Search Results: Authors starting with T from LIBRAIRIE CAMILLE SOURGET

Mexico, D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1753.
4to of (11) ll., 58 pp. With large typographic acrostic of the author's name in a double circle and engraved arms of Archbishop Alilmo S.D.D. Manuel Rubio Salinas. Demi-veau brun glacé moderne à coins, dos lisse avec le titre en long. Modern brown half calf with corners, smooth spine with title along the lenght.
196 x 140 mm.
First edition of this important work on the ancient language of Mexico.
Palau 327485 ; Sabin 94353, Vater p. 252; Medina, Mexico 4142 ; Pilling 3800.
Text primarily in Spanish and some Nahuatl.
Carlos de Tapia Zenteno (1698-ca. 1767) was an ecclesiastical judge and chief professor of the Mexican language at the Royal University and Pontifical Seminary College. Later on he was appointed professor of the Nahuatlan language at the University of Mexico, and this work was published in connection with his appointment.
He was not only an important Mexican linguist and professor of Mexican languages at the Royal University (especially Nahua… Read More

Paris, n.n. [Jean de Mauregard], 1563.Small folio [228 x 162 mm] of (4) folded oblong leaves: title, dedicatory epistle to King Charles IX signed by Jehan de Mauregard, and 4 pages of text in Latin by Jacques Gohory, followed by 25 engraved plates (out of 26, n° 19 is missing) in black on double-page, mounted on guards. A few marginal stains, handwritten inscriptions crossed out in the lower margin of 4 plates. The plates are not captioned unlike those of later issues.Full brown calf, blind-stamped fillet around the covers, richly decorated ribbed spine, red and lemon morocco lettering-pieces, red edges, hinges, head of the spine and corners restored. Binding made around 1720.First edition of the Latin issue, much rarer than the French one. Only one other copy of the Latin edition recorded on the market, the Wittock copy, with an interesting Renaissance binding, with 7 plates missing replaced in the 20th century by plates from a later edition and two plates with captions from the later edition, sold… Read More

Leipzig & Nuremberg, 1730.
Small oblong 4to [195 x 156 mm] of (1) l. of title, 212 pp. and 83 plates out of pagination.

The engraved frontispiece and/or an engraved folding table probably missing. Title leaf mounted with loss of paper and a little text in the upper half. First leaves creased, one tear taped. Some ll. with damage to the margins. Few marginalia in the margins, owner´s note on title, stamp on title and margin. Some browning, stains and waterstains. Appr. 35 tables in front with hw. explanations in the margins and the image, appr. 20 plates with additional drawings in the image in ink or pencil. Modern half-vellum, blue hard paper covers, title on the spine.
The very rare celestial atlas of Corbinianus Thomas which includes a treatise on astronomy and an explanation on the use of globes in astronomy.
Poggend. II, 1096 u. ; Honeyman 2975; Not in Houzeau/L.
Another version of this work was published simultaneously under the title Mercurii Philosophici firmamentum firmianum descriptionem… Read More

[At the end :] Cy finist ce present Livre, avec Laddition de Treze diverses facos de Lettres, Et la manière de faire Chiffres pour Bagues dor, ou autrement. Qui fut acheve dimprimer Le mercredy. xxviij. Iour du Mois Dapuril. Lan Mil Cincq cens. XXIX. Pour Maistre Geofroy Tory de Bourges… Et pour Giles Gourmont aussi Libraire demorant au dict Paris… [28 avril 1529].
Small folio [245 x 169 mm] of (8) and (80) leaves, slight restoration in the margin of the title-page, red morocco, decoration with small tools inside gilt fillets, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt inner border, gilt edges. Binding signed by Chambolle-Duru around 1865.
" Rare and much sought-after first edition of this brilliant work, the masterpiece of G. Tory and one of the most beautiful books of all times. It is illustrated with xylographic reproductions of the various alphabets, writing models, flowered letters, interlaced figures and numerous woodcut figures. " (Jacques Guérin).
By the extent of his curiosities, by the variety… Read More

Imprimée en la ville de Luce Nouvelle, par Brisaud Chasse-diables [Genève, François Perrin], 1567.
Large 8vo of (4) ll, 190 pp, (1) bl. l., few spotting, pale waterstain in the lower part of the last 7 ll.
Red morocco, triple gilt fillet around the covers, flat spine decorated with gilt fillets and lyres, decorated edges, gilt inner border, gilt edges. Bound by Derome le jeune with his label.
229 x 143 mm.
Very rare first edition of this violent satire against the court of Rome.
The work has long been attributed to Theodore de Bèze; in reality, under the Rabelaisian pun of the pseudonym Frangidelphe Escorche-messes is hidden the identity of Jean-Baptiste Trento, an Italian from Vicenza who converted to the Reformation in 1541 and took refuge in Geneva. He was received as a citizen of the city in 1559.
Copy from the second issue whose title bears the date of 1567 and not the one of 1566.
"Violent satire against the court of Rome. Copies are rare and sought after. The common opinion is that it is… Read More

Augsburg, Christoph Mangius, 1615.
- [Bound with] : Rei Christianae apudiaponios commentaries Ex litteris annuis Societatis Iesu annorum 1609, 1610, 1611, 1612…
Augsburg, Christoph Mangius, 1615.
12mo [155 x 94 mm] of: I/ (4) ll., 294 pp., (1) bl.l., 1 folding map; II/ (6) ll., (2) bl.ll., 298 pp. wrongly numbered 296, (1) l., library stamp on the back of the title.
Stiff vellum binding, remains of ties, flat spine with handwritten title, blue edges. Contemporary binding.
I / Rare second Latin edition of " Two Letters from China from 1610 and 1611 " by the missionary Nicolas Trigault (1557-1628) on his journey to China, an indispensable complement to his "De Christiana expeditione apud Sinus" of which the original edition was released in Augsburg that same year 1615.
Cordier BS 808; Löwendahl 56; Morrison, II, 466; Sommervogel VIII, col. 238.
The original edition had been published in Italian in 1615 and the first Latin in 1615 in Antwerp (with an approval dated Antwerp, May 2, 1615). The latter… Read More

Paris, Claude de Monstr'œil, 1599.
4to [223 x 165 mm] of (4) ll., 199 ll. wrongly numbered 197, 87 engravings in the text and 1 large folding plate outside the text, a few browned ll. Contemporary limp vellum, flat spine with the hand-written title, marks of ties. Contemporary binding.
Very rare first edition of the most ancient work on stunts, one of the most beautiful French illustrated book from the 16th century.
Rahir, La Bibliothèque de l'amateur, 663; Adams T-1017; Lipperheide 3037; Brun, p. 306.
"First edition of a very peculiar book, written in French by an Italian from Abruzzo, who, after having been the gymnast of Emperor Maximilian, strongly attached to the Court of Charles IX, 'who was taking a notable pleasure' from his exercises. The large folded plate of the 'Hoops Jump' is often missing. Mr. Claudin dedicated an interesting note to the description of this rare book in the cat. Luzarche."
Brunet, V, 972.
"The first edition of this peculiar work has been written in French, even if the… Read More