Desnos

Barnet, Marie-Claire / Robertson, Eric / Saint, Nigel (eds): Robert Desnos. Surrealism in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien Peter Lang Vlg. 2006. ISBN: 978-3-03911-019-3
" Ce n'est pas la poesie qui doit etre libre, c'est le poete. " A legendary figure within the Surrealist movement, Robert Desnos (1900-1945) has left a unique legacy as a poet of distinction, as a 'dormeur eveille' revered by his fellow Surrealists, and as a free spirit par excellence. In celebrating Desnos's unique creative voice, this book re-evaluates his prominence within and beyond the Surrealist movement, reappraises his status as a poet, and sheds new light on his contribution to the literary and cultural life of his age. The essays in the volume reflect the ongoing vitality and relevance of Desnos's poetry and the originality of his contribution to the various other forms of expression in which he excelled: journalism, short stories, script-writing and song-writing. Desnos's extensive writings on art and artists, his active involvement in avant-garde film and his close associations with a number of renowned painters are also addressed. This fresh look at Desnos's activities and contexts includes an interview with the artist Georges Malkine's daughter, Fern Malkine-Falvey, and a study of the memoirs of Desnos's wife, Youki. The volume closes with a rare collection of journalistic writings by Desnos which appeared in Le Soir in the late 1920s and have never appeared in print since their original publication.

390 pp., 12 fig. Pb. *neuwertig*

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Zoologie - Zoology Jonston, John: Collection d'oiseaux les plus rares graves et dessines d'apres nature, pour servir d'intelligence a l'histoire naturelle et raisonnee des differens oiseaux qui habitent le globe....Pour servir de suite a l'Histoire des Insectes & Plantes de Mademoiselle de Merian, Paris, L. C. Desnos, 1772
Nissen 484, Sitwell: Fine Bird Books. - Desnos Ausgabe des Jonston und Robert Werkes als Anhang an Maria Sybilla Merian's 'Histoire des Insectes de Surinam'. Die Rückenschilder des Folianten 'Histoire Generale des Insectes, Tom I' bezeichnen den ersten Teil der Desnos Ausgabe von Maria Sybilla Merian's Insekten von Surinam. Dieser Teil ist komplett ausgeschlachtet und enthält keinen Kupferstich. Die Textseiten sind teilweise beschnitten und lose. Der zweite Teil beinhaltet die Desnos Ausgabe von Jonston's Werk welches ursprünglich als Lateinische Ausgabe von Matthäus Merian im Jahre 1650 publiziert wurde. Es enthält die Kupfer 1-62 mit jeweils einer Seite französischer Erklärungen. Der dritte Teil enthält die 23 Kupfer von Nicolas Robert, mit den Vögeln der königlichen Menagerie von Versailles welche ebenfalls 1650 mit den Jonston Kupfern aufgelegt wurden. Insgesamt enthält der Band 85 Kupfer in kräftigem und scharfen Abdruck. Der Jonston und Robert Teil ist komplett und sehr gut erhalten. Sitwell bezeichnet dieses Ausgabe als 'sehr seltenes Buch' in seiner Publikation 'Fine Bird Books'. - Der erste Teil von Maria Sybilla Merian ist ausgeschlachtet und enthält keine Kupfer, die Textseiten sind teilweise beschnitten und lose. Der zweite und dritte Teil (Jonston and Robert) ist vollständig und in ausgezeichnetem Zustand. Die Kupfer haben einen kräftigem und scharfem Abdruck. - Desnos edition of Jonston's highly important work as a continuation of Maria Sybilla Merian's 'Histoire des Insectes de Surinam'. The volume is labelled 'Histoire Generale des Insectes, Tom I'. First part is Maria Sybilla Merian's Desnos' edition of the Insects of Surinam without any plates. Some text pages are cutted with text loss, some leaves are loose. Second section is the Desnos edition of Jonston's work, includes plates 1-62, copies of those executed by Kaspar and Matthäus Merian for the 1650 Latin edition. The third section, describing birds in the 'Menagerie Royale', contains plates I-XXIII, engraved by Nicolas Robert. The entire set contains 62 by Jonston and 23 plates by Robert. Fine copy, plates in sharp and dark impressions. Jonston and Robert part is complete in text and plates. Sitwell called this edition 'A very rare book' in his publication 'Fine Bird Books' from 1990. - First part has no plates left, some text pages are cut and loose. Second and third part (Jonston and Robert) is complete and in fine condition. Plates have dark and sharp impression.

