Les enfants du Nouveau Monde (Historique t. 1089) (French Edition)

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Sturdy half brown calf, marbled boards, very good. Calcutta, and arrived at Port Natal on January 30, Above all, Coleridge wished to stress the prime importance of philosophy, the value of history, and his quixotic belief in the Bible as a "code of true political economy. Slight dampstaining to cover; ink annotation to f. A very good, unopened copy. Half calf, marbled boards. Tall 8vo, xxi, 3 , pp. Red buckram, gitl titles, backstrip faded and lightly worn, signature on endpaper, otherwise very good. At the time of publication the Chronicles "attracted wide notice, and has since influenced other writers and become a rare book" Symons, Quest.

Woolf A5 copies printed. Cloth, printed label on backstrip, worn, some ink annotations throughout. A very good copy. In this pamphlet Cottu attacks the recent electoral reforms, proposes his own concept of electoral rules and explains the necessity of a dictatorship. Blue cloth, gilt lettered, light wear and soiling, some spotting, overall very good. Their mortality rate was Civil War was The disaster resulted in default on bonds issued to finance the grand failure, and the entire episode wound up being litigated.

Reads like a Werner Herzog film, ala Fitzcaraldo and Aguirre. The volume is a collection of satirical epitaphs on famous or notorious persons. Most of the blanks in this volume have been filled in by a contemporary hand. A line in the Pursuits of Literature condemns those who write "inscriptive nonsense in a fanatical abbey" and calls the work "a vile pamphlet.

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The volume consists mainly of short passages describing the immoral traits and acts of those who bought their way into the peerage. Most of the blanks in this copy have been filled in by a contemporary hand. The uneliptical title would read: The Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, With a Chronological Text. Tall 4to, 94pp, numerous charts and maps, several foldout and some in color. McGlashan and Gill, Reprinted from the Celtic Review for July The first treatise is partly printed in Irish.

And the last examines the great pantheon of Celtic goddesses. She was the twelfth child of a Scottish family most of whom appear to have travelled widely. Blue cloth, gilt lettered, mild wear, a few small spots, otherwise near fine. Hudson, with a series of chapters on the animals indigenous to South America. Original blue cloth, lightly worn, very good.

This comprehensive literary history covers the Exodus through its the reinstatement of its independance. With a portrait frontispiece of Dacier. Occasional light foxing, otherwise very good. This erudite study covers philology, antiquities, oriental language and literature, history, geography, law, and philosophy. The author considers works not only by French scholars but by most major European authorities. Dacier was renowned not only for his learning, but for the elegance and style of his writing; he was admitted to the Academy in He collected a superb library of rare books and his sale comprised entries.

Silvestre de Sacy is regarded as the founder of Arabic study in France. Rector of the University of Paris, he was created peer of France in History of the Alienation of Land Property. History of the Laws of Succession or Descent. History of the Laws of Conveyance. History of the Constitution of Parliment. Contemporary full calf, gilt bands and title label on spine, small chips at spine head and tail, light rubbing to edges and joints, otherwise a tight, very good copy. An excellent study of the subject of which David Hume, writing about the first edition , said, "I am glad of the approbation which Mr.

Beagle round the the World, under the Command of Cap. Half red calf, marbled boards, teg, bookplate, wormhole lower corner pp, tear to p. The first edition formed the third volume of The Narrative of the Voyages of H. Ships Adventure and Beagle, edited by Fitzroy and published in Fine copy in slipcase.

Red library cloth, armorial bookplate. Evenly browned, a good copy. Modern smooth calf, spine gilt. The first six books of these memoirs, written for the instruction of princes and statesmen, are an exposition of the political, diplomatic, and military transactions of the reign of Louis XI, tracing events to their causes and estimating selected characters.

The last two books treat the Italian expedition of Charles VIII and include a vivid narrative of the battle of Fornovo, where 10, retreating French fought their way through 40, of the enemy. His intelligence was legend, and his political views have a very modern quality. England he considers the best-administered state of his time, because violence is not done to the people, and he regards the decline of religious faith as a source of war V.

