‎Voyages‎

‎[East India Company].‎

‎Three Letters Addressed to a Friend in India, by a Proprietor. Principally on the Subject of Importing Bengal Sugars into England. London, J. Debrett, 1793.‎

‎8vo. 88 pp. With a folding table "Profit and loss on sugars imported from Begal" after p. 10. Disbound with remains of a calf spine. First edition. - "It is contended, in these letters, that the India company are already in possession of exclusive privileges which many deem injurious to the public, and that it would be gross impolicy to invest them with the power of converting the sugar trade into a monopoly. An equalization of duties is deemed both unnecessary and impolitic; unneccessary, because the East India company can bring sugars to market with a profit subject to the present high duties, as long as it can be for the general interest of the nation, that they should so do; and impolitic, because the East India company would totally ruin the West India islands if they can import sugars to any extet for which a demand can be found" (The Analytical Review 15 [1793], p. 523). - Title a little spotty; slight dampstain in the upper margin. "No. 4" handwritten in old ink to upper right corner of title page. Goldsmiths 15622. Ames Library pamphlet collection 91:5. ESTC T2945 (7 copies). OCLC 503866141.‎

‎[ENCYCLOPÉDIE PLANETE] - HENRIQUEZ (Fernando) -‎

‎La sexualité sauvage.‎

‎Paris, Editions Planète, s.d. ; grand in-12, 249 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur.‎

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书商的参考编号 : 200612512

‎[ENFANTINA] - ANONYME‎

‎La France en images: Châteaux de la Loire. – Série N° 4.‎

‎Dijon, Chocolaterie Lanvin, s.d. (vers 1950) ; in-4 oblong 302 x 185 mm, 28 pp., couverture illustrée et feuilles agrafées, dos muet. Album d'images à insérer. 100 vignettes monochromes sur 100.‎

书商的参考编号 : _202303911

‎[England].‎

‎Photographie. O. O., um 1880.‎

‎Albuminabzug (Vintage). 145:202 mm (Bildmaß). Auf Kartonträger aufgezogen. Die Aufnahme zeigt einen bebauten Küstenabschnitt (im Vordergrund Gartenmauern und ein Spaziergänger, im Mittelgrund eine Straßenlaterne, eine Trinkwassersäule sowie ein kieloben an Land liegendes Boot), an dem der Sturm die Gischt emporpeitscht. Verso von zeitgenöss. Hand mit Bleistift beschriftet "Brandung an der englischen Küste". - Sauber und nur im rechten Rand schwach gebleicht; teils minimal fleckig.‎

‎[Errinnophily : Indonesian road tax disc labels] - [DPRD and DPD Kotapradja Jogjakarta]‎

‎Peraturan-peraturan dan keputusan-keputusan dari kotapradja Jogjakarta. Himpunan lembaran dan tambahan lembaran kotapradja Jogjakarta. 1957‎

‎Jogjakarta: Yogyakarta municipality 1957. Livre. Bon. Couverture souple. Ed. originale. in-8°. Jogjakarta Yogyakarta Yogyakarta municipality 1957. 16 - 28 - 246 pp. 6 colored samples of road tax disc labels for non-motorised vehicles carts - andong handcarts - kletek horse or buffle carts - cikar becak bicycles pasted-down softcover. Scarce gathering of decisions of the municipal parliament and government of Yogyakarta. Very interesting for the six road tax vehicle duty disc labels vignettes which are in fine condition. Cover a bit worn else very good. Yogyakarta municipality Paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : 1976

