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A LA GARDE Nationale. Citoyens! Paris, Impr. du Gouvernement, Février 1848. Oblong folio poster on white paper. Les murailles révolutionnaires de 1848, vol i, p. 30 (listing a later issue). First issue. Thanking the Garde National for its 'fraternelle union avec le Peuple' and asking for its continued support for the difficult tasks ahead of the Provisional Government. Dated 24 february 1848 and with the names of Dupont, Arago, Marie, Lamartine, Crémieux, Ledru-Rollin, Garnier-Pagès, Louis Blanc, Marrast, Flocon and Albert. The last four are mentioned as 'secrétaires' which word has been crossed out. Added a handwritten note stating that this is the first 'tirage' which was 'depuis rectifié.'At head of poster: République Française. Au nom du Peuple Français. EUR 150
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ALMANACH de la convention nationale pour l'an III de l'ère républicaine. Où l'on trouve: 1. le véritable décadaire. 2. la connoissance des tems. 3. le langage des signaux à feu et du télégraphe. 4. les noms des 88 départemens et de toutes les villes de districts, avec les changemens des nouveaux noms. 5. la liste des représentans du peuple ..... et leurs demeures à Paris. 6. les moyens faciles de connoître promptement les faux assignats. Paris, Dufart, IIIe année de l'ère rép. (1794). With engraved frontispiece and 1 engraving. (42), 77, (2) pp. 12mo. Modern boards. Martin & Walter, Journaux, 1429 (without calling for the engraving); Cohen-De Ricci, p. 14, also not calling for the engraving: "curieux frontispiece de Quéverdo célébrant la découverte du télégraphe." The engraving contains "Signaux par le feu."- One leaf misbound, pp. 44 with a small repaired tear in the blank inner margin. EUR 225
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AMI, L', du Peuple de Marat, 1792, 1871. Paris, Impr. Vallée, (1871). Large folio leaflet of 2 pp. Del Bo, La Comune di Parigi, p. 5. Extracts from Marat's journal, published during the days when the publication of republican newspapers was forbidden by General Vinoy. The extracts are preceded by an article, dated 14 March 1871, protesting against the suppression of newspapers.- Some holes along fold causing loss of a few letters and some lines difficult to read due to the fading of the ink. EUR 125
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AMI, L', du Peuple de Marat, 1792, 1871. Paris, Impr. Vallée, (1871). Large folio leaflet of 2 pp. Del Bo, La Comune di Parigi, p. 5. Extracts from Marat's journal, published during the days when the publication of republican newspapers was forbidden by General Vinoy. The extracts are preceded by an article, dated 14 March 1871, protesting against the suppression of newspapers.- Small hole in fold affecting a few letters, verso of poster with strengthening of the margins. EUR 125
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ARREST du conseil d'estat du Roy, portant règlement pour le tenuë des registres journaux de tous les comptables dépendans des fermes-unies. Du 5 Septembre 1724. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1724. 62 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Not in Catalogue des Actes Royaux; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Publication of 228 articles on the subject which remained valid until the Revolution. EUR 200
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ARREST du Conseil d'Estat, Portant Reglement des Ports de Lettres & Pacquets arrivans dans la Ville de Lyon, tant du dedans que du dehors du Royaume. Du vingt-quatriéme May 1666. A Lyon, Chez Antoine Ivllieron, 1666. 7, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards. - Slightly browned and paperspotted. Settles a conflict between the 'Maistre des Courriers' of Lyon and merchands from the same city 'au sujet des Taxes des ports de Lettres & Pacquets, .....' EUR 175
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ARREST du Conseil d'Etat du Roi (Louis XVI), concernant la caisse d'escompte. Du 27 Septembre 1783. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Lille, Imprimerie de N.J.B. Peterinck-Cramé, 1783. 3, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. Signedat end 'Amelot', probably Amelot de Caillou, A.L.A. EUR 150
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ARREST du Parlement de Rouen, rendu toutes les Chambres assemblées. Du Vendredi 12 février 1762. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Rouen, J.J. Le Boullenger, 1762. 16 pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Frère, Manuel du bibliographe normand, i, p. 33. Original edition. Listing books written by Jesuits which are condemned to be burnt. The list of titles is given by Frère. EUR 300
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AU NOM des Consuls de la République. Le Ministre de la marine et des colonies certifie ..... que (follows the names of various persons) propriétaires à S. Domingue lui ont pleinement justifié de leur résidence ..... etc. Paris, le 18 Fructidor l'an 8 de la République, une & indivisible (1800). 1 leaf. Folio. Folded. Partly in manucript, partly printed in italics. Signed by hand Guillemin-Vaivre, 'chef de l'administration générale des colonies.' Under Louis XV he was already 'intendant de justice, police et finances, de la guerre et de la marine des Iles sous le vent d'Amérique'.On verso the name of the addressee: Lallement.At the top of the leaf: Liberté, Egalité. République française, une et indivisible. And in contemporary manuscript: 'avertis de faire timbrer.' EUR 150
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AU ROI et à nosseigneurs de son conseil. (Drop-head title). No place, (1788). 8 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Martin & Walter. Request by the representatives of Chaalons-sur-Marne asking that commercial representatives be represented in the forthcoming Etats-Généraux, in order to deal with questions pertaining to trade and commerce. EUR 140
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AUX HABITANTS de Paris. Un de leurs concitoyens. (Paris), Plon frères, (1848). Large folio poster on pink paper. Not in Les Murailles Révolutionnaires. Dated June 27, 1848, six o'clock in the morning. Summons to united action 'contre la perversité des conspirateurs et des anarchistes' and signed by 'un combattant de Juin.' EUR 175
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AUX TRAVAILLEURS de France. Le conseil national du Parti Ouvrier Français (1889-1900). Paris, Libr. G. Jacques et Cie, 1901. (4), 91, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering to spine, original covers preserved. First collective edition in bookform. Collection of manifests and proclamations by the Parti Ouvrier Français, mainly edited by Jules Guesde and Paul Lafargue. At head of title: Onze ans d'histoire socialiste. EUR 250
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AVIS au Tiers-État. A Londres (Paris), 1788. 54 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering to spine, marbled boards. The author demands the abolition of the privileges of the nobility and the clergy as well as reasonable representation of the Third Estate in the Etats-Généraux. The section covering the pages 40-54 entitled: 'Pensées et maximes du bon Abbé de Saint-Pierre, second du nom, sur la Noblesse.' EUR 225
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BAIL de la ferme générale des anciennes et nouvelles impositions de la ville d'Avignon, qui doit commencer le premier Janvier 1773, & finir le 31 Décembre 1777. Du Consulat D'Illustres & Magnifiques Seigneurs MM. Paul-Augustin de Salvador de Pertuis, Chevalier, Seigneur de Saint-Amant, Gentilhomme ordinaire de la Chambre du Roi, Consul pour la cinquieme fois, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Michel de Spinardy, Docteur ès Droits agrégé, Avocat en la Cour, Assesseur, François-Agricol Poulle et Paul Gailhard. Avec un Tarif desdites impositions. A Avignon, Chez Pierre-Joseph Roberty, 1772. (4), 39, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards. - Waterstained.Leasing of the taxes on 'chair - pourceaux - poisson frais et non salé - pain et farine - huile, beurre vieux et salé et graisses - foin - péage - socquet', and further deals with the Droit de Péage, Tarif des Droits d'Entrée, poids de Farine, Péage et Socquet, Pourceaux, etc. etc. EUR 175
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CAMELEON, LE. Journal du moment. Rédacteur en chef Joseph Prudhomme. Numéro 1, 8 août 1868. Paris, Imprimerie Turfin & Juvet, (1868). 4 pp. on yellow paper. 4to. As issued. Not in Union List of Serials. All published. Satyrical journal, edited by G. Perodeaud who vehemently criticizes the press regulations of the government at the end of the Second Empire. EUR 150
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CITOYEN, Un, aux Etats Généraux. No place, 1788 (Paris, EDHIS, 1976). 46 pp. 8vo. Boards. Not in Kress, Goldsmiths, Einaudi or INED.Very rare text, reprinted in an edition of 150 numbered copies and 30 not destined for the trade, and since long out-of-print. Anonymous tract of a physiocratic character. Demands to reconsider the division of taxes; explains the advantages of small farmlands which should be maintained and not destroyed by the pressing high taxes. Published at the eve of the Revolution, this tract forms an interesting document on the farmers' problems. EUR 125
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COLLECTION of 60 bills of lading, 7 of which 'cash on delivery', printed forms, filled in by hand, mostly with mention of value and transport conditions, from the years 1766-1796, mainly destined for Michel Raymond & Compagnie in Bordeaux, some for private persons in Beaucaire, Castres, etc. 60 pieces of 1 leaf each, some with additional notes stiched to the main leaf. Folio and small 4to.Among the shippers we mention: P.M. Courtois & Compagnie (Toulouse), Paul Deferre (Toulouse), M. Mazarin père & fils (Toulouse), P.M.I.A. Pascal (Toulouse), A.M. Marie aîné (Toulouse), Delon frères (Lunel), B. Magnes (Dax), Guinebaud (Orléans), Le Berchedinehinat & fils (Orléans), Chuchet fils (Béziers), Vialet d'Aiguau & Comp. (Montauban). Among the goods transported we mention: tobacco, wine, plum brandy, olive oil, olives & other fruits, ham, flour, mousseline de la Compagnie des Indes, embroidered over-sleeves and handkerchiefs, cloth, painted coton (Indienne), stockings for men and children, porcelain, painted cloth produced in France, white coton made in the Beaujolais, foreign painted cloth, gun-powder.Interesting collection for the history of internal transport in France and of prices and transport conditions in the late 18th century. EUR 1500
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COMMISSION de Gouvernement pour les travailleurs. Séances du 3 et du 5 Mars 1848. No place, (1848). Large oblong sheet, text printed in 4 columns, verso blank. Proceedings of the discussions devoted to the organization of labour. EUR 75
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CONCURRENCE, DE LA, et de la coalition en Messageries. Paris, Imprimerie Administrative de Paul Dupont, 1839. - (Bound with:) REPONSE des Administrateurs des Messageries Françaises aux publications des Messageries royales et générales. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Impr. F. Locquin et Cie., no date (1839?). - (Bound with:) OBSERVATIONS de l'administration des Messageries royales. (Drop-head title). No place, no date, (dated at end: 25 janvier 1841). With large folding table. - (Bound with:) COURTES observations adressées aux Deux chambres A propos de quelques Pétitions relatives à l'industrie des messageries. (Drop-head title). Paris, Impr. de Paul Dupont et Comp., no date (1841). - (Bound with:) A MESSIEURS les Membres de la Chambre des Députés (par les Administrateurs des Messageries royales. No place, (15 février 1841). (Entirely lithographed). - (Bound with:) AUX CHAMBRES. Réclamations de la part de divers entrepreneurs particuliers qui ont été entendue par la commission spéciale des pétitions, contre le monopole de fait en Messagerie, exercé par les grandes entreprises. Paris, Imprimerie de Cosse et G. Laguionie, Mars 1841. With one large folding table. 6 works in onevolume. 59, (1) pp.; 31, (1) pp.; 32 pp.; 22 pp.; 3, (1) pp.; 32 pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards. Six pieces discussing the problem of the growing monopoly and lack of competition of the freight services in France. EUR 300
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CONFERENCE entre un ministre d'Etat et un conseiller au Parlement. No place, 1787. - (Bound with:) SUITE de la conférence du ministre avec le conseiller. No place, 1787. - ({Bound with:) SECONDE SUITE de la conférence du ministre avec le conseiller. No place, (1787). - (Bound with:) LA NOUVELLE CONFERENCE entre un ministre d'Etat et un conseiller au Parlement. No place, (1787). Together 4 pieces in 1 volume. 39 pp.; 43 pp.; 26 pp.; 36 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, spine with gilt lettering. Kress B.1194 & B.1343 (for the first three, different editions); not in Goldsmiths; Conlon 87:284 & 87:790 (all four). Original editions, quite scarce. Discussing the state of affairs in France in the preceding years, especially the ministries of Calonne and Necker, in the form of dialogues between a minister (Necker) and an advisor. EUR 750
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CONSULTATION dans l'affaire de la régie du poids public. Bordeaux, Imprimerie de P. Coudert, 1828. Title within a nice printed ornamental border. (2), 28 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Authorised by an arrêt of Brumaire year IX (1800) 'poid public' was optional. The 'Régie' wished to make it compulsory and to have the right to establish the tarif. EUR 150
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CONSULTATIONS EUROPEENNES (à l'occasion de l'affaire du Chevalier Desgraviers), sur la question de savoir: Si l'avénement d'un Prince à la Couronne le libère des obligations personelles qu'il a contractées avant son avénement? Paris, Imprimerie d'Everat, 1824. 74, (2 blank) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, somewhat shaved, corners lightly bumped. The question is whether personal engagements entered into by Louis XVIII before he became King of France, have still to be met after he has become King. Auguste-Claude Leconte Des Graviers claimed part of the revenues of a deal made with the last of the Bourbon-Conti line, Louis XVIII, and when his claim was refused, he sued the King. His case was defended by the well known lawyer Dupin.In this volume the opinions on this matter are given by Daniels, first president of the Royal Court of Cologne; Ferdinand dal Pozzo; Cevesa jurist in Torino; Chiabrera, member of the Imperial Court in Gênes; Canda & Galvagno, both jurist; Brougham & Macintosch from England and L. Holden Kovending from Denmark.Bound up with this text: 4 other juridical texts on various matters, among which: MEMOIRE à consulter et consultation pour la ville incendiée de Salins, contre l'administration des forêts. Paris, 1826. 108 pp. - OPINION d'un jurisconsulte concernant la confiscation, la vente des biens des émigrés, et la confirmation de la vente de ces biens par l'autorité royale. Paris, 1824. xx, 90 pp. EUR 250
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DE PAR LES PREVOT des marchands, et échevins de la ville de Paris. Ordonnance qui règle les dispositions préliminaires relatives à l'établissement des ateliers de charité accordés par le Roi, pour procurer du travail & des secours pendant l'hiver 1788 à 1789. Du 2 Décembre 1788. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, N.H. Nyon, 1788. 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Not in Granier, Bibliographie charitable. EUR 75
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DE PAR MESSIEURS les maire, sousmaire et jurats, gouverneurs de Bordeaux, juges criminels et de police. (Bordeaux, 1706). 4to poster on white paper. - Part of inner margin cut off, without loss of text. The Te Deum may be sung on January 25 to celebrate the capture of Nice and of Chateau de Montmelian. EUR 75
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DECLARATION du congrès officiellement adressée à M. le Préfet de Strasbourg; et officiellement transmise à M. le Préfet du Doubs. No place, (1815). 4to leaflet of 2 pp. Informing the public of the return of Napoleon and declaring that Napoleon Bonaparte 's'est placé hors des relations civiles et sociales .....' Declaration issued after the allied countries learned that Napoléon had returned to France. EUR 75
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DECLARATION du Roi, concernant le cadastre général, et la liquidation et remboursement des dettes de l'État, enregistrée au Parlement séant à Rouen. Donnée à Versailles, le 21 Novembre 1763. (Rouen, J.J. Le Boullenger, 1764). 23 pp. 12mo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. EUR 150
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DEFAITE, LA, de cinq mille cavaliers allemans près du Danube. Par un détachement de l'armée du Roy, commandée par Monsieur le Marêchal (sic) de Villars. (Drop-head title). No place, (1702). 4 pp. Small 4to. Disbound. The first victory of Villars during the preliminaries of the War of the Spanish Succession, defeating the Prince of Baden near the Danube. EUR 175
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DISCOURS d'un Gentil-Homme François à la Noblesse de France, sur l'ouverture de l'assemblee des Estats generaux dans la ville de Paris en ceste anne 1614. Avec deux advertissemens particuliers à Mrs. les Deputez du Clergé & de la Nobless. (Drop-head title). No place, (1614). 87, (1) pp. 12mo. Modern boards. Lindsay & Neu 2954; Welsh, Second Checklist, 333; Bourgeois & André 2101. Original edition. - Somewhat browned throughout. 'Il réserve à la noblesse à peu près seule le droit d'en demander la réformation. Enfin, il attaque vivement les officiers de justice et de finances, comme la plupart des pamphlétaires d'alors' (Bourgeois & André). EUR 350
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DISCOURS sur la députation du Parlement à M. le prince de Condé. (Drop-head title). No place, no date (1649). 11 pp. 4to. Modern half vellum, marbled boards, label with gilt lettering. Moreau 1147; not in Welsh. Original edition. - Lightly browned. 'Un des pamphlets les plus hardis et les plus insolents de toute la Fronde, mais non les plus rares'. The text was apparently written by a certain Portail, 'conseiller au Parlement.' EUR 150
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DISCOURS sur la députation du Parlement à Mr. le Prince de Condé. No place, no date (1649). 11 pp. 4to. Modern marbled boards, gilt leather label. Moreau 1147. Original edition. 'Un des pamphlets les plus hardis et les plus insolents de toute la Fronde' (Moreau), of which it is difficult to say if it is against the Parliament or against Condé. The latter, however, is called: ' ..... monstre né pour la ruine et la désolation de son pays'. Ex-libris Bruno Monnier, Chateau de Mantry, Jura. EUR 200
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ELECTIONS. Les citoyens sont prévenus .... (Paris), Impr. Duverger, (1848). Folio poster on white paper. Not in Les Murailles Révolutionnaires. Dated April 24, 1848 and announcing that the elections will end 10 pm. Issued on the order of the Ministere de l'Interieur. Copy with a handwritten annotation dated 24 april 1848 and signed. EUR 75
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ENQUETE parlementaire sur l'insurrection du 18 Mars (1871). Versailles, Cerf, 1872. 3 volumes. - (Followed by:) RAPPORT sur les travaux de la Commission des grâces, présenté par M.M. Martel et F. Voisin. Paris, Impr. Nationale, 1875. - (Followed by:) RAPPORT sur les travaux de la Commission des grâces, par M. Martel. Paris, Impr. Nationale, 1876. - (Followed by:) RAPPORT d'ensemble de M. le général Appert sur les opérations de la justice militaire relatives à l'insurrection de 1871, présenté à l'Assemblée Nationale par ordre de M. le Maréchal de Mac Mahon, duc de Magenta, par M. le général de Cissey. Versailles, Cerf, 1875. 6 volumes bound in 2. (8), 633, 11 pp.; (4), 623, (8) pp.; (4), iii, xxviii, (4), 452 pp.; 44 pp.; 13 pp.; 365 pp. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, marbled boards. First work: Del Bo, Comune di Parigi, p. 59; Le Quillec, 869. Fundamental source for the history of the Paris Commune of 1871. Rapports - Dépositions des témoins - Pièces justificatives.At head of title: Assemblée Nationale. Annexe au procès-verbal de la séance du 22 Décembre 1871.Second work: At head of title: Assemblé Nationale 1875.Annexe au procès-verbal de la séance du 20 Décembre 1875.Third work: At head of title: Assemblée Nationale 1875.Annexe au procès-verbal de la séance de la commission de permanence du 8 mars 1876.Fourth work: At head of title: Assemblée Nationale 1875.Annexe au procès-verbal de la séance du 20 Juillet 1875. EUR 850
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EPILOGUE, ou dernier appareil du bon citoyen, sur les miseres publiques. A Paris, Par Robert Sara, 1649. 11, (1) pp. 4to. Modern half vellum, marbled boards, label with gilt lettering. Moreau 1264; not in Welsh. Original edition. - With a dampstain in the outer lower corner, lightly touching some text. 'C'est la suite du Manuel du bon Citoyen. Ces deux pièces ont eu, lors de leur apparition, un grand retentissement ..... L'auteur s'élève avec force contre la théorie de la puissance absolue. Il prétend que la première ordonnance dans laquelle la formule Tale est placitum nostrum a été employée, est l'ordonnance de Charles VIII, 1485, qui défend les habits d'or et de soie aux personnes de moindre condition' (Moreau). EUR 150
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ETRENNES à la Capitale par une Compagnie de Citoyens zélés. No place, Par la Compagnie, 1770. 20 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Conlon 70:203. First edition. - Faint waterstain in outer upper blank margin of the last leaves. Proposes the creation of some sort of public toilets in the streets of Paris. EUR 100
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EVALUATION ET TARIF des espèces, vaiselle & matières d'or & d'argent. Fait & arresté en la Cour des Monnoyes, le vingt-huitième jour de septembre 1699. Paris, Imprimerie de Fr. Leonard, 1699. Royal coat of arms on title. 24 pp. Small 4to. In folded leaves. Deals not only with French money, but also with foreign money (English, Venetian, Portuguese, Flemish, Italian, gold powder from Guinea, German, etc.) EUR 150
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EXTRAIT de plusieurs erreurs et maximes pernicieuses, contenuës dans un volume, du Père Thomas Tambourin, Jésuite. Divisé en deux tomes, dont l'un est intitulé Explication decalogi, &c. et l'autre Methodus expeditae confessionis, &c. Composé par l'ordre du Général des Jésuites, & approuvé par un Vicaire général, deux provinciaux, & plusieurs theologiens de la mesme Compagnie avec de grands éloges. Imprimé à Lyon en la présente année 1659. Avec une nouvelle approbation de deux celebres Jesuites de la mesme Ville. (Lyon), 1659. 48 pp. 4to. Sewn, disbound and loose in 6 separate quires. De Backer & Sommervogel, vii, col. 1838 for the current text, and the cols. 1830-1841 for Thomas Tambourin.; BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700, T.75 for a 1659 edition of the work by Tambourin, the present work not found in BMSTC. Original edition of this work disapproving two important works by Thomas Tamburini. Thomas Tamburini was a moral theologian. He entered the Society of Jesus when fifteen years old; there he became distinguished for extraordinary virtue and a rare talent for teaching. After a successful course of studies he held various professorships (philosophy, dogmatic theology, moral theology), and during thirteen years was rector of various colleges. His many writings include among others "Methodus expeditæ confessionis" (5 vols., Rome, 1647); "De communione" (Palermo, 1649); "Explicatio decalogi" (Venice, 1654, 1707; Milan, 1655; Munich, 1659); "De saorificio missæ" (3 vols, Antwerp, 1656). All these works exhibited solidity of doctrine and elegance of style and went through several editions. Though severe towards himself, Tamburini, when deciding cases of conscience for others, was inclined to follow the milder views which he found reputable authors declaring probable. This is the basis of the accusation of laxity frequently brought against him, and led to his controversy with Vincent Baron. EUR 200
