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VOLNEY, Constantin-Francois Chasseboeuf, Comte de
Travels Through Syria and Egypt In the Years 1783 1784 and 1785
London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson 1788. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2 vols.: xii 418; iv 500 15 p. 22 cm. 5 engraved fold-out plates including 2 maps. 1. Full tree-calf leather. Corners lightly bumped. Vol. 2. Small dent on bottom of rear board in vol. 1 as well as a bit of soiling to lower edge of text block. Vol. 2 has large horizontal tear in p. 327 chip in third plate and dampstains to front pastedown and inner margins of first pages. Paper bright and clean. <br/><br/>Title continues: "Containing The present Natural and Political State of those Countries their Productions Arts Manufactures and Commerce; with Observations on the Manners Customs and Government of the Turks and Arabs." Volney 1757-1820 was a well-travelled learned man. He embarked on a journey to the Near East in late 1782 and spent nearly seven months in Ottoman Egypt. Afterwards he lived for nearly two years in Greater Syria in what is today Lebanon and Israel in order to learn Arabic. He returned to France in 1785 where he spent the following two years compiling his notes and writing these volumes. He continued to travel in later years being expelled from the U.S.A. as a suspected spy in 1797. It seems his life was always an adventure for he narrowly escaped the guillotine during the French Revolution. Of interest in these well-preserved volumes is the account given of the Arabic press at the convent of Marhanna vol. 2 pp. 190-191 with a catalogue of books printed there p. 196. On the macabre side is the extensive discussion of diseases prevalent in Egypt including smallpox blindness cutaneous eruptions plague and Neapolitan Disease which seems to be syphilis vol. 1 pp. 240-258. Indexed. G.G.J. and J. Robinson hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 121627
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VOLNEY, CONSTANTIN FRANCOIS CHASSEBŒUF, COMTE DE
TRAVELS THROUGH SYRIA AND EGYPT IN THE YEARS 1783 1784 AND 1785
London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson 1788. Second Edition in English. 216 x 137 mm. 8 1/2 x 5 3/8". Two volumes. <br/> VERY FINE CONTEMPORARY FLAMED CALF flat spines ruled in gilt red morocco label on each spine. Three engraved folding plates views and plan and two engraved folding maps. Front pastedowns with the armorial bookplate of Penelope Vaughn. Cox I 235 citing French edition of 1787; Lowndes IV 2790; Graesse VI 389 both citing English edition of 1787. ◆A handful of paper flaws one causing a short tear without loss just into text a half dozen leaves with light marginal soiling apparently incurred in the print shop top inch of front joint of second volume slightly cracked two bottom corners a bit bumped and rubbed but A VERY FINE COPY INSIDE AND OUT the bindings lustrous and scarcely worn the text bright and clean and the plates all remarkably well preserved.<br/> <br/> The author's first book this item is called by Chambers "one of the most exact and valuable works of its kind ever published" Cox quoting Chambers' "Cyclopaedia: or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences". The Blackmer catalogue says that "Volney's popular and highly-regarded work was the result of three years' travels a good deal of which time was spent in Cairo. His account has never really been surpassed. Volney went to great lengths in preparation which included a year devoted to exercise and self-deprivation and three months learning the language required in a convent in the mountains of Lebanon." Volney 1757-1820 was a learned man a frequent traveller and an important governmental official who was expelled from America as a suspected spy and who narrowly escaped the guillotine during the French Revolution. The present bindings obviously are not notable for their decoration but they are wonderful examples of attractively executed flamed calf bindings typical of those making up the bulk of country gentlemen's libraries all over Great Britain. The condition of the present copy is nothing short of extraordinary very nearly capturing the look and feel of the volumes as they would have appeared on their original shelf. Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson unknown
书商的参考编号 : ST10830
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Volney, Constantin Francois
Travels through Syria and Egypt in the years 1783 1784 and 1785. Containing the present natural and political state of those countries their productions arts manufactures and commerce; with observations on the manners customs and government .
London: printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson Pater-Noster-Row 1788. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Two volumes. I:iv xii 418pp.; II: iv iv 500 xvpp. Second English edition. I: 2 A6 B8-Z8 Aa8-Dd8 Ee2; II: 4 B8-Z8 Aa8-Ii8 Kk2 Ll8. With half-titless to both volumes present. Contemporary calf rehinged at an earlier date. Some scuffing and wear to covers hinges still tender. With two folding maps of Syria and Egypt and two plates of buildings in the two countries plus a folding plan. ESTC T12218. <br/> <br/> London: printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row, 1788 hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 1853
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Volney, Constantin Francois
uvres Complètes de C.-F. Volney Comte Et Pair de France Membre de l'Académie Française Honoraire de la Société Asiatique Séante à Calcutta Vol. . l'Auteur Classic Reprint French Edition
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书商的参考编号 : 0483238627.G ???????? : 0483238627 9780483238626
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Volney, Constantin-Francois
uvres Complètes de C.-F. Volney Comte Et Pair de France Membre de l'Académie Française Honoraire de la Société Asiatique Séante A Calcutta Vol. . l'Auteur Classic Reprint French Edition
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书商的参考编号 : 0666113629.G ???????? : 0666113629 9780666113627
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Volney, Constantin-Francois
Viage Por Egipto Y Siria Durante Los Años De 1783 1784 Y 1785: Obra Escrita En Francés Spanish Edition
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书商的参考编号 : 114243561X.G ???????? : 114243561X 9781142435615
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Volney, Constantin Francois
View of the Climate and Soil of the United States of America Etc. Few Ms. Notes.
