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1792réf. 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
1835réf. 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
1807réf. 029967Paris: Chez Courcier 1807. Octavo. Fourth edition. In two volumes: Vol. I x 487 pages 1 p. advertisement and Vol. II 492 pages half-titles present in both volumes printed on laid paper with each map and image on very thick paper to enhance the preservation. The French academic philosophers of the late 18th century found that with advances in mathematics geodesy and field mapping previous works were limited for serious work. Comte de Volney 1757-1820 was a French orientalist whose study was impressive though he himself was not considered at the time a geographer. However modern geographers realize his work was closer to modern methods than his contemporaries see Anne Godlewska on Modern French Discipline of Geography p. 192-193. Originally published in 1787 this set produces not only the images of The Spinx the Pyramids of Giza Balbek and the Ruins of Palmyre but also the maps of Syria Egypt and of North Africa and the folding plan of the Temple of Balbet. Bound 1/4 red leather over red paper covered boards spine lettered and decorated in gilt all edges marbled with matching endpapers boards rubbed light wear to corners. A very good set. Chez Courcier unknown
1804réf. 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
1799réf. 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
1955réf. 3073331955 2 VOLUMESSOFT COVER IN NEAR FINE CONDITIONFOURTH EDITION STATED. 4th Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. paperback
1792réf. 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
réf. #[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
1792réf. 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
1803réf. 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
1803réf. 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
1787réf. 055785London: G.G.J. And J. Robinson 1787. 1st . Hardcover. Fair/No Jackets. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2vol.set; 418&500pp.index; HBs brwn.leather w/maroon&gilt; heavy rub w/edges&corners worn; covers detached or detaching; bookplatevol.1; endpapers w/heavy tan on edges; some lt.tan w/cleantight pgs. "Containing the present natural and political state of those countries their productions arts manufactures and commerce; with observations on the manners customs and government of the Turks and Arabs. illus. w/copper plates. trans.from the French G.G.J. And J. Robinson hardcover
1835réf. 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
réf. 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
1826réf. 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
réf. 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
réf. 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
1804réf. 93024Philadelphia: J. Conrad & Co. 1804 1804. First Edition. unknown_binding. Used-Very Good. Octavo xxviii 446 pp.4 fold-out plates 2 of which are maps. New Quarter leather over marbled paper covered boards with red leather gilt stamped spine label. First fold-out plate is worn around edges with an ink marking over plate number. Otherwise a very good copy in a new attractive binding. Philadelphia: J. Conrad & Co., 1804 unknown
1804réf. 002794EELondon: J. Johnson 1804. First Edition. Very good. A very good and tight copy. First English Edition Translated From the French of C. F. Volney. Listed in Howes USiana V-141 and Sabin 100693. 504pp. 3/4 leather in original boards. Rubbing and chipping to leather along spine folds corners rubbed. Top edge gold gilt. Two fold out maps and two fold out plates as called for. One of the plates has edge wear and split which has been repaired. Maps are in very good condition with the larger map having a couple of tears to fold. Some foxing to preliminaries. View all Seven Photo's. J. Johnson unknown
1804réf. 11501804. VOLNEY Constantine F. A View of the Soil and Climate of the United States of America: With Supplementary Remarks Upon Florida; on the French Colonies on the Mississippi and Ohio and in Canada; and on the Aboringinal Tribes of America. Translated With Occasional Remarks By C.B. Brown. With Maps and Plates. Phila.: J. Conrad & Co. 1804. 1st ed. in English. 8vo. Illus. with two folding maps and two folding charts. Very good in later antique style calf-backed marbled boards. Howes V-141. Sabin 100693. Field 1610. "The author spent three years in the United States ardently engaged in collecting facts for his work which principally related to the state and manners of the Indians and the climate. unknown
