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1882réf. 63422Paris: Garnier frères 1882. Fine. Garnier frères Paris 1882 12 x 19 cm 3 volumes reliés Second edition. Bradel bindings in half cloth. Ink ex-donos from a former owner on the half-title pages occasional foxing. Rare. Garnier frères hardcover
1695réf. 110113AB1695. First english edition. London Printed for R. Bentley 1695. Small Octavo. Frontispiece 14 246 8 pages. Hardcover / Rare original 17th-century or early 18th-century leather. Original binding with stronger signs of rubbing to rear board. Pastedowns loosened. Interior and frontispiece very good. Needs minor attention from bookbinder. Very rare in this original binding ! Jean-Baptiste Colbert 29 August 1619 6 September 1683 was a French politician who served as the Minister of Finances of France from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. His relentless hard work and thrift made him an esteemed minister. He achieved a reputation for his work of improving the state of French manufacturing and bringing the economy back from the brink of bankruptcy. Historians note that despite Colbert's efforts France actually became increasingly impoverished because of the King's excessive spending on wars. Colbert worked to create a favourable balance of trade and increase France's colonial holdings. Colbert's market reforms included the foundation of the Manufacture royale de glaces de miroirs in 1665 to supplant the importation of Venetian glass forbidden in 1672 as soon as the French glass manufacturing industry was on sound footing and to encourage the technical expertise of Flemish cloth manufacturing in France. He also founded royal tapestry works at Gobelins and supported those at Beauvais. Colbert worked to develop the domestic economy by raising tariffs and by encouraging major public works projects and to ensure that the French East India Company had access to foreign markets so that they could always obtain coffee cotton dyewoods fur pepper and sugar. In addition Colbert founded the French merchant marine. Colbert issued more than 150 edicts to regulate the guilds. One such law had the intention of improving the quality of cloth. The edict declared that if the authorities found a merchant's cloth unsatisfactory on three separate occasions they were to tie him to a post with the cloth attached to him. He created the seigneurial system. Colbert took much interest in art and literature. He possessed a remarkably fine private library which he delighted to fill with valuable manuscripts from every part of Europe and the Near East where France had placed a consul. He employed Pierre de Carcavi and Étienne Baluze as librarians. Colbert's grandson sold the manuscript collection in 1732 to the Bibliothèque Royale. Colbert founded a number of institutions: in 1663 the Academy of Inscriptions and Medals in 1666 the Academy of Sciences now part of the Institut de France in 1667 the Paris Observatory which he employed Claude Perrault to build and brought Giovanni Domenico Cassini 16251712 from Italy to superintend in 1671 the Academy of Architecture the Academy of Music the French Academy at Rome and Academies at Arles Soissons Nîmes and many other towns He reorganised the Academy of Painting and Sculpture which Mazarin had established. Wishing to increase the prestige of the image of France and the French royal family Colbert played an active role in bringing the great Italian architect-sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini to Paris JuneOctober 1665 in order to design the new East Facade of the Louvre and sculpt a marble portrait bust of Louis XIV. This was quite an international diplomatic-artistic coup because Bernini who had never left Rome or its vicinity was personal architect to the pope whom Louis was attempting to humiliate. However the relations between the two strong-willed men Colbert and Bernini proved melodramatically stormy and Colbert ultimately rejected Bernini's Louvre design though the Italian artist's bust of the king housed today in the Versailles palace won Louis's appreciation. Colbert himself became a member of the Académie française; and proposed one very characteristic rule with the intention of expediting the great Dictionary in which he had a great interest: no one could count as present at any meeting unless he arrived before the hour of commencement and remained till the hour for leaving. In 1673 Colbert presided over the first exhibition of the works of living painters; and he enriched the Louvre with hundreds of pictures and statues. He gave many pensions to men of letters among whom we find Molière Corneille Racine Boileau P D Huet 16301721 and Antoine Varillas 16261696; and even foreigners as Huygens Carlo Dati the Dellacruscan. Evidence exists to show that by this munificence he hoped to draw out praises of his sovereign and himself; but this motive certainly does not account for all the splendid if in some cases specious services that he rendered to literature science and art. Colbert worked incessantly hard until his final hours. Work was his religion; he once pondered whether it was better to rise early and work or retire very late and work. He concluded that rising early and retiring late would be the ideal combination. Towards the end of his life he suffered from stomach aches which caused him much distress. He was reduced to eating moist bread dipped in chicken broth for his meals. By 64 he was bedridden and died shortly after his birthday. The surgeons who examined him found that he had been suffering from kidney stones. A huge stone was found in his urinary tract which would explain his pain. Wikipedia hardcover