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书商的参考编号 : 1241418179.G ???????? : 1241418179 9781241418175
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Volney, Constantin-Francois
View of the Climate and Soil of the United States of America: To Which Are Annexed Some Accounts of Florida the French Colony On the Scioto Certain Canadian Colonies and the Savages Or Natives
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书商的参考编号 : 1340870169.G ???????? : 1340870169 9781340870164
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Volney, Constantin-Francois
View of the Climate and Soil of the United States of America: To Which Are Annexed Some Accounts of Florida the French Colony On the Scioto Certain Canadian Colonies and the Savages Or Natives
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
书商的参考编号 : 1146564627.G ???????? : 1146564627 9781146564625
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Volney, Constantin-Francois; and Priestly, Joseph
Volney's Ruins; or Meditation on the Revolution of Empires. Translated Under the Immediate Inspection of the Author from the Sixth Paris Edition. To which is added The Law of Nature and a Short Biographical Notice by Count Daru: Also the controversy between Dr. Priestly and Volney
Printed in the USA: Charles Gaylord 1835. 1835 edition. Cloth and paper over boards. As described. Hardcover cloth tan over paper illustrated over boards. 12mo. 216 pp. Illustrated with a b/w engraved frontispiece. No edition marks. Remnants of a paper label on the spine. Faded partially legible inscription on the front flyleaf. Ownership signature P. S. Van Wagner Hamilton 1844 R. R. on the front flyleaf and title page. Small enclosed tear on the back flyleaf. Text block is age browned around the edges and mildly foxed throughout. Binding is strong and square. Spine and boards are soiled rubbed and worn. Edges of the boards are frayed in sections. Small enclosed tear on the fore edge of the front board. Crack in the bottom of the front hinge. Bumped corners. Despite its appearance this copy's bindings are still strong and its pages legible. Charles Gaylord unknown
书商的参考编号 : 67296
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VOLNEY, Constantin Francois [Trans: JEFFERSON, Thomas]
Volney's Ruins; or Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires. Translated under the immediate inspection of the Author from the Sixth Paris Edition
Boston: Charles Gaylord 1835. Early US Edition. Twelvemo. 17cm. Publisher's original linen spine lacking paper title label over decorated publisher's paper covered boards. 216pp. Strong and solid scuffed to the corners with the paper worn allowing the board to show through rubbed and a little battered in places with some light cosmetic fraying to the spine ends and a general unform wear that is oddly not unappealinig; internally foxed in a pale similarly uniform fashion with some truly eccentric oak gall ink inscriptions to the preliminary blanks stating that the book was part of the library of the Transylvania Whig Society of Kentucky and presented by a visiting Englishman the inscriptions seem to serve as a kind of lending record denoting that the book was especially approved of by Kathleen O'Pinkerly who seems to have borrowed it twice; the page block is worn and a little stained but solid and eminently handleable and the rear flyleaf blank is covered with small neat pencil annotations with a corner of the blank torn away. Cosmetically unappealing perhaps but aesthetically rather charming and undeniably a survivor. A very good copy by dint of completeness eccentricity and stubbornness.<br /> <br /> An early US reprint the US first was issued in New York in 1828 by Dixon and Sickles and it is likely there is a Gaylord edition from 1833 with all US imprints being pretty thin on the ground especially with illustrated publisher's boards. This is in addition an uncredited Jefferson-Barlow translation translated with the approval and co-operation of the author by none other than Thomas Jefferson who managed the first 20 chapters or so before distracting himself with political fripperies whereupon it was subsequently completed by Joel Barlow. Of the various translations the Jefferson-Barlow is considered superior by dint of Volney's close relationship with Jefferson their common views and sympathies and frankly the fact that it renders the whole piece rather more poetically than might be found elsewhere. <br /> <br /> Controversial and madly popular it's far more a work of radical philosophy than anything else; like Jefferson Volney was a committed Deist and a firm believer in the separation of church and state for reasons clearly expressed by him through Jefferson in this work. Even more radically for the time he was a propogator of the "Christ Myth" which suggested that there was little or no evidence for the actual existence of Christ as a historical personage and that He was far more likely to be an inspiring assemblage. As might be expected such views were polarizing engendering either inspired revolutionary support or cries of heresy and treason depending upon the reader. The upshot of this and a number of other controversies was that Volney in common with the Founding Fathers not being a man known for keeping his mouth shut was ejected from the United States on more or less invented charges of espionage and his philosophical musings on the ashes of Empires and the sad destiny of mankind somewhat discredited. This had little effect upon the historical importance of Volney's "Ruins" however and it was for example widely embraced by the Romantics and their followers with Shelley having a virtual addiction to its evocative embracing of decay and his wife Mary for reasons of her own making it the text from which Frankentein's monster learned what he could about the nature of mankind and developed a rather stereotypically male interest in the Roman Empire. An unusual edition of an influential and incendiary work. Charles Gaylord unknown
书商的参考编号 : 88767
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Volney, Constantin-Francois
Volney's Ruins: Or Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
书商的参考编号 : 3337173314.G ???????? : 3337173314 9783337173319
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Volney, Constantin-Francois
Volney's Ruinen oder Betrachtungen uber die Umwälzungen der Reiche
Philadelphia: F. W. Thomas 1853. Dritte Stereotyp Ausgabe. Hardcover. fair. Sm. 8vo. 220pp. Blind-stamped brown cloth with gold decorated spine. Small plate with "27" handwritten near head of spine. Chipping to head and tail of spine. Wear to edges. Staining and rubbing to boards. Sporadic foxing throughout. Bookplate of school-district on inside of front board and name of the same handwritten on title-page. Ex libris.Text in Gothic script. Binding in fair interior in good condition. Rare. F. W. Thomas hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 16954
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Volney, Constantin
Volney: The Ruins' and Catechism of Natural Law' Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
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书商的参考编号 : 1108493106.G ???????? : 1108493106 9781108493109
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Volney, Constantin
Volney: The Ruins' and Catechism of Natural Law' Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
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书商的参考编号 : 1108717268.G ???????? : 1108717268 9781108717267
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Volney, Constantin
Volney: ‘The Ruins' and ‘Catechism of Natural Law' Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Cambridge University Press 2024-02-15. paperback. Good. 5x0x8. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Tracking Cambridge University Press paperback
书商的参考编号 : SKU0604400 ???????? : 1108717268 9781108717267
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Volney, Constantin
Volney: ‘The Ruins' and ‘Catechism of Natural Law' Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Cambridge University Press 2024-02-15. paperback. New. 5x0x8. New Textbook Ships with Tracking Cambridge University Press paperback
书商的参考编号 : SKU0651907 ???????? : 1108717268 9781108717267
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Volney, Constantin
Volney: ‘The Ruins' and ‘Catechism of Natural Law' Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
new. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 47112955-n ???????? : 1108717268 9781108717267
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Volney, Constantin-Francois
Voyage en Syrie Et en Égypte Vol. 1 Classic Reprint: Pendant les Années 1783 84 Et 85 French Edition
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书商的参考编号 : 0428113362.G ???????? : 0428113362 9780428113360
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Volney, Constantin-François author and cartographer; Garreau; Delignon ; Giraud; Courbe, engravers
Voyage en Syrie et en EÌgypte pendant Les AnneÌes 1783 84 & 85. Fourth edition.
Paris: Courcier 1807. 8vo. 12 x 20 cm. 2 vols. Contemporary tree calf with labels and gilt spine.Engraved views and folding maps. Very good. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:312942222. Paris: Courcier, 1807 unknown
书商的参考编号 : 51-5720
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Volney, Constantin Francois [Napoleon Bonaparte: His Copy]
Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte Pendant Les Annees 1783 84 et 85. Travel to Syria and Egypt During the Years 1783 84 and 85.
