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[Trentsensky, Joseph].
        Carawane nach Mecca. Vienna, Matthias Trentsensky (printed by E. Sieger), [ca. 1855].
      1855. Oblong folio (250 x 400 mm). With 19 (of 24) numbered leaves containing about 135 lithographic pen-drawings of people, animals, equipment & gear and goods, from a caravan travelling to Mecca, each drawing including a base so that one can cut them out, paste them on card stock, stand them up and arrange them in three-dimensional scenes. Lacking leaves 1-5.ll. 6-24 (of 24). Loose leaves in a later paper folder. All but the first five leaves of a very rare lithographic print series issued in parts. Most copies were probably cut up (and perhaps coloured) by children and destroyed in play. The human figures to be cut out include Turkish, Arabic, African and Near Eastern men and women (black and white) in Islamic clothing, including both masters and servants, some of the men with a variety of firearms, spears, daggers, pipes (straight pipes and hookah water-pipes), prayer rugs, and other gear and goods, and servants setting up a tent. There are also camels (both single-humped dromedaries and two-humped Bactrian camels), horses and donkeys, often with their gear for riding or for carrying loads. The wild animals include wolves, a hyena and an ostrich. Inanimate objects include containers for water, an incense burner, baskets, chests, barrels, camel saddles and much more. The series must have provided many children and adults with their first notion of Islamic society and culture and is rich in authentic details, such as a dromedary with its left front leg bent up and tied around the knee. Kleine Welt des Bilderbogens dates the series ca. 1855, just after Sir Richard Burton's famous successful visit to Mecca disguised as an Islamic Afghan in 1853 (he was one of the few Europeans who had ever visited Mecca and lived to tell of it). The complete series of 24 leaves comprised four groups of leaves, each leaf with the title, relevant subtitle and imprint (without date) at the foot: 1-6: Die Ueberbringung des heiligen Teppich. 7-13: Die Reise durch die Wüste. 14-16: Das Lager in der Wüste. 17-24: Die Gefahren der Wüste. The artist is not named. The drawings are printed on unwatermarked wove paper. Since the paper is fairly thin and the drawn bases have no folding tabs, the publisher probably intended the cut-outs to be pasted onto card stock with a folding tab at the foot of the base so that they could stand with no other support. - With an occasional pencil mark. Lacking leaves 1-5 (all but the last leaf of the first group), but otherwise in good condition (remarkable good considering the wear and tear that most such items see) and with the other three groups complete. The whole is slightly browned and the edges somewhat tattered (1 small tear slightly affects one camel and another very slightly affects one drawn base). Richly detailed lithographic drawings for about 135 paper cut-outs for a Caravan to Mecca. Kleine Welt des Bilderbogens: der Wiener Verlag Trentsensky (1977), 111. Katharina Siefert, ed., Paläste, Panzer, Pop-up-Bücher: Papierwelten in 3D (2009), with a chapter, "Die Carawane nach Mecca", pp. 31-38. Not in KVK; WorldCat.

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Metternich-Winneburg, Richard Fürst von, Diplomat und Komponist (1829-1895).
        "Rothe Nelken Walzer." Eigenh. Musikmanuskript mit Namenszug. O. O. u. D.
      1855. Titel, 6 SS. auf 2 gefalt. Bögen. Qu.-Folio. "Componirt und der Frau Gräfin Nina Apraxin gewidmet von Fürst Metternich". - Der Sohn des berühmten österreichischen Staatskanzlers Klemens Wenzel Fürst von Metternich diente 1855 als Legationssekretär in Paris, 1856 als österreichischer Gesandter und bevollmächtigter Minister am Dresdner Hof. 1859-71 war er Botschafter in Paris, wo er am Hof Napoleons III. mit seiner Gattin Pauline gesellschaftlich eine bedeutende Rolle spielte und vergeblich versuchte, Frankreich im Deutschen Krieg auf die Seite Österreichs zu ziehen; nach dem Sturz des Zweiten französischen Kaiserreichs sicherte er die Flucht Kaiserin Eugénies nach England. Als Komponist pflegte er vor allem die Tanzmusik für Klavier. "In harmonischem Zusammenwirken mit seiner populären Frau nahm der musikalisch sehr begabte Fürst in seiner noch über zwei Jahrzehnte währenden Wiener Periode ein kulturelles Mäzenatentum wahr" (ÖBL VI, 250). - Gering angestaubt.

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Burton, Sir Richard Francis.
        Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855-1856.
      1855. 3 volumes, 8vo. XVI, 388 pp. (2), IV, 426 pp. XII, 448 pp. Half-title in vol. 3, without publisher's ads. 4 maps & plans (3 folding), 5 colour lithographed plates, 8 tinted lithographed plates. Later half morocco over marbled paper covered boards, bound by Zaehnsdorf, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. First edition of Burton's classic account of his journey across the Arabian peninsula. In the fall of 1852, Burton first proposed to the Royal Geographical Society an expedition to central Arabia with the intent on visiting the holy cities. His request was denied by the RGS and the East India Company as being too dangerous for a westerner, though he was funded to study Arabic in Egypt. Upon arrival there, in April 1853, disguised as a Pashtun and travelling under the pseudonym Mirza Abdullah, Burton made the pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. "The actual pilgrimage began with a journey on camel-back from Cairo to Suez. Then followed twelve days in a pilgrim ship on the Red Sea from Suez to Yambu, the port of El-Medinah. So far the only risk was from detection by his companions. Now came the dangers of the inland road, infested by Bedawin robbers. The journey from Yambu to El-Medinah, thence to Meccah, and finally to the sea again at Jeddah, occupied altogether from 17 July to 23 Sept., including some days spent in rest, and many more in devotional exercises. From Jeddah, Burton returned to Egypt in a British steamer, intending to start afresh for the interior of Arabia via Muwaylah. But this second project was frustrated by ill-health, which kept him in Egypt until his period of furlough was exhausted. The manuscript ... was sent home from India, and seen through the press by a friend in England. It is deservedly the most popular of Burton's books ... as a story of bold adventure, and as lifting a veil from the unknown, its interest will never fade" (DNB). Indeed, the work would be described by T.E. Lawrence as "a most remarkable work of the highest value." Abbey, Travel 368. Penzer, pp. 43-50. Macro, 640. Howgego IV, B95.

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[Gregosch, Johann Baptist].
        Rundgemälde von Wien und dessen Umgebung aufgenommen nächst der Spinnerin am Kreuz und nächst der Villa am Laaerberge. [Vienna, J. B. Gregosch / J. Höfelichs Wwe., 1855].
      1855. Six-leaf panoramic view. Toned lithograph in contemp. colour, c. 205 x 660 mm each. Matted individually. Splendid, coloured circular panorama of Vienna, measuring roughly four metres in length. - Plate 1: Spinnerin am Kreuz/Arsenal. Plate 2: Penzing/Leopoldsberg. Plate 3: Kalksburg/Schönbrunn. Plate 4: Rothneusiedl/Rodaun. Plate 5: Schwechat/Laxenburg/Oberlaa. Plate 6: Simmeringer/Schwechat. Gregosch taught at the Budapest School of Arts and Crafts and was one of the illustrators of "Die Österreichisch-Ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild" (cf. Th./B.). - Extremely rare, especially when complete and in colour: the copy in the Wienmuseum and that in the Eckl collection are both uncoloured. Nebehay/Wagner II, 208 . Eckl coll. 869. Thieme/Becker XIV, 582.

