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2011rif. 215747Paris: Editions du Patrimoine Centre des Monuments Nationaux 2011. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 335 pages. Retrospective monograph on French artist Richard Texier. Text in English and French. Features contributions by Zeon Bianu and Pascal Bonafoux. Includes numerous color illustrations and biographical information. A tight near fine copy with some bumping to the bottom right corners and to the bottom of the spine and in a near fine dust jacket with some minor wear. Signed inscribed and with a full page drawing by Texier in the year of publication. A very nice copy as the recipient was the director of Marlborough Gallery. Please note that this is a heavy book and will require extra shipping. Editions du Patrimoine, Centre des Monuments Nationaux unknown books
1829rif. 376582Amherst Mass: Published by J. S. and C. Adams 1829. First American edition. Translated from an 1819 Paris edition of the "Pensées." The first attempt at the collection of the "Pensées" was in 1670. the first edition in English was the translation by Joseph Walker and published in 1688. 304 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary cloth-backed brown boards. New labels some rubbing and wear to binding some spotting and browning of text generally light small tears on title from partial removal of a signature. In a leather tipped brown cloth open end case. First American edition. Translated from an 1819 Paris edition of the "Pensées." The first attempt at the collection of the "Pensées" was in 1670. the first edition in English was the translation by Joseph Walker and published in 1688. 304 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Craig's edition includes most of the "Pensées" with exceptions of those pieces relating to the Catholic church which he felt inadequate to translate and those pieces that did not relate to religion. "The work is notable for its acute analysis of human character for many striking sayings and for its combination of powerful and persuasive reasoning with passionate devotion" Oxford Companion. American Imprints 39971 Published by J. S. and C. Adams unknown books
1872rif. 409286Paris: Librarie de Firmin Didot 1872. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Light wear at extremities but in very good condition. 8vo. Text in French. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Contemporary brown half morocco top edges gilt; in a greyish-tan cloth slipcase. Matthew Arnold's copy with 51 penciled annotations – totaling 590 words – by him on 31 pages plus marginal markings and underlinings on these and numerous other pages. Some of the annotations are lengthy: 83 words in one case 48 in another; the annotations average 19 words. Bookplate of Kenneth A. Lohf. BA. Librarie de Firmin Didot unknown books
1971rif. 19038New York: Limited Editions Club 1971. Signed Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine. The Limited Editions Club edition of Les Pensées: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects by Blaise Pascal. Quarto xix 184pp 2. Red cloth spine over cream cloth boards title in gilt on spine embossed lettering on front cover. Translated by Martin Turnell with decorative devices and twelve full-page color illustrations by Ismar David. Printed at The Sign of the Stone Book in Bloomfield Connecticut. Housed in the publisher's slipcase light shelf wear to boards. Includes the paperwork and Monthly Letter Number 448 from the Limited Editions Club. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by illustrator Ismar David on the colophon this being number 85. LEC 441. Limited Editions Club unknown books
2003rif. 12299Riverside: The Herve van Caloen Foundation 2003. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 8 1/4". 160pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers corners and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The Beguines were neither religious not lay. These were women who as early as the 12th century lived their faith independently in the emerging cities of Europe. Often well educated they played an important economic social and artistic role. At the end of the XIII century the Beguines defied the interdiction against female reading preaching and Biblical commentary. Some wrote beautiful texts. In consequence the Beguines were eventually condemned by the Church. Only the Beguines from the Southern Low Countries who lived surrounded by walls were spared. Their Beguinages--cities within cities--survived to the present. They are peaceful places of memorable beauty. Through thirteen Flemish Beguinages recognized by UNESCO as sites of "outstanding universal value" the Luciole Guide invites us to discover and understand the journey of these exceptional women.Publisher. 8 1/4" X 8 1/4". 160pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers corners and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The Beguines were neither religious not lay. These were women who as early as the 12th century lived their faith independently in the emerging cities of Europe. Often well educated they played an important economic social and artistic role. At the end of the XIII century the Beguines defied the interdiction against female reading preaching and Biblical commentary. Some wrote beautiful texts. In consequence the Beguines were eventually condemned by the Church. Only the Beguines from the Southern Low Countries who lived surrounded by walls were spared. Their Beguinages--cities within cities--survived to the present. They are peaceful places of memorable beauty. Through thirteen Flemish Beguinages recognized by UNESCO as sites of "outstanding universal value" the Luciole Guide invites us to discover and understand the journey of these exceptional women.Publisher. The Herve van Caloen Foundation paperback books
