che sintetizza, con rapido tratto, la singola personalita' dei Monarchi Napoletani, magistralmente effigiate in belle tavole incise all'acqu In 4Y, pagine (12) 475 (6) XLVI,tutta pergamena con nervetti al dorso e titolo manoscritto in china, 2 libri in uno, con 32 ritratti a piena pagina, 2 frontespizi, ricco di capilettere, 2 marche tipografiche ai frontespizi, indice delle cose piu' notabili. firmato Sebastiano Biancardi chiamato Domenico Lalli fedelissimo vassallo. Rarissima opera sui reali e sui luoghi del Regno di Napoli
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Harris, Moses (1730-C.1788)
Plate XXXVIII Fromthe Aurelian. a Natural History of English Moths and Butterflies [XXXVIII]
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. London: 1778 [plates watermarked 1810]. Hand-coloured engraving. Loss to right margin skilfully restored. 11 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches. 15 x 10 1/2 inches. A fascinating plate depicting several butterflies and moths and their pre-winged forms from 'a timeless classic' and the 'most celebrated of all the early books about butterflies and moths' (Salmon) in exceptionally bright and fresh condition. Lisney held that Harris was 'one of the most outstanding authors of entomological literature during the eighteenth century. ' The present work is en example and displays a beautiful balance between accurate and innovative observation and the highest artistic merit. 'Harris began to take an active interest in entomology about the age of twelve and...was an accurate and original observer. He was, it is believed, the first to draw attention to the importance of wing neuration [the arrangement or distribution of nerves] in the classification of lepidoptera and upon this principle he arranged the species in his published works, illustrating them in colour with a high degree of accuracy. Harris certainly contributed much to the knowledge of the science and was one of the leading entomologists of his century. He was also a miniature painter of no mean accomplishment' (Lisney p.156). 'Moses Harris did much to encourage entomology at a time when the original dynamism of the age of Ray and the first Aurelian Society was waning. He was probably the prime mover in founding the second Aurelian Society...and in the unsurpassed plates of The Aurelian he left a timeless classic to future generations' (Salmon p.117). Hagen I, p. 341; Lisney 233; Nissen, ZBI 1835; Salmon The Aurelian Legacy (2000) pp.115-117.
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Biblia, Das ist: Die Gantze Heilige Schrifft, Altes und Neues Testaments, Verteutschet durch Doct. Martin Luther
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Basel, Emanuel Thurneysen, 1778. Luther began biblical translations in 1522, when he issued his New Testament, and carried on to 1545, when he finished the deuterocanonical books and the first complete edition of his Bible. He saw to many corrections and revisions himself, and his work went through some ten editions in his own lifetime. Though supposed to translate from the originals, he made use of the Latin version of Lyra, the Hebrew-Latin interlinear of Pagninus, and an older German translation of the Vulgate whose order he retained. Contains notes and commentaries verse by verse. Folio, [xxxii] + [688pp.] + [120 pp.] + 10 woodcut engravings. Bound in contemporary ornate blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, decorative brass corner pieces (one missing from rear board) and one clasp, five raised bands. Upper front joint split (5 cm), a few tears to pages, a few pages browned & water-stained, edges soiled, owner's inscriptions in fine contemporary hand on front and rear free endpapers. Volume is 3.5" (8.89cm) thick, 10.5 lbs (4.76kg).
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Aesop [Aesopus, Aisop, Aisopos] /
Francisci-Josephi Desbillons Fabulae Aesopiae, curis posterioribus omnes fere emendatae: Quibus acesserunt plus quam CLXX novae. Sexta editio.
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Parisiis / Paris, Typis J. Barbou 1778.. Sechste (6.) Auflage. Kl.-8° (ca. 16 x 9.5 cm). XXXVI, 504 SS. Gest. allegor. Front. von C. Baquoy nach N. Blakey, etwas gest. Buchschmuck (Vignetten, Zierstücke). Ldr. d.Zt. (min. berieben) mit Rückenschild, vergold. Deckelfileten, Rücken- und Innenkantenvergoldung, alls. Goldschnitt, schöne Vorsätze in Pariser Marmor. Wenig Alters- und Gebrauchsspuren, grosses gest. Exlibris a. Vorsatz. Gesamthaft gutes, sauberes und gepflegtes Exemplar.. Antike.De Backer & Sommervogel 2, sp. 1947. Zur Geschichte der Textüberlieferung von Aisop-Roman und -Fabeln s. A. Lesky, Geschichte der griechischen Literatur. 