Search Results: Authors starting with P from LIBRAIRIE CAMILLE SOURGET

Lugduni Batavorum [Leyde], Iodocum a Colster, 1616.
2 parts bound in 1 volume 4to [200 x 140 mm] of: I/ (12) ll. including the title printed in red and black and the portrait of the author at the back, 270 pp., 1 folding frontispiece and 34 engravings in the text; II/ (1) title, 128 pp., 2 folding plates and 25 engravings in the text. Small wormhole in pp. 9 to 55 of the second text, 2 handwritten ex libris on the title-page, old handwritten note in the margin of p. 177. Bound in contemporary full limp overlapping vellum, remains of leather ties, flat spine with handwritten title. Contemporary binding.
Rare original edition of paaw's comments on Hippocrates and Celsius' works concerning the head wounds.
Graesse, Trésor de livres rares, V, p. 99.
The Renaissance humanism is marked by a sudden infatuation for anatomy. The first anatomists had to overcome great difficulties. The anatomic lecture halls were slowly built, in Padua in 1490, in Basel in 1588, in Paris in 1608.
The dissection of corpses… Read More

A Paris, Chez Martin le Ieune, à l'enfeigne du Serpent, deuant le college de Cambray, 1580.
8vo [156 x 106 mm] of (8) ll., 361 pp., (23) pp. of table. Ext. margin of the title-page restored not touching the text. Full red Jansenist morocco, spine ribbed, gilt edges. Binding signed by Trautz-Bauzonnet.
"First edition of a piece as interesting as rare". (Brunet, supplement, VIII, 133).
B.n.F., En Français dans le texte, n°72 ; Neville, Historical chemical Library, 2006, p. 250 ; Duveen, Bibliotheca alchemica et chemica, p. 446 : "A book of great importance in the history of chemistry and science generally. Extremely rare."
A great book of science in the sixteenth century.
Exemplary figure of the self-taught man, Bernard Palissy (1510-1590) advocated observation and the virtues of the experimental method.
Palissy, "one of the men of genius of whom France is proud", was born at the beginning of the sixteenth century in the village of La Capelle-Biron, in the diocese of Agen. A remarkable hydraulic… Read More

Paris, Barrois l'ainé, 1789.
Avec approbation de la Société Royale d'Agriculture.
8vo [195 x 125 mm] of viii prelim. ll., 389 pp., (2) ll. including the errata inserted between the pp. 386 and 388. Excerpt from the Journal de Paris from January 7, 1789 concerning Parmentier inserted between pp. 204 and 205, small tear without loss p. 273. Brown half-calf, gilt rocaille ornamentation on the flat spine, green sprinkled edges. Binding circa 1830.
Sought-after first edition of Parmentier's famous work dedicated to the cultivation and consumption of potato, up to here abandoned to animals.
Vicaire, Bibliographie gastronomique, 657; not in Oberlé, Les Fastes de Bacchus et Comus.
Poorly raised as well as his two brothers by an early widowed mother, Parmentier had to interrupt his studies at the age of eighteen to be apprenticed to an apothecary of Mont Didier then in 1756 to an apothecary in Paris.
At the age of 20 he obtained a position of pharmacist-assistant for the Hanover army… Read More

Paris, Guillaume Desprez, 1663.

12mo [144 x 91 mm] of (14) ll., 232 pp., (4) ll. and 2 folded plates out of text. Full brown granite-like calf, spine ribbed and decorated, head and foot of the spine formerly restored, sprinkled edges. Contemporary binding.
First edition of the founding treatise of the principles of hydrostatics in contemporary binding.
Bibliotheca Osleriana, n° 3625; Bulletin Morgand et Fatout, n°4298; Tchemerzine, V, 59; Brunet, IV, 400; Dibner 143; Norman 1650; Maire II/1, 179 f.; DSB X, 334 & 340, 13.
Precious copy with the errata and the 11 printing errors not yet corrected during printing.
"First edition, published by F. Périer, Pascal's brother-in-law, one year after his death. We find at the end 2 engraved folded plates."
(Catalogue de Backer, n°760).
Pascal undertakes to search for the cause of the effects he observed, both by the method of difference (this is the experiment of emptiness into the void) and by the method of variations (it is the great experiment he talks… Read More

One of the most precious books in the West. The Brunet copy was sold for 6 600 F Or,a book of bibliophily being negotiated then from 6 F Or.
" The tallest copy to be offered in over 50 years. "
" First edition of one of the finest illustrated books of the German Renaissance.This allegorical poem celebrates the exploits and heroic deeds of Emperor Maximilian represented as Theuerdank, as he overcomes the difficulties on his journey to win his bride, Mary of Burgundy, Konigin Ernreich in the poem. It forms part of a trilogy, along with Weisskunig and Fredsal, elaborating Maximilian's life, but Theuerdank was the only one to be published during the emperor's lifetime. "
The largest complete copy recorded (height 375 mm).
Nürnberg, 1st March 1517.
Pfintzing, Melchior / Maximilien Ier. Theuerdank.Die geuerlicheiten und einsteils der Geschichten des loblichen streytparen und hochberümbten helds und Ritters Herr Tewrdannckhs. At end (A8vo) : Gedruckt in der Kayserlichen Stat Nürnberg durch den Eltern… Read More