A Paris: Chez Dugour et Durand Libraires Rue et Hotel Serpente 1799. Volney's important work on Egypt and Syria from the library in exile of Napoleon Bonaparte with his annotations and corrections throughout several made as he was dictating details from the Egyptian Campaign for his own Memoirs. This copy may also have accompanied him during his Egyptian Campaigns; it is known that Napoleon brought along a copy of Volney's book to Egypt and it served as the standard reference source for the members of the campaign. Octavo two volumes bound in full contemporary French sprinkled calf with gilt tooling to the spine morocco spine labels lettered in gilt gilt scrolling to the front and rear panels with 3 engraved folding maps and 5 folding plates. First published in 1787 this important travel account by the renowned French historian orientalist philosopher and politician Constantin Francois de Chasseboeuf comte de Volney 1757-1820 is considered the best exposition of Egypt from Ottoman Syria in the late eighteenth century. It served as a basis for later Egyptian expeditions and many scientists as well as Bonaparte himself took this work with them on their expeditions. His candid descriptions did not romanticize Egypt's history or its contemporary social and political conditions but discussed the ills that plagued the country and explored the military weakness of the Ottoman Empire. Based on his observations Volney discouraged a conquest of Egypt and while he supported his friend Bonaparte politically he declined the invitation to accompany Napoleon's expedition in person. It is known that Napoleon brought along a copy of Volney's book to Egypt and it served as the standard reference source for the members of the campaign. The French campaign in Egypt and Syria 1798--1801 was a Napoleonic campaign in the Ottoman territories of Egypt and Syria executed by Bonaparte. Napoleon proclaimed to "defend French trade interests" and to establish "scientific enterprise" in the region. Despite early victories and an initially successful expedition into Syria Napoleon and his Armee d'Orient were eventually defeated and forced to withdraw especially after suffering the defeat of the supporting French fleet by the British Royal Navy at the Battle of the Nile. However on a scientific front the expedition was a success that led to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone creating the field of Egyptology. This important copy contains numerous annotations in ink and pencil in Bonaparte's hand mostly concerning measurements and other calculations including a heavily annotated folding plate of the pyramids "Vue de Pyramides de Djize" in Vol. I. The first volume contains ink annotations on pages 188 232 272 273 277-79 281 plate at page 229 cited above and map "Carte de la Syrie" at p. 288 outlines drawn in red pencil. The second volume contains mostly pencil annotations on pages 223 225 227 229 272 ink and pencil and 333. These corrections were made by Napoleon as he was dictating details from the Egyptian Campaign for his own Memoirs see provenance below. After Napoleon's death on St. Helena a large portion of his last library was divided by the executors among heirs and friends. The remainder was removed from St. Helena by order of the British Government and sold to the important French bookseller in London Martin Bossange. The lots that failed to sell almost half were quickly consigned by Bossange to Sotheby's and sold on 23 July 1823. The lengthy catalogue entry for the present lot in the Sotheby's catalogue reads: "This Work is one of the most interesting books that has occurred for sale for many years. Most persons are aware that Napoleon wrote very little but dictated to his favorite Generals Bertrand Montholon and Count Las Casas. The Egyptian Campaign which forms a part of two volumes just published of his Memoirs have been dictated from these volumes: he has taken notice of the most trifling error in the book; hence the many CORRECTIONS BY HIM. The Plate at page 229 vol. i is entirely covered with his hand writing. This unique Book forms an historical document which will be looked at with a mixture of pleasure and pain by the admirers of so great a man." Provenance: Napoleon I each title-page with circular hand-stamp in brown ink from Napoleon's library at Longwood House on St. Helena; and with his numerous ink annotations to plates and text in both volumes; Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce bookplates; and with a note from his grandson regarding this copy: "These two volumes of 'Volnay's Voyages' which belonged to Napoleon the first were understood to have accompanied him during his Egyptian Campaigns and contain many notes in his the Emperor's handwriting. My grandfather the late Lord Justice Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce of Roehampton Priory purchased these books presumably about 1821-2 when they were sent to England from St. Helena for sale. They being in Napoleon's possession there until his death in 1821." In very good condition with splitting to the spine and joints small section of leather torn from the upper cover of Vol. II; some wear to extremities. Occasional pale spotting internally final blank leaves 30/8 of both volumes removed presumably at the time of binding. First map in Vol. I with small marginal tear repaired near gutter margin second and third maps each with 2-inch tear repaired at gutter a few other plates with small marginal tears or reinforcements. Housed in a custom full crushed levant morocco clamshell box by Riviere & Son. Third edition revised and corrected. An exceptional piece of history with fascinating provenance. Chez Dugour et Durand, Libraires, Rue et Hotel Serpente hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 146536
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Volney, Constantin-Francois
Voyage en Syrie et en Égypte pendant les années 1783 1784 et 1785 Cambridge Library Collection - Travel Middle East and Asia Minor
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书商的参考编号 : 1108066674.G ???????? : 1108066674 9781108066679
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Volney, Constantin-Francois
Voyage En Syrie Et En Egypte V1: Pendant Les Annees 1783-1785 1787
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书商的参考编号 : 1104668602.G ???????? : 1104668602 9781104668600
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Volney, Constantin-Francois
Voyage En Syrie Et En Egypte V2: Pendant Les Annees 1783-1785 1792
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书商的参考编号 : 1104524805.G ???????? : 1104524805 9781104524807
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Volney, Constantin-Francois
Voyage En Égypte Et En Syrie Pendant Les Années 1783 1784 Et 1785: Suivi De Considérations Sur La Guerre Des Russes Et Des Turks Publées En 1788 Et 1789; Volume 1 French Edition
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书商的参考编号 : 1144609968.G ???????? : 1144609968 9781144609960
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Volney, Constantin Francois
Voyage En Syrie Et En Egypte V2: Pendant Les Annees 1783-1785 1792 French Edition
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书商的参考编号 : 1165791846.G ???????? : 1165791846 9781165791842
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Volney, Constantin Francois
Voyage En Syrie Et En Egypte V1: Pendant Les Annees 1783-1785 1787 French Edition
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书商的参考编号 : 1165935279.G ???????? : 1165935279 9781165935277
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Volney, Constantin-Francois
Voyage En Syrie Et En Égypte: Pendant Les Années 1783 1784 Et 1785. French Edition
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书商的参考编号 : 1018470298.G ???????? : 1018470298 9781018470290
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Volney, Constantin-Francois
Voyage En Syrie Et En Egypte Pendant Les Années 1783 1784 & 1785 Volume 1. French Edition
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书商的参考编号 : 1018647228.G ???????? : 1018647228 9781018647227
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Volney, Constantin-Francois De Chasseboeuf Count De
VOYAGE EN SYRIE ET EN ÉGYPTE : PENDANT LES ANNÉES 1783 1784 ET 1785 Avec Deux Cartes Géographiques Et Deux Planches Gravées.