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EXTRAIT des registres du Parlement (de Toulouse). (Drop-head title). (At end:) Toulouse, Imprimerie de la veuve de Bernard Pijon, (1761). 104, 26, (2) pp. 8vo. Sewn, old blind cover, uncut (backstrip gone). Not in Conlon. Rare and important arret. The extrait covers the details about the important arrest of 22 June 1761. Although important it never attracted much attention due to the fact that it was shortly after overshadowed by the demand to examen the Constitution of the Jesuits (15 September 1761), which preceded the condemnation of the Jesuits, and the suicide of the young Calas (13 October 1761), both affairs which attracted much attention. The debate deals with a serious conflict between the Parlement in Toulouse, and the Cours des Aides in Montpellier: while the Parlement saw itself as the true representative of the Languedoc, the Cours des Aides saw itself as the true defender of the provincial liberties, treathened by the Parlement.See at length: Dubevat, Histoire du Parlement de Toulouse, vol 2, p. 345 and Du Mege, Histoire de Languedoc, vol 10, p. 524. EUR 175
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EXTRAIT du Cayer des doléances présenté au Roy en l'année 1788, par les Députés des Etats du Languedoc. 1788. Contemporary manuscript of 4 pp. Folio. Sewn with a contemporary blue silk ribbon. This "extrait" refers to article 10 of a previously issued Mémoire concerning the postal services. Adressed to the king an answer is asked for a plan to improve postal services between the Languedoc and the Velay or Diocèse du Puy and neighbouring provinces, which are at the moment "difficiles et pénibles", and re-stating the arguments for such an improvement (such as long delays in communication). Written on strong paper. EUR 175
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FACTUM contenant les justes Deffenses des Rentiers de l'Hotel de Ville de Paris: Et les moyens veritables de la seureté de leurs Rentes, & de leur conservation. A Paris, Chez Edme Pepingue, 1649. 35, (1) pp. 4to. Modern half black morocco, gilt lettering, marbled boards. Moreau 1360; Kress S.955. First edition. - Four leaves with a small stain in lower outer margin, lightly affecting the text but not its legibility. A handwritten note on the title-page attributes this pamphlet to Portail. EUR 175
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FILS, LE, du Père duchêne illustré paraissant deux fois par semaine. Paris, Imprimerie Serrière et Co., 1er florial-4 prairial an 79 (20 April-24 May 1871). Each numbercarries a coloured caricature on the title-page. 10 numbers of 8 pages each. Large 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Lemonnyer, Les Journaux de Paris, p. 29; Del Bo, Comune di Parigi, p. 31; Berleux, La Caricature Politique en France, p. 42; Le Quillec, 946; Schulkind Commune Collection, p. 30. Original edition, all published. The journal was edited by A. Spoll, directors were Monreal and Blondeau.'Favorable naturellement à la Commune, ce qui n'empêche pas les critiques .....' (Le Quillec). EUR 750
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INSTRUCTION chronologique pour la régie & perception des droits d'amortissemens, francs-fiefs & nouveaux Acquets, sous le nom d'Armand Pillavoine. (Drop-head title). (Paris, 1720). 32 pp. 4to. Modern boards. The 'amortissement' was a special tax due by mortmain when buying buildings. The 'franc-fief' was a tax due by buyers of noble property. This instruction dates of 1720, the first year of Pillavoine's tax-farmers office, which included the Compagnie des Indes and the so-called 'Domaine d'Occident'.Page 15-end contain: RECUEIL des Decisions generales du Conseil Royal, Au sujet des Droits d'Amortissement & de Nouvel Acquest du Recouvrement de 1689. EUR 175
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INSTRUCTION de l'Argent national près le District de Beziers, sur le table ci-après du Maximum des Denrées et Marchandises. (Et Tableau du Maximum). (A Beziers, de l'Imprimerie de J.J. Fugier, an II-1794). 7 leaves folio-plano, folded to large 4to.Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering. Not in Martin & Walter; not in Monglond; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Original edition, very rare. The Law of the Maximum, legislation that established a partially controlled economy during the year II. It was the second of three primary maximum degrees. It aimed at fixing the prices of wheat and flour (maximum of 4 May 1793), the maximum of 29 September 1794 fixed both prices and wages over a wide spectrum of primary commodities and production, the third, the maximum of 24 February 1794, replaced the local prices of the second maximum with a schedule of national prices. On 24 December 1794 the Thermidorians disestablished this system of price and wage controls. These were the basic laws of a complex of degress and a torrent of administrative reporting that included not just fixed prices but administratively controlled distribution as well, all of it directed theoretically from Paris by the Commission of Subsistence and Provisions and backed by the authority of the Committee of Public Safety. The folding sheets are subdivided into columns: Dénomination des Denrées et Marchandises; Indication des Lieux de Production ou de Fabrication; Distance des Lieux de départ aux Lieux de Consommation; Prix en 1790 augmentés du Tiers; Frais de Transport, par terre ou par eau en raison des distances; Prix que doit vendre le Marchand en gros,d'après l'achat principal, les frais de transport et les bénéfices de cinq pour cent calculés sur le total de ces deux bases réunis; Prix que doit vendre le Détaillant aux Consommateurs, y compris les bénéfices de dix pour cent en sus, seulement sur les prix en 1790, augmenté d'un tiers & des frais de transport; Réduction des prix ci-contre à la pinte, à la livre, à l'aune, à la toile, au pied, & à tout autre poids & mesure. EUR 1000
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INSTRUCTION pour les bayles marchands des maîtres passementiers, veloutiers, demassiers & satiniers de la ville de Toulouse; appellans & supplians. Contre les bayles du corpsdes maîtres boutonniers & bonnetiers de la même ville; intimez & deffendeurs. (Drop-head title). (Toulouse, ab. 1732). 16 pp. Folio. Modern boards. Not in Blanc, Bibliographie des corporations ouvrières. EUR 125
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JOURNAL des Gens du Monde. Paris, A. Mie, (1833). Leaflet of one page. 4to. Hatin 389. Prospectus of this journal to be directed by M. Gavarni. EUR 75
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JOURNAL fort exact des mouvemens qu'a fait l'armée d'Italie, commandée par monsieur le Duc de Vendôme, pour faire lever le blocus de Mantouë, & décamper les Impériaux, envoyépar un officier de la même armée. Du camp de Goito à l'armée d'Italie le 26. May 1702. (Drop-head title). No place, (1702). 4 pp. Small 4to. Disbound. EUR 75
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JOURNAL officiel de la République Française. 18 Mars-22 Mai 1871 (Year III, nrs 77-142). Paris, 1871. Large folio. Modern half cloth. Del Bo, Comune di Parigi, pp. 33-34; Lemonnyer, Les Journaux de Paris, p. 36. The Journal officiel for the Commune period, containing most of the official declarations proclaimed during the Paris Commune. This set contains 64 of the 67 numbers published during the Commune. EUR 750
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L'AMI DU PEUPLE EN 1848. An Ier de la République reconquise, par F.-V. Raspail. Paris, Au Bureau du Journal, 27 février-14 mai 1848. 21 numbers of 2 pages each. Folio. Modern halfred morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Hatin 439; Izambard, La Presse Parisienne de 1848-1849, p. 6; La Révolution de 1848, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1948, 450 (incomplete, runs upto April 20 !). Extremely rare complete set of this important journal, especially since, according to Izambard, the first two numbers were distributed as posters. Publication ceased after Raspail was arrested on May 15, 1848.The whole is preceded by 'Lettre du Citoyen F.V. Raspail, Représentant du Peuple, Aux Citoyens Électeurs de la Seine, Merci!', dated September 22, 1848, and by 'République Démocratique et Sociale. Raspail Président', dated November 1, 1848, both posters of great rarity. 'Contre les gens du National, de la famille Arago à Buchez, et du journaliste Marrast à l'avocat Marie de Saint-Georges, Raspail était des plus virulents' (Maitron, DBMOF, vol. iii, pp. 281-283).François Vincent Raspail, doctor, publicist and republicain activist. Between 1825 and 1830 Raspail published about 50 articles ranging from botany, zoology, and paleontology to microscopic anatomy, physiology, and forensic medicine. These studies were based on an early statement of cell theory, and he may be seen as a founder of microchemistry. He was also a pioneer advocate of antisepsis and improved sanitation and diet. His scientific career was limited by his continued refusal to accept official positions or awards. Also important were his studies on prison conditions and industrial safety.He was closely involved in the three great revolutionary movements of the century. The present journal was a democratic-socialist newspaper during the 1848 revolution. It was among the very few which survived for a longer period after the Provisional Government abolished or suspended almost all the restraints that the previous regime had placed on the press. It's success was mainly due to Raspail who also presided over a club with the same name. His involvement in the journée of 15 May led to his detention, and he was sentenced to six years in prison in March 1849; while in prison he was elected a deputy for Paris and Lyons in the September by-elections and won 37,000 votes, mainly from Paris and Lyons, in the presidential elections of December 1848. The first poster refers to his election as deputy, thanking those who voted for him, the second to his 'presidential campaign' in 1848. - One poster cut short lightly touching the last line. EUR 4500
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L'ETAT libéré. No place, 1788. With engraved frontispiece showing the sun encircling three fleur-de-lys thus symbolizing France and shining on the fertile land. (2), 73, (1, errata) pp. 8vo. Contemporary paper wrappers (uncut). Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED. First edition. Project to reform the deplorable state of the finances of France by suggesting a tax on succession, on the revenus of the higher clergy, the monasteries, churches, etc. EUR 175
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LES ALARMES. (Drop-head title). No place, (1615). 21 pp. Small 8vo. Modern boards. Lindsay & Neu 3203; not in Bourgeois & André. Defending the royal authority and the rights of the Gallican Church, and warning the queen regent and the king against the influence of the Jesuits. - Old scribbling in upper margin of first text-page. EUR 150
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LETTRE d'un Anglois à Paris. A Londres, 1787. 24 pp. 8vo. Modern boards, original blind covers preserved. Kress B.1261; Stourm, p. 137; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. On French government finances and especially the taxes on the eve of the revolution. The author also sharply rejects the privileges of the clergy, the class that does not pay taxes, has accumulated an enormous wealth and is yet again exempted from paying taxes. The nobility also has priviliges but the author intelligently observes that the nobility is used to sacrifice and serving the state in various capacities, and, contrary to the clergy, it's position in the state is closely tied to the state itself, in other words, a collapse of the state will have immediate impact on the nobility and their status. It discusses the position of Calonne and the possibilities of reform and the various forms of opposition any reform will provoke from various groups. EUR 200
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LETTRE des administrations provinciales aux notables. No place, (1787). (2), 14 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Conlon 87:636; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Stourm. First edition (?) Discusses the indispensable and unavoidable financial reforms. EUR 150
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LETTRE du Chevalier Georges de Paris. A Monseigneur le Prince de Condé. A Paris, (at end:) Chez Nicolas Boisset, 1649. - (Followed by:) LA SECONDE lettre du Chevalier Georgesà Monsieur le Prince. A Paris, Chez Iean Brunet 1649. 2 parts in one volume. 18 pp.; 8 pp. 4to. Modern boards, gilt lettering to spine. Moreau 2099; not in Welsh. Original edition. - One leaf of the second pamphlet neatly repaired in outer inner blank margin. Naudé refers to this pamphlet on several occasions and calls it one of the most remarkable ones. It should be noted that these remarks refer to the first pamphlet; the second pamphlet is not written by the same author and of lesser quality. EUR 275
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LETTRE à M. S.... Sur un plan de réforme dans les finances. (Drop-head title). No place, no date (1763). 15, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards. Stourm, p. 106; not in Kress; notin INED; not in Conlon; not in Higgs; not in Goldsmiths. First editon. One of the many replies provoked by Roussel de la Tour's Richesse de l'État in which the author proposed principles of taxation which were wholly contrary to the principles of the Tableau Oeconomique. EUR 100
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MANIFESTE de la part de sa Majesté le Roy de Sardaigne. (A Turin, par Jean Baptiste Chais Imprimeur du Roy, 1733). 10 pp. 4to. Modern boards, label with gilt lettering. First edition. On the participation on the French side in the War of Polish Succession. The war was ended by Treaty of Vienna. EUR 250
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MARSEILLE et les chemins de fer français. Paris, Imprimerie de E. Brière, 1862. 31, (1 blank) pp. 8vo. Sewn, original printed covers, small spot on front cover in upper outer margin Discusses the economic consequences of an improved north-south connection in France and argues for both better and new railway connections in the country. EUR 175
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MEMOIRE adressé à l'Assemblée Nationale par le Corps des mines. Extrait de l'arrête du Corps des mines du 2 juin 1790. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie des Bâtimens du Roi, (1790). 27 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; notin Goldsmiths; Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 9607. First edition. Dealing with the question of property rights, favoring state ownership. EUR 150
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MEMOIRE sur un point essentiel de la Richesse de l'État. No place, no date. 16 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine. Not inKress; not in Goldsmiths; not in INED; not in Musset-Pathay First edition. Probably written around 1788-1789 as the author refers to the upcoming meeting of the Three Estates (the only one held in the 18th century) and reminds the reader of the 'grande sechesse de l'été de 1785.' Advocates agriculture and the means to improve its results, and points to the devastating effects of the 'Dime'. EUR 125
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MOYEN proposé à la France, pour rétablir l'équilibre dans ses finances; pour étendre la circulation dans tout le royaume; pour perfectionner l'agriculture; pour redoubler l'activité du commerce & de l'industrie. Composé en 1786. A Philadelphie, 1787. (4), 82, (2) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Kress B.1290; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Musset-Pathay; not in Stourm. First edition. Many improvements are suggested, among which a sort of variable salary scale: 'la chose variant de prix, il faut que le prix du salaire suive la même variation ..... - Title and first page guarded and a bit spotted. EUR 250
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NECESSITE, De la, et des moyens de rétablir la confiance et le crédit; par le Cen***, de l'Institut National. Paris, chez les marchands de Nouveautés, An 8e (1800). 56 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Kress B.4109; notin Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Martin & Walter. - Small repair to page 31/32 with some loss of text. Titlepage browned, some scribbling at top of titlepage. Copy from Michel Adamson with his signature on the titlepage. EUR 125
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OFFICIER, L', et Catholique royal sur le droict annnel (sic) et le I. article du tier (sic) Estat. No place, 1615. 163, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled sides, gilt lettering. Kress 337; BMSTC, French Books, 1601-1700, B-37; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Bourgeois & André; not in Lindsay & Neu; not in Welsh. First edition. - Old name and date written in upper blank margin of title-page. The 'Droit annuel' often called the Paulette (see: Marion, M., Dictionnaire des Institutions de la France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles), had to be paid by the 'propriétaires d'offices' if they were to pass their position over to their heirs. This copy has on verso title-page a text 'Au Lecteur' which is signed G.R.P.D.B., covering the whole page. Another copy of this work we had collated identical but did not have this text. EUR 450
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ORDONNANCE de Monseigneur le Premier Président & Intendant; sur la requête à lui présentée par les Sieurs Procureurs des gens des Trois Etats de ce pays de Provence, qui permet aux ouvriers chargez des réparations des ponts & chemins, de prendre dans les fonds voisins les pierres & graviers qui leur seront nécessaires pour lesd. réparations. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Aix, chez la veuve de Charles David & Antoine David, (1700) 3 pp. Folio. Disbound. EUR 100
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PETITION des commerçans en détail, de Paris, et pièces subséquentes. Paris, Impr. Nationale, 1790. 20 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Kress B.1963; Goldsmiths 14421; Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 13759. Mainly dealing with financial questions, especially with the Caisse d'escompte. EUR 175
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PIERRE, LA, de touche politique, sur les différens intérêts de la France; où l'on découvre les motifs secrets qui font mouvoir les différens partis. Pour servir de suite au Règne de Louis XVI, avec des anecdotes relatives à la vie de ce prince. No place, Impr. du Salon National, 1790. 185 pp. 16mo. Modern boards. Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 13972; Tourneux 317a. EUR 75
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POLITIQUE, LE, du temps. Touchant tout ce qui s'est passé depuis le 26 aoust 1648 jusques à l'heureux retour du Roy en sa ville de Paris. Discours qui peut servir de mémoire à l'histoire. Dedié Aux Curieux. No place, 1648. 22 pp. 4to. Modern half red morocco, gilt lettering, marbled boards. Moreau 2812; not in Lindsay & Neu; not in Welsh. Original edition. 'Très rare. On voit par ce pamphlet ce que les partisans du Prince de Condé qu'en pensaient du rôle qu'il était appelé à jouer pendant la régence, ce qu'en pensait peut-être le prince lui-même' (Moreau). - Verso page 21 is blank, the next leaf, mounted, is numbered, verso, page 22, recto blank. EUR 250
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PRECIS pour les Doyen, anciens Doyens & assistans du Corps & Communauté des bellandriers de Dunkerque, intimés; contre Pierre Coddevin, bellandrier de Dunkerque, appelant d'une ordonnance du sieur Intendant de Flandre du 15 Février 1774. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie d'Houry, 1778. 12 pp. 4to. Modern boards. A 'balandre' was a flat-bottomed vessel for navigation on canals. Deals with a case in which Coddevin was forbidden to sail with his vessel for a period of 6 months. EUR 125
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PROCEDURE criminelle, instruite au Chatelet de Paris sur la dénonciation des faits arrivés à Versailles dans la journée du 6 octobre 1789. Imprimée par ordre de l'Assemblée nationale. A Paris, Chez Baudouin, 1790. 3 volumes in 1. (4), 270 pp.; (4), 221 pp.; 79 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. Martin & Walter 14427. Rare in complete state with the 3rd part. Forms the most important source for the history of the events of October 5-6, 1789. Those days belong to the most memorable events of the Revolution, best known for the women's march to Versailles and the transfer of the royal family to Paris. It was a crisis in which the outcome of the struggle between the crown and the National Assembly was decided by popular intervention. EUR 600
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PROCES-VERBAL des séances de l'Assemblée administrative du Département de l'Aube. Tenues à Troyes, dans les mois de Novembre et Décembre 1790 - [aux mois de Novembre & Décembre 1791. IIe Session.] A Troyes, Chez Sainton, André, 1791-1792. Two volumes. (4), 518, (12) pp.; 429, (13) pp. 4to. Contemporary calf, spines gilt with red and green labels and gilt lettering, gilt fillets on sides, gilt inside dentelles, all edges gilt, some minor imperfections. Not in Martin & Walter; not in Monglond; Lecestre, p. 18 & p. 19. First edition. The first volume deals with the session from 3 November upto 15 December 1790 and dealt with a great variety of subjects: population du département, sur l'agriculture, sur l'industrie, sur le commerce, sur les arts, sur les grands communications, sur les rivières, sur les routs, travaux publics, ateliers de charité, encouragemens et secours de bienfaisance, biens nationaux, contribution patriotique, etc., etc. Henri Picot Dampierre was the president of the Assembly.The second volume covers the session that was held from 15 November upto 14 December 1791: this session covered a great variety of subjects: Frais d'administration, dépense de l'ordre judiciaire de l'année 1791, frais du culte, pensions et secours accordés aux ecclésiastiques et communautés religieuses, dépenses relatives aux travaux des routes, aux travaux de charité, au bien public, à la mendicité, population du département, sur l'agriculture, sur l'industrie, sur le commerce, sur les arts, sur les grands communications, sur les rivières, sur les routs, travaux publics, ateliers de charité, encouragemens et secours de bienfaisance, biens nationaux, contribution patriotique, etc., etc.The first volume has the gilt stamped name of H.P. Dampierre in the center of both sides with above a gilt stamped fleuron with the text "La Nation, la Loi et le Roi", the second volume has the gilt stamped name of T. Cobin, Pr. Général in center of both sides with above the gilt stamped fleuron 'Droits de l'Homme'. H.P Dampierre was the President of the Assembly. EUR 2500
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PROCES-VERBAL des séances de l'Assemblée provinciale de la Moyenne Normandie et du Perche, généralité d'Alençon. (Tenue à Lisieux, novembre et décembre 1787). (Lisieux, 1788). With 5 folding tables. Irregular pagination: (2), xx, 37-52 pp.; 55, 331 pp. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with raised bands, paper covered boards (upper joint slightly split at top). De Lavergne 258 and ff. Original edition. Includes the 'Réglement', the 'Déclaration de Roi', and the proceedings. EUR 400
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PROCEZ-VERBAL de tout ce qui s'est passé en la Chambre du Tiers Estat. Touchant le premier article de leur Cahyer presenté au Roy. No place, 1615. (2), 174 (misnumbered 156) pp. 8vo. Modern half calf, raised bands, spine gilt withgilt lettering, marbled boards. Lindsay & Neu 3369. This work deals with Article I of the "Procez Verbal" of the Third Estate meeting in 1614-1615. This Article pertains to the sovereignty of the King. References are also made to Ravaillac, assassin of Henry IV, Robert Estienne's Greek Testament, and lists of names of the deputies. - Somewhat stained in places. EUR 275
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PROFESSION de foi de l'Église catholique française. (Drop-head title). (Nantes, Imprimerie du Commerce, V. Mangin et W. Bosseuil, 1831). 16 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Signed at end: Virgile Calland et Julien Le Rousseau. The Égilse catholique française was a dissident sect, which celebrated mass in the French language. It was a church which had leanings towards socialism. Julien Le Rousseau belonged to the fourierist circles. EUR 150
