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1692Best.-Nr. 5782Paris, Barbin, Boudot, Josse, 1692. 1692 1 vol in-4° (250 x 185 mm) de : [10] ff. (faux titre, titre, épître, préface) ; 1 portrait gravé de Stanislaw Jablonowski (1634-1702) ; 406 pp. ; [11] ff. (Table) ; 3 planches gravées ; 1 carte dépliante de la Sibérie. Ex-libris : Ray m. Lud Sabatie D'astors. Baumés fecit Monspelii.. (trou de verre sur plusieurs feuillets, tâches). Plein veau fauve marbré dépoque, dos à nerfs orné, titre doré, roulettes sur les coupes, tranches mouchetées de rouge. (manque à la coiffe supérieure manquante, petit manque à la coiffe inférieure, 4 coins émoussés avec manques aux coins).
1692Best.-Nr. 15848Claude Barbin, Jean Boudot, Georges & Louis Josse Paris 1692 1 vol. In-4 de X 406 pp. 12 ff.n.ch. (table), plein veau brun de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné, roulette dorée sur les coupes.
Best.-Nr. 95445Paris, G. Hartmann, [1884], in-4, 390 pp, Cartonnage de percaline à dos de basane, plats de papier provenant de la couverture originale orné d'un bandeau noir et de frises dorés en encadrement, tranches mouchetées, Édition originale de ce livret d'opéra comprenant ses partitions illustré d'un frontispice gravé de Paul Avril et de bandeaux en noir. Cet exemplaire est enrichi d'un bel envoi autographe signé de l'auteur, accompagné de quelques mesures de musique, à Henri et Marius Cayol : "en remerciement de leur accueil bien sympathique" et daté de Marseille d'avril 84 - mai 85. Les quelques mesures autographes sont tirés de l'acte IV (à la page 311) et reprennent les paroles "Manon! Sphinx étonnant!... Véritable sirène". Cet opéra-comique inspiré de L'Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescault, ouvrage de l'abbé Prévost paru pour la première fois en 1731 et fit grand scandale, obligeant l'auteur à en produire une nouvelle version. La version musicale de Massenet est créée à l'Opéra-comique de Paris le 17 janvier 1884 sous la direction de Léon Carvalho. Les rôles principaux sont tenus par Marie Heilbron et Jean-Alexandre Talazac. Les frères Cayol étaient tous deux photographes et éditeurs à Marseille depuis 1866. Ils sont connus par leurs Vues de Provence. Bien que leur lien avec Massenet reste obscur, l'envoi laisse entendre que ces derniers avaient accueilli ce dernier, peut-être lors d'un voyage ou d'une tournée. Reliure défraîchie mais solide, rousseurs en début et fin de volume. Couverture rigide
Best.-Nr. LCS-16156L’un des meilleurs ouvrages de Duplessis-Mornay. Précieux exemplaire d’une grande pureté conservé dans son vélin à recouvrement de l’époque. Paris, Claude Micard, 1583.In-8 de (16) ff., 603 pp., (2) pp. Dernière garde blanche couverte d’annotations manuscrites. Relié en plein vélin souple à recouvrement, dos lisse portant le titre manuscrit. Reliure de l’époque. 169 x 112 mm.
