Search Results: Authors starting with B from LIBRAIRIE CAMILLE SOURGET

A Paris, l'An Ier de la République Française, 1792. Imprimé l'An II, 1793.
8vo [219 x 130 mm] of xxiv pp., 254 pp., 26 engravings in 55 plates (25 in colour, 30 in black) including 23 duplicate, 3 triplicate and 2 on blue paper.
Red morocco, triple gilt fillet around the covers, decorated flat spine. 19th century binding.
Rare first edition of this anticlerical essay illustrated with 26 plates.
Cohen 111; Brunet, IV, 1070-1071.
Deluxe copy on vellum paper.
'Part I (the only one published): XII-254 pp., plus 26 plates drawn by Bar and engraved by himself in ink wash painting" (Cohen, 111).
" This is the beginning of a reduction of the great work described above. Rabelli is only Bar's Italian anagram ". (Cohen, who values basic copies from 80 to 100 F OR, which places this illustrated among the significant books of the 18th century).
" This plates were engraved by Bar in ink wash painting and were hand-coloured by himself.

During the Revolution, as a precaution, Bar changed his name to Rabelli… Read More

Venetia, Camillo e Rutilio Borgominieri, 1569.Folio [313 x 225 mm] of (1) bl. l., 195 pp., (6) ll. Limp vellum, handwritten title on the spine, scattered waterstains, small marginal wormholes without any damage to the text. Contemporary binding. Precious 1568 first edition, with a new title-page, of this rare treatise.Adams, B-171 ; Berlin Kat., 4694 ; Brunet, I, 644; Cicognara, 809; Fowler, 36; Gamba, 1233; Mortimer Italian, 39 ; Censimento, 16 CNCE, 4133 ; Riccardi, I, p. 76-77.It is illustrated with a very beautiful engraved title and 200 engraved figures in the text representing optical illusions, geometric shapes, perspectives, architectural sections, Franceschi's theater, dropped initials, measurements of the human body...Several issues of the original edition are described without priority: the first one in which the date of the title and colophon is 1568, an intermediate state with the title only dated 1569, another one in which the two dates are changed.It is the first work of practical… Read More

Paris, de l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné, 1806.
Large folio [464 x 303 mm] of (2) ll., 1 portrait, xcii pp., 194 pp., (3) ll. of Liste des souscripteurs,6 colored plates out of pagination. Quarter red straight grained morocco, elegantly decorated flat spine, olive green morocco lettering piece, gilt edges. Case. Slightly later binding.
The most beautiful ancient editionof Paul et Virginie, illustrated "with a portraitby Laffite, engraved by Ribault and 6 figures by Gérard, Girodet, Isabey, Laffite, Moreau et Prudhon,engraved by Bourgeois de la Richardière, Bovinet, Mecou, Pillement fils, Prot et Roger.
The figures are very beautiful.The touching composition of Moreau and especially his dramatic figure of Virginie's drowning by Prudhon make this volume very interesting." (Cohen, 931).
Graesse, Trésor de Livres rares, VI, 226
Paul et Virginie marks a phase in the French novel. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre crystalized in his work and in this novel, all the travel literature so abundant in those… Read More

Paris, 1669.4to [219 x 155 mm] of (4) ll., 1 portrait and 152 pp. Olive green morocco, double frame of gilt fillets on the covers decorated with lateral motifs with small tools and a central decor composed of a heart pierced with an arrow encircled with small gilt tools, spine ribbed and decorated with fleurdelys, mottled edges. Contemporary binding. Very rare and precious volume dedicated to precious stones and jewelry dealing with various stones such as diamond, sapphire, topaz, ruby, emerald, pearls, gold and silver.Sabin, 4957; Palau, 28.340; Penney, p.59; Goldsmith, 1921; Duveen, 71.One of the most interesting works about precious stones and jewelry.This second edition is more interesting than the first of 1661 because, it is enlarged with a "current price" for diamonds and pearls and with the chapter "contre la fausse Pierre Philosophale et souffleurs d Alquemie" and a "Suite du chapitre de la perle" which relates to South America (Palau II, 194).Robert de Berquen was a goldsmith merchant based… Read More