1967rif. 152429New York: 101 Productions 1967. First Draft script for an unproduced musical with book by "John and Fran Pascal" who co-wrote the book of the 1968 musical "George M!" with Michael Stewart music by pianist and arranger Milton Kaye and lyrics by composer lyricist and performer Michael Brown. Single annotation in manuscript pencil of "Sandy Farber" above 101 Productions on title page. From the estate of actress Monique van Vooren. An absurdist political comic musical taking place in 1875 Egypt at the fictitious "International Alliance for Prosperity and Perpetual Peace" a hypothetical precursor to the United Nations set in the summer palace in Suez. Red titled Studio Duplicating Services wrappers. Title page present dated October 1967 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for Book by John and Fran Pascal Music by Milton Kaye and Lyrics by Michael Brown. 75 leaves with last page of text numbered 2-5-26. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with closed tears and chipping at extremities and splitting at spine bound with two gold brads. 101 Productions unknown books
1670rif. 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 books
1999rif. 200709Paris: Revue Noir 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 432 pages. Text in English. A wide ranging collection of 500 photographs taken by African photographers and Black photographers from the USA Canada Brazil Caribbean Europe and the Indian Ocean area. A tight near fine copy in cloth boards with some slight bumping to the corners and with a laid in publisher bookmark and in a near fine dust jacket with some minor wear. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. Revue Noir unknown books
1684rif. 352175Amsterdam: Chez Abraham Wolfgang 1684. édition nouvelle augmentée de beaucoup de pensées & de la vie du même autheur. 49 3 50 1-107 7 1-9; 253 19pp. Contemporary mottled calf. édition nouvelle augmentée de beaucoup de pensées & de la vie du même autheur. 49 3 50 1-107 7 1-9; 253 19pp. Chez Abraham Wolfgang unknown books
1996rif. 190244Paris and New York: Revue Noire and D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers Inc 1996. First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. 240 pages. Text in English and French by Jean Loup Pivin and Pascal Martin Saint Leon. Includes numerous black and white images. A clean and tight very near fine copy in photo-illustrated boards and in a very near fine dust jacket. A terrific retrospective look at this underappreciated French photographer. Revue Noire and D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers Inc unknown books
1754rif. 267888S.l.: s.n. 1754. Nouvelle edition. lxxxij 8 336 pp. 12mo. Later full tan calf spine in gilt comb-marbled endpapers and edges. Fine. Nouvelle edition. lxxxij 8 336 pp. 12mo. s.n. unknown books
2010rif. 126249Bern Switzerland: Peter Lang 2010. Softbound. VG one corner looks like it may have hit the floor; may have marks from ex-art-library. Light blue / color pictorial wraps xiii 682pp 171 BW plates. Text is in French. This is Volume 3 in "The Workshop: Art History and Museum Studies" series. The national representations the artistic identities and the international cultural exchanges are at the heart of this book. On the occasion of each of the five universal exhibitions organized in Paris in the second half of the 19th century 1855 1867 1878 1889 and 1900 the author envisaged France and Switzerland in their respective position of nation inviting and nation invited. A minor state on the chessboard and cultural policy in Europe at that time Switzerland represents a case mark of allegiance to the regard of the scene and of parisian artistic institutions. The Swiss holdings highlight the issues which then concerned all the European countries: the enlistment of the arts in the service of national identities investment in culture of countries the competition of political models the power relationships between center and periphery the booming of private market for the art or even the affirmation of artistic modernity. Thanks to the broad perspective that it has adopted for its subject the author proposes an inspiring model for the study still in its infancy today of the national participations in international cultural events. Peter Lang paperback books
1971rif. 32952New York: Octagon Books 1971. Second edition 8vo pp. ix 1 199; ex-library with the only evidence being a bookplate to the front pastedown with withdrawn stamp and pencil notations on the copyright page otherwise fine. Octagon Books unknown books
1877rif. 28042Paris: Alphonse Lemerre 1877. 2 vols. 8vo pp. 4 lxxxiii 1 326 1; 4 420 1; engraved frontispiece portrait in vol. I vignette title-pp. 1 page of Pascal's facsimile handwriting woodcut initials and ornaments original printed wrappers bound in at the back; contemporary quarter brown morocco over marbled boards t.e.g. the others uncut; some scuffing of the spines else very good and sound. There is also an issue of twenty-five copies printed on Whatman paper. Alphonse Lemerre unknown books