1963, pp. 179-181. - Bedeutende, sehr sorgfältig und sowohl von der Ausstattung her als auch typographisch anspruchsvoll gestaltete Ausgabe mit bemerkenswert schönem Schriftsatz. Bei Graesse unter Desbillons für die 2-bändige illustrierte Ausgabe von 1768 mit der Anmerkung: "On prefere l'edition des 'Fabulae': Paris, Barbou 1769 et 1778." - Das zweite Kapitel der Praefatio enthält eine interessante und wertvolle Zusammenstellung 'Apologorum scriptores, quos observationum libellus ad operis calcem rejectus, indicat, fere omnes recensentur', umfassend 25 solche Autoren (von Aesop, Thomas Erpenius, Locmanus [Loqman, Luqman] und Phaedrus, bis Eustachius le Noble, Gabriel-Franciscus le Jai, Petrus Burmannus und Henricus Richerius), dazu in einer 'Appendicula' zusätzliche 6 Versionen. -- Francois-Joseph Terrasse Desbillons S.J. (Chateau-neuf-sur-le-Cher 1711-1789 Mannheim), Jesuit. Tätig als Lehrer, Publizist und Schriftsteller. Eintritt in den Jesuitenorden 1727, unterrichtete während 5 Jahren an der Unterstufe ('basses classes') und während 6 Jahren Rhetorik an verschiedenen Schulen. Von ca. 1747-1762 lebte er in Paris, bis das Ordensverbot ihn zum Verlassen der Stadt veranlasste. Durch ein grosszügiges Angebot des Kurfürsten der Pfalz ('de l'electeur Palatin', bei DB&S: 'l'Electeur de Baviere') gelangte er nach Mannheim, wo er bis zu seinem Tode blieb. Die Universität Mannheim besitzt noch heute seinen Büchernachlass (Desbillonsche Bibliothek), den er in seinem in lateinischen Versen verfassten Testament dem Kurfürsten und der Universität vermacht hatte. Seine Fabulae Aesopiae waren wegen der sorgfältigen Sprache und Übersetzungskunst sehr geschätzt. "C'est l'ouvrage qui a fait le plus d'honneur au P. Desbillons. Les connaisseurs les jugent dignes de faire pendant a celles de Phedre [Phaedrus]. La clarte, l'ingenuite, la justesse de l'affabulation, la purete et l'elegance du style, tout leur assure cette espece de concurrence." (F. X. de Feller 3, 1818, p. 455). "Un critique judicieux l'a appele le 'dernier des Romains' ['der letzte Römer'], comme celui qui dans ces temps d'une decadence totale de la langue romaine, l'avait cultivee avec le plus d'ardeur. Sa modestie egalait son erudition." (ibid., p. 454). - "Le P. Desbillons ecrivait le 17 mai 1773: 'Mes fables se soutiennent toujours, en depit de quelques envieux fort ignores du public. Elles commencent a devenir classiques dans presque toute l'Europe. On les explique dans l'Universite de Paris et dans quelques colleges d'Allemagne, dans la Suede, etc. Les plus celebres journaux latins et allemands en ont donne des extraits et en ont fait des eloges, dont ceux qui sont venus a ma connaissance m'ont paru quelquefois excessifs'." (DB&S loc. cit., als Fussnote zu der vorliegenden Ausgabe). -- Attraktives grösseres Wappenexlibris (ca. 12.2 x 8.2 cm) dat. 1897 mit Wahlspruch "Amor malum pessimum" gestochen von Jean Kaufmann für Franz V. Fischer (Fischer ursprünglich von Triengen, seit dem 19. Jh. mit zwei Linien auch in der Stadt Luzern. Wappen: in Blau drei silberne Fische, vgl. HBLS; Wegmann 2184, irrtümlich 'Franz von Fischer') : wohl ein Sohn des Politikers und Juristen Vinzenz Fischer (1816-1896), 1848 in den Hochverratsprozess der Machthaber des Sonderbunds verwickelt, 1852-1870 Anwalt in Luzern. Aus diesem Luzerner Zweig der Familie gingen in der Folge bis auf die heutige Zeit weitere Juristen hervor.
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WATTS, John after Abraham HONDIUS
A Pair: [Morning], [Evening]
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- London: Published by J. Watts, Dealer in Prints & Drawings opposite the Mews Gate Charing Cross, 1 June 1778. Mezzotints. Printed on laid watermarked paper. In excellent condition. [Morning] Image size: 9 1/2 x 13 7/8 inches. Plate mark: 10 x 13 7/8 inches. Sheet size: 10 5/8 x 14 7/8 inches. [Evening] Image size: 9 3/8 x 13 7/8. Plate mark: 9 7/8 x 13 7/8. Sheet size: 10 3/4 x 15 1/8 inches. This is a stunning pair of mezzotints of two hunting dogs catching their quarry, by John Watts after paintings by Abraham Hondius. Watts was a successful printmaker and publisher who was active in London during the second half of the eighteenth century. He was famed for his rich mezzotints, which he exhibited in London between 1766 and 1778. Watts scraped mezzotints after some of the most renowned artists of his day, but he had a special penchant for works by the Dutch masters, such as this handsome pair after Abraham Hondius, the celebrated Dutch animal painter. These rich mezzotints are a superb example of Watts's luxurious style of engraving, translating the energy and fluidity of Hondius's beautiful paintings into a dramatic example of superior mezzotint engraving. Benezit, Dictionnaire Des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs.
