Rare catalogue for the exhibition of 100 gouaches and drawings by Max Jacob, held at Galerie Bernheim-Jeune & Cie from 8 to 20 March 1920.
One tear repaired along a joint, two internal spots.
The invitation card is illustrated with five reproductions of works by Max Jacob.
Preface by Max Jacob.
Rare first edition, published anonymously.
Contemporary full marbled and polished calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Traces of rubbing. Missing the half-title of the first part. Handsome copy.
Philosophical tale in which a young man, first raised in a cage then cast onto a desert island, is educated by nature at the age of 15. Each experience becomes a discovery, either about the world or about himself. This young man thus embodies the scientist of modern times, virgin before things. Facing nature and far from civilization, man is fundamentally good according to the novel, but nature itself is not exempt from evils that man is called upon to correct. The work thus stages an ideal nature in its relationship to man; it is like an experiment, that of the awakening of the senses and thought provoked by nature in an empty being. The second part projects the character into civilization and brings him into contact with his fellow men. In 1764, L'année littéraire suggests that the work could provide elements of response to the question of man's first knowledge: "Les amateurs de la philosophie moderne, c'est-à-dire de cette métaphysique qui veut remonter à l'origine des nos idées, débrouiller le chaos de notre être, cette sorte de lecteur sera porté à accueillir cet ouvrage..." ["Amateurs of modern philosophy, that is to say of that metaphysics which seeks to trace back to the origin of our ideas, to unravel the chaos of our being, this sort of reader will be inclined to welcome this work..."]
A novel that had a certain impact at a time when the myth of the "noble savage", reflections on education, and the nature of man occupied philosophical minds, Beaurieu succeeding like an experiment of Rousseau's theses.
First French edition, rare. Translated by Etienne François de Sennevert. A fine printing on handsome laid paper.
Contemporary full polished mottled calf, smooth spines richly decorated with gilt tooling in compartments and rolls, black morocco lettering-pieces, tan morocco volume labels, triple gilt fillet borders on the boards. Some surface abrasions to the boards, joints, and borders. Slight brown waterstain in the upper margin of the preliminary leaves of volume 1. A small loss at the foot of volume 4. Headcap of volume 2 lightly worn. Loss at the lower joint of volume 1. Despite a few minor defects, a very handsome copy.
New edition, after the original published in 1738.
269 numbered figures at mid-page.
Contemporary full marbled sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Upper joint cracked at head, and a small crack at tail over 0.5cm. 3 corners very bumped and worn. 3 traces of surface wear on lower board. Good copy.
Didactic treatise on Backgammon, a game of Chinese origin that was very popular in Europe under the name of Trictrac, and which features numerous games. The rules of the game remained unchanged until 1931, the date at which the Americans modernized the game rules.
First edition, one of 65 numbered copies on vergé Ingres de Lana, only deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
Very nice copy.
First edition, one of 75 numbered copies on vergé Ingres de Lana, only deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
Very nice copy.
