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réf. 52690Warsaw: self-published 1985. Quarto 29.5 × 21 cm. Original side-stapled printed wrappers; 68 leaves of offset-printed and xeroxed typescript to rectos only. With original artworks photographs and hand-lettering throughout. Light soil to wrappers; else about very good. First volume of a samizdat journal featuring texts and original artworks by artists associated with Kultura Zrzuty but dominated by the satirical and critical texts of Jacek Kryszkowski. Altogether three issues appeared each with a different title: no. 2 as Hola Hoop no. 3 as Hali Gali. Kryszkowski co-founded the journal with Elżbieta Kacprzak as a more critical alternative to the already famous journal "Tango". The last page contains a small piece of a vinyl record signed "a piece of a fine tango." Kryszkowski and Adam Rzepecki held a mock auction to "fundraise" for the creation of this publication where the participants were invited to bid down on original and fake works of art; the remaining works were to be thrown into the Vistula River. Numerous issues of Tango were allegedly destroyed during the event. The present volume also contains an attack on Tadeusz Kantor the master of Polish avant-garde theater whom Kryszkowski saw as cooperating with the authorities during Martial Law. To highlight Kantor's "complicity" with the repressive regime Kryszkowski presented him with a fake award from the Communist youth organization documenting the act with the help of Adam Rzepecki. The diploma and photograph whose authenticity is also contested appear in the issue. Other contributions include mail art by Rzepecki works by Andrzej Kostołowski and Jacek Truszkowski Andrzej Partum's "Animal Manifesto" and a work by Zofia Kulik and Przemysław Kwiek. One of 100 copies. As of November 2025 not in KVK OCLC. unknown
1894réf. 21211894. In contemporary half leather. Nice condition with library stamps. In contemporary half leather. 367 234 414 404 p. In four volume. The very rare first Hungarian edition of Adam Smith's work 'Wealth of Nations'. unknown
réf. 88252London A. Strahan / T. Cadell jun. / W. Davies 1799 Auflage: 9. Ganzleder gebunden; reiche Rückengoldprägung je 2 rote goldgeprägte Rückenschilder Kantenvergoldung Gelbschnitt / 3 Bände / Anz. Seiten: XII 499 VI 518 VII 465 / 13 x 216 cm / Zustand: sehr gut geringe Alters-/ Gebrauchsspuren; Einbände leicht berieben und etwas fleckig Stehkantenvergoldung teils leicht abgeschabt Kopfschnitte bestaubt Vorsätze leimschattig und stockfleckig Bibliotheksstempel auf Titelseiten handschriftliche Nummerierung auf Innendeckeln handbeschriftete Papieretiketten an Rücken London, A. Strahan / T. Cadell, jun. / W. Davies, 1799, Auflage: 9. unknown
réf. 05535Paris: Sazerac et Duval Engelmann Langlumè & Brossier 1824. First Edition of the Illustrator's First Book With Seventeen Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates ADAM Victor. Un An de la Vie d un Jeune Homme. Histoire véritable en 17 Chapitres. Escrits par lui-même et Lithographiés par Victor Adam. Paris: Sazerac et Duval Engelmann Langlumè & Brossier 1824. First edition. Folio 13 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches; 336 x 251 mm. Facsimile cover title. Seventeen superb hand-colored lithograph plates printed by Langlumé. Modern royal blue cloth front cover with facsimile title pasted on. Short marginal tear neatly repaired to lower margin of first plate not affecting image. Plates 2 8 15 & 17 with the blind stamp of the publisher Sazerac et Duval in lower blank margin. A very good example. One year in the life of a young man. A true story in seventeen chapters. Written by himself and lithographed by Victor Adam. Victor Adam 1801-1865 is better known for his later works of pictorial journalism or for his many lithographs of military history than for his early works of fashion and society life. "His immense production contains many amusing albums concerning the life of the time such as Un an dans la vie de jeune homme. This series is a sort of bourgeois rake's progress. A young man from the country comes to Paris to sample its pleasures. He acquires a new wardrobe; buys a horse; is duped by gamblers makes a conquest of a pretty lady; exclaims 'Jasmin! she seemed so artless' as he lies recovering from the resulting malady; is imprisoned for debt; writes at last to 'the old one' a buxom woman of means; and is accepted by her in the final plate. The series is unusual among the albums of the time in that it tells a consecutive story and it certainly has more spirit and finish than Adam's usual work" Ray. A lovely copy of the first book by this gifted painter and illustrator. Very scarce. The Plates: 1. J'arrive! I arrive! 2. Je ne me reconnais plus. I do not recognize myself anymore. 3. C'est superbe! It is superb! 4. Elle me regarde! Dieu quel bonheur! She's looking at me! God what happiness! 5. C'est une femme honnête. She is an honest woman. 6. Je ne pouvais pas aller à pied. I couldn't walk. 7. C'est à qui m'aura. Who's going to get me 8. Comment Docteur! How Doctor! 9. Jasmin!.elle avait l'air si ingénu!! Jasmine! . she looked so ingenuous !! 10. Quel guignon! What a mess! 11. Des mémoires! Fi donc. Memories! Fi then. 12. Je le savais. I knew it. 13. St. Pelagie.charmant séjour! St. Pelagie. lovely stay! 14. Quels inhumains! Me mettre dehors! What inhumans! Kick me out! 15. Aux grands maux les grands remédes. To great ills great remedies. 16. La simpiternelle serait ma bisaïeule. The simpiternal would be my grandmother. 17. Il faut faire une Fin! Je lépouse. We must make an End! I marry him. Bobins V 1523; Hiler p.6; Lipperheide 3561; Ray. Art of the French Illustrated Book 126. Paris: Sazerac et Duval, Engelmann, Langlumè & Brossier, 1824 unknown
