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A Charles Bukowski Bonanza (21 Books About Charles Bukowski)

A Charles Bukowski Bonanza (21 Books About Charles Bukowski)

Gerald Locklin, Daniel Weizmann, Steve Richmond, Aubrey Malone, David Charlson, Ben Pleasants, Gundolf Freyermuth, David Stephen Calonne, Howard Sounes, Fernanda Pivano, Gay Brewer, Barry Miles, RD Armstrong, John Thomas, Jory Sherman, A D Winans, William Joyce, Victor Thorn, Michael Gray Baughan, and Jean-Francois Duval (Charles Bukowski) Sold here together are twenty-one books about the great man himself - Charles Bukowski. Included are biographies, books of photographs, interviews with, remembrances, critical writings and more. A mixture of both hard and softcover books. All 21 are first editions, first printings. All are in near fine condition with minor exceptions. Briefly, the collection includes the following books: Duval, Jean-Francois. Bukowski and the Beats, Baughan, Michael Gray. Charles Bukowski Great Writers Series, Thorn, Victor. The Bukowski Hangover Project, Joyce, William. Miller, Bulowski & Their Enemies, Winans, A. D. The Holy Grail - Charles Bukowski and the Second Coming Revolution, Sherman, Jory. Bukowski: Friendship, Fame & Bestial Myth, Thomas, John. Bukowski In The Bathtub, Armstrong, RD, Editor Last Call: The Legacy of Charles Bukowski, Miles, Barry. Charles Bukowski, Brewer, Gay. Charles Bukowski Twayne's United States Authors Series, Pivano, Fernanda. Charles Bukowski Laughing With The Gods, Sounes, Howard. Charles Bukowski Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, Sounes, Howard. Bukowski in Pictures, Calonne, David Stephen, Editor. Charles Bukowski Sunlight Here I Am, Freyermuth, Gundolf S. "That's It" A Final Visit With Charles Bukowski, Pleasants, Ben. Visceral Bukowski Inside The Sniper Landscape of L.A. Writers, Charlson, David. Charles Bukowski Autobiographer, Gender Critic, Iconoclast, Malone, Aubrey. The Hunchback of East Hollywood, A Biography, Richmond, Steve. Spinning Off Bukowski, Weizmann, Daniel, Editor. Drinking With Bukowski Recollections of the Poet Laureate of Skid Row, and Locklin, Gerald. Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet. Due to the size and weight of this collection additional shipping charges will apply. Please email ahead for a shipping quote.
  • $375
Opera omnia medico-practica et anatomica. Accendunt I.D Santorini Opuscula quatuor

Opera omnia medico-practica et anatomica. Accendunt I.D Santorini Opuscula quatuor

BAGLIVI, Giorgio front., 64-855 pp., 3 pl. Nuremberg, Adam Stein et Gabriel Nic. Rase, 1751, in-8, front, 64-855 pp, 3 pl, Basane marbrée havane, dos à nerfs orné de caissons dorés, tranches rouges, Portrait-frontispice de l'auteur, le médecin Giorgio Baglivi (1668-1707), originaire de Raguse (Dubrovnik) en Dalmatie. L'une des nombreuses rééditions des Oeuvres complètes de Baglivi, imprimées pour la première fois à Lyon en 1704. Elles sont accompagnées de quatre opuscules par le grand dissecteur Giovanni Domenico Santorini (1681-1737) : De structurâ & motu fibrae; De nutritione animali; De haemorrhoidibus; De catameniis. Giorgio Baglivi étudia à l'Université de Naples et effectua un long voyage d'étude à Venise, Florence, Padoue, Pavie, Bologne et enfin Rome, où il arrive en 1692; il demeura dans cette ville à la demande du pape Innocent XII et fut nommé professeur de chirurgie et d'anatomie au Collège de la Sapience. Il mit en valeur les observations expérimentales dans la pratique médicale et encouragea la méthode scientifique de Francis Bacon. À l'inverse, il se montra sceptique à l'égard de la médecine théorique. Parmi ses sujets d'études, il s'intéressa au tarentisme, maladie dont on attribuait l'origine à la morsure d'une araignée, la tarentule des Pouilles (Lycosa tarantula), et contre laquelle l'un des seuls remèdes connus était de se lancer dans une danse effrénée au son d'une musique entrainante, pratique qui a donné naissance à la danse de la tarentelle. Baglivi fut l'une des autorités médicales qui imposa le terme de "Tarantismus" et qui accrédita la thérapeutique par la danse. Exemplaire bien complet des 3 planches gravées sur cuivre, dont celle représentant la tarentule des Pouilles. Ex-libris de Jean-Baptiste Raoul de Champmanoir, (1744-1830), médecin de Dinan et docteur de la Faculté de Montpellier; il était membre de la Société de l'harmonie universelle. Accrocs aux coiffes, tranches et coins, épidermures sur les plats. Large mouillure claire sur les premiers feuillets. Garrison & Morton n° 68 (pour l'édition de 1704). Hisch I, p. 288.
  • $500
Über Ammoniten