‎[ESQUIMO] - BULIARD (Roger) -‎

‎Inuk "au dos de la terre".‎

‎Paris, Nouvelles editions latines, 1964 ; in-8, 316 pp., br.‎

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书商的参考编号 : 201310704

‎[ETAT-UNIS ] - BLAYE (Edouard de ) -‎

‎Etat-unis l'ouest et le centre.‎

‎, Guide arthaud , 1990 ; in-8, 665 pp., broché, couverture illustr.‎

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书商的参考编号 : 201009135

‎[ETHNOLOGIE] - BAUMANN (Peter), PATZELT (Erwin) -‎

‎Mémoires d'un coupeur de tetes en amazonie.‎

‎Paris, Seghers, 1979 ; in-8, 244 pp., cartonnage d'éditeur avec jaquette.‎

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书商的参考编号 : 200906758

‎[Europe].‎

‎Map of Europe. [Italy, ca. 1900].‎

‎Colour-lithographed map, 425 x 635 mm. Orthographic azimuthal projection. Topographical map of Europe including Asia Minor and the northwestern coast of Africa. The orthographic projection shows Europe distorted but realistically as the upper part of a sphere in space. Place names are identified in Italian, and the volcanoes Vesuvius and Etna are marked with red dots. - Traces of folds; some old tears. Some browning and foxing throughout.‎

‎[EXPLORATION] - CASTILLAN (Marcel) -‎

‎20 grands récits d'exploration (prehistoire- afrique- asie).‎

‎Casablanca, Société chrétienne de publication et d edition, 1956 ; in-8, 507 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Avec jaquette.‎

‎Avec jaquette.‎

书商的参考编号 : 201305592

‎[EXPLORATEURS] - PEISSEL (Michel) -‎

‎ITZA ou le mystère du naufrage Maya.‎

‎Paris, Robert Laffont, 1989 ; in-8, 250 pp., broché, couverture illustr.‎

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书商的参考编号 : 200704232

‎[FAR-WEST] PORCHER (R.).‎

‎En route pour L'Amérique du Nord. Croquis Américains.‎

‎Alphonse Picard et Fils, Éditeurs, 1893. In-12 br. Récit d'un voyage en Amérique du Nord dans la seconde moitié du 19 ème. siècle. Année de l'E.O.‎

书商的参考编号 : L5060

‎[Faure (Félix)] Belon (Paul), Gers (Paul)‎

‎Voyage de M. le Président de la République en Bretagne. Août 1896.‎

‎Paris Berthaud s.d. [1896] Un fascicule in-8, 48 pages, nombreuses illustrations in-texte, sous chemise bleue, titre doré. Chemise réparée, intérieur frais.‎

‎La librairie est ouverte du mardi au samedi de 9h30 à 12h30 et de 13h30 à 19h00. Commandes par courriel ou téléphone. Envoi rapide, emballage soigné.‎

书商的参考编号 : 5941

‎[FEYDEL, Gabriel]‎

‎Mœurs et coutumes des Corses : Mémoire tiré en partie d’un grand ouvrage sur la Politique, la Législation et la Morale des diverses Nations de l’Europe. Remarquable exemplaire à la provenance particulièrement croustillante : de la Bibliothèque de la Malmaison.‎

‎Edition originale de cet intéressant traité sur les Corses en France. Paris, Garnery, An VII (1798-99). Grand in-8 de (4) ff., 1 frontispice, 112 pp. Relié en pleine basane fauve, roulette dorée encadrant les plats, dos lisse orné de fleurons dorés, chiffre P B frappé or en pied du dos, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, roulette dorée sur les coupes, tranches dorées sur marbrures. Dos légèrement frotté. Reliure de l’époque. 198 x 122 mm.‎