Paris: Chez Desenne & Chez Volland. Very Good. 1787. Seconde Edition Revue et Corrogee. Hardcover. The second edition reviewed & corrected published in 1787 the same year as the first edition Two volumes bound with vellum spines over decorative boards with 4 spine bands & black lettering. Marbled endpapers. Deckle page edges. xvi I383pp viii 458pp 4 llustrated with 2 fold-out maps and 3 fold-out plates 2 engravings & 1 plan. Hinges and text are tight clean & intact. The book chronicles the cultures history and languages of the areas Volney visited. Armorial bookplate of W. Arthur Jeffery: motto "supra spem spero". French text. Middle East Syria Egypt. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 821 pages . Chez Desenne & Chez Volland hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 17572
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Volney, Constantin Francois Chasseboeuf, comte de, 1757-1820
Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte pendant les Annees 1783 1784 et 1785.
Paris 1787. 1st ed. in octavo. Hardcover. Fair. 2 vols. 2 folding maps plan and 2 folding plates ix 10-14 2 383 6 2 458 4p. Mismatched bindings Vol. 1 in a modern Greek quarterbinding; Vol. 2 in worn old leather. 20cm. Circular "Hoyt Public Library" stamp at base of both title-pages. Vol. 1 Tome Premier is sound and attractive with both maps still crisp and unworn. Vol. 2 Tome Seconde is quite worn binding heavily worn; joints splitting; the folding plate of the Temple at Baalbek is split at one of the folds and has remnants of yellowed tape along that fold to repair the split; Binding is almost completely split between pages 222 and 223. French text. The half-titles were not preserved in these volumes but this set is otherwise complete. This first edition was also published in a seldom seen larger format about 26cm. quarto edition. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 84167
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VOLNEY, Constantin Francois de Chassebuf, comte de
uvres Complètes.
Paris: Bossange Frères 1821. With autograph material by the author First complete collected works. Bound into this set are five letters by Volney including one dated only a week before his death addressed to his friend Colonel Pierre Jacotin the head geographer responsible for all mapping operations during Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign. The letters underscore Volney's keen engagement with the contemporary discourse surrounding the geography of the Arabian Peninsula Egypt and the Levant. Jacotin met Volney in Corsica in the 1790s while working as a cadastral mapper. His conversations with Volney - who had travelled extensively to Egypt and Syria - eventually inspired him to pursue a career in Egypt where he was later assigned as military cartographer to the Napoleonic expedition. Jacotin's account of the cartographic survey work conducted in the area later formed the basis of the monumental Description de l'Égypte. Bound in at the beginning of the first volume are three letters sent by Volney to Jacotin from Paris respectively dated 20 March 11 April and 17 April 1820 Volney died on 25 April. A fourth letter at the end of vol. IV is dated 24 October. In the first letter Volney apologises for not having been able to receive Jacotin who had come to visit him the day before due to a bad fever. In the others Volney asks Jacotin for help and advice with preparing the plates specifically the maps for an English edition of his Ruines which "a bookseller" had asked him permission to publish; he also points out misspellings appearing in earlier states of the plates for example correcting toponyms in the Arabian Peninsula. No details are given concerning the edition in question. The first translation of the Ruins appeared in 1792 and was followed by numerous others. Further manuscript pages in Volney's hand are tipped into the first volume with a note gifting them to Jacotin. These contain an extract from an anonymous article published on 1 July 1819 in The Monthly Magazine London with the title "Account of Newly-Discovered Antiquities in Arabia Petraea Derived from the Personal Inspection of a Recent British Traveler". The traveller was William John Bankes 1786-1855 and the article is concerned with the projected publication of his voyage. Bankes travelled from Jerusalem to Wadi Musa passing through Kerak Castle Mount Hor and Petra; he describes the ancient Roman ruins that he saw during the trip and recounts sojourning with the Bedouin transcribing a Bedouin love song. Volney translates part of the article into French and adds his own comments and questions. A philosopher and orientalist Volney 1757-1820 wrote extensively on history religion politics and linguistics. His major works include Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte published in 1787 which had a profound impact on the Western view of the region and inspired Napoleon to undertake his invasion of Egypt in 1798 and Les Ruines 1791 a philosophical treatise on the history of social political and religious institutions and the rise and fall of empires. According to the distinguished American historian Ussama Makdisi holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University Volney's Voyage en Égypte et en Syrie "was simply the first of the great works of modern travel writing and description. Volney was a man of the Enlightenment. His work was suffused with its vocabulary and his humanism motivated him to travel to Asia to better understand the nature of 'despotism' under which his native France laboured" Makdisi p. 17. 8 vols octavo 204 x 123 mm. With 40 engraved plates many folding including portrait of author tables and maps. Contemporary quarter calf smooth spines divided by gilt fillets gilt and black ornaments in compartments black calf labels marbled boards endpapers and sides black silk bookmarkers. Embossed library stamp lettered "Ct Perret Havre" on front free endpaper of vol. I perhaps Auguste Perret 1874-1954 French architect active in Le Havre. Extremities rubbed couple of small chips short superficial splits at foot of front joints of vols. V and VIII remaining firm patches of stripping to leather of vols II and III occasional light foxing to contents faint damp stain to lower margin of final leaves and folding plates of first 5 vols otherwise generally bright and clean. A very good set. Ussama Makdisi The Culture of Sectarianism: Community History and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon 2000. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 160633
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VOLNEY, CONSTANTIN-FRANCOIS CHASSEBOEUF. (COMTE DE. 1757-1820).
