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1815réf. 67010London: Baldwin Cradock and Joy 47 Paternoster Row C. Baldwin printer New Bridge-street London 1815. First edition in English 3 volumes engraved portrait frontispiece original chocolate-brown paper-covered boards paper labels on spines; a few chips and cracks but largely a very good sound set. In ink on verso of each front free endpaper: El: Rose / Kilravock Castle 27th June / 1816. Though she died in 1815 the signer is probably Elizabeth Rose of the clan Rose erstwhile owners of Kilvarock Castle. Saint-Pierre 1737-1814 was the author of the often-reprinted story Paul et Virginie 1789. In Harmonies Saint-Pierre attempts to prove the existence of God based on the wonders of nature. "After Rousseau and even more than Rousseau Bernardin was in French literature the apostle of the return to nature though both in him and in his immediate follower Chateaubriand there is still much mannerism and unreality" EB-11. Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 47, Paternoster Row, [C. Baldwin, printer, New Bridge-street, London] unknown books
1928réf. 43075Paris: Editions Nilsson 1928. Large 8vo pp. 225; 6 tipped-in plates of pochoir illustrations on glassine paper by P. Charavel; original stiff wrappers in pochoir-illustrated glassine dust jacket; small chip to upper jacket cover edge 3-inch tear to jacket spine; interior fine. Forms part of the "Collection 'Lotus' Editions Nilsson unknown books
1888réf. 33841London: George Routledge and Sons 1888. Edition limited to 800 copies this no. 42; large 8vo pp. xxxvii 1 208 1; inserted title-p. after a design by Leloir printed in green engraved frontispiece vignette title-p. printed in red and black 11 engraved plates plus 120 other engravings throughout the text; contemporary full blue morocco gilt-ruled covers with gilt floral sprays in the corners gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments gilt lettered in 1 a.e.g. inner dentelles; some minor scuffing to the covers but in all a very good sound copy. The preliminary matter includes a 16-page memoir of the author as well as the author's own introduction to his classic story of adventure love and death on the isle of Mauritius. George Routledge and Sons unknown books
1838réf. 1319390Paris: L. Curmer 1838. Hardcover. Quarto 458 14; VG-; bound in full blind-stamped black calf gilt to spine; some rubbing to spine removing some gilt chipping to head of spine; marbled text block and endpapers; some foxing throughout; profusely illustrated; GH consignment. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #5 . 1319390. FP New Rockville Stock. L. Curmer hardcover books
1797réf. 10578Worcester: J. Nancrede 1797. Original full leather rubbed rebacked. Plate frontis 'Philocles in the Island of Samos.' Folding plate 'Atlantic Hemisphere.' pp 2 331 blank 4 publ. advts. Text clean and Very Good. This is the single-volume printing ending with 'The End' on page 331 instead of 'End of first volume.' We have not found any other record of the final four pages of publisher's advertisements. The work presents as the preface states "all that portion" of Saint-Pierre's Studies of Nature "which relates immediately to the subject of religion." Bristol B10094. Not in Shipton & Mooney or Evans. ESTC W36508. J. Nancrede unknown books
1794réf. 17555Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by William Spotswood 1794. 12mo. Original leather-backed marbled paper over boards 1.5" wide horizontal piece missing from bottom front cover. 79pp. Rubberstamp and light pencil writing on front free endpaper. Scattered light fox light wear. Good. According to ESTC this is the second title of PAUL AND MARY Evans 27667 and Welch 11401. Printed and Sold by William Spotswood unknown books
1927réf. 59582Very Good. 1927. Hardcover. An edition in Very Good condtion with a worn spine hinge and general wear from age to the boards ; Saint-Pierre Arthur and Barry O'Neill's St. Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal is a descriptive and historical account of the oratory and its founder St. Joseph. The oratory is located on Mount Royal in Montreal and is the largest Marian shrine in North America. The authors provide an in-depth look at the history of the oratory its founders and the miracles that have been attributed to it. The book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in Catholic history or the history of Montreal.; 100 pages . hardcover books