‎Edition originale de cet intéressant traité sur les Corses en France. Barbier, III, 323 ; Monglond IV, 795 ; Martin-W. 13429 ; INED 1841 ; Lipperheide Jbc7; Brunet, VI, 25883. "Géographie économique et sociale. Ressources et mœurs de cette ile, que la monarchie a gravement négligée et que la République se doit de mettre en valeur. Elle doit aussi lutter contre l'anarchie et la peste" (INED). Gabriel Victor Feydel (1756- 22 avril 1840) est un journaliste français. Né en 1756, il reçut une formation technique et militaire. Il prétend avoir été lieutenant dans sa jeunesse, mais il n'est connu que comme littérateur et journaliste. Il publie sa première œuvre L'art de nager, sous le pseudonyme de Nicolas Roger, en 1783, pseudonyme qu'il utilisera à plusieurs reprises. En 1787 et 1788 il anime le courrier des lecteurs du quotidien par une série de lettres où se mêlent érudition philologique, polémique et ironie voltairienne. En 1789, en tant que secrétaire de la "Société des Amis de la Constitution" Gabriel Feydel rédige avec Choderlos de Laclos L'Observateur, qui fut l'un des tout premiers journaux à paraître, pendant la Révolution. C'est en vertu de cette fonction qu'il est cosignataire du Discours sur la liberté du théâtre prononcé par La Harpe le 17 décembre 1790. La publication de ce journal fut interrompue définitivement le 12 octobre 1790. Dans son Observateur Gabriel Feydel fait l'éloge de la brochure de Jacques René Humbert intitulée La Lanterne magique. En 1794, proscrit, il quitte Paris et survit comme colporteur. Il réapparaît sous le Directoire, enrôlé dans l'expédition à Constantinople du ministre des relations extérieures Aubert. Le navire dans lequel Feydel est embarqué est capturé par les Anglais. Retenu en Corse, il ne retourne à Paris qu'en pluviôse an VI. Gabriel Feydel est l'auteur du journal Le Régulateur, ou Gazette de Paris et de l'Europe. Après l'an VIII, Gabriel Feydel cesse d'intervenir dans la politique et remplit à nouveau les colonnes du Journal de Paris de ses polémiques littéraires et érudites, exactement comme avant la Révolution. En 1799, Feydel adresse aux membres du Directoire un rapport sur la Corse, qui sera publié par la suite sous le titre Mœurs et coutumes des Corses, dans lequel il fait remarquer que « le Corse est vif, intrépide, spirituel et adroit, mais excessivement paresseux de corps et d'esprit ». La conclusion de ce rapport est impitoyable pour le comportement des habitants de l'île, qui, selon lui, est dangereusement contagieux : « Marier des garçons français avec des filles corses, protéger l'agriculture et créer des manufactures, tels furent les moyens principaux que le gouvernement de Versailles adopta pour atteindre le grand but commercial qu'il se proposoit, lorsque l'isle eut été soumise. L'expérience lui a prouvé que le Français qui s'établit en Corse contracte la paresse habituelle du pays, au lieu d'y donner l'exemple de l'activité française ». Plus loin il ajoute « Il y a deux espèces de Corses : le Corse policé et le Corse sauvage, ou si l’on veut, demi-sauvage. La première est composée d’un petit nombre d’hommes que l’éducation étrangère, l’instruction de cabinet, ou les voyages, ont mis au niveau des autres Européens. Elle n’influe, en cette qualité, ni sur les pensées ni sur les actions de la seconde, qui se fait remarquer dans les villes comme dans les campagnes. Cette nullité d’influence, peu vraisemblable sans doute, mais pourtant démontrée par la nécessité où se trouve toujours le Corse voyageur, de reprendre les mœurs de son ile en y remettant le pied, me parait tenir à des causes qui ne sont pas faciles à détruire. Toujours les Corses s’agitèrent pour être indépendants, et jamais ils ne le furent [...] Je n’ai donc rien à dire de particulier sur le petit nombre de Corses que leurs lumières distinguent inutilement des autres... » L’ouvrage est illustré d’un frontispice gravé représentant trois corses en costume traditionnel. Remarquable exemplaire provenant de la Bibliothèque de la Malmaison. Une première marque qui enrichit cet exemplaire est le monogramme P B (Pagerie, Bonaparte) apposé en lettres d’or en pied du dos, le chiffre de Joséphine de Tascher de La Pagerie et de Napoléon Bonaparte. Une seconde marque plus tardive est le timbre humide "Bibliothèque de la Malmaison" qui fut apposé sur les pages de titre pour les ventes de mai à juillet 1829. Ces ventes firent l’objet d’un catalogue succinct : "Notice des livres composant la bibliothèque de La Malmaison, provenant de la succession de S. A. R. le prince Eugène et qui avait appartenu à Napoléon et à l'impératrice Joséphine,... vente au château de La Malmaison les dimanche 28 et lundi 29 juin 1829, les dimanche 5 juillet et lundi 6, les dimanche 12 et lundi 13…" « Au château de Malmaison, Joséphine avait fait installer par l'architecte Percier une bibliothèque, composée principalement d'ouvrages militaires » Olivier estime que « les livres aux armes ou au chiffre de l'impératrice Joséphine sont extrêmement rares ». (OHR, Pl. 2653) Précieux exemplaire à la provenance particulièrement prestigieuse et croustillante lorsque l’on sait que le couple impérial a souhaité posséder cet ouvrage dans lequel l’auteur dresse un tableau pourtant calamiteux de la Corse et de sa population... Provenance : de la Bibliothèque de la Malmaison avec chiffre frappé or en pied du dos et cachet sur le titre.‎

