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Hardcover. Etat : Near fine. First. THE RENDLESHAM-FAIRHAVEN COPY IN A FINE HARLEIAN-STYLE BINDING. Two volumes. London: Printed at the Expence of the Author: and Sold by W. Innys and R. Manby, by Mr. Hauksbee and by the Author at Mr. Bacon's; 1731-1743-1747. First edition. Folio (20 5/8" x 14 1/4", 523mm x 361mm). [Full collation available.] With 220 hand-colored etched-engraved plates and a double-page hand-colored etched-engraved map. Collated complete against Stafleu-Cowan. Bound in contemporary Harleian-style red morocco (re-backed): a central lozenge comprising small gilt tools and an elaborate gilt roll border. On the spine, 7 raised bands. Author and title gilt to green morocco in the second panel, number gilt to green morocco in the third. Gilt roll to the edges of the boards, continuing onto the inside dentelle. Marbled end-papers. All edges of the text-block gilt. Re-backed almost imperceptibly. With some nicks, scratches and small patches of soiling to the binding. Fore-corners a little bumped. Mild foxing throughout. A couple of short tears to the plates. Pigment oxidation with some attendant off-setting, notably to the folding map in vol. II. Armorial bookplate of Lord Rendlesham (covering another booksplate) to the front paste-down of each volume. Armorial bookplate of Henry Rogers Broughton, Lord Fairhaven, to the recto of the front free end-paper of each volume. Mark Catesby (1683-1749) was a pioneering naturalist who drew no boundaries around his interests. An inheritance from his father allowed him to cross the Atlantic to Virginia in 1712, and to make return journeys that brought him along the Atlantic coastline and to the Bahamas. He sent specimens back to Sir Hans Sloane, and meanwhile described and drew what he had seen in the unspoiled and unsettled southern part of the American Atlantic. Returning for good to England in 1726, and with the encouragement of Sloane and other members of the Royal Society -- to which Catesby was belatedly elected in 1733 -- spent the next two decades bringing his monumental and comprehensive account to completion. The text, in English and French, allowed the work to reach the widest possible audience in Europe. Although some are by others (notably Georg Ehret), the great majority of the plates were drawn and engraved by Catesby himself. He writes in the preface that he believes the illustration to surpass the description in importance, and it is those illustrations that made the Natural History popular enough to go into two further eighteenth-century editions as well as continental piracies. Catesby's style might seem naïve, but they considerably surpass the stiff -- heraldic, even -- illustrations -- especially of birds -- that had come before. His juxtaposition of fauna against flora, bringing a sense of landscape as well as behavior, was groundbreaking, and of great influence on his successors, especially Audubon. Peter Isaac Thellusson (1761-1808) was created first Baron in 1806. Lord Rendlesham inherited his father's home, the vast Rendlesham Hall in Suffolk, which stood until 1949. The rest of the elder Thellusson's fortune, however, was embroiled in one of the most celebrated and consequential probate cases, Thellusson v Woodford, thought to be the inspiration for Jarndyce v Jarndyce in Dickens's Bleak House. Eventually decided in favor of Lord Rendlesham, it took many years and the invervention of Parliament to resolve. Perhaps the obscured bookplate is that of the elder Thellusson? Henry Rogers Broughton (1900-1973), second baron, amassed one of the great collections of natural history books and art (donated to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge). The present volume was bought from the first part of his epochal sale (Sotheby's London, 18 May 2022, lot 42). Anker 95; Fine Bird Books 65; Great Flower Books 53; Hunt 486; Nissen, BBI 336; Nissen, IVB 177; Nissen, ZBI 842; Pritzel 1602; Sabin 11509; Stafleu-Cowan 1057; Wood 282.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. First. First edition. Two volumes. London: Printed at the Expence of the Author: and Sold by W. Innys and R. Manby, by Mr. Hauksbee and by the Author at Mr. Bacon's; 1731-1743-1747. Folio (20 3/8" x 14 3/8", 518mm x 366mm). [Full collation available.] With 220 hand-colored etched-engraved plates and a double-page hand-colored etched-engraved map. Bound in contemporary diced calf. On the covers, a fantastical gilt border with serpents and bees, boars and birds, blossoms and snails. On the spine, seven raised bands. Panels gilt. Title gilt to green morocco in the second panel, number gilt to green morocco in the third. Gilt roll to the edges of the boards. Presented in red cloth clam-shell boxes with black morocco spine-labels gilt. Joints split with some little losses. Head- and tail-pieces perished, with the headband of vol. II only. A partially-closed gouge to the front board of vol. I. Fore-corners worn. Internally, mild foxing throughout, and some offsetting from the plates. Engraved armorial bookplate of Fane William Sharpe, "Student of Ch(rist) Ch(urch, Oxford)" to the front paste-down of each volume, with (his?) shelfmark in early ink manuscript above. A totally unsophisticated set from the collection of Clarence Dillon. Mark Catesby (1683-1749) was a pioneering naturalist who drew no boundaries around his interests. An inheritance from his father allowed him to cross the Atlantic to Virginia in 1712, and to make return journeys that brought him along the Atlantic coastline and to the Bahamas. He sent specimens back to Sir Hans Sloane, and meanwhile described and drew what he had seen in the unspoiled and unsettled southern part of the American Atlantic. Returning for good to England in 1726, and with the encouragement of Sloane and other members of the Royal Society -- to which Catesby was belatedly elected in 1733 -- spent the next two decades bringing his monumental and comprehensive account to completion. The text, in English and French, allowed the work to reach the widest possible audience in Europe. Although some are by others (notably Georg Ehret), the great majority of the plates were drawn and engraved by Catesby himself. He writes in the preface that he believes the illustration to surpass the description in importance, and it is those illustrations that made the Natural History popular enough to go into two further eighteenth-century editions as well as continental piracies. Catesby's style might seem naïve, but they considerably surpass the stiff -- heraldic, even -- illustrations -- especially of birds -- that had come before. His juxtaposition of fauna against flora, bringing a sense of landscape as well as behavior, was groundbreaking, and of great influence on his successors, especially Audubon. Fane William Sharpe (d. 1711) was Member of Parliament for Callington (Cornwall) 1756-1771. His father John, whose seat he took in 1756, was an agent in the West Indies; perhaps this is the source of the younger man's interest in the flora and fauna of this part of the Atlantic. The volumes come from the estate of Clarence Dillon, the Polish-born American titan of finance (he outbid J.P. Morgan for Dodge, and merged it with Chrysler). Dillon was a Francophile, whose name lives on in Domaine Clarence Dillon, which includes Château Haut Brion. His estate in Far Hills, Dunwalke, was sold by Princeton University in 2001. Dunthorne 72, Ellis/Mengel 476, Fine Bird Books 65, Great Flower Books 53, Hunt 486, Nissen BBI 336 and IVB 177.

12 parts in 6 volumes. Folio (18 x 10 6/8 inches). Half-titles. 12 title-pages with engraved vignettes, 432 EXCEPTIONALLY FINE engraved plates with original hand-colour, some HEIGHTENED IN GOLD, SILVER AND BRONZE to reflect the metallic sheen of fish scales. Contemporary tree calf with the arms of the Duchesse de Berry (the arms of France and Spain) stamped in gilt on each cover, all edges gilt (foot of spine of volume III chipped with minor loss, other extremities with minor scuffing). Provenance: with the supra libros of Maria Carolina Ferdinanda Luisa, the Duchesse de Berry (1798-1870) on each cover; Belgian Royal Library. "the finest illustrated work on fishes ever produced" (Nissen) THE DUCHESSE DE BERRY'S COPY of the first edition in French, published contemporaneously with the German edition. A FINE AND ATTRACTIVE, COMPLETE COPY OF BLOCH'S MONUMENTAL WORK. Bloch was a German medical doctor and naturalist. He is generally considered one of the most important ichthyologists of the 18th century and is best known for his encyclopedic work in ichthyology. The drawings were taken from Bloch's collection of some 1500 fish, the largest collection of its time, which he put together from purchases made at home and from returning travellers and missionaries from all over the world including Sir William Hamilton in Naples. ". the finest illustrated work on fishes ever produced. The plates, by a variety of artists and engravers, are outstandingly coloured, and are heightened with gold, silver, and bronze to produce the metallic sheen of fish scales" (Nissen). From the distinguished library of the Duchesse de Berry, daughter of the future King Francis I of the Two Sicilies and his first wife Maria Clementina of Austria. In 1816 she married Charles Ferdinand d'Artois, Duc de Berry, the heir to the French throne. Only the year before his uncle Louis XVII had been restored to the French throne, and on this death in 1824, the Duc's father became the last Bourbon monarch, as Charles X. tragically the Duc did not inherit the crown, but was assassinated at the Paris Opera in 1820. The Duc and Duchesse's only son, the Comte de Chambord, "the miracle baby" was born seven months after his father's murder and became the Legitimist Bourbon heir. During this period the Duchesse became patron to the world's greatest botanical artist Pierre-Joseph Redoute. Not only did she support him with the purchase of his celebrated 170 watercolours of 'Roses' on vellum, but she also obtained for him the post of 'maitre de Dessin' at the Museum of Natural History in 1824, even becoming one of his students. (Nissen) Nissen ZBI 416; Wood p. 244. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.

6 volumes. Folio (18 x 13 inches). 1008 fine hand-coloured plates, drawn and engraved by Franz Nicolaus Martinet under the supervision of Edme Louis d'Aubenton (EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN AND BRIGHT). Contemporary diced green morocco gilt, the spines in seven compartments with six raised bands, title "Oiseaux Enluminee" in the second, and plate count in the third, others decorated with fine gilt tools, all edges gilt (extremities scuffed). LARGE-PAPER ISSUE OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST AND MOST IMPORTANT LANDMARKS IN THE HISTORY OF ORNITHOLOGY. THIS COPY IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM, ISSUED WITHOUT TEXT. "ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL BIRD BOOKS FROM THE COLLECTOR'S POINT OF VIEW" (Fine Bird Books). In 1765 Daubenton the younger, at Buffon's instigation, commenced the publication of the plates. By 1780 or a little later 42 cahiers (with 1008 plates) had appeared, in no particular order, and without text. The intention was that the plates should illustrate the ornithological volumes of Buffon's "Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière" (1749-1804): this proved impossible because of the limited edition of the coloured plates. A new set of 262 black-and-white plates was prepared for the nine ornithological volumes of the "Natural History. The 35 non-ornithological plates feature 6 of Beetles, 21 of Butterflies and Moths, 3 of Toads and Lizards, 4 of Coral and 1 of Mantidae. Being supplementary, they are missing in many copies. Anker 76-77; Fine bird books p 69 (with 3 stars); Mengel 645; Nissen IVB 158; see Zimmer pages 104-106. Catalogued by Kate Hunter (L64F21H-I).

