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2009réf. x-0739133926Lexington Books 2009. Paperback. New. 287 pages. 9.00x5.75x0.50 inches. Lexington Books paperback
1803réf. 264642Paris: Courcier and Dentu 1803. First edition. One folding plate one full-page folding map plate two folding plates. 8-page Miami vocabulary at end paged consecutively with the rest of the text. 1-300 4; 301-532 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 8 x 5 inches. Contemporary quarter calf. Rebacked preserving spine new endsheets. Very good. First edition. One folding plate one full-page folding map plate two folding plates. 8-page Miami vocabulary at end paged consecutively with the rest of the text. 1-300 4; 301-532 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 8 x 5 inches. "Volney was an educated Frenchman of some distinction and merit . . . When he came to America he was an experienced traveler and anticlericalist and an opponent of the philosophy of Rousseau. His departure from his native land was no doubt determined upon when the government he hoped to serve threw him in prison. . . This work is not a narrative of travel. The author described in some detail the geography of the United States noting topography soil climate winds and diseases" Clark. The plates herein are sophisticated and are as follows: Plate I shows the composition of the earth in the areas of Pennsylvania and Ohio and at Louisville Ohio; Plate III contains two views of the St. Lawrence River one showing the river stretching eastward from Lake Ontario the other showing a waterfall Niagara Falls; Plate II is a map of North America; and Plate IV is a large map measuring 25-1/4 x 18-1/4 inches of the United States East of the Mississippi by L Collin. Howes V141; Sabin 100692 ; Clark II:69; Field 2449; Monaghan 1472; Buck 49; Servier 776 Courcier and Dentu unknown
réf. 1853London: printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson Pater-Noster-Row 1788. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Two volumes. I:iv xii 418pp.; II: iv iv 500 xvpp. Second English edition. I: 2 A6 B8-Z8 Aa8-Dd8 Ee2; II: 4 B8-Z8 Aa8-Ii8 Kk2 Ll8. With half-titless to both volumes present. Contemporary calf rehinged at an earlier date. Some scuffing and wear to covers hinges still tender. With two folding maps of Syria and Egypt and two plates of buildings in the two countries plus a folding plan. ESTC T12218. 0 London: printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row, 1788 hardcover
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1953réf. 17665NY: Henry Holt 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4th Printing. 6.5"x9.5" 772 numbered pages. 37 append. pgs. Maps. 20 index pgs. Blue textured cloth boards w/2 ink colors. The Americans Creed for paste down in front. Owl in oval back paste downs. Beautiful full color frontispiece "Emmigrants Crossing the Plains" "The Rocky Mountain" - reprint from Currier and Ives print. Spine straight binding tight pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library no DJ no bumps. Mild edge wear to boards w/slight fading to spine. Inscription on half-title page. Faint soiling to boards. Price covers extra shipping weight & secure ship in box w/track #. Harlow was Chairman of the Dept of History Prof of Americna History Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Syracuse University. See photos of Contents & Maps. Henry Holt hardcover
réf. 68243s.l. 1789. 23 pages. 195x125 Cm. Dérelié. En tant que représentant de la sénéchaussée d'Anjou aux Etats-Généraux et membre de l'Assemblée Constituante Volney joua un certain rôle pendant la Révolution Française "comme défenseur résolu des libertés publiques et comme adversaire non moins résolu du clergé et en général de tous les cultes". Dans ce texte adressé aux habitants des campagnes et signé par "les Bourgeois associés pour la défense du droit du Peuple et l'instruction des Paysans" Volney conteste la hiérarchie des classes sociales et réclame notamment une refonte complète du système d'imposition avec la suppression de certaines taxes gabelle aides octrois corvées tailles et une nouvelle constitution. "Volney représente conjugués l'amour du progrès et l'attachement paysan à la terre avec une gravité constante et une sensibilité réelle mais mesurée. D'un courage entier pendant la Révolution et face à Napoléon qu'il aida d'abord il fut toujours partisan du silence philosophique devant toutes les folies individuelles ou collectives" Encyclopedia Universalis. Très rare. s.l., 1789. unknown
2024réf. SKU0604400Cambridge University Press 2024-02-15. paperback. Good. 5x0x8. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Tracking Cambridge University Press paperback
2024réf. SKU0651907Cambridge University Press 2024-02-15. paperback. New. 5x0x8. New Textbook Ships with Tracking Cambridge University Press paperback
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2023réf. __1433836734Amer Psychological Assn 2023. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 279 pages. 10.75x8.25x0.75 inches. Amer Psychological Assn paperback