Imperial Folio. 1 Frontspiz, 2 nn. Bl., 64 S., 1 Bl. 85 Kupferstiche. Ganzledereinband mit Rückenvergoldung. (Berieben und bestossen mit kleinen Fehlstellen an den äusseren Kapitalen und an den Ecken / Some rubbing and damage at spine extremes and corners). 3 Teile in einem Band.

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BRION DE LA TOUR, Louis & Louis Charles DESNOS. France elaborately mapped: a famous and rare atlas including key maps for travellers Coup d'oeil general sur la France, pour servir d'introduction au tableau analytique et geographique de ce Royaume. Dresse par differens geographes, dont les ouvrages sont aussi connus qu'estimes, faisant partie de l'Atlas historique de la France ancienne & moderne, mise au jour & dirige par le sieur Desnos, ingenieur-geographe pour les Globes & Spheres. Paris, Grange, Guillyn, Desnos, a.o., 1765.
First edition of a rare atlas of France, mapping out the country from all possible useful points of view, with 'analytical' maps, dividing France according to all possible public and private institutions or services, showing not only the various geographical and political divisions of France, but also the military, ecclesiastical, juridical, genealogical, commercial, financial, etc., etc. divisions, even hunting territories. The atlas also includes a small sea-atlas withn3 charts showing the French coasts, as well as a French road atlas, mapping out all the traveling routes of France. The maps were all made under the direction of Louis Charles Desnos, but they were drawn by various mapmakers. Several of the analytical maps and all sea charts were drawn by Rizzi Zannoni, and all the road maps by Michel, Royal geographer and engineer of the Paris Observatoire. All maps, 52 in total, were newly made, and dated 1763-5. of interest is the added catalogue of the stock of Mr. Desnos, a Paris publisher, bookseller and engineer geographer of globes and spheres at Paris. All parts of the present atlas, the <I>Atlas Analytique</I>, the <I>Petit Neptune</I>, and the <I>L'Indicateur Fidele</I> are offered for sale in the catalogue separately as well. In the present composition however, published by Louis Brion de la Cour (ca. 1745-1823), the atlas is in first edition, and exactly as issued, with all maps, including the titles of the <I>Petit Neptune</I> and the <I>L'Indicateur</I>, dated 1765. Most maps are attractively decorated and set within broad ornamental borders, and all are most carefully and attractively coloured.the maps three additional texts follow: the "Prospectus du guide des voyageurs pour des routes royales & particulieres de la France & autres" (p. 1-2), a "Catalogue alphabetique des routes royales et particulieres" (p. 3-8), and a "Catalogue alphabetique du supplement des 1380 villes de France" (p. 1-10).
Splendid copy, in fine and strictly contemporary colouring.- (2 maps browned on verso).
Cf. Phillips 2990-2993 (all three parts separate, with the "Neptune" and "L'Indicateur" dated 1766); Querard I, 515.

