Search Results: Titles starting with E from LIBRAIRIE CAMILLE SOURGET

Paris, de l'Imprimerie royale, 1740.
- [With] : II/ [Same author]. Tables astronomiques du Soleil, de la Lune, des planètes, des étoiles fixes, et des satellites de Jupiter et de Saturne ; Avec l'explication & l'usage de ces mêmes tables.
Paris, de l'Imprimerie royale, 1740.
[Followed by] :
Cassini de Thury, César François. Addition aux tables astronomiques de M. Cassini.
A Paris, chez Durand, 1756.
2 volumes 4to [252 x 187 mm] of: I/ xvi pp., (6) ll. of table, 643 pp., 26 folding plates; II/ xiv pp., (3) ll. of table, 120 pp., 222 pp. of astronomical tables, (1) bl. l., (1) l., 98 pp. of addition to the astronomical tables. Full marbled calf, double blind-stamped fillet around the covers, ribbed spines decorated, red morocco lettering pieces, mottled edges. Contemporary binding.
First edition of these two important astronomical works.I/ First edition of this very complete treatise, in which the author engages in an innovative research of the value of the main digital elements of astronomy, and… 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

Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1565.

2 parts in 1 small 8vo volume [163 x 102 mm] of 149 pp, (1) l., (8) ll. Dark green morocco, triple gilt fillet around the covers, "Renouard" in gilt letters at the foot of the front cover, flat ornamented spine, gilt inner border, vellum doublures and endleaves, gilt edges, case with a red morocco spine. Binding from the end of the eighteenth century, modern case.
First edition, illustrated with 57 half-page woodcuts.
Rahir, Bibliothèque de l'amateur, p. 476 ; Chatelain, Livres d'emblèmes et de devises, 1993, n°24 ; Landwehr, Emblem and Fable Books printed in the Low Countries, 1988, n°398 ; Voet, The Plantin Press, III, n°1476 ; Praz I, pp. 384.
Exceedingly rare first issue out of three.
Elegant collection of moral and political emblems executed on the presses of Christophe Plantin. Each page of the text has an ornamental woodcut frame finely engraved. The emblems were engraved by Geerard van Kampen and Arnold Nicolai after compositions by the Parisian… Read More

Heidelberg, Jacobus Milius, 1582.
(17) ll., (1) bl. l., 495 pp., (1) p. and 6 folding plates.
[Preceded by:]
I - Peucer, Caspar. Elementa doctrinae de Circulis coelestibus et primo motu, recognita et correcta.
Wittenb., Joh. Crato, 1576.
(8) ll., 304 pp. (gap in the pagination without loss), 8 folding plates.
Two astronomical works bound in one volume 8vo [155 x 98 mm], full overlapping ivory vellum, remains of ties, flat spine contemporary painted with the author's name, title and library marks handwritten in black ink, sprinkled edges. Contemporary binding.

II/ Precious and extremely rare first edition of the "Epitome Astronomiae", the major work of Joannes Kepler's (1571-1630) master, the astronomer Michael Maestlin (1550-1631).
Caspar, Kepler S. 4/; Houzeau/L. 2747; Zinner 3041; vgl. Admas M 85 ff u. STC 585.
"Michael Maestlin (also called Mästlin, Möstlin or Moestlin), was born on September 30th 1550 in Göppingen in Bade-Württemberg and died on October 20th 1631 in Tübingen. He was a German… Read More

S.l., 1756.
8vo [160 x 95 mm] of 128 pp. and a folding map. Small marginal restoration on the last l. not affecting the text. Fawn marbled calf, flat spine richly decorated with gilt lattice patterns, paper guards decorated with floral patterns, red edges. Contemporary binding.
Rare first edition of the French translation of this important work, of the utmost interest for the history of Pennsylvania, aiming at wining the support of the French people whereas France is fighting against England in America.
Sabin, 19370 ; Leclerc, 519 ; Howes, p. 216; Streeter II-960.
The abbot La Ville actually gives here his own version in French, largely augmented and revised, of William Smith's work entitled "Brief state of the Province of Pennsylvania" that was just published in London a few month before.
This work by the abbot La Ville turns out also to be an essential source of information about Benjamin Franklin's activities during this time and most of all about his efforts to get help from General Braddock.… Read More

