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‎Bulletin des Musées Royaux des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels à Bruxelles (-> later) Bulletin des Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire. SERIES I (1901) - SERIES 6 ( 1993)‎

‎" Nearly complete set , spanning a century, of this periodical published by the Brussels' Royal Museum for Art and Art History, better known as '' Le Musée du Cinquantenaire'' after the building where it is housed. The publication consists of 6 series. Series I ; Première Année -> Sixième Année (1901 - 1906/07), format in-folio, 29,5 x 20 cm, published as a monthly, ca. 100 pp per year. Some out of text plates. Bound in 4 volumes. Series II ; Première Année ( 7th year since beginning) -> Treizième Année (13th since beginning) (1908 - Mai 1914 = last pre-war issue). In-folio, bound with a part of the first series in two red cloth volumes). Series III ; 1929-1946 (18 years.) Première année - Dixhuitième Année. Décember 1939 is a special issue containing an index for 1929-1938. Format small in-4°, 24 x 17,5 cm, two-monthly issues of between 24 and 48 pp, first stapled issues , later sewn with wrapper. 1945 and 1946 consist of one issue for a whole year. Al issues of the 3rd series with original wrapper, as published. Series IV ; 1947- 1967 (21 years) Dixneuvième année - Trenteneuvième année, same format as series III, yearly issues of between 130 and 250 pp. In the original wrapper. Series V ; 1968-1970 (3 years) Quarantième - Quarantedeuxième annéé, 1 vol. of 377 pp. Series VI ; 1971-1999 ( 23 years) Year 43 -> Year 70, volumes of each between 200 and 400 pp. Stiff wrapper , as published. Missing in these series is only volume 68, . This art periodical contains articles , mainly in French or Dutch on art, applied art (Textile, Tapestry, Silver and Goldsmith work, Ceramics) , Egyptology, Pre-Hellenic art and archaeology; in short all the fields were this museum has a strong collection and a strong reputation. We have many seperate issues for sale. Please inquire via e-mail."‎

‎Lettres édifiantes et curieuses écrites des missions étrangères. 32 consecutive volumes, uniformly bound (a series composed in the late 18th c.)‎

‎" Paris, different publishers: Le Clerc, Mercier, Barbou, Mérigot, Bordelet, Guérin, Ruault, De Hansy; 1706 - 1774 (1781), 30 volumes format in-12°, (16 x 8,5 cm). The series are illustrated with 19 folding maps (vol.V: Passage par terre à la Californie; vol.7 Côte du Pérou, Carte de la Terre de Feu; vol.8 Nagasaki; vol.XI carte des Philippines, carte des îles Marianne ; vol.XII Mission des Moxes, Cours du fleuve Maragnon ; vol.XIV Île de Ponghou , île de Formose ; vol.XV Carnate ; vol.16 carte du Tong-King , idem (different version) ; vol.XVIII les îles Caroline ; vol.XXI Le Paragua ; vol.XXIII Presqu'île des Indes ; vol.XXVIII Îles Lieou-Kieou. vol.XXXI carte du Tong-King , idem (different version) . Three maps are missing: vol.VI Nouvelle Phillipine ; vol.XVI Île d'Orléans and vol. 27 Cap françois. Volumes 1-2 & 3-4 are each bound together. The series is uniformly bound in late 18th c. full leather; with raised decorated spines, each volume with a red leather title label and a green volume number. Vol. XVI has a different binding and has obviously been added to the series as it is also a much later edition. Some volumes have weak joints, most have wear at the extremeties (head caps & corners). But generally the volumes still have solid bindings. The interiors are in fine/good condition. The five first volumes are contemporary re-issues, published 5 or 10 years after the original. Volume VI till vol. XXXII are all in first edition (except vol. 16 which has been added). The last volumes of the series (vol. 33 & 34) published in 1776 are missing. A complete collation is available upon simple demand by email. This monumental series was started by Charles le Gobien (Tome 1 - 8) ; continued by Jean-Baptiste du Halde (Tome 9-26) ; and finally Louis Patouillet (Tome 27-34) . The purpose was to report on the history and new events of the China mission of the Jesuits. Very soon this was expanded to literally the whole world : South and North America, ( with Canada, New York, Ohio, Michigan), Japan, India...When J.B. du Halde took over as editor more attention was given to exact and applied science. This was done to gain the support of the Chinese emperor. In 1758 the publication came to a halt due to the rising political difficulties encountered by the Jesuit order. Publication resumed in 1773: exactly the year when the Jesuit order was suppressed in Europe. Complete homogeneous series are allmost non-existant; not surprisingly , in view of the very long publication history and the rising hostilty versus the Jesuit order in the second half of the 18th c. Our series was composed at the end of the 18th c. (probably between 1774 and 1776 - which might explain the absence of the two last volumes). From the many different contemporary provenances we can deduce the the first owner went to a lot of effort to form the series. During or just after the French revolution the series landed in Belgium. Most volumes have a (feeble) modern stamp of a Belgian religious institute. Among the original French provenances (in ex-libris manuscript or with a stamp) we encounter: vol. .5 & 18) Les Filles Lazaristes Paris; vol. 7 & 20 : Biblioth. du Seminaire S. Sulpice (small stamp). Vol. 11 : Barnabit (Barnabilarum S. Eligii Paris). vol.27 : Coll. Rothomagensis (Rennes). Vol.10 contains an ex dono manuscrit du R.P. du Halde ''A la congrégation des Mess. dans la maison professe a St. Louis''. Despite the 2 missing last volumes and the 16th vol. from a later edition this series remains an impressive, important and excessively rare proof of the interest in the exploits of the Jesuit Order all over the world. A fervent collector succeeded in composing this impressive series. He had to overcome the hostility against the Jesuits (very strong after the suppression of the Order in 1773 ; and the problem of the long publication history. A few years later (in 1781) he would have been able to procure a complete reworked re-issue. Other re-issues would follow well into the 19th c. Here we offer a series with 31 (out of 34) volumes in first edition; or - for the 4 first volumes- contemporary re-issues. Sabin 40697. Sommervogel III. 1514 ; IV 34-35 ; V 536 ; VI 353-354. (Texte en français disponible)."‎

