‎POMERAND Gabriel.‎
‎LE D. MAN.‎

‎ Man Ray à Montparnasse.‎

‎ Hachette, 2001, in-8°, 318 pp, traduit de l'américain, 8 pl. de photos hors texte, notes, broché, couv. illustrée, bon état‎

‎Le Montparnasse de l'entre-deux-guerres, bien plus qu'un quartier, est un état d'esprit, et Man Ray, venu à Paris tenter sa chance en 1921 avec, pour seul bagage, son appareil photographique, en a sans doute été l'une des meilleures incarnations. Armé de son appareil, il noue des liens privilégiés avec les dadas et les surréalistes, mais n'en fréquente pas moins les autres artistes : il devient le photographe de tous et passe ainsi au travers des querelles qui divisent le milieu. Herbert Lottman le suit pas à pas dans ses rencontres avec James Joyce, Picasso, Brancusi, Breton, mais aussi avec celle que l'on a surnommée "Kiki de Montparnasse", avec Lee Miller et d'autres femmes de sa vie. Il est de toutes les virées, dans les cafés – à la Rotonde, au Dôme – ; dans les salons de Gertrude Stein ou de Paul Poiret. Mais, avant tout, Man Ray participe de manière décisive aux manifestations artistiques les plus importantes. Témoin d'abord, il est très vite devenu un acteur essentiel de la vie mondaine et artistique du quartier. Herbert Lottman, dans un récit fourmillant d'anecdotes, relate la naissance d'un photographe dont le nom est désormais indissociable de Montparnasse. ‎

‎Proiskhozhdenie chelovieska i polovoi podbor [i.e. English ""Descent of Man""]. - [FIRST TRANSLATION OF DARWIN'S 'DESCENT OF MAN' INTO ANY LANGUAGE]‎

‎S.-Peterburg, Izdanie redaktsii zhurnala ""Znanie, 1871. 8vo. In contemporary black half calf with four rasied bands and gilt lettering to spine. Corners of binding with repairs and a three cm long tear to lower front hindge. Light miscolouring throughout, especially to first 10 leaves. (2), VII, (6), 439 pp.‎

‎The exceedingly rare first Russian translation of Darwin's 'Descent of Man' published only four month after the original English. The Russian publisher was eager to have a translation published, hence this early abridged edition - two other Russian translations followed later the same year - The present translation being the very first into any language. ""The Descent of Man showed that the process of organic evolution, propelled by the struggle for existence and natural selection, applied to man no less than to the rest of the animal kingdom. It gave explicit recognition to the idea of the anthropoid origin of man. This claim surprised no one, for it was clearly hinted at in the great work of 1859 and was elaborated in Thomas Huxley's Man's Place in Nature and Vogt's Lectures on Man. Nor was it much of a surprise when three Russian translations of The Descent appeared within one year after the publication of the English original. Two general ideas represented the essence of The Descent: natural selection is not only behind the physical survival of man but also behind the evolution of cultural values"" and the differences between animal and human behavior are differences of degree rather than of kind."" (Darwin in Russian Thought) ""The Expression helped lay the foundations for a scientific study of the psychological aspect of the evolution of species. The book appeared in a Russian translation only a few months after the publication of the English original. The paleontologist Vladimir Kovalevskii was the translator, and the embryologist Aleksandr Kovalevskii was in charge of editorial tasks. In 1874 Vladimir wrote to Darwin that nearly two thousand copies of the Russian translation were sold."" "" The Expression deals much more extensively with selected aspects of human and animal behavior than with general problems of evolutionary biology. The Russian reviewers were generally impressed with Darwin's descriptions and categorizations of animal behavior. The Journal of the Ministry of Public Education was unusually profuse in praising the book's content and writing style. The reviewer commended Darwin's impartiality and avoidance of ""materialistic trappings."" Even the adherents of spiritualism could read the book, he wrote, without the least discomfort. The reviewer thought that psychologists would benefit from the information the book presented on the ""physiological"" basis of behavior. Indeed, he recommended the book to all readers interested in the scientific foundations of human behavior. The liberal journal Knowledgewas equally laudatory. It noted that the book was eminently successful on two counts: it offered a ""rational explanation"" of many expressions of human emotions, and it integrated the study of animal and human behavior into the universal process of organic evolution. In fact, no educated person could afford to ignore it.N. P. Vagner, professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at St. Petersburg University, called The Expression a book with ""great strengths and minor flaws."" The volume reminded him of Darwin's previous works, which marked ""turning points in the history of science."" The strength of the book lay much more in its suggestion of new topics for comparative-psychological research than in a presentation of a theoretically and logically integrated system of scientific thought. Insufficient exploration of the physiological underpinnings of mental activities represented the book's major shortcoming"" (Darwin in Russian Thought) In Russia Darwinism had a profound influence not only upon the different sciences, but also on philosophy, economic and political thought, and the great literature of the period. For instance, both Tolstoy and Dostoevsky referenced Darwin in their most important works, as did numerous other thinkers of the period.Like Strakhov, however, Dostoevsky, acknowledging the significance of the ""Origin of Species"", saw the dangers of the theory. In the same year as the publication of Rachinsky's translation, he lets the narrator in ""Notes from Underground"" (1864) launch his attack on Darwinism , beginning: ""As soon as they prove you, for instance, that you are descended from a monkey, then it's no use scowling, you just have to accept it.""In ""Crime and Punishment"" (two years later, 1866) the Darwinian overtones inherent in Raskolnikov's theory of the extraordinary man are unmistakable. He describes the mechanism of ""natural selection,"" where, according to the laws of nature, by the crossing of races and types, a ""genius"" would eventually emerge. In general, Darwinian themes and Darwin's name occur in many contexts in a large number of Dostoevsky's works.'Descent of Man' was transted into Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian and Swedish in Darwin's lifetime. Freeman 1107.‎

