Simon Laborde (65 results)

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Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Journey Through Arabia Petraea To Mount Sinai And The Excavated City Of Petra, The Edom Of The Prophecies. Book.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good. First Edition. BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL EDITION [4], 87 pp. + [1], Contemporary marbled half-calf, with original corners of the period, title gilt on ornate smooth spine, Complete copy to include: the false title, the title page illustrated with the large frontispiece vignette of V. Adam, the Hommage to S.A.R Guillame II électeur de Landgrave, souverain de la Hesse, Grand Duc de Fulde, the Preface and 36 pp. of introduction, the explanation pages of the plates and the Flora, the full list of the plates which are 69 to include 1 folding map all mounted on tab and depicting the landscapes, monuments, tribes, the fauna and flora of the area (1 of the plates- number 63- is coloured painted by J.C. Werner) the plates are mainly drawn by Madame de Laborde (1), Belliard (1), Champmartin (1), Dumenil (1), Léon de Laborde (64), Linant (13) and Oudart (1), lithographed by Deroy, Deveria, Engelmann, Fragonard, Hostein, Laborde, Lavigne, Sabatier, Smith, etc. Bookplate from the Library de La Rochefoucauld, Duc de Bisaccia, some light foxing throughout mainly in the margins, not affecting the plates or text. Archivist, curator, draughtsman and engraver, De Laborde (1807 - 1869) was the son of count (Louis-Joseph-) Alexandre de Laborde and Marie-Anne-Thérèse de Sabatier de Cabre. His family was for generations associated with government public-service appointments. His grandfather, Jean Joseph de Laborde was a Privy Councillor and banker to Louis XV (and guillotined in 1794). Alexandre de Laborde was a Privy Councillor and deputy for the Seine and Oise district. Léon de Laborde's education also focused on a political career. In 1824 his father lost his assignment and he and his seventeen-year-old son traveled throughout the Middle East, from Damascus to Cairo. There Léon met the engineer Louis Linant de Bellefonds (1799-1883) The two Frenchmen decided to set up an expedition to the newly-discovered site of Petra with a view to making drawings of the monuments. The team of Linant and de Laborde spent more time at the site than any previous Western visitors, documenting the remains through drawings. After his return, De Laborde served as an embassy secretary in Rome, London, and Cassel. In 1830 he published a detailed day-to-day report of his 1828 travel, Voyage de l'Arabie Pétrée, richly illustrated with lithographs of his own drawings as well as a number of those by Linant. It includes various maps and plans, and an introductory essay on different aspects of the region, such as travel, pilgrimage, and trade. An engraver himself, he wrote a study on the history of mezzotint engraving, Histoire de la gravure en manière noire (1839) and another on the discovery of printing, Nouvelles recherches sur la découverte de l'imprimerie (1840). In 1841 he was elected Deputy of the town of Étampes, succeeding his father. He married Louise-Félicie Cousin-Corbin. In 1842 he was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. In 1847 he was appointed curator of the Department of Antiquities at the Louvre, and a year later he became the curator of the collections of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. His research of the archives of Burgundy led to important art historical studies covering the period 1384-1482. Among these, his three-volume publication on the dukes of Burgundy, Les ducs de Bourgogne (1849-1852) deserves to be singled out. His pioneering study on sixteenth-century French Renaissance painting (1850 and 1855), La renaissance des arts à la cour de France, is also based on archival sources. De Laborde was involved in the contemporary art scene, such as the 1851 London World's Fair and the 1855 Paris Exposition Universelle. In 1857 he was appointed general director of the Archives de l'Empire. In 1868, the year before he died, he became a member of the Senate. A son, Alexandre-Léon-Joseph (1853-1944), was a specialist of illuminated manuscripts. Laborde is among the first western explorers of the region around Petra. #34570.

3 fascicoli in-8°, pp. (2), VIII, 9-24; (2), 56; (2), 52, (2); brossura originale con titolo a stampa entro ricca bordura vegetale incisa in xilografia (ripetuta anche ai frontespizi). Illustrazioni xilografiche n.t. a ogni fascisolo; al primo fascicolo, una pianta incisa f.t. della posizione delle principali biblioteche di Parigi. Al secondo fascicolo, 3 tavv. incise f.t., ognuna delle quali con 4 planimetrie di biblioteche parigine; all'ottavo fascicolo, 12 tra planimetrie incise e vedute litografiche f.t. (le litografia raffigurano la Grande Salle projetée dans la cour de la Bibliothèque Royale, l'interno della Bodleyan Library di Oxford, l'esterno e l'interno della Radcliffe Library di Oxford. Sparse fioriture, ma, nel complesso, ottimo stato conservativo; intonsi. Raccolta di 3 fascicoli in edizione originale (su 12 che ne vennero complessivamente pubblicati, ognuno dei quali a sé stante nell'oggetto della propria trattazione; l'elenco completo è al piatto posteriore dell'ottavo fascicolo) di questa pregevole opera sull'organizzazione delle biblioteche parigine, apparsa in forma preoriginale sul giornale La Presse. Il Laborde (Parigi, 1807-Chateau de Beauregard, Eure, 1869) fu celebre incisore (realizzò eccellenti lavori litografici e xilografici) ed archeologo, cui si debbono interessanti ricerche a Petra ed in altri centri del Medio Oriente, nonché conservatore delle collezioni medievali e rinascimentali e di scultura moderna del Louvre. Brunet, III, 715. Francese.

