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Methode pour apprendre facilement la geographie contenant un abrege de la sphere, la division de la terre (...) et un traite de la navigation. Cinquieme edition revue & augmentee de plusieurs choses considerables. 2 vols.
A la Haye, Henri van Bulderen, 1704. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full sprinkled calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Traces from old paper-label on top of spines. Boards with a few stains and leather on spine cracked with parts of the gilt ornamentation worn off. With a few occassional brownspots and light marginal miscolouring, a few maps with tears. Pp. 37-66 lacking small part of paper in margin, not affexting text. (22), 575, (17) pp. (4), 292, (8), 133, (19) pp. + 1 frontispiece, 26 maps and 1 plate.
Fifth edition of this geographical manual including a treatise about the art of navigation. Jacques Robbe (1643–1721) was a French engineer and geographer. He also wrote plays under the pseudonym Barquebois. Life Born in Soissons, Robbe was educated as a lawyer. He became royal geographer,
Memoires du duc de Rohan sur les choses advenues en France. 2 vols.
Paris, Compagnie des Libraires du Palais, 1665. 12mo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Light wear to extremities, parts of gilting worn off. Small worm tract in lower outer corner of both volumes, not touching text. Otherwise internally nice and clean. (8), 352 pp. 382 pp.
Later edition of these memoires covering events in France from the assassination of Henry IV (Henry the Great) in 1610 to the peace agreement with the Huguenots in June 1629. (Brunet IV, 1354)
Histoire de la Laponie, Sa Description, L'Origine, Les Moeurs, La maniere de vivre de ses Habitans, leur Religion, leur Magie, & les choses rares du Païs. Avec pusieurs Additions & Augmentations fort curieuses, qui jusques-icy n'ont pas eté imprimée... - [THE FIRST EXTENSIVE WORK ON LAPLAND AND THE LAPPS]
Paris, Olivier de Varennes, 1678. 4to. Lovely contemporary full mottled calf with five raised bands to richly gilt spine. Spine with signs of wear and cords just showing at the front hinge. But overall very nice indeed. Internally very nice, clean, and fresh. Printed on good paper and with good margins. With the Coyet-book plate from the Torup estate to inside of front board. Engraved title, (14), 408 pp. + 1 folded engraved map, 21 engraved plates and 7 engraved illustrations in the text.
The scarce first edition of the first French translation of the first extensive work on Lapland and the Lapps. This highly important work by Johannes Schefferus - Skyttean professor of Eloquence and Government at Uppsala University and one of the most important humanists in Sweden at that time - originally appeared in Latin, in 1673 and was soon translated into French, English, German, and Dutch. It constitutes one of the earliest works on the Saami and is considered a basic source of information on Saami religion and beliefs. Scheffer had been commissioned by the King of Sweden to undertake a study of the Saami, primarily because rumors circulated widely in Europe about the heathen traditions and magic allegedly flourishing among the Lapps. The rumors were based uopn unserious and unfounded studies that the Swedish sought to correct. Schefferbased his work on both his own experiences among the Saami and the extensive collections of manuscripts and artifacts at Upsalla.
Les neuf livres des Histoires. Plus un recueil de George Gemiste dict Plethon, des choses auenues depuis la iournée de Mantinée. Le tout traduit de Grec en Francais par Pierre Salia. - [THE MONUMENTAL FIRST FRENCH EDITION OF THE HISTORIES OF HERODOTUS]
Paris, Iean Roigny, 1556. Folio. In contemporary linp vellum, with three (of four) of the original vellum ties. Binding with wear and inner hinge weak, but in completely original state, with no restorations. Only some light scattered brownspotting and a worm-tract to inner margin, just occasionally touching a few letters. Book-plate to pasted-down front end-paper. A lovely copy. (4), CCXLIII ff.
The scarce first edition of Saliat's translation of the complete Histories of Herodotus, being the extremely popular first French edition and arguably the most important French edition of the work ever published. Saliat's monumental 1556-translation of Herodutus was extremely influential end widely used and quoted. It greatly influenced the way that Herodotus was used and understood in Renaissance France. It was used by virtually all contemporary French intellectuals as the main reference - as for instance Sandys points out, it is from this that all of Montaigne's Herodotus-quotations are taken (Sandys, vol. II, p. 197). Pierre Saliat had published a small work in 1552 consisting the the first three books of Herodotus, and in 1556, his monumental translation of the complete work appeared" for the first time, all nine books were accessible in the French language. ""Little is known of Saliat's life except that he had produced two previous translations from Latin, Erasmus' ""On Methods of Instructing Children"" and a collection of Roman speeches. Both translations of Herdotus are dedicated to the king, Henry II, and Saliat notes that the work on the first three books had taken him six years to complete and that it had taken him a further five years to translate the remaining six books. In the preface to the 1556 translation, Saliat compares at length the scale and grandeur of the Persian Wars with Henry's recent invasion of Germany. Henry's deeds are portrayed as greater than those described by Herodotus... [The preface] reads as a salutary encomium of Henry's military and political prowess."" (Brill's Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond, p. 127). In short, Saliat views Herodotus' work as a manual for or collection of examples of warfare that is fully transferable to other times, rather than a mere memoralization of great deeds. Graesse: III:256.
