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1802rif. 90120Paris: s. n. 1802. Fine. s. n. Paris 1802 13.9 x 20.5 cm Relié First illustrated edition featuring at the end of the volume 12 charming hand-coloured copper engravings depicting fashionable hairstyles and costumes 10 as well as furniture 2. Contemporary binding in half midnight-blue calf smooth spine decorated with lozenge tools and gilt fillets gilt tail ornament marbled paper boards marbled endpapers marbled edges. The work is also illustrated with a portrait of Bonaparte as a frontispiece and one plate hors-texte. Foxing black ink stains to page 81. This work intended for an American readership as stated in the Preface ""L'espèce de journal dont nous offrons ici le premier essai ne contiendra que rarement des analyses d'ouvrages nouveaux mais une suite de morceaux détachés qui nous paraîtront le plus propre à faire connaître au public américain le goût actuel des différentes littératures de l'Europe"" is in fact far more than a literary collection offering a genuine overview of the state of the world political artistic geographical etc. during the Consulate and the rise of the future emperor. Alongside the 12 charming engravings it contains documents which though modest in extent are of considerable interest: a short notice on Toussaint-Louverture just after proclaiming a constitution granting him full powers for life; a portrait of the inhabitants of Benin drawing on the then unique work of Palissot Beauvois; a brief notice on Abbé Sicard educator of the deaf and mute; a ""portrait de Bonaparte"" at the very moment his fame was beginning to spread; an overview of ""Journaux et gazettes politiques dans les États-Unis de l'Amérique""; and various literary pieces. In short a compelling distillation of the spirit of the age. s. n. hardcover
1914rif. 71211Paris: L'Edition d'art H. Piazza 1914. Fine. L'Edition d'art H. Piazza Paris 1914 23.50 x 30 cm broché sous étui L'édition d'art H. Piazza Paris 1914 23.5 x 30 cm original wrappers slipcase An edition of 500 copies this one of 100 copies on Japon imperial paper with a black-and-white suite of Léon Carré's 20 color illustrations. Publisher's blue paper covers with gilt arabesques in relief spine very slightly creased and sunned the chemise with a few tears slipcase with slight tears to two edges. L'Edition d'art H. Piazza unknown
1910rif. 13215Paris, A. Ferroud & F. Ferroud, 1910. 1 vol. in-8. Plein maroquin aubergine janséniste, dos à nerfs, titre et auteur dorés, date en queue, double filet doré sur les coupes, tête dorée, couvertures et dos conservés, sous étui [DUBOIS D'ENGHIEN - DOOMS]
1927rif. 23856Paris, Editions André Delpeuch 1927 1 Paris, Editions André Delpeuch, 1927, petit in-4, plein chevreau noir, mosaïqué de chagrin orange d'un décor aux yeux de biche surmonté d'un semi de grains de poivre, box noir et ivoire, serties bombées, titre sur le dos à l'encre orange, gardes en papier népalais au motif grains de poivre, sous étui toilé marqué d'une pièce de titre chagrin, (reliure signée Martine Clamagirand-Roth) avec un dessin original, encre de Chine et gouache, de la Sultane Zahia.
