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1696réf. 41464Paris 1696. Quinault is depicted head-and-shoulders turned quarter right wearing a robe and long wig. Coat of arms to lower portion of oval border with "Philippe Quinault Auditeur des Comptes de l'Academie francoise" printed below Image size 255 x 192 mm; sheet size 290 x 212 mm. With an 18 mm tear to upper right margin just touching printed area. "Edelinck's engraving beautifully encapsulates Quinault's position as a dramatist auditor and member of the Académie Française during the reign of Louis XIV. To contextualize Philippe Quinault wrote the librettos for several of Jean-Baptiste Lully's operas a partnership crucial in establishing French opera as its own distinctive art form. How might that relationship to power through music have played out in society. a striking example of Baroque portraiture." Artera website. unknown books
2005réf. 55348San Francisco / Milan: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco with 5 Continents Editions 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition. Folio. 629 206pp. Color illustrated dust jackets over dark blue cloth with silver lettering on spine housed in decorative slipcase with pull lever. Decorative endpapers. Three frontispieces. Removable color map of New Guinea and one color fold-out plate. Commemorating the inaugural exhibition of the Jolika Collection and the opening of the new de Yong. Profusely illustrated with over one thousand mostly color and b/w photographs of artifact by John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler. This remarkable collection provides an unprecedented look at artistic expression in New Guinea one of the largest longest inhabited and most isolated islands. Includes glossary bibliography and a catalog of objects with b/w illustrations and descriptions by John Friede. DJ binding and interior in near fine condition. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco with 5 Continents Editions hardcover books
2007réf. 49378Minneapolis MN: Walker Art Center 2007. First edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's shrink wrap. Lg. 8vo. Light brown cloth stamped in dark brown on covers and spine. Publisher's vertical paper band on front cover. Illustrated with more than 200 full-color images. About the exhibition: "The first full-scale American museum survey of the work of artist Kara Walker premieres at the Walker Art Center February 17-May 13 2007. Organized by Philippe Vergne Deputy Director and Chief Curator and Yasmil Raymond Assistant Curator at the Walker in close collaboration with the artist Kara Walker: My Complement My Enemy My Oppressor My Love features works ranging from her signature black-paper silhouettes to film animations to more than 100 works on paper. After its presentation at the Walker the exhibition will travel to the ARC/Musee d'art moderne de la ville de Paris June 20 - September 9 2007 the Whitney Museum of American Art New York October 11 2007-February 3 2008 and the Hammer Museum Los Angeles February 17-May 11 2008. Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade she has gained national and international recognition for her room-size tableaux depicting historical narratives haunted by sexuality violence and subjugation but made using the genteel 18th-century art of cut-paper silhouettes. Set in the American South before the Civil War Walker's compositions play off stereotypes to portray often grotesquely life on the plantation where masters and mistresses and slave men women and children enact a subverted version of the past in an attempt to reconfigure their status and representation. Over the years the artist has used drawing painting colored-light projections writing shadow puppetry and most recently film animation to narrate her tales of romance sadism oppression and liberation. Walker's scenarios thwart conventional readings of a cohesive national history and expose the collective and ongoing psychological injury caused by the tragic legacy of slavery. Her work leads viewers through an aesthetic experience that evokes a critical understanding of the past and proposes an examination of contemporary racial and gender stereotypes." - Publisher. Walker Art Center hardcover books
1629réf. 48838Paris: Antoine Vitré 1629. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Folio. Signed: a4 e2 A-3B6 3C4 = 298 leaves. 