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PROGRAMMES des prix proposés par la Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale, Dans sa séance générale du 22 Novembre 1826, pour être décernés en 1827, 1828, 1829 et1830. (Paris, Imprimerie de Madame Huzard, 1826). With one folding table. 53, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards with leather label and gilt lettering. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. - Rare and important document. Presided by Chaptal, assisted by de Gerando, Costaz, Jamard, the Comte de Lasteyrie and the duc de Doudeauville, the Société d'encouragement pour l'Industrie counted among its members the most important representatives of the industrial and commercial interests of the age. The society proposed for four consecutive years (1827-1830) 35 prices with a total of 115,000 francs, for proposals which would lead to improvement in the 'arts mechaniques, la chimie, l'agriculture, l'économie', or inventions of importance in one of these areas of commercial or industrial activity. The text details the subject for each price and as such gives outstanding information on the actual situation in the mentioned fields. For exemple: for the Arts mècaniques there is a 'prix pour la fabrication des briques, tuiles et carreaux, par machines' and the text outlines the current situation and the use other nations make of such machines and details the specific requirements to be in competition for the price. For the Arts Mécaniques, as for the other subjects, several inventions or improvements are asked for or suggested and in all instances the text outlines the current situation, and describes what is wanted i.e. Agriculture: Pour la construction d'un moulin propre à nettoyer le sarrasin, Pour un semis de pins d'Ecosse (pinus rubra). Arts Chimiques: Pour le prefectionnement des fonderies de fer, etc. etc. The folding table is a recapitulation of the main subjects and the desired inventions, dates for submitting the plans and proposals, and dates for the distribution of the prices and the prices themselves. EUR 600
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PROMPT et salutaire advis. Vive Jésus-Christ, vive le Roy, & le Parlement, François & tous ses bons sujects. No place, 1649. 11, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards, gilt lettering. Moreau 2903; not in Welsh. Originaledition. 'Fort mal écrit, mais curieux' (Moreau). EUR 150
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RAISONS, LES, ou les Motifs véritables de la deffense du parlement & des Habitans de Paris. Contre les Perturbateurs du repos public, & les Ennemis du Roy & de l'Estat. A Paris, 1649. 26 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Moreau 2967; not in Welsh. First edition. 'Expose complet, mais très-passioné, de ce qui s'est passé en 1648 et 1649, jusqu'à l'arrêt qui déclare le cardinal Mazarin ennemi public' (Moreau). Ex-libris Bruno Monnier, Chateau de Mantry, Jura. EUR 200
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RAPPORT de la commission d'enquête sur l'insurrection qui a éclaté dans la journée du 23 juin et sur les événements du 15 mai (1848). (Paris, Imprimerie de l'Assemblée Nationale, 1848). 3 volumes in one. 376 pp.; 335, (1) pp.; 254 (misnumbered 252) pp. 4to. Contemporary red half morocco, corners, marbled boards, spine gilt with gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Bibliothèque Nationale. La Révolution de 1848, 866. Original edition. The events of May 15 deal with a large demonstration mounted by Parisian clubists and workers to pressure the Assembly to send troops to the aid of Poland which escalated into an invasion of the Assembly and the proclamation of a New Provisional Government, including Louis Blanc and other leftists. But the Executive Commission soon dispersed the demonstrators, arrested the most popular leaders -including Albert, Barbès and Blanqui- and suppressed many of the clubs. Draconian laws prohibited street gatherings, consequent mass arrests, and the Assembly's hostility to social reform created a situation electric with fear and anger. This was precipitated into insurrection by the Assembly's decision on 21 June to slash the rolls of the National Workshops. For four days, an unprecedented civil war tore the city in two. The June uprising started with several large gatherings at the Place de la Bastille and at the Pantheon on 22 June and the morning of June 23 and were followed by the erection of hundreds of barricades throughout eastern Paris. The June days then were an insurrection of Parisian workers against the government of the Second Republic which was crushed by the army in the bloodiest street figthing in Paris before the Commune of 1871. Alexis de Tocqueville noted the working-class character in the insurrection, and Karl Marx called the June Days the first great class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. Very valuable source. The rapports contain a.o.: Documents relatifs à Louis Blanc. - Documents relatifs à M. Caussidiére. - Documents relatifs à l'affaire de Belgique. - Actes du Gouvernement provisoire. - Documents sur les Clubs. - Ateliers nationaux. - Documents fournis par les préfectures, etc. The leading man of this 'Commission d'Enquête' was A. Bauchart who was vehemently attacked by Victor Hugo and Louis Blanc. A major and fundamental source for the 1848 revolution. - Quire 10 in the third volume disbound but complete. EUR 1000
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RECUEIL A-Z, &. (Publié par G.L. Pérau, A.G. Meusnier de Querlon, B. Mercier de Saint-Léger, J. de le Porte, E. de Barbazan, B.C. Graillard de Graville). Fontenoy, Luxembourg, Paris, Bruxelles, Amsterdam, 1745-1762. All title-pages printed in red, each letter has its own title-page. 24 volumes in 12. (2), iv, (2), 224 pp.; (4), 222 (misnumbered 112) pp.; (iv), (4), 207, (1) pp.; (6), 247, (1) pp.; (2), 265, (5) pp.; (2), ii, (2), 195, (1) pp.; (2), 248, (2) pp.; (2) 236, (2) pp.; (2), 209, (3) pp.; (2), 209, (7) pp.; (2), 235, (3) pp.; (2), 235, (3) pp.; (2), 227, (5) pp.; (2), 226, (2) pp.; (2), 218 (misnumbered 219), (4) pp.; (2), 216, (2) pp.; (2), 226, (2) pp.; (2), 214, (2) pp.; (2), 235, (3) pp.; (2), 256, (4) pp.; (2), 239, (1) pp.; (2), 219, (5) pp.; (2), 210, (6) pp.; (2), 197, (3) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, red labels with gilt lettering, some minor defects, a very good copy. Echeverria & Wilkie 752/8 (second volume only); European Americana, 745/183; Sabin 68417; Muller 2942; not in Howes; not in Leclerc; not in JFBL; Tchemerzine-Scheler, i, 434; Dictionnaire des Journaux 1600-1789, ii, 1160. First edition. Includes in vol B the Mémoire sur la Louisiane ou Mississipi (pp. 123-176) which contains various references to English settlements and colonies to the east and northeast and which was published in this collection only. The collection includes many interesting and rare pieces relating to 16th and 17th century history, politics, diplomatic correspondance, royal acts, French regional history, and contains furthermore miscellaneous pieces. Most of the pieces printed in this collection remained unknown upto then, and are not to be found elsewhere. The majority of the texts collected here are of historical nature and are for the most part from the period 1580-1620 while the entire collection moves between the dates 1547-1751. Occasionally they are grouped around a theme such as duels or the struggle between the De Guises and the Kings of Navarre. A very interesting and scarce collection. - Fine copy from the Bibliothèque de Belay. EUR 2000
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RECUEIL des actions héroiques et civiques des républicains français. Paris, Impr. de la Société des jeunes Français, (1794). 5 numbers in 1 volume. 24 pp.; 28 pp.; 26, (2) pp.; 27 pp.; 28, (2) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Hatin 248; Tourneux 17249; not in Martin & Walter. All published, very rare. The editior was L. Bourdon de La Croisière.The first number was published as Annales du civisme et de la vertu. The first four numbers were presented to the Convention by Léonard Bourdon, the last number by A.C. Thibaudeau and deals with the Rhine and Moselle army.Very rare publication glorifying patriotism by way of examples and which was destined for the municipalities, the army, the popular societies, the schools, etc.'Un décret de la Convention du 10 nivôse an II ordonna que ce recueil serait envoyés en placards aux municipalités, aux armées, aux sociétés populaires, aux écoles, etc. Un arrêté du Comité de Salut Public (28 pluviôse an II) prescrivit le tirage à 150.000 exemplaires de chaque numéro et autorisa les administrateurs de chaque département à les faire réimprimer selon les besoins de leurs administrés' (Tourneux). - Very rare in this complete state. The nrs. 2-5 are dated 'an II'. All numbers are done by the same printer. EUR 750
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RECUEIL General des Estats tenus en France, sous les Rois, Charles VI. Charles VIII. Charles IX. Henry III. & Loüis XIII. Dedié A Monseigneur le Premier President. A Paris, Au Palais, 1651. Two parts in one volume. (6), 357 (misnumbered 265), (1) pp.; 294 (misnumbered 290), (12) pp. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt double fillets on sides (corners somewhat worn, head and foot of spine chipped, joints starting to split). Not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700. First edition. The work has been compiled by Toussaint Quinet and is dedicated to Mathieu Mole, 'Chevalier, Premier President'. Contains, among others: Les trois estats tenus à Tours - La harangue de par la noblesse de toute la France - L'ordre des estats tenus à Bloys - Noms, surnoms et qualitez des députez des trois ordres des Estats Généraux de France, 1614 - etc. - Lightly browned throughout, a few pages with a small dampstain. Handwritten ex-libris on title. EUR 750
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REFLEXIONS sur le Mémoire du Régisseur des Cuirs, contenant de nouvelles Observations importantes sur les causes de la décadence du Commerce des Cuirs. (Drop-head title). No place, (ab. 1775). 22 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First edition ? Deals with the problems of fraud and the taxes. EUR 150
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REGLEMENT concernant les avancemens des équipages des vaisseaux du Roi. Du 8 février 1789. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Versailles, Imprimerie royale, 1789. 10 pp. 4to. Loose leaves as issued, folded. Actes Royaux, vi, 42292. EUR 150
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REMONSTRANCES de la cour souveraine (de Lorraine et Barrois) au Roi (Louis XV), arrêtées le 15 mai 1756. No place, (1756). 36 pp. 4to. Modern boards, morocco label with gilt lettering on spine. Conlon 56:459. First edition. Deals with the fundamental laws of the Kingdom, and the rights and duties of the sovereign courts. The reply of the King, dated 27 May 1756 is included in this publication. EUR 225
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REPONSE du Roi aux Remonstrances du 4 Septembre 1759. No place, (1759). 19, (1) pp. Small 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Defendingthe new taxes and explaining the necessity of more income for the State. EUR 125
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REQUETE aux Deux Chambres. (Drop-head title). Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Lachevardiere, (1828). With one table. 4 pp. 4to. Modern boards. The table is entitled 'Tableau de trente Écoles élémentaires gratuites de Paris, dressé d'après les états trimestriels et mensuels, adressés à la Préfecture du département, pour avril et mai 1828'. Deals with "Société pour l'Instruction élémentaire and the laws of 13 & 14 September 1791 and the law of 1 Mai 1802 concerning public education and the fact that not much has come of it. The text is signed by 'Un membre de la société pour l'Instruction publique'. The Dictionnaire de Pédagogie contains a long article on this society (pp. 2792-2796). EUR 150
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REVUE retrospective ou Archives secrètes du dernier gouvernement (1830-1848). Edited by H. Taschereau. Paris, 1848. 33 nrs bound in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary half morocco, marbled boards. Hatin 494. All published. - Rare in complete state with the number 32/33, although these two numbers have been supplied in xerox. Contains a.o. under the heading Affaires du 12 Mai 1839 a document suggesting that Louis-Auguste Blanqui was paid by the police. He published some depositions made by Blanqui at the Ministry of the Interior. Maurice Dommanget, who devoted many years of study to Blanqui, was reluctantly convinced at the time he began his studies, that Tachereau had been telling the truth, but changed his opinion later. At any rate, the publication provoked Blanqui's famous reply: "Rédacteurs, vous êtes des lâches."Jules Antoine Tachereau was a journalist, member of the moderate liberal opposition during the July Monarchy and set on the right of the Constituent Assembly in 1848. The present work is a collection of secret pieces, private correspondances, police reports and similar material, found after the 1848 revolution in the Tuileries and the ministries: correspondance of Louis-Philippe with his family and his agents, ministers with Louis-Philippe, texts dealing with secret funds, the Spanish mariages, Mazzini, Don Carlos, Descazes, Guizot, etc. etc. EUR 500
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REVUE rétrospective ou Archives secrètes du dernier gouvernement (1830-1848). Edited by H. Taschereau. Paris, 1848. 33 nrs bound in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, marbled boards (spine lightly discoloured). Hatin 494. All published. - Rare with the final numbers 32/33 although in photostat and thus loosely inserted. Contains a.o. under the heading Affaires du 12 Mai 1839 a document suggesting that Louis-Auguste Blanqui was paid by the police. He published some depositions made by Blanqui at the Ministry of the Interior. Maurice Dommanget, who devoted many years of study to Blanqui, was reluctantly convinced at the time he began his studies, that Tachereau had been telling the truth, but changed his opinion later. At any rate, the publication provoked Blanqui's famous reply: "Rédacteurs, vous êtes des lâches."Jules Antoine Tachereau was a journalist, member of the moderate liberal opposition during the July Monarchy and set on the right of the Constituent Assembly in 1848. The present work is a collection of secret pieces, private correspondances, police reports and similar material, found after the 1848 revolution in the Tuileries and the ministries: correspondance of Louis-Philippe with his family and his agents, ministers with Louis-Philippe, texts dealing with secret funds, the Spanish mariages, Mazzini, Don Carlos, Descazes, Guizot, etc. etc. EUR 500
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RICHESSE, LA, des cultivateurs ou dialogues entre Benjamin Jachère et Richard Trèfle, laboureurs, sur la culture du Trèfle, de la Luzerne et du Sainfoin; Traduit de l'Allemand (par Barbé-Marbois). Ouvrage servant de Manuel aux Cultivateurs des deux rives du Rhin. A Paris, Chez A.-J. Marchant, An XI (1803). With one folding table and a very charming engraved vignette on page 1. xvi, 175, (1), (16, publisher's catalogue) pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards, red morocco label with gilt lettering. Musset-Pathay 1740; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First French edition ? Musset-Pathay lists Barbé-Marbois as the translator. Deals with alfalfa, clover and cock's comb in the form of dialogues between Benjamin Jachère and Richard Trèfle (Mr. Fallow and Mr. Clover). EUR 250
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SOCIALISTE, LE. Organe du Parti ouvrier. Paris, 29 August 1885-26 March 1887. 83 nrs. Folio. Unbound, as issued. - Added: nrs 57-57 and 63of the 5th series (1899). Guesdist socialist journal, edited by C. Deville, R. Fréjac, J. Guesde, P. Lafargue, A. Le Tailleur.Jules Guesde embraced the cause of the Commune and when it fell became an expatriate. He founded the Parti ouvrier with a Marxist program and became with Lafargue and Deville the popularizer of Marxist doctrines in France. He published pamphlets, lectured throughout France and attacked anarchism and opposed, in 1898, Jaurès, whom he reproached for associating himself with liberal intellectuals in the Dreyfuss affair. EUR 1200
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SPECIMEN authentique des infames spéculations auxquelles a donné lieu le siège de Paris 1870-1871. Paris, E. Blot, (1871). Text within a printed ornamental border. 4to poster. Maillard, Les Publications de la Rue pendant le Siège de la Commune, 398. Original edition. Text which accuses the government of neglecting the interests of the population of Paris by having failed to take the appropriate measures against speculation. Either hunger or ridiculous prices are the consequences for which the government will be held responsible. At the bottom, under the lists of prices for all sorts of products, the following line has been printed: 'N.B. - Les Gardes Nationaux touchaient, par jour, 1 fr. 50 de solde' as an example of how little can be bought with payment received. EUR 175
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STATUTS des Bonnetiers, Aulmulciers & Mitonniers, en la ville de Paris. Registrés en Parlement le 4 juillet 1608 & ès Bannières du Chastelet, le 20 aoust audit an. (Drop-headtitle). (On page 12:) Paris, Chez P. Prault, 1736. 14 pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Preceded by: MEMOIRE pour les maistres boursiers à Paris, contre les Bonnetiers de Paris. 2 pp.Pages 13-14 of the 'Statuts' contain the 'Arrest de la cour de Parlement' concerning the production of bonnets. - Not quite clean. EUR 175
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SUR LES FINANCES. Ouvrage posthume de Pierre André******, fils d'un bon laboureur, mis au jour par Mr *, Curé D *. A Londres, 1775. With 1 folding map and 4 folding tables. viii, 293, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label with gilt lettering, gilt triple fillets on sides, red edges. Kress 7170; Goldsmiths 11330; Einaudi 5517; INED 4798; Higgs 6403; Peignot, Livres Condamnés, i, p. 141. First edition. Severely prosecuted attack on the Fermiers-Généraux, forbidden already in 1776. 'Diatribe sanglante contre les fermiers généraux et les abus scandaleux de leurs agents. L'auteur met en scene un malheureux dont les 'suppôts de la ferme' ont ruiné la famille et fait périr le père de chagrin' (INED). According to a manuscript note in the Kress copy: '..... l'on croit que cette sanglante diatribe des fermiers généraux a été composée, imprimée et répandue sous les auspices du ministère actuel (celui de Turgot & Malesherbes).' EUR 900
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TABLEAU des massacres commis dans le palais d'Avignon, sous les ordres des principaux Chefs de l'Armée de Monteux. (Drop-head title). No place, (1815). Large woodcut, covering one-third of the leaf, depicting the cruelties. 1 leaf (verso blank). Folio. Folded and mounted in a 4to modern half morocco binding, gilt lettering to spine. Very interesting broadside showing in the illustration the cruelties and atrocities commited during the days of 16 and 17 October 1791, showing a number of victimes and murderers, with explanatory text. It also gives, at the bottom of the sheet, the names of a number of those involved in the massacre who are still alive. The whole is a call to murder these 'hommes de sang' ! The broadside deals with the notorious massacre of La Glacière: when an antirevolutionary mob murdered a prominent municipal official, the Revolutionaries took revenge. On the night of 16-17 October 1791, they murdered more than sixty papists in the prisons of the Palace of the Popes and threw their bodies to the bottom of La Glacière, one of the towers of the palace. The broadside has been produced because of the return of a number of these murderers to Avignon during the Hundred Days. EUR 900
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TAILLE et autres impositions. 1787. (Drop-head title). Gap, 1786. 4 pp., partly printed, partly manuscript. Folio. Folded. Very interesting document inviting the mayor or lord, consuls and assesors of Saint-André d'Embrun to divide and levy from all the taxpayers of the community what is due for the year 1787. The community is addressed by Gaspard-Louis Caze, Baron de la Bove, Conseiller du Roi et ses Conseils, ..... Intendant de Justice, Police, Finances, Troupes ..... de Dauphiné, Lambert Rolland, Chevalier, .... Trésorier de France général des Finances de ladite Province, Mathias Pison de Malbourget, Procureur au Bureau des Finces de ladite Province, and les Président, Lieutenant, Conseillers du Roi, Elus en l'Electon de Gap (placename filled in by hand), and in the text amounts are also given in handwriting. The first and second page give the amounts and explain which taxes need to be paid and based on which legislation, the third and fourth page give the "Capitation", the whole is issued by the treasurer of the province and dated Gap, 28 september 1786, and signed at end. At top of page 1, in the upper blank margin the name of St. André d'Embrun has been written.Page 1 has a contemporary manuscript note: 'Vous êtes prévenus de faire payer le premier quartier de vos impositions au dix décembre à défaut de quoi je vous enverrai la brigade.' Signed: Binet. EUR 350
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TRES-HUMBLE remonstrance du Parlement au Roy, et à la Reyne regente. A Paris, Par les Imprimeurs & Libraires ordinaires du Roy, 1649. 16 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Moreau 3814; not in Welsh. First edition. 'La loi fondamentale de la monarchie veut qu'il n'y ait qu'un maître en titre et en fonction; de sorte qu'il est toujours honteux au prince, et dommageable aux sujets, qu'un particulier prenne trop de part à son affection ou à son autorité, celle-là devant être communiquée à tous, et celle-ci n'appartenant qu'a lui seul.' Signed Janvier 21, 1649. Attributed to Président Le Coigneux. EUR 250
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ACTION héroïque de la marquise de Rozerswick. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Rouen, Bonel, (1753). 1 page. Small 4to. Disbound. Defense against gangsters known as 'Miquelets'.On verso of this leaf: RELATION véritable de soixante voleurs et assassineurs, lesquels ont été pris et conduits dans les prisons de Paris. (Drop-head title). No place, (1753). EUR 75
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ALMANACH, L', des douze ministres. No place, (1790). With engraved frontispiece. 120 pp. 12mo. Old blind cover, uncut. Martin & Walter, Journaux et Almanachs, 1457. Richelieu - Mazarin - Louvois - De Bois - Fleury - Saint Florentin - Terray - Meaupou - Saint Germain - Calonne - Brienne - Lamoignon. EUR 200
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AMI, L', des campagnes et des faubourgs. Paris, avril 1790. 32 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 1032; not in Monglond; not in Tourneux. - Added as frontispiece, a portrait of Voltaire. - Small piece of date cut out, with loss of two numbers. By a moderate royalist, criticizing the financial and economical reforms of the Assemblée Constituante. EUR 200
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ANNEE TERRIBLE, L', ou prédictions véritables et remarquables des prodiges étonnans qui doivent arriver en France dans le cours de cette année 1756. (Drop-head title). No place, (1756). 2 pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Reveils the prophecies said to originate from the Near East and communicated by the captain of a merchant ship. The prophecies include that in Paris there will show up many birds of prey, called: 'greffiers, procureurs and huissiers' and that the poor will become poorer, etc. One margin strengthened. EUR 75
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ANTROPOPHAGIE, L', ou Les antropophages. A Amsterdam (France), 1764. With engraved frontispiece. 37, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Kress S.4328; INED 4546; not in Higgs; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. Very sharp pamphlet against the fermiers généraux. The author remained unknown, but 'on avait pourtant arrêté et mis à la Bastille un nommé Darigrand auquel on attribuait l'Antifinancier, qui parait avoir été écrit par la même plume que les Antropophages; mais il fut relâché avant la mise en circulation de ce dernier libelle' (INED). - Title-page and first few leaves browned. EUR 200
