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Kuhn Malvezzi
2005
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MISCELLANEOUS AUTHORS Kuhn Malvezzi 2005 Illustrated monographic catalog published on the occasion of the exhibitions held at Aedes West, Berlin (May 12-June 16, 2005) and Landesmuseum Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (May 12-July 3, 2005) 18 x 18 cm Without number of pages Defects

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MISCELLANEOUS AUTHORS Kuhn Malvezzi 2005 Illustrated monographic catalog published on the occasion of the exhibitions held at Aedes West, Berlin (May 12-June 16, 2005) and Landesmuseum Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (May 12-July 3, 2005) 18 x 18 cm Without number of pages Defects

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Estim. 180 - 350 EUR

Set of 6 books on Chad and Sudan: 1. REIBELL (General Emile): Le commandant Lamy d'après sa correspondance et ses souvenirs de campagne (1858-1900). Algeria - Tunisia - Tonkin - Sahara - Congo - Madagascar - Sudan. With a heliogravure portrait and eleven maps accompanying the text. Second edition. Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1903. One volume. 15.5 by 24 cm. (6)-XVII-(1)-576-(3) pages + 11 folding maps h.t. Modern full cloth, basane title-piece on spine, inside front cover (soiled). False title stained. Otherwise a good copy. Portrait missing. 2. BARATIER (Colonel Albert-Ernest-Augustin): A travers l'Afrique. Crowned work by the Académie française. Illustrated after drawings by Gaston de Burggraff, photographs, maps and sketches by the author. Paris, Arthème Fayard & Cie, s.d. [ca 1910]. One volume. 18 by 27 cm. 1 portrait-206-(1) pages. Contemporary red half cloth with corners. Wear to edges, endpaper trimmed to remove old ownership. Two leaves slightly damaged at corner tip, small stain on one page-lower margin of 2 ff. slightly damaged (lower corner tip) but not missing, small blue ink stain on p. 179, very small wetness in upper margin of last 20 leaves. In-text illustrations, including 21 full-page illustrations and 6 maps. First edition. Numa Broc, Les explorateurs français. Afrique, p. 15. In June 1895, the author took part in the "Congo-Nil" expedition, commanded by Captain Marchand, with whom he had befriended. 3. LENFANT (Commandant Eugène): La grande route du Tchad. Mission de la Société de géographie. Preface by M. Le Myre de Vilers. Introduction by Maurice Albert. Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1905. One volume. 16 by 25 cm. 1 portrait-(6)-XIV-(2)-287-(1) pp. + 1 folding map h.t. in color. Contemporary red half-basane with corners, 5-rib spine, gilt head. Small tear on one nerve, otherwise very good condition. In-text illustrations, including 27 plates and a map. N. Broc, Dict. illustré des explorateurs français du XIXe siècle. Afrique, pp. 199-201. "In 1902, Lenfant was entrusted with a new mission [...]. The aim of the expedition was to find an easier, faster and more economical route to Chad than the Ubangi and Congo routes". (N. Broc). Richly illustrated with reproductions of photographs. 4. CASATI (Gaetano): Ten years in Equatoria. The return of Emin Pacha and the Stanley expedition. Translated with the author's permission by Louis de Hessem and enriched with 170 engravings and 4 maps. Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1892. One volume. 17.5 by 27 cm. 1 portrait-XI-(1)-498 pp. + 4 maps h.t. (3 on double page) + 66 plates. Contemporary red half-chagrin with corners, 5-rib spine, gilt head. Worn edges, otherwise very good condition. In-text illustrations. First edition in French. Italian explorer whose work, "a mine of information of the highest value, corroborates, explains or invalidates on various points the famous works of Stanley and Mounteney Jephson". (A. de Claparède, Le Globe, revue genevoise de géographie 1902, vol. 41). 5. KLOBB (Colonel Jean-François-Arsène): Dernier cahier de route. French Sudan. Official report by Governor Bergès on the end of the Klobb mission. Preface by Jules Lemaitre. Paris, Ernest Flammarion, s.d. [1905]. One volume. 10.5 by 17.5 cm. (4)-VIII-292-(1) pages. Contemporary red bradel percaline. References in blue pencil and pen on title page, otherwise very good condition. First edition. Paule Brasseur, Bio-bibliographie générale du Mali, n° 3305. Lieutenant-Colonel Klobb stayed in Timbuktu, then was sent in search of the Voulet-Chanoine expedition, famous for the cruelty of the massacres it perpetrated. Voulet and Chanoine, joined by Klobb, opened fire and Klobb was killed. 6. PÉROZ (Etienne): Au Soudan français. Souvenirs de guerre et de mission. Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1889. One volume. 13 by 21 cm. (6)-467 pp. + 3 maps on 1 folding f. h.t. Contemporary half-chagrin, 5-rib spine nicely decorated, ex. de prix de la Ville de Paris. Scattered brown spots, endpaper missing. First edition. Paule Brasseur, Bibliog. générale du Mali 3191. "Account of the mission led by Captain Péroz in 1886-87, which led to the treaty signed with Samori at Bissandougou. Historical reminder of the 3 previous campaigns, particularly when Péroz commanded Niagassola." (P. Brasseur).

