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réf. 1332927203.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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2000réf. 5815501Woodstock Books 2000. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item500grams ISBN:9781854772466 Woodstock Books hardcover
1792réf. 195713London: Printed for J. Johnson 1792. A revolutionary vision of history First edition in English of this influential work of the late Enlightenment which became an important source for Romantic writers and a core text of radical literature. Inspired by Volney's travels in Egypt and Syria the book presents a philosophical vision in which a spirit guides a traveller through history. Volney examines the causes of imperial decline draws parallels between the French monarchy and the ruins of Palmyra and envisages a republican future and a general assembly of nations. First published in French in 1791 the work was repeatedly reprinted in France Britain and the United States well into the 19th century. It is one of the books through which the monster learns language in Frankenstein: its translator James Marshall was a friend of Shelley's father William Godwin and cared for her during Godwin's visit to Ireland in 1800. Volney considered the translation too tame and supervised a new version begun by Thomas Jefferson and completed by Joel Barlow published in Paris in 1802. Octavo 208 x 126 mm pp. xv 1 400. Engraved frontispiece and 2 folding plates. Contemporary sprinkled calf green calf label blue speckled edges. Bookplate of George Forbes sixth Earl of Granard 1760-1837. Very slight peripheral rubbing endpapers a little browned light worming to initial leaves with loss to a few letters of frontispiece short closed tear to N4 into lettering without loss. A very good copy without repair. ESTC T212858. unknown
2026réf. LRB27038411Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 538 pages. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1787. Text in English. This work is a detailed account of the travels of Constantin-François Volney through Syria and Egypt between 1783 and 1785. The book provides a vivid description of the landscapes cultures and historical sites encountered during his journey offering valuable insights into the region during the late 18th century. Volney's observations on architecture religion and society remain of significant interest to historians and scholars of the Middle East. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
2026réf. LRB50012230Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 542 pages. Volume 2 of a multi-volume work. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1787. Text in English. This work by Constantin-François Volney recounts his travels through Syria and Egypt during the years 1783 1784 and 1785. A significant contribution to 18th-century travel literature it offers detailed observations on the geography culture and history of the regions visited. Volney's account provides valuable insights into the social and political conditions of the time making it an important resource for historians and scholars of the Middle East. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
réf. DADAX3744756866Hansebooks 2017-04-10. paperback. New. 5.99x1.00x8.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Hansebooks paperback
1788réf. 121627London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson 1788. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2 vols.: xii 418; iv 500 15 p. 22 cm. 5 engraved fold-out plates including 2 maps. 1. Full tree-calf leather. Corners lightly bumped. Vol. 2. Small dent on bottom of rear board in vol. 1 as well as a bit of soiling to lower edge of text block. Vol. 2 has large horizontal tear in p. 327 chip in third plate and dampstains to front pastedown and inner margins of first pages. Paper bright and clean. Title continues: "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." Volney 1757-1820 was a well-travelled learned man. He embarked on a journey to the Near East in late 1782 and spent nearly seven months in Ottoman Egypt. Afterwards he lived for nearly two years in Greater Syria in what is today Lebanon and Israel in order to learn Arabic. He returned to France in 1785 where he spent the following two years compiling his notes and writing these volumes. He continued to travel in later years being expelled from the U.S.A. as a suspected spy in 1797. It seems his life was always an adventure for he narrowly escaped the guillotine during the French Revolution. Of interest in these well-preserved volumes is the account given of the Arabic press at the convent of Marhanna vol. 2 pp. 190-191 with a catalogue of books printed there p. 196. On the macabre side is the extensive discussion of diseases prevalent in Egypt including smallpox blindness cutaneous eruptions plague and Neapolitan Disease which seems to be syphilis vol. 1 pp. 240-258. Indexed. G.G.J. and J. Robinson hardcover
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