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ARREST de la Cour de Parlement, qui homologue une ordonnance rendue par les officiers de police de la ville de Saumur, concernant la police et le maintien de l'ordre public. Du 30 juin 1785. (Drop-head title). A Paris, Chez P.G. Simon & N.H. Nyon, 1785. 47, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. Important ordinance (containing 16 articles) dealing with public order: with religion, public security, fire, circulation of traffic, pharmacy and physicians, bakers, butchers, fairs and markets, innkeepers, household servants, etc., etc. EUR 150
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ARREST du Conseil d'Etat du roy, En faveur du dernier emprunt. 30 Décembre 1785. No place, no date (1785). 3, (1) pp. Small 4to. Modern boards. Only edition. Ficticious 'arret', secretly printed (and possibly due to those circumstances not very well printed), forming a violent diatribe against the pillaging of the treasury ('que pendant plus de quinze mois le trésor royal a été en proie à la cupidité de deux hommes dont l'un y a dilapidé plus de 80 million, ....'), and the conditions under which the new loan has been issued. Of course, this pamphlets is not listed in any of the standard bibliographies. EUR 200
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ARREST du Conseil d'État du Roi, qui prescrit les règles et les formalités à observer, tant par les parties prenantes que par les payeurs des États du Roi. Du 30 Octobre 1767. Grenoble, Ve A. Faure, 1767. Large 4to poster on white paper. Concerning the pensions and gratifications paid out of the Trésor Royal. EUR 75
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ARRET du Conseil d'Etat du Roi, par lequel Sa Majesté supprime les différentes places d'inspecteurs généraux des manufactures; d'inspecteurs généraux du commerce; de commissaires généraux du commerce: établit cinq inspecteurs généraux du commerce, dont le premier aura le titre d'Inspecteur général-directeur du commerce; le second d'inspecteur général-directeur des manufactures; & les trois autres d'inspecteurs généraux du commerce & des manufactures: Et règle les fonctions desdites places. Du 16 février 1788. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Versailles, Imprimerie royale, 1788. 10 pp. 4to. Disbound. In article V the King nominated Boyetet as inspector general-director of commerce; Desmarets as inspector general-director of manufacturing industry and the physiocrats Abeille, Cliquot de Blervache and Dupont de Nemours as general inspectors of commerce and the manufacturing industry. EUR 300
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ARRET du Conseil d'Etat du Roi, portant suppression du Conseil des prises, au premier avril 1788. Du 5 janvier 1788. (Drop-head title). Lyon, 1788. 2 pp. 4to. Modern boards with leather label. On an extra blank leaf contemporary annotations concerning among others arrêts and edicts dealing with 'commerce, chemins, affinages' etc. EUR 100
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ARRET du Conseil du Roi, portant confirmation & établissement de ports francs dans le royaume. (Drop-head title). Paris, 1784. 3, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards with leather label. EUR 100
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BANQUET patriotique departemental offert à M. Grenier. Clermont-Ferrand, Impr. A. Veysset, (about 1832). Leaflet of 2 pp. 4to. - Margins frayed, small tear. Grenier, avocat général, was fired because of his liberal opinions. The leaflet contains toasts by Grenier and by the organizers of the banquet, among whom Trélat of the 'Société des Amis du Peuple.' EUR 75
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BIOGRAPHIE des Cardinaux, Archevêques et Evêques Français, vivans; Précédée de la Déclaration du clergé de France de 1682 et de celle du 3 avril 1826; Par un Gallican. Paris, Chez les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1826. 128 pp. 32mo. Modern blue boards, original covers preserved. First edition? Short biographies of cardinals, etc. and indicating in many cases whether or not they signed the declaration of 3 April, 1826. EUR 200
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BOUCHE DE FER, LA. Par Paschal Grousset. Paris, (Imprimerie de A. Vallée), 8 Mars-11 Mars 1871. 2 numbers of together 48 pp. Small 8vo. Modern cloth, black label with gilt lettering. Del Bo, Comune di Parigi, p. 5; Noël, Dictionnaire de la Commune, p. 199; Le Quillec, 324; Schulkind Commune Collection, p. 28; not in Lemonnyer, Les Journaux de Paris; not in Maillard; not in Drujon. All published. The publication was forbidden after the publication of nr 2 by order of General Vinoy, on March 11, 1871. Grousset founded also the well-known journal L'Affranchi.Paschal Jean François Grousset started as a doctor but became soon involved in politics and journalism opposing the Second Empire. He became director of La Marseillaise in which he launched a campaign against the prince Pierre Bonaparte. He was an active member of the Paris commune, was arrested and deported to Nouvelle-Calédonie from which he managed to escape with Jourde, Rochefort and 4 others: the only succesful escape in the history of the deportations! EUR 400
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CAPITULATION de Hamelen & liste des officiers tués ou blessés à la bataille de Hastembecke. (Drop-head title). Paris, Bureau d'adresse, le 11 août 1757. 6, (2 blank) pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Episode of the Seven Years' War. Cumberland was beaten by the French near Hastenbeck and the French overran Hanover and Brunswick. EUR 75
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CITATEUR REPUBLICAIN, Le, Recueil de Principes, de Liberté, ou Choix Principaux de Traités de Démocratie extraits de divers Écrits de Philosophie, ancienne et nouvelle. Nouveau Corps d'ouvrage Divisé par Livraisons. Paris, Rouannet, 1834. viii, 324 pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards, label with gilt lettering. Not in Hatin; not in Catalogue Collectif des Périodiques. Complete collection consisting of all 8 parts. This work compiles textes drawn from the works of such authors as Prudhomme, Jacques Roux, Mably, Hélvetius, La Vicomterie, d'Holbach, Lamenais and dealing with subjects such as the freedom of the press, the relation between government and citizen, the necessity of the republic for France, taxes, responsibility of the ministers, death penalty, the constitution, luxury, divorce, etc. etc.A very good copy of this interesting work, some scattered and unobtrusive spotting, and with two original yellow covers (of the first and the seventh 'livraison') bound in, and complete with the 'Rapport des pièces de la publication du Citateur Républicain' and the tables which were supplied after the last number was published. EUR 600
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COLLECTION of pamphlets against the candidacy for the presidency of Louis-Napoléon. Paris, Imp. Lacrampe fils et Comp., (ab. 1848). With many satirical wood-engravings. 14 nrs (of 30 published). 1 or 2 pages each. Folio. Catalogue de l'Histoire de France, xi, page 355, nr 2248; not in Izambard, La presse Parisienne. The colletion we offer contains the nrs 1-3, 6, 8, 10, 12-13, 15-16, 21, 24-25 and 29. A note of the publisher in nrs 24/25 announces the publication of 30 nrs in all. The Catalogue de l'Histoire de France also describes an incomplete set, lacking the numbers 9, 18,19, 25, 26 and 30. - Extremely rare. EUR 900
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COMMISSION DE GOUVERNEMENT pour les travailleurs. Séances du 3 et du 5 Mars 1848. No place, (1848). Large oblong sheet, text printed in 4 columns, verso blank. Proceedings of the discussions devoted to the organization of labour. EUR 75
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COMMISSION DE GOUVERNEMENT pour les travailleurs. Séances du 3 et du 5 Mars 1848. No place, (1848). Large oblong, text printed in 4 columns, verso blank. Disbound. Proceedings of the discussions devoted to the organization of labour. EUR 75
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COMPOSITE ATLAS consisting of 7 maps, 2 of which partly hand coloured. 1790-1798. 7 folded leaves. Small 8vo. Old blind cover (lower cover partly damaged). - A few folds with a small damage. Contains: 1. Hand coloured representation of the Copernicus globe and that of Ptolomaeus. (Lower margin short, touching the engraving). - 2. Map of Europe by Briou. Paris, chez Desnos, 1790.- 3. Map of Asia by Briou. Paris, chez Desnos, 1790. - 4. Map of Africa by Briou. Paris, chez Desnos, 1790. - 5. Map of North and South America by Briou. Paris, chez Desnos, 1790. - 6. Map of France, the departments hand coloured. Paris, Desnos, (1792). - 7. Map of Belgium as part of France, by P. Lartigue. Hand coloured outlines. Paris, Desnos, 1798. EUR 600
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CONGRES NATIONAL, 17e, tenu à Strasbourg les 25-29 février 1920. Compte rendu sténographique. Paris, au Siège du Conseil National, (1920). xxiii, (5), 574, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt lettering to spine, green marbled boards. At the end of this National Congress the S.F.I.O. decided to leave the Second International. The partisans of the Second International had lost nearly all their support and they were defeated by a majority of more than 13 to 1. At head of title: Parti Socialiste (Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière). See for an elaborate account: G.D.H. Cole, A History of Socialist Thought, volume iv: Communism and Social Democracy, 1914-1931, part II, chapter One. EUR 375
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CONVERSATION familière entre M. le Comte de Falkenstein et Louis XVI. Paris, 1777. 80 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Conlon 77:207; not in Barbier; not in Quérard. First edition. 'A l'époque, l'empereur Joseph II voyageait en France sous le nom de Falkenstein' (Conlon). Fictitious and satirical dialogue between the two rulers on politics and political philosophy. Half-title, title and text all printed within a double line ornamental border. Very nice copy, uncut. EUR 250
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CORPS d'observation des pyrénées occidentales. Ordre du jour. Bordeaux, 14 juillet 1815. Bordeaux, chez Racle, (1815). Folio poster on white paper. Order to follow only the instructions of Davout, Prince d'Eckmuhl. EUR 75
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CRI, LE, du Coeur, Dialogue sur l'Édit du Roi du 30 Mai 1774, entre Jacques L'Essouflé, colporteur, et Claude Francoeur Compagnon charbonnier. A Paris, Chez Cailleau, 1774. 16 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Conlon. First edition. Piece in 'vulgar' language, entirely in praise of Louis XVI and his first edict which ordered the 'remise du droit de joyeux avènement' and further stipulated that the payments of interests and reimbursments was to continue on the dates as previously set. The edict was registered on May 30, 1774. EUR 250
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CRI, LE, du Coeur, dialogue sur l'édit du Roi du 30 Mai 1774, entre Jacques l'Essaouflé, colporteur et Claude Francoeur, compagnon charbonnier. A Paris, Chez Cailleau, 1774. 26 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Curious piece on the occasion of the accession to the throne of Louis XVI, and the edict suppressing the gift that was a rule on each accession and which was the symbolic confirmation of privileges, concessions, etc. The amount raised by such gifts was quite substantial. See for the so-called 'don de joyeux avénement', Marion, p. 310. EUR 200
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DELIBERATION de MM. les élus-généraux des Etats de Bourgogne, qui règle la forme dans laquelle se feront à l'avenir les impositions de la province de Bourgogne, à la chambre de MM. les élus. Du 12 novembre 1781. (Drop-head title). Dijon, A.M. Defay, imprimeur des Etats, 1783. 11, (1, blank) pp. 4to. Sewn. On the division of taxes, especially for the costs of garrison and maintainance of armies between the communities and the individual families. EUR 80
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DOCUMENTS relatifs à l'histoire de l'industrie et du commerce en France publiés avec une introduction par Gustave Fagniez. Paris, A. Picard & Fils, 1898-1900. 2 volumes. (4), lxiv, 349, (1) pp.; (4), lxxix, (1, blank), 345, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, raised bands, original covers preserved (Collection de textes pour servir à l'étude et à l'enseignement de l'histoire). Einaudi 1598; Paetow p. 285; John Crerar Library, p. 27. First edition. 1. Depuis le Ier siècle avant J.-C. jusqu'à la fin du XIIIe siècle. - 2. XIVe et XVe siècle. EUR 300
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DROIT, LE. Journal quotidien, qui paraîtra régulièrement à partir du 15 novembre 1835, dans le format des grands journaux. Prospectus. Paris, Impr. Bethune et Plone, (1835). Folio leaflet of 2 pp. Hatin 552. Prospectus dated 24 october 1835. After 2 years this journal absorbed the Journal général des tribunaux, with Ledru-Rollin as chief-editor. EUR 75
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EFFETS, DES, du transport des bureaux des traites aux frontières extrêmes, et autres vues politiques. Metz, chez la veuve Antoine & Fils, Et se trouve Chez les Libraires de Metz & Chez Belin à Paris, décembre 1790. (2), iv, 34 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 5310. First (and only?) edition. Of physiocratic inspiration, dealing with the inconveniences of interior customes. 'd'Après les Quesnai, les Mirabeau, les Larivière, les Dupont, les Smith, le régime des traites est destructif de l'agriculture et des arts'. EUR 200
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ELANS, LES, d'un Patriote, ou Nouvelles bases politiques. Seconde édition mieux liée, plus précise & plus lucide. En France, et ne se trouve, quant-à-présant, que dans les mains de quelques gens de bien, 1785. (6), 59, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Conlon 85:267; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in INED; unknown to Barbier. Interesting project for a far reaching reform of the administration and the taxes. Based on the Conlon entry, which only gives the first editions of works, this second edition was published in the same year as the first edition. EUR 175
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ESSAI de théorie sur le gouvernement monarchique. A Londres, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Maradan, 1789. vii, (1, errata), 263, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, spine in compartments, gilt lettering and blind stamped phrygian cap in each compartment. Not in Barbier; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in INED; not in Martin & Walter; not in Tourneux; not in Monglond. Second edition, the first appeared in 1788 and just as the first edition very rare, apparently only Yale has a copy of this edition, no further copies located, nor of the 1788 edition. The last chapter proposes a plan for financial reform, with proportional taxes, based on Vauban's ideas as laid down in his Dîme Royale.Analysis of the power and government in a monarchy, mostly theoretical and critical of monarchical power, especially in matters of finance and justice. EUR 500
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ESSAI sur la marine, ou l'on propose une nouvelle constitution; Par le Chevalier de ***, ancien officier de la marine. A Amsterdam, 1782. With a folding table. (2), xxiv, 298, (2) pp. 8vo. Sewn, contemporary marbled covers. Conlon 82:272; not in Polak; not in Quérard; not in Barbier; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. Written by someone who served in the navy for some 20 years and who knew that the navy was an indispensable force in any conflict over the colonies or in any conflict with the English. He proposes in this work a great number of reforms and innovations to make the navy more effective, capable of resisting the English and more effective in both protecting foreign possessions as well as commerce and trade.Contains chapters on divisions of the navy and its officers, several types of ships of the navy, organization on the ships and number of actual employed officers, soldiers etc., dealing with discipline, internal policing, necessity of uniforms, necessary education of officers in various fields, new subjects to be included in educational programs and feeding and provisioning.A copy of this book at the New York Public Library has a manuscript note by which the book can possibly be attributed to Charles François Philippe de Charniéres. The note furthermore states that de Charnieres naval career parallels that described in the preface of the work. - Clear spot in lower outer corner, affecting the front cover and the first three leaves. Name on title, an uncut copy. EUR 500
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ETAT OU TARIF de la difference des prix auxquels l'eau-de-vie a été vendue au lot ou pot dans les Cantines de la Flandre maritime, & principalement dans la dépendance de Bergues, par les fermiers des droits des quatre membres de Flandres, réunis à la province par arrêt du Conseil du 13 novembre 1759; & des prix auxquels elle devoit seulement être vendue, eu égard tant au prix marchand, qu'auxdits droits des quatre-membres & aux droits d'entrée dans la province; avec le calcul à chaque mois de ce qu'elle a étévendue au pot au-delà du prix qu'elle devoit l'être, depuis & compris le premier janvier 1760, jour que ladite réunion a eu son exécution, jusques & compris le dernier décembre 1765; premièrement en florins, patars, deniers, argent de Lille, sans fort denier, & ensuite en florins, patars, liards, pareil argent, avec le fort denier, tel qu'il paroìt pouvoir être perçu. (Drop-head title.) No place, (at end:) Imprimerie de Michel Lambert, 1766. 8 (unnumbered) pp. 4to. Disbound. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Higgs. EUR 125
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EXPOSE des motifs et projet de loi portant demande de crédits pour divers travaux de navigation intérieure, présentes par M. le ministre des travaux publics. Séance du 7 Avril 1840. (Chambre des députés, 83). (Paris, Henry, 1840). - (With:) CHAIX D'EST-ANGE, G.L.A.V.C. Rapport fait au nom de la Commission chargée de l'examen du projet de loi relatif à la navigation intérieure. Séance du 12 Mai 1840 (Chambre des députés, no. 129). (Paris, Henry, 1840). - (With:) PROJET de loi sur la navigation intérieure; avec l'exposé des motifs par le ministre des Travaux publics. Séance du 5 juin 1840 (Chambre des Pairs, 97). No place, no date. 3 volumes. 40 pp; 64 pp.; 22 pp. Two volumes in 4to and one 8vo. Modern boards. Deal with a huge project of 23.400.00 Francs at the time to be financed by the governement for the improvement of the fluvial infrastructure. In the 'Rapport' the importance of improving the fluvial infrastructure to stimulate economic activity and prosperity is stressed: 'C'est que en effet la question des transports embrasse et domine aujourd'hui toutes les autres questions d'économie politique.' The expenditures in the various projects are listed and detailed. EUR 325
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EXTRAIT des registres de l'officialité de Paris. (Paris), F. Muguet, (1685). 4to poster on white paper. Prohibition to read, keep, print or distribute 'une formule de profession de foi, faite, écrite et imprimée avec des notes sans aucune autorité' i.e. of Jansenist origin. EUR 125
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EXTRAIT des registres du Conseil d'Estat ..... le Roy .....a ordonné que ledit Sieur Marquis de Civrac demeurera conservé & maintenu dans le droit de Péage qu'il perçoit sur le Port & Havre des Salinières de la ville de Bordeaux ..... (Bordeaux), Vve et P. Brun fils, (1728). Folio poster on white paper (torn, without loss of text). Manuscript annotations in right blank margin, signed by Louis Chiquet.Somewhat browned along the fold and with a stain in the left blank margin slightly touching the text. EUR 75
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EXTRAIT du Bail des Fermes Royales-unis, fait à Maistre François le Gendre, bourgeois de Paris, pour six années, commancées au premier octobre 1668, moyennant la somme de trente neuf millions cent mil livres, pour la première, & pour chacune des suivantes, quarante millions cent mil livres. A Paris, Chez Frederic Leonard, 1670. (20), 302 pp. 12mo. Contemporary supple vellum, with handwritten paper label on spine and paper shelfmark. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in BMSTC, French books 1601-1700. Original edition 'Etat des droits contenus en cet Extrait: Les Entrées de Paris & Rouen; Le Passage de Joigny; Consommation du Faux-bourgs de la Conference; Aydes de France; Octrois de Rouen; Moitié des Octrois; Tiers retranché; Fer & Acier; Neuf livres dix-huit sols, & sol pour pot de Picardie; Controlle & Marque des Papiers; Poissons de mer & Bieres; Controlle des Toilles de Paris; Marc d'or; Cent mil livres des Postes; Subventions & Subsistances; Droits des Vendeurs de Vins & Boissons de Rouen; Charges localles; Impots & Billots de Bretagne; Controle des Bieres de Paris; Fret, Pied Fourché du Cotanin, & Tarif d'Alençon.' - Small stamp on title, Ex Libris Joannis-Baptiste Marduel on front paste-down EUR 350
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EXTRAIT du journal d'un officier de la marine de l'escadre de M. le Comte d'Estaing. (Drop-head title). No place, no date (1782). 93, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Conlon 82:331 (edition of 126 pages); Sabin 23033 lists two editions, one of 126 pages and one of 158 pages, and mentions that 'all these pamphlets by Estaing are of great rarity'; JFBL E197; Polak 3271. Possibly one of several editions from 1782. The first page starts with signature A1: it is unclear whether this copy lacks a title-page or was issued as it is. Polak list an edition of 93 pages, just as this one. The edition of 158 pages has a portrait and is described by Polak as being the first edition, this being a contrefaçon of the original edition which possibly explains the absence of a proper title-page and the portrait. This is a critical account of d'Estaing's command of his fleet off Savannah (Georgia) in 1778. The present work was refuted by another pamphlet entitled 'Campagne de M. le Comte d'Estaing en Amérique, Ou Mémoire pour servir de réfutation au Libelle contre ce Vice-Amiral', also published in 1782.'An account of the meeting of the French and English fleets at Delaware Bay in 1778 which is critical of the Comte d'Estaing's management of the French fleet' (JFBL).'Ouvrage destiné à jeter le discrédit sur la conduite de d'Estaing devant Savannah. Il comporte aussi de nombreuses relations sur la Martinique et la Guadeloupe. Il est attribué à O'Connor' (Polak). EUR 325
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EXTRAITS de documents divers qui signalent des abus de commerce. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie Royale, novembre 1838. 15, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First and only edition. Deals with the poor quality of wine and manufacture exported by the French to North and South America, the Levant and other areas and which are, due to this poor quality, unable to compete with products from Britain. EUR 150
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EXTRAITS du Drapeau Blanc. Paris, A la Librairie Classique Élémentaire, 1823. (6), 100 pp. 8vo. Modern boards, contemporary blind covers preserved. See Hatin, pp. 340 and 345 for the journals Le Défenseur and the Drapeau Blanc. Contains articles by Saint-Victor and several by Lamennais: among which De la Saint-Alliance, De l'Espagne, and Quelques Réflexions sur notre État présent.Most of the collaborators of the Drapeau Blanc had previously been working for Le Défenseur, the short-lived royalist periodical and successor to the much more succesful Conservateur. With the establishment of the Villèle government part of the staff of Le Défenseur identified itself with power, a smaller minority called l'incorruptible, moved to found the Drapeau Blanc.The Drapeau Blanc was an ultraroyalist newspaper of the Restoration and expressed from the start the most extreme ultraroyalist views to be found in the whole of the Restoration press. From 1820 on, the censors removed a great many articles from the Drapeau Blanc.The 'Avertissement' claims that the continuous requests for the reprinting of certain articles has made the present publication necessary in which the more important articles on politics and religious questions are published again. - The first leaf with a repaired tear in the outer blank margin, paper somewhat browned, last part of the volume with a faint stain in the outer blank margin. EUR 400
