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[ RELIURE AUX ARMES. ]
Almanach royal, annee M.DCC.LXXXII. Presente a Sa Majeste pour la premiere fois en 1699, Par Laurent Laurent d'HOURY, ayeul de l'editeur.
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Paris, mis en ordre publie et imprime par d'Houry, 1782. In-8 plein maroquin grenat de l'epoque, dos a cinq nerfs a caissons et ornes de fleurs de lys, triple encadrement de filets dores et fleurs de lys aux angles, armes centrales, tranches dorees, 676 pages. Table. (Armoiries des plats grattees.) BON EXEMPLAIRE. ***___***___*** In-8 full garnet-red morocco of the time, back with five nerves with boxes and decorated flowers of lily, triple framing of gilded nets and flowers of lily to the angles, weapons central, gilded sections, 676 pages. Count. (Armorial bearings of the dishes scraped.) Exemplary with the weapons of the BEAUVILLIERS of SAINT-AIGNAN. Of this great family of collectors, OLIVIER quotes only Paul Of BEAUVILLIERS (1648-1714) (board 696) and Paul-Hippolyte of BEAUVILLIERS (1684-1776) (boards 697). Handwritten ex libris of Mr. DAVIGNAN, lawyer. GOOD. Exemplaire aux armes des BEAUVILLIERS de SAINT-AIGNAN. De cette grande famille de collectionneurs, OLIVIER cite seulement Paul De BEAUVILLIERS (1648-1714) (planche 696) et Paul-Hippolyte de BEAUVILLIERS (1684-1776) (planches 697). Ex-libris manuscrit de M. DAVIGNAN, avocat.
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Aérostation :
Almanach des muses.
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Éditeur : P, Delalain ATTENTION IL S'AGIT DE L'ALMANACH DE 1781 ET NON 1782 COMME ANNONCE,couverture reliée cuir marron bordeaux liseré ,et champ ainsi que le lettrage dorés,VERTI C HAUT [Publisher: P, Delalain,]
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LE GRAND D'AUSSY (Pierre Jean-Baptiste);
Histoire de la vie privée des Français, depuis l'origine de la Nation jusqu'à nos jours.
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A Paris De l'Imprimerie de Ph.-D. Pierres 1782 3 vol. in-8 de XIII-(3)-373-(1) pp. ; (4)-383 pp. ; (4)-363 pp., veau havane marbré, dos lisses ornés, pièces de titre et de tomaison en maroquin olive (reliure de l'époque). Edition originale. Vaste fresque historique de tout ce qui touche à la nourriture de l'homme. Ces trois volumes ne sont que la première partie d'une histoire que se proposait d'écrire Le Grand d'Aussy, mais qui n'a pas vu le jour. L'auteur y étudie en détail tout ce qui a rapport à l'alimentation, aux repas, festins et usages de table observés en France ; on y trouve également des renseignements sur les diverses corporations des charcutiers, cuisiniers, patissiers, oublieurs, etc. Le troisième volume est terminé par une pièce du XIIIe siècle, intitulé Proverbes, et qui contient, dit Le Grand d'Aussy, « les choses de ce tems qui avaient le plus de réputation ou celles qui étaient devenues proverbiales ». Ex-libris armorié Paul de Gauville. Trois coiffes usées, départ de fete à un mord. Vicaire, 510 ; Bitting, p. 280 ; Livres en Bouche, 6.
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HEDWIG, JOHANNES
Fundamentum Historiae Naturalis Muscorum Frondosorum Concernens Eorum Flores, Fructus, Seminalem Propagationem Adiecta Generum Dispositione Methodica Iconibus Illustratis Pars I & II
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Lipzig: : Siegried Lebrecht Crusium,, 1782. Full Leather. Very Good. 4to (24.7 x 19.7 cm). Contemporary tree calf. Collation: Pars I ! xxiii, [1] 112 + 10 copper engraved plates; Pars II ! 107 [1] + 10 copper engraved plates. Spine is tooled into panels with gilt floral borders and central image. Some loss to bottom left corner of leather title. Minor loss is evident at top of spine. Boards have minor wear to corners. Original marble end papers are free of defects or bookplate. Title page of Pars I has engraved vignette showing portrait of Hedwig in circular disc surrounded by microscope, drawings of specimens and other tools and apparatus for field research. There is a floral and grass background. Title page for Pars II does not have vignette. Minor foxing present along edges and gutter but not extending to text. Folding engraved plates in excellent condition with delineation by Hedwig and printing by Capieux 1782. The folding plates have exceptional structural and cellular detail as observed by Hedwig. The information present in the plates is truly remarkable detail for this early period. Hedwig made very fine detail examination of moss capsules as seen in the plates. II but without vignette. This is a scarce work on the classification of mosses. Hedwig was a German physician and professor of botany in Leipzig who was an authority on mosses and founder of the field of Bryology, study of mosses. The moss genus Hedwigia is named after him. Hes know to have collected plants in the morning before visiting patients and then working on these specimens in the evening. He figured out the reproductive cycle of mosses with the alternation between sexual and asexual generations. His research also yielded information to separate lichens froms mosses. (2 copies in OCLC) (Nissen, 827; Plesch, 329; Pritizel, 3878).
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LACOMBE, Jacques.
Encyclopédie méthodique. Arts et métiers mécaniques.
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Paris, Panckoucke, Liège, Plomteux, 1782- - 1791. 13 volumes in-4. Veau marbré, dos à nerfs orné. (Reliure de l'époque.) Première édition. Rare série complète des "Arts et métiers mécaniques" : 8 volumes de texte et 5 de planches contenant 1294 planches. (La collation est conforme aux tables des planches avec 8 planches supplémentaires pour la verrerie non mentionnées dans les tables). Ces gravures reprennent pour la plupart celles de l'Encyclopèdie Diderot-D'Alembert, dans un format plus réduit. Le texte comporte environ 500 articles détaillés. Les articles, par exemple l'Art du parfumeur, font jusqu'à 60 pages et se terminent par une table du vocabulaire du contexte mentionné. Il y a près de 70 planches pour l'horlogerie. Un sommaire des articles contenus se trouve à la fin de chaque volume. Les planches de la "Marine" sont annoncées dans la table du dernier volume; mais cette série est indépendante des "Arts & Métiers" et ne figure évidemment pas ici. Le compilateur principal de cette somme est Jacques Lacombe (1724-1811). On sait que l' "Encyclopédie méthodique" de Panckoucke était une refonte générale par ordre de matières de la première encyclopédie. Sa publication s'étala sur 50 ans et ruina son éditeur. Il y a de légères différences de décor entre les volumes de texte, qui sont en très bon état. La reliure des atlas de planches est différente (demi-veau, dos orné) et les charnières sont partiellement fendues, il y a quelques mouillures marginales. Assez bon exemplaire de cette rare série dont on ne trouve le plus souvent que quelques volumes.
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CHODERLOS de LACLOS Pierre
Les Liaisons dangereuses ou Lettres recueillies dans une société, et publiées pour l'instruction de quelques autres
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Durand, Neveu Amsterdam et Paris 1782 4 parties en 2 volumes in-12 (17,2 x 10,8 cm), 248, 242, 231 & 257 pp., plein veau clair marbré d'époque, dos à 5 nerfs richement ornés, pièces de titre en maroquin rouge, filets à froid encadrant les plats, gardes marbrées. Léger accroc avec petit manque à la coiffe supérieure du tome I, dos un peu frottés, intérieur très frais. EDITION ORIGINALE DE TYPE C selon Gérard Willemetz et Max Brun dont les études parues respectivement en 1957 et 1958 dans le Bulletin du Bibliophile font référence. Auparavant, cette édition dont la pagination est identique aux types A et B, sans l'errata au verso de la page 257 de la quatrième partie caractéristique du premier tirage, était considérée comme la deuxième originale. Quoi qu'il en soit, ce type C, différant du B par quelques corrections d'erreurs et légères variantes dans certains fleurons, constitue avec celui-ci l'un des tout premiers tirages, à la suite immédiate de la rarissime et très onéreuse première impression, de ce chef-d'oeuvre de la littérature française (les paginations différentes à la mpême date indiquent des éditions ultérieures ou des contrefaçons). Bon exemplaire.
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KRÜNITZ, Johann Georg,
Oeconomische Encyklopädie,. 2. Auflage. Teil 1: Von Aa bis Am.
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- Berlin, Pauli, 1782. Titelkupfer, Titelblatt mit gestochener Vignette, 42, 771 S., 10 Kupfertafeln. Ppbd der Zeit (etwas beschabt, durchgehend etwas wasserrandig, anfangs stärker). (IBI/0744) Mit den Stichworten: Aal, Acker, Affe, Alpen, Ameise, Amsel u.a.; das Titelportrait zeigt Franz B. Schönberg von Brenckenhoff.
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[Dubreuil, Jean]
Bowles' Practice of Perspective: Or An Easy Method of Representing Natural Objects According to the Rules of Art. Applied and exemplified in all the variety of cases; as landscapes, gardens, buildings, of divers kinds, their appendages, parts, and fur
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London: Carington Bowles , 1782. 6th edition. 4to. xvi, xvi, 150 pp. Rebacked in leather retaining original mottled calf boards with gold borders, black leather label with gold lettering. 150 copper plates, (1). " ...With rules for the proportion and position of figures, both in draught and relievo. Also the manner of conducting the shadows, produced either by Natural or artificial luminaries; and practical methods of drawing after nature, when the process of rules are not understood. A work highly necessary for Painters, engravers, architects, embroiderers, statuaries, jewellers, tapestry-workers, and others concerned in designing." Originally written in French by a Jesuit of Paris. One of the most influential work of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries on perspective written for the layman. Also known as the "Jesuit's Perspective," it was first published in French in 1642. The work was widely read in colonial America and remained a standard text for over a hundred years. Translated by E. Chambers. Plates 125-129 in Part IV are incorrectly marked for Part V. An important work on types and applications of visual and graphical perspective including an essay on theory by James Hodgson. Age wear, scuffing and some staining on binding. Reinforced with white binders taps along gutter on front and rear endpapers. Very good condition.
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Geneve. - Revolutions & Troubles de Geneve. Anno 1769 - 1782. Manuscrit avec une large collection de lettres, actes et projets sur les troubles a Geneve / Handschrift mit einer umfangreichen Sammlung von Briefen, Akten, Entwurfen etc. zu den Genfer Wirren des spaten 18. Jh. in Form von einheitlichen Abschriften.
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o.J. (sp. 18. Jh.), in-4to, 588 num. S. in losen Lagen von handgezogenem Papier, von einer Hand in leserlicher Notarsschrift verfasste Kopien in deutscher und franzosischer Sprache, Bl. teils leicht gebraunt, Kiebitzpapiermappe mit 6 Schliessbandern aus Leinen u. handschrftl. Deckelschild, guter Zustand. Umfangreiche zeitgenossische Abschrift aus der Hand eines erfahrenen und sorgfaltigen Schreibers, dem samtliche Quellen zur Verfugung standen und der sowohl die deutsche wie franzosische Sprache perfekt beherrschte. Vielleicht ein Staatskanzler oder anderer Ratsherr aus Zurich. Wie in andern Teilen der Schweiz, so kommt es auch in Genf in der 2. Halfte des 18. Jh. vermehrt zu Unruhen. Der Genfer Oligarchie gelang es 1782 ein letztes Mal sich mit Hilfe seiner Bundnispartner Frankreich, Sardiniens und Bern gegen die eigenen Burger und Untertanen durchzusetzen. Die vorliegenden Abschriften bestehen zu einem grossen Teil aus der Korrespondenz zwischen den Bundnisparteien und deren Austausch mit andern europaischen Machten wie z.B. Preussen. Sie stammen aus dem Zeitraum zwischen dem 25. September 1769 und dem 12. Juni 1782.
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Herder J.G.
Vom Geist der ebräischen Poesie Zwei Teile in einem Band
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Dessau 1782, 1783, 374 S. 18 S. Inhaltsverzeichnis und 16 S. Einleitung und Vorrede; 454 S. 10 S. Schriftstellen und Inhaltsverzeichnis sowie 4 S. Vorrede, Original Pappeinband der Zeit, stark berieben Ecken ausgefranst und bestossen, innen gut, Alter Besitzerstempel "Dr. Schönfeldt Heilanstalt Atgasen Riga" mit handschriftlichem Autograph. Sowie ein späterer ca. um 1900 eingeklebter Zettel in russischer Sprache als Kennzeichnung einer russischen Kulturbibliothek -
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[BOUDIN (Jean-François), en religion père JUSTIN]
Histoire des guerres excitées dans le Comté Venaissin & dans les environs, par les calviniftes du feizième fiècle. Tome II [seul].
