Londres, John Bell, 1782-1793-[1786 ?] 1 volume 10,5 x 19,5cm Reliure pleine basane; dos lisse orné de 5 petits fleurons et 7 filets dorés, pièce de titre ("Plays") rouge ornée de chaînettes dorées. 3 textes reliés en 1 volume: 2 feuillets, 1 frontispice, 57p. + 86p. + [108]p. (sur 112: p. I-IV manquantes). Reliure usée: frottée, ors du dos en partie passés, coins émoussés, fente à la charnière supérieure; les 2 premiers textes en bon état; dans le 3è, 4p. manquantes au début (titre et début de la préface), importantes marques anciennes à l'encre, dernière page (épilogue) usée avec très légères atteintes au texte.
Recueil de 3 pièces de théâtre anglais: "The Beggar's Opera" de John GAY (1685-1732), orné d'une planche en frontipice; "The Man of the World", comédie de Charles MACKLIN; "The Heiress" de John BURGOYNE (1722-1792).
Paris, Nouvelles Editions Opta, "Aventures fantastiques", 1981 1 volume 12,9 x 20cm Reliure éditeur pleine toile (genre soie) bleu nuit au 1er plat orné d'un motif doré; motif en triangle doré au bas du dos; gardes illustrées couleurs; sous jaquette au 1er plat illustré couleurs. 521p., 3 feuillets; 1 planche couleurs hors texte. Très bon état.
Traduction, par Daniel LEMOINE, de "Raiders of Gor", roman d'héroïc fantasy publié en 1971 par l'écrivain états-unien John NORMAN, pseudonyme de John Frédérick LANGE; texte précédé d'une notice introductive ("John Norman ou les phantasmes de John Frederick Lange") et d'une bibliographie par Daniel WALTHER. 22è volume de la collection "Aventures Fantastiques", illustré de dessins originaux en couleurs de Claude FRITSCH (1 planche, gardes et jaquette). Tirage limité à 3050 exemplaires; exemplaire justifié n°336; bien complet de sa jaquette.
New York, The Macmillan Company, 1946 1 volume 22,5 x 29,8cm Reliure éditeur pleine toile violine; auteur, titre et vignette dorés sur les 1er plat et dos. 2 feuillets, XXVIp., 1 feuillet, 435 planches couleurs. Reliure ternie, quelques petites taches; 2 planches découpées le long de la couture, mais bien présentes et sans manque.
Recueil de 435 reproductions couleurs de planches d'oiseaux d'Amérique légendées, publiées par le peintre naturaliste, dessinateur et ornithologue états-unien John James AUDUBON (1785-1851) de 1827 à 1838 à Londres; "with a foreword and descriptive captions by William VOGT" (1902-1968); fac-similé de la page de titre du recueil original "published by the autor 1827-[18]30" (sic); "transcript of the legends on the original plates with a note concerning them" in fine; index. Exemplaire collationné, bien complet des 435 planches.
Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1985 1 volume 21,8 x 27,9cm Broché sous couverture au 1er plat illustré couleurs. 415p.; très nombreuses illustrations in texte, vignettes en noir et planches couleurs. Bon état (petites rousseurs sur la tranche).
Catalogue de l'exposition consacrée à l'oeuvre d'Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) présentée en 1985-1986 à la Hayward Gallery à Londres, aux Galeries nationales du Grand Palais à Paris et au Museum of fine arts à Boston: 124 n°s en ordre chronologique avec reproductions couleurs à pleine page des oeuvres et de détails (et souvent vignettes en noir de tableaux dont on peut les rapprocher), notices et commentaires par Anne DISTEL et John HOUSE; précédé de textes de John HOUSE sur la vie et les relations sociales de l'artiste ("Les mondes de Renoir"), d'Anne DISTEL sur ses collectionneurs ("Les amateurs de Renoir; le prince, le prêtre et le pâtissier") et de Lawrence GOWING sur "Le sentiment et l'esprit de Renoir"; chronologie avec photos; bibliographie; expositions.
Paris, J. Alisié et Cie, 1896 1 volume In-8° (15,8 x 24,1cm) Reliure moderne pleine toile écrue; pièce d'auteur-titre verte au dos. CVIp. (sur CX: manquent 1ères gardes), 1feuillet, 846p., 1 feuillet; très nombreuses illustrations en noir in texte, vignettes et quelques pleines pages, 5 planches en noir hors texte. Bon état sauf manque des 1ères gardes (? l'ouvrage commence au faux-titre), tache sur 1 feuille de sous-titre; emplacement fantaisiste des planches, dont l'une est reliée à l'envers.
1ère édition de ce précieux catalogue publié par le journaliste John GRAND-CARTERET, collectionneur et historien de l'image (1850-1927), recensant 3633 titres avec notices (adresses et descriptions) et très nombreuses illustrations en noir: "306 vignettes (affiches, reliures, titres, et figures d'almanachs)" annoncées, et 5 planches hors texte (planches annoncées "coloriées" tirées ici en noir, et reliées sans respect de l'emplacement annoncé: ainsi, le "frontispice" est bien là, mais en regard de la page 672 !!); préface sur l'histoire de "l'almanach-livre" et les affiches d'almanachs suivie d'une bibliographie (ouvrages, articles, catalogues de ventes) et de notes sur le tirage des almanachs; index des titres; index des noms (éditeurs, auteurs, personnes citées...); index thématique; table analytique des gravures. Exemplaire relié.