Large 4to. Contemp. marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt with red title label, with blind-stamped tripple fillets on sides, gilt binding edges, red painted edges, marbled endpapers. With a double-paged frontispiece by Le Charpentier after De Seve, with a view of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, a double-page engraved title: "Tableau Analytique de La France dans lequel on donne une connoissance generale et detailledu Royaume, ... dirige par le S. Desnos. Paris, Chez l'auteur, 1765", followed by a large folding engraved geo-spherical map of France by Rizzi Zannoni and 29 double-page engraved analytical maps of France, all set within ornamental borders and all nicely coloured by hand, 2 "Cartes odographiques" with the distances between French cities, both dated 1763, a double-page engraved title "Le Petit Neptune Francois ou carte des cotes maritimes du Royaume (1765)", followed by 3 double-page charts of the French coasts, all coloured by hand, a large folding engraved map of France by Croisey after Rizzi Zannoni (1765), also hand-coloured, a double-page engraved title "L'Indicateur Fidele ou Guide des Voyageurs", followed by a double-page engraved general road-map of France with circles with Paris in the center, indicating the distances between the capital and other French cities, and 10 folding and 8 double-page engraved French road-maps, all coloured by hand. 15 (4), 8, 10 pp. text. <B>CATALOGUE</B> des Ouvrages, tant anciens que modernes, du Fonds du Sr. Desnos. Paris, 1765. 16 pp.

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DESNOS, Louis-Charles (fl. 1750-1790): Mappe-Monde Celeste Terrestre et Historique augmentee des Voyages et Decouvertes du celebre Capitaine Cooke, par M. Brion de la Tour,

Paris: chez le Sr. Desnos, 1786. Engraved double-hemisphere world map, set in an elaborate border incorporating the signs of the zodiac, wind points, lunar and other astronomical and astrological dials, title running across the upper margin, lower portion of the map comprising an architectural plinth with integral engraved text on tablets giving historical details of places and people, on six joined sheets. (Some abrasion of the engraved surface with no significant loss, expertly re-backed, repairing tears and creases). 43 x 38 3/4 inches. An excellent example of Desnos's rare and spectacularly decorative wall-map. Jaugeon's map was originally published in 1688, and was subsequently reissued by Alexis-Hubert Jaillot and his family in the 1730s and again in 1758, when it seems to have been available on either three or six sheets. The present example, a collaboration between Louis Brion de la Tour and Desnos, is the six-sheet version with extensive text on the tablets on the three lower sheets and with the tracks of Captain James Cook's three voyages added to the double-hemisphere world map, as well as the recently established "Etats Unis". Despite its several editions, examples of the map are rare, as are all wall maps of this era. It is a superb example of the neo-Classical aesthetic brought by the French to mapmaking, and theater, painting and architecture, in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. In cartography, the informative, symmetrical French compositions stood in marked contrast to the brightly coloured Dutch maps of the period. Where the Dutch provided mythological references in the margins of their world maps, the French displayed a succinct, encyclopedic range of cosmological, historical and geographical information neatly arranged in balanced, decorative spaces. A great deal of knowledge is transmitted. The various theories of the Solar System; the astrological system; the four types of religious systems: Paganism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam; the great philosophers from Diogenes and Heraclitus to Descartes; the great explorers from Christopher Columbus to Francis Xavier; a brief history of the world beginning with Adam and passing to Noah and the great flood, then to the Assyrians and through the ancient empires to the Spanish, but also listing the great republics from Greece to Holland. All the known countries of the world are described. It is a world map within a neo-Classical French context of ideas, opinions and facts, but its primary appeal is in its virile, geometric simplicity, like an ancient Greek temple: everything proportional and governed by gravity and reason. The aesthetic intrigue derives from the architectural setting into which the map and texts are placed. Through subtle shading and careful detail, the columns and medallions invoke a feeling of sobriety and remembrance of the past, the way neo-classical court houses conjure a respect for Justice now. Here, with its picture of the world and memorials to the great philosophers, the great explorers and the great religions laid out in a handsome, balanced way, the mapmakers have suggested that what the world really is has to do with the past and future achievements of a truly civilized mankind. Cf. Bibliotheque Nationale Ge.DD.5168; cf. Shirley 538 (1688 3-sheet version); Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Portraits of the World, an exhibition of world maps from the period of the great discoveries 1981, number 57.

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