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1888rif. 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
1667rif. 156P., Savreux, 1667, un volume in 4 relié en plein veau, dos orné de fers dorés, tranches mouchetées, armes sur les plats (reliure de l'époque), (petit accroc à la coiffe sans gravité, mouillures marginales sans gravité aux trois derniers feuillets), (12), 345pp., 4 PLANCHES REPRESENTANT DES CARRES MAGIQUES, (1-errata), figures dans le texte
1888rif. 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
1888rif. 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. AFRICA ART ARCHITECTURE & PHOTOGRAPHY MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC WORLD Egypt Islamic Art Culture & Science North Africa Photography unknown
rif. 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 18231886. 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 authors name cliché number location; namely by order of display on the album: 1. Bonfils - 3 Alexandrie Le Port 2. Bonfils - 17 Obelisque de Cleopâtre 3. Bonfils- 10 Alexandrie Place des Consuls 4. Nº 5H w/o subtitles 5. Bonfils- 59 Caire tombeaux des Califs 6. Image w/o subtitles a landscape with trees and a horse carriage 7. Bonfils- Le Caire Alle de Chaabra 8. Barrage du Nil prés du Caire Egypte 96. Bonfils. 9. Piramide of Giza and the Sphinx a panorama w/o subtitles 10. Grande Pyramide de Cheops. Nº 44 Pedebuti Phot 11. Image of a Westerner being helped to climb the Pyramid a panorama w/o subtitles 12. Bonfils . 451 - Banias ancienne Fort. 13. Sébah photographer 163. Abidos Temple. La Deux sieme Salle 14. Image of the wall of a temple with hieroglyphs Karnak 15. P. Sébah photographer. 115. Obelisque de Touthmés et de Halasou 16. Image of the inside of a temple Karnak w/o subtitles 17. idem Image of the inside of a temple Karnak w/o subtitles 18. ibidem Image of the inside of a temple Karnak w/o subtitles 19. 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 subtitles 22. Image of the avenue of the lambs Karnak or Luksor w/o subtitles 23. P. Sébah photographer 138. Colosse de Memnon à Thebes 24. P. Sébah photographer Thebes. 136. Ruines de la Grande Salle 25. P. Sébah photographer Thebes. . Ruines 26. P. Sébah photographer Edfou Le Pylone. 27. P. Sébah photographer Edfou. Temple 28. P. Sébah photographer. 43. Ile de Phylae. Temple Hypèthre. 29. P. Sébah photographer. 56. Ile de Phylae. Temple Hypèthre. Vue au coucher du soleil 30. P. Sébah photographer. 74. Port de Assouan. Frontière à Egyte 31. Panorama of the Nile a panorama w/o subtitles 32. P. Sébah photographer 72. Cataracte d'Assouan. Vue génèrale. M-10-A-03 unknown
1684rif. CLL-203Cologne, Balthasar Winfelt, 1684 In-8 de (20) ff., 613 pp., maroquin marine à grain long, plats ornés d'une succession d'encadrement de filets dorés et de roulettes à froid avec larges fleurons d'angle, dos à nerfs orné et doré, coupes et bordures décorées, tranches dorées (Thouvenin).
1985rif. bj1611Faksimile Verlag Luzern Reliure 1985 Magnifique fac-similé du manuscrit de La Grande Chronique bourguignonne de Schilling Le Vieux (de Berne), conservé à la Bibliothèque Centrale de Zürich (Nr. A 5), qui, réalisé vers 1480 est le 3ème et dernier tome de l'Histoire Officielle de la ville de Berne et représente la plus importante source d'informations sur les guerres de Bourgogne. Les miniatures, particulièrement belles et intéressantes, décrivent des scènes très détaillées de sièges, de combats et de la vie de camp. La reliure plein-cuir (25 * 39 cm.) cousue main correspond exactement à l'original, avec ses empressages à froid et ses deux fermoirs en métal, les cahiers ont été coupés puis cousus ensemble à la main, tout comme pour l'original. Le tirage de cette édition a été limité à 980 exemplaires, celui-ci portant le numéro 529. On retrouve l'habituel volume de commentaire, co-écrit par plusieurs spécialistes ; le texte est en allemand et fait 306 pages, il est relié en demi-cuir et toile d'éditeur. Très bel exemplaire. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
1663rif. 4279Paris, Guillaume Desprez, 1663. 1663 1 vol. in-12° (147 x 82 mm) de : [28] ff. (titre, préface, avertissement, privilège, fautes à corriger) ; 232 pp. (dont 1 schéma et des tableaux) ; [4] ff. (table) ; 2 planches gravées dépliantes. 2 ex-libris gravés armoriés sur les gardes. (Déchirures discrétement restaurées aux planches). Plein veau d'époque, dos à nerfs orné et titré à l'or, encadrement de filets dorés sur les plats, roulette dorée sur les coupes, tranches jaspées rouges. Etui recouvert de toile (Coins restaurés, un mors partiellement fendu. Provenance: 2 ex-libris armoriés gravés).
2002rif. 85194Couverture souple blanche. Non coupé.
