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Volney Constantin Francois
The Condition of Man in the Universe
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Bookseller reference : A9781163063071 ISBN : 116306307x 9781163063071
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Volney Constantin Francois
The Primitive State of Man
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Bookseller reference : A9781163063088 ISBN : 1163063088 9781163063088
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Volney Constantin Francois
The Religion of Moses or Worship of the Soul of the World
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Bookseller reference : A9781430431206 ISBN : 1430431202 9781430431206
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Volney Constantin Francois
The Religion of Moses or Worship of the Soul of the World
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Bookseller reference : A9781163063118 ISBN : 1163063118 9781163063118
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Volney Constantin Francois
The Ruins or A Survey of the Revolutions of Empires WITH The Law of Nature 1811
Otley: Woodstock 2000. 1st edition. hardback with dust jacket. New book. small octavo. xiv 232 47pp. fldg. diags. index A facsimile reprint in the series : Revolution and Romanticism 1789-1834 Woodstock hardcover
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Volney Constantin Francois
The Search of Truth
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Bookseller reference : A9781163063279 ISBN : 1163063274 9781163063279
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Volney Constantin Francois
The Search of Truth
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Bookseller reference : A9781430431367 ISBN : 1430431369 9781430431367
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Volney Constantin Francois
The Social Virtues - Pamphlet
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Bookseller reference : A9781430431343 ISBN : 1430431342 9781430431343
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Volney Constantin Francois
The Social Virtues
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Bookseller reference : A9781163063255 ISBN : 1163063258 9781163063255
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Volney Constantin Francois
The Universal Basis of All Right and All Law
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Bookseller reference : A9781430431183 ISBN : 1430431180 9781430431183
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Volney Constantin Francois
The Universal Basis of All Right and All Law
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Volney Constantin Francois
The Worship of the Elements and of the Physical Powers of Nature
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Bookseller reference : A9781430431251 ISBN : 1430431253 9781430431251
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Volney Constantin Francois
The Worship of Symbols or Idolatry
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Volney Constantin Francois
The Worship of the Stars or Sabeism
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Bookseller reference : A9781163063200 ISBN : 1163063207 9781163063200
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Volney Constantin Francois
The Worship of the Soul of the World and the Vital Principle of the Universe
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Volney Constantin Francois
The Worship of the Soul of the World and the Vital Principle of the Universe
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Bookseller reference : A9781163063101 ISBN : 116306310x 9781163063101
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Volney Constantin Francois
The Worship of the Stars or Sabeism
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Bookseller reference : A9781430431299 ISBN : 1430431296 9781430431299
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Volney Constantin Francois
The Worship of the Elements and of the Physical Powers of Nature
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Bookseller reference : A9781163063163 ISBN : 1163063169 9781163063163
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Volney Constantin Francois
The Zodiacal Signs and Constellations
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Bookseller reference : A9781163063231 ISBN : 1163063231 9781163063231
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Volney Constantin Francois
The Zodiacal Signs and Constellations - Pamphlet
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Bookseller reference : A9781430431329 ISBN : 1430431326 9781430431329
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Volney Constantin Francois 1757 1820
Travels through Syria and Egypt in the years 1783 1784 and 1785 : containing the present natural and political state of those countries .; with observations on the manners customs and government of the Turks and Arabs / by M. C-F. Volney. Translated from the French. In two volumes
London : printed for G. Robinson 1805. Third Edition. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; vol. I only: 478 p. : maps plates ; 23 cm. Subjects; Palestine — Description and travel. Palestine — Social life and customs. Syria — Description and travel. Syria — Social life and customs. Egypt — Description and travel. Egypt — Social life and customs. London : printed for G. Robinson unknown
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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 smallbox blindness cutaneous eruptions plague and Neapolitan Disease which seems to be syphillis vol. 1 pp. 240-258. Indexed. G.G.J. and J. Robinson hardcover
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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 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. London: printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row, 1788 unknown
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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. Second Edition in English. 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. 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
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VOLNEY Constantine F.
