‎FALGAYRETTES-LEVEAU Christiane (édit.)‎
‎Animal.‎

‎MUYBRIDGE'S COMPLETE. HUMAN AND ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. All 78 plates from the 1887 " Animal Locomotion". Volume I. Containing Original Volumes 1 & 2 : Males (Nude). 3 & 4 : Females (Nude). Volume II. Contaiining Original Volumes. 5. Males (Pelvis Cloth). 6 : Females (Semi-Nude & Transparent Drapery) é Children. 7: Males & Females (Draped) & Miscellaneous Subjects. 8: Abnormal Movements, Males & Females (Nude & Semi-Nude). Volume III.9 Horses. 10: Domestic Animals. 11: Wild Animals & Birds. Original Prospectus & Cataloue of Plates.‎

‎New York, Dover Publications, inc. 1979 Trois volumes in-quarto, (24 x32 cm), paginaion continue 1597 pages. Plein cartonnage bradel de l'éditeur, bien complet de leur jaquette illustrée. Exemplaires en parfait état. ‎

‎Le photographe anglais Eadweard Muybridge fut un véritable pionnier de l'observation visuelle des mouvements humains et animaux. En 1872, il aida notoirement l'ancien gouverneur de Californie, Leland Stanford, à mettre fin à une polémique en photographiant un cheval au galop. Muybridge avait inventé un système complexe d'obturateurs simultanés permettant d'obtenir des arrêts sur image, et de prouver par-là pour la première fois de manière irréfutable qu'un cheval au galop décolle ses quatre sabots du sol pendant une fraction de seconde. Pendant les trente années suivantes, Muybridge poursuivit sa quête pour cataloguer intégralement de nombreux aspects du mouvement humain et animal, prenant des centaines de clichés de chevaux et d'autres animaux - et de sujets nus ou légèrement vêtus accomplissant diverses activités comme courir, marcher, pratiquer la boxe, l'escrime, ou encore descendre un escalier (c'est cette dernière étude qui inspira le célèbre tableau de 1912 de Marcel Duchamp).Ce magnifique ouvrage retrace la vie et l'oeuvre de Muybridge, de ses premières réflexions sur l'anatomie et le mouvement à ses dernières expériences photographiques. La totalité des 781 planches de son ouvrage révolutionnaire Animal Locomotion (1887) y sont reproduites. De plus, The Attitudes of Animals in Motion (1881), son premier album illustré, aujourd'hui rarissime, est reproduit ici intégralement. Une chronologie détaillée établie par le chercheur britannique Stephen Herbert jette un nouvel éclairage sur l'un des plus importants pionniers de la photographie. LES TROIS VOLUMES SONT EN TRÉS BON ÈTAT. ‎

‎Le magnétisme animal étudié sous le nom de force neurique rayonnante et circulante dans ses propriétés physiques, physiologiques et thérapeutiques.‎

‎Paris, Octave Doin / J. Lechevalier, 1887, in-8vo, XVI + 662 p. avec 82 figures, reliure post. en demi-cuir noir, plats marbrés, dos avec titre et filets en or. / Hardcover, fine copy.‎

‎‘Oeuvre remarquable d’un mesmériste. L’auteur, dans une longue suite d’expériences et d’observations, démontre qu’il existe réellement dans le corp humain une force particulière, qu’il appelle force neurique, identique à l’action du magnétisme animal, analogue à l’éléctricité’.Le magnétisme animal (1773), aussi appelé mesmérisme, est un ensemble d'anciennes théories et pratiques thérapeutiques qui se développèrent de la fin du xviiie siècle à la fin du xixe siècle en Occident et qui eurent un impact important sur le développement de la médecine, de la psychologie et de la parapsychologie (Wikipédia). Image disp.‎

