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1801Best.-Nr. 57475Philadelphia: printed for John Conrad & Co. No. 30 Chestnut-street M. & J. Conrad & Co. no. 140 Market-street Baltimore; and Rapine Conrad & Co. Washington City. J. Bioren printer 1801. Ostensibly the first American edition see below; 16mo pp. xvi 186 2 ads; contemporary full sheep red morocco label on spine; upper joint cracked extremities rubbed; a good sound copy. Volney 1757-1820 the French savant undertook a journey to the United States in 1795 where he was accused in 1797 of being a French spy "sent to prepare for the reoccupation of Louisiana by France. He was obliged to return to France in 1798. The results of his travels took form in his Tableau du Climat et du Sol des Etats-Unis 1803" EB-11. Page 186 contains a note from the translator. Both Jefferson and Barlow had translated Volney's Les Ruines ou méditations sur les révolutions des empires published in 1802 in Paris but there's no evidence they had any part in this translation. The translator remains unknown. Evans 29822 records a 1795 edition under a slightly different title no copies located in Evans and of which no copy in OCLC either; this may be a ghost. American Imprints 1592. printed for John Conrad & Co. No. 30, Chestnut-street, M. & J. Conrad & Co., no. 140, Market-street, Baltimore; and Rapine, Conr unknown
1801Best.-Nr. 57475Philadelphia: printed for John Conrad & Co. No. 30 Chestnut-street M. & J. Conrad & Co. no. 140 Market-street Baltimore; and Rapine Conrad & Co. Washington City. J. Bioren printer 1801. Ostensibly the first American edition see below; 16mo pp. xvi 186 2 ads; contemporary full sheep red morocco label on spine; upper joint cracked extremities rubbed; a good sound copy. Volney 1757-1820 the French savant undertook a journey to the United States in 1795 where he was accused in 1797 of being a French spy "sent to prepare for the reoccupation of Louisiana by France. He was obliged to return to France in 1798. The results of his travels took form in his Tableau du Climat et du Sol des Etats-Unis 1803" EB-11. Page 186 contains a note from the translator. Both Jefferson and Barlow had translated Volney's Les Ruines ou méditations sur les révolutions des empires published in 1802 in Paris but there's no evidence they had any part in this translation. The translator remains unknown. Evans 29822 records a 1795 edition under a slightly different title no copies located in Evans and of which no copy in OCLC either; this may be a ghost. American Imprints 1592. printed for John Conrad & Co. No. 30, Chestnut-street, M. & J. Conrad & Co., no. 140, Market-street, Baltimore; and Rapine, Conr unknown books
1880Best.-Nr. 995H35London: Farrah c1880. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 4". None Stated. A later English edition of Volney"s landmark meditation on the rise and fall of civilisations including The Law of Nature illustrated with two fold-out plates and a frontispiece. In the publisher"s original green cloth.Illustrated with two fold-out plates and a frontispiece. Collated complete. This edition includes The Law of Nature Volney"s exposition of secular ethics and political philosophy a text that proved especially influential among radical and freethinking audiences in Britain and America.A later English edition of Volney"s celebrated philosophical and historical meditation on the rise and fall of civilisations first published in France in 1791 and shaped by the intellectual and political aftermath of the French Revolution.Constantin François de Volney 1757-1820 was a French philosopher historian and committed Enlightenment rationalist closely associated with the ideals and reformist spirit of the French Revolution. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Very minor blistering to boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean if characteristically age toned with one or two light spots. Slight cockling to pages. Very Good Indeed Farrah hardcover