书商的参考编号 : LCS-17457

‎[FLEURIAU D’ARMENONVILLE]‎

‎Nouveaux Mémoires des Missions de la Compagnie de Jésus dans le Levant.‎

‎"P., Nicolas Le Clerc, 1715-1723. Trois volumes in 12 veau marbré, dos orné à nerfs, tranches rouges, (petits défauts aux coiffes); (1) 135 pp.-173 pp.-(1), une planche dépliante (Santorin); (2) 288 pp.-125-(1), avec deux planches dépliantes; (3) 482 pp.-(1), avec une carte dépliante."‎

‎Les trois premiers volumes consacrés à la Grèce, à l’Egypte et à l’Arménie.‎

书商的参考编号 : 7826

‎[FLY VOYAGE] JUKES, J. Beete‎

‎Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H.M.S. Fly‎

‎London: T. & W. Boone 1847. Two volumes octavo 17 plates and two folding maps illustrated; in attractive old pale tan half calf double labels. <p><p>First edition of this important account of the Fly's surveying voyage of coastal Australia. Jukes' account is particularly significant for his description of the Queensland coast the Great Barrier Reef and the Torres Strait and includes an impressively detailed map of the north-east coast from Endeavour River north to New Guinea. Numerous encounters with native peoples particularly in the Torres Strait are described in the text and illustrated in the splendid plates mostly by Harden S. Melville who who published his own illustrated work on the voyage Sketches in Australia and the Adjacent Islands 1849.</p> <p>The Fly Captain Blackwood sailed from Falmouth on 11 April 1842 with the cutter Bramble. Jukes sailed as naturalist to the expedition and with his captain's consent wrote the official narrative. The survey of Torres Strait and of the Great Barrier Reef as well as the various New Guinea explorations were all of great importance. The proper scientific understanding of the Barrier Reef could not begin until the completion of the survey which Jukes charted for the first time in detail. Jukes' own close examination of the Reef was also significant and his chapter on the subject 'is an invaluable record. His observations strongly supported Darwin's theory of the formation of coral reefs…' Davidson. Indeed Jukes' interest in coral formation is neatly summarised by the account's terrific opening line 'I landed for the first time in my life on a coral island.'</p> <p>Ingleton notes: 'the Admiralty decided in 1841 to have the Great Barrier Reefs explored and to have the gaps surveyed in order that some means might be devised for marking the most eligible of these openings in order that they could be recognised in due time and passed through in comparative safety… The expedition was noteworthy for being the first to be despatched to Australia on a purely surveying mission…' Charting a Continent pp. 61-66.</p> </p> . Provenance: Patrick Dudgeon of Cargen FRSE 1817–1895; British landowner mineralogist and meteorologist; with his armorial bookplate in each volume. T. & W. Boone unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 5000943

‎[France, Anatole - Gréard]‎

‎Académie Française. Discours prononcés dans une séance publique tenue par l’Académie Française pour la réception de M. Anatole France, le 24 décembre 1896.‎

‎Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1896 ; in-4, broché ; 54 pp., (1) f. blanc et couverture verte imprimée.‎

‎EDITION ORIGINALE.Anantole France fut reçu à l’Académie Française à la place de Ferdinand de Lesseps et, comme le veut la tradition, son discours de réception est un hommage à celui-ci ; mais plus qu’un hommage, il s’agit ici d’un portrait biographique plein de force, de tendresse et de talent. Le discours de réponse fut prononcé par M. Gréard.Couverture un peu défraichie, en partie passée et avec quelques tout petits manques au dos.‎