Amsterdam, apud Joannem Janssonium, 1616.
Oblong 4to [238 x 178 mm], (10) pp. including the frontispiece and the plate with the blazon, 732, (2).
Bound in contemporary limp vellum, flat spine with handwritten title. Some slight browning and foxing in margins at the beginning of the volume. Few marginal restorations.
First edition of this pocket atlas dedicated to the architecture, the maps and the views of towns of the German Empire at the very beginning of the 17th century.
Catalogue of the Avery Architectural Library, p. 80; Lipperheide, Katalog der Kostumbibliothek, 677; Chadenat, I, 16; Bachmann 15.
In addition to the frontispiece, the rich illustration consists of 26 engraved maps and 101 detailed views of towns. These plates are of the utmost interest as they give information not only about the architecture but also about the way of life of the populations from that time. Among the towns depicted here, we can find: Amsterdam, Strasburg, Basel, Bergen, Bern, Bonn, Colmar, Frankfurt, Copenhagen,… Read More

Rome, Giovanni Maria Salvioni, 1728.
Folio [380 x 250 mm] of 1 frontispiece, viii pp. including the title-page printed in red and black, 92 pp., 10 plates out of pagination including 4 folded, 3 engravings in the text. A tear without loss of text in the margin of p. 29. Bound in recent light-brown mottled half-roan, spine ribbed, red morocco lettering piece, mottled edges.
Rare first edition relating for the first time the presence of dark spots on Venus. It is the first atlas of this planet, in which Bianchini determines its axis of rotation.
Riccardi, I, 132; Graesse, I, 437.
" It is in this work that Bianchini recorded his observations of the dark spots of the planet Venus. He determined the rotating movement of this planet. He had his book printed splendidly, dedicated it to the King of Portugal John V, to whom he offered at the same time a machine representing the system of this planet, decorated with gilt silver figures. The king sent in return to the author, in addition to an important sum of… Read More

Amsterdam, chez Jean & Corneille Blaeu, 1642.
4to [192 x 154 mm] of (9) ll., 277 pp., many woodcuts in the text. Overlapping vellum, flat spine with handwritten title, remains of ties. Contemporary binding.
Rare first French edition of this treatise dealing with the use of astronomical instruments.
Graesse, Trésor de livres rares, 435 ; Stevenson, Terrestrial and Celestial globes, p. 223.
The first edition was published in Dutch in 1620 in 8vo format.
The work, published by Jean and Corneille Bleau, the sons of Guillaume Blaeu, is divided into two parts, the first one based on Ptolemy's theory, the second one on Copernicus's study, following the arrangement of Galileo's Dialogo.
We find here the way to draw dials.
"The master globe-maker authored the 'Institution Astronomique' so that his customers might get the most out of his celestial and terrestrial globes. Blaeu gives a detailed explanation of the various parts of a globe, followed by a series of nearly 150 exercises. By positioning the… Read More

Paris, Jacques du Puys, 1580.
4to of (14) ll, 255 ll. numbered 252. Handwritten ex libris on the title. Bound in granite calf, large arms gilt-stamped in the center, spine ribbed decorated with gilt stars, red speckled edges. Armorial binding of the 17th century.
225 x 168 mm.
Rare original edition of this famous work of Jean Bodin which "had a great vogue in the time and was translated into Latin from 1581".
Brunet, I, 1025; Caillet, I, 182; Tchemerzine, I, 720; Obadia, Bibliographie française de la sorcellerie, n°842.
Often reprinted, translated into Latin as early as 1581, it quickly imposed itself at the time as a "breviaire des juges dans les actions pour malefice" (F. Renz, Jean Bodin, p. 73) and constitutes today one of the best documents on 16th century witchcraft trials.
"True first edition of the epoch-making treatise on demonology and witchcraft of the French lawyer Jean Bodin (1529-1596)".
"I think in contrast to Bodin" says Montaigne (Essais, II, 32) and "In fine and in conscience, I… Read More