View of the Soil and Climate of the United States of America
1804. VOLNEY Constantine F. A View of the Soil and Climate of the United States of America: With Supplementary Remarks Upon Florida; on the French Colonies on the Mississippi and Ohio and in Canada; and on the Aboringinal Tribes of America. Translated With Occasional Remarks By C.B. Brown. With Maps and Plates. Phila.: J. Conrad & Co. 1804. 1st ed. in English. 8vo.xxviii446pp. Two folding maps and two folding charts. Contemporary tree calf gilt-ruled spine red morocco spine label. Faint scattered foxing else a very good or better copy. Howes V-141. BAL 1508. Sabin 100693. Field 1610. "The author spent three years in the United States ardently engaged in collecting facts for his work which principally related to the state and manners of the Indians and the climate." Translated by the noted American novelist Charles Brockden Brown Brown did not translate the London edition. unknown
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VOLNEY Constantin F.
View of the Climate and Soil of the United States of America: To Which
VOLNEY Constantin F. 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. London. 1804. 28503pp. plus errata two folding plates and two folding maps. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Corners worn. Modern bookplates on front pastedown. Minor foxing and toning more pronounced to plates.Rebacked in period style. First English edition of the American travels of this French firebrand and social critic who went to America to avoid imprisonment in France. This work is notable for the author's comments on the French royalist colonies in the Ohio country. It also contains a vocabulary of the Miami language. The maps show the U.S. and North America and one plate shows three views of Niagara Falls and the adjacent area. HOWES V141. CLARK II:69. FIELD 2449. PILLING 4063. MONAGHAN 1472. BUCK 49. unknown
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VOLNEY Constantin Francois 1757 1820.
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
London: J. Johnson 1804 8vo. 8 2/8 x 4 6/8 inches. Folding engraved plates of Niagara Falls and River folding engraved maps of North America and the United States contemporary half speckled calf marbled paper boards the smooth spine gilt-ruled in six compartments black morocco lettering-piece in one gilt cipher of the Earls of Caledon in the first hinges weak a bit scuffed. Provenance: with the gilt cipher of the Earls of Caledon on the spine the engraved armorial bookplate of Alexander Du Pre second earl of Caledon 1777�1839 politician and colonial administrator on the front paste-down and his blind library stamp on the title-page. First English edition first published in Paris in 1803. With a �Vocabulary of the Miami Language� at the end. Constantin Fran�ois de Chasseb�uf comte de Volney was a philosopher historian politician born and traveler. He recorded his journeys to Egypt Palestine and the Lebanon in "Voyage en Egypt et en Syrie" in 1787. In 1795 he traveled to the United States but in 1798 was forced to return home after being accused by the Adam's administration of being a French spy sent to prepare for a French re-occupation of Louisiana. It was this journey that prompted this book. Howes V-141; Sabin 100692. London: J. Johnson, 1804 hardcover
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VOLNEY Constantine F.
View of The Soil and Climate of the United States of America: With
1804. VOLNEY Constantine F. A View of the Soil and Climate of the United States of America: With Supplementary Remarks Upon Florida; on the French Colonies on the Mississippi and Ohio and in Canada; and on the Aboringinal Tribes of America. Translated With Occasional Remarks By C.B. Brown. With Maps and Plates. Phila.: J. Conrad & Co. 1804. 1st ed. in English. 8vo. Illus. with two folding maps and two folding charts. Very good in later antique style calf-backed marbled boards. Howes V-141. Sabin 100693. Field 1610. "The author spent three years in the United States ardently engaged in collecting facts for his work which principally related to the state and manners of the Indians and the climate. unknown
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Volney Constantin Francois
Volney's Answer to Dr. Priestly - Pamphlet
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Bookseller reference : A9781430431350 ISBN : 1430431350 9781430431350
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Volney Constantin Francois
Volney's Answer to Dr. Priestly
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Bookseller reference : A9781163063262 ISBN : 1163063266 9781163063262
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VOLNEY Constantin Francois de ChassebAuf comte de 1757 1820.
Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte pendant les annees 1783 84 et 85. Quatrieme Edition. 2 volumes
Paris:: Courcier 1807. 1807. 2 volumes. 8vo. 6 x 487 1; iv 492 pp. Half-titles 5 folding engraved plates including detailed engravings of the Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza 3 folding maps incl. frontis. a folding map of Egypt p. 288 Syria II p. 400 Turkey ads in front & rear. Original full mottled calf gilt spine red leather spine labels; joints rubbed but strong. Ownership Signature of Benjamin B. Wood. Very good. Fourth edition first issued in 1787 here printed with additional plates. This is a key source for the study of Ottoman Egypt Syria and modern day Lebanon sometimes called the Levant. Volney describes the geography of the region the climate its history cultures the militia economy and trade diseases the monuments natural history politics people law religions farming and agriculture craftsmen merchants commerce arts sciences and character of the inhabitants. All this is set within the presence of the years just prior to the outbreak of the French Revolution which started in 1789. "In 1783 Volney gave up the thought of following any particular profession and set out for the East. He arrived at Cairo ostensibly on a scientific mission although many there regarded him as a spy he was later accused of spying on America by John Adams' administration. In order to master Arabic he shut himself away in a convent for eight months then journeyed to the pyramids at Giza and moved to Suez where he lived with the Bedouin. While there he entertained the notion of constructing a canal to link the Mediterranean with the Red Sea. Sailing from Alexandria in September 1783 he visited Syria and the Lebanon concluding his journey at Acre =Akko in 1785. After a brief halt at Alexandria he returned to France where his documents turned out to be of enormous value in the planning of Napoleon's campaign to Egypt. Volney however persistently opposed such intervention despite producing a pamphlet which uncannily anticipated French involvement in the region." – Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800 V61. / "The French author and traveller Constantin-Francois de Chasseboeuf 1757–1820 adopted the pen name Volney which combined the name of Voltaire and Ferney where the great philosopher lived. A friend of Thomas Jefferson and other Enlightenment figures Volney used an inheritance to further his education by travelling to Ottoman Egypt and the historical region of Syria visiting areas of present-day Lebanon and Israel. He chose these lands as he believed he would gain political and philosophical insights from their ancient heritage. Very little had been written in the West about these areas before he published this two-volume account in 1787. It enjoyed great popularity and even accompanied Darwin aboard the Beagle on his own voyage of discovery decades later. Reissued here is the revised and corrected French second edition which also appeared in 1787. The volumes explore geography history ethnic divisions religious beliefs commerce politics and customs." – Cambridge University Press 2014. / De Volney was a French philosopher and historian and a member of the Estates-General during the French Revolution. Alexander Cook who believes that Volney's influence is as a "key thinker" though often forgotten in today's sense of that history examines this books as a specimen of geo-politics of both French anti-imperialist thought and French imperial practice in North Africa and the Levant where France was seeking to expand its global influence and power during the following decades. Cook is at Australian National University School of History received his PhD from University of Cambridge. CONTENTS: Volume 1: Preface; - Part I. Etat physique de l'Egypte: - 1. De l'Egypte en general et de la ville d'Alexandrie; - 2. Du Nil et de l'extension du delta; - 3. De l'exhaussement de delta; - 4. Des vents de l'Egypte; - 5. Du climat et de l'air d'Egypte; - Part II. Etat politique de l'Egypte: - 6. Des diverses races des habitans de l'Egypte; - 7. Precis de l'histoire des Mamlouks; - 8. Precis de l'histoire de d'Ali-bek; - 9. Precis des evenemens arrives depuis la mort d'Ali-bek jusqu'en 1785; - 10. Etat present de l'Egypte; - 11. Constitution de la milice des Mamlouks; - 12. Gouvernement des Mamlouks; - 13. Etat du