Thomas Simon Gueulette (122 results)

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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Hard Cover. Condition: vg-. Dust Jacket Condition: --. Imitations of the "Arabian Nights" Oriental Tales No. XV; Limited Delhi Edition. No. 174/1000 copies; viii + 297pp; laid paper; contents unmarked; top edge gilt, other edges uncut; 8.75" tall; slight darkening / shelf wear to edges of green cover; paper title label on spine. Hardcover.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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Decorative Cloth. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First American Edition. From the recently auctioned collection of M. B. Goldstone--with his penciled signature to the front free endpaper. A superb fine copy in copper colored cloth with elaborate gilt decorations and lettering to the front board and spine. Solid gilt top edge and handcut paper. This is the special edition limited to 250 numbered copies--this being copy 84. This copy is in near mint condition--with the appearance of never being opened or read--some very mild soiling to the back cloth board--otherwise as new as the day it was published. Guelette originally published his tales in France in the early 18th Century and he died in 1768. This special edition is embellished with etchings and photogravures--all protected by the original tissue guards.…

8vo.; 8 hs., 260 pp., 2 hs. Encuadernación en piel marbreada, algo fatigada en el plano posterior, con tejuelo.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. 1 volume pleine basane fauve de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné, pièce de titre ancienne de papier manuscrite à la plume, tranches teintées rouge, page de titre imprimée en rouge et en noir orné d'une vignette gravée sur cuivre, 2 faux-feuillets préliminaires non chiffrés d'avertissement au lecteur, frontispice gravé, 438 pages. Rare. Bon exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request ).…

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No Edition Stated. two 18th century novels bound in one, published as volume 5 of The Novelists' Magazine, published by Harrison and co, illustrated. Presumably contemporary full calf, hinges cracked, held by the cords, text block tight but with some foxing, text is in the form of two columns to the page. The 'magazine' was started in 1780, and lasted until 1788, in all consisting of 23 volumes. It sold weekly in parts, priced 6d, and the production values are clearly lower than the more pricy 18th C. norm. The illustrator was Thomas Stothard, and the engraver was James Heath. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Walker's Miniature Edition, 12mo, 5 1/2 x 3 inches, full leather binding with gilt decoration to front and spine, spine has gilt lettering on red leather label. Frontispiece, engraved title, xi, 485, (vi) pages. Complete. Boards and spine are damaged and spine is separated from front board, endpapers and edges are marbled, edges dulled. Binding is complete and good, one page section is slightly loosened. No Foxing, frontispiece is grubby. Anne Claude de Tubières-Grimoard de Pestels de Lévis, Comte de Caylus, Marquis d'Esternay, Baron de Bransac (Anne Claude Philippe 1692 1765), was a French antiquarian, proto-archaeologist and man of letters. Thomas-Simon Gueulette (1683-1766) was a French playwright and writer of tales.…

12mo 5 1/2 x 3 inches, original printed boards worn and rebacked in board. Frontispiece, engraved title, xi, 485, (vi) pages. Complete. Pages untrimmed. Anne Claude de Tubières-Grimoard de Pestels de Lévis, Comte de Caylus, Marquis d'Esternay, Baron de Bransac (Anne Claude Philippe 1692 1765), was a French antiquarian, proto-archaeologist and man of letters. Thomas-Simon Gueulette (1683-1766) was a French playwright and writer of tales.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A limited edition collection of entertaining tales inspired by the popular 'Arabian Nights', edited by Leonard Smithers. A limited edition, being one of only six hundred and eighty copies.In the publisher's original gilt cloth.This collection of tales was edited by Leonard C. Smithers, and was first published in 1715 under the title 'Mille et un Quarts D'Heure, Contest Tartares', written by Thomas Simon Gueulette. The tales are described as being lively, entertaining and ingenious imitations of 'The Arabian Nights'. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally very smart with fading to the spine, a slight lean, bumping to the extremities, marks to the boards, and slight chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound with lightly age toned pages with the odd spot to the front. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

leather_bound. Nouvelle Edition. 407, 490 pages. 17 x 10 cm. "Peruvian Tales, related, in One Thousand and One Hours, by one of the Select Virgins of Cusco, to the Yncka of Peru." Text in French. The author, a French magistrate and prolific writer of tales. PALAU 110068 & SABIN 29143 for the English editions. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, marbled endpapers, bookplates, modest tip rubbing, generally clean and fresh copy. Contemporary mottled brown calf. All edges marbled. Very good. 2 vols.…