1906rif. 34101Paris: Bibliothéque-Charpentier 1906. 1 vols. 8vo. Full brown crushed levant morocco triple gilt fillet borders on covers elaborately gilt floral spine in 6 compartments a.e.g. delicately gilt turn-ins by Riviere. Front hinge just a little tender else about fine. 1 vols. 8vo. Bibliothéque-Charpentier unknown books
1819rif. 25219Paris: Lefevre "de l'imprimerie de Crapelet 1819. Nouvelle edition augmentée. Engraved frontispiece portrait. 2 vols. 8vo. Quarter brown morocco and maroon paper boards covers a little scuffed gilt spines. Very pleasantly produced set in an attractive binding. Nouvelle edition augmentée. Engraved frontispiece portrait. 2 vols. 8vo. Mill/back/5 Lefevre, "de l'imprimerie de Crapelet unknown books
1837rif. 202347Venice: In Insula S. Lazari 1837. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed. Full leather binding with gilt lettering & decoration to spine gilt ruled borders on both boards all edges gilt marbled endpapers engraved frontispiece and title page 6-1/4" x 4” 434 pp. Aucher’s name appears in three different versions on the first leaf: Armenian transliterated Armenian and Latin dated 1847. George Gordon Lord Byron traveled to the Island of St. Lazar where Father Pascal Aucher 1774-1854 taught him Armenian. Together they published Grammar of the English and Armenian Languages in 1819 and contributed to Aucher’s 1821 English Armenian Dictionary. Byron was devoted to the Armenian language writing: “I learned the language of the Armenians in order to understand how and what language the Gods spoke for the Armenian language is the language of the Gods and Armenia is the homeland of the Gods and the Gods come from the Ararat valley.”A translation of twenty-four prayers one for each hour of the day of St. Nerses the Graceful translated into twenty-four languages. This is the culmination of an effort that first had 6 10 14 and then 16 translations. This effort was likely from many of the Mekhitarist monks at San Lazzaro degli Armeni. The monastery was founded in 1715 by twelve monks; when Byron visited there were 70; today there are 12 monks and five novices. Despite the small population St. Lazzaro has been a major center of Armenian studies for centuries and still maintains the third-largest library of Armenian materials in the world. This polyglot prayer book is notable not just for its place in Armenian history and the spread of Orthodoxy but it is also a typographic success in acquiring the various fonts. In Insula S. Lazari hardcover books
1981rif. 85498Paris: Clivages 1981-84. First Limited Edition. First printings. Each one of 700 numbered copies nos. 456 255 and 569 respectively. Three 12mo volumes. Printed paper wrappers; 111 149 213pp. A fine unmarked and apparently unread set in the original wrappers. Early work by the Prix Goncourt winning novelist for Les Ombres Errantes 2002. An expanded edition of these "Little Treatises" was issued by Maeght in 1990 but these three volumes issued over three years in an edition of only 700 copies are the correct first printings. Texts entirely in French. Clivages unknown books
2003rif. 61955New York: Scribner 2003. First Edition. First Printing. Square quarto 23.75cm; dark teal paper-covered boards with titles stamped in silver on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 32pp; illus. Signed by both authors on the title page. Fine in a Fine unclipped dustjacket priced $17.95. Final volume in a three-book series of children's books by the Nobel Prize-winning author and her son Slade. Scribner unknown books
1949rif. 29335Paris: Durand & Cie. PN D. & F. 13364 1949. Folio. Original publisher's ivory wrappers. 1f. recto dedication verso cast list 32 pp. Library de-accession handstamp to upper wrapper and price label to upper margin of lower wrapper; minor chips and tears to spine. Durand & Cie. [PN D. & F. 13364] unknown books
1988rif. 9009069New York: Rizzoli 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. With 107 color reproductions and 80 black and white illustrations. Writings letters and written accounts by the painters their friends and writers and critics of the Impressionist period. Rizzoli hardcover books
2003rif. 9007826Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Cornell University Press hardcover books
1924rif. 627834New York: Macmillan 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. 185pp. Bookseller ticket and owner name on front endpapers foxing on pages and page edges spine label toned about very good. Macmillan hardcover books
1994rif. UECKGLO00acmfUniversity of Chicago 1994. Fine. Eckersley Richard. Glossary of Typesetting Terms. Angstadt Richard; Ellertson Charles M.; Hendel Richard; Pascal Naomi; Scott Anita Walker. Chicago: University of Chicago 1994. 169pp. Indexed. 12mo. Blue cloth. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with light rubbing. University of Chicago hardcover books
1997rif. 110174NY:: Free Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. First printing. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket. . 1997. 0684828219 . Free Press, hardcover books
