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Histoire et recherches des antiquités de la Ville de Paris

Histoire et recherches des antiquités de la Ville de Paris

SAUVAL, Henri 3 volumes(6)-11-784 Paris, chez Charles Moette & Jacques Chardon, 1724, in-folio, 3 volumes(6)-11-784 [chiffrées 1 à 728 et 617 à 672] + (2)-8-759 + (2)-4-682-40-82) pp, veau marbré, dos à nerfs cloisonnés et fleuronnés avec pièces de titre et de tomaison rouges et fauve? tranches rouges. Reliure de l'époque, Édition originale de cet ouvrage incontournable qui demeure l'une des sources essentielles sur l'histoire de Paris. Avocat au Parlement de Paris, Henri Sauval (1623-1676) consacra vingt ans à ses recherches sur de Paris, compulsant un très grand nombre de sources dans les archives publiques et religieuses, pour certaines aujourd'hui disparues, étudiant les monuments civils et religieux, publics et particuliers, les institutions et les corporations, les processions, spectacles, foires, etc.) Sauval mourut avant d'avoir terminer son travail de mises en forme et l'ouvrage fut achevé par son collaborateur Claude-Bernard Rousseau, auditeur à la Cour des comptes qui y apporta d'importants ajouts, notamment sur l'histoire des maisons religieuses et des collèges. Un des exemplaires comportant l'annexe intitulée « Amours des rois de France sous plusieurs races », ici reliée à la fin du dernier volume Tome I : Situation et agrandissements de Paris. Portes, rues, fontaines, quais et ports. Églises, monastères, hôpitaux. Boucheries, halles, marchés et foires. remparts et promenades.Tome II : Palais et édifices publics. Monuments antiques et modernes. Universités et collèges. Justice et cours souveraines. Finances, domaines et redevances. Corps des marchands, hôtel de ville et assemblées. Académies. Manufactures. Prodiges, serments, duels, tournois; cérémonies. Ordres de chevalerie. Enseignes et étendards. Tome III : Curiosités, tontines et loteries. Preuves des antiquités. Comptes de la ville" Brunet V, 151. Bourgeois et André, 295 ; Dufour, 486 ; Bibliothèque Mareuse, 12158. Bel exemplaire à grandes marges. Quelques frottements, travail de vers superficiel sur un plat, quelques rousseurs.
  • $2,243
  • $2,243
Le microscope. Coup d'oeil discret sur le monde invisible

Le microscope. Coup d’oeil discret sur le monde invisible

ADAN, H.-Ph II-301, 10 planches gravées Bruxelles, C. Muquardt, 1873, in-8, II-301, 10 planches gravées, demi-toile noire de l'époque, dos lisse, titre doré, Première édition de cet ouvrage de microscopie par un micrographe-amateur destiné à vulgariser cette science, l'ouvrage sera augmenté et édité sous d'autres titres plusieurs fois. Henri-Philippe ADAN ( Bruxelles, 1802 ~ Ixelles, 1891 ), savant et botaniste, était le Directeur général des contributions directes, douanes et accises ainsi que le Président de la Société Malacologique de Belgique en 1866-1867, conservateur de la section malacologique du Musée de Sciences naturelles de Bruxelles. Il fut un "amateur des plus distingués d'objets microscopiques" (Henri-Ferdinand Van Heurk, hommage dans la troisième édition de 1878) dont il possédait une magnifique collection. Exemplaire de l'abbé V. Fernique (cachets ex-libris). Avec un portrait de l'auteur contrecollé au faux-titre (épreuve au charbon), un envoi manuscrit et 4 pages manuscrites à l'encre noire. Il s'agit de deux lettres réponses de l'auteur adressées à l'abbé Victor Fernique, datées du 10 janvier et du 18 mars 1873. Dans ces lettres l'auteur revient sur la génèse de son ouvrage et ses vingt de recherche sur le monde de l'invisible, ses relations avec certains savants et leur apport sur le sujet, il remercie l'abbé pour avoir divulgué son ouvrage auprès de la presse. Émouvant exemplaire. Reliure d'usage, fatiguée. Cachets annulés de l'Institut catholique de Paris.
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Hospice de la Salpêtrière. Clinique des maladies du système nerveux. Professeur Charcot. Compte rendu du service ophtalmologique de M. le Dr Parinaud pour l?année 1888

Hospice de la Salpêtrière. Clinique des maladies du système nerveux. Professeur Charcot. Compte rendu du service ophtalmologique de M. le Dr Parinaud pour l?année 1888, par M. Morax, externe du service. (Extrait des Archives de Neurologie, n°31, 1889.)

