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Scenes De La Vie Privee Et Publique Des Animaux. by GRANDVILLE.; Balzac, L. Baude, E. De La Bedollierr

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Title: Scenes De La Vie Privee Et Publique Des Animaux.
Author: GRANDVILLE.; Balzac, L. Baude, E. De La Bedollierr
Seller: Ursus Books (United States)
Description: 1842. GRANDVILLE, J.J. Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux. 2 volumes. [8], 386, [6]; [4], 390, [6] pp., with 201 engraved plates and 120 vignettes illustrating the text. Large 8vo, 261 x 180 mm., uniformly bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt vignettes of Grandville designs on the covers and spine. Paris: Hetzel et Paulin: 1842. First edition of a Grandville masterpiece, bound in the publisher's gilt-stamped cloth. A fantastic example of anthropomorphic illustration and an important precursor of surrealism. These illustrations represent some of Grandville's most memorable creations. Many of the plates are of single figures, but there are also satirical scenes of everyday life, monsters, animals looking at politicians caged at the zoo, etc. The texts contained herein were written by such notable authors as Balzac, Charles Nodier, George Sand, Louis Viardot and even J. Hetzel, the publisher (under the pseudonym of P.J. Stahl). Hetzel was the motivating force behind this work, which he undertook in order to "give words to Grandville's marvelous animals, and to join our pen with his pencil, thereby coming to his assistance in criticizing the aberrations of our epoch, and by preference among these aberrations, those which are of every period and every country." Gordon N. Ray writes: "Through Grandville's animals, Hetzel and his colleagues offered a witty and telling commentary on contemporary politics and personalities." Some minor rubbing, professional repair to rear hinge of Volume 2, overall clean, near fine. Ray 194. Carteret III, 552-59. Rebeyrat, Catalogue bibliographique et bibliophilique in: J.J. Grandville (1985), pp. 289-90.

Autograph Letter Signed, in French, 8vo, n.p., n.d. by CANDOLLE, AUGUSTIN PYRAMUS DE

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Title: Autograph Letter Signed, in French, 8vo, n.p., n.d.
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Description: To the curator of a museum. "For next year, Mr. Curator will kindly have his entry on the roles of doors and windows crossed out; I cannot have the trouble...twice while the work is paid nothing. He will also kindly send me...the wildflower herbarium...." Signed, "De Candolle.". De Candolle, born in Switzerland, moved to Paris in 1796. Rene Louiche Desfontaines, the French botanist and member (and later president) of the French Academy of Sciences (1783) and Academie Nationale de Medecine, launched de Candolle's botanical career [see "Scientific Papers of Asa Gray... 1889" by Gray & Sargeant, pages 292-3] by recommending him at the herbarium of Charles Louis l'Heritier de Brutelle in 1798. Within a few years de Candolle had already established a new genus and proceeded to create a new natural plant classification system. His first major publication, "Plantarum historia succulentarum" was published in sections from 1799 to 1802. It was not until 1816 that he returned to Geneva and became Chair of Natural History at the Geneva Academy. Desfontaines was also director of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. This letter could possibly be to Desfontaines or to Charles Louis l'Heritier de Brutelle whose herbarium de Candolle was working in. Heritier de Brutelle was a French botanist and magistrate with connections to the French Royal Court and this connection enabled de Candolle to become the Superintendent of Parisian Waters and Forests. Further according Frans A. Stafleu's, "L'Héritier de Brutelle: the man and his work," Sertum Anglicum, facs. ed. xiii-xliii. Hunt Botanical Library, Pittsburgh, 1963, L'Heritier was elected to full membership in the Academy of Sciences which, in 1795, became the National Institute of Sciences and Arts. During this time, he "had his library and herbarium, which he allowed free use to young botanists such as de Candolle." In 1800 L'Heritier was murdered. It is likely that at this time, de Candolle was no longer able to work in his herbarium. This letter, then, might possibly have been written between 1798 and 1800.

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF JOAN OF ARC: TRUE STORIES OF HEROINES OF THE FRENCH RESISTANCE IN WORLD WAR II by VON WALDHEIM-EMMERICK, Ragnhild Schurer

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Title: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF JOAN OF ARC: TRUE STORIES OF HEROINES OF THE FRENCH RESISTANCE IN WORLD WAR II
Author: VON WALDHEIM-EMMERICK, Ragnhild Schurer
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Description: NY: Exposition Press, 1959. First English Edition. Signed by von Waldheim-Emmerick on the front endpaper. Facsimile letter from Gen. Charles de Gaulle. 8vo., red cloth, stamped in black, in dust jacket; 153 pages. Translated From The French By Frank Gaynor.. Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight); little edgewear & rubbing d/j. A scarce book!

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