réf. 05535Paris: Sazerac et Duval Engelmann Langlumè & Brossier 1824. First Edition of the Illustrator's First Book With Seventeen Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates ADAM Victor. Un An de la Vie d un Jeune Homme. Histoire véritable en 17 Chapitres. Escrits par lui-même et Lithographiés par Victor Adam. Paris: Sazerac et Duval Engelmann Langlumè & Brossier 1824. First edition. Folio 13 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches; 336 x 251 mm. Facsimile cover title. Seventeen superb hand-colored lithograph plates printed by Langlumé. Modern royal blue cloth front cover with facsimile title pasted on. Short marginal tear neatly repaired to lower margin of first plate not affecting image. Plates 2 8 15 & 17 with the blind stamp of the publisher Sazerac et Duval in lower blank margin. A very good example. One year in the life of a young man. A true story in seventeen chapters. Written by himself and lithographed by Victor Adam. Victor Adam 1801-1865 is better known for his later works of pictorial journalism or for his many lithographs of military history than for his early works of fashion and society life. "His immense production contains many amusing albums concerning the life of the time such as Un an dans la vie de jeune homme. This series is a sort of bourgeois rake's progress. A young man from the country comes to Paris to sample its pleasures. He acquires a new wardrobe; buys a horse; is duped by gamblers makes a conquest of a pretty lady; exclaims 'Jasmin! she seemed so artless' as he lies recovering from the resulting malady; is imprisoned for debt; writes at last to 'the old one' a buxom woman of means; and is accepted by her in the final plate. The series is unusual among the albums of the time in that it tells a consecutive story and it certainly has more spirit and finish than Adam's usual work" Ray. A lovely copy of the first book by this gifted painter and illustrator. Very scarce. The Plates: 1. J'arrive! I arrive! 2. Je ne me reconnais plus. I do not recognize myself anymore. 3. C'est superbe! It is superb! 4. Elle me regarde! Dieu quel bonheur! She's looking at me! God what happiness! 5. C'est une femme honnête. She is an honest woman. 6. Je ne pouvais pas aller à pied. I couldn't walk. 7. C'est à qui m'aura. Who's going to get me 8. Comment Docteur! How Doctor! 9. Jasmin!.elle avait l'air si ingénu!! Jasmine! . she looked so ingenuous !! 10. Quel guignon! What a mess! 11. Des mémoires! Fi donc. Memories! Fi then. 12. Je le savais. I knew it. 13. St. Pelagie.charmant séjour! St. Pelagie. lovely stay! 14. Quels inhumains! Me mettre dehors! What inhumans! Kick me out! 15. Aux grands maux les grands remédes. To great ills great remedies. 16. La simpiternelle serait ma bisaïeule. The simpiternal would be my grandmother. 17. Il faut faire une Fin! Je lépouse. We must make an End! I marry him. Bobins V 1523; Hiler p.6; Lipperheide 3561; Ray. Art of the French Illustrated Book 126. Paris: Sazerac et Duval, Engelmann, Langlumè & Brossier, 1824 unknown books
1789réf. 7269Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson 1789. First American Edition Volumes II & III Only. First American Edition Volumes II & III ONLY. Measuring approximately 6.5" x 4" with 430 and 387 numbered pages respectively. Bound in contempory full leather. Both volumes are in good condition. Heavy wear and chipping to the original leather boards. Front pastedowns have come away from the boards. Both front endpaper versos with the name stamp "Jack Cunningham". Page 61-62 in Volume II has a large tear with no loss. Pages 23-26 in Volume III are detached. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #P11-15. Thomas Dobson unknown
1797réf. 53615Stockholm, Henrik A. Nordström, 1797-1801. 8vo. Uncut, partly unopened in the original wrappers. In 22 volumes as issued. Last volume name written on title-page, otherwise an exceptionally fine, clean and untouched set rarely seen in this condition. (4),102 pp." (2),182 pp. (2),107 pp. (2),157,(1) pp. (2),176,(4) pp. (4),138,(2) pp. (2),205,(1) pp. + 1 folded table (2),188 pp (2),190 pp. (2),89,(4) pp. (4),135,(1) pp. (2),116,(1) pp. (2),157 pp. (2),120 pp. (2),151,(1 blank,10) pp. + 1 folded map (2),215 pp. + 1 folded table (2),131,(5) pp. (4),207 pp. (2),183,(1) pp. + 1 folded table (2),218 pp. (2),144,(4) pp." (6),449,(1) pp. + 5 folded plates.""Om Beskatning"", Part: 36, 37, 38:Pp. 145-177""Om Jordbrukets förfall i Europa, efter Romerska Väldets undergäng"", Part: 27, 28. Pp. 93-120""Om Handelsbalancen"", Part: 25,26. Pp. 92-114""Om Jordbruks-systemet I en Rikshushållning, samt om Economisterne I Frankrike"", Part: 25-26. Pp. 43-92""Om Pappers-myntet I Norr-Amerika Kolonierne, före Revolutionen"". Part: 27-28. Pp.57-62""Om Krono-jord"". Part: 29,30,31. Pp 139-146.""Theorien för statsskulder"". Part: 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49 & 50. Pp. 151-161.