His melancholy outlook on the miserable life of men is quite acute VI. De Haenen, Described by Hugh Stewart. Adam and Charles Black, Petersburg, perhaps the finest discussion of pre-Revolutionary Russia in English; certainly of its vast rural regions. Quarter calf over marbled boards, raised bands with gilt letter. Head and foot of spine slightly rubbed. Original gilt embossed navy cloth, upper edge gilt, nearly fine.

Dee was one of the most remarkable figures of the Elizabethan age. He was widely respected as a mathematician-astronomer, a geographer and an astrologer. He was not only court astrologer to Queen Elizabeth, but he was an advisor on affairs of state and voyages as well. Gardner, Bibliotheca Rosicruciana, Disbound, otherwise a clean copy. Second edition, first in Quarter-cloth, some foxing and browning, overall a very good copy except for tear on p. Delacroix was a professor of law and a judge of the tribunale civile, who maintained his loyalty to the old regime.

The work includes lavish bibliographies of the literature of animal magnetism, inoculation, obstetrics, venereal disease, and other topics. Slight general wear, very good. Fearing rumors about his having intrigued with the enemy, he bound his generals by oath, but they were won over by the emperor, who had him assassinated. After converting to Roman Catholicism, he returned to Germany, but found himself more comfortable in Paris, where he settled.

Marked by Expressionist leanings, he was a cofounder of the journal Der Sturm. Describing a Method for the Managing of the Lawes of this Land. The first part of the work provides guiding precepts for students and lawyers; the second part is an exposition of the rules and maxims of the law. Doderidge held the office of solicitor-general for three years, during which tenure he argued the famous case of the post-nati against Thomas Egerton, Lord Ellesmere, holding that Scots born after the accession of James I to the English throne were not naturalized in England.

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Bacon writes that, as a judge, Doderidge was "very ready to give an opinion in secret," but as a lawyer, he did his pleading "like a good archer, he shoots a fair compass. Half brown calf, marbled boards. Very good, clean copy. A history of the Cathedral from earliest times, together with a description of the library, monuments, and an inventory of the "jewels and riches," together with biographies of the bishops, prebends, et al.

Translated from the French with Notes, Historical and Explanatory. Printed boards sewn oriental-style with cords, unobtrusive old library stamp, very good. Everitt, English Caricaturists, pp. Printed for the Author by T. Modern quarter maroon morcco, marbled boards, morocco labels, new endpapers. Born in Normandy, Ducarel was educated at Eton and Oxford and eventually became keeper of the library of Lambeth Place. In he became one of the founding members of the Society of Antiquaries and was the author of several works on English antiquities, this being his most famous.

The plates were designed and contributed by various members of the Society of Antiquaries, and were beautifully engraved by Simonneau and Bayly. Included is an early illustration of the Bayeux Tapestry. Quarter cloth over marbled boards, gilt letter on morocco spine label. Durkheim thought Saint-Simon a genius but considered naive the notion that industry, once properly organized and autonomous, would put all difficulties to right and usher in socialism.

Durkheim teaches that moral discipline is required even within socialism, so that citizens will be satisfied with what they have. Mauss held that "no other comprehensive statement on the beginnings of socialism can compare in clarity and force" with this book. Old half calf, backstrip gilt, sm.

Dutens analyzed history, especially in terms of religion, philosophy, science, and medicine, and showed that the new ideas of such as Newton, Descartes, Leibnitz, Harvey, Linnaeus, etc. William Edwin Rudge, Light wear to one corner, otherwise fine, in glassine jacket. Dwiggins contributed the typography and exquisite decorations. The author offers a portrait of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, a man "rich in ideas for the public good Societie of Stationers, Small 4to, 12 , , 3 pp. Half calf over marbled boards, morocco label lettered in gilt. Joints lightly rubbed, armorial bookplate, fly-leaf repaired, marginal paper defect to first eight pages of text, some faint foxing to text.

