Charles Fay Etude sur la guerre d'Allemagne. Paris Librairie Militaire J. Dumaine 1867, in 8° 14x21cm, 1/2 reliure moderne, 179 pp, 3 cartes de champs de batailles dépliantes en fin d'ouvrage, quelques rousseurs assez peu soutenues et diffuses, cachets de bibliothèques. Liste des cartes : 1 - Théâtre des opérations en Bohème - Marche des Prussiens sur Vienne (2 toutes petites tâches) 2 - Bataille de Custozza - bataille de Königgrätz (tout petit manque de papier en bordure de la marge basse) 3 - Théâtre des opérations de l'armée du Main Bon état. Expédition très soignée avec suivi
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Tournon, 1785, 1 1 cahier. 2 pages manuscrites, marque postale: "TOURNON", cachet de cire
autres personnes citées: marquis de Pisançon, de Bosas, Henriette de Grimoard de Beauvoir du Roure de Beaumont Brison et son époux François Camille de Veyrac.Louis Charles de Fay Solignac, demeurant à Tournon était baron de Montréal.
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TEMPLETON CROCKER (Charles) - REDDING (Joseph) - [CHINA] [STOWITTS] [FAY YEN FAH] [OPERA]
Reference : 8753
Paris M. et J. de Brunoff, Editeurs, 1928. 1 volume in folio, rebound in modern full leather. Text by [Charles] Templeton Crocker. Music by Joseph Redding. Illustrated with 59 mounted color plates (53 are full-page) from paintings by Hubert Julian Stowitts; numerous vignettes and the text printed in three colors, in very good condition. No. 260 of a limited edition of 400 copies.
"A splendid large work illustrated with color plates from the art work of Hubert Julian Stowitts (1892-1953) for the decorations and costumes of the "Fay-Yen-Fah" musical, revealing the life and the habits of old China. Stowitts lived in Asia for many years where he recorded the rapidly disappearing indigenous cultures of Asia through his paintings. After returning to Europe and the United States, Stowitts opened his collections to record crowds in many of the worlds most prestigious museums. Stowitts was hailed as "Americas First Ambassador of International Culture. In 1932 he moved to southern California where he continued to paint, perform, completed book manuscripts and appeared in a several motion pictures." REMISE POSSIBLE POUR ACHAT DIRECT - DISCOUNT OFFERED FOR DIRECT SALE - PLEASE CONTACT THE BOOKSELLER FOR MORE INFORMATION
Paris / Nancy, Berger-Levrault et Cie, 1894 1 volume In-8° (13,5 x 21cm) Reliure d'époque pleine percaline granitée rouge; titre doré au dos, orné de 7 filets dorés; plats en encadrements à froid, mention dorée "Lycée Victor Hugo" au centre du 1er; gardes marbrées. 1 feuillet, 1 frontispice, VIII + 400p., 1 feuillet. Coiffe de tête un peu frottée; léger manque angulaire au 1er feuillet (garde, vierge); image découpée (sous-bois avec citation de Verlaine "Les sanglots longs [...] monotone") contrecollée sur la 1ère page (faux-titre ?); mention manuscrite de don.
Lettres de Pierre-Joseph-François BOSQUET (1810-1861), maréchal de France qui combattit en Algérie et à la guerre de Crimée, publiées par le général Charles-Alexandre FAY: choix de lettres, en majorité écrites d'Algérie (1834-1853), extraites des recueils "Lettres du maréchal Bosquet à sa mère 1829-1858" et "Lettres à ses amis" publiés à petit nombre en 1877-1879 (Pau, L. Ribaut) par la Société des Bibliophiles du Béarn (seule publication du maréchal); statue du Maréchal Bosquet sculptée par Millet de Marcilly en frontispice. Ouvrage publié à l'occasion de l'inauguration du monument érigé à Pau en l'honneur de l'illustre Béarnais; avec l'appel et la liste des membres du comité alors constitué.
P., Dumaine, 1867, in-8°, 379 pp, 14 planches hors texte dont un fac-similé dépliant, 3 cartes dépliantes in-fine, reliure demi-basane vert bouteille, dos lisse, titres et filets dorés (rel. de l'époque), rousseurs, mors en partie fendus, état correct. Edition originale rare, enrichie d'un envoi a.s.