1855rif. 11352Berlin: Oilprinting Storch & Kramer for B. May y Ca. 1855. One of two pirated editions printed in Germany in the 1850's a marvelous album of views based on the work of Cuba's master lithographer Frederic Mialhe depicted in his Viaje Pintoresco al Rededor de la Isla de Cuba Havana 1847-1848; this edition with captions in Spanish only and without vignettes on the maps the other pirated edition was printed in either Berlin or Hamburg with tinted lithographs instead of the color lithographed plates as here the captions were in Spanish English and German and a series of vignettes were printed around the border of the two maps; the lithographs in this issue are much more detailed than in the other pirated edition. Perhaps the finest pictorial record of daily life in Cuba in the 19th century with port and city views of Havana countryside scenes a bullfight and a cockfight. This copy with all plates fully and beautifully color lithographed. Sabin 17748 for the other pirated edition which had only 26 plates. Though OCLC locates an equal number of the two editions this colored issue seems to be less common in trade. For an account of Mialhe's original edition which was printed in Cuba and the two German piracies see Emilio Cueto's Mialhe's Colonial Cuba Miami 1994 pp. 73-77. See OCLC: 476499050. Oblong 4to. 27 color lithographed plates and color & gold lithographed illustrated title leaf printed rectos only with tissue guards 2 folding maps. With their original tissue guards some ruffled. All edges gilt. Scattered foxing; some minor insect damage on top margin of seven early pages. Original elaborate red velvet binding titled and ornamented in gold expertly rebacked. Possibly a presentation binding. Oilprinting Storch & Kramer (for) B. May y Ca. unknown
rif. 16-4077Paris : Perrotin 1853. Large folio. 51 x 40 cm. Original qtr. roan and percaline restored.16pp. and 45 color lithograph plates. most lightly foxed and a few more heavily foxed. Provenance: Collector's mark of Gaston Courtois Costumier Paris. His collection sold at auction in Paris Décembre 1894.OCLC Number: 457516951 Paris : Perrotin, 1853. unknown
1850rif. 1612290028B. May y Ca 1850-1853. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in fine Moroccan leather. Profusely gilt stamped in Zaehnsdorf style. 27 color lithographic plates 2 maps. Illuminated title-page. Blind stamp from Explorers Club on title. Marginal soiling to plates. Collated complete. Plates: 1. Morro y entrada puerto de la Habana -- 2. Vista de la Habana -- 3. Vista de la Habana: parte de Estramuros -- 4. Haban -- 5. Habana -- 6. Habana -- 7. Plaza de Armas -- 8. Puertas de Monserrate -- 9. Teatro de Tacon y parte del Paseo de Isabel II -- 10. Fuente de la India en el Paseo de Isabel IIa. -- 11. Alameda de Paula -- 12. El quitrin -- 13. El panadero y el malojero -- 14. El casero -- 15. Valla de gallos -- 16. Dia de reyes = The holy kings day -- 17. El zapateado national dance -- 18. Matanzas -- 19. Morro y entrada del puerto de Santiago de Cuba -- 20. Vista genl. de la ciudad y montanas de Baracoa -- 21. Cercanias de Baracoa -- 22. Vista de la iglesia major y de la Ermita del Buen Viaje -- 23. Vivienda de los pescadores de esponjas -- 24. Trinidad -- 25. Corrida de toros -- 26. Vista de una casa de calderas -- 27. Vista de una vega de tabaco. Picturesque Album of the Island of Cuba. Refs: Emilio Cueto's Mialhe's Colonial Cuba Miami 1994 pp. 73-77. Sabin 17748; Palau 5421 & 167989 note. B. May y Ca hardcover
1829rif. ABC_48384Paris 1829. 8vo. Imprimerie Royale Contemporary dark green half sheepskin gold-tooled spine marbled endpapers. XLVIII 582 pp. First edition of a work on Islamic texts on the Christian crusades by the French orientalist Joseph Toussaint Reinaud 1795-1867. It gives a French translation of numerous texts and extracts relating to the crusades originally written in Arabic from the 11th to the 15th century by Arab historians with occasionally some passages in Arabic in the notes. Most of the texts deal with major battles and sieges Saladin and victories and deaths of important leaders. The preliminaries include brief biographies of some of the major authors including Ali ibn al-Athir Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani Ibn al-Adim and many more. The texts are arranged into different chapters each devoted to a different stage of the crusades.The book is in fact the publication of a part of the extensive manuscript by Georges-François Berthereau 1732-1794 who collected numerous Arab texts on the crusades but the publication was prohibited during years following the French Revolution. The book was published as a part of the Biblithèque des croisades as an addition to the well-known Histoire des croisades written by Joseph François Michaud 1767-1839.With a stain on the half-title and some staining throughout otherwise in very good condition.l Hage Chahine 3963; not in Blackmer. HISTORY MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC WORLD MILITARY HISTORY RELIGION & DEVOTION Church History & Missions Islamic Art Culture & Science Military History 19th Century unknown