1755réf. 56661Kiöbenhavn, uden ang. af trykker, 1755-80. 4to. 11 samt. ensartede hellæderbind af flammet kalv. Rig rygforgyldning og ophøjede bind på rygge. Tome-og titelfelter i skind. Forgyldte bordurer på permer. Kapitæler på nogle få bind bind lidt slidte, nogle hjørner lidt stødte. 10 kobberstukne titelblade og 1 bogtrykt. Trykt på svært skrivepapir. Indvendig ren og frisk. Pragteksemplar af ""Fundationerne"" som har tilhørt Adam Gottlob Moltke til Bregentved og til hvem flere af bindene er dediceret. På alle for-og bagpermer er Moltke's store forgyldte, kronede hjerteskjold.
1755réf. 56661Kiöbenhavn uden ang. af trykker 1755-80. 4to. 11 samt. ensartede hellæderbind af flammet kalv. Rig rygforgyldning og ophøjede bind på rygge. Tome-og titelfelter i skind. Forgyldte bordurer på permer. Kapitæler på nogle få bind bind lidt slidte nogle hjørner lidt stødte. 10 kobberstukne titelblade og 1 bogtrykt. Trykt på svært skrivepapir. Indvendig ren og frisk. Pragteksemplar af "Fundationerne" som har tilhørt Adam Gottlob Moltke til Bregentved og til hvem flere af bindene er dediceret. På alle for-og bagpermer er Moltke's store forgyldte kronede hjerteskjold. Komplet eksemplar af Hans de Hofmans store værk som indeholder en del plancher i form af portrætter kort og genealogiske tabeller bl.a. portræt af Tycho Brahe store vignetter m.m. unknown
1797réf. 53615Stockholm Henrik A. Nordström 1797-1801. 8vo. Uncut partly unopened in the original wrappers. In 22 volumes as issued. Last volume name written on title-page otherwise an exceptionally fine clean and untouched set rarely seen in this condition. 4102 pp.; 2182 pp.; 2107 pp.; 21571 pp.; 21764 pp.; 41382 pp.; 22051 pp. 1 folded table; 2188 pp; 2190 pp.; 2894 pp.; 41351 pp.; 21161 pp.; 2157 pp.; 2120 pp.; 21511 blank10 pp. 1 folded map; 2215 pp. 1 folded table; 21315 pp.; 4207 pp.; 21831 pp. 1 folded table; 2218 pp.; 21444 pp.; 64491 pp. 5 folded plates."Om Beskatning" Part: 36 37 38:Pp. 145-177"Om Jordbrukets förfall i Europa efter Romerska Väldets undergäng" Part: 27 28. Pp. 93-120"Om Handelsbalancen" Part: 2526. Pp. 92-114"Om Jordbruks-systemet I en Rikshushållning samt om Economisterne I Frankrike" Part: 25-26. Pp. 43-92"Om Pappers-myntet I Norr-Amerika Kolonierne före Revolutionen". Part: 27-28. Pp.57-62"Om Krono-jord". Part: 293031. Pp 139-146."Theorien för statsskulder". Part: 44 45 46 47 48 49 & 50. Pp. 151-161. First however partial translation of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations in Swedish rarely seen in this condition thus making it the very first opportunity for Swedish speakers to study Adam Smith. A more lengthy translation was made in 1909 - 1911 but to this day a full Swedish translation has not been made."Von Schulzenheim nobleman physician country squire and politician also published shorter articles in the review 'Läsning I blandade ämnen' an organ of the opposition to the absolutist and obscurantist regime of Gustavus IV Adolphus. The editor of the review was count Georg Adlersparre an army officer and a political writer who in 1809 was to become one of the prime-movers behind the dethronement of the king. Adlersparre to was an admirer of Adam Smith. In 1799-1800 he published in the 'Läsning' his own Swedish translation of several selections from Wealth of Nations. In some cases Adlersparre added footnotes making it easier for the readers to apply Smith's ideas to Swedish conditions. Those translations to the best of my knowledge were the first ones of Wealth of Nations in Sweden. They were followed by translations of other parts of Wealth of Nations published in 1800 amd 1808. This time the translator was Erik Erland Bodell an official of the Swedish Customs and thus if you like a colleague of Adam Smith." Cheng-chung Adam Smith Across Nations. Despite the comparatively late translation into Swedish it still had a profound influence not on economists since they were well aware of the original work in English but upon politics and public opinion in general: "There are few things more striking to the modem student of the history of ideas in Sweden than the negative phenomenon that Sweden was almost entirely uninfluenced by this fact and thus remained almost unaffected by English economic thought during a period when its superiority was most evident. As far as I am acquainted with the Swedish economic discussion and our popular economic literature of the 1860's and 1870's there is almost no trace of any influence from English writers. .Of Adam Smith we have still only one abbreviated translation of his famous work and that was published as late as during this century; and as far as I know nothing of Ricardo's or Malthus' exists in Swedish nor do any of the major economic works of J.S. Mill." Heckscher A survey of economic thought in Sweden 1875-1950.The journal was preceded by Adlersparre's "Läsning för landtmän" 1795-96. The content is a mixture of literature agriculture law philosophy and politics. Apart from the many contributions by Swedish authors "Läsning i blandade ämnen" also contains texts by Kant Gibbon and De Lolme OCLC lists copies at Yale Minnesota and Texas. unknown