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Robert, Ludwig
Robert, Ludwig
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- Ludwig Robert (1778–1832), Schriftsteller. E. Brief m. U., Karlsruhe, 1. September 1818, 1¾ Seiten 4°. – Wohl an eine Theaterdirektion: „Ihnen ordinaire, vornehme Leute auf den Hals zu schicken, würde ich, meine verehrtesten Herren und Freunde, nicht nur für eine dreiste Unziemlichkeit, sondern für eine Sünde, die nie verziehen wird, für eine Sünde gegen den Heil. Geist der Kunst halten. Aber daß ich Ihnen die Schröder; verstehen Sie recht! nicht Madam Schröder, sondern die wirkliche Musenbegabte Tochter Melpomenes zuschicke halte ich nicht ‚nicht etwa für unverzeihlich’ nein für ganz natürlich und billig. Brauche ich mehr zu sagen? In ihrer Begleitung befindet sich ein junger Mahler [!] Herr Daffinger, der kommen, sehn und gewiß besiegt werden wird [.]". Robert, als Markus Levin in Berlin geboren, entstammte einer jüdischen Kaufmannsfamilie, verkehrte im Salon seiner Schwester Rahel Varnhagen und veröffentlichte seine ersten Gedichte in dem von Adelbert von Chamisso und Karl August Varnhagen von Ense herausgegebenen „Musenalmanach auf das Jahr 1804". Er beteiligte sich rege am literarischen Leben Berlins und trat vor allem als Dramatiker hervor; sein erfolgreichstes Werk war das 1815 uraufgeführte Drama „Die Macht der Verhältnisse". Ludwig Robert (1778–1832), Schriftsteller. E. Brief m. U., Karlsruhe, 1. September 1818, 1¾ Seiten 4°. – Wohl an eine Theaterdirektion: „Ihnen ordinaire, vornehme Leute auf den Hals zu schicken, würde ich, meine verehrtesten Herren und Freunde, nicht nur für eine dreiste Unziemlichkeit, sondern für eine Sünde, die nie verziehen wird, für eine Sünde gegen den Heil. Geist der Kunst halten. Aber daß ich Ihnen die Schröder; verstehen Sie recht! nicht Madam Schröder, sondern die wirkliche Musenbegabte Tochter Melpomenes zuschicke halte ich nicht ‚nicht etwa für unverzeihlich’ nein für ganz natürlich und billig. Brauche ich mehr zu sagen? In ihrer Begleitung befindet sich ein junger Mahler [!] Herr Daffinger, der kommen, sehn und gewiß besiegt werden wird [.]". Robert, als Markus Levin in Berlin geboren, entstammte einer jüdischen Kaufmannsfamilie, verkehrte im Salon seiner Schwester Rahel Varnhagen und veröffentlichte seine ersten Gedichte in dem von Adelbert von Chamisso und Karl August Varnhagen von Ense herausgegebenen „Musenalmanach auf das Jahr 1804". Er beteiligte sich rege am literarischen Leben Berlins und trat vor allem als Dramatiker hervor; sein erfolgreichstes Werk war das 1815 uraufgeführte Drama „Die Macht der Verhältnisse".
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Carver, Jonathan:
TRAVELS THROUGH THE INTERIOR PARTS OF NORTH- AMERICA, IN THE YEARS 1766, 1767, AND 1768.
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London: Printed for the author, . 1778 - [20],xvi,543,[1]pp. plus two folding maps and four plates. Recent three- quarter calf and marbled boards in antique style. Minor worming to top left front corner of textblock, neatly repaired, not affecting text or map. First two leaves dampstained. Some foxing and offsetting. A good, solid copy. Carver went farther west than any British explorer before the Revolution. He was seeking a transcontinental waterway, but mainly explored tributaries of the Mississippi. His book, however, is often given credit for being a catalyst for further exploration, influencing Mackenzie and Lewis and Clark. "A Plan of Captain Carver's Travels in the Interior Parts of North America" shows the headwaters of the Mississippi, lakes Michigan and Superior, and the land as far west as the Dakotas. The text contains the first mention of the word, "Oregon." Includes material relating to the languages of a number of Indian tribes. A cornerstone early western travel narrative.
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Winckelmann, (J.J.)
Briefe an seine Freunde in der Schweiz.
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Zürich, Orell Füßli, 1778. - 8°. 234 SS., mit gestochener Titelvignette von Salomon Gessner Interims-Broschur d. Zt Goedeke IV,1, 300, gamma; Borst 375; Rühmann 1274. Erste Ausgabe der von Usteri gesammelten Briefe des 1768 in Triest ermordeten Winckelmann. Enthält Brefe an C. und H. Fussli, S. Gessner, C. von Mechel, L. und P. Usteri. - Gut erhalten, nur gering gebräunt, Rücken etwas beschabt. Alter Besitzvermerk und kleiner Namensstempel "Wilhelm von Platen". Authentisches, sehr bretrandiges und ganz unbeschnittenes Exemplar in der ersten Broschur. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]
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Russell, William:
THE HISTORY OF AMERICA, FROM ITS DISCOVERY BY COLUMBUS TO THE CONCLUSION OF THE LATE WAR. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE PRESENT UNHAPPY CONTEST BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND HER COLONIES.
