A selection of items for the ICHC2024-Lyon Map-Fair Wednesday 3 July 2024 Librairie Loeb-Larocque HARDY, Jacques - Globe Terrestre Didié et Présénté a Monseigneur le Comté Maubec de Brancas… (Paris, dated 1741) 1x440mm. Some usual small damage, generally in very good condition. 23500 euros Terrestial globe dated 1741. Complete title "Globe Terrestre Didié et Présénté a Monseigneur le Comté Maubec de Brancas Par Jacque Hardy. Dressé sur les Nouvelles observations de Messieurs de l'Academie Royale des Siences". A second cartouche shows the date : "Se Fait et vend chez Hardy rüe St. Julien le Pauve 1741". The globe is of particular interest for the naming of the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "MER DE COREE". In Korea we find the names R. DE COREE, "Yeheou" and in the south "Pousan". Jacques Hardy was an important Parisian manufacturer of globes active from 1738, he worked with his son, who died in 1744, then with his son-in-law Louis Charles Desnos until he died in 1755. His globes have a cartouche traditionally bearing the following inscription: “Se fait chez Hardy, Rue St Julien le pauvre vis-à-vis la ville de Rome à Paris". Provenance: Heirs Castello di Settime – Asti - Italy. The globe was in the family's possession for more than 200 years. (Ref.: 17606) Woven in silk, using the Jacquard loom method of punch cards PETIT, Didier / CARQUILLAT. - (Portrait de Joseph-Marie Jacquard). (France, ca. 1840) 185x135mm. Woven silk. A few threads separating at lower right part. Some minor spotting. In a contemporary frame and mount. Frame size : 360 x 280mm. 600 euros A rare woven silk portrait of Joseph-Marie Jacquard after Bonnefonds, completed on the Jacquard punched-card loom. Woven by Carquillat in the silk factory of Didier Petit. Written at the bottom of the piece is "Carquillat tex." and "Didier Petit" on the left and right corners, respectively, and "A La Memoire De J. M. Jacquard" on the bottom. Joseph-Marie Jacquard, played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom (the "Jacquard loom"), which in turn played an important role in the development of other programmable machines, such as computers. Around 1800, Joseph began to dabble in inventing: a treadle loom in 1800, a loom to weave fishing nets in 1803, and starting in 1804, the “Jacquard” loom, which would weave patterned silk automatically. However, none of his inventions operated well and thus were unsuccessful. In 1801, Jacquard exhibited his invention at the industrial exhibition in Paris; and in 1803 he was summoned to Paris and attached to the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers. A loom by Jacques de Vaucanson on display there suggested various improvements in his own, which he gradually perfected to its final state. Although his invention was fiercely opposed by the silk-weavers, who feared that its introduction, owing to the saving of labour, would deprive them of their livelihood, its advantages secured its general adoption, and by 1812 there were 11,000 Jacquard looms in use in France. The loom was declared public property in 1806, and Jacquard was rewarded with a pension and a royalty on each machine. (biography courtesy of Wikipedia). (Ref.: 45152) BONNEFOND, C. - Maschinenfabrik Rüti, vormals Caspar Honegger tex. (Rüti, ca. 1850) 460x330mm. Portrait en soie tissée. Bel exemplaire. 2500 euros Rarissime portrait en soie tissée de Jean-Marie Jacquard dessiné par Fritz Kaeser d'après la peinture de C. Bonnefond, réalisé sur le fameux métier mécanique Honneger à Rüti. Le portrait de Jacquard est exécuté, deux fois à la demande de la Ville de Lyon, en 1834 et 1842. par le peintre lyonnais Jean-Claude Bonnefond (1796-1860). Le portrait représente Jacquard dans son atelier, un compas à la main, entouré d'instruments scientifiques. Le métier à tisser automatique inventé par Jean-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) est considéré comme le précurseur de l'informatique. Mis au point en 1801, le "métier Jacquard" pouvait exécuter des motifs très compliqués sous la surveillance d'un seul ouvrier. Un dispositif de cartes perforées permettait de guider les crochets qui soulèvent les fils de chaînes. Caspar Honneger (1804-1883). Avec son père (jusqu'en 1827) et son frère (jusqu'en 