1695réf. 002349Printed for R. Bentley J. Tonson H. Bonwick et al. 1695 12 2 pp. ads 246 8 pp. Frontispiece. 8vo 18x11.4 cm 7x4½" modern full red morocco by Stocker & Gilbert gilt rules and lettering. a.e.g. First Edition in English. A translation of Garien Courtilz de Sandras' La Vie de Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619-1683 a biography of the famous French Minister of Finances who brought great innovation and reforms to the French economy. Courtilz de Sandras 1644-1712 was himself a prolific and interesting French journalist and writer. ESTC R8430. Condition: Edges slightly rubbed; near fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Printed for R. Bentley, J. Tonson, H. Bonwick, et al. hardcover
2013réf. 57936Boston: Brier Hill Press 2013. Limited Edition. New. Folio 34 cm Designed by Michael Russem at Kat Ran Press. Printed by Arthur Larsen at Horton Tank Graphics. Frontis portrait 12 pages of text in wraps plus 32 wood engravings printed directly from the blocks. A retelling in dramatically bold black-and-white of one of the most sacred stories ever told. James Reid studied illustration at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art under Thornton Oakley a disciple of the Brandywine School founded by Howard Pyle who was known as "The Father of American Illustration." Reid's "Life of Christ in Woodcuts" is viewed as one of the earliest wordless books ever published. A lavish portfolio of wood engravings printed directly from the original blocks created by James Reid for "The Life of Christ in Woodcuts" and "The Song of Songs." "The Life of Christ in Woodcuts" has 19 engravings and "The Song of Songs" has 13 engravings. Each print is numbered. The prints are laid into two paper portfolios. All contents housed in a fine green cloth clamshell case with a blind-stamped vignette on the front cover. Both books were published by Farrar & Rinehart. "The Life of Christ" published in 1930 contained 78 illustrations. "The Song of Songs" published in 1931 had 30 engravings. The illustrations in the two books were printed from electrotypes. Only 42 wood blocks survived all present here. This set is #55 of 125 numbered sets signed by the publisher. Brier Hill Press unknown
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1756réf. 74441à La Haye The Hague: S. n. 1756. Fine. S. n. à La Haye The Hague 1756 9.50 x 16 cm 3 tomes en 3 volumes reliés First edition. Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Smooth spine richly decorated with ornamental tools and roulettes. Red morocco title and volume labels. The title label reads ""Memoire de Torcy"" while the title page is anonymous so the author of these anonymous memoirs must have been well known at the time. Light rubbing. The half-titles of volumes II and III are not present as in all copies we have consulted so it is possible that they are not actually missing and that there was only one half-title for the entire work. Very handsome copy very fresh. Armorial bookplate engraved in the 18th century of Louis Francois 1713-1791 Marquis de Monteynard Languedoc First Governor of Corsica Secretary of State for the War Department and Lieutenant General of Burgundy. Vair a chief gules charged with a lion naissant or. Jean-Baptiste Colbert Marquis de Torcy was an important French diplomat and a key figure in the various international congresses that led to the establishment of the Peace of Utrecht and the end of the War of Spanish Succession. Between the Treaty of Ryswick and that of Utrecht France lost Acadia Quebec and its other American territories as well as its dream of hegemony over Europe but gained a relatively lasting peace and the security of its national territory. The three volumes are distributed as follows: I. negotiations with Spain II with Holland III with England and for the Treaty of Utrecht. S. n. unknown
1998réf. 34245Chapel Hill North Carolina U.S.A.: Univ of North Carolina Pr. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- 441 pages; clean and crisp tight and bright pages with no writing or markings to the text. -- DESCRIPTION: Examines the relation between phrenology and many artists particularly of the 19th century. -- with a bonus offer--; 520-Colbe; Colbert Charles A Measure of Perfection: Phrenology and the Fine Arts in America PHRENOLOGY ARTS ART PSYCHOLOGY Examines the relation between phrenology and many artists particularly of the 19th century. . 1998. 0807846732 . Univ of North Carolina Pr paperback
1673réf. 148440Paris: Chez les Associez choisis 1673. Legal absolutism in the age of the Sun King First edition of this important codification of French commercial law in a contemporary limp vellum binding. One of Colbert's principal legal achievements the Commercial Ordinance imposes uniform legislative practices for commercial cases introduces standardized regulations for business practices and makes interest upon interest illegal. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619-1683 Louis XIV's chief minister for 20 years dominated French legislation in the mid-17th century. As part of his vast programme of absolutist reform he drove a major codification and standardization of French law. The overdue need for legal reform combined with a spirit of absolutist uniformity as idiosyncratic local systems were brought under a centrally imposed framework. Bluche claims that "it would provide a model for the enlightened despots of the next century" pp. 136-7. Quarto 240 x 175 mm pp. viii 120 24. Woodcut royal device to title woodcut head- tailpieces and initials to contents. Contemporary limp vellum spine and front cover lettered in manuscript. Elaborate contemporary annotation to p. 73. Early 19th-century ink inscriptions on financial & accounting business to endpapers and rear cover. Light bumping and wear infrequent spotting to covers inner hinges split but holding firm minor foxing to contents otherwise fresh: a very good copy indeed. Goldsmiths' 2037. François Bluche Louis XIV 1990. hardcover
