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AXEL (Alice).
Poème.
S.l.n.d. [ca 1950]. in 4°, en feuilles, chemise. (2)ff., menus défauts à la chemise.
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gravure de Hélène Azenor. ÉDITION ORIGINALE. Tirage limité à 5 exemplaires numérotés. L'édition a été faite entièrement à la main par Hélène Azenor (1910-2010).Axel et Azenor publièrent en 1947-1948 la revue Le Potomak. Azenor a également illustré la Chute de la maison Usher.
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Les Calamités, ou le Bombardement de Copenhague: Poème héroïque en trois Chants, avec un préliminaire, et des Notes historiques. Présentes à sa Majesté Frédéric VI, ... Et précédé de la Paix de Tilsit : poème héroïque en deux Chants, &c. Adressé à......
Copenhague, Seidelin, 1808. Clothbacked boards. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper board. Stamp on htitle. (4),141,(3) pp. Internally clean, printed on good paper.
First edition.
Wilhelmine, Poeme heroi-comique.
Leipzig, Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1769. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Corner's bumped and small paper label pasted on to top spine, otherwise fine and clean. (14), 118 pp. and 7 full page plates including in the pagination. Printed on good paper.
First French translation of Thummel’s famous ""Wilhelmine"", regarded by many as German literature’s finest example of a mock epic produced in the wake of Pope's “Rape of the Lock”.
Anacréon, Sapho, Bion et Moschus, traduction nouvelle en prose, suivie de la Veillée des fêtes de Vénus, et d'un choix de pièces de différens auteurs (+) Héro et Léandre Pöeme de Musée. - [""AMONG THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOKS OF THE CENTURY""]
Paris, Le Boucher, 1773 & 1774 4to (228 x 156 mm). Bound in a very beautiful, a bit later, light brown full grained morrocoo binding with five raised bands, richly gilt spines, gilt lines to boards, inner gilt dentelles and gilt capitals. All edges gilt. Binding by 'Sture Falks Bogbinderi', Lund, Sweden. Housed in a slipcase. Ex-libris to pasted down front end-paper (Maurice B. Worms) and to front free end-paper (Per Erik & Ludmilla Lindahl). A very nice and clean copy. (4), IV, 280, XVI, 104 pp. + 2 frontispieces, 12 headers and 13 tailpieces by Eisen, engraved by Massard and Duclos.
First edition of Moutonnet's translation of Anacreon illustrated by Duclos after Eisen - widely considered to be ""One of the most charmingly illustrated books of the eighteenth century"" (Salomons). Sander 17 Cohen 79: ""l'un des livres les plus élégamment illustrés du XVIIIe siècleFürstenberg 92: ""The Anakreon from 1773 is on the same level (as the illustrations for 'Le Temple de Gnide' from 1772) and must also be counted among the most beautiful books of the century.""
Olivier. Poëme. Paris, Lemerre, 1876.
Bound uncut in a private green fullclothbinding with a large stain on front-cover and some minor water-foxing on the bottom of both covers. Internally some brown spots.
First edition with a dedication from the author: ""A moy Ami Emile Rochard,/ de tout coeurs,/ Francois Coppee."" And with two original, autographed handwritten letters both for ""Cher Ami."" The first one is dated ""Mercredi"", 1 page 12mo. The letter is about some friends of the author, among other things he asks if the receiver of the letter can find ""une petite loge"" for one of his friends. The other letter is dated ""11 Juillet."", 1 page 8vo. It seems that the receiver of the letter is by the theatre and Coppee recoments him ""l'auteur d'un drame"" called M. Louis Dumid(?)...
Le cantique des Cantiques. Traduit de l'Hebreu. Avec une étude sur le plan, l'age et le caractere du poeme. Sixième édition, revue et corrigée.
Paris, Calmann Levy, 1891. Royal 8vo. Uncut in the orig. wrappers. Back a bit worn, tears to hinges. A bit loose. Internally fine. (4), XIV, (2), 210, (2) pp.
Ernest Renan (1823-1892) was a French philologist, philosopher and historian. His father died when he was aged five, and his mother wanted him to become a priest. Until he was about 16 years old, he was trained by the Church, but due to his investigative and truth-seeking nature as well as his studies (e.g. Hebrew), he was in doubt as to the historical truth of the Scriptures, and with the help of his sister he chose his own path in life. ""He studied intensively the languages of the Bible and filled a number of minor academic positions, frequently encountering difficulties because of the heterodoxy and outspokenness of his religious opinions."" (Printing and the Mind of Man 352). In 1840 he began studying philosophy and later philology, in 1847 he took his degree as Agrégé de Philosophie and became master at the Lycée of Vendome. After having returned from a mission to Italy in the year 1850 where he gathered material for his historical-philosophical masterpiece, ""Averroës et l'Averroisme"", he was offered employment at the ""Bibliothèque Nationale"" (at the manuscript department). In 1861 he was chosen to become professor of Hebrew at the Collège de France, but because the emperor refused to ratify the appointment (inspired by the Clerical party), he was not established in the chair untill 1870. In 1878 he was elected for the Academy. Renan is considered a scolar of the greatest excellence and an impressive writer.