1838), il partagea la direction technique de la filature de Rüti (Suisse). En 1834, il fonda une fabrique de tissage du coton à Siebnen, à laquelle il ajouta un atelier mécanique en 1842. Il améliora le métier à tisser en inventant le fameux "métier Honegger". En 1847, la guerre du Sonderbund lui fit déplacer son entreprise mécanique à Rüti (Maschinenfabrik Rüti). (Ref.: 64987) COCHAUD DE BOISSIEU & Cie LYON. AU GRIFFON. - Pièce en soie tissée figurant une mappemonde surmontée d’un griffon. (Lyon, ca. 1860/1870) 700x660mm. Pièce en soie tissée de fils d’or, d’argent, bleus et ocre sur fond noir. Très bon état. Dimensions à vue de la pièce : 630 x 590 mm, avec l’encadrement : 700 x 660 mm. Cadre ancien en bois mouluré noirci et doré. 1800 euros Très belle pièce de soierie lyonnaise pour et par la maison Cochaud de Boissieu & Cie figurant une mappemonde surmontée d’un griffon. La maison Cochaud de Boissieu & Cie était une fabrique de soierie lyonnaise. Joseph-Damase de Boissieu, industriel et négociant en soieries, était l'associé principal de la maison de Boissieu & Cochaud. (Ref.: 48943) R. P. J. HERVIER / HENRY, J.-A. - Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. (Lyon, A. Roux et J.-A. Henry, 1886/1887) 175x145mm. In-12 carré, maroquin noir janséniste, large dentelle intérieure dorée, contre-plats et gardes doublés de soie moirée violine, tête et pied dorés, boîte-étui en chagrin bordeaux garnie de soie et velours ivoire avec la marque du libraire- éditeur A. Roux imprimée à l’or sur la soie recouvrant l’intérieur du plat supérieur, plat supérieur du coffret frappé à froid d’une couronne (Kauffmann-Petit). Cinquante pages, cinq miniatures, dont trois grandes et une lettrine tissées en soie argentée. Fines épidermures sur le plat inférieur du coffret. 18000 euros This work was woven in silk, using the Jacquard loom method of punch cards. Approximately 106,000 cards per leaf were used in this highly complex application. This rare volume, which is the only successful example of an entirely woven book, is often regarded as the first book produced by a computer, since Jacquard's process is viewed as an early precursor to the computer. The printed silk was mounted on paper pages and then bound. - Vicaire, V, 342 - Paul Marais, " Note sur un livre de prières en tissu de soie ", Bulletin du bibliophile, 1889, pp. 163-166. (Ref.: 62120) Cartographic curiosities AITSINGER (EYZINGER), Michael von. - Novus de Leone Belgico eiusq topographia atq. Historica descriptione liber (…). Rerumque in Belgio maxime gestarum, inde ab anno Christi M.D.LIX. Usque ad annum M.D.LXXXVII perpetua narratione continatus. (Cologne, Gerardus Campensis for Frans Hogenberg, 1588) 276x204mm. Folio. With the famous large folding engraved map "Leo Belgicus", engraved title page, portrait of von Aitsingzer, 207 (of 208) double-page engravings, 430pp. Apparently there are at least two different editions from 1588 with different contents. Contemporary brown calf binding, gold tooled label, Spine gilt in compartments, Wanting 1 double-page engraving (373-374). Corners, edges and joints somewhat rubbed and used. Tear at top left of title repaired, a few tiny holes along the folds of the map. 39000 euros ENLARGED EDITION, with 207 (of 208) engravings of a famous eyewitness account of the Dutch Revolt, with the famous "Leo Belgicus" map, here in its second state. One of the major sources for the history of the Low Countries during the beginning of their struggle for independence. This history of the religious wars in Belgium and Holland from 1559-87 is illustrated with Hogenberg's engravings (from his "Geschichtsblättern"), whereby the engravings for this edition were printed without the lower text panel and have Latin text on the reverse. They mostly show siege scenes of the most important cities in the Netherlands, e.g. Alkmaar, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bergen op Zoom, Breda, Brussels, Haarlem, Leiden, Maastricht, Mechelen, Middelburg, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Zuthphen and some from France. The Australian author Michael Aitsinger (1530 ?