2.678 Ergebnisse
In-8, cartonnage vert amande à la Bradel, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, titre doré en long, tranches mouchetées (rel. Laurenchet), 31 p. Compte-rendu de la mission d’enquête effectuée par Charles Lucas au cours de l'année 1838 dans différents lieux de détention pour hommes et femmes. L'auteur relate ses rencontres avec les directeurs d'établissements et avec des détenus sans rien dissimuler: la sexualité en prison, la violence et les meurtres, les malades mentaux et les traitements qui leur sont infligés, les conséquences dramatiques de l'isolement absolu... Dans le rapport, les membres de l'Académie des Sciences morales et politiques: Mignet, Blanqui, Villermé, lord Brougham, se montrent admiratifs vis-à-vis du travail effectué, mais regrettent, qu'au niveau de la forme, Ch. Lucas soit rentré dans des "tableaux qu'on devait se dispenser de retracer, afin qu'un voile de pudeur soit tiré sur de honteuses turpitudes". Rousseurs. Tiré à part de la "Revue de législation et de jurisprudence".
In-8, broché, couverture bleue imprimée d'origine (qqs accrocs au dos), (2) f., 340 p. (rousseurs), exemplaire non rogné, planche gravée dépliante. Première édition française, donnée par Moreau-Christophe, de cette vaste enquête réalisée par Crawford et Russell sur les prisons d'Angleterre, d'Écosse et d'Irlande, publiée afin d'éclairer les législateurs français. Projets de réformes, architecture et construction des prisons, régime appliqué aux mineurs et aux jeunes détenus, les prisons militaires, la peine de mort. Tableaux statistiques. Une planche gravée hors texte représente le Tread-Mill, moulin à marcher en usage dans les prisons d'Angleterre.
1999112 pages. Features: Human Smugglers - Running refugees into the U.S. from the Akwesasne Reserve; Chinese migrants risk their lives to be smuggled to North America; Patrolling 'Little Korea' - illegals from all over jump the U.S. border in southern B.C.; Chinese migrants seek release in B.C.; The Tragedy of Andrew Rich - teen Innu suicide victim; Problems with Emploi Quebec; Britain's hereditary peers fall victim to reform; Plunge of Flight 990 off Massachusetts; Feature Article - Wayne Gretzky's New World - he talks of family, life, and the public perils of selling himself; Bill Gates - as Microsoft fights antitrust findings, rivals gear up in the battle for web markets; Smart Appliances are set to rival the PC's role; Chris Staples and his Vancouver ad agency Palmer Jarvis DDB; Photo of young entrepreneur award recipients Stephen J.P. Comeau and Michael-Andreas Kuttner with their mentor, Wendy Paquette; Photos and short write-ups of additional entrepreneurs: Colleen Kennedy, Paul Wareham, Mark McLane, Allen and Tim McCandless, Ariel and Ron Shlien, Dave Zakutin, Kirt Eliza Kootoo, Chris Bond, Ken Zorniak, Daniel and Garnette Weber, Alan and Ian Andreasen, Susan Ireland, Daniel Sacks; Johan Arnet, and Samson Hartland; Brian Scudamore and 1-800-Got-Junk?; The Harry Potter Series; Pianist Naida Cole; Alexei Yashin and Carol Alt; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. One-inch opening to top of cover fold. A high-quality copy. Book
Barcelona, en la Imprenta de Rafael Figuerò, 1699. 4to.; 18 hs., 375 pp. Encuadernación del siglo diecinueve en media piel.
1829Best.-Nr. 344051829 3 volumes in-8, demi-basane de l'époque, étiquettes de bibliothèque, (4), cviij, 294 p.; (4), 334 p. et (4), iv, 336 p. Paris, Treuttel et Würtz, 1829.
3 volumes in-8, demi-basane de l'époque, étiquettes de bibliothèque, (4), cviij, 294 p.; (4), 334 p. et (4), iv, 336 p. Première et unique édition posthume des oeuvres du fils de Madame de Staël et petit fils de Necker. Le premier volume est précédé d'une biographie de l'auteur par sa soeur Albertine de Staël-Holstein, duchesse de Broglie. Il contient différentes pièces, dont celles qui accompagnèrent sa candidature à la Chambre, ses notices et préfaces aux éditions des oeuvres de Madame de Staël, plusieurs pièces de "propagande protestante" et ses interventions, pétitions et documents visant à l’abolition de l'esclavage accompagnés de gravures dans le texte (vue de navire négrier en coupe, chaines et garrots). Le deuxième volume contient la "Notice sur Necker"; le troisième les "Lettres sur l'Angleterre". (France littéraire, IX, 254-255. Dictionnaire historique et biographique de la Suisse, VI, p. 312).