12 584pp. Paginated from right to left. Full title and imprint in both Hebrew and Latin with woodcut printer's device; title within decorative letterpress border; woodcut lettrines and head-pieces; printed marginalia. Text in two columns. Eighteenth-century calf scuffed especially at front cover; spine with raised bands and gilt morocco morocco labels; edges stained red; green silk ribbon marker. Title leaf skilfully mounted on eighteenth-century paper. Text crisp and clean with ample borders. Only edition of this rare and highly unusual Hebrew and Aramaic dictionary composed by the formerly Jewish convert to Catholicism Mordechai Cresque of Carpentras who derived his new name Philippus d'Aquin or Aquinas; 1578-1650 from the place of his baptism in Aquino Italy. Printed almost entirely in the fine bold rashi characters "grosse glose hebraicque" cut by Guillaume I Le Bé in 1592 only the vocalised quotations and the lemmata are in Le Bé's square Hebrew script. Apart from the Latin title dedication approbations a poetic encomium and the alpha-numeric leaf signatures the work is printed entirely in Hebrew characters. It ends with a short notice in Latin and Hebrew on the printing errors which are corrected on the last three pages. The author announces at the title that all Hebrew biblical and rabbinic-talmudic and Aramaic terms are to be found in Ma'arikh ha-Ma'arakhot including many that do not appear in any existing lexicons among Jews or Christians. D'Aquin notes in particular that rare and difficult terms in rabbinic and cabalistic literature along with obscure abbreviations are all clearly explained. "The work is called in Hebrew Maarik ha-maarikot i. e. "Survey of the orders" a term which in the plural is also applied to "battle-lines" Wolf 140 translates Disponens ordines sive acies. One cannot help wonder if there is not a connection with the political situation at the time when the Huguenot town of La Rochelle had to submit to the French Crown in 1628. The privilege for our book has "Données au Camp devant la Rochelle le 19. Septembre 1628" and the work is dedicated to Cardinal Richelieu whose conquest of La Rochelle is also extolled in a Hebrew poem by the author. But the types are also reminiscent of war: did not Le Bé cut them "après le siège de Paris pour passer l'ennui" see Carter & Vervliet p. 15. They were prominently displayed afterwards in Vitray's type-specimen of 1636" Smitskamp. Among the eleven scholars whose approbations grace the present volume are Gabriel Sionita 1577-1645; professor of Arabic and Syriac at the College de France; Gilbert Gaulmin 1585-1665; Orientalist; Denis Petau 1583-1652; Jesuit theologian; and Jean Morin 1591-1659; theologian and Orientalist. Morin offers quite extravagent praise: "nihil hactenus in eo studii genere comparandum vidit Europa." Provenance: A morocco label on the spine reads Me-izabin. Hirsch. Wolf Kola i. e. From the legacy of Hirsch. References: Baillet Jugement de Scavans 3 1685: 729. Fürst 1:47-48. Gesenius Geschichte 113: "umfasst auch das Chadaïsche und Rabbinische" Hebrew title incorrectly transcribed without the definite article and indication of plural. Smitskamp Cat. no. 611 but notably not in Philologia Orientalis. Steinschneider Handbuch 129: "Früher sehr gesucht und selten. Heidenheim wollte se zuerst wieder ediren s. Catal. p. 739." Wolf Historia lexicorum 140. For the interest of Richelieu in typographical matters and his foundation of the Imprimerie Royale in 1640 see Updike 1:238-40. Not in Goldsmith Hebrew title: מעריך המערכות. Antoine Vitré hardcover books
1903réf. 40884Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co 1903. Later edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Folio 12 x 10". 10pp Half-title Presentation leaf Frontispiece chromolithographic leaf and title page 32pp Gallery of Scripture Illustrations 104pp A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Bible 18pp A History of Religious Denominations 16pp Biblical Antiquities 32pp The Story of the Books of the Old Testament 16pp A Self-Pronouncing Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names VIII 9-667 3pp Old Testament 8pp Family section 24pp The Parables of the Lord 671-879 1pp New Testament 48pp Questions and Answers on the Sacred Scriptures 80pp Standard Concordance to the Bible. Full blind-stamped morocco with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Beveled edges. All edges gilt. Moire endpapers. Chromolithographic half-title. Engraved tissue-guarded frontispiece. Both title pages in red and black lettering. Lavishly illustrated throughout with hundreds of in-text and full-page wood and steel engravings b/w photographic reproductions color maps and 10 chromolithographs the Authorized Version has been strictly followed in this handsome Bible. The text has been carefully compared with that of the most accurate editions printed in England and in the United States. Previous owner's name on fly leaf David Robinson. Presentation leaf inscribed as followed: "Presented to my beloved friend David Robinson by Edward A. Reisler." Family section unused. Binding rubbed along front joint and at head and tail of spine. Some creasing to fly leaf. Fore-edge of pages 12 to 17 slightly and partly water-stained not affecting text or illustrations. Binding in overall good- interior in very good condition. The John C. Winston Co hardcover books
2014réf. 39062Baden Switzerland: Kodoji Press 2014. First edition. Hardcover. new. Signed in pencil by author on free back endpaper opposite imprint. Folio. Unpaginated. Original quarter cloth over heavy illustrated cardboard. Designed by Louisa Gagliardi and Winfried Heininger this beautifully produced book features extraordinary color photographs of snow sculptures many of them fold-outs was issued on the occasion of the Snowpark exhibition by Philippe Fragnière in the frame of the visual arts Festival IMAGES in Vevey Switzerland September 2014. New. Kodoji Press hardcover books
