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1792ref. 3602714J. Johnson London 1792. Backstrip taped.Covers marked and worn.Pages cut.Pages foxed.Text in good condition.Binding badly split by covers.Bookplate inside front cover.This book has hardback covers. Ex-library With usual stamps and markings In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item750grams ISBN: J. Johnson, London hardcover
1835ref. 66872US: Charles Gaylord 1835. Hardback. Good . Quarter green cloth over light green paper-covered boards with black titling and illustration to front board illustration to rear board and paper compartment to spine. Pages have slight warping scattered light to moderate foxing and top corner folded at page 146 and 213-216. Folding and small tear to lower edge of page 216 pencil scribbles across frontispiece and chip with creasing to top edge. Endpages have previous owner's markings in pencil and bookstore sticker to front pastedown front endpages have moderate foxing and rear endpages have heavy foxing. Text block has moderate sunning and soiling with light foxing to top edge and lower edge and moderate foxing to fore edge. A few pages slightly stick out from binding at fore edge. Boards have scattered moderate to heavy soiling very heavy wear to paper compartment at spine that is mostly removed moderate bumping and light rubbing to ends of spine and heavy rubbing and chipping to edges and corners where cardboard is exposed. Binding is sound pages 82-92 slightly torn from binding but still holds. Charles Gaylord unknown
1804ref. 40723Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1804. Unbound, but stitched. VIII,283 pp. and one folded engraved map ""Charte vonn Nord-America zur Erläuterung des Systems der Winde und Strömungen. Weimar, 1804""
1804ref. 40723Weimar Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs 1804. Unbound but stitched. VIII283 pp. and one folded engraved map "Charte vonn Nord-America zur Erläuterung des Systems der Winde und Strömungen. Weimar 1804" Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen.hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel 8. Bd.: 2. Theil. Having the general titlepage this with a stamp.- Sabin: 100690. unknown
1791ref. R300124149Chez Desenne/Volland/Plassan. 1791. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Livré sans Couverture, Dos abîmé, Quelques rousseurs. XVI + 410 pages - une gravure en noir et blanc en frontispice - une carte dépliante - un tableau dépliant du ciel astrologique des anciens. Plats et dos manquants. Gardes et tranches jaspés.. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.05-XVIII ème siècle
1828ref. 24371Paris Libraires du Palais- 1828 In-18, veau bordeaux orn sur chaque plat d'une plaque romantique pousse froid et borde d'un filet dor, dos quatre nerfs orn de fleurons et filets dors et froid avec deux pices de titre en veau noir; doublures et gardes de papier peigne, tranches jaspes (reliure de l'poque).Edition orne d'un portrait-frontispice grav sur acier et comportant in fine une carte du monde galement grave sur acier. Agrable reliure romantique.
ref. 51485Bossange.1822.2 vols.in-8 demi-reliés.Qques rousseurs peu importantes.Complets des cartes sauf carte africaine dans le Tome I,auquel il manque le cartouche.
1799ref. r7093Paris: Chez Dugour et Durand. G : in Good condition. Cover rubbed with corner and edge wear. Spine scuffed. Occasional browning. Neat signatures of previous owners in volume I. 1799. Troisième édition. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards. 200mm x 130mm 8" x 5". 478pp; 472pp. 4 folding plates folding plan and 2 of 3 engraved maps. Text in French. . Chez Dugour et Durand hardcover
1955ref. 3073331955 2 VOLUMESSOFT COVER IN NEAR FINE CONDITIONFOURTH EDITION STATED. 4th Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. paperback
1792ref. 000262Paris: Desenne. Volland. Plassan. Libraires 1792. Hardcover. See Description. New and corrected edition First edition printed in France. 8vo. pp. xvi 295 1. With plate depicting the ruins of Palmyra and 2 fold out plates illustrating 1. the eastern hemisphere and 2. the astrological constellations ceil astrologique des anciens. Bound in original pink paste paper boards - some wear to the outer hinges and extremities. Pages are clean; occasional speck of marginal foxing. Volney's book of meditations on the rise and fall of empires was influential on the Romantic movement and on the Hudson River school of painting. Chapters also discuss ancient religions and mysticism. Desenne... Volland... Plassan.... Libraires hardcover
ref. #[64803]The Hague Den Hage/Delft Leeuwestyn/Roelofswaert 1796 8vo. half leather binding with title plate and gold tooling on spine and speckled paper on the front and back cover with original ribbon bookmark 283 pp. paper on the front cover slightly damaged and front flyleaf somewhat loosened but otherwise in very good condition two beautiful plates: frontispiece Hier bloeide wel eer eene pragtige stad and large astrological fold-out plate. l Dutch translation of the original work in French. An English translation was started by Thomas Jefferson but remained incomplete when he became occupied with the 1800 presidential campaign. The translation was finished by Joel Barlow. Also translated in Dutch as: "De puinhoopen. Beschouwing van de omwenteling der staten gevolgd van de natuurlijke wet" in 1881. hardcover