Paris, de l'Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1787.
Small folio [319 x 240 mm] of (1) bl. l., viii pp., (1) l., 175 pp., 29 numbered plates out of text in color, protected by silky papers. Red morocco, gilt fillet and garland around the covers, flat spine finely decorated, lettering piece in green morocco, inner gilt roll-stamp, gilt edges. Case. Contemporary binding.
Very beautiful edition of the most famous French illustrated book of the 18th century, printed on the Comte de Provence's private press, Louis XVI's brother and future Louis XVIII, illustrated with 29 line duplicates of the original figures of the Regent, engraved by martini.
One of the very rare deluxe copies containing the 29 gouaches printed on vellum.
The paintings are of an exceptional freshness.
"Publisher Lamy had suites of these engravings, printed on vellum, gouached and inserted them in deluxe copies." (Cohen, 655).
Monsieur's press was directed by Pierre-François Didot (called "Didot jeune") since 1779.
In this Greek novel by Longus… Read More

Venetia, Heredi di Simon Galignani, 1590.
Folio [310 x 214 mm] of (3) bl.ll., (12) ll., 201 pp., (1) p., (1) bl.l. An engraved frontispiece, 47 copper engraved maps and the printer's mark at the end. Some slight foxing. Preserved in its contemporary limp vellum with small flaps, flat spine with small portions missing, handwritten title on the lower edge. Contemporary binding.
Third edition widely enlarged of this famous atlas, illustrated with 47 maps, that is to say 17 more than in the First edition of 1572.
Leclerc, Bibliotheca Americana, n°461; Sabin 64150 ; Adams 1906.
pages 157 to 184 are dedicated to America and contain " Descrittione della Gran Citta e isola Temistitan " and " Descrittione dell'Isola et terra di Santa Croce, overo Mondo Nuovo " with a reduced version of the very important map of North America published by Forlani in Venice in 1565, the first map to show America as a geographic entity of its own, and the second map to show in details the Strait of Anian. These pages also… Read More

Poitiers, Enguibert de Marnef, 1560.
- Histoire et considération de l'origine, loy, et coustumes des Tartares, Persiens, Arabes, Turcs, & tous autres Ismaelites ou Muhamediques, dits par nous Mahometains, ou Sarrazins.
Poitiers, Enguibert de Marnef, 1560.
- La tierce partie des orientales histoires, ou est exposée la condition, Puissance, & revenu de l'Empire Turquesque : avec toutes les provinces & païs generalement depuis 950 ans en çà par tous Ismaelites conquis...
Poitiers, Enguibert de Marnef, 1560.
3 parts in 1 small 4to volume [205 x 146 mm] of: I/ (1) bl.l., (4) ll., 127 pp., (1) bl.p. ; II/ 57 pp., (3) bl. pp ; III/ (4) ll., 90 pp., (1) bl.l., suite of 56 full-page numbered engravings (out of 57) bound together, (1) bl.l. Bound in full contemporary brown granite-like calf, triple gilt fillet on the covers, spine ribbed and finely decorated, red edges. Binding from the 18th century.
Rare first edition of these three books known under the general title of "La République des Turcs",… Read More

London, James Madden, [1848].
30 coloured plates on single sheets plus 1 frontispiece.
Superb complete illustration about Egypt and Nubia out of text; each plate measuring 422 x 303 mm belongs to the first issue of the first edition from 1848.
The coloured plates were drawn by Prisse d'Avennes, who worked in Thebes from 1839 to 1843 with the botanist George Lloyd.
Atabey 1001 ; Blackmer 1357 ; Lipperheide 1599.
Nomenclature :
Portrait of the late George Lloyd.
Arnaout and osmanli soldiers, Alexandria.
Ghawazi, or dancing girls. Rosetta.
Camels resting in the sherkiyeh. Land of Goshen, lower Egypt.
Egyptian lady in the harem. Cairo.
Nizam, or regular troops. Kanka.
Habesh, or Abyssinian slave. Cairo.
Zeyat (oilman), his shop and customers. Cairo.
Janissary and merchant. Cairo.
Young arab girl returning from the bath. Cairo.
Cairine lady waited upon by a galla slave girl.
Bedouins, from the vicinity of Suez.
Fellah, dressed in the haba.
Female fellah.
Female of the middle class drawing water from the… Read More

Lyon, Melchior et Gaspard Trechsel, 1535.
Folio [390 x 270 mm] of 149 pp., (4) pp., (180) pp. with 49 double-page maps and 1 full-page map, (75) pp., errata leaf remounted, small hole p. 101. Red morocco, double gilt fillet and border around the covers, gilt pomegranate fleurons in the center and at the corners, restored flat spine decorated in the same way, blue endpapers, gilt edges. Eighteenth century binding.
First edition of Ptolemy's geography edited by Michael Servetus in Lyons in 1535.
It is rare.
Baudrier, XII, 250 ; Mireille Pastoureau, Les Atlas français, XVIe-XVIIe siècles, pp. 380-381 ; Alden & Landès, 535-14 ; Philipps, Atlases, 364 ; Sabin 66483 ; Harrisse 210.
The brothers Melchior and Gaspard Trechsel, booksellers and printers from Lyons who were active between 1530 and 1540, bought the woodcuts of Grüninger's Ptolemy and began to produce a new edition. The text was established by Michel Servet (Villanovanus), from the translation of Pirckheimer.
Servet was a Spanish theologian… Read More