Traité Philosophique des Loix Naturelles, ou l'on recherche et l'on établit, par la Nature des Choses, la forme de ces Loix, leurs principaux chefs, leur ordre, leur publication & leur obligation: on y refute aussi les Elemens de la Morale & de la P... - [A MAIN ATTACK ON HOBBES IN FRENCH]
Amsterdam, Chez Pierre Mortier & Paris, Chez Huart, 1744. 4to. Beautiful cont. full mottled calf with five raised bands and gilt red title-label to richly gilt back. All edges of boards gilt. A very beautiful and well preserved copy with only minor fowing to a few leaves. Half-title, beautiful engraved frontispiece (a bit ahaved at bottom, where half of the last line of text is cut away - thus not disturbing image, and all text still legible), XXVIII, (1), 435, (1, -errata), (8, -contents) pp.
First edition of the important first French translation of Cumberland's magnum opus, the highly important and influential masterpiece, which not only criticized Hobbes, absorbing and neutralizing many of his insights, but which thus also created a new political and ethical theory, which came to greatly influence later jurists and philosophers of natural law and ethics, e.g. Locke, Pufendorf, Hutcheson, and Shaftesbury, as well as much philosophy of the French Enlightenment. The present work also greatly influenced the understanding and reception of Hobbes in France and affected the French Enlightenment philosophers. ""Traité Philosophique des Loix Naturelles"", originally published in Latin in 1672, the same year as Pufendorf's ""De jure naturae et gentium"", constitutes Cumberland's earliest work, published by him at the age of 40. It was immediately read by the greatest of his contemporaries, exercised a great influence and was soon regarded as one of the three greatest works of the modern natural law tradition, together with Grotius' ""On the Law of War and Peace"" and Pufendorf's ""De jurae naturae"". In a later work Pufendorf commended the ""De legibus"" highly, and with its early utilitarian views and its doctrine of the common good as the supreme law of morality, it anticipated and influenced the direction that much ethical thought was to take in the 18th century. ""Some of the earliest utilitarian thinkers were the 'theological' utilitarians such as Richard Cumberland (1631-1718) and John Gay (1699-1745). They believed that promoting human happiness was incumbent on us since it was approved by God."" (SEP).""His combination of a strong critique of innate ideas and assertion of the moral community with God was a contributing factor in the formation of the kind of empirically based natural providentialism, or natural religious teleology, which soon became the framework or natural law thinking and, indeed, for the mainstream of Enlightenment moral thought."" (Haakonssen, Natural Law and Moral Philosophy"", p. 51).At the age of 60, the English philosopher and theologian Richard Cumberland (1631 - 1718) was appointed bishop of Peterborough (without having applied for it). Before that, he had been educated at Magdalen College in Cambridge and at the University of Oxford. He studied medicine for some time and then theology, becoming Doctor of Divinity in 1680. In 1658 he became rector of Brampton Ash in Northamptonshire, and in 1661 he became one of the 12 preachers of the university. In 1670 he became rector of All Saints at Stamford. He was known for the great effort and time that he put into his work, and it was not until his late thirties that he found time to finish the major work that he had been working on. Thus in 1672, he published his first work, his magnum opus ""De legibus naturae""( ""Traité Philosophique des Loix Naturelles""), which became famous for its vast critique of Hobbes - mainly of that which he saw as his egoistic ethics- and for its propounding of utilitarianism.The main purpose of the ""De legis naturae"" is to refute Hobbes' theories of the constitution of man, morality, origin of society, etc. and to show that the state of nature is not a state of war. According to Cumberland, man's primary end is not self-advantage, and power is not the foundation of society. He puts forth a new doctrine of morality, which is still based on natural law, but which is accompanied by a running criticism of Hobbes' views, which seem to him subversive of religion, morality, and civil society. He sees the law of nature as capable of pointing out that which will promote the common good, and he believes that the law of nature can be inferred by observing physical and mental phenomena. Thus, Cumberland agrees with Hobbes in the attempt to provide a naturalistic account of the normative force of obligation and in the attempt of establishing a rational dictate, but he opposes Hobbes in the way that these can be derived.Another edition of the present work was published simultaneously at Lausanne and Geneva, and it was published again in 1757 in Leyden. The first English translation of the work appeared in 1727, and a new translation into English followed in 1750.Brunet II:442 (only mentioning the present Amsterdam-edition and the 1757 Leyden-edition).