Best.-Nr. 93207Paris 1752. . Engraved map uncoloured; 38.8 x 63.5 cm plus advertissement and echelles at top. Toned uniformly paper thin in places where an old backing has been removed; trimmed with the imprint at bottom retained; good. Significant map of the Pacific Northwest and the region that would become Alaska. The map extends from Greenland to a bit west of Irkoust; and south to include all of California. It includes the discoveries of the Russians in 1723 1732 and 1741 the tracks of Bering's first and second voyages Joseph Nicolas Delisle's voyage with Captain Tchirikow in 1741 and other voyages. But more importantly it features the imaginary cartographic theories of Philippe Buache for the first time on a printed map. The west coast of North America is entirely fictitious north of Cap Blanc with an enormous Sea of the West Lac Valasco and Isle of Bernarda; a network of rivers and lakes making up most of a Northwest Passage is derived from the apocryphal voyages of the Spanish Admiral Bartholome de Fonte. Wa-NWC 566. Breitfuss IM 3 Rep . L-M 6. Wroth Early Cartographer of the Paciific. Urness Bering's Voyages --- Rep . Armstrong From Sea Unto Sea #24 Rep . Paris, [1752]. unknown
Best.-Nr. 65397Brussels 1825. THE FIRST MAP TO CALL RIYADH BY ITS MODERN NAME. Original lithographed map 53 x 70.5 cm with contemporary hand-colour in outline. Published in the first atlas to cover the landmasses of the entire world on a uniform scale constructed as a modified conical projection and if assembled forming a globe with a diameter of 7.75 metres although only one such was known to have been made by the author himself and requiring a specially designed room. It offered the largest picture of the earth's surface available in the nineteenth century and was the first atlas to be produced throughout by lithography. It is also significant for being the first large-scale European mapping of the Arabian peninsula based on the very latest authorities. This particular map of Arabia is the first map to call Riyadh by its modern name here El-Ryad. [Brussels, 1825]. unknown
1991Best.-Nr. 93134Difference. New. 1991. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- TWO 2 VOLUME SET. Text in French. Volume 1: 120 pages; Volume 2: 175 pages. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer . Difference paperback
Best.-Nr. 69441 p.l. 120 pp.; 21 p. & 19 leaves of author index in a contemporary hand. Two parts in one vol. 8vo attractive antique calf-backed paste-paper boards spine gilt red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: G. Martin 1752. One in a series of the very rare later auction catalogues issued by Gabriel Martin the Paris de Meyzieu of 1761 being his last. This library was formed by Gravelle 1699-1752 a magistrate in the court of inquiry of the Paris Parliament who is today best remembered for his Recueil de pierres gravées antiques published between 1732 and 1739 and for his parody L’Amant déguisé which was performed after his death. He was an expert engraver who prepared the etchings for his book on engraved gems. This was a fine and scholarly library of 1723 lots rich in literature and books on antiquities and art. There are many 16th-century works. The final 21 pages describe his large collection of prints and drawings 113 lots including works by Watteau van Dyck Boucher Guercino Le Brun Rembrandt Teniers An. Carracci etc. Fine copy. The first part has been priced throughout in a contemporary hand. There is also a most unusual manuscript index at the end. ⧠Lugt 785. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Esprit des Livres website. Not in Grolier Club Printed Catalogues of French Book Auctions.1643-1830. unknown
Best.-Nr. 69441 p.l. 120 pp.; 21 p. & 19 leaves of author index in a contemporary hand. Two parts in one vol. 8vo attractive antique calf-backed paste-paper boards spine gilt red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: G. Martin 1752. One in a series of the very rare later auction catalogues issued by Gabriel Martin the Paris de Meyzieu of 1761 being his last. This library was formed by Gravelle 1699-1752 a magistrate in the court of inquiry of the Paris Parliament who is today best remembered for his Recueil de pierres gravées antiques published between 1732 and 1739 and for his parody L’Amant déguisé which was performed after his death. He was an expert engraver who prepared the etchings for his book on engraved gems. This was a fine and scholarly library of 1723 lots rich in literature and books on antiquities and art. There are many 16th-century works. The final 21 pages describe his large collection of prints and drawings 113 lots including works by Watteau van Dyck Boucher Guercino Le Brun Rembrandt Teniers An. Carracci etc. Fine copy. The first part has been priced throughout in a contemporary hand. There is also a most unusual manuscript index at the end. ⧠Lugt 785. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Esprit des Livres website. Not in Grolier Club Printed Catalogues of French Book Auctions.1643-1830. unknown books