VOYAGE EN EGYPTE ET EN SYRIE, PENDANT LES ANNEES 1783, 1784 ET 1785, AVEC DEUX CARTES GEOGRAPHIQUES & DEUX PLANCHES GRAVEES, REPRESENTANT LES RUINES DU TEMPLE DU SOLEIL A BALBEK, & CELLES DE LA VILLE DE PALMYRE DANS LE DESERT DE SYRIE.
A PARIS. VOLLAND, LIBRAIRE. DESENNE, LIBRAIRE. 1787 2 VOLUMES IN-8 (13,5 X 20 X 6,5 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE 14 + (2) + 383 ET 6 + (2) + 458 + (3) PAGES, RELIURE D'EPOQUE PLEIN VEAU HAVANE, DOS A CINQ NERFS ORNE DE CAISSONS A FLEURONS DORES, TITRE DORE SUR ETIQUETTE MAROQUIN VERT, FILET DORE SUR COUPES, TRANCHES MOUCHETEES ROUGES. ILLUSTRE DE DEUX CARTES, UN PLAN ET 2 VUES REPLIES HORS TEXTE. EDITION ORIGINALE (CHADENAT. 720). PETITS DEFAUTS EXTERIEURS SANS AUCUNE GRAVITE, SINON BEL EXEMPLAIRE.
书商的参考编号 : 2649
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VOLNEY, Constantin-François Chasseboeuf de
Les Ruines, ou Méditation sur les révolutions des empires. / Onzième édition. On y a joint La Loi naturelle.
Paris, Bossange Frères, Libraires, 1822. In-18 (13 cm) vii, (1), 383, (1) pages, illustré d'un frontispice portrait, d'un faux-titre gravé et d'une planche dessinés par A. Desenne et gravés par I. R. West et de deux cartes dépliantes par Pierre Tardieu. Reliure d'époque demi-veau bleu-vert, dos lisse orné en long de fers romantiques et de filets dorés, plats marbrés bleu ombré, tranches marbrées. Très bel état, sauf une petite épidermure au pied du plat inférieur. Intérieur de grande fraîcheur. Nom d'un ancien proprio sur la garde. Ex-libris de Miss V. D. Buddicom Penbedw. Cf. : Quérard X, 274.
书商的参考编号 : 3676
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Volney, Constantin-François de Chasseboeuf
Oeuvres choisies de Volney, précédées d’une notice sur la vie de l’auteur [par Adolphe Bossange]. Nouvelle édition ornée de figures
Paris, Lebigre frères 1841 In-8 24 x 14,5 cm. Reliure de l’époque demi-basane havane, dos lisse orné de fers rocailles dorés, XLIX-495 pp., portrait de Volney en frontispice, 2 planches repliées, table. Plats de couverture restaurés amateur, rousseurs marginales. En l’état.
书商的参考编号 : 125247
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Volney, Constantin-François de Chasseboeuf
VOYAGE EN SYRIE ET EN ÉGYPTE. Pendant les années 1783, 84, 85. Troisième édition.
1798 Paris, Dugour et Durand, an VII (1798). Complet en 2 vol. in-8 reliés: 12.5 x 19.5 cm, I/ 1f. extrait loi du 19 juillet 1793, faux-titre, titre, 10p. davis éditeur et préface, 478p. de texte, 4 pl. grav. dépliantes. II/ faux-titre, titre, 452p., 4 pl. grav. dépliantes. Reliés en veau marbré de l'époque. Dos lisses avec titre, tomaison, filets et fleurons dorés. Tranches rouges. Reliures frottés, manques aux coiffes et coins émoussées (prix en conséquence). En revanche l'intérieur est en excellent état, les planches fraîches et propres.