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London: Fielding and Walker, . 1778 - Two volumes. iv,596; 629,[1]pp., plus forty- six (of fifty-one) maps and plates (some folding). Quarto. Three-quarter calf and marbled boards, rebacked in calf in a contemporary style. Some scattered foxing and off- setting from plates. Last leaf of first volume torn and repaired. Still, a good copy. A comprehensive history of America for the time, issued in the midst of the American Revolution, covering the period from the conquest through the settlement and division of America. It is likely that the book was inspired by the war, and the second half of the second volume is devoted to events from the French and Indian War up to the American treaty with France in February, 1778. Illustrated with a profusion of nicely engraved maps, plans, portraits and plates depicting South American Indians, scenes of European conquest, Florida Indians, Esquimaux, seaport views, and the like. While some of the views seem to have been cribbed from the usual sources such as De Bry's GRAND VOYAGES, many seem unique to this work. The early maps are after Bellin, the later ones after Jeffreys.
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(Repeal of the Duties on Tea) AN ACT FOR REMOVING ALL DOUBTS AND APPREHENSIONS CONCERNING TAXATION BY THE PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN: In any Colonies, Provinces, and Plantations in North America and the West indies: and for Repealing so much of an Act...as imposes a duty on Tea imported from Great Britain into any Colony or Plantation in America, or relates thereto.
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Fine with original cover sheet printed recto only. 4to. pp. [293]-296. In a custom quarter leather, marbled board clamshell box with leather labels, gilt lettering. A Rare important document of the American Revolution. OCLC lists only 4 copies (Tulane, Newberry Library, Yale, Mass. Historical Society). In 1765, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act required all legal documents, permits etc. in the American colonies to carry a British tax stamp. The tax met with great hatred and resistance. It was repealed in March 1766. In 1767, Prime Minister William Pitt became ill and was replaced by Charles Rockingham. Charles Townshend, a man with little finesse or political savvy, was Chancellor of the Exchequer. Under his leadership the Townshend Act was passed which imposed taxes on lead, paint, paper, glass and tea imported into the American colonies. These taxes, like the Stamp Act, were passed without colonial input--"Taxation Without Representation". This and other disputes erupted in [Publisher: Charles Eyre and William Strahan, Printers to the King]
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(Repeal of the Duties on Tea) AN ACT FOR REMOVING ALL DOUBTS AND APPREHENSIONS CONCERNING TAXATION BY THE PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN: In any Colonies, Provinces, and Plantations in North America and the West indies: and for Repealing so much of an Act...as imposes a duty on Tea imported from Great Britain into any Colony or Plantation in America, or relates thereto.
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London: Charles Eyre and William Strahan, Printers to the King, 1778.. Fine with original cover sheet printed recto only. 4to. pp. [293]-296. In a custom quarter leather, marbled board clamshell box with leather labels, gilt lettering. A Rare important document of the American Revolution. OCLC lists only 4 copies (Tulane, Newberry Library, Yale, Mass. Historical Society). In 1765, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act required all legal documents, permits etc. in the American colonies to carry a British tax stamp. The tax met with great hatred and resistance. It was repealed in March 1766. In 1767, Prime Minister William Pitt became ill and was replaced by Charles Rockingham. Charles Townshend, a man with little finesse or political savvy, was Chancellor of the Exchequer. Under his leadership the Townshend Act was passed which imposed taxes on lead, paint, paper, glass and tea imported into the American colonies. These taxes, like the Stamp Act, were passed without colonial input--"Taxation Without Representation". This and other disputes erupted into open violence in 1770 with the Boston Massacre. In an attempt to cool the situation, the British repealed all the Townshend taxes with the exception of that on tea. In 1773, in yet another ill advised move, Parliament passed the Tea Act. This permitted the British East India Company to sell tea to the British colonies in North America without the usual colonial tax, enabling them to undercut legitimate merchants and smugglers. While the Tea Act did not add additional taxes to tea, it did cause a furor in the colonies where local merchants and smugglers rallied the colonists to boycott tea. The boycott culminated in the Boston Tea Party.We come to 1778 and the Revolutionary War. With the current act, Parliament repealed the remaining tax on tea as one means of trying to quell the rebellion. A move Too Little, Too Late..
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FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND,
Recherches sur les Volcans éteints du Vivarais et du Velay; avec un Discours sur les Volcans brûlans, des Mémoires analytiques sur les Schorls, la Zéolite, le Basalte, la Pouzzolane, les Laves & les différentes Substa
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20 engraved plates (including one double-page) & several engraved vignettes (including one on the title). 2 p.l., xviii, [2], 460, [4] pp. Large folio, cont. mottled calf, triple gilt fillet round sides, spine richly gilt, green morocco lettering piece on spine. Grenoble: Cuchet, 1778.pFirst edition of one of the most famous and attractive of all geological books in which the author "established once and for all that basalt, a rock important scientifically because of its distinctive characteristics, its widespread occurrence, and the manner of its association with other kinds of rocks, was the product of volcanic action."!D.S.B., IV, p. 548. Faujas compared mineralogically the rocks present in Vivarais and Velay with the ejected material of active volcanoes. "The author's descriptions and illustrations of the extinct volcanoes are excellent, and have scarcely been surpassed in later publications."!Zittel, p. 46. Faujas (1741-1819), professor of geology at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, also travelled to England and Scotland where he made important geological observations. A really nice and attractive copy of the large folio issue (the quarto issue published at the same time is more common). The final four pages contain the list of subscribers. Our copy is superior to the Freilich copy which made $10,800. En Francais dans le Texte 169. Hoover 294.. First Edition. Hard cover.
