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1787réf. H-210The increasingly scarce first French translation by Parraud of "The Bhagvat-Geeta or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon; in Eighteen Lectures" by Charles Wilkins in English published two years earlier in London in 1785. Abbot Joseph Pascal Parraud Translator 1752-1832 Charles Wilkins Author 1749-1836. Le Bhaguat-Geeta ou Dialogues de Kreeshna et d'Arjoon ; contenant un Précis de la Religion et de la Morale des Indiens. Traduit du sanscrit la langue sacrée des Brahmes en anglais par M. Charles Wilkins : et de l'anglais en français par M. Parraud de l'Académie des Arcades de Rome. A Londres et se trouve à Paris chez Buisson 1787 Octavo 6-CLXII pp. and 180 pages in contemporary binding. The English translation of the Bhagavad Gita is the greatest accomplishment of notable Orientalist Wilkins founder of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Published by the East India Company in 1785 under the patronage of Governor General Warren Hastings this translation had a profound impact on some of the greatest Western intellectuals of the time including Carlyle and Emerson. Soon after efforts were underway to translate this extraordinary text into other languages this French translation being the pre-eminent of all. As a beautiful testament to skilled pre-Revolutionary French printing this edition by Parisian publisher Buisson bears the signatory hallmark and increasing importance of oriental religion specifically Hinduism within the literary minds of France. The Bhagvat Geeta is part of the sixth book of the Mahabharata the great Indian epic. During the battle of Kurukshetra the Lord Krishna friend and charioteer of Arjun offers words of wisdom to the Pandava prince Arjun and this set of philosophical dialogues between them is a central text of Hinduism. The poem consists of 700 Sanskrit verses divided into 18 chapters here "lectures". In Hinduism Krishna is regarded as the human incarnation of God Vishnu. One may recall the famous Radha-Krishna love-songs and stories that form the bedrock of romantic literature in Sanskrit and other languages such as Maithili Bengali etc. Condition- In beautiful contemporary binding Pages are remarkably clean; a beautiful collector's copy in very good condition! Buisson, Paris hardcover
réf. 91148Chartres. New. N.D. Hardcover. 295124973X . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- THREE 3 VOLUME SET published between 1998 and 2001. Text in French. Volume 1: Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre typographique de Massin 1948-1958 128 pages ISBN: 2951249705. Volume 2: "Du côté de chez Gaston": catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre typographique de Massin 1958-1979 157 pages ISBN: 2951249713. Volume 3: "Cavalier seul": catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre typographique de Massin 1979-2000 189 pages ISBN: 295124973X. 1 2 3 One Two Three I Il Ill Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie Et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee Chartres hardcover
1999réf. 92016Van de Wiele. New. 1999. Hardcover. 9076297053 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French and Dutch. Includes 80 color and 50 black and white illustrations. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie Et L'uvre Oeuvre Catalogus Het Complete Oeuvre Raisonnee Van de Wiele hardcover
1884réf. 1295No place listed: No publisher listed 1884. Leather bound. Very good. PHOTO ALBUM. Folio; 64 cream-colored mat board leaves; three-quarters black pebbled-leather over dark green textured cloth gilt-stamped title to front board beveled edges; 5 raised band spine blind-stamped ornaments gilt-stamped date "1884"; all edges gilt; gray marbled endpapers; 161 albumen and collotype photographs mounted on cream-colored mat board some signed sizes vary from the smallest 3" x 4" to largest 7" x 9" although most are in a mid-range of about 3 ½" x 5"; laid in is a 10pp manuscript with photograph descriptions corresponding to the hand-numbered mat boards; five mat boards have been removed as evidenced by the skip in pagination from the small pencil numbering of pages in the upper right corner and from the owner's written listing of images; scuffing to boards a few finger smudges one photograph with a creased edge; very good. A large photography album of natural scenery street scenes buildings and bridges and works of art stretching from Vienna to London passing through Germany and Switzerland. Images can be attributed to: Pascal Amarante by his monogram; Albert Bonnier by his initial signature "AB;" Dresden photographer Rudolf Tamme using a blind-stamp oval in the lower right corner of the photograph "F&O Brockmann's Nachf. R.Tamme Dresden" or the Nachflagor or the successor to Brockmann; Photographische Gesellschaft Berlin Berlin Photographic Company with offices in Berlin London and New York using a blind-stamp; German photographer C. Hertel by his printed name; J. Patrick John or James by his printed name; Two Scottish photographers James Valentine by his initial signature "JV" and George Washington Wilson by his initial signature "GWW." Two unidentified photographers have signed their work "X Phot." and "Davis's Series.". No publisher listed unknown
1890réf. 54541Constantinople: Sebah & Joaillier 1890. First edition. Hardcover. vg- to vg. Oblong small folio. 12 1/4 x 14 1/4". Red pebbled cloth boards with decorative gilt ruling tooling and lettering on the covers. Rebacked maroon leather spine. Gilt-stamped crescent moon and star motif the national emblem of Turkey on the back cover. Taken from the Galata Tower in what is now the Karaköy neighborhood of Istanbul this magnificent panorama displays the skyline and cityscape of Constantinople as it appeared sometime in the late 1880s or early 1890s. The panorama is comprised of 10 original albumen photographs mounted on heavy card stock and bound together in accordion style leporello measuring a total of more then 11 feet when completely unfolded. Shot in a southwardly direction the viewer can see Galata Karaköy in the foreground and from left to right across the Bosporus to the Uskudar district on the Asian side and then across the harbor at the mouth of the Golden Horn the Galata Bridge and across to the Pérama neighborhood and the Faith district where many famous landmarks of the city can be seen including the New Mosque Topkapi Palace Hagia Sophia and many others. Each panel measures about 13" wide and 12" tall. The photography is credited to "Sebah & Joaillier" one of the most prominent and prolific photography studios of Ottoman Empire during the second half of 19th century. Originally founded sometime around 1857 in Instanbul by Syrian-Armenian photographer Pascal Sebah 1823-1886 the studio was one of the earliest in the city and all of Ottoman Turkey. By the 1870s Sebah had become among the most prominent Ottoman photographers having also opened a branch of the studio in Cairo. Upon Sebah's death in 1888 the firm was taken over by his 16 year-old son Jean Pascal Sebah who then partnered with photographer Policarpe Joaillier 1848-1904. The firm was renamed "Sebah & Joaillier". Therefore although this panorama is undated it could not have been issued earlier than 1888; most likely sometime shortly thereafter circa 1890. Spine of of the portfolio has been professionally re-backed. Plates with minor to light foxing although the images are still quite clean and vibrant. Binding in very good images in very good- to very good condition overall. A slightly later version of the panorama from Sebah & Joaillier simply titled "Constantinople" is comprised of 12 slightly smaller panels instead of 10 and measures around the same size in total. Bibliographic refences: Jacobson Ken. Odalisques & Arabesques: Orientalist Photography 1939-1925. Quaritch 2007; Özendes Engin. "Photography in the Ottoman Empire"; Öztuncay Bahattin. The Photographers of Constantinople. Aygaz 2003. Sebah & Joaillier hardcover