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FEUILLE, LA. Par Zo d'Axa. Paris, 6 Octobre 1897 - 28 Mars 1899. With 25 full-page satirical drawings, partly in colour. 25 numbers of 2 pp. each, loose as issued, unfolded. Folio. Kept in the original red illustrated wrapper. Maitron, Le Mouvement anarchiste en France, p. 589; DBMOF, vol. 15, pp. 355-356. All published. - A rare complete set as most copies in existence disappear as single prints. Zo d'Axa, the pseudonym of Alphonse Galland (1864-1930) founded this journal which was published a chaque occasion. Collaborators were Steinlen, Willette, Léandre, Hermann-Paul, Couturier, Anquetin, Luce. It was an anarcho-pacifist journal with biting satirical drawings.Adventurer, traveller, anti-militarist, individualist, satirist, journalist, founder of two of the most legendary French magazines of the 1890s, L'En dehors and La Feuille, Zo d'Axa (1864-1930) led a turbulent life. In May 1891, he published the first number of the weekly magazine L'En Dehors. Many anarchists contributed, but the paper was soon shut down with the suppression of the anarchists. After the arrest of Ravachol & companions, Zo D' Axa launched a subscription to help the families of the prisoners. For this he was arrested and imprisoned in Mazas for a month. Released, he was still harrassed and opted for exile in London, then traveled in Europe. Expelled from Italy, he went to Greece, then Constantinople. January 1, 1893, while disembarking in Jaffa he was seized and put in irons on a French ship and returned to Paris, where he ended up with another 18 months in the prison of Sainte-Pélagie.Zo d'Axa was beyond any ideology and expressed his position as follows: 'nous allons - individuels, sans la Foi qui sauve et qui aveugle. Nos dégoûts de la Société n'engendrent pas en nous d'immuables convictions. Nous nous battons pour la joie des batailles et sans rêve d'avenir meilleur. Que nous importent les lendemains qui seront dans des siècles! .....' EUR 1500
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FORME de procès-verbal d'attestations, ou Enquetes, suyuant les Loix & Ordonnances Royaux, qu'on faict soubs les Seigneurs Conseilliers de la Court Souveraine de parlement enProvence; tant en presence de partie adverse, qu'en son default. Plus un Arrest provisional de la Cour de Parlement d'Aix en Provence touchant l'autorité & jurisdiction des Viguiers & Prevostz de Mareschaux dudict Pays. On les vend à Aix en la grand salle du Palais, par V-as Cavallis, 1549. (In fine:) Imprimé à Lyon, par Pierre de Tours devant nostre dame de Confort. With various printed guide letters. 5 unnumbered leaves. 4to. Modern boards. Not in Brunet; not in Baudrier; not in BMSTC, (French); not in Adams. - Browned, Aiii with a dampstain to outer blank margins. EUR 650
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GAZETTE, La, des Halles touchant les affaires du Temps. Premiere nouvelle. A Paris, Chez Michel Mettayer, 1649. - (Bound with:) LA GAZETTE de la place Maubert ou suitte de laGazette des Halles. Touchant les Affaires du temps. Seconde nouvelle. A Paris, Chez Michel Mettayer, 1649. - (Bound with:) SUITTE de la Gazette de la Place Maubert par l'Autheur de la Gazette de Halles; touchant les affaires du temps. A Paris, Chez Michel Mettayer, 1649. Three pieces in one volume. 7, (1) pp.; 11, (1) pp.; 14 pp. 4to. Modern marbled boards, gilt lettering. Moreau 1470 (first work) & 1469 (second and third work); not in Welsh. Original editions. 'Naudé dit, page 220 du Mascurat, qu'il ne faut pas les négliger; ....' (Moreau). EUR 600
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HISTOIRE de la France rurale. Sous la direction de Georges Duby, professeur au Collège de France et Armand Wallon, inspecteur général de l'Agriculture. Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 1975-1976. With numerous illustrations, partly in color. Bibliographies and indices in every volume. 4 volumes. 620, (4) pp.; 620, (4) pp.; 568, (6) pp.; 666, (6) pp. 4to. Original publishers cloth with illustrated dustjacket. (Collection l'univers historique). First edition. Contributions by a.o. Duby, Bailloud, Le Glay, Fourquin Le Roy Ladurie, Jacquart, Gervais, Jolivet, Tavernier. Vol. I: La formation des campagnes françaises, des origines à 1340. Vol. II: L'âge classique des paysans, de 1340 à 1789. Vol III: Apogée et crise de la civilisation paysanne, de 1789 à 1914. Vol. IV: La fin de la France paysanne, de 1914 à nos jours. EUR 125
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HISTOIRE générale du travail. Publiée sous la direction de L.H. Parias. Paris, Nouvelle librairie de France, (1959-61). With many plates and illustrations. 4 volumes. 390 pp.; 374 pp.; 403 pp.; 366 pp. Small 4to. Original boards with dustwrappers. 1. Préhistoire et antiquité. 2. L'âge de l'artisanat (Ve-xviiie siècles). 3. L'ère des révolutions. (1765-1914). 4. La civilisation industrielle. (De 1914 à nos jours). EUR 150
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HOMME, L'. Journal de la démocratie universelle. Jersey, London, 1853-1856 (Paris, EDHIS, 1977). 132 nrs and 2 supplements, in 1 volume. Large folio. Imitation leather. Numbers 1-53 (30 novembre 1853-29 novembre 1854); numbers 1-53 (6 decembre 1854-28 decembre 1855); numbers 107-132 (1 mars 1856-28 aout 1856). The two supplements are to be found after number 45 of the first series and is entitled 'Discours de Victor Hugo prononcé le 27 septembre 1854 sur la tombe du Citoyen Felix Bony, proscrit français, mort a Jersey', the second is to be found after number one of the second series and is entitled 'Discours de Louis Kossuth.' Very well executed reproduction on good paper of the complete text of this famous international journal in a limited edition of 150 copies. The journal was severely prosecuted at the time throughout Europe. The editors were Victor Hugo, Louis Blanc, Felix Pyat, Pierre Leroux, Ledru-Rollin, Victor Schoelcher for the French, Alexander Herzen for the Russians, Dombrowski, Oborski, Zeno Swietoslawski and Worcel for the Polish. Louis Kossuth and Sandor Teleki for the Hungarians, Mazzini, Mazzolini, Aurelio Saffi for the Italians, W.W. Linton and G. Julian Harney for the English, Geurz for the Germans, and other famous collaborators such as Barbès, Jeanne Deroin, Constantin Pecqueur, etc.L'Homme was the first international journal and prosecuted in all European countries, it was created at the moment that almost all democratic and socialist journals had dissappeared in continental Europe. It is an indispensable source for the revolutionary and socialist movements in the 19th century, linking the 1848 revolution to the birth of the Workers' International in 1864, the revolution of September 1870, and the Commune of Paris. EUR 600
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HOMMES ET CHOSES du temps de la Commune. Récits et Portraits pour servir à l'Histoire de la Première Révolution Sociale. Paris, Genève, Bruxelles, Londres, 1871 (Paris, EDHIS, 1968). (6), 226 pp. 12mo. Original printed covers. Del Bo, La Comune di Parigi, p. 67. Reprint of this extremely rare work, published in a limited and numbered editon and since long out of print. EUR 125
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JETONS, LES, de l'Echevinage parisien. Documents pour servir à une histoire métallique du bureau de la ville et de diverses institutions parisiennes. Recueillis par A. d'Affry de la Monnoye. Avec une table analytique et deux séries de pièces justificatives. Paris, 1878. With illustrations. 28, 416, (1) pp. 4to. Original green boards (Histoire générale de Paris. Collection de documents). The pièces justificatives include a.o. 'Extraits des comptes et ordinaires, 1440-1723.' EUR 175
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JOURNAL GENERAL de France, paraissant tous les jours dans le format des autres journaux à 80 francs, au prix de 48 frs par an, et de 24 francs pour six mois. Extrait du Journal général de France du 31 décembre 1836. Paris, Impr. Brun, (1837). 4to leaflet of 2 pp. Hatin 395. Prospectus published at the end of the first year of this daily of conservative vein, of which the editor in chief was Léonce de Lavergne. EUR 80
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L'ATELIER. Organe spécial de la classe ouvrière rédigé par des ouvriers exclusivement. Paris, 1840-1850 (Paris, EDHIS, 1978). Three volumes. 4to. Cloth. Important workers' newspaper appearing monthly from September 1840 to July 1850. It was edited by about seventy-five skilled workers, including twenty-six printing workers, and its articles were written by a collective of printers, hat makers, jewelers, and other skilled workers. L'Atelier is of central importance as a mouthpiece of workers' demands for state-financed producers' cooperatives and associations and for its class analysis of relations of production and surplus labour. However, it stressed its hostility to violence, expropriation, and collectivist or "communist" solutions. It was consistently democratic and called for political solutions to workers' grievances. The editors were in contact with English workers and Italian refugees in London and corresponded with the Chartists. The editor of this reprint, Maurice Agulhon, considers the 1840's as a turningpoint in the revolutionary movement. 'The prestige of streetbattles and secret societies has dropped. The workman is now reading, writing and starts to organize himself. They are now becoming selfconfident autonomic power.' Since then this attitude is specifically called 'Socialism'. L'Atelier wished to be a leading cultural and political journal. It was edited and written by men who lived at the heart of militant Paris. The journal reflects all aspects of this life, and offers the scholar opinions and information of a remarkable objective nature and sometimes of a thrilling subjective nature. Complete copies of the original imprint hardly exist anymore. They have rarely been on the market and have always been offered in incomplete state. The Union List of Serials lists 3 sets only, two of which appear to be complete. This reprint was done in a limited number of copies, on fine quality paper and well bound. EUR 400
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LETTRE d'avis à Messieurs du Parlement de Paris, escrite par un Provincial. Paris, 1649. 34 pp. 4to. Modern half vellum, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Moreau 1837; not in Welsh. Based on theories of François Hotman as exposed in his Franco-Gallia and on ideas expressed by Du Plessis Mornay in his Vindiciae contra tyrannos, this piece provoked quite some polemical replies. It is considered to be one of the most important pieces of the Mazarinades. EUR 350
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LETTRE d'avis à Messieurs du Parlement de Paris, escrite par un Provincial. Paris, 1649. 34 pp. 4to. Modern half vellum. Moreau 1837; not in Welsh. Based on theories of François Hotman as exposed in his Franco-Gallia and on ideas expressed by Du Plessis Mornay in his Vindiciae contra tyrannos, this piece provoked quite some polemical replies. It is considered to be one of the most important pieces of the Mazarinades. EUR 350
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LETTRE d'avis à Messieurs du Parlement de Paris, escrite par un Provincial. Paris, 1649. 34 pp. 4to. Modern half vellum, marbled boards, label with gilt lettering. Moreau 1837; not in Welsh. Original edition. - Slightly spotted. Based on theories of François Hotman as exposed in his Franco-Gallia and on ideas expressed by Du Plessis Mornay in his Vindiciae contra tyrannos, this piece provoked quite some polemical replies. It is considered to be one of the most important pieces of the Mazarinades. EUR 300
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LETTRE d'un conseiller au Parlement de Paris à un conseiller du Parlement de Normandie. A Londres, 26 Août 1787. 37, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; notin Einaudi; not in Mattioli; not in INED; Conlon 87:611. Original edition. On the division of taxes and on the Assemblée des Notables, including a discussion of the historical backgrounds of regulations and customs. EUR 175
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LETTRE de M***, conseiller au Parlement, à M. le Comte de *** (Drop-head title). No place, (1771). 43 pp. 12mo. Modern boards. Conlon 71:325 First edition. Criticizing the reforms of the parlements as initiated by the Edict of December 1770. Dated at end: 11 December 1771. EUR 150
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LETTRE du Père Michel religieux hermite de l'ordre de Camaldoli, prés Grosbois, à Monseigneur le Duc d'Engoulesme, sur les cruautez des Mazarinistes en Brie. A Paris, 1649. 32 pp. 4to. Modern boards, gilt lettering. Moreau 2128; not in Welsh. Original edition. 'Guy Patin la cite parmi les meilleurs pamphlets, ..... ' (Moreau). EUR 150
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LETTRE sur la paix, à Mr. le Comte de *** (24 décembre 1762). A Lyon, 1763. 45 pp. 12mo in 8s. Modern marbled boards. Conlon 63:1331 (listed under Thomas, A.L.);Catalogue de l'Histoire de France, ii, p. 418, nr. 890. Edition from the first year of publication (there was also a Paris imprint). This letter was attributed to both J.N. Moreau (Barbier & Quérard) and A.-L. Thomas (Conlon) and thus accordingly was later collected in the Varietés morales of Moreau (1785) and in the Oeuvres of Thomas (1822).Both an analysis of the current situation of France and a program for its recovery. The author laments the weakend position and morals of the French nation and people after the Seven Years War which had just ended in the last months of 1762. He then proceeds to compare the situation in France to that of Great Britain which had laid the foundations of its empire during the war. He goes on to discuss the rulers of France and he expresses his high hopes for a long peace in which the losses of war can be repaired and relieved. Although the author understands and shares the criticism on the authorities and the monarchy he does point to past misfortunes and reminds the reader that the monarchy has always regained its former strength and glory with the institutions renewed and improved. His prograsm consists of an appeal to the nobility to serve the nation well and use its riches for virtue, the intellectuals are urged to re-educate the people.'A dieu ne plaise, que je veuille dégrader ma patrie: mais dans l'image de ce qu'elle a été, j'aime à lui faire appercevoir ce qu'elle peut être encore' (p. 17). EUR 250
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LETTRE à l'auteur de la Brochure Intitulée: Bavardage Patriotique, sur l'Administration Provinciale de la Haute-Guienne. No place, 1782. 31, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards. Not in Conlon; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First edition (?) Defense of the provincial assemblees especially in matters of commerce and exports. EUR 150
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LETTRE à un ami de province. (Drop-head title). No place, (1757). 32 pp. 12mo. Modern boards. Conlon 57:230. First edition. Published at the time of the attempt on Louis XV's life by Damiens, this pamphlet relates the circumstances of the attempt on Henry IV by Ravaillac in 1610. EUR 150
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LETTRE à un ami, sur ce qui s'est passé à la dernière séance des Notables. (Drop-head title). No place, (at end:) 29 Mai 1787. 8 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering to spine. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in INED. First edition. Deals with the meeting of the Assemblée des Notables and the plans to put the national finances in order.Recapitulates the measures to be taken ('en abolissant les privilèges du Clergé, qui jusqu'ici, par une magie inconcevable, avoit trouvé le secret de posseder les bénéfices, les places, les récompenses & les dignités de toute espece, de jouir de tous les avantages de la Société, sans presque contribuer en rien aux charges de l'Etat'), but most importantly deals with the question of 'la liberté absolue accordée au commerce des grains.' EUR 150
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LETTRE à un petit capitaliste de Province sur les nouvelles entreprises de messageries. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie de Lachevardiere, (1829). 40 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Original edition. Dated: Paris, le 10 décembre 1829.Deals with the monopoly on freight companies and their services. EUR 100
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LETTRES Critiques sur l'Examen Impartial des Immunités Ecclésiastiques. Addressées à l'Auteur de cet Ouvrage. Seconde Edition. En France, 1751. 70, (2) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Conlon S51:11; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in INED (see 1094 for the work by Chauvelin). The 'Avis de l'Editeur', printed verso title-page states the first manuscript was lost and that it had been necessary to ask the author for another copy of the manuscript. The author did indeed supply another copy of the manuscript but only after he had made considerable changes in the text. This suggests that this is the first printing of the text. The Examen Impartial was written by the Abbé Louis-Philippe Chauvelin in which he argued that, although the clergy was entitled to its special prerogatives, it could not use these to claim total exemption from taxation.According to Conlon a second volume was published in 1753 entitled 'Suite des Lettres Critiques ....'. Conlon also knows of no other edition but the present one as the first publication of this text. EUR 175
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LETTRES Historiques, Politiques et Critiques d'un Observateur impartial, Contenant des connoissances probables, sur la source des nouveaux Troubles qui agitent les Provinces Belgiques, depuis la rentrée du Gouvernement en 1790, jusqu'à l'époque de la mort de l'Empereur Leopold II. A Londres, 1792-1794. Five parts in one volume. 64 pp.; (1), vi, 55, (1) pp.; (7), 107 pp.; 20 pp.;(2), 110 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, corners, marbled boards, very light damage to foot of spine. Not in Martin & Walter; not in Monglond. First edition? Counter-revolutionary pamphlet, most likely written by a Frenchman, defending the case of Belgium, published in the form of seven letters (first piece contains the first letter, the second piece the second letter, the third piece the letters three, four and five, and the fifth piece the letters six and seven), and addressed to the 'nation Belgique'. The fourth piece is a libel entitled 'Prospectus ou Avant-propos du tableau de l'émigration des royalistes françois.' No place, 1793. - The outer margins of the second letter strengthened, some leaves cut short at top not affecting text, in general somewhat browned. EUR 400
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LETTRES sur la Désertation, la Milice, et sur le recrutement des troupes réglées. No place, 1770. 4 parts in one volume. (2), 35, (1) pp.; 24 pp.; 25, (5) pp.; 19, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, marbled boards (marbled paper a little rubbed). Conlon 70:331. First edition. The first work, dealing with desertion, states among other things that capital punishment is useless ('inutile') as it does not prevent solders from deserting. The second and third part are two 'Lettres sur la Milice', the fourth on the recruitment of regular troops. EUR 300
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MANIFESTE sur les sujets de rupture entre la France et l'Espagne. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1719. 24 pp. 4to. Disbound. - Ink stain on title-page. At the end is included the text of a note by Cardinal Alberoni to Prince Cellemare. The manifest justifies the quadruple alliance and marks the beginning of the war with Spain. EUR 175
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MASCARADE, LA. Journal politique. Rédacteur-gérant E.B. Labaume. Year I, nrs 1-3, 5, 7. (February-March 1869). Lyon, Imprimerie Labaume, 1869. 5 nrs. 4 pages each. Folio. Folded, disbound. Not in Catalogue de l'Histoire de France; not in Union List of Serials. The fourth page of each number contains advertisements only. EUR 125
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MEMOIRE signifié pour les jurés en charge & communauté des maîtres brodeurs & chasubliers de la ville & fauxbourgs de Paris, intimés. Contre Denis Portier, Louise Pineau veuve Duport; Marie-Magdelaine Lebray veuve Dimanche; Nicole Chatellus femme Buisseux; tous ouvriers et ouvrières sans qualité, travaillant des arts de broderie en or et en argent dans le fauxbourg Saint-Antoine, appellans des saisis sur eux faites. Et encore, contre les Dames religieuses de l'Abbaye Saint-Antoine intervenantes; et Jean-Baptiste Foin maître brodeur. (Drop-head title). (At end:) (Paris), Imprimerie de D'Houry père, 1755. With engraved head-piece. - (Followed by:) REPONSE au Mémoire signifié le 22 Juillet 1755. Pour les Jurés en charge & Communauté des maîtres brodeurs, chasubliers de la ville & fauxbourgs de Paris, intimés. Contre la veuve Duport et consorts, ouvriers sans qualité, travaillans des arts de broderie en or et en argent dans le fauxbourg Saint-Antoine, appellans. Les Dames religieuses du fauxbourg Saint-Antoine, intervenantes et appellantes. Et Jean-Baptiste Foin, l'un des maîtres de la Communauté, intervenant. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie de D'Houry père, 1755. With engraved head-piece. 2 pieces in 1 volume. 12 pp.; 6 pp. 4to. Modern boards. First piece spotted, at end of both: Monsieur l'Abbé Macé, Rapporteur, Gillet des Aulnois, Procureur Deals with the question 'si le Privilege de s'établir dans le Fauxbourg Saint-Antoine, pour y exercer publiquement toutes sortes de Métiers, sans être obligés de se faire reçevoir Maîtres, peut s'étendre jusqu'à ceux, qui travaillent les matières d'or & d'argent.'- The second piece is in folio but each page has been folded to match the binding. Contemporary annotations on the first page. EUR 250
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MEMOIRE sur la filature. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1759. 7, (1, blank) pp. 4to. Modern boards. INED 4674; Conlon 59:345; notin Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Higgs. First edition, rare. ''L'industrie du peuple et l'âme du commerce et le nerf d'un Etat.' Nécessité de multiplier dans le royaume des écoles de filature de toute éspece, qui forceront le pauvre oisif à travailler et diminueront nos importations de l'étranger. Suivant des considérations techniques sur les dévidoirs.' (INED). Includes a list of proposed prices. EUR 150
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MEMOIRE sur la forme des preuves nécessaires pour être reçu Sous-lieutenant dans les régimens d'Infanterie françoise, de cavalerie, de chevaux-légers, de dragons & de chasseurs à cheval. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1781. 3 pp. 4to. Disbound. Conlon 81:392. Original edition. The requirement to show four degrees of paternal noblility if one was to be accepted as officer became one of the causes why people entered at the side of the revolutionaries in 1789, to become later generals of the Republic and marchals of the First Empire. EUR 100