PARINAUD, Henri] MORAX, Victor 27-(1) p. Paris, bureau du progrès médical | Lecrosnier et Babé, 1889, in-8, 27-(1) p, broché, sous couvertures vertes d'attente, Première publication par le Progrès médical d'un texte fondateur pour l'ophtalmologie. Victor Morax (1866-1935), externe de Charcot durant l'année 1888, rend compte ici des observations de son maître, pionnier de l'ophtalmologie française : le docteur Henri Parinaud (1844-1905), ophtalmologue et neurologue. Suite à son travail de thèse sur "le nerf optique et la méningite chez l'enfant", Jean-Martin Charcot l'engagea comme collaborateur à l'Hôpital de la Salpêtrière. Interne en 1889, il devient chef du ?service ophtalmologique? de la clinique des maladies du système nerveux de la Salpêtrière, il sera nommé oculiste des Hôpitaux de Paris en 1900. Victor Morax le suivra dans sa clinique privée, et profitera de son enseignement pendant dix ans, de 1889 à 1899. C'est à la Salpêtrière, au cours de ses consultations hebdomadaires, que Parinaud "se frotte à la neurologie et à l'hystérie"*. Dans la présente étude, les troubles oculaires de 79 "hystériques" (49 femmes et 30 hommes) sont observés, et pour la première fois le syndrome de Parinaud, qui se manifeste par une paralysie de la verticalité du regard, est décrit. Référence bibliographique : *Jacques Poirier: « Henri Parinaud (1844-1905): pionnier de l'ophtalmologie française », in: Pratiques en Ophtalmologie, Septembre 2011, vol. 5, numéro 4, p.2-7. Exemplaire non coupé, cachets ex-libris du Dr Albert Carrier de Lyon.
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Mémoires historiques sur les affaires des Jésuites avec le Saint Siège

Mémoires historiques sur les affaires des Jésuites avec le Saint Siège, où l’on verraque le Roi de Portugal, en proscrivant de toutes les terres de sa domination ces religieux révoltés, & le Roi de France voulant qu’à l’avenir leur société n’ait plus lieu

PLATEL, Pierre Parisot, dit Père Norbert, dit Abbé 7 volumes, 8 planches (sur 9) Lisbonne, Ameno, 1766, in-4, 7 volumes, 8 planches (sur 9), Basane marbrée, dos à nerfs orné, pièces de titre fauve et tomaisons vertes, tranches rouges, Seconde édition très augmentée et la première sous ce titre, de cet ouvrage constituant une violente attaque des jésuites et leur activité missionnaire. Illustré, d'un frontispice, 3 portraits dont un de Joseph I Roi du Portugal, une grande carte dépliante (côtes de Malabar et de Coromandel) et 3/4 figures h.-t. L'ouvrage fut d'abord publié sous le titre de "mémoires historiques sur les missions des Indes." Les deux premiers volumes concernent exclusivement la mission jésuite à Malabar. Le troisième volume expose l'animosité entre les jésuites et les capucins. Le quatrième volume traite des "rites Malabar". Le cinquième volume décrit la "rébellion" des jésuites contre le pape Benoît XIV. Les deux derniers volumes publient les lettres écrites par les jésuites pendant leurs missions en Chine, au Japon et en Inde justifiant leur action missionnaire. Presque toutes ces lettres sont en latin avec une traduction en français ou en italien. Bon exemplaire. Quelques coupes frottées, coiffes supérieures abîmées au tome VII, avec manque de cuire sur les mors supérieurs, 1 mors usé au Tome IV, quelques mouillure, plus importante au Tome III.
  • $1,121
  • $1,121
Discours dv Bon et Loial Subiet de la Grande Bretagne

Discours dv Bon et Loial Subiet de la Grande Bretagne, a la Reyne de ce Pays tovchant la Paix & affaires d’iceluy. A la Gloire de Charles Premier, Roy de ce Royaume séant en son Parlement, distingué en tous ses Ordres selon la volonté des Roys & Reynes, et representé par Figures en Tailles douces.