Par le général Fay (1827-1903), Chef d'escadron d'état-major, ancien aide de camp du maréchal Bosquet. Issu de l'école militaire de Saint-Cyr, sous-lieutenant en 1847, lieutenant en 1850, il servit en Algérie. Capitaine en 1853, il participa à la guerre de Crimée et se distingua aux batailles de l'Alma (20 septembre 1854), d'Inkerman (5 novembre 1854) et du Mamelon Vert (7 juin 1855). Lieutenant-colonel en 1870, colonel en 1874, général de brigade en 1879, il fut promu général de division en 1885.
CHARMETON Georges, FAY J.-B. et Claude Louis Desrais, Jean-Charles Baquoy, Patas.
Reference : 8054
(1800)
1800 Sans lieu, ni nom , ni date( Paris, vers 1810); album factice de 32 planches montées dans un carnet in-8° obong broché, couverture de papier vert pale de réemploi ( imprimée au verso), initiales au crayon gras postérieures "JM" au 1er plat.
Modeste exemplaire, bien complet des 32 planches ( dont le titre) et dont la planche 31 est signée Desrais inv., Patas sculp., et la planche 32 est signée Baquoi sculp. Papier jauni, piqûres aux supports, couverture muette poussiéreuse. ( Reu-CH1 )
"DUFAY (DU FAY), CHARLES FRANCOIS DE CISTERNAY. - PHOSPHORESCENCE.
Reference : 46595
(1732)
(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1732). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1730"". Pp. 524-535.
First appearance of Dufay's importent work on phosphorescence.""Chemists had long been acquainted with a fes minerals like the Bologna stone (BaS) and Balduin's hermetic phosphor (plain CaS) that glowed after exposure to light. Greatmystery surrunded those expensive and supposedly rare substances. Dufay detested mysteries and held as a guiding principle that a given physical property, however bizarre, must be assumed characteristic of a large class of bodies, not of isolated species. He found that almost everything except metals and very hard gems could be made phosphorescent: he depressed the phosphor market by describing his procedure: and he became sensitive to the endless small variations in the physical properties of bodies. 'How many things behave that seemed similar, and how many varieties there are in effects that seemed identical."" (Heilbron ""Electricity in the 17 & 18 Centuries"", p. 251).Another paper attached to Dufay's paper is Charles Pitot ""Reflexions sur le Mouvement des Eaux"". Pp. 536-544 a. 1 folded engraved plate. (Poggendorff II:p. 459).Partington ""A History of Chemistry"" III, p.66
P.-Nancy, Berger-Levrault, 1889 gr. in-8°, vi-404 pp, 5e édition, revue et augmentée, une grande carte dépliante des environs de Metz hors texte, reliure demi-chagrin carmin, dos à 5 nerfs pointillés soulignés à froid, titres et doubles filets dorés (rel. de l'époque), bon état. Bel exemplaire
Paris, Nancy, Berger-Levrault, 1899 in-4, IX-46-[40] pp. de texte, avec deux grandes cartes lithographiées, entoilées et repliées, broché sous couverture imprimée et cartonnage (reliure de l'éditeur).
"Rare étude comparative, à visée plus symbolique que strictement stratégique, dans la mesure où les deux campagnes rapprochées n'ont guère en commun que leurs directions et objectifs opposés : avant l'excitation de la Grande Guerre, c'est déjà un peu le "A Berlin" contre le "Nach Paris". LIVRE NON DISPONIBLE À PARIS, VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT
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"DUFAY (DU FAY), CHARLES FRANCOIS DE CISTERNAY. - THE DISCOVERY OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CHARGE OF ELECTRICITY.
Reference : 46590
(1735)
(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1735). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1733"". Pp. 23-39, pp. 73-84, pp. 233-254 a. 1 engraved plate, pp. 457-476. With titlepage to the volume (1733/1735). Margins of titlepage with a few brownspots.