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Vues de Vienne.
        Eglises, places publiques, Rues, Monumens. Collection des gravures. [Verso: Album-Souvenir]. [Vienna, c. 1855].
      1855. Small oblong 8vo (145 x 105 mm). 24 views engraved in steel (87:50 mm each) laid down on decorated backing paper. Original coloured portfolio. Both series of these charming views, probably printed by A. Payne, all mounted on the original backing paper and stored within the perfectly preserved original moirée portfolio printed in blue and gold. The unnumbered engravings, all with captions below, are individually laid down on toned slips of paper with ornamental and figural decoration (each with slight design variations) and bear no reference to printer, artist, or publisher. Apart from the conventional sights of Vienna, the present series features views of the Südbahnhof, the Polytechnical Institute, the Neue Markt and Casino, the Paradiesgarten, the Villa Metternich, the Ferdinandsbrücke with Jägerzeile, and the inn "Zum goldenem Lamm", all perfect as issued; the view of Lobkowitzplatz alone is somewhat shaded with dust towards the edges. Nebehay/Wagner follow the copy of the Vienna City Library in dividing the whole into two series of twelve views each (all present here). No further copy could be traced through library or collection catalogues; merely Gilhofer offered 12 views of the present series in its 1983 centenary catalogue (100 Jahre Gilhofer: Österreich, Geographie, Topographie und Geschichte in illustrierten Werken, no. 142 [with full-page illustration]: "Von großer Seltenheit".) Nebehay/Wagner III, 791. Not in Mayer, Eckl, etc.

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Roberts, David / Croly, George / Brockedon, William.
        The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia. London, Day & Son (vol. 3: New York, D. Appleton & Co.), 1855-1856.
      1855. 6 vols. bound as 3. Large 8vo (300 x 220 mm). With 250 numbered plates (image size 120 x 170 to 150 x 220 mm), including a tinted lithographed portrait of the artist, 6 tinted lithographed title-pages, 2 stone-engraved maps and 239 tinted and double-tinted lithographed and 2 chromolithographed views. Contemporary, richly gold-tooled reddish-brown morocco, side-stitched and oversewn, then sewn on 5 recessed cords, with a hollow back, 5 false bands on the spine, gold-tooled turn-ins, combed and curled marbled endpapers, headbands in red and yellow, gilt and gauffered edges. With thin paper guard leaves facing each plate. Second edition, with reduced illustrations but with more of them double-tinted or chromolithographed, of one of the most splendid and historically important visual records of the Middle East, after drawings by David Roberts (1796-1864) from the sketches he made from life during his travels through what is now Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Lebanon in 1838 and 1839. In Egypt he ventured up the Nile as far as the Nubian temples at Abu Simbel, near the present border with Sudan and travelled by camel through the Sinai to the extraordinary carved-rock buildings of Petra. These had been unknown to Europeans until Burckhardt discovered them in 1812 and 1813, so Roberts's views are among the earliest and are in many ways better than the few predecessors. In Lebanon he ventured as far as Baalbek, which had seen few European visitors before Egypt annexed it in 1832. Other sites he visited and drew include Cairo, Suez, Gaza, Jerusalem and Beirut. He was one of the first Europeans allowed to make drawings of the interior of mosques, so even in well-known cities these too opened a new world to European eyes. His views also provide a very detailed visual record of many sites that were afterward destroyed or disturbed. He drew them during the infancy of photography, before it reached the Middle East and long before it reached maturity there. His views of the modern cities also preserve records of both their architecture and their daily life and he shows spectacular landscapes in the mountains, around the Dead Sea and along the Nile and the Jordan. Roberts, born to a poor (Welsh?) family in Edinburgh, was apprenticed as a house painter, moved to London and worked his way up to paint sets for the Drury Lane Theatre and others. Thanks to patrons who appreciated his talents and hard work he was able to make the expensive and dangerous voyage through the Middle East. George Croly (in volumes 1-3) and William Brockedon (in volumes 4-6) provided explanatory and historical notes on the sites shown in Roberts's views. - Roberts's views were originally published in two separate works, issued in parts in the years 1842 to 1849 and often found together. One centred on the Holy Land, though also including views in other parts of the Middle East, while the other was devoted to Egypt and Nubia. The views in the former were made with only a single tint block and even the latter used fewer tint blocks than the present second edition and only one chromolithograph. The present edition, with sometimes very intricate double tints and two chromolithographs (with black and three tint blocks) is a masterpiece of tinted lithography. Since the lithographers used photographic reductions of the lithographic views of the first edition as an aid to their work, the book also pioneered the use of photography in graphic reproduction. The lithographed title-pages are dated 1855 except for those of vol. 3 (from the simultaneous New York issue, undated) and 6 (1856) but volumes 2-6 include plates dated 1856. The dates of the plates in all six volumes range from 16 April 1855 to 15 December 1856. - The title-page of volume 3 was intended for the simultaneous New York issue, but appears to have always been part of the present copy. In very good condition, with occasional light foxing, mostly on the backs of the plates, and with a faint marginal water stain in the lower outside corner of many plates in volumes 3 and 4, not approaching the printed image. The inside front hinge of the second volume as bound has separated from the book block and the bindings show some wear at the hinges and extremities, but they are otherwise also very good. 250 mostly tinted and double-tinted lithographs providing stunning early views of the Middle East, including Petra, Abu Simbel and the interiors of several mosques. Abbey, Travel 388 (lacking vols. 5-6). Blackmer 1432 (note). Gay 25. Hiler 205. Cf. Hamilton, Europe and the Arab world 66 (1842-49 ed.); Lipperheide, Lc 12 & Ma 27 (1842-49 ed.); Tooley 401f. (1842-49 ed.); not in Colas.

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Wolny, Gregor:
        Kirchliche Topographie von Mähren, meist nach Urkunden und Handschriften.
      Brünn, Nitsch und Grosse, 1855 - 1861. - Erste Ausgabe. - Wurzbach LVIII, 73 ff: "Wolny`s Haupt- und ein wahres Wunderwerk; eine Fundgrube für Mährens Cultur-, Kirchen-, Personen- und Kunstgeschichte, das Ergebnis wahren Bienenfleißes und sorgfältiger Durchsicht von vielen tausend Urkunden". - Gregor Wolny (1793 - 1871) "studierte in Brünn Philosophie (1811) und in Olmütz Theologie (18121815). Im Jahre 1816 wurde er Mönch und trat im Kloster Raigern in Mähren dem Benediktinerorden bei. Im Kloster widmete er sich überwiegend historischen Arbeiten über Mähren, die nur durch eine pädagogische Tätigkeit als Professor für Weltgeschichte und Philologie am Brünner Gymnasium unterbrochen wurde (18211843). Er sammelte umfangreiches historisches und statistisches Material. Dazu gehörten zum Beispiel tausende von Urkunden, die ihm die Landtafel und die Bestände der mährischen Klöster, vorzugsweise aber die Archive des Olmützer Bistums und Kapitels zur Verfügung stellten, sowie amtliche Statistiken, ergänzt durch Berichte der Patrimonial- und kirchlichen Behörden. Seine Forschungsarbeiten inspirierten zahlreiche Schüler und Kollegen (zum Beispiel Christian dElvert, Beda Dudík, Peter von Chlumecký, Boczek, Chytil und andere) Ähnliches zu leisten. Als Anerkennung für seine Verdienste erhielt er die Ehrendoktorwürde der Universität Prag und viele weitere Ehrungen" (Wikipedia Abruf vom 19.09.2016). - Abteilung 1: "Olmützer Erzdiöcese" in 5 Bdn.; Abt. 2 "Brünner Erzdiöcese" in 4 Bdn. - Ohne den erst 1866 erschienen General-Index. - Gebräunt, teils fleckig. Titel (teils mehrfach) gestempelt. Vereinzelt mit Anstreichungen. Exlibris. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 5300 8°. Lwd. der Zeit mit Rückentitel (etw. bestoßen, Gelenke von Bd. 1 angeplatzt). [Attributes: First Edition]

