1930Best.-Nr. 151357Los Angeles: First National Pictures 1930. Archive of 68 vernacular photographs housed in a contemporary photo album each photo with descriptions in silver manuscript ink just below it and distributed in three sections as follows: 1 34 photos taken on the set of "The Dawn Patrol" Howard Hawks 1930 an aviation drama set during World War I. Included are shots of planes in flight and several others of star Douglas Fairbanks Jr. With manuscript annotations to the album pages identifying most of the photographs; 2 16 vernacular photographs taken on the set of the pre-Code film "The Life of the Party" Roy Del Ruth 1930 and 18 vernacular photographs of the sinking of the RMS Tahiti off cost of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands on August 16-17 1930 taken from the nearby SS Ventura. The front cover of the photo album identifies the photographer as J.N. Boucher and he appears four times in the album twice dressed as a pilot in "The Dawn Patrol" section and twice in "The Life of the Party" section in one standing in front of a Vitaphone truck along with a man identified as Dolph Thomas who worked as an uncredited sound engineer on the film. Photographs variously sized generally between 3.5 x 2.5 and 5.25 x 3.25 inches Very Good plus. Photo album Good only with several pages detached a few loose photographs. First National Pictures unknown
1930Best.-Nr. 151357Los Angeles: First National Pictures 1930. Archive of 68 vernacular photographs housed in a contemporary photo album each photo with descriptions in silver manuscript ink just below it and distributed in three sections as follows: 1 34 photos taken on the set of "The Dawn Patrol" Howard Hawks 1930 an aviation drama set during World War I. Included are shots of planes in flight and several others of star Douglas Fairbanks Jr. With manuscript annotations to the album pages identifying most of the photographs; 2 16 vernacular photographs taken on the set of the pre-Code film "The Life of the Party" Roy Del Ruth 1930 and 18 vernacular photographs of the sinking of the RMS Tahiti off cost of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands on August 16-17 1930 taken from the nearby SS Ventura. The front cover of the photo album identifies the photographer as J.N. Boucher and he appears four times in the album twice dressed as a pilot in "The Dawn Patrol" section and twice in "The Life of the Party" section in one standing in front of a Vitaphone truck along with a man identified as Dolph Thomas who worked as an uncredited sound engineer on the film. Photographs variously sized generally between 3.5 x 2.5 and 5.25 x 3.25 inches Very Good plus. Photo album Good only with several pages detached a few loose photographs. First National Pictures unknown books
1945Best.-Nr. 152844N.p.: N.p. 1945. Shooting Final Draft script for the 1946 film in maroon leather owner's binding belonging to actor William Bendix with his name in gilt on front board and title in gilt on spine. William Bendix was an American stage film radio and television actor who is best remembered as one of television's archetypal patriarchs the blundering Chester A. Riley in "The Life of Riley" first on the 1944-1951 ABC and NBC radio serial then in the 1949 film directed by Irving Brecher then finally in the 1953-1958 NBC television series. Bendix was nominated for an Academy Award in 1942 for his supporting role in the WWII drama "Wake Island" directed by John Farrow. Based on the 1945 story serialized in "Good Housekeeping" magazine by Leo Rosten about a private detective just released from prison after being framed by his ex-partner and now finding himself framed for murder with only the help of his quick-witted secretary to clear his name. Set in and shot on location in New York City. Maroon three quarter leather binding over brown leather boards with title in gilt on spine and William Bendix in gilt on lower right of front board with endpapers crediting BooKraft Hollywood. Title page present dated October 31 1945 noted as Shooting Final with credits for screenwriter Jay Dratler. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine leather binding Near Fine. Grant US. Selby Canon US. Selby Masterwork US. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. N.p. unknown