1779réf. 41493La Haye Dètune 1779. 8vo. Five very nice contemporary full mottled calf bindings with gilt title- and tome-labels to richly gilt backs triple gilt line-borders to boards and single gilt line-ornamentation to edges of boards. Marbled adges. Minor repairs to a few capitals but overall a very nice copy indeed. Internally very nice clean and fresh; printed on good paper. One leaf of volume one with neatly closed tear. Old owner's name to title-page of volume 5. Title-pages printed in red and black. With book-plates of Fritz Trieboe/Twilboe A. Gedeon and C. Rasch. Frontis-piece portrait 425 pp.; XII 549 pp. last leaf uncut an folded; VIII 526 pp.; VIII 456 pp. 9 engraved plates of which 8 are folded; VIII 462 pp. 5 folded engraved plates 1 p directions for the book binder. In all 14 engraved plates of which 13 are folded. Scarce first edition of Pascal's collected works comprising much significant material printed for the first time as well as the second appearance of the announcement of Pascal's groundbreaking calculating machine the first edition privately printed of which from 1645 is impossibly scarce making this the earliest obtainable edition of the seminal text. "Pascal designed his first mechanical adding machine in 1642. He was not the first to design and construct a mechanical calculator." but in contrast to Schickard's accomplishments which were destined for a history of obscurity Pascal in contrast "constructed about fifty examples of his machine of which several are extant; and the machine was well known to the cognoscenti both through Pascal's own efforts he hoped to make a profit selling them and through Diderot's later description of it in the "Encyclopédie" 1751. In 1645 Pascal published an eighteen-page pamphlet - now extremely rare - describing his calculating machine. The pamphlet does not identify a place of printing or a printer's name so we may assume that Pascal himself paid for its printing. When we wrote this bibliography OCLC cited only two copies of this pamphlet in one French library and no copies and North America." The pamphlet was reprinted along with additional material in volume IV pp. 7-30 of the present "Oeuvres". The additional material consists of Pascal's 1650 letter to Queen Christina of Sweden; the privilege for its construction and sale issued in 1649 and published for the first time here ; and Diderot's description of it for the "Encyclopédie" along with two plates. Also of interest here is the reprint of Pascal's 1654 paper introducing his triangle of binominal coefficients Pascal's Triangle included in Volume V pages 1-54. Pascal's invention "predated the concepts of computation of the values of polynomial functions by differences." Lee 1995 538." Origins of Cyberspace No. 13. In the present edition the Pascal-Noël correspondence on the vacuum is also printed for the first time along with other pieces on the vacuum as well as his correspondence with Fermat and deRibeyre.Origins of Cyberspace: 13.Brunet: IV395; Tchemerzine: IX p78 f: "Les Oeuvres Scientifiques de Pascal sont recueillies dans l'édition des Oeuvres La Haye chez Detune libraire 1779. 5 vol. in 8. Titre rouge et noir. Publiée par l'Abbé Bossut. Les oeuvres scientifiques occupent les tomes IV et V." hardcover
1656réf. ST12177-11Paris or Leyden 1656-57; related material 1657-58. 235 x 165 mm. 9 1/4 x 6 1/2". With 16 of 18 letters lacking letters IV and XVIII as well as general title and "Advertisement" leaf. 17 of 19 individually issued parts including the "Refutation de la Réponse à la Douzième Lettre". The original parts bound up in pleasing modern tan crushed morocco blind-ruled border raised bands gilt titling new endpapers. PMM 140; Tchemerzine V 62-63. ◆Light brown stain to head margin of the last quarter of the leaves occasional faint browning or foxing elsewhere more conspicuous on final gathering minor worming in bottom margin of a few leaves otherwise a very good copy internally with nothing approaching a serious defect and in a pleasing unworn binding. In addition to related material normally not included this volume contains 17 of the rare original 19 separately issued letters or "Provinciales" by the French polymath Blaise Pascal 1623-62 a series characterized by PMM as "the first example of French prose as we know it today perfectly finished in form . . . on a subject of universal importance . . . and an expression of one of the finest intelligences of the seventeenth century." Prompted by the Jesuits' condemnation for heresy of Pascal's friend Antoine Arnauld the letters are "a magnificent sustained invective" PMM against the laxity and casuistry of his detractors and at the same time a defense of Jansenism that theological movement and faction within Catholicism that grew out of the writings of Dutch theologian Cornelius Jansen 1585-1638 and that emphasized many of the Calvinist tenets of faith human sinfulness lack of free will and the necessity of divine Grace. The additional material apparently collected from a variety of sources comprises letters Pascal wrote to parish priests seeking assistance with the controversy. There is also a copy of Noel de la Lane's "Recit de ce qui s'est Passé au Parlement au Sujet de la Bulle de Nostre S. Père le Pape Alexandre VII. contre les Censures de Sorbonne" ca. 1665. Pascal 1623-62 was a man of many attainments in several fields among them physics philosophy and mathematics. Above all he was a profound thinker a devout Christian and the creator of memorable prose. Written simply lucidly objectively and wittily the "Provinciales" represents a landmark in French literature an early expression of Enlightenment thinking. It was enormously successful dealt the Jesuits a fatal setback and influenced the prose of Voltaire and Rousseau. Not surprisingly the book was put on the Index and ordered to be burned. Originally printed clandestinely by various printers as separate publications at various times during 1656 and 1657 the series is bibliographically complicated but it is clear that our quarto format versions precede the duodecimo printing dated 1657 and obviously those editions with later dates. It is likely given the small parts we are missing that someone assembled the various letters found here as they were issued at the time. A complete set of these letters in first edition--which is rarely seen--would sell for a considerable amount of money. unknown