1774réf. 146600Paris: Chez Valade 1774-75. First edition of the second French translation of Scottish moral philosopher and economist Adam Smith's ground-breaking first work The Theory of Moral Sentiments London 1759 in an attractive contemporary binding. This work introduced the concept of the "invisible hand" guiding individuals to advance community interest laying the philosophical ground work for his Wealth of Nations. Smith evidently dissatisfied in the quality of the first French translation Metaphysique de l'ame Paris 1764 made by Marc-Antoine Eidous and based on the second English edition is reported by the translator of this edition as having been "mortified" by the first attempt. Jean-Louis Blavet 1719-1809 translator and librarian of the Prince de Conti was recommended to Smith by Madame des Boufflers the Prince's mistress and duly undertook this entirely new translation from the third English edition of 1767 adding an extensive table of contents. The work was far from a commercial success which according to Dugald Stewart Smith blamed on Blavet leading to the eventual commission of a third French translation by Sophie de Grouchy the prominent salon hostess during the early French Revolution and under Napoleon and was the wife of the philosopher the Marquis de Condorcet. 2 vols duodecimo 168 x 97 mm. Contemporary cat's paw calf titles in gilt to red morocco spine labels floral motifs tooled in gilt direct to spine French curl marbled endpapers blued mottled edges. A hint of wear to extremities the bindings otherwise firm and unrestored very occasional faint damp staining else internally fresh; a very good set indeed. Tribe 7; Vanderblue p. 41. unknown
1699réf. NF2821RELATION DU VOYAGE DE MR. EVERT ISBRAND ENVOYE DE SA MAJESTE CZARIENNE A L'EMPEREUR DE LA CHINE EN 1692 93 & 94 Amsterdam Chez Jean-Louis De Lorme Librairie fur le Rockin a la Liberte 1699 first edition 250 pages with both frontispiece and map present some wear to the fore edge corner tips else a vg copy with just about fine contents void of any foxing whatsoever with attractive marbled end-papers bound in a full leather 19th century calf binding with faux raised spine of six compartments one of which is decorative and one which bears the title. A most uncommon work this volume with a bookplate and a handust-wrapper ritten pencil notation that this is from the library of the Duke of Devonshire. Text in French of course. Chez Jean-Louis De Lorme, Librairie fur le Rockin, a la Liberte hardcover
1699réf. NF2821RELATION DU VOYAGE DE MR. EVERT ISBRAND ENVOYE DE SA MAJESTE CZARIENNE A L'EMPEREUR DE LA CHINE EN 1692 93 & 94 Amsterdam Chez Jean-Louis De Lorme Librairie fur le Rockin a la Liberte 1699 first edition 250 pages with both frontispiece and map present some wear to the fore edge corner tips else a vg copy with just about fine contents void of any foxing whatsoever with attractive marbled end-papers bound in a full leather 19th century calf binding with faux raised spine of six compartments one of which is decorative and one which bears the title. A most uncommon work this volume with a bookplate and a handust-wrapper ritten pencil notation that this is from the library of the Duke of Devonshire. Text in French of course. Chez Jean-Louis De Lorme, Librairie fur le Rockin, a la Liberte hardcover books
réf. 48859Ulm Stettin‘sche Buchhandlung o. J. ca. 1841. 8° Titelbl. mit gestochener Vignette 3 Bl. 47 von 48 gest. Taf. m. 56 Textbl. Priv.-Kart. d. Zt. Berieben Kapitale m. kleinen Rückenverlusten einige Taf. etw. stockfl. wenige gebräunt; die in der «Uebersicht» aufgelistete Tafel «Donaubrücke» und das dazugehörige Textblatt fehlt; gesamthaft gutes Ex. Enthält die Stiche: Heilbronn Weinsberg Kloster Schönthal Mergentheim Schwäbisch Hall und Comburg Die Michaelskirche in Hall Das Kloster Maulbronn Totalansicht von Wildbad Bad und Promenade in Wildbad Teinach und Zavelstein / Liebenzell Das Kloster Hirschau Calw Tübingen Reutlingen Lichtenstein Ansicht von Stuttgart Der Marktplatz in Stuttgart Das alte Schloss in Stuttgart Innere Ansicht aus dem K. Schloss Rosenstein Das K. Hof-Theater in Kannstadt Der Rotheberg Esslingen Die Dionysius Kirche in Esslingen Gmünd Der Rechberg Helfenstein und die befestigte Stadt Geisslingen Der Drackenstein im Filsthal Blaubeuren Ulm von Südost Das Rathhaus in Ulm Der Marktbrunnen in Ulm Das Gögglinger Thor in Ulm Das Münster zu Ulm Innere Ansicht des Münsters zu Ulm Ein Theil aus dem Chorgestühl im Münster zu Ulm Biberach Weingarten bei Ravensburg Waldburg Friedrichshafen Hohentwiel Tuttlingen und Honburg Sigmaringen Ruine Dietfurt in Sigmaringen Zuchthaus Hornstein bei Sigmaringen Lauchartthal in Sigmaringen Hettingen im Sigmaringenschen Hohenzollern mit Hechingen. 010 Ulm, Stettin‘sche Buchhandlung, o. J. [ca. 1841] unknown