书商的参考编号 : 5289

‎[France]‎

‎Le Visage de la France [2 volumes]. Introduction d’Henri de Régnier...‎

‎Paris, Horizons de France 1927 2 volumes. In-4 33 x 25 cm. Reliures éditeur demi-chagrin bleu-marine, report du titre doré sur les dos lisses et les premiers platssos lisses, [6]-575 pp. en pagination continue, nombreuses illustrations en sépia dont 19 planches hors texte. Bon exemplaire.‎

‎Bon état d’occasion‎

书商的参考编号 : 114679

‎[Fra Mauro Mappa Mundi - Carlo Naya].‎

‎Life-size 1871 photograph of the Fra Mauro map of the world. Venice, Carlo Naya, ca. 1871.‎

‎Hand-coloured photograph of the Fra Mauro mappamundi, ca. 223 x 223 cm. A life-sized, hand-coloured photograph of the famous world map made around 1450 by Fra Mauro, the greatest medieval map of the world: an astonishing accomplishment of art history, cartography, and photography. In its day one of the largest photos ever made, the "Naya Fra Mauro" belongs to a class of colossal early photographs that includes Eadweard Muybridge's 13-sheet panorama of San Francisco (1878) and George R. Lawrence's photograph of the Alton Limited on an 8 × 4.5-foot glass plate (1899). It also appears to be the first large-format map produced with photography. - Fra Mauro's map is "considered the greatest memorial of medieval cartography" (Almagià). Containing hundreds of detailed illustrations and some 3000 descriptive texts, it was the most detailed representation of the world so far produced. It remains one of the most important works in the history of cartography, marking the end of Bible-based geography in Europe and the new embrace of more scientific methods which placed accuracy ahead of religious or traditional beliefs. Strikingly, it is oriented with south at the top, recalling the Arab tradition and more specifically al-Idrisi's famous 12th century world map, copies of which Fra Mauro may have known: Europe is shown at the bottom, and Africa and Asia dominate the image, with Arabia (not Jerusalem) at the centre. Fra Mauro incorporated "the discoveries of Marco Polo and the Portuguese", also showing "many countries later known, which the learned monk doubtless shaped after ideas gathered from the oral narratives of occasional travellers" (Müller). Much of the map's novel information was lost to early modern cartographers when printed Ptolemy atlases proliferated in the final decades of the 15th century, replacing the manuscript mappamundi tradition. - Today the original Fra Mauro Map, drawn on vellum, is held by the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice and shown at the Museo Correr. An impressive manuscript facsimile, now in the British Library, was prepared in 1804 by the British antiquarian William Frazer; a large engraving was made in Paris in 1849, and in 1869 the Venetian bookseller Münster produced the first photographic reproduction, albeit at a much smaller scale, measuring a mere 62 × 68 cm. Carlo Naya's monumental Fra Mauro photograph renders the map in its full original size. Although it is mentioned in a number of books on early Italian photography, it was always extremely rare: the only photographic copies of the map ever to have surfaced in the trade were that of Münster (lot 1581 at the 1884 sale of the library of Henry C. Murphy, U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands under Lincoln) and the more common four-print photofacsimile published in 1879 by Ongania (E. P. Goldschmidt, London 1930: cat. 22, lot 32). By contrast, Naya's magnum opus was never sold except through his own concern. The Royal Geographical Society was presented with a specimen in 1873 (the gift of John Benjamin Heath, once Governor of the Bank of England), and the British Library holds another, as does the Marciana (all uncoloured). A very fragile and faded example, cut into 16 sheets and backed onto modern board, is kept at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. - Carlo Naya (1816-82) was an Italian photographer known for his fine views of Venice. He settled there in 1856, opening a photo studio that catered to Grand Tourists who wished to take home mementoes of the city's spectacular art and architecture. His "mappa mundi" photograph was prepared around 1871 under the supervision of the Venice-based English historical scholar Rawdon Brown (1806-83), a friend of Ruskin's. Naya exhibited his photograph at the 1873 World's Fair in Vienna, winning a medal for it. In the 1880s the Nayas were still advertising the map, the pride of the company, as a "fac-simile of the Planisphere of Fra Mauro A.D. 1459, the largest photograph hitherto made (a square 7 Ft. 4 inch)". It was priced at a stupendous 200 francs. After Naya's death, his studio was continued by his wife, then by her second husband, for three and a half decades. - Provenance: the reverse has ink stamps of the publisher Osvaldo Böhm, who bought most of Naya's archive when the family closed the shop in 1918. Later in the collection of Dr. Edward Luther Stevenson (1858-1944), one of the most important scholars of early cartography active at the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. Stevenson was responsible for numerous carto-bibliographic books, including the first translation of Ptolemy into English, as well as a series of impressive facsimile maps. Stevenson, who viewed reproductions as integral to the study of early cartography, committed himself to building an unparalleled collection of photographs of early maps and globes. Much of his collection was donated to Yale University after his death, but the present item comes from a large corpus of photos, manuscripts, and related material retained by the family. A. Müller, Venice. Her Art-Treasures and Historical Associations. A Guide to the City (Venice 1873), p. 113. I. Zannier, Venice: the Naya Collection (Venice, 1981). P. Becchetti, Fotografi e Fotografia in Italia 1839-1880 (Roma 1978), p. 124. R. Almagià, Monumenta cartographica vaticana, vol. 1 (Città del Vaticano, 1944). P. Falchetta, Storia del Mappamondo di Fra' Mauro (Rimini, 2016).‎