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MEMOIRE sur la nécessité de modifier notre législation sur les grains. (Drop-head title). (Paris, A. Egron, ab. 1821). - (Followed by:) OBSERVATIONS sur l'importation et l'exportation des grains. A messieurs les membres de la Chambre des députés des départements, la Société d'agriculture, sciences et arts de l'arrondissement de Trévoux. (Drop-head title). (Paris, Pillet aîné, ab. 1821). - (Followed by:) EXTRAIT des registres des délibérations du conseil municipal de la ville de Marseille. Séance du 11 avril 1821. Marseille, A. Ricard, 1821. 3 works bound in 1 volume. 19, (1) pp.; 3, (1) pp.; 42 pp. 4to. Modern boards. None in Goldsmiths, none in Einaudi, Kress only has the third text: S.6314. Original editions. Interesting collection of works on corn trade.The first work is a plea for the restriction of the free importation of foreign grain: 'de protéger efficacement notre agriculture contre l'invasion des blés étrangers, et en même temps d'encourager ses travaux par la diminution de l'impôt territorial et par la libre exportation de ses produits.'The work is heavily annotated in a contemporary hand in the margins, under the first annotation there is a lead-pencilled note reading: 'note du Vte de Noailles.' At the end a printed note stating the the text was signed by the representatives of 55 departments.The second work is also in favor of limiting or prohibiting the import of foreign grains, the third text however, opposes explicitly the first and argues in favor of the existing situation. EUR 600
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MEMOIRE sur les États-Généraux; Où l'on a réuni tous les détails relatifs à la convocation aux Assemblées de Bailliages, de Villes & de Paroisses, au nombre & à la qualité des Députés, enfin à la confection des cahiers & à la forme de délibération que l'on suit dans les États. On y a joint des Fragmens considérables du Procès-Verbal des États de 1356, et plusieurs autres Pièces originales. A Lausanne, Et se trouve à Paris, 1788. (4), vi, 188, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt back, marbled boards. First edition. The 'pièces justificatives' give full texts of valuable documents: 'la première sur-tout est importante, parce qu'elle est infiniment rare, et que c'est le plus ancien procès-verbal d'États-Généraux que nous connoissions. Les autres, moins précieuses, sont peut-être plus rare encore: on ne les trouve dans aucun Dépôt public.' Significant for the discussions preceding the Revolution. EUR 175
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MEMOIRES d'André Masséna, Duc de Rivoli, Prince d'Essling, Maréchal d'empire, rédigés d'après les documents qu'il a laissés et sur ceux du dépot de la guerre et du dépot des fortifications recueillis par le Général Koch. Avec un Atlas. Paris, Paulin et le Chevalier, 1849-1850 (réédition 1966-1967, Paris, Jean de Bonnot.) With frontispiece illustration of historical figure to every volume. 7 volumes (vol. 8 is portfolio with 14 maps of historical battles). 8vo. Original publisher's cloth, richly decorated in gilt on sides and spines, top edges gilt, slight wear at extremities. Tulard 974; Sandler 1933. One of the first memoirs of a 'Maréchal de l'Empire', but not actually edited by himself, and more an account of the battles in which he took part. The memoires end when Masséna is replaced by Marmont. Historians still debate on the military and political capacities of this clerk in the store of his uncle who became prince and marshall of the Empire but, as Napoleon said, he was victory dearest child (battle of Loano, battle of Zurich, Naples, Lobau; battle of Bussaco against Wellington). The original edition of these memoirs is a great rarity and its atlas almost always lacking. EUR 450
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MOYEN de faire reparoitre le numéraire dans Paris, adressé à l'Assemblée nationale. Paris, no date (1790). 13 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; Goldsmiths 14394; Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 10378; Tourneux 12697. EUR 125
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NAVIGATION transatlantique. Nécessité et urgence d'une solution. Décembre 1856. Paris, Imprimerie Centrale des Chemins de Fer de Napoléon Chain et Ce., 1856. 16 pp. 4to. Original yellow printed covers. On the necessity for France to create an international shipping company, since France is far behind America, Great Britain and other countries. EUR 150
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NOUVEAU Tableau de Spa, Manuel indispensable à ceux qui fréquentent ce lieu funeste & à tout homme qui veut connoitre les moeurs de ce siecle. No place, 1784. (4), 107, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Conlon 82:652 for the first edition, published in 1782, of 62 pages. Second, largely expanded edition. Satirical piece dealing with the 'healing' qualities of the Spa water. EUR 175
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NOUVELLES Observations sur le défaut de noviciat, sur le mode actuel d'admission, et sur le nobre des Agens de Change de Paris. Par l'Auteur des Observations sur l'Ordonnancedu 29 mai 1816. Paris, Chez G. Dufour, 1821. (2), 31, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. Protesting against the right of the 'syndicat' of the 'agens de change' to present candidates for vacancies, urging to increase the number of 'agens the change' and demanding a term of three years for training for those who wish to become 'agent de change' and requesting that they are able to present 'un certificat de bonne conduite' after these three years and be only allowed into the profession upon the approval of a jury formed by 'banquiers et négocians.' EUR 150
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NOUVELLES recherches sur la France, ou recueil de mémoires historiques sur quelques provinces, villes et bourgs du royaume. Ouvrage qui peut servir de supplément à l'Etat de France de M. de Boulainvilliers, & à la description du Royaume, par M. Piganiol. A Paris, Chez Hérissant fils, 1766. 2 volumes. xii, (4, approbation, privilège du Roi), 528, (3, corrections et additions pour le premier volume) pp.; (8), 530, (2, corrections et additions pour le second volume) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, red morocco labels with gilt lettering, gilt triple fillet on sides. Conlon 66:949 (listed under Hérissant); Kress S.4454; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Higgs. First edition. Edited by Louis Théodore Hérissant. Interesting collection dealing with cities such as Annonay, Avalon, Avesnes, Bourg de Charenton, Mantes, Milly-en-Gatinois, Montargis, etc., etc., their history, culture, natural history, wine and so forth. According to the 'Avertissement', the work is based on material not used in the 1768-1778 edition of Lelong's Bibliothèque Historique, also published by Hérissant. Much material for that work was obtained through correspondance with 'des sociétés savantes' but Lelong did not use all of it. Quérard lists the work under Frevet de Fontette. EUR 750
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NOUVELLES recherches sur la France, ou Recueil des mémoires historiques sur quelques provinces, villes et bourgs du Royaume. Ouvrage qui peut servir de supplément à l'État dela France de M. de Boulainvilliers, & à la description du Royaume par M. Piganiol. A Paris, Chez Herissant fils, 1766. 2 volumes. xii, (4), 528 pp.; (8), 530, (2, errata) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine with raised bands, contrasting labels with gilt lettering, marbled boards, corners, red edges, slightly worn. Conlon 66:949 (under Hérissant); Kress S.4454; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Higgs. First edition. Interesting collection dealing principally with numerous cities and villages and important persons in the kingdom of France. According to the 'Avertissement', the work is based on material not used in the 1768-1778 edition of Lelong's Bibliothèque Historique, also published by Hérissant. Much material for that work was obtained through correspondance with 'des sociétés savantes' but Lelong did not use all of it. Quérard lists the work under Fevret de Fontette. EUR 750
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OBJETS des remonstrances du Parlement, au sujet des sept édits qui lui ont été envoyés pour être enregistrés. 3 Septembre 1759. (Paris, 1759). 16 pp. Small 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. Against new taxes and in favour of limiting the expenses of the State. EUR 75
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OBSERVATIONS sur les domaines du Roi, sur les vices de leur administration actuelle, et sur les moyens d'en tirer, au profit de l'Etat, le produit dont ils sont susceptibles. Berlin, aux dépens de la Société typographique, 1787. 87 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Kress B.1307; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. Propositions to improve the use of the royal domaines as well as improvement of its administration. EUR 162
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ORDONNANCE des Trésoriers généraux de France, Grand Voyers en la Généralité de Paris. Sur la largeur des Grands Chemins. Du 17. Decembre 1686. No place, no date (1686). 8 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. - Date of the text handwritten in upper blank margin of title-page, tiny hole in lower blank margin of title-page. Ordonnance dealing with the diminishing width of the roads which creates difficulties for two approaching vehicles to pass each other, with the lack of maintenance of the roads by those who are responsible for maintenance and reiterating the meaning and content of several 'coutumes' and laws. EUR 150
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PASSPORT for Jean Gaillard, 'chirurgien de 2e classe réformé, le 6 germinal de l'an 10' (27 march 1802) for a voyage from Verone (Italy) to Paris. Folio leaf with some printed text and many manuscript notes of cities and villages the traveller passed through, stamps and signatures. EUR 75
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PERDU CHENE, LE, de la Révolution. Confiance, Sécurité, Intelligence, Patrie. An premier de la République. Paris, Imp. Schneider, (July 1848). 2 pp. Folio. Folded leaf. Izambard, La Presse Parisienne, p. 125. All published. Editor was A.F. Lacroix, collaborator: Lelarge. EUR 175
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PERE-DUCHENE, LE. Paris, En vente aux Bureau du Père Duchêne et chez tous les libraires, 16 ventôse, an 79-3 prairialan 79 (6 mars-22 mai 1871). 68 numbers of 8 pages each bound in 1 volume. 8vo. Half morocco, spine gilt with gilt lettering, marbled boards. Del Bo, Comune di Parigi, p. 41; Maillard, pp. 156 ff.; Le Quillec, 1946. Complete set. Edited by E. Vermersch, A. Humbert and M. Vuillaume. EUR 600
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PERE-DUCHENE, LE. Paris, En vente aux Bureau du Père Duchêne et chez tous les libraires, 16 ventôse, an 79-3 prairialan 79 (6 mars-22 mai 1871). 68 numbers of 8 pages each bound in 1 volume. 8vo. Half morocco, spine gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering, marbled boards (slightly worn). Del Bo, Comune di Parigi, p. 41; Maillard, pp. 156 ff.; Le Quillec, 1946. Complete set. Edited by E. Vermersch, A. Humbert and M. Vuillaume. EUR 550
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PERE-DUCHENE, LE. Paris, En vente aux Bureau du Père Duchêne et chez tous les libraires, 16 ventôse, an 79-3 prairialan 79 (6 mars - 22 mai 1871). 68 numbers of 8 pages each bound in 1 volume (uncut). 8vo. Modern half morocco, spine decorated gilt with gilt lettering, mabled boards, top edge gilt. Del Bo, Comune di Parigi, p. 41; Maillard, pp. 156 ff.; Le Quillec, 1946. All published. Edited by E. Vermersch, A. Humbert and M. Vuillaume. Complete collection of this immensely popular journal, which had a very substantial distribution.Bound with: A number 69, printed in 1882 after proofsheets saved from the printers when the army entered. - LE PERE DU CHENE. Paris, (Mai 1871). 8 pp. - LA MERE DUCHENE. Nr 2 (of 3 numbers published). Paris, (mai 1871). 8 pp. (Del Bo p. 36). - LE POMPIER de Nanterre aux Parisiens. Paris, (1871). 8 pp. - SOUVENIR de la Commune. (Paris, 1871). Folio lithographed leaf in favour of the Commune and dedicated to the Garde National, folded to match the seize of the volume. - CHAMPAGNE, G. Paris en feu, ou les nuits des 23, 24 et 25 mai 1871. Poème dramatique. Paris, (1871). 7, (1) pp. EUR 900
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PIECES heureusement échappées de la France. A Londres, 1775. 35, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Conlon 75:460; Frere, ii, p. 67 (for the first piece only); Weller, Die falschen und fingierten Druckorte, ii, p. 198. First edition. Secretly printed publication containing: 'Haute messe célébrée par l'Abbé Perchel, Conseiller-clerc du ci-devant soi-disant Conseil supérieur de Rouen' (pages 3-13), and 'Oraison funèbre de très-hauts et très-puissants Seigneurs, en leur vivant les gens tenants les Conseils superieurs de France, Prononcée dans la grande salle de l'Hôtel-de-ville de C ... le Lundi 28 Novembre 1774, à l'occasion de l'Enregistrement de l'Edit portant le rétablissement des Parlemens. Par M.D***, Avocat à Rouen' (page 14-35).Violent pieces against the 'Conseils Supérieurs.' The first piece was also directed against the abbé Perchel who had made himself quite unpopular while being active on the Conseil supérieur, or 'parlement Maupeou'. EUR 250
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PIECES intéressantes. No place, no date. - (Bound with:) NOUVELLES pieces intéressantes. No place, no date. - (Bound with:) SUITE des Nouvelles pieces intéressantes. No place, no date. - (Bound with:) SECONDE Suite des Nouvelles pieces intéressantes. No place, no date. - (Bound with:) PIECES très-intéressantes et peu connues sur les États Généraux. No place, 1788. - (Bound with:) NOUVEAU recueil de pieces intéressantes et peu connues, sur les affaires du temps. No place, no date. 6 pieces bound in 1 volume. (2), 34 pp.; (2), 68 pp.; (2), 29, (1) pp.; (2), 22 pp.; (2), 27, (1) pp.; (2), 16 pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards, red label with gilt lettering. - Last piece with a waterstain in upper outer corner, lightly touching the text. Contains, among others: Discours prononcés par M. Séguier, Au Lit de Justice du 8 mai 1788. Sur l'Ordonnance concernant l'administration de la Justice; Discours prononcé par M. d'Aligre, Au lit de Justice du 8 Mai 1788; Lettre du Cardinal de Fleury au Conseil de Louis XVI; Apologie de la Cour Pléniere, Par M. l'Abbé Vélin, de l'Académie des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres, de la Société des Antiquaires de Londres, etc.; Réponse aux Questions d'un Citoyen. Par un Militaire; Protestations que la Noblesse de Toulouse a remises à M. le Comte de Perigord, le 10 Juillet 1788; Réflexions sur l'Ordre du Tiers-Etat. EUR 350
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PORTRAIT d'un homme comme il n'y en a pas. Suivi d'un dialogue entre un abbé et un ami des Bretons, ou Petit cathéchisme Breton, pour faire suite aux Lettres sur le clergé. Rennes, 1784. 2 parts in 1 volume. 52 pp.; 32 pp. 12mo. Sewn, disbound. Conlon 84:499. First edition. Directed against Fr. Bareau de Girac (1731-1820), bishop of Rennes.For the cause of the protests againt the bishop see at length: Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, v, 428-30. EUR 225
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POUR vous mettre, Monsieur, à l'abri des radiations auxquelles vous seriés (sic) exposé, si en payant les différentes sommes imposées dans le préambule du rôle de la taille ..... (first lines of the text.) (At head of first page:) Castres, (in manuscript: 19 july 1777). 3 , (1) pages. Small 4to. Disbound. Printed leaflet instructing tax collectors which papers they have to provide for exemption of taxes.On page 4 handwritten addressee: 'A Monsieur, Monsieur le collecteur du Bar de Belfourtés'. EUR 75
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PRIVILEGES accordés à la Couronne de France par le Saint-Siège, publiés d'après les originaux conservés aux archives de l'Empire et à la Bibliothèque Impériale. Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1855. xxiii, 411 pp. 4to. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, red labels with gilt lettering. (Collection de documents inédits sur l'histoire de France). Franklin 144. Edited by A. Tardif. EUR 125
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PROCES -VERBAL des séances de la Commission instituée pour examiner les impôts sur les boissons. (Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1830). (4), 151 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. The commission was set up on August 23, 1830 and assembled ten times 'pour examiner les impôts assis sur les boissons, et proposer les modifications dont ces impôts peuvent être susceptibles.' EUR 125
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PROCES des accusés du 15 mai devant la Haute-Cour de Bourges. Paris, chez les éditeurs-associés, 1849. With frontispiece showing the portraits of Hubert, Louis Blanc, Flotte and Blanqui. Nrs 1-36. 143 pp. 4to. Sewn, original covers with portrait of Raspail (spine and inner margin of cover damaged and stained). Bibliothèque Nationale, La Révolution de 1848, Exposition, (1948), nrs 866-879; not in Izambard. A supplement of 19 nrs was published as Supplément de la tribune des Peuples later in 1849.The accused were Blanqui, Flotte, Martin dit Albert, Barbès, Sobrier, Raspeil, Quentin, Degré, Larger, Borme, Thomas, Courtais, Blanc, Seigneuret, Houneau, Huber, Laviron, Chancel, Caussidière, Villain. EUR 350
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PROCES VERBAL de ce qui s'est passé au Lit de Justice, tenu par le Roy au Château de Versailles, le mercredy, 3 septembre 1732. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1732. 23, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Sewn. Includes a declaration of LouisXV dated August 18, 1732 dealing with the Pope's Bulle Unigenitus. EUR 175
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PROCES-VERBAL de ce qui s'est passé à l'Assemblée des Notables, tenue au Palais des Tuileries, en l'année 1626, sous le règne de Louis XIII. Extrait du Mercure François de lamême année. Suivi de la Harangue du roi Henri IV, à l'Assemblée qu'il convoqua à Rouen en l'année 1596. Paris, Imprimerie polytype, 1787. (2), 92 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Significant as an exampleof the interest excited by the coming Estates General. EUR 100
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PROCES-VERBAL des séances de la Chambre de l'ordre de la Noblesse, aux Etats-Généraux, tenues à Versailles en mil sept cent quatre-vingt-neuf. Versailles, Ph.D. Pierres, 1789. (2), 349, (1) pp. 4to. Contemporary half calf (slightly rubbed). Not in Martin & Walter; not in Tourneux; not in Monglond. First edition. - Paperspotted throughout. The Assembly of Notables was an advisory body of the Old Regime, including nearly 150 of the most prestigious nobles and public officials of France. The first Assembly of Notables, convened by Louis XIV to approve the last great reform program of the Bourbon Monarchy, rejected unexpectedly the most important reforms, initiating the crisis leading to revolution in 1789. The government's program, conceived by the controller general, C.-A. de Calonne, intended to eliminate the mounting deficit through a combination of financial and institutional reform. EUR 750
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PROCES-VERBAUX des États-Généraux de 1593. Recueillis et publiés par M. Auguste Bernard (de Montbrison). Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1842. lxxi, (1), 831, (1) pp. 4to. Contemporary half morocco, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering, marbled boards, corners (Collection de documents inédits sur l'histoire de France). Deals with the Estats-Général summoned by Mayenne in January 1593 in Paris. Mayenne was the leader of the League and the League attempted to persuade France that Henry of Navarre, who would become Henry IV slightly later, had forfeited his claims to the throne of France. Henry blocked the city of Paris and only 128 deputies found their way to these meetings. Although several of the cahiers dealt with other matters, such as reducing the tailles and the number of royal offices, the main matter was the election of a Catholic monarch. The meeting of the Leaguers became a failure when some of them supported the candidacy of Isabella, the daughter of Philip II, the Spanish king, which made others declare, such as Guillaume du Vair, that the Salic law was fundamental law. EUR 250
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PROGRAMME des disciples après le 3e jour de leçons. Nismes, Imprimerie de J. Guibert, (ab. 1830). 1 large folio leaf. Folded. Gives in six columns a large number of facts concerning a great variety of subjects: Une statistique manuscrite de l'Hindoustan a été achetée, en 1825, 16201 francs, à la vente des livres de M. Lenglès - Hégire, ou fuite de Mahomet, en 622 - Le Gos ou Gau du Malabar vaut, en kilomètres, 11,125 - La bataille de Poitiers est perdue par le Roi Jean, en 1356 - Fin du grand schisme d'Occident, en 1417 - etc. Interesting educational document. EUR 175
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PUISSE-t-il se trouver! Rêve patriotique. Allemagne (Leipzig), 1814. 103, (1) pp. Small 8vo. Modern boards. Reflections on the political situation in France after the Revolution and the Empire, and developing a political theory for the future. EUR 200
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RAPPORTS sur les opérations et les faits militaires auxquels la Garde Nationale a pris part, dans les journées des 5 et 6 Juin (1832). Paris, Imprimerie de Crapelet, Juin 1832. (4), 90 pp. 4to. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, original printed covers preserved. First edition. Jean Maximin Lamarque was a general and Restoration deputy. He died on 2 June 1832. His funeral (5 june) which coincided with a Parisian cholera epidemic and an economic crisis producing widespread unemployment and high bread prices, was an opportunity for a liberal demostration to counter the Orleanist rally at Casimir Périer's funeral on 16 May.After a funeral service at the Madeleine, Lamarque's body was to be carried to the pont d'Austerlitz, where it would be embarked for burial in the general's home town near Bordeaux. The huge procession of supporters, political refugees from Spain, Poland, and Italy, and the largely republican artillery units of the National Guard sang the 'Marseillaise' and called for the establishment of a republic. Violence broke out during speeches at the bridge, (.....). An attempt was made to carry the coffin to the Pantheon, and barricades were thrown up from the place des Victoires to the Jardin des Plantes. The insurrection, though widespread, was leaderless, and Louis-Philippe, after some hesistation, brought regular troops into the city. By the evening of 5 June the revolt had been confined to the fourth arrondissement. On 6 June, units of the army and the National Guard wiped out the last vestiges of resistance in the cloister of the church of St.-Merri with artillery and the bayonet. The total number of dead was estimated at 800. The case of the barricade of the rue du Cloître Saint-Merri inspired Victor Hugo in his Les misérables. EUR 225
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RECUEIL contenant les délibérations de la Société Royale d'Agriculture de la généralité de Paris, depuis le 12 Mars jusqu'au 10 Septembre 1761. Et les Mémoires publiés par son ordre pendant le même tems. A Paris, Chez la Veuve d'Houry, 1761. (4), 61, 7, (1), 6, 7, 12, 8, 12, 12, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine richly gilt, corners, marbled boards. Higgs 2448; Conlon 61:349; not in Musset-Pathay; not in Kress; not Goldsmiths. First edition, all published The 'Mémoires' are: Questions générales sur l'agriculture. - Observations sur l'établissement des Sociétés royales d'agriculture. - Réflexions sur les Sociétés royales d'agriculture. - Essai sur les labours. - Moyen de préserver le bled de la carie, par M. Du Plessis. - Mémoire sur le ray-grass et le red-clowe, par Delisle. - Mémoire sur les semoirs, par d'Ogilvy. - Copy from the Fürstlich-Starhemberg'sche Familien Bibliothek Schloß Eferding. EUR 500
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RECUEIL de pièces curieuses et intéressantes, recouvrées. Imprimées à Paris, 1775. 90, (2) pp. 16mo. Modern boards. Conlon 75:527. First edition. Small collection of clandestinely printed pieces published at the occasion: dealing with the bishop of Rennes, the expulsion of the Jesuits and the sale of their property in the period 1771-1774. EUR 175
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RECUEIL des lettres missives de Henri IV. Publié par Berger de Xivrey. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1843-1858. With folding facsimiles. Volumes 1-7 (of 8). 4to. Contemporaryhalf calf, spines gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering, marbled boards. (Collection de documents inédits sur l'histoire de France). Franklin 163-164. Covers the period 1562-1610. - Lacks volume 8 (supplement). EUR 600