Paris, The Werner Company de Chicago / C. H. Greig, 1895 / [s.d., 1895] 1 volume Format oblong (34 x 26,7cm) Reliure d'époque demi-chagrin rouge; dos lisse à titre doré et 7 bandes de filets à froid; plats de percaline granitée rouge, grand titre doré ("Amérique et colonies françaises") au centre du 1er; gardes marbrées. 2 ouvrages reliés en 1 volume: 1feuillet, 1titre, 1feuillet, 192 planches et 1titre, 1feuillet, 208 planches. Coiffes frottées; quelques petites taches ou fentes maginales; petite mouillure marginale aux 6 dernières feuilles (papier couché mais non collé ou décollé, d'où 1 feuille avec déchirure sans manque).
Ouvrage réunissant 2 portfolios complets: le portfolio colonial, de 192 photographies avec notices rassemblées par John L. STODDARD; suivi de celui de l'Amérique du Nord, "Ses montagnes grandioses, ses canons [canyons] imposants, ses lacs idéales [sic], ses vues des lieux historiques les plus remarquables, ses monuments, ses villes, ses stations d'hiver et d'été les plus renommées considérées au point de vue naturel et artistique, et tout ce qui touche aux beautés du paysage", de 208 photos avec notices, et introduction de Paul BOURGET.
Paris / New York / Londres, Editions Abbeville, [s.d., cop. 1993] 1 volume 28 x 33cm Reliure éditeur pleine toile sous jaquette illustrée couleurs, en étui illustré à l'identique. 376p.; très nombreuses illustrations en noir et en couleurs, vignettes et pleines pages. Très bon état.
Traduction, par Jeanne BOUNIORT, de "Donatello sculptor", publié en 1993 par l'historien d'art britannique John POPE-HENNESSY (1913-1994), spécialiste de la Renaissance italienne, sur la vie et l'oeuvre du sculpteur et dessinateur florentin Donatello (surnom de Donato Bardi, 1386?-1466); notes et références; index; bibliographie; riche iconographie. Exemplaire bien complet de ses jaquette et étui illustrés.
Amsterdam, Time Life, "Les Grandes cités", 1979 1 volume 23,8 x 30cm Cartonnage éditeur au 1er plat illustré couleurs, sous jaquette illustrée couleurs. 200p.; illustrations couleurs in texte, vignettes et pleines pages. Volume en très bon état; jaquette un peu insolée, légèrement frottée et fendillée en marges.
Traduction, par Dominique LE BOURG, d'un ouvrage publié par John Eaton Calthorpe BLOFELD, spécialiste du taoïsme; nombreuses photos couleurs de Philip Jones GRIFFITHS; index; bibliographie. Exemplaire bien complet de sa jaquette.
Paris, Fayard, "En toute liberté", 1971 1 volume 14,9 x 21,6cm Broché. XVII + 103p., 3 feuillets. Très bon état.
Traduction, par Jean-Gérard CHAUFFETEAU, de "Who Needs the Democrats and what it Takes to be Needed" publié par l'économiste états-unien démocrate John Kenneth GALBRAITH (1908-2006); préface de Jean-Jacques SERVAN-SCHREIBER; notes et références.
[s.l., Paris], Citadelles & Mazenod, [cop. 1995] 1 volume 25 x 31,7cm Reliure éditeur pleine toile sous jaquette illustrée couleurs. 335p.; nombreuses cartes et illustrations in texte, vignettes et pleines pages, en noir et en couleurs. Très bon état.
Traduction, par Célestine DARS, et édition française établie par Thierry DELCOURT, archiviste-paléographe et Philippe ROUILLARD, historien de l'art, de "Atlas of Western Art History - Artists, Sites and Movements from Ancient Greece to the Modern Age", ouvrage réalisé par une équipe d'historiens de l'art et de cartographes, et publié en 1994 par les historiens de l'art états-unien et britannique John STEER et Antony WHITE: histoire des principales étapes de l'art occidental "à travers l'activité des foyers locaux ou le rayonnement des mouvements internationaux", de l'Antiquité au XXè siècle, avec, complétant cette lecture chronologique, une "mise en évidence des lieux de la création", les cartes montrant "l'exacte étendue des aires culturelles majeures, [les] courants qui circulent ou s'entrecroisent d'une région à l'autre, ou [les] déplacements individuels des artistes" (in préface de Michel LACLOTTE); index; plans, cartes, reproductions. Exemplaire bien complet de sa jaquette.
AYERS (John), FROMENTIN (Hélène), PAUL-DAVID (Madeleine), TAMBURELLO (Adolfo)
Reference : 16595
(1984)
ISBN : 2-09-290-537-6
Paris, Nathan, 1984 1 volume 23,8 x 30,8cm Reliure éditeur pleine toile verte sous jaquette illustrée couleurs, en étui carton. 398p. dont 317 planches d'illustrations couleurs (vignettes et pleines pages), 1feuillet; carte, planches de dessins en noir. Très bon état.