[CIVIL WAR PAMPHLET]. First edition; 4to (22 x 17.5cm); 3 folding plates (each approx. 35 x 26 cm), 2 engraved portraits, woodcut initials and decorations throughout the text, engraved armorial book-stamp to last leaf verso displaying motto 'light in darKines lumiere dans les tenebres'; one integral blank leaf, title page stained and browned, some marginal staining and browning throughout, creasing to corners, one small wormhole affecting 4 leaves; side-stitched contemporary marbled wrappers, worn and soiled with extensive loss to upper wrapper; [16], 39, [1]pp. A curious and rare anonymous English Civil War pamphlet published in Paris by Michel Mettaier (sometimes spelt Mettayer) in 1648 following the capture of Charles I by parliamentarian forces the previous year. The first part of the work consists of three large folding plates depicting the House of Lords, the House of Commons and the Convocation of Canterbury, with explicatory notes explaining the history and function of these bodies in the English parliamentary system. The latter part of the book contains an original address to Henrietta Maria, Queen of England illustrated with facing engraved portraits of the Queen and the Prince of Wales, and signed simply 'le bon et loyal svbiet'. It introduces a short statement in both English and French, allegedly translated from an original Latin version, which purports to be the words of Liudolf (c.930-957), an Ottonian Duke of Swabia and grandson of the German king, Henry the Fowler (919-936). The text claims that Liudolf did not die in 957, but rather feigned his death to take exile in Mantua in the hope that his descendants would one day regain his power and prestige. The tale was likely intended by the royalist author to offer hope to the exiled queen and her son, who were soon to become widow and orphan to the executed king.
  • $1,785
  • $1,785
The Mammals of Australia.

The Mammals of Australia.

GOULD, John. 3 vols, folio, (55 x 37 cm); 182 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates, most heightened with gum-arabic, by Gould and Henry Constantine Richter, printed by Hullmandel & Walton, subscriber's list, scattered light foxing affecting some text leaves and plates, some offsetting, very light marginal browning and occasional trivial finger-soiling; publisher's green morocco gilt, spines richly gilt in six compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering to second and third compartments, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers, corners slightly rubbed; overall an extremely handsome copy. One of the most important works ever attempted by Gould. Gould's interest in Australia was piqued by specimens sent back by his wife's brothers who had settled there. He soon realized that 'the "natural productions" of the country were untapped' (ODNB) and set out there in 1838, spending 18 months in the country. 'It was not until I arrived in Australia, and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet, that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna' (Preface). In his Analytical Index to Gould's works, his long-time assistant, R. Bowdler Sharpe described The Mammals as 'One of the most important works ever attempted by Gould.' He had known 'that this work was never going to be remunerative on the same scale as his ornithological ones, but his motive was purely as a contribution to science - for which, on reflection, he thought he might have deserved more praise.' The Mammals was issued, as with all Gould's great natural history monographs, in parts. The first appeared on 1 May 1845 and the final 13th part on 1 May 1863. Each of the first 12 included 15 plates, a cleverly balanced mixture of the exciting with the more prosaic, each of them accompanied by descriptive text, the final part was made up of just two plates, but provided the preliminary titles, text and indices. As with all of Gould's publications the completed work is a sumptuous production, which contributed much to the history, documentation and illustration of Australia's numerous unique species, all too many of which are now sadly extinct. BM(NH) II,p.701; Nissen ZBI 1661 & 1662; Sauer 11 & 14; Wood p.365.
  • $136,850
  • $136,850
Logic

Logic, or the Art of Thinking; in which besides the Common, are contain’d many excellent New Rules, very profitable for directing Reason . . .In Four Parts. . . To which is added an Index to the whole Book