‎Microphotographies du réseau capillaire de l'animal et de l'homme prises sur le vivant. 2 volumes. T.1: Images normales et pathologiques des plus petits vaisseaux sanguins mésentériques du mammifère. Avec un aperçu historique sur la microscopie de l'appareil circulatoire, pratiqué sur l'animal. T.2: Images normales et pathologiques des très petits vaisseaux de la peau humaine. Avec un aperçu du développement de la microscopie clinique des capillaires. ‎

‎Bâle, C.H. Boehringer Sohn GMBH, 1960, in-8vo, t.1: 28 p. ill. dont 31 planches (recte: 26, il y a en plus les planches 6 b, 7 b, 18 b, 23 b, 24 b). + 6 p. de bibliographie. T.2: 38 p. ill. dont 40 planches + 9 p. de bibliographie. reliure en toile originale (+ jaquette rhodoïd pour le T.2),‎

‎Kolhosp Tvaryn(i.e. “a Collective Farm of Animals” - being Animal Farm). - [FIRST UKRANIAN TRANSLATION OF ANIMAL FARM - WITH THE ONLY SURVIVING PREFACE TO THE WORK BY ORWELL HIMSELF]‎

‎(Munich), Prometheus, (1947). Original printed pictorial wrappers. In excellent condition with just slight edge wear and a small bump to upper capital. Internally also en very nice condition. Bookseller stamp to front free end-paper: Ukranian Book Store, Edmonton, Alberta. With portrait of Orwell after the preface.‎