Historique des céramiques chinoise, viêtnamienne, coréenne et japonaise, illustré de "317 chefs-d'oeuvre" en photos couleurs; par John AYERS, spécialiste britannique de la céramique chinoise, Hélène FROMENTIN, chargée de mission au musée Guimet, Madeleine PAUL-DAVID, conservatrice des musées (Louvre, Guimet, Cernuschi), spécialiste des arts de l'Extrême-Orient, Adolfo TAMBURELLO, historien orientaliste; carte; marques et sceaux; glossaire; chonologie; index, bibliographie. Exemplaire bien complet de ses jaquette et étui carton.
[s.l., Paris], Gallimard, 1964 1 volume 13,4 x 19,5cm Reliure éditeur pleine toile blanche sous rhodoïd. 414p., 1 feuillet. Bon état.
Traduction, par Gilles MALAR, de "Mr Standfast", 2è tome de "Les Aventures de Richard Hannay", agent secret ("Four Adventures of Richard Hannay"), publié en 1919 par John BUCHAN, romancier et éditeur écossais inspiré ici par ses activité d'officier du renseignement pendant la première guerre mondiale (1875-1940).
[DELPECH (Jean)] - TAINE (John) [pseudonyme de BELL (Eric Temple)].
Reference : 12311
[s.l., Paris], Gallimard, "Le Rayon fantastique", 1953 1 volume In-16 (12 x 18,2cm) Broché sous couverture rouge au 1er plat illustré couleurs. 254p., 1 feuillet. Dos recollé, aux plis marqués et charnières blanchies et recoloriées à la main.
Traduction, par Edith et Alain GLATIGNY, de "Seeds of Life" d'Eric Temple BELL (1883-1960), mathématicien et historien des sciences écossais, écrivain de science-fiction sous le pseudonyme de John TAINE; couverture illustrée par Jean DELPECH. 19è volume de la collection co-éditée par Gallimard et Hachette, qui révéla au public français les grands auteurs de l'Age d'or de la science-fiction anglo-saxonne.
Paris, Robert Laffont, "L'Histoire que nous vivons", 1968 1 volume 15,5 x 24cm Broché sous couverture à rabats. 544p. Bon état sauf tranche jaunie.
Traduction, par Bernard WIILLERVAL, de "The New French Revolution", ouvrage sur la société française publié en 1968 par le journaliste britannique John ARDAGH; index; bibliographie. Avec la bande annonce éditeur (déchirée sans manque): "Dix ans d'enquête par le correspondant du Times sur la France en mutation".
Seville, Imprenta de D. José Hidalgo y Compania, 1823 1 volume Petit in-4º (14 x 20,2cm) Reliure d'époque plein maroquin rouge; dos orné de motifs dorés; guirlande dorée en encadrement des plats; filets dorés sur les bords; gardes marbrées noires à veinures jaunes 39p.; 1 blason gravé en frontispice. Reliure tachée et frottée; coiffe de tête arrachée, déchirure en coiffe de queue.
Texte de John DOWNIE, aventurier militaire écossais (1777-1826) qui participa à la guerre d'indépendance espagnole puis fut arrêté lors du complot de 1823; blason gravé en taille-douce en frontispice, légendé "Fortitudine inferrum pro libertate ruimus" .
Paris, Editions du Seuil, "Collections Esprit - Frontière ouverte", 1972 1 volume 14,1 x 20,5cm Broché. 298p., 3 feuillets; cartes. Très bon état.
Traduction, par Michel JANIN, de "Politics in U.S.A.", publié en 1970 par Maurice John Crawley VILE, politologue états-unien: un "exposé clair et complet" du système politique américain et du fonctionnement de ses rouages (4è de couverture); textes et de documents en annexe: constitution des Etats-Unis et amendements, présidents et vice-présidents, résultats électoraux; index; bibliographie. Titre complété en couverture des mentions: "Fédéralisme - Bipartisme - Groupes de pression - Elections - Congrès - Présidence - Administration - Cour suprême".
Paris, Pierre Roger et Cie, "Les Pays modernes", [s.d., années 1920 ?]. 1 volume In-8° écu (13,6 x 20,5cm) Broché sous couverture ocre rose au 1er plat illustré. 2 feuillets, 251p.; 20 planches et 1carte hors texte. Bon état, non coupé, mais papier très jauni.
La construction du canal (histoire des travaux, conditions de travail, etc) et son rôle économique: ouvrage de John Foster FRASER adapté de l'anglais par Georges FEUILLOY; illustré de 20 photogravures. Mention de nouvelle édition.
Paris, Librairie Armand Colin, "Cahiers de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques", 1966 1 volume 15,4 x 24cm Broché sous couverture à rabats. 1 feuillet, Xp., 1 feuillet, 219p.1 feuillet; cartes, tableaux et graphiques in texte. Très bon état.
"Problèmes-clés" de la politique économique britannique 1950-1960 et analyse des tendances nouvelles après 1961, par Anne-Marie et John HACKETT; index; bibliographie; cartes, tableaux et graphiques.
Paris, Arthaud, 1962 1 volume 14 x 20cm Cartonnage éditeur au 1er plat orné d'une petite vignette. 443p., 2 feuillets. Bon état (bords du cartonnage un peu frottés); ex-libris manuscrit.