-1598 ?) followed the tradition of 'newsletters' published on the occasion of the regular trade-fairs, began to issue a series of half-yearly publications. This work, written with unusual impartiality for the time, was repeatedly updated and reprinted. Aitsinger witnessed the execution of Egmont and Hoorn and became a partisan historian of the Dutch Revolt. The fame of the book owes much to the 208 fine engravings by Frans Hogenberg (1536-1590) which depict many places and historical events in the Netherlands and Germany with great reliability. The splendid "Leo Belgicus" i.e. folding engr. map of the Low Countries as a lion became a symbol of the unity and strength of the 17 Provinces was the prototype for numerous similar maps up to the beginning of the 19th century, is here present in its second state with the name of Elisabeth (of Valois) added. VdHeijden, Leo Belgicus 1.2. (Ref.: 48778) ANONYMOUS - Gioco Geografico dell' Europa. [An anonymous Tarocchi pack of cards featuring maps] (Napoli, ca. 1770-1780) 470x440mm. Restored, reinforced and laid on Japan paper. Minor loss of paper on card 0, reinserted. 2500 euros A scarce aand anonymous Tarocchi pack of cards featuring maps from the 18th Century. Engraved plate figuring 28 (of 78) cards, each 60 x 112 mm. This 'geographical game of Europe' is likely issued in Naples about 1770-1780, with the title-card with no author's name or publisher's imprint. The complete set consists of seventy-eight cards. The cards numbered in Roman numerals I - XXI with a card including the major rivers and fourteen maps of European countries and five of the continents: Paesi Bassi Eluczia; Portogallo; Italia; Turchia Europea; Spagna; Francia; Polonia; Germania; Irlanda; Scozia; Inghilterra; Noruegia; Danimarca; Svezia; Moscovia; America Meridionale; America Settentrionale; Africa; Asia; Europa. In the top cards (pips) have arabic numbers 6 -10 and show Islands. In the upper left corner is a card 0 (unnumbered) "Fiumi Principali di Euopa che si scaricano nell' Oceano"with depictions of major European rivers. Each has the title on on scrolls and the map is filled with majors cities and a brief historical description in the bottom. The full title reads : Gioco Geografica dell'Europa Spiegazione del medesimo Questo gioco serba le stejselegg del Tarocco Itrionfi sono i dwer sistati delineati la carta defi mi del Mediterraneo equival aBagatto e de Fumi dell'oceand alolle Le Merci sono gli Stat del Nord, del Sud, del Centro e le Isole e Figure sono le Armi Dicesi giuoco dell'Europa par che di questa difuramente si parla e le altre parti della Terra che appenari accennane si da ranno divire in altri giochi (Ref.: 49004) DANZANVILLIERS, Eugène. - La Pieuvre Germanique. (Paris, 28 Quai de la Rapée, c.1874) 210x325mm. Lithograph with text printed in red within the plate. Sheet of paper : 30,5 x 44,5 cm. Very fine to mint condition. 3000 euros Scarce lithographed plate not dated, by Eugène Danzanvilliers, printed by Grandremy in Paris. The plate listed by Adhemar is dated 1874. Eugène Danzanvilliers was a draughtsman and lithographer. The plate figures a lying octopus crowned with a spiked helmet surrounded by seven fishes. On the tentacles are inscribed in red the names of the member states of the Confederation of North Germany as well as the former French regions of Alsace and Lorraine (part of the German Empire since the treaty of Frankfurt in 1871). In the middle of the body is written "Brandenbourg Hohenzollern", that refers to Prussia as the leading state of the German Empire. Three fish embody the Kingdom of Bavaria, the Dukedom of Baden and the Kingdom of Württemberg which belong to the Empire. Four other fish embody the bordering states of Luxembourg, Belgium, Switzerland and Denmark. The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom that constituted the state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918. It was the driving force behind the unification of Germany in 1871 and was the leading state of the German Empire until its dissolution in 1918. Although it took its name from the region called Prussia, it was based in the Margraviate of Brandenburg, where its capital was Berlin. The kings of Prussia were from the House of Hohenzollern. IFF : Inventaire du fonds français après 1800 by Jean Adhemar, T.5 Cidoine-Daumier, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1949. (Ref.: 43703) Next >