10 volumes, folio (18 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.; 464 x 343 mm). 973 fine hand-colored plates drawn and engraved by François Nicolaus Martinet under the supervision of Edme Daubenton, text within decorative borders. Contemporary half red straight-grained morocco (extremities scuffed, bookplates removed from the front paste-downs). Provenance: George M. Pflaumer. "Ranks still as one of the most important of all bird books from the collector's point of view" (Fine Bird Books). First edition, large paper issue, bound as often found without the 35 extra plates of animals, insects, and reptiles designed to illustrate ornithological volumes of Buffon's monumental "Histoire naturelle generale" (1749-1804). Buffon was appointed keeper of the "Jardin du Roi", later the "Jardin des Plantes", and the collection connected with it, the "Cabinet du Roi" in 1739. He augmented the collection of birds exponentially, increasing it to more than 800 species gathered from all four corners of the globe. In 1765 at Buffon's direction, Martinet began drawing and painting the collection, and engraved the plates under the supervision of Edme Daubenton. In1770 the first volume devoted to birds was published: "Its popularity was primarily assured by Buffon's great literary ability which allowed him to present even the most difficult topics in such sparkling style, in such a universally understandable form, and so fascinating a manner that, as was said, even ladies found amusement in reading about them.the special merit of the work is principally due to the fact that. it was the first to create interest in Nature and natural history in wide circles" (Anker). Buffon's "Oiseaux." was ultimately issued in four formats: the large and ordinary paper folio sets were issued with hand-colored plates by and after Francois Martinet. Quarto and twelve-mo issues were also produced, illustrated with a series of black and white plates drawn by de Seve. Anker 76; "Fine Bird Books" 83; McGill/Wood 267; Nissen IVB 158; Zimmer 104-106. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.

couverture souple. - s.l. (Londres, Paris, Toulon.) 1791-1832, 12 000 feuillets de divers formats, en feuilles. - Exceptionnel ensemble des archives manuscrites inédites et complètes de Louis, Chevalier de Sade (1753-1832), auteur du Lexicon politique et cousin du Divin Marquis représentant environ 12 000 feuillets manuscrits dont plusieurs milliers inédits et écrits de sa main. Le Chevalier y expose un système de pensée de type «?holistique?», comprenant à la fois des réflexions historiques, politiques et scientifiques. Précieuses archives géopolitiques, historiques et scientifiques d'un aristocrate érudit, témoin privilégié de la fin de l'Ancien Régime, de la Révolution française, du Consulat, de l'Empire et de la Restauration. Fonds unique de recherches sur la mise en place d'une monarchie constitutionnelle. Si l'on regarde la Révolution Française comme la naissance de l'expérimentation de l'idéologie laïque et politique, le chevalier de Sade en fut sans doute un des premiers et précoces déconstructeurs. Non de la Révolution elle-même qui connut pléthore de contempteurs, mais de l'idéologie en politique, phénomène qui devait profondément marquer les deux siècles à venir. Ce qu'il nomme la «?politique positive?» est «?fondée sur le calcul et sur l'expérience.?». «?La théorie a eu des charmes pour moi ; je l'ai étudiée avec soin, j'ai savouré ses principes. Maintenant je n'apprécie leur valeur que par les effets provenant de leur mise en pratique, qu'on leur a vu produire chez les peuples dont l'histoire est parvenue à ma connaissance. C'est ma méthode ; je sais qu'elle est, du tout au tout, l'opposée de celles que nos gouvernants et nos faiseurs de constitutions ont suivies jusqu'à présent sans s'en désister. Cette divergence continuelle entre ce qui s'est fait et ce qu'on n'aurait pas dû faire, en augmentant ma confiance dans ma manière de procéder a fortifié en même temps ma résolution à persister dans la vue que j'avais adopté, de juger les législations par les conséquences historiques qu'elles ont entraînée après elles, plutôt que par les beaux raisonnements métaphysiques et supposés concluants, dont les novateurs n'ont cessé et ne cessent tous les jours de nous accabler.?» Le Chevalier de Sade, qui ne concevait le monde qu'au regard de ce qu'il fut, ne pouvait être autre que Royaliste. La démocratie n'avait pratiquement aucun exemple dans l'histoire connue du Chevalier, hormis les antiques sociétés grecques et romaines qui n'avaient expérimenté que des formes très élitistes de démocraties. Ces modèles sont d'ailleurs bien connus du politologue dont les archives contiennent plus de 7 000 pages consacrées à l'Histoire antique. La République portée par la Révolution, plus qu'une adoption d'un modèle politique, fut la réalisation politique d'un idéal philosophique. Or, si la plupart des opposants à ce nouveau régime y voyaient surtout une atteinte à leur situation personnelle, à leurs convictions religieuses ou plus simplement à leurs habitudes, les écrits du Chevalier de Sade ne relèvent d'aucune influence dogmatique ou, du moins, ne se justifient jamais par celle-ci. Louis de Sade, gentilhomme sans fortune et sans attache, est conservateur par conviction philosophique et historique, et non par intérêt. Et c'est avec une parfaite honnêteté intellectuelle qu'il étudie et commente les essais, mémoires et uvres politiques ou théoriques de ses contemporains. à contre-courant de la pensée des Lumières, le chevalier porte un regard très peu philosophique sur la société. Bien qu'il construise une véritable histoire théorique de l'évolution des hommes depuis l'état «?sauvage?» jusqu'aux constitutions des sociétés, il ne postule pas une nature idéale de l'homme, comme le font certains de ses contemporains (que ce soit pour justifier la politique ou pour la déplorer). Au contraire, le chevalier relève la césure entre l'être de nature et l'être de culture, sans porter de jugement moral ou philosophique sur celle-ci comme il était alors d'usage.

Folio. (20 4/8 x 13 inches). Bound without title-page or text, as issued. 160 fine engraved plates, including 6 before letters, by Nicolas Robert, Abraham Bosse and Louis de Chatillon after Nicolas Robert and de Chatillon, with occasional engraved additions and alterations by Jean Marchant, all with early numbering in ink: 1-13, 15-159, and two bis. plates, most with Linnaean bi-nomials added in ink or pencil. Contemporary mottled calf, elegantly rebacked to style in seven compartments, with 6 raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in one, the others decorated with small gilt tools (corners and edges expertly repaired, endpapers renewed). Provenance: with 18th-century annotations neatly supplying the Linnaean bi-nomials to many of the plates, in pen and ink, or in pencil. A RARE ALBUM OF ROBERT'S MAGNIFICENT BOTANICAL PLATES, PROBABLY BOUND FOR PRESENTATION, not formally published or offered for sale. The original intention was to publish a complete history of plants, including chemical, medical and botanical analyses of all the species. Very rarely offered for sale, and only appears in the collections of major institutions. A full suite consists of 319 engraved plates, and this album of 160 plates includes, in addition to plants from Africa and the East Indies, a large selection of plants native to the Americas, or thought to have been at the time: Hieracium caeruleum Americanum - American blue hawkweed Herba mimosa frutescens - Mimosa punctata L. - found in Texas, Central and Southern America Herba mimosa altera - Mimosa pernambucana L.- found in the West Indies Heliotropicum Americanum - Heliotropicum indicum L.- found throughout Asia Helenium Canadense, Vosacan dictum - Jerusalem artichoke Hellebornie Canadensis, sive Calceolus - Cypripedium album L. - Lady's slipper orchid - North America Muscus marinus americanus reticulatus - a type of sponge Melon vulgaris - Cacumus Melo L. - muskmelon, or cantaloupe melon Palmae nux Indicae cocciferae angulosa - Cocos nucifera L. - coconut Papauer spinosum, Mexicanum - Argemone mexicana L. - Mexican poppy Lilium sive Martagon Canadense , - Lilium superbum L. - Turkscap lily Melocactus Americanus echinatus - Cactus melocactus L. - southern United States, Mexico, Central America, Caribbean Lactuca Canadensis, altissima - Lactuca canadensis L. -Canada lettuce - 3 varieties illustrated Aloe Americana - Algarve americana L. - American aloe - 3 varieties illustrated, including Aloe vera Aster virgineaus augustifolius - New York aster Ananas Acostae Lugd. - Pineapple - South America Althea Indica Aster Canadensis - horse weed, or mare's tail - 2 varieties illustrated Apios americana - potato bean Aquitegita pumita praecox Canadensis - Aquilegia canadensis L. - Columbine Angelica trifolia, Canadensis - Angelica lucida canadensis L. - Sea angelica Apocynum American - Apocynum androsaemifolium L. - Spreading dogbane Astragalus Canadensis - Canadian milkvetch "The original idea for this encyclopaedic undertaking was conceived by Perrault and the proposal was enthusiastically received by Colbert, minister to Louis XIV, although it appears to have actually begun to take shape only when the botanist Denis Dodart (1634-1707) joined the Academie in 1673. His work, Memoires pour servir a l'Histore des Plantes, which was intended to form the introductory volume to this series, appeared in 1675 and contained thirty-nine plates by Robert. In it Dodart lamented the fact that none of the engravings could be in colour, but at least, he assured the reader, all the illustrations in the new series would be drawn directly from life, the artist making every effort to present the plants in their actual dimensions" (Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi An Oak Spring Flora p 168). "Putting to one side his regular activity of flower painting on vellum in order to concentrate on this project, Robert managed to produce an enormous number of engravings [but at the time of his death the work was incomplete] . The Recueil des plant.