书商的参考编号 : 6334
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VOLNEY, C–F [Constantin Francois de Chasseboeuf]
Travels Through Syria and Egypt in the Years 1783 1784 and 1785. Vol. II
London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson 1787. Hardcover. Very Good. First English-language edition translated from the French. Volume II only of two. Octavo. iii ii-iv 1 2-500 16 index and errata pp. Illustrated with three fold-out engravings as called for: ruins of Palmyra in Syria following the table of contents "Plan of the Temple of the Sun at Balbec" between pages 232-3 and "View of the Square Court of the Temple of the Sun at Balbec" between pages 235-6. Later half polished leather and marbled papercovered boards spine in six compartments red and brown leather spine labels gilt page edges sprinkled. Owner name "James Robb New York 1863" on front fly. Binding rubbed and edgeworn text with occasional toning foxing and corner creases plates somewhat foxed with a bit of creasing and one small stain and one small marginal chip two instances of small relatively amateur paper repair in the margins title page and a leaf of the index index somewhat tanned and foxed a sound very good copy of the second volume of this highly respected 18th Century travelogue. Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 620600
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VOLNEY, François de Chasseboeuf, comte de.
Oeuvres complètes... précédées d'une notice sur la vie et les écrits de l'auteur.
Paris, Firmin Didot frères, 1856. 25 x 19 cm, 778 pp. Relié demi-chagrin, dos lisse, titre doré, quelques rousseurs et quelques pages avec des marques de coup, sinon bel exemplaire. ,Édition illustrée d'un portrait frontispice, de 4 gravures hors-texte dont une dépliante et de 7 cartes et plans hors-texte dont une de l'Amérique.
书商的参考编号 : 7575
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VOLNEY, François de Chasseboeuf, comte de.
Oeuvres complètes... précédées d'une notice sur la vie et les écrits de l'auteur.
Paris, Firmin Didot frères, 1856. 25 x 19 cm, 778 pp. Relié demi-chagrin, dos lisse, titre doré, quelques rousseurs et quelques pages avec des marques de coup, sinon bel exemplaire. ,Édition illustrée d'un portrait frontispice, de 4 gravures hors-texte dont une dépliante et de 7 cartes et plans hors-texte dont une de l'Amérique.
书商的参考编号 : 7575
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VOLNEY, François de Chasseboeuf, comte de. (1757-1820)
Voyage en Égypte et en Syrie, pendant les années 1783, 1784 et 1785; suivi de Considérations sur la guerre des russes et des turks, publiées en 1788 et 1789, par C. F. Volney...
Paris Parmentier et Froment, libraire 1825 In-8 illustré de 3 cartes et de 5 planches hors-texte repliés, 2 tomes : 1f. (titre) et 436p.; 1f. et 447p.
书商的参考编号 : 29963
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Volney, Guillaume de
Oeuvres de C.-F. Volney. T. II I Éd.1825-1826 Histoire French Edition
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
书商的参考编号 : 201259591X.G ???????? : 201259591X 9782012595910
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Volney, M
Les Ruines Ou Meditation Sur Les Revolutions des Empires. Two Volume Set.
Paris: Libraires Associes 1797. Hardcover. Very Good-. Meditations on the Revolutions of Empires". Written on the eve of the French Revolution and published during it. This 12mo version could be an early printing of the 3rd edition but I rather think it is a later printing of the 2nd. Vg- in half leather with marbled boards; has about an inch and a half of worm damage on one side of the spine of vol. 2. All corners are worn. Tops are dust-darkened but the text is as clean as you could wish as are the frontispiece and 2 folding maps in vol. 1. 246 272 pp. <br/> <br/> Libraires Associes hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 14112
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Volney, M
The Ruins: or A Survey of the Revolutions of Empires
J. Johnson 1792. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. With the original boards. Complete with frontis and 2 fold-outs. The front and back hinges have been reinforced. The boards are rubbed and worn but remain strong and sturdy. Internally there is light tanning and scattered foxing throughout but there are no other markings or inscriptions and the text is neat and clear. The binding is sound. In very good condition indeed considering its age! JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. J. Johnson hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 3624j
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Volney, M
The Ruins; Or a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires
London: J. Johnson printed for. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Modern rebind with new endpapers. 1796. Third Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover on marbled boards. 220mm x 150mm 9" x 6". xvi 395pp. Engraved frontis plate; two folding rear plates depicting a view of the Astrological Heaven of the Ancients and a folding map of the world. A handsome copy. Translated from the French. A French linguist historian politician and philosopher Constantin François Chasseboeuf Comte de Volney was the author of 'Les Ruines; Ou Méditations sur les Révolutions des Empires'. The work enshrined the ideas and values of the French Enlightenment. A meditation begun at the ruins of Palmyra on the natural causes of the rise and fall of great cities and nations. . J. Johnson [printed for] hardcover
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Volney, M [C-F (Constantin-Francois)]
The Ruins or A survey of the Revolutions of Empires