Estim. 180 - 300 EUR

Collection of 4 books on alternative therapies: 1 (Moxa). MOREL (Jean-Baptiste): Mémoire et observations sur l'application du feu au traitement des maladies; guérison d'une maladie du foie opérée par le moxa; suivis de vues générales sur la médecine, et de quelques préceptes en forme d'aphorismes. Paris, Le Normant, 1813. One volume. 12.5 by 19.5 cm. 315-(2) pages. Contemporary black half morocco, smooth spine. Copy in very good condition. First edition. Quérard VI-p. 302. 2. BACHER (Georges-Frédéric): Recherches sur les maladies chroniques, particulièrement sur les hydropisies, et sur les moyens de les guérir. Paris, Veuve Thiboust et Didot Le Jeune, 1776. One volume. 12 by 19.5 cm. (4)-XL-XV-(1)-724-(2) pages. Contemporary full marbled calf, 5-rib spine, ornate caissons, triple gilt framing of boards, all edges gilt. A 5 cm split on the upper spine, two corners slightly worn. Minor interior spotting. Pp. 629 to 675: Catalogue of writings on dropsy in alphabetical order of academic collections and authors. First edition. Conlon 76: 669; Blake p. 26; Wellcome II-p. 81. "Bacher (Georges-Frédéric), physician, 1709-1798, settled in Thann, where he practiced from 1741 to 1770 [...]. He specialized [...] in the treatment of dropsy, which he claimed to cure with tonic pills composed of 2/7 black hellebore, 2/7 myrrh and 3/7 powdered blessed charcoal. Dr. Bacher advocated the use of his pills in a number of advertising publications, the first of which dates back to 1767. In 1772, Bacher published his specific formula." (D.B.F. IV-p. 1074). 3 (Balneotherapy). FLEURY (Dr. Louis-Joseph-Désiré): Traité pratique et raisonné d'hydrothérapie. Recherches cliniques sur l'application de cette médication au traitement des congestions chroniques du foie, de la rate, de l'utérus, des poumons et du coeur; des névralgies et des rhumatismes musculaires; de la chlorose et de l'anémie; de la fièvre intermittente; des déplacements de la matrice, de l'hystérie; des ankyloses, des tumeurs blanches, de la goutte; des maladies de la moelle, des affections chroniques du tube digestif, des pertes séminales, etc.. Paris, Labé, 1852. One volume. 13 by 21.3 cm. VIII-568 pp. + 4 plates h.t. (including 1 fold-out). Contemporary fawn half-basane, smooth spine decorated, red title page. Small crack on upper spine. Some foxing, one plate skilfully restored without missing. First edition. 4. Collection of various pieces printed to date, relating to the anti-psoric discovery of J. Mettemberg, [...]. Some make known his successes, confirmed by official experiments and by a host of supporting evidence; others highlight the obstacles he faced, and the manner in which he overcame them. Paris, L'Auteur, Ventôse an XIII = February 1805. One volume. 12 by 19.5 cm. Multiple pagination. Contemporary full speckled basane, ornate smooth spine, red title-piece, gilt Greek frieze framing the boards, gilt edges. Small hole at bottom of lower spine. Six pieces. Details on request. P. Labrude, Joseph Sigisbert Mandel (1749 - 1820) [...], one of Nancy's greatest pharmacists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. "Mettemberg water, or "anti-psoric quintessence", is a secret medicine, hence the name "secret remedy", used to treat scabies. It was proposed in 1794 (year III) by the former military surgeon Joseph Mettemberg. This external remedy was widely used, and its author enjoyed a great deal of support [particularly in government ministries]. In 1801 or 1802, Mandel was "approached by a fellow doctor" who was "experiencing serious accidents as a result of the external use of this specific drug" [...]. [...] At the public meeting of the Société de Santé held on 2 Messidor An X (June 21 1802), in the presence of the Prefect of the Meurthe department, he presented the results of his analyses of the drug, concluding: "It was with the greatest surprise that I discovered that the base of this specific was one of the most deleterious, one of the most active poisons known, muriate of mercury suroxygenated, today called corrosive sublimated mercury". Mandel was not mistaken about the toxicity of this compound, now called mercuric chloride, which did not prevent the water from continuing its long career". (P. Labrude). This collection illustrates the controversy between the inventor and his detractors.