Über Ammoniten, über ihre Sonderung in Familien, über die Arten, welche in den älteren Gebirgsschichten vorkommen, und über Goniatiten insbesondere

BUCH, Christian Leopold von 56 pp., 5 pl. Berlin, Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1832, in-4, 56 pp, 5 pl, Demi-veau blond à l'imitation, dos lisse et fileté, Édition originale. Rare monographie sur les ammonites, leur classification et sur les espèces présentes dans les couches montagneuses anciennes, en particulier les goniatites. Leopold von Buch (1774-1853) est considéré comme le plus illustre des géologues allemands. Il étudia à Freiberg sous la férule du père de la géognosie et fondateur de la théorie du neptunisme, Abraham Gottlob Werner, et devint l'ami d'Alexander von Humboldt. Ses premiers travaux sont d'inspiration Wernerienne; il s'émancipe peu à peu de la doctrine de son maître, à la suite de ses excursions en Italie, dans le centre de la France et en Norvège. Il fut l'un des premiers à faire une description claire et précise de la structure géologique de l'Europe centrale, en démontrant que les montagnes les plus hautes n'ont jamais été recouvertes par les mers, mais ont été formées à la suite de ruptures et soulèvements successifs de la croûte terrestre. En 1824, il publia la carte géologique complète d'Allemagne, en 42 feuilles; il s'agit de la première grande carte du genre à représenter une large surface du continent européen. L'influence de Buch fut immense et ses contributions scientifiques s'étalent sur plus de 60 ans. Reliure restaurée. Rousseurs claires au texte et aux planches. DSB II, p. 552 et suiv. Geikie, The Founders of Geology, p. 245 et suiv.
  • $889
Astronomical Observations

Astronomical Observations, made in the Voyages which were undertaken [.], for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Carteret, Captain Wallis and Captain Cook [.]. Illustrated with maps of New Zealand and Eastern coast of New Holland, from the original drawings by Captain Cook