Condition: Very Good. First English Edition. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Heraldic plate to front pastedown. Minor wear to boards. Scattered foxing and off-setting. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). xxviii, 331pp. 26 lithographic and engraved plates (including two maps); frontis folding map. Numerous additional wood engravings and vignettes in the letterpress. French archaeologist and traveller Leon de Laborde's account of his travels through Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt. Brown hardback gilt-embellished calf leather cover.

4°. Mit 4 Tafeln, 1 Portrait, 5 lithographierten Plänen (davon 1 gefaltet), 12 Grundrissen und 1 gefalteten Faksimile. 56; 24; 408; 52,(2) S. Orig.-Broschuren bzw. Halblederband der Zeit. Brunnet III, 715. - Die Briefe im Einzelnen: Premiere Lettre: La Bibliothèque Royale occupe le centre topographique et intellectuel de la ville de Paris. - Deuxième lettre. Revue critique des projets présentés pour le déplacement de la Bibliothèque Royale. 4. Brief: Le Palais Mazarin et les habitations de ville et de campgne au 17e siecle. Huitième lettre. Étude sur la construction des Bibliothèques. - Weitere Fotos finden Sie auf unserer Internetseite Riemberg Antiquariat. - Einbände berieben; Ecken und Kanten berieben und bestoßen; Einbände der Broschuren teils vom Buchblock gelöst und fleckig und angestaubt, teils mit Fehlstellen bzw. Ein- und Ausrissen; teilweise unaufgeschnittenes Exemplar; Seiten mitunter stockfleckig.

First edition of "an important work" (Blackmer) of a stunning and beautifully illustrated account of some of the earliest explorations in the Sinai, southern Jordan and northwest Arabia, complete with all the magnificent views in extremely large format, the double-page plates measuring about 58.5 x 83 cm and the folding map of the Sinai about 74 x 102 cm. All subsequent editions, including the English one, were published in octavo and contained only a few plates based on the present first edition, all in drastically reduced format. The plates show maps, plans of ancient sites, views of ruins and other buildings, coastal and other topographic views, costume plates, hieroglyphic and other inscriptions, flora and fauna. Laborde journeyed to the ancient city of Petra in what is now Jordan with the engineer Linant de Bellefonds in 1828, travelling from Suez via St. Catherine's and through Wadi al-Araba to Akabah. The topographic term Arabie Pétrée derives from Ptolemy's division of Arabia into three regions. The maps in the present book show it as the Sinai peninsula, the southern part of what is now Jordan and the northwestern part of the Arabian peninsula. The city of Petra itself is extensively documented in many of the present beautiful plates.Slight browning and foxing, occasional waterstaining and tears to folds; a small tear in the map repaired, but in all a good, wide-margined copy in loose sheets, apparently never bound. Rare: the last complete copy came up for auction in 2009 (Christie's, 3 June, lot 120: £23,750).l Blackmer 929; Brunet III, col. 714; Gay, Bibl. de l'Afrique et l'Arabe 929; Henze III, 101; Vicaire IV, cols. 758-759; cf. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian peninsula 1386 (2nd ed.); not in Atabey. Period-style half calf with gilt title to spine. With a lithographic title page (with a large lithographed title vignette separately printed on "India" paper and mounted on the title page) and lithographed coat of arms of the dedicatee Wilhelm II of Hesse printed directly on dedication leaf, 69 lithographed plates (3 double-page and 1 larger folding) showing views, maps and plans after Laborde and Linant de Bellefonds, most separately printed on "India" paper and mounted on the leaves. With 1 zoological plate (of a marmot and young: "El Oueber") subtly coloured as published.

Couverture rigide. Condition: fine. first edition. In-plano (595 x 425 mm) de 4 ff.n.ch. (faux-titre, titre, préface, dédicace), 87 pp., 1 f.n.ch. de table de planches, 69 planches la plupart  lithographiées (dont la grande carte dépliante gravée, et une planche d'histoire naturelle coloriée). Demi-maroquin rouge, dos lisse (reliure de l'époque).