Hardcover. 12mo., xi, 485 pages, [1], [4] ads; VG; newly rebound in full brown leather, paneled spine with black label, gilt titling; previous marbled free endpapers preserved; interior clean; Engraved frontispiece and additional title page, publisher's catalogue in rear; shelved case 9. Originally published as Les Aventures Merveilleuses du Mandarin Fum-Hoam, Contes Chinois.; 1323792. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

xi, [1], 485, [1]p, frontispiece, engraved titlepage dated 1817. 12mo. Stain to upper margin N6, splash marks to T4, some general toning & occasional marks, light crease to some corners. Contemporary calf, raised & gilt banded spine, dark green morocco label. This is the first edition of the two works published together thus, although they were both included in the three volume Tales of the East, Edinburgh, 1812. Originally published as Les Aventures Merveilleuses du Mandarin Fum-Hoam, Contes Chinois (1723), and first translated two years later. Gueulette, 1683-1766, was a prolific imitator plundering earlier oriental tales by Francois Petis de la Croix, and Antoine Galland. In the original preface to his Oriental Tales, de Caylus, 1692-1795, claimed that they were taken from manuscript exercises by French youths sent to Turkey to be trained as interpreters to the Ambassadors, and then deposited in the Bibliotheque Royale. Ref: Ballaster, Ros. Fabulous Orients. Fictions of the East in England 1662-1785. Oxford, 2005.…

4 parties en 2 volumes in-8 à pagination continue. 863pp. Plein veau, dos à nerfs ornés (reliure de l'époque). Edition Russe des "Contes Tartares" du dramaturge, conteur et juriste français Thomas-Simon Gueulette (1683-1766). Ce recueil de contes dont l'intrigue se situe en Tartarie (le premier conte commence à Astrakhan, à l'embouchure de la Volga) a été réimprimé jusqu'à la fin du 18e siècle et traduit en plusieurs langues. Sa publication s'inscrit dans la vague orientaliste qui suivit la parution en français des "Contes des Mille-et-Une Nuits" en 1704. Le succès de cette dernière avait immédiatement suscité l'apparition de pastiches et d'imitations, dont le présent ouvrage est l'une des meilleures réussites. Bel exemplaire, relié à l'époque.…

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Written in French by M. Gueulett (sic). Translated by the Reverend T. Stackhouse, D.D. Two volumes in one. Cooke's edition. Embellished with superb engravings. London, printed for C. Cooke . by J. Aspin . o. J. (ca. 1799). 12mo (14,1 x 8,7 cm). VIII, 222 S. - Mit einem gestochenen Frontispiz von T. Kirk nach C. Warren und zwei Kupfertafeln von W. Hawkins und C. Warren nach W.H. Brown und T. Kirk. - Violetter Pappband mit Lederecken, flacher Rücken mit Rückentitel und Filetenveroldung, die Deckel von goldgeprägter Filete gefaßt. - Vorderdeckel leicht verzogen, Rücken aufgehellt und mit Absplitterungen am Vordergelenk, Rückdeckel etwas berieben, ansonsten schönes Exemplar der reizend illustrierten Ausgabe. …

A Amsterdam, chez Jean Catuffe, 1738. Un vol. au format pt in-12 étroit (143 x 83 mm) de 1 f. bl., 1 frontispice gravé n.fol., 3 ff. n.fol., 438 pp. et 1 f. bl. Reliure de l'époque de plein veau glacé blond, plats jansénistes, dos lisse orné d'un double filet d'encadrement doré, doubles filets dorés, larges fleurons dorés, semis de pointillés dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin vieux-rouge, titre doré, palette dorée en queue, filet doré sur les coupes, toutes tranches rouges. Edition originale. L'exemplaire s'ouvre sur un joli frontispice gravé (non signé). L'ouvrage fut le premier à recourir à la forme épistolaire pour la composition de Mémoires. Quérard III, La France littéraire, p. 515 - Conlon I, Le Siècle des Lumières, p. 145 - Cioranescu II, Bibliographie de la littérature française du XVIIIème siècle, 32979. Angles élimés. Dos présentant un éclat légèrement altéré. Petit manque angulaire en tête de la page de titre. Petite perforation affectant le fond de cahier d'un feuillet. Feuillets oxydés. Rousseurs ou tâches claires dans le corps d'ouvrage ; sans entrave pour la lecture. Du reste, bonne condition. Rare.…

Londres (Paris), sans nom d'éditeur (vraisemblablement Valade), 1781, de la "Bibliothèque amusante", 2 tomes en 2 vol. in 18 (format Cazin) de (4)-V-(1)-212 pp. ; rel. d'ép. de plein veau glacé fauve, dos lisses ornés de fers dorés, pièces de titres de maroquin jaune, encadrements de triple-filets sur les plats, tranches dorées, deux coiffes manquent, petit manque en bas du dos du tome 1, sinon bon ex.…