rif. rbms41896-7 EXTREMELY EARLY ALBUM OF X-RAY PHOTOGRAPHS X-RAYS Barthelemy Toussaint & Oudin Paul Oblong 8vo burgundy leatherette rubbed with loss to spine. 1896-7. The album contains containing silver gelatin prints 15 each approximately 5x7 inches or slightly smaller. The extraordinary x-ray photographs feature multiple views of the bones of hands a few with broken joints an done taken under a cracked glass filter and other skeletal regions of the human body. The most unusual perhaps is a purse and the sole of a shoe which foreshadows x-ray airport security as well as a rat which is certainly among the earliest examples of animal radiography. See: https://timeline.com/early-xrays-hidden-world-6bbc3a3fb267 Provenance: Swann Galleries New York 19 February 2002 Fine Photographs lot 33 Becquerel himself learned of the discovery of radiology on January 20 1896 when two physicians and French pioneers in the new medium Paul Oudin and Toussaint Barthélemy submitted an X-ray image of a hand to the Académie des Sciences. The submission date of their paper Jan 20 almost coincides with Roentgen's announcement of his discovery of x-rays that very month
1936rif. ABC_466121936. Bound in contemporary richly gold-tooled arabesque beige morocco with a flap at the front-edge covered with gold-tooled green morocco on the inside purple and white head and end bands gold and light blue endpapers. Stored in a professionally made beige morocco box ca. 15 x 15 cm with a gold-tooled three-line fillet frame on the boards on the inside covered with light pink silk title in gold on the spine. 11.5 x 12 cm. Manuscript in French written by the author in black ink a neat 20th-century hand in one column. Chapter divisions are made in the form of a calligraphic leaf drawn in the same black ink as the text. Autograph copy of Le jardin des caresses Toussaint's famous collection of Moorish erotic poems written and inscribed by the author himself as a gift to a his second wife. The work is considered to be a classic of 20th-century French orientalism. The work contains a collection of anonymously written Moorish sensual and erotic poems translated from the Arabic into French by Franz Toussaint. The present copy of the work was very likely made as a gift for his second wife married since 1925 Adelaïde Etelca Stefania Braggiotti and is inscribed by the author himself emphasizing his feelings for her: "À Etelka ma femme bien-aimée qui est pour moi toute la splendour du monde et toute la poësie. Franz Toussaint. Mai 1936".Franz Toussaint 1879-1955 was a French author and orientalist known for his translations of Arabic Persian Sanskrit and Japanese works. He is most known for his translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1924. He was also a director of films.The present collection of poems inspired by Arabic literature were first published serially in 1909-11 before they were published together in 1911 by Henri Piazza in Paris. The work was reprinted many times in the 20th century all appearing as limited editions and also translated into English The garden of caresses; London Golden Cockerel Press 1934. The work also became very popular in song as the short stanzas in the work were very suitable to put to music. The present copy of Toussaint's "tales of love" being a presentation copy which is beautiful in its simplicity is the only autograph of the work known.With the monogrammed stamp of the author in black ink on both endpapers. Binding slightly worn around the edges of the spine and fore-edge including the flap first two endpapers almost loose with a few minor spots. The case is a little worn at a few places the two fastenings are gone but still preserved. Overall an autograph copy of Le jardin des caresses which is still in very good condition and in its original binding made by Toussaint as a gift for his wife. hardcover
1828rif. ABC_45227Paris: Imprimerie Royale 1828. Contemporary half mottled calf gold-tooled spines marbled endpapers and edges. 8vo. With 10 engraved plates 2 folding. 2 volumes. First edition of J. T. Reinauds 1795-1867 rare catalogue of the famous collection of Islamic Art amassed by the French statesman Blacas. Most copies have title changed to "Monumens arabes persans et turcs". This copy is inscribed by Reinaud to the Duc de Luynes another famous French antiquarian.The French antiquarian and diplomat Pierre Louis Jean Casimir prince de Blacas dAulps 1770-1839 acted as prime minister to Louis XVIII when he succeeded Napoleon in 1814 and later served as French ambassador to the Holy See. Remaining in Rome for many years he provided Ingres with a commission and became a patron to the German classicist Theodor Panofka. He worked closely with Italian archaeologist Carlo Fea in the excavation of the Roman Forum supported the orientalist Jean-François Champollion and created the "Musée Egyptien" within the Louvre. In 1866 his descendants sold most of his collection to the British Museum where it remains to this day.The plates show beautiful specimens of Arabic calligraphical art including many seals. Some browning and staining throughout. From the library of the Ducs de Luynes from the Château of Dampierre with bookplate to pastedowns.l Gay 3592 bis variant title; Ibrahim-Hilmy II 159; Quérard VII p. 513; WorldCat 39974885; not in Arntzen/Rainwater. Imprimerie Royale, unknown