réf. 22941NP n/d. Hardcover. `. Volumes 1-3. Mèzeray Francois Eudes de. Abregè chronologique ou Extrait de I'histoire de France. Paris. 1668. Louis Billaine. Tome I: Commencant a Faramond & finissant a la fin du Regne Charles le bel. 852834pp. Tome II: Commencant au Roy Philippe de Valois & finissant a la fin du Regne de Henry II. 2529-98528pp. Tome III: Commencant au Roy Francois II. & finissant a la fin du Regne de Henry IV. 4987-148936pp. Rare first edition of Mèzeray's early work on the history of France. Includes biographies of the French kings. Title-pages with small engraving. Illustrated with 58 in-text portrait engravings. 4 empyt frames for first kings in Vol. 1 as issued. Head and tailpieces decorative initials. Indexes. Vol. IV: Limiers Henri Philippe de. Abregè Chronologique ou Extraict de L'Histoire de France sous les règnes de Louis XIII & Louis XIV; por servir de suite a celui de Francois de Mèzeray. Nouvelle Edition Augmentèe de la vie de Mèzeray. Amsterdam. 1728. Chez David Mortier. 600pp. Marbled endpapers. Title-page vignette. This volume was written 45 years after Mèzeray's death. It is the continuation of the first 3 volumes and covers the reigns of King Louis XIII and Louis XIV. Includes a biography of Mèzeray. Index. Francois Eudes de Mèzeray 1610-1683 was a French historian who was given the title of "Historiographer to the King of France" however his critisism of French kings for over-taxing their subjects led to the loss of his title and pension. This his most famous work went through fifteen editions between 1668 and 1717. 4to. All volumes bound in matching contemporary calf with gold decorated spine and title-label. Raised bands. Boards with all gold-tooled edges. Vol. 4 is one-inch smaller than volumes 1-3 with matching binding. Age wear abrasions and surface hairline cracks on binding. Gold lettering on spine faded. Head and tail of spines chipped. Typewritten summary by previous owner pasted on insides of front boards in Vol. 1 and 4. Split on parts of joints on front and back board of all volumes firmly holding. Title-page in Vol. I tipped-in and repaired along gutter "L'hotel Dieu D'abbeville" handwritten on half-title of all volumes. Worming from page 945 through rear in Vol. 4 expertly repaired. Bottom edges from front endpaper through page 1999 in Vol. 3 expertly repaired staining near bottom edge on first 3 leafs of same volume. "Robert Florey a Paris" in pencil on inside of front board in Vol. 3. Minor staining creasing and rippling to some pages in all volumes. Very few leafs chipped on edges. Text in French. Besides faults mentioned in overall good to very good condition. Rare as a complete set. NP hardcover books
1946réf. 331491New York: Rinehart & Company 1946. 210p. hardcover textblock is topstained green blackened rubbing to dust jacket and foxing inside the jacket; otherwise in very good condition. Rinehart & Company unknown books
1790réf. 45754Paris: Marie Francois Drouhin ca. 1790. An Unusual Portrait Print of Franklin An attractive mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin with delicate contemporary coloring. The engraving was done after an original portrait by the famed French painter Charles Philippe Vanloo sometimes spelled Van Loo. The original portrait was done while Franklin resided in Paris in the years during and after the American Revolution and is now in the collection of the American Philosophical Society which was founded by Franklin. Sellers asserts that it is "beyond question a life portrait" done between 1777 and 1785. In Vanloo's original portrait Franklin wears a fur coat. In this print of the painting the fur coat has been replaced by a simpler cloth coat. Franklin wears glasses his hair is long and gray and he has a slight smile on his face. In the caption below the image his name is spelled "Francklin." "The substitution of a simple gray coat for the fur-trimmed costume of the original was undoubtedly in deference to revolutionary feeling" - Sellers. This print was engraved after Vanloo's portrait by the noted French engraver Pierre-Michel Alix who was known for his portraits of leading French citizens and prominent personalities. A handsome contemporary portrait of the American who dazzled France as a diplomat scientist philosopher and gentleman of society. Sheet lightly browned more so around the edges. Overall very good. Matted. SELLERS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IN PORTRAITURE p.394. hardcover books
