‎Lagerlöf Selma ; Yourcenar Marguerite (préface)‎
‎Oeuvres‎

‎Oeuvres. (Edited by C. Bossut). 5 vols.‎

‎La Haye, Dètune, 1779. 8vo. Five very nice contemporary full mottled calf bindings with gilt title- and tome-labels to richly gilt backs, triple gilt line-borders to boards and single gilt line-ornamentation to edges of boards. Marbled adges. Minor repairs to a few capitals, but overall a very nice copy indeed. Internally very nice, clean, and fresh printed on good paper. One leaf of volume one with neatly closed tear. Old owner's name to title-page of volume 5. Title-pages printed in red and black. With book-plates of Fritz Trieboe/Twilboe (?), A. Gedeon, and C. Rasch. Frontis-piece portrait, 425 pp. XII, 549 pp. (last leaf uncut an folded) VIII, 526 pp. VIII, 456 pp. + 9 engraved plates, of which 8 are folded" VIII, 462 pp. + 5 folded engraved plates, (1) p (directions for the book binder. In all 14 engraved plates, of which 13 are folded.‎

‎Scarce first edition of Pascal's collected works, comprising much significant material printed for the first time as well as the second appearance of the announcement of Pascal's groundbreaking calculating machine, the first edition (privately printed) of which from 1645 is impossibly scarce, making this the earliest obtainable edition of the seminal text. ""Pascal designed his first mechanical adding machine in 1642. He was not the first to design and construct a mechanical calculator..."" but in contrast to Schickard's accomplishments which were destined for a history of obscurity, Pascal, in contrast, ""constructed about fifty examples of his machine, of which several are extant"" and the machine was well known to the cognoscenti, both through Pascal's own efforts (he hoped to make a profit selling them) and through Diderot's later description of it in the ""Encyclopédie"" (1751)... In 1645 Pascal published an eighteen-page pamphlet - now extremely rare - describing his calculating machine... The pamphlet does not identify a place of printing or a printer's name, so we may assume that Pascal himself paid for its printing. When we wrote this bibliography, OCLC cited only two copies of this pamphlet in one French library and no copies and North America."" The pamphlet was reprinted, along with additional material, in volume IV (pp. 7-30) of the present ""Oeuvres"". The additional material consists of Pascal's 1650 letter to Queen Christina of Sweden" the privilege for its construction and sale issued in 1649 and published for the first time here " and Diderot's description of it for the ""Encyclopédie"", along with two plates. Also of interest here is the reprint of Pascal's 1654 paper introducing his triangle of binominal coefficients (Pascal's Triangle), included in Volume V, pages 1-54. Pascal's invention ""predated the concepts of computation of the values of polynomial functions by differences."" (Lee 1995, 538)."" (Origins of Cyberspace No. 13). In the present edition the Pascal-Noël correspondence on the vacuum is also printed for the first time, along with other pieces on the vacuum as well as his correspondence with Fermat and deRibeyre.Origins of Cyberspace: 13.Brunet: IV,395"" Tchemerzine: IX, p78, f): ""Les Oeuvres Scientifiques de Pascal sont recueillies dans l'édition des Oeuvres, La Haye, chez Detune, libraire, 1779. 5 vol. in 8. Titre rouge et noir. Publiée par l'Abbé Bossut. Les oeuvres scientifiques occupent les tomes IV et V.""‎

‎Les oeuvres du sieur de Saint-Amant. Augmentées de nouveau.‎

‎ Couverture rigide Lyon, Pierre Compagnon, 1668. Un volume petit in-12 (15 x 9 cm), reliure pleine basane fauve granité de l'époque, dos à 5 nerfs orné, roulette dorée sur les coupes, quelques épidermures et frottements, coins émoussés. 24 pages non chiffrées, 240 pages, papier jauni, quelques rousseurs. TCHEMERZINE V, 587. LAGNY n°74. Oeuvres divisées en deux parties avec une table pour chacune.La suite des oeuvres en fin d'ouvrage comprend notamment Du Soleil Levant, Le Melon, Le poète Crotté, La Creuaille, Orgie, Le tombeau de Marmousette, Le Paresseux, Les Goinfres. Exemplaire en assez bon état.‎

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‎OEUVRES I, II [Coffret Pléiade]‎

‎ 2023 Couverture rigide Paris, Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 2023. Coffret de deux volumes in-12 (17 x 10 cm), reliure de l'éditeur, plein cuir, titre et filets dorés à l’or fin au dos, rhodoïd, demi-jaquettes, étui illustré. Oeuvres I : 2048 pages, bibliothèque de la pléiade n°439 ; traduction du russe par Jean-Louis Chavarot, Françoise Flamant, Marianne Gourg et Edith Scherrer. Edition publiée sous la direction de Françoise Flamant. Oeuvres II : 2064 pages, bibliothèque de la pléiade n°505 ; traduction du russe par Jean-Louis Chavarot, Françoise Flamant, Christiane Rouquet et Edith Scherrer. Edition publiée sous la direction de Jean-Louis Chavarot et Françoise Flamant. Bel exemplaire, à l'état neuf.‎

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‎Henri michaux oeuvres: 1927-1984 oeuvres choisies 1er octobre-21 novembre Musée Cantini Marseille ; 1er décembre 1993-23 janvier 1994 IVAM-Centre ... ; 3 mars-22 mai 1994 Musée Rath Genèv‎

‎RMN 1999 in4. 1999. Broché. Très bon état‎

‎Oeuvres avec des eclaircissemens historiques, donnez par lui-meme. Nouvelle edition revue, corrigee & augmentee de diverses remarques. 2 vols.‎

‎Amsterdam, D. Mortier, 1718. 4to. 2 parts bound in 1 full calf binding with five raised bands and coloured frames to boards. Wear and soiling to extremities. A few worm holes to spine. Title-page to vol. 2 with a few lines in red pencil in margin. Last few leaves brownpostted. Internally generally fine and clean. (2), XXIV, (2), 454" (4), VII, (1), 424, (24) pp. + frontispiece, large folded portrait (Wilhelmina Charlotte Princess of Wales by F. Gunst after Kneller), and 6 plates. ‎

‎The uncommon 4to-edition of Boileau-Despreaux’s Oeuvres. Nicolas Boileau (1636-1711), often simply known as Boileau, achieved acclaim as a distinguished French poet and critic in the 17th century. Initially educated at the College of Beauvais with intentions of pursuing a clerical path, he eventually shifted his focus from theology to law to fulfill his father's wishes. Boileau's literary journey commenced with the publication of his first satirical poem, ""Adieux d'un poète à la ville de Paris,"" at the age of 25. Subsequently, he released six more satires, including notable works like ""Les embarras de Paris,"" ""La satire à Molière,"" and ""Le repas ridicule."" In these satires, Boileau not only parodied and critiqued figures such as Cotin, Chapelain, and Le Voyer but also played a pivotal role in refining the practical aspects of the French language. Notably, these satires marked the introduction of systematic literary criticism in France, focusing on art's merits rather than being driven by envy or anger. Tchemerzine II, 293Brunet 1, 1058‎