1880réf. 729951880. SBAH J. Pascal and BCHARD Emile et al. Photograph Album. Twenty-two Albumen Prints of Egypt with Views of the Pyramids. Egypt circa 1880. Oblong quarto period style full green morocco gilt raised bands gilt and blind-stamped boards watered silk endpapers; 22 vintage albumen prints each measuring 8 by 10 inches mounted on heavy card stock total of each measuring 10 by 14 inches. $3800.Original photograph album of the Middle East circa 1880 with 22 splendid exhibition-size albumen prints from glass negatives featuring the work of renowned photographers J. Pascal Sbah mile Bchard Langahi and others including Sbah's images of Alexandria's Column of Pompey Nile yachts and desert vistas Langahi's view of Nubian tribesmen and Bchard's iconic image of people climbing the massive stones of the Great Pyramid. Splendidly bound.Near the end of the 19th century many ""were captivated by photography's capacity to 'take them there' and bring them directly in contact with the long ago and far away"" Parr & Badger I:18. With that Egypt's majestic pyramids and exotic worlds beckoned. This rare album of 22 vintage albumen prints characteristically produced for England and France highlights the work of two highly respected photographers: J. Pascal Sbah and mile Bchard. The Turkish-born Sbah especially possessed a keen sense of his subjects' ""interaction with one anotherÉ His outside work involving people is very dramatic: for example the well-known images of camel caravans in the desert where a string of camels and their riders walk across the picture place."" Those very qualities are seen here in Sbah's ""Marshe aux Chameaux"" March of Camels ""Chameliers"" Camels and his images of crowded bazaars and Nile River yachts. In addition Sbah's striking views of Alexandria include one of its catacombs and another of the Column of Pompey one of the best known ancient monuments standing today. Like Sbah French photographer Bchard worked in Egypt in the 1870s and 80s where he was ""known primarily for his photographs of Egyptian antiquities and archaeological sitesÉ characterized by a dramatic sense of presentation"" Micklewright and Brassey Victorian Traveler 118-120. One of his most famous photographs is that featured at the close of this album: ""Ascension de la grand pyramide."" With the misleading signature of Sbah's brother Cosimi who ran Sbah's studio after his death Bchard's evocative view of people climbing the massive stones of the Great Pyramid is one of the era's most iconic. This impressive album also features several unattributed prints: a view of the Great Pyramid and Sphinx that closely resembles Francis Frith's distinctive photograph panoramas of Smyrna in Sbah's Turkish homeland and the portrait of an Ottoman soldier together with a print of Nubians astride camels by Langahi and the image of a veiled woman seated on a donkey unclear in-negative caption. With 22 vintage albumen prints from glass negatives each measuring 8 by 10-1/2 inches individually mounted on heavy card stock most with in-negative captions and signatures. See Rosenblum 163. Photographs fresh with only light scattered margin foxing not affecting prints. A rare album of vintage prints in about-fine condition. Beautifully bound. hardcover
1888réf. ABC_47975Cairo 1888. 34 albumen prints ca. 22 x 27 cm mounted on cream cardstock ca. 28 x 35.5 cm. Remarkable collection of 34 stunning photographic prints of Egypt all numbered titled and signed in the negative by photographer Jean Pascal Sébah 1872-1947 who owned the leading studio for Orientalist photography. He was even named the official photographer of the Sultan of Turkey together with his business partner Polycarpe Joailllier 1848-1904. The majority of the images in the present collection show streets and buildings from lesser known Egyptian cities and scenes of daily life. Larger collections of Sébah's work are relatively rare on the market.Sébah continued the business of his father Pascal Sébah 1823-1886 one of the first photographers working in Egypt. Pascal rose to prominence because of his well-organized compositions careful lighting and quality of his prints. The majority of his photographs are of tourist destinations and locals. Jean Pascal inherited his father's good eye but was more interested in depicting lesser known locations. His photos of people also appear more spontaneous. The present collection includes photographs of El-Souroughieh street and the Khalig canal in Cairo the Virgin Mary's tree in Matariya a local with a buffalo a group of seated men in a mosque a sugarcane market locals working on a sugarcane field a group of boys fishing and the hustle and bustle along the Nile.With a small purple ownership stamp of an anchor in mirror image and the letters "S A" near the top edge of one of the photographs of the Nile. The cardstock is very slightly foxed and yellowed and has somewhat warped from past temperature fluctuations. The prints have somewhat yellowed around the edges but are otherwise in good condition.l Cf. Saretzky The history of photography online. unknown
1888réf. ABC_47975Cairo 1888. 34 albumen prints ca. 22 x 27 cm mounted on cream cardstock ca. 28 x 35.5 cm. Remarkable collection of 34 stunning photographic prints of Egypt all numbered titled and signed in the negative by photographer Jean Pascal Sébah 1872-1947 who owned the leading studio for Orientalist photography. He was even named the official photographer of the Sultan of Turkey together with his business partner Polycarpe Joailllier 1848-1904. The majority of the images in the present collection show streets and buildings from lesser known Egyptian cities and scenes of daily life. Larger collections of Sébah's work are relatively rare on the market.Sébah continued the business of his father Pascal Sébah 1823-1886 one of the first photographers working in Egypt. Pascal rose to prominence because of his well-organized compositions careful lighting and quality of his prints. The majority of his photographs are of tourist destinations and locals. Jean Pascal inherited his father's good eye but was more interested in depicting lesser known locations. His photos of people also appear more spontaneous. The present collection includes photographs of El-Souroughieh street and the Khalig canal in Cairo the Virgin Mary's tree in Matariya a local with a buffalo a group of seated men in a mosque a sugarcane market locals working on a sugarcane field a group of boys fishing and the hustle and bustle along the Nile.With a small purple ownership stamp of an anchor in mirror image and the letters "S A" near the top edge of one of the photographs of the Nile. The cardstock is very slightly foxed and yellowed and has somewhat warped from past temperature fluctuations. The prints have somewhat yellowed around the edges but are otherwise in good condition.l Cf. Saretzky The history of photography online. unknown