‎Scarce first edition of the first Ukrainian translation of Animal Farm, being the only edition of Orwell’s masterpiece with a personal preface written by the author. Needless to say, Animal Farm constitutes one of the most important literary works of the 20th century. The satirical-political masterpiece magnificently reflects the events leading up to the Russian Revolution and brilliantly caricatures Stalinism. As Orwell himself put it, with this work, he deliberately tried ""to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole"". (Orwell, ""Why I Write""). Animal Farm brilliantly portrays not only the corruption of the revolution, but also how traits of human character themselves corrupt society. The greatest flaw of revolution is not the corrupt leadership on its own, but also the greed, indifference, ignorance, shortsightedness, wickedness, etc. that govern the individuals that make up the masses. George Orwell’s (1903-1950) Animal Farm was translated into Ukrainian by Ihor Ševcenko (1922-2009) – a Polish-born Ukrainian scholar, at the time residing in Germany – under the pseudonym Ivan Cherniatyns’kyi. The book was published by the Ukrainian publisher Prometheus in Munich in 1947. The Ukrainian title, Kolhosp Tvaryn (i.e. eng.: “A Collective Farm of Animals”) – a reference to Stalin’s collective farms (kolkhozy) – is deliberately not a literal translation, and “[a] brief examination of Ševcenko’s translation reveals that while his choices were distinctly loyal to the original English text, they simultaneously deepen the political allegory and expand the fairy tale tradition of the novel by domesticating certain aspects of the text through specific references to the Soviet Union and Ukrainian folktales.” (Gor, 2025, p. 18). The text “offered momentary solidarity, unity, and comfort to displaced Ukrainians through its loyal translation and parallel intentions between the source text and the translation” (Gor, 2025, pp. 3-4). At the time of the publication of Animal Farm, Ševcenko was regularly participating in the intellectual spheres of the Ukrainian Displaced Persons camps in Munich. There, he began sight-translating (i.e. without preparation) Animal Farm for camp residents. In April 1946, he wrote to Orwell requesting permission to publish the novel in Ukrainian. Among other things, he wrote to Orwell that ""‘Soviet refugees were my listeners. The effect was striking. They approved of almost all your interpretations. They were profoundly affected by such scenes as that of animals singing ""Beasts of England"" on the hill. Here I saw that apart from their attention being primarily drawn on detecting ""concordances"" between the reality they lived in and the tale, they visibly reacted to the absolute values of the book, to the tale types, to the underlying convictions of the author and so on. Besides, the mood of the book seems to correspond with their own actual state of mind... [T]he attitude of the Western World in many recent issues roused serious doubts among our refugees, who wondered how it were possible that nobody “knew the truth”’...Your bookhas solved the problem."" (Szewczenko to Orwell, 11 April 1946, XVIII, 236). Orwell immediately agreed to the translation, refused any royalties, and later also agreed to write a preface for it (Tatara, 2012"" Gor, 2025, p. 14). ""Although ‘frightfully busy’ Orwell did write this preface, which forever remained his most detailed explanation of the motives behind the “fairy story”. (Masha Karp: On the Ukranian Trnaslation of Animal Farm, the Orwell Foundation, 2022). The Ukrainian edition is especially interesting, not only because of its genesis, but also because it is the only edition of Orwell’s masterpiece with a personal preface written by the author, with the most detailed explanation of the motives behind the Animal Farm. In this context, it is worth noting that Orwell’s original version of the preface in English has been lost, and the only version surviving is the one he wrote for the Ukrainian translation. For the first edition in English, Orwell had intended to include his essay “Freedom of the Press” as a preface, but this was possibly rejected by the publishers. Overall, Orwell faced many obstacles when first publishing Animal Farm: It was rejected for almost a year by publishers, afraid of the criticism of England’s Soviet ally (Gor, 2025), and a preface never appeared. The small Ukranian printing press Promethius managed a print-run of 5.000 copies of the first edition of the Ukranian translation, but a mere 2.000 ended up being distributed throughout DP camps in and around Munich. The remaining copies were confiscated by the US military, who feared that it would be considered anti-Soviet propaganda and would jepardize the relationship with Stalin as the ally, who had helped defeat Hitler. The Americans thus handed over the confiscated copies to the Soviet authorities, who desctroyed them. Animal Farm was written between late 1943 and early 1944, when the wartime alliance with the Soviet Union was at its height and Stalin was held in highest esteem in Britain, among both the people and intelligentsia. Not surprisingly, it was initially rejected by both British and American publishers, and the publication of it was thus delayed. When it did appear, it became a great commercial success, however, probably not least due to the soon to follow Cold War. In his Ukranian preface, Orwell explains that 'It was of the utmost importance to me that people in Western Europe should see the Soviet régime for what it really was. Since 1930 I had seen little evidence that the USSR was progressing towards anything that one could truly call Socialism. On the contrary, I was struck by clear signs of its transformation into a hierarchical society, in which the rulers have no more reason to give up their power than any other ruling class. ""Having explained ‘why ‘totalitarianism is completely incomprehensible… to the workers and intelligentsia in a country like England’, Orwell named as the aim of his book ‘the destruction of the Soviet myth …essential’, he insisted, ‘for a revival of the Socialist movement’. (Orwell Foundation, 2022). The work is generally considered one of the best and most influential literary productions of the 20th century. The original subtitle ""A Fairy Story"" was dropped when the book was published in the United States, and all but one of the translations omitted it. References: Chalupa, Andrea (2012, March 7). How ‘Animal Farm’ Gave Hope to Stalin’s Refugees. Andrea Chalupa. Tatara, Halyna. (2012, July 31). George Orwell and the Ukrainian refugees: the untold story of Animal Farm. Ukrainian Institute London. The Orwell Foundation. (2022, March 15). Masha Karp on the Ukrainian translation of Animal Farm. The Orwell Foundation. The Orwell Foundation. Preface to the Ukrainian Edition of Animal Farm. Gor, Diana. (2025). Found in Translation: George Orwell's Animal Farm in Ukrainian. [Capstone project, Stanford University]. ‎

‎Une Guérisseuse mystique moderne - Eugénie Isaeff-Jolivet. Etude sur ses facultés métanormales suivie d’un Appendice. (suivi par:) Les preuves de l’existence du magnétisme animal.‎

‎Lausanne, Henri Held, 1926, in-8vo, 204 p., avec illustrations in- et h.-text, brochure originale, bon état.‎

‎Première édition d’un importante étude sur le magnétisme animal. Un des premiers ouvrages d'Edouard Bertholet (1883-1965) médecin suisse. Image disp.‎