RENAN, Ernest (1823-1892).Livre Rare Book
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réf. LCS-A33«Pour un esprit philosophique, c’est-à-dire un esprit préoccupé des origines, il n’y a vraiment dans le passé de l’humanité que trois histoires de premier intérêt : l’histoire grecque, l’histoire d’Israël, l’histoire romaine. Ces trois histoires réunies constituent ce qu’on peut appeler l’histoire de la civilisation». (E. Renan) Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1887-1893. 5 volumes in-8 : I/ (1) f.bl., (2) ff., xxix pp., 455 pp. ; II/ (2) ff., iv pp., 545 pp., (3) pp. bl. ; III/ vii pp., 527 pp. ; IV/ (2) ff., 411 pp. ; V/ (2) ff., 427 pp., grand papier japon, demi-maroquin bleu à coins, têtes dorées, couvertures oranges et dos conservés. Reliure signée P. L. Martin. 242 x 153 mm.
1864réf. ABC_45229Paris 1864. Folio 275 x 365 and 37 x 555 cm. Imprimerie Impériale/Nationale Contemporary wrappers. Plates stored in two half cloth portfolios. With 70 engraved and lithographed numbered plates including 1 folding 1 folding map and 8 plansincluding 3 folding a few in contemporary hand colouring and several illustrations in the text. 14 volumes bound as 13 7 of text and 7 of plates the latter bound as 6. 4 884 4 pp. Very rare complete set of the first edition of a monumental and extensively illustrated description of the 1860/61 archaeological expedition to Lebanon and Syria commissioned by Napoleon III and led by the renowned scholar of Semitic languages Joseph Ernest Renan. The text volumes give a vivid account of the expedition its route and findings and include several illustrations in the text while the plates provide additional documentation of the archaeological sites visited. Engraved by Jules Penel 1833-post 1910 Georges Erhard Schièble 1821-80 and others they include a map of the expedition area Phoenician monuments at Amrit Arwad Byblos Sidon and other places as well as a folding plate showing the Kabr Hiram mosaic and 3 folding plans depicting Sidon and the Sidon necropolis.This important work documents the state of the excavations at that time and triggered further research on the Phoenicians. A facsimile edition appeared in 1998.Text volumes untrimmed with all deckles preserved. Some wrappers faded extremities bumped. Paper somewhat browned as common; plates fresh and clean.l Harris Lebanon p. 175. ABE CAT Art History hardcover
Album sur Ernest Renan format In-4, Composé de environ 50 photographies, certaines sur l'érection de sa statue - 6 cartes postales sur tréguier & 1 gravure du calvaire de Tréguier