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BRASSEY-HALHED Nathaniel (Traduit
Code des Loix des Gentoux, ou Réglemens des Brames, traduit de l'Anglais d'après les Versions faites de l'Original écrit en Langue Samskrete.
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Avec 8 planches gravées en hors-texte.Description du livre: Paris, Stoupe, 1778;, 1778. traduit de l'Anglois, d'après les Versions faites de l'original écrit en Langue Samskrete. in-4, (2)-lx-341 pp.-(1), 8 planches h.t., demi chag. brun à coins, dos à n. (Rel. mod.). N° de réf. du libraire 2329 Paris, de l'Imprimerie de Stoupe, 1778, in-4°, LX (Avertissement du traducteur français ; Préface de M. Halhed ; Discours préliminaire des Brames, compilateurs de cet ouvrage ), 341 pp. (1 feuillet non chiffré ), 8 planches hors texte, reliure maroquin vert à coins XX°, dos à 5 nerfs, titre en lettres dorées, tranche supérieure dorée, coins légèrement émoussés, très bel exemplaire, intérieur frais. Monument de jurisprudence (.) sans doute le plus singulier & le plus curieux qu on ait jamais publié , dans lequel on pouvait trouver une vulgarisation des textes de lois indiens anciens, traduits du sanskrit. Cette retranscription des droits et obligations la caste brahmanique permet d appréhender l archéologie du droit indo-européen. Cette traduction est citée comme étant de Jean-Baptiste Robinet mais quelques bibliographes la donnent à Jean Nicolas Démeunier. Les planches gravées et signées Benard Direx reproduisant des textes entiers en sanskrit sont de très grande qualité. Barbier, I, 621.
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[Virgil] Vergilius Maro, Publius:
[...] Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis. Ex Editione Petri Burmanni [...]
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Glasguae [Glasgow]: In Aedibus Academicus, Excudebat Andreas Foulis [...] 1778. 2 vols., folio, pp.[vi] 277 [i]; [iv], 307, [i], bound without general half-title and list of subscribers. Titles and half-titles foxed, otherwise just a little soiling and toning to a few leaves. Late 19th-century half calf over purple cloth boards (faded), spines in six compartments with raised bands, green morocco gilt labels, marbled edges and endpapers, front joint of vol. 1 splitting, both vols. worn at edges, corners, and spine ends. Recent bookplate of Murray Hunter, older armorial bookplate, and ownership inscription of Richard E.A. Townsend to verso of f.f.e.p.s The first Foulis folio of Virgil, which “presents us with the text of Burman, printed in a correct and magnificent manner” (Dibdin). Pieter Burman (1668-1741) was a pupil of both Graevius and Gronovius, and his Virgil was first published posthumously, having been finished by his nephew Pieter Burman II (1714-1778). Gaskell 639. ESTC N22205. Dibdin (4th edn.) II 558. Schweiger II 1178. Brunet V 1293. Graesse VI.2 343. Lowndes 2777.
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BERTRAND, Louis
Développement nouveau de la partie élémentaire des mathématiques: prisedans toute son étendue
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Aux dépens de l'auteur; se vend chez I. Bardin Geneva 1778 Modern boards (small tear in spine of one volume) 4to . FIRST EDITION of this massive introductory mathematical text. Although Poggendorf notes only 1774 edition this appears to be either a misprint or a ghost since we have not been able to fine any copy earlier than the present one. Bertrand (1731-1812), a Swiss mathematician and geologist, was a disciple of Euler with whom he studied for many years. He became professor of mathematics at the Academy of Geneva, succeeding Jallabert and Trembley. He wrote a number of works on mathematics with the present being one of his largest 2 volumes. [4], XXXII, 676 pp.: [2], 646 pp. With 19 Engraved plates. Added table after page 138 in vol. II and errata leaf to both volumes after prelims of vol. I. Uncut and partly unopened set. Engraved vignette on both title-pages; fine set. §Southeran 374; Poggendorff I, 171; Cantor, Geschichte der Mathematik IV, 332 (long description); Wolff, Biographien I, 416
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BERTRAND (Louis).
Developpement Nouveau de la partie elementaire des Mathematiques, prise dans toute son etendue.
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A Geneve, aux depens de l'Auteur, et se vend chez Isaac Bardin, 1778.. 2 volumes in-4. 2ff. XXXII. 676pp. + 1f. 646pp. 1 table hors-texte et 19 planches depliantes hors-texte. Plein veau, dos lisses ornes (reliures de l'epoque restaurees). Edition Originale. Louis Bertrand (1731-1812) etait un disciple de Euler avec qui il etudia plusieurs annees a Berlin. Vignettes gravees sur les titres. Legeres traces de mouillures. Sotheran, 374. Rider, A Bibliography of Early Modern Algebra, 1500-1800, p.125. Poggendorff, I, p. 171..