Soon after the death of Elizabeth , doubts arose as to the status of Scottish persons in England born after the accession of James I. The "antenati," those born before the accession, were considered aliens, but the "postnati" claimed to be naturalized subjects who could hold land in England. Known for this rousing royalist speech and for his intimacy with Elizabeth and James, Egerton is remembered most for his successful efforts to quell the rebellion against Elizabeth by Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.

Original full vellum decorated in gilt, silk marker, very good. Original green cloth, bookplate, very good. Military Insurrection or Political and Economic Action? Translated by Henry Kuhn. With an Appendix by Daniel de Leon. New York Labor News, Light external wear, otherwise very good. Haillan was both poet and translator, but is best known as a historian. His history of the kings of France was a monumental undertaking, left unfinished at his death.

It was reprinted several times but this edition is rare. Evelyni emptus in Aulo Palatii: Dominus providebit [these two words deleted] Parisiis. The richness and elaboration of the binding suggests that this was a special copy, perhaps for presentation. Old half calf, gilt backstrip, a very pretty copy. Extremites worn, headcap chipped, signature to title page, several pen marks, still very good.

In Fable of the Bees , or Private Vices, Public Benefits , Mandeville rejected the optimistic view of benevolent human nature put forward by Shaftesbury and argued that the mutual help on which society thrives is due to personal acquisitiveness and desire for luxury. Fides furthers this argument, asserting that moral truth consists "in the contemplation of the moral perfections of the divine nature, the rule and model of perfection to all other intelligent beings.

Liber Librorum , Original natural linen over patterned boards, lacking introductory booklet, otherwise fine. Edited and Enlarged by Ellen Ware Fiske. Extremely scarce history of the town that began as Dedham in , became Needham in , West Needham in , and Wellesley in Fiske left his unpublished manuscript to his daughter, Ellen, who completed it and saw to its publication.

Determined not to repeat that which had been written by others, notably George Kuhn Clarke and Erastus Worthington on Needham and Dedham with some material on Wellesley, Ms.

Includes a concise chronology. Very scarce; NUC list only six copies in library holdings. First published in London in , this best-seller remained in print for more than a century. Flavel , the non-conformist presbyterian divine, was a prolific writer of religious tracts who found himself nearly shipwrecked on a voyage to London. He suggests that this disaster was the source of this book of "pleasant observations, profitable applications, and serious reflections, all concluded with so many spiritual poems. Wing ed. Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, With a Foreward by Sir C. Orginal brown cloth in dust jacket, ownership signature.

Fine in very good slipcase. Founded on authentic Documents. Old brown calf, raised bands, joints cracked but sound, edges worn, lightly browned throughout, otherwise a very good copy. This book has long been attributed to Franklin but was more likely written with his advice by Richard Jackson, his co-agent in London. Ralph is engaged to see it through the press, as he does not wish to appear in the affiar.

Sparks printed the letter to Hume it was universally catalogued as by him. I and a folding frontis.

I and to ends of both backstrips, otherwise a remarkably fine copy as issued. The Truthful Lens Moritimer notes that mixed sets are not uncommon. Much of the confusion of which she speaks in cataloguing early Froissarts results from the sharing of publishing duties. Michel le Noir, May 28, The first dated edition, this is apparently the third edition overall and is said by Brunet to be as rare as the previous editions of and Anthoine Couteau for Poncet le Preux, The "sixth edition, Le Preux issue," according to Mortimer, who does not acknowledge an edition of , making this a seventh edition.

Anthoine Verard, October 12, Original brown buckram, morocco spine label, gilt, in slipcase, fine. Blumenthal not only writes about his own experiences, but also of several other printers and designers including Ruzicka, Dwiggins, Mosher, Ritchie et al. Original red cloth, good. Included are a bibliography and chronology of contemporary events. Marbled boards, gilt morocco spine label. Preliminary signatures foxed, spine a little faded, otherwise very good.