réf. 1710JC005In fólio oblongo de 30x40 cm com 32 fotografias em albumina no formato circa de 21x27 cm.Magnifico álbum com lombada e pastas em pele e com ferros a ouro formando esquadrias nas pastas preenchidos por ferros em diagonal lavrados a seco. As folhas cartonadas apresentam um belo corte dourado.Contém uma interessante colecção de fotografias captadas no Egito na década de 1870-1880.Estas colecções de fotografias tiveram no seu tempo um propósito comercial no entanto hoje mostram como eram originalmente as cidades os portos e muitos locais turísticos e urbanos do Egipto totalmente alterados pelo progresso que decorreu nos último 150 anos desde que estas fantásticas imagens panorâmicas foram tomadas pelos grandes fotógrafos contemporâneos Félix Adrien Bonfils 1831-1885 e Pascal Sébah 1823–1886.Félix Adrien Bonfils foi um pioneiro da fotografia sediado em Beitrute e com o mais prolífico estúdio fotográfico o qual produziu milhares de imagens entre 1860 e 1900. Bonfils foi o primeiro fotógrafo no Médio Oriente a produzir fotografias em larga escala com recurso às novas técnicas de impressão fotográfica e em estúdio foi também o primeiro a produzir cenas coloridas em pose com recurso ao processo de Photochrom contudo não presente neste álbum.Pascal Sébah nasceu em Constantinopla e colaborou com o fotógrafo francês Henri Bechard. Depois de receber várias medalhas na Exposição Internacional de Paris abriu o seu estúdio em Istambul em 1857 produzindo fotografias comerciais e turísticas. Devido ao movimento turístico no Egipto que pedia uma grande quantidade de souvenirs Sébah abriu em 1873 um segundo estúdio no Cairo tendo também exposto no mesmo ano na Exposição Otomana em Viena de Ãustria. Este álbum contém unicamente imagens a preto-e-branco no processo de albumina captadas em grandes ângulos mostrando os monumentos e as margens do Nilo com pequenas aldeias e grande número de barcos à vela ditos dahabiyas.As fotos do Templo de Philae mostram a seu aspecto antes de ter sido inundado durante a construção da Barragem de Aswan.Algumas das fotografias mostram agricultores condutores de cavalos e de camelos barqueiros e mulheres. Os habitantes posam para as fotografias à frente dos templos com as suas indumentárias árabes e com os seus burros e camelos.A seguinte lista de fotografias reproduz a legenda de cada imagem com o nome do autor o número do cliché e o local mencionado.EN A very good album of an interesting photography collection taken in Egypt during a cruise up the Nile around 1870-80. The photos were originally taken by the great pioneer French photographer Félix Adrien Bonfils and Pascal Sébah.Félix Adrien Bonfils produced thousands of photographs and had one of the most prolific studios in Beirut between 1860 and 1900. He was one of the first commercial photographers to produce in large scale images of the Middle East and to employ new methods of photographic printing. Bonfils Studio photographed posed scenes and was one of the first to use Photochrom a new technique of photographic colour printing developed in 1880 not present in this photo album.Pascal Sébah was born in Constantinople. He initially worked in collaboration with the French photographer Henri Bechard. After receiving medals at the International Exhibition in Paris he opened his own studio in Istanbul in 1857. Sébah primarily produced photographs for the tourist trade. By the second half of the 19th-century tourist travel to Egypt had created strong demand for photographs as souvenirs. Sébah was amongst a group of early photographers. By 1873 Sébah opened a second studio in Cairo. He exhibited at Ottoman exhibition in Vienna Austria in 1873.Contains wide-angle images showing the Nile banks with small villages and numerous dahabiyas boats and barges.The photos of the Philae Temple show its original condition before it was flooded during the construction of the Aswan Low Dam.The native people pose in front of the temples in Arabic customs with their donkeys and camels.Several photos portray local farmers horse and camel riders boaters women etc.The subtitles were printed on the devoloping process with author’s name cliché number location; namely by order of display on the album:1. Bonfils - 3 Alexandrie Le Port2. Bonfils - 17 Obelisque de Cleopâtre3. Bonfils- 10 Alexandrie Place des Consuls4. Nº 5H w/o subtitles5. Bonfils- 59 Caire tombeaux des Califs6. Image w/o subtitles a landscape with trees and a horse carriage7. Bonfils- Le Caire Alle de Chaabra8. Barrage du Nil prés du Caire Egypte 96. Bonfils.9. Piramide of Giza and the Sphinx a panorama w/o subtitles10. Grande Pyramide de Cheops. Nº 44 Pedebuti Phot11. Image of a Westerner being helped to climb the Pyramid a panorama w/o subtitles12. Bonfils . 451 - Banias ancienne Fort.13. Sébah photographer 163. Abidos Temple. La Deux sieme Salle14. Image of the wall of a temple with hieroglyphs Karnak15. P. Sébah photographer. 115. Obelisque de Touthmés et de Halasou16. Image of the inside of a temple Karnak w/o subtitles17. idem Image of the inside of a temple Karnak w/o subtitles18. ibidem Image of the inside of a temple Karnak w/o subtitles19. Karnak. 112. Interieur de la Salle Hypostyle. Colonne pendente.20. P. Sébah photographer . 97b. Louqsor Luksor. La Pilone.21. P. Sébah photographer Louqsor Luksor w/o subtitles22. Image of the avenue of the lambs Karnak or Luksor w/o subtitles23. P. Sébah photographer 138. Colosse de Memnon à Thebes24. P. Sébah photographer Thebes. 136. Ruines de la Grande Salle25. P. Sébah photographer Thebes. . Ruines26. P. Sébah photographer Edfou Le Pylone.27. P. Sébah photographer Edfou. Temple28. P. Sébah photographer. 43. Ile de Phylae. Temple Hypèthre.29. P. Sébah photographer. 56. Ile de Phylae. Temple Hypèthre. Vue au coucher du soleil30. P. Sébah photographer. 74. Port de Assouan. Frontière à Egyte31. Panorama of the Nile a panorama w/o subtitles32. P. Sébah photographer 72. Cataracte d'Assouan. Vue génèrale. M-10-A-03 unknown
1779réf. 153032The Hague: Detune 1779. Collecting Pascal's published and unpublished work First collected edition of Pascal's works containing much significant material published here for the first time. Pascal is the towering figure among the European mathematicians of the mid 17th century. His achievements range from his celebrated calculating machine - the first to be produced commercially - to projective geometry the calculus of probabilities and indivisibles and to the study of infinitesimal problems. This edition was prepared by an important French disseminator of science and major contributor to scientific education Charles Bossut 1730-1814. His textbooks of engineering and physics were in use in France and - in translations - in other European countries up to the Empire. He also wrote the "Discours sur la vie & les ouvrages de Pascal" which takes up pages 3 to 119 of volume I of this edition. The first three volumes are devoted to Pascal's literary and philosophical writings the final two volumes to his scientific texts. For a detailed bibliographical analysis see René Taton's article in DSB. Among the scientific works appearing here for the first time are the famous Pascal-Noël correspondence on the vacuum the letter to Le Pailleur refuting Noël the preface to the treatise on the vacuum the only surviving fragment of his intended major treatise on the vacuum and his correspondence with Fermat and de Ribeyre. Also included are all of the Pascal texts relating to his invention of the calculating machine with two finely engraved plates depicting the mechanism Pascal's letter to Queen Christina Royal patents etc. which are virtually unobtainable in the originals. 5 vols octavo 199 x 127 mm. Titles printed in red and black with engraved portrait frontispiece 13 folding engraved plates 1 further plate usually folding here trimmed and single page woodcut vignettes woodcut tailpieces in the text. Contemporary calf red and black morocco labels gilt in compartments gilt rule border to covers marbled endpapers gilt edges. Some chipping and wear round extremities all joints and hinges intact contents clean bound without the 'Avis' leaf at the end of vol. V repaired closed tear at head of vol. III pp. 491/2 affecting text; a very good set. Maire pp. 11719; see DSB X 33042. unknown
