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Les Essais
Anvers, chez Abraham Maire, s.d. [1649 ?] Petit in-8, [10]-1129-[37] pp. 1 pl., parchemin souple de l'époque, titre manuscrit au dos ( petits manques, liens manquants, taches, rebroché, manque et quelques petites déchirures au titre, annotations biffées à la table des chapitres, trous de ver).
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Nouvelle édition des Essais de Montaigne. Elle est ornée d'un titre-frontispice gravé par Edme Charpy et d'un portrait de l'auteur par Thomas de Leu repris de l'édition parisienne partagée de 1608. Payen date la présente édition de 1649. Elle ne comprend pas la préface de Montaigne, ni celle de Gournay mais elle contient un "Sommaire discours sur la vie de Michel, Seigneur de Montaigne, extrait de ses propres écrits". Ex-libris Alexandre Paradis, 1756. Tchemerzine, VIII, 414; Brunet, III, 1837; Payen, 30. Voir photographie(s) / See picture(s) * Membre du SLAM et de la LILA / ILAB Member. La librairie est ouverte du lundi au vendredi de 14h à 19h. Merci de nous prévenir avant de passer,certains de nos livres étant entreposés dans une réserve.
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Instructions théologiques et morales sur le premier Commandement où il est traité de la foi, de l'espérance et de la charité [à la suite :] Instructions théologiques et morales sur le Symbole [à la suite :] Essais d'instructions théologiques et morales sur les Sacremens [Sacrements] [à la suite :] Instructions théologiques et morales sur l'oraison dominicale, la salutation angélique, la Sainte Messe et les autres prières de l'Eglise [à la suite :] Continuation des Essais de morale contenant des Réflexions morales sur les Epîtres & Evangiles [...].
A Paris, Guillaume Desprez et P. G. Cavelier Fils, 1742 - A Paris, Guillaume Desprez et P. G. Cavelier Fils, 1742 - A Paris, Guillaume Desprez et P. G. Cavelier Fils, 1742 - A Paris, Guillaume Desprez et P. G. Cavelier Fils, 1742 - A Paris, Guillaume Desprez et P. G. Cavelier Fils, 1751 (pour les 5 vol. de Continuations des Essais). 12 vol. au format in-16 (138 x 87 mm) de 1 f. bl., xix pp., 2 ff. n.fol., 437 pp. et 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., xii - 483 pp., 4 pp. de catalogue éditeur in fine et 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., xii - 407 pp., 1 f. n.fol., 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., x - 463 pp., 3 ff. n.fol. et 1 f. bl. ; xii - 364 pp., 1 f. n.fol. et 1 f. bl. ; 2 ff. bl., xii - 379 pp., 1 f. n.fol. et 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., xii - 303 pp., 2 ff. n.fol. et 2 ff. bl. ; 1 f. bl., xxiv - 496 pp., 3 ff. n.fol. et 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., 1 f. n.fol., 499 pp. et 1 f. bl. ; 2 ff. bl., 1 f. n.fol., 516 pp. et 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., 1 f. n.fol., 508 pp. et 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., 1 f. n.fol., 446 pp. et 2 ff. bl. Reliures uniformes de l'époque de plein veau glacé et marbré noisette, triple filet doré encadrant les plats, dos lisses ornés d'un double filet d'encadrement doré, doubles filets dorés, roulettes dorées, fleurons dorés, semis de cercles dorés, pièces de titre de maroquin acajou, titre doré, tomaison dorée sur fond ébène, palette dorée en queue, filet doré sur les coupes, tranches jaspées.
Rare réunion comportant 5 ouvrages de Nicole ; ici reliés en 12 volumes. Ensemble - sous reliures décoratives et uniformes du temps - recelant chacun des ouvrages de Pierre Nicole paru sous le titre d'Instructions théologiques et morales. Ont été ici adjoints à l'époque les 5 (sur 5) volumes renfermant ses Réflexions morales. ''Pierre Nicole a ici soutenu l'unité et les principaux dogmes égarés, il en a éclairci la morale contre ceux qui en altèrent la pureté, a découvert les illusions de la fausse piété et a donné des règles et des principes sûrs et incontestables de la véritable.’’ D’expliquer ici explique ici tout le dogme de manière nette et précieuse. Après avoir posé les principes qui doivent servir de fondements à ses décisions, Pierre Nicole confirme tout ce qu'il avance par les passages de l'Ecriture et de la Tradition les plus clairs et les plus convaincants.'' De Bure, Bibliographie instructive ou Traité de la connaissance des livres rares et singuliers / Partie Théologie, 552 (pour une édition de 1704) - Quérard VI, La France littéraire, p. 412 - Cioranescu II, Bibliographie de la littérature française du XVIIème, 51254 (pour l'originale). Angles élimés. Quelques abrasions ou petits manques superficiels épars affectant les reliures. Quelques rares rousseurs dans les corps d'ouvrages. Infime travail de ver affectant la marge supérieure de quelques feuillets d'un des volumes. Un autre présente une galerie plus conséquente, avec, au plus, perte de deux lettres sur trois lignes sur quelques feuillets.