1788réf. 338270Lausanne: J. Mourer 1788. hardcover. near fine. 294 pages in French. 12mo rebound in older 3/4 brown calf marbled boards gilt decorations to spine original green patterned paper wrappers bound in; top edges gilt others uncut. Lausanne: J. Mourer 1788. Areas of rubbing to spine and edges of covers as well as to joints. Light spotting to some leaves. A near fine copy. Early edition possibly a pirated edition; the first edition was published 1789 though Paul et Virginie was published 1788 in volume four of Saint-Pierre's Etudes de Nature. J. Mourer unknown books
1907réf. 2255London: J. M. Dent @ Co 1907. Second edition. Second edition. Arts and Crafts binding in full red-brown morocco with attractive linear gilt patterning and four clusters of leaf motifs on each cover gilt decorated spine. Binding is signed in rear dentelle "WNL." Fine. J. M. Dent @ Co unknown books
1888réf. 216283London England 1888. Hardcover. Sold As Is cloth on spine peeling edges of book with rips in cloth general wear to boards binding tenous but holding pages tanned but generally excellent slightly wavy but no water damage. Red and black cloth-bound boards with gilt text on cover and spine. xxvii 208 pp. 12 unnumbered leaves of plates. "A rather short novel . which recounts the youth of two children who are raised as brother and sister by their mothers on the edge of society on the island of Mauritius at that time a French colony known as Île de France. The children's paradise unravels as they enter their teenage years and their awakening sensuality taints their innocent affection. Virginia is sent to Europe by her mother who seeks to keep her away from Paul. When Virginia returns her ship is caught in a storm off the coast of the island" hardcover books
1906réf. 123339Boston: HMCo 1906. Hardcover. Very Good. First thus. Very good minus. Pages: 155 Many pages uncut. Spine and spine label are browned very light soiling to covers.; Small waterstain at top and bottom of spine affecting front pastedown and front endpaper only. Binder's ticket bound in between rear pastedown and rear endpaper. 1/225 copies. HMCo hardcover books
réf. 180500Paris: Larouse. Softcover. Very Good. Very good in wrappers. Browning of panels/spine/pgs. Larouse unknown books
1537réf. 4403Venice: Francesco Bindoni & Mapheo Pasini compagni 1537. 8vo 145 x 94 mm. 48 leaves. Italic types. Large title woodcut of the prison of love in flames 19 woodcut text illustrations printed from 13 blocks most showing two scenes; initial spaces with guide letters unrubricated. 19th-century green straight-grained morocco sides with double fillet border enclosing central gold-blocked arms of Gómez de la Cortina his gilt crowned ciphers in the corners gilt edges. Provenance: Joaquin Gómez de La Cortina 1st Marquis de Morante 1808-1868 supralibros & bookplate; with Quaritch their collation note at end; sold in 1996 to Kenneth Rapoport bookplate. Lelio Manfredi’s Italian translation of the Carcel de amor 1st ed. 1492 was among the most popular sentimental romances of its time. Many wept over the thwarted love of the noble Leriano and Laureola heir to the throne of Macedonia. Captive in an allegorical tower of love communicating with his beloved only through mediators the hero eventually renounces her in order to preserve her honor threatened by a rival’s false aspersions. There are duels and battles Leriano stops eating and finally dies after shredding and swallowing her letters. The tragedy touched a nerve and dozens of editions appeared in Spain as well as translations into Italian French English Catalan and in the 17th century German. Few remembered the true author whose name is omitted from most of these editions. One of several Castilian romances that were widely adapted and translated into other western European languages the Carcel de amor was the only one to appear first in print and to be consistently illustrated. It permeated the European reading public. The tale is told through letters and monologues rather than dialogue and much has been written about its hybrid forms and elaborate rhetoric “a reflection of vernacular humanism and a fictional tour de force of rhetorical precepts” Francomano p. 10 and about its literary sources and later influence or lack of it: While many scholars note its influence on the development of later European Renaissance fiction through its use of epistolary exchanges and of a narrative voice L’autore who acts as intermediary as well as its tragic