Recueil des traductions, par Magdeleine PAZ, de 2 aventures de l'agent secret Richard Hannay: "The Thirty-nine Steps" (1915 - adapté au cinéma par Hitchcock en 1935) et de "The Three Hostages" (1928), de John BUCHAN, écrivain et homme politique britannique (1875-1940), officier du renseignement pendant la première guerre mondiale; préface de BOILEAU-NARCEJAC. En présentation reliée.
, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, 4 vols, lxviii + 2122 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:297 b/w, 3 tables b/w., Language: English. *NEW ISBN 9782503574899.
Summary The product of an international interdisciplinary team, the History and Structures strand of the Pre-Christian Religion of the North series aims to approach the subject by giving equal weight to archaeological and textual sources, taking into consideration recent theories on religion within all the disciplines that are needed in order to gain a comprehensive view of the religious history and world view of pre-Christian Scandinavia from the perspective of the beginning of the twenty-first century. Volume I presents the basic premises of the study and a consideration of the sources: memory and oral tradition, written sources, religious vocabulary, place names and personal names, archaeology, and images. Volume II treats the social, geographical, and historical contexts in which the religion was practiced and through which it can be understood. This volume also includes communication between worlds, primarily through various ritual structures. Volume III explores conceptual frameworks: the cosmos and collective supernatural beings (notions regarding the cosmos and regarding such collective supernatural beings as the norns, valkyries, giants, and dwarfs) and also gods and goddesses (including Þórr, Óðinn, Freyr, Freyja, and many others). Volume IV describes the process of Christianization in the Nordic region and also includes a bibliography and indices for the entire four-volume work. TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 1. Introductory and Sources Jens Peter Schjødt, John Lindow, Anders Andrén, Preface & Introduction Jens Peter Schjødt, Theoretical Considerations Pernille Hermann, Memory, Oral Tradition, and Sources John Lindow, Written Sources John Lindow, Language: Religious Vocabulary Per Vikstrand, Language: Placenames and Personal Names Anders Andrén, Archaeology Anders Andrén, Images Terry Gunnell, Folklore Anders Andrén, The Spatial and Temporal Frame John Lindow, The Linguistic Frame Jens Peter Schjødt, Continuity and Break: Indo-European Jens Peter Schjødt, Continuity and Break: Germanic Rudolf Simek, Encounters: Roman Matthias Egeler, Encounters: Celtic Leszek P. S?upecki, Encounters: Slavic Thomas Dubois, Encounters: Baltic Thomas Dubois, Encounters: Sámi Thomas Dubois, Encounters: Balto-Finnic Volume 2. Contexts and Communication between Worlds Anders Andrén, Historical and Social Contexts Stefan Brink, Laws and Assemblies John Lindow, Ethics Judy Quinn, Gender Jens Peter Schjødt, Kings and Rulers Jens Peter Schjødt, Warrior Bands Jens Peter Schjødt, Various Ways of Communicating Stephen A. Mitchell, Magic and Religion Torun Zachrisson & Anders Andrén, Ritual Space Andreas Nordberg, Ritual Time and Time Reckoning Olof Sundqvist, Cultic Leaders and Religious Specialists Jens Peter Schjødt, Crisis Rituals Jens Peter Schjødt, Cyclical Rituals Jens Peter Schjødt, Passage Rituals Neil Price, Death Ritual and Mortuary Behaviour John Lindow & Anders Andrén, Worlds of the Dead John Lindow, Fate John Lindow & Jens Peter Schjødt, The Divine, the Human and In Between Volume 3. Conceptual Frameworks: Cosmos and Collective Supernatural Beings, Gods and Goddesses Mathias Nordvig, Cosmogony Mathias Nordvig, Cosmology Anders Hultgård, Cosmic Eschatology: Ragnarøk John Lindow, Vanir and Æsir John Lindow, Þórr Jens Peter Schjødt, Óðinn Olof Sundqvist, Freyr Jens Peter Schjødt, Loki Ingunn Ásdísardóttir, Freyja John Lindow, Baldr John Lindow, Nj?rðr John Lindow, Týr Anders Andrén, Ullr Sebastian Cöllen, Heimdallr Ingunn Ásdísardóttir, Frigg Jens Peter Schjødt, Hoenir John Lindow, Skaði John Lindow & Jens Peter Schjødt, Minor Gods and Goddesses Anders Andrén, Divine Twins Anders Andrén, Sun and Moon Rudolf Simek, Matronae John Lindow, Dísir Karen Bek-Pedersen, Norns Judy Quinn, Valkyries Margaret Clunies Ross, Giants Terry Gunnell, Dvergar (Dwarfs) Terry Gunnell, Álfar (Elves) Volume 4. The Christianization Process, Bibliography, General Indices Michael H. Gelting, The Christianization of Denmark Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide, The Christianization of Norway Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, The Christianization of the North Atlantic Bertil Nilsson, The Christianization of Sweden Tuomas Heikkilä, Christianization of Finland Håkan Rydving, The Christianization of the Sámi Primary & Secondary Sources - General Indices
Henry Miller Edgar Poe R. P. du Poisin Cotton Mather Benjamin Franklin John Paul Jones Saint John de Crèvecoeur Washington Irvin Walt Whitmann William H. Herndon Emily Dinkinson Vachel Lindsay James Weldon Johnson Hart Crane John Peale Bishop Langston Hughes Robinson Jeffers Archibald Macleish Marianne Moore John Dos Passos John Crowe Ransom Wallace Stevens Allen Tate William Carlos Williams
Reference : 15411
(1939)