Cologne, 1662.
Folio [330 x 220 mm] of (1) bl.l., 1 engraved frontispiece, (10) pp., 55, (1) bl.p., 154 full-page numbered plates. First quire foxed. Bound in contemporary granite-like brown calf, blind-stamped border on the covers, spine ribbed and decorated, joints formerly restored, mottled edges. Contemporary binding.
First Latin edition of this spectacular machine book by Boeckler.
Brunet, I, 1024.
This work was initially published in German by Fürst in 1661, and was translated into Latin the following year by Henri Schmitz.
Architect in the city of Nuremberg, Boeckler (1617-1687) composed this important compilation of mills and other complex and varied mechanical inventions.
The author shows in his treatise ways to build aqueducts, fountains, pumps, fountains, siphons to put out fire, elevating machines, water and windmills, others that are hand- or foot-operated… All these mills don't have the same use, some of them are used to mill wheat, others to make paper, for the saltpeter, to grind… Read More

Paris, Fr. Regnault, 1522.
F1 – Title: (L)e grant voyage de hierusalem diuise en deux parties. En la premiere est traictie des peregrinations de la saincte cite de Hierusalem, du mont saincte Lτatherine [sic] de Sinay et autres lieux sainctz, avec les a, b, c, des lettres grecques, caldees, hebraicques et arabicques, avec aucuns langaiges des turcs trâslatez en frâcois. En la seconde partie est traicte des croisees et entreprinses faictes par les roys et princes chrestiens pour la recouvrance de la terre saincte . . Des guerres des turcz et Tartarins La prinse de Côstantinoble, du siege de Rhodes, la prinse de Grenade, avec lhystoire de Sophie Les guerres et batailles entre le grant turc et le grant souldan faictes depuis na gueres Le chemin et voyaige de Romme avec les stations des eglises ou sont les grans pardons Et plusieurs autres choses singulieres. Imprime a Paris pour Francois regnault libraire demourant en la grant rue sainct Jaques a lymaige sainct Claude. Cum priuilegio.

Part II… Read More

N.p., 1570.
Engraved copper plates by Pierre Van der Heyden.
Latin captions. Fine margins.
Spring : 22,8 x 28,7 cm (trimmed to the borderline).
Summer : 22,5 x 28,5 cm (trimmed to the platemark).
Autumn : 22,5 x 28,6 cm (trimmed to the platemark).
Winter : 22,6 x 28,7 cm (trimmed to the platemark, somewhat more in lower part).
First issue of this superb and complete suite of the four seasons, published in 1570.
Hollstein III, p. 297, 200, 202 ; Lebeer 77 et 78.
This suite is composed of 4 engravings:
- "Ver" (Spring) and "Aestas" (Summer) after Bruegel: the land is fervently cultivated by men and women in the countryside until the harvest;
- "Autumnus" (Autumn) and "Hyems" (Winter) after Hans Bol, since the suite has not been completed before Bruegel's death: men and women are busy slaughtering animals and grape-picking to finally go in for wintery leisure.
The Four Seasons are the result of a close co-operation between Pieter Bruegel and Jerome Cock,an engraving publisher in Antwerp.
However the four… Read More

Francfordij… 1596.
Oblong 4to of (6) ll., 62 plates on 51 ll. (leaf K2 showing letters E and F is missing).
Light-brown Russian calf, gilt fillet around the covers, spine ribbed, hinges fragile, gilt edges. Binding signed by Bruyère, towards 1840.
146 x 199 mm.
First original edition of this collection of the de Bry Brothers which claims to trace all the alphabets used by the various peoples of the world. The Latin alphabets were traced from the models of Corneille Agrippa and Baptiste Palatin.
Hollstein Dutch and Flemish
IV.37, n°119-169, Bonacini 290 ; cf. Becker : Hofer Collection 59 (citing German-language edition) ; Berlin 5283 ;
Guilmard p. 369 ; Brunet I, 1309 ; Graesse VIII, 124.
First edition, published simultaneously with a German-language issue (" Alphabeten , und aller art Characteren… ").
The alphabet plates include representations of Chaldaen, Syriac, Hebrew, Coptic, Arabic, Samaritan, Greek, Illyrian, Croatian, Armenian, and Roman, among others, many of these in several… Read More