Cornu Edouard (3 results)

Folio (15" x 11"), black paper over boards, black cloth at spine. [3] pp., 17 chromolithographic plates (four with text on verso). Affixed to the front free endpaper is a manuscript note on Cornu letterhead from the manufacturer to a potential client, dated 29 August 1900. An unrecorded and splendidly illustrated trade catalog advertising sealing waxes for letters, packages, and bottles (champagne, etc.); sulfur wicks and powders for sterilizing wine barrels; and inks. The chromolithographic plates were produced by master printer Charles Verneau, the Parisian publisher of many famous posters, including most of the oeuvre of Art Nouveau artist Théophile Alexandre Steinlen. Edouard Cornu was the official supplier of waxes and inks to the Ministere des Postes & Télégraphes. The ministry had assumed control of the French telephone system when it was nationalized in 1889. The Cornu factory telephonestill a relative rarity in France in 1899is advertised prominently on the portfolio cover and the frontispiece. Many of the catalogue's examples display Cornu's trademark beehive (which appears here on the title-page); others exhibit various winemaker, liquor (Violette, grappa), and industry trademarks. Rare. Not in OCLC. CONDITION: Extremities and back cover worn, contents detached in a single cohesive block from binding, lower right corner bumped with creasing in margin of contents and last plate with loss to corner (not affecting printed area); plates bright and fresh.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1864-1884. 20 tomes in-4 reliés en 17 volumes, 39 planches dépliantes hors-texte (certaines en couleurs), quelques figures dans le texte, reliure de l'époque demi-basane, dos ornés (dos frottés, manques à quelques coiffes, rousseurs). Exemplaire du mathématicien Victor Puiseux (1820-1883), un des membres du comité de rédaction de la revue (notes de relieur). Rare ensemble des 20 premières années (de 1864 à 1884 ; interruption de la revue en 1871) des Annales scientifiques de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, revue fondée par Louis Pasteur, qui préside le comité de rédaction pendant toute la première série. * Trois articles de Pasteur : Mémoire sur la fermentation acétique (série I, tome 1), Note historique sur les recherches de MM. Gernez et Viollette relatives à la cristallisation des dissolutions sursaturées (I, 3), Note sur l'application de la méthode de M. Pasteur pour vaincre la pébrine (co-signé par Raulin, II, 1). Un article de Sadi Carnot : Réflexion sur la puissance motrice du feu et sur les machines propres à développer cette puissance (II, 1). Un article d'Edouard Branly : Etude des phénomènes électrostatiques dans les piles (II, 2). * Mathématiques, Physique, Biologie, Géologie, Météorologie, Astronomie. Eclipses. * Voir photographies / See pictures. * Membre du SLAM et de la LILA / ILAB Member. La librairie est ouverte du lundi au vendredi de 14h à 19h. Merci de nous prévenir avant de passer,certains de nos livres étant entreposés dans une réserve.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1909 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 646 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 646 Volume 1-20 Language: French.