Half smooth calf over marbled boards, morocco label. Among the many intimacies these letters and memoirs reveal, they exhibit in particular how personally he took H. He towers above all competitors as a giant among the pigmies" Henry Craik. Charles C Thomas, Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Wrappers, some waterstaining, disbound. It chronicles the events which led to Gorsas being executed in Born in , Gorsas had been a journalist and member of the National Convention. Querard characterizes him as being one of the first to recognize the true infamy of Robespierre and to denounce apparently at great risk the excesses and oppressiveness of the Committees.

The book ends with a note about the author, and concludes with the epitaph which he had written for himself. The Derrydale Press, Half maroon cloth over boards, gilt title on cover and spine. The reference on the title to this work being translated from the English is false, as is the transparent publisher's pseudonym. It was written by Ange Goudar c. The folding plate shows the 'trial' in progress and one of the figures depicted is Ben Franklin. Fay notes that the work criticizes England, France, and the US almost equally before coming down in favor the the latter.

Goudar published numerous popular works of which L'Espion Chinois may be the most popular. Iris Books, OUP, Folio, 13pp, with 12 full-page color plates. Original blue cloth, gilt, fine. This work became the foundation of international law and one of the most studied and discussed books of the 18th century. Hugo Grotius , called "the miracle of Holland" by Henry IV, learned his subject first hand as a lawyer for the Dutch East India Company, in whose service he was once imprisoned on religious grounds; he escaped in a book chest, disguised himself as a mason, and later accepted the post of Swedish ambassador to France.

PMM Latin ed. Original gilt decorated blue cloth. Account of a three-year natural history research expedition on The Marchesa, a ton schooner, from the British Isles to remote regions in the Pacific. The author, a participant, gives a detailed records of the succesful mission in which many new species were discoveried. Wonderful engravings by Edward Whymper from drawings by J. Keulemans and Charles Whymper. A French edition was printed at Delft in the same year.

This text precedes the tragic death of Bourlie, who had come to England after backing the failed insurrection of the Protestants in the Cevennes against Louis XIV. He was at first well received and Queen Anne gave him a handsome pension but, after accusations of spying were substantiated by examination of his papers, he engaged in swordplay with the Duke of Buckingham and another.

A Survey in Pictures. Blue cloth, white decorated, leather spine label, gilt lettered, teg, very mild yellowing along leaf edges, spine label heavily rubbed not affecting gilt, overall very good. Covers the entire spectrum of Swedish production design featuring glassware, ceramics, silver, jewelry, metalware, textiles, furniture, book design, wallpaper, toys, leatherwork.

Includes extensive designer and manufacturer list. This work by the French antiquary Hancarville retells the sexual debaucheries of the infamous Romans, as related in Suetonius. Pia states that the plates are largely inventions of the author, inspired by antique Roman cameos. This work was followed by the companion volume, Monumens du Culte secret des Dames Romaines. Although the last page indicates the end of the first volume, the work is complete in itself.

Both works were condemned and burned in and in Private Case calling for a frontispiece of Tan cloth, black lettered, one tiny spot to front board, very nice. Fondo De Cultura Economica, Henry Keller - Albert Cogswell, Sienna cloth, gilt lettered, black stamped ornaments, gilt decoration, beveled edges, hinges starting, backstrip tear at joint, mod. I am personally acquainted with some of the most prominent citizens of the Pacific Coast who have made colossal fortunes simply by lying This purports to be a book on lies and lying but it does not treat of the lies of politicians, stockbrokers, newspapermen, authors, and others who lie for money; neither does it touch on the untruths of scandal, mischief, or malice, but only on those lies which amuse, instruct and elevate, without harm.

It is a record of lies told in a club known as the Sazerac Lying Club, whose objects, as its name implies, are lying. Contains a number of sketches of odd characters in Nevada, and local narratives of life in Austin, Nevada, including chapters on Life in a Mining Town, Frontier Sketches, Indians and Chinese with attention to whiskey drinking and opium smoking , etc.

Disbound, lacking title, browned, old library stamp. Black 2nd ed. NUC lists several editions from the same year, all scarce. Engraved frontispiece plus c. Modern cloth over marbled boards, some browning, otherwise very good.