1796Best.-Nr. k5947London: J. Johnson printed for. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Modern rebind with new endpapers. 1796. Third Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover on marbled boards. 220mm x 150mm 9" x 6". xvi 395pp. Engraved frontis plate; two folding rear plates depicting a view of the Astrological Heaven of the Ancients and a folding map of the world. A handsome copy. Translated from the French. A French linguist historian politician and philosopher Constantin François Chasseboeuf Comte de Volney was the author of 'Les Ruines; Ou Méditations sur les Révolutions des Empires'. The work enshrined the ideas and values of the French Enlightenment. A meditation begun at the ruins of Palmyra on the natural causes of the rise and fall of great cities and nations. . J. Johnson [printed for] hardcover
1804Best.-Nr. 14277Philadelphia: J. Conrad & Co. et al. 1804. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo 446pp. illustrated with two folding maps and two folding plates. A very good copy clean and sound bound in modern 3/4 textured polished cloth and marbled boards with marbled endpapers. Both maps bound at rear half-title retained. Occasional stains but really a sound clean example. One of the folding plates depicting Niagara Falls etc. has a large and isolated area of toning from an old paper repair to the verso. A significant French work on American geology and geography first published in English the same year in London this being the first edition published in the country of its subject matter. Howes V141. J. Conrad & Co. et al. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 40523Weimar F. G. privil. Landes-Industrie-Contoirs 1804. 8vo. 2 VIII 1 1 blank 283 pp. fold. engr. map. Spotting throughout. Contemporary green paper boards spine faded. From the library of L. F. Rääf at Forsnäs with its book plate. Part 14 of Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten reisebeschreibungen. herausgegeben von M. C. Sprengel fortgesetz von T. F. Ehrmann. Sabin 100690. First german translation of this important book on the climatology meteorology geography history and Indians of North Amerika. The French original was published the same year as “Tableau du climat”. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 40200Paris.Seconde édition.Janvier 1792.In-8 relié.392 p.1 frontispice gravé par Martin.2 pl.dépliantes. BE.Jolie reliure d'époque avec motifs à la grecque.Mouillure légère en fin d'ouvrage sur les pages de garde.
1826Best.-Nr. 48921826 Paris, Baudouin Frères, Editeurs, 1826, 1827, Edition Originale, De l'Imprimerie de Honoré de Balzac,"Au milieu des années 1820, Balzac renonce à la littérature commerciale mais ne parvient pas à vivre de sa plume et se lance dans les affaires. Devenu homme du livre, il sera, successivement éditeur, puis imprimeur, et enfin fondeur de caractères typographiques. Son activité périclite, ruiné, l'homme de lettres retrouve l'écriture."5 Tomes en 2 Volumes reliés, 105 x 70 mm. Reliure demi cuir, dos à 4 nerfs, Tome I, Frontispice, Les Ruines ou Méditation sur les Révolutions des Empires, précédé d'une Notice sur l'Auteur par le comte Daru, 133 pp.Tome II, Les Ruines, 126 pp. Tome III, Les Ruines, 124 pp. 2 Planches dépliantes,Tome IV, La Loi naturelle ou Principes physiques de la Morale, Histoire de Samuel, 126 pp.Tome IV, Histoire de Samuel, II, Inventeur du Sacre des Rois, 133 pp.Tome V, Leçons d'Histoire prononcées à l'Ecole Normale, 198 pp.
1821Best.-Nr. 2696Paris Bossange Frères 1821 8 volumes in-8 demi veau glacé brun, dos à nerfs ornés de voiliers au noir et d'entrelacs dorés, dentelle en queue, pièces de titre et de tomaison en maroquin noir, frontispice, 438 pp. et 2 pl.; viii, 456 pp. et 3 pl.; 455pp. et 5 pl.; xii, 511 pp. et 3 pl.; 457pp. et 5 tableaux hors-texte; xii, 407 pp. et 5 pl.; xx, 494 pp. et 2 pl.; xviii, 537 pp. 2 pl. et 14 tab. h-t., soit au total 42 gravures (cartes dépliantes, plans dépliants, planches alphabétiques, tableaux, ...). Vicaire indique 38 hors-texte pour cette édition. 1ère édition collective. Très importantes rousseurs.