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Carpentras, Chez Dominique-Gaspard Quenin, 1782. 2 volumes in-12°; Vol.1: XLVIII + 288p.; Vol.2: 311p. Reliure moderne imitant une reliure XVIIIè: demi-basane marron; dos avec alternance de 5 faux nerfs et 4 caissons ornés de motifs floraux, pièces de titre et tomaisons rouges et vertes; papier de couvrure des plats et gardes marbrés. Bon état. 1ère édition d'un ouvrage publié anonymement par Jean-François BOUDIN, capucin (Monteux, 1736-1811), "qui contient des détails inédits et des faits intéressants que l'auteur a ainsi sauvés de l'oubli" (Barjavel) sur l'histoire des guerres de religions dans le Comtat, de 1560 à 1660; bien complet en 2 volumes. BARJAVEL, "Dictionnaire historique, biographique et bibliographique du Vaucluse".
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HISTOIRE DE L'ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES.-
Année 1777.-
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Tome 2°. Paris. Panckoucke. Hôtel de Thou. 1782. In-12 (102 x 170mm) dos basane brune à 5 nerfs orné or, pièces de maroquin brun clair et bleu (tomé 162), plats de parchemin ancien jauni et portant une écriture manuscrite, tranches rougies, (2), 444 pages, 6 planches dépliantes hors texte. Coiffes lgt abîmées, mais bonne reliure solide, bon état intérieur. Ex-libris Morel de Campennelle. Contient notamment: BORDENAVE: Sur la nécessité de faire l'Opération Césarienne aux Femmes qui meurent enceintes & sur les moyens de rappeler leurs Enfans d'une mort apparente à la vie, 27 pages. LE GENTIL: Observations sur l'inclinaison de l'aiguille aimantée faites dans les mers de l'Inde & dans l'Océan Atlantique, pp.60-89. MESSIER: Observation d'une aurore boréale singulière & d'une forme très-extraordinaire observée à Paris de l'Observatoire de la Marine le 26 février 1777...pp.123-162 et 2 planches (placées p.60): Hémisphère qui représente l'état du ciel pour le temps du milieu du phénomène observé... et Lumière zodiacale observée à Nanci le 26 février par M. Maillette. FOUGEROUX de BONDAROY: 1°(et 2°) mémoire sur des dessins trouvés sur l'écorce et dans l'intérieur d'un gros hêtre et dans des bûches de chêne, 45 pages, 4 planches dépliantes qui montrent des dessins de croix et des lettres. Sans oublier 4 articles de LAVOISIER et de CASSINI Fils Remarques & Observations rassemblées dans un Voyage d'Italie, pp.284-327, etc., etc.
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Wharton (J).
An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope.
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London. for J Dodsley. , fourth edition, corrected. 1782 - Two volumes. 8vo. Bound in contemporary full calf with red lettering pieces. Volume one xiii plus 415 pages and volume two 423 pages. Occasional light to medium foxing but none that interferes with the readability of the text. The hinges of the binding are showing signs of wear but still held firm and the heads and tails of the spine are a little nicked. Both volumes contain the armorial bookplate of Ralph Leycester and his signature on the title pages, dated 1790. Overall it is a good readable copy. Photograph available.
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Hensler, Peter Wilhelm.
Gedichte. 5 Bl., 200 S., 3 Bl. Halblederbd d. Z. Mit Rückenschild und Rückenvergoldung.
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Altona, Auf Kosten der Witwe, bei J. D. A. Eckhardt und in Comm. bei C. E. Bohn, Hamburg, 1782. - Erste Ausgabe der einzigen Gedichtsammlung des Juristen P. W. Hensler (1747-1779), Landsyndikus in Altona und Stade, der "die Dichterei bloß (zur) Erholung" betrieb. Enthält drei Bücher Epigramme, erzählende und andere Gedichte sowie einige Dichtungen seines Bruders, des berühmten Arztes Philipp Gabriel Hensler, der zusammen mit Joh. Heinr. Voss diesen Band herausgab und einen biographischen Vorbericht verfaßte. Die Gedichte, von Claudius, Boje und Voss geschätzt, wurden in verschiedenen Musenalmanachen veröffentlicht. "Das vorzüglichste unter Hensler Poesien sind unstreitig seine Epigramme, von denen die meisten sich durch neue und glückliche Einfälle, Kraft und Schärfe des Vortrags auszeichnen" (Jördens). – Gutes Exemplar, selten. – Goed. IV 1, 671, 3, 2. Jördens II 355.
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Anonyme [ DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel ]
Mémoires sur la Vie et les Ouvrages de M. Turgot, ministre d'Etat.
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1782 - 1 vol. in-8 reliure d'époque pleine basane marbrée, dos à 5 nerfs dorés orné, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, filet doré sur coupes, tranches rouges, Philadelphie [ Paris ], 1782, viij-148-268 pp. Edition originale de ce rare ouvrage, bien complet de ses deux parties. "La deuxième partie montre la position économique du ministre. Le principe fondamental de son administration a toujours été de chercher l'amélioration des revenus de l'Etat, et les moyens de rétablir les finances par l'augmentation de la richesse des propriétaires et par l'aisance du peuple. Dupont de Nemours retrace, tout en faisant son éloge, les principales opérations que Turgot eut l'occasion d'accomplir durant son ministère" Ined, 1610. Bon état (rel. lég. frottée avec petit mq. en mors, un coin frotté, coupes lég. frottées, sans le rare feuillet complémentaire d'errata) pour cet exemplaire en reliure d'époque, provenant de la Bibliothèque de Grandcour (avec un bel et grand ex-libris armorié gravé). [Attributes: First Edition]
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[TRUMBULL, John]
McFingal: A Modern Epic Poem in Four Cantos
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[TRUMBULL, John]. McFingal: A Modern Epic Poem in Four Cantos. Contemporary leather with raised spine bands and gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. Hartford, CT: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, 1782. with GOLDSMITH, [Oliver] Dr. The Deserted Village. A Poem. Phila.: Printed for William Prichard, and William Poyntell, 1782. First complete edition; the first two cantos had first appeared in 1775 (reprinted in 1776). BAL 20539. Evans 17750. Rare. BAL lists only eight copies of this edition and OCLC only one. A satire on British blunders and cowardice during the American Revolution. Though the poem has been called anti-Tory propaganda, its appeal was mostly literary and it went through some 30 editions between 1782 and 1840. Names of several former owners on front free endpaper and title page. The inscription on the title page "Geo. Izard, 1788." George Izard served as a General in the War of 1812 and later as governor of the Arkansas Territory. In 1788 his father Ralph, who had served as a delegate to the continental Congress, was elected United States Senator from South Carolina. It is likely that he is the George Izard to whom this copy belonged. Though The Deserted Village is the second American printing (Evans 17550), it is the first printing to have a solely American imprint. The first appearance (Evans 12060) reads "London: Printed. Philadelphia: Re-printed by William and Thomas Bradford, at the London Coffee-House, 1771). Rare. OCLC lists only two copies of this edition. Minor edgewear, some wear to spine hinges, light scattered foxing to a few leaves, else a very good or better copy.
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ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques);
Les Confessions de J. J. Rousseau, suivies des Rêveries du promeneur solitaire.
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A Londres 1782 - 2 vol. in-12 de (4)-407 pp. et (4)-507 pp., basane havane marbrée, dos ornés à nerfs, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge et de tomaison en maroquin vert, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque). Contrefaçon de la première partie des Confessions suivi des Rêveries du promeneur solitaire. Cette première partie (I-IV), suivi des Rêveries a paru en avril 1782 à Genève, et la seconde n'a paru qu'en 1789. « Cette édition dont nous n'avons pu trouver que le tome II a peut-être été imprimée en 1789 avec une date fictive ». Gagnebin, V, 1896. Edition inconnue de Dufour (I, 339). Bel exemplaire.
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FISCHER, Friedrich Christoph Jonathan,
Litteratur des germanischen Rechts.
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Leipzig, Im Verlage der Schwickerschen Buchhandlung, 1782. - Mit Beilagen. Oktav. Ttlbl., XIX, (2), 310 S. Zeitgenössischer Pappband. Kollation: Ttlbl., XIX S., 1nn.Bl., 310 S. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Nuevo Reyno de Granada). Cavallero y Góngora, Antonio. [Arzobispo de Santa Fé]
Edicto para manifestar al público el indulto general. Concedido por nuestro Catholico Monarca el señor don Carlos III. A todos los comprehendidos en las revoluciones acaecidas en el año pasado de mil setecientos ochenta y uno. Publicado en la Ciudad de Santa Fé de Bogotá el dia siete de Agosto de 1782.
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s.i., sa[1782], s.l. (Madrid o Cordoba), - 32x20,5 cm. 1 hoja (portada y dorso en blanco), XIX páginas, vuelto en blanco. Cartoné moderno. Segunda edición de este "edicto" del Arzobispo y Virrey de Nueva Granada, que se publicó casi seguro en España. Impreso raro en el que se reseña el ajusticiamiento del caudillo revolucionario José Antonio Galán y tres de sus compañeros. La influencia del arzobispo Caballero y Góngora fué decisiva para la pacificación del pais, al inaugurar su mando concedió una amplia amnistia; fundó la diócesis de Antioquia y fomentó la agricultura y la instrucción, a él se debe el Instituto de Ciencias Naturales. Palau 78423. Medina BHA, 5002. Medina, La imprenta en Bogotá, 7 (para la primera edición). [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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HELIODORUS),
Amours de Theagenes et Chariclee, (in 2 Bänden),
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- Histoire Éethiopique, (IN FRANZÖSISCHER SPRACHE), Tom Second, 2 Bände, Geneve 1782. 228, 203 Seiten, 7x12, braune Ldr.-Bde. der Zeit mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel auf roten Ldr.-Rückenschild, floraler Rückenvergoldung, dreifachen Deckelfileten, Goldschnitt, Rücken angeplatzt und bestossen, Buchdeckel fast lose, Bücher insgesamt berieben. Nicht bei Hayn-Gothendorf VR 29825, Erotik
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Wieland, Christoph Martin
Horazens Briefe aus dem Latienischen ubersetzt und mit historischen Einleitungen und anderen nothigen Erlauterungen versehen
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Dessau: auf Kosten der Verlags-Kasse und zu finden in der Buchhandlung der Gelehrten, 1782. First edition. 2 volumes in 1. 8vo. 304pp. 261pp. Paper covered boards. Famous work on the satirical work "Horazen's Briefe", translated from the Latin by renowned German poet and novelist, C.M. Wieland (see below). Serious age wear, water marks and repair to boards, with spine missing. Binding still firm. Browning and sporadic foxing, with some underlining in red to very few pages, not affecting text. Owners' writing to inside of both boards. In German, in Gothic letters. binding in poor, book in good- condition.#11; #11;On the author:#11;Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813) was a German poet and novelist. He spend his boyhood in Biberach until he was sent to the school of Kloster (monestary) Bergen in 1747. When he left the school in 1749, he widely read the Latin classics and leading contemporary French writers; amongst German poets his favourites were Brockes and Klopstock. During the summer of 1750, he fell in love with Sophie Gutermann (a cousin of his), and this love affair inspired him to plan his first ambitious works, Lobgesang auf die Liebe (1751), followed by Die Natur der Dinge (1752), a didactic poem in six books of Alexandrine verse. In 1750 he went to the University of Tubingen as a student of law but his time was mainly taken up with literary studies. The poems he wrote at the university are pietistic in tone and dominated by the influence of Klopstock. They attracted the attention of the Swiss literary reformer, J.J. Bodmer, who invited Wieland to visit him in Zurich in the summer of 1752. Wieland remained in Switzerland until 1760, where he #11; spent the last year at Bern as a private tutor.Wieland, as Gotthold Lessing said, "forsook the ethereal spheres to wander again among the sons of men." [quoted from the Encyclopedia Britannica] Wieland met again his early love Sophie Gutermann, who had become the wife of Hofrat La Roche, then manager of Count Stadion's estates. The former poet of an austere pietism now became the advocate of a light-hearted philosophy, from which frivolity and sensuality were not excluded. In Don Sylvia von Rosalva (1764), a romance in imitation of Don Quixote, he held up to ridicule his earlier faiths and in the Comische Erzahlungen (1765) he gave his extravagant imagination only too free a rein. More important is the novel Geschichte des Agathon (1766-1767), in which, under the guise of a Greek fiction, Wieland described his own spiritual and intellectual growth. This work, which Lessing recommended as "a novel of classic taste," [quoted from the Encyclopedia Britannica] marks an epoch in the development of the modern psychological novel. Of equal importance was Wieland's translation of twenty-two of Shakespeare's plays into prose (8 vols., 1762-1766); it was the first attempt to present the English poet to the German people in something approaching entirety.Wieland married in 1765, and between 1769 and 1772 was professor of philosophy at Erfurt. With the exception of some years Weimar remained Wieland's home until his death. Here in 1773, he founded Der teutsche Merkur, which under his editorship (1773-1789) became the most influential literary review in Germany. Without creating a school in the strict sense of the term, Wieland had a strong influence on the German literature of his time. The verse-romance and the novel--more especially in Austria--benefited by his example, and even the Romanticism of the 19th century borrowed from him in its excursions into the literatures of southern Europe. The qualities which distinguish his work, his fluent style and light touch, his careless frivolity in contrast to poetic depth, show him to have been in literary temperament more akin to Ariosto and Voltaire than to the more spiritual and serious leaders of German poetry; but these very qualities in Wieland's poetry introduced a balancing element into German classical literature and added materially to its fullness and completeness. This is not to say, however, that Wieland shouldn't be counted among the great German poetic geniuses. Kant himself refers to Wieland in the same sentence as Homer, citing him as an example of Kant's idea of artistic genius. (Critique of Judgment, 5:309, quoted in Encyclopedia Britannica)#11;
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Mélanges tirés d'une grande bibliothèque. De la lecture des livres français. Livres militaires du XVIe siècle et Portraits des illustres militaires du XVIe siècle
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Moutard 1782 - 4 volumes in-8° (21,1 x 14 cm), brochés sous couverture d'attente bleue de l'époque. Exemplaires non rognés. 1 602 pages au total. Bel ex-libris armorié du XIXe siècle du château de Rumilly dans chaque volume. Exemplaires présentant les défauts habituels des livres brochés de cette époque : un dos manquant, quelques manques de papier aux autres dos, quelques coins pliés sinon bel exemplaire à toutes marges, très frais à l'intérieur, sans rousseur. Ces 4 volumes, complet en eux-mêmes, réunissent l'ensemble des textes publiés par Paulmy concernant les livres militaires (tomes : Cc, Dd, Ee) et les portraits, caractères et anecdotes sur les grands militaires (tomes Ee, Ff). Les Mélanges tirés d'une grande bibliothèque forment un ensemble de 69 volumes très rarement complet (l'exemplaire de la BNF ne l'est pas). Ils constituent " l'esprit de l'immense bibliothèque de Paulmy et le principal résultat des notes et observations qu'il avait écrites sur ses livres" (Michaud, Biographie Universelle). Retiré du monde après une brillante carrière de diplomate et de ministre d'état, Paulmy s'est consacré à sa bibliothèque - plus de cent mille ouvrages qu'il semble avoir pour la plupart lus et annotés. Comme le mentionne le rédacteur de sa notice du Dictionnaire des Lettres françaises du XVIIIème siècle, "on a peine à s'expliquer comment cet homme étonnant put suffire à cette vertigineuse production". Léguée à l'Etat, sa fameuse bibliothèque forma la prestigieuse Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. Les Mélanges présentent des notices, résumés et longs extraits de tous ces ouvrages et sont d'un intérêt tout particulier pour ceux du XVIème siècle.
