Search Results: Authors starting with D from LIBRAIRIE CAMILLE SOURGET

N.p.n.d. [London, 1804-06].2 parts bound in 1 folio volume [575 x 468 mm] of: I/ 1 frontispiece, (5) ll. of text and 15 full-page plates in color; II/ 1 frontispiece, (5) ll. of text and 15 full-page plates in color. A total of 2 full-page titles in aquatint and 30 full-page plates in color. Plates 1 and 29 slightly spotted. Green quarter-morocco, spine ribbed decorated with fillets and gilt fleurons, gilt edges. Some rubbing, rebacked in the 19th century. Contemporary binding.First edition of this sumptuous illustrated work about South Africa.Brunet, II, 489; Graesse, II, p. 325; Gay 3136; Hardie 133; Mendelssohn, I, 411-12; Prideaux 245; Tooley 168; Abbey Travel 321."The scarcest and most valuable of the large atlas folios of South African illustration... a most magnificent work." (Mendelssohn).Samuel Daniell (1775-1811) is an English painter and a drawer who arrived in South Africa on December 9th 1799. He was appointed secretary and artist of the 1801-1802 expedition from the Cape of Good Hope to… Read More

Paris, Aubert, n.d. [1840].
Folio [339 x 263 mm] of 30 plates. Green half-sheepskin, flat spine. Contemporary binding.
Complete and very rare set of 30 original lithographs in very nice proofs in black on white, in a very scarce issue of the 2nd or 3rd state (out of 3 or 4), before correction, with Aubert's address, later erased.
Delteil, 760 to 790.
The bathers on the banks of the Seine offered Daumier multiple subjects to evoke comical situations.
The series of thirty plates of
Les Baigneurs, published between June 1839 and September 1842 in Le Charivari, was much appreciated by Delacroix for the quality of the anatomical studies it contains, and which will have a female counterpart, in 1847, with Les Baigneuses.
Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) began his career as a political cartoonist for the newspapers "La Caricature" and "Le Charivari" under the sign of opposition to Louis-Philippe led by Charles Philipon, the director of these publications.
But the laws of September 1835 put a brake on the freedom… Read More

Paris, 1787.
Large 8vo, with an engraved title with erotic fleuron and 12 very neat and free engravings. Each tale occupies 4 pages; the last one ends with a cul-de-lampe, when it is only slightly filled. Full brown grained calf, flat spine, gilt fillet on the edges, red edges. Contemporary binding.
240 x 150 mm.
First edition.
Very rare copy printed on very large Hollande paper with an original drawing. Twelve free tales.
Each tale is preceded by an engraving.
A magnificent copy of one of the most researched erotic books of the eighteenth century. Very rare and preserved in its original binding.


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Paris, 1787.
Grand in-8, avec un titre gravé avec fleuron érotique et 12 gravures très soignées et très libres Chaque conte occupe 4 pages ; la dernière se termine par un cul-de-lampe, lorsqu'elle n'est que peu remplie. Plein veau brun granité, dos lisse orné, filet or sur les coupes, tranches rouges. Reliure de l'époque.
240 x 150 mm.
Edition originale.
Rarissime exemplaire imprime… Read More

[Strasbourg, Johann Prüss, around 1488].
Folio [276 x 197 mm] (82) ll. [sif. ()1 a5 b-m6 n10] ; goth. car. 50 lignes. Blind-stamped fawn calf over wooden boards, covers decorated with a frame made of fillets and fleur-de-lys pattern, surrounding a decoration of oval compartments containing in their center a thistle motif, spine ribbed. Contemporary binding.
Rare first Latin edition and first of four issues described by Goff of one of the most coveted illustrated incunabula.
Hain, 4411 ; Proctor, 558 ; Fairfax Murray, 70 ; Stillwell, J, 236 ; Copinger, I, 137 ; Dibdin, VI, 122 ; Schreiber, 3489 ; Goff, J-268.
This copy belongs to the first issue cited by Goff, which he calls "a", meaning that the running titles have the chapter numbers printed in Roman numerals. In the second issue he describes, these same numbers are printed in full letters. Other copies are composite and offer quires from both editions.
(Geissler, F : Handschriften und Drücke des " Directorium vitae Humanae " dans Mitterlungen des… Read More

Paris, Simon de Colines, 1543.