Chaque fois que l'aube paraît [in Essais et Notes].
S.l., Gallimard, (1953). Un vol. au format in-12 (188 x 123 mm) de 276 pp., broché.
Edition originale (mention fictive d'édition portée en page de titre). ''Nous avons ici décidé de réunir les essais de Daumal et de les faire publier avec les dates portées sur les manuscrits. Ainsi, le lecteur suivra l'évolution de Daumal et ses intentions ne seront pas trahies. Nous avons inclus plusieurs inédits dans ce premier volume''. Premier plat et dos constellé de petites rousseurs ; rares dans le corps d'ouvrage. Exemplaire en partie non coupé.
Essais de Theodicée sur la Bonté de Dieu, la Liberté de L'Homme, et L'Origine du Mal + Appendices sux Essais de Theodicee sur la Bonté ...2 Vols. - [A NEW PHILOSOPHY]
Amsterdam, D. Mortier, 1720. Bound in one contemporary full calf. Spine richly blindtooled. XLI,(3),520 pp. + 1 fold. table. A fine clean copy.
The scarce third edition of Leibnitz' importent treatise on the goodnes of God, the free will of man and the causes of evil in the world, The principal subject of the work being the problem of liberty and free will. It is the only larger philosophical work published by Leibnitz himself.Ravier No 67 (the first ed. from 1710) - PMM: 177 (1710-edition).
Oeuvres philosophiques latines & francoises de feu. Tirées de ses manuscrits qui se conservent dans la bibliotheque royale a Hanovre et publiées par Mr. Rud. Eric Raspe. Avec une Préface de Mr. Kaestner. [Nouveau essais sur l'entendement humain, -New ... - [FIRST PRINTING OF ""NEW ESSAYS ON HUMAN UNDERSTANDING""]
Amsterdam et Leipzig, Chez Jean Schreuder, 1765. 4to. Uncut in the original marbled boards. Professionally rebacked preserving almost all of the original back. The fragile orginal binding is here preserved in its entirety, and it has quite a bit of overall wear. Apart from a small hole to two leaves in the index, affecting ab. one work on each of the four pages, it is internally nice and clean. Title-page printed in red and black. Beautiful eng. title-vignette and a few other woodcut vignettes and initials. (4), XVI, (2), 540, (18) pp.
First edition thus, being the first collected edition of Leibnitz' philosophical works in French and Latin, and containing the FIRST PRINTING of one of Leibnitz' most important philosophical works, his ""Nouveaux essays sur l'entendement humain"" (New Essays on Human Understanding), in which he attacks and refutes Locke and his ""Essay on Human Understanding"" and gives important testimony to his own philosophical ideas. With its 496 pages, this extensive work takes up most of this collection of philosophical works, and it also constitutes one of his largest and most important of his philosophical works. As explained by Raspe, the editor, in his preface to this publication, ""LES NOUVEAUX ESSAIS SUR L'ENTENDEMENT HUMAIN, qui sont la partie principale de recueil, sont connûs trés imparfaitement par l'histoire de la Philosophie de Leibnitz, que Mr. Ludovici a publiée"" (p. X), and the reason why the work was known, even though it had not been published, is because of a letter that Leibnitz had written in 1714, in which he explains why he did not wish to publish the work. Raspe quotes the letter (p. X), from which it becomes clear that Leibnitz had not wished to publish an attack on Locke and his work, because Locke had died in 1704 (the same year that Leibnitz had actually written the work), and because Leibnitz was against publishing refutations of dead authors: ""Mais je me suis degouté de publier des refutations des Auteurs morts, quoiqu'elles dissent paroitre Durant leur vie & étre communiqués à eux memes"". Raspe points to the nobleness of this decision, but he also points to what could be other reasons for Leibnitz not wishing to publish his seminal work, one of them being that towards the end of his life (he died in 1716), he did not wish to enter into any more controversies with the British, since he was already engaged in two very important ones that occuopied much of his time and energy: The first concerned the invention of the differential calculus, the second was against Mr. Clarke on liberty and important metaphysical and theological questions. Another reason could also be that he did not want to begin controversies with the friends of Locke, who at that time were many and important.Locke's ""An Essay Concerning Human Understanding"", which is the work here being refuted by Leibnitz, became the crucial groundwork for the future empiricists with David Hume in the foreground, and thus Leibnitz' work, though published posthumously, probably came to play a bigger role in the history of philosophy than it would have done had it been published just after he wrote it. Few philosophers of his time were susceptible to Leibnitz' ideas and his application of