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Proust, Marcel, French writer (1871-1922).
        Autograph letter signed. N. p. o. d.
      1855. 8vo. 3¼ pp. on double leaf. Apparently to the French aesthete, Symbolist poet, art collector and dandy Robert de Montesquiou (1855-1921), who had been the inspiration both for des Esseintes in Joris-Karl Huysmans' "À rebours" (1884) and for Baron de Charlus in Proust's "À la recherche du temps perdu" (1913-27), discussing his attending a conference and a novel by Gabriele D'Annunzio: "Vous 'ne doutez pas' comme disent les gens du monde, que je ne souhaite - sans guère l'espérer - d'être en état d'assister à la Conférence. Je serais heureux de me rendre compte par moi-même ce qu'en penserait la Petite (non, la Grande!) Mademoiselle. Elle a toujours eu un faible pour nous (ce qui est son fort!) Et le merveilleux roman de d'Annunzio me semble par son sujet convenir merveilleusement à l'instruction des enfants confiés à Miss Winter. Je vois là le thème tout indiqué pour les représentations de théâtre jouées au naturel entre frère et sœur. Vous voyez que je ne fais pas comme les gens qui font semblant de ne pas connaitre l'existence des enfants dont on ne leur a pas notifié la venue au monde. Je n'ai pas moins ressenti de cette omission, au tort de mes sentiments, d'une façon cruelle et durable 'car enfin mon respect et mon obéissance semblent dignes à mes yeux d'une autre récompense'. Mais cela ne m'empêche pas de les admirer tout de même beaucoup ! Votre très dévoué | Marcel Proust"'. - Slightly browned and spotty; small collection stamp on p. 1.

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Feuerbach, Ludwig, German philosopher (1804-1872).
        Autograph letter signed ("L. Feuerbach"). Bruckberg, 18. XII. 1855.
      1855. 8vo. 3 pp. on bifolium with address to "Herrn / Friedrich Kapp / d[urch] E[inschluß]". On green "Bath" stationery. Unpublished letter to his friend, the just-naturalised American lawyer, writer, abolitionist, and politician Friedrich Kapp (1824-84) in New York, asking him for advice in financial and family matters, inquiring after Socialist friends, discussing a publication on slavery which Kapp had sent him and remarking on the character of the United States: "What contradictions are not in this America! What could they be with our striving and substance, and what could we be with their principle!" - In full: "Lieber Kapp. Im Vertrauen auf Deine vielbewährte Freundschaft erlaube ich mir, Dich in einer Angelegenheit meiner Schwestern um Deinen Rath u. Beistand zu bitten. Ich nehme um so weniger Anstand, als ich glaube, daß die Sache ganz in die Sphäre Deines wenigstens früheren Geschäftes einschlägt, ihre Erledigung Dir daher keine besonderen Umstände macht. Meine Schwestern haben nämlich, von den hohen Zinsen angelockt, vor einigen Jahren sich amerikanische Obligationen gekauft, sind nun aber, namentlich in Folge der niederschlagenden Eindrücke, die in letzter Zeit Amerika auf Europa gemacht hat, oft in großer Sorge, ob sie ihr Geld auf sicherm Grund angelegt haben. Von der Hand meines Bruders liegt eine Abschrift dieser Obligationen bei. Willst Du nicht so gut sein, Dich zu erkundigen: ob diese Papiere sicher sind u. wie sie stehen? u. im Falle, daß sie es nicht sind, Deinen Rath geben, ob sie u. wie sie dieselben gegen andere amerikanische Papiere verkaufen oder lieber ganz u. gar das papierene Amerika aufgeben sollen? Ich bin zu unwissend, um in dieser Beziehung meinen Schwestern ab oder zu rathen zu können? Aus diesem Grunde habe ich mich an Dich, den gründlichen, unparteiischen Kenner Amerikas gewandt. Daß Du das bist, haben die neuern Ereignisse nur zu sehr bewiesen. Mit Freude habe ich jedoch aus Deiner Sclavenschrift, die ich erst diesen Herbst gelesen, ersehen, daß Dich die erkannten Mängel nicht verhinderten, das zu Grunde liegende Freiheitsprincip anzuerkennen. Traurig, daß die Menschen, die Individuen doch dieses Princip nicht anders verwirklichen. Deine Schriften, namentlich auch die atlantischen Studien sind darum für den Anthropologen vom größten Interesse. Welche Widersprüche sind in diesem Amerika! Was wären sie mit unserm Streben [?] u. Inhalt u. was wären wir mit ihrem Princip! - Mit Bedauern haben wir aus der Zeitung den Tod Deines Schwiegervaters erfahren. Wie schmerzlich muß es für die Tochter sein, so spät ein solches Ereigniß aus weiter Ferne zu vernehmen! - Meine Schrift ist noch immer sehr zurück. Aber meine Schreiblust ist auch fast auf Null radicirt; nur im Lernen und Studiren bin ich unersättlich u. unermüdlich. Daher auch meine Faulheit u. Kargheit im Briefschreiben. Indem ich Dir u. den Deinigen Glück zum neuen Jahr von Herzen wünsche: Dein L. Feuerbach. / N[ach]schr[ift]. Von Otto Lüning, von dem ich viele Jahre gar nicht wußte, wo u. ob er auch noch lebe, erhielt ich vor Kurzem aus Zürich einen ergreifende[n] Brief, der mir den Tod seiner Gattin anzeigte. Bei dieser Gelegenheit erfuhr ich auch mit Bedauern, daß die L[...?] die wir zusammen in Darmst[adt] kennen gelernt in Amerika gestorben sei. Die Ideenassociation führt mich hier auch auf den Expfarrer, Exphilosophen, Exjournalisten, Exvater - er hat Weib u. Kind nämlich verlassen - u. noch mit unzähligen anderen Exs decorirten Stiedel. Weißt Du nichts von ihm? - Was ich Deinem lieben Bruder schrieb, erfährst Du von ihm selbst. Darum berührte ich den Gegenstand nicht bei Dir. Lebwohl!" - Feuerbach had met the student Kapp in Heidelberg in 1843. He had renewed his relationship with his old friend only in May after Kapp had sent him several of his recently-published works.