1792ref. 18551à Paris: Chez DesenneVollandPlassans 1792. Fine. Chez Desenne Volland Plassans à Paris 1792 12.50 x 20 cm relié First French edition. The original edition appeared in Geneva in 1791. Illustrated with 3 plates a frontispiece and two folding: a hemispheric map and an astrological one. Contemporary full marbled sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated. Red morocco title label. Upper headcap worn. Rubbing to joints and edges. Famous work by the philosopher Volney in which personal memories philosophy and reflections alternate. While the general subject is a questioning of the disappearance and ruin of empires Volney begins his book with a meditation on the collapse of Palmyra the work addresses multiple related themes: origins of religious cults symbolism worship of stars. The book excels through its lyrical style and allegories. Volney remembering Herodotus trusts as a historian only in facts and he interrogates the ruins so that they might reveal to him the ruin of an empire and a city. Chez DesenneVollandPlassans unknown
1792ref. 3813A Paris, Chez Desenne; Volland; Plassan, 1792. 1 vol. in-8 de XVI-392 p. Reliure moderne demi-maroquin noir à coins, dos à nerfs orné de fleurons dorés, tête dorée. Belle condition seuls les coins sont très légèrement frottés.
1803ref. 2510010043Courcier imprimeur-libraire quai des Augustins no. 71 ; Dentu imprimeur-libraire Palais du Tribunat Galleries-de-Bois no. 240 Paris an XII--1803 1803. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volume set. xvi 534 pages: 2 folded leaves of plates 2 folded maps of North America and the United States. 21 cm. Includes the vocabulary of the Miami Indians. Includes American geology and natural science as well as observations on Indians. Volney was a philosopher abolitionist orientalist and extensive traveler. He came to America to avoid imprisonment by the French government during the Reign of Terror. A friend of Jefferson he was expelled in 1798 by President John Adams under the Alien and Sedition Act due to the fear he was acting as a French agent to allow for the reoccupation of the Louisiana territory. He visited the United States from 1795-1798 and this book was the result Jefferson translated most of the work but it was ultimately completed by John Barlow. Refs: Sabin 100692 Howes 10675; Clark II:69; Pilling 4061; Monaghan 1472; Buck 49. Courcier, imprimeur-libraire, quai des Augustins, no. 71 ; Dentu, imprimeur-libraire, Palais du Tribunat, Galleries-de-Bois, no. hardcover
1835ref. 67296Printed in the USA: Charles Gaylord 1835. 1835 edition. Cloth and paper over boards. As described. Hardcover cloth tan over paper illustrated over boards. 12mo. 216 pp. Illustrated with a b/w engraved frontispiece. No edition marks. Remnants of a paper label on the spine. Faded partially legible inscription on the front flyleaf. Ownership signature P. S. Van Wagner Hamilton 1844 R. R. on the front flyleaf and title page. Small enclosed tear on the back flyleaf. Text block is age browned around the edges and mildly foxed throughout. Binding is strong and square. Spine and boards are soiled rubbed and worn. Edges of the boards are frayed in sections. Small enclosed tear on the fore edge of the front board. Crack in the bottom of the front hinge. Bumped corners. Despite its appearance this copy's bindings are still strong and its pages legible. Charles Gaylord unknown
1803ref. 55052Paris: Chez Courcier & Dentu. Very Good. 1803. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary full leather gilt decorated spine 5 raised bands red morocco label marbled eps red page edges. Two volumes in one with continuous pagination. First edition of this study on American geology with info on the customs of the Indians and colonists. Four folding plates three in color including a geological survey a section of Niagara Falls and two maps smaller one of North America and larger one of the United States. Includes 8 page Vocabulaire de la Lange des Miamis at the end. Table des matieres notice to the binder and errata page are bound at the beginning. Hinges a bit weak but holding. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xvi524 pages . Chez Courcier & Dentu hardcover
ref. BN104851Kessinger Publishing. Softcover. Histoire De Samuel: Inventeur Du Sacre Des Rois 1819 French Edition Histoire De Samuel: Inventeur Du Sacre Des Rois 1819 French Edition Kessinger Publishing paperback
ref. 9943Londres, 1788. Titre gravé et 140 pp. Couverture de relai du début du XIXème siècle. A Paris, chez les Principaux libraires, sans date. In 8 demi-reliure à la Bradel, dos lisse orné.