1801Best.-Nr. 66795Paris: Chez Richard Caille et Ravier 1801. The Textual Foundation of Psychiatry PINEL Philippe. Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale ou la Manie.Avec figures représentant des formes de crâne ou des portraits d'aliénés. Paris: Chez Richard Caille et Ravier An IX 1800/1801. First edition. Octavo. lvi 318 pp. Folding letterpress table between pp. 250 and 251 and two engraved plates. Contemporary French quarter mottled sheep over paste paper boards. Smooth spine ruled in gilt with gilt red morocco lettering label. Occasional very light spotting. Housed in a custom brown cloth clamshell. Overall a superb copy. "Philippe Pinel's Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale ou la manie which presented the textual foundation of psychiatry stands as the first great publication of the nineteenth century in clinical medicine" Grolier Medicine. "In October 1793 while serving as médecin des infirmeries at Bicêtre Hospital Pinel 1745-1826 had the chains struck off from forty-nine male psychiatric patients in order to substitute for this cruel oppression his 'traitement morale' a humane form of psychiatric therapy that identified insanity with illness rather than moral perversity or demonic possession. This dramatic act performed in the liberating spirit of the American and French Revolutions found immediate and enduring favor in the popular imagination as a symbol of a new attitude toward the insane and ignited a general desire for more humane treatment of the mentally ill that culminated in the English non-restraint movement of the mid-nineteenth century. Yet humanitarian treatment of the insane although crucial to Pinel's psychiatric work was not that work's sole focus for Pinel also devoted himself to establishing psychiatry as a scientifically based branch of medicine. His Traité replaced the speculation and theorizing characteristic of earlier discussions of insanity with his own practical observations of the lunatics of the Bicêtre whose illnesses could now be observed undistorted by cruel treatment. He retained the old classifications of mental illness stating that contemporary medicine was as yet too primitive for more precise categories but did introduce some subdivisions isolating mania from delirium and recognizing the relationships between periodic mania melancholy and hypochondria. He recognized emotional disorders to be the main cause of intellectual dysfunction but also took into account heredity predisposition and hypersensitivity and attempted to find relationships between insanity and cranial deformity" Norman Library. Cushing P286. Garrison and Morton 4922. Grolier Medicine 54. Heirs of Hippocrates 668. Hunter & Macalpine pp. 602-610. Norman Library 1701. Waller 7456. Wellcome IV p. 388. HBS 66795. $3250. Chez Richard, Caille et Ravier unknown
1801Best.-Nr. 66795Paris: Chez Richard Caille et Ravier 1801. The Textual Foundation of Psychiatry PINEL Philippe. Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale ou la Manie.Avec figures représentant des formes de crâne ou des portraits d'aliénés. Paris: Chez Richard Caille et Ravier An IX 1800/1801. First edition. Octavo. lvi 318 pp. Folding letterpress table between pp. 250 and 251 and two engraved plates. Contemporary French quarter mottled sheep over paste paper boards. Smooth spine ruled in gilt with gilt red morocco lettering label. Occasional very light spotting. Housed in a custom brown cloth clamshell. Overall a superb copy. "Philippe Pinel's Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale ou la manie which presented the textual foundation of psychiatry stands as the first great publication of the nineteenth century in clinical medicine" Grolier Medicine. "In October 1793 while serving as médecin des infirmeries at Bicêtre Hospital Pinel 1745-1826 had the chains struck off from forty-nine male psychiatric patients in order to substitute for this cruel oppression his 'traitement morale' a humane form of psychiatric therapy that identified insanity with illness rather than moral perversity or demonic possession. This dramatic act performed in the liberating spirit of the American and French Revolutions found immediate and enduring favor in the popular imagination as a symbol of a new attitude toward the insane and ignited a general desire for more humane treatment of the mentally ill that culminated in the English non-restraint movement of the mid-nineteenth century. Yet humanitarian treatment of the insane although crucial to Pinel's psychiatric work was not that work's sole focus for Pinel also