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
réf. 97310A Bourg Chez Louis Hyacinthe Goyffon s.d. c.1792. 2 feuillets blancs. Frontispice. Titre gravé. VIIJ. 242 pages. 2 planches dont une dépliante. 245x19 Cm. Demi-veau de l'époque. Dos lisse très frotté avec une partie partiellement décollée. Accidents aux coiffes. Charnières fendues. Coins très émoussés. Petites manques de papier. Accrocs et petites déchirures. Les deux planches dereliées. Taches et rousseurs éparces. Pages brunies. Rare édition de Bourg du célèbre oeuvre du philosophe Volney dans laquelle alternent souvenirs personnels philosophie et réflexions. Si le sujet général est un questionnement sur la disparition et la ruine des empires Volney débute son livre par une méditation sur l'effondrement de Palmyre l'ouvrage aborde de multiples thèmes qui lui sont liés : origines des cultes religieux symbolisme culte des astres. Volney se souvenant d'Hérodote ne fait confiance en tant qu'historien qu'aux faits et il interroge les ruines afin qu'elles lui révèlent la ruine d'un empire et d'une cité. "J'irai vivre dans la solitude parmi les ruines; j'interrogerai les monuments anciens sur la sagesse des temps passés ." llustrée de 2 planches dont une dépliante et un frontispice. Manque une planche. A Bourg, Chez Louis Hyacinthe Goyffon, s.d. (c.1792). unknown
1850réf. 20511Cincinnati:: John D. Thorpe 1850. First edition. disbound. Vey nice. 8vo. John D. Thorpe, unknown
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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
réf. A9780231147903Hardback. New. Money and support tend to flow in the direction of economics science and other academic departments that demonstrate measurable "progress." The humanities on the other hand offer more abstract and uncertain outcomes. A humanist's objects of study are more obscure in certain ways than pathogens and cells. Consequently it seems as if the humanities never truly progress. Is this a fair assessment By comparing objects of science such as the brain the galaxy the amoeba and the quark with objects of humanistic inquiry such as the poem the photograph the belief and the philosophical concept Volney Gay reestablishes a fundamental distinction between science and the humanities. He frees the latter from its pursuit of material-based progress and restores its disciplines to a place of privilege and respect. Using the metaphor of magnification Gay shows that while we can investigate natural objects to the limits of imaging capacity magnifying cultural objects dissolves them into noise. In other words cultural objects can be studied only within their contexts and through the prism of metaphor and narrative. Gathering examples from literature art film philosophy religion science and psychoanalysis Gay builds a new justification for the humanities. By revealing the unseen and making abstract ideas tangible the arts create meaningful wholes which itself is a form of progress. hardcover
1787réf. 84167Paris 1787. 1st ed. in octavo. Hardcover. Fair. 2 vols. 2 folding maps plan and 2 folding plates ix 10-14 2 383 6 2 458 4p. Mismatched bindings Vol. 1 in a modern Greek quarterbinding; Vol. 2 in worn old leather. 20cm. Circular "Hoyt Public Library" stamp at base of both title-pages. Vol. 1 Tome Premier is sound and attractive with both maps still crisp and unworn. Vol. 2 Tome Seconde is quite worn binding heavily worn; joints splitting; the folding plate of the Temple at Baalbek is split at one of the folds and has remnants of yellowed tape along that fold to repair the split; Binding is almost completely split between pages 222 and 223. French text. The half-titles were not preserved in these volumes but this set is otherwise complete. This first edition was also published in a seldom seen larger format about 26cm. quarto edition. hardcover
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
2002réf. SKU0009019Champions Publishing 2002-10-01. Paperback. New. 8x5x0. Excellent condition. Interior is tight bright and clean; no underlining notes or highlighting. Binding is smooth and solid. Paperback cover is clean and sticker free. Minor scuffing and/or corner bumps on the paperback covers due to shelf wear. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed. All items are carefully enclosed with bubble wrap. We ship promptly and worldwide via US Post and will email you a tracking number. Champions Publishing paperback
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
réf. A9781108493109Hardback. New. A fresh modern translation of a major French Revolutionary text whose arguments for popular sovereignty are couched in the form of an Oriental dream-tale. This is a forgotten bestseller in the history of political thought which was translated by Thomas Jefferson and hugely influenced radical poets from Shelley to Whitman. hardcover
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