1788réf. ST10830London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson 1788. Second Edition in English. 216 x 137 mm. 8 1/2 x 5 3/8". Two volumes. VERY FINE CONTEMPORARY FLAMED CALF flat spines ruled in gilt red morocco label on each spine. Three engraved folding plates views and plan and two engraved folding maps. Front pastedowns with the armorial bookplate of Penelope Vaughn. Cox I 235 citing French edition of 1787; Lowndes IV 2790; Graesse VI 389 both citing English edition of 1787. ◆A handful of paper flaws one causing a short tear without loss just into text a half dozen leaves with light marginal soiling apparently incurred in the print shop top inch of front joint of second volume slightly cracked two bottom corners a bit bumped and rubbed but A VERY FINE COPY INSIDE AND OUT the bindings lustrous and scarcely worn the text bright and clean and the plates all remarkably well preserved. The author's first book this item is called by Chambers "one of the most exact and valuable works of its kind ever published" Cox quoting Chambers' "Cyclopaedia: or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences". The Blackmer catalogue says that "Volney's popular and highly-regarded work was the result of three years' travels a good deal of which time was spent in Cairo. His account has never really been surpassed. Volney went to great lengths in preparation which included a year devoted to exercise and self-deprivation and three months learning the language required in a convent in the mountains of Lebanon." Volney 1757-1820 was a learned man a frequent traveller and an important governmental official who was expelled from America as a suspected spy and who narrowly escaped the guillotine during the French Revolution. The present bindings obviously are not notable for their decoration but they are wonderful examples of attractively executed flamed calf bindings typical of those making up the bulk of country gentlemen's libraries all over Great Britain. The condition of the present copy is nothing short of extraordinary very nearly capturing the look and feel of the volumes as they would have appeared on their original shelf. Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson unknown
réf. 0483238627.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1804réf. 377584London: Printed for J. Johnson 1804. First edition. Two folding plates and two folding maps. 28503 1pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Early half smooth tan calf and pebbled cloth boards spine gilt marbled endpapers. First edition. Two folding plates and two folding maps. 28503 1pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The first edition of the American travels of this French firebrand and social critic who went to America to avoid imprisonment in France. The narrative is notable for Volney's comments concerning the French royalist colonies in the Ohio country. He also includes a vocabulary of the Miami language and some interesting meteorological and geological observations. The maps show the U.S. and North America. "His work teems with the most interesting particulars which he observed or learned regarding the Indians" Field. "Considered as a picture of the physical condition of the country as far as respects its surface and climate this was the best and most complete that had appeared up to the time of its publication" Thomson. A pleasing copy. Howes V141; Clark II:69; Field 2449; Pilling Proof-Sheets 4063; Monaghan 1472; Buck 49 Printed for J. Johnson unknown
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
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
1853réf. 16954Philadelphia: F. W. Thomas 1853. Dritte Stereotyp Ausgabe. Hardcover. fair. Sm. 8vo. 220pp. Blind-stamped brown cloth with gold decorated spine. Small plate with "27" handwritten near head of spine. Chipping to head and tail of spine. Wear to edges. Staining and rubbing to boards. Sporadic foxing throughout. Bookplate of school-district on inside of front board and name of the same handwritten on title-page. Ex libris.Text in Gothic script. Binding in fair interior in good condition. Rare. F. W. Thomas hardcover
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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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2026réf. LRB9000283Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Langue : Français. Environ 516 pages. Tome 2 d'un ouvrage en plusieurs volumes. / Volume 2 of a multi-volume work. Français : Réimpression à la demande. Édition originale : 1807. Relation de voyage et étude de terrain consacrée à la Syrie et à l'Égypte à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. L'ouvrage rassemble des observations de géographie d'histoire de moeurs d'économie et de politique et demeure une source importante pour l'étude du Proche-Orient à l'époque des Lumières. Images du livre non contractuelles English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1807. Travel narrative and field study devoted to Syria and Egypt at the end of the eighteenth century. The work brings together observations on geography history customs economy and politics and remains an important source for the study of the Near East in the Enlightenment period. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
2026réf. LRB51024814Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Langue : Français. Environ 524 pages. Français : Réimpression à la demande. Édition originale : 1807. Ouvrage en français. Ouvrage majeur du voyageur et philosophe Constantin-François Volney ce récit relate son exploration de la Syrie et de l'Égypte entre 1783 et 1785. Il offre une description détaillée des paysages des monuments et des sociétés rencontrées avec une approche à la fois scientifique et humaniste. Images du livre non contractuelles English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1807. Text in French. Major work by the traveler and philosopher Constantin-François Volney this account recounts his exploration of Syria and Egypt between 1783 and 1785. It provides a detailed description of the landscapes monuments and societies encountered with a scientific and humanist approach. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