Couverture rigide. Etat : Très bon. Londres, printed for the author, 1789-1794.7 volumes grand in-4 de : I/ vii pp., (1) p., 41 pp. de texte, 1 aquarelle non numérotée, 43 aquarelles numérotées 1 à 41 (2 planches portent le n°18, 2 portent le n°19), 7 aquarelles d'?ufs numérotés de i à vii ; II/ (1) f. de titre, 46 pp. de texte, 45 aquarelles numérotées 42 à 86, 6 aquarelles d'?ufs numérotées de viii à xiii ; III/ (1) f. de titre, 42 pp. de texte, 41 aquarelles numérotées 87 à 127, 5 aquarelles d'?ufs numérotées de xiv à xviii ; IV/ (1) f. de titre, 39 pp. de texte, 38 aquarelles numérotées 118 à 155, 10 aquarelles d'?ufs numérotées de xix à xxviii, report de peinture sur la p. 32 ; V/ (1) f. de titre, 38 pp. de texte, 36 aquarelles numérotées 166 à 201, 9 aquarelles d'?ufs numérotées de xxix à xxxvii ; VI/ (1) f. de titre, 34 pp. de texte, 34 aquarelles numérotées 202 à 235, 10 aquarelles d'?ufs numérotées de xxxviii à xlvii, report du dessin sur certaines pp. de texte ; VII/ (1) f. de titre, 33 pp. de texte, 33 aquarelles numérotées 236 à 265 (2 planches portent les n°244, 250 et 255), 5 aquarelles d'?ufs numérotées de xlviii à lii, (3) ff. d'index, première garde détachée, pte. tache d'encre en marge de la pl. 22. Soit un total de 323 dessins aquarellés. Plein maroquin vert à grain long, triple filet doré encadrant les plats avec écoinçons aux angles, dos à nerfs ornés de filets dorés, tranches dorées. Reliure par H. Walther.340 x 279 mm. --- Edition originale de « l'ouvrage d'ornithologie anglais le plus rare », l'un des 60 luxueux exemplaires ornés de gouaches originales par Lewin et exclusivement réservés aux 60 souscripteurs.Nissen IVB 5623 ; Fine Bird Books p. 119 ; Jackson, Etchings, pp. 159-164 ; Wood, p. 435 ; Allibone, II, 1090 ; Graesse, Trésor de livres rares, 190 ; Brunet, 1037.L'illustration comprend 323 aquarelles originales à pleine page de William Lewin.Une entreprise d'une telle ampleur est unique dans /// Londres, printed for the author, 1789-1794.7 volumes large 4to [340 x 279 mm] of: I/ vii pp., (1) p., 41 pp. of text, 1 unnumbered watercolor, 43 watercolours numbered from 1 to 41 (2 plates bearing the number 18, and 2 bearing the number 19), 7 numbered watercolours of eggs from i to vii; II/ (1) title-page, 46 pp. of text, 45 watercolours numbered from 42 to 86, 6 numbered watercolours of eggs from viii to xiii; III/ (1) title-page, 42 pp. of text, 41 watercolours numbered from 87 to 127, 5 numbered watercolours of eggs from xiv to xviii; IV/ (1) title-page, 39 pp. of text, 38 numbered watercolours from 118 to 155, 10 numbered watercolours of eggs from xix to xxviii, transfer of painting on p.32; V/ (1) title-page, 38 pp. of text, 36 numbered watercolours from 166 to 201, 9 numbered watercolours of eggs from xxix to xxxvii; VI/ (1) title-page, 34 pp. of text, 34 watercolours numbered from 202 to 235, 10 watercolours of eggs numbered from xxxviii to xlviii, transfer of the drawing on some pp. of text; VII/ title-page, 33 pp. of text, 33 watercolours numbered from 236 to 265 (2 plates bearing the numbers 244, 250 and 255), 5 watercolours of eggs numbered from xlviii to lii, (3) ll. of index, first endpaper detached, small ink stain in the margin of pl. 22. In total 323 watercolored drawings. Full green straight-grained morocco, triple gilt fillet around the covers with spandrels in the corners, spines ribbed and decorated with gilt fillets, gilt edges. Binding by H. Walther. --- First edition of "the rarest of all English bird books", one of only 60 luxurious copies illustrated with original gouaches by Lewin and exclusively reserved for the 60 subscribers. Nissen IVB 5623; Fine Bird Books p. 119; Jackson, Etchings, pp. 159-164; Wood, p. 435; Allibone, II, 1090; Graesse, Trésor de livres rares, 190; Brunet, 1037.The illustration includes 323 original full-page watercolours by William Lewin.A production of such magnitude is unique in the history of ornitholo.

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. First. First folio edition. Amsterdam: J.F. Bernard, 1730. Folio (20 1/8"x 13 15/16", 337mm x 511mm). [Full collation available.] With 184 hand-colored engraved plates on 94 leaves (4 with a single plate, 90 with two), numbered (single plates indicated with an asterisk): [1*] (general title-page), 1.I, 2.I, II-L*, 1.LI, 2.LI, LII-C*, CI-CLXIX CLXXI CLXXIII-CLXXXIV*. Bound in contemporary half speckled calf over speckled boards (re-backed, with the original back-strip laid down). On the spine, five raised bands. Title gilt to the second panel. Re-backed, with the original back-strip laid down. Scuffed generally and worn at the edges, with some skinning. End-papers creased, with the front end-papers laid in loose. The odd spot of foxing, but internally quite a good copy. Minor worming to the lower margin from the half-title (Ï 1) through D2. Pigment oxidation to the verso of most plates. Bookplate of Bob Luza to the front free end-paper. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) came from a distinguished Swiss-German family; her father was Matthäus Merian and her grandfather Johann Theodor de Bry. In 1685, Merian moved with her two daughters and her mother into a Labadist community at Waltha Castle. She was so inspired by the Wunderkammer of Cornelis van Sommelsdijck, who had been governor of Surinam (Dutch Guiana or Suriname), at the castle, that she sailed for South America with her younger daughter Dorothea. There she studied, drew and collected specimens for nearly two years, focusing intently on the metamorphoses of insects there. Indeed, metamorphic insects were the principle subject of her lifelong study and publication, even before her time in Surinam; the first edition of the first part of the present work (with only European insects) was published in German in Nuremberg in 1679 as Der Raupen. It was issued in Dutch 1713-1714 as Der Rupsen. with the addition of a second part. Merian suffered a stroke in 1715 but completed the work with its third part, aided by her daughter Dorothea Maria Graff and incorporating additional material from Surinam sent by her elder daughter Johanna Helena Herolt, which was published in 1718 (after Merian's death) as the Erucarum ortus in three parts, with 150 plates in total. The work was translated into French by Jean Marret in 1730 as Histoire des insectes de l'Europe -- it now being necessary to distinguish Merian's European work from her South American. That 1730 edition was published in folio (with the same small plates, usually 2 or 4 to a page) with, according to Nissen, a total of 186 plates, including "18 nouvelles planches, dessinées par la même dame" and also in Dutch -- as the present item. Nissen disregards that two numbers, CLXX and CLXXII, are not independent plates, bringing the total plate-count to 184 (as Landwehr confirms). Four of those plates are title-wreaths (the first part-title being used as a general title, then pll. 1.LI, CI and CLXXI as the remaining three). The numbers are a little difficult to square; the fourth part, whose plates are rather larger -- ca. 203mm x 146mm -- than those of the original three parts -- ca. 154mm x 121mm, adds 31 plates (title + 30) and not 18. Bob Luza (1893-1980) was a Jewish physician in Amsterdam who amassed a large library, notably emblem books and other illustrated material. His large library was disbursed in a two-day sale by van Gendt in 1981. Cf. Hunt 483; Landwehr, Dutch Books 136 (46 leaves of plates, viz. 4 plates per leaf); Nissen, BBI 1342.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 3 volumes, large folio (62,8 x 47 cm): 80 plates mounted on stubs totalling 138 engravings (sm. stamps on verso of 1st plates in each vol., vol. "XVII" dampstained throughout with some pl. heavily brown., vol. "XVIII" only sl. brown.). Contemp. marbled calf, gilt triple fillet and coat-of-arms on covers (corners sl. bumped, very minor scuffing, arms of vol. "XVII" dam.), richly gilt spines on 7 raised bands with gilt crowned monogram (sl. def. tails), gilt titled labels (2 defect.), spine numbering "XVI-XVIII", a.e.g. In general excellent copy. Magnificent monumental work and splendid presentation copy with arms of Louis XV on covers, glorifying the reign of Louis XIV, King of France. The plates were engraved by various engravers i.a. Bonnard, Van Schuppen, Bauduins, etc., after paintings by Van der Meulen (Brussels 1632-Paris 1690), particularly known for his scenes of military campaigns and conquests; he also created designs for prints and cartoons for tapestries of the Gobelins manufactury. He followed the King in all his travels and military campaigns and his paintings helped to build the propagandistic image of the French king as the "Roi Soleil". Printed on strong paper in strong and neat impressions, the plates were, on initiative of Colbert, Minister of Finance under the Rule of Louis XIV, integrated in the series "Cabinet du Roi", often used as royal presents. Present are besides a full page magnificent portrait of the King engraved by Van Schuppen after N. de Largillière, large folding double or triple very animated plates printed on 2 leaves depicting royal travels, hunts or military actions with views of cities, castles or neighbourhood of i.a. Fontainebleau, Vincennes, Versailles ("comme il estoit cy-devant"), Kortrijk, Douai, Oudenaarde, Tournai, Dole, Maastricht, Cambray, Zoutleeuw, Calais, Luxemburg, some places in Franche-Comté including Besançon, Dunkerke, Béthune, Arras, Dinant, Valenciennes, etc. Besides the large spectacular plates, vol. "XVIII" also presents single plates or plates representing 2, 3 or more subjets, some oval or circular, including beautiful landscapes, gardens, architectural views, fighting horsemen, studies of horses, etc. Ref. Brunet I-1444. Olivier 2495, 2.

2 vol. Text folio (44 x 29 cm), atlas broadsheet (65 x 50 cm). Text: engraved frontispiece by Ingouf l'aîné, title page with engraved vignette by Macret, dedication with engraved head-piece by Bruneau, each part with 3 engraved vignettes (including 2 by Louis-Nicolas Van Blarenberghe), 2 engraved tail-pieces, one engraving by Van Blarenberghe at end, and 11 plates; frontispiece and title with foxing. Atlas with 32 double-page plates, including 3 folding, most after Van Blarenberghe (1 and 24 not signed, 21 by Dupuis); a few marginal closed tears. Contemporary full red morocco gilt, spines with raised bands, atlas with gilt arms to covers, gilt edges. Scarce and impressive work on cavalry: beautiful red morocco copy of the Prince de Condé, a great grandson of King Louis XIV and a great military general. Dedicated to Louis XVI, the 32 superb and very large plates represent different aspects of the instruction of an individual horseman and of dressage, as well as cavalry formations and tactical manoeuvres. Each horseman and each horse is drawn individually and shown against a countryside backdrop. Most of the plates have a descriptive cartouche in addition to the explanations in the text volume. The author, of Scottish origin, was a Lieutenant-General of Cavalry who saw active service in Germany, Italy and Flanders between 1735 and 1762. Mennessier I-408; Brunet II-842; Nathalie Lemoine-Bouchard, L.-N. van Blarenberghe et le Traité sur la cavalerie de Drummond de Melfort, Histoire de l'art, 1999, page 57-69; not in Mellon. Cf. OHR 2365-7 for the arms.