Wales, William ARGUABLY ONE OF THE RAREST PUBLICATIONS ON COOK'S FIRST VOYAGE. This is the first scientific publication relating to Captain Cook's first voyage on HMS Endeavour (1768-1771) to the Pacific. Officially it was to observe the transit of Venus in the South Pacific but secretly it was to search for the mythical Southern Continent. In the process Cook became the first European to set foot on New Zealand and the east coast of New Holland or Australia. Of all the works associated with the First Voyage, this is one of the rarest. Only two examples of this work are recorded at auction on Rare Book Hub since 1985. It was not in the Parks collection, arguably one of the finest in living memory on the works of Cook. It was also not in the libraries of Davidson or Parson's. It includes two large charts representing the east coast of Australia and New Zealand, much improved from those published in John Hawkesworth's official account of the first voyage. William Wales (bap.1734-96) was an English mathematician and astronomer. In 1768 the Royal Society sent him to Hudson Bay to observe a transit of Venus in June 1769. His observation were the first scientific measurements to be made in Canada and were taken at the Prince of Wales Fort. Whilst there he computed a series of tables for calculating longitude using chronometers. In 1772 he was appointed to the second voyage (1772-75) of Captain James Cook. He replaced his brother-in-law, the astronomer Charles Green (1735-71), who had died on the return leg of the first voyage. His meticulous attention to detail is noted in his frustration ‘I begin to despair .of doing any thing to the Purpose here, and yet I am such a slave to it that I have scarce time to eat'. Suarez noted that in Malekula he took 32 sets of observations and at Tanna, 45! He was able to correct the longitude of the South Island of New Zealand placing it 40 minutes further west, an error at Cook Strait of about 34 miles. Cook himself wrote in his journal that ‘Mr Wales, whose abilities is equal to his assiduity, lost no one observation that could possibly be obtained' (ODNB). This resulted in the more often found ‘The Original Astronomical Observations', 1777, publishing the findings. Of that book Davidson wrote in 1970 that it was ‘as important as it is rare . I have not noted a copy for sale in recent years and should a copy become available it would certainly arouse great competition between collectors .'. He then became responsible for publishing the same from the results of Cook's first voyage, based on the observations of Cook, Clerke, and Green. Wales would become Master of Mathematics at Christ's Hospital in 1775 and served on the Board of Longitude until his death in 1798. This example appears to be an unrecorded early issue as pages 94-95 are omitted, 93 and 96 are printed back-to-back. The signature of this leaf is Bb and there is no Bb2. The next leaf paginated 97 bears the signature Cc as expected. The two charts are engraved by James Basire (1730-1802) who was the son of Isaac Basire (1704-68), also an engraver. He was clearly regarded in some standing as he was named engraver to the Society of Antiquaries in 1759 and to the Royal Society in 1770. That of the east coast of New Holland extends from Point Hicks in the south to the tip of Cape York with accompanying track of the ‘Endeavour'. The book records the observation not only of Cook, but his predecessors in the Pacific; John Byron on the Dolphin (1764-66), Samuel Wallis on the Dolphin (1766-68), and Philip Carteret on the Swallow (1766-69). The final third of the book is on ‘Deductions from the Observations'. An extremely rare work of great significance. Beaglehole (1955-67) I, p. cclxiv; Beddie (1970) 719; Davidson (1970); ESTC T141525; not in Ferguson (1975); not in Hill (1974); Holmes (1952) 71; Howgego (2003) W3; ODNB; Sabin (1868-1936) 101029; Suarez (2004) pp. 133-5; not in Tooley Australia (1979); Worms & Baynton-Williams (2004). Small folio (285 x 235 mm.), in nineteenth century half calf, marbled paper boards, spine with ornate gilt bands, with ornate gilded green leather title label, small area of professional restoration to upper and lower portions of spine, yellow edged. With typographic title, Contents, Errata, Introduction, pp. (4), xii, *4, 146, with two large folding engraved maps, unrecorded early issue printers' error of pp. 94-95 omitted, some foxing on pp. ix-xii, tear without loss to p. 59, otherwise in very good condition.
  • $35,200
  • $35,200
Historical Romances