Best.-Nr. 41680Weimar. Weimar. im Berlage des E.G. privil Landes = Industrie = Comptoirs. 1804. 8vo 19.6cm. in 8's viii283p. rear folding map text block no binding in clam shell box fine condition thus hoL. ~ Sabin: 100690. cf. T.P.L. 724.724 listing the French editions. Howes V-141. Not in Lande. No recent auction records the last being 1983; 1974; 1936. Weimar. Weimar. im Berlage des E.G. privil, Landes = Industrie = Comptoirs. 1804 unknown
1804Best.-Nr. 56357Philadelphia: J. Conrad. Good. 1804. Hardcover. Contemporary full leather with morocco spine label. Foldout frontis and three other foldout plates two are maps. Three of the plates are linen mounted with small part of the margins cut away. Xxviii 446pp. Scattered foxing some stains and damping. PO name at rear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . J. Conrad hardcover
1895Best.-Nr. 111026282NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY 1895. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Clean pages with general mild cover soil and some small stains. Secure binding with nice pages. Beautifully illustrated. 11 x 9-1/4 with 78 pages. Rare!. FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY Hardcover
1804Best.-Nr. C000016195London: J. Johnson 1804. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition in English 1804. 8vo rebound in late 19th century half leather and marbled boards brown leather black spine label flat spine 503 1 pp. including errata two folding maps and two plates. Leather a little rubbed and discolored modern bookplate on pastedown possibly lacking first blank or half title as it begins with the title page contents nice and bright as are the folding plates and maps. J. Johnson hardcover
Best.-Nr. Bloomsbury-9780275920463Praeger. Hardback. New. 270 pages Praeger hardcover
Best.-Nr. Bloomsbury-9780275920463Praeger. Hardback. New. 270 pages Praeger hardcover
Best.-Nr. 18919S.l., s.n. 1788 [suivi de:] La Haye, Pierre Gosse, 1788 [suivi de:] Londres, s.n., 1788. In-12, V-88-84 pp. + [4]-VII-131 pp. + [2]-140 pp. 1 pl., demi-basane havane, dos à nerfs orné de filets dorés, pièces de titre rouge, tranches mouchetées (reliure défraîchie, rousseurs).
1830Best.-Nr. 4107Pisa, Tipographia Nistri, 1830 ; in-8 ; plein maroquin bordeaux à grain long, dos lisse à faux-nerfs décoratifs dorés et à froid, titre doré, roulette décorative dorée d’encadrement des plats avec à l’intérieur roulette décorative à froid et cinq décors à froid de fleur dans un double cercle disposés en écoinçons et au centre, roulette décorative dorée et à froid sur les coupes, tranches mouchetées (reliure de l’époque) ; XV, 144 pp.
Best.-Nr. ORD-16259De l'Imprimerie de Didot Jeune. paris. Sallior. 1793, L'an deuxième de la République. In-16 (72 x 114mm) plein veau raciné, dos lisse entirement orné, pièce de titre maroquin rouge, filet et guirlande sur les plats, gardes et tranches marbrées, 107 pages. Mors du 1er plat fendu sur 1 cm près de la coiffe supérieure, page de titre renforcée dans sa partie inférieure et un peu salie, sans manque, assez bon état de cet ouvrage fragile. Edition originale, rare.
Best.-Nr. ORD-20396Nouvelle édition corrigée. Avec 3 planches gravées. Paris. Desenne. Volland. Plassand. 1792. In-8 (117 x 198mm) plein veau raciné, dos lisse orné de caissons et vignettes alternées, pièce de titre rouge, roulettes (un peu passées)sur les tranches (reliure ancienne), XVI, 295 pages, bien complet des 3 planches hors texte.
1835Best.-Nr. 88767Boston: Charles Gaylord 1835. Early US Edition. Twelvemo. 17cm. Publisher's original linen spine lacking paper title label over decorated publisher's paper covered boards. 216pp. Strong and solid scuffed to the corners with the paper worn allowing the board to show through rubbed and a little battered in places with some light cosmetic fraying to the spine ends and a general unform wear that is oddly not unappealinig; internally foxed in a pale similarly uniform fashion with some truly eccentric oak gall ink inscriptions to the preliminary blanks stating that the book was part of the library of the Transylvania Whig Society of Kentucky and presented by a visiting Englishman the inscriptions seem to serve as a kind of lending record denoting that the book was especially approved of by Kathleen O'Pinkerly who seems to have borrowed it twice; the page block is worn and a little stained but solid and eminently handleable and the rear flyleaf blank is covered with small neat pencil annotations with a corner of the blank torn away. Cosmetically unappealing perhaps but aesthetically rather charming and undeniably a survivor. A very good copy by dint of completeness eccentricity and stubbornness. An early US reprint the US first was issued in New York in 1828 by Dixon and Sickles and it is likely there is a Gaylord edition from 1833 with all US imprints being pretty thin on the ground especially with illustrated publisher's boards. This is in addition an uncredited Jefferson-Barlow translation translated with the approval and co-operation of the author by none other than Thomas Jefferson who managed the first 20 chapters or so before distracting himself with political