1888réf. 167887Istanbul: Sébah & Joaillier c. 1888. Remarkable photographic panorama of Istanbul A superb panoramic view of the city taken from the Galata Tower looking over the Bosporus towards the Asian side; across the Golden Horn can be seen the Topkapi Palace and the great mosques of the city Haghia Sophia the Blue Mosque the Yeni Mosque and the Süleymaniye. In 1857 Pascal Sébah opened one of the first photographic studios in Constantinople. Having met with great success in 1873 he expanded the business setting up a further establishment in Cairo near to the renowned Shepheard's Hotel. In 1883 he suffered a stroke and the business was taken over by his son Jean who styled himself J. Pascal Sebah so as not to break the continuity of the business and was to become a talented photographer in his own right. In 1888 he went into partnership with a French photographer resident in Istanbul Policarpe Joaillier the firm in time becoming official photographers of the Sultan. In various forms this business continued down to the middle of the 20th century when in 1952 its last incarnation Foto Sabah finally closed its doors. "From the 1870s Sébah and Joaillier were major suppliers of evocative imagery to the increasing number of people who undertook the Victorian Grand Tour" Hannavy p. 1261. Landscape folio 310 x 375 mm. With 10 albumen prints mounted on card panels and joined with linen tape leporello-style to form a panorama approximately 3.47 m over 11 feet in length card panels 3054 x 340 mm; photographic prints 247 x 340 mm. Original red sand-grain cloth over bevelled boards red roan backstrip title gilt to front cover within elaborate ornamental gilt panel and incorporating images of the Galata and Maiden's towers gilt stamp to back cover of the ay-y ld z star and crescent within a laurel wreath. Covers variably sunned old splash stain to head of front cover a few marks to back light foxing and marginal dust marking the images bright and clean. A very good example. John Hannavy ed. Encyclopaedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography Vol. I 2005; Engin Özendes From Sebah & Joaillier to Foto Sabah: Orientalism in Photography 2004. hardcover
1989réf. 2788Constraint Satisfaction in Logic Programming Pascal Van Hentenryck MIT Press First Edition 1989 Language: English ISBN 10: 0262081814 ISBN 13: 9780262081818 Book Description A landmark monograph that introduced constraint satisfaction as a first‑class computational paradigm within logic programming. Van Hentenryck presents a unified framework for integrating constraint‑solving techniques with declarative programming covering consistency algorithms propagation methods search strategies and the formal semantics of constraint logic programs. The work played a foundational role in shaping constraint programming as a discipline influencing research in artificial intelligence operations research and combinatorial optimization. This volume is a significant component of the Hassan Aït‑Kaci archive aligning directly with his contributions to logic programming unification theory and the formal underpinnings of declarative computation. MIT Press hardcover
1657réf. 28515Cologne" i.e. Paris: Chés Pierre de la Vallée 1657. First edition first issue the 18 separate letters plus the refutation bound together. 23.7 x 17.5 cm. Letters 1-15 have 8 pages; 16-18 have 12 pages. "Refutation de la reponse a la douziéme lettre" bound before the 12th letter. Full brown morocco gilt a.e.g. by Riviere. Small chip at the top of the spine; joints neatly repaired edges lightly rubbed; former owners' signature and bookplate. Fifth letter lightly browned; small hole repaired with loss of a few letters on 18:7/8. First state of advertisement leaf with spelling"advertisement". "These letters were originally issued clandestinely in eighteen parts as a series of separate publications by a variety of different printers between 23 January 1656 and 15 January 1657. No detailed or authoritative information on these separate issues is available" PMM. "The Lettres Provinciales as they are called are the first example of French prose as we know it today perfectly finished in form varied in style and on a subject of universal importance.Pascal was an infant prodigy whose work in mathematics and natural science attracted considerable attention before he was sixteen. But he will always be chiefly remembered as a moralist more especially as the great apologist for Jansenism the seventeenth-century French ascetic movement of reform inside the Roman Catholic Church.At the end of 1655 the movement had been much under attack from the Jesuits and Pascal was persuaded to write a rejoinder.his counter-attack took the form of a brilliant exposure of the casuistical methods of argument employed by the Jesuits.Pascal's weapon was irony and the freshness with which the gravity of the subject contrasts with the lightness of the manner is an enduring triumph. The vividness and distinction of his style recalls Milton at its best." Printing and the Mind of Man 140. Chés Pierre de la Vallée unknown
réf. 16-4077Paris : Perrotin 1853. Large folio. 51 x 40 cm. Original qtr. roan and percaline restored.16pp. and 45 color lithograph plates. most lightly foxed and a few more heavily foxed. Provenance: Collector's mark of Gaston Courtois Costumier Paris. His collection sold at auction in Paris Décembre 1894.OCLC Number: 457516951 Paris : Perrotin, 1853. unknown
réf. 18821Paris Grasset août 2002. 1 vol. 145 x 215 mm de 189 p. et 1 f. Veau naturel blanc estampé et teinté d'un camaïeu de bleus rehaussé d'or blanc et de palladium titre à l'oeser bleu sombre sur le premier plat contreplats bord à bord de papier gris perle et gardes chèvre velours bleu sombre couvertures et dos conservés chemise et étui reliure signée de Louise Bescond titr. Claude Ribal 2019. . Édition originale. Un des 50 premiers sur vélin pur fil Malmenayde n° 15. . Premier volume du cycle du Dernier royaume Les Ombres errantes paraît en même temps que les deux suivants Sur le Jadis et Abîmes mais c'est pour le premier titre que Quignard est récompensé en 2002 du Prix Goncourt l'emportant au troisième tour de scrutin avec six voix contre deux à Olivier Rolin Tigre en papier au Seuil et deux à Gérard de Cortanze Assam chez Albin Michel : l'un des Goncourt les moins commerciaux des vingt dernières années critiqués par certains membres du jury dont Jorge Semprun jugeant qu'il n'ouvrait « aucune voie littéraire nouvelle. Ce n'est pas un problème qu'il ait moins de lecteurs que d'habitude car un livre écrit pour 20 000 personnes peut mériter le prix. Mais c'est très classique très convenu et très prolixe . ». Les Ombres errantes mènent en efet le lecteur vers des pistes abruptes et difficiles loin semble-t-il d'un terrain classique et convenu que fustige Semprun ; un livre qui n'est comme le défendait la présidente du jury Edmonde Charles-Roux « pas un roman mais qui est mille romans. Chaque paragraphe est un roman en puissance c'est cela que nous avons couronné. » Un couronnement dont se serait presque passé Quignard lui qui dans Les ombres errantes parle de ces hommes qui sont « des trous d'acide dans la vie sociale accoutumée » : « Mon embarras est que depuis que je me suis retiré de tout voici sept ans je ne parais plus au moment des prix. C'est pour moi un paradoxe un heureux paradoxe de recevoir un prix pour un livre dont j'avais choisi la date de parution afin qu'il ne soit pas question de prix ». Magnifique exemplaire sublimé de l'ombre froide par Louise Bescond. Paris, Grasset, (août) 2002. 1 vol. (145 x 215 mm) de 189 p. et [1] f. Veau naturel blanc estampé et teinté d'un camaïeu de unknown