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Bew, J.
Map of Mexico - New Spain, from the latest Authorities.
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- Bew, J. Map of Mexico - New Spain, from the latest Authorities. London Feb 28, 1782. The southern half of North America, centering on Texas, New Mexico, California and Mexico. Notes New Albion (Drake's name for California), Texas "Great Space of Land Unknown". Copper engraving, 37 x 29 cms, contemporary folds o/w vgc. Jolly POL 46.
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PAGES, Pierre-Maries Francoise de.
VOYAGES AUTOR DU MONDE, ET VERS LES DEUX POLES, PAR TERRE ETPAR MER, PENDANT LES ANNEES 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1773, 1774 & 1776.
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THE FIRST EDITION OF A VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD & AMERICA ! Paris 1782, Moutard. Half calf over blueboards, 2 vol. set: 432+272p., indices, French text,1 tiny worm hole first 40+p. vol. 1, else both vols. clean, solid, 10 folding copper etc- hed maps & plates, original binding. FIRST EDITION COMPLETE Viscount de Pierre Marie Francois Pages, was a French explorer, he was born in Toulouse in 1748 & died in 1793 on Santo Domingo. * This is a famous and important circum-navigation work. The first volume begins with the great explorer voyage as he left France bound for the New World and arrived in [America] New Orleans in 1767, proceeded into the Red River to Natchitoches and on to Nacogdoches passing through Texas to San Antonio. He turned his travel South into Mexico, then pointed his vessel Westward thereby sailing across the great Pacific ocean through the Marianas and Philippine islands, South to the East Indies, visiting Batavia and then to Southern India. From there he continued his historic voyage up the forbidding Persian Gulf, even visiting Jerusalem. The accompanying maps & charts show these places. * The second volume focuses on his voyage in 1773-4 and now he was accompanied Kerguelen-Tremarec in their quest to find a Southern Continent.It was Kerguelen's second voyage and it ended in a disaster as the ship Rolland which lost its mast during a great storm resulting in Kerguelen being court- marshaled. It was at this time, that Page continued later by joining a Dutch whaler to Sptizbergen and the first plate shows the capture of a whale. * The second volume is mostly devoted to his voyage and search for a Southern Continent under the guidance of Kerguelen in 1773-4. It was Kerguelen's second voyage and it ended in a disaster of the ship Rolland which lost its mast during a great storm. resulting Kerguelen being court-marshaled. * BINDING, CONDITION: This work is bound in what we believe to be original gilt half calf, with gold decorations. Volume 1 has ca 3.5 cm split to the top front of hinge else solid, The small worm hole penetrates the first 49 pages, but is not objectionable and the print is easily read in spite of this, which begins from the inside cover. Volume 2 is solid, the leather firm, no cracks. Both volumes are half-leather over original blue paper-covered boards which shows the usual minor scuffing, the set is however solid and firm. The folding plates are bright, clean, without any tears, strong images, all folded as issued and printed on heavy stiff rag paper. By and large a nice set, with minor and usual flaws to the exterior. * BIBLIOGRAPHY: HOWES p.13 CLARK I:285 HILL 1285; English edition: 526-7p. Spence, 887 WAGNER SPANISH SOUTHWEST 165 STREETER TEXAS 1027 SABIN 58171 * Color scans can be sent by email.Images displayed may not be the actual copy in stock for sale at any given time; if you want to see the exact image of the book or edition in stock, please request this by email and an image will be returned to you by attachment. !! WARNING: The above description is COPYRIGHT protected material under United States & International Copyright & Intellectual property laws. Unauthorized copying or use of ANY PART is a felony and will be PROSECUTED TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW !!! The entire text and contents of this description is Copyright protected 2002-2008 Rare Oriental Book Co.
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BENJAMIN MARTIN.
THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN AND LADY'S PHILOSOPHY in a continued survey of the works of nature and art; by way of dialogue.
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London, printed for W. Owen; and the Author, -1782. 1781 - 3 volumes, complete set, Volumes I and II are 3rd editions, corrected, dated 1781, and Volume III is a first edition dated 1782. 8vo, 210 x 125 mm, 8¼ x 5 inches, Volume I: frontispiece and 34 engraved plates, 4 folding, (2 plates numbered VIII, 1 being the "appendage" to plate VIII), pages (12), 408, (20); Volume II: frontispiece of Volume I repeated, and 20 engraved plates (numbered XXXIV-LII plus 1 unnumbered entitled Lyrichord), 2 folding, one a map of the Atlantic, pages (8), 421, (18); Volume III: 19 engraved plates, no frontispiece called for, pages (16), 366, (16), half-titles present in Volumes I and III, not called for in Volume II, each volume has index and directions to the binder at the end. Bound in full antique calf, gilt rules and gilt lettered morocco label to spine. Expertly rebacked with original worn backstrips laid on, original backstrips slightly chipped at head and tail and with some hair-line surface cracks, 1 label slightly chipped and repaired, covers slightly marked and with a few small stains, original endpapers retained and slightly browned at edges, slight offsetting onto text from some plates, some plates lightly browned especially at edges, some plate margins trimmed, occasional small pale stain, Volume I: light brown damp staining along edges of frontispiece and plate 1, affecting but in no way obscuring image, repeated on most plates but gradually reducing in size and strength, tiny ink stain to margin of 2 plates, tiny nick to top of 1 fold on 1 plate, 1 plate bound in upside down, small worm track to fore-edge starts page 375 and persists to the end of the volume increasing in size but never anywhere near the text or image (last 3 plates), all repaired very neatly; Volume II: fore-edge margin of frontispiece slightly trimmed, 55 mm (2¼ inch) split to fold on 1 plate, 2 text pages lightly browned; Volume III: 2 small pale damp stains to edges of plate 2, large closed tear to top corner of page 105, neatly repaired with no loss of text, some plate margins trimmed, a couple of gatherings lightly foxed. A good clean tight set. Benjamin Martin (1704-1782) a self-taught mathematician and astronomer from a humble background was one of the great popularisers of science in the mid 18th century. He was a devoted proponent of the systems of Newton and lectured around the country on experimental philosophy. In 1755 he settled in London as an optician and made optical instruments and spectacles. The first publication of The Young Gentleman and Lady's Philosophy, Volumes I and II, 1759-63, was in a journal founded by Martin himself, "General magazine of arts and sciences" which ran from 1755-1765. This was followed by the second edition in 1772 also 2 volumes. Volume I contains: the philosophy of the heavens and of the atmosphere. Volume II: I. The use of the celestial and terrestrial globes. II. The philosophy of light and colours, and the use of all sorts of optical instruments. III. The philosophy of sounds, music, and the organization of the ear. Volume III: a survey of the principal subjects of the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms, the last part including discussion of the make up of the earth near its surface and hydrostatic mechanic principles. The complete set of three volumes is quite scarce. Images sent on request. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]
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Rousseau, J(ean)-J(acques):
Collection complete des oeuvres. 15 Bände, davon XIII-XV als Supplement T. I-III. -- 15 vols., dont vols. XIII-XV comme supplement t.I-III
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A Geneve [ohne Verlag] 1782. -- (sans indication de l'editeur). - 4°. Mit 10 S. gestoch. Musik in T. VIII u. 14 gestoch. Falttafeln Musik in T. IX. Braune gemusterte, uniforme Lederbde. d.Zt. auf 5 Bünden, mit je 2 farb. Rschild. (rot bzw. schwarz) mit goldgepr. Rtiteln, reicher Rvergold. (Fileten nebst Blüten u. Blättern in den Rfeldern), Stehkantenvergold. sowie marmor. Buntpapiervorsätzen; Ecken u. Kanten min. berieben, Vdeckel von T. IX an 2-3 Stellen berieben (nur die äußerste Lederschicht incl. Muster betroffen), ebda. kl. Lederdefekt von 0,5 x 3 cm am Rückenfuß. - Außen u. innen sauberes, schön gebundenes Expl. Eine bibliogr. wenig bekannte Variante der (sämtlich posthumen) Genfer Quartausgaben, hier mit dem einheitlichen Erscheinungsjahr 1782, jedoch mit dem Vorwort des Hrsgs. Du Peyrou von 1779, ohne Illustrationen, aber mit den umfangreichen Musikbeilagen. Nach dem Expl. der Bibl. de Neuchatel beschrieben von Dufour II, 68,1 als mit 15 Bdn. "en grand papier" (wie bei uns!) incl. 3 Suppl. zunächst komplett; erst 1789 (!) erschien mit T. XVI u. XVII ein 2. u. letztes Suppl., "mais en papier ordinaire (in-4° plus petit)". - Weitere bibliogr. Einzelheiten vgl. bei Ebert II,19468; Brunet IV,1422; Senelier 1.896, mit meist abweichenden Jahreszahlen (einige Fotok. beiliegend). --- In -4, avec 10 p. de musique gravee en vol. VIII et 14 planches depliantes de musique gravee en vol. IX. Plein veau marbre de l'epoque, dos a cinq nerfs avec deux pieces de titre (un en rouge, un en noir avec les titres dores) et les compartiments richement fleuronnes, les bords dores et les gardes de papier marmorees. / Petit manque de cuir (0,5x3cm) du vol. IX, qqs. epidermures minimales: tres bon exemplaire, bien relie a l'epoque. - Une variante moins connue des editions in -4 de Geneve (toutes a titre posthume) avec la date de 1782, mais avec la preface de Du Peyrou de 1779, sans illustrations, mais avec les vastes planches de musique. D'apres l'exemplaire de la bibliotheque de Neuchatel, detaille par Dufour II,68.1, tout d'abord complet avec 15 vols. en grand papier incl. 3 suppl. avec les t. XVI et XVII., "mais en papier ordinaire (in -4 plus petit)." - Autres details bibl. chez Ebert II, 19468; Brunet IV, 1422; Senelier 1.896, souvent avec des annees differentes. 8800g [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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ALBERTI LEONBATISTA
DELLA ARCHITETTURA DELLA PITTURA E DELLA STATUA
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INSTITUTO DELLE SCIENZE, BOLOGNA 1782 - Traduzione di Cosimo Bartoli Rileg. piena pelle con ricchissime decorazioni in oro ai piatti, dorso rifatto in pelle a 4 coste. H 38 Pg. XIII - 341. Dieci libri in uno con 69 tavv. incc. a piena pag. f. t. alcune ripiegate più volte. Finalini incc.