In January 1716, while in seclusion for the birth - then tragic death - of her second natural child, the twenty-year-old widowed dedicatee, Marie-Louise-Élisabeth d'Orléans, Duchess of Berry (1696-1719), received from the talented and fashionable painter J.-B. Oudry this ingenious suite of picture riddles of love, seduction and morality(!). He created and designed the forty playful prints based on prose and verse solutions of his own composition to amuse and distract the young duchess and her intimates at so difficult a time. Then much in vogue at the French royal court headed by Philippe II Duke d'Orléans, Regent of France and Marie-Louise-Élisabeth's father, rebuses combine elements of emblems, heraldry, cryptography, mnemonics, hieroglyphs and personal pictorial marks of ownership. The present rebus set incorporates individual letters, syllables and, on occasion, entire words into the image series in a nod to logogriphs. A few rhymes are topical, i.a., the Regent's rule (no. 2), the Persian ambassador's visit to Paris (no. 4) and the Queen of England (no. 11). One is literary, built around Corneille, Racine, Molière, Boileau and Descartes (no. 19), and others are just silly, featuring cats eating beef spleen (no. 10), the contradictory effects of wine (no. 28) and nonsense rhymes (no. 38). Nearly all the remainder concern romance, its rewards, pains and pitfalls. Oudry offered this oblong album for sale at his house, though apparently most copies were distributed by the duchess as the picture puzzles were "in-jokes of a particular social group" (Barber). I have traced the following examples - 1) BnF Dépt. des estampes Db 23 (1) (leaves cut out and mounted on folio leaves in a later album with other Oudry cuts; 40 plates only), 2) BnF Dépt. des estampes KH MAT-5 (leaves cut out and mounted on folio leaves in a later album with other games; number of plates not known), 3) BnF 8-H-28477 (later calf-backed drab boards, lacking plates 2-3 and the final leaf of solutions; not colored; La Vallière-Paulmy ex.), 4) Destailleur-Rothschild (Waddesdon Manor; lacking the four solution leaves; colored), 5) Morgand (without the dedication and solution leaves - ?the present example; colored), 6) that offered here. In good condition (some hand soiling, a few ink spots), Madame de Prime and Riberac in early manuscript, bookplate of the Belgian collector Fernand J. Nyssen (1893-1964). Opperman, Jean-Baptiste Oudry I: 35 & II: E4 & E10-E49 & Fig. 36;Castex, "Le Livre de Rébus ou Logogriphes gravés par J.-B. Oudry: un péché de jeunesse?" in Jeux de mots en images: Brève histoire du rébus français, armoiries parlantes, almanachs du XVIIe siècle. ed. Préaud Revue de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (2004) 18: 57-69; Robert-Dumesnil, Le Peintre-Graveur français II: 193-201,8 & 14-53; Brunet IV: 260 (?after Robert-Dumesnil); Locquin, Catalogue raisonné de l'Å"uvre de J.-B. Oudry, peintre du roi (1686-1755) 1271; Cohen & de Ricci, Guide de l'amateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle 767 (Destailleur-Rothschild ex.); Destailleur, Catalogue de livres rares et précieux (13.IV.1891) 976 (now Rothschild, Waddesdon Manor); Barber et al., The James A. de Rothschild Bequest at Waddesdon Manor. Printed Books and Bookbindings no. 525; Librairie Damascene Morgand, Bulletin mensuel N.S. 5 (1907) 675 (?this ex.); Santi, Bibliografia della enigmistica 418; Schenck, Das Bilderrätsel 27, 60-62, 179 & Abb. 50. CONTEMPORARY GILT BROWN MOROCCO, a wide frame of partly pointillé drawer handles and foliage, in the center THE ARMS OF THE DEDICATEE, MARIE-LOUISE-ÉLISABETH D'ORLÉANS, DUCHESSE DE BERRY joined with those of her deceased husband Charles, spine richly gilt and gilt-lettered.

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. First. LARGE-PAPER COPY, UNTRIMMED. First edition. Paris: chez l'Auteur, 1781. Folio (19 1/4" x 11 15/16", 494mm x 304mm): [chi]1. 1 leaf, pp. [2] (2pp. explanation of plates). With 101 engraved plates: an engraved title and 100 engraved botanical plates with hand-color. Bound in contemporary brown marbled boards, (re-)backed with cream paper. On the spine, author and title ink manuscript to a paper label. All edges of the text-block untrimmed. Re-backed, with some rubbing to the covers and wear at the extremities. Spine-label chipped at the front hinge. Front free end-paper, plate list and rear free end-paper foxed. Plates quite fresh, albeit some tanned or foxed at the very peripheries. An earlier description (of this volume?) taped to the front paste-down. An almost-unsophisticated example, tall and clean. Pierre Joseph Buc'hoz (his father wrote "Bughaut;" 1731-1807) shifted course from Classics to law and finally to medicine, with a particular interest in botany. His great stepping-stone was the appointment in 1759 as personal doctor to StanisÅ aw LeszczyÅ ski, twice King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania and, after the marriage of his daughter Marie LeszczyÅ ska to Louis XV -- queen consort for over 40 years -- Duke of Lorraine. With that lofty title he was free to publish widely, including a fourteen-volume Histoire naturelle de la France. As botanical demonstrator at the royal medical college at Nancy, he was exposed not only to plant specimens native to Europe but also to those brough in from abroad. The unique manuscript in the library of the Emperor of China is probably a fabrication, but the plates of the present work -- its only letterpress is the list at the end -- are most certainly in the Chinese style. Blunt claims that the "early plates were actually painted in China," though it is not clear with what authority. It is curious that Buc'hoz frames an essentially decorative work as a collection of medical plants, especially when 60 (nos. 11-71) of the plates were first published in the generalist Centurie de Planches. begun in 1775. Hunt 660; Pritzel 1639; Sitwell, Great Flower Books p. 81.

Couverture rigide. Etat : Très bon. Edition originale. Beddie, Bibliography of Captain James Cook, 649-1226-1543-1962 (Kippis) et 3596 (portrait)-4510 (pour les portraits en suppl. dans l atlas). Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography, 85. Hill, 783-358 (pour la première édition) et 361. Holmes, 5-24 (pour la première édition)-47-69. O Reilly, Tahiti, 433. Rosove, Antarctica, 77. A3. Édition originale officielle à l exception du deuxième voyage en 3e édition (souvent préférée à la première édition. Elle contient la table générale des planches pour les trois voyages). Collection complète des trois voyages de Cook, à laquelle on a ajouté la vie du célèbre navigateur par Andrew Kippis. Complet de ses 202 planches gravées hors texte et du portrait du capitaine Cook en frontispice du deuxième voyage (52, 63 et 87 pl.). *Exceptionnelle reliure en cuir de renne russe, dont le prestige tient beaucoup à l histoire insolite de sa découverte et de son sauvetage d une épave oubliée au fond des eaux pendant près de deux siècles ! Le brigantin danois « Die Frau Metta Catharina von Flensburg », en provenance de Saint-Pétersbourg pour Gênes avec une cargaison de chanvre et de peaux, s était échoué dans le détroit de Plymouth en 1786 ; et ce n est qu en 1973 que des plongeurs archéologues (the British Sub-Aqua Club), en quête d un autre navire, l ont découvert par hasard. Cet événement a donné lieu à une spectaculaire vente aux enchères, où relieurs et libraires se sont portés acquéreurs d un ensemble de peaux de première qualité, dont celle qui a servi à relier, avec une grande maîtrise, notre exemplaire signé du relieur canadien Courtland Benson. Le remarquable et surprenant état de conservation des ballots de peaux que le brigantin contenait (certaines de la taille de l animal lui-même, avec la queue et la tête, et marquées des initiales du tanneur) est dû à la méthode russe traditionnelle de tannage qui, en trempant le cuir dans un bain d écorces de bouleau, le rendait résistant à la moisissure et lui vaut une réputation sans égale auprès des bibliophiles, surtout anglais. La peau du renne très résistante, souple et agréable au toucher se prête très bien aux ornements tels que les dorures ou les incrustations, et son séjour biséculaire dans la boue noire où il a été découvert n a fait que renforcer sa solidité. Sa couleur varie du rouge bordeaux épais à une couleur terre de Sienne plus légère, comme pour notre exemplaire (Cf. The Wreck of the Metta Catharina, Garbett G. & Skelton I. 1987 et The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, Blackwell, Oxford 2010, vol. 39, no2, pp. 235-257 [23 pages (article)]). Very nice set. Complet set of the best editions. "Now, this book has quite an amazing story : In 1786, the Die Frau Metta Catherina brigantine left St. Petersbourg with a cargo of hemp and leather. The latter was no ordinary leather, but Russia leather its typical crosshatched grain, tanned with willow bark and curried with birch oil what the New York Times magazine calls a top-of-the-line luxury. This leather was renown for its unique perfume, its resistance to water and, as it seems, for being insect-repellent. Captain Twedt who was the skipper of the Die Frau Metta Catherina back in 1786, was aiming to Genoa. But he never went beyond Plymouth Sound. Torn from her anchorage by a sudden storm, the Metta Catherina eventually sank to a depth of about 100 feet. The vessel and cargo entirely lost, read a contemporary article; crew saved. The cargo, including rolls of Russia leather, quietly remained underwater for the following 187 years, until some members of a local diving club discovered the ship. Brought to the surface, the rolls of leather proved to be somehow well preserved. Mr. Brown, who happened to commercialize them, stated : ''The hides on the outer edges of the rolls, as well as others that were disturbed as the vessel sank, had all deteriorated badly. The inner hides in most of the rolls were in a remarkable state of preservation, protecte.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. 216 SPLENDID HAND-COLOURED C18TH ENGRAVING OF FISHES. BLOCH, Marcus Elieser. Ichtyologie, ou Histoire Naturelle, Generale et Particuliere des Poissons. Avec des figures enluminees, dessinees d'apres nature [Parts I-VI] Berlin, Chez l auteur, & Chez Francois de la Garde, Libraire, 1785-1788. FIRST FRENCH EDITION. Folio (leaves ca. 46x28; binding ca. 47.5x29.5). Parts 1-6 bound in 3 volumes, half-title and title to each part, with elaborate engraved vignette illustrating fishing scenes to each title by D. Berger after F.C.W. Rosenberg. Complete with 216 fine hand-coloured engraved plates, occasionally heightened with gold, silver and bronze pigments to reproduce the shiny reflective scales of fish. In clean condition, crisp and with good margins. Bound in contemporary full Russia with Greek key gilt border decoration to outer edges; skilfully rebacked, gilt decorated spines. Marbled endpapers. An excellent copy. Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723-1799) was a German doctor and naturalist. This is a remarkable copy of the first six parts of his masterpiece on ichthyologie (the science of fishes), which Brunet defined the most beautiful that we have about that part of natural history . First published the same year in German in a quarto edition, this much larger and finer second edition of Bloch s work was translated into French by J.-C. Laveaux. Nissen described it as the finest illustrated work on fishes ever produced. The plates, by a variety of artists and engravers, are outstandingly coloured, and are heightened with gold, silver, and bronze to produce the metallic sheen of fish scales. The engravings were based on drawings from the author's own collection, which included around 1500 items. His was among the most extensive collections of illustrations devoted to ichthyologie in private hands at the time. The second 6 parts (7-12) of this monumental set in 12 parts containing a total of 432 plates were finished in 1797. Although some copies sold in the book trade and copies in public institutions may show a frontispiece portrait of the author, the present copy is nevertheless complete, since it was issued during the first impression. In fact, we have reason to believe that the portrait was added only in the second impression of these first six parts. Furthermore, this work can be considered complete as it is, because on the title-page of the sixth part, published in 1788, is written sixth and last part . Brunet, I, 974; Nissen ZBI 416; Wood, p. 244; Dance, p. 56.

