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COURT DE GEBELIN (Antoine) - Monde primitif analysé et comparé avec le monde moderne ou recherches sur les antiquités du monde - Paris ; L'auteur, Boudet, Valleyre l'aîné, Saugrain, Ruault, puis l'auteur, Valleyre et Sorin, 1773-1782 - 9 volumes In-4° - The work is composed of several titles with their respective title pages or false titles : Tome I : Plan général et raisonné. Oriental allegories [...]. The primitive World [...] considered in its allegorical genius [...] - Volume II : The primitive World [...] considered in the Natural History of the Word or Origin of the language and the writing - Volume III : The primitive World [...] considered in the Natural History of the Word or Universal and comparative Grammar - Volume IV : The primitive World [...] considered in the Civil, religious and allegorical History of the calendar or almanac - Volume V : The primitive World [...considered in the Greek origins or Etymological Dictionary of the Greek language - Volume VI : The primitive World [...] considered in the Latin origins or Etymological Dictionary of the Latin language (1st part) - Volume VII : The primitive World [...] considered in the Latin origins or Etymological Dictionary of the Latin language (2nd part) - Volume VIII : The primitive World [...] considered in the French origins or Etymological Dictionary of the French language - Volume IX : The primitive World [...]considered in various objects concerning History, Coat of Arms, Coins, Games, Phoenician Travels around the World, American Languages, etc. or Dissertations mêlées (volume I only, the 2nd never published) - Small worm gallery ending in a pinhole in the inner margin of the first 14 leaves of volume I, 1 strong aureole with some small moulds in fine in volume III, aureole in the upper margin of some leaves in volume V, 1 other in the upper margin in volume VII, some yellowed leaves - 4 engraved frontispieces (out of 5), 11 headbands (6 by Marillier) 44 plates including 20 folding ones and 2 large folding maps in frontispiece - Uniform binding early XIXth century half tan basane (minor spotting to the papers of the boards) - Smooth spines decorated with gilded fleurons and eagles (rare spotting) - Title and tomato parts in maroon morocco - Sides speckled with red - A good copy of the rare first edition of this monumental work which remained unfinished, focused on mythology and the search for a universal language, by the protestant, freemason and physiocrat Court de Gébelin.
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COURT DE GEBELIN (Antoine) - Monde primitif analysé et comparé avec le monde moderne ou recherches sur les antiquités du monde - Paris ; L'auteur, Boudet, Valleyre l'aîné, Saugrain, Ruault, puis l'auteur, Valleyre et Sorin, 1773-1782 - 9 volumes In-4° - The work is composed of several titles with their respective title pages or false titles : Tome I : Plan général et raisonné. Oriental allegories [...]. The primitive World [...] considered in its allegorical genius [...] - Volume II : The primitive World [...] considered in the Natural History of the Word or Origin of the language and the writing - Volume III : The primitive World [...] considered in the Natural History of the Word or Universal and comparative Grammar - Volume IV : The primitive World [...] considered in the Civil, religious and allegorical History of the calendar or almanac - Volume V : The primitive World [...considered in the Greek origins or Etymological Dictionary of the Greek language - Volume VI : The primitive World [...] considered in the Latin origins or Etymological Dictionary of the Latin language (1st part) - Volume VII : The primitive World [...] considered in the Latin origins or Etymological Dictionary of the Latin language (2nd part) - Volume VIII : The primitive World [...] considered in the French origins or Etymological Dictionary of the French language - Volume IX : The primitive World [...]considered in various objects concerning History, Coat of Arms, Coins, Games, Phoenician Travels around the World, American Languages, etc. or Dissertations mêlées (volume I only, the 2nd never published) - Small worm gallery ending in a pinhole in the inner margin of the first 14 leaves of volume I, 1 strong aureole with some small moulds in fine in volume III, aureole in the upper margin of some leaves in volume V, 1 other in the upper margin in volume VII, some yellowed leaves - 4 engraved frontispieces (out of 5), 11 headbands (6 by Marillier) 44 plates including 20 folding ones and 2 large folding maps in frontispiece - Uniform binding early XIXth century half tan basane (minor spotting to the papers of the boards) - Smooth spines decorated with gilded fleurons and eagles (rare spotting) - Title and tomato parts in maroon morocco - Sides speckled with red - A good copy of the rare first edition of this monumental work which remained unfinished, focused on mythology and the search for a universal language, by the protestant, freemason and physiocrat Court de Gébelin.
