De la rochefoucauld du duc (11 Ergebnisse)

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Couverture rigide. Zustand: Très bon. François de MARCILLAC DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD REFLEXIONS OU SENTENCES ET MAXIMES MORALES Texte collationné sur l'édition de Paris de 1678 suivi des Maximes posthumes et de lettres originales 1983, Paris, Edition Jean de Bonnot Format : In-8 (21 x 14,5 cm), relié, LXXV-359 pages Reliure plein cuir de mouton havane décoré de motifs gaufrés, dos orné, titre doré à l'or fin 22 carats, tête de tranche dorée, signet illustré de gravures de deux gravures en frontispice et bandeaux Imprimé sur papier vergé filigrané à la forme ronde Etat : dorure parfaite, reliure solide, papier bien blanc, bel exemplaire poids : 1,1 kg. …

Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. ROD0096485: 1970. In-8. Relié plein cuir. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Mors fendus, Intérieur frais. 359 pages. Frontispice en noir et blanc. Bandeaux en noir et blanc en début de chapitre. Tranches rouges. Un signet. Contre-plats jaspés. Page ex-libris vierge. Dos à 5 nerfs. Epidermures. Dorures sur le dos. Illustrations incrustées sur les plats. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.091-XX ème siècle.…

Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. RO40152001: 1957. In-12. Relié plein cuir. Bon état, Couv. partiel. décollorée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 313 pages. Quelques rousseurs sur la tranche. . . . Classification Dewey : 94.4-Editions numérotées.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good ++. [xii] 345pp. Half-bound w marbled boards and calf. Raised bands to spine and gilt decoration, Marbled eps and edges and ribbon marker. Some foxing mainly to first few pages, otherwise still clean, tight and bright, a lovely copy.

Couverture souple. Zustand: bon. RO30102513: 1880. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Plats abîmés, Manque en coiffe de tête, Intérieur acceptable. 173 pages. Quelques traces de crayon rouge, n'altérant pas la lecture. Déchirures sur le deuxième plat, n'altérant pas la lecture. . . . Classification Dewey : 840-Littératures des langues romanes. Littérature française.…

Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. RO30085990: 1880. In-18. Cartonné. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 173 pages. Dos coins toilés rouge. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.091-XX ème siècle.

Large softback (26.5cm x 19.5cm). Text in French. 157pp, some pages uncut, illus with b/w plates. Clean copy with no previous ownership inscriptions or annotation. Some light foxing, creasing and handling wear to covers. Overall a Good, Sound copy. (SHELF 203 BOX 6) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.…

Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. RO40244035: 1818. In-8. Relié demi-cuir. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos frotté, Mouillures. 300 pages. Texte en grec, en français et en anglais en regard. Titre, fleurons et filets dorés sur le dos. Etiquette de code sur la couverture. Quelques tampons de bibliothèque. Ex-Libris illustré d'une gravure en noir et blanc (Armoiries, F. Duilhé de Saint-Projet) et fichette de bibliothèque au dos du premier plat. Annotations en page de garde. Epidermures sur le dos. Rousseurs. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.04-XVII ème siècle.…

194 x 122 mm. (7 5/8 x 4 3/4"). 2 p.l., 540 pp.With extensive explanatory footnotes by Benjamin Franklin. Contemporary cat's paw calf, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with pomegranate centerpiece, volute cornerpieces, brown morocco label, marbled endpapers. With the Great Seal of the United States on title page. A PRESENTATION COPY: the title page with contemporary ink note (in Latin), dated 1783, stating that this book was the gift of the Duc de La Rochefoucauld, who translated the American documents from "idiomatic English" into French. Livingston, "Franklin's Press at Passy," pp. 181-88; Howes C-716; Sabin 16118; Streeter sale II:1035. Thin strip missing from head of spine, backstrip rather dried, joints, edges, and corners a bit rubbed, leather a little pitted from acid treatment (as usual), other minor external defects, but the binding agreeable as an original, unrestored survival. First two and last two leaves a little foxed and soiled (minor foxing in a number of other places), but the text quite fresh and generally clean and appealing. This is an especially desirable copy of a work containing founding documents of the American republic in French, an important language for the international community, the book apparently being a gift--as indicated on the title page--from the translator. The volume represents a collaboration between compiler Benjamin Franklin, the man the U.S. State Department considers "America's first diplomat," and translator Louis Alexandre de La Rochefoucauld (1743-92), an important French aristocrat who was an enthusiastic supporter of the American Revolution. The book contains the state constitutions of the original 13 states, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation (precursor to the U.S. Constition), and the treaties between the United States and France, the Low Countries, and Sweden. Printer, polymath, and Founding Father Franklin (1706-90) explained the motivation behind this work to Thomas Mifflin, president of the Confederation Congress, in a letter of 25 December 1783: "The extravagant Misrepresentations of our Political State, in foreign Countries, made it appear necessary to give them better Information, which I thought could not be more effectually and authentically done than by publishing a Translation into French, now the most general Language in Europe, of the Book of Constitutions which had been printed by Order of Congress. This I accordingly got well done. It has been well taken, and has afforded [a] Matter of Surprise to many, who had conceived mean Ideas of the State of Civilization in America, and could not have expected so much political Knowledge and Sagacity had existed in our Wilderness. And from all Parts I have the Satisfaction to hear that our Constitutions in general are much admired. I am persuaded that this Step will not only tend to promote the Emigration to our Country of substantial People from all Parts of Europe, by the numerous Copies I shall dispense, but will facilitate our future Treaties with Foreign Courts, who could not before know what kind of Government and People they had to treat with." Franklin called on his friend Louis Alexandre de La Rochefoucauld (1743-92) to translate the documents, with Franklin providing corrections and clarifications, often included here as footnotes. According to Livingston, Franklin had 100 copies of the work printed in quarto for presentation to various European dignitaries, and had 50 of the octavo copies bound in calf. As our copy is noted to be the gift of La Rochefoucauld, it seems possible that it was one of those 50. This publication had one more distinction, noted by Livingston: it contains the first appearance in any printed book of the Great Seal of the United States, adopted by Congress in 1782. The First Collected Edition in French of the Constitutions of the U.S. States. ONE OF 500 COPIES of the regular issue (and 100 Large Paper Copies; this apparently one of the 50 regular copie.…