1945Best.-Nr. 152844N.p.: N.p. 1945. Shooting Final Draft script for the 1946 film in maroon leather owner's binding belonging to actor William Bendix with his name in gilt on front board and title in gilt on spine. William Bendix was an American stage film radio and television actor who is best remembered as one of television's archetypal patriarchs the blundering Chester A. Riley in "The Life of Riley" first on the 1944-1951 ABC and NBC radio serial then in the 1949 film directed by Irving Brecher then finally in the 1953-1958 NBC television series. Bendix was nominated for an Academy Award in 1942 for his supporting role in the WWII drama "Wake Island" directed by John Farrow. Based on the 1945 story serialized in "Good Housekeeping" magazine by Leo Rosten about a private detective just released from prison after being framed by his ex-partner and now finding himself framed for murder with only the help of his quick-witted secretary to clear his name. Set in and shot on location in New York City. Maroon three quarter leather binding over brown leather boards with title in gilt on spine and William Bendix in gilt on lower right of front board with endpapers crediting BooKraft Hollywood. Title page present dated October 31 1945 noted as Shooting Final with credits for screenwriter Jay Dratler. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine leather binding Near Fine. Grant US. Selby Canon US. Selby Masterwork US. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. N.p. unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 1858New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1927. First American Edition. Stunning copy of the third Pooh book chronicling the adventures of Christopher Robin Eeyore Piglet and a very loveable bear. While copies of the UK edition - even very nice ones - are ubiquitous first editions of their American counterparts are considerably less common with copies such as this one being genuinely scarce. First Printing trade issue. Octavo 19.75cm; orange textured cloth with titling rule and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; decorative endpapers; dustjacket; 103pp; illus. Base of spine gently nudged with a touch of oxidation to gilt; very Near Fine. Dustjacket shows a faint vertical fold along the spine panel with a 2mm closed tear to upper right corner of front flap fold; fresh and Fine in every other respect without wear and with the colors as bright and vibrant as the day of publication. E.P. Dutton & Co unknown
2021Best.-Nr. 2081502111906120Guangxi Normal University 2021. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Guangxi Normal University paperback
1946Best.-Nr. 2083002115801438Bunkai shubbansha 1946. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 24 Bunkai shubbansha paperback
2003Best.-Nr. 49706Munich: Schirmer Mosel 2003. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition. Signed Thomas Ruff hand-numbered 27/100 and dated 2003 on verso of C-Print. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original bright blue paper-covered boards with white lettering in original photo-illustrated dustjacket black lettering on spine. With gray linen portfolio containing signed c-print book and portfolio housed in matching plain gray cloth slipcase. Front free endpaper and inside cover of portfolio with small limitation labels "Thomas Ruff Düsseldorf-based photographer and Concept artist was born in 1958 and attended the Bechers' master class at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art. He embarked on a truly striking career as an artist. In "Nudes" he focuses on pornography r rather on stills taken from pornographic scenes he has found on the Web and then processes them electronically before blowing them up to immense proportions. Digitally colored alienated by blurring contours and at time eliminating focus the content dissolves into more or less abstract fields of color forcefully unnerving our perception our expectations and our erotic fantasies. A short story by Michel Houellebecq Ruff's dream author for the occasion unequivocally points up what the photographer's pictures are about namely the act of solitary surfing through artificial worlds the distance of purported intimacy sex and love in the age of the Internet and of swinger clubs. In other words the end of Romanticism." Publisher. Schirmer Mosel hardcover