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RECUEIL des Pieces les plus Curieuses qui ont esté faites pendant le regne du Connestable M. de Luyne. Comme se voit par la Table suivante. Troisieme edition, Revueuë, corrigée & augmentée. No place, 1625. (40), 534 (misnumbered 536) pp. Small 8vo. Early 20th century vellum, handwritten title on spine. Bourgeois & André 2376; not in Lindsay & Neu; not in Welsh; not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700. Third edition, revised, corrected and augmented. Collection of 65 pieces, some in verse, published in the period 1619-1621, the year in which Luynes died. The Duc de Luynes was allowed all real power after Louis XIII had forced the Queen-Mother into exile in 1617. The next four years, which ended with the death of de Luynes, saw the unedifying spectacle of two revolts made by the Queen-Mother, supported by various great noblemen, against her own son, and an armed rising of the Huguenots. Only with the rise to power of Richelieu in 1624 did the monarchy become master of the situation at home. - Equally browned throughout, copy with generous margins. EUR 900
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REGLEMENS de la place des changes de la ville de Lyon, proposez par les principaux négocians de ladite ville, et consentis par Messieurs les Prévost des Marchands et Eschevins, Juges, Gardiens, Conservateurs des privilèges royaux de ses foires: Omologuez par sa Majesté en son Conseil de Commerce ..... Lyon, A. Laurens, 1727. 26 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf (corners have suffered a little). Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. - Lower part of first few leaves waterstained. Bound in at end: DE PAR LE ROI, et Messieurs les prévôt des marchands et echevins de la ville de Lyon, présidents, juges-gardiens, conservateurs des privilèges royaux des foires de la même ville. (Drop-head title). Lyon, A. Delaroche, 1755. 13 pp. EUR 125
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REGLEMENT fait par les gens des Trois-Etats du pays de Langedoc, assemblés par mandement du roi en la ville de Montpellier, au mois de janvier 1776, pour servir à l'exploitation de la ferme du droit d'équivalent. Montpellier, Imprimerie de Jean Martel aîné, 1776. 36 pp. Small 4to. Sewn. - A few small wormholes.The 'droit d'équivalent' was a special tax in the Languedoc on fresh meat, fish and wine. This tax was to be collected from April 1, 1776 up to the end of March 1782. EUR 125
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REGLEMENT pour les bourses à établir dans le Collège de Louis-le-Grand, homologué par arrêt du 4 septembre 1770. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, P.G.Simon, imprimeur du Parlement, 1775. 8 pp. 4to. Disbound. Indicating the requirements necessary to obtain a grant for the Louis-le-Grand college. EUR 125
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RELATION d'un évenement extraordinaire arrivé au sujet d'un religieux bénédictin qui a été perdu cent trente sept jours dans les pois, après s'être échapé des mains des voleurs, & ce qui s'est ensuivi. (Drop-head title). (Paris), chez la veuve Valleyre, (1748). 8vo leaflet of 2 pp. (lower margin short, without touching the text). Leaflet providing the public with an imaginary adventure. EUR 75
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REMERCIEMANT et supplique du peuple au Roi, à l'occasion de l'Assemblée des Notables. Bruxelles, 1787. 32 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. 'Toutes les réformes ..... partiront d'un seul moyen', which is: paying the debts of the State. - The name 'Bruxelles' has been crossed out in a contemporary hand, and has been replaced by: 'au Baron d'Espagnac'. EUR 125
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REMONSTRANCES du Parlement de Provence au Roi. Délibérées le 9 janvier 1764, en enregistrant l'Édit du Roi du mois d'Avril 1763 concernant les dons gratuits, et les déclarations du 21 Novembre suivant. (Drop-head title). (Aix, 1764). 16 pp. 12mo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Conlon 64:425. Original edition. The Don gratuit was the way in which the clergy could escape taxation: by a voluntary gift to the treasury. This had also symbolic meaning: the clergy maintained that they could not be taxed by a worldly ruler and to avoid taxation they gave 'freely'. The present text suggests that to improve the State's budgetary position the State should reduce its expenses instead of raising taxes or imposing new ones. EUR 175
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REMONSTRANCES du Parlement de Provence au Roi. Délibérées le 9 janvier 1764, en enregistrant l'Édit du Roi du mois d'Avril 1763 concernant les dons gratuits, et les déclarations du 21 Novembre suivant. (Aix, 1764). 16 pp. 12mo. Modern boards. Conlon 64:425; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. To improve the State's budgetary position, taxes should not be raised, but the State should reduce the expenses. Tax fraude is not always a crime, but often a necessity that knows no laws. EUR 125
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REQUETE des Etats-Généraux de France au Roi. A Londres, 1772. (2), 92 pp. Small 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Conlon. First edition. - Title slightly spotted. Defends the rights of the Parlements and contains strong criticism of the financial situation of the country. EUR 125
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REVOLUTIONS DU XIXe SIECLE, LES. Deuxième Série. 1835-1848. Collection of rare French revolutionary publications from the years 1835-1848. Paris, EDHIS 1979. 12 volumes, 11 in 4to, 1 in folio. Original publisher's leather. Well-done reprint, all volumes with a table at the beginning and an index at the end, and since long out-of-print. I-II: Le Mouvement Ouvrier, 1834-1848. - III-IV: La Propagande socialiste, 1834-1848. - V: Cabet, le Communisme icarien de 1840 à 1847. - VI-VIII: Révolutionaires et Néo-Babouvistes, 1835-1847. - IX-XI: Les procès des sociétés secrètes devant la Cour des Pairs: L'insurrection de Mai 1839 - L'attentat Darmès, 11 Mai 1840 - L'attentat Quénisset, 13 Septembre 1841. - XII: Feuilles populaires et documents divers, 1835-1848.Important collection offering a wealth of rare and very difficult to find material from the period and forming a wonderful source. Each volume with a table of contents and an index. A detailed list of contents per volume is available upon request. EUR 1500
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REVUE RETROSPECTIVE, ou Bibliothèque historique, contenant des mémoires et des documens authentiques, inédits et originaux, pour servir à l'histoire proprement dite, à la biographie, à l'histoire de la littérature et des arts. Paris, Fournier aîné, 1833-1838. 3 series of 5, 12 and 3 volumes respectively. Together 20 volumes.8vo. Contemporary half morocco, corners, marbled boards, spine with gilt lettering and raised bands, top edge gilt. Franklin, Sources de l'histoire de France, pp. 384-98 (giving a full exposé of the contents); Hatin, 390. Original edition, all published. Editor was J. Taschereau.Complete collection, including a.o.: Chronique secrète de Paris sous le règne de Louis XVI par Baudeau (inédit). - Relation de la détention du général La Fayette (inédit). - Capitain Gourgues, La reprise de la Floride. - Vicq d'Azyr, Eloge de Franklin. - Carrier, Correspondance. - La Fayette, Plan d'un seconde campagne d'Amérique (inédit). - etc.The idea for this journal came from England where Southern and Harris produced something similar. The expressed aim of this journal was not to discuss the trends and topics of the day but to go back into history and present the reader with forgotten texts rightly or wrongly ignored texts, texts incompletely handed down to us, to present historical details and facts that have been overlooked or forgotten or incompletely handed down to the present generations or which have been judged irrelevant or unimportant through means of presentation of full texts through the original authors: not critical discussion of (parts of) texts or historical reflection but "the facts (texts) and nothing but the facts (texts)". EUR 1500
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STOMACHATIO boni popularis. (Drop-head title). No place, (1649). 7, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards. Moreau 3719; BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700, S-1014; not in Welsh. First edition. Moreau suggests that the author wrote in Latin because he did not want to address the people 'déjà bien échauffée d'elle-même'. The author discusses the origin of royal power. EUR 125
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SUR LES FINANCES. Ouvrage posthume de Pierre André ******, fils d'un bon laboureur, mis au jour par Mr *, Curé D *. A Londres, 1775. With 1 folding map and 4 folding tables. viii, 293, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering (somewhat rubbed). Kress 7170; Goldsmiths 11330; Einaudi 5517; INED 4798; Higgs 6403; Peignot, Livres Condamnés, i, p. 141. First edition. - Two tables and the map loosely inserted, bookblock broken but cords intact and not loosening, good margins. Severely prosecuted attack on the Fermiers-Généraux, forbidden already in 1776. 'Diatribe sanglante contre les fermiers généraux et les abus scandaleux de leurs agents. L'auteur met en scene un malheureux dont les 'suppôts de la ferme' ont ruiné la famille et fait périr le père de chagrin' (INED). According to a manuscript note in the Kress copy: ' ..... l'on croit que cette sanglante diatribe des fermiers généraux a été composée, imprimée et répandue sous les auspices du ministère actuel (celui de Turgot & Malesherbes).' EUR 500
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TARIF arresté au Conseil le 30 aoust 1735, qui fixe les sommes qui seront perçûës par les commis des ports, portes & barrières de la ville et faux-bourgs de Paris, sur les volailles & gibier, cochons-de-lait, agneaux & chevreaux y entrans .... comme aussi les volailles & gibier qui seront envoyés par présent .... conformément à l'arrest du 9 may 1741. Du 13 juin 1741. A Paris, Chez Pierre Prault, 1741. (4) pp. 4to. Pages 2-3 contain a list of prices for all kinds ofanimals, whether bought per piece or in larger quantities. EUR 75
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TARIF au minimum des prix de la façon des étoffes de soie, librement débattu et consenti entre les délégués des fabricans et des ouvriers ..... du 25 octobre 1831, pour recevoir son exécution à partir de Ier novembre prochain. Lyon, J.M. Boursy, (1831). Folio poster on white paper (38,3 x 44,5 cm), folded and bound in a small 4to volume. Modern half morocco. Not in Charléty. Following a slump in production at the beginning of 1831 and following a petition by the weavers and others demanding a new tariff in October, the new prefect of the Rhone, Bouvier Dumoulard, ordered weavers and merchant representatives to negociate new piecework rates. A preliminary agreement was arrived at on October 31. When it became apparent that many merchants ignored it and that some even withheld commission for new work to indicate their displeasure at any attempt to fix the cost of labor, the weavers responded with a strike and when National Guard units composed largely of merchants and their clerks fired on demonstrators a general uprising began. It was suppressed by Marchal De Soult at the cost of 550 lives. During this revolt the first black flags appeared with the devise: Vivre en travaillant, ou mourir en combattant (see: Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the Second Empire, vol. i, p. 654). - Some staining. A document of great importance and of great rarity. EUR 1200
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TARIF des droits d'octroy, que le Roy en son Conseil veut & ordonne être payez dans la ville, faubourgs & lieux dépendans de la bourgeoisie de Caen, par tous bourgeois & habitans, exempts & non exempts, privilégiez & non privilégiez, conformément à l'arrêt du Conseil du 8 janvier 1718 & à commencer au premier dudit mois de janvier 1718, autorisé & confirmé par autre arrêt du Conseil du premier août 1719. Et lettres patentes données en conséquences audit mois d'août. Caen, P. Chalopin, (1720). 23, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Conlon 20:248; Frère, ii, 554. Original edition. EUR 175
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TARIF des droits de pontage, fait et arresté en la Cour des Aydes de Normandie le 30 mars 1689. Rouen, Viret, 1758. 62 pp. Small 8vo. Modern half cloth. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Bourgeois& André 5923; Frère, vol. ii, 554; Conlon 58:424. First edition. EUR 175
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TARIF général des anciens et nouveaux droits rétablis par Arrests du Conseil, & déclaration du Roy des 22 mars, premier avril, et 15 may 1722, dans la ville, fauxbourgs & banlieuë de Paris, sur les marchandises & denrées y entrans par terre & par eau; avec la déduction des salaires accordés sur iceux, aux commis préposés & établis à la police des ports, quays, halles, places & marchés de ladite ville, par Édit du mois de septembre 1719, suivant l'Arrest du Conseil du 20 dudit mois de may 1722, chacun divisés par colomnes, conformément audit Arrest. Du 20 juin 1724; avec l'Arrest du Conseil du même jour, qui autorise ledit tarif. Paris, Ve Saugrain & Pierre Prault, 1724. (2), 38 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Not in Kress; Goldsmiths 6315. - Scribbling on title. EUR 150
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TARIFS des droits imposez sur toutes sortes d'huilles, pour servir aux commis employez à la perception de ces droits à raison de 12, de 6 & de 3 deniers pour livre, pesant net poids de marc, dans toute l'étenduë du Royaume; déduction faite du sixième ou du cinquième pour les tarres qui ont esté reglez par l'Édit du mois d'octobre 1710. Ensemble l'évaluation des barils d'huiles de navette & rabette. A Paris, Chez la Veuve Saugrain, 1714. With royal coat-of-arms on title. (2), 43 pp. 4to. Sewn, contemporary marbled cover. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Bourgeois & André. EUR 175
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TRAITE des trois imposteurs. En Suisse, Imprimerie philosophique, 1793. - (Followed by:) PIGAULT-LEBRUN (DE L'ESPINOY, G.C.A.) Le citateur. Nouvelle édition. Paris, Imprimerie de Mocquet et Comp., 1834. With portrait. 2 works bound in 1 volume. (2), 168, iii pp.; 252 pp. 16mo. 19th-century half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments (slightly rubbed and worn). First work: Van der Linde, Spinoza, 102; Abraham Wolf Spinoza Collection, 313. Often attributed to Lucas although not absolutely proven to be a correct attribution. The 'coterie holbachique' did much to promote this anti-religious text in which Jesus, Mohammed and Spinoza are considered to have been impostors. See at length: Presser, De tribus impostoribus, p. 164 and Van der Linde, Spinoza.'Contrary to what one would believe, this is not the French translation of the well-known Latin treatise 'De Tribus impostoribus' but the same as L'Esprit de Spinosa, most likely written by Lucas. The book was placed on the Index in 1783' (Abraham Wolf Spinoza Collection, note to number 309). Jonathan I. Israel, in his great work Radical Enlightenment. Philosophy and the making of Modernity 1650-1750, deals with this text and its history, meaning and impact (pp. 695-700). Second work: Drujon 94.Forbidden because of its attack on the Bible, the book was originally published in 1803, and placed on the Index in 1825. Every new edition of this work caused an outcry and provoked the call for banishment of the book. EUR 450
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VOEU sur la dernière classe du peuple à l'Assemblé des Notables. No place, (1787) (Paris, EDHIS, 1976). 31, (1) pp. 8vo. Boards. Not in INED; not in Goldsmiths; notin Kress; Conlon 87:1288. Reprint of this very rare and important little work, editon limited to 150 numbered copies and 30 not destined for the trade, and since long out-of-print. The unknown author of this tract brings up the question of the defense of the interests of the lower classes of the population, those who have no property nor any other wealth, no status, no rights and who ask only this: to have work to do, the certainty that this work will enable them to live and not to be robbed by the taxes. EUR 125
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(ABEILLE, L.P.) Observations de la Société Royale d'Agriculture, sur l'uniformité des poids et mesures. Paris, Ph.-D. Pierres, 1790. 125, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. INED 7; Kress B.1778; not in Goldsmiths, not in Einaudi. First edition. Edited in cooperation with M.M. Tillet.'Observations sur le Mémoire de Villeneuve tendant à établir l'uniformité des poids et mesures. Après un historique du système, et malgré leur accord sur le principe dégagé par Villeneuve, Abeille et Tillet émettent quelques critiques' (INED). - On the titlepage in a contemporary hand: 'agriculture et commerce, poids et mesures.' EUR 300
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(AGIER, P.J.) Le jurisconsulte national, ou principes sur la nécessité du consentement de la nation pour établir et proroger les impôts. (Drop-head title). (Paris, 1788.) 3 parts in 1 volume. 84 pp.; 37 pp.; (2), 208 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Martin & Walter, 56. All published. For the third part a titlepage was issued, which is present in this copy. The drop-head title of this third part reads: Du pouvoir de la nation dans la formation des loix. EUR 450
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(ANGOT-DESROTOURS, N.F.M.) Analyse de l'ouvrage de Mirabeau, sur la constitution monétaire. Présentée à l'Assemblée Nationale par son Comité des Monnaies. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1791. (2), 41, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half red morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering. Kress B.2015; Goldsmiths 14801 (anonymous entry); INED 54; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli. First edition. Noel-François-Mathieu Angot Desrotours (or des Rotours), born in Falaise (1739), died in Rotours in 1821. In the Almanach Royaux of 1782-1791 he figures as 'Premier commis des monnaies'.'Doctrine monétaire de Mirabeau: maintenir l'or et l'argent au plus bas prix possible. Ebauche d'un nouveau systême monetaire' (INED). EUR 175
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(ARGENSON, R.L. DE VOYER D'.) Les loisirs d'un ministre, ou Essais dans le goût de ceux de Montagne, composés, en 1736, par l'auteur des 'Considérations sur le gouvernement de France'. A Amsterdam, 1787. 2 volumes in 1. 240 pp.; 240 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, red edges. Originally published as Essais dans le goût de ceux de Montagne in 1785 but in an edition of 250 copies only for friends of the author. Published by his son, Voyer de Paulmy. d'Argenson played an important role in the history of France in the 18th century and was a 'homme des lettres' who entertained a large 'salon'. The above work is a portrait-gallery of contemporaries, it contains reflections of the author on what he read, and considerations on France and French society in the 18th century. EUR 300
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(ARNAUD, E.F.A. DE VITROLLES.) Note secrette exposant les prétextes et le but de la dernière conspiration. A Paris, Chez Foulon et Cie, Delaunay et Pélicier & Eymery, 1818. 58, (2 blank) pp. 8vo. Sewn, contemporary blind covers, uncut. First edition. The author was an ultraroyalist politician. When Napoléon returned to France in March 1815, he was placed in charge of the movement to organize royalist resistance in the south of France.See at length (under Vitrolles): Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the Second Empire, ii, pp. 1101-02. EUR 150
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(AUFFRAY, J.) Idées patriotiques, sur la nécessité de rendre la liberté au commerce. A Lyon, Chez Louis Cutty, 1762. 38 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Goldsmiths 9761; Higgs 2711; INED 135; Masui, p. 397; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; Conlon 62:564; not in Mattioli. First edition, scarce. Twelve suggestions pertaining to the 'réglementation des corporations commerçantes' to further freedom (of trade). Jean Auffray was closely attached to Baudeau and Dupont de Nemours and the other économistes, he was one of the editors of the Éphémerides and of the first Gazettes dealing with agriculture and commerce. 'Citoyen zélé mais écrivain médiocre, il n'obtint pas la réputation que devaient lui mériter les vues utiles répandues dans ses différents ouvrages' (Coquelin & Guillaumin, i, p. 96.) - Nice copy, partly uncut. EUR 800
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(AUGEARD, J.M.) Lettre d'un ami à M. Necker. (Drop-head title). No place, no date (1781). 23, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary plain wrappers, uncut. Conlon 81:714 (listing an issue of 16 pages only); not in INED; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Einaudi 1178 (as part of a collection of writings "pour & contre M. Necker"); Mattioli 728 & 729, also as part of the same collection. First edition ? Apparently a scarce critical review of Necker's policy and especially his Compte-rendu au Roi. Augeard was himself a "Fermier général" and later secretary to the queen: his memoirs (published in the second half of the nineteenth century) show he severly disliked Necker and Calonne. He is described as competent in finances and sufficiently well placed in high circles to observe both people and events.- Small stamp in blank margin of the first page, somewhat browned, heavier on pages 4-8. An uncut copy, margins a bit frayed. EUR 300
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(BARANTE, A.G.P. BRUGIERE DE.) De la Littérature Française pendant le dix-huitième siècle. A Paris, Chez Léopold Colin, 1809. (4), 267, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with green label and gilt lettering, marbled boards. Brunet, i, col. 643. First edition. - Outer lower blank margin of pp. 259-260 torn off without affecting the text. The work was published in 1808 although it was written as early as 1805. The work 'attira immédiatement l'attention du public. L'ouvrage eut de multiples éditions et devint fort populaire. L'auteur considérait la littérature dans son influence sur les idées, les moeurs et les croyances de la nation. Mme de Staël lui consacra une critique élogieuse, contribuant à lancer son ami dans les voies de la célébrité littéraire' (Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, vol. 5, col. 177-178). EUR 250
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(BARBEU-DUBOURG, J.) Petit Code de la Raison Humaine, ou Exposition succinte de ce que dicte à tous les hommes, Pour éclairer leur conduite & assurer leur bonheur. Par M.B.D. (Paris), 1789. (iii)-xxii (misnumbered xxiv), 112 (misnumbered 114) pp. 12mo. Modern half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering. Echeverria & Wilkie 789/7; INED 218; no edition in Kress; no edition in Goldsmiths; no edition in Einaudi; not in Sabin. Final edition of this little collection of 102 maxims and reflexions forming a perfect abridged statement of the philosophy of the Enlightenment.'Both signatures a and b have had the first leaf of each cancelled; no located copy still has them present' (Echeverria & Wilkie). After the half-title and title the numbering of the prelims is: vii-ix, verso of ix an unnumbered blank page, ix again, verso numbered xii, xv-xxiv. This is a copy with a5r numbered ix (see Echeverria & Wilkie). The dedication is 'A Monsieur B.F. (i.e. Benjamin Franklin). - Small tear in outer blank margin of the title-page and a few unobtrusive spots, verso title-page and recto last page with strengthened inner margin. The first edition was published in 1774 and a second one was printed in 1782 in Paris on the press of Benjamin Franklin. Livingston (19) writes: 'It was again printed in 1789, a close copy, typographically, of Franklin's Passy press edition, and this is the only edition recorded in the Catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale (1914).' According to Quérard (I, 175), this edition 'est plus complète que les autres', and he adds 'ce petit traité renferme beaucoup d'idées sur le commerce maritime.' 'Éloge de la famille et du mariage, du travail, de la tolérance. Défense du droit de propriété et de l'impôt foncier. Idées agrariennes sur la population et l'agriculture' (INED). On page 87 these lines on the USA: 'La Pensylvanie est le premier pays policé de l'univers où la tolérance réciproque de tous les cultes religieux ait été garantie par une loi authentique.'The pages 89-90 are omitted in the numbering, page (91)-end contains notes to the various maxims. EUR 900