Historical Romances

Ainsworth, William Harrison An unrecorded edition of this work, "Edition Des Aims Des Art of the First State Large Paper Japan Edition Limited to Ten Copies". With a suite of 74 plates printed on silk, mounted in folders with tissue cover, in a morocco box. Within the volumes "With color facsimile title in each volume; With impressions of the Historical Portraits on India Paper, and with duplicates on Paper de Chine; With three impressions of the Etchings on Japan Vellum; First State - Remarque - After Remarque And one on Dutch handmade paper, finished in watercolors. Copy No. 6". 25 volumes, all edges gilt, bound in full dark green morocco with a full morocco portfolio of etchings, "AINSWORTH Edition Des Aims Des Arts No. 6" on the top flap. The plates on silk are largely after paintings by Hugh W. Ditzler. They illustrate ten volumes, some not included in the published volumes: Vol. 1 Reechoed; Vol. 2 Brighten; Vol. 3 Jack Shepherd; Vol. 4, Constable of Tower; Vol. 5, Tower of London, Vol. 1; Vol. 6, Tower of London Vol. 2; Vol. 7, Boscobel; Vol. 8 Constable de Bourbon; Vol. 9, John Law; Vol. 10, Talbot Harlan. Published as an Author's Memorial edition of 101 copies, (20 vols) ; and a Library edition 20 vols OCLC: 5774167, this edition not on OCLC. George Barrie was a publisher of many high quality prints and books published with prints around the turn of the 20th century. This included the monumental book published in 1895, "The Army and Navy of the United States", which solicited illustrations from more than a dozen artists. The paintings were reproduced as photogravures, some of which were hand tinted. Bound in full dark green morocco, spines with four raised bands, gilt lines and a colored floral bouquet in the central band, gilt inner dentures. Inside board with panels in green and brown leather decorated with scrolls and a colored rose inset in central panel, blue moire silk end papers, all edges gilt. Spines uniformly faded to dark brown, boards dark green. Some slight nicks, some of the moire silk endpapers with slight marks. Overall, a sumptuous production, in very good condition, unrecorded on OCLC.
  • $4,125
  • $4,125
Notice. Thursday Boat

Notice. Thursday Boat, Foot of Main St. the Sloop Mohican! (Peekskill)

[Hudson River; Broadside] An unrecorded broadside advertising the Hudson River sloop Mohican, sailing from Peekskill to Manhattan. '. the Sloop Mohican! as a market boat, from the dock of I. & R.A. Depew, Foot of Main Street, Peekskill, on Thursday of each week, commencing April 3rd. Returning, will leave New York, Foot of Vestry Street, every Monday during the season, at 4 o'clock, P.M'. "The Mohican was one of the old sloops that hailed from this port [Poughkeepsie]. She was built in 1837 at Peekskill by Isaac Depew, Senator Depew's father, who ran her as a packet and market boat. During the Civil War she passed into the possession of Edward Tower and others who were interested in the furnaces and who used her in conveying limestone and iron ore to the Tower furnaces at Poughkeepsie. Her skipper was Joseph Reynolds. The Mohican was sixty-eight feet long, twenty-five feet beam. Under her quarter-deck, which extended almost to midships, were a dozen berths. She was always painted red, and was a fast sailer. Her timbers and planking were of locust and white oak. The old sloop now lies on the shore of Chelsea in front of the home of Capt. Moses W. Collyer who brought her there for a breakwater and dock a few years ago when she was dismantled and withdrawn from the river." * Isaac Depew is the father of Chauncey Depew [1834 - 1928] whose ancestors settled in 1685 at Peekskill, NY. Depew was president of the New York Central Railroad System, and president of the West Shore Railroad Company. Printed at the foot "From the Highland Eagle Printing Establishment, Main st., Peekskill." The Highland Eagle was active from 1851-1858 according to the Library of Congress. 12 1/4 x 20 1/4", tan paper & black text. Archivally restored, backed with acid free tissue, with some small text losses corrected ("i" in notice, "t" in street, "a" in Monday.) Overall, beautifully preserved. Not on OCLC; NYPL; Google Image search. A rare broadside. *Verplanck, William E. and Moses W. Collyer, Sloops of the Hudson, Putnam's, NY 1908"
  • $3,025
  • $3,025
Haddon Rig Stud

