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Le D. Man
Paris, Christian Bourgois éditeur, 1966, 12 x 20, 176 pages cousues sous couverture rempliée imprimée. EDITION ORIGINALE sur papier courant.
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Facile. Poèmes de Paul Éluard. Photographies de Man Ray
Facile, en chair et en feuilles Paris, GLM, (24 octobre) 1935. 1 vol. (185 x 245 mm) non paginé. En feuilles, sous couverture illustrée par Man Ray. Édition originale. Illustrée de 12 photographies de Man Ray, en héliogravure. Un des 1 200 exemplaires sur vélin (n° 338).
L'élégance et l'originalité de la mise en page de Facile, ainsi que la beauté des photographies de Man Ray, à effets de lumière rasante, d'ombres et de surimpression, concourent à la perfection de cet ouvrage : «Facile... est sans doute l'un des livres illustrés par la photographie les plus marquants du XXe siècle... il y a la beauté de Nush, mais aussi celle des photographies de Man Ray» (Antoine Coron). Antoine Coron, G.L.M., Paris, 1981, n° 73 -- Cat. expostion BnF, Des livres rares, Paris, 1998, n° 194 -- Arthur Roth, The Book of 101 books, New York, 2001, p. 86 -- Martin Parr et Gerry Badger, The Photobook I, Londres, New York, 2004, p. 104 -- Antoine Coron, De Goya à Max Ernst. Livres de la bibliothèque R.M., Berver, 2018, n° 48.
Lettre à Man Ray.
Paul Éluard à Man Ray : rapplique ! [Été 1949]. 1 page en 1 f. (135 x 210 mm) à en-tête de la Nrf, 43 rue de Beaune - 2 rue Sébastien-Bottin (VIIe). Encre noire. Man Ray, et sa compagne Adrienne Fidelin, dite Ady, sont vivement attendus par le poète.
«TON ARRIVÉE. Ce sera un grand bonheur pour nous deux, mon Man, mon ami. Je travaille beaucoup ces temps-ci, à 4 conférences pour Septembre, à la Radio. On rêve de plus en plus d'habiter la Province. À Tours, peut-être, mais c'est un secret. Je crois que je n'ai pas dit que Zwemmer [Anton Zwemmer, libraire et éditeur néerlandais] est preneur de 100 de tes albums à 1$. Viens vite maintenant. Apporte au moins quelques uns de tes travaux. On vous embrasse, Ady et toi. Paul Eluard». Outre sa participation à quelques émissions radiophoniques après la guerre, Paul Éluard n'écrivit qu'une fois pour la radio, en 1947, pour la série Carte blanche à..., Le dit de la force de l'amour, une émission unique, avant d'accepter, en 1949, une série de cinq émissions, Les chemins et les routes de la poésie, dont seules les quatre premières peuvent encore être consultées à l'Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA). C'est à ces émissions, réalisées par Alain Trutat et diffusées en octobre et novembre 1949, qu'Éluard semble faire référence. Le poète y travaillera tout l'été 1949 et la série constituera « un document on ne peut plus précieux pour saisir le type de relation que le poète entendait nouer avec ses contemporains. La poésie est un "bien commun" qu'il importe à l'écrivain de partager aussi largement que possible, tant par sa diffusion que par l'écoute et la compréhension de la parole de l'autre (...), une communauté qu'Éluard dessine et à laquelle il invite les auditeurs à s'identifier et tout simplement celle des survivants, appelée à se perpétuer dans l'engagement communiste, comme le suggère par la reprise d'un vers de «L'Internationale» qui terminera la première émission » (Céline Pardo, Le poète au micro et l'utopie poétique : Paul Éluard, Les chemins et les routes de la poésie, 1949, in Études littéraires, n° 41). Une émouvante lettre par ailleurs : le drame de la disparition de Nush, en novembre 1946 a laissé Paul Eluard longtemps désemparé, et sa seule consolation est la compagnie régulière de sa fille, Cécile. Si cette dernière est maintenant une femme - elle est âgée de 31 ans en 1949 - père et fille se voient fréquemment et envisagent de quitter Paris, ainsi qu'il est question ici. Trois mois plus tard, Paul Eluard rencontrera Dominique, à Mexico. Début d'une autre histoire.
Proiskhozhdenie chelovieska i polovoi podbor [i.e. English ""Descent of Man""]. - [FIRST TRANSLATION OF DARWIN'S 'DESCENT OF MAN' INTO ANY LANGUAGE]
S.-Peterburg, Izdanie redaktsii zhurnala ""Znanie, 1871. 8vo. In contemporary black half calf with four rasied bands and gilt lettering to spine. Corners of binding with repairs and a three cm long tear to lower front hindge. Light miscolouring throughout, especially to first 10 leaves. (2), VII, (6), 439 pp.
