‎Louis Réau‎
‎Rome‎

‎Voyages en Italie. Rome, Naples et Florence. Illustrés par les peintres du romantisme. ‎

‎ Éditions Diane de Selliers, 2002. 33 x 24,5 cm, 760 pages. Coffret réunissant les deux récits de voyage de Stendhal : Rome, Naples et Florence et Promenades dans Rome. Deux volumes reliés pleine toile sous coffret illustré, avec une plaquette d'index. Très bel exemplaire. ‎

‎Guide-Manuel du pèlerin à Rome et dans les principales villes d'Italie‎

‎Comité des Pèlerinages de La France à Rome Cartonnage souple 1926 in-12 (10,9 x 16,2 cm), cartonnage souple, xxvi-381 pages, envoi de l'auteur et avec une carte de visite du même, complet de la carte dépliante in fine ; coiffes et bords des plats usés, marques d'usage sur les plats, assez bon état général. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.‎

‎A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome and Its Vicinity, Executed From Drawings Made Upon the Spot, in 1791. 2 Parts. - [BEAUTIFUL VIEWS OF ROME]‎

‎London, 1797 + 1799. Small folio. 29,5 x 23,5 cm. Both parts bound together in a nice comtemporary brown half calf with blindstamped and gilt spine. Rebacked. The original spine missing the upper part relaid over lighter brown calf. re-enforced with green cloth at the inner hinges, which were otherwise split. Single small wormtracts to upper inner margin, far from affecting text or plates. Corners bumped and wear to extremities. Marbled edges. A bit of offsetting from some of the plates at the end, but internally generally very nice and clean. Frontispice, 2 ff. (title-page & Preface), 30 plates, 30 ff., 1 f. (contents) + 1 f (title-page), 30 plates, 30 ff., 1 f. (contents). Each of the 60 plates is followed by a leaf of axplanatory text in English and French. Fully complete with the frontispiece and all 60 plates listed in the tables of contents. ‎

‎First edition of this lovely book of views of Rome, one of the uncoloured ordinary paper copies, but with the plates in excellent quality. The work was reprinted twice, ca. 1805 and 1819, the impressions of both being very inferior to those of the first edition. Lowndes III:1537‎

‎Original handwritten manuscript-leaf in Rousseau's hand concerning Rome, the mother of Romulus and Remus, taken from Dionysos Halicarnassos. - [HANDWRITTEN NOTES BY ROUSSEAU FROM DIONYS HALICARNASSOS' WORK ON THE HISTORY OF ANTIQUITY]‎

‎(Unsigned, and no date, but penned between 1746 and 1751). 1 leaf 4to (25,5 x 19 cm), off-white paper in fine condition. Penned on both recto (21 lines) and verso (6 lines) in columns taking up half the pages. ‎

‎This magnificent manuscript leaf in Rousseau's hand constitutes notes taken from the seminal work of Dionysos Halicarnassos, on the foundation of Rome, more particularly on the story of Rome herself, the alleged mother of Romulus and Remus and how they named the city after their mother. This manuscript leaf is part of a grandiose project that Rousseau was working on with his employer Madame Dupin during his years as her secretary. The project was that of writing the history of womankind. With its focus on gender equality, the work is nothing less than pioneering and would no doubt have been a work of seminal importance in the history of feminism and women's rights, had it ever been published. The manuscript ended up comprising more than 2.000 pages, but was never printed. Louise Marie Madeline Fontaine Dupin (1706-1799) was one of the most famous salonnieres of the 18th century, renowned for the beauty as well as her intelligence. Rousseu met her in 1743 and took an instant liking to her. In 1745, she offered him the position as her private secretary and tutor to her son. During his six years in her employment, he spent most of the time working on the grandiose project of the history of women, until it was abandoned in 1751. ""In the years between 1745 and 1749 Jean Jacques Rousseau was employed by Louise Marie Madeline Dupin as a research assistant on her ambitious project to delineate in print the history of women. After years of labor by Rousseau and Madame Dupin her ""Ouvrage sur les Femmes"" was shelved, unfinished. The research notes, drafts, and fair copies written by Rousseau and his employer were stored at the chateau of Chenonceaux, essentially forgotten, until their sale at a series of auctions held between 1951 and 1958."" (Harry Ranson Center, University of Texas)‎

‎Edifices de Rome moderne ou recueil des palais, maisons, églises, couvents, et autres monuments publics et particuliers les plus remarquables de la ville de Rome‎

‎Typographie de Firmin Didot frères Relié 1840 In-4 (24 x 30 cm), reliure demi-toile, dos lisse, pièce de titre, 770 pages, texte seul, sans les planches ; dos insolé, papier reliure usé aux coupes, quelques marques d'usage sur les plats, des rousseurs à l'intérieur, par ailleurs assez bon état général. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.‎