This account of expeditions to the arctic and tropical zones focuses on the botany and zoology of these extreme areas. Hartwig dedicates one chapter to a description of the Amazon. Remarkable is a longer note on coca, in which the author describes the cultivation of coca, its use and abuse. The large map delineates several routes and trails to the West, including the Santa Fe, Oregon, and Kearney. Nicknamed Galloping Head due to the speed with which he crossed the Plains, the author gives descriptions of the life of the savage Gauchos and the fearful atrocities of the Salteadores and the Indians.

Translated by Alfhild Huebsch. With nearly illustrations from sketches and photographs by the author, and 2 large folding maps. A very good set. Hedin travelled miles, of them through regions never before visited by Europeans. A student of several of the local languages, Hedin was able to record for he first time many of the local geographic names which were previously unknown in the West. A treatise on British policy in Egypt, with considerations on the war in the Sudan and the future of the Suez Canal. William Turner, [i. A complete description of the known world, it includes long descriptions of North America, Peru, the American islands including Jamaica, Cuba and Bermuda , and other locales.

About America, Heylyn writes that "this great tract of land ought, and that most aptly, to bee called the New World; New for the late discovery, and World, for the vast spaciousness of it: John Carter Brown II, p. The novelist Henry Fielding handled the kidnapping case of Canning , one of the most intriguing cases of perjury in the history of the English law. Edited by William Nichols. Navy blue cloth, gilt lettered, dust jacket, negligible wear at spine head and tail, corners, mild wear at dj extremities, otherwise near fine.

Original brown cloth, gilt lettered and decorated, stamped ruled borders, stamped and ornamented quadrangle, some mild foxing, light cornerwear, cloth with shelf fading, age spots, lower third of pp. Howitt , of Derbyshire, England, was author of over books on her own and many others in collaboration with her husband, William, who authored the classic two volume, The History of the Supernatural in All Ages.

The present title is not found in any standard reference and appears to be a redacted amalgam of two earlier Howitt books, Sketches of Natural History and Birds and Flowers and Other Country Things , Noteworthy is a brief chapter and early engraving of the now-extinct early 20th C. Carolina Parakeet, the only parrot species native to the U. There is, additionally, a verse and engraving entitled, The Ball Players, a charming view of young boys enjoying the simple pleasure of catching and throwing.

NUC lists an undated, ca. Cozans, NY, but the present edition not to be found. Engraved title-page by Samuel Williams plus numerous illustrations throughout the text. Quarter-calf, gilt spine, morocco label, slight foxing on endpapers, edges rubbed, a very good copy. Howitt was widely travelled and published accounts of his travels through Germany, Australia and his native England in several works, often written in collaboration with his wife. They were also the first to undertake a pedestrian tour through Scotland; later their attention turned toward spiritualism.

Howitt retired in Rome and founded a Society for the Protection of Animals. This travel-companion for the culturally interested contains chapters on Stratford-on-Avon, Hampton Court, the ancient city of Westminster etc. With 2 engraved illustrations. Disbound, otherwise very good. Antoine-Urbain Coustelier and Brussels: Full calf, gilt spine, marbled endpapers, title page printed in red and black. Huet , the last Christian skeptic in the line of Montaigne and Charron, studied with Jesuits before taking a degree in mathematics. Later bishop of Avranches, he wrote many works on history, philosophy, theology and literature.

His immense erudition proved some of the basic materials of the Enlightenment" Ency. It was first published in A general history of Columbia and Venezuela, covering its ancient times, the conquest, the colonial period, the liberation under Bolivar and the establishment of the two republics. Original red cloth, gilt, unobtrusive inscription, very good.

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Original orange cloth in dust jacket, very good. Isnard , called the "Danton of Girondists", was a Girondist deputy and a well known figure of the French revolution. The historical background which is diffused through this work was familiar to James, who was held prisoner in France during the Napoleonic wars and spent his time there studying history. The book treats the inner history of the ill-fated conspiracy of Cinq-Mars, and of the events leading up to the fall of Richelieu incorporated with a story of Court intrigue.