Madrid, Librería de los Bibliófilos, Fernando Fe, 1880-1900 ("Libros de Antaño", IX y X). Dos volúmenes en 4to. menor; X pp., 2 hs., 429 pp., 7 hs. y 3 hs., CLIII pp., 417 pp., 1 h. Impresión en papel de hilo. Encuadernación original en tela clara, con tejuelos en piel.
In-4, 780p. Un des 50 exemplaires de tete numérotés sur papier d'arches à la cuve. Biographie nouvelle écrite d'après les documents originaux par un groupe d'historiens, professeurs et pasteurs de Suisse, de France et d'Italie. Orné d'un portrait en couleurs et de 25 planches hors texte. Magnifique exemplaire.
1871Best.-Nr. 229841871. Parliament House of Commons. Report from the Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life 1871 documents the development of state intervention into infant care mortality and childcare practices in industrial Britain establishing a foundational record in the history of child welfare law and public health regulation. Produced in response to widespread concern over infant deaths associated with "baby farming" the report supports research into nineteenth-century social reform gender and labor history and the emergence of legal frameworks governing child protection. Its findings informed subsequent legislation including the Infant Life Protection Act of 1872 and later reforms expanding state oversight of childcare marking a significant shift toward recognizing infant welfare as a matter of public responsibility rather than private domestic concern. Parliament House of Commons. Report from the Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life; together with the Proceedings of the Committee Minutes of Evidence Appendix and Index. London: Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed 20 July 1871. First edition. The volume records proceedings of a parliamentary inquiry directed "to inquire as to the best means of preventing the destruction of the lives of infants put out to nurse for hire by their parents." Contents include formal committee findings extensive Minutes of Evidence and appended statistical and documentary material. Testimony from surgeons coroners medical editors and local officials details infant mortality rates across London Lancashire Yorkshire and Scottish industrial centers. Witnesses describe systems of paid infant care including lump-sum "adoption" payments and weekly nursing arrangements that enabled maternal wage labor alongside accounts of infants transferred "generally immediately after birth" to low-cost nursing establishments. The report analyzes financial structures secrecy in lying-in houses and disparities in care tied to poverty and illegitimacy. Discussions within the proceedings reveal tensions between criminal law enforcement Poor Law administration and emerging public health authorities while tabulated data and narrative testimony together document patterns of neglect mortality and institutional response. The material documents the system of early child welfare regulation through parliamentary inquiry medical testimony and statistical evidence revealing how infant care practices were scrutinized categorized and brought under state oversight and providing primary-source evidence for the study of legal intervention in family life the expansion of public health governance and the consolidation of parens patriae authority. Issued at a time of accelerating industrialization and urban poverty the report demonstrates how gendered labor economic precarity and unregulated childcare markets contributed to infant mortality and prompted legislative reform. Large octavo; single volume; contemporary red cloth with black spine label lettered in gilt. Light rubbing minor surface wear and small spots to binding with edge wear; internally light toning and scattered marginal wear; text clean and fully readable. Overall condition: Very good. unknown
1871Best.-Nr. 229841871. Parliament House of Commons. Report from the Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life 1871 documents the development of state intervention into infant care mortality and childcare practices in industrial Britain establishing a foundational record in the history of child welfare law and public health regulation. Produced in response to widespread concern over infant deaths associated with "baby farming" the report supports research into nineteenth-century social reform gender and labor history and the emergence of legal frameworks governing child protection. Its findings informed subsequent legislation including the Infant Life Protection Act of 1872 and later reforms expanding state oversight of childcare marking a significant shift toward recognizing infant welfare as a matter of public responsibility rather than private domestic concern. Parliament House of Commons. Report from the Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life; together with the Proceedings of the Committee Minutes of Evidence Appendix and Index. London: Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed 20 July 1871. First edition. The volume records proceedings of a parliamentary inquiry directed "to inquire as to the best means of preventing the destruction of the lives of infants put out to nurse for hire by their parents." Contents include formal committee findings extensive Minutes of Evidence and appended statistical and documentary material. Testimony from surgeons coroners medical editors and local officials details infant mortality rates across London Lancashire Yorkshire and Scottish industrial centers. Witnesses describe systems of paid infant care including lump-sum "adoption" payments and weekly nursing arrangements that enabled maternal wage labor alongside accounts of infants transferred "generally immediately after birth" to low-cost nursing establishments. The report analyzes financial structures secrecy in lying-in houses and disparities in care tied to poverty and illegitimacy. Discussions within the proceedings reveal tensions between criminal law enforcement Poor Law administration and emerging public health authorities while tabulated data and narrative testimony together document patterns of neglect mortality and institutional response. The material documents the system of early child welfare regulation through parliamentary inquiry medical testimony and statistical evidence revealing how infant care practices were scrutinized categorized and brought under state oversight and providing primary-source evidence for the study of legal intervention in family life the expansion of public health governance and the consolidation of parens patriae authority. Issued at a time of accelerating industrialization and urban poverty the report demonstrates how gendered labor economic precarity and unregulated childcare markets contributed to infant mortality and prompted legislative reform. Large octavo; single volume; contemporary red cloth with black spine label lettered in gilt. Light rubbing minor surface wear and small spots to binding with edge wear; internally light toning and scattered marginal wear; text clean and fully readable. Overall condition: Very good. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 13118Genève / Paris, Joël Cherbuliez / Jullien Frères, 1853 à 1862. 4 parties en 3 volumes in-8 de 192; 669-[2]-272 et 242-[2] pages, demi-chagrin noir, dos lisses ornés de filets, titre et tomaison dorés.