ending and exploration of class differences between the lovers one commentator has called it “a dead-end in the history of literature” A. West: “In general the Prison of Love is a book of vestiges: of ways of believing that no longer obtain of customs that already were dying out of a manner of writing soon to be eclipsed by the realism of the picaresque novel.” The humanist Lelio Manfredi d. 1528 translated the work into Italian at the request of Isabella d’Este to whom the printed editions are dedicated the first appearing in Venice in 1514. Eight more editions of his translation are recorded by USTC all but one Venetian the last in 1546. This edition is the third of four recorded editions by the partners Fr. Bindoni & Maffeo Pasini who specialized in vernacular literature and devotional works. The title woodcut used in the Bindoni and Pasini editions is a close copy of woodcuts from earlier Venetian editions see for example an anonymously published Spanish edition from 1523 Sander 6729 not in USTC whose title is reproduced in the Heredia catalogue vol. 2 no. 2468. Its iconography dates to the earliest Spanish editions as does that of the small primitive text woodcuts which relate to the text and are based on the more elaborate cuts from the Spanish incunable editions cf. Deyermond. Blind copying was the order of the day: note the anachronism of a cheaply printed edition of the 1530s retaining blank initial spaces with guide letters to be filled by nonexistent rubricators or illuminators who by this late date would only have been hired to embellish costly imprints or luxury manuscripts. I locate two US holdings of this edition UCLA and Folger and six holdings of other editions of Manfredi’s translation. USTC 854438; EDIT-16 CNCE 66994; Sander 6732 note; Palau 293388; Brunet V 112. Not in Essling. Cf. Alan Deyermond “The Woodcuts of Diego de San Pedro's Cárcel de Amor 1492-1496” Bulletin hispanique 2002 104-2: 511-528; Emily Francomano The Prison of Love: Romance Translation and the Book in the Sixteenth Century Toronto 2018; Adrian West “On Translating Diego de San Pedro's The Prison of Love” Asymptote Oct. 2012 online. Francesco Bindoni & Mapheo Pasini, compagni unknown books
1906réf. 140053Boston: Houghton Mifflin et Cie 1906. patterned paper-covered boards paper spine label slipcase. Rogers Bruce. small 4to. patterned paper-covered boards paper spine label slipcase. viii 154 2 pages. Limited to 250 numbered copies. Warde No.68. Private bookplate of Herbert H. Johnson on front pastedown. Spine lightly faded. Some minor rubbing to the extreminities slipcase rubbed with small cracks else a fine copy. Typography by Bruce Rogers. Printed on hand- made paper with type imported from France. The original copper plates have been cut on wood by M. Lamont Brown and the prints mounted. With an engraved title page. The typography is by the notable American book designer Bruce Rogers 1870-1957 who "was appreciated in his lifetime. In addition to several honorary degrees in 1948 he was awarded a gold medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for distinction in the graphic arts. Over decades of accomplishment in which he designed approximately 500 books. Rogers literally defined the profession of book designing in the United States" ANB. Francis Meynell stated that Rogers was."the greatest artificer of the book who ever lived Houghton Mifflin et Cie unknown books
1906réf. 18339Boston: Houghton Mifflin et Cie 1906. patterned paper-covered boards paper spine label. Rogers Bruce. small 4to. patterned paper-covered boards paper spine label. viii 154 2 pages. Limited to 250 numbered copies. Warde No.68. Some rubbing to boards. Some wear at spine ends with minor loss at head of spine. Else a fine copy. Typography by Bruce Rogers. Printed on hand- made paper with type imported from France. The original copper plates have been cut on wood by M. Lamont Brown and the prints mounted. With an engraved title page. Loosely inserted is a prospectus. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. The typography is by the notable American book designer Bruce Rogers 1870-1957 who "was appreciated in his lifetime. In addition to several honorary degrees in 1948 he was awarded a gold medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for distinction in the graphic arts. Over decades of accomplishment in which he designed approximately 500 books. Rogers literally defined the profession of book designing in the United States" ANB. Francis Meynell stated that Rogers was."the greatest artificer of the book who ever lived Houghton Mifflin et Cie unknown books