Chavigni, the bold, unscrupulous, good-hearted plotter, is a type that often reappears in James" Baker, A Guide to Historical Fiction, p. The work is dedicated "To ," who will not be named so long as the success of the work is in doubt. In the second edition , James addresses Sir Walter Scott directly. Among his biographical, historical, and poetical works, G. James wrote over novels, which sold with almost uniform success.

Although he is little read today, his popularity in the 18th century was matched perhaps only by that of Dickens. Not in Sadleir or Magee. Cloth, with the original dust jacket. Green cloth, gilt lettered and ornamented spine, gilt lettering to green-tone illus. Extracted from the Records, and from the Manuscripts of Mr. He wrote under the name ned Mon and was prominent in the London Gwyneddigion Society, publishing both in Welsh and in English, and editing the works of Dafydd ab gwilym.

With the exeption of the prefaces and the addenda, the entire work is in Latin. American Attitudes Toward the Negro, University of North Carolina Press, Black cloth, gilt lettered, dust jacket, light edgewear to price-clipped dj with chip on rear panel, otherwise near fine. Dionysium du Val, Old calf stoutly rebacked, some markings in text, else very good. Pen and Colour Sketches. Very good in dust jacket with falcon printed in black. Signature to endpaper, otherwise fine in chipped dust jacket depicting a woman rising from the water, printed in brown and blue.

A Radical Plan for the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Black cloth, gilt lettered, dust jacket. A celebration of the most deliberately elaborate of 20th century decorative styles, the first book to treat Deco as an ongoing phenomenon as it is revived and adapted to current times. Disbound, retaining calf backstrip, some browning. With an appendix discussing other theological subjects. The English theologian and mathematician William Whiston succeeded Newton as Lucasian professor of mathematics in Cambridge.

He was expelled from the university for his Arian views. Cloth, spine a little soiled, some minor foxing on first and last leaves, otherwise very good. A account of Brazil and the River Plate Republics. He also describes the economy, internal affairs, culture etc. Partridge and Oakey, Life in Eighteenth-Century England. Red cloth, green lettered, dust jacket, very mild wear, lt.

Book Club of California, Gilt stamped blue cloth. Johns Hopkins Press, Original buckram backed blue boards, all edges uncut. Very light wear to corners, ownership signature, otherwise fine. Kindelem, 8vo, 80pp. Boards, printed label on front paste-down. Title stained, otherwise very good.

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According to the title Laforest was a schoolmaster in Thoissey near Ain. Migneret, An V- First published in , this work by Laharpe , the acclaimed critic and poet, argues for the return to traditional religious practice and ridicules the institutions and beliefs of the new order. NUC lists 4 copies. It contains a biting attack on the minister of finance under Louis XVI Jacques Necker , for which its author Laizer was strongly criticized and imprisoned. Brown calf boards, triple-filleted in gilt and blind, rebacked on lighter smooth calf, red morocco label.

Beale T first ed. Holdsworth describes these two works as "complete and systematic [and] clearly arranged and comprehensive" HEL 4, , pp. Lamennais was a religious writer, historian and activist in the post-Revolutionary period. A controversial figure, he sought to reconcile the values of the Church and Christian duty with 18th century revolutionary ideas on the rights of individuals.

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The book was later translated into all of the major European languages. NUC lists only one copy, at the Clark Library. Quarter morocco over printed boards. After converting some natives on islands neighboring the one on which had landed, he lives with them for several years and returns to England with riches taken from the Idol.

The work was issued as one of "Collins Pamphlets. John Camden Hotten, [n. Half-calf, marbled boards, a trifle rubbed, old stamp on title. Quarter-calf, marbled boards, paper browned with some foxing, corners worn, otherwise very good. A work of historical-biographical importance about Las Casas , the first priest to be ordained in the New World, later Bishop of Chiapas and a passionate preacher against slavery. The first volume contains his life, while the second offers an extensive collection of his writings, among them the famous "Brevissima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias.

Edition critique et commentaire historique et critique. Quarter morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt spine.

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