First edition, rare.
Contemporary full speckled blonde sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with roulette at head and tail. Beige morocco title label. Lower board extensively affected by old dampstaining which has whitened and blackened the leather. 4 corners slightly bumped. Good copy with elegant spine.
Rare first edition.
Contemporary full tree calf bindings. Smooth spines decorated with two gilt tools and two grotesque panels. Red morocco title labels. Black wax volume labels, heavily rubbed and faded. Head- and tailcaps and the upper and lower joints and corners very discreetly restored. A scratch on one board. A handsome, clean copy.
First edition, rare.
Half blond sheep bindings. Smooth spines decorated in the grotesque style. Red morocco title labels and beige morocco volume labels. Library labels at foot. Two small wormholes along the lower joint of volume I. A split with loss at the lower joint of volume II. A good, decorative copy.
Rare first edition, comprising 9 plates, including 3 folding plates.
Contemporary full mottled brown calf bindings. Spines with raised bands, gilt decoration. Title and volume labels in brown morocco. Blue mottled edges. A handsome copy.
First French edition, after the original German published in 1732 under the title: Psychologia empirica.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title-label. One lack at head, similar lacks at foot. Joints cracked at head and foot. Corners slightly bumped. Title page with browning to margins.
Wolf sought to redefine philosophy as a whole based on a stable principle of knowledge founded on deduction and the model of geometry; a rationalist, he was a disciple of Leibniz from whom he borrowed many concepts. And yet for the first time in the history of philosophy, Wolf conferred an autonomy on psychology that it had never had before, distinguishing between rational psychology and empirical psychology (the translator having chosen the term experimental psychology which would be promoted to a great future in France). Furthermore Wolf perfected the question of symbolism and the relation of the body to sign and representation. The translator, faced with Wolf's incredibly prolix work and the mediocre abridgments he encountered, preferred to follow the author step by step in the construction of his ideas and theses without giving an exhaustive and literal translation that would be barely readable.
Armorial bookplate from the 18th century, unidentified.
Second edition partly in first edition, rare. The original was published in Paris in 1723, the author being unsatisfied with his work proposed this second edition revised and expanded with a second part, Suplémant au projet de taille tarifée, in which he responds to the objections of his detractors.
Contemporary full speckled brown sheep binding. Spine with five raised bands richly decorated with gilt compartments and fleurons, blonde morocco title label. Gilt rolls on the leading edges and headcaps. All edges speckled red. Head slightly worn, first band very slightly visible at the joint, a small amount of bookworm damage affecting the last compartment as well as the tail joint of the lower board.
The rare first edition of the two volumes published respectively in 1724 and 1726. It is illustrated with 2 head-piece vignettes, 8 pages of musical scores, a cabalistic tree printed separately, the Samaritan Alphabet, 2 plates of coins and 2 figures also printed separately.
Copy with arms stamped on the covers and within each compartment from the library of the Abbey of Saint-Victor. The Abbey of Saint-Victor was one of the oldest abbeys in Paris (on the site of the University of Jussieu and the Jardin des Plantes) and one of the great intellectual centers of the medieval West; its rich library was opened to the public in the 18th century with the addition of new buildings. The abbey was destroyed during the Revolution and most of its collections joined the Bibliothèque nationale.
Contemporary bindings in full glazed blonde calf. Raised band spines decorated. Red morocco title labels, volume labels rubbed, as well as the library label at the foot. Headcap of volume I worn with upper joint cracked at head. A loss at the head of volume II; upper joint exposed with a loss at foot. Some corners slightly bumped. Despite the defects, a very handsome copy, with fine tooling and beautiful arms.
The rare first edition of this pamphlet.
Stitched pamphlet, unbound.
The commission of agriculture and arts was founded in 1794 and Parmentier was from its creation an eminent and influential member. The potato was soon perceived, thanks to Parmentier, as a means to combat famine and food shortages, whether for humans or animals.
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First edition.
Contemporary half light brown speckled sheep over marbled paper boards, spines with triple gilt fillets, black sheep title and volume labels (error to numbering of volumes: the first volume of the supplement, volume 16, is marked 15 by mistake), traces of rubbing and repairs to some spines, a few headpieces rubbed, some with small lacks, a few joints cracked.
A good set preserving its two volumes of supplements, practically no foxing.
