796 Ergebnisse
1792Best.-Nr. 98811792 demi-basane, dos lisse, plats papier vieux rose à c. (forte mouillure à qq. ff.). in-8, XVI-392pp., 3 planches dont deux depl., P. Desenne Janvier 1792,
2007Best.-Nr. Alibris.0032615Costa Mesa California: Cycle News. 2007. Trade paperback. Very good. 241 p. Includes illustrations. Cycle News paperback
2000Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 2010Paris Firmin Didot Frères, Fils et Cie, Libraires 1864 grand in 8 1 volume reliure demi veau clair, dos a nerfs, pièce de titre, tranches peignées; portrait gravé en frontispice, 778 pages et 11 planches hors-texte gravées sur acier dont cartes et vue dépliante des ruines de Palmyre. Bel exemplaire, bien relié ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
1826Best.-Nr. 100741826 demi-reliure havane clair (half binding) grand in-octavo, dos 4 nerfs (spine with raised bands) - roulettes sur les nerfs (fillets on the raised bands) - entre-nerfs à fleuron mates (matt floweret) et entre-nerfs à fers spéciaux (specials blocking stamps) - titre frappé or (gilt title), papier marbré aux plats (cover with marbled paper), tranches peignées (painting edges), illustrations : frontispice (frontispiece portrait) 2 planches repliées (folding plates) in-fine (at rear), XLIX+423 pages, 1826 à Paris Parmentier Libraire - Froment Libraire,
Best.-Nr. 19601P., Firmin Didot, 1864, fort volume grand in 8° relié demi-chagrin marron à coins, dos à faux nerfs, 778 pages ; texte sur deux colonnes ; quelques petits frottis dusage.
1977Best.-Nr. 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
1817Best.-Nr. 64348Cinquième édition, soigneusement corrigée par l'Auteur ; on y a joint La Loi Naturelle, 1 vol. in-8 reliure de l'époque pleine basane marbrée, dos lisse, roulette d'encadrement en plats, Mme Vve Courcier, Paris, 1817, viii-367 pp. avec frontispice et 2 planches dépliantes
1789Best.-Nr. 37063Paris N. H. Nyon 1789 in-4 dérelié
1819Best.-Nr. 27406Paris Firmin-Didot, Imprimeur Du Roi 1819 In-8 V tableaux dépliants, 223 pp , petite trace d'humidité en fin de volume sans gravité , bon état de fraicheur de l'impression et du papier
1821Best.-Nr. 14241Paris Bossange Frères 1821 In-8 XLIX+438+VIII+456+455+XII+513+457+407+XX+494+XIX+510 pp, série complétée par un volume d'une autre édition ( tome VIII) : Parmantier, Froment, Paris, 1826, 1/2 basane. Planches dépliantes en fin de chaque volume, sauf le VIII, un frontispice ; dos ornés de quintuples filets dorés et roulettes, dentelles d'encadrement sur les plats et roulettes intérieures et sur coupes. Epidermures et galeries de vers, faibles rousseurs éparses.
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
1804Best.-Nr. 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
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.
1950Best.-Nr. mon0003239638Truth Seeker Company 1950T. hardcover. Good. . No jacket but minimal wear to the cover. Pages are tanning. Truth Seeker Company hardcover
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