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HEISTER, Lorenz (1683-1758)
Compendio anatomico di.... Nel quale si contiene tutta la dottrina anatomica. Tradotto in Italiano dalla quarta edizione Latina d'Altorf, molto pia corretta ed accresciuta delle precedenti. Vi si aggiunge I. Il compendio dell'instituzioni di medic
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Venice:: Giovanni Vitto. 1782. hardcover. 2. 235 x 175 mm. 4to. xx, 280 pp. Woodcut title-page vignette, decorative initials, tailpieces, headpieces, indexes, 10 engraved folding plates; marginal water-stains in the first few leaves, ms. drawings of the heart and arteries tipped-in at pages 10 and 14, plates stained, plate 6 with corner torn off repaired without loss, plate 9 with small hole (does not affect image). Modern quarter calf, marbled boards, raised bands, gilt spine; spine faded. Bookplates of Charles F. Kofoid and Jerry F. Donin. Ownership signature of Marconi Giovanni di Edida opposite title. Very good. . SECOND ITALIAN EDITION, 1st ed., 1730. Based on the fourth Latin edition (Altdorf, 1730) which had been considerably revised and augmented by Heister. Includes Heister's three important works: the compendium of anatomy; his essay on the proper study of medicine (with a list of books added, which every student of medicine must use); and at the end is the Dissertation on the choroid membrane of the eye, defended by Giov. Sigismondo Leincker of Nuremberg, 1746 (pages 248-280). Plate 10 is on optics. Lorenz Heister was born in Frankfurt am Main and studied medicine in Amsterdam and Leiden under Boerhaave and Bidloo. He received his M.D. at Harderwijk in 1708, and taught anatomy and surgery at Altdorf (1711-1720) and Helmstadt (1720-1758). In addition to his influential textbooks on anatomy and surgery, Heister wrote treatises on cataract, in which he asserted the then-new doctrine that cataract is an opacification of the crystalline lens itself. See: Hirschberg, IV, pp. 1-16. PROVENANCE: Charles Atwood Kofoid (1865-1947) became a member of the zoology department of the University of California in 1901, where he was chair of the department until his retirement (1910-1936). "Anyone who has had the privilege of using the great resources of the Kofoid Collection in the Biology Library of the University of California at Berkeley is aware of the debt of the life sciences to Kofoid. His personal bookplate, which depicts the world of marine biology, protozoology, and parasitology, testifies to his wide interests and enthusiasms." DSB, VII, p. 447. REFERENCES: Albert, et al, Source book of ophthalmology, 1020 (2nd Latin ed., Venice, 1730) & 1027 (Italian ed., Venice, 1772); Blake, NLM, p. 203; Gorin, History of ophthalmology, pp. 54-55; Hirsch, III, p. 132 (various editions cited, not this one).
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Samuel Musgrave
Two Dissertations: I. On the Graecian Mythology; II. An Examination of Sir Isaac
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Full Title: Two Dissertations: I. On the Graecian Mythology; II. An Examination of Sir Isaac Newton's Objections to the Chronology of the Olympiads. Condition: Very Good -. Edition: First Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good copy with detached front board but otherwise in very good condition. Moderate wear and buming to boards worn slightly through marbled paper boards. Binding is tight and text block is bright and unmarked. High quality paper with wide margins. Complete with subscribers' list. A nice copy in an unsophisticated binding Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Antiquarian & Rare Inventory No: 030815. [Publisher: J Nichols]
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D.V.C.E [CARRON GUY-Toussain julien Abbé]
Les époux charitables ; ou vies de Madame la comtesse de la Garaye.
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N. Audran, Rennes, , 1782 - xi-1ff-397pp., In-12. EO - Plein veau d'époque - Rare édition originale de ce texte attribué à Carron (Barbier II,166) - Dans une pagination continue on trouve en fin d'ouvrage : La pieuse veuve ou abrégé de la vue édifiante de Madame la comtesse de Pontbriand - Reliure à 5 nerfs, caissons ornés, tranches marbrées - Les coins sont émoussés, la reliure manquante par endroit (dos et plats), sinon très bon état intérieur.
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BECKER, Johann Rudolph (Hg.):
Umständliche Geschichte der Kaiserl. und des Heil. Römischen Reichs freyen Stadt Lübeck. (3 Bände).
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Lübeck: Green / Römhild 1782/84/1805. - (4)524/(4)460/(3)432,34 S. mit Vignetten u. (im ersten Band) 1 gefalt. Titelkupfer (Lubecca - Lübeck. Kupferstich von Matthaeus Merian d.Ä. aus dem Jahr 1641) Reg. HLdr. d.Zt. mit marmoriertem Vorsätzen u. Farbschnitt *Einbände stellenweise beschabt*Kapitale bestossen*handschriftl. Ergänzung von alter Hand auf Titelblatt des ersten Bandes*innen insgesamt ordentlich und sauber erhalten*. [Der erste Band des dreiteiligen Werkes des Lübecker Historikers Johann Rudolf Becker (1736-1815) enthält die Abteilungen 1-7. Diese beschäftigen sich mit der Zeitepoche von der Erbauung der Stadt bis zur Kirchenreformation. Der zweite Band, welcher die Abteilungen 8-12 umfasst, beschreibt die Zeit zwischen der Kirchenreformation und dem Westfälischen Frieden. Der dritte Band schließt mit der 17. Abteilung die Lübecker Geschichte mit dem Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts ab.]
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ARNOLFINI Giovanni Attilio / ZANOTTI Eustachio.
MEMORIE SOPRA IL LAGO DI SESTO, E DI BIENTINA. Raccolte e compilate dallo Sp.le Gio.Attilio Arnolfini per l'Ill.ma Deputazione de Nove Sp.Cittadini eletti dall'Ecc.mo Consiglio per l'Esame del Progetto del nuovo Ozzeri, 1779 / APOLOGIA DEL PROGETTO DEL NUOVO OZZERI CONTRO LE OSSERVAZIONI, E RIFLESSIONI DI ALCUNI INTERESSATI DI GIO.ATTILIO ARNOLFINI. 1783.
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. Due interessantissimi documenti manoscritti in bella copia. Il testo dell'Arnolfini e in formato cm.34x23 e consta di 135 carte, cosi articolate: una carta bianca; quattro contenenti il frontespizio, l'elenco dei Cittadini Deputati, l'intestazione e la prefazione; 96 carte compilate per 191 pagine numerate; 34 carte bianche. Buona legatura coeva in piena pergamena rigida, con tassello con titoli in oro al dorso. Tagli spruzzati. Testo in in ottima grafia, assai ben consultabile, compilato su 26 righe per pagina. Allegata una carta a stampa in formato cm.49x75,5 (incisione di Bartolomeo Nerici su disegno di Michele Flosi), raffigurante la "Mappa delle Campagne, Laghi, Paludi Lucchesi e Toscane dall'Arno presso Montecchio, e S.Giovanni alla Vena fino al Litorale di Viareggio, coll'indicazione della Linea d'un Nuovo Canale, da nominarsi il Nuovo Ozzeri", con acquarellatura a mano coeva. In fine al testo (pg.191) e applicata una ulteriore carta a stampa, in formato cm.30,5x42, raffigurante il sistema idraultico della Lucchesia, con i laghi di Sesto e di Massaciuccoli e il Fiume Serchio. Ambedue le carte, allegate a titolo esplicativo del testo, sono tratte dall'Opera "Piano di operazioni idrauliche per ottenere la massima depressione del lago di Sesto o sia di Bientina" di Leonardo Ximenes (Lucca, presso Francesco Bonsignori, 1782). Con tassello di proprieta "Lelio Ignazio Di Poggio". Il secondo manoscritto e opera di Eustachio Zanotti. In formato cm.29,6x20,3. consta di quattro carte non numerate, con frontespizio e "Avviso al Lettore", 200 pagine numerate, compilate in ottima grafia su 27 righe per pagina, 11 pagine numerate di "Appendice" e 11 carte bianche. Legatura coeva in gradevole cartoncino decorato a colori. Tagli spruzzati. Prima del frontespizio e allegata una carta, con compilazione manoscritta al recto e al verso, contenente alcune notazioni riferite al testo. Ambedue i volumi in ottime condizioni di conservazione, su carta greve. Giovanni Attilio Arnolfini (Lucca, 15 ottobre 1733 - 21 novembre 1791), idrologo e scrittore, compi gli studi di teologia e giurisprudenza a Roma, per poi divenire magistrato, nel 1761 e in seguito sopraintendente alle acque della Repubblica di Lucca. Di lui parla in termini estremamente lusinghieri il celebre astronomo G.Girolamo De la Lande (1732-1807), che a seguito di una visita a Lucca ricorda testualmente: "Par mi le personnes distinguees que j'ai connues, je dois citer M.Jean Attilio Arnolfini, prepose a l'inspection des eaux et des canaux; on ne pourroit trouver dans le plus grandes capitales un homme plus instruit dans les sciences mathematiques et plus exerce dans les arts de gout, tels que la musique.......". (Cfr. Sforza "Ricordi e Biografie lucchesi", pg.XXXIII). Oltre ai suoi molteplici lavori idrologici nel territorio lucchese, si occupo di analoghe questioni per il fiume Reno, su incarico di Papa Pio VI, a Terranova e compi apprezzate consulenze presso molte corti europee. Eustachio Zanotti (Bologna, 27 novembre 1709 - Bologna, 15 maggio 1782), astronomo e ingegnere idraulico, fu Segretario dell'Istituto delle Scienze di Bologna, membro delle Accademie di Berlino, Londra, Napoli, Padova e Kassel e Socio dell'Accademia dei Quaranta. Si devono a lui importanti studi sulle comete, sulle eclissi solari e lunari, sulle aurore boreali, oltre al restauro nel 1776 della meridiana della basilica di San Petronio a Bologna. Si tratta di due fondamentali documenti per la ultrasecolare storia delle bonifiche del territorio compreso tra il Lago di Bientina o Sesto e il Mar Tirreno. Questo un sunto della complessa vicenda, tratta dal sito dell'Archivio di Stato di Lucca: "Le frequentissime inondazioni delle acque che si raccoglievano nel bacino di Sesto o di Bientina, ed il loro continuo allargarsi a danno dei terreni lucchesi e pisani, per causa dell'inalzamento dei letti del Serchio e dell'Arno, fecero in piu tempi pensare a nuovi partiti per ottenerne lo scolo. Fino dal 1669 l'ingegnere Ciaccheri ideo di sgorgare le acque mediante una botte sott'Arno, e questo concetto fu ripetuto dal matematico Perelli, sul principio del secolo passato. Nel 1768 essendo accaduto un piu vasto e prolungato allagamento, il Granduca Pietro Leopoldo si propose di eseguire quel lavoro, a cui ben volentieri consenti la Repubblica [di Lucca], che avrebbe anche concorso ad una parte proporzionata della spesa. Ma furono tante le opposizioni che fecero a cio i proprietari della pianura pisana, che dichiararono non voler ricevere sopra le loro terre una mole d'acque non proprie, che si mise da parte quel disegno. Risorsero di li a poco (1772) le solite querele e proteste del Governo Toscano per il passaggio delle acque del Serchio nel Lago di Sesto. Fu allora che in Lucca si presero a studiare nuovi rimedi; e Gio. Attilio Arnolfini, dopo molte indagini, venne in pensiero di costruire un nuovo canale che dal Lago conducesse le acque traverso la pianura lucchese, seguendo presso a poco la direzione dell'Ozzeri; ma che invece di versare nel Serchio, lo avrebbe traversato sotterra mediante una botte, e quindi, passato il colle di Balbano per mezzo di una galleria, avrebbe fatto capo direttamente nel mare. Fino dal 30 Dicembre del 1768, il Consiglio Generale aveva fatto decreto che l'Offizio sopra i Paduli di Sesto e quello sopra l'Ozzeri e Rogio, operando unitamente, dovessero trattare col Governo di Firenze per dare uno stabile e reale scolo alle nostre campagne. Questa deputazione, rinnovata e prorogata piu volte, anche aggiungendo ai membri dei due Offizi altri cittadini, dette conclusione ai suoi lavori mediante una lunga relazione, sottoscritta il 5 Marzo 1782, la quale fu letta pochi giorni dopo nel Consiglio Generale. Con questa si consigliava la esecuzione del Nuovo Ozzeri, il piano del quale di presentava come opera dell'idraulico Ximenes, approvato, e, solamente in poche cose secondarie, modificato dal Boscovich e da Eustachio Zanotti. Gio. Attilio Arnolfini, a cui si doveva, come si disse, il primo concetto, era stato, per cosi dire, l'anima di tutti questi studi, e valendosi del nome di quegli idraulici famosi, gli aveva condotti a tale che nulla piu mancava che l'esecuzione. Il Consiglio, avanti d'intraprendere un lavoro di tanta importanza, ordino (28 Giugno 1782) che si stampassero a spese pubbliche le proposte dei tre idraulici, sulle quali i Deputati avevano fondata la loro Relazione; e che quindi si invitassero gli interessati a produrre le loro osservazioni in proposito. Sorsero allora critiche ed obiezioni di piu sorte sulla riuscita del disegno e sulla spesa occorrente; e si ebbero controrisposte e apologie. In questa divisione di opinioni, il Consiglio Generale risolvette (1784) di rimettere il disegno all'esame di un nuovo matematico, che fu Anton Maria Lorgna. Il quale, visto anch'esso i luoghi e prese misure nuove, presentava il suo parere in una Memoria, la cui conclusione era, approvare lo scolo in mare per la botte sotto il Serchio, ma dissentire dal Ximenes e dagli altri ingegneri sul modo della costruzione del canale e sul modo e luogo di mandarlo nel mare; prescegliendo un taglio a Filettole, invece del foro a Balbano. Venuti allora a contrasto i partigiani dell'uno e dell'altro progetto, e afforzatasi sempre piu la contrarieta de' pareri, accade che prima se ne illanguidi il discorso, ed in fine resto come dimenticata e senza alcuna risoluzione un'impresa, gia tanto desiderata e consigliata da valentissimi idraulici. A lasciar da parte il piano del Nuovo Ozzeri contribuirono anche la proposta fatta di li a poco dal Granduca, del cambio della serezza col Canale Imperiale per lo scolo del Lago di Sesto, e l'apposizione delle cataratte in bocca d'Ozzeri, che parvero rimedi sufficienti a diminuire i danni degli allagamenti, finche in modo durevole non vi fosse stato provveduto. Mentre Lucca si ritirava dal metter mano al lavoro di scolo per il suo territorio, il Granduca riprendeva il vecchio concetto toscano de....