‎Le RIRE . Journal humoristique. Nos. 1 - 430 ( complete run of the first series). Nos. 1- 491 ( second series). 1894 - 1912. Bound in 12 volumes (first series) + 7 volumes ( second series nrs. 152-491)‎

‎" Paris, F. Juven éditeur, 122 rue Réaumur, 1894 - 1912, issues of 12 pages, 31 x 23 cm, 921 consecutive issues ( first 18 years complete). First series bound in 12 vols uniform brown half morocco, boards covered with marbled paper, Gilt title on spines, marbled endpapers. Bindings in very good shape. The binding is signed with a rubber stamp on the inside of vol. 1 - ''G. Engel - Spa '' (Belgium). The second series is bound in uniform red half leather. The interior is fine but the bindings show some sign of wear. All issues ( 921) complete with the covers and the the out-of-text plates. Issue 1 dates from 10 november 1894 -> Issue 430 ( 31st january 1903) ; new series - issue 1 (7th february 1903 -> Issue 491 (29 june 1912) All In very good condition, notwithstanding the usual tiny tears at some pages, the frayed margins of the out-of-text plates. On the whole a very fine run of this leading French satirical weekly. Exceptionally long run of this famous Parisian humorous and satirical weekly. The first and the last page contains allways a full-page coloured illustration. In the first years Toulouse-Lautrec was a regular contributor with 11 full page drawings in the first three years. Among the other illustrators we find all the famous draughtsmen of the French Belle Epoque; e.g. Valloton, Forain, Willette, Josset, Paul, Steinlen, Cappiello, Villon, Iribe, Chéret, C. Morin, Kupka, Gus Bofa....After this second series which ended at the beginning of the First World War (issue nr. 600 was the last) another two series were published : during WWI 215 issues were published under the title '' Le Rire Rouge''. It resumed after the war and even continued until 1971 !! (Issues after the WWI are very difficult to find. It seems that the interest to collect ''Le Rire'' and have them bound in yearly volumes seems to have vanished in those days."‎

‎Séries trigonométriques et séries de Taylor. - [FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE FATOU SET]‎

‎Berlin, Stockholm, Paris, F. & G. Beijer, 1906. 4to. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Acta Mathematica"", Vol, 30, 1906. Entire volume offered. Stamp to title page, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 355-400. [Entire volume: 6, 410 pp].‎

‎First appearance of Fatou's seminal Ph.D. thesis in which he presented his famous Fatou theorem, which state that a bounded analytic function in the unit disc has radial limits almost everywhere on the unit circle. This theorem was at the origin of a large body of research in 20th-century mathematics under the name of bounded analytic functions. Fatou set is the 'regular' appearance of the chaotic Julia set and both if these initiated what was to be known as ""complex dynamics"" which eventually resulted in the Mandelbrot set.Fatou's thesis also include the first application of the Lebesgue integral to concrete problems of analysis, mainly to the study of analytic and harmonic functions in the unit disc. He furthermore studied for the first time the Poisson integral of an arbitrary measure on the unit circle and also made a major contribution to finding a solution to the related question of whether conformal mapping of Jordan regions onto the open disc can be extended continuously to the boundary.""He contributed important results on the Taylor series, the theory of the Lebesgue integral, and the iteration of rational functions of a complex variable. When studying the circle of convergence of the Taylor series, several points of view are possible: (1) one can look for criteria of convergence or divergence of the series itself on the circumference" (2) one can consider the limit values of the circle of the analytic function represented by the series and try to determine where these limit values are finite or infinite, as well as the properties of the functions of the argument represented by the real and imaginary parts of the series when these functions are well defined" (3) one can consider what points on the circumference, singular in the Weierstrass sense, also determine the analytic extension of the series. The link between these problems led Fatou to formulate a fundamental theorem in the theory of the Lebesgue integral."" (DSB).‎

‎GENERATION SERIES - N°42 - AVRIL-MAI-JUIN 2003 - OZ - PROFILER - ALLY MC BEAL - LES SERIES MEDICALES A LA TELEVISION - l'abecedaire des series, tele zoom, les series medicales, urgences, columbo (2ème partie), index des series.., profiler, oz..‎

‎GIMMICK PRESS SARL. 2003. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 73 pages - nombreuses photos en noir et blanc et en couleurs dans et hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 791.45-Télévision‎

‎Sommaire: l'abecedaire des series, tele zoom, les series medicales, urgences, columbo (2ème partie), index des series.., profiler, oz, ally mcbeal, friends.. Classification Dewey : 791.45-Télévision‎