‎[Fra Mauro Mappa Mundi] - Zurla, Placido.‎

‎Il Mappamondo di Fra Mauro Camaldolese descritto ed illustrato. Venice, [Picotti], 1806.‎

‎Folio (237 x 380 mm). 164 pp. With an engraved plate; folding engraved map in lower cover pocket. Modern red quarter morocco, title gilt to spine. Marbled endpapers. The first substantial study and reproduction of Fra Mauro's famous mappa mundi, considered the supreme medieval map of the world and the "greatest memorial of medieval cartography" (Almagià). The most detailed representation of the world ever seen when it was produced around 1450, it remains one of the most important works in the history of cartography, marking the new embrace of scientific method which placed accuracy ahead of religious or traditional beliefs. Strikingly, it is oriented with south at the top, recalling the Arab tradition and more specifically al-Idrisi's famous 12th century world map, copies of which Fra Mauro may have known. Europe is shown at the bottom, with Arabia (not Jerusalem) at the centre and America as yet missing. Fra Mauro incorporated "the discoveries of Marco Polo and the Portuguese", also showing "many countries later known, which the learned monk doubtless shaped after ideas gathered from the oral narratives of occasional travellers" (Müller). He was able, by personal intercourse, to gather additional information from Nicolo de' Conti, who had returned from the east in 1440, and his work is also of special interest for showing that, at least forty years before the Portuguese reached India, Arab sailing directions covering the east coast of Africa, India, and the seas beyond to the vicinity of Sumatra, were available in western Europe. - Placido Zurla's handsome work, the earliest study of the map, was the first to include a reproduction of it in book form. Zurla (1769-1834) had unique insight into Mauro's monumental achievement, as he served as librarian to the same Camaldolese order as the geographer and so had access to the original map itself. - Occasional foxing, mainly confined to margins, a little stronger in the title-page. An untrimmed, wide-margined copy preserving the deckle edges; the folding map reproduction in loosely inserted in a custom-made lower cover pouch. Cicogna 3323. Cf. A. Müller, Venice. Her Art-Treasures and Historical Associations. A Guide to the City (Venice 1873), p. 113; R. Almagià, Monumenta cartographica vaticana, vol. 1 (Città del Vaticano, 1944).‎

‎[Frankreich - Polemik].‎

‎Eröffnete frantzösische geheime Raths-Stube, worinnen die Consilia über jetzigen Zustand zusammen getragen worden, wie die Cron Franckreich bey schweren Conjuncturen sich zu verhalten, damit Sie aus dem Labyrinth mit Manier kommen möchte. O. O. u. Dr., 1673.‎

‎27 unnum. Bll. Mit Holzschnittvignette am Titel. Pergamentband der Zeit. Bindebänder fehlen. 4to. Streitschrift im Kontext des Niederländischen Kriegs, den Frankreich gegen die Generalstaaten im Bündnis mit dem Reich, Brandenburg, Österreich und Spanien führte. Eine von 3 Druckvarianten im Jahr der Erstausgabe. - Papierbedingt durchgehend etwas gebräunt bzw. braunfleckig. Einige kl. Randläsuren; in Bl. Cii größerer Eckausriß (mit Textverlust). VD 17, 3:608354K.‎