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[ Genlis, Stephanie Felicitie ].
Adele et Theodore, ou Lettres sur l'Education; contenant tous les principes relatifs aux trios differens plans d'education des Princes, des jeunes personnes, & des hommes.
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Paris: M. Lambert & F. J. Baudouin, 1782. Three volumes, twelemo. [2], 412; [2], 390; 423 pp Contemporary tree calf, gilt flat spines with red and brown morocco labels, edges sprinkled red. Some joints neatly repaired. A very good copy, complete with half-titles in Volumes I and II. First edition of this treatise on education, inspired by the ideas of Rousseau, cloaked in the guise of an epistolary novel. Though it has been often reprinted, the first edition is uncommon. Madame de Genlis (1746-1830) was born of a noble but impoverished Burgundian family. At the age of six she was received as a canoness into the noble chapter of Alix near Lyons, with the title of Madame la Comtesse de Lancy, taken from the town of Bourbon-Lancy. She was educated entirely at home. After she grew up, she married Charles Brillart de Genlis, marquis de Sillery, and she became determined to remedy her incomplete education and to satisfy her thirst for knowledge. Through the influence of her aunt, Madame de Montesson, who had been clandestinely married to the Duke of Orleans, she entered the Palais Royal as lady-in-waiting to the Duchess of Chartres (1770). She became governess to the daughters of the family, a role she took with great seriousness. She developed a number of ingenious educational theories, which she explained in several works, including Théatre d’education, Annales de la vertu, and the present work. She anticipated many modern methods of teaching. History was taught with the help of magic lantern slides, and botany was taught by a practical botanist during their walks. She was influenced by the educational theories of Rousseau, and she in turn influenced the Edgeworths. Cioranescu 30608. Plagnot-Dieval, Bibliographie des Ecrivains Francaise, 1975.
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Daubenton, Louis Jean Marie, 1716-1799.
Instruction pour les bergers et pour les propiétaires de troupeaux.
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Paris: Ph. - D. Pierres, M,DCC,LXXXII (1782). - First edition. xvi {introductory},414, [2] { Approbations--one signed by Condorcet for the Academie Royale des Sciences} pp. plus 20 of 22 listed copper engraved plates--Plates 7 and 9 either were not inserted or removed. Each plate is followed a paginated leaf of text describing the plate--the corner of page 243, describing Plate 14, is missing, with the loss of a number of words (the plate itself is unaffected). Bound in contemporary calf with raised bands and gilt floral ornaments and lettering on the spine. Marbled end papers. Red stained text edges. Binding worn at tips with small erosion at spine ends, starter cracks at heel of spine. Slight twist in spine. Rear free endpaper removed. Two sections with small, marginal worming in gutter. Old, faint dampstaining on the first few and last few leaves, else light, sporadic, marginal brown spots. Last free endpaper removed. Overall good, the text better, binding firm. First edition of a frequently reprinted manual (translated to English for use in the U.S. and U.K.) with a very nice set of plates. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]
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HUNTING.)
Hunting vindicated from cruelty, in a letter to the Monthly Reviewers. "Spitzbergen
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[i.e. London?]: printed for the benefit, if any, of the whippers-in; and sold by B. Law, London; R. Trewman, Exeter; and M. Haydon, Plymouth 1782 - 8vo., [5],6-30,[2, blank]p. With half title. Old but not original wrappers. Preserved in a cloth folder, morocco spine label. With the Swerdt and Duke of Gloucester bookplates. First edition. Not in ESTC on-line. Schwerdt I, p.260. Exceedingly rare. A spirited defence of hunting hares by the use of greyhounds, written in reply to a reviewer who had called all hunters "Barbarians." The "Spitzbergen" imprint is a curious one, and an odd choice for a spurious imprint. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]
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Uriot, Joseph.
Le Feste della Tessaglia, opera allegorica mista di ballo e di canto, rappresentata sul Gran teatro di Stutgard per celebrar l'arrivo delle Loro Altezze imperiali Paolo Petrovitch, gran duca di Russia, e Maria Federowna, gran duchessa di Russia, nata principessa di Wirtemberg-Stutgard, il giorno [ ] di settembre 1782. = Les Fêtes thessaliennes, opéra-ballet allégorique représenté sur le Grand theatre de Stoutgard pour célébrer l'arrivée de Leurs Altesses impériales Paul Petrovitch, grand duc de Russie, et Marie Federowna, grande duchesse de Russie, née princesse de Wirtemberg-Stoutgard, le ...
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Uriot, Joseph. Le Feste della Tessaglia, opera allegorica mista di ballo e di canto, rappresentatasul Gran teatro di Stutgard per celebrar l'arrivo delle Loro Altezze imperiali Paolo Petrovitch, gran duca di Russia, e Maria Federowna, gran duchessa di Russia, nata principessa di Wirtemberg-Stutgard, il giorno [ ] di settembre 1782. Les Fêtes thessaliennes, opéra-ballet allégorique représenté sur le Grand theatre de Stoutgard pour célébrer l'arrivée de Leurs Altesses impériales Paul Petrovitch, grand duc de Russie, et Marie Federowna, grande duchesse de Russie, née princesse de Wirtemberg-Stoutgard, le [ ] du mois de septembre 1782. Stutgard: Stamp. di Cotta, (1782). First edition. 4to. 129p. Modern floral boards. Text in Italian and French. Dampstains to the first five leaves, else a very good copy. Performed for the first time in Stuttgart on September 17, 1782 with music by Johann Rudolph Zumsteeg A. Poli, C. L. Dieter, and J. F. Gauss. The libretto is after Joseph Uriot's French text rendered into Italian by Verazi. Cast list and list of important personages. Scenery and costumes by Nicolò Guibal, dances by Regneau. The masonic links to the opera are due to the fact that the composer Zumsteeg [Zum Steeg], Johann Rudolf (b Sachsenflur, nr Mergentheim, 10 Jan 1760; d Stuttgart, 27 Jan 1802) while Konzertmeister to the Württemberg court came out unreservedly for works with masonic symbolism and gave the first Stuttgart performances of Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte. His own greatest success as opera composer came with Die Geisterinsel to Gotter's adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Joseph Uriot (1713 - 1778 or 1788) was a professor of French literature at Caroline University. His allegorical text may have masonic content since Uriot was a himself a mason. He wrote Le secret des Franc-Maçons mis en évidence. Francfort: aux dépens de la société, La Haye, J. Antoine Barrau, 1744. Rare: three locations, one in U.S.: Texas: HRH; Bibliotheksverbund Bayern; Bibliotheque Nationale.
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Madame de Motteville
Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire d'Anne D'Autriche,epouse de Louis XIII,Roi de France. 6 Volumes.
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Chez Jean Edme Dufour. 1782. sans date - Precieux renseignements sur la vie privee d'Anne D'Autriche et sur la Fronde. Sa confidente recueille avec soin les anecdoctes,les traits de caractere,les appreciations,les mots qui etaient rapportes dans le cercle de la Reine et elle les note avec soin. Elle donne ainsi une idee d'ensemble de la Regence. Si le tableau qu'elle fait est moins pittoresque que celui du Cardinal de Retz il est aussi vivant et plus veridique. Ces ouvrages ont appartenu au Marquis de Chambrey historien de Napoleon pour la Campagne de Russie. Les cartonnages sont rose du temps et un peu passe mais les ouvrages sont en etat remarquable. Demi-chagrin rose dos cuir noir
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ALBERTI, Guiseppe Antonio, Bolognese.
Istruzione Pratiche per l'Ingegnero civile, Osia perito agremensore, é perito d'Acque. Nuovamente ristampale coll'aggiunta di molte ose utili e necessaria,
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In Venezia, 1782. Apresso Pietro Savioni . - Cartonage souple du temps, in 4, dos lisse, titre écrit à la plume au dos. V, 224 pp. suivi de : Istruzioni per la Rinno Vazione de Catasti. Paginé 225 à 264 pp., XII planches dépliantes pour la première partie, 24 planches dépliantes pour la seconde partie. Remarquable travail qui couvre divers champs. 10560
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MORELLI (Jacopo).
Catalogo di storie generali e particolari d'Italia.
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In Venezia, Per Pietro Savioni, 1782. in-8. XII. 293pp. Cartonnage souple de l'epoque, titre manuscrit au dos. Ce catalogue contient la description de l'importante collection de livres sur l'histoire de l'Italie du poete, aristocrate et bibliophile venitien Tommasso Giuseppe Farsetti. Il a ete realise par Jacopo Morelli (1745-1819) le celebre bibliothecaire de la Marciana de Venise. Bel exemplaire offert par Jacopo Morelli a l'helleniste francais Jean Baptiste Gaspard d'Anse de Villoison (1750-1805) avec cet adresse manuscrite sur un feuillet de garde: "L'Abate Morelli a Mr. De Villoison". Cf. Brunet, III, 1899.
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Major General Sir John Fox Burgoyne, K.C.B. &c.&c.&c. Inspector General of Fortifications. [Signed facsimile signature: J.F. Byrgoyne.]
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Drawn in Crayons by G.F. Mulvany, R.H.A. On Stone by J.S. Templeton. M & N: Hanhart, lith. Printers, London. Dublin, Published by Thos. Cranfield Westmoreland Stt. London, J.S. Templeton, 4, Sussex Pl. Kensington. Very rare lithograph. 550 x 424mm. Sir John Fox Burgoyne (1782-1871). Military engineer. In 1798, he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers as a Second Lieutenant. He fought against the army of Napoleon I and campaigned in the Pyrenees under the Duke of Wellington. Wellington transferred him to Burgos and later to San Sebastián to participate in the Siege of Rosetta. For his services during the Peninsular War, Burgoyne received the Army Gold Cross, with one clasp, for Badajoz, Salamanca, Vitoria, San Sebastian, and the Nive, and the Military General Service Medal with three clasps for Busaco, Ciudad Rodrigo, and Nivelle. In the War of 1812, he fought under General Pakenham as a Lieutenant Colonel and participated in the Battle of New Orleans. In 1826, Burgoyne accompanied General Clinton to Portugal. He was appointed as Colonel in 1831. In 1838, he became a Major General and in 1845 was named Inspector-General of Fortifications, the executive head of the Royal Engineers. His memoirs prompted the fortification of the English coast. Burgoyne was heavily involved in civil administration in Ireland, serving as Chairman of the Board of Works (1831-45). During the Irish Potato Famine, he led the efforts to provide relief from mass starvation. In 1851, he was promoted to Lieutenant General. Before the outbreak of the Crimean War, he went to Constantinople to assist in its fortification and that of the Dardanelles. During the siege of Sevastopol, he arranged for the bombardment of Malakoff. Upon his return to England in 1856, he received a baronetcy. In 1865, he was made the Commander of the Tower of London and retired in 1868 as a Field Marshal. NPG: D32418.