commerce; - 14. De l'isthme de Suez; - 15. Des douanes et des impots; - 16. De la ville du Kaire; - 17. Des maladies de l'Egypte; - 18. Tableau resume de l'Egypte; - 19. Des ruines et des pyramides; - Part III. Etat physique de la Syrie: - 20. Geographie et histoire naturaelle de la Syrie; - 21. Considerations sur les phenomenes des vents des nuages des pluies des brouillards et du tonnerre; - Part IV. Etat politique de la Syrie: - 22. Des habitans de la Syrie et de la langue usitee; - 23. Des peuples errans ou pasteurs en Syrie. Volume 2: - 24. Des peuples agricoles ou sedentaires de la Syrie; - 25. Precis de l'histoire de Daher; - 26. Distribution de la Syrie par pachalics; - 27. Du pachalic d'Alep; - 28. Du pachalic de Tripoli; - 29. Du pachalic de Saide; - 30. Du pachalic de Damas; - 31. De la Palestine; - 32. Resume de la Syrie; - 33. Du gouvernement des Turks en Syrie; - 34. De l'administration de la justice; - 35. De l'influence de a religion; - 36. De la propriete et des conditions; - 37. Des paysans et de l'agriculture; - 38. Des artisans des amrchands et du commerce; - 39. Des arts des sciences et de l'ignorance; - 40. Des habitudes et du caractere des habitans de la Syrie. PROVENANCE: Benjamin B. Wood unknown as there are many with this name. / See: Alexander Cook "The Great Society of the Human Species': Volney and the Global Politics of Revolutionary France" Intellectual History Review Volume 23 2013 - Issue 3: Discourses of Humanity in the Enlightenment: Local Mediations of a Global Aspiration; Alexander Cook "Volney and the Science of Morality in Revolutionary France" Humanities Research Vol. 16 No. 2 May 1 2010; Samir Khalaf Protestant Missionaries in the Levant: Ungodly Puritans 1820-1860 Routledge 2012. Courcier, 1807. hardcover
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Volney Constantin Francois
Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte pendant les annees 1783 1784 et 1785: Volume 2 Cambridge Library Collection - Travel Middle East and Asia Minor
Cambridge University Press. Paperback. Used; Good. Simply Brit Shipped with Premium postal service within 24 hours from the UK with impressive delivery time. We have dispatched from our book depository; items of good condition to over ten million satisfied customers worldwide. We are committed to providing you with reliable and efficient service at all times. 02/06/2014 Cambridge University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 1582002 ISBN : 1108066542 9781108066549
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Volney Constantin Fran_ois
Voyage en Syrie et en égypte pendant les années 1783 1784 et 1785 Volume 2
Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014. Facsimile Edition. Original Wrappers. As New/No Dustjacket. 462 pages. Stamped Damaged on verso title page. Otherwise new. The French author and traveller Constantin-François de Chasseboeuf 1757-1820 adopted the pen name Volney which combined the name of Voltaire and Ferney where the great philosopher lived. A friend of Thomas Jefferson and other Enlightenment figures Volney used an inheritance to further his education by travelling to Ottoman Egypt and the historical region of Syria visiting areas of present-day Lebanon and Israel. He chose these lands as he believed he would gain political and philosophical insights from their ancient heritage. Very little had been written in the West about these areas before he published this two-volume account in 1787. It enjoyed great popularity and even accompanied Darwin aboard the Beagle on his own voyage of discovery decades later. Reissued here is the revised and corrected French second edition which also appeared in 1787. Volume 2 is devoted to Syria. It looks in detail at the region's history justice trade and customs. Size: Octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 750 grams. Category: Travel & Travel Writing; Middle Eastern History & Topography; Britain; Modern; ISBN: 1108066542. ISBN/EAN: 9781108066549. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 021394. . 9781108066549 Cambridge University Press unknown
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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. <br/><br/> hardcover
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VOLNEY Constantine Francois de Chasseboeuf Comte de.
Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie.