‎Proiskhozhdenie chelovieska i polovoi podbor [i.e. English ""Descent of Man""]. - [FIRST TRANSLATION OF DARWIN'S 'DESCENT OF MAN' INTO ANY LANGUAGE]‎

‎S.-Peterburg, Izdanie redaktsii zhurnala ""Znanie, 1871. 8vo. In recent half calf with four rasied bands and gilt lettering to spine. Soiling and damp stain to title-page. Light brownspotting throughout. (2), VII, (5), 439, (7) pp.‎

‎The exceedingly rare first Russian translation of Darwin's 'Descent of Man' published only four months after the original English. The Russian publisher was eager to have a translation published, hence this early abridged edition - two other Russian translations followed later the same year - The present translation being the very first into any language. ""The Descent of Man showed that the process of organic evolution, propelled by the struggle for existence and natural selection, applied to man no less than to the rest of the animal kingdom. It gave explicit recognition to the idea of the anthropoid origin of man. This claim surprised no one, for it was clearly hinted at in the great work of 1859 and was elaborated in Thomas Huxley's Man's Place in Nature and Vogt's Lectures on Man. Nor was it much of a surprise when three Russian translations of The Descent appeared within one year after the publication of the English original. Two general ideas represented the essence of The Descent: natural selection is not only behind the physical survival of man but also behind the evolution of cultural values"" and the differences between animal and human behavior are differences of degree rather than of kind."" (Darwin in Russian Thought) ""The Expression helped lay the foundations for a scientific study of the psychological aspect of the evolution of species. The book appeared in a Russian translation only a few months after the publication of the English original. The paleontologist Vladimir Kovalevskii was the translator, and the embryologist Aleksandr Kovalevskii was in charge of editorial tasks. In 1874 Vladimir wrote to Darwin that nearly two thousand copies of the Russian translation were sold."" "" The Expression deals much more extensively with selected aspects of human and animal behavior than with general problems of evolutionary biology. The Russian reviewers were generally impressed with Darwin's descriptions and categorizations of animal behavior. The Journal of the Ministry of Public Education was unusually profuse in praising the book's content and writing style. The reviewer commended Darwin's impartiality and avoidance of ""materialistic trappings."" Even the adherents of spiritualism could read the book, he wrote, without the least discomfort. The reviewer thought that psychologists would benefit from the information the book presented on the ""physiological"" basis of behavior. Indeed, he recommended the book to all readers interested in the scientific foundations of human behavior. The liberal journal Knowledgewas equally laudatory. It noted that the book was eminently successful on two counts: it offered a ""rational explanation"" of many expressions of human emotions, and it integrated the study of animal and human behavior into the universal process of organic evolution. In fact, no educated person could afford to ignore it.N. P. Vagner, professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at St. Petersburg University, called The Expression a book with ""great strengths and minor flaws."" The volume reminded him of Darwin's previous works, which marked ""turning points in the history of science."" The strength of the book lay much more in its suggestion of new topics for comparative-psychological research than in a presentation of a theoretically and logically integrated system of scientific thought. Insufficient exploration of the physiological underpinnings of mental activities represented the book's major shortcoming"" (Darwin in Russian Thought) In Russia Darwinism had a profound influence not only upon the different sciences, but also on philosophy, economic and political thought, and the great literature of the period. For instance, both Tolstoy and Dostoevsky referenced Darwin in their most important works, as did numerous other thinkers of the period.Like Strakhov, however, Dostoevsky, acknowledging the significance of the ""Origin of Species"", saw the dangers of the theory. In the same year as the publication of Rachinsky's translation, he lets the narrator in ""Notes from Underground"" (1864) launch his attack on Darwinism , beginning: ""As soon as they prove you, for instance, that you are descended from a monkey, then it's no use scowling, you just have to accept it.""In ""Crime and Punishment"" (two years later, 1866) the Darwinian overtones inherent in Raskolnikov's theory of the extraordinary man are unmistakable. He describes the mechanism of ""natural selection,"" where, according to the laws of nature, by the crossing of races and types, a ""genius"" would eventually emerge. In general, Darwinian themes and Darwin's name occur in many contexts in a large number of Dostoevsky's works.'Descent of Man' was transted into Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian and Swedish in Darwin's lifetime. Freeman 1107.‎