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RALPH, Benjamin/ DORIGNY, Nicolas, ed
The School of Raphael; or, the Student!s Guide to Expression in Historical Painting. Illustrated by Examples engraved by Duchange, and others, under the inspection of Sir Nicholas Dorigny, from his own Drawings after the most celebrated Heads in the
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London: John Boydell, 1782. Rare, extra-illustrated second edition of an artist!s drawing manual based on the !most celebrated heads! from Raphael!s Sistine Chapel tapestry cartoons, which William and Mary had Sir Christopher Wren install in their own gallery at Hampton Court (later transferred to V & A.) Although eagerly studied by 18th century British artists as the fons et origo of academic art, the cartoons proved controversial with the advent of stronger artistic personalities. It is no accident that Sir Joshua Reynolds published an influential article during in 1759, when the first editionj of the present work appeared. "Eager to find faults in Raphael's Cartoons, Reynolds's "Connoisseur" uses them to air his familiarity with academic rules and modern art theory, citing the "Line of Beauty and Grace", the need for variety, and the virtues of pyramidal design.! (Krysmanski).The School of Raphael!s 102 plates show moods ranging from Affection (in Christ!s Charge to Peter) to Zeal (Elymas the Sorcerer). The volume also includes !THE OUTLINES of each HEAD,! (unnumbered and interleaved with plates 1-45). These Raphael heads were drawn by Nicolas Dorigny, and engraved by the best known reproductive printers of the era.. The book also included !several PLATES of the Most celebrated Antique Statues, Skeletons and Anatomical Figures, Engraved by an Eminent Artist,! (plates I-XII). This copy of The School of Raphael is extra-illustrated with four large-scale engravings of nudes in classical poses and landscapes. They were drawn and engraved by the prolific Bernard Picart (1673-1733), and likely come from a larger volume of anatomy studies (numbers 60, 62-3, 66).The present edition is known to have been in the library of Sir John Soane. OCLC: LoC, UChicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Winterthur, MMA.*Catalogue of the Library of Sir John Soane!s Museum, London, 1878, p 312; Krysmanski, "Benjamin Ralph's School of Raphael (1759): Praise for Hogarth and a Direct Source for Reynolds", British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 24 (Spring 2001), 15-32.. Folio [42.8 x 28.5 cm], [6], 21, [1] p., XI [i.e. XII], 102 leaves of plates from Dorigny!s drawings after Raphael (45 in outline), 12 on geometry, anatomy and antique sculpture, and four extra-illustrated leaves by B. Picart. Bound in nineteenth-century half calf and marbled boards with leather corners. Rubbing to spine, boards and edges, with a partial library sticker on front pastedown. Very occasional foxing to leaves and plates, a few graphite annotations in margins; order of several plates near end transposed.
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MARTIAL, MARCUS VALERIUS
The Epigrams of M. Val. Martial, In Twelve Books: With a Comment: By James Elphinston.
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London:Printed by Baker and Galabin and sold by B. White, C. Dilly . . .,1782. First edition of this translation. 4to, contemporary full calf, black morocco label, gilt rules, lettering, and decorations. Contemporary marbled endpapers. Decorative initial C on the front and back cover with floral wreath pattern. ¶ A highly complicated and criticized translation of Martial's famous epigrams satirizing life in ancient Rome. Samuel Johnson was one of the subscribers. Hinges somewhat worn; very good copy.
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BARTOLI, S.P. / VIRGIL. -
Picturae antiquissimi Virgiliani codicis Bibliothecae Vaticanae a Petro Sancte Bartoli aere incisae accedunt ex insignioribus pinacothecia picturis aliae veteres gemmae et anaglypha.
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Rome, Apud Venantium Monaldini, 1782, in-4to, With engraved frontispiece-Portrait and title-page, each within ornamental border and engraved by Carattoni + engraved dedication leaf and 124 excellent engravings, all accompagnied by a decorative engraved cartouche containing the illustration number, 18th century engraved armorial bookplate 'Lord Rendlesham' and one more recent one 'Robert Wayne Stilwell', Contemporary marbled boards backed with green morocco (a bit scratched on joints and sides), ¶ Tafelwerk mit Darstellungen aus Vatikanischen Codices, nach antiken Gemmen und Reliefs. Sauberes und breitbandiges Exemplar. Picturae antiquissimi Virgiliani 1782 This edition contains 124 engravings twice the number of the 1st. ed. of 1741 A beautifully executed illustrated book, printed on thick paper of high quality. It reproduces miniatures from two important ancient virgilian Mss. in the Vatican Library, the Vergilius Vaticanus (Vat. Lat. 3225) and the Codex Romanus (Vat. Lat. 3867). The first of these manuscrips was formerly in the posession of Pontano, Bembo and Fulvio Orsini before being deposited in the Vatican in 1602. An edition based on this manuscript was prepared by the librarian G. C. Bottari (1689-1775) and appeared in 1741, reproducing engravings of the miniatures by Pietro Sancto Bartoli and fragments of the text. This edition contains over twice as many engravings as the 1741 edition, besides engravings based on the two manuscripts mentioned earlier, it also contains illustrations taken from antique gems and sculptures. Most of the illustrations are unsigned, but artists of the others include Corvi, Lanci, Giusti and de Rossi, while the engravers include Benedetti, Giardoni, Carloni, Bombelli, Barbazza, Beheim, Morgalli and Baratti. In fine condition. 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. Graesse 1304 (Ausgabe 1776); Brunet V, 1291.
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FLECHIER, Esprit
Recueil des Oraisons Funebres, pronuncées par Messire...
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Lione Frères Perisse 1782 8vo; Leg. coeva p. pelle bruna marmoriz., fregi in oro sul dorso, dentelle, risg. in carta marmoriz.; pp. XVI, 218, (2), leg. cart. dec. coeva. Bella edizione con le più celebri orazioni funebri di Fléchier, fra cui quelle di Turenne e del Duca de Montausier che sono considerate le migliori. Apre l'opera un elogio storico dello scrittore (fino a p. XVI), seguono le orazioni, che riguardano nell'ordine: Madame la duchesse de Montausier - Madame la Duchesse d'Aiguillon - M. de Turenne - M. le premier Président de Lamoignon - Marie Thérèse d'Autriche, Reine de France - M. Michel Le Tellier, Chancellier de France - Madame la Dauphine - M. le Duc de Montausier. Esprit Flechier (1632-1710), Vescovo di Nimes, ebbe un'infanzia povera, frequentò l'hôtel Rambouillet, divenne vice-precettore, in seguito lettore del Delfino ed elemosiniere di Mme la Delfina. Poeta francese e latino, oratore sacro, fu nominato all'Accademia nel 1672 e fu ammesso il 5 dicembre 1673, lo stesso giorno di Racine e Gallois. Il suo discorso oscurò quello di Racine, che parlò dopo di lui. Rimane famoso soprattutto per le sue orazioni funebri, genere che portò al livello più raffinato, rivaleggiando con lo stesso Bossuet, suo contemporaneo. Tracce d'uso e qualche escoriazione sulla legatura, internamente ottimo stato di conservazione.
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Revolutions de Paris, dédiées à la Nation et au district des Petits Augustins. Publiées par le sieur Prudhomme à l'époque du 12 juillet 1789.
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Paris Imp. des Révolutions 1789-1794 225 livraisons en 17 vol. in-8, demi-basane brune, dos lisses ornés, pièces de titre et de tomaison en maroquin rouge (reliure de l'époque). Quelques coiffes usées ; mors supérieurs des tomes 16 et 17 fendus ; restauration grossière de la coiffe de tête du tome 13. Collection complète devenue rare. Journal principalement rédigé par Prudhomme, Tournon puis Loustalot jusqu'en 1790, Sylvain Maréchal, Fabre d'Eglantine, Saintonax, Chaumette. Hatin, p. 147 : ' Tableau le plus complet, le plus exact, le plus impartial des agitations de la capitale pendant les premières et les plus dramatiques années de la Révolution. On ne trouverait nulle part ailleurs des matériaux aussi abondants et aussi sûrs É. Très bon exemplaire complet des 84 cartes des départements et 131gravures événementielles (sur 135). Martin et Walter, 1299 ; Tourneux, 10249.
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CAMPE, J. H.
De ontdekking van America, geschiet ter aangenaame en nuttige leezing. voor kinderen en jonge lieden. Amsterdam, Weduwe J. Doll, 1782-1783. 3 Deeltjes.
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Sm 8vo. Half leer met vergulde rug en groen titelschidje. Met 1 uitslaande kaart van Zuid-Amerika. XV, 403; 352; 332 pp.*Buijnsters BNK 515 (vermeld geen kaarten). CWL 2778 (vermeld alleen de wereldkaart). De Wereldkaart in deel 1 en de kaart van Noord Amerika in deel 2 ontbreken, de kaart van Zuid-Amerika in deel 3 is beschadigd. Bevat 52 gesprekken tussen vader en kinderen over Columbus enz. Vertaald naar Die Entdeckung von Amerika, ein angenehmes und nüzliches Lesebuch für Kinder und junge Leute, Hamburg 17811782, 2 dln. Campe was als medewerker en later opvolger van J.B. Basedow verbonden aan het Philanthropinum te Dessau en behoorde tot de voormannen van de nieuwe verlichte pedagogie in Duitsland. - De rug van deel 3 is aan de bovenzijde licht beschadigd, platten geschaafd maar toch een aardige en zeldzame set.
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Verzaemelinge van eenige staets-stukken
over het grond-gebied in de Nederlanden.
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Maestricht [zonder uitgever] 1782. - Klein 8vo. [II],7,[1],368,[2 errata]p. & 3 uitsl. bladen, fouten in paginering. Met uitsl. kaart (23,5 x 82,5 cm.) van Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. Negentiende-eeuw half linnen, gemarmerde platten. Op het schutblad gesigneerd Victor de Stuers. Eerste druk. Een verzameling van 'staatsstukken', hoofdzakelijk betrekking hebbende op de grensregelingen tussen de Republiek en de Zuidelijke Nederlanden: Unie van Utrecht, Twaalfjarig Bestand, Vrede van Munster, Vrede van de Pyreneeen, tractaat van Brussel tussen Spanje en de Staten-Generaal, Barrieretractaten, resoluties van de Staten-Generaal en 'memories' betreffende de 'limiet-scheidinge' in Vlaanderen, het bezit van Maastricht, enz. In 1784 verscheen een (nieuwe?) druk in Den Haag onder de titel Verzaemelinge van eenige staats-stukken, over het grondgebied in de Nederlanden, raakende de tractaaten der barrieren. De fraaie kaart van Staats-Vlaanderen (Carte des differentes limites et du terrain limitrophe en Flandre de la Maison d'Autriche et de la republique d'Hollande publiee l'an 1720) met de verschillende grenzen handgekleurd. Op een uitslaand blad Aenwyzer op de kaerte der limyt-scheydingen in Vlaenderen van de jaeren 1664, 1715 en 1718. Uytgegeven te Gent by Augustyn Graet, in't jaer 1720. Uit de bibliotheek van Victor de Stuers (1843-1916), pionier van de monumentenzorg en het museumwezen in Nederland, geboren in Maastricht. *NCC vermeldt 2 ex. van deze druk (VU en Vredespaleis) en 2 ex. (UVA en RUG, maar zonder de kaart) van 1784.
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Johann Christian (zusammengetragen) Wiegleb
Die natürliche Magie,
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aus allerhand belustigenden und nuetzlichen Kunststuecken bestehend. zweyte und vermehrte Auflage (12 Blatt) 461 Seiten, 3 Blatt. 8°, blaue Pp der Zeit mit Voll-Rotschnitt. seltener und gesuchter Titel in der erweiterten Auflage mit huebschen Titel-, Kopf- und Schluss-Vignetten, 12 mehrfach gefalteten Kupfertafeln sowie weiteren Tabellen, Uebersichten und Abbildungen im Text; am Ruecken mit kleiner Fehlstelle ordentliches festes Exemplar, der Einband etwas berieben und das Rueckenfalz etwas angeplatzt [Publisher: Berlin u.a. : Friedrich Nicolai]
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TRESSAN (Comte de)
Corps d'extraits de Romans de Chevalerie.