réf. CNAP107bSan Francisco: The Arion Press 2016. Hardcover. New. Chagoya Enrique. 12 by 8-1/4 inches 152 numbered pages by coincidence the same number of pages as the first edition for the text and ten unnumbered signatures for the prints consisting of a sheet folded at the fore-edge with die-cut windows and a folded tab to tip into the sewing section and an inserted sheet of Japanese handmade paper making three leaves which adds six "pages" for a total of 212 pages. The paper is Italian mouldmade Magnani Ingres laid. The Japanese paper for the prints is handmade Arokaji koso washi. The type printed by letterpress is Kennerley Old Style designed by Frederic W. Goudy composed and cast in Monotype with handset type for display. The binding is Smyth-sewn with handsewn silk endbands with a three-piece cloth cover green on the sides and blue on the spine foil stamped on the sides with roundels designed by Enrique Chagoya and stamped on the spine with titling. The book is presented in a slipcase in an edition of 300 copies for sale. Each book is signed by the artist. The extra print is entitled "Nahvi Olin" the name of the Mexican painter and poet whose head is depicted in the print. The paper is handmade Japanese Yamekoozo Hadaura It is a nine-color relief print printed from photopolymer plates in black blue green and white inks. The image size is 20-1/2 by 14 inches; the sheet size is 24 by 18 inches. Each print is signed by the artist. This edition with the extra print was issued in an edition of thirty copies. Juan Rulfo’s "Pedro Páramo" is a monument of Mexican literature and one of the most influential novels of the 20th century. Juan Rulfo was a photographer and a fiction writer known for his two books "El Llano en Llamas" a collection of short stories published in 1953 and the 1955 novel "Pedro Páramo". He was born in Apulco in the Mexican state of Jalisco in 1918 and died in Mexico City in 1986. Gabriel García Márquez said he felt blocked as a novelist after his first four books and that it was only his life-changing discovery of "Pedro Páramo" in 1961 that allowed the composition of his masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Marquez noted that all of Rulfo's published writing put together "add up to no more than 300 pages; but that is almost as many and I believe they are as durable as the pages that have come down to us from Sophocles". Enrique Chagoya has made ten color prints for the book. They are highly unusual in that they are printed on both sides of thin translucent handmade Japanese paper of a tan-brown color. On the front recto are portraits of Mexicans from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries printed in a dark blue with background imagery printed in green on the other side. As Chagoya has written in his artist statement for the book "The drawings are not an illustration of 'Pedro Páramo' because the story does not need illustrations. It is more like a visual duet and instrument playing a counterpoint parallel to the novel." The extra print is presented in a tube with documentation on the outside. It was issued in an edition of thirty copies for sale plus five artist proofs and five publisher proofs all signed by the artist. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Arion Press hardcover
réf. CNAP107bSan Francisco: The Arion Press 2016. Hardcover. New. Chagoya Enrique. 12 by 8-1/4 inches 152 numbered pages by coincidence the same number of pages as the first edition for the text and ten unnumbered signatures for the prints consisting of a sheet folded at the fore-edge with die-cut windows and a folded tab to tip into the sewing section and an inserted sheet of Japanese handmade paper making three leaves which adds six "pages" for a total of 212 pages. The paper is Italian mouldmade Magnani Ingres laid. The Japanese paper for the prints is handmade Arokaji koso washi. The type printed by letterpress is Kennerley Old Style designed by Frederic W. Goudy composed and cast in Monotype with handset type for display. The binding is Smyth-sewn with handsewn silk endbands with a three-piece cloth cover green on the sides and blue on the spine foil stamped on the sides with roundels designed by Enrique Chagoya and stamped on the spine with titling. The book is presented in a slipcase in an edition of 300 copies for sale. Each book is signed by the artist. The extra print is entitled "Nahvi Olin" the name of the Mexican painter and poet whose head is depicted in the print. The paper is handmade Japanese Yamekoozo Hadaura It is a nine-color relief print printed from photopolymer plates in black blue green and white inks. The image size is 20-1/2 by 14 inches; the sheet size is 24 by 18 inches. Each print is signed by the artist. This edition with the extra print was issued in an edition of thirty copies. Juan Rulfo’s "Pedro Páramo" is a monument of Mexican literature and one of the most influential novels of the 20th century. Juan Rulfo was a photographer and a fiction writer known for his two books "El Llano en Llamas" a collection of short stories published in 1953 and the 1955 novel "Pedro Páramo". He was born in Apulco in the Mexican state of Jalisco in 1918 and died in Mexico City in 1986. Gabriel García Márquez said he felt blocked as a novelist after his first four books and that it was only his life-changing discovery of "Pedro Páramo" in 1961 that allowed the composition of his masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Marquez noted that all of Rulfo's published writing put together "add up to no more than 300 pages; but that is almost as many and I believe they are as durable as the pages that have come down to us from Sophocles". Enrique Chagoya has made ten color prints for the book. They are highly unusual in that they are printed on both sides of thin translucent handmade Japanese paper of a tan-brown color. On the front recto are portraits of Mexicans from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries printed in a dark blue with background imagery printed in green on the other side. As Chagoya has written in his artist statement for the book "The drawings are not an illustration of 'Pedro Páramo' because the story does not need illustrations. It is more like a visual duet and instrument playing a counterpoint parallel to the novel." The extra print is presented in a tube with documentation on the outside. It was issued in an edition of thirty copies for sale plus five artist proofs and five publisher proofs all signed by the artist. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Arion Press hardcover books
