Bernard abbe e (11 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated wrappers. Cover design by Stephen Dowskin. 192pp. Covers slightly rubbed with modest edgewear, very good. Includes "How Our Day Began" by James T. Farrell; additional contributions by E.S. Rock, Laurel Speer, Sidney Bernard, Ed Stone, James E. Paulding, Sam Cornish, H.L. Van Brunt, Alicia Ostriker, George Abbe, James Hoggard and more.…

Couverture souple. Zustand: bon. R160047904: 1993. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 231 pages. 1ère de couverture illustrée en couleurs. . . . Classification Dewey : 200-RELIGION.

rigide. Zustand: Assez bon. 1 vol. in-4 reliure demi-basane marron, Périsse Frères, Paris, Auguste Hénault, Toulouse, 1851, XVI-343 pp. avec 7 lithographies hors texte Etat très satisfaisant (rel. frottée, 5 pl. brunies, ancien cachet d'institution religieuse, étiquette de cote en garde) pour cet intéressant ouvrage. Langue: Français.…

Couverture souple. Zustand: bon. RO40146702: 1887. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos frotté, Intérieur acceptable. 108 pages. Etiquette de code sur le dos. Tampons et annotations de bibliothèque sur le 1er plat et en page de titre. . . . Classification Dewey : 792-Théâtre.

Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. RO30145006: 1841. In-12. Relié. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos frotté, Intérieur frais. 482 pages - coiffes frottes - nombreux accrocs sur les plats - contreplats jaspes - lettrines et culs-de-lampe , dos a 4 nerfs , titre dore au dos. . . . Classification Dewey : 232.91-Vierge Marie. …

Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. RO40170656: 1841. In-12. Relié demi-cuir. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos très frotté, Quelques rousseurs. 482 pages. Titre et filets dorés sur le dos. Etiquette de code sur le dos. Tampons de bibliothèque en page de titre. Coiffe en pied abîmée. . . . Classification Dewey : 232.91-Vierge Marie. …

Zustand: Assez bon. BRAUN ET CIE (illustrator).

Zustand: Fair. Etat correct. Couverture salie. Intérieur avec peu de rousseurs. Saint Didier (vaucluse). in-12. 1895. broché. 104 pages. Illustrations en couleurs de Pierre Rousseau. Fair.

La Haye, Jean Neaulme, 1745, in-12 de (4)-II-380-(2) pp. d'errata, reliure de l'époque de plein veau fauve granité, dos à nerfs orné de fers dorés, Pièce de titre et de tomaison de maroquin rouge, bel exemplaire. Tome III seul, sur les 3 que comprend l'ouvrage.

RELIGION[BONNEFOY DE BOUYON (Abbé), BERNARD (Abbé)].De l'État religieux.P., 1784, in-16, rel. demi-veau, dos orné, frotté, pièce de titre, pet. mque au dos, 1 mors fendu, charnières fragiles, tranches jaunes, signet. Barbier, II, 302. 300 gr.