4to [233 x 164 mm] of 176 ll. (a-y8), 14 full-page engraved plates. Text printed in red and black. Almanac for 1543-1568. Printed title in an architectural frame, all the pages bordered with composite frames, 14 full-page woodcuts with architectural borders specially conceived for each scene, and large decorated initials. Dark brown full calf, covers with a Grolier decoration made of gilt fillets, geometric tracery painted in black and gilt fleurons, spine decorated with small gilt fleurons inside the panels, gilt and chiseled edges, former restoration in the lower part of the front cover. Bookcase.
Rich contemporary binding made by one of the Parisian workshops working for Jean Grolier, the "Pecking Crow" workshop.
Harvard II, 306; Brunet, V, 1661-1662; Renouard, pp. 378-379; Rothschild, vol. 3 n° 2537; Brun p. 233, 8th ed.; Bernard pp. 209-212; Bohatta n° 1212; Lacombe 426, 426 bis; Pichon cat 1897; Rahir 1931; Mortimer 306 ("First Colines quarto edition");… Read More

Paris, Bureau du Journal des Dames, [1798-1808].
4to [295 x 235 mm] of (1) engraved title l. in lieu of cover, 52 etched plates out of pagination and enchanced with watercolor numbered from 1 to 52.
Red quarter-morocco, flat spine decorated with gilt and blind-tooled motifs, front cover engraved and restored. Slipcase. Later binding.
First edition of this "charming collection that became very rare" (Vinet, 2248).
Colas 814; Hiler p. 223; not in Lipperheide.
"It is the most interesting and also the rarest collection of fashion so characteristic from the beginning of the 19th century" (Colas, Bibliographie des costumes et de la mode, n°814).
This precious suite has been sold up to 15 000 Gold fr. at the Montgermont's sale of 1913, the equivalent of 150 000 current euros.
The first plate bears on the upper part: Modes et manières du jour; the second: Manières et modes; the others: modes etc..., except for the last two whose title is: Modes et manières.
Here is the plates list:
1. le prétexte :… Read More

Paris, Bureau du Journal des Dames, [1798-1808].
4to [295 x 235 mm] of (1) engraved title l. in lieu of cover, 52 etched plates out of pagination and enchanced with watercolor numbered from 1 to 52.
Red quarter-morocco, flat spine decorated with gilt and blind-tooled motifs, front cover engraved and restored. Slipcase. Later binding.
First edition of this "charming collection that became very rare" (Vinet, 2248).
Colas 814; Hiler p. 223; not in Lipperheide.
"It is the most interesting and also the rarest collection of fashion so characteristic from the beginning of the 19th century" (Colas, Bibliographie des costumes et de la mode, n°814).
This precious suite has been sold up to 15 000 Gold fr. at the Montgermont's sale of 1913, the equivalent of 150 000 current euros.
The first plate bears on the upper part: Modes et manières du jour; the second: Manières et modes; the others: modes etc..., except for the last two whose title is: Modes et manières.
Here is the plates list:
1. le prétexte :… Read More

A Paris, chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, Père, Libraire du Roi pour l'artillerie et le génie, 1773.
- [Followed by] : Deidier, l'Abbé. Traité de perspective théorique et pratique. Nouvelle édition corrigée & augmentée de notes par un artiste célèbre.
Paris, rue Dauphine, chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, père, Libraire du Génie & de l'Artillerie, 1770.
Thus 3 parts bound in 2 volumes 4to [250 x 180 mm] of: I/ xxviii pp., 472 pp., 19 folding plates; II/ (2) ll., 410 pp., 28 folding plates, (1) l., iv pp., 124 pp., 15 folding plates.
Full marbled calf, arms gilt-stamped in the center of the covers with the mention reg. du maine. / infanterie. in gold letters, decorated ribbed spines, red morocco lettering pieces, red edges. Contemporary binding.
Second original edition, corrected and widely enlarged, of this treatise on Mathematics for the Military. The present copy also contains the Traité de perspective printed separately with notes by Cochin.
"Abbot Deidier (Marseille 1698 - Paris 1746), an… Read More

Leyden, Ian Maire, 1637.
4to [207 x 155 mm] of 78 pages, (1) l., 413 pp., (1) p. of notice and (18) ll., the last one blank. Full fawn calf, gilt fillet on the covers, spine ribbed, mottled edges, minor restorations. Elegant contemporary Parisian binding.
"Precious first edition of Descartes' masterpiece."
Tchemerzine, II, 776; PMM, 129; Horblit, One hundred book famous in science, 24; En Français dans le texte n°90; Dibner, Heralds, 81 ("The Dioptrique contains the earliest statement of Willebrord Snell's law of refraction"); Norman Library, 621.
After Galileo's sentence in 1633, Descartes had made a resolution not to print any book during his lifetime. From Holland where his aspiration for loneliness and isolation had driven him, the philosopher still corresponds with his nearest and dearest. It is in the face of their entreaties that he gave in and published in 1637 an anthology of his researches to which he gave the meaning of a peculiar and personal process.
After having thought of… Read More

