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2007réf. Alibris.0032615Costa Mesa California: Cycle News. 2007. Trade paperback. Very good. 241 p. Includes illustrations. Cycle News paperback
2000réf. BN515779Woodstock Books 2000. 2000. Hardcover. The Ruins The: A Survey of the Revolutions of Empires Revolution & Romanticism S. 1789-1834 The Ruins The: A Survey of the Revolutions of Empires Revolution & Romanticism S. 1789-1834 Volney C. F. Woodstock Books hardcover
1977réf. BN519636Frankfurt a.M. : Syndikat 1977. 1977. Die Ruinen oder Betrachtungen über die Revolutionen der Reiche = Vorrede von Georg Forster Anhang: Das natürliche Gesetz oder physische Grundsätze der Moral mit einem Essay u. hrsg. von Günther Mensching Die Ruinen oder Betrachtungen über die Revolutionen der Reiche = Vorrede von Georg Forster Anhang: Das natürliche Gesetz oder physische Grundsätze der Moral mit einem Essay u. hrsg. von Günther Mensching Volney Constantin-François 1757-1820 Frankfurt a.M. : Syndikat unknown
1801réf. 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
1880réf. 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
1796réf. 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
1804réf. 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
1950réf. 131134545San Diego: Truth Seeker Company 1950. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Truth Seeker Press edition. Near Fine publisher's updated address label on title page in Very Good dust jacket with line of sunning to front panel address update label to back panel. Jacket is mylar-protected. Nice shape overall. Truth Seeker Company hardcover
réf. 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
1804réf. 51284Philadelphia J. Conrad & Co. 1804. Hardcover. Released Harvard College Library" stamped on half-title page. Blind stamped private ownership embossments on front and rear blanks. Two folding maps and two other folding plates all in good condition with no tears but some foxing and a small piece of the margin of one of the maps missing. Although the book has been rebound brown morocco over marbled boards the edges have not been trimmed with the result that the margins are ample. . 466p. Maps and folding plates. Includes a chapter on the Indians of North America and another on the vocabulary of the Miami Indian language. Philadelphia, J. Conrad & Co. hardcover
1950réf. mon0003239638Truth Seeker Company 1950T. hardcover. Good. . No jacket but minimal wear to the cover. Pages are tanning. Truth Seeker Company hardcover
réf. 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
1804réf. 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
1895réf. 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
1804réf. 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
réf. Bloomsbury-9780275920463Praeger. Hardback. New. 270 pages Praeger hardcover
réf. Bloomsbury-9780275920463Praeger. Hardback. New. 270 pages Praeger hardcover
1796réf. 47915Philadelphia: T Stephens 1796. First Edition. Full calf. Near fine. 161p 16mo frontispiece. Lightly foxed name on inside front panel otherwse a lovely copy bound in full calf with leather abel slight warping. A near fine copy T Stephens unknown
1835réf. 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
1787réf. 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
1797réf. 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
1804réf. 54891London: J. Johnson. Good. 1804. First Edition. Hardcover. First English edition. Contemporary full leather morocco label. Old library bookplate from Rensselaer-Ville Federal Library. PO name of Dr. Platt Wickes dated 1839. Wickes was a medical doctor who apparently at his death was one of the oldest practicing physicians in NY. Two foldout maps and two foldout plates; one of the foldout plates is half in facsimile. The foldout maps have some tears. In protective slipcase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxiv 4503 pages . J. Johnson hardcover
réf. M7236aComplete set of 2 volumes in the first edition. Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson Pater-Noster-Row London 1787. In-8 418 & 500 pages. Contemporary full leather rubbed a tape repair on the title page of volume I reinforcing leather strip on front inside hinge of both volumes occasional moderate foxing traces of an erased stamp on the last page of vol. II otherwise a good set. From the library of Egyptologist Charles Cornell Van Siclen III VSX. Language: French/Français. This set ships from the USA shipping costs will be updated accordingly TXR. Relevant subjects: Egypt: Travelers & Egyptologists. unknown
réf. M7236Complete set of 2 volumes. Chez Volland & Desenne Paris 1787. Second edition revised and corrected. In-8 Vol. I: xvi & 383 pages. Vol. II: viii & 458 pages. With 2 geographical maps and two engraved plates depicting the ruins of the Sun Temple at Balbek and those of the town of Palmyra in the Syrian desert. Full calf with 5 raised bands with leather labels a fine set. From the library of Egyptologist Andrew H. Gordon. Language: French/Français. This set ships from the USA shipping costs will be updated accordingly TXR. Relevant subjects: Egypt: Travelers & Egyptologists. unknown
1804réf. lib000185J. Johnson 1804. Hardcover. Very Good. nicely rebound fold-outs pages and fold outs are all very good J. Johnson hardcover
