Resultados da Pesquisa: Títulos que começam com I de LIBRAIRIE CAMILLE SOURGET

[Augsburg, o.J., um 1710].
Folio of 50 plates including the frontispiece, restorations in the margins of plates 37 and 50.
Contemporary stiff vellum, flat spine with handwritten title. Endpapers renewed but the copy is really preserved in its contemporary binding.
350 x 225 mm.
Precious and very rare first complete edition of one of the best German illustrated books of the baroque period, in the rococo style, printed in Augsburg about 1710, inspired by Jacques Callot's Gobbi (1592-1635).
Catalogue Lipperheide, 3548.
The Gobbi, executed in 1620-1621, consist of a 21-plates set (including the title plate), of about 9 x 6 cm, engraved on the basis of drawings made in Florence in 1616, and inspired by hunchbacks who were chosen to entertain the Great Duke Cosimo II de Medici.
The present work, entitled " Il Callotto ", in reference to Jacques Callot, is illustrated with an engraved and colored title and with 49 contemporary hand-colored copper-engravings, each one put in an engraved frame later colored,… Ler mais

Lugduni, Apud Ioannem Frellonium,1547.
Small 4to of (52) ll., sign. A-N, with 98 woodcuts, l. L2 remargined, brown Jansenist morocco, spine ribbed, gilt edges, gilt inner border. Chambolle-Duru.
198 x 135 mm.
First issue "of this beautiful book" (Brunet, supplément, 647), exceedingly rare with such wide margins (height 198 mm; it is taller than the superb copy of James de Rothschild.)
Harvard, 281; Baudrier, vol. 5, p. 209; Rothschild, vol. 1, n°16 ; Duplessis (op. cit. N°276), p. 60-62 ; Woltmann, Holbein, vol. 2, p. 172-173, e ; Bouchereaux, Corrozet, n°127 ; Didot, Essai, col.73.Each one of the 94 Holbein's engravings occupies a page with Latin text above and French quatrains by Gilles Corrozet below.
Didot,
in his Essai sur la gravure sur bois analyzes what he calls a "masterpiece":
"The compositions in this masterpiece are of the highest style, and, as in The Simulacra of Death, the expressions of the figures are righteous and offer a blend of simplicity, energy and naivety that characterize… Ler mais

Lugduni, Apud Ioannem Frellonium,1547.
Small 4to of (52) ll., sign. A-N, with 98 woodcuts, l. L2 remargined, brown Jansenist morocco, spine ribbed, gilt edges, gilt inner border. Chambolle-Duru.
198 x 135 mm.
First issue "of this beautiful book" (Brunet, supplément, 647), exceedingly rare with such wide margins (height 198 mm; it is taller than the superb copy of James de Rothschild.)
Harvard, 281; Baudrier, vol. 5, p. 209; Rothschild, vol. 1, n°16 ; Duplessis (op. cit. N°276), p. 60-62 ; Woltmann, Holbein, vol. 2, p. 172-173, e ; Bouchereaux, Corrozet, n°127 ; Didot, Essai, col.73.
Each one of the 94 Holbein's engravings occupies a page with Latin text above and French quatrains by Gilles Corrozet below.
Didot, in his Essai sur la gravure sur bois analyzes what he calls a "masterpiece":
"The compositions in this masterpiece are of the highest style, and, as in The Simulacra of Death, the expressions of the figures are righteous and offer a blend of simplicity, energy and naivety that… Ler mais

Londres, Imprimerie de T. Spilbury, 1786-1787.
3 parts bound in 2 volumes 8vo [211 x 131 mm] of : I/ (2) bl. ll., (2) ll. of table, 320 pp., (1) l., pp. 319 to 543, pp. 485 to 516 (appendix), 2 folding plates out of pagination, (2) bl. ll. ; II/ (1) l., (2) ll. of table, 478 pp., (1) l. of errata.
Red straight-grained morocco, gilt fillets and Greek patterns around the covers, flat spines with panels decorated with gilt Greek patterns and small floral tools, inner Greek pattern, gilt edges. Binding from the beginning of the 19th century in Bozérian's style.
Uncommon first edition of this treatise on meteorology by the Swiss physicist and geologist Jean-André de Luc (Geneva, 1727 – Windsor, 1817).
Jean-André de Luc is a famous Swiss physicist, geologist and philosopher who was one of the first scientists to explore the high mountains. He contributed to the progress of geology and physics at a time when one of these sciences was starting to develop and the other did not yet have the importance it… Ler mais

Amsterdam, chez Jean & Corneille Blaeu, 1642.
4to [192 x 154 mm] of (9) ll., 277 pp., many woodcuts in the text. Overlapping vellum, flat spine with handwritten title, remains of ties. Contemporary binding.
Rare first French edition of this treatise dealing with the use of astronomical instruments.
Graesse, Trésor de livres rares, 435 ; Stevenson, Terrestrial and Celestial globes, p. 223.
The first edition was published in Dutch in 1620 in 8vo format.
The work, published by Jean and Corneille Bleau, the sons of Guillaume Blaeu, is divided into two parts, the first one based on Ptolemy's theory, the second one on Copernicus's study, following the arrangement of Galileo's Dialogo.
We find here the way to draw dials.
"The master globe-maker authored the 'Institution Astronomique' so that his customers might get the most out of his celestial and terrestrial globes. Blaeu gives a detailed explanation of the various parts of a globe, followed by a series of nearly 150 exercises. By positioning the… Ler mais