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  3. Un autre monde - Transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, explorations, pérégrinations, excursions, stations, cosmogonies, fantasmagories, rêveries, folatreries, facéties, lubies, métamorphoses, zoomorphoses, lithomorphoses, métempsychoses, apothéoses et autres choses
    Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE, Taxile DELORD
    Un autre monde - Transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, explorations, pérégrinations, excursions, stations, cosmogonies, fantasmagories, rêveries, folatreries, facéties, lubies, métamorphoses, zoomorphoses, lithomorphoses, métempsychoses, apothéoses et autres choses
    Henri Fournier|Paris 1844|19 x 27 cm|relié
    First edition of this work considered to be Grandville's masterpiece, with illustrations in first print. Illustrated frontispiece, 36 colored illustrations and 146 in-text woodcuts in black.
    Contemporary binding in half black shagreen, spine with raised bands ruled in gilt, black paper boards framed in gilt, a scratch with loss of paper to the upper right corner of the upper board, small scuffs on the covers, yellow endpapers, all edges gilt.
    Handsome copy of this beautiful book, a precursor to Surrealism.
    This exuberant and prodigious production of Grandville and Delord (whose name is printed at the bottom of page 292), judged by its contemporaries as already being mad, was rediscovered by the Surrealists.
    “Published in 1844 by éditions Fournier, Un autre monde is Grandville's masterpiece. The book is subtitled Transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, explorations, travels, excursions, stations, cosmogonies, phantasmagorias, dreams, frolics, facetiae, whims, metamorphosis, zoomorphs, lithomorphosis, metempsychosis, apotheosis and other things. With its transformations, its inventions and its phantasmagoria, the work claims to reflect a changing era. Un autre monde recounts and illustrates the extraordinary travels of three neo-gods, Puff, Krackq and Hahblle. [...] It is indeed a philosophical journey that Grandville takes us on [...] The reader, led to a strange planet imagined by the artist, is invited, like Gulliver in the Country of Laputa, on a parodic journey of his philosophical, scientific, economic and religious ideas, of his passions, inventions and worries: romanticism, mechanisation, socialism, money, serial, publicity, anglomania, philanthropy, phrenology, etc.” (Annie Renonciat, La Vie et l'œuvre de Grandville, Paris, ACR-Vilo, 1985).
    Grandville's most sought-after work.
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  4. La descendance de l'homme et la sélection sexuelle
    Charles DARWIN
    La descendance de l'homme et la sélection sexuelle
    C. Reinwald et Cie|Paris 1872|14.50 x 23.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
    First French edition, translated from English by Moulinié. Preface by Carl Vogt. 76 wood-engraved figures in text. At the end of volume I, 24 pages of catalogue from the Reinwald bookshop.
    Publisher's green cloth binding signed Lenègre at foot. Smooth spine with ornament at foot and head. Rubbing. Headcap of volume I sunken with micro-tear of a few millimeters at upper joint. 2 upper corners folded in volume I. Some pale foxing in margins. Handsome copy.
    If The Origin of Species made the author a pivot in the evolution of biology, "The Descent of Man" takes an additional step in what would be called Darwinism by building a bridge between biology and the human sciences and philosophy. It is moreover the first time that we find in a book by the author the term Evolution to conceptualize Darwin's thought (p2. at the end of the first paragraph). The term would be added to the sixth edition of The Origin of Species. Darwin published in 1859 "On the Origin of Species", and it is only 13 years later, in The Descent of Man that he demonstrates that man is the descendant of pre-existing species, developing the theory of sexual selection, a factor in the evolution of species and their differentiations.
    Darwin was very attentive to the translation of his work and collaborated closely with Reinwald.
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  39. "You will see how our island will be in bloom"
    Lettre autographe datée et signée adressée à son grand ami et médecin personnel Emile Allix : "vous avez comblé mon vieux coeur de joie"
    Victor HUGO
    Lettre autographe datée et signée adressée à son grand ami et médecin personnel Emile Allix : "vous avez comblé mon vieux coeur de joie"
    Paris 18 mars [1873]|10.50 x 13 cm|2 pages sur un feuillet double

    Autograph letter dated and signed by Victor Hugo, to his great friend and personal physician Emile Allix. 30 lines in black ink on two pages of a bifolium signed with the single letter "V", greatest mark of affection the writer could give, usually reserved for his two sons, his daughter, his wife and his friends Auguste Vacquerie and Paul Meurice.
    Back in Guernsey in a deserted Hauteville House, Hugo was in the middle of writing Quatre Vingt Treize and acutely felt the absence of his close friends and family. He thanked his friend, the illustrious doctor Allix, a member of the circle of Jersey outlaws, who had also stayed at Hauteville House many times: "Doctor, friend, dear Allix, your letters bring me joy and serenity in my work and in my solitude". In Paris, the doctor took care of Hugo's beloved children in poor health: Allix had taken in and placed Adèle Hugo in Mme Rivet's asylum in Saint-Mandé, after her disastrous stay in Barbados and failed attempt to woo the Colonel Pinson: "Oh, bring me all my dear absent ones and you will see how our island will be in bloom [...]. Alas, there will always be one missing. This will be the black prison of my life. Thank you again for taking care of her. Could you be so kind as to pay the next term (17 March to 17 June) to Rivet on my behalf?" Allix looks after his son François-Victor, who succumbs to tuberculosis in December of the same year: "We read your letters at dessert at Madame Drouet's, and if you could only see how much we love you! I hope my [François-]Victor is getting better and better, and I'm waiting for him, and for them, and for you". Attentive to the health of young children, a cause to which he would devote a large part of his medical career, Allix also took care of Victor Hugo's precious granddaughter: "You have showered little Jeanne and my old heart with joy. V."

    An exceptional missive from the writer, waiting for his loved ones to return so that he could share the view of his island in bloom, where so many of his masterpieces were written. He wrote to Allix, a fervent republican and the family's personal doctor, who was at his wife Adèle's side in her final moments, looked after his children and signed the writer's own death certificate in 1885.

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