Search Results: Titles starting with P from Edmund Brumfitt Rare Books Ltd

4to, pp. xvi, red edges slightly bleeding onto margins, else clean and crisp throughout; in contemporary pink boards, green paper spine and corners; light wear but a very attractive copy.
As far as we can tell unrecorded volume containing two poems, celebrating the birth of Napoleon II, the son of Napoleon who was to go on to be Emperor of the French (at the age of four) for a month after the fall of his father.
The first is a Latin ode by the Brescia poet and writer Girolamo Federico Borgno (1761-1817), who reflects on the mythology surrounding the foundation of Rome, of which the newborn Napoleon was King from his birth. The ode was first delivered at the Ateneo di Brescia in 1811, where several other of Borgno's Latin poems (on Dante, Ugo Foscolo, and others) were later performed.
This is followed by a hymn, in Italian, by the Brescia historian and poet Pietro Bravo (1785-1842).
Not in OCLC or SBN.

12mo, pp. [ii], xviii, 357, [3] table des matières, [4] approbation and privilege du roi; paper flaw to half-title, single wormhole in margin of prelims, occasional spotting, and paper lightly yellowed throughout; dampstaining to the last few leaves; otherwise clean and crisp; in contemporary marbled wrappers, spine with old paper reinforcement, handwritten paper label on upper wrapper and title in rather smudged ink on spine; somewhat worn but still an attractive copy in its way.

First edition of this uncommon examination of one of the more pernicious examples of the 'philosophisme' polluting the intellectual culture of the late eighteenth century, the La Philosophie de la Nature by Delisle de Sales, which had first appeared in 1778.

The philosopher and mathematician Nicolas Desponts (born 1749) taught at the École centrale of the Aube département and at the college in Brienne, where the young Napoleon Bonaparte was among his pupils. In this work, he leaves the reader in no doubt of his view of… Read More

4to, pp. [xx], 401, [2] emendata, [1] blank; with additional engraved title-page and 12 folding leaves at end, containing 160 diagrams; title-page printed in red and black with engraved vignette; repaired tear to final folding leaf, just touching one diagram, tear to head of third folding leaf, again just touching one diagram, and repaired tear to Aaa3, with text legible; otherwise, aside from occasional spotting and marginal browning, clean and fresh; in contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original panels, gilt in compartments with raised bands, morocco lettering-piece; some wear to extremities.
First edition of the Swiss mathematician Jakob Hermann's best known work.
Hermann (1678-1733) was a native of Basel, and studied at the city's university under Bernoulli, through whom he got to know Leibniz, to whom the present work is dedicated; much of his early work was devoted to a defence of Leibnizian calculus. This led to a deeper interest in mechanics, a subject to which his greatest contribution… Read More

4to, pp. [iv], 47, [1] blank, [23], [1] blank; title printed in red and black, with engraved vignette, text entirely within decorative border, each poem with engraved initial, two headpieces and six tailpieces engraved by Bernard Picart; repaired paper flaw to head of K1, not affecting text and a few other small marginal restorations; otherwise clean and fresh; ownership signature of José Ignacio da St Ferra(ra?) Gaio in a contemporary hand on title-page; in nineteenth-century burgundy calf, boards bordered in gilt, spine with raised bands ruled and lettered in gilt; some light wear and rubbing to extremities, but a sound copy with later book-plate of Ruben J. Dussaut on front paste-down.
The only Netherlands printing, a year after the Lisbon first and here embellished with engraved initials, head-, and tailpieces by Bernard Picart, of this collection of Latin verses by the Portuguese nobleman Emmanuel Telles da Silva (1682-1736).
The collection is dedicated to José, Prince of Portugal (later José… Read More

12mo, pp. 24; clean and fresh throughout; in contemporary stiff speckled wrappers; some wear.
Very uncommon set of devotions in honour of St Jeanne-Françoise Frémiot de Chantal (1572-1641), the founder of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, published at the time of her beatification by Pope Benedict XIV in November 1751.
Frémiot de Chantal was very enthusiastically embraced through the eighteenth century, which was not unconnected with her close association with St Francis de Sales; several biographies were to appear in the course of the century, and her Lettres spirituelles were reprinted several times. The present devotions first appeared in Rovereto in 1752, shortly after her beatification; we know of a further edition, printed in Vicenza as late as 1795, but all appear to be very rare. The book invites the reader to reflect on the faith of Jeanne, the importance of hope, the love of God, and the love of one's neighbour.
Frémiot de Chantal was canonised on July 16, 1767 by Clement XIII.… Read More

4to, pp. [iv], 285, [1] blank; woodcut vignette on title-page, and initials; text in double columns throughout; some light foxing and browning in places, and marking to title-page, but largely clean and fresh; uncut and in large part unopened in contemporary carta rustica, with patterned paper spine, hand-written orange paper lettering-piece on spine; a lovely copy.
A good copy, in a lovely unsophisticated binding, of this later printing of collected sermons of the great preacher Jean Baptiste Massillon (1663-1742), translated into Italian after the edition of 1745-8.
The volume contains twenty sermons for some of the principal feasts of the Church calendar, including two for the Purification of the Virgin, one for Christmas, one for Pentecost, and one for the Assumption, as well as others for the feasts of St Agnes, St Thomas Aquinas, and St Benedict. The early appearance of this Italian translation (first printed, again by Occhi, in 1748) testifies to the popularity and influence of Massillon's… Read More

4to, pp. 24; occasional marking and foxing to head of final leaf, not affecting text, otherwise largely clean and crisp throughout; in contemporary red boards; marking and occasional hole in paper on both covers, and corners bumped and worn.
Rare collection of works in prose and verse recited at the meeting held at the Accademia Napoleone in Lucca to celebrate the birth of Napoleon's nephew Jérôme Charles Baciocchi, the son of his sister Elisa who had two weeks previously had her investiture as the new Princess of Lucca.
The academy has gone through several guises since the first recorded meetings in 1584, and until 1805 and the arrival of the French was known as the Accademia degli Oscuri, based from 1780 in the monastery of San Frediano, which was also to accommodate the University of Lucca in 1785. In keeping with its traditions of attracting prominent figures in both the arts and sciences, the renamed Accademia Napoleone counted among its members the likes of Canova, Volta, and Teresa… Read More