réf. 05380Paris: Librairie d'Éducation A. Courcier Éditeur 1860. 'Brothers In Arms' The Italian War of Independence and The Crimean War The Battles of Magenta Kinburn and Malakoff ADAM Victor illustrator & MOREL-FATIO Antoine Léon illustrator. Les Frères d'Armes. Par Th. Midy. Ullustré de six superbes gravures a deux teints par V. Adam et Morel-Fatio. Paris: Librairie d'Éducation A. Courcier Éditeur 1860. First edition. Folio 12 x 8 3/4 inches; 305 x 222 mm. 1-2 half-title verso blank 3-4 vignette title verso blank 5-38 1 table des matières 1 advertsisements pp. Six fine hand colored lithograph plates. Plates lithographed by Sarazin. Publisher's color pictorial boards head and tail of spine chipped joints slightly cracked but still a remarkable survival of a very fragile pictorial binding. The text and hand colored plates bright and fresh. Feint early ink inscription dated 1876 on front free endpaper. The six hand colored lithograph plates include scenes from The Battle of Magenta which was fought in 1959 during the Second Italian War of Independence; the British and French Navy bombarding the Russian coastal fortifications at Kinburn in 1855 after an Anglo-French ground force had besieged them; and the French forces celebrating their attack against the Russian forces and subsequent capture on the Malakoff redoubt on 8 September 1855 as a part of the siege of Sebastopol during the Crimean War. OCLC locates just one copy in libraries and institutions worldwide: Kunstbiblio Staatliche zu Berlin Germany Jean-Victor Adam 1801-1867 was a French painter and lithographer. Born in Paris he was the son of Jean Adam an esteemed engraver. During the years 1814 to 1818 he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and also in the ateliers of Meynier and Régnault. In 1819 he exhibited 'Herminia succouring Tancred.' He was almost immediately afterwards employed to paint various subjects for the Museum at Versailles amongst which are 'The Entry of the French into Mainz' 'The Battle of Varroux' 'The Taking of Menin 'The Battle of Castiglione' 'The Passage of the Cluse' 'The Battle of Montebello' 'The Capitulation of Meiningen;' the last three in association with Alaux. He also exhibited down to the year 1838: 'Henry IV. after the Battle of Coutras' 'Trait of Kindness in the Duke de Berri' 'The Postillion' 'The Vivandiere' 'The Road to Poissy' 'The Return from the Chase' 'Horse-fair at Caen' and numerous other subjects. He then retired from publicity till 1846 when he appeared as the exhibitor of some works in lithography to which branch of art he afterwards restricted himself. In this line he produced a lithographic album 'Views in the Environs of Paris' 'Studies of Animals for an edition of Buffon' &c. He obtained a gold medal in 1824 a second class medal in 1836 besides several others from Lille Douai and other cities. He died at Viroflay in 1866. Antoine Léon Morel later Morel-Fatio 1810-1871 was a French naval painter Peintre officiel de la Marine curator of the naval and ethnographic museum of the Louvre and mayor of the 20th arrondissement of Paris. He added Fatio in 1844 to distinguish himself from a businessman of the same name. It was apparently in reference to a Swiss branch of the family. The Plates: 1. Bataille de Magenta - The Battle of Magenta 2. Un Marché dans une Petite Ville en Russie - A Market in a small town in Russia 3. Une Noce en Bretagne - A Wedding in Brittany 4. La Flotte Devant Kinburn - The Fleet in front of Kinburn 5. La Flotte Devant Schwaborg - The Fleet in front of Schwaborg 6. Prise de Malakoff - The taking of Malakoff. Paris: Librairie d'Éducation, A. Courcier, Éditeur, 1860 unknown
réf. 05380Paris: Librairie d'Éducation A. Courcier Éditeur 1860. 'Brothers In Arms' The Italian War of Independence and The Crimean War The Battles of Magenta Kinburn and Malakoff ADAM Victor illustrator & MOREL-FATIO Antoine Léon illustrator. Les Frères d'Armes. Par Th. Midy. Ullustré de six superbes gravures a deux teints par V. Adam et Morel-Fatio. Paris: Librairie d'Éducation A. Courcier Éditeur 1860. First edition. Folio 12 x 8 3/4 inches; 305 x 222 mm. 1-2 half-title verso blank 3-4 vignette title verso blank 5-38 1 table des matières 1 advertsisements pp. Six fine hand colored lithograph plates. Plates lithographed by Sarazin. Publisher's color pictorial boards head and tail of spine chipped joints slightly cracked but still a remarkable survival of a very fragile pictorial binding. The text and hand colored plates bright and fresh. Feint