188 x 104 pp. (6 3/4 x 4 1/4"). XL, 290 pp., [1] leaf.Preface and notes by J.-F. Thénard. With the autobiographical essay "Self-Portrait by Himself" from the 1665 first edition, the introductions to the 1665 and the 1678 (fifth) editions, maxims removed from earlier editions, and the posthumously published essays "Reflections." EXQUISITE DARK BROWN MOROCCO, EXUBERANTLY GILT IN THE FANFARE STYLE, BY ZAEHNSDORF (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in, blind Exhibition stamp on rear doublure), covers with fillet border enclosing a panel with central oval strapwork medallion surrounded by rows of geometric ornaments, with sprays of leafy fronds connecting them and filling the space between, raised bands, spine compartments with central geometric ornament with leafy cornerpieces, gilt lettering, turn-ins with gilt fillets accented with leaf sprigs, crimson silk doublures and free endleaves, all edges gilt. Printer's device on title page. Front flyleaf with quote (in French) from the text ["It is more necessary to study men than to study books"] and "Christmas 1895" written in ink; recto of rear free endleaf with Taplow Court library label of William Grenfell, Baron Desborough. âMinor soiling to flyleaves, very faint browning to edges of leaves, otherwise very fine, the text clean and fresh, and in a virtually unworn binding bright with gilt. This comprehensive edition of the French moralist's famed collection of epigrams is offered here in a binding done in the fanfare style popular when this work was first printed. After a turbulent youth of court intrigue and aristocratic rebellions against King Louis XIII, François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-80) settled into a quiet life in the Parisian salons of Madame de Sablé, Madame de Sévigné, and Madame de La Fayette. It was among this intellectual, witty society that he honed the pithy epigrams that would have such an influence on French literature and culture. As the Oxford Companion notes, "The high degree of polish in the phrasing of the 'Maximes,' which excel in conciseness, precision, and appropriateness of expression, is to some extent due to discussions among his friends . . . . The work is a collection of some 500 gnomic sentences in which the author analyses the motives of human conduct with merciless penetration. While he recognizes in rare cases the existence of pure virtue and disinterested sentiments, he finds them tainted, almost universally, with some element of self-love or interested motive." Voltaire drew on La Rochefoucauld's views when writing "Candide," and the "Maximes" impacted the works of French writers from Stendhal to André Gide, as well as philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and English novelist Thomas Hardy. The duke's worldview would have resonated with former owner William Grenfell, Baron Desborough (1855-1945), a sportsman and indefatigable public servant who was one of the founding members of The Souls (fl. 1886-1900), an elite group of friends whose social gatherings for intellectual discussions were perhaps Victorian London's closest approximation of a Parisian salon. Although other members included prominent and accomplished men and women, it was the parties given by Grenfell's wife and fellow Soul Ettie that attracted guests like Vita Sackville-West, H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, Edward VII (when Prince of Wales), and Winston Churchill. One can easily imagine one of the Souls presenting this volume to the Grenfells for Christmas in 1895. By one of the great London workshops, the binding here is a modified example of the fanfare style of decoration popular in France from the late 16th to mid-17th century. The main features of this style, in Glaister's words, "are interlacing ribbons" that form "compartments of various shapes, with emphasis given to a central compartment." Ornaments made with small hand tools "fill all the compartments except the central one and almost completely cover the sides." The fanfare style is perhaps most frequently.…