Haddon Rig Stud, seven Cabinet cards photographs c. 1890

Fitzalan, E(ugene) An extraordinary collection of cabinet card photographs recording the Haddon Rig stud, the famed merino stud in Marthaguy NSW, clearly successful even at this early juncture, by a short-lived itinerant photographic studio owned by Eugene Fitzalan, an early botanist in Queensland. The stud was established by James Richmond in 1882 on Marthaguy Creek, NSW, and has been owned by the Falkiner family for over 100 years. It is named after the Battle of Haddon Rig, a victory for the Scots in the Scottish / English border wars of 1542. Four of the images bear the stamp of "E. Fitzalan Photo Artist" on the verso. The other three are by Fitzalan but are not stamped. The images are inscribed on the verso in early ink inscriptions- Woolshed, Haddon Rig; Wool stores, Haddon Rig (2 copies); Shearing floor, Haddon Rig; Home Station, Haddon Rig (3 different images). The cabinet cards measure 11 x 16.5 cm, with the albumen photographic images 10 x 13 cm. Some of the cards have a gilt stamp in the right margin "Cabinet - Portrait" with elaborate gilt border. The shearing shed image has 50 shearers in front of it. There are three different aspects of the homestead - one taken from the river, with a skiff near the shore and the fenced house gardens to the right; another taken from a height looking toward the home, with the fenced kitchen gardens in the foreground, with ancillary buildings off to the right; the last image is taken from the road, a white picket fence between the viewer and the house, with a man holding a pony, with a child on it. All of the photographs have at least several people in them. The photography business was owned by Eugene Fitzherbert Albini Fitzalan (1830-1911). He was born in Ireland, trained in horticulture, was a gardener in London, collected plants in Brazil and migrated to Melbourne in 1849. He established plant nurseries with varied success, but his nursery in Bowen, Queensland ran from 1862-1887, and Cairns, where he was the first curator of the Cairns Botanic Gardens from 1887-1897. He was appointed as collector to the Queensland Government's expedition on the Burdekin River & was a botanist who collected specimens in Queensland for Baron Ferdinand von Mueller. Many plant discoveries incorporate his name. One has to conclude that the photographic business was not terribly successful, as there is only one record of a Fitzalan photograph that we have been able to locate in Australia. It is a small carte de visite held by the Art Gallery of NSW, picturing a man & his dog on a horse drawn carriage in the bush, captioned "Fitzalan, Photo. Coonamble." It is an albumen photograph with a simple red border with nothing printed on the verso. The Art Gallery accession number is 338.2014. As Coonamble is about a one hour drive northeast of Marthaguy, it indicates that Fitzalan's "resident photographer" was in the area and producing photographs. We have found no references to a Fitzalan photograph on Trove, which records holdings in all Australian reference libraries; at the National Gallery of Victoria or the National Gallery of Australia. The National Herbarium of Victoria has transcribed an extensive number of Von Mueller's correspondence, and Fitzalan is recorded 39 times. He is mentioned in correspondence between 1860-1869; his first recorded direct correspondence is sent from "Willow Vale", Fitzalan's home in Bowen, Queensland, dated 20th April 1871. An extensive letter to Von Mueller dated March 6th, 1882 his attempt to secure Cycas seeds at Mount Elliott, but the aboriginals had burnt the area; discusses payment of 50 pounds for his work and then this - "Our resident photographer is at present in England perfecting himself in the business but will be back in May â€" when it will be possible to get Cycas views on reasonable terms â€"" So Fitzalan had started a photographic business, which included photographing botanical specimens. Condition of the photographs is slightly faded but in very good condition overall. Two images of the house have lifted slightly on one corner from the backing. An extraordinary collection recording the Haddon Rig stud, by a short-lived itinerant photographic studio owned by Eugene Fitzalan, an early botanist in Queensland.
  • $2,475
  • $2,475
W.W.II Memorabilia from a US Nurse in the China Theater