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Société française de Photographie
        Bulletin de la Société française de Photographie
      Paris, Au siège de la Société française de Photographie, 1855-1866. 12 tomes 1855-1866, 1855-1866, in-8, 12 tomes, , Les douze premières années, rares, du Bulletin de la Société française de photographie, dans une élégante reliure uniforme de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle. LA SFP est la revue photographie la plus importante de la photographie ancienne. Ensemble complet de tous ses hors-textes : - 2 planches pour la première année, 1855 montrant le pied articulé de voyage et le chassis de Jules Clément ; - 1 planche pour l'année 1857 donnant une reproduction photolithographique (procédé Poitevin) ; - 1 photographie originale pour l'année 1863 : un spécimen des recherches de M. Blanquart-Evrard sur l'intervention de l'art dans la photographie. La première année reproduit les statuts du 15 novembre 1854, la liste des premiers fondateurs, et la Liste des membres titulaires, correspondants et amateurs au 31 décembre 1855. Précieux et bel exemplaire portant l'ex-libris imprimé des Ducs de Luynes, chateau de Dampierre. Rarissime dans une telle condition

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Lepsius, [Karl] R[ichard].
        Das allgemeine linguistische Alphabet. Berlin, Hertz, 1855.
      1855. Large 4to. (4), 64 pp., partly printed in red and black. Modern brown half cloth. First edition. - Rare work by the Egyptologist and linguist Carl R. Lepsius (1810-84), leader of the 1842/45 Prussian expedition to Egypt. In this treatise, he presented what must be regarded as one of the earliest attempts at a standardised phonetic alphabet for all languages - a function today fulfilled by the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), which is still based primarily on the Latin alphabet. Among the many alphabetical systems which Lepsius takes into account are also Egyptian hieroglyphs as well as Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, Sanscrit, Bengali, Armenian, Malay, Chinese, etc. - Somewhat browned and brownstained throughout with a noticeable waterstain. Some edge flaws. Title page shows library stamp of the Gymnasium of Venray, Netherlands. Kayser XIV, 24.

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HEURTELOUP le Baron de:
        De la guérison immédiate des rétrécissements de l'urèthre et des blennorrhées invétérées coexistantes, et sur les effets dangereux des bougies. Mémoire accompagné de nombreux exemples de cas curieux, réfractaires et invétérés, guéris sur-le-champ par le Traitement éclectique immédiat indédit. [à la suite] Trois épisodes pour servir à l'histoire de la lithotripsie, vulgairement appelée lithotritie, ou deéfense obligée contre trois injustes attaques. [à la suite] De la lithotripsie sans fragments au moyen de deux procédés de l'extraction immédiate ou del apulvérisation immédiate des pierres vésicales par les voies naturelles [...].
      Paris, Labe, 1855.In-8 de [2]-224-[2]-87-VIII-357-[2] pages, demi-veau moucheté, dos à 4 nerfs orné d'initiales (J.R), roulettes, filets et fleurons dorés, étiquette de titre brune. Dos frotté, rares rousseurs, une croix et un numéro de classement au crayon rouge à la page de titre. Signature de J. Reverdin sur la page de titre du second opuscule. Avec deux planches en noir à la fin du troisième opus, dont une dépliante. Editions originales des deux premiers titres. De la bibliothèque du Professeur Jacques Reverdin (1842-1929) illustre médecin genevois qui fut chirurgien en chef de l'ambulance suisse durant le siège de Paris en 1870-1871. Adjoint et suppléant de Louis Odier à l'hôpital cantonal (1874-1877), il y fut ensuite chirurgien en chef (1878-1882). Professeur de pathologie externe et de médecine opératoire dès la création de la faculté de médecine de l'université de Genève (1876-1910), il fonda avec son cousin Auguste la première clinique chirurgicale privée à Genève. Il découvrit à Paris la greffe épidermique (1869), inventa et mit au point l'aiguille à suture dite "de Reverdin" (1879), décrivit le "myxœdème opératoire" (affection de la thyroïde, 1882), dont la paternité fut le sujet d'une controverse avec Theodor Kocher. Atteint de surdité en 1910, il cessa ses activités médicales et demissionna de sa chaire de professeur. Il s'adonna à l'étude des papillons; ses travaux lui valurent également une notoriété internationales. Il fut le cofondateur de l'Assocition des médecins du canton de Genève. (Roger Mayer in DHS).

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RIVOT (Louis Edouard).
        Voyage au lac Supérieur. Extrait des Annales des Mines.
      Paris, Dalmont, 1855. 1855 1 vol. in-8° (228 x 137 mm.) de : (2) ff., 159, (1) pp. 4 planches depliante dont 2 cartes en couleurs. Brochage éditeur de papier brun, imprimé. Edition originale de cet ouvrage de Louis-Edouard Rivot (1820-1869), professeur à l'École des Mines de Paris. En 1853, il succède à Ebelmen dans la chaire de Docimasie. Rivot s'est également intéressé avec succès à la métallurgie et aux exploitations de mines, non seulement d'un point de vue scientifique et didactique, mais aussi d'un point de vue pratique : il fut conseiller de la Compagnie de Vialas et Villefort, dont il a amené les exploitations de plomb à une prospérité remarquée. A deux reprises, il se rendit aux mines de cuivre et d'argent du lac Supérieur, aux États-Unis. Tous les travaux de L.E. Rivot furent publiés soit dans les Annales des mines, soit dans les Annales de physique et de chimie ; les uns se rapportent à la métallurgie, à la description et à l'exploitation des gîtes métalliques et à la préparation mécanique des minerais, les autres à la chimie analytique. Cet ouvrage fut réédité dans son "Traité de métallurgie" consacré à l'étude des métaux contenant un grand nombre d'observations neuves et d'une grande précision, recueillies dans ses nombreux voyages en France, en Allemagne, en Hongrie et en Amérique. 1 vol. 8vo. 4 folding plates (2 coloured maps). Sewed. First edition of this study of metal undertaken around the Upper Lake by the French scientist L.E. Rivot (1820-1869). Sabin 71695. Howes R330 ("b" rating). Can. Arch. I, 2502. Gagnon I, 3036. Not in T.P.L., Dionne, Amtmann, or Lande. "Extrait des Annales des mines, tome VII, page 173".

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DE MUSSET Paul
        Voyage pittoresque en Italie. Partie septentrionale. Partie Méridionale et en Sicile.
      Belin-Leprieur et Morizot, 1855-1856. Due volumi in 8° grande (mm 263x165), pp. VIII, 544, [23] tavole fuori testo, 525, [23] tavole fuori testo. Il primo volume è rilegato in percallina marrone, mentre la legatura del secondo è in percallina verde. Entrambe le legature presentano una ricca edicola con figure allegoriche, lupa capitolina e armi papali impresse in oro, rosso, verde e blu al piatto anteriore. Al piatto posteriore e al dorso oltre alle armi papali e alla lupa capitolina, che si ripetono, compaiono anche fregi e figure allegoriche. I tagli sono dorati. Si tratta della prima edizione illustrata. Presenta una vignetta incisa su acciaio ai frontespizi e 46 suggestive tavole fuori testo disegnate ed incise dai fratelli Rouargue, nelle quali vengono raffigurate le principali città italiane (Torino, Genova, Milano, Brescia, Padova, Venezia, Bologna, Ancona, Livorno, Pisa, Firenze, Napoli, Palermo&hellip,). Cinque di queste, colorate da mano coeva, ritraggono invece scene di costume. Di ogni città sono messe in evidenza le bellezze paesaggistiche, i tesori d'arte, i musei, le istituzioni benefiche e culturali, ecc. Ottima copia, caratterizzata da usuali fioriture della carta.