1939. Paris Mesures 15 juillet 1939 - Numéro spécial consacré aux Lettres américaines - Broché 19 cm x 24 cm 382 pages - Comité de rédaction : Henry Church Bernard Groethuysen Henri Michaux Jean Paulhan Giuseppe Ungaretti ; Textes et poèmes de R. P. du Poisin Cotton Mather Benjamin Franklin John Paul Jones Saint John de Crèvecoeur Washington Irvin Edgar Poe Walt Whitmann William H. Herndon Emily Dinkinson Vachel Lindsay James Weldon Johnson Hart Crane John Peale Bishop Langston Hughes Robinson Jeffers Archibald Macleish Henry Miller Marianne Moore John Dos Passos John Crowe Ransom Wallace Stevens Allen Tate William Carlos Williams ; trad. de Raymond Queneau Pierre Leyris Fernand Auberjonois ...- Taches sur les premières pages sinon bon état
Charles Amirkhanian, John Ashberry, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Bill Berkson, Joe Brainard, Michael Brownstein, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Jim Carroll, Tom Clark, Clark Coolidge, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, Diane Di Prima, Ed Dorn, Larry Fagin, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Frank Lima, Michael McClure, Gerard Malanga, Bernadette Mayer, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, Peter Orlovsky, Maureen Owen, Ron Padgett, John Perreault, Charles Plymell, Ed Sanders, Jack Spicer, Lorenzo Thomas, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Diane Wakoski, Anne Waldmann, Philip Whalen, John Wieners
Reference : 103163
(1974)
1974 disque Etats-Unis, 1974, Giorno Poetry System GPS003, 2 disques 33trs, 30cm, sous pochette ouvrante, conception et photographies de Les Levine.Cet album est un "do-it-yourself dial-a-poem kit".Avec Charles Amirkhanian, John Ashberry, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Bill Berkson, Joe Brainard, Michael Brownstein, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Jim Carroll, Tom Clark, Clark Coolidge, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, Diane Di Prima, Ed Dorn, Larry Fagin, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Frank Lima, Michael McClure, Gerard Malanga, Bernadette Mayer, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, Peter Orlovsky, Maureen Owen, Ron Padgett, John Perreault, Charles Plymell, Ed Sanders, Jack Spicer, Lorenzo Thomas, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Diane Wakoski, Anne Waldmann, Philip Whalen, John Wieners. (103163)
Phone number : +33 1 48 01 02 37
At the Apollo Press, by the Martins | Edinburgh 1779 - 1804 | 8.50 x 13.50 cm | 99 tomes en 34 volumes reliés
Très rare réunion des volumes de la célèbre édition Bell des poètes britanniques en reliure uniforme, qui compte ici 101 volumes et dont l'impression fut largement étalée dans le temps, les volumes se vendant par auteur. Le volume 8 qui réunissait les tomes 5 et 6 des oeuvres poétiques de Edmund Spencer est malheureusement manquant. Certains volumes paraissent pour la première fois, d'autres sont en seconde édition. Cette très importante édition pour la poésie britannique regroupe 39 poètes depuis Chaucer jusque Charles Churchill et 99 figures (portraits et frontispices). Elle est précieuse car de nombreux poètes virent leur première édition complète par ce biais, notamment John Donne. Reliure anglaise en pleine basane blonde d'époque. Dos lisse orné de divers fers, dont un roi agenouillé, de multiples roulettes. Pièce de titre en maroquin vert. Papier dans l'ensemble propre, mais quelques feuillets brunis et avec rousseurs, notamment quelques gravures. Détail de cet important ensemble : - The poetical works of Geof. Chaucer. 1782. 14 tomes en 5 volumes, tome 1 à 5. Manques en têtes des tome 1 et 4. Mors supérieur du tome 1 en partie fendu, mors supérieur du tome 2 fendu. - The poetical works of John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham. 1801. Un portrait en médaillon, un titre-frontispice. Volume 5. - The poetical works of Edmund Spencer. 1787-1788. 8 tomes en 4 volumes. Les tomes 5 et 6 contenus dans le volume 8 manquant. Tête du tome 7 légèrement élimée. Mors supérieur du tome 7 en partie fendu. - The poetical works of Samuel Butler. 1797. 3 tomes contenus dans le volume 10. Un portrait dans un médaillon, 3 titres-frontispices. - Ovide translated by eminent persons (Fryden, Congreve, Garth...). 1801. 4 tomes, volume 11. 2 titres-frontispices. Un manque en tête. Mors étroitement fendus en tête. - The poetical works of John Donne. 1799-1800. 3 tomes, volume 12. Un portrait en médaillon et 3 titres-frontispices. Mors supérieur étroitement fendu en tête. -The poetical works of William Congreve. 1784. 1 tome, volume 13. Un portrait dans un médaillon, un titre-frontispice. Mors supérieur étroitement fendu en tête. -The poetical works of Abraham Cowley. 1784. 4 tomes, volume 13 et 14. Un portrait dans un médaillon, 2 titres-frontispices. - The poetical works of John Cunningham. 1797. 1 tome. Volume 14. Un portrait dans un médaillon, 1 titre-frontispice. Manques en tête. Mors fendu en tête. -The poetical works of James Hammond. 1803. 1 tome. Volume 15. -The poetical works of Lord Lyttelton. 1788. 1 tome, volume 15. Un portrait dans un médaillon, 1 titre frontispice. -The poetical works of Edmund Waller. 1784. 2 tomes, volume 16. Un portrait dans un médaillon, 2 titres-frontispices. Un accroc avec manque dans le caisson de queue. -The poetical works of Thomas Parnell. 1786. 2 tomes, volume 17. Un portrait dans un médaillon, un titre-frontispice. Coiffe de tête légèrement et en partie élimée, mors supérieur étroitement fendu en queue. -The poetical works of John Pomfret. 1787. 1 tome, volume 17. Un titre-frontispice. -The poetical works of John Gray. 1800. 