[Auguste Vindelicorum, Ant. Sorg], 1475.
Gothic folio [301 x 212 mm] of (1) bl. l., 484 leaves with 40 lines per page, thus complete, handwritten inscription at the bottom of the title, a few minor waterstains, annotations in the margins, contemporary bookmarks. Monastic binding in blind-stamped brown calf on wooden boards, rebound, richly ornamented covers, corner spandrels and central metal cabochon, title of the work handwritten in monastic hand on the upper cover. Binding made around 1475.
Rare princeps edition printed by Anton Sorg in November 1475.
ISTC ic00292000; BMC II 342; BSB-Ink D-189; Goff C292; GW 6277; HC 4711; IGI 2601.
"Rare edition described by Panzer, vol. 1. p. 106, and by Hain; it was sold for 9 pounds 19 sh. 6 d. Alchorne Library, in 1813; 20 and 48 flor. Butsch"
(Brunet I-1666).
This princeps edition reached considerable prices reported by Brunet: 9 pounds 19 sh or 200 F gold in 1813, a higher price than the first edition of Les Précieuses ridicules.
"First edition, very rare;… Read More

Paris, J. F. Ostervald, Imprimerie de Jules Didot l'Aîné, 1823 (1823-1825).
Folio [697 x 410 mm], 2 ll. (title and table), (54) ll. of text, 40 plates on large Indian paper, each one mounted with printed title. Aubergine quarter-shagreen, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt fleurons. Contemporary binding.
First issue of the most sumptuous work published about the coasts and ports of Normandy in the reign of Charles X.
It was published in several parts. The first three were published under the title "Voyage pittoresque dans les ports et sur les côtes de France."
It was an atypical editorial adventure because two of the artists approached for the drawing of these exceptional plates were English: Bonington
andCopley Fielding, as well as many engravers such as Thales and Théodore Fielding, who worked in Paris, "at this remarkable time for English watercolour art".
Abbey, Travel, 92.
The magnificent iconography comprises 40 superb aquatints finely watercolored at the time, which represent various… Read More

Paris, J. F. Ostervald, Imprimerie de Jules Didot l'Aîné, 1823 (1823-1825).
Folio [494 x 310 mm], 1 l., (54) ll. of text, 40 plates on large Indian paper, each one mounted with printed title, (1) l. of table.
Half-roan, rebacked, spine with raised bands and gilt fleurons. Contemporary binding.
First issue of the most sumptuous work published about the coasts and ports of Normandy during the reign of Charles X.
It was published in several parts. The first three were published under the title "Voyage pittoresque dans les ports et sur les côtes de France."
It was an atypical editorial adventure because two of the artists approached for the drawing of these exceptional plates were English: Bonington
andCopley Fielding, as well as many engravers such as Thales and Théodore Fielding, who worked in Paris, "at this remarkable time for English watercolour art".
Abbey, Travel, 92.
The magnificent iconography comprises 40 superb aquatints finely watercolored at the time, which represent various views of the… Read More

A Aix, chez Esprit David, 1777.
12mo [163 x 93 mm] of 1 portrait, 220 pp., ii pp., 13 folding plates.
Full straight-gained green morocoo, frames of gilt fillets and borders around the covers with gilt fleurs-de-lys in the corners, flat spine decorated with gilt fleurons, gilt edges. Binding from the very beginning of the 19th century.
First edition of this peculiar work on the celebrations instituted under the reign of King René. Their origin dates back to 1462, they were the occasion of games, processions, battles, tournaments, etc.
E. Rouard, Notice sur la bibliothèque d'Aix dite de Méjanes, p. 53 ; G. Mourey, Le livre des fêtes françaises, 284, 286-8 ; Jacques Billiord, Le livre en Provence du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle, pp. 17, 103 ;
Vinet, 819 ; Cohen-De Ricci 367-368 ; Lipperheide Sl 20 ; Rümann 859.
Complete copy with the 12 folding etchings with the captions in Provençal language, these picturesque figures being drawn and engraved by P. and G. Grégoire (sons of the author) who invented the… Read More