2003Best.-Nr. 49706Munich: Schirmer Mosel 2003. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition. Signed Thomas Ruff hand-numbered 27/100 and dated 2003 on verso of C-Print. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original bright blue paper-covered boards with white lettering in original photo-illustrated dustjacket black lettering on spine. With gray linen portfolio containing signed c-print book and portfolio housed in matching plain gray cloth slipcase. Front free endpaper and inside cover of portfolio with small limitation labels "Thomas Ruff Düsseldorf-based photographer and Concept artist was born in 1958 and attended the Bechers' master class at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art. He embarked on a truly striking career as an artist. In "Nudes" he focuses on pornography r rather on stills taken from pornographic scenes he has found on the Web and then processes them electronically before blowing them up to immense proportions. Digitally colored alienated by blurring contours and at time eliminating focus the content dissolves into more or less abstract fields of color forcefully unnerving our perception our expectations and our erotic fantasies. A short story by Michel Houellebecq Ruff's dream author for the occasion unequivocally points up what the photographer's pictures are about namely the act of solitary surfing through artificial worlds the distance of purported intimacy sex and love in the age of the Internet and of swinger clubs. In other words the end of Romanticism." Publisher. Schirmer Mosel hardcover books
1890367 pages. "I paint a dreadful picture of the world-wreck which successful anarchism would produce." - from page 3. A remarkably prescient utopian science fiction novel. Bookplate of Stanley S. Zack inside front board. Unmarked. Textblock tight. Front hinge starting. Average wear to maroon cloth. Bright gilt lettering and decoration upon front board. Backstrip moderately sunned - its gilt lettering and decoration remain legible/visible. A quality copy of this important work. [Weems p.139] Book
2011Best.-Nr. 2081502111901885Guangdong People's Publishing House 2011. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: A4 size Number of books: 8 Guangdong People's Publishing House paperback
2016Best.-Nr. 2081502111907553Shuwei Information 2016. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Shuwei Information paperback
1953Best.-Nr. 311614NP: WAYNE FELLOWS PRODUCTIONS/WARNER BROS. Near Fine. 1953. First Edition. Script. Final Script. Dated: May 1 1953. 90pp. Near fine in peach-colored studio covers with bradbound blue mechanically produced sheets. White revision sheets are present as well. Pencilled notes on blank reverse of a few pages Directed by John Farrow starring John Wayne in one of his signature roles as Calvary scout Hondo Lane with actress Geraldine Page in her supporting Oscar nominated debut performance. Also features Ward Bond in the memorable part of Buffalo Baker. Originally released in the 3-D process. O . WAYNE FELLOWS PRODUCTIONS/WARNER BROS. unknown
1805Best.-Nr. 1234531805. First Edition. STORY Joseph. A Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions Subsequent to the Declaration. Salem: Barnard B. Macanulty 1805. Octavo period-style full marbled calf raised bands original red morocco spine label laid down. $3000.First edition of the first published book by ""the most commanding legal figure of his age"" Hall 841 handsomely bound.""The appearance of this volume was opportune and serviceable to the Profession in this country who had hitherto been obliged to resort to the voluminous books of English Entries for Precedents. The notes and references show that the author had made no ordinary attainments in the science of special Pleading at the early age of 26 in which his first attempt at legal authorship was published"" Marvin 668. Six years later Story was appointed to a Supreme Court still very much in its formative stages. He served with distinction for 34 years and was a defining influence on the early Court. With six-page publisher's catalogue of law books bound in at rear. Sowerby Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 2156. HLC II:674. NYU 312. Last few leaves of Index and advertisements dampstained at lower corner text generally quite clean period-style binding fine and handsome. hardcover
1805Best.-Nr. 1234531805. First Edition. STORY Joseph. A Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions Subsequent to the Declaration. Salem: Barnard B. Macanulty 1805. Octavo period-style full marbled calf raised bands original red morocco spine label laid down. $3000.First edition of the first published book by ""the most commanding legal figure of his age"" Hall 841 handsomely bound.""The appearance of this volume was opportune and serviceable to the Profession in this country who had hitherto been obliged to resort to the voluminous books of English Entries for Precedents. The notes and references show that the author had made no ordinary attainments in the science of special Pleading at the early age of 26 in which his first attempt at legal authorship was published"" Marvin 668. Six years later Story was appointed to a Supreme Court still very much in its formative stages. He served with distinction for 34 years and was a defining influence on the early Court. With six-page publisher's catalogue of law books bound in at rear. Sowerby Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 2156. HLC II:674. NYU 312. Last few leaves of Index and advertisements dampstained at lower corner text generally quite clean period-style binding fine and handsome. hardcover books