1974réf. 30972Paris: Éditions Seghers. Near Fine with no dj. Later Printing. Softcover. a nice tight clean copy light edgewear to covers mild crease on spine. Cinéma d'aujourd'hui no. 46 Trade PB B&W photographs French-language monograph on the great American film director in the typical format of this long-running series including a long critical survey of Ford's ouevre a word he would have hated! comments on his work by critics and other filmmakers brief essays on some of his creative collaborators including screenwriters Dudley Nichols Nunnally Johnson and James R. Webb and cinematographer Winton C. Hoch a filmography and a bibliography. This is a later printing 1974; the original had been issued in 1966 possibly prompted by Ford's death in 1973 but only minimally updated with a 3-page "Postface" discussing various projects the director was associated with in his later years and a couple of post-1966 additions to the bibliography. . 1974. Éditions Seghers paperback books
1914réf. 4433Paris: Perrin 1914. Good. 21 cm; 412 pages. Original printed wraps. Shelf-worn well-read copy yet sound and entire. Old signature erased from title page. Perrin paperback books
réf. 11149STERN Philippe. COLONNES INDIENNES D'AJANTA ET D'ELLORA. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Frances 1972. 4to. Wrappers. 188 1 pages 193 illustrations on plates. First edition. A discussion of the evolution and repercussions of the gupta and post-gupta styles with illustrations; partly unopened. Front wrapper and first title page lightly foxed else very good. unknown books
réf. 6378GROSLIER Bernard Philippe. ANGKOR HOMMES ET PIERRES. Paris: Arthaud 1956. 4to. Cloth dust jacket. 230 2 pages. First edition. Photographic study of the great collection of ruins in Indo-China known as Angkor. Abandoned before 1450 they were rediscovered by the French in 1861. Very good. unknown books
1956réf. 140940586Paris: Berggruen & Cie 1956. Limited First Edition. Near Fine. Limited first edition. Signed by the founder of the Dada movement Tristan Tzara as well as by the artist whose work is featured Bonnet in pencil. Text in French. Near Fine in the original glassine wraps title page rubbed from erasure of booksellers' pencil. Uncommon. Berggruen & Cie unknown books
2004réf. 122063New Haven Connecticut: Yale University Press 2004. Hardcover. VG/VG. Grey cloth over boards with silver lettering on spine red and color illustrated dust jacket; xxi 337 pp.; 85 bw 138 color plates and figures. Originally published as Dieux et Mortels: Les themes homeriques dans les collections de l'Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts de Paris which accompanied an exhibition at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris; This edition accompanied the exhibition held at the Princeton University Art Museum and the Dahesh Museum of Art; Features works from the Ecole. that were inspired by Homer and/or other works of Greek mythology and poetry; Includes works by Antoine-Louis Barye Francois Boucher Gustave Boulanger Honore Daumier Jacques-Louis David Eugene Delacroix Constant-Ambroise Roux Simon Vouet and many others. "With illuminating texts by prominent French scholars and a preface by George Steiner on the reception of Homer in France The Legacy of Homer examines the historic and artistic importance of the works housed in the Ecole and pays homage to Homer the great source that inspired them."--Jacket. Yale University Press hardcover books
1979réf. 88892New York: International Center of Photography 1979. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Tall quarto. Fine in wrappers with the slightest of soiling. International Center of Photography unknown books
1971réf. 168714Bergamo: Galleria Lorenzelli 1971. Softcover. First Italian Edition. Catalog for an exhibition which ran from April through May of 1971 at Galleria Lorenzelli. Text in Italian. Very Good plus in perfect-bound wrappers. Galleria Lorenzelli unknown books
1983réf. 164281Paris: Sygma 1983. Original oversize borderless photograph of Monty Python members Eric Idle Terry Gilliam Graham Chapman Terry Jones and Michael Palin taken during the group's stay in Cannes for the 1983 film festival. Mimeo snipe on the verso. "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life" would land the group the Grand Prix at Cannes. The film was the last to star all six Python members before Chapman's death in 1989. 11.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Sygma unknown books
1954réf. 163070N.p.: N.p. 1954. Vintage borderless oversize satin finish portrait photograph of actress and singer Eartha Kitt in 1954. Stamp of noted Latvian-American photographer Philippe Halsman on the verso. Photographer Philippe Halsman began his career working for French fashion magazines such as "Vogue" gaining renown for his unusually close-cropped sharp portraiture. During World War II he would flee to the United States and began working with "Life" magazine in 1942. He is perhaps best remembered for his work with surrealist artist Salvador Dalí in the late 1940s and for his photographs of celebrities in the 1950s jumping which he called "jumpology." From the archive of the PIX Agency an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between émigré photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. 