early ink inscription dated 1876 on front free endpaper. The six hand colored lithograph plates include scenes from The Battle of Magenta which was fought in 1959 during the Second Italian War of Independence; the British and French Navy bombarding the Russian coastal fortifications at Kinburn in 1855 after an Anglo-French ground force had besieged them; and the French forces celebrating their attack against the Russian forces and subsequent capture on the Malakoff redoubt on 8 September 1855 as a part of the siege of Sebastopol during the Crimean War. OCLC locates just one copy in libraries and institutions worldwide: Kunstbiblio Staatliche zu Berlin Germany Jean-Victor Adam 1801-1867 was a French painter and lithographer. Born in Paris he was the son of Jean Adam an esteemed engraver. During the years 1814 to 1818 he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and also in the ateliers of Meynier and Régnault. In 1819 he exhibited 'Herminia succouring Tancred.' He was almost immediately afterwards employed to paint various subjects for the Museum at Versailles amongst which are 'The Entry of the French into Mainz' 'The Battle of Varroux' 'The Taking of Menin 'The Battle of Castiglione' 'The Passage of the Cluse' 'The Battle of Montebello' 'The Capitulation of Meiningen;' the last three in association with Alaux. He also exhibited down to the year 1838: 'Henry IV. after the Battle of Coutras' 'Trait of Kindness in the Duke de Berri' 'The Postillion' 'The Vivandiere' 'The Road to Poissy' 'The Return from the Chase' 'Horse-fair at Caen' and numerous other subjects. He then retired from publicity till 1846 when he appeared as the exhibitor of some works in lithography to which branch of art he afterwards restricted himself. In this line he produced a lithographic album 'Views in the Environs of Paris' 'Studies of Animals for an edition of Buffon' &c. He obtained a gold medal in 1824 a second class medal in 1836 besides several others from Lille Douai and other cities. He died at Viroflay in 1866. Antoine Léon Morel later Morel-Fatio 1810-1871 was a French naval painter Peintre officiel de la Marine curator of the naval and ethnographic museum of the Louvre and mayor of the 20th arrondissement of Paris. He added Fatio in 1844 to distinguish himself from a businessman of the same name. It was apparently in reference to a Swiss branch of the family. The Plates: 1. Bataille de Magenta - The Battle of Magenta 2. Un Marché dans une Petite Ville en Russie - A Market in a small town in Russia 3. Une Noce en Bretagne - A Wedding in Brittany 4. La Flotte Devant Kinburn - The Fleet in front of Kinburn 5. La Flotte Devant Schwaborg - The Fleet in front of Schwaborg 6. Prise de Malakoff - The taking of Malakoff. Paris: Librairie d'Éducation, A. Courcier, Éditeur, 1860 unknown books
1565réf. 18945Frankfurt a. M.: Georg Rabe Sigmund Feyerabend & Heirs of Weygand Han 1565. Second edition. Hardcover. Good-. Two volumes the first in two parts bound in one large quarto. Text in German gothic lettering with some Hebrew and Greek. 14 CXXV 1 12 6-177 13 leaves. 4 CCXVI 1 leaves; main titles in red and black; first volume with secondary full title; decorative initials and tailpieces throughout. Folding woodcut map of Palestine repaired on parts of margins wtih minor loss on upper right area; folding woodcut map of Jerusalem lacks 1/2 after fold; illustrated with 76 in-text woodcuts by German draughtsman and printmaker Virgil Solis. Psalms in German version at end of second volume 6 leaves supplied in manuscript copy. Blind-ruled contemporary calf with metal studs and metal clasp settings. Lacking leather clasps. Expertly rebacked retaining original boards; gilt lettering piece at spine. Modern endpapers. Lightly embrowned throughout. A few leaves with closed tears some repairs including at the first title page. A fairly good but defective copy lacking part of the Jerusalem map. Second edition of Adam Reissner's important work on Jerusalem. The first edition was published in 1563. Unlike Bernhard von Breydenbach's Peregrination in Terram Sanctam which was published eighty years earlier Reissner's work paints a more theological and medieval picture of the city. References: Laor 642 map. Georg Rabe, Sigmund Feyerabend, & Heirs of Weygand Han hardcover
1565réf. 18945Frankfurt a. M.: Georg Rabe Sigmund Feyerabend & Heirs of Weygand Han 1565. Second edition. Hardcover. Good-. Two volumes the first in two parts bound in one large quarto. Text in German gothic lettering with some Hebrew and Greek. 14 CXXV 1 12 6-177 13 leaves. 4 CCXVI 1 leaves; main titles in red and black; first volume with secondary full title; decorative initials and tailpieces throughout. Folding woodcut map of Palestine repaired on parts of margins wtih minor loss on upper right area; folding woodcut map of Jerusalem lacks 1/2 after fold; illustrated with 76 in-text woodcuts by German draughtsman and printmaker Virgil Solis. Psalms in German version at end of second volume 6 leaves supplied in manuscript copy. Blind-ruled contemporary calf with metal studs and metal clasp settings. Lacking leather clasps. Expertly rebacked retaining original boards; gilt lettering piece at spine. Modern endpapers. Lightly embrowned throughout. A few leaves with closed tears some repairs including at the first title page. A fairly good but defective copy lacking part of the Jerusalem map. Second edition of Adam Reissner's important work on Jerusalem. The first edition was published in 1563. Unlike Bernhard von Breydenbach's Peregrination in Terram Sanctam which was published eighty years earlier Reissner's work paints a more theological and medieval picture of the city. References: Laor 642 map. Georg Rabe, Sigmund Feyerabend, & Heirs of Weygand Han hardcover books