Paris Bossange 1821-22. 5me �d. 2 vols. gr.-8�. 2 Bll. 455 S. 1 Bl.; 2 Bll. VIII 456 S. Mit 1 gefalt. Plan 3 gefalt. Karten u. 4 gefalt. Kupfertaf. HLdr. d. Zt. Mit R�ckengoldpr�g. R�. restaur. Stellenw. stockfleckig. vgl. Brunet V 1351; vgl. Cox I 235; Gay 2275; Ibrahim-Hilmy I186; Chadenat 720 - "One of the most exact and valuable works of the kind ever published all personal details being eliminated to economise the time of readers" Cox. - Constantin Fran�ois Chasseboeuf Boisgirais Comte de Volney 1757-1820 franz�sischer Reisender Orientalist und Geschichtsphilosoph. Der Abk�mmling einer l�ndlichen Adelsfamilie studierte in Paris Medizin und Philosophie. Dort war er auch Gast in den Salons von Baron Holbach und Madame Helv�tius wo er die Bekanntschaft von Voltaire Diderot d'Alembert und Benjamin Franklin machte. Mit letzterem blieb er auch schriftlich verbunden. 1782 unternahm er eine mehrj�hrige Reise in das Osmanische Reich die ihn nach Syrien Pal�stina und �gypten f�hrte. In der franz�sischen Revolution war er Mitglied der Nationalversammlung. Paris, Bossange 1821-22. unknown
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Volney Constantin Francois
Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie pendant les Annees 1783 1784 et 1785 suivi de Considerations sur la Guerre des Russes et des Turks publiees en 1788 et 1789
Paris: Bossange Freres 1822. Hardcover. Good. Tome Premier ONLY of 2. 5th ed. 2 folding maps 2 folding plates viii 456p. Contemporary quarterbinding marbled boards backed in red leather. 20cm. Covers scuffed. Moderate foxing on plates and a little elsewhere. Half moon shaped stain in margin on both maps. French text. <br/><br/> Bossange Freres hardcover
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VOLNEY Constantin Fran ois Chasseboeuf Comte De 1757 1820
Voyage En Syrie Et En �gypte Pendant Les Ann�es 1783 1784 Et 1785
Paris: Volland Desenne 1787. 1787. 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. ix 10-14 2errata & advice to binder 383; 6 1 leaferrata 458 3approbation & privilege. 2 folding engraved maps & 3 folding engraved plates. woodcut head & tailpieces. contemporary mottled calf gilt backs corners & head of spines worn. First Octavo Edition also published in quarto format the same year. Volney's narrative relating his observations during three years of travelling in Syria and Egypt includes remarks on politics commerce and industry the manners and customs of the Turks and Arabs an account of the Arabic press established at the convent of Marhanna with a catalogue of books printed there and an extensive discussion of the diseases prevalent in Egypt: blindness smallpox cutaneous eruptions the plague and 'Neapolitan Disease' or French Pox. '.the best expos� of Ottoman Egypt at the end of the 18th century.' Blackmer 'One of the most exact and valuable works of the kind ever published.' Cox Cox I 235. Gay 2275. Ibrahim-Hilmy I 186. Tobler p. 135. cfBlackmer 1748. F. Hardcover. Paris: Volland, Desenne, 1787. Hardcover
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Volney Constantin Francois
Will the Human Race Improve
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Bookseller reference : A9781163063286 ISBN : 1163063282 9781163063286
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Volney Constantin Francois
Will the Human Race Improve
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Volney Constantin Francois
Worship of the Demi-Ourgos or Grand Artificer
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Volney Constantin Francois
Worship of the Demi-Ourgos or Grand Artificer
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Bookseller reference : A9781163063217 ISBN : 1163063215 9781163063217
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Volney Conde
Principios fÃsicos de la moral segunda parte de "Las Ruinas de Palmira
Toulouse: Universo 1950. 47p. 5.25x8 inches text in Spanish very good booklet in stapled wraps. El Mundo al Dia #26 15 Avril 1950. Second part of Constantin François de Chassebœuf comte de Volney's "Ruins of Palmira. Universo unknown books
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Volney Constantin F.