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(BARGETON, D.) Lettres. Ne repugnate vestro bono, & hanc spem, dum ad verum pervenitis, alite in animis; libenterque meliora excipite & opinione ac voto juvate. Dernière édition, revûë, & considerablement augmentée avec Notes. A Londres, 1750. (4), 40 pp.; 300 pp.; 36 pp.; 31, (1) pp.; 67, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with red label with gilt lettering (very lightly rubbed). Stourm, p. 80; Conlon 50:340; Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, 5, pp. 456-457. Fourth edition. This is an extremely important work: 'Ces lettres devinrent le principal point de départ des discussions pour et contre l'imposition des biens ecclésiastiques. Un seul arrêt du Parlement en supprima près de quarante' (Stourm). - Last text with large waterstain. Daniel Bargeton (1678-1757), studied law in Toulouse and was received at the bar in 1698. After the death of Louis XIV he entered the service of the Duc du Maine. He later became one of the collaborators of the d'Aguesseau and composed in 1749 a work (the present one) against the immunity of the eclessiastical goods. The King approved of the work and the author received 3000 livres. The work had an immediate succes going through four editions within a year. The reaction of the church was predicatable: they opposed the work and succeeded in having the Lettres suppressed by an arrêt du Parlement on June 1, 1750. It is composed of four letters and the Remonstrances du Clergé, Présentées au Roi, le 24 Août 1749, au sujet de la levée du Vingtiéme. The book was apparently written on instigation of the general controller Machault in an attempt to introduce the new tax (the 'vingtième'). It is also one of the first works advocating equality on matters of taxation and pointing to the fact that the clergy has no real claims to being exempted of taxation. The text of the work is in French, despite the Latin title. The work produced a large number of replies among which Duranthon's Réponse aux lettres contre l'immunité des biens ecclésiastiques and works by Beauvais, Chauvelin, Constantin, and others, numbering over 30 in total. EUR 375
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(BARNAUD, D.N.) Le Reveille-Matin des François et de leurs voisins. Composé par Eusèbe Philadelphe, cosmopolite, en forme de Dialogues. A Edimbourg, De l'Imprimerie de Jaques James, 1574. - (Followed by:) (BARNAUD, D.N.) Dialogue second du Reveille-Matin des François, et de leurs voisins. Composé par Eusebe Philadelphe Cosmopolite, & mis de nouveau en lumiere. A Edimbourg, De l'Imprimerie de Jaques James, 1574. 2 volumes in 1. (38), (2 blank), 159, (1) pp.; 192 pp. Small 8vo. 18th century polished calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, red and green labels with gilt lettering, gilt triple fillet on sides, inside dentelles, all edges gilt, binding Belz. succ. Niedrée, small dampstain along upper margin of front cover. Hauser 2150; Haag, La France protestante, i, pp. 251-256; Méaly, Publicistes de la Réforme, pp. 143-51; Pollard & Redgrave, STC, 1464; not in Adams; not in BMSTC (French). The rare first French edition, first issue (see Pollard & Redgrave). Famous pamphlet, published in exile, after the massacre of St. Bartholomew. The first dialogue between Alithie (the Truth), Philadelpe, the Historian (l'Historiographe), Politician (le Politique), the Church and Daniel is an account of the civil wars and the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and ends with an appeal for tyrannicide and a plan for rebellion. The 2nd part shows the relation between the sieges of La Rochelle and Sancerre and the intervention of the Polish. It is to be found between two theoretical passages: one giving a theory of the 'contrat social' and the right of resistance as founded in the work of Th. de Bèze Du droit des magistrats sur leurs sujets and a second giving a description of tyranny, based on ideas of La Boetie as exposed in his Contr'un. This second part is not merely a historical account, but a real political treatise, in which the principle of the heriditary monarchy is condemned. It is written in an outspoken democratic vein. Sometimes also attributed to Th. de Bèze or Fr. Hotman (see: Elkan, Die Publizistik der Batholomäusnacht).'After St. Bartholomew's Day they (the political works) were directed against the king instead of using the fiction of the evil advisers. The right of the people to resist an evil ruler who harmed the true religion was openly expressed. Many of the authors, however, sought revenge, more on the queen mother than her son, as she was widely blamed for the massacre. Even the best of the Huguenot works expressed a desire for revenge, but they subordinated it to significant discussions of political theory. The anonymous Reveille-Matin des François ..... may have been the collaborative work of several authors, as was true of many anonymous works of the religious wars. It presented more fully -if not more precisely- a thesis that had already appeared in some pre-1572 Huguenot writing. The people conferred power on the king but did not give over the whole of sovereign authority; some remained in the hands of the lesser magistrates who had the duty to resist an evil ruler. Their identity, however, was left vague. The Reveille-matin proposed that this authority was granted in the ancient constitution of France, which had been subverted by the recent kings. When a king injures his people as cruelly as Charles IX had, who was alleged to have fired at the Huguenots himself and was responsible for the death of 10.000 of his loyal subjects in Paris alone, he can and must be disposed' (Frederic J. Baumgartner, France in the Sixteenth Century, p. 301). - Title-page and 1 leaf with a faint dampstain in the upper blank margin, page 23/24 in the second part with a small hole affecting two letters. A lovely copy of an important book. EUR 3750
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(BEAUMARCHAIS, P.A. CARON DE.) Le voeu de toutes les nations et l'intérêt de toutes les puissances, dans l'abaissement et l'humiliation de la Grande Bretagne. Seconde édition, corrigée par l'auteur. No place, 1778. 74 pp. 8vo. Sewn, old blind covers with stamp of the Fürstlich-Starhemberg'sche Familien Bibliothek, Schloß Eferding. Not in Cordier, Bibliographie des Oeuvres de Beaumarchais; Sabin 4178; Fay 11 (listing the first edition only); Echeverria & Wilkie 778/7; Muller 1585; Howes B.290; Tchemerzine-Scheler, i, 511 (without collation); Echeverria, p. 68; not in JFBL; not in Leclerc. Second edition, very rare. One of the rarest anti-british publications of the period. The aim was to present Britain as having imperialistic plans and to support the independence of the Americans. Includes (pp. 3-6): Envoi au très honorable M.M. Benjamin Franklin, ministre plénipotentiare des Etats-Unis de l'Amerique, à la Cour de France. EUR 1000
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(BEAUSOBRE, L. DE.) Essai sur le Bonheur, ou Réflexions Philosophiques sur les biens et les maux de la vie humaine. A Berlin, Chez A. Haude & J.C. Spener, 1758. 220 pp. 12mo. Contemporary boards, paper labels to spine. Conlon 58:493; Schosler, p. 26; Cioranescu 10861. First edition, rare. Louis de Beausobre (1730-1783), son of Isaac de Beausobre, French author born in Berlin into a family of emigrated protestants. Frederic the Great took care of his education and made him his advisor for French affairs. He became a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences in 1753.This work is a defense of philosophical optimism echoeing the 'tout est bien' conclusions that many derived from Leibniz's Theodicy. He elaborates on this theory before entering into a detailed defense of it, examining the differences between what came to be known as natural evil and moral evil. - Bound in at the end the catalogue of Cl. and Ant. Philibert of 'Livres qui se trouvent en nombre, ou qui sont sous Presse à Geneve & à Coppenhague'. With the Lasberg library label on spine. EUR 900
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(BELLEPIERRE DE NEUVE-EGLISE, L.J.) Le Patriote artesien. Dédié à Monseigneur le Comte d'Artois. Par M. de ***, ancien Officier de Cavalerie. A Paris, Chez Despilly, Le Clerc, 1761. With engraved frontispiece. xvi, 341, (3) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red edges. INED 382; Higgs 2578; Musset-Pathay 1514; not in Kress; Goldsmiths, and Einaudi. First edition. 'Agronomique. De la décadence de l'agriculture, du commerce et des arts dans la province d'Artois, et des moyens de les ranimer. 'Ce n'est pas dans la simple agriculture que consiste le seul bonheur d'un État; c'est dans tous les Arts de nécessité première'' (INED).Contains statistical information on all sorts of commerce in all sorts of products among which wine, cotton, fish, tobacco, etc. as well as on a large number of professions: Peintres, Boulangers, Bouchers, Traiteurs, Miroitiers, Potiers, etc. - Small stamp on title. Very good copy. EUR 750
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(BERNARD, J.) Discours prononcé par le Père François Gérard, Électeur de St.-Martin devant les Électeurs de sa Commune et Grand nombre d'assistans jeunes et vieux. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie de Goetschy, (1830). 4 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. First edition. Spirited pamphlet, forming part of the publications from the society 'Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera', and attacking the ultra's in power and urging the people to vote in the upcoming election.The society 'Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera' was formed to aid opposition candidates for election to the Chamber of Deputies in the period 1827-1834. It was directed by a central committee in Paris and operated through a network of local committees and agents throughout the country. After the Revolution of 1830, the original directors of the society (among whom Barrot, Guizot and de Rémusat) withdrew, and leadership passed to young republicans, including Godefroy Cavaignac, Etienne Garnier-Pagès, and Louis Blanc. Under their direction the society published pamphlets, distributed letters of political intelligence and advice to members. EUR 75
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(BERTRAND DE MOLLEVILLE, A.F.) Observations adressées à l'Assemblée des notables. Sur la composition des Etats-Généraux, et sur la forme la plus régulière de les convoquer. No place, 1788. With folding table. (2), 66 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Martin & Walter 3058. EUR 110
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(BETHUNE, PH. DE). Le Conseiller d'Estat; ou recueil Des plus Generales Considerations servant au maniment des Affaires publiques. Divise en trois parties. La I. contient les moyens d'établir un Estat. La II. les moyens de le conserver. La III. les moyens de l'accroittre. A Paris, Chez Estienne Richer, 1633. With title vignette. (4), 24, 496 pp. 4to. Contemporary polished calf, gilt fillet on sides, spine with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, spine repaired at head and foot, some small blemishes to the covers, unidentified gilt stamped arms in the center of both sides. Bourgeois & André 6094; INED 481; Goldsmiths 715; BMSTC, French books 1601-1700, C.1391, 1392, 1393 listing the editions from 1632, 1645 and 1665 but not this one; Greasse, ii, p. 252 (1645 Elzevier edition); not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli. Second edition, rare, first published in 1632. 'Le Conseiller d'État se présente comme un manuel général de politique ..... L'ouvrage nous fait faire le tour des principales questions soulevèes par l'existence du pouvoir et des gouvernants. Envisageant d'abord la forme de l'État, il en indique les principaux types. Il évalue les avantages et les dèsavantages de l'État populaire, de la Seigneurie (l'Aristocratie) et de la Principauté' (Thuau, Raison d'État et Pensée Politique à l'Époque de Richelieu, p. 278-280). The work examines the relations and interdependance of states, the position of church and religion, and furthermore examines the laws, councils, magistrates and officers and their functions, foreign policy and treaties. The work is hostile to the popular state ("démocratie suisse") and the author shows himself to be in favour of tolerance: of heretics is not asked to renounce their faith but to obey the laws. States can survive with two religions within its borders, but civil war will ruin them. The principal statement (and opinion) of Bethune is: "Raison d'Etat n'est autre chose que raison d'intérêt."The work also deals with economic policy and what actually constitutes the wealth of a nation: agriculture, commerce and trade, manufactures, and sound financial policy. In fact, Guy Thuillier, in Revue économique, volume 9, no 1 (January, 1958) writes: "Le Conseiller d'Estat; ou recueil Des plus Generales Considerations servant au maniment des Affaires publiques a rarement attiré l'attention des historiens. On trouve pourtant, dans ce véritable manuel de science politique, résumées sous une forme commode et parfois très precise, la plupart des idées qui avaient cours au début du XVIIe siècle en matière d'économie politique." In this long article, entitled Politique et économie au XVIIe siècle. Le "Conseiller d'Etat" de Philippe de Bethune (1633), Thuillier gives an extensive exposition of contents and importance of this book from the point of view of sound economic policy for the state.Philippe de Bethune, the younger brother of the famous Sully, was an important French diplomat serving both Henry III and Henry IV in Scotland, Rome, the Savoie and Germany. - Somewhat browned throughout. EUR 1000
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(BLANCHET, J.) L'Homme éclairé par ses besoins. A Paris, Chez Durand le Neveu, 1764. (4), 355, (5, Approbation, privilège, errata, table) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with label and gilt lettering, all edges red, very lightly rubbed. INED 532; Conlon 64:579; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Higgs. First edition. 'Des besoins et des passions d'où ont dérivé les connoissances humaines. Passages sur l'esprit de proprieté, les excès du luxe, l'excellence de l'agriculture, la répartition des impôts, la population, le mariage, le divorce et le célibat: ...' (INED). - Name of the author written on the title in a contemporary hand. EUR 450
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(BOISGELIN DE CUCE, JEAN DE DIEU-RAYMOND.) Précis des Conférences des Commissaires du Clergé, avec les Commissaires du Conseil, Concernant la demande faite aux Bénéficiers, de la prestation des Foi & Hommages, Aveux &Dénombrements, pour les Fiefs, dépendants des Bénéfices dans la mouvance du Roi. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Guillaume Desprez, 1786. 186, (4, errata) pp. 4to. Contemporary blue paper over boards (slightly rubbed). Martin & Walter 3778; Catalogue de l'Histoire de France, v, p. 440; Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique, ii, p. 942-943; Lemay, Dictionnaire des Constituants, p. 105. First edition. 'Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Cucé de Boisgelin, cardinal, l'un des prélats de France les plus connus de la fin du XVIIIe siècle et l'un des principaux défenseurs de l'Eglise dans la crise révolutionnaire. On le voit figurer aux assemblées du clergé et à l'Assemblée des Notables' (Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique). 'Elu aux États généraux en 1789, il s'opposa, en juin, à la réunion des trois ordres, se prononça contre l'abandon des biens du clergé et contre la suppression de la dîme, mais offrit au nom du clergé une somme de 400 millions. Élu président pour quinze jours, le 25 novembre 1789, il essaya en 1790 de s'opposer à la Constitution civile du clergé, en proposant de réunir un concile national pour réorganiser l'Église en France' (Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, vi, p. 818).Bound before this text is the following: INSTRUCTION dressée par la Commission du Clergé, par la demande faite aux Bénificiers, des Foi & Hommage, Aveux & Dénombrements. (Drop-head title). Paris, de l'Imprimerie de G. Desprez, 1785. 60 pp. 4to. EUR 900
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(BOISGUILBERT, P. LE PESANT DE.) Le détail de la France, sous le regne present. Augmentée en cette nouvelle Édition, de plusieurs Mémoires & Traitez, sur la même matiere. No place (Rouen?), Année 1707. 2 volumes in 1. (2), 294 pp.; (2), 300 (misnumbered 302, 277-278 omitted in numbering), 12 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, spine damaged at head and foot, rear cover damaged, front joint tender. Kress 2542; Goldsmiths 4429 & 4430; Einaudi 581; Carpenter VIII (9); INED, Pierre de Boisguilbert où la naissance de l'économie politique, i, p. 495 ff; Gerits, A., Le Détail de la France in Quaerendo, vol 16/3 (1986), pp. 198-207. One of at least 7 editions published in 1707. The 12 pages at the end of volume two are printed in a small caracter and contains the supplement, here written with one 'p' and which is only rarely found. Aiiii and Aiii in the supplement have been interchanged. 'In the second half of the seventeenth century the great advance in economic theory and method had been concentrated mainly in England. The appearance of the first writings of Pierre de Boisguilbert, notably his Détail de la France (first published in 1695), can be taken as a sign that eventually, in the course of the eighteenth century, pre-eminence in political economy would pass to France - before subsequently being assumed by Scotland. As regards France, the title of the definitive edition of Boisguilbert's writings (1966) is well justified: Pierre de Boisguilbert: où la naissance de l'économie politique ...... Boisguilbert regarded the economic situation of France as one of disastrous decline and widespread poverty, and he began to study, with mounting passion, the causes and policies in the preceding decades which had brought this about. The depression seemed to have been specially severe in agriculture, which had suffered from Colbert's policy of favouring industrial development. Whether or not his alarming assessment of France's economic decline was correct, Boisguilbert, in seeking to analyse and establish the causes of what had happened, made general, theoretical and conceptual contributions of fundamental importance, including, among others, such monetary, or macro-economic, concepts, clearly though precisely formulated as: the propensity to consume or save, the velocity of circulation, the state of confidence, the expectations of businessmen, multiplying or cumulative effects, and, especially, the fundamental notion of equilibrium (Hutchison, T., Before Adam Smith. The Emergence of Political Economy 1662-1776, pp. 107-115). Boisguilbert was 'chiefly preoccupied with the problem of French fiscal policy and nearly as fact-minded as was Vauban, he differed from the latter not only in the much wider scope of his interests but also in the fact that he was theoretically articulate - perhaps more so than any other writer before Cantillon' (Schumpeter, p. 215 note). 'Boisguilbert is largely remembered as a precursor of the Physiocrats and as the economist whom Marx linked with Petty as marking the start of classical political economy. His influence was undoubtedly more extensive: much of Cantillon's circular flow analysis appears inspired by his work; while Roberts in his Boisguilbert, Economist of the Reign of Louis XIV, (1935) argues for considerable similarity between his fundamental economic ideas and some of Adam Smith's' (New Palgrave, i, p. 259). EUR 1500
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(BOISGUILBERT, P. LE PESANT DE.) Le détail de la France, sous le regne present. Augmentée en cette nouvelle Édition, de plusieurs Mémoires & Traitez, sur la même matiere. No place (Rouen?), Année 1707. 2 volumes in 1. (2), 294 pp.; (2), 300 (misnumbered 302, 277-278 omitted in numbering) pp. 8vo. Contemporary green vellum, raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, red edges. Kress 2542; Goldsmiths 4429 & 4430; Einaudi 581; Mattioli 370; Carpenter VIII (9); INED, Pierre de Boisguilbert où la naissance de l'économie politique, i, p. 495 ff; Gerits, A., Le Détail de la France in 'Quaerendo', vol 16/3 (1986), pp. 198-207. One of at least 7 editions published in 1707. This is the edition normally found, without the rare supplement of 12 pages. The last line on page 294 (volume 1) contains only the word 'place'. There are copies from the same year and the same pagination were the last line on page 294 ends with the words 'éclairez que ceux qui se trouvent en place.' In the second half of the seventeenth century the great advance in economic theory and method had been concentrated mainly in England. The appearance of the first writings of Pierre de Boisguilbert, notably his Détail de la France (first published in 1695), can be taken as a sign that eventually, in the course of the eighteenth century, pre-eminence in political economy would pass to France - before subsequently being assumed by Scotland. As regards France, the title of the definitive edition of Boisguilbert's writings (1966) is well justified: Pierre de Boisguilbert: où la naissance de l'économie politique ...... Boisguilbert regarded the economic situation of France as one of disastrous decline and widespread poverty, and he began to study, with mounting passion, the causes and policies in the preceding decades which had brought this about. The depression seemed to have been specially severe in agriculture, which had suffered from Colbert's policy of favouring industrial development. Whether or not his alarming assessment of France's economic decline was correct, Boisguilbert, in seeking to analyse and establish the causes of what had happened, made general, theoretical and conceptual contributions of fundamental importance, including, among others, such monetary, or macro-economic, concepts, clearly though precisely formulated as: the propensity to consume or save, the velocity of circulation, the state of confidence, the expectations of businessmen, multiplying or cumulative effects, and, especially, the fundamental notion of equilibrium (Hutchison, T., Before Adam Smith. The Emergence of Political Economy 1662-1776, pp. 107-115). Boisguilbert was 'chiefly preoccupied with the problem of French fiscal policy and nearly as fact-minded as was Vauban, he differed from the latter not only in the much wider scope of his interests but also in the fact that he was theoretically articulate - perhaps more so than any other writer before Cantillon' (Schumpeter, p. 215 note). 'Boisguilbert is largely remembered as a precursor of the Physiocrats and as the economist whom Marx linked with Petty as marking the start of classical political economy. His influence was undoubtedly more extensive: much of Cantillon's circular flow analysis appears inspired by his work; while Roberts in his Boisguilbert, Economist of the Reign of Louis XIV, (1935) argues for considerable similarity between his fundamental economic ideas and some of Adam Smith's' (New Palgrave, i, p. 259). EUR 1500
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(BOISSEL, F.) Le cathéchisme du Genre Humain, dénoncé par le ci-devant évêque de Clermont, à la Séance du 3 novembre 1789..... avec deux adresses à la Nation Françoise l'une en faveur de sa Constitution ..... l'autre contre les principales institutions de son nouveau régime ..... 2e éd., revue et corrigée et augmentée. A Paris 1792. - (Followed by:) ADRESSE à la Nation Françoise. (Drop-head title). No place, no date (Paris, EDHIS, 1967). Two works in one volume. (2), vi, 240 pp.; 40 pp. 8vo. Boards. Reprint of this rare and important work in a limited and numbered edition of 500 copies. The best edition of this most important socialist work, containing the 'Plan de cadastre de Babeuf' which had been published at the beginning of the great Revolution, Boissel proposes a plan of reformation aiming to perfect equality and community of men. A social philosophy severely criticising institutions and customs, and suggesting a complete change through education which should be available for all