1599réf. 92210Ingolstadt: Adam Sartorius 1599. Fine. From the library of immense book collector and Sun King's minister Colbert Adam Sartorius Ingolstadt 1599 10.9 x 16.2 cm Relié Second edition published the year after the first. Text in Greek and Latin. Illustrated with the printer's device on the title page headpieces initials and tailpieces. Superb contemporary red morocco binding spine with five raised bands bearing Colbert's crowned cipher centre of both covers stamped with his arms boards framed three times in gilt gilt roll-tooling on the board edges all edges speckled spine very lightly sunned discreet rubbing to the corners board edges and spine-ends on one abrasion to the lower cover and a faint dark mark on one compartment of the spine. A sumptuous copy bound in morocco stamped with the arms and cipher of Colbert minister to Louis XIV. Colbert acquired a vast collection comprising Byzantine manuscripts and printed editions of Gregory of Nazianzus 4th-century theologian Doctor of the Church and Bishop of Constantinople. His second son Jacques-Nicolas Colbert 1655-1707 doctor of theology was himself Archbishop of Nazianzus like his illustrious predecessor. He too collected his works and had a later edition of Nazianzus's works bound in his own arms Bibliothèque de l'Institut des Sources Chrétiennes Lyon. At the head of the title page appears the manuscript ex-libris of his library written by his famous librarian Étienne Baluze. The luxurious binding is in ""Levant morocco which diplomats and scholars are asked to seek out alongside books medals and manuscripts . A memorandum preserved in the archives of the Bibliothèque du Roi records the use between 1668 and 1683 of 4104 morocco skins of which 1820 were allocated for the Colbertine library. The usual binder was Éloy Le Vasseur who also worked for the Bibliothèque du Roi and whose receipts and memoranda appear regularly in the registers of Carcavy and Baluze. The name of Bernard Picart also appears once. The calfskin or more often red morocco binding generally bears at the centre of the boards the arms or 'an undulating serpent palewise azure' surmounted in the earliest period by an open helm facing forward with seven bars the spine with raised bands then bearing in the compartments the title in gilt capitals and a lozenge-shaped tool. In 1668 Colbert had Simon Thomassin the Elder engrave four bookbinder's tools for his library. These were doubtless the coat of arms surmounted by a marquis's coronet and encircled by the collars of the king's orders to which the minister had been appointed grand treasurer in 1665. The spine thereafter bore the title and the cipher formed of the interlaced initials JBC sometimes accompanied by the serpent within a gilt dentelle border"" reports Denise Bloch Histoire des bibliothèques françaises - t. II Les bibliothèques sous l'Ancien Régime 1530-1789. In 1672 Simon Thomassin engraved new tools - a note on the flyleaf dates the binding tool to this last set of arms. Like his former patron Cardinal Mazarin before him Colbert assembled one of the largest and finest libraries in France which he continually expanded until the end of his life. A bibliomane ahead of his time he engaged numerous correspondents charged with tracking down books not only in France's provinces but across all of Europe. His library like the king's he also took care of became one of the great European repositories of Greek philology: acquisitions copies and groupings of manuscripts brought hundreds of sources to Paris to feed the work of Hellenists and scholarly editors. Two months after Colbert's death in 1683 his family had the books in his library inventoried comprising more than 20000 printed volumes and more than 8000 early manuscripts. The Colbertine book collections passed first to the Marquis de Seignelay then to the Archbishop of Rouen Jacques-Nicolas Colbert and finally to Colbert's grandson Charles-Eléonor Comte de Seignelay: ""The Adam Sartorius hardcover
1669réf. 167114Paris: Chez Frederic Leonard 1669. Codifying the law of the ancien régime A collection of statutes passed by the Sun King including Colbert's landmark forest ordinance "a monument of legislative wisdom" de Colyat p. 78 which remained in force until the 19th century. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619-1683 dominated French legislation in his role as Louis XIV's chief minister from 1661 until his death in 1683. Colbert's programme of absolutist reform drove a major standardization of French law. The forestry legislation bound 20th in this volume was the product of eight years' work by a 21-man commission. They were charged with securing a stable supply of timber for shipbuilding largely by eradicating the widespread corruption in the forestry industry. The resulting ordinance codified a mass of medieval laws from Charlemagne onwards imposed uniform jurisprudence throughout the land and reformed various minor offences. The other edicts regulate government offices court jurisdictions and commercial regulations. The ninth provides that "les Nobles pourront faire le Commerce de Mer sans deroger a la Noblesse" the aristocracy will be able to trade at sea without compromising their noble status. All except the first are printed by Frederic Leonard 1624-1711 the royal and parliamentary printer. 24 works in one quarto 235 x 176 mm. Woodcut vignettes to title pages woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials to contents. Contemporary mottled calf spine lettered decorated and panelled in gilt edges sprinkled red. Ownership inscription of Jacques Triboudet royal counsellor mayor of Bourges and a lieutenant particulier magistrate dated 1749 on the title page of the first statute. Spine ends and corners professionally restored. Light rubbing upper front joint split but holding firm minor browning and foxing to contents small chip to upper margin of leaf B1 16th edict: a very good copy. H. A. de Colyar "Jean-Baptiste Colbert and the Codifying Ordinances of Louis XIV" Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation vol. 13 no. 2 1912. unknown
