Search Results: Titles starting with N from LIBRAIRIE CAMILLE SOURGET

Paris, Charles Gosselin, 1831.
Two 8vo volumes [205 x 126 mm] of: I/ (4) ll. for the half-title, title and foreword, 404 pp. ; II/ (2) ll., 536 pp. for part 2. Both titles are decorated with Tony Johannot's woodcuts engraved by Porret. Bound in blue half calf, flat spines. Reliure de l'époque.
First edition of the famous and first great novel by Victor Hugo.
Carteret, I, pp. 400-402; Escoffier 870; Vicaire, Manuel de l'amateur de livres du XIXe siècle, IV, 256-257.
This copy belongs to the second state, with the author's name on the title and the fictitious mention "Seconde edition" below the title.
"Since Gosselin's copy appeared at auction (Leroy auction, March, 26-27th, 1931, N°328), it became indisputable that the mention of a second or third edition doesn't take anything from the first edition nature of a book.
Gosselin-Leroy's copy bore indeed on a fourth edition of Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831, the following autograph note:
'First edition published in 1100 copies that have been, following the… Read More

A Paris, chez Paulus-Du-Mesnil, 1739.
2 volumes 12mo [165 x 95 mm] of : I/ (1) bl.l., viii pp., (2) ll., 456 pp., (12) ll., 8 folding plates; II/ (18) ll., 386 pp., (1) bl.l. Bound in full marbled calf, spines ribbed and gilt, red edges. Some waterstaining in the margins of a few ll. in the second volume not touching the text. Contemporary binding.
Very scarce first edition of the first treatise on gastronomy by Menon.
Vicaire, 588.
This treatise was published anonymously, but the name of the author, Menon, appears in the privilege placed at the end of the first part: on August 26th 1738, Menon gave up this privilege to the widow of Prudhomme who would give it up to Michel-Etienne David and Pauls du Mesnil.
The 8 folding plates placed in the first part represent tables set for 24, 16, 50, 30, 14, 18, 20, and 80 place settings.
" No culinary author obtained more re-issues of his works. His works are indisputably those we consult the most". (Michaud)
We know nothing about the life of Menon.
" Marin had… Read More

Paris, Barrois l'aîné, 1783.
8vo [189 x 120 mm.] of viii pp., 290 pp., 5 plates and 2 maps out of pagination including one folded, (1) l.
Full marbled calf, blindstamped filet around the covers, flat spine decorated with gilt fillets, red morocco lettering piece, red edges. Contemporary binding.
First edition of this very rare work which is capital for the history of New Zealand and Tasmania. It's the account of one of the first French expeditions to Australia and New Zealand.
Sabin, XVII, 439 ; Davidson, A Book Collector's Notes, pp. 98-99 ; Dunmore, t. I, p. 182 ; Du Rietz, Bibliotheca Polynesiana by Kroepelien, 1104 ; Hill, 401 ; Hocken, pp. 21-22 ; Howgego, I, C222, p. 285 ; Le Nail, Explorateurs et Grands Voyageurs Bretons, p. 32 ; New Zealand National Bibliography, t. I, 1502.

"The first printed French maps of New Zealand were Marion Dufresne's maps of 1772 in this account of Crozet's voyage." (Tooley, The Mapping of Australia, p. XII et p. 308, 158).
"Crozet's narrative, apart from the… Read More

Paris, Louis Sevestre, 1700.
12mo [157 x 90 mm] of (11) ll., 69 pp., (3) pp. Bound in contemporary mottled brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt fleurons, mottled edges. Spine ends slightly rubbed. Brown morocco case. Contemporary binding.
First edition of the utmost rarity of this work dedicated to photometry.
Martin, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de feu M. Burette, 5546; Monge, Dictionnaire de physique, IV, p. 293.
It's in the 17th century that European scientists make the biggest discoveries in the study of light.
Photometry that appears during this time doesn't have any measure instruments; it will establish its bases by comparing light sources.
Then, "it's struck by the invention of the barometer, the thermometer and the hygrometer" that F. Marie asked himself if, by imitating them, it wouldn't possible to find a means of measuring light".
(J-E. Morère, p. 339, La photométrie : les sources de l'Essai d'Optique sur la gradation de la lumière de Pierre Bouguer, 1729.)
This is how he… Read More

Amsterdam, Michel Colin, 1622.
Folio [370 x 250 mm] gathering 6 parts: (6) preliminary ll. including 1 engraved frontispiece, the foreword, and 2 preliminary ll. of the second text bound by mistake at the beginning of the volume; I/ " Herrera's Indiae Occidentalis
" ll. 1 to 44, 15 maps; II/ " Jacob Le Maire's 'Historia Navigationis Australis'", (1) l. (the other 2 preliminary ll. are bound by mistake at the beginning of the volume), 1 portrait of Jacob Le Maire, ll. 46 to 74, 2 large maps, figures in the text; III/ " Account of the Spanish expedition to the strait of Magellan... ", ll. 74-75; IV/ " Short history of the voyages to the strait of Magellan ", ll. 75 to 83; V/ " Description of the West Indies by Ordonez de Cevallos ", 10 ll. wrongly numbered 9 ; VI/ " Description of America, from the geographical tables of P. Bertius ", 11 ll. Bound in limp contemporary vellum, flat spine with the handwritten title. Contemporary binding.
The first complete account of Le Maire's world tour, which allowed… Read More