1880rif. 729951880. SÉBAH J. Pascal and BÉCHARD 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 Sébah Émile Béchard Langahi and others including Sébah's images of Alexandria's Column of Pompey Nile yachts and desert vistas Langahi's view of Nubian tribesmen and Béchard'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 Sébah and Émile Béchard. The Turkish-born Sébah especially possessed a keen sense of his subjects' ""interaction with one another 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 Sébah's ""Marshée aux Chameaux"" March of Camels ""Chameliers"" Camels and his images of crowded bazaars and Nile River yachts. In addition Sébah'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 Sébah French photographer Béchard worked in Egypt in the 1870s and 80s where he was ""known primarily for his photographs of Egyptian antiquities and archaeological sites 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 Sébah's brother Cosimi who ran Sébah's studio after his death Béchard'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 Sébah'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
1656rif. 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
1779rif. 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
1884rif. 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
1890rif. 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
1999rif. 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
rif. 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
1656rif. 211911656 Cologne, Pierre de la Vallée (adresse fictive), 1656-1657, in-4 de 3 ff. d'avertissement, 8 pp.-8 pp.-8 pp.-8 pp.-8 pp.-8 pp.- 8 pp.- 8 pp.- 8 pp.- 8 pp.- 8 pp.-8 pp.- 8 pp. (réfutation)- 8 pp.-8 pp.-8 pp.-12 pp.-8 pp.-12 pp.-12 pp., (la 18e lettre est ici en double), reliure de la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle de plein velin ivoire à la Bradel, signée Thierry successeur de Petit-Simier, nom d'auteur titre et date (1651657) dorés au dos, bel exemplaire relié sans le titre collectif qui a paru après, mais avec l'avertissement qui ne figure pas toujours dans cette réunion des 18 lettres en tout premier tirage, défaut d'impression page 8 de la dix-septième lettre. Bel exemplaire.
1787rif. 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
1930rif. 37311Paris France: Librairie Du Bulletin De L'Academie Des Beaux-Arts. As New. 1930. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 31 pages of text in French followed by many lovely black and white plates. Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan Bouveret Pascal Adolphe Jean Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie Et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer; Signed by CoppierCoppier . Librairie Du Bulletin De L'Academie Des Beaux-Arts paperback
1928rif. 102365Les Beaux-Arts. As New. 1928. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Text in French. 157 pages; 32 black and white illustrations. 219 works catalogued. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee Les Beaux-Arts paperback
1657rif. ABC_49981Cologne: Pierre de la Vallee = Amsterdam Lodewijk & Daniel Elzevier 1657. 19th-century blind-tooled black morocco with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine a double filet border on both boards blind-tooled board edges and turn-ins a red ribbon marker red sprinkled edges marbled endpapers. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page and several decorated woodcut initials in the text. 2 parts in 1 volume. First issue of the first definitive edition marking a pivotal moment in the works history: the first time the Pascal letters were gathered into a single volume with continuous pagination. Issued under the pseudonym Louis de Montalte and bearing the fictitious Cologne imprint of Pierre de la Vallée the work was in fact printed in Amsterdam by the Elzevier press. Although it is the second edition overall it offers for the first time a coherent and authorially revised text as Pascal himself oversaw revisions to the letters before publication refining their style and argument. It is consequently regarded as the authoritative edition. The 18th letter published after the printing had been completed was appended separately.Blaise Pascal 1623-1662 was a mathematician physicist and religious thinker. In the Provinciales he combines theological argument with a clear and carefully structured prose style. His treatment of complex doctrinal issues in an accessible and engaging manner contributed to the wide readership of the letters beyond strictly scholarly audiences. Few books capture the intellectual tension of 17th-century France as vividly as the Lettres provinciales. Conceived in the heat of the bitter dispute between Jansenists and Jesuits these 18 letters first appeared not as a book but as a series of anonymous pamphlets published between January 1656 and March 1657. At the time of the present works publication it was arguably the most widely read work in France and its blend of humour logic and rhetorical precision helped define what would become classical French style.The opening 398 pages contain the complete series of letters combining theological precision with devastating satire. Written in the guise of correspondence from Paris to a provincial friend they expose and ridicule the casuistical reasoning of Jesuit moral theology with a brilliance that ensured their immediate success. At once playful and incisive Pascals prose moves effortlessly between irony and indignation creating a new standard for French writing.The second part of the present work turns from satire to direct theological intervention. It contains the Avis de Messieurs les Curés de Paris attributed to Antoine Arnauld 1612-1694 a central figure of the Jansenist movement and a close ally of Pascal. This text anchors the work firmly within the doctrinal controversies of the time particularly the defence of Arnauld following his condemnation by the Sorbonne.With the later manuscript initials "C.E." on the title page. The boards and spine are somewhat rubbed. The work is slightly browned throughout with occasional mild foxing. Otherwise in good condition.l Berghman Stockholm 102; Brunet IV no. 890; PMM 140; STCN 853094535 9 copies; USTC 1841842 11 copies; VD17 23:329180S; Willems 1218. Pierre de la Vallee [= Amsterdam, Lodewijk & Daniel Elzevier], hardcover
rif. wx389Sébah & Joaillier Cartonné In-4 (36,5 x 31,5 cm), format à l'italienne, dos en cuir, percaline chagrinée sur les plats biseautés, titre et décor doré (tour de Galata et tour de Léandre) au premier plat dont les bords sont biseautés, croissant de lune et étoile entourés de lauriers dorés au quatrième plat, sans date (circa 1888), 10 photographies sur papier albuminé, montées à la manière d'un leporello sur des panneaux en carton fort de 34 x 30,5 cm reliés par un morceau de toile pour former un panorama d'Istanbul d'environ 3,47 mètres de long ; mors légèrement fendus en queue, quelques épidermures sur le cuir au dos et sur les bords du premier plat, quelques traces sur les plats, zones décolorées au quatrième plat dont le cartonnage est un peu incurvé, par ailleurs assez bel exemplaire. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
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