Couverture rigide. Etat : Très bon. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1717.2 tomes en 2 volumes in-4 de : I/ (9) ff., 544 pp., 83 planches à pleine page, 4 planches sur double-page, tache brune p. 467, mouillure en marge des pp. 529 à 535 ; II/ (2) ff., 526 pp., (20) ff., 63 planches à pleine page et 1 planche sur double-page. Reliés en plein veau marbré, triple filet doré, emblème de la Toison d'Or au centre et aux angles des plats, dos à nerfs ornés du même emblème répété dans les caissons, pièces de titre et de tomaison de maroquin olive, double filet or sur les coupes, roulette intérieure dorée, tranches dorées sur marbrures. Reliure de l'époque.254 x 190 mm. --- Édition originale du « plus intéressant voyage sur le Levant » (Chadenat, 195) imprimée sur les presses royales du Château du Louvre.Cette édition ornée de « nombreuses gravures, plans, vues, costumes, figures d'histoire naturelle, etc., est la plus recherchée et la plus belle de ce curieux voyage ». (Chadenat).Pritzel, 321.Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, célèbre botaniste français (1656-1708) fut présenté à Louis XIV en 1700, et reçut alors de ce prince l'ordre de se rendre dans le Levant avec le dessinateur Aubriet et le médecin Gundelsheimer pour y remplir une mission scientifique. De 1700 à 1702, il visita successivement Candie, l'Archipel, Constantinople, la côte méridionale de la mer Noire, l'Arménie, la Géorgie, le mont Arurat, l'Asie Mineure, Angora, Pruse, Smyrne, Éphèse, envoya à Paris, des lieux qu'il visitait, des produits zoologiques, botaniques, minéralogiques, s'occupa en même temps d'étudier les antiquités, les m?urs, les coutumes, les productions commerciales, et fut nommé, à son retour, professeur de médecine au Collège de France.La ?Relation d'un voyage au Levant', écrite sous forme de lettres, se lit avec beaucoup d'intérêt et contient une foule de détails extrêmement curieux sur Candie, sur Constantinople, sur les m?urs et les coutumes des Turcs, etc. La parti /// Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1717.2 parts in 2 volumes 4to [254 x 190 mm] of: I/ (9) ll., 544 pp., 83 full-page plates, 4 double-page plates, brown stain p. 467, waterstain in the margin of pp. 529 to 535; II/ (2) ll., 526 pp., (20) ll., 63 full-page plates and 1 double-page plate. Full marbled calf, triple gilt fillet, emblem of the Golden Fleece in the center and corners of the covers, spines ribbed and decorated with the same emblem repeated in the panels, olive morocco lettering pieces, inner gilt border, gilt over marbled edges. Contemporary binding. --- First edition of the "most interesting travel account about the Levant" (Chadenat, 195) printed on the royal press of the Château du Louvre.This edition illustrated with "many engravings, maps, views, costumes, natural history figures, etc., is the most sought-after and the most beautiful of this curious travel". (Chadenat).Pritzel, 321.Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, famous French botanist (1656-1708) was presented to Louis XIV in 1700, and then received from this Prince the order to go the Levant with the drawer Aubriet and the doctor Gundelsheimer to fulfill a scientific mission. From 1700 to 1702, he successively visited Candia, the Archipelago, Constantinople, the southern coast of the Black Sea, Armenia, Georgia, Mount Arurat, Asia Minor, Angora, Pruse, Smyrna, Ephesus, sent to Paris from the places he visited, zoological, botanical, mineralogical products, took care at the same time of studying antiques, the habits and customs, the commercial productions, and was appointed, on his return, Professor of medicine at the College de France.The ?Relation d'un voyage au Levant', written in the form of letters, is read with great interest and contains a host of extremely curious details on Candia, Constantinople, on the habits and customs of the Turks, etc. The part about Georgia is all the more interesting since this country was only known then by the already old accounts of Chardin and Della-Valle. The to.

Couverture rigide. Etat : Très bon. Paris, chez Huguier, vers 1735. Plein veau havane marbré, dos à nerfs richement orné, pièces de titre en maroquin rouge, tranches jaspées. Reliure de l'époque.318 x 238 mm. --- 12 planches in-4 gravées par Le Bas et Ravenet d'après les dessins de Boucher. 1. Gaigne Petit ? 2. A Racomoder les vieux souflets ? 3. Des noisettes au litron ? 4. Balais Balais ? 5. Charbon Charbon ? 6. A. Ramonner du Haut en bas ? 7. A la crème ? 8. Des patez ? 9. Chaudronier chaudronier ? 10. Des radix des raves ? 11. La Laittiere ? 12. Au vinaigre.Ce recueil est du plus haut intérêt pour la connaissance des métiers et des costumes sous Louis XV. Certaines des gravures sont de véritables estampes de mode.« Le père de Boucher, dessinateur de broderies, fut le premier maître de l'enfant. Mais devant les dispositions dont il témoignait, il se décida à le faire travailler sous une direction plus autorisée que la sienne. François Boucher entra dans l'atelier de Le Moine, dont il imita bientôt la manière, dans Le jugement de Suzanne.Il n'y resta que fort peu de temps, quelques mois à peine, puis vint travailler chez le père du graveur L. Cars, lequel était éditeur. Mariette nous dit à ce sujet que Boucher y dessinait pour les planches de Cars et qu'il recevait pour ce travail 60 livres par mois, non compris le logement et la table. Ce fut ainsi qu'en 1721 il fit les illustrations de l'Histoire de France de Daniel, gravées par Baquoy. Entre temps, il avait commencé à s'adonner à l'art de la gravure et ses premiers essais décidèrent M. de Julienne à lui confier le soin de graver les dessins de Watteau. Le jeune artiste, encore très épris de son art, travaille à la fois le dessin, la gravure et la peinture. Les 24 livres par jour que M. de Julienne lui donnait pour prix de son travail lui faisaient la vie assez facile, mais Boucher voulait entrer à l'Académie et s'efforçait de perfectionner sa technique. En 1723, il emporta le p /// Paris, chez Huguier, circa 1735. Full marbled light brown calf, spine ribbed and richly decorated, red morocco lettering pieces, sprinkled edges. Contemporary binding.318 x 238 mm. --- 12 plates 4to engraved by Le Bas and Ravenet after the drawings of Boucher. 1. Gaigne Petit ? 2. A Racomoder les vieux souflets ? 3. Des noisettes au litron ? 4. Balais Balais ? 5. Charbon Charbon ? 6. A. Ramonner du Haut en bas ? 7. A la crème ? 8. Des patez ? 9. Chaudronier chaudronier ? 10. Des radix des raves ? 11. La Laittiere ? 12. Au vinaigre.This collection is of the utmost interest for the knowledge of professions and costumes under Louis XV's reign. Some of the engravings are true fashion prints.- [Bound with]: Londerseel, Assuerus van. (Antwerp 1572 - Rotterdam 1635).Probably pupil of Peter van des Borcht. We particularly owe him woodcuts in the taste of Virgil Solis for biblical figures. We also owe him engravings of ornaments for jewelers, as well as this remarkable suite of masks and dancers composed of 9 full-page engravings, unrecorded to this day.- [Followed with]: Actions glorieuses de S. A. S. Charles Duc de Lorraine, 13 plates.- [Then]: Médailles du Règne de Louis XV (par Godonnesche ou Fleurimont), 56 plates.- [And] : Recueil de différentes Charges dessigné à Rome par Carloo Vanloo, Peintre du Roy, c. 1737. 12 plates. 3 pl. with foxing.First issue of this superb suite of 12 full-length portraits of men from foreign nations, engraved by Le Bas and Ravenet after Van Loo.- 30 plates of various subjects and portraits of the Marquise du Châtelet and of Voltaire, engraved by Fessard, J. P. Le Bas, Frère, Surugue, Aveline, after Jeaurat, Boucher, Wouvermans, Téniers, Watteau, etc.- [Finally]: Bouchardon. Études prises dans le bas peuple, ou les cris de Paris, 1737-1746.4to. 60 plates.This rare collection is composed of 5 series of 12 plates each, depicting the types of the different merchants and ambulant workers of Paris. These pl.

20 parts in 2 volumes, folio. (18 5/16 x 12 1/2 inches). Twenty engraved titles printed in red, yellow, blue or black, and twenty engraved lists of the plates. 200 plates (zoological [54], ornithological [26], botanical [60], and mineralogical [60]), each present in two states (black-and-white and beautifully hand coloured), for a total of 400 plates. Contemporary red morocco gilt in the style of Derome, spines with raised bands in eight compartments, inner dentelles, gilt edges, blue endpapers, First edition, among the finest natural history encyclopaedias of the eighteenth century. "This collection of altogether 400 plates (200 coloured) was published in 20 decades, and contains figures of the rarest and most remarkable, and most interesting phenomena of the three kingdoms of nature, each part being devoted to one of them" (Anker). Considered the principal work of Buc'hoz, the magnificent plates were designed and engraved by the leading artists and engravers of the 18th century. They include Jean Baptise Desmoulins, Jac de Favanne, and Guil. De Favanne; Claude Mathieu Fessard, who engraved the plates for many books of Buchoz, C. Baquoy, Dupin fils, J. Mesnil, I. Robert, F. Lucas, Jac. Julliet. Of special interest are the drawings of Chinese plants executed by native artists. Many of these plants are signed "Peint a la Chine", and much of Buchoz's other work also has a distinctly oriental flavor. Pierre Joseph Buc'hoz (1731-1807) born in Metz, was appointed physician in ordinary to Stanislaus, King of Poland, but his driving interest was in natural history. Over the course of his career he published over 300 volumes, in addition to a great number of papers and dissertations. Among his accomplishments were the identification of many new plants which Louis XV ordered to be cultivated in the Jardin du Trianon. Nissen IVB 156; Fine Bird Books (1990) p 82; Blunt pp.158-160; Brunet I, 1371; Graesse I, 563; Anker 73; Ronsil 412.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Octavo. [iv], 172pp. []2, A8-K8, L6. With the half-title. Title-page in red-and-black. Engraved title vignette. Paper boards. Bengesco 1420; BN CCXIV, 2973; Cioranescu 64349. From the library of the Fideicommis Bodenstein with their stamp on the title-page. The first published edition of a work by Voltaire which later appeared under the title Zadig, ou, La destinée.