W.W.II Memorabilia from a US Nurse in the China Theater, Lt. Lillian Scher

[W.W.I.I.; Women] Scher, Lillian A collection of photographs and ephemera belonging to Lt. Lillian Scher, an Army nurse during W.W.II in the China Theater. The photographs are mostly vernacular (9) of Lillian posing either alone or with other nurses in front of buildings with Chinese signs on them, rickshaws, barracks, some at parties with officers and Chinese women and two landscape photos. Other shots (3) have "Printed by Headquarters "B" Detachment, 164th Signal Photographic Company" stamped on verso - 2 of parties with officers and Chinese women, a third of a medal being given to a bedridden patient while Lillian and 2 soldiers look on. A letter from Major General G.X. Cheves dated 6 March 1945 addressed to Lillian at 95th Station Hospital APO 627 (Kunming, China) hoping that her trip to India was pleasant. 2 Army Air Force Air Transport tickets dating August and October 1945 to Chihkiang and Kolkata. Printed program with graphic image of a ship "West Point" Feb 15, 1943 on front and list of Officers, Nurses, Enlisted Men on the USS West Point. Printed photo in a red card booklet entitled, "Memories of . Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe Paramount Hotel New York". Invitation to a Dinner Dance in Chengkung, China, January 23, 1945, by the Officers f the 449th Fighter Squadron, typewritten on 3/1/2 x 8" paper with color decoration and Chinese characters, with original decorated envelope. 1 copy of 'The Pointer, The Paper of the USS West Point' newsletter from March 13, 1943, 4pp, 8 1/2 x 10 3/4". 3 pieces of Chinese money (Ten Yuan bills) in red, blue and turquoise. "Greenbacks When We Get Back"/China-Burma-India Theater, an 8 panel brochure advertising financial services to the enlisted - featuring Life Insurance, Bonds, Deposits, Sending money home, Class E Allotment, folds to 3 x 7". Tissue paper adhered to the edge of panel 6. Lillian was born 23 Dec 1909 in Russia; NY State census 1925 has her living in Brooklyn with mother Rebecca, (Joseph, father's name crossed through) and siblings incl. older sister Bella (b. Russia 1895), who is a nurse. She died 29 Aug 1998 (ref. Birls file), memorialized as a beloved sister, aunt, great aunt and great great aunt on her gravestone In Beth Olam Memorial Park, Lakewood, NJ.
  • $303
The Cotton Kingdom. A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States Based Upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and Investigations by the Same Author

The Cotton Kingdom. A Traveller’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States Based Upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and Investigations by the Same Author

Olmsted, Frederick Law Olmsted is best known for his outstanding contribution to landscape architecture in the United States, it being said that he ". paints with lakes and wooded slopes; with lawns and banks and forest-covered hills; with mountainsides and ocean views". In 1857, he and his partner Calvert Vaux won the competition to design Central Park, still a cornerstone of New York City's conserved open space. Prior to this, Olmsted was commissioned by the New York Daily Times (now The New York Times) to embark on an extensive research journey through the American South and Texas from 1852 to 1857. His dispatches to the Times were collected into three volumes -- A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States (1856), A Journey Through Texas (1857), A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853-4 (1860). These vivid first-person accounts of the antebellum South were abridged into the two-volume set "The Cotton Kingdom". In the introduction, Olmsted stated his views on the effect of slavery on the economy and social conditions of the Southern states: " My own observation of the real condition of the people of our Slave States, gave me an impression that the cotton monopoly in some way did them more harm than good." (from Wikipedia). Two volumes, small 8vo; viii, 376pp; iv, 404pp. Folding, color map of the Southern States with Olmsted's facsimile signature printed in the bottom right. Bound in publisher's green cloth boards with bright spines & gilt title but water staining to the foredge of both volumes. There is a blind tooled stamp on the yellow ffep of the original bookseller Steele & Avery of Rochester NY and the signature of the original owner, Henry S. Hayward of Clarendon NY. There are some light indications that this set was a library copy but there is nothing on the text or title pages. Overall a bright clean copy. Howes O-76; Sabin 57240.
  • $715
Views in Adelaide No 1-3