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INNOCENTIUS III
        PATROLOGIAE CURSUS COMPLETUS, SERIES SECUNDA, TOMUS CCXIV - CCXV - CCXVI - CCXVII: SAECULUM XIII, INNOCENTII III ROMANI PONTIFICIS OPERA OMNIA, TOMIS QUATUOR DISTRIBUTA
      J.-P. Migne. 1855. In-4 Carré. Relié demi-cuir. Etat d'usage. Couv. légèrement passée. Dos abîmé. Quelques rousseurs. 1232 + 1668 + 1312 + 1210 pages. Texte en latin sur 2 colonnes, chacune étant paginée. Pièces de titre rouges et noires et étiquettes de code sur les dos. Auteur, titre, tomaison, fleurons, bandeaux et filets dorés sur les dos. Tranches marbrées. Ex-libris de la Bibliothèque de l'Institut Catholique de Toulouse au dos des 1ers plats. Tampons de bibliothèque en pages de titre. Dos et bords des plats frottés. Sive Bibliotheca Universalis, Integra, Uniformis, Commoda, Oeconomica, Omnium SS. Patrum, Doctorum Scriptorumque Ecclesiasticorum. Qui ab Aevo Apostolico ad Usque Innocentii III Tempora Floruerunt. Accurante J.-P. Migne.

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NEWMAN, W.A.
        Biographical Memoir of John Montagu
      Harrison, London 1855 - Thick octavo, portrait frontispiece; in original blind-stamped cloth. Fascinating work on colonial affairs, of particular note for the governorship of Tasmania. Montagu, married to Arthur's neice, was an efficient reformer of the civil service, but was perceived by Sir John Franklin as one of the Arthur's 'clique', which Franklin was keen to break. Personal differences between Montagu and Franklin escalated in the wake of conflicting views on transportation and a charge (later quashed) that Montagu had been behind an article besmirching Franklin. Turnbull (an anti-transportationist, surgeon & Presbyterian Minister), along with Sir John Pedder attempted mediation but to no avail.With an appealing blind stamp of the Hobart bookseller Walch. This is the copy of Adam Turnbull who served with Montagu in his time as Colonial Secretary under Governors Arthur and Sir John Franklin. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Prantl, Carl:
        4 Bände) Geschichte der Logik im Abendlande.
      Leipzig; Verlag von S. Hirzel, 1855 - / 1861; 1967 u. 1870. 8°. XII; 733 S. / XII; 399 S. / VIII; 426 S. und VIII; 305 S. Gute, stabile Exemplare; Einbände leicht berieben; Schnitt u. wenige Seiten innen gering fleckig; Band IV mit kleiner Fehlstelle am Rücken. Insgesamt gut erhalten. - 4 BÄNDE. - EA. - Band 2 Dr. Joseph Poezl gewidmet. // Carl Prantl, seit 1872 Ritter von Prantl (* 28. Januar 1820 in Landsberg am Lech;  14. September 1888 in Oberstdorf im Allgäu) war ein deutscher Philosoph. Im Alter von 17 Jahren begann er in München das Studium des klassischen Altertums (u.a. bei Friedrich Thiersch und Leonhard Spengel), das er nach 4 Jahren mit seiner Dissertation abschloss. Ein Reisestipendium brachte ihn 1842/43 nach Berlin, wo er vor allem bei August Boeckh und Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg hörte. Er war ab 1847 außerordentlicher, ab 1859 ordentlicher Professor der Philologie und 1864 der Philosophie in München. Die Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften wählte ihn 1848 zu ihrem außerordentlichen Mitglied, 1857 folgte die Berufung zum ordentlichen Mitglied. Weiterhin war er Mitglied der Akademie in Berlin. 1872 erhielt er das Ritterkreuz des Verdienstordens der Bayrischen Krone und wurde dadurch als Ritter von Prantl in den persönlichen Adelsstand erhoben. Für das Jahr 1879/80 wurde er zum Rektor der Münchner Universität gewählt. Sein Sohn war der Botaniker Carl Prantl. Prantl veröffentlichte zahlreichen Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Philosophie, über die Rechtsphilosophie und die Logik. Als sein Hauptwerk gilt die "Geschichte der Logik im Abendland". // INHALT : Einleitung - I Abschnitt Die Eleaten und Sophisten - Xenophanes Parmenides Melissos - Zeno - die Sophisten - (Protagoras - Gorgias - Prodikos - ) ihr rhetorischer Nominalismus - ihre Fang- und Trug-Schlüsse - II Abschnitt Sokrates und die einseitigen So-kratiker unter letzteren besonders die Megariker - Sokrates - Aristippus - Rückfall des Antisthenes in die Sophistik - Die Megariker - ihr principieller Standpunkt - (die angebliche Ideenlehre derselben - die Tendenz ihrer Eristik - ihre Fang- und Trug-Schlüsse - Die Elisch-Eretrische Schule - III Abschnitt Plato und die ältere Akademie - Plato's principielle Auffassung und ihre Bedeutung für die Logik - seine Stellung zu den Sophisten und Megarikern - Unterscheidung der wahren Dialektik von der Sophistik und Eristik - Entwicklung der wahren Dialektik - (das Urtheil - Spuren von Kategorien - die Ideen - Methode der Einteilung - Die ältere Akademie (Speusippus - Xenokrates - IV Abschnitt Aristoteles - Allgemeines - Die logischen Schriften des Arist - Unterscheidung des Dialektischen und Apodeiktischen - Bedeutung der Dialektik und ihrer verwerflichen Unterarten - Bedeutung der Apodeiktik - das menschliche Denken in seiner Unmittelbar-keit und Allgemeinheit - die menschliche Aussage - die wis-senschaftliche Aufgabe der Apodeiktik - die wesentlichen Momente in dem begründenden Verfahren - das angebliche principium identitatis bei Arist - das Princip der aristot Logik - und deren Stellung - Die Lehre vom Urtheile - Bejahung und Verneinung - sog Quantität der Urtheile - verschiedene Art der Verneinung - Gegensatz und Widerspruch - Mängel der aristot Auffassung hierin - Urtheile der Möglichkeit und der Nothwendigkeit - und deren Verneinungen - Die Kategorienlehre - Bedeutung der Kategorie überhaupt - Bezeichnung der objeetiven allseitig determinirten Wesen - die feste Aussage der concreten Galtungsbestimmtheiten - sprachliche Function der Kategorien - angebliche Zehnzahl derselben - Die Lehre vom Begriffe - das Ansichsein und dessen Form - die Wesenheit als Substrat und Snbjecl - der Verwirk-lichungsprocess des begrifflichen Seins - die Arten des Gegenüber-liegens das Enthlösstsein der Unterschied als artbildend - die begriffliche Form der individuellen Wesenheit - Causalität im schöpferischen Begriffe - Vereinigung von Stoff und Form - das einzeln Individuelle und das ewige Einfache - die begrifflichen und die stofflichen Theile - begriffliches Sein d [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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(ART EXHIBITION: CRIMEAN WAR.)
        Exhibition of Water-colour Drawings and Pictures by Amateur Artists,
      London: A. and G. A. Spottiswoode,, 1855. and art contributions in aid of the fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of British officers engaged in the war with Russia. Gallery, 121. Pall Mall, opposite the opera colonnade. Square octavo, 66 pp. Original bright blue morocco-grain cloth by Westleys & Co (with their ticket), gilt lettered on front cover, both covers with gilt panelling enclosing large ornamental corner-pieces and central royal arms, all edges gilt, pale yellow coated endpapers. List of royal donors printed in gold. A little rubbed at extremities. An exceptional copy. First and only edition; rare: Copac cites only the copy at the V&A amongst British and Irish institutional libraries, OCLC adds one copy worldwide (at Yale), although we have traced a copy in the Royal Collection. The handsomely produced catalogue of the exhibition held at Ernest Gambart's French Gallery at 121 Pall Mall, listing 754 works of art donated to the fund, including pieces by five of Queen Victoria's children. As stated on the title page, admission was one shilling, the price of the catalogue sixpence, and the show was open from ten in the morning until six in the evening. Jeremy Maas gives an interesting account of the exhibition in his biography of Gambart: "A committee of London society ladies and gentlemen, under the patronage of the Queen's aged aunt, the Duchess of Gloucester, had decided to make a contribution to the Patriotic Fund by putting on an exhibition of paintings, sketches and drawings by amateurs and artists, the entire proceeds of which were destined for the widows and children of officers who had fallen in the war in the Crimea. The only gallery suitable in any way for this laudable enterprise, and the only person deemed capable of doing it justice, were the French Gallery in Pall Mall and the enterprising Mr Gambart. The exhibition was fixed for April, after the closing of his normal Winter Exhibition. It all looked very well, but something to fire the imagination was needed. Accordingly, the Queen graciously premitted drawings by the Princess Royal, the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred and the Princesses Alice and Helena to be shown. On the eve of the opening the water-colour by the fifteen-year-old Princess Royal arrived; it was entitled, 'A woman looking for her husband among the dead and wounded after the Battle of Inkerman' [entitled 'The Battle Field' on p. 5 of the catalogue]. Asked about the price, the Princess replied, 'Would a guinea be too much?' Accustomed to asking high prices for anything that passed through his hands, Gambart felt that this was quite out of the question. While the committee was trying to hit upon a tactful way of asking the Princess to raise the price, Gambart seized his chance. Taking a large piece of paper, he wrote at the top: 'Water-colour by the Princess Royal for sale to the last and highest bidder', and put himself down for 75 guineas. Before long appeared a bid of 100 guineas.Gambart promptly put himself down again for 125 guineas... At the end of the exhibition the water-colour stood at 450 guineas... Perhaps Gambart was relieved to have been able to demonstrate his patriotism without paying a heavy price; nevertheless, he packed the gallery daily with eager and curious crowds. Eventually he had the Princess Royal's water-colour lithographed and opened a subscription list at a guinea a print; the money earned from the print - about Â£1,200 - was added to the Â£13,000 made through the exhibition by fees at the door and the sale of works" (Gambart: Prince of the Victorian Art World, 1975, pp. 70-71).