1 tome, volume 18. Léger manque en tête. Mors supérieur étroitement fendu en tête. -The poetical works of John Hugues. 1796. 2 tomes, volume 18. Un portrait dans un médaillon, 2 titres-frontispices. -The poetical works of Joseph Addison. 1803. 1 tome, volume 19. 1 titre-frontispice. -The poetical works of John Armstrong. 1793. 1 tome, volume 19. Un portrait dans un médaillon, un titre-frontispice. -The poetical works of William Broome. 1802. 1 tome, volume 19. -The poetical works of Nicholas Rowe. 1801. 1 tome, volume 20. Un portrait dans un médaillon, un titre-frontispice. Coiffe de tête légèrement élimée. -The poetical works of James Thomson. 1800. 2 tomes, volume 20. Un portrait dans un médaillon, 2 titres-frontispices. -The poetical works of John Milton. 1804. 4 tomes, volumes 21 et 22. Un portrait dans un médaillon, 4 titres-frontispices. Petit manque en tête.
Phone number : 01 56 08 08 85
"THOMSON, JOHN (+) WILLIAM FLOYD (+) FELICE BEATO (+) HIPPOLYTE ARNOUX.
Reference : 60283
(1872)
1870-1872. Folio-oblong (395 x 320 mm). Original brown half calf, recased - the original cloth (with gilt lettering to the front) has been expertly mounted on to the new boards, and most of the original gilt leather spine has been preserved over a perfectly matching new lovely brown half calf. ""Tordenskjold / 1870 - 1873"" in gilt lettering, partly worn of, to front board. End-papers renewed. 71 albumen print in various sizes and by various photographers (see below) mounted on 59 contemporary white cardboard leaves (measuring 370 x 310 mm), all re-hinged. The album was water-damaged at some point, but has been expertly and neatly restored and appears in overall very good condition with good tones. 1, Oval photo of Tordenskjold (205 x 60mm) 2, Photo of Tordenskjold (190 x 143 mm) 3, Crew aboard Tordenskjold (200 x 14 mm) 4, Crew aboard Tordenskjold (157 x 128 mm) 5, Crew and equipment aboard Tordenskjold (228 x 176 mm) 6, Naval officers about Tordenskjold (167 x 130 mm). 7, 8 small photos of various places on one plate (274 x 190 mm) 8, The harbor of Port Said. By Hippolyte Arnoux (247 x 190mm) 9, Muddigging machines in the channel of Port Said. By Hippolyte Arnoux. (245 x 190mm) 10, Port Said. By Hippolyte Arnoux. 11, Malta (262 x 207 mm) 12, Two photos of Malta (each measuring 134 x 120 mm) 13, Two photos of Gibraltar (Each measuring 148 x 114) 14, Deep Water Bay, Hong Kong (194 x 130 mm). 15, Two photos depicting telegraph-house and ships in Deep Water Bay (each measuring 150 x 112) 16, Boat with people. By Felice Beato, coloured (294 x 235 mm) 17, House next to river. By John Thomson, December 1870 (278 x 225 mm) 17, Seamen’s hospital in Hong Kong. (261 x 190 mm) 18, Hong Kong. (270 x 195 mm) 19, Hong Kong, by Floyd (270 x 192 mm) 20, Hong Kong, by Floyd (240 x 190 mm) 21, Two photos of sites in Hong Kong (each measuring 165 x 127 mm) 22, Five Sikhs in Hong Kong (215 x 244 mm) 23, Group of women in Hong Kong, (326 x 215 mm) 24, Two photos of Hong Kong harbour, one photo depicting “Cella” (182 x 105" 130 x 98 mm) 25, Villa at Canton. (264 x 190 mm) 26, Pagode in Xuexiu Park, Guangdong. By William Pryor Floyd. (195 x 246 mm) 27, Boats in Canton. William Pryor Floyd,(270 x 223 mm) 28, Pou-Ting-Qua’s Garden, Canton. By John Thomson. (289 x 230 mm) 29, Fields in Canton. (205 x 155 mm) 30, Houses in Canton. (267 x 210 mm) 31, Canton harbor. By John Thomson. (245 x 202 mm) 32, Boat on the Canton river. (274 x 204 mm) 33, Wall around Canton. (260 x 200 mm). 34, Boats in Canton (293 x 225) 35, Telegraphstation in Woosung. (150 x 110 mm) 36, Boats in Foochow. (287 x 232 mm) 37, Temple in Foochow. By John Thomson (190 x 237 mm) 38, Pagode in Foochow. Presumably by John Thomson. (287 x 220 mm). 39, Tomb of Fou Tcheou. By John Thomson. (290 x 225 mm). 40, Temple in Shanghai. (237 x 188 mm). 41, Shanghai. (232 x 176 mm) 42, Chaochow bridge, Kwangtung. By John Thomson. (266 x 204 mm). 43. Panorama of Nagasaki consisting of two photos. (371 x142 mm) 44, Two photos of Nagasaki. Felice Beato. (Each measuring 169 x 119 mm). 45, Two photos from Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato. (Each measuring 165 x 118 mm) 46, Two photos from Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato. (Each measuring 165 x 118 mm) 47, Temple in Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato. (169 x 118 mm). 48, Photo of Japanese woman in kimono. By Felice Beato. (205 x 255 mm). 49, Two photos of officers in house in Yokohama. (162 x 125 mm). 50, The Abbot and Monks of Kushan Monastery. By John Thomson. (287 x 204 mm). 51, Wooden structure, presumably Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato. (270 x 208 mm) 52, Pagode, presumably Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato. (234 x 185 mm) 53, Cityscape with lake, presumably Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato.. (280 x 228 mm). 54, Two photos, cemetery and stairs to temple. By Felice Beato. (Each measuring 168 x 118 mm). 55, People standing outside house, presumably Hong Kong. By John Thomson. (185 x 155 mm) 56, Guangzhou Great Norh Gate, Canton. By John Thomson (245 x 156 mm). 57, Two photos, one of the building of a telegraph station (presumably in Wladivostok) and a view of Wladivostok from the sea (154 x 123 130 x 99 mm). 58, Seascape of two ships. (130 x 140 mm). 59, Ship laying for anchor. (170 x 123 mm)