Views in Adelaide No 1-3

Gill, S. T. [Adelaide, South Australia; Print] An extraordinarily rare set of four of S. T. Gill's Adelaide views, no. 1-3, i.e. Views in Adelaide No. 1. Hindley Street from King William St.; No. 2. Hindley Street Looking East; No. 3 Rundle Street Looking East; with a variant second copy of No. 3, which is black & white. The images are held at the Art Gallery of South Australia; the State Library of New South Wales, the National Library of Australia and some a the City of Adelaide. There are tinted lithographs, some with a tinted border, others not, and black & white lithographs as well. The street images appear to be the same in all the recorded prints, consistent with these four- there are some minor variations, which are noted. The three tinted lithographs are mounted on polished cloth. The period cloth mounting is unusual. It is not known if these were a reference set or perhaps proofs. Views in Adelaide No. 1./ Hindley Street from King William St./ Published by Penman & Galbraith Adelaide/ On Stone by S. T. Gill/ Printed by Penman & Galbraith/ (Signed in the stone) S T G 1851. Tinted plate with no tinted border outline. Image 17.5 x 22.5 on paper 18 x 23.5 cm. AGSA 684G11; SLNSW nmQdoR5n. SLNSW image has tan border outline, this copy does not. Mounted on cream cloth, trimmed outside the catty corners, with margins. Views in Adelaide No. 2./ Hindley Street Looking East/ Published by Penman & Galbraith Pirie St. Adelaide./ On Stone by S. T. Gill/ Printed by Penman & Galbraith/ (Signed in the stone) S T G (indistinct date). Tinted plate with a faint tinted border outline. Image 18 x 23.1 cm on paper 18.3 x 24 cm. AGSA 684G12; SLNSW 9PQ8kDxn; Nat Lib ID 7566602, Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK3544/B. Slt. foxing on left lower margin. Mounted on saffron cloth trimmed outside the catty corners, with margins. Views in Adelaide No. 3/ Rundle Street Looking East/ Published by Penman & Galbraith Pirie St. Adelaide./ On Stone by S. T. Gill/ Printed by Penman & Galbraith/ (Signed in the stone) S T G 1851 (S inverted). Tinted plate with tinted border outline. Image 18 x 22.8 on paper 18.2 x 23.4 cm. AGSA B 2430; SLNSW Yj7djR39 for 3 print set, which is colored and without border outlines. Mounted on saffron cloth, trimmed outside the catty corners, with margins. Views in Adelaide No. 3/ Rundle Street Looking East/ Published by Penman & Galbraith Pirie St. Adelaide./ On Stone by S. T. Gill/ Printed by Penman & Galbraith/ (Signed in the stone) S T G 1851 (S inverted). Black and white plate with no tinted border outline. Image 18 x 22.2 on paper 20.9 x 25.8 cm. AGSA B 2430; NLA Lib ID 7566601, Nan Kivell NK3544/C. Printed on cream paper, some watermarks. A rare set of images, by one of the master artists of this period in Australia.
  • $8,250
  • $8,250
De la Monarchie selon la charte.

De la Monarchie selon la charte.