Quarto,19 volumes,Profusely illustrated with engraved vignettes, frontispieces, maps, plates, etc. many of which are folding. The natural history plates are hand-coloured. Magnificently bound by L. Staggemeier and Welcher (with their binder's ticket in volume one) in a sequentially numbered uniform full crushed red morocco with gilt borders on front and rear boards, inside dentelles and marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Spines extra gilt, with raised bands, and contrasting title-labels. The final volume (The Literary Life of the late Thomas Pennant, Esq. by Himself, 1793) expertly bound to match. A MAGNIFICENT SET OF THE WORKS OF THOMAS PENNANT The titles are: A Tour in Scotland 1772, three volumes 1790. With a dedication to Sir Joseph Banks. A Tour in Wales, two volumes 1784. The Journey from Chester to London 1782. British Zoology, four volumes 1776-1777. Handcoloured plates. History of Quadrupeds, two volumes 1793. Handcoloured plates. Arctic Zoology, three volumes 1792. Indian Zoology [includes Genera of Birds and Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux par le Comte de Buffon] 1790. Handcoloured plates. With an article on Birds of Paradise by Forster. Some Account of London 1793. The History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell 1796. The Literary Life of the late Thomas Pennant, Esq. by Himself 1793. Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) made good use of his pen as a natural historian, topographer, antiquary, and scientist. He oversaw every aspect of the publication of his work, even personally selecting illustrators. His powers of observation as a naturalist were used to equal effect as a traveller and he is regarded as the greatest Welsh travel writer of the eighteenth century. Johnson proclaimed him, "the best traveller I ever read; he observes more things than anyone else does" (Oxford DNB, 2007). Besides his Tours, he published widely on natural history subjects from all over the world, gathering information from a number of primary sources which, as a highly respected member of the London scientific community, he was well placed to do. The sheer scope of his endeavour is truly remarkable, he touched directly on Australia and New Zealand. His Genera of Birds, a systematic listing of ninety-five species according to the Linnaean system of classification, lists two birds as dwelling in New Holland. Pennant was an associate and friend of Joseph Banks, with Banks giving Pennant the Australian birds that were in his collection. Joseph Banks brought back on Cook's first voyage a Rainbow Lorikeet, the first live bird from the east coast of Australia to be seen in England. This bird was the possession of Pennant and drawn from life by Pennant's man servant Moses Griffiths. He is recognised as the "leading zoologist and antiquary of his time" (Whittell 1954, p. 581). In 1790 Latham named 'Psittacus pennant' in his honour. BINDING: L. Staggemeier and Samuel Welcher were succesful German emigre binders based in London and most active between 1799 and 1810. The quality of their work ranks them amongst the best binders of their time and they are represented in many leading book collections.

gr. in-folio, Avec 116 gravures de fleurs dans un brillant coloris plus récent. 1 f. + 69 p.; 1 f. + 72 p., Maroquin rouge du XIXème siècle, dos refait. Contient le 3ème volume de la dernière édition du fameux ouvrage de Sybille Merian sur les insectes et les fleurs. Ce 3ème volume (en 2 parties) a été rajouté ici pour la première fois, Dunthorne et Nissen n?ont pas vu d?exemplaire. Contient des planches spectaculaires de fleurs, de papillons et d?autres insectes, toutes coloriées à la main.Avec 2 pages de titre: Partie 1: Des plantes bulbeuses, liliacées, caryophyllées. / Partie 2: Des plantes de l?Europe.Richly illustrated with altogether 116 splendid handcoloured (of more recent date) engraved plates.Part 1 ( with titlepage) Des plantes bulbeuses, liliacées, caryophyllées. Part 2 (with the 2nd. titlepage): Des plantes et insectes de l?Europe. These 2 parts published by Buchoz are added as the 3rd volume of the last edition of the work by Merian, (the rarest of the 3 volumes): With altogether 184 engr. compositions (copper plates) numbered 1-182, incl. 1bis and 51bis: 43 plates with 4 engr. compositions each, and 4 plates with 3 engr. compositions each, showing one or more plants, flowers and fruits, a few plates show a decorative ring of flowers, and an arrangement in a vase or a basket. Many of the compositions include one or more decorative insects such as butterflies, caterpillars, moths, snakes, lizzards, occasionally a bird or a spider in its spider web; compos. nr. 152 to 182 are of larger size than the preceeding ones. Red morocco binding, rebacked.Der vorliegende sehr seltene 3. Band (in 2 Abt.) der letzten Ausgabe des berühmten Insektenwerkes der Merian wurde hier erstmalig dem Werk beigegeben. Er enthält dekorative Blumentafeln tlw. mit hinzugefügten Darstellungen von Schmetterlingen u. Insekten darunter Alpenveilchen, Iris, Krokusse, Narzissen, Nelken, Rosen, Tulpen usw. Weinroter Maroquinband d. 19. Jhdts mit goldgepr. Fileten u. Innenkantenverg. Rücken erneuert.Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. cf. Pfeiffer A, 10 et B, 7; Sitwell 119; Dunthorne 205 (1st part: «Des plantes de Surinam»; 2nd part: «Des plantes de l'Europe»; avec indication "Third volume not seen", (here on offer ! ) «Des plantes bulbeuses .», Dunthorne sans la collation de notre partie); Nissen BBI 1342 et cf. 1341 (comme Dunthorn, Nissen note seulement le volume de Surinam, avec 72 pl., et de l? Europe, avec 47 pl.).

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. First. AN UNRECORDED IMPRINT OF MERIAN'S EUROPEAN INSECTS -- PURCHASED BY THE COUNTESS OF HADDINGTON IN 1795. Paris: Huquier[, ca. 1730-1745.] Quarto (10 ¾" x 8 7/16", 273mm x 214mm): with 187 engraved plates, including four part-titles (1.I, 1.LI, CI and an unnumbered plate following CLI) and 180 natural-historical plates; all plates numbered: 1.I, 2.I, II-L, 1.LI, 2.LI, LII-CLI, [1], CLII-CLXIX CLXXIII-CLXXXIV. Bound in contemporary speckled vellum. On the spine, five raised bands. Title and author gilt to calf in the second panel. All edges of the text-block glazed red. Front board splayed, with the paste-downs coming up at the fore. Fore-corners rubbed. A very little foxing and soiling throughout, heavy on four leaves (pll. XXIV, XXV, CIX and CXXXVI). Graphite doodles to the lower margin of pl. LXVII. Despite the gap in numeration, all plates are present (see below). Ownership inscription to the recto of the front paste-down: "The Gift of Sophia Countess/ of Haddington to the Library/ at/ Tynninghame/ 1795". Price note ("£4=2"), seemingly in the same hand, to the first part-title page. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) came from a distinguished Swiss-German family; her father was Matthäus Merian and her grandfather Johann Theodor de Bry. In 1685, Merian moved with her two daughters and her mother into a Labadist community at Waltha Castle. She was so inspired by the Wunderkammer of Cornelis van Sommelsdijck, who had been governor of Surinam (Dutch Guiana or Suriname), at the castle, that she sailed for South America with her younger daughter Dorothea. The first edition of the first part of the present work (with only European insects) was published in German in Nuremberg in 1679 as "Der Raupen. . ." It was issued in Dutch 1713-1714 as "Der Rupsen. . ." with the addition of a second part. Merian suffered a stroke in 1715 but completed the work with its third part, aided by her daughter Dorothea Maria Graff and incorporating additional material from Surinam sent by her elder daughter Johanna Helena Herolt, which was published in 1718 (after Merian's death) as the "Erucarum ortus" in three parts, with 150 plates in total. The work was translated into French by Jean Marret in 1730 as "Histoire des insectes de l'Europe." That 1730 edition (Nissen 1342) was published in folio (with the same small plates, usually 2 or 4 to a page) with a total of 186 plates, including "18 nouvelles planches, dessinées par la même dame" and also in German -- as De Europische Insecten -- with the same numeration as in the present work, viz. I-CLXXXIV with pl. I and LI doubled. The numeration of the plates of the 1730 edition skips nos. CLXX and CLXXII, and pl. CLXXI is, bizarrely, the fourth-part title, some twenty plates into the fourth part (those plates being considerably larger -- ca. 203mm x 146mm -- than those of the original three parts -- ca. 154mm x 121mm). Thus, the present item's unnumbered plate after CLI corresponds to CLXXI in the 1730 edition, and, there being neither CLXX nor CLXXII in the that edition, the present item skips, quite naturally, from CLXIX to CLXXIII without any loss of plates. Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772) probably purchased the original 150 plates of Merian's in Amsterdam, sometime in the 1730's, as well as, perhaps, the "18 nouvelles planches" or preparatory drawings for them. Indeed, Huquier's son Jacques-Gabriel published the Recueil [sic] de plantes des Indes ca. 1745 (Hunt 524), suggesting that the elder publisher was already stepping back. No record exists in OCLC of a Huquier edition of Merian's plants and insects of Europe, nor is there any auction record; thus the present item may well be unique, or one of a handful of runs of the plates made by the elder Huquier, perhaps as a teaching-tool for his son. Sophia, Countess of Haddington (née Hope, 1759-1813) was the third daughter of John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun and married Charles Hamilton, 8th Earl of Haddington in 1779. Not in Blunt, Hunt, Nissen et al.