devoted himself to establishing psychiatry as a scientifically based branch of medicine. His Traité replaced the speculation and theorizing characteristic of earlier discussions of insanity with his own practical observations of the lunatics of the Bicêtre whose illnesses could now be observed undistorted by cruel treatment. He retained the old classifications of mental illness stating that contemporary medicine was as yet too primitive for more precise categories but did introduce some subdivisions isolating mania from delirium and recognizing the relationships between periodic mania melancholy and hypochondria. He recognized emotional disorders to be the main cause of intellectual dysfunction but also took into account heredity predisposition and hypersensitivity and attempted to find relationships between insanity and cranial deformity" Norman Library. Cushing P286. Garrison and Morton 4922. Grolier Medicine 54. Heirs of Hippocrates 668. Hunter & Macalpine pp. 602-610. Norman Library 1701. Waller 7456. Wellcome IV p. 388. HBS 66795. $3250. Chez Richard, Caille et Ravier unknown books
Best.-Nr. 2229In Venetia: per Michel Tramezino 1544. Hardcover. Good. Small octavo. xii 267 iff. 8 4 A8-Z8 AA8-KK8 LL4. First Italian edition. With the printer's Sybil device on the title-page and the verso of the final leaf. Rather crude modern light brown leather with labels on the spine. From the library of the Duke of Rutland with his bookplate. 0 In Venetia: [per Michel Tramezino], 1544. hardcover
1754Best.-Nr. 17Jean-Philippe RAMEAU CASTOR ET POLLUX First edition of the definitive version very different from the first attempt of 1737 of the most important and successful opera of Jean-Philippe Rameau. A very good clean copy. TrageÌdie mise en Musique par Mr. Rameau repreÌsenteÌe pour la première fois par l'AcadeÌmie Royale de Musique Le 24 Octobre 1737. Refondu Et remis au TheÌâtre au Mois de DeÌcembre 1754. GraveÌe par Le Sr. Hue. A Paris Chez l'Auteur Rue des bons Enfans Et aux adresses ordinaires À la Porte de l'OpeÌra. In-4 à l'italienne 1â„2 veÌlin ivoire à coins pièce de titre papier en forme de cœur colleÌe au 1er plat tranches rouges Reliure ancienne très légèrement postérieure. 1 f. de titre 163 pages. Bel exemplaire de l'édition originale du plus important opéra de J.Ph Rameau et son plus grand succès qui connut plus de 250 représentations à Paris avant la Révolution française. Après une première version créée en 1737 l'opéra fut entièrement refondu pour atteindre à un équilibre exceptionnel dans sa version définitive très différente de la première : le livret est devenu parfaitement limpide et l'ensemble d'une concision et d'une variété admirables. Le coup de génie des fameuses trois notes faisant la transition entre la plainte du chœur des Spartiates Que tout gémisse et le célébrissime tristes Apprêts apparaît ici pour la première fois. Le déchirant Prélude du cinquième Acte est aussi une nouvelle version caractéristique de la plus grande maîtrise de Rameau au sommet de son art parmi bien d'autres exemples possibles. Exemplaire de toute fraicheur imprimé sur vergé fort en excellent état de conservation. Menus défauts à la reliure coiffe inférieure frottements. Tache brune au dernier feuillet. Page de titre un peu salie. On trouve relieÌs à la suite : Chant de guerre pour l'ArmeÌe du Rhin deÌdieÌe au MareÌchal Lukner. A Paris chez Bignon sans date. 3 pp. Cinq airs d'Estelle et un deÌtacheÌ avec Accompagnement de ForteÌ-Piano. par Daniel Steibelt Paris chez Naderman sans date. 1 f. de titre 15 pp. Signature autographe de J.H. Nadermann 1734-1799 luthier et eÌditeur en marge du f. de titre. Rousseurs sur la pièce de Steibelt. Photos supplémentaires sur demande. Envoi avec suivi et assurance hardcover
2008Best.-Nr. 73431Walther Konig. New. 2008. Hardcover. 3865604242 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in English and German with portions in English only. 376 pp. With 269 ills. 260 col. . 31 x 24 cm. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Leben Und Werk Oeuvre-Katalog Kritischem Oeuvrekatalog Raisonnee Walther Konig hardcover
1986Best.-Nr. SBBI-mon0000123834University of Luton Press 1986. paperback. Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining water damage writing missing dustjacket etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. University of Luton Press paperback