1867réf. ABC_474041867. Contemporary gold-tooled reddish-brown morocco over cushioned covers gold-tooled turn-ins watered-silk end papers gilt edges. Oblong folio ca. 28 x 38 cm. With 75 albumen prints most signed and numbered in the negative. Beautiful and unusually large souvenir album with 75 photographs of Syria Palestine Constantinople and Athens in a luxurious binding. The photographs were made by the renowned studios of Félix Bonfils 1831-1885 and Pascal Sébah 1823-1886 who were already widely celebrated in their own time for their pioneering work in Egypt the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East. Their images could be bought separately or as customised albums but collections as large as the present one are uncommon as few sets exceed fifty images. The majority of the photographs in the album are signed by Bonfils. He opened his first studio in Beirut in 1867 and produced thousands of photographs of the region. The present album contains one of the photographs he is most known for namely the group of Jews in front of the Wailing Wall. Bonfils personally considered this haunting image to be one of his best works. Other photographs include views of Damascus Beirut and Jerusalem the church of the Holy Sepulchre the Dome of the Ascension Jericho Jaffa Ramallah the Jordan river the temple of Jupiter in Baalbek and the Umayyad mosque. The remaining photographs in the album are either signed by Sébah or unsigned and include beautiful portraits of locals views of Istanbul the Blue Mosque Hagia Sophia Galata bridge and the Bosphorus river and Athens the Theseion the temple of Olympian Zeus the Parthenon and the caryatids of Erechtheion.With a black bookseller's label mounted at the foot of the front pastedown Philip Son & Nephew Liverpool some of the photographs are captioned in ink underneath. The leaves are somewhat browned and the albumen prints are slightly yellowed. Otherwise in very good condition.l Cf. El-Hage B. Damascus a photographic journey 1840-1918 pp. 57-58; Hannavy Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography pp. 173-175. unknown
1880réf. I45A4CVFDU99Egypt and Switzerland 1880. Contemporary black half morocco. 4to 29.5 x 23.5 cm. 50 photographs of Egypt albumen prints and cyanotypes and approximately 40 albumen prints of Switzerland. Impressively presented series of original photographs taken at various important sites and cities in Egypt including Giza Thebes Karnak Luxor Abydos Esna and others. They show archaeological sites like the temple of Seti I at Abydos the precinct of Ahmen-Rah near Luxor the Avenue of Sphinxes at Karnak the Ramesseum and the Colossi at Thebes the temple of Khnum at Esna the Sphinx and pyramids of Giza and many more. Other photographs show the local population engaged in a wide variety of activities such as catching crocodiles on the nile a Luxor barber shaving the head of a sailor or life in a Bedouin camp in the Libyan Desert. The Istanbul-based Sebah studio catered to the Western European interest in the exotic "orient" and the growing numbers of tourists visiting the Islamic world who wished to take home images of the city ancient ruins in the surrounding area portraits and local people in traditional costumes. "Sebah rose to prominence because of his well-organized compositions careful lighting effective posing attractive models great attention to detail and for the excellent print quality" Saretzky. When Pascal Sébah 1823-1886 died his son Jean Sébah 1876-1947 took over the studio and signed his productions "J. P. Sebah" on the negative putting his initial in front of his fathers.Some spotting and fading binding worn. Otherwise in good condition.l Cf. for Sébah: Saretzky Photo history. unknown
1657réf. 25133Cologne Amsterdam: Pierre de la Valle'e Elzevier 1657. First duodecimo edition and First Elzevier edition same year as the first complete 4to edition printed in Paris. This is the first and uncorrected state of two nearly identical issues. 12mo beautifully bound in regal 18th century full red morocco the covers framed by an elaborate decorative gilt rolled border surrounding a gilt coat of arms the spine beautifully gilt tooled in compartments between fine gilt tooled bands one compartment with a black morocco label gilt lettered and stippled gilt turn-ins and board edges marbled endpapers a.e.g. Ex-Libris of the Chateau de Sampigny. xxiv 398 111 pp. A fine and beautiful copy. FIRST ELZEVIER AND EXTREMELY EARLY PRINTING OF THIS MASTERPIECE OF THE MODERN FRENCH LANGUAGE. PMM 140. "The vividness and distinction of his style recalls the prose of Milton at its best". Elzevier’s was Pascal’s definitive version of the text. It was the first edition to gather the eighteen letters within continuous pagination and has become the standard text for all successive editions. It also contains attached at the end and paginated separately the 'Advis de Messieurs les Curez de Paris "The Lettres Provinciales as they are called are the first example of French prose as we know it today perfectly finished in form varied in style and on a subject of universal importance. Pascal's weapon was irony and the freshness with which the gravity of the subject contrasts with the lightness of the manner is an enduring triumph. The vividness of and distinction of his style recalls the prose of Milton at its best". Printing and the Mind of Man. Pierre de la Valle'e [Elzevier] unknown
1663réf. 190869Paris: Guillaume Desprez 1663. Defining hydrostatics First edition of the work that codified the principles of hydrostatics including the first statement of "Pascal's Law" and the first indication of the relationship between barometric pressure and atmospheric changes. For this Pascal has been credited with experimentally disproving the long-standing belief that nature abhors a vacuum. The Traitez synthesises all the major previous work on hydrostatics including contributions by Galileo and Torricelli and develops it via the comprehensive application of 17th-century empiricism. "For their synthetic treatment of the subject clarity and rigour the Traitez are indisputably a classic of 17th-century science" DSB. Many of the experiments were performed in the 1640s and the work itself was complete by 1654 but it was not published until the year after Pascal's death. Duodecimo 144 x 81 mm pp. xxviii 232 8. With 2 folding plates woodcut illustration to p. 105. Contemporary sprinkled calf spine lettered and decorated in gilt covers panelled in blind edges sprinkled red. From the Franciscan monastery at Metz with the contemporary ink inscription "ex libris Recollectorum conventus Metensis" on the title page and similar ink annotation to leaf E11. Infrequent later pencil corrections. Light bumping and wear minor foxing to contents folding plates with short closed tears at inner margin and a few small spots of worming contents otherwise clear: a very good copy indeed. Brunet IV 400; Dibner 143; En français dans le texte 101; Norman 1650; Osler 3625; Waller 12161. unknown