‎Labyrinthe. N° 1. Nouvelle série. Bunuel/Goya - Amagatsu - Britannicus - Crevel/Man Ray - Borotsky - Art Cycladique - Edmonde Charles-Roux/Roger Vivier - Thierry Mugler - Marcel Jouhandeau/Christian Bérard - Adamov/Picasso - Dubuffet.‎

‎ P., Jacques Damase Editeur, 1986, pt in-4° à l'italienne (24,4 x 22,2), 120 pp, broché, couv. illustrée à rabats illustrée d'un dessin de Jonathan Borofsky sur le premier et le troisième plat, bon état‎

‎Contributions de : - Ushio Amagatsu : Amalgames, poèmes et calligraphies. - Antoine Vitez : Photos pour Britannicus par Kiuston. - René Crevel : Le miroir aux objets. Photos de Man Ray. - Ramon Tio Bellido : Jonathan Borofsky : De un à l'infini. - David Sylvester : The Cycladic in Modern Art. - Marielle Issartel : Le Goya de Bunuel "un manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse"... - Luis Bunuel inédit : Goya, extraits d'un scénario de 1928. - Christine Armengaud : Musique et nature. - Sylvain Dubuisson : Voyage autour de ma chambre. Nouveaux objets. - Edmonde Charles-Roux : Les souliers de Roger Vivier. - Olivier Kaeppelin : Thierry Mugler, un carnet de notes. - Marcel Jouhandeau : Christian Bérard le peintre. - Arthur Adamov : La femme qui pleure. - Denis Bablet : Théâtre et peinture. - Catherine Strasser : La pensée du primitivisme chez les poètes décadents. - Jean Dubuffet : Onze lettres à René de Solier (1946). - Didier Semin : Thierry Le Moign, photos. ‎

‎Voyage dans l'Isle de Man, avec des réflexions sur l'histoire des habitans. Traduit de l'Anglais par J.P. CAIGNARD, citoyen de Rouen.‎

‎Chez Vt. Guilbert Rouen 1803 In-8 ( 205 X 130 mm ) de [4]-II-135-60-[4] pp., avec une planche en frontispice, gravée par Euphrasie PICQUENOT, plein veau fauve raciné, dos lisse orné de filets et fleurons dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin framboise, guirlande d'encadrement dorée sur les plats, coupes et coiffes filetées d'or, tranches brique. Edition originale française. Frère I, 169. Anciennes marques de possessions grattées sur le premier plat et la page de titre, bon exemplaire.‎