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Beatson, Robert
A Narrative of the Battle Fought at Sea, July 27, 1778
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Privately Printed, England 1778 - No Publication Date Stated, but most probably issued within a short time of the battle, with no mention of the personal and political storm that resulted involving the actions of both Sir Hugh Palliser and Admiral the Honourable Augustus Keppel during the engagement. A finely produced pamphlet in regards to the First Battle of Ushant. Consists of a seven page Preface, a two-sided fold-out chart of the ships involved in the battle- the English Line of Battle on the front side, with the French Line of Battle on the back, with a full list of the killed and wounded on both sides, and a thirty page narrative of the action that took place. In the Preface, the author stresses the immediate need for the British Admiralty to test and arrive at a more suitable and uniform method of signalling between ships during naval engagements, where he clearly places the blame for the British fleet's failure to close with the French and force a decisive second battle. He also apologizes for this work (the pamphlet) causing the delay of the publication of "the remaining Volumes of the Naval and Military Memoirs. Condition: No covers present. Bound by hand-stitching via two holes two inches apart, centered from top to bottom, and neatly tied. Page edges chipped and tattered, but not near to affecting text. Paper lightly tanned, but very clean and sound, with no sign whatsoever of brittleness. Numerous corner creases. Text remains very clear and easily legible throughout. [Attributes: Soft Cover]
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[Begging:] [Van Beughem, C.A.F.:] [De
Suppressio mendicitatis,
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Publisher: Gandavi [Ghent], è Typographia Philippi Gimblet & Fratrum [...] [typis Petri de Goesin] 1778 [n.d., but 1778?] 2 works in 1, large 12mo., pp. 24; 12. Attractive printed border to first title-page, vignette to second. Headpiece and decorative first initial to each work. Light to medium browning, text block starting to loosen from binding at top joint, very good copies, bound in contemporary half-vellum and speckled pasteboards. First editions of respectively a proposal for a programme to deal with the vast task of providing, following the abolition of begging in Ghent, for the sustenance of two thousand (20%) of a population of ten thousand people; and a poem celebrating the abolition. The poem, written by the professor of poetry at the royal college of Ghent, notes the turn from "vain and fictitious things" (the wrong welfare provision) to "true Mercy". For another work relating to this abolition, see our stock number [1170]. Vanderhaeghen 'Bibliographie Gantoise' 4972, 4778. Neither work in OCLC FirstSearch.
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de Piage, Nicolas
La Galerie Electorale de Düsseldorf /Dusseldorff ou Catalogue Raisonne et Figure de ses Tableaux dans lequel on donne une connoissance exacte de cette fameuse collection et de son local, par des descriptions detaillees, & par une fuite de 30 Planches, contenant 365. petites Estampes redigees & gravees dapres ces memes Tableuax, par Chretien de Mechel Gravuer de S.A.S. Monseigner LElecteur Palatin & Membre de plusieurs Adamdemies. Ouvrage compose dans un gout nouveau, par Nicolas de Pigage. Komplett in zwei Bänden. 2 Bände: Tafelband und Textband. Estampes du catalogue raisonne et figure des tableaux de la Galerie electorale de Dusseldorff.
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Basel (Basle) Mechel., 1778... XIV, 228 S.,30 Bll, 30 gestochene Tafeln (sehr sauber, gut erhalten). Fol., > 35 cm, gebundene Ausgabe original kartonierter Einband der Zeit, fachmännisch vom Buchbinder aufgearbeitet, mit Japanpapier und brauner Farbe, sowie mit Deckel- und Rückenschildchen versehen. Zustand (2). Bonne condition / Good condition, unbeschnitten.. Le Livre "La Galerie Electorale de Dusseldorf" dans lequel on donne une connoissance exacte de cette fameuse collection et de son local, par des descriptions detaillees. A catalogue of the Electoral Gallery at Düsseldorf: The plates show plans of the rooms as well as how and where the paintings are placed and hung. The catalogue is the first of his kind to have been made for a German Museum.
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BOLOGNINI Lodovico].
RELAZIONE DELLA GIURISDIZIONE DI NOVELLARA E BAGNOLO. Del modo, con cui concorrono alle generali bonificazioni, e proporzione rispettiva delli giurisdizionari, ed interessati esteri, al collettamento delle spese. Reggio Emilia, Davolio, 1778. Unito: Idem. RELAZIONE della giurisdizione di Castelnovo di Sotto feudo del nobil uomo Signore Marchese Maurizio Gherardini fatta dall'Ingegnere Ducale... l'anno 1777.
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Reggio Emilia, Davolio, 1778 "2 opere in un vol. in-8, pp. 82, (2); 71, leg. carta color. coeva. Con due tavv. ripiegate nella prima opera con l'elenco dei corsi d'acqua per l'irrigazione di Bagnolo, e ripartizione per l'uso dei diversi paesi e frazioni. Con altre 2 tavv. ripiegate con le stesse informazioni ma per il comune di Castelnovo. Raro. Lozzi 3137. [MM1-026]"
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Histoire de l'Academie royale des Sciences, Année 1775. Avec les Mémoires de Mathematique & de Physique, pour la meme Année.