First Edition â " Primera edicià n. Paris, Hà tel de Thou, n.d. (1765). En 4º (247 x 186)mm. 2 volúmenes. -I: (7) h., 182 láminas. -II: (1) h., 160 láminas. En total 362 láminas grabadas y coloreadas a mano en la à poca con la representacià n de animales. Encuadernacià n de la à pocas en piel, lomera cuajada de adornos dorados. Primera edicià n de una de las obras más raras y apreciadas de Buffon, dedicada a los animales cuadrúpedos, desconocida a Nissen y otra bibliografÃa especializada. Muy rara publicacià n separada de los grabados creados para los Animaux quadrupà des de Buffon y organizados según el sistema linneano. Todas las 362 placas han sido delicadamente coloreadas a mano en el momento de la publicacià n. La publicacià n de la monumental Histoire Naturelle de Buffon, iniciada en 1749 y continuada por Lacà pà de, abarcà un lapso de más de 50 años. Su à xito fue inmediato y Buffon menciona en su correspondencia que los primeros 3 volúmenes se agotaron despuà s de solo 6 semanas. Al año siguiente vio la luz una edicià n de menor formato. Sus ilustraciones se basaban en los mismos dibujos pero grabados sobre planchas en formato reducido. El pintor y excelente dibujante Jacques de Sà ve es el artista que ha realizado la práctica totalidad de las imágenes de esta Histoire naturelle. La mayorÃa de los dibujos originales están dispersos hoy; en 1791 se vendià una coleccià n de 152 dibujos originales que habÃan pertenecido a la coleccià n del conde Mirabeau. La calidad de las ilustraciones contribuyà enormemente al à xito universal y la popularidad de la obra, prueba de lo cual esta suite publicada por separado. Los cuadrúpedos están aquà clasificados por orden y gà nero en el sistema animal de Linnà . Esta coleccià n es de gran rareza y no se menciona en ninguna bibliografÃa especializada. Para Francia, el Catalogue Collectif de France indica dos copias institucionales (Bibliothà que nationale de France y Troyes; la base de datos KVK localiza una copia completa en Torino y un solo volumen en la Biblioteca Estatal de Rusia. First edition of one of Buffon's rarest work. Maurepas, French minister of Marine charged Buffon to undertake a catalog of the royal collections in natural history, which the ambitious Buffon transformed into an undertaking to produce an account of the whole of nature. This became his great work, Histoire naturelle,gà nà rale et particulià re (1749-1804), which was the first modern attempt to systematically present all existing knowledge in the fields of natural history,geology, and anthropology in a single publication. This series of 362 beautiful coloured plates issued separetely only deals qith quadrupeds. 247x186mm. (9¾x7¼").

14 vol. in-4, veau fauve, dos à nerfs finement ornés, pièces de titre et de tomaison rouges et noires, filets dorés encadrant les plats, armoiries dorées au centre, tranches rouges Qqs restaurations, rousseurs, petit trou au 1e f.bl. (reliure de l'époque). Édition originale.Il s'agit d'une compilation monumentale qu'il faut comprendre comme une publication intermédiaire entre un périodique politique (Lamberty était "nouvelliste" comme on disait alors, et avait remplacé Gueudeville pour L'Esprit des cours de l'Europe, de mai à juillet 1701) et un recueil de documents liés par un texte continu. Né vers 1660 dans les Grisons, Guillaume de Lamberty ou Lamberti mena une jeunesse mouvementée dans le nord de l'Italie avant de s'exiler vers 1680 à Genève, où il voulut embrasser le protestantisme. Passsé aux Pays-Bas en 1685, il commença, comme beaucoup d'aventuriers de cette trempe, de mener des activités de renseignement en faveur des Cours d'Angleterre et de Suède. En 1718, il obtint la permission de résider dans le canton de Vaud, puis obtint en 1723 de représenter à Berne les intérête du landgrave de Hesse-Cassel et du Roi de Suède. C'est à Nyon qu'il s'installa pour ses derniers jours, compilant cette somme de traités publics, de relations diplomatiques et de factums depuis la mort de Charles II d'Espagne (1700), qui parut d'abord en douze volumes de 1724 à 1734. Il mourut apparemment en 1742.Brunet III, 791. Précieux exemplaire, aux grandes armes de la marquise de Pompadour, dont l'intérêt pour l'histoire contemporaine ne pouvait être que des plus vifs, puisque de 1745, date de sa rencontre avec Louis XV, à sa mort, le 15 avril 1764, "elle régna sans partage sur le roi et gouverna la France sous son nom" (OHR 2399, fer n°1. Guigard I, 193-195).L'exemplaire figure au Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feue Madame la marquise de Pompadour, Dame du Palais de la Rein, (Paris, Hérissant, 1765) sous le n° 2602.Après sa remarquable collection d'auteurs dramatiques, la seconde place, dans la bibliothèque de la marquise, revenait à l'histoire, avec plus de mille ouvrages. Madame de Pompadour lisait aussi les livres qu'elle collectionnait et en particulier ceux-là, comme le confirme le mot célèbre de Voltaire au Président Hénault, après lui avoir offert l'Abrégé de l'Histoire de France: "Elle a plus lu à son âge qu'aucune vieille dame du pays où elle va régner et où il est bien à désirer qu'elle règne".Le décor des dos, où apparaissent de jolis fers à l'oiseau, a subi quelques menues variations au cours du temps, la publication de l'ouvrage s'étant étalée sur quinze années.

Couverture rigide. Etat : Très bon. La Haye, Pierre de Hondt, 1728-1739.6 volumes in-folio de: I/ (8) pp. dont 1 frontispice grave à pleine page, viii, 558 pp., (77) pp. de table, 72 gravures à pleine page ou double-page ; II/ (4) ff. dont 1 page de dédicace gravée, 579 pp., saut dans la numérotation sans manque pp.355-358, 462-465, 38 gravures à pleine page ou double-page ; III/ (10) pp., 590 pp., saut arrière dans la numérotation sans manque pp.395-292, 572-575, 17 gravures à pleine page ou double-page ; IV/ (2) pp., 632 pp., 58 pp., 50 pp., 16 gravures à pleine page ou double-page ; V/ (12) pp. dont 1 frontispice gravé à pleine page, 378 pp., (2) pp., 32 gravures à pleine page ou double-page ; VI/ (4) pp., 530 pp. (512 pp. et saut en arrière dans la numérotation sans manque 507-530), (28) pp, 38 gravures à pleine page ou double-page. Soit un total de 215 gravures hors-texte.Plein maroquin rouge, triple filet doré avec fleuron d'angle autour des plats, dos à nerfs ornés de motifs floraux dorés, roulette dorée sur les coupes, roulette dorée intérieure, tranches dorées. Reliure de l'époque.405 x 257 mm. --- Édition originale et premier tirage de l'un des plus rares et des beaux livres illustrés du début du XVIIIe siècle, orné de 2 frontispices, 6 fleurons, 3 vignettes et 213 superbes estampes à pleine ou double page dessinés et gravés par Bernard Picart, Hoët, Houbraken, Carrache, Von Leiden, Bourdon, Folkema, Beauvais, Bleyswych et Raphaël.Cohen 940; Reynaud 492; Brunet, V, 150.« Les planches, au nombre de 212, qui font partie de ce livre, et dont plusieurs sont fort belles, ont été gravées de 1705 à 1720, et elles ont paru séparément, avant qu'on songeât à les insérer dans les Discours de Saurin, mentionne Brunet (Manuel du Libraire et de l'amateur, V, 150). Il poursuit ainsi : « Saurin a écrit les Discours des deux premiers volumes ; la suite de l'Ancien Testament est de Roques, pasteur de Bâle, et c'est Beausobre fils qui est auteur du Nouveau /// La Haye, Pierre de Hondt, 1728-1739.6 folio volumes [405 x 257 mm] of: I/ (8) pp. including 1 full-page frontispiece, viii, 558 pp., (77) pp. of table, 72 full-page or double-page engravings; II/ (4) ll. including 1 engraved dedication leaf, 579 pp., 38 full-page or double-page engravings; III/ (10) pp., 590 pp, 17 full-page or double-page engravings; IV/ (2) pp., 632 pp., 58 pp., 50 pp., 16 full-page or double-page engravings; V/ (12) pp., including 1 full-page frontispiece, 378 pp., (2) pp., 32 full-page or double-page engravings; VI/ (4) pp., 530 pp., (28) pp, 38 full-page or double-page engravings. Thus a total of 215 engravings out of pagination.Full red morocco, triple gilt fillet around the covers with gilt fleurons at the corners, ribbed spines decorated with gilt fleurons, gilt inner border, gilt edges. Contemporary binding. --- First edition and first issue of one of the rarest and most beautiful illustrated books of the beginning of the 18th century, illustrated with 2 frontispieces, 6 fleurons, 3 vignettes and 213 superb full or double-page engravings, drawn and engraved by Bernard Picart, Hoët, Houbraken, Carrache, Von Leiden, Bourdon, Folkema, Beauvais, Bleyswych and Raphaël.Cohen 940; Reynaud 492; Brunet, V, 150.The 212 plates which form part of this book, several of which are very beautiful, were engraved from 1705 to 1720, and were published separately before any thought was given to insert them in the Discours de Saurin, mentions Brunet (Manuel du Libraire et de l'amateur, V, 150). He continues: "Saurin wrote the Discourses of the first two volumes; the sequel of the Old Testament is by Roques, pastor of Basel, and it is Beausobre son who is the author of the New Testament. Copies were printed on four kinds of paper, the quality of which being indicated at the bottom of the titles of each volume; ordinary or medium paper sells for 80 to 100 fr. - Royal paper, from 120 to 150 fr. - Super-royal paper (which has the reputation of containing.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Amsterdam, Les Frères Châtelain, puis l'Honoré & Châtelain, 1708-1720. 7 volumes folio (440x280mm), contemporary calf, spines gilt, red edges. Nice condition. Volume 1 second edition, volumes 2-7 first edition. Printed titles in red and black with engraved vignettes, and 283 plates (many large folding) including 100 maps, also views, natural history subjects, elaborate genealogical tables, 4 printed tables in volume 7. Sabin (America), 29141; Koeman II, pp. 33-38 A nice example of this encyclopaedic historical atlas. This atlas was intended for the general public, fascinated in the early eighteenth century by the recently conquered colonies and the new discoveries. Distant countries, such as the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, Mongolia, China, Japan, Indonesia, etc., take an important place in this work. Other sections deal with the history of the european countries, genealogy and heraldry. Volume 6 relates mostly to the Americas and contains a fine dark copy (bound in two large sheets, joined) of the Carte très curieuse de la Mer du Sud, depicting the history of discovery in the western hemisphere from the time of Columbus to the French explorations in North America in the late seventeenth century. In addition to the maps, many of which are based on Guillaume de l'Isle, the plates are after the best travel accounts of the period, such as those of Dapper, Chardin, de Bruyn, Le Hay and other. The atlas was published by L'Honoré & Châtelain in seven volumes in various editions from 1705 to 1739. It was compiled by Mr. C*** (anon.) with 'Dissertations', i.e. compositions of text, maps, plates and chronological and genealogical tables by Mr. Gueudeville, except volume VII where this task was taken over by H.P. Limiers. In each volume, the maps, plates and tables are numbered consecutively. In this set, the volumes are dated 1: 1713; 2 & 3: 1708; 4: 1714; 5 & 6: 1719; 7: 1720.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Paris: Imprimerie de Didot for Debure Père, 1767. First edition in French. Bound in contemporary red morocco with gilt roll borders. On the spine, five pairs of raised bands. Between each pair, mosaic green morocco. Title and translator gilt to the second panel. Gilt roll to the edges of the boards, continuing to the inside dentelles. Blue silk end-papers. Green silk marking-ribbon. With a hand-colored engraved frontispiece and 30 hand-colored engraved plates. Boards scratched, with wear to the extremities. Internally quite clean, with some pigment bleed and off-setting. Damp stain from Hhh to the end, with some pigment offsetting from the endpaper. Armorial bookplate of Rudolf von Gutmann to the verso of the front free end-paper. The English naturalist John Ray (1627-1705) published his Synopsis methodica avium et piscium in 1713. Ray studied anatomy and chemistry at Cambridge and pursued a career in natural history, collaborating at times with Francis Willoughby. Ray defined the concept of the species, and paved the way for the work of Carolus Linnaeus, William Paley and Charles Darwin. François Salerne (1706-1760) was a naturalist, physician and ornithologist, who added 31 images to Ray's work. Rudolf von Gutmann (1880-1966) was an Austrian-Canadian entrepreneur and connoisseur. His large collection was sold at Sotheby's London, 2 April 1993; the present item was lot no. 78. Purchased at Christie's Paris 29 June 2022 sale of the collection of a Quai d'Orsay apartment designed by Albert Pinto, lot 163. Keynes 106; Fine Bird Books, p. 101; Nissen IVB 757; Anker 414; Cohen-de-Ricci, col. 854.