2021Best.-Nr. 2081502111906144Koryo Shosha 2021. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Koryo Shosha paperback
Best.-Nr. 24420Bourges ? 0 In Quarto , 916 pp et une table manuscrite. Recueil factice de 79 titres. Exceptionnelle réunion comprenant , Un portrait gravé de Catherinot - Le patriarcat de Bourges ( 20 pp ) - Les archevêques de Bourges ( 8 pp) - Les Eglises de Bourges ( 10 pp) Les diocèses de Bourges ( 8 pp ) Le Pouillé de Bourges ( 16 pp) Le Vray Avaric (12 pp ) Les tribunaux de Bourges ( 12 pp ) Le Siège de Bourges ( 4 pp) Bourges Souterrain ( 8 pp ) Les patronages de Berry (8 pp) Le Sanctuaire de Berry ( 35 pp dont 2 ff manuscrits ) - Le Nécrologe de Berry ( 8 pp ) - Le Bullaire de Berry ( 4 pp ) - Le Diplomataire de Berry ( 4 pp ) - Annales Ecclésiastiques de Berry ( 4 pp ) Annales Thémistiques de Berry ( 3 ff manuscrits ) Annales académiques de Boyrges (4 pp ) - Annales typographiques de Bourges ( 8 pp ) - Le Nobiliaire de Berry ( 8 pp) - Les ducs et duchesses de Berry ( 4 pp ) - Le droit de Berry ( 12 pp ) - La chronographie de Berry ( 8 pp ) - le calvinisme de Berry ( 4 pp ) - Les Philippes de Berry ( 8 pp ) - les dominateurs de Berry ( 4 pp ) - les fondateurs de Berry ( 8 pp ) - Les fastes Consulaires de Bourges ( 4 pp ) Les Illustres de Berry ( 12 pp ) - Les Recherches de Berry ( 8 pp ) - Les Alliances de Berry ( 6 ff manuscrits - Antiquités Romaines de Berry ( 8 pp ) - La Gaule Grecque ( 8 pp ) - N.C. Fori Biturcensis Inscriptio ( 44 pp ) - Nicolai Catharini scholarum Biturcarum inscriptio ( 12 pp ) - Que le parquet de Bourges est du corps de l'université ( (2) - 20 pp ) - Manuel de l'hospital général de Bourges ( 27 pp ) - manifeste de l'hopital de Bourges ( 7 pp ) - Les Avocats du Roy, conseillers, dissertation ( 8 pp ) - La Régale Universelle ( 20 pp ) - La Religion Unique ( 12 pp ) - Remarques sur le Testament de monsieur de Cujas ( 4 pp ) - La vie de Mademoiselle de cujas ( 4 pp )- Le mal Assigné ( 4 pp ) - Distiques sur le Louvre au Roy ( Plaquette In-12 de 2- 10 pp chez Jean Toubeau, 1672. insérée dans le recueil - Les Axiomes du droit François ( 8 pp ) - L'Avantage sans avantage ( 4 pp ) - Nicolai Catharini, Astigationes ad hymnos ecclesiae ( 8 pp ) - Que les coustumes ne sont point de droit étroit (19 pp ) - Nicolai Catharini Chronicon juris Sacri ( 4 pp ) - Nicolai Catharini Codex Testamentarum ( 4 pp ) La date mal contestée ( 4 pp ) - les doublets de la langue ( 12 pp) -Nicolai Catharini Gratianum recensitus ( 4 pp ) - Nicolai Catharini imperium romanum ( 4 pp ) - Les Intimez calomniez ( 4 pp ) - La main de Scevola ( 12 pp ) - Les Novales de Venesme ( 4 pp ) - le Prest Gratuit ( 92 pp ) -Les paralleles de la Noblesse ( 4 pp ) - Les pasquinades Anciennes ( 4 pp ) - La prévention ( 8 pp ) - Nicolai Catharini Antediluviani ( 4 pp ) - Le Journal du Parlement à Monsieur de Guéret ( 4 pp ) - Repotia Catharinica ( ( 4 pp ) - La Commission pour le sieur Catherinot ( 4 pp ) - Manifeste pour le seigneur de Coulons sur Oran ( 8 pp ) - Escu d'Alliance ( 20 pp et une planche d'Héraldique ) - Factum pour M. Nicolas Catherinot sieur de coulons ( ...) contre M rené Dorsanne, Seigneur de Tizay (...) ( 10 pp ) - Tombeaux domestiques ( 4 pp ) - Tombeau Généalogique ( 40 pp ) - L'art d'Imprimer ( 12 pp ) - Traité des Martyrologes ( 4 pp ) - Traité de l'Architecture ( 24 pp ) - Traité de la peinture ( 24 pp ) - Traité de l'Artillerie ( 16 pp ) - Traité de la Marine ( 27 pp ) - 2 ff de tables manuscrites. reliure d'époque, plein veau mors fendu, reliure du XVIIIème siècle. Bien souvent publiées à compte d'auteur par le sieur Catherinot, Avocat Original, Curieux, éclectique, ces plaquettes sont devenues très rares.
1810Best.-Nr. PHO-435Paris, Clament, 1810. 3 vol. In-8° (202 x 136 mm) TOME 1:301pp TOME 2 : [2], 390 pp. ; TOME 3 : 291 pp., avec 4 tableaux et 2 cartes dépliantes de Mentelle and Chanlaire (Chine et Inde) sur papier bleuté , contours coloriés , reliure époque , dos lisse avec pièce de titre et tomaison, petits manques.