1892réf. 207541New York: Thomas Y. Crowell 1892. Hardcover. VG. Leloir Maurice. Half-bound white fabric with gilt text and design on the spine. Color patterned paper wraps over the remainder of the boards. Gilted textblocks. 197 pages; illustrated in black-and-white; each page has a lovely and intricate light green border. Thomas Y. Crowell hardcover books
1906réf. 192920Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1906. Number 74 of 280 copies. Hardcover. VG Boards show shelf/edgewear smudging; spine top is moderately worn; bookplate on front pastedown; text block edges are darkened and foxed; some pages show darkening around the edges; otherwise pages are clean and bright; binding is solid. Green paper-covered boards with title plate on the spine with blue lettering; 154 pp. 4 unnumbered leaves of plates illustrations. Pages are untrimmed. Text in French. This is a numbered copy 74 of 280. This is a lovely copy of this classic French Romance novel. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1838réf. 179472Paris: L. Curmer 1838. Leather bound. VG boards have overall wear and rubbing with front cover cracked along spine at front edge but all pages are intact. Sporadic foxing throughout. Deep purple full leather boards with extensive gilt tooling and lettering all edges gilt four raised bands on spine bw illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard. lvi 458 14 pages 37 unnumbered leaves of plates with protective tissue guards illustrations map portraits. Text in French. Half title: Paul et Virginie et La chaumière indienne. "Literary historical notice on J.-H. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre" by Sainte-Beuve on p. IX -LII at front./ "La chaumière Indien / by J.-H. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Paris: L. Curmer 1838" on p. 317 -418 with special t.p. we p. 317 ./ "Flora of Paul and Virginia and of the Indian cottage" on p. 419 -458./ "Table of contents" "Table of names of designers and engravers" "Large vignettes" and "Steel engravings" on 14 p. at end./ Originally issued in 30 i.e. 29 deliveries 1836-1837. For full description cf. Vicar Manuel t. 7 col. 42-68./ Vignette on verso of half title page: "By the care of L. Curmer" and "Typography and foundry of A. Everat & Cie xvi rue du Cadran." / Eng. of Marguerite has "Marguerite." printed as part of the plate as is the case for the plates for "Mme. de la Tour" "Virginie" and "Paul" etc. each has legend printed as part of its plate instead the legend being printed on the tissue guard facing it. There is no vignette "Une bonne femme" the first Mme. Curmer on India paper forming the tail-piece of p. 418. L. Curmer hardcover books
1860réf. 452184Paris: Garnier Freres 1860. Hardcover. Very Good. Nouvelle edition. Small quarto. 335pp. Text in French. Illustrated by Alexandre De Bar. Three quarter leather gilt-ruled and gilt-stamped on spine papercovered boards and endpapers top edge gilt. Light scattered foxing on pages and page edges extremities lightly worn very good. Garnier Freres hardcover books
1945réf. 388258Paris: Aux dépens d'un Amateur 1945. Softcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition with these illustrations. Illustrated in color by Roger Mauge. Tiny tear very near fine in modestly chipped very good unprinted glassine dustwrapper. Copy numbered 262 oof 700 numbered copies on chiffon de Renage paper. Attractive edition. Aux dépens d'un Amateur unknown books
1841réf. 549089Philadelphia: J.J. Woodward 1841. Hardcover. Good. American edition. Translated by Henry Hunter. Octavo. 398pp. illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and facing engraved title page. Contemporary bookseller’s blind-embossed stamp and near contemporary bookseller’s ink stamp each on front free endpaper. Contemporary speckled calf gilt spine with black leather spine label. The boards are sunned and rubbed at the edges lacking front fly leaf the conjugate pair of facing engraved plates is partly sprung a good or better copy with light scattered foxing. A scarce well-preserved copy. OCLC locates only three copies. J.J. Woodward hardcover books