fripperies whereupon it was subsequently completed by Joel Barlow. Of the various translations the Jefferson-Barlow is considered superior by dint of Volney's close relationship with Jefferson their common views and sympathies and frankly the fact that it renders the whole piece rather more poetically than might be found elsewhere. Controversial and madly popular it's far more a work of radical philosophy than anything else; like Jefferson Volney was a committed Deist and a firm believer in the separation of church and state for reasons clearly expressed by him through Jefferson in this work. Even more radically for the time he was a propogator of the "Christ Myth" which suggested that there was little or no evidence for the actual existence of Christ as a historical personage and that He was far more likely to be an inspiring assemblage. As might be expected such views were polarizing engendering either inspired revolutionary support or cries of heresy and treason depending upon the reader. The upshot of this and a number of other controversies was that Volney in common with the Founding Fathers not being a man known for keeping his mouth shut was ejected from the United States on more or less invented charges of espionage and his philosophical musings on the ashes of Empires and the sad destiny of mankind somewhat discredited. This had little effect upon the historical importance of Volney's "Ruins" however and it was for example widely embraced by the Romantics and their followers with Shelley having a virtual addiction to its evocative embracing of decay and his wife Mary for reasons of her own making it the text from which Frankentein's monster learned what he could about the nature of mankind and developed a rather stereotypically male interest in the Roman Empire. An unusual edition of an influential and incendiary work. Charles Gaylord unknown
1787Best.-Nr. 620600London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson 1787. Hardcover. Very Good. First English-language edition translated from the French. Volume II only of two. Octavo. iii ii-iv 1 2-500 16 index and errata pp. Illustrated with three fold-out engravings as called for: ruins of Palmyra in Syria following the table of contents "Plan of the Temple of the Sun at Balbec" between pages 232-3 and "View of the Square Court of the Temple of the Sun at Balbec" between pages 235-6. Later half polished leather and marbled papercovered boards spine in six compartments red and brown leather spine labels gilt page edges sprinkled. Owner name "James Robb New York 1863" on front fly. Binding rubbed and edgeworn text with occasional toning foxing and corner creases plates somewhat foxed with a bit of creasing and one small stain and one small marginal chip two instances of small relatively amateur paper repair in the margins title page and a leaf of the index index somewhat tanned and foxed a sound very good copy of the second volume of this highly respected 18th Century travelogue. Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson hardcover
1787Best.-Nr. 620600London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson 1787. Hardcover. Very Good. First English-language edition translated from the French. Volume II only of two. Octavo. iii ii-iv 1 2-500 16 index and errata pp. Illustrated with three fold-out engravings as called for: ruins of Palmyra in Syria following the table of contents "Plan of the Temple of the Sun at Balbec" between pages 232-3 and "View of the Square Court of the Temple of the Sun at Balbec" between pages 235-6. Later half polished leather and marbled papercovered boards spine in six compartments red and brown leather spine labels gilt page edges sprinkled. Owner name "James Robb New York 1863" on front fly. Binding rubbed and edgeworn text with occasional toning foxing and corner creases plates somewhat foxed with a bit of creasing and one small stain and one small marginal chip two instances of small relatively amateur paper repair in the margins title page and a leaf of the index index somewhat tanned and foxed a sound very good copy of the second volume of this highly respected 18th Century travelogue. Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson hardcover books
1797Best.-Nr. 14112Paris: Libraires Associes 1797. Hardcover. Very Good-. Meditations on the Revolutions of Empires". Written on the eve of the French Revolution and published during it. This 12mo version could be an early printing of the 3rd edition but I rather think it is a later printing of the 2nd. Vg- in half leather with marbled boards; has about an inch and a half of worm damage on one side of the spine of vol. 2. All corners are worn. Tops are dust-darkened but the text is as clean as you could wish as are the frontispiece and 2 folding maps in vol. 1. 246 272 pp. Libraires Associes hardcover
1795Best.-Nr. 906Paris De l'Imprimerie de la République An III (1795) In-8 - 21,5X13,5cm. Broché. 2ff, 136pp, 2ff.
1822Best.-Nr. 455221822 Paris. Bossange frères. 1822. 1 volume in-8, plein veau marbré, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre noire.(2) ff. ; XX pp. ; 494 pp. ; 2 cartes dépliantes.