Best.-Nr. 2212À Genève, pour Jean Antoine & Samuel De Tournes, 1662 - Deux parties en 1 vol., in 4o : 36 ff., XIX, 420 p., 428 p., 3 ff. d'errata, 1 f. - Rel. pl. bas. d'ep., coiffes absentes, manque d'un coin au compartiments de tête et d'un 1/2 cm2 au compartiment de queue ; tranches mouchetées. Hormis ces petits défauts de reliure
1649Best.-Nr. 115084Vitré 1649 A Paris, Chez Antoine Vitré,1649, 1 volume in-4 de 180x250mm environ, (12) ff. (Page de titre, Epistre, Avant-propos), 815 pages. Plein velin au dos muet. Quelques marques et manques sur la reliure, premiers et derniers feuillets marqués par l'humidité (traces de mouillures marginales, quelques feuillets rognés), rares rousseurs, pagination fantaisiste mais exemplaire complet, en bon état général.
1860Paris, Librairie de Ch. Meyrueis et Compagnie, 1860 - 1862. 5 volumes In-12 reliés demi-basane marron de l'époque, dos lisses ornés de filets et de fleurons dorés. 440 + 424 + 543 + 530 + 555 pages. Exemplaire bien relié, quelques rousseurs éparses. Bon exemplaire pour cet ouvrage peu courant, du plus grand intérèt et bien complet. Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné, 1794 - 1872, Théologien protestant suisse né à Genêve. Le Veme volume, daté de 1862, est plus particulièrement consacré à la Réformation en Angleterre.
1855Best.-Nr. 10164CBo.O. [Madrid], ohne Verlagsangabe [= Reformistas Antiguos Espanoles, Tomo IX], 1855. 8°, 544 S. mit Reproduktionen der Titelseiten Oxford 1638; Paris 1565 und der italienischen Ausgabe von 1550 sowie vier Seiten hinten eingebundenes Faksimile des Manuskripts der Hamburger Stadtbibliothek (Lithographie, London, 1861), Text: Spanisch, Halbleinen-Einband des mittleren 20. Jahrhunderts mit goldener Rückenbeschriftung (nur: Valdes) sowie dezenter goldener Rückenverzierung, die erste Vorsatzseite mit dem Vermerk der Reihe (Reformistas Antiguos Espanoles) fehlt, Besitzervermerk auf Titelseite oben, sonst - bis auf die übliche leichte papierbedingte Nachdunklung - ein altersgemäß erstaunlich schönes, sauberes Exemplar und defi
Best.-Nr. 24020923like new. unknown
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1705Best.-Nr. 262691705 BRUXELLES, Chez François Foppens - 1705 - Edition Originale - In-4 - complet des 2 Partiues en 1 volume In-4 - Reliure plein veau de l'époque (frottée, petites épidermures)) - Dos à nerfs à caissons fleuronnés - Pièce de titre en maroquin havane, titre doré - Roulettes sur les coupes - Tranches rouges - Gravure en frontispice - Page de titre bicolore rouge et noire avec vignette - Epitre dédicatoire avec 1 vignette (4) à Maximilien Emmanuel, Duc de Las dos Bavieras, Y Palatinado Superior, Comte Palatin du Rhin, Préface & avertissement avec 1 vignette & 1 bandeau (4), 1 bandeau, 376 pages & Avertissement (2)-430 pages - quelques taches, sinon bon exemplaire de cette édition Originale - Quelques annotations d'époque en pages de garde -- Envoi rapide et soigné - Réf. 26269
1997Unpaginated. Book is over one inch thick. "The caricatures of my colleagues of the 35th Parliament (of Canada) are dedicated to their sense of humour. If I have captured a feeling, a mood, or a particular look, I thank my models for having inspired me." - Artist. *Hilarious* caricatures of many Canadian Members of Parliament who sat from 1993-1997 by one of their own. Book is clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Lovely copy. After viewing these wonderfully detailed and creative images it is hard not to wonder what the artist actually spent most of his time doing while in Ottawa! Will delight fans and families of the MPs represented herein! Our favourite image is that of North Vancouver Reform Party M.P. Ted White. Book