1819réf. 133843London: Printed for William Allison & J. Maynard; Edinburgh: W. Blair 1819. Early edition of Adam Smith's magnum opus and cornerstone of economic thought. Octavo 3 volumes bound in contemporary full calf gilt titles to the spine red and green spine labels. In near fine condition. An exceptional set of this classic work. Adam Smith's masterpiece first published in 1776 is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of and the principles behind modern capitalism. "The history of economic theory up to the end of the nineteenth century consists of two parts: the mercantilist phase which was based not so much on a doctrine as on a system of practice which grew out of social conditions; and the second phase which saw the development of the theory that the individual had the right to be unimpeded in the exercise of economic activity. While it cannot be said that Smith invented the latter theory.his work is the first major expression of it. He begins with the thought that labour is the source from which a nation derives what is necessary to it. The improvement of the division of labour is the measure of productivity and in it lies the human propensity to barter and exchange.Labour represents the three essential elements-wages profit and rent-and these three also constitute income. From the working of the economy Smith passes to its matter -'stock'- which encompasses all that man owns either for his own consumption or for the return which it brings him. The Wealth of Nations ends with a history of economic development a definitive onslaught on the mercantile system and some prophetic speculations on the limits of economic control.The Wealth of Nations is not a system but as a provisional analysis it is complete convincing. The certainty of its criticism and its grasp of human nature have made it the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" PMM. Printed for William Allison & J. Maynard; Edinburgh: W. Blair unknown
1796réf. 30670Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson 1796. 412; 430; 387 1 blank 55 pp. Contemporary tree calf some chipping rebacked with remnants of original spines laid down. Toned scattered foxing lightly worn. Good. The second American edition the first having issued in 1789 also published by Dobson. 'Printing and the Mind of Man' describes this work as "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought." Evans 31196. PMM 221 London 1776. Kress 3288. Thomas Dobson unknown
1796réf. 30670Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson 1796. 412; 430; 387 1 blank 55 pp. Contemporary tree calf some chipping rebacked with remnants of original spines laid down. Toned scattered foxing lightly worn. Good. The second American edition the first having issued in 1789 also published by Dobson. 'Printing and the Mind of Man' describes this work as "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought." Evans 31196. PMM 221 London 1776. Kress 3288. Thomas Dobson unknown books
1700réf. 30095Amsterdam: Petrus Schenk 1700. Other. A very skillfull small restauration in the paper at the upper part of the centre fold of the map towards the blank margins and just touching the engraved border of the round celestial map. The map is overall in very good to excellent condition. A very skillfull small restauration in the paper at the upper part of the centre fold of the map towards the blank margins and just touching the engraved border of the round celestial map. The map is overall in very good to excellent condition. 50.3 x 576 cm 19.75 x 2275 inches. Copper engraving hand colored in outline and wash when published. Adam Friedrich Zürner produced this interesting and detailed world map for Petrus Schenk. Depicted is a fine double hemisphere world map which is decorated with landscape in the background and two smaller double hemisphere celestial maps of the southern and northern hemisphere. In the upper section of the map are further 12 small celestial and terrestial circular maps in the lower section a small engravingSystema Copernici and another one with the phases of the moonPhases Lunae at the very bottom another 12 engraved small round astronomical diagrams. The two hemispheres are cartographically up-to-date and show the routes of explorers including Magellan Dampier Tasman Gaetani and Chaumont. Nova Britannia an island separately adjacent from New Guinea is shown with an inscription saying that it was discovered by Dampier in 1700 Shirley. Shirley 639 Petrus Schenk unknown
2001réf. 93369Architectural Press. New. 2001. HARDCOVER. 0750644680 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- HARDCOVER. 768 pages; well-illustrated. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee Architectural Press hardcover
