Search Results: Titles starting with T from LIBRAIRIE CAMILLE SOURGET

Paris, Clousier et Lamy, 1780-86.
5 parts bound in 4 folio volumes [478 x 313 mm] (2 volumes of text, 2 volumes of engravings) of:
* Text: I/ (7) ll., 10 pp., lxxxiv pp., (1) l. of half-title, 368 pp., lxvi pp., (3) ll. ; small restoration in the margin of p. 45 ; II/ (3) ll., 7 pp., 8 pp., 578 pp. (error in numbering pp. 367-370), (3) ll., 129 pp. of table, (tear in the margin of p. 54 without loss and p. 91 with a small loss of few mm) ;
* Engravings: I/ 1 frontispiece, 7 pp. including 1 engraved title, 130 plates out of pagination, small tear formerly restored without loss in the margin of pl. 37; II/ (2) ll., 120 plates out of pagination including 2 folding. Cohen mentions a half-title at the beginning of the first engravings volume that was not bound here.
Bound in full red morocco, triple gilt fillet around the covers, spines ribbed and decorated, double inner gilt fillet, inner dentelle with floral decoration, gilt edges.
Contemporary binding.
The most famous and the most complete collection… Read More

Nuremberg, XIXth century.
Pack of 78 cards (complete) with a black marbled back, preserved in a carton box from the end of the XIXth century. Black shagreen lettering piece gilt-stamped on the box.
Dimensions of the cards: 110 x 58 mm.
Pretty pack very pleasantly colored at the time, inspired from the exotic and oriental animal tarots of the XVIIIth century.
The figures are very well drawn and of large dimensions. The ensigns are hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs, and on the Jack of clubs we can see the name of the card maker I. Schenck. The jack of clubs has the usual attitude of the German card makers; he has his hand on a halberd.
At the top and bottom of the cards representing the trumps there is a large Roman numeral indicating the value of the card; in the middle a scene represents an exotic or imaginary animal: dromedary, unicorn, leopard, lion, elephant, monkeys, bears…
The king of diamonds indicates the city where the cards were made, Nuremberg.
The 78 cards were engraved on metal and… Read More

Rome, G. F Buagni, 1694.
Large folio [440 x 313 mm] of (16) ll., 489 pp., (28) pp., 79 engravings in the text, including 69 full-page and 10 folded.
" Roman binding of c. 1800, probably by the Vatican Bindery, for presentation of Paul I, Czar of Russia : bottle-green straight-grained morocco richly gilt, multiple roll-tooled borders round sides, including a vine border and a border composed of flowers on cured stems, the latter interspersed with a tool of a bearded triton's head ; inner fan-shaped cornerpieces, in centers the large Russian Imperial arms on an ermine mantle ; five raised bands on spine, in the second compartment a light-brown morocco lettering piece, the others closely gilt with a variety of rolls ; marbled liners and endleaves, gilt edges. " (Martin Breslauer).
First edition.
The engineer and architect Carlos Fontana (1634 or 1638-1714) took part in the revolutionary cycle of Baroque Rome that ended under Alexander VII and worked for pope Innocent XI. Still famous for his buildings in… Read More

Leipzigk et Altenburg, Grossen – Liegern – Meuschken – Jansonium, 1614-29.
A total of 6 parts bound in 2 oblong 8vo volumes of: I/ (32) ll. including the frontispiece, 159 pp., (1) l.; (4) ll., 76 pp., (2) ll.; (4) ll., 91 pp., (2) pp., (1) bl.l.; (8) ll., 85 pp., (2) pp.; (6) ll., 102 pp., (1) l.; (4) ll., 175 pp., (1) l.; II/ 152 numbered plates including 21 folding. Small wormhole in the title of the first text, small wormtrack in the last 10 ll. of the text volume and in the last 3 plates of the illustration volume. Full ivory vellum, flat spines, remains of ties, blue edges. Contemporary binding.
Dimensions of the text volume: 156 x 185 mm.
Dimensions of the plates volume: 146 x 168 mm.
Very rare second edition of the first German theater of machines.
Wolf, A history of Science, Technology... in the 16th and 17th centuries, p.541; Holstein (B.), pp. 154-156.
An extremely rare book on machinery and civil engineering, almost never encountered complete.
It provides a summary of Renaissance… Read More

Venetia, Per Scipion Banca, 1667.
16mo [133 x 93 mm] of (4) ll., 232 pp., (8) ll. 108 full-page engraved maps.
Bound in contemporary stiff vellum. Handwritten exlibris on the half-title: " Bibliotheca Neorelli ".
Italian pocket-edition of Ortelius' atlas, illustrated with 108 full-page engraved maps.
Philips 478 ; Tooley 31.
" The commercial success of the pocket-atlas was considerable. It was translated into French and Latin (now in prose) and was reprinted several times, long after Pieter Heyns had moved into the Netherlands together with his son Zacharias in 1588. In the year of Pieter Heyn's death (1598), his son, Zacharias, then living in Amsterdam, repeated the successful best-seller of his father by publishing another Miroir du Monde, using woodcut". Koeman.
The illustration contains a world map and the continents' maps: Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. The 103 other maps represent each country for which a note has been written on the opposite page.
The first edition in Italian was printed in… 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

A Lyon, chez Barthelemy Vincent, 1626.
In-8 de (4) ff., 342 pages, (1) p. et 9 superbes estampes hors texte. Plein maroquin vert janséniste, dos à nerfs, double filet or sur les coupes, roulette intérieure, tranches dorées. Reliure signée de Chambolle-Duru vers 1875.