1954Very Good Turkish Paperback. 12mo. (17 x 12 cm). In Turkish. 110 p. Signed and inscribed by Sait Faik Abasiyanik. Extremely rare signed and inscribed first edition. Sait Faik was one of the greatest Turkish writers of short stories and poetry and considered an important literary figure of the 1940s. He created a brand new style in Turkish literature and brought new life to Turkish short story writing with his harsh but humanistic portrayals of labourers, fishermen, children, the unemployed, and the poor. His stories focused on the urban lifestyle and he portrayed the denizens of the darker places in Istanbul. He also explored the "...torments of the human soul and the agony of love and betrayal...". (Source: Wikipedia).
2007Best.-Nr. 2081502111902276Zenkoku Zukan Literature Reduction and Reproduction Center 2007. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: B5 hardcover book Zenkoku Zukan Literature Reduction and Reproduction Center paperback
2013Best.-Nr. 2081502111900675Hunan People's Publishing House 2013. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Hunan People's Publishing House paperback
2008Best.-Nr. 2081502111907304Chinese book office 2008. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Chinese book office paperback
2021Best.-Nr. 2081502111903321Longmen book office 2021. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Longmen book office paperback
1775Best.-Nr. AMO-3759A Genève, chez les libraires associés, 1775 3 volume in-4 (26 x 20 cm) de (4)-IV-III-VIII-719, (4)-VIII-662 et (4)-VIII-658 pages. Portrait de l'auteur en frontispice du premier volume (dessiné par Cochin et gravé par L. Le Grand). Au tome I : 1 gravure hors-texte (livre I) + 1 grande carte repliée + 1 bandeau à l'eau-forte par Marillier + 1 gravure hors-texte (livre IV). Au tome II : 1 gravure hors-texte (livre VII) + 2 cartes repliées + 1 bandeau à l'eau-forte par Marillier + 1 gravure hors-texte (livre X). Au tome III : 1 gravure hors-texte (livre XIV) + 1 carte repliée + 1 bandeau à l'eau-forte par Marillier + 1 gravure hors-texte (livre XV) + 1 gravure hors-texte (livre XVIII). Soit 1 portrait, 7 gravures hors-texte (avant la lettre), 3 bandeaux et 4 cartes. Collationné complet. Reliure de l'époque plein veau caramel, dos à nerfs orné aux petits fers, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, pièce de tomaison de maroquin olive. Reliures très décoratives et solides. Usures de surface sur les plats du premier et deuxième volume (épidermures stoppées), petits manques de cuir et petite galerie sans gravité, petites piqûres de vers en queue du dos du premier volume. Malgré ces quelques défauts l'ensemble reste très décoratif et parfaitement solide. Intérieur très frais. A noter une mouillure en marge intérieure des trois premiers feuillets du premier volume et les derniers feuillets du même volume avec mouillure marginale saine (à quelques feuillets seulement). Exemplaire relié à l'époque aux armes (en queue) d'un membre de la famille de Damas (?) ou d'Aubusson (?). Première édition au format in-quarto. Cette édition est bien complète en 3 volumes in-quarto (il n'y a pas d'atlas pour cette édition). Elle reprend le corpus de l'édition en 7 volumes in-8, avec les passages supprimés réintégrés ici au bas des pages sous forme de variantes. La première édition de ce magistral ouvrage a paru pour la première fois en 1770. "Véritable encyclopédie de l’anticolonialisme au XVIIIe siècle" ce texte entre dans la catégorie des "Voyages philosophiques" et représente un prétexte à des réflexions sur la "loi naturelle" et dénonce tout à la fois despotisme, cléricalisme, esclavage et colonialisme. L'ouvrage est toujours décrit par les commentateurs comme une « machine de guerre » contre le pouvoir en place. Pour la rédaction de cette encyclopédie Raynal eut recours à la collaboration de nombreux informateurs et collaborateurs écrivains tels que le Baron d'Holbach ou Diderot, à qui on attribue une part importante des textes. Interdite en 1772, l’Histoire des deux Indes sera à nouveau publiée par l’abbé Raynal dans une nouvelle édition en 1774 qui est immédiatement mise à l’Index par le clergé. C’est en 1780 qu’il publie sa troisième édition de l'Histoire des deux Indes, encore plus virulente que les deux précédentes et qu’il avoue implicitement comme étant de lui en y faisant graver son portrait en frontispice. Condamné par le Parlement de Paris, l’ouvrage est brûlé par le bourreau en place publique, ce qui lui assure un succès considérable. L’Histoire des