13.5 x 11 inches archivally matted in an 8-ply white mat measuring 20 x 16 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1954réf. 162882N.p.: N.p. 1954. Vintage borderless oversize satin finish portrait photograph of actress and singer Eartha Kitt in 1954. Stamp of noted Latvian-American photographer Philippe Halsman on the verso. Photographer Philippe Halsman began his career working for French fashion magazines such as "Vogue" gaining renown for his unusually close-cropped sharp portraiture. During World War II he would flee to the United States and began working with "Life" magazine in 1942. He is perhaps best remembered for his work with surrealist artist Salvador Dalí in the late 1940s and for his photographs of celebrities in the 1950s jumping which he called "jumpology." From the archive of the PIX Agency an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. 13.5 x 11 inches archivally mounted in a white mat measuring 20 x 16 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1953réf. 162909N.p.: N.p. 1953. Vintage borderless satin finish photograph of comedian Bob Hope in 1953. Stamp of photographer Philippe Halsman on the verso. Photographer Philippe Halsman began his career working for French fashion magazines such as "Vogue" gaining renown for his unusually close-cropped sharp portraiture. During World War II he would flee to the United States and began working with "Life" magazine in 1942. He is perhaps best remembered for his work with surrealist artist Salvador Dalí in the late 1940s and for his photographs of celebrities in the 1950s jumping which he called "jumpology." From the archive of the PIX Agency an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. 6.75 x 13.75 inches archivally matted in an 16 x 20 inch 8-ply white mat. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1951réf. 163153N.p.: N.p. 1951. Vintage oversize satin finish photograph of actor Jimmy Durante in 1951. Stamp of photographer Philippe Halsman on the verso. Photographer Philippe Halsman began his career working for French fashion magazines such as "Vogue" gaining renown for his unusually close-cropped sharp portraiture. During World War II he would flee to the United States and began working with "Life" in 1942. He is perhaps best remembered for his work with surrealist artist Salvador Dalí in the late 1940s and for his photographs of celebrities in the 1950s jumping which he called "jumpology." From the archive of the PIX Agency an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. 11 x 14 inches. Very Good plus with a small crease and faint discoloration at the bottom left corner. N.p. unknown books
1967réf. 162325N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1967 French anthology film showing director Jean-Luc Godard talking with actors Michèle Mercier and Enrico Maria Salerno. Telérama stamp on the verso. An anthology film exploring prostitution throughout the history of humanity starting with a cave-woman who makes up her face in order to attract a mate and ending with a futuristic space brothel. 9.25 x 7 inches. N.p. unknown books
1967réf. 152020New York: N.p. 1967. Vintage borderless photograph of Richard Nixon playing the piano in 1967. With the stamp of photographer Philippe Halsman on the verso along with manuscript pencil annotations regarding cropping. Russian-born Halsman began working as a photographer in Paris in the 1930s later moving to the US and producing reportage and covers for many major American magazines including a substantial 101 covers for Life magazine. Halsman became well known in his later career for his "jump pictures" a playful series capturing mid-century celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe the Ford family the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Maria Felix in the act of jumping for the camera. 10.5 x 11.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1708réf. M13627Paris:: Jacques Etienne 1708. 1708. Two works in one volume. 147 x 86 mm. 12mo. xviii 94; xiv 145 7 pp. Decorated initials headpieces; lightly water-stained. Contemporary full calf raised bands gilt spine brown leather spine label marbled end-leaves; rubbed head of spine lightly chipped. Early ms. inscription on half-title. Franco Crainz rubber stamp on title. Very good. FIRST EDITION. Title translates as: 'ON THE INDECENCY OF MALE PHYSICIANS ATTENDING TO WOMEN IN CHILD-BIRTH. ' In this work the pious French physician and theologian Philippe Hecquet argued that it is immodest and indecent to have male accoucheurs deliver their children and that a woman had a 'natural right' to have a female midwife deliver their baby. In the second part of this two-part work Hecquet argues that it is a woman's duty to nurse her infant. He documents the problems of producing milk for nursing and concerns about the health of the mother. Philippe Hecquet was 'M.D. of Reins 1684 and physician to Port-Royal 1688-93. . . Hecquet . . . had to enter the Paris Faculty as a student in 1694 obtaining the license two years later and the 'bonnet de docteur' in 1697. He was made dean in 1712 and physician to the Charite in 1710.' Bibliotheca Osleriana p. 262. See: Blake NLM p. 202; Hirsch III p. 105; Osler 2922 1744; Waller 4176 Paris 1744; Wellcome III p. 232. Jacques Etienne, 1708. hardcover books