réf. NYBF16Paris Guillaume Desprez 1663. 12mo 144 x 91 mm of 14 ll. 232 pp. 4 ll. and 2 folded plates out of text. Full brown granite-like calf spine ribbed and decorated head and foot of the spine formerly restored sprinkled edges. Contemporary binding. First edition of the founding treatise of the principles of hydrostatics in contemporary binding. Bibliotheca Osleriana n° 3625; Bulletin Morgand et Fatout n°4298; Tchemerzine V 59; Brunet IV 400; Dibner 143; Norman 1650; Maire II/1 179 f.; DSB X 334 & 340 13. Precious copy with the errata and the 11 printing errors not yet corrected during printing. "First edition published by F. Périer Pascal's brother-in-law one year after his death. We find at the end 2 engraved folded plates."Catalogue de Backer n°760. Pascal undertakes to search for the cause of the effects he observed both by the method of difference this is the experiment of emptiness into the void and by the method of variations it is the great experiment he talks about in a letter to Périer and which the latter made on the Puy-de-Dôme in 1648. He shows that the gravity or pressure of the air which suspends quicksilver mercury in the barometric tube is the cause of all the observed facts and allows to considerate them as special cases of a universal proposition of the balance of liquors. With these works Pascal inaugurated experimental science and appeared as the first and one of the greatest among modern physicists at the same time as an extraordinary theorist of the scientific method. " La grande expérience de l'équilibre des liqueurs a été effectuée au Puy de Dôme le 19 septembre 1643 et confiée à Florin Périer beau-frère de Pascal. Ce dernier établit d'une façon irréfutable que la hauteur du mercure suspendue dans le tube de Torricelli pouvait varier avec l'altitude. Il s'ensuit dit Pascal que la pesanteur et la pression de l'air sont la seule cause de la suspension du mercure et non l'horreur du vide et qu'au contraire la nature s'accomode fort bien du vide. Pascal généralise tous ces résultats en formulant les principes de l'hydrostatique qui seront consignés dans le 'Traitez de l'équilibre des liqueurs et de la pesanteur de la masse de l'air'. Ce recueil fut publié en 1663 un an après la mort de Pascal. Les expériences de Pascal et Torricelli eurent le grand mérite de prouver non seulement l'expérience de la pression atmosphérique mais aussi l'existence du vide ce vide qui jouera un rôle si important en physique moderne ". "The highly persuasive 'Traitez' assembling and coordinating earlier results and recent discoveries are characterized above all by their rigorous experimental method and by the categorical rejection of Scholasticism. In hydrostatics Pascal continued the investigations of Stevin Galileo Torricelli and Mersenne… The 'Traitez' are indisputably a classic of seventeenth-century science". DSB. The present edition is illustrated with 2 large folding plates illustrating the various experiments of Pascal 245 x 170; 235 x 170 mm. This edition was printed six years before Les Pensées by the same printer-bookseller "Guillaume Desprez" in Paris in 1663. The first edition of Les Pensées in contemporary morocco à la Duseuil is extremely rare and we do not know any copy of this scientific and literary first edition in such a condition. Precious volume preserved in its first Parisian binding in contemporary decorated calf. Français Paris Guillaume Desprez 1663. In-12 de 14 ff. 232 pp. 4 ff. et 2 planches hors texte repliées. Plein veau brun granité dos à nerfs orné coiffes anciennement restaurées coupes décorées tranches jaspées. Reliure de l'époque. 144 x 91 mm. Edition originale du traité fondateur des principes de l'hydrostatique en reliure de l'époque. Bibliotheca Osleriana n° 3625 ; Bulletin Morgand et Fatout n°4298 ; Tchemerzine V 59 ; Brunet IV 400 ; Dibner 143 ; Norman 1650 ; Maire II/1 179 f. ; DSB X 334 & 340 13. Précieux exemplaire avec l'errata et les 11 fautes non encore corrigées à la plume lors de l'impression. " Edition originale publiée par F. Périer beau-frère de Pascal un an après sa mort. On trouve à la fin 2 planches gravées repliées. " Catalogue de Backer n°760. Pascal entreprend de rechercher la cause des effets qu'il a observés à la fois par la méthode de la différence c'est l'expérience du vide dans le vide et par la méthode des variations c'est la grande expérience dont il trace le projet dans une lettre à Périer et que ce dernier réalisa sur le Puy-de-Dôme en 1648. Il montre que la pesanteur ou pression de l'air qui suspend le vif-argent le mercure dans le tube barométrique est la cause de tous les faits observés et permet de les considérer comme des cas particuliers d'une proposition universelle de l'équilibre des liqueurs. Par ces travaux Pascal inaugurait la science expérimentale et apparaissait comme le premier et un des plus grands parmi les physiciens modernes en même temps qu'un extraordinaire théoricien de la méthode scientifique. " Ces Traités ne sont pas seulement remarquables par la justesse et la liaison des idées par la force et la clarté du raisonnement par le choix et la vigueur des arguments; ils le sont encore par la propriété des expressions par les tournures heureuses par la pureté de la diction en un mot par la couleur et les agréments du style. L'aimable facilité et le rare bonheur avec lequel Pascal manie la langue française offrent un contraste frappant avec le ton ampoulé le style précieux guindé et surchargé de figures ridicules que l'on trouve dans les écrivains les plus en vogue de son temps. Les grâces qu'il sait répandre sur des discussions arides de physique et de géométrie annoncent un talent qu'il va déployer bientôt de la manière la plus éclatante sur des matières non moins ingrates. " Michaud. " La grande expérience de l'équilibre des liqueurs a été effectuée au Puy de Dôme le 19 septembre 1643 et confiée à Florin Périer beau-frère de Pascal. Ce dernier établit d'une façon irréfutable que la hauteur du mercure suspendue dans le tube de Torricelli pouvait varier avec l'altitude. Il s'ensuit dit Pascal que la pesanteur et la pression de l'air sont la seule cause de la suspension du mercure et non l'horreur du vide et qu'au contraire la nature s'accomode fort bien du vide. Pascal généralise tous ces résultats en formulant les principes de l'hydrostatique qui seront consignés dans le 'Traitez de l'équilibre des liqueurs et de la pesanteur de la masse de l'air'. Ce recueil fut publié en 1663 un an après la mort de Pascal. Les expériences de Pascal et Torricelli eurent le grand mérite de prouver non seulement l'expérience de la pression atmosphérique mais aussi l'existence du vide ce vide qui jouera un rôle si important en physique moderne ". " On trouve dans ce volume les premiers expériments relatifs à l'application du baromètre à la mesure de la hauteur des montagnes invention de Torricelli que Pascal publia comme si c'était la sienne " Graesse Trésor de livres rares V p. 147. " The highly persuasive 'Traitez' assembling and coordinating earlier results and recent discoveries are characterized above all by their rigorous experimental method and by the categorical rejection of Scholasticism. In hydrostatics Pascal continued the investigations of Stevin Galileo Torricelli and Mersenne… The 'Traitez' are indisputably a classic of seventeenth-century science". DSB. La présente édition est ornée de 2 grandes planches dépliantes illustrant les différentes expériences de Pascal 245 x 170 ; 235 x 170 mm. Cette édition fut imprimée six ans avant Les Pensées chez le même Imprimeur-Libraire " Guillaume Desprez " à Paris en 1663. L'originale des Pensées en maroquin à la Duseuil de l'époque est rarissime mais nous ne connaissons aucun exemplaire de cette originale scientifique et littéraire en cette même condition. Précieux volume conservé dans sa première reliure parisienne en veau décoré de l'époque. hardcover