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WESTWOOD, John Obadiah.
        The buttertflies of Great Britain with their transformations, delineated and described.
      London Orr 1855 - Quarto, xl, 140 pp.,additional hand-coloured lithograph pictorial title, 19 hand-coloured lithographs, 2 monochrome plates, small ink splash to foot of additional title, contemporary brown morocco gilt extra, covers with fancy gilt borders, all edges gilt, 1917-dated gift inscription to front paste-down, a very attractive example. An abridged reduced format version of the 1841 British butterflies and their transformations with new plates and revised text. Dunbar notes that some copies are poorly coloured, however the present example has fine bright colouring. Westwood, a distinguished entomologist and member of the Linnean Society, collaborated in writing the text to accompany the charming beautiful painings by Humphreys. Each print depicts several species artistically composed among the flowering caterpillar food plants, and in many instances the caterpillar and chrysalis are shown. Some of the grander European species are also shown. Dunbar, British butterflies, page 53. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Whitman, Walt
        Leaves of Grass
      Brooklyn, NY 1855 - A Very Good copy, rare in the original cloth. This copy has been recased, reversing old repairs and closing some tears to the cloth near the spine that would otherwise have gotten worse. Small blank margin of the frontis portrait chipped and renewed. The title page is frayed at the edges and with some large tears, which have all now been professionally secured. Internal contents show some smudges and wear, but the book is complete and in its original binding. BAL state A binding, with extra gilt and all page edges gilt, state A of the frontis portrait, on thick card-stock, state B of the copyright notice, printing the notice in two lines, and state B of page iv with "and" spelled correctly. Also, with the first state of leaf 49 reading "And the night is for you and me and all." (Gary Schmidgall: "1855: A Stop-Press Revision") Housed in a custom slipcase with chemise. Perhaps the most important collection of poetry in American Literature. Although "Leaves of Grass" was first greeted with derision and even shock - Boston's district attorney attempted to have some of the poems suppressed as obscene and Whitman was fired from his job - it eventually claimed its rightful place in the American canon. Whitman wrote the collection after he was inspired by Emerson and the Transcendentalist movement, and the poems in Leaves of Grass are noted for their sensualist focus on nature and the human form. They include some of Whitman's most famous works, including "Song of Myself" and "I Sing of the Body Electric." Despite the collection's fame and success, Whitman re-wrote and edited the collection many times, with the final edition containing over 400 poems. Whitman himself helped pay for the printing of the first edition, the run of which contained only 800 copies, most of which were unbound."Always the champion of the common man, Whitman is both the poet and the prophet of democracy. The whole of Leaves of Grass is imbued with the spirit of brotherhood and a pride in the democracy of the young American nation. In a sense, it is America's second Declaration of Independence: that of 1776 was political, this of 1855 intellectual." (Printing and the Mind of Man)Unsurprisingly, the book has had numerous admirers. Harold Bloom has called the book the "secular scripture of the United States", and Ezra Pound referred to Whitman as "America's Poet." "The whole body of these Poems-spiritually considered-is alive with power, throbbing and beating behind and between the lines. There is more here than mere oddity, and barbaric indifference to elegant forms of speech; there is a living soul-no matter whether its owner drove an omnibus once, or stands on State street and chaffers greedily every day for gold-and that soul insists on giving itself to its fellows, even if it has to rend the most sacred rules of speech to achieve its larger liberty? It is the texture of the stuff that tells, because it is that which is going to endure." (Contemporary Review of 1860 edition, Boston Banner of Light). Very Good. [Attributes: First Edition]

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KOCK (Charles-Paul);
        La Bouquetière du Château d'eau. Manuscrit autographe.
      Paris 1855 In-folio manuscrit de 160 pp. montées sur onglet, demi-maroquin rouge à coins, dos à nerfs, titre doré sur le dos (Semet & Plumelle). Manuscrit autographe intégral de l'un des grands succès de Paul de Kock (1793-1871), auteur populaire du XIXe siècle dont la notoriété à l'époque romantique égala celles de Balzac ou Georges Sand. Paul de Kock était le fils d'un banquier hollandais établi à Passy pendant la Révolution et qui fut envoyé à l'échafaud pour complicité avec l'ennemi. Il était employé de banque quand il écrivit son premier roman, L'enfant de ma femme (1812). Sa vogue, en France et à l'étranger, fut très grande (Gustave le mauvais sujet, 1821 ; La Laitière de Montfermeil, 1827 ; La Femme, le mari et l'amant, 1829 ; Le Cocu, 1832 ; La Pucelle de Belleville, 1834). Il écrivit aussi près de 200 mélodrames, vaudevilles, opéras-comiques et chansons. Paul de Kock, l'auteur de la Grande ville, reste le chroniqueur populaire par excellence du Paris romantique, des guinguettes et cabarets, mais aussi des grisettes : « Il peint admirablement les moeurs populaires, la malice parisienne, la bonhommie campagnarde et la sottise bourgeoise » (Nouvelle biographie générale). Très beau manuscrit de 60 à 65 lignes par page, d'une grande lisibilité, biffé, raturé, avec des corrections en marges, témoignage sensible d'un auteur fécond et à succès du XIXe siècle. La Bouquetière du Château d'eau parut en 1855. Parfaite reliure de Semet & Plumelle.