‎[FREYCINET: URANIE VOYAGE] LOUIS XVIII‎

‎Bronze Medal for the Voyage of the Uranie. Obverse: profile portrait of Louis XVIII. Reverse: "Hémisphère Austral. Physique Astronomie. La Corvette l'Uranie Mr. Ls. de Freycinet Commandt… S.A.R.M. Le Duc d'Angoulême Amiral de France -- M. le Vte. du Bouchage Ministre de la Marine‎

‎Paris: Puymaurin & Andrieu 1817. Somewhat aged but authentic issued condition. Bronze medal 41 mm. <p><p>A good example of the medal struck to commemorate the departure of the Uranie for Australia and the Pacific in 1817 under Louis de Freycinet.</p> <p>The Uranie landed at Shark Bay on the West Coast of Australia on 12 September 1818 where an observatory was set up. After visiting Timor and the Hawaiian Islands they reached Port Jackson in November 1818. They left on Boxing Day that year on a course for Cape Horn but on 13 February 1820 the ship was wrecked off the Falkland Islands. However all the crew and most of the records of the voyage and natural history specimens were saved and the voyage was completed on the Physicienne.</p> <p>The voyage was organised by the French government to make observations on geography magnetism and meteorology and became noteworthy for its natural history discoveries. This scientific bent is reflected in the detailed lettering on the obverse which has the main caption 'Hemisphere Austral. Physique Astronomie'. The design for this side of the medal is signed Puymaurin. The reverse of the medal shows the bust of Louis XVIII designed by F. Andrieu.</p> </p> . Puymaurin & Andrieu unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 4204892