1670réf. 7821Paris: Guillaume Desprez 1670. First edition. Very Good. Large duodecimo 157 x 89 mm pp. lxxxii 365 1 20. Woodcut vignette to title page woodcut initials head- and tailpieces wood-engraved headpiece on p. 1. Contemporary mottled calf spine decorated and lettered in gilt edges sprinkled red. Near-contemporary ink annotation to foot of p. 52 later pencil annotations and emendations to several pages. Light bumping and rubbing rear joint cracked at head but holding firm spine slightly cocked and with spot of worming to foot infrequent minor damp staining offsetting and foxing. A Very Good copy. Pascal's Pensées is one of the great theological works in history a seminal example of Christian apologetics and a classic of French literature. Writing amid the explosion of Cartesian rationalism Pascal emphasizes an intuitionist-style approach to religion while at the same time outlining one of the best-known rational arguments for religious belief - the wager. Writing early in the book Pascal observes that regardless of one's actual beliefs the very notion of God requires one to take a loaded gamble on his existence: "ouy; mais il faut parier" p. 56. At his death in 1662 Pascal left behind bundles of fragmentary notes for an inchoate book of Christian apologetics. The proper order of these notes has been debated for centuries but this edition contains the arrangement devised by his executors and particularly his sister Gilberte who had previously published a biography of her illustrious brother. A "pré-originale" printing of this first edition with a title page dated 1669 is known in two surviving copies and was an advance issue likely for circulation to Pascal's associates and to gain approbations. Very Good. Guillaume Desprez unknown
1657réf. 78An exceptional copy of the 1st edition of Provinciales with 28 other first editions 2 of Pascal and one autographe provenant de la fameuse bibliothèque Maxime Denesle. Pascal Blaise. Les Provinciales ou lettres écrites par Louis de Montalte à un provincial de ses amis et aux RR. PP. Jésuites sur le sujet de la morale et de la politique de ces pères. Cologne Pierre de la Vallée 1657. Followed by 28 other first editions published between 1657 and 1732. 4° calf from beginning of the 18th century 246 x 181 mm. First edition of Pascal's 18 letters written between January 23rd 1656 and March 24th 1657 containing Réfutation de la réponse à la douzième lettre and the 17th letter in 12 pages. Published separately and in secret all are here published together and bound without the title and the warning leaves: a sign of first printing which is a very sought-after and rare state. It shoiw that the cipoy was constituted as letters were being published. Trois corrections manuscrites anciennes. Bound together 29 other pieces 700 pages in total in first edition relating to Jansenism some very rare and of which two are from Pascal are related to the following including a manuscript: - Advis de Messieurs les Curez de Paris 8 pp. - Extrait des plus dangereuses propositions de Morale de Casuistes 20 pp. - Factum pour les Curés de Paris. Paris 1657. Edition originale attribuée à Pascal. 8 pp. - Factum pour les Curés de Rouen. Paris 1657. 12 pp. - Lettre pastorale de M. L'Évêque de Troyes. Paris 1732. E. O. 10 et 80 pp. - La Calomnie portée au dernier excez contre les Appelans. 1728. 25 pp. - Ordonnance de M. le Cardinal de Noailles. 1703. E. O. 10 pp. - Lettre de la Mère supérieure de la Visitation. 1726. E. O. 3 pp. - Lettre et mandement de l'Évêque de Montpellier. 1727. E. O. 4 ; 3 et 4 pp. - Mandement de l'archevêque d'Utrecht. 1730. E. O. 8 pp. - Requête de l'Évêque d'Auxerre. 1730. E. O. 10 pp. - Recueil de pièces. 6 pp. - Mandement de l'Évêque de Senez. 1727. E. O. 28 pp. - Lettre et instructions de l'Évêque de Montpellier. 1726. E. O. 20 pp. ; 1728 E. O. 29 pp. - Mandement de l'Évêque de Saintes 16 pp. - Instruction et Lettres de l'Évêque de Montpellier 1726. E. O. 16 et 19 pp. - manuscript of the letter of Évêque de Montpellier à Mosseigneurs les Évêques datée Montpellier ce 2 may 1725. 14 pp. - Quatre lettres de l'Évêque de Montpellier à l'Évêque de Soissons 1727. E. O. de 16 pp. 40 pp. 35 pp. 26 pp. - Lettre de l'Évêque de Soissons à l'Évêque de Montpellier 1727. E. O. 22 pp. - Ordonnance et instruction de l'Évêque de Montpellier portant condamnation du livre intitulé " Institutionnes Catholicae " 1726. E. O. 42 pp. - Défense et consultation de MM. Les Avocats de Paris 1729. E. O. 115 pp. et 44 pp. A beautiful copy of " the purest masterpiece of French language " " the first book of genius in prose " Voltaire from Maxime Denesle's library. Pierre de la Vallée hardcover
1854réf. B5798Gide et J. Baudry libraires-Editeurs c.1854. Edition: First Edition Binding: Contemporary half red morocco with gilt double fillet borders with marbled boards; expertly rebacked; spine with 5 raised gilt designed bands and central gilt ornaments; gilt titled morocco labels on two and four; matching marbled pasted and free endpapers. Notes: Text in French. This example does not include Perse Ancienne; it includes a complete set of Perse Moderne's 100 exquisite lithographed plates. First edition of this survey of Modern Persia. This is the atlas volume for the Modern Persia section only. There are several atlas volumes that form part of the larger set with text volumes which are not present here. While complete sets are very rare and the part on ancient Persia focuses mainly on ancient monuments and structures of architectural interest the modern part describes the country during the 19th century many parts of which were difficult and unsafe to access; it is therefore of greater interest and the more sought after. Jean-Baptiste Eugène Napoléon Flandin 1809-1889 was a French orientalist painter archaeologist and politician. He is most renowned for his famous drawings and paintings of Persian monuments landscapes and social life made during his travels with the architect Pascal Coste during the years 1839-41. Flandin’s observations on the state of Persia and international politics in the mid-19th century also continue to provide important documentary information. In 1839 Flandin was along with Coste made a laureate of the Institut de France and they both joined the embassy of the Comte de Sercey to Persia. After parting from de Sercey’s mission they left Isfahan with very limited financial means and retinue. Flandin’s courage during this journey which spanned the entirety of Persia was praised by Coste who also noted his intrepidity during times of duress. Their timetable and work were strictly organized. After Flandin’s return to France he was awarded the Légion d’honneur in 1842 for his part in this government-sponsored archaeological mission. The atlas volumes form part of the larger set with text volumes not included here. Size: Folio 612 mm x 432 mm Illustration: 100 lithographed plates including 2 finely hand coloured plates. Some plates with 2 images. Provenance: Round bookplate with heraldry at centre surrounded by References: Brunet II 1280; Wilson p. 72 Pages: P. Ex libris bl. 4 Half Title Publisher’s Note Title bl. 100 lithographed plates Table of contents 3. Category: Book Asia Middle East Iran; Gide et J. Baudry, libraires-Editeurs hardcover