CHATEAUBRIAND, François René de. I/ Édition originale de la plus grande rareté de ce pamphlet politique de Chateaubriand qui provoqua la colère de Louis XVIII et valut à son auteur d être destitué de son poste ministériel. Le pamphlet fut interdit le 18 septembre 1816, les exemplaires saisis et détruits. Elle est si rare qu elle a échappé à Vicaire et à Carteret. Avec le feuillet de titre imprimé contenant la mention « Ministre d Etat » qui sera supprimée par la suite. «  Toutes les éditions, tous les tirages de ce pamphlet exécutés chez Le Normant portent uniformément le titre ci-dessus. Elles sont toutes considérées comme éditions originales ; elles furent saisies par ordre de Décazes. » (Talvart, III, 10) L ouvrage est une machine de guerre dressée contre Decazes et sa politique. L auteur dénonce la censure de la presse tout en s attaquant au Ministère de la police générale.  L ouvrage critique sévèrement les trois Ministères de la Restauration. L ouvrage connaitra un succès foudroyant et provoquera la colère de Louis XVIII et de Decazes qui l interdira et fera détruire les exemplaires saisis. Chateaubriand sera rayé de la liste des ministres d Etat et perdra ses honoraires. II/ Édition originale de ces célèbres et vibrants mémoires commandés par la famille royale à Chateaubriand en hommage au duc de Berry. Talvart, III, 19 ; manque à Carteret et à Vicaire. Cette biographie du duc de Berry, fils de Charles X, parut l'année de son assassinat par Louvel à la sortie de l Opéra, rue de Richelieu, le 13 février 1820. Père de deux petites filles anglaises par un premier mariage, il les présenta à son épouse, la duchesse de Berry, sur son lit de mort. Composés « sur les documents originaux les plus précieux » (Avertissement), ces Mémoires renferment des lettres de Louis XVIII, de Charles X, du duc d Angoulême, du duc de Berry, du prince de Condé, et un fragment de journal inédit. L ouvrage reçut une récompense inestimable. La duchesse de Berry voulut en effet que les Mémoires fussent ensevelis avec le c ur de la victime de Louvel. Précieux exemplaire conservé dans une élégante reliure en maroquin vert finement orné de l époque.
  • $5,003
  • $5,003
Examen de la Doctrine touchant le salut des payens

Examen de la Doctrine touchant le salut des payens, ou nouvelle apologie pour Socrate

EBERHARD, Jean Auguste || SOCRATE Plein veau jaspé de l'époque, dos lisse orné et doré. Un volume in-8 (212x125 mm), (8)-162-(6)-[163-414] pages. (page de titre générale placée en milieu d'ouvrage avec l'errata, page de titre de seconde partie absente). Coins et coiffes frottés. Première édition en français. Eberhard est un philosophe et théologien protestant allemand, disciple de Leibniz il fut l'un des adversaires les plus virulents de Kant. Provenance : Ex Libris de Blanriez. References : Ephémérides universelles [1835 : "L'Apologie de Socrate, premier livre d'Eberhard, fut inspiré par la controverse que soulevait le Bélisaire de Marmontel. Dans le sein même des églises calvinistes il se trouvait des écrivains défenseurs des opinions de la Sorbonne, et soutenant que les vertus des païens n'étaient que des vices brillans. Eberhard prit la plume : l'Apologie de Socrate n'était qu'un prétexte pour examiner l'ensemble des dogmes du christianisme sur la corruption de l'homme, sur la grâce, sur la rédemption et sur les conditions du Salut"]. ___________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ENGLISH_DESCRIPTION : Contemporary full calf, gilt flat spine. 8vo (212x125 mm), (8)-162-(6)-[163-414] pages. Corners and caps rubbed. First edition in French. Eberhard is a German Protestant philosopher and theologian, disciple of Leibniz he was one of the most virulent opponents of Kant. Provenance : Ex Libris de Blanriez. References : Ephémérides universelles [1835 : "L'Apologie de Socrate, premier livre d'Eberhard, fut inspiré par la controverse que soulevait le Bélisaire de Marmontel. Dans le sein même des églises calvinistes il se trouvait des écrivains défenseurs des opinions de la Sorbonne, et soutenant que les vertus des païens n'étaient que des vices brillans. Eberhard prit la plume : l'Apologie de Socrate n'était qu'un prétexte pour examiner l'ensemble des dogmes du christianisme sur la corruption de l'homme, sur la grâce, sur la rédemption et sur les conditions du Salut"]. 510g.
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