Estim. 40 000 - 60 000 EUR

[Esoterisme] [Manuscript] ELIPHAS LEVI [CONSTANT (Louis-Alphonse)]: The Wisdom of the Ancients. Collection of symbolic figures with legends and explanations, by Eliphas Levi, professor of occult sciences. 1874. One volume. 19 by 26 cm. 401 pages (complete). Contemporary speckled half-basane, smooth spine with 4 gilt fillets, boards illustrated with a large gilt plate. Some rubbing to spine, gold on boards slightly faded, corners dulled, inner hinges weak, copy partly unstuck. But overall good condition. The manuscript consists of 99 figures (photographs, engravings, pen-and-ink drawings, watercolors) with commentary, in a set intended as a general synthesis of a thought that encompasses religions, Kabbalah, Freemasonry, etc. First series: Sohar and Kabbalah Second series: Paracelsus' Prophecy 3rd series: Sin, Hell, Death and Redemption. 4th series: Indian wisdom. 5th series: Comparative wisdom of the Bible and the Gospel. 6th series: Egypt. Kabbalah and magic. 7th series: Keys to the Egyptian Tarot. This last series includes Symbolic Astrology, and The Devil's Sermon on the Mount. In particular, the 32 figures of the "Prognosticatio eximii doctoris Theophrasti Paracelsi" (1536 edition, photographed), the Egyptian tarot keys with all their figures, and a symbolic astrology presented in 14 watercolors by Eliphas LEVI, with extensive commentary on their reverse. Each illustration is left free, retained in the manuscript by a fold in the page. And preceded by a page of handwritten comments by Eliphas Lévi. The manuscript is complete with all illustrations, and is signed at the end by Eliphas Lévi. "Original manuscript in the hand of the famous Eliphas Lévi, composed one year before his death. It was probably this collection that Eliphas Lévi was referring to when he wrote to his pupil Baron de Spédaliéri on January 23, 1974: I still hope that we'll resume our lessons regularly and finish our course, which remains unfinished; the album I'm working on will be a complement to it and like an atlas." This manuscript album remains unpublished. Alphonse-Louis CONSTANT (1810-1875), who took the author's name of Eliphas Lévi Zahed, the Hebrew translation of his name, had a full life. Steeped in religion, politically committed, utopian, Freemason, cabalist, painter (he illustrated novels by DUMAS), he was a great scholar, devoting most of his work to highly learned esoteric analyses. He remains famous for his profound occultist writings. "Provenance of this manuscript: Library of Christiane Buisset, founder of the Cercle Eliphas Lévi, also founder of several Masonic Lodges in the Memphis Rite (Egyptian Rite)". This manuscript belonged to Stanislas de GUAITA, famous scholar and esotericist, N°1348 in his library catalog. A unique document, which should be published... For passionate collectors.

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