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- Demi-basane marron, (reliure état d'usage, tranches rouges. Exemplaire correct. Tome premier : Discours préliminaire (XXIV pages). Tristan de Léonois, fils de Méliadus - Arthus de Bretagne - Flore et Blanche fleur. Cléomades et Claremonde - L'Abenaki - Roman de la Rose - Pierre de Provence. (442 pages). Tome second : La fleur des Batailles - Huon de Bordeaux - Guérin de Montglave. (442 pages). Tome troisième : Dom Ursino le Navarin et Donainès d'Oviedo - Le petit Jehan de Saintré - Gérard de Nevers.(494 pages). Tome quatrième : Recherches sur l'origine des Romans inventés avant l'Ere-Chrétienne & avant que l'Europe fût policée (XXXVI pages). Histoire de Rigda & de Regner Lodbrog, Roi du Danemarck contemporain de Charles-Martel & et Pépin. Zélie ou l'Ingénue, Discours préléminaire à Madame la Comtesse de Genlis. (442). Observation de l'auteur. Approbation et Privilège. (p4) A Paris, Chez Pissot, Père & fils, 1782. 4 volumes in-12. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Dionisio Longino
Trattato l'Aureo Dionisio Longino
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Marcuzzi Piero 1782 - L?AUREO TRATTATO DI DIONISIO LONGINO INTORNO AL SUBLIME MODO DI PARLARE E DI SCRIVERE TRADOTTO DAL GRECO DA ANTON FRANCESCO GORI EDIZIONE ILLUSTRATA. Trattato ad opera di Longino, ritenuto a lungo essere Longino Cassio (213-273) filosofo e retore greco o Longino Dionisio; poich?er? paternit?i quest?opera non ?itenuta certa dalla critica moderna, l?autore ?ggi denominato Pseudo-Longino. Il Trattato noto come Del Sublime, risale iprobabilmente al primo secolo AD, in quanto ?tato scritto allo scopo di confutare le teorie di Cecilio, retore siciliano del medesimo periodo, la cui opera Longino definisce in modo dispregiativo: ?Trattatello? L?A. intende per Sublime il termine greco hypsos, vale a dire l?eccellenza nel linguaggio, l?espressione di un grande spirito e il potere di ammaliare e commuovere il lettore. Il Sublime si oppone allo stile ampolloso, alla sciocca vanit?al sentimentalismo e alla freddezza. L?A. inoltre sostiene che la grandezza del pensiero, se non ?nnata, pu?sere acquisita mediante l?emulazione dei suoi modelli, tra i quali Omero, Demostene e Platone. Le frequenti citazioni di grandi autori classici hanno anche il merito di aver preservato testi altrimenti perduti, come una delle odi di Saffo (pag. 29). Contiene anche: Discorso d?Anton Francesco Gori intorno alla sua traduzione e all?opera e alla persona di Dionisio Longino. volume in-8° piccolo, legatura d?attesa, piccola etichetta con titolo scritto a mano sul dorso. Pagine [20] + 120 Incisione in nero, in calcografia, posta in antiporta, riportante una citazione tradotta dal latino. Incisione in nero, in calcografia, sul frontespizio, raffigurante Dedalo che sta terminando l?ala destra per darla al figlio Icaro, che ?mpaziente di spiccare il volo: il motto in greco, sostiene che?tutte le cose belle sono ardue e malagevoli? Lingua: italiana|
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Hiller, Philipp Friedrich
Kurze und erbauliche Andachten bey der Beicht und Heil Abendmahl, .
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Tübingen bey J.A. Sigmund und, Stuttgart bey Joh.Bened. Mezler, (1782) - Mit gestochenem Frontispiz(3. Auflage), Format: 16,5 x 9,5 cm, Marmorierter Pappband aus späterer Zeit, (4),186 S Mälzer 1260. - Mälzer gibt an: 3.Aufl. und Jahreszahl 1782. - Stellenweise stockfleckig, meist im Rand. - - BEIGEBUNDEN: Johann Christian Storr. Das Leiden Jesu Christi des Sohnes GOttes unsers HErrn nach der richtigen Harmonie der vier Evangelisten zusammengefast und mit Anmerkungen begleitet. Mit gestochenem Frontispiz und großer Titelvignette in Holzschnitt. Stuttgart, bey Johann Benedikt Mezler, 1756. 144 S. - Erste Ausgabe. - Mälzer 2811. - (In: Neun Fasten-Betrachtungen.). - Gering stockfleckig. Auf dem hinteren fliegenden Vorsatz ein zeitgenössischer, 16-zeiliger Eintrag in Deutsch und Latein über das Osterfest. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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Jenny, Friedrich
Jennysche oder Hamburgische Wundersame Essenz.
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Wien/Hamburg, o. Dr., um 1782. - 1 Doppelblatt. 4°. Nicht beschnitten, dadurch gerändert; etwas verfaltet; Papier angegraut und teils gering stockfleckig. Werbebroschüre des Fr. Jenny; auf der ersten Seite, mit gestochenem Kaiserlichen Siegel, Abdruck des "Allergnädigst Kayserlichen Privilegium über die Jennyssche oder Hamburgische Wundersame Essenz", das gegen Geldstrafe für 10 Jahre die Essenz im Geltungsbereich des Kaiserreichs vor Nachahmern schützt etc. Auf der letzten Seite Verzeichnis der Jennyschen Handelspartner von Amsterdam bis Zittau. Auf den beiden Innenseiten Beschreibung der Wirksamkeit und des Gebrauchs der Essenz: Sie wirkt gegen "kalte, wie auch alle hitzigen Fieber, die Pleurisse", Ruhr, Milzkrankheiten, Blutsturz, Raserey, Mutterbeschwerung, Gelbsucht, Blattern, Masern etc. "Uebrigens ist noch als etwas ganz Besonderes anzumerken, daß die Natur sich nimmer an diese Medicin gewöhnet, sondern dieselbe, wenn sie auch alle Tage gebraucht wird, beständig das vorhandene Böse hebet (.)". Leider gibt Jenny nicht an, was die wirksamen Bestandteile seines Arkanum sind. DE
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RICKMAN (John);
Troisième Voyage de COOK, ou Journal d'une expédition faite dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud & du Nord, an 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 & 1780. Traduit de l'anglois.
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Belin, Volant Paris 1782 In-8 de X 508 pp., veau marbré de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné, pièce de titre, tranches rouges. Récit d'un lieutenant à bord de "la Découverte", paru avant la relation officielle du Troisième Voyage de Cook. Seconde édition ornée d'un frontispice gravé replié représentant la mort du capitaine Cook et d'une carte repliée de l'itinéraire (O'Reilly - Reitman 421). Bon exemplaire.
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Walther, Philipp Franz v.:
ALS - Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift. Landshut 8.III. 1810. 2 S. 4°. Linker Rand unregelmäßig beschnitten, kleiner Einrisss.
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- Philipp Franz von Walther (1782-1849), Chirurg und Ophthalmologe, Leibarzt König Ludwigs I. von Bayern. - (An den Generalsekretär der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Friedrich von Schlichtegroll), der ihn wegen einer Augenerkrankung seiner Frau konsultiert hatte."Hochwohlgebohrner Herr Director! / Verehrtester Freund!Ihro Gnaden die Frau Gemahlin bitte ich, Sich von allen das Auge anstrengenden Arbeiten, besonders bei Licht eine Zeitlang gänzlich zu enthalten, niemals die Augen kalt zu waschen, und den Genuß gesalzener Speisen zu vermeiden. Mit dem hier verordneten Augenwasser wolle Dieselbe 4 mal des Tags lauwarm mittelst einer feinen Leinwand die Augen auswaschen: es darf von dem Augenwasser auch etwas in das Auge hinein kommen. Auf diese Weise wird sich das Übel bald heben.Von Ihnen, verehrtester Freund! bey dieser Gelegenheit einmal wieder einige Nachricht zu erhalten, hat mir die größte Freude verursacht. Noch größere wäre es mir gewesen, hätte ich Sie in München im Carneval besuchen können. Allein meine Geschäfte erlauben mir selten Landshut auf längere Zeit zu verlassen: und München soll man auf ganz kurze Zeit nicht besuchen"Walther, ein Anhänger von Schellings Naturphilosophie, war seit 1804 Professor in Landshut, später in Bonn und in München. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE (Nicolas-Edme);
Les Contemporaines.
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chez Belin, puis chez Mérigot 3679, Leipzig, Buschel et se trouve à Paris - 21 parties en 42 vol. in-12, basane havane mouchetée, dos à nerfs ornés, pièces de tire en maroquin rouge et de tomaison en maroquin vert, tranches jaspées (reliure de l'époque). Réunion complète des trois séries de ce monument de la littérature du XVIIIe siècle, complet des 283 fines estampes à pleine page dessinées par Binet sous la direction de Restif, dont 10 dépliantes. La rareté des figures s'explique par le fait qu'elles étaient très recherchées (particulièrement celle de la IIIe série) par les modistes et les couturiers, non seulement en France mais aussi à l'étranger où Restif était considéré comme le grand arbitre de la mode française. L'auteur dut se défendre en justice contre plusieurs plaintes en diffamation déposées par des parisiennes qui se sentaient « dépeintes sous d?assez tristes couleurs ». L'exemplaire est composé ainsi : Deuxième éditon de la Ie série avec 113 figures (le vol. 17 est de la première édition,1782). « Cette seconde édition plus rare que la première est d'ailleurs très importante par les corrections et les additions que l'auteur à faite au texte, comme les pièces supplémentaires ajoutées à la fin des volumes » (P. Lacroix). Edition originale des IIe et IIIe séries (13 vol. avec 87 figures ; 12 vol. avec 83 figures. Bel exemplaire. Habiles restaurations. Paul Lacroix, Bibliographie des ouvrages de Restif de la Bretonne, pp.162-188 : « Nous ferons observer que souvent un exemplaire des Contemporaines est composé de volumes appartenant tantôt à la première et tantôt à la seconde édition » ; Rives Child, Restif de la Bretonne, p. 210. [Attributes: First Edition]
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MERCIER (Louis-Sebastien)
La destruction de la Ligue, ou la réduction de Paris, pièce nationale en quatre actes.
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- Amsterdam, sans nom d'éditeur 1782; In 8 de XLIIII-209 pp., rel. d'ép. pleine bas. blonde, dos à nerfs orné, reliure usagée Cette pièce fut, après le "François II" du président Hénault, un des premiers essais du drame historique (cf. Soleinne, n° 2141). On y trouve la verve politique qui marque les oeuvres de Mercier. Joint : "Eloge de Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de Sully, surintendant des finances, &c. principal ministre sous Henri IV. Discours qui a remporté le prix de l'académie française en 1763" par M. Thomas. Paris, chez Rignard 1763 ; 1f. de titre et 91 pp.
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Lavater, Johann Kaspar.
Brüderliche Schreiben an verschiedene Jünglinge. 188 S. 12°. Marmor. Pappbd d. Z. (Rücken etwas rissig).
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Winterthur, Heinrich Steiner und Compagnie, 1782. - Erste Ausgabe. "In überzeugender Weise gelingt es Lavater . Gleichheit und Respekt zwischen erwachsenem und jugendlichem Dialogpartner herzustellen. Mit diesem Schritt zu einer gleichgewichtigen und -rangigen Kommunikation zwischen Erwachsenen und Jugendlichen steht Lavater in der gesamten Jugendliteratur des 18. Jahrhunderts wohl einzig dar" (Ewers in "Die Schiefertafel" III, S. 116). Die Schreiben richten sich alle an wirkliche Adressaten. "Lavaters Weigerung, die einzelnen Schreiben aus ihrem individuellen Zuschnitt herauszulösen und zu einer allgemeinen Religions- und Sittenlehre umzuschmelzen, zeugt von einer Individualitätsauffassung, wie sie für den Sturm und Drang charakteristisch ist" (Brüggemann). – Titel mit handschriftl. Namenseintrag. Unterschiedlich stockfleckig. – Goed. IV 1, 268, 41. Brüggemann/Ewers 493 und Sp. 762 ff. Nicht bei Borst.
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Richter, Joseph).
ABC-Buch für große Kinder. 103 S. Mit gestoch. Titelvignette. Orig.-Interimsbroschur (fleckig).