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Paris, l'Imprimerie Royale, 1778. Original boards. *A complete volume, with text and plates. Original papers include Linnaeus on the palm genus Cycas, Observations on a Saturn eclipse by the moon, by Cassini, and, independently by Messier, on the orbit of Mars by La Lande, meteorological-botanical observations by Du Hamel, and many other, mostly astronomical papers, and Lavoisier's "Mémoire sur la nature du principe qui se combine avec les métaux pendant leur calcination, & qui en augmentent le poids", which starts with the famous and fundamental question: Existe-t-il différentes espèces d'air?". Lavoisier discovered the gas, oxygen, independantly from Scheele and Priestly, and was the first to use the name oxygen, and the first to realize that oxygen was an element. Binding worn, boards near detached from spine, but contents very good, only a few marginal worm-traces.
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(Springer, Johann Christoph
Versuch eines Handbuchs für diejenige, welche di-e KameralWissenschaft nicht als ein Handwerk lernen oder gelernt haben wollen,sondern wünschen, vernünflige und natürliche Grundsätze darin zu finden, und mit der Landwirthschafft den Anfang zu machen.
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bey Varrentrapp Sohn und Wenner, Frankfurt am Mayn, 1778. Titel, 3 Bll., 274 S., 1 Bl. Lederband der Zeit mit zwei farbigen Rückenschildern und etwas Rückenvergoldung. Erste Ausgabe. Humpert 1548. - Der Jurist und Nationalökonom Johann Christian Erich Springer (1727-1798) war, ohne ein Universitätsstudium absolviert zu haben, Jurist in Ansbach und Nürnberg. 1771 wurde er zum Professor des Staatsrechts und der Kameralwissenschaft an der Universität Erfurt ernannt und gelangte nach Aufenthalten in Erlangen, Darmstadt und Bückeburg nach Rinteln, wo er als Professor der Staatswissenschaft und des Rechnungswesens wirkte. Er gründete dort ein Institut für Staatswissenschaft und wurde Vorsitzende der Juristenfakultät. - Mit den Kapiteln: Uebergang auf die Landwirtschaft; Von nöthigen Cautelen bey Kauf- und Verkaufung der Landgüter; Von den Grenzen der Landgüter; Von wirthschaftlichen Gebäuden; Von der Viehzucht; Von wirthschafftlichen Insecten; Vom Ackerbau; Von wiesen, Hut, Trifft, Gärten und Weinbau; Von Waldeungen, Holz und Jagd; Hohe Jagd, niedere Jagd, Fischerey. - Angebunden: (Anonym). Versuch die Landwirthschaft betreffend von einem Landwirthe. Mit Kupfern. Aus dem Englischen (von Christian Friedrich Jünger). Leipzig, bey Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1776. Mit drei gefalteten Kupfertafeln. XXIV, 422 S. - Holzmann-Bohatta IV,9712. - Enthält umfangreiche Untersuchungen zu zahlreichen Aspekten der Landwitschaft: Einfassungen und Zäune; Austrocknung von Morasten und sumpfigen Feldern; wie man Heu machen soll; Untersuchungen über verschiedene Viehweiden und wie sie zu verbessern seien; welche Tiere am wirtschaftlichsten gemeinsam gehalten werden können usw. - Einband etwas berieben und leicht fleckig, Exlibris und Bibliotheksstempel auf dem Vorsatz, letzte Tafel leicht angerändert, etwas gebräunt. - Gutes Exemplar. 1. Auflage Hardcover; 1. Auflage. Gut
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WÜNSCH, CHR.E.),
Kosmologische Unterhaltungen für die Jugend. Bd 1 (v. 3): Von den Weltkörpern.
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Leipzig, Breitkopf 1778 - Titel m. gestochener Vign., 7 Bl., 506 S., 14 Kupfertafeln, 2 Bl. Hldrbd d. Zeit m. Rückenvergoldung u. 2 farbigen goldgeprägten Rückenschildern (gering bestoßen, Vorsätze leimschattig, alter Bibl.-Stempel auf Titel, 3 Tafeln zerknittert oder etwas knickfaltig, 2 davon gering angeschmutzt u. mit kl. Randeinrissen). Erste Ausgabe des ersten Bandes.- "Die zeitgenössische Kritik lobte das Werk" (Wegehaupt) als Jugendbuch, das gründlich und unterhaltend die Naturwissenschaften lehrt, doch die hier vorgetragene Astronomie und speziell die Licht- und Farbenlehre stießen auf die scharfe Ablehnung Goethes, der ihnen zwei sarkastische Xenien widmete (vgl. ADB 44, 318).- Wegehaupt I,2330; Holzmann/Boh. IV,8124.