1925réf. 60055Kralicka: L. Bradac 1925. vellum top edge gilt paper-covered slipcase. small 12mo. vellum top edge gilt paper-covered slipcase. 238 5 pages. A Czech translation of Saint-Pierre's classic eighteenth century sentimental novel about two young people raised with no conception of the class gender or ideological differences between them. Translated from the French by J.M. Augusta. Published by L. Bradac. Illustrated with five engravings. Frontispiece. Some foxing to edges. L. Bradac unknown books
1878réf. ST16926Paris: Printed by Ch. Unsinger for Alphonse Le Merre 1878. No. 12 OF 50 COPIES on Whatman paper and 50 copies on paper de Chine. 225 x 140 mm. 8 7/8 x 5 5/8". 2 p.l. 240 pp. 2 leaves.With notice of the author's life and notes on the text by Anatole France. FINE DARK BLUE JANSENIST CRUSHED MOROCCO BY MARIUS MICHEL stamp-signed in gilt on front doublure raised bands gilt titling CITRON MOROCCO DOUBLURES GILT AND INLAID diagonal gilt fillets intersecting to form lozenge-shaped compartments each containing an inlaid dark purple violet bud or flower on a slender gilt stem the intersection of the fillets inlaid with a small or large violet leaf the panel enclosed by a frame of repeated curling leaf tools leather hinges pale green patterned silk endleaves marbled flyleaves all edges gilt fore edges untrimmed. With original printed paper wrappers bound in. Portrait frontispiece and six etchings all before letters by P. E. A. Hédouin. A Large Paper Copy. Text framed in red. Tail margin of portrait with light pencilled inscription signed by the artist. ◆Trivial imperfections if you are very unkind but A VERY FINE COPY especially clean fresh and bright internally in a virtually unworn binding. The austere exterior of this Jansenist binding encloses a riot of luxury where the exquisite inlaid floral doublures by Marius Michel fils the stately margins of the Large Paper Copy printed on thick smooth Whatman paper and the elegant illustrations by Edmond Hédouin add to the allure of Saint-Pierre's popular romance. First issued in 1788 and subsequently widely translated and often printed "Paul et Virginie" is the tale of two childhood friends on the unspoiled French island colony of Mauritius who grow up to fall in love. Their island paradise governed by socialist principles embraced by a contented populace living in harmony serves as an allegory for the corrupting influence of the French upper classes on the innocent "child of nature." Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 1737-1814 was a botanist as well as a literary writer and spent time in Mauritius studying its flora. His love of the tropical island and the influence of his friend and mentor Jean-Jacques Rousseau are both evident in the present work. Our edition benefits from the notes on the text and on the life of the author by prominent man of letters Anatole France 1844-1924 who would win the 1921 Nobel Prize for literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements characterized as they are by a nobility of style a profound human sympathy grace and a true Gallic temperament." Considered the best binder of his generation as well as the founder of modern French bookbinding Henri Marius Michel 1846-1925 began his career in the atelier established by his father Jean in Paris in 1849 where they produced distinguished work in the prevailing historical styles for two decades. After the father's death in 1890 the firm came to even greater prominence when Henri began producing bindings in a completely new and original style that did nothing less than change the course of modern bookbinding in France. According to Duncan & De Bartha Henri believed passionately "that bookbinding needed a new vocabulary of ornamentation in order to express the mood and spirit of contemporary authors." The "vocabulary of ornamentation" he developed was based on nature the revolutionary "La Flore Ornamentale" style that he unveiled at the 1878 International Exposition. The doublures here give a hint of this new style using a delicate violet motif for the repeating mosaic design. [Printed by Ch. Unsinger for] Alphonse Le Merre unknown books
1959réf. 54046Paris:: B. Arthaud. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1959. Hardcover. Text is in French. Notes and commentaries by Robert Mantran. Black and white photographs by Yan throughout. First edition. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper else very good in a very good minor edge wear and age toning dust jacket. . B. Arthaud, hardcover books
réf. 600103Vintage photograph on photographer's mount ca. 1900. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". F. Soft cover. paperback books