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Belcher, Edward
        THE LAST OF THE ARCTIC VOYAGES; BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION IN H.M.S. ASSISTANCE...IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, DURING THE YEARS 1852-53-54. WITH NOTES ON THE NATURAL HISTORY...
      London: Lovell Reeve, 1855. Two volumes. xx,383pp. plus three folding maps and thirteen plates; [iii]-vii,419pp. plus twenty-four plates (including frontispieces). Large octavo. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. First volume rebacked with original spine laid down, front joint of second volume beginning to split. Institutional bookplate on each front pastedown. Large folding map backed on linen. Internally clean. Very good. This important work features a superb complement of lithographed plates, many of them chromolithographs or tinted, showing early views in the high Arctic. Belcher's narrative is printed in journalistic form, occupying the first two thirds of the text; the remainder is turned over to substantial reports and appendices on the natural history observations by John Richardson, Prof. Owen, and several others. The map shows the Arctic Ocean in North America. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY 1241. ABBEY 645. SABIN 4389. TPL 3409. NMMC 921.

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Belcher, Edward:
        THE LAST OF THE ARCTIC VOYAGES; BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION IN H.M.S. ASSISTANCE.IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, DURING THE YEARS 1852- 53-54. WITH NOTES ON THE NATURAL HISTORY.
      London: Lovell Reeve, 1855. - Two volumes. xx,383pp. plus three folding maps and thirteen plates; [iii]- vii,419pp. plus twenty-four plates (including frontispieces). Large octavo. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. First volume rebacked with original spine laid down, front joint of second volume beginning to split. Institutional bookplate on each front pastedown. Large folding map backed on linen. Internally clean. Very good. This important work features a superb complement of lithographed plates, many of them chromolithographs or tinted, showing early views in the high Arctic. Belcher's narrative is printed in journalistic form, occupying the first two thirds of the text; the remainder is turned over to substantial reports and appendices on the natural history observations by John Richardson, Prof. Owen, and several others. The map shows the Arctic Ocean in North America. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY 1241. ABBEY 645. SABIN 4389. TPL 3409. NMMC 921.

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BOURASSE (Abbé J.-J.).
        LA TOURAINE. Histoire et monuments. Publié sous la direction de l'Abbé Bourassé.
      1855Tours, Mame, 1855. Petit in-folio (292 X 407) chagrin rouge, dos cinq double nerfs filetés sertis de filets à froid, caissons dorés et à froid, titre doré, triple encadrement de filets dorés et filets à froid sur les plats, au centre armes dorées de la Touraine, roulette dorée sur les coupes, bordure intérieure entièrement ornée d'une dentelle dorée, tranches dorées (reliure de l'éditeur) ; (2), faux-titre, frontispice, titre, 610 pages, 18 planches, 1 feuillet non chiffré (nom des coopérateurs), (2). Des rousseurs parfois fortes au verso des planches, plus discrètes sur les rectos et souvent marginales, quelques taches sans gravité sur le premier plat de la reliure. EDITION ORIGINALE contenant 19 PLANCHES hors-texte gravées sur acier sur vélin fort, sous serpentes, dont quatre chromolithographies, quatorze gravures en noir sur acier, une carte rehaussée, et de très nombreuses gravures sur bois dans le texte d'après Girardet et Français. Cet ouvrage, devenu un classique, est le PLUS BEL OUVRAGE consacré à la Touraine. "Cet ouvrage est un monument ; les gravures sur bois sont remarquables. Malheureusement son format l'éloigne à tort de certaines bibliothèques. Il faut se rendre compte que de nos jours une pareille débauche d'illustrations gravées sur bois est un luxe dispendieux à cause du prix de la main-d'oeuvre. L'éditeur le plus riche se ruiberait dans de pareilles entreprises" (CARTERET, Le Trésor du bibliophile, III, 103). BEL EXEMPLAIRE de cet ouvrage magnifiquement composé et illustré, présenté dans sa solide reliure éditeur aux armes de la Touraine. NICE COPY. PICTURES AND MORE DETAILS ON REQUEST.

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Zoll, Kilian (1818-1860)
        Porträtt av Henrietta Horn af Rantzien (1821-1874), konstnärens fästmö, sedermera hans hustru.
      Olja på duk. 22,3 × 19,9 cm. Osignerad. Av Philibert Humbla daterat till c. 1855. Paret gifte sig 1858. Proveniens: Från konstnärens fader Nils Fredrik Zoll (f. 1789) och hans hustru Catarina Christina Knutsson (f. 1799) i arv till bankdirektör Josef Elmlund (1880-1969), Ängelholm, sedan vidare i arv inom familjen till 2009. Crafoord auktioner 25 april 2009, nr 54. Litteratur: Philbert Humbla, Kilian Zoll (1932), s. 182, 251, nr 14. Avbildad s. 70. Utställd: Möjligen Kilian Zoll 1818-1860. Malmö Museum / Hallands museum april-juni 1960 (Malmö Museum katalog nr 225), nr 168 (det är något oklart vilket porträtt av fästmön som avses). Humbla (1932, s. 182) beskriver porträttet på följande vis: "Konstnärligt sett har Zoll nått ännu högre i ett helt skissartat porträtt av Henrietta Horn som fästmö. Ansiktet framstår levande, inramat av hårets tunga huva, och den vita kragen står vackert mot undermålningens mörka, gyllene ton." Humbla höll Zoll högt som porträttmålare, det är hans porträtt av Marcus Larson, av hans närmaste och hans självporträtt som tillförsäkrar honom en plats bland det svenska 1800-talets porträttmålare: »De präglas alla av en levande ande och av en djup och sann karakterisering, given med en målerisk bredd, som starkt bryter mot det brukliga slickade, petiga och torra manéret, så vanligt inom den tidens porträttkonst» (s. 192). En liknande karakteristik ger Ingrid Martelius i Svenskt konstnärslexikon: "Som målare av porträtt var Zoll mer än någonsin beroende av sitt personliga förhållande till modellen, varav följer att [...] porträtten av de närmaste blev de mest lyckade. Fästmön, Henriette Horn, långtifrån skön, skildras 1855 och 1857 med en kärleksfull inlevelse och trygghet, som gör den romantiska, av döden så snabbt avbrutna kärlekshistorien mellan den adliga överstedottern och den fattige underofficerssonen än mer rörande".