logic to the problems of metaphysics, as most of them were far more receptive to Locke's empiricism. However, when Leibnitz' ""Nouveaux essays..."" was finally published here in his ""Oeuvres philosophiques"" in 1765, it became hugely influential and was also an important factor in the development of Kant's transcendental philosophy.The hugely famous work by Locke, in which he stated his famous theory that the mind of the newborn is like a blank slate (tabula rasa) and concluded that all ideas come from experience and that there are no such things as innate principles, was generally sharply criticized by the rationalists, the most important of them being Leibnitz. Leibnitz' response, his ""Les nouveaux essays sur l'entendement humain"" constitutes the most important of the rationalist responses and it is written in the form of a chapter-by-chapter refutation. He refutes the major premise of Locke's work, that the senses are the source of all understanding, primarily by adding to this ""except the understanding itself"", thus going on to distinguish between his three levels of understanding, which are part of the centre of his philosophy.For Leibnitz as well as for Locke the great inspiration was Descartes, but they chose two fundamentally different directions, Locke the materialistic one and Leibnitz the idealistic one. The present work represents the greatest clash between the two giants of late 17th century philosophy. The effect of Leibnitz' work was enormous, and among the Germans he invoked a great passion for philosophical studies. Leibnitz represents a striking contrast to both Locke with his empiricism and Spinoza. One earlier collection of some of Leibnitz' works had been printed before this one, but it did not contain his ""New Essays on Human Understanding"", and only consisted of his ""Smaller Philosophical Works"". This is the German 1740-edition ""Kleinere philosohische Schriften"". The other writings contained in this publication are ""Examen du sentiment du P. Malebranche que nous voyons tout en Dieu"", """"Dialogus de connexione inter res & verba"", ""Difficultates quaedam Logicae"", ""Discours touchant la methode de la certitude & de l'art d'inventer"", ""Historia et commendatio charactericae universalis quae simul sit ars inveniendi"".Graesse IV:152.
"SAUSSURE, HORACE-BÉNÉDICT DE. - ONE OF THE GREATEST SCIENTIFIC WORKS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (CUVIER)
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(1783)
Essais sur L'Hygrometrie. I-IV. (I. Description d'un nouvel Hygrometre comparable. II. Théorie de l'hygrométrie. III. Théorie de l'évaporation. IV. Application des théories précédentes à quelques phénomenes de la météorologie.).
Neuchatel, Samuel Fauche, 1783. 4to. Bound in fine contemp. full sprinckled calf, raised bands and richly gilt spine. Wear to head of spine. Without the 2 free endpapers. Halftitle present and with stamps. XXIV,367 pp., 2 engraved plates (1 folded). The folded plate depicts his two types of Hair-Hygrometers a. 1 engraved vignette. A fine clean and wide-margined copy.
First edition of a fundamental work in Meteorology in which Saussure describes how to construct a hygrometer from human hair that can measure the relative humidity, and discussing the principles behind it. Cuvier regarded this book as one of the greatest contributions to science of the eighteenth century.""A milestone work in chemistry, physics, and meteorology, which established hygrometry as an exact science. Primarely a geologist who explored and published on the Alps, Saussure (1740-1788) was the first to prove that air expands and becomes less dense the more humidity it contains. In these Essais (the work offered) he describes his experiments with the hair hygrometer of his invention and his theory of the evaporation and hygrometry with their applications to meteorology. he also enunciates his theory of the evaporation of water in hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and other gases.""(Neville II, p. 427 a).""In his essay on the theoretical principles of hygrometry (which he conceives as ""the art of measuring the absolute quantity of water suspended in the air""), De Saussure distinguishes three classes of methods of determining humidity, which respectively utilize (i) observations of changes in the weight, dimensions, or shape, of a hygroscopic body" (ii) observations of the capacity of the air for taking up water" and (iii) observations of the quantity of water condensing from the air under given conditions on a cold surface, or of the degree of cold necessary to start such an condensation...""(Wolf ""A History of Science , Technology, & Philosophy in the 18th Century"" I, p. 326 ff.).Partington III, 763. - Partington ""Breakthroughs"" 1783 M - Poggendorff II, 755-56.