‎[FREYCINET VOYAGE] ARAGO, Jacques‎

‎Original drawing captioned "M le curé d'Agana en petit negligé‎

‎Guam 1819. In fine original condition. Original ink drawing 310 x 245 mm. fully signed and dated framed. <p><p>Jacques Arago artist on board Freycinet's Uranie during the French circumnavigation of 1817-20 drew this intimate portrait of Brother Ciriaco the curé in Agana the capital of Guam during the visit there of the Uranie expedition between March and June 1819. This is a charming and unusual portrait of a figure who likely expected to be taken more seriously: the cleric is shown in his "at home" attire his petit negligé smoking. His relaxed stance dressed in a vest and daringly striped leggings is further enriched by the addition of the most delicate slippers. </p> <p>Arago 1790-1855 was not only the most accomplished of the artists who made the voyage aboard the Uranie but was one of the most intriguing of the early travellers. The wonders of the long expedition stayed with him for the rest of his life and he continued writing and drawing about the Pacific right up until he lost his sight. In 1822 he published his own well-regarded account of the voyage Promenade Autour du Monde which was published in an English version in 1823. Over the ensuing decades he wrote more differing versions of this interesting account. </p> <p>The Freycinet expedition stayed for a long time in Agana where they were well received by the Spanish Governor Don Jose Medinilla. Agana modern HagÃ¥tña is the capital of Guam and thus the westernmost state or territorial city of the United States despite its modern population numbering only about a thousand.</p> <p>As several of the Uranie crew had recently died from dysentery Louis de Freycinet took this opportunity to rest his men for several months. Here in the Marianas the Spanish missionaries were both powerful and respected and the sailors were required to attend holy week services. Arago was particularly known for his lively and arresting images of the people he encountered with a distinct preference for the unusual or the grotesque. Whether the priest knew that Arago was drawing him at this intimate moment is not known but it seems more likely that Arago captured this image surreptitiously and certainly the satirical tone of the caption - with its reference to the curé and his informal attire - suggests that this delightful vision of the priest off his guard was not meant to be shared. </p> <p>Although unpublished though fully signed and dated the drawing remained in the archives of Louis de Freycinet and his descendants which perhaps indicates that it was at least considered for publication in the massive official account of the voyage.</p> <p>---</p> <p>Arago's textual description</p> <p>In his own books Arago writes at some length various versions and editions including Voyage autour du Monde Paris 1840 vol. II pp. 141-5 and more briefly in his English version Narrative of a Voyage Round the World in the Uranie… commanded by Captain Freycinet… London 1823 pp. 248-50 about the primitive state of religion in the Marianas and the notably pragmatic approach to questions of morality in Agana. He singles out the curé Brother Ciriaco:</p> <p>"Nowhere perhaps is there so much and so little religion as at Guam. The women bestow their favours for a rosary. The men do not blush to offer you a sister or some other of their relations and will immediately after prostrate themselves at the foot of the altar. In the churches the two sexes are separate; and if you see few girls without a veil you also see few men gaze at them. In church the people behave like Christians; in the city and in the country like savages.</p> <p>"Here as in Spain the husbands are very jealous of their wives; lovers of their mistresses: but these excepted you may pay your court if you please to their sisters and friends; what is it to them What is not appropriated to themselves is no concern of theirs: and you will find men shameless enough to offer you as soon as you enter their houses one of their relations for fear you should cast an eye on their wives. At the same time you may be assured that if you please the wife you will not long sigh in vain.</p> <p>"We should be astonished at the prodigious number of processions and religious ceremonies with which the people are amused at Guam if we were not aware that the zeal of devotees and even the carelessness of the indifferent are beneficial to the church and particularly to the priest who takes advantage of every thing. Collections are made at the houses; requisitions are ordered; and there are few of the inhabitants who can escape that sort of tax. Such as have no money of which there is very little in the settlement provide fruit vegetables and meat to fill the stores of the priest who probably distributes a considerable portion among the poor… … … But I saw no poor at Guam!</p> <p>"I imagined the processions would cease when Lent was over and that the people would have a few days respite. By no means: they went on more sedulously than ever: and all things considered these poor people to whom the church prescribes rest or prohibits labour half the week are not so much to blame for devoting three-fourths of their lives to idleness. Is it not even from excess of zeal that the land is so neglected I cannot tell but I fear I was too severe in my first conjectures. Let me be more circumspect in future.</p> <p>…</p> <p>"It is truly painful to see a people who might so easily be guided aright given-up to the darkness in which they are enveloped and even in the present day adopting with blind confidence the absurd narratives of pretended daily miracles with which they are amused every hour of the day. Our learned Abbé de Quelen whose paternal cares are not confined to the instruction of the crew with whom he has made so long a voyage has had many conversations with the priest of Agagna; and he is convinced that the poor man can scarcely instruct his flock in the simplest lessons of the catechism as he is himself ignorant of the fundamental principles of our religion. As to Latin which he told us he had studied from his earliest infancy under the ablest professors at Manilla our chaplain who speaks it with the greatest fluency could scarcely make him understand a few words by turning and varying his phrases: and for my own part I am convinced that as long as such pastors as friar Ciriaco are sent to the Marianne islands religion will be little honoured there and the morals of the people will not be in the slightest degree improved".</p> </p> . Provenance: Until the 1960s in Freycinet family ownership subsequently in a private collection. unknown‎

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‎[GADD (Cyril John)]‎

‎Assyrian sculptures in the British Museum. From Shalmaneser III to Sennacherib‎

‎Londres, British Museum, 1938 in-4, 19 pp. de texte et 69 planches en noir, toile bleue, encadrements à froid sur les plats (reliure de l'éditeur).‎

‎Album réalisé par et d'après les travaux de l'assyriologue Cyril John Gadd (1893-1969), plus tard conservateur du Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities du British Museum (1948-1955). Préface de son prédécesseur Sidney Smith (1889-1979). - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT - LIEN DE PAIEMENT, NOUS CONSULTER.‎

书商的参考编号 : 220885

‎[GAVARNI] - LA BEDOLLIERE (Emile de).-‎

‎Londres et les anglais illustrés par GAVARNI.‎

‎P., Barba, sans date (1862), très grand in 8° relié demi basane bleue, 380 pages ; rousseurs éparses ; frottis d'usage à la reliure ; dos insolé.‎

‎Illustré de 24 planches hors-texte de GAVARNI. PHOTOS SUR DEMANDE. ...................... Photos sur demande ..........................‎

书商的参考编号 : 60985