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Mendelssohn, Moses
Phädon, oder über die Unsterblichkeit der Seele, in drey Gesprächen
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Frankfurt und Leipzig, Ohne Drucker und Verleger, 1778 - Mit Frontispiz in Kupferstich und einer Titelvignette in HolzschnittNeueste Auflage, Kl.-8°, Lederband der Zeit mit Rückenschild und teilvergoldetem Rücken, (10),224 S Vermutlich Titelauflage der 4. vermehrten und verbesserten Auflage 1776 (Vgl. Borst 176). - BEIGEBUNDEN: Moses Mendelssohns Philosophische Schriften. 2 Teile. Mit je einer Titelvignette. Verbesserte Auflage Frankfurt und Leipzig, 1777. XXII,278 und (2),283 S. - Einband an den Ecken teils stärker bestoßen und etwas eingerissen. Kleine Fehlstellen am unteren Rücken und unteren Rand. Besitzeintrag aus dem Jahre 1800 auf dem vorderen Vorsatz. Durchgehend größerer aber schwacher Wasserschatten in der unteren Hälfte des Buchblocks. Anfangs und am Schluß etwas brüchig in den Gelenken. Die Vorsätze sind teils angestaubt und fingerfleckig.
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Haller. - TSCHARNER, Vinzenz
Éloge de Mr. Alb. Haller, lu dans une assemblée publique de la Société Économique de Berne, le 25 mars 1778. Traduit de l'allemand.
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Berne, Société Typographique, 1778, - in-8vo, frontispice gravé à l'eau-forte par Dunker terminé par Lacroix 'Vue sur les Alpes lointaines' + 2 ff. (titre avec vignette gravée et dédicace) + 84 p., reliure en d.-cuir d'époque, dos richement orné or, pièce de titre cuir, plats couverts de papier dit 'à la colle'. Bel exemplaire. Première édition française éditée d'abord en allemand de la même année 'Lobrede auf Hrn. Albert Haller, welche auf Veranstaltung der Löbl. ökonomischen Gesellschafft etc etc'. Le poème sur les Alpes fut à tout jamais 'un monument éternel que son auteur a érigé à la gloire de sa patrie'. L'ouvrage n'est pas une simple liste des honneurs littéraires ou académiques, il y a aussi qqs anecdotes comme son 'Voyage en Valais en 1757, où il courut un danger imminent, d'être précipité avec son carrosse d'un pont de bois, dans un torrent qui roulait au fond d'un précipice'.Für Schweizer Kunden kommen noch 2,4 % MWST hinzu. Our books are stored in our warehouse, not in the shop. Please notify beforehand, if you want to visit and see a specific book. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Carlos III.
Comercio libre con Buenos Aires] Real Cedula de S.M.en que se estiende el comercio-libre de los puertos habilitados de España, e Islas de Mallorca y Canarias a Buenos Aires, con internación a las Provincias interiores, y a los puertos también habilitados del Perú, y Chile, se insertan asimismo las dos Reales Cedulas, que tratan de la rebaja que S.M. se ha servido conceder en los derechos del Oro, y el arancel que deben observar los Escribanos de Registro en los puertos de Indias, en que se permite el comercio-libre entre estos y aquellos Dominios.
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en la Imprenta de Pedro Marin,, Madrid, 1778 - 30x21 cm. [18] páginas, 1 hoja blanca. Escudo real en la portada. Muy buen ejemplar. Encuadernado en tela moderna con tejuelo. Carlos III amplia el comercio libre de otros puntos de España con los de América. Primera edición de esta Real Cédula que contiene la del Comercio Libre a America, dada en el Pardo a 2 de febrero, y lleva añadido por vez primera: "Arancel a que precisamente se han de arreglar en Indias los Escribanos de Registros para todas las embarcaciones del comercio-libre que van de España, y para las que en aquellos Dominios hacen el tráfico interior de unos Puertos a otros en ambos mares del Norte y Sur ". Palau 249610. Medina, Biblioteca Hispano-Americana, 4844
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Dubuisson, Pierre Ulric.
Abrégé de la Révolution de l'Amerique Angloise
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Paris, 1778. An 18th century account of the American Revolution, written anonymously by the French theater director and later Jacobin revolutionary Pierre-Ulric Dubuisson. Dubuisson does not provide a first-hand account of the events; in most of the book he details his correspondence with the various foreign dignitaries that were more closely involved in the historical events. This book was at its time one of the most reliable sources of information Europeans had on the American Revolution. 190X110mm, 431 pages. Brown cloth hardcover. Cover detached and worn. Cover corners very slightly bumped. Spine worn. Ex libris sticker on endpaper. Binding loose and taped. Whitepage and title page detached. Rest of the book divided into three segments, detached from each other. Pages yellowing and wavy. Some page edges rough. Some pages uncut. Due to the condition of this rare book, we offer it for a reduced price. The book is in : French
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DUBUISSON (Pierre-Ulric);
Abrégé de la Révolution de l'Amérique angloise, depuis le commencement de l'année 1774 jusqu'au premier janvier 1778. Par M.***, Américain.
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A Paris chez Cellot & Jombert fils jeune 1778 In-12 de (2)-452-(3) pp., basane havane marbrée, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque). Edition originale. Un des premiers écrits du jeune Paul-Ulric Dubuisson (1746-1794), futur dramaturge et librettiste, rentré à Paris après avoir passé quelques temps à Saint-Domingue comme directeur général de la poste royale, où il consigna scrupuleusement les événements qui lui parvenaient d'Amérique. Sabin, I, 21037. Très bon exemplaire.
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