The exceedingly rare first Russian translation of Darwin's 'Descent of Man' published only four month after the original English. The Russian publisher was eager to have a translation published, hence this early abridged edition - two other Russian translations followed later the same year - The present translation being the very first into any language. ""The Descent of Man showed that the process of organic evolution, propelled by the struggle for existence and natural selection, applied to man no less than to the rest of the animal kingdom. It gave explicit recognition to the idea of the anthropoid origin of man. This claim surprised no one, for it was clearly hinted at in the great work of 1859 and was elaborated in Thomas Huxley's Man's Place in Nature and Vogt's Lectures on Man. Nor was it much of a surprise when three Russian translations of The Descent appeared within one year after the publication of the English original. Two general ideas represented the essence of The Descent: natural selection is not only behind the physical survival of man but also behind the evolution of cultural values"" and the differences between animal and human behavior are differences of degree rather than of kind."" (Darwin in Russian Thought) ""The Expression helped lay the foundations for a scientific study of the psychological aspect of the evolution of species. The book appeared in a Russian translation only a few months after the publication of the English original. The paleontologist Vladimir Kovalevskii was the translator, and the embryologist Aleksandr Kovalevskii was in charge of editorial tasks. In 1874 Vladimir wrote to Darwin that nearly two thousand copies of the Russian translation were sold."" "" The Expression deals much more extensively with selected aspects of human and animal behavior than with general problems of evolutionary biology. The Russian reviewers were generally impressed with Darwin's descriptions and categorizations of animal behavior. The Journal of the Ministry of Public Education was unusually profuse in praising the book's content and writing style. The reviewer commended Darwin's impartiality and avoidance of ""materialistic trappings."" Even the adherents of spiritualism could read the book, he wrote, without the least discomfort. The reviewer thought that psychologists would benefit from the information the book presented on the ""physiological"" basis of behavior. Indeed, he recommended the book to all readers interested in the scientific foundations of human behavior. The liberal journal Knowledgewas equally laudatory. It noted that the book was eminently successful on two counts: it offered a ""rational explanation"" of many expressions of human emotions, and it integrated the study of animal and human behavior into the universal process of organic evolution. In fact, no educated person could afford to ignore it.N. P. Vagner, professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at St. Petersburg University, called The Expression a book with ""great strengths and minor flaws."" The volume reminded him of Darwin's previous works, which marked ""turning points in the history of science."" The strength of the book lay much more in its suggestion of new topics for comparative-psychological research than in a presentation of a theoretically and logically integrated system of scientific thought. Insufficient exploration of the physiological underpinnings of mental activities represented the book's major shortcoming"" (Darwin in Russian Thought) In Russia Darwinism had a profound influence not only upon the different sciences, but also on philosophy, economic and political thought, and the great literature of the period. For instance, both Tolstoy and Dostoevsky referenced Darwin in their most important works, as did numerous other thinkers of the period.Like Strakhov, however, Dostoevsky, acknowledging the significance of the ""Origin of Species"", saw the dangers of the theory. In the same year as the publication of Rachinsky's translation, he lets the narrator in ""Notes from Underground"" (1864) launch his attack on Darwinism , beginning: ""As soon as they prove you, for instance, that you are descended from a monkey, then it's no use scowling, you just have to accept it.""In ""Crime and Punishment"" (two years later, 1866) the Darwinian overtones inherent in Raskolnikov's theory of the extraordinary man are unmistakable. He describes the mechanism of ""natural selection,"" where, according to the laws of nature, by the crossing of races and types, a ""genius"" would eventually emerge. In general, Darwinian themes and Darwin's name occur in many contexts in a large number of Dostoevsky's works.'Descent of Man' was transted into Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian and Swedish in Darwin's lifetime. Freeman 1107.
Proiskhozhdenie chelovieska i polovoi podbor [i.e. English ""Descent of Man""]. - [FIRST TRANSLATION OF DARWIN'S 'DESCENT OF MAN' INTO ANY LANGUAGE]
S.-Peterburg, Izdanie redaktsii zhurnala ""Znanie, 1871. 8vo. In recent half calf with four rasied bands and gilt lettering to spine. Soiling and damp stain to title-page. Light brownspotting throughout. (2), VII, (5), 439, (7) pp.