1933Best.-Nr. 190978Lahore: Printed by the Superintendent Government Printing Punjab 1933. A foundational work for the history of the Western Himalayas First and only contemporary edition print run of just 500 well represented institutionally but uncommon in commerce and still authoritative reflected in the publication of three recent reprints. The text gathers papers originally published in the The Journal of the Punjab Historical Society in order to present the information "in a more accessible" form for "Government and State Officers as well as students of History". The papers gathered here in this "monumental and significant work" Bes et al. p.92 provide a much needed survey of the history of the princely states of Western Himalayas including Kangra and its offshoots Chamba Kullu Mandi Suket Bilaspur Kahlur Nurpur Basohli and some of the offshoots of Jammu. The authors saw their task as essential on the face of the effects of modernization obliterating the evidence and carriers of regional history "A large part of the material has been acquired at a time when many causes are at work which are tending to destroy the isolation of the hills and with it much of historical value. The generation that found pleasure in treasuring and transmitting historical lore is rapidly passing away and we are fortunate in having secured so much of what still remains" Preface. The authors between them shared immense knowledge of the region gathered from extensive research travelling the territory and encounters with the local populations. Hutchison 1848-1936 was for sixty years a Church of Scotland medical missionary at Sialkot and then Chamba in the latter place the sole medical man for over ten years continuing his work at the leper colony right until his death. "He was keenly interested in geology and archaeology and was associated for a time with Sir Aurel Stein in his researches in the Punjab. He also investigated the history of the States of the Outer Himalayas and made valuable contributions to gazetteers. A feature of Dr. Hutchison's long service was the arduous journeys. which year by year he made among the high mountain ranges of the Himalayas carrying succour to the far-distant dwellers therein" obit. His colleague Jean-Philippe Vogel 1871-1958 was considered perhaps the greatest Sanskritist of his age. On his first visit to India in 1900 he was "persuaded to accept a post in the Archaeological Department. For most of the next ten years he was Superintendent of the Northern Circle with headquarters at Lahore and was responsible for the preservation of some of India's most famous monuments including the magnificent groups of Mughal palaces mosques and tombs at Lahore and Delhi. Not only did he watch with unremitting care over their repair but he became no mean authority on their history and architecture. Vogel's heart however was less with the Moslem than with the earlier Hindu and Buddhist antiquities. Several summers he spent in the remote highlands of Chamba State and the volume in which he described the monuments and antiquities of that region was a model of patient research and scholarship" obit. In 1903 Vogel collaborated with John Marshall in excavations at Charsada the ancient Pushkalavati on the Swat River and during the next six years did much useful digging on his own at the famous Buddhist sites of Kasia and Saheth-Maheth. For the last two years of his career in India he was Director-General of Archaeology. Soon after retirement he was appointed to the chair of Sanskrit at Leiden in 1925 founding the Kern Institute there as a centre for excellence in the study of the art and archaeology of south and south east Asia. The two later collaborated on a history of Jammu. Neat embossed ownership stamps of Kaikobad Aderji Gai 1881-1969 a Parsi merchant "Supplier of Daily Needs to the Frontier" who furnished provisions to the British Legation in Kabul from the 1920s onwards. Well read his personal library was considered one of the finest in Peshawar he was also an avid antiquarian many objects on display in the Peshawar Museum were donated by him. He is frequently mentioned in contemporary accounts and was a prominent figure in his time. 2 vols. Large octavo. Large folding map printed by the Central Jail Press Lahore at the rear of vol. II. Original dark reddish orange cloth lettered in black on the spines. Lightly rubbed spine crumpled head and tail and with a couple of slight scuffs; small repricing stamps to the title pages light foxing to the endpapers and fore-edge occasional encroachment to the margins; in all a solid clean and bright copy very good. Lennart Bes Alied de Coq & Dory Heilijgers eds. Vihagottama - Superbird. The Multifaceted Life of Jean Philippe Vogel 2024; John Hutchison obituary British Medical Journal 1936 2. p.373; John Marshall "Jean Philippe Vogel C.I.E." The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland No. 3/4 1958. hardcover