Leiden, Ian Maire, 1637.
4to [198 x 150 mm] of 78 pp., (1) l., 413 pp., (1) p. of advertissement and (18) ll. the last one blank. Jansenist brown morocco, spine ribbed and decorated, inner gilt border, gilt over marbled edges. Binding of the 19th century
signed Thibaron.
Precious first edition of Descartes' masterpiece.
Tchemerzine, II, 776; PMM, 129; Horblit, One hundred book famous in science, 24; En Français dans le texte n°90; Dibner, Heralds, 81 ("The Dioptrique contains the earliest statement of Willebrord Snell's law of refraction"); Norman Library, 621.
After Galileo's sentence in 1633, Descartes had made a resolution not to print any book during his lifetime. From Holland where his aspiration for loneliness and isolation had driven him, the philosopher still corresponds with his nearest and dearest. It is in the face of their entreaties that he gave in and published in 1637 an anthology of his researches to which he gave the meaning of a peculiar and personal process.
After having thought… Read More

Genève, Jean-Leonard Pellet, 1780.
10 volumes 8vo and one atlas volume 4to : I/ 1 portrait, xvi pp., 532 pp., (2) bl.ll. ; II/ (2) ll., 1 engraving, viii pp., 582 pp. ; III/ (2) ll., 1 engraving, vii pp., 580 pp. ; IV/ (2) ll., 1 engraving, viii pp., 472 pp. ; V/ (2) ll., 1 engraving, vii pp., 405 pp. ; VI/ (2) ll., 1 engraving, vii pp., 484 pp., pp. 281-304 bound in duplicate; VII/ (2) ff., 1 engraving, table of pp. v à xvi, 558 pp. ; VIII/ (2) ll., 1 engraving, viii pp., 548 pp. ; IX/ (2) ll., 1 engraving, table pp. v à viii, 412 pp. ; X/ (2) ll., 1 engraving, table of pp. v à vi, 538 pp.
Atlas : (2) ll., 28 pp., 1 folding map, 49 maps on double page, 23 tables including 12 folding and 1 on double page. Red morocco, double gilt fillet around the covers, flat spines very nicely decorated with special irons, inner gilt edges, gilt edges. Contemporary binding.
202 x 123 mm ; 257 x 203 mm for the atlas.
"First edition" of this "key work of the crisis of the Ancien Regime", filled with pieces of the… Read More

Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1667-1671.
Four 4to volumes [242 x 195 mm]. Bound in granite-like brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt fleurons, sprinkled edges. Contemporary binding.
First edition and "one of the most valuable work we possess on the West Indies" (Sabin).
It is decorated with 2 engraved frontispieces, 5 maps, 17 engravings and coats of arms of A. de Harlay.
"It is very difficult to find a complete copy of this work. The P. Dutertre, says in his Foreword that he printed his book in 1654, because his copy was stolen. While he was printing it, Father Breton was asked, from M. de Poinçy, to give his lexicon of the savages' language, and some memoirs he had composed, to an unknown person, who wanted to write a history of the West Indies. He found out later that it was Mr. Rochefort, minister of Rotterdam who, after having received the lexicon from P. Breton, and informed of the printing of his work, published his own in 1658, under the title "Histoire naturelle des Antilles de… Read More

Paris, Bertrand, 1826-1827.
The copy comprises all the set of Atlases (only) of this Voyage, which form four elephant folios :
-Historique : folio atlas containing 60 coloured plates in their 15 original issues.
-Zoologie : folio atlas containing 157 coloured plates in their 27 original issues.
-Botanique : folio atlas containing 106 plates (25 in colour) in their 15 original issues.
-Hydrographie : folio atlas containing 55 maps and charts in original pastepaper boards.
In total, 57 parts preserved as issued in wrappers, and 1 volume preserved in its original pastepaper boards.
Histoire du Voyage, Zoologie, Botanique, and Hydrographie in original pastepaper boards as issued, the other three atlases in the original wrappers, all-in fine condition, the complete set of atlases preserved in four uniform quarter morocco bookform folding cases.
565 x 375 mm.
One of the greatest and rarest of the " Grands Voyages " to the Pacific.
This is a precious and very rare complete set of the atlases to this… Read More