193648 pages. Features: Nostalgic Goodrich Tire photo ad inside front cover shows grieving family and their car after a blowout; Nice full-page photo ad for International Harvester heavy duty industrial equipment; Nice full-page photo ad for Canada Dry beverages; Horse Doctor (fiction); Our Olympic Chances - article with photos of athletes Hank Ciemen, Sammy Richardson and Phil Edwards; Honors Easy - fictional story of what happened aboard an Atlantic liner when two card sharps picked a 'sucker'; Revolt in Quebec - second in a series of articles presenting a French-Canadian's interpretation of Quebec's reform movement and the viewpoint of French Canada toward Confederation; Nemesis in Hind - a story of glamorous India, the India where death strikes mysteriously and superstition holds sway; Treasure Under the Arctic's Rim - the mineral wealth of Great Bear Lake; A Man and a Hundred Maids - a story of how too many girls may be worse than none at all; Gun-A-Noot - the strange case of the Indian who defied police for thirteen years and emerged from his trial as a hero; Beautiful full-page black and white photo ad for Sweet Caporal cigarettes featuring horse "Margo C", owned by Miss Faith Lyman of Montreal; and more. Back cover missing. Front cover holding loosely by one staple. Book
Best.-Nr. 22710Entry dated 13 September 1832. A nice piece of Edinburgh historical ephemera. See the entry on George Berry 1795-c.1874 the first man to register to vote there following the passing the Great Reform Act in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1874-1875 where he is described as 'an enthusiastic "Free Trader"'. 40 x 10 cm slip of laid paper with printed form on one side headed 'COPY of ENTRY in the REGISTER of QUALIFIED VOTERS for the CITY of EDINBURGH.' In fair condition lightly aged and creased with clean vertical cut unobtrusively repaired with archival tape. Endorsed on reverse in a contemporary hand: 'The first voting which took place on the Reform Bill'. The form is divided into eight columns and is completed as follows with manuscript additions in square brackets: 'No. 269 Date. 13 Septemr 1832. Name. George Berry Calling. Agent & Merchant Proprietor or Tenant. Tennant House Warehouse Shop &c. house 10 Antigua Street Street Lane or other Place or Residence. residing there Parish St Cuthbert'. Printed beneath the form is: 'Certified by me Conjunct-Clerk' and beneath this is the signature 'Carlyle Bell'. Entry dated 13 September 1832. unknown
1790Best.-Nr. 11282Paris, Imprimerie d'un Royaliste, 1790 ; in-8, broché ; 59 pp.
1686Best.-Nr. 30929A Cologne, chez Pierre Marteau, 1686. Un vol. au format in-12 (163 x 103 mm) de 8 ff. n.fol., 402 pp. et 1 f. bl. Reliure de l'époque de pleine basane marbrée havane, armes dorées surmontées d'une couronne de marquis au centre de chacun des plats, dos à nerfs orné de filets gras à froid, doubles caissons d'encadrement dorés, larges fleurons dorés, titre doré, roulette sur les coupes, tranches mouchetées.
Best.-Nr. 353242 ouvrages reliés en un volume in-12, pleine basane mouchetée de l'époque, dos à 5 nerfs orné d'un fleuron central répété, tranches rouges.
2 ouvrages reliés en un volume in-12, pleine basane mouchetée de l'époque, dos à 5 nerfs orné d'un fleuron central répété, tranches rouges. Première édition collective de ces deux essais critiques sur Bayle, sa personne, son oeuvre et ses doctrines, par Jacques Le Febvre, jésuite, professeur de philosophie à Douai, puis directeur du séminaire de Cambrai. "Pendant que le 'Journal de Trévoux' réhabilitait les Pères calomniés par Bayle, un jésuite, le P. Le Febvre, préparait ce réquisitoire impitoyable destiné à convaincre enfin les catholiques abusés (…). Bayle est obscène, pyrrhonien, mauvais critique, mauvais raisonneur (…). A vrai dire Le Febvre ne le réfute guère, mais sa diatribe est un témoignage intéressant du revirement qui s'opère chez les chrétiens catholiques et aussi de l'action persistante de Bayle sur les mondains" (Monod, 'De Pascal à Chateaubriand', p. 317 sq.) (Barbier, IV, p. 184 et Supplément, n° 9245). Dos restauré au dernier caisson, accrocs de cuir aux mors et aux coiffes, coins émoussés. Cachet et côtes de bibliothèque d'institution religieuse.