43 volumes in-4 veau marbré, dos lisses ornés à la grotesque de fers dorés, tranches rouges. (Quelques accidents aux coiffes, des tomaisons plus claires à cinq volumes, des mouillures au tome X, dans le tome VI des Suppléments, les 49 planches concernent les quadrupèdes mais la numérotation est aléatoire). Une des sommes les plus ambitieuses du domaine scientifique qui occupa l'Imprimerie Royale plus de cinquante ans. Elle est répartie en séries : Histoire de la Terre et de l'Homme, Quadrupèdes, Oiseaux, Minéraux, Suppléments, Reptiles, Poissons et contient 1218 gravures hors texte, 36 tableaux dépliants et 8 cartes dépliantes. Le tome 44 et dernier "L'Histoire des Cétacés", paru en 1804 sous la direction de Lacépède n'est pas présent dans cette collection. Brunet I, 1376 : "Les curieux recherchent ou du moins devraient toujours rechercher cette première édition in-4, des ?uvres de Buffon, à cause de la beauté des gravures qu'elle contient?". En Français dans le texte, 152.

4 Bll., LXXIV, 176 S. 1 Kupfer-Frontisp. und 1 doppelblattgr. Kupferkarte; S. 177 - 368, LXVI S., 3 Bll. mit 1 Textabb. in Holzschnitt; 7 S., 107 Kupfertafeln (darunter 1 gefalt. Karte); 1 Bl., Kupfertafeln Nr. 109 - 217 (darunter 4 gefalt. Karten und 2 gefalt. Panoramen). Erste Ausgabe des berühmten schweizerischen Ansichtenwerkes, ohne den erst 1786 erschienen zweiten Band, der mit leicht verändertem Titel auch nur noch 32 Tafeln enthält. - Waeber I, 38. Cohen/Ricci 1075. Brunet V, 1546. ADB XLV, 507: "Ist somit diese Hauptarbeit Zurlauben s, welche zweifellos die hervorragendste aller Arbeiten geworden wäre, nicht unter die Presse gekommen, so konnte doch wenigstens ein Theil der gesammelten Materialien für das letzte Werk in großem Stile, die Tableaux topographiques de la Suisse" verwendet werden. Das Erscheinen dieser vom Generalpächter La Borde herausgegebenen reich illustrirten topographischen Gemälde traf mit Zurlauben s Abschied aus der französischen Armee mit dem Range eines Generallieutenants und seiner Uebersiedlung nach Zug (1780) zusammen. In dem genannten Prachtwerke versuchte Zurlauben insbesondere die eigene persönliche Anschauung der Schweiz, welche er von Paris aus im Urlaub so oft als möglich bereist hatte, zu verwerthen und seine Schilderung mit den ihm zur Verfügung stehenden reichen historischen Notizen zu durchweben". - Eines der bedeutendsten und am prächtigsten illustrierten Werke der Schweiz, das besonders die pittoresken Landschaften des Landes mit seinen Schlössern, Seen, Brücken, Tälern, Wasserfällen, Berggipfeln und Gletschern in den Vordergrund hebt. Der Schweizer Historiker Baron de Zurlauben (1720 - 1795) wurde von dem Geographen und Historiker J. B. de Laborde (1734 - 1794) dazu angeregt, das enzyklopädische Werk zu verfassen, dessen Herausgabe mehrere Jahre in Anspruch nahm. Zurlauben stützte sich dabei auf seine eigene, 1751 herausgegebene mehrbändige Histoire militaire des Suisses. - Die schönen Tafeln mit 308 Abbildungen überwiegen nach Le Barbier gestochen von Née, Masqualier u. a., zeigen vor allem Ansichten, darunter Aarberg, Basel, Bern, Bienne, Fribourg, Genf und Genfer See, Grindelwaldgletscher, Interlaken, Konstanz und Bodensee, Lauffen mit Rheinfall, Lugano, Murten, Neuenburg, Sankt Gotthardt, Schaffhausen, Teufelsbrücke, Yverdon-les-Bains, Vierwaldstätter See, Zürich u. v. m., darunter auch eine Panoramaansicht vom Kanton Luzern, und Gesamt- und Teilkarten von der Schweiz, ferner historische Szenen, Landestrachten, Münzen und Medaillen. Die Porträttafeln von bedeutenden Ärzten, Botanikern, Musikern, Schriftstellern u. a. illustrieren das Kapitel über die wissenschaftliche Geschichte der Schweiz. - Ohne den erst 1786 erschienen zweiten Band, der nur noch 32 Tafeln enthielt und den 1788 bei einem anderen Verleger erschienen "Table général" von Francois Antoine Quetant. - Schönes Exemplar. Leicht gebräunt und vereinzelt etw. fleckig. Die Tafel 157 mit minimalem Loch im Plattenrand. Die Tafel im Rand mit gebräunt und etw. wasserrandig. *** *** Copyright: Matthaeus TRUPPE Buchhandlung & Antiquariat - Stubenberggasse 7 - A-8010 Graz - ++43 (0)316 - 829552 *** *** Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 0 Gr.-Fol. Ldr. der Zeit mit Rückenschild (Rücken fachmännisch restauriert, etw. beschabt und bestoßen).

Couverture rigide. Etat : Très bon. S.l. [Genève, Cramer], 1759.[Reliés à la suite] :II- [Maubert de Gouvest, Jean-Henri]. Ephraïm justifié. Mémoire historique et raisonné sur l'état passé, présent et futur des finances de Saxe. adressé par le Juif Ephraïm à son cousin Manasses d'Amsterdam. Nouvelle édition.Erlangen, 1758.III- [Du même]. Lettre du Prince de Prusse mourant, au Roi son frère.Erlangen, 1758.IV- [Rémond de Saint-Sauveur]. Remerciement d'un Particulier à Messieurs les Philosophes du Jour.V-[Coyer, Gabriel-François]. Lettre au R.P. Berthier sur le matérialisme.Genève (Paris), 1759.Soit 5 ouvrages reliés en 1 volumes in-12 de : I/ (1) f.bl., 299 pp. (signatures A-Nh), (1) f.bl. ; II/ viii pp., 103 ; III/ 23 pp. ; IV/ 8 pp. ; V/ 77 pp. L'encre noire a légèrement déchargé en transparence lors de l'impression de Candide. Reliure de l'époque en veau marbré, dos lisse orné de motifs dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, tranches rouges. Reliure de l'époque.161 x 93 mm. --- Véritable édition originale de Candide, « très rare et fort recherchée ». (Douze autres ont paru la même année).Elle est conforme aux caractéristiques données par A. Morize. « Il existe de Candide huit éditions différentes, publiées en 1759 sans nom de ville ni d'imprimeur, toutes tirées dans le même format, et ayant toutes un titre identique. De ces huit éditions, celle-ci est la première. » (Bengesco. B.N.F., En Français dans le texte).Dès le 2 mars 1759, Candide fut dénoncé au conseil de Genève qui ordonna la destruction du livre.Voltaire est le maître du pessimisme ironique. Eugène Marsan observe à cet égard : « De toutes ses veines, c'est celle-là qui a le moins souffert du temps. Ce qu'il avait de caduc dans sa poésie, de sec dans son histoire, de court dans sa philosophie a fini par rebuter, au lieu que le pessimisme du Candide a de plus en plus séduit ».Cette édition originale de Candide est très rare.II/ Edition originale de ce texte de Maub /// N.p. [Genève, Cramer], 1759.[Bound with]:II- [Maubert de Gouvest, Jean-Henri]. Ephraïm justifié. Mémoire historique et raisonné sur l'état passé, présent et futur des finances de Saxe. adressé par le Juif Ephraïm à son cousin Manasses d'Amsterdam. Nouvelle édition.Erlangen, 1758.III- [From the same author]. Lettre du Prince de Prusse mourant, au Roi son frère.Erlangen, 1758.IV- [Rémond de Saint-Sauveur]. Remerciement d'un Particulier à Messieurs les Philosophes du Jour.V-[Coyer, Gabriel-François]. Lettre au R.P. Berthier sur le matérialisme.Genève (Paris), 1759.That is 5 works bound in 1 volume 12mo [161 x 93 mm] of: I/ (1) bl.l., 299 pp. (signatures A-Nh), (1) bl.l.; II/ viii pp., 103; III/ 23 pp.; IV/ 8 pp.; V/ 77 pp. The black ink has slightly rubbed off in transparency during the printing of Candide. Contemporary marbled calf binding, flat spine decorated with gilt patterns, red morocco lettering piece, red edges. Contemporary binding. --- True first edition of Candide, « very rare and much sought-after ». (Twelve others were published the same year).It is in accordance with the characteristics given by A. Morize.« There are eight different editions of Candide, published in 1759 without name of town or editor, all published in the same size, and all having an identical title. Among those 8 editions, this one is the first one. » (Bengesco. B.N.F., En Français dans le texte).Since March 2nd 1759, Candide was denounced to the council of Geneva which ordered the destruction of the book.Voltaire is the master of ironical pessimism. Eugène Marsan notes in this respect: "In all his veins, it is the one who less suffered because of time. What was mute in his poetry, dry in his history, short in his philosophy finally put off, whereas Candide's pessimism seduced more and more".This first edition of Candide is very rare.II/ First edition of this text by Maubert de Gouvest.Voltaire analyzed a work by this author.A former Capuchin, he had b.