London: Printed for J. Johnson 1792. First English Language edition. Later patterned cloth with morocco spine label. Split along top half of front joint chips to head and heel of spine occasional foxing still very good. xv 400 pp. Illus. with 1 frontispiece & 2 folded maps after the French edition engr. by T. Conder. 8vo. Translated from the French of "Les ruines ou Méditation sur les révolutions des empires" by Thomas Conder.<br /> <br /> Volney's work which was first published in 1791 argued by analyzing the arc of ancient civilizations that the primacy of equality before the law was necessary to prevent the deterioration of religious and political institutions into tyranny.The work had a profound influence on Thomas Jefferson who translated it beginning in 1796 when Volney visited him at Monticello. A new translation of the work had just been published and both Jefferson and Volney were not happy with it nor this earlier first edition in English. The project went on hold once Jefferson became president and was not published until 1802 in France and 1828 in America. Printed for J. Johnson hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 41541
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Volney, M C-F
Travels through Syria and Egypt in the Years 1783 1784 and 1785 Volume I
G. G. J. And J. Robinson. Good with no dust jacket. 1788. Second Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover; Hardcover. Volume 1 only. Brown leather boards with title on spine in gold over red spine label. Boards are worn soiled and rubbed. Spine is rubbed and cracking ends frayed. Foredge foxing. Interior front hinge cracked. Endpaper soil. Previous owner's bookplate and notation on first paste down. Fold out maps of Egypt and Syria are in good condition. Text pages show occasional foxing. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase. ; 8VO . G. G. J. And J. Robinson hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 040452
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Volney, M [Constantine Francois Chasseboeuf, Comte de]
Travels through Syria and Egypt in the Years 1783 1784 and 1785
London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson 1787. First English language edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vol. 8vo. 4 i-xii 1 2-418 4; 5 ii-iv 1 2-500 18 pp. Contemporary tree calf with the spines in six compartments two red morocco labels lettered in gilt on each spine spines with gilt decorations including shining suns embossed in gilt; all edges decoratively stained yellow. A very attractive binding indeed. Illustrated with two folding maps and with three copper-engraved folding plates. Atabey 1303. Cox I 235. Lowndes V 2790. University of Toronto British Armorial Bindings "Smith John Sir 1st Baronet 1744 -1807". Baronet John Smith's bookplates on each volume's front pastedown. Smith was the first in the Smith-Marriott Baronetcy. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Smith also served as the High Sheriff of Dorset. Originally published in Paris in 1787 this is the first English Language edition. Completing the title page: Containing the present natural and political state of those countries their productions arts manufactures and commerce; with observations on the manners customs and goverment of the Turks and Arabs. According to Cox this is "one of the most exact and valuable works of the kind ever published . ". Volney served in the Estates-General and was later imprisoned during the reign of terror before gaining favor with Napoleon. His visit to Syria and Egypt was inspired by a love of ancient history and philology. A fascinating Enlightenment-era travel narrative of the Near East beautified by its detailed maps and illustrations. Joints show some wear but the bindings are secure and firm. A bookplate was removed from each free front endpaper with volume one's endpaper showing two small spots of loss. Each endpaper has a small inscription denoting these as first editions. G.G.J. and J. Robinson hardcover
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Volney, M C-F
Travels Through Syria and Egypt in the Years 1783 1784 and 1785 in Two Volumes
London: G.G.J. And J. Robinson 1787. 1st . Hardcover. Fair/No Jackets. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2vol.set; 418&500pp.index; HBs brwn.leather w/maroon&gilt; heavy rub w/edges&corners worn; covers detached or detaching; bookplatevol.1; endpapers w/heavy tan on edges; some lt.tan w/cleantight pgs. "Containing the present natural and political state of those countries their productions arts manufactures and commerce; with observations on the manners customs and government of the Turks and Arabs. illus. w/copper plates. trans.from the French <br/> <br/> G.G.J. And J. Robinson hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 055785
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VOLNEY, M. C.-F.
Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte, pendant les années 1783, 1784 & 1785 (2 Tomes - Complet) [ Edition originale ]
1 vol. in-8 reliure début XIXe demi-basane verte, Chez Volland, Desenne, Paris, 1787, Tome I : 14 pp., 1 f. (errata et avis au relieur), 383 pp. avec 2 cartes dépliantes ; Tome II : 6 pp., 1 f. (errata), 458 pp. et 2 ff. n. ch. (approbation) avec 3 planches hors texte (dont deux dépliantes)
书商的参考编号 : 58553
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Volney, Rattan
West Coast Botany: An Analytical key to the Flora of the Pacific Coast in Which are Described
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 052680064X.G ???????? : 052680064X 9780526800643
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