The exceedingly rare first Russian translation of Darwin's 'Descent of Man' published only four months after the original English. The Russian publisher was eager to have a translation published, hence this early abridged edition - two other Russian translations followed later the same year - The present translation being the very first into any language. ""The Descent of Man showed that the process of organic evolution, propelled by the struggle for existence and natural selection, applied to man no less than to the rest of the animal kingdom. It gave explicit recognition to the idea of the anthropoid origin of man. This claim surprised no one, for it was clearly hinted at in the great work of 1859 and was elaborated in Thomas Huxley's Man's Place in Nature and Vogt's Lectures on Man. Nor was it much of a surprise when three Russian translations of The Descent appeared within one year after the publication of the English original. Two general ideas represented the essence of The Descent: natural selection is not only behind the physical survival of man but also behind the evolution of cultural values"" and the differences between animal and human behavior are differences of degree rather than of kind."" (Darwin in Russian Thought) ""The Expression helped lay the foundations for a scientific study of the psychological aspect of the evolution of species. The book appeared in a Russian translation only a few months after the publication of the English original. The paleontologist Vladimir Kovalevskii was the translator, and the embryologist Aleksandr Kovalevskii was in charge of editorial tasks. In 1874 Vladimir wrote to Darwin that nearly two thousand copies of the Russian translation were sold."" "" The Expression deals much more extensively with selected aspects of human and animal behavior than with general problems of evolutionary biology. The Russian reviewers were generally impressed with Darwin's descriptions and categorizations of animal behavior. The Journal of the Ministry of Public Education was unusually profuse in praising the book's content and writing style. The reviewer commended Darwin's impartiality and avoidance of ""materialistic trappings."" Even the adherents of spiritualism could read the book, he wrote, without the least discomfort. The reviewer thought that psychologists would benefit from the information the book presented on the ""physiological"" basis of behavior. Indeed, he recommended the book to all readers interested in the scientific foundations of human behavior. The liberal journal Knowledgewas equally laudatory. It noted that the book was eminently successful on two counts: it offered a ""rational explanation"" of many expressions of human emotions, and it integrated the study of animal and human behavior into the universal process of organic evolution. In fact, no educated person could afford to ignore it.N. P. Vagner, professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at St. Petersburg University, called The Expression a book with ""great strengths and minor flaws."" The volume reminded him of Darwin's previous works, which marked ""turning points in the history of science."" The strength of the book lay much more in its suggestion of new topics for comparative-psychological research than in a presentation of a theoretically and logically integrated system of scientific thought. Insufficient exploration of the physiological underpinnings of mental activities represented the book's major shortcoming"" (Darwin in Russian Thought) In Russia Darwinism had a profound influence not only upon the different sciences, but also on philosophy, economic and political thought, and the great literature of the period. For instance, both Tolstoy and Dostoevsky referenced Darwin in their most important works, as did numerous other thinkers of the period.Like Strakhov, however, Dostoevsky, acknowledging the significance of the ""Origin of Species"", saw the dangers of the theory. In the same year as the publication of Rachinsky's translation, he lets the narrator in ""Notes from Underground"" (1864) launch his attack on Darwinism , beginning: ""As soon as they prove you, for instance, that you are descended from a monkey, then it's no use scowling, you just have to accept it.""In ""Crime and Punishment"" (two years later, 1866) the Darwinian overtones inherent in Raskolnikov's theory of the extraordinary man are unmistakable. He describes the mechanism of ""natural selection,"" where, according to the laws of nature, by the crossing of races and types, a ""genius"" would eventually emerge. In general, Darwinian themes and Darwin's name occur in many contexts in a large number of Dostoevsky's works.'Descent of Man' was transted into Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian and Swedish in Darwin's lifetime. Freeman 1107.
De la Théorie de la Manœuvre des vaisseaux. Édition originale rare du meilleur livre du « célèbre marin de Louis XIV »
Édition originale du traité de manœuvres navales du « célèbre marin de Louis XIV ». Exemplaire relié en maroquin ancien orné d’un décor à la grotesque. Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1689. In-8 de (6) ff. dont un frontispice, 117 pp., 25 pl. dépliantes hors texte. Maroquin rouge, triple filet doré sur les plats, dos lisse orné à la grotesque, pièce de titre de maroquin vert, coupes décorées, dentelle intérieure, tranches dorées. Reliure ancienne. 175 x 115 mm.
Édition originale rare du meilleur livre du « célèbre marin de Louis XIV », ornée d’un titre frontispice dessiné et gravé par F. Ertinger représentant un galion devant une ville fortifiée et de 25 planches dépliantes de technique de navigation. Polak, 8108. Baptisé à Armandaritz (Pyrénées Atlantiques) en 1652, mort à Pougues les Eaux en 1719, Renau d’Elissagaray fut remarqué par Duquesne avec lequel il travailla aux constructions navales à Brest. « Il proposa un nouveau système de construction navale, que Vauban fit adopter et qu’il fut chargé de mettre en pratique. Un conflit ayant éclat en 1680 entre la France et le dey d’Alger, Renau proposa de bombarder la ville avec des galiotes de son invention. Malgré l’avis du conseil, Louis XIV consentit à ce qu’il fit construire cinq galiotes à bombes, que Renau conduisit devant Alger et dont le succès dépassa toutes les espérances. »Un des meilleurs traités de navigation du règne de Louis XIV conservé dans son maroquin ancien orné d’un décor à la grotesque.