(Arnauld, Antoine and Pierre Nicole) London: Printed by T. B. for H. Sanbridge, 1685. 8vo.  185 x 120 mm., [7 ¼ x 4 ½ inches].  [8], 250 [i.e. 240], 247, [9].  Bound in 19th century leather-backed marbled paper boards,  paper title label; edges rubbed, a crack at joints, but a sound copy.  Text block filled with contemporary annotations in ink in the margins; some highly legible and some blurred and smudged.  For the most part a readable text written in Latin with some English notes in a separate hand. First English edition, originally published in Paris in 1674 under the title La Logique, ou l'art de penser.  The text, originally written by Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole is organized in four parts.  The first on the operation of the mind.  Part II is consideration of men about proper judgement making; part III on various kinds of reasoning; and finally on the ways of demonstrating truth. Logic, or the Art of Thinking was published in numerous edition and is not a rare book, although the first English edition is not common in the market.  The importance of this copy is found in the annotations.  What is exciting about the manuscript notes is the sheer amount of "thinking" that went into the comments, criticisms, and new information that the note maker made in his frenzy of explicating Arnauld and Nicole's work.  One might think that the notes being written in Latin is a problem, but in fact it demonstrated the erudition of the note maker and his reliance on classical writings to emphasize his positions on the 'new rules' and ways of kindling 'judgment' expressed by Arnauld and Nicole. A remarkable survival and a guide to the ways of philosophical thinking in during the last quarter of the 17th century. Wing.  Short title catalogue of books, 1640-1700, A-3721, .
  • $1,751
  • $1,751
Kyuba Shinron. [A New Theory on Raising Horses]

Kyuba Shinron. [A New Theory on Raising Horses]

Ryuzando Shujin Japan: Suharaya, and others, Kaei 7 (1854). Fascinating and scarce account of a samurai's son whose personal determination led him to rise above the family's financial poverty, to properly care for his horse, build his own stables, and breed additional horses, all by learning the ancient long-forgotten ways of the ancient samurai. 8vo. 1 volume, 78 pages, including 9 full-page illustrations, two of which are hand coloured. Woodblock print. All text is in Japanese. Postscript records the first edition being published in 1806. Traditional karitoji paper binding string-stitched at spine, fukurotoji style ("bound-pocket" with folded leafs bound into spine), and opening from left to right. Natural paper covers, with manuscript title label to front. Together the volumes measure approximately 18 x 25,5 x 1 cm. Negligible creasing to boards and age-toning to upper margins, otherwise in very good and original condition, a pleasing and uncommon work. Based primarily on contemporary descriptions of the financial distress felt by the long-standing prestigious samurai class, such as the present account, it is accepted, without dissent that the ruling samurai class suffered increasing poverty during the Tokugawa (Edo) period. Seifu Murata (1746-1811) wrote: "For years now, the samurai have suffered from poverty and their minds have been occupied by making a living. ‘Buy this, sell that’ and ‘pawn this to pay for that’ has become all of their lives. Even for those dedicated to their duties, it was inevitable to debase themselves and to engage in unsavory conduct (i.e., engage in trading)". Even the wives of those who were earning as much as 200 koku busied themselves in trading and in shops. This is the hero's journey, imparted firsthand, of a brilliant young samurai born into poverty but wide-eyed and unrelentingly in pursuit of mastering the skills of a samurai and honouring his destined status in this class of nobility. Young Ryuzando Shujin began by learning the equestrian warrior traditions with a borrowed horse, and was eventually able to convince his father to buy him a horse of his own, despite of the family's economic situation. When the cost of caring for the horse became a burden no longer bearable, and he was told the horse would be sold, he fixated on finding a solution. Immediately, he began conducting extensive research into the ancient methods employed when most samurai were farmers who held the role of warrior in the event of a battle. The solution to combating the costs was breeding and selling. He began the process, while being scrutinized, mocked and judged by others, in particular jeering his rudimentary (cost-effective) hand-made stables. But he did not let any outside opinions pierce his confidence. After repeated trial and error, it was not long that he possessed six horses. Surely too, he had solved the challenges of the household finances. Shujin championed horsemanship as a duty of all samurai. With the belief that all samurai should therefore possess their own horse, in part to best perform archery, spearmanship, and swordsmanship, and owing to the fact that this was an era where some samurai families were poor, he published his methods for others to follow, and ultimately uphold their rights and responsibilities that their title suggests. The volume includes instructions for building horse stables by hand, without incurring high costs. He describes the breeding process, his training methodology, and proper feeding. His own experiences with horses falling to sickness and how he treated them back to health are also shared. Clearly a man with a charitable and honest heart, he concludes by stating that all of this aside, the single most important thing for a healthy and happy horse is "aishin" (affection).
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