1791ref. 4651Bourg, Louis Hyacinthe Goyffon, sans date (1791) ; in-4 ; demi-maroquin à grain long vert, dos lisse à faux-nerfs décoratifs dorés, fleurons et titre dorés (reliure du tout début XIXe) ; VIII, 242 pp. et 3 planches hors-texte.
ref. 8328Paris, De l'imprimerie de la République, an III. Petit in-8, (4)-135-(3) pp., reliure d'époque plein veau raciné, dos orné, tranches mouchetées, 4 planches h.-t. dont 3 dépliantes (reliure frottée, coiffe supérieure arasée, mors supérieur fendillé, quelques rousseurs).
1807ref. 205481807 Paris, Courcier, 1807, 2 tomes en 2 volumes in-8 de (4)-X-487-(1) pp. ; (4)-492 pp., belle reliure de l'époque de plein veau brun raciné, dos lisses ornés de fers romantiques dorés, pièces de titres de maroquin rouge et de tomaisons de maroquin vert, encadrements de roulettes dorées sur les plats,
1826ref. 0021977Parmentier Paris 1826. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good/not applicable. Constantin François de Chasseboeuf Comte de Volney 3 February 1757 - 25 April 1820 was a French philosopher historian orientalist and politician. He was at first surnamed Boisgirais after his father's estate but afterwards assumed the name of Volney which he had created as a contraction of Voltaire and Ferney . Volume I: Les ruines ou meditation sur les revolutions des empires. Volumes II and III: Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie pendant les annees 1783 1784 et 1785. Volume IV: Tableau du Climat et du sol des Etats-Unis d'Amerique. Volumes V and VI: Recherches Nouvelles sur l'histoire ancienne. Volume VII: Lecons d'histoire.Volume VIII: L'alfabet Europeen applique aux langues Asiatiques. An eight volume set in contemporary quarter calf French bindings. Gilt lettered and decorated. Marbled paper boards. Tight and sound copy. Bindings rubbed at extremities but all sound and presentable. Text clear and legible throughout. A decent set and quite scarce. Complete set with all engraved plates maps and tables. Each volume approx. 8.5" by 5". Quantity Available: 1. Category: History ; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0021977. . Parmentier hardcover
ref. 51-5720Paris: Courcier 1807. 8vo. 12 x 20 cm. 2 vols. Contemporary tree calf with labels and gilt spine.Engraved views and folding maps. Very good. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:312942222. Paris: Courcier, 1807 unknown
ref. 231341Paris, Desenne, Volland, Plassan, août 1791 in-8, titre, xvj pp., 410 pp., avec 3 planches, dont un frontispice par Martini, et deux dépliants, veau fauve raciné, dos lisse cloisonné et orné alternativement de fleurons et d'urnes dorés, pièce de titre cerise, encadrement de triple filet doré sur les plats, simple filet doré sur les coupes, tranches dorées (reliure de l'époque). Deux mors fendus, coins abîmés, mouillures en début et en milieu de volume.
ref. 2246-14Paris Bossange 1821-22. 5me éd. 2 vols. gr.-8°. 2 Bll. 455 S. 1 Bl.; 2 Bll. VIII 456 S. Mit 1 gefalt. Plan 3 gefalt. Karten u. 4 gefalt. Kupfertaf. HLdr. d. Zt. Mit Rückengoldpräg. Rü. restaur. Stellenw. stockfleckig. vgl. Brunet V 1351; vgl. Cox I 235; Gay 2275; Ibrahim-Hilmy I186; Chadenat 720 - "One of the most exact and valuable works of the kind ever published all personal details being eliminated to economise the time of readers" Cox. - Constantin François Chasseboeuf Boisgirais Comte de Volney 1757-1820 französischer Reisender Orientalist und Geschichtsphilosoph. Der Abkömmling einer ländlichen Adelsfamilie studierte in Paris Medizin und Philosophie. Dort war er auch Gast in den Salons von Baron Holbach und Madame Helvétius wo er die Bekanntschaft von Voltaire Diderot d'Alembert und Benjamin Franklin machte. Mit letzterem blieb er auch schriftlich verbunden. 1782 unternahm er eine mehrjährige Reise in das Osmanische Reich die ihn nach Syrien Palästina und Ägypten führte. In der französischen Revolution war er Mitglied der Nationalversammlung. Paris, Bossange 1821-22. unknown