First appearance of these milestone papers in the histroy of electricity in which Dufay explains his discovery of two kinds of electricity and the relation between them, attraction and repulsion, shocks and sparking, and the full recognition of electrostatic repulsion. He formulates the two-fluid theory of electricity. He further showed that ""not all bodies can become electrified themselves"" (by friction) and went on to show, ""that they can all acquire a considerable (electrical) virtue when the tube (of rubbed) glass), wood, metals or liquids are brought near them,"", provided only that they are insulated by beiing stood on ""a support of glass or of sealing-wax"".Dufay ""TRANSFORMED A COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS WEEDS INTO THE FIRST GARDEN OF EUROPE"" (Heilbron)""Dufay's substantive discoveries - ACR, the two electricities, shocks and sparking - are but one aspect, and perhaps not the most significant, of his achievement. His insistence on the impiortence of the subject, on the universal character of electricity, on the necessity of organizing, digesting and regulariizing known facts before grasping new ones, all helped to introduce order and professionel standards into the study of electricity at precisely the moment when the accumulation of data began to require them. He foundthe subject a record of often capricious, disconnected phenomena, the domain of the polymaths, textbook writers, and prfesional lecturers, and left a body of knowledge that invited and rewarded prolonged scrutinity from serious physicists."" (Heilbron ""Electricity in the 17 & 18 Centuries"", p. 260).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1734 P - Ronalds Library, p. 145. - Not in Wheeler Gift Cat.
(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1735). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1733"". Pp. 23-39, pp. 73-84, pp. 233-254 a. 1 engraved plate, pp. 457-476. With titlepage to the volume (1733/1735).
First appearance of these milestone papers in the histroy of electricity in which Dufay explains his discovery of two kinds of electricity and the relation between them, attraction and repulsion, shocks and sparking, and the full recognition of electrostatic repulsion. He formulates the two-fluid theory of electricity. He further showed that ""not all bodies can become electrified themselves"" (by friction) and went on to show, ""that they can all acquire a considerable (electrical) virtue when the tube (of rubbed) glass), wood, metals or liquids are brought near them,"", provided only that they are insulated by beiing stood on ""a support of glass or of sealing-wax"".Dufay ""TRANSFORMED A COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS WEEDS INTO THE FIRST GARDEN OF EUROPE"" (Heilbron)""Dufay's substantive discoveries - ACR, the two electricities, shocks and sparking - are but one aspect, and perhaps not the most significant, of his achievement. His insistence on the impiortence of the subject, on the universal character of electricity, on the necessity of organizing, digesting and regulariizing known facts before grasping new ones, all helped to introduce order and professionel standards into the study of electricity at precisely the moment when the accumulation of data began to require them. He foundthe subject a record of often capricious, disconnected phenomena, the domain of the polymaths, textbook writers, and prfesional lecturers, and left a body of knowledge that invited and rewarded prolonged scrutinity from serious physicists."" (Heilbron ""Electricity in the 17 & 18 Centuries"", p. 260).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1734 P - Ronalds Library, p. 145. - Not in Wheeler Gift Cat.
(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1725). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1723"". Pp. 295-306.
First appearance of Dufay's first work. ""His first academic paper (1723), on the mercurial phosphorus, already displayed the characteristics which distinguished his later work: full command of earlier writings, clear prescriptions for producing the phenomena under study, general rules or regularities of their action, thorough study of possible complications or exceptions, and cautious mechanical explanations of a Cartesian flavor. This ""phosphor"" - the light sometimes visible in the Torricelli space when a barometer is jostled - much perplexed the physicists of the era, primarily because it did not always occur under apparently identical conditions. Dufay found that traces of air or water vapor occasioned the failures, which could be entirely eliminated with a technique of purification taught him by a German glassmaker. He explained the light in terms of Cartesian subtle matter squeezed from the agitated mercury"" although he knew the work of Francis Hauksbee (the elder), he suggested no connection with electricity.""(DSB).
P. & Nancy, Berger-Levrault, 1899, pt in-folio, ix-46 pp, Nouvelle édition refondue et augmentée. 6 tableaux à double page, 2 très grandes cartes dépliantes en couleurs, petit in-folio, reliure d'époque demi-chagrin vert, dos lisse à filets dorés (cachets, talon frotté)