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Trentsensky, Joseph].
        Carawane nach Mecca.
      Vienna, Matthias Trentsensky (printed by E. Sieger), [ca. 1855]. - Oblong folio (250 x 400 mm). With 19 (of 24) numbered leaves containing about 135 lithographic pen-drawings of people, animals, equipment & gear and goods, from a caravan travelling to Mecca, each drawing including a base so that one can cut them out, paste them on card stock, stand them up and arrange them in three-dimensional scenes. Lacking leaves 1-5.ll. 6-24 (of 24). Loose leaves in a later paper folder. All but the first five leaves of a very rare lithographic print series issued in parts. Most copies were probably cut up (and perhaps coloured) by children and destroyed in play. The human figures to be cut out include Turkish, Arabic, African and Near Eastern men and women (black and white) in Islamic clothing, including both masters and servants, some of the men with a variety of firearms, spears, daggers, pipes (straight pipes and hookah water-pipes), prayer rugs, and other gear and goods, and servants setting up a tent. There are also camels (both single-humped dromedaries and two-humped Bactrian camels), horses and donkeys, often with their gear for riding or for carrying loads. The wild animals include wolves, a hyena and an ostrich. Inanimate objects include containers for water, an incense burner, baskets, chests, barrels, camel saddles and much more. The series must have provided many children and adults with their first notion of Islamic society and culture and is rich in authentic details, such as a dromedary with its left front leg bent up and tied around the knee. Kleine Welt des Bilderbogens dates the series ca. 1855, just after Sir Richard Burton's famous successful visit to Mecca disguised as an Islamic Afghan in 1853 (he was one of the few Europeans who had ever visited Mecca and lived to tell of it). The complete series of 24 leaves comprised four groups of leaves, each leaf with the title, relevant subtitle and imprint (without date) at the foot: 1-6: Die Ueberbringung des heiligen Teppich. 7-13: Die Reise durch die Wüste. 14-16: Das Lager in der Wüste. 17-24: Die Gefahren der Wüste. The artist is not named. The drawings are printed on unwatermarked wove paper. Since the paper is fairly thin and the drawn bases have no folding tabs, the publisher probably intended the cut-outs to be pasted onto card stock with a folding tab at the foot of the base so that they could stand with no other support. - With an occasional pencil mark. Lacking leaves 1-5 (all but the last leaf of the first group), but otherwise in good condition (remarkable good considering the wear and tear that most such items see) and with the other three groups complete. The whole is slightly browned and the edges somewhat tattered (1 small tear slightly affects one camel and another very slightly affects one drawn base). Richly detailed lithographic drawings for about 135 paper cut-outs for a Caravan to Mecca. Kleine Welt des Bilderbogens: der Wiener Verlag Trentsensky (1977), 111. Katharina Siefert, ed., Paläste, Panzer, Pop-up-Bücher: Papierwelten in 3D (2009), with a chapter, "Die Carawane nach Mecca", pp. 31-38. Not in KVK; WorldCat.

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DAVID ROBERTS
        DAVID ROBERTS.THE HOLY LAND.SYRIA,ARABIA,EGYPT AND NUBIA.LONDON 1855/1856
      - DAVID ROBERTS. THE HOLY LAND, SYRIA, IDUMEA, ARABIA, EGYPT AND NUBIA. LONDON (DAY AND SON) 1855/1856. 6 VOL. GRAND IN-4°, 300 X 200 MM, RELIES DEMI-VEAU OLIVE ET COINS EPOQUE, DOS ORNES PASSES, PLATS ESTAMPES MOTIFS DORES, RELIURE EDITEUR. 223 PL. SUR 250 ANNONCEES H.T. TIREES SUR FOND TEINTE, CERTAINES EN COULEURS, D'APRES DAVID ROBERTS, LITHOGRAPHIEES PAR LOUIS HAGHE DONT 6 TITRES GRAVES ET 2 CARTES. ELLES REPRESENTENT DE TRES BELLES VUES, MONUMENTS ET PAYSAGES ORIENTAUX DE JORDANIE, SYRIE, EGYPTE, PALESTINE. CHACUNE DES PLANCHES EST ACCOMPAGNEE D'UNE DESCRIPTION HISTORIQUE DU REVEREND GEORGES CROLY ET DE WILLIAM BROCKEDON. EDITION EN IN-4° DE CET OUVRAGE MONUMENTAL. ROBERTS PARTIT EN 1839 DE MARSEILLE A ALEXANDRIE ET PASSA UNE ANNEE AU CAIRE VISITANT ET DESSINANT LES SITES, TOMBES ET MONUMENTS PHARAONIQUES ET D'EGYPTE MODERNE, LES MOSQUEES ET LA VIE MODERNE. L'ANNEE SUIVANTE, IL VOYAGEA VERS LA PALESTINE, S'ARRETANT A SUEZ, MONT SINAI ET PETRA. IL PASSA EGALEMENT DU TEMPS A GAZA PUIS JERUSALEM ET FINIT SON TOUR, PASSANT PLUSIEURS MOIS A VISITER ET DESSINER DES SITES BIBLIQUES. QUELQUES PLANCHES DETACHEES. TOUTES LES PLANCHES SONT SOUS SERPENTE. L'EDITION IN-FOLIO EUT UN GRAND SUCCES ET SERVIT DE REPRODUCTION PHOTO ET GRAPHIQUE POUR DE NOMBREUSES EDITIONS. PEU DE ROUSSEURS. DAVID ROBERTS R.A. THE HOLY LAND , SYRIA, IDUMEA, ARABIA, EGYPT AND NUBIA. LONDON (DAY AND SON) 1855/1856. 6 VOL., LARGE QUARTO, 300 X 200 MM. PORTRAIT, 6 TITLES, MAPS AND 223 OF 249 PLATES TINTED, SOME IN COLOR. HALF CONTEMPORARY GILT CALF. GILT BACK AND EDGES. EDITOR COVERS. STAMPED EDITOR. THIS IS THE SECOND EDITION IN SMALLER FORMAT. PLATES ARE TINTED, SOME IN COLOR. SOME PLATES ARE LOOSE, FEW FOXING. ROBERTS DEPARTED IN 1839 TO ALEXANDRIA AND SPENT ONE YEAR IN CAIRO. VISITING THE MAJOR TOMBS AND SITES OF PHARAONIC EGYPT. MOSQUES AND MODERN LIFE. HE VENTURED UP THE NIL AS FAR AS THE NUBIAN TEMPLES AT ABOU SIMBEL. ALL THE PLATES HAVE A THINE PAPER GUARD. THIS SECOND EDITION WITH REDUCE ILLUSTRATIONS BUT WITH MORE OF THEM DOUBLE-TINTED OR CHROMOLITHOGRAPHED, OF ONE OF THE MOST SPLENDID VISUAL RECORDS OF THE MIDDLE EAST. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Du Camp (Maxime) :
        Les Chants modernes.
      Paris, Michel Lévy Frères, 1855; grand in-8, bradel de percaline rouge, dos orné d'un fleuron doré, pièce de titre fauve, couverture verte conservée, non rogné (reliure de l'époque) ; 437 pp.Edition originale tirée sur beau vélin ; ex-libris gravé de la famille Masséna, avec la devise Victor et Fidelis choisie par André Masséna après avoir été fait duc de Rivoli (1808) puis prince d'Essling (1810) ; ses armes sont "d'or, à une victoire ailée de carnation, vêtue d'argent, tenant dans sa main dextre une palme et dans la senestre une couronne de laurier, le tout de sinople, accompagnée en pointe d'un chien couché de sable ; au chef de gueules, semé d'étoiles d'argent". "La Préface contient une diatribe violente contre l'Académie française" (Vicaire III-306). Les gardes, un peu acides, ont transmis quelques rousseurs au faux-titre et au dernier feuillet, quelques minuscules rousseurs sur les témoins. Quelques notes manuscrites et soulignures au crayon à papier (peu nombreuses).

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