First edition. The Founding Treatise of Secular Science. First edition of the first work to present natural history as a continuous secular narrative, from planetary formation to the human races, and the work in which, across fifty-five years and four political regimes, the biblical chronology that had organised European natural science since antiquity ceased to be the only frame within which educated readers could discuss the age of the earth. Ernst Mayr called Buffon "the father of all thought in natural history" at his time; the DSB records that he "established the intellectual framework within which most naturalists up to Darwin worked." Buffon was appointed Intendant du Jardin du Roi in 1739 at thirty-two, and spent nearly half a century converting the royal cabinet of natural-history specimens into a compendium. At its close under Lacépède's hand in 1804 it comprised forty-four quarto volumes, more than twelve hundred engraved plates, and a style so supple that Buffon's elegies on individual species remained set texts in French lycées into the twentieth century. Uniformly bound in contemporary French mottled calf and preserving all forty-four text volumes together with the separately-issued and frequently-absent atlas to the Minéraux, the present copy is of a completeness and coherence uncommon in a publication whose fifty-five-year issue spanned four successive Parisian imprints. Within thirty years of the final volume Lyell was writing the Principles of Geology; within sixty, Darwin the Origin. The publishing history ran for fifty-five years through four imprints. The first three volumes appeared together in the autumn of 1749 from the Imprimerie Royale, sold out in six weeks, were reprinted three times within the same interval, and provoked the Sorbonne's faculty of theology into delivering Buffon a list of propositions judged heretical-to which Buffon submitted a carefully calibrated retraction while continuing to print the offending volumes unchanged. The initial prospectus of 1748 had promised fifteen volumes in three divisions; by the time Buffon died in 1788 thirty-five were in print, a thirty-sixth was on the press, and the plan of covering the vegetable kingdom had quietly been abandoned. The seventh and final Supplément appeared posthumously in 1789 through Lacépède's editorship; the fifth volume of the Minéraux, containing the Traité de l'aimant, had issued a year earlier from the Imprimerie des Bâtimens du Roi and was accompanied by a separately-issued atlas of folding maps and tables. Lacépède then continued the animal-kingdom programme with the Quadrupèdes ovipares et Serpens (1788-89), the Poissons (1798-An XII) and the Cétacées (1804). The combined output of four imprints across three generations of Parisian printers-the Imprimerie Royale, the Imprimerie des Bâtimens du Roi, the Hôtel de Thou under Panckoucke and Plassan, and Plassan imprimeur-libraire-is the reason a uniformly-bound contemporary set is uncommon. Volume I opens the series with the Premier Discours: De la manière d'étudier et de traiter l'histoire naturelle, a forty-page polemic against Linnaean classification that argues, from a position of mathematical and empirical rigour rare in the literature of the period, that species as Linnaeus conceived them were artificial abstractions imposed on the continuous variability of individuals, and that a taxonomy built on stamen-counts and pistil-counts did not correspond to nature. The attack was political as well as philosophical. Linnaeus's Systema Naturae (Leiden, 1735) had already been adopted as the common grammar of European zoology; Buffon's Discours, delivered from within the most prestigious press in France, asserted that the Swede's method was a convenience of memory mistaken for a description of the world. The volume continues with the Second Discours: Histoire et théorie de la Terre, dated by Buffon himself "à Montbard le 3 octobre 1744," which proposes a cosmogony in which the planets were struck from the sun by the oblique impact of a comet and have been cooling ever since, and with the Preuves de la théorie de la Terre, in which Buffon develops his theory across seventeen articles and provides two engraved terrestrial maps drawn under his supervision by Robert de Vaugondy fils. These arguments, delivered within a volume bearing the royal arms of France on its title-page vignette, constituted a public challenge to Mosaic cosmogony. The geological argument reached its mature form a generation later in the fifth Supplément, the Époques de la Nature (1778), published when Buffon was seventy-one. Here he proposed seven epochs of the earth's history, estimated their combined duration at roughly 75,000 years, and in unpublished manuscript notes pushed his private estimate to three million-an order of magnitude consistent with the timescales that Lyell would later extract from stratigraphy and that Darwin would require for natural selection to operate. Beyond the number, the Époques argues by accumulation: Buffon marshals fossil molluscs at Alpine altitudes, the decay of volcanic emissions, the rate at which heated iron spheres cool in Buffon's own forge at Montbard, and the distribution of living species across climate zones, and weaves these into a cumulative inductive case in which each line of evidence corroborates the others. The technique is no longer antiquarian but probabilistic; Buffon had published a French translation of Newton's Method of Fluxions in 1740, and would publish original work on geometric probability. When the Époques reached Edinburgh and Cambridge in the 1780s, it announced to Anglophone readers that the earth's antiquity had become a quantitative problem rather than a scriptural one. The core of the programme is the animal kingdom. Volumes 4 through 15 (1753-1767) treat the quadrupeds, in an arrangement that combines Buffon's natural-historical essays with Daubenton's anatomical descriptions-a division of labour Buffon defended in the Prefa.…