1822Best.-Nr. 000458London The Historic Gallery. Pall-Mall: Robert Bowyer 1822. First Edition Later Issue . Hardcover. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. LOUTHERBOURG PJ de. PICKETT William. CLARK John. 1st ed later issue circa 1822 plates with imprints and signatures removed uncut 36 leaves 2 title pages and 2 leaves of descriptive text for each plate titles and text in both English and French - the French text in double columns 18 hand coloured aquatint plates text watermarked 1822. Contemporary half blue morocco over blue marbled boards corners & edges lightly bumped & worn. Black morocco reback and corners old spine laid down raised bands gilt tooling & titles edges worn. Internally hinges strengthened some spotting to verso of tp. The marbled paper along leading edge of both covers has been replaced with similar in times past. But a very good copy. Folio 330495 cms. First issue copies contain a signature and imprint underneath each plate and watermarks no later than 1805. However copies exist with plates watermarked as late as 1824. The 1824 copies contain a completely reset text in contrast our text matches that of the first edition and an engraved title page supplied by the publisher from left over copies of Loutherbourg's completely separate earlier work Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain London R Bowyer 1801 & reissued 1808. Both the English & French text leaves are watermarked 1822. Abbey 10. Title continues: From drawings made expressly for this undertaking by PJ de Loutherbourg. With Historical and descriptive accounts of the several places of which views are given. Engraved by William Pickett and coloured by John Clark. Loutherbourg landscape painter and scene designer. See ODNB for a full Bio. Robert Bowyer hardcover
Best.-Nr. 37323Very Good. Two striking original photographs taken during the filming of Hans Richter's "8 x 8". One of the two photographs is signed in red ink by Philippe Halsman the photographer of both. A note on the back of the signed photo notes that Halsman signed this picture and that the film's cinematographer Arnold Eagle is visible in the background. The photos are mounted on discolored pieces of cardboard. In his original script for the film's prologue Richter wrote: ".my film 8 x 8 is a bizarre comedy-drama signs and sounds not only out of this world probably not even in the next. 8 x 8 mixes equal parts of Freud and Lewis Carroll with Venice Venus and Old Vienna Cocteau and Bullfights surrealism magic dreams girls and practically anything else that may currently be in your minds." Hans Richter undertook 8 x 8 at the suggestion of Marcel Duchamp a chess enthusiast after The Minotaur a planned sequel to the 'Narcissus' episode of Dreams That Money Can Buy failed to secure funding although 8 x 8 engaged similar concerns. 'Chess is so universal' wrote Richter to Jean Cocteau about this new project 'that practically every human situation has its corresponding move among the countless possibilities of chess.' The filmmaker further recognized a kinship between the work which took its title from the layout of a chessboard and Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. Some of the artists who appeared in this film included Max Ernst Fernand Léger Marcel Duchamp Man Ray and Alexander Calder. The photographs are accompanied by a reprint of an article that was written by Lewis Carroll collectors August and Clare Imholtz for the Fall 2019 issue of "Knight Letter" about the film and its participants along with a discussion of each of the photos. The photos are in very good condition. They measure 10.5 x 13.5 inches. PHOTO/062424. unknown
Best.-Nr. 37323Very Good. Two striking original photographs taken during the filming of Hans Richter's "8 x 8". One of the two photographs is signed in red ink by Philippe Halsman the photographer of both. A note on the back of the signed photo notes that Halsman signed this picture and that the film's cinematographer Arnold Eagle is visible in the background. The photos are mounted on discolored pieces of cardboard. In his original script for the film's prologue Richter wrote: ".my film 8 x 8 is a bizarre comedy-drama signs and sounds not only out of this world probably not even in the next. 8 x 8 mixes equal parts of Freud and Lewis Carroll with Venice Venus and Old Vienna Cocteau and Bullfights surrealism magic dreams girls and practically anything else that may currently be in your minds." Hans Richter undertook 8 x 8 at the suggestion of Marcel Duchamp a chess enthusiast after The Minotaur a planned sequel to the 'Narcissus' episode of Dreams That Money Can Buy failed to secure funding although 8 x 8 engaged similar concerns. 'Chess is so universal' wrote Richter to Jean Cocteau about this new project 'that practically every human situation has its corresponding move among the countless possibilities of chess.' The filmmaker further recognized a kinship between the work which took its title from the layout of a chessboard and Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. Some of the artists who appeared in this film included Max Ernst Fernand Léger Marcel Duchamp Man Ray and Alexander Calder. The photographs are accompanied by a reprint of an article that was written by Lewis Carroll collectors August and Clare Imholtz for the Fall 2019 issue of "Knight Letter" about the film and its participants along with a discussion of each of the photos. The photos are in very good condition. They measure 10.5 x 13.5 inches. PHOTO/062424. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 51-4440Paris: Gihaut Frères circa 1843. Oblong folio. 28 x 36.7 cm. Light to moderate foxing in the margins. Original publisher's qtr. roan and gilt embossed percaline covers. Very good. Rare. One complete copy in OCLC. 41 tinted lithographs by J. B. Arnout J. Jacottet Bachelier and Philippe Benoist incl. 1 lithographed title with map of the city; OCLC Number: 459553002; Bibliothèque nationale de France ark:/12148/btv1b53088077g………………………… In-folio oblong demi-basane rouge dos lisse orné reliure de l'éditeur. Album composé d'un titre lithographié et de 41 planches lithographiées représentant les principaux monuments de Paris. Bon exemplaire. Quelques rousseurs. Expertise by M. Christian GASCH 40558004 NEVERS Cedex. Paris: Gihaut Frères, circa 1843. unknown
Best.-Nr. 16-3509Lyon: SocieÌteÌ Lyonnaise Les XXX 1929. 4to. 34 x 25cm. Sheets loose as issued in original slipcase. One of 130 numbered copies. 67 etchings in black by Dunoyer de Segonzac. Included with this copy are an offprint of 8 pages from Art et Métiers Graphiques no. 18 from 1930 with several major etchings and the Avalon Press English language edition from 1945 with a preface by T. S. Eliot.Luc Monod: Manuel de L'Amateur Livres Illustrés Modernes 1875-1975 no. 9063Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé de Dunoyer de Segonzac by Aimée Lioré et Pierre Cailler. Tome II. - Genève 1959 nos. 188-254 Lyon: SocieÌteÌ Lyonnaise Les XXX, 1929. unknown
1809Best.-Nr. 100473Paris: J. Ant. Brosson 1809. Second edition. 8vo. 2 engraved plates 2 folding tables. 4 xxxii 496 pp. half-title. Near contemporary half calf and marbled boards; rubbed pp. 71-72 torn at bottom with loss of several words Inscribed on the half-title to dermatology pioneer Jean Louis Marc Alibert "de la part de l'Auteur" the inscription is slightly shaved. "In this entirely recast and greatly enlarged second edition Pinel adds much new material and discusses the results of new and more humane methods of treatment for the insane" Heirs of Hippocrates."Pinel founded the French School of Psychiatry. He was among the first to treat the insane humanely; he dispensed with chains and placed his patients under the care of specially selected physicians. Garrison considered the above book one of the foremost medical classics giving as it did a great impetus to humanitarian treatment of the insane. The second French edition Paris Brosson 1809 was very substantially enlarged by Pinel" Garrison-Morton.PROVENANCE: Haskell F. Norman bookplate his sale Christie's NY 1998 lot 722REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 4922; Heirs of Hippocrates 1071; Norman 1703; Norman/Grolier 100 no. 54 1st ed. J. Ant. Brosson hardcover books
1978Best.-Nr. 91937n. l.: s. n. 1978. Fine. s. n. n. l. 1978 19 x 20 cm En feuilles sous chemise et étui First edition printed in 30 numbered copies on handmade rag paper this copy unnumbered.Illustrated with original colour engravings by Ania Staritsky who also designed the books original layout.A rare and very fine copy complete with its chemise and brown cloth slipcase.Pencil signatures of Philippe Jones and Ania Staritsky at the colophon.As stated in the limitation page this copy includes a manuscript text by the poet Philippe Jones as well as an original signed collage by Ania Staritsky. s. n. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 51-7157Paris : PoigneÌe An VIII 1799-1800. 4to. 32 x 29cm. With 11 maps folding out to elephant folio size.Several handcolored ion outline.Contemporary tree calf restored.James Rennell was the greatest geographer that Great Britain had yet produced. His pre-eminence as Sir Henry Yule said in 1881 is still undisputed. He was an explorer both by sea and land a map compiler a physical geographer a critical and comparative geographer and a hydrographer. Philippe Buache born Feb. 7 1700 Paris Fr.—died Jan. 27 1773 Paris was a French geographer and cartographer who contributed to the theory of physical geography.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:5869225: Half title: Atlas pour la description de l'IndostanMap no. 1 Carte de l'Indostan ou de l'Empire mogol on 4 sheetsIssued to accompany the author's Description historique et geÌographique de l'Indostan. Paris An VIII 1800 3 v. Paris : PoigneÌe, An VIII [1799-1800] unknown
2013Best.-Nr. Atlantic-9781446257180Sage Publications 2013. Hardcover. New. Sage Publications hardcover
