Born from the humanist spirit of the Renaissance, the Collège de France, founded in 1530 by Guillaume Budé, is a high place of excellence and transmission of knowledge. Discover our selection of first or signed editions of the great minds that have shaped the history of this institution.
Second edition.
"Magendie, pioneer experimental physiologist, regarded pathology as only a modification of physiology, 'medicine the physiology of the sick man'. By him clinical medicine was reconstructed on the physiological lines".
Spines of the first two volumes split, small losses to the other two, spines browned, some foxing.
Rare copy preserved in wrappers as issued.
First edition, one of the rare copies on Holland paper, not mentioned in the printed justification.
Contemporary Bradel binding in half black morocco, smooth spine with gilt date at foot, cat's-eye paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, binding signed Champs.
Inscribed and signed by Eugène Manuel to Madame Michel Lévy.
Our copy is enriched with two dated and signed autograph letters by Eugène Manuel, mounted on tabs at the beginning of the volume, most likely addressed to one of his literary mentors regarding the first performance of his play "Les ouvriers".
In the first letter, written with delicate modesty and dated the day before the premiere on 17 January 1870, Eugène Manuel expresses his hope and longing for the distinguished recipient to attend the opening of "Les ouvriers": "Vous prendrez peut-être plus d'intérêt à l'auteur, lorsque vous saurez que je suis le neveu d'un de vos amis d'autrefois, Jules Lévy, qui avait pour vous une bien vive et bien sincère affection... [...] J'espère, monsieur, que rien ne vous empêchera d'assister à cette représentation, peu importante peut-être pour vous, puisqu'il s'agit que d'un acte, mais qui est sérieux pour moi..."
In the second, the author warmly thanks his correspondent for the attention paid to the play: "J'apprends aujourd'hui seulement que vous m'avez fait l'insigne honneur d'entretenir de ma petite pièce des Ouvriers, l'auditoire d'élite qui se presse à vos leçons du Collège de France... [...] le jugement d'un critique aussi considérable est une de ces bonnes fortunes que l'on ose ambitionner..."
Second edition, the first having been published in 1824 (cf. Gay 3389).
Our copy is preserved in its original wrappers, in blue paper with a plain temporary cover, and a title label affixed at the head of the spine.
Some minor foxing, a faint water stain in the right margin of a few leaves at the end of the volume.
At the age of twenty, Armand-Pierre Caussin de Perceval (1795–1871) departed for Constantinople as an interpreter. He travelled through Turkey, Syria, and Lebanon, and served as a dragoman in Aleppo in 1820.
Upon returning to France, he was appointed to the chair of colloquial Arabic at the École des Langues Orientales, and succeeded his father in 1833 as professor of Arabic at the Collège de France, before being elected to the Académie des Inscriptions in 1849.
First edition, with no copies printed on deluxe paper.
A pleasing copy.
Signed autograph inscription from Yves Coppens to Emile Noël.