Exceedingly rare photo-album documenting the Danish vessel Tordenskjold’s mission in laying the very first telegraph cables in East Asia thereby connecting China and Japan to the global telegraph system. The album consists of photos taken aboard the vessel Tordenskjold, of Tordenskjold itself along with its crew, by an unknown photographer, and of photographs of the visited cities and surrounding areas by some of the finest photographers operating in East Asia at the time, such as John Thomson, William Floyd, Felice Beato and, in Egypt, Hippolyte Arnoux - all photographs presumably brought home by William Lund, Captain on board Tordenskjold. Through some of the earliest photos taken in China, Japan, and of the excavation of the Suez Canal, the present album depicts a pivotal moment in international relations and communications. Submarine telegraph cables were first brought to China by Danish magnate Carl Fredrick Tietgen (1829-1901), who in 1870 set up the Great Northern China and Japan Extension Company. The company was created to build and operate a telegraph cable connecting Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Japan, continuing on to Vladivostok on Russia's East coast. From Vladivostok, a cable ran along the Trans-Siberian Railway, linking Hong Kong to telegraph networks in Britain, Europe, and America. Tietgen fought off strong competition - primarily English-, and eventually won the concession to lay and operate new telegraph cables connecting Russia, China and Japan. Tietgen and his partners had embarked upon a grand and risky project. Undersea cables would need to be laid in waters that had not been sounded, cables were to be brought ashore on coasts where the prevailing conditions were not known, and it was uncertain whether the respective governments would grant permission. Everything – cables, stations, wire, and apparatus – was to be brought from Europe and had to function as a coherent system. Two chartered English steamships ‘Cella’ and ‘Great Northern’ were to transport and lay the cables, and the propeller-driven Danish frigate ‘Tordenskjold’ was to sound the waters near Nagasaki and Vladivostok, it had to also carry a relatively small amount of cables, and it was to keep away uninvited guests (of which there were plenty in the South China Sea). “As a small nation with negligible military resources, Denmark could provide a useful – politically neutral – centre for telegraph links to major European powers such as Britain, Russia and the emerging new power of Prussia. The Danes were able to utilize the technical know-how which had been accumulated with great difficulty, and occasionally heavy economic losses, in the preceding decades by British and American entrepreneurs. The competition between the Danish and British groups of telegraph entrepreneurs for first access to the Chinese market was preliminarily resolved when the directors of the two companies negotiated a secret agreement in May 1870. The Danish group had acquired an advantage in terms of timing by winning the Russian concession in 1869, and had to cover shorter distances by sea cables from Vladivostok to Nagasaki and Shanghai. But the British group had the advantage of better access to capital and a more extensive technical experience with submarine cable manufacture and operation. The essence of the agreement was that the line between Hong Kong and Shanghai should be established and operated by the Great Northern the companies would share the income for telegrams which passed this section of the line and they would run offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai jointly. The agreement provided the Danes with assured landing rights in Hong Kong and with British diplomatic support for attempts to secure landing rights in China. Permission to bring submarine telegraph cables into Chinese treaty ports was obtained in 1870 from the Chinese Government (i.e., the office of foreign affairs, known as the Zongli Yamen) by the British Minister in Peking, Thomas Wade. At the same time, the Danish government had dispatched a diplomatic envoy, Chamberlain Julius Sick, at the Great Northern’s expense to China and Japan to obtain the necessary concessions. The cable between Hong Kong and Shanghai was laid in 1870–1871 with the assistance of the frigate Tordenskjold, which the Danish government had generously allocated to the task. The Great Northern had a great deal of technical problems with the cables they had bought from the British manufacturer since the quality of the insulation was not as good as expected. Therefore, the official opening of the line between Shanghai and Hong Kong was delayed until April 1871. During the remainder of that year the company struggled to finish cable sections from Shanghai to Nagasaki, and from Nagasaki to Vladivostok. Communication between Shanghai and Europe via these cables and the Russian Siberian lines was officially inaugurated on 1 January 1872.” (Erik Baark: Wires, Codes and People The Great Northern Telegraph Company in China 1870–90) The album covers and illustrates one on the most fascinating periods in the process of internationalization in the late modern period: The Suez Canal had just opened and ‘Tordenskjold’ was the first Danish ship to sail through it. The submarine cables linked the major hubs in East Asia to the Western world and helped facilitate an unprecedented growth in the region. Overall, the laying of the submarine cable in 1870-71 was a transformative event for East Asia in general. It played a critical role in the area's economic and social development, helping to make it the global commercial center it is today.