réf. 21135Without place or date. Replied to on 25 October 1803. 1p. 4to. In good condition lightly aged. On bifolium with stub from mount adhering to blank second leaf. Neatly written and reading: 'Le Senateur Volney a l'honneur d'offrir au Ministre du tresor public comme a l'un des juges les plus competens et les plus Eclairés l'examplaire ci-joint de Son Nouveau livre Tableau du climat et du Sol des Etats-unis D'Amerique et leprie d'agreer des tres humbles civilités.' At the head of the page the recipient has written: 'Rep. 2o Brumaire. 12. i.e. 25 October 1803' Another of Volney's works 'Ruines of Empires' 1791 was extremely influential particularly in the United States. In 1796 Volney met Thomas Jefferson at Monticello to discuss Jefferson's plan to translate the book into English. Jefferson had completed the greater part of his translation by the time he mounted his 1800 bid for the presidency at which point he handed over the project to Joel Barlow who translated the last four chapters and at Jefferson's request put his name to the whole translation which was published in 1801. Without place or date. [Replied to on 25 October 1803.] unknown
réf. 70669Quatrieme édition. Paris Chez Courcier 1807. 6 X 487 1; 4 492 pp. 3 folding engraved maps. 1 folding engraved plan and 4 folding engraved plates. Contemporary three calf gilt spine green leather labels. Binding a little rubbed. . hardcover
1787réf. 17572Paris: Chez Desenne & Chez Volland. Very Good. 1787. Seconde Edition Revue et Corrogee. Hardcover. The second edition reviewed & corrected published in 1787 the same year as the first edition Two volumes bound with vellum spines over decorative boards with 4 spine bands & black lettering. Marbled endpapers. Deckle page edges. xvi I383pp viii 458pp 4 llustrated with 2 fold-out maps and 3 fold-out plates 2 engravings & 1 plan. Hinges and text are tight clean & intact. The book chronicles the cultures history and languages of the areas Volney visited. Armorial bookplate of W. Arthur Jeffery: motto "supra spem spero". French text. Middle East Syria Egypt. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 821 pages . Chez Desenne & Chez Volland hardcover
1792réf. 3624jJ. Johnson 1792. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. With the original boards. Complete with frontis and 2 fold-outs. The front and back hinges have been reinforced. The boards are rubbed and worn but remain strong and sturdy. Internally there is light tanning and scattered foxing throughout but there are no other markings or inscriptions and the text is neat and clear. The binding is sound. In very good condition indeed considering its age! JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. J. Johnson hardcover
réf. 42564A Paris. chez Courcier Imprimeur-Libraire quai des Augustins no. 71; Chez Dentu Imprimeur-Libraire Palais du Tribunat Galleries-de-Bois no. 240 An XII. 1803. 8vo. 19.8cm The First Edition 2 volumes in One 8xvi300 & 4 301-532pp. paginated continuously with 2 folded engraved plates & 2 folded maps in contemporary quarter calf marbled boards gilt titles and panel borders marbled endpapers. "Vocabulaire de la Langue des Miamis" on pp. 525-532. fine condition. cgc. T.P.L. 723. Gagnon I-3676. Clark II-69. Howes V-141. Not in Lande. Sabin 100692 mentions that there were two issues of this edition: our copy includes the "Vocabulaire" in the continuous pagination" in the other issue the "Vocabulaire" is paged separately. Constantin Francois de Chasseboeuf comte de Volney was a philosopher historian and politician. A member of the noble Boisgirais family of Anjou France he travelled extensively and wrote about his observations of the people and lands he visited. He spent time in Egypt Lebanon and Palestine "Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie " J 787 and later in Turkey and Russia "Considerations sur la guerre des T urcs et de la Russie " I 788. After the French Revolution he participated in the Estates-G‚n‚ral and Assembl‚e constituante. He later journeyed to the United States where he stayed for three years and came to know Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson translated twenty of twenty-four chapters of Volney's "Les Ruines" "Ruins of Empires " I802. Volney's "Tableau du climat" is his analysis of American politics and laws as well as the physical and cultural geography of the people he studied during his visit. "This work includes a description of the Niagara frontier and a review of French-Canadian enterprise on the Ohio and Mississippi. The author toured the United States 1795-1798 but did not apparently travel in Canada". TPL. Worldcat cites only Queen's Un Library Kingston. A Paris. chez Courcier, Imprimeur-Libraire, quai des Augustins, no. 71; Chez Dentu, Imprimeur-Libraire, Palais du Tribunat, Gall unknown