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Wien 1782. - Einer von 6 Drucken im Jahr 1782. Satirisch-humoristisches Wörterbuch, das zu einem seiner erfolgreichsten Werke wurde. Hier zweifelt er noch daran, wie bei "V": "Verbrennen. Wenn ein Autor oder sein Verleger endlich dahin bringt, daß sein Werk vom Scharfrichter verbrannt wird, so ist er sicher, daß er seine Exemplarien anbringt. – So gut wird es uns wohl nicht werden." Von diesem "Ersten Versuch" war lt. Nachwort ein 2. Heft geplant, ". aber anheischig machen wir uns zu nichts." Noch im gleichen Jahr erschien der Titel in 2 Heften, später eine erweiterte Auflage. – Unbeschnitten und breitrandig, unten mit schmaler werdendem Wasserrand. – Wernigg 1321 (verzeichnet 6 Ausgaben für 1782). Wurzbach XXVI 60, 8. Vgl. Goed. V 318, 47, 5 und Hayn/G I 3 (2 Hefte, mit 2 Vign. von Bock).
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EXTRAIT du Journal d'un officier de la Marine de M. le comte d'Estaing.
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S.l., 1782, - in-8, 158 pp., portrait, demi-veau brun, dos lisse, filets dorés (rel. de l'époque).Édition originale, très rare avec le portrait. "Relation rare et très importante pour l'histoire de la guerre de l'Indépendance des Etats-Unis" (Chadenat). Il faut ajouter que l'ouvrage, anonyme, est très critique à l'égard de l'action de l'amiral d'Estaing. Il est vrai que le choix de s'emparer de Saint-Vincent et de la Grenade après avoir renoncé à s'emparer de Newport, puis son échec ultérieur à Savannah, donnent à son action un bilan controversé. Bon exemplaire. Chadenat, 2096. Gephart, Revolutionary America, 7188.
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George Washington
Washington to His Confidant James McHenry: "Do not my dear Doctor tease your Mistress in this manner"
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Autograph Letter Signed, Newburgh, NY 1782 - Please inquire about receiving a copy of our Washington catalog. Summary: Washington's highly personal letter, showing a glimpse of the man behind the otherwise stolid image. Dr. James McHenry served as Washington's secretary from 1778 to 1780, as a volunteer without rank or pay. Their friendship remained strong even after McHenry left to become aide-de-camp to the Marquis de Lafayette. At this point, after victory at Yorktown, Americans were awaiting news of a final peace treaty from Paris. Washington remained at the head of the Continental Army, warily watching British General Sir Henry Clinton's army in New York City. George Washington. Autograph Letter Signed, to Major James McHenry, Newburgh, NY, August 15, 1782. 2 p. Complete Transcript: Newburgh 15.th Aug.t 1782 My dear McHenry, Let me congratulate you, and I do it very sincerely, on your restoration to health._ I was in pain for you._ I was in some for myself - and wished for my PS of M--- ; and both my P----e L----s. in J----; resolving (like a man in the last agony) not to follow the trade & occupation of a G----. any more. I attribute all the delays, & my disappointments in this business, to your sickness; for otherwise, I should denominate you an unfeeling - teasing - mortal._ In proof of it, I would assert that in March last, I committed a matter to your care of which you took no notice till July following; -and then in such a way, as to set afloat a thousand ideas; which resolved themselves into almost as many anxious questions._ These again, you acknowledge the rect. of on the 26.th of July, - and on the 3.d of August promise an answer._ When? _When? _ three or four Weeks from that date ; during this time my imagination is left on the Rack._ I remain in the field of conjecture. - unable to acct. for the causes of somethings, or to judge of their effect;_ In a word, I cannot develop some misteries, the appearance of which gave rise to those quæries, which were made the contents of a letter. Do not my dear Doctor tease your Mistress in this manner - much less your Wife, when you get one._ The first will pout, _& the other may scold - a friend will bear with it, especially one who assures you, with as much truth as I do, that he is sincere. Adieu. G:oWashington James McHenry Esq.r [autograph address leaf:] "(Private) / James McHenry Esq.r / Baltimore. [Docketing in McHenry's hand:] "Aug 15th 1782 / Washington Historical Background: The best guess at Washington's cryptic second line is: "I. wished for my [Peace of Mind] . resolving (like a man in the last agony) not to follow the trade & occupation of a G[eneral] any more." His letter of "March last" and McHenry's letters of July 26 and August 3 are not listed in the Washington Papers, so we don't know what this was really about. But we do know that Washington was eagerly awaiting the final peace treaty and the opportunity to return to his private life at Mount Vernon. To help describe this point of the war, the following excerpt is taken from another letter Washington wrote to McHenry, a month prior, on July 18, 1782: "At present, we are inveloped in darkness; and no Man, I believe, can foretell all the consequences which will result from the Naval action in the West Indies. to say no worse of it, it is an unfortunate affair. and if the States cannot, or will not rouse to more vigorous exertions, they must submit to the consequences. Providence has done much for us in this contest, but we must do something for ourselves, if we expect to go triumphantly through with it." Later, as president, Washington sought McHenry's advice and help finding candidates for important posts. In 1796, Washington selected McHenry to be the nation's third Secretary of War. James McHenry (1753-1816) was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland, and educated in Dublin. He emigrated to America in 1771 and studied medicine with Dr. Benjamin Rush in Philadelphia. McHenry volunteered for military service on behalf of the colonies when hostil
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MERCIER (Louis Sébastien)]
Tableau de Paris. Nouvelle édition, corrigée et augmentée
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Amsterdam [Neuchâtel], s.n. 1782-1783 - Amsterdam [Neuchâtel], s.n., 1782-1783, 8 tomes en 4 vol. in-8°, xvi-188, (4)-208, (4)-208, (4)-192, (4)-208, (4)-204, 196 et 220 pp, reliure veau fauve marbré, dos à nerfs ornés de caissons dorés, pièces de titre maroquin bordeaux, coupes filetées, tranches marbrées, 2 coiffes sup. manquantes (reliure de l'époque). Bel exemplaire à grandes marges. La véritable deuxième édition, en très grande partie originale : les tomes I à IV, datés 1782, reprennent la quasi-totalité de la première édition parue en 2 volumes en 1781 en y intercalant des textes nouveaux, les tomes V à VIII, datés 1783, donnent une très grande majorité de textes nouveaux. Cette deuxième édition contient ainsi au total 674 chapitres contre 264 pour la première. (Lacombe 305, Cioranescu 44475, Barbier IV-636d).
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Corpus juris civilis quo jus universum Justinianeum comprehenditur
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Augustae Taurinorum Regia 1782 - 2 voll. in 4°, leg in piena pelle con fregi al d., timbro ex libris di importante studioso, pp 1911, 1486 ed indici. Stemma Reale ai frontespizi. Fioriture su alcune cc, nel complesso buon esemplare di opera fondamentale in ogni biblioteca giuridica e piemontese.
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ARNOLFINI Giovanni Attilio / ZANOTTI Eustachio.
MEMORIE SOPRA IL LAGO DI SESTO, E DI BIENTINA. Raccolte e compilate dallo Sp.le Gio.Attilio Arnolfini per l'Ill.ma Deputazione de Nove Sp.Cittadini eletti dall'Ecc.mo Consiglio per l'Esame del Progetto del nuovo Ozzeri, 1779 / APOLOGIA DEL PROGETTO DEL NUOVO OZZERI CONTRO LE OSSERVAZIONI, E RIFLESSIONI DI ALCUNI INTERESSATI DI GIO.ATTILIO ARNOLFINI. 1783.
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- Due interessantissimi documenti manoscritti in bella copia. Il testo dell'Arnolfini è in formato cm.34x23 e consta di 135 carte, così articolate: una carta bianca; quattro contenenti il frontespizio, l'elenco dei Cittadini Deputati, l'intestazione e la prefazione; 96 carte compilate per 191 pagine numerate; 34 carte bianche. Buona legatura coeva in piena pergamena rigida, con tassello con titoli in oro al dorso. Tagli spruzzati. Testo in in ottima grafia, assai ben consultabile, compilato su 26 righe per pagina. Allegata una carta a stampa in formato cm.49x75,5 (incisione di Bartolomeo Nerici su disegno di Michele Flosi), raffigurante la "Mappa delle Campagne, Laghi, Paludi Lucchesi e Toscane dall'Arno presso Montecchio, e S.Giovanni alla Vena fino al Litorale di Viareggio, coll'indicazione della Linea d'un Nuovo Canale, da nominarsi il Nuovo Ozzeri", con acquarellatura a mano coeva. In fine al testo (pg.191) è applicata una ulteriore carta a stampa, in formato cm.30,5x42, raffigurante il sistema idraultico della Lucchesia, con i laghi di Sesto e di Massaciuccoli e il Fiume Serchio. Ambedue le carte, allegate a titolo esplicativo del testo, sono tratte dall'Opera "Piano di operazioni idrauliche per ottenere la massima depressione del lago di Sesto o sia di Bientina" di Leonardo Ximenes (Lucca, presso Francesco Bonsignori, 1782). Con tassello di proprietà "Lelio Ignazio Di Poggio". Il secondo manoscritto è opera di Eustachio Zanotti. In formato cm.29,6x20,3. consta di quattro carte non numerate, con frontespizio e "Avviso al Lettore", 200 pagine numerate, compilate in ottima grafia su 27 righe per pagina, 11 pagine numerate di "Appendice" e 11 carte bianche. Legatura coeva in gradevole cartoncino decorato a colori. Tagli spruzzati. Prima del frontespizio è allegata una carta, con compilazione manoscritta al recto e al verso, contenente alcune notazioni riferite al testo. Ambedue i volumi in ottime condizioni di conservazione, su carta greve. Giovanni Attilio Arnolfini (Lucca, 15 ottobre 1733 ? 21 novembre 1791), idrologo e scrittore, compì gli studi di teologia e giurisprudenza a Roma, per poi divenire magistrato, nel 1761 e in seguito sopraintendente alle acque della Repubblica di Lucca. Di lui parla in termini estremamente lusinghieri il celebre astronomo G.Girolamo De la Lande (1732-1807), che a seguito di una visita a Lucca ricorda testualmente: "Par mi le personnes distinguées que j'ai connues, je dois citer M.Jean Attilio Arnolfini, préposé à l'inspection des eaux et des canaux; on ne pourroit trouver dans le plus grandes capitales un homme plus instruit dans les sciences mathématiques et plus exercé dans les arts de gout, tels que la musique.". (Cfr. Sforza "Ricordi e Biografie lucchesi", pg.XXXIII). Oltre ai suoi molteplici lavori idrologici nel territorio lucchese, si occupò di analoghe questioni per il fiume Reno, su incarico di Papa Pio VI, a Terranova e compì apprezzate consulenze presso molte corti europee. Eustachio Zanotti (Bologna, 27 novembre 1709 ? Bologna, 15 maggio 1782), astronomo e ingegnere idraulico, fu Segretario dell'Istituto delle Scienze di Bologna, membro delle Accademie di Berlino, Londra, Napoli, Padova e Kassel e Socio dell'Accademia dei Quaranta. Si devono a lui importanti studi sulle comete, sulle eclissi solari e lunari, sulle aurore boreali, oltre al restauro nel 1776 della meridiana della basilica di San Petronio a Bologna. Si tratta di due fondamentali documenti per la ultrasecolare storia delle bonifiche del territorio compreso tra il Lago di Bientina o Sesto e il Mar Tirreno. Questo un sunto della complessa vicenda, tratta dal sito dell'Archivio di Stato di Lucca: "Le frequentissime inondazioni delle acque che si raccoglievano nel bacino di Sesto o di Bientina, ed il loro continuo allargarsi a danno dei terreni lucchesi e pisani, per causa dell'inalzamento dei letti del Serchio e dell'Arno, fecero in più tempi pensare a nuovi partiti per ottenerne lo scolo. Fino dal 1669 l'ingegnere Ciacc [Attributes: Soft Cover]
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ESCALONA, Romualdo.
Historia del Real Monasterio de Sahagun, sacada de la que dexó escrita el P. Maestro Fr. Joseph Pérez,. Corregida y aumentada con varias observaciones históricas y cronológicas, y con muchas memorias muy conducentes a la Historia General de España. Sígu
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Edward (1712-1757) Adam Fitz-Adam [pseud.] ... Moore
The World - [complete in 4 volumes]
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Publisher: London, printed for J. Dodsley - Date of Publication: 1782 - Binding: hardcover - Edition: New edition. Originally published in 209 weekly numbers, from Jan. 4, 1753 to Dec. 30, 1756, with Edward Moore, The earl of Chesterfield, Richard Owen Cambridge, and Horace Walpole as principal contributors. Moore was editor and contributed 61 papers. - Condition: Very good - Description: ""Names of the Authors of the World"": v. 4, p. [342-344]. Referenced by: English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT101133. Full contemporary analine calf, recased. Raised bands with gilt cross-bands, uniform spine-tooling and contrasting gilt-blocked Morocco lables. An exceptional set, of presentation quality - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. - [Publisher: London, printed for J. Dodsley]
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