Lectures on history delivered in the Normal School of Paris. Translated from the French
Philadelphia: printed for John Conrad & Co. No. 30 Chestnut-street M. & J. Conrad & Co. no. 140 Market-street Baltimore; and Rapine Conrad & Co. Washington City. J. Bioren printer 1801. Ostensibly the first American edition see below; 16mo pp. xvi 186 2 ads; contemporary full sheep red morocco label on spine; upper joint cracked extremities rubbed; a good sound copy. Volney 1757-1820 the French savant undertook a journey to the United States in 1795 where he was accused in 1797 of being a French spy "sent to prepare for the reoccupation of Louisiana by France. He was obliged to return to France in 1798. The results of his travels took form in his Tableau du Climat et du Sol des Etats-Unis 1803" EB-11. Page 186 contains a note from the translator. Both Jefferson and Barlow had translated Volney's Les Ruines ou méditations sur les révolutions des empires published in 1802 in Paris but there's no evidence they had any part in this translation. The translator remains unknown. Evans 29822 records a 1795 edition under a slightly different title no copies located in Evans and of which no copy in OCLC either; this may be a ghost. American Imprints 1592. <br/><br/> printed for John Conrad & Co. No. 30, Chestnut-street, M. & J. Conrad & Co., no. 140, Market-street, Baltimore; and Rapine, Conr unknown books
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Volney Constantin F.
TABLEAU DU CLIMAT ET DU SOL DES ETATS-UNIS D'AMERIQUE. SUIVI D'ECLAIRCISSEMENS SUR LA FLORIDE SUR LA COLONIE FRANCAISE AU SCIOTO SUR QUELQUES COLONIES CANADIENNES ET SUR LES SAUVAGES
Paris: Courcier 1803. Two volumes. 3xvi300; 4301- 5342pp. plus two foldings maps and two folding plates. Half titles. Three-quarter calf and marbled boards spines gilt leather labels all edges stained red. Hinges rubbed edges and corners slightly worn. Bookplates on front pastedowns. A few scattered fox marks and small dampstains but generally clean. About very good. Volney came to America to avoid imprisonment by the French government and brought with him a large measure of education and sophistication as well as a small bundle of prejudices: he was a vehement anticlericalist and opponent of things Rousseauian. Jefferson felt he might have been a catalyst for the Federalist Alien Acts. There is a small map of North America and a much larger map of the United States all east of the Mississippi. The map of the continent small as it is still represents fairly advanced cartographical knowledge. This copy is of the variant no priority with the Miami vocabulary separately paginated. The work is valuable for its notes on French colonies in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. HOWES V141. CLARK II:69. PILLING 4061. FIELD 2449. MONAGHAN 1472. BUCK 49. Courcier hardcover books
Bookseller reference : WRCAM51639
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Volney Constantin Francois
Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie pendant les Annees 1783 1784 et 1785 suivi de Considerations sur la Guerre des Russes et des Turks publiees en 1788 et 1789
Paris: Bossange Freres 1822. Hardcover. Good. Tome Premier ONLY of 2. 5th ed. 2 folding maps 2 folding plates viii 456p. Contemporary quarterbinding marbled boards backed in red leather. 20cm. Covers scuffed. Moderate foxing on plates and a little elsewhere. Half moon shaped stain in margin on both maps. French text. <br/><br/> Bossange Freres hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 71235
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Volney Constantin Francois Chasseboeuf Comte de
Tableau du climat et du sol des Etats-Unis d'Amerique. Suivi d'eclaircissemens sur la Floride sur la colonie Française au Scioto sur quelques colonies Canadiennes et sur les Sauvages
Paris: Courcier and Dentu 1803. First edition. One folding plate one full-page folding map plate two folding plates. 8-page Miami vocabulary at end paged consecutively with the rest of the text. 1-300 4; 301-532 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 8 x 5 inches. Contemporary quarter calf. Rebacked preserving spine new endsheets. Very good. First edition. One folding plate one full-page folding map plate two folding plates. 8-page Miami vocabulary at end paged consecutively with the rest of the text. 1-300 4; 301-532 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 8 x 5 inches. "Volney was an educated Frenchman of some distinction and merit . . . When he came to America he was an experienced traveler and anticlericalist and an opponent of the philosophy of Rousseau. His departure from his native land was no doubt determined upon when the government he hoped to serve threw him in prison. . . This work is not a narrative of travel. The author described in some detail the geography of the United States noting topography soil climate winds and diseases" Clark. The plates herein are sophisticated and are as follows: Plate I shows the composition of the earth in the areas of Pennsylvania and Ohio and at Louisville Ohio; Plate III contains two views of the St. Lawrence River one showing the river stretching eastward from Lake Ontario the other showing a waterfall Niagara Falls; Plate II is a map of North America; and Plate IV is a large map measuring 25-1/4 x 18-1/4 inches of the United States East of the Mississippi by L Collin. Howes V141; Sabin 100692 ; Clark II:69; Field 2449; Monaghan 1472; Buck 49; Servier 776 Courcier and Dentu unknown books
Bookseller reference : 264642
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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. <br/><br/> hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 84167
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VOLNEY Constantin Francois de ChassebAuf comte de 1757 1820.
Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte pendant les annees 1783 84 et 85. Quatrieme Edition. 2 volumes
Paris:: Courcier 1807. 1807. 2 volumes. 8vo. 6 x 487 1; iv 492 pp. Half-titles 5 folding engraved plates including detailed engravings of the Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza 3 folding maps incl. frontis. a folding map of Egypt p. 288 Syria II p. 400 Turkey ads in front & rear. Original full mottled calf gilt spine red leather spine labels; joints rubbed but strong. Ownership Signature of Benjamin B. Wood. Very good. Fourth edition first issued in 1787 here printed with additional plates. This is a key source for the study of Ottoman Egypt Syria and modern day Lebanon sometimes called the Levant. Volney describes the geography of the region the climate its history cultures the militia economy and trade diseases the monuments natural history politics people law religions farming and agriculture craftsmen merchants commerce arts sciences and character of the inhabitants. All this is set within the presence of the years just prior to the outbreak of the French Revolution which started in 1789. "In 1783 Volney gave up the thought of following any particular profession and set out for the East. He arrived at Cairo ostensibly on a scientific mission although many there regarded him as a spy he was later accused of spying on America by John Adams' administration. In order to master Arabic he shut himself away in a convent for eight months then journeyed to the pyramids at Giza and moved to Suez where he lived with the Bedouin. While there he entertained the notion of constructing a canal to link the Mediterranean with the Red Sea. Sailing from Alexandria in September 1783 he visited Syria and the Lebanon concluding his journey at Acre =Akko in 1785. After a brief halt at Alexandria he returned to France where his documents turned out to be of enormous value in the planning of Napoleon's campaign to Egypt. Volney however persistently opposed such intervention despite producing a pamphlet which uncannily anticipated French involvement in the region." – Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800 V61. / "The French author and traveller Constantin-Francois de Chasseboeuf 1757–1820 adopted the pen name Volney which combined the name of Voltaire and Ferney where the great philosopher lived. A friend of Thomas Jefferson and other Enlightenment figures Volney used an inheritance to further his education by travelling to Ottoman Egypt and the historical region of Syria visiting areas of present-day Lebanon and Israel. He chose these lands as he believed he would gain political and philosophical insights from their ancient heritage. Very little had been written in the West about these areas before he published this two-volume account in 1787. It enjoyed great popularity and even accompanied Darwin aboard the Beagle on his own voyage of discovery decades later. Reissued here is the revised and corrected French second edition which also appeared in 1787. The volumes explore geography history ethnic divisions religious beliefs commerce politics and customs." – Cambridge University Press 2014. / De Volney was a French philosopher and historian and a member of the Estates-General during the French Revolution. Alexander Cook who believes that Volney's influence is as a "key thinker" though often forgotten in today's sense of that history examines this books as a specimen of geo-politics of both French anti-imperialist thought and French imperial practice in North Africa and the Levant where France was seeking to expand its global influence and power during the following decades. Cook is at Australian National University School of History received his PhD from University of Cambridge. CONTENTS: Volume 1: Preface; - Part I. Etat physique