London, 1832 A lovely contemporary full calf binding with Gilt spine, gilt and blindstamped border-ornamentations and gilt armorial centre-piece to boards. Some wear to extremities and hinges. Nice and tight. Internally very nice and clean, with only occasional, very light minor brownspotting.
The scarce first edition of one of the main works of John Galt, the first political novelist in the English language. Althought the name ""Gohn Galt"" is now primarily associated with the main character of Ayn Rand's modern political classic ""Atlas Shrugged"", the ""real"" John Galt (1779-1839) was one of the best known Scottish political and social novelists of the 19th century. Like Rand's John Galt, he too was an entrepeneur, greatly active in political and social issues. Because he was the first novelist to deal with issues of the industrial revolution, he has been called the first political novelist in the English language.""The Radical"" is a study of religion, politics and law in the local boroughs of Scotland during the transitional late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. As several of his other novels, it is concerned with the effects of change upon communities and upon the social institutions that shape those communities. The work is famous for its, prosaic studies, that are, however, far from dry, and Galt’s storytelling is known to be characterised by wit and humour.Together ""The Radical"" and ""The Member"" (also 1832) make up what John Galt himself calls ""the Reform"", as he states in his autobiography, ""they serve to illustrate, by the by, the sagicity of the trade, for they are thought to have too much a seeming of truth, and the sale of them has not been satisfactory. [...]The Radical [...] is deduced from principles and feelings coeval with human nature. It seems to me that the Radicals of our time forget that we are living in society for the benefitsof which we have surrendered a portion of our natural rights. The work in consequence turns on supposing, that what our natural feelings prompt must therefore be what we are entitled to do and to enjoy, forgetting altogether how much the social ties restrain the exercise of natural rights. But although some of my friends think the two works clever and philosophical, and although, on the Continent they have attracted more attantion than any other product of my pen, they have almost been still-born here. [...]."" (John Galt, The Literary Life and Miscellanies of John Galt, 1834, pp. 318-19). John Galt was born in Irvine as the son of a sea captain who traded with the West Indies. In 1789 the family moved to Greenock and much of Galt’s fiction draws from the localities of the west coast of Scotland where he spent his youth. John Galt was possessed of a pragmatic as well as an imaginative turn of mind. He had a keen interest in business and politics and always maintained that he regarded writing as a secondary profession. From 1796 - 1804 Galt worked as a junior justice clerk in Greenock before setting off for London on a sudden impulse of restless ambition. Here he studied political economy and commercial history and practise but failed to really make his mark on the business world despite several promising ventures.Around the age of twenty-four Galt began writing. He experimented in verse but was an inferior poet. Several of his essays, however, were published and this writing at this time demonstrates his early interest in politics and the colonies, particularly Canada which had long captured his imagination.In 1809 Galt spent a period of time travelling on the Mediterranean and it was here that he made his acquaintance with Lord Byron who was to become the subject of his acclaimed biography The Life of Byron in 1830. In 1811 he returned to London, his commercial aspirations disappointed and turned to journalism as a means of making money. At 34, he married the daughter of his literary patron, Alexander Tilloch. It was at this time too that Galt gained his experience of the workings of Parliament as a lobbyist for the Edinburgh-Glasgow canal. These experiences were to be formative in Galt’s later political career in Canada and were also to inform his later political novels, The Radical and The Member.Despite critical and commercial success, Galt had not abandoned his business aspirations. In 1824 Galt became actively involved in political campaigning on behalf of the Canadian colony and two years later left for Canada leaving the manuscript for The Last of the Lairds with his publisher. During the years 1827-29 Galt developed the virgin territories of the Canadian colony and founded the townships of Guelph and Goderich. For Galt, the Canadian project was the realisation of his most profound ambitions. But he was to fall foul of colonial bureaucracy and was eventually forced to return to Britain in 1829 under charges of debt and placed in prison.Having returned to Britain, John Galt began writing again, and in 1832 he produced two of his most famous works, ""The Radical"" and ""The Member"", for which he is primarily remembered today.