New edition after the first one produced by Abbé de Lescluse in 1745 (in-4° and in-12°); illustrated with a portrait of Henri IV as frontispiece to the first volume and a second portrait of Sully in the same volume. Supplement to the memoirs in volume 9.
Contemporary (or near-contemporary) half blonde sheep binding with marbled boards. Smooth spine decorated with 2 grotesque compartments and 2 ornamental tools. Red morocco title-label and green morocco volume labels. One cut at head of volume II. Beginning of crack to upper joint of volume I at head, upper joint of volume 2 partly split. Title page of volume 2 stained. Upper joint of volume 6 split. One hole in title page of volume 6. Rubbing. Good decorative set.
Sully's text has been revised in modern French. This famous edition of the Memoirs is valuable for the abundance of notes by Abbé de l'Ecluse des Loges on these fundamental memoirs for French history. The Supplement to the memoirs is a critique and attack on the edition produced by Lescluse, allegedly denaturing Sully's original work.
First edition of these 102 plates heightened in colors.
Modern cream-colored paper boards with gilt floral motif by Thomas Boichot, black morocco title label to spine. Ex libris of the "Fashion Group of Paris" on pastedown.
A little worming to first plate, the other plates very fresh.
A nicely bound copy.
New edition, following the first collected edition also published in Amsterdam in 1775 and produced by d'Holbach.
Contemporary full blonde calf bindings. Smooth spines richly decorated with gilt compartments and fleurons, as well as red morocco title labels and green volume labels with red morocco inlay. Fine gilt decorative board-edges framing the boards. Gilt roulettes on the leading edges and headcaps. All edges marbled.
Headcaps slightly rubbed and some minor wormholes. Each volume shows dampstaining to outer margin. Quite good copy, of handsome appearance.
The first volume contains the author's most famous text: L'Antiquité dévoilée, the second the Recherches sur le despotisme oriental, an Essai philosophique que le gouvernement as well as other texts: Esope fabuliste, Du bonheur, Le Christianisme dévoilé, Dissertation sur Elie et Enoch, Examen critique de Saint Paul and Dissertation sur Saint Pierre. The Extrait d'une lettre sur la vie et les ouvrages de Mr. Boulanger which precedes it would be by Diderot according to Grimm. Le Christianisme dévoilé would be by D'Holbach, while the Recherches sur le despotisme oriental is a collective work bringing together d'Holbach and Boulanger. Around Baron d'Holbach formed a sort of coterie (with authors such as Diderot, Boulanger or Naigeon), a spiritual association of figures who had all worked on the great work of the Encyclopédie and who assembled around a certain number of strong ideas: a critique of religious but also philosophical superstition, an atheistic materialism and a utilitarian politics; each of the authors worked toward the deconstruction of Christianity and the edification of materialism, achieving the true combat of the Enlightenment for man's liberation from religious, spiritual and political constraints.
First edition. Title page in red and black.
Contemporary full glazed blonde calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with foliage, stamps and fillets. Red morocco title-label. Monogram B.P. at foot. Small lack at head. Joints cracked at foot for 1cm. Corners rubbed. Leaf 53 repeated, same for leaf 73.
Handsome copy.
Born in 1821 in Laval, Charles Landelle moved to Paris at the age of four, then entered the École Royale des Beaux-Arts in 1837 as a student of Paul Delaroche and Ary Scheffer. At the beginning of his career, Landelle painted several portraits to make ends meet. Very influenced by Italian painting after travels in the South of France and Italy, he copied some canvases by the great masters of the Renaissance at the Louvre. Awarded at the Salon from his first exhibitions for Fra Angelo recevant les inspirations de Dieu (1842) or Sainte Cécile (1848), he distinguished himself through religious and historical subjects that allowed him to gain recognition from the high society of his time. His critical successes at the Salon quickly assured him numerous State commissions, notably Le Repos de la Vierge in 1854 which earned him decoration with the cross of Knight of the Legion of Honor. That same year he created in pastel the portrait of Alfred de Musset, today preserved at the Louvre Museum. The artist thus embraced a career as an official painter between State commissions and portraits of members of high society. Capable of adapting to the taste and fashions of his time, Landelle quickly gained a notoriety that he knew how to maintain, never forgetting to offer a portrait or a canvas to his benefactors. In the second part of his career, after the official part of it had somewhat run out of steam, the artist made numerous trips to Morocco, Egypt, Algeria and devoted himself to Orientalism which would occupy a large part of his production until his death in 1908.
Today a certain number of his works is preserved in museums. An important collection was bequeathed to his native city, Laval, but we also find some of his works at the Louvre Museum, the Ingres Museum in Montauban, the Museum of Fine Arts in Grenoble, Pau, Rouen or at the Palace of Versailles.
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First bilingual French-German edition, illustrated with 71 plates and a fortification table.
Contemporary full ivory vellum binding. Smooth spine decorated with triple blind fillets, title and author in pen. Boards framed with triple blind fillets; traces of clasps. All edges blue. Six small contemporary leather bookmarks. Bavarian bookplate of the period.
Spine split with a small loss along its entire length. One joint slightly cracked (1.5cm). A small ink stain on the second board. Pages uniformly and lightly browned. Front pastedown affected by bookworm damage.