de l'Egypte: - 1. De l'Egypte en general et de la ville d'Alexandrie; - 2. Du Nil et de l'extension du delta; - 3. De l'exhaussement de delta; - 4. Des vents de l'Egypte; - 5. Du climat et de l'air d'Egypte; - Part II. Etat politique de l'Egypte: - 6. Des diverses races des habitans de l'Egypte; - 7. Precis de l'histoire des Mamlouks; - 8. Precis de l'histoire de d'Ali-bek; - 9. Precis des evenemens arrives depuis la mort d'Ali-bek jusqu'en 1785; - 10. Etat present de l'Egypte; - 11. Constitution de la milice des Mamlouks; - 12. Gouvernement des Mamlouks; - 13. Etat du commerce; - 14. De l'isthme de Suez; - 15. Des douanes et des impots; - 16. De la ville du Kaire; - 17. Des maladies de l'Egypte; - 18. Tableau resume de l'Egypte; - 19. Des ruines et des pyramides; - Part III. Etat physique de la Syrie: - 20. Geographie et histoire naturaelle de la Syrie; - 21. Considerations sur les phenomenes des vents des nuages des pluies des brouillards et du tonnerre; - Part IV. Etat politique de la Syrie: - 22. Des habitans de la Syrie et de la langue usitee; - 23. Des peuples errans ou pasteurs en Syrie. Volume 2: - 24. Des peuples agricoles ou sedentaires de la Syrie; - 25. Precis de l'histoire de Daher; - 26. Distribution de la Syrie par pachalics; - 27. Du pachalic d'Alep; - 28. Du pachalic de Tripoli; - 29. Du pachalic de Saide; - 30. Du pachalic de Damas; - 31. De la Palestine; - 32. Resume de la Syrie; - 33. Du gouvernement des Turks en Syrie; - 34. De l'administration de la justice; - 35. De l'influence de a religion; - 36. De la propriete et des conditions; - 37. Des paysans et de l'agriculture; - 38. Des artisans des amrchands et du commerce; - 39. Des arts des sciences et de l'ignorance; - 40. Des habitudes et du caractere des habitans de la Syrie. PROVENANCE: Benjamin B. Wood unknown as there are many with this name. / See: Alexander Cook "The Great Society of the Human Species': Volney and the Global Politics of Revolutionary France" Intellectual History Review Volume 23 2013 - Issue 3: Discourses of Humanity in the Enlightenment: Local Mediations of a Global Aspiration; Alexander Cook "Volney and the Science of Morality in Revolutionary France" Humanities Research Vol. 16 No. 2 May 1 2010; Samir Khalaf Protestant Missionaries in the Levant: Ungodly Puritans 1820-1860 Routledge 2012. Courcier, 1807. hardcover books
Bookseller reference : SW1692
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Volney Constantin Francoise
RECHERCHES NOUVELLES SUR L'HISTOIRE ANCIENNE. 1ere Partie Examen de l'Histoire des Juifs Jusqu'a la Captivite de Babylone IIe Partie Comprenant les Lydiens les Assyriens les Medes les Epoques de Ninus de Zoroastre. IIIe et Derniere Parte Chronologie des Babyloniens et des Egyptiens.
Paris: Madame veuve Courcier 1814. First edition. Full Calf. Very Good. 3 vols. 4x2902;63133;vi350pp. With a hand colored copper engraved folding map of ancient Chaldea a copper engraved plate and 12 folding letterpress tables. Cont. diced calf a bit soiled gilt decorated spines rubbed hinges rubbed & with hairline cracks but holding nicely. A few neat marginal and interlinear notes in the early part of Vol. I. Madame veuve Courcier unknown books
Bookseller reference : 7173
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Volney Constantine Francis; edited by John Mason
Volney's Ruins of Empire
Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company 1924. Pamphlet. 64p. light blue stapled wraps 3.5x5 inches frontispiece portrait of Volney wraps lightly toned along edges large chip at top edge of rear wraps pages evenly toned pp9-16 trimmed too tight in outer margin with some loss of text else good condition. Little Blue Book No. 564. Haldeman-Julius Company unknown books
Bookseller reference : 264069
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