173 x 107 mm
Edition originale de la traduction française de Jacques Veyras avec titre de relais à la date de 1626, de l'un des plus importants ouvrages relatifs au tabac.
Graesse IV, 652 ; Waring II, 709 ; Ferchl 379 ; Leclerc,
Bibliotheca Americana, 407; Sabin XII, 576.
Arents 148 a : " The little that is new in this treatise is of very definite value in the history of tobacco, and that little is rendered more impressive by the novel and accurate illustrations which decorate the work. Among them are the earliest representations known to us of American natives engaged in cultivating and curing tobacco, of curious pipes, and of the kalian of Persia ".
Jean Néander (1596-1630), médecin de Brême, propose une réflexion sur le… Read More

Paris, chez la Veuve Abel L'Angelier, 1618.

4to [231 x 165 mm] of (2) ll., 267 pp., Some slight browning and foxing. Limp vellum of the time, remains of ties, flat spine with handwritten title. Contemporary binding.
Very rare first edition of this "sought-after treatise, curious mixture of alchemy, kabbala, mysticism, and where we found the way to make gold" (caillet, iii, 11161).
Dorbon 5131: "This treatise which relates a considerable number of experiences, is also a commentary on the texts of ancient philosophers and mainly of the Zohar".
It may be recalled that we owe to Blaise de Vigenère the discovery of benzoic acid that he names in his treatise "benzoin oil". He even seems to have had knowledge of oxygen.
Blaise de Vigenère (Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule 1523-1596) is a multifaceted man, best known for his thirty-year diplomatic career and his work as a cryptographer, but who was also interested in history, astronomy and comets, alchemy, etc.
He entered diplomacy when he was only seventeen,… Read More

Paris, chez Debure père & chez l'Auteur, 1775.8vo [182 x 98 mm] of xlviii pp., 328 pp., (3) ll., (1) bl. l., 4 engravings on 2 folding plates out of pagination. Marbled calf, blind-stamped fillet around the covers, flat spine decorated with gilt fleurons, red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Contemporary binding.First and only edition of the first description of the diving suit, Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle's new invention.The word "scaphandre (diving suit)", from the Greek skaphe (boat) and andros (man), was used for the first time in 1775 by Abbot de la Chapelle in his work Traité de la construction théorique et pratique du scaphandre ou du bateau de l'homme. The invention of Abbot de la Chapelle was a costume made of cork and allowing soldiers to float and cross waterways."The Abbot Jean-Baptiste de la Chapelle is a French mathematician, born around 1710, dead in Paris, in 1792. Royal censor, member of some Academies in the provincial France and of the London Royal Society, he spent his… Read More

Paris, Jacques Josse, 1701.- [With] : Copie d'une lettre de Monsieur Maigrot à Monsieur Charmot, du II Janvier 1699 reçue à Paris en Août 1700. Elle montre la fausseté de ce que le Père le Comte a écrit touchant la Religion ancienne des Chinois. 1700.- [With] : Suite du journal historique des assemblées tenues en Sorbonne, pour condamner les Mémoires de la Chine.12mo [157 x 87 mm] of (2) ll., 100 pp.; II/ 88 pp., tear p. 25; III/ 45 pp. Granite-like brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt fleurons, mottled edges. Contemporary binding. First edition of this study on the religion of the Chinese by the successor of Matteo Ricci at the head of the Jesuit mission in China.De Backer & Sommervogel IV, 1932; Quérard V, p. 347."The Directors of the Seminary of the Foreign Missions have obtained the privilege of having printed ancient Treatises of various authors on the ceremonies of China. The first they publish is that of Father Longobardi, Jesuit, who at his entry into this Kingdom read… Read More

Paris, Barrois l'ainé, 1789.
Avec approbation de la Société Royale d'Agriculture.
8vo [195 x 125 mm] of viii prelim. ll., 389 pp., (2) ll. including the errata inserted between the pp. 386 and 388. Excerpt from the Journal de Paris from January 7, 1789 concerning Parmentier inserted between pp. 204 and 205, small tear without loss p. 273. Brown half-calf, gilt rocaille ornamentation on the flat spine, green sprinkled edges. Binding circa 1830.
Sought-after first edition of Parmentier's famous work dedicated to the cultivation and consumption of potato, up to here abandoned to animals.
Vicaire, Bibliographie gastronomique, 657; not in Oberlé, Les Fastes de Bacchus et Comus.
Poorly raised as well as his two brothers by an early widowed mother, Parmentier had to interrupt his studies at the age of eighteen to be apprenticed to an apothecary of Mont Didier then in 1756 to an apothecary in Paris.
At the age of 20 he obtained a position of pharmacist-assistant for the Hanover army… Read More

Paris, Guillaume Desprez, 1663.

12mo [144 x 91 mm] of (14) ll., 232 pp., (4) ll. and 2 folded plates out of text. Full brown granite-like calf, spine ribbed and decorated, head and foot of the spine formerly restored, sprinkled edges. Contemporary binding.
First edition of the founding treatise of the principles of hydrostatics in contemporary binding.
Bibliotheca Osleriana, n° 3625; Bulletin Morgand et Fatout, n°4298; Tchemerzine, V, 59; Brunet, IV, 400; Dibner 143; Norman 1650; Maire II/1, 179 f.; DSB X, 334 & 340, 13.
Precious copy with the errata and the 11 printing errors not yet corrected during printing.
"First edition, published by F. Périer, Pascal's brother-in-law, one year after his death. We find at the end 2 engraved folded plates."
(Catalogue de Backer, n°760).
Pascal undertakes to search for the cause of the effects he observed, both by the method of difference (this is the experiment of emptiness into the void) and by the method of variations (it is the great experiment he talks… 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