rif. 12951912. « CÉLÈBRE TRADUCTEUR D'ARABE, DE PERSAN, DE CHINOIS, DE JAPONAIS, LANGUES QU'IL IGNORAIT COMPLÈTEMENT. MAIS IL SAVAIT UN PEU LE FRANÇAIS » JEAN GIRAUDOUX
1842rif. 3220Havana: Real Sociedad Patriótica 1842. First edition. Unbound. Some plates are chipped dogeared. Some tanned with foxing. Overall in very good condition. Lithographed title page and 48 lithograph plates. Lithographed title page and 48 lithograph plates. First edition. Unbound. Rare and remarkably extensive collection of 48 early lithographs by Frédéric Mialhe Cuba’s master lithographer. “One of the most outstanding enterprises of its kind ever attempted in Cuba.” Cueto A large collection of forty-eight prints of these early lithographs of Cuba created by Cuba’s master lithographer Pierre Toussaint Frédéric Mialhe 1810–1881. Mialhe a French artist and engraver arrived in Havana in 1838 to serve as the landscape painter for the newly established lithographic firm under the auspices of the Real Sociedad Patriótica de la Habana. Soon he produced three sets of lithographs among them the present series Isla de Cuba Pintoresca which as described by Emilio Cueto in his comprehensive book La Cuba pintoresca de Frédéric Mialhe stands out as one of the most outstanding enterprises of its kind ever attempted in Cuba. Mialhe must also be recognized for having been a pioneer in incorporating the use of the newly discovered technique of photography to help his lithographic endeavors. Collaborating with Italian photographer Antonio Rezzonico two of Rezzonico's daguerreotypes the earliest examples of cityscape photography in Cuba were reproduced in this series. Isla de Cuba Pintoresca covers the territories of Pinar del Río Havana Matanzas and Santiago de Cuba capturing the essence of mid-19th-century Cuba and offering glimpses of the everyday life on the island. It was originally planned as a set of 48 lithographs sold in installments of four black-and-white views each. The plates were printed at the establishment of the Real Sociedad Patriótica each bearing the title Isla de Cuba pintoresca and printed on two types of paper: simple white paper and China paper sized between 6.5–7 inches by 10–11 inches. Ultimately 49 distinct views were published with Cueto estimating that perhaps no more than 200 copies of the plates were printed. Due to the characteristics and the timeline of the publication spanning from 1839 to 1842 marked by interruptions and uncertainties and counting with the possibility of some prints being issued separately no two copies of this collection are identical. According to Cueto the most complete collection belonging to him comprises 53 plates including variants featuring minor modifications either in the image or in the title followed by the New York Historical Society’s collection which includes 46 plates in fact 47 as it includes a repeated plate. In Havana the National Museum of Fine Arts boasts the largest known collection with 43 plates. The José Martí National Library of Cuba holds 37 plates. Additionally there are only three other institutional collections with more than 25 plates: Yale University 36 plates the Cuban Collection of the University of Miami 32 plates and the Buffalo and Erie County Library 28 plates. The largest collections we have been able to trace at auctions are the Reese copy with 38 plates sold by Christie’s in 2023 and another set also sold by Christie’s in 2023 with 36 views. Our collection remained unbound and untrimmed comprises 48 plates of which one Puente de Almendares appears twice on different papers additionally it includes a title page originally accompanying the 10th installment. Printed on various quality papers the differences in size and condition are explained. The majority are on China paper thus preserved in very good condition while those on simple white paper show more signs of aging. This scarce and exceptionally comprehensive compilation serves as a testament to Mialhe's artistic skill and historical importance. Literature: Cueto E. 2010. La cuba pintoresca de Frédéric Mialhe. Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí. . [Real Sociedad Patriótica] unknown