deux Indes a également été l’occasion de la Lettre apologétique de l’abbé Raynal à Monsieur Grimm (1781) de Diderot (qui aurait écrit au moins un tiers de l'ouvrage, selon Grimm). Dans cette lettre Diderot écrit : « Raynal est un historien comme il n'y en a point encore eu, et tant mieux pour lui, et tant pis pour l'histoire. Si l'histoire avait, dès les premiers temps, saisi et traîné par les cheveux les tyrans civils et les tyrans religieux, je ne crois pas qu'il en fussent devenus meilleurs; mais ils en auraient été plus détestés, et leurs malheureux sujets en seraient peut-être devenus moins patients... Le livre que j'aime et que les rois et leurs courtisans détestent, c'est le livre qui fait naître des Brutus... » Dans notre exemplaire une note manuscrite de l'époque révolutionnaire indique : "Le Parlement de Paris proscrivit, le 25 mai 1781, l'Histoire philosophique de l'abbé Raynal, et ordonna que cet ouvrage fût brûlé. Il décréta même l'auteur de prise de corps. L'abbé Raynal se vit donc forcé de s'enfuir précipitamment de France. Le 15 août 1790, l'Assemblée nationale, sur la rédaction proposée par les députés Voidel et Maloüet, annula, comme contraire aux droits naturels et imprescriptibles de l'homme, le décret lancé par le Parlement de Paris contre l'abbé Raynal et son Histoire philosophique (v. Oeuvres d'André Chénier, 2e vol., p. 119)." (note manuscrite ancienne sur le faux-titre du premier volume). "It became a key text of the American Revolution, and Raynal became a correspondent of Franklin, Jefferson, and Adams." "Un des ouvrages clefs de la crise de l'Ancien Régime" (Michel Delon, in En Français dans le texte) "Celui qui abdique lâchement sa liberté, se voue au remords et à la plus grande misère qu’un être pensant et sensible puisse éprouver. S’il n’y a, sous le ciel, aucune puissance qui puisse changer mon organisation et m’abrutir, il n’y en a aucune qui puisse disposer de ma liberté. [...] L'esclavage est l'état d'un homme qui, par la force ou des conventions, a perdu la propriété de sa personne, et dont un maître peut disposer comme de la chose. [...] La liberté est la propriété de soi; on distingue trois sortes de libertés: la liberté naturelle, la liberté civile, la liberté politique; c'est-à-dire la liberté de l'homme, celle du citoyen et celle d'un peuple. [...] L'homme est aux prises avec la nature; sans cesse il la modifie, et sans cesse il est modifié. [...]." (extraits). Provenance : A. Leclerc, 1885 (étiquette). Armes dorées en queue des dos (mariage - non identifiées - non reconnu par O.H.R. qui les cite pourtant sous la planche n°888, figure n°3). Armoiries peut-être d'une ancienne famille de Bourgogne ? (provenance bourguignonne pour les volumes concernés). Par ailleurs O.H.R. les mentionne sur une Histoire de Bourgogne), peut-être les armes d'une branche de la famille de Damas (à la croix ancrée) ou d'Aubusson. Les présents volumes de Raynal ont été acquis également en Bourgogne ce qui laisserait supposer l'hypothèse "de Damas" plus pertinente. Références : A. Feugère, Bibliographie critique de l'abbé Raynal, 40 ; En français dans le texte, 166 ; Bel exemplaire relié aux armes à l'époque de cet ouvrage très important du Siècle des Lumières, dans son format le plus majestueux.
1833Best.-Nr. 663629Hilliard Gray and Company; Brown Shattuck and Co 1833. First Edition. Leather Binding. Very Good. FIRST EDITION WITH NICE PROVENANCE. Volumes I & II of 3 of the scarce first edition of this pioneering history of the Constitution which has proved to be of lasting importance and influence. A very good copy in recent 3/4 brown period-style calf over marbled boards spines with contrasting red and black morocco labels and gilt tooling. Bindings are fine gutters of the first several leaves of each volume have some old adhesive residue and offset; text quite clean with only minor smudges of spotting and the odd crease. Story 1779-1845 who served for over 30 years as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is best remembered for this essential work and for authoring the decision in United States v. Schooner Amistad. PROVENANCE: I 'Brown & Hanna'; II Ink signature of US Senator James Kerr Kelly on each title page that in Volume I dated 1852. In addition to his service as a Senator from Oregon from 1871 to 1877 Kelly later served as Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Brown & Hanna was a 19th-century law firm based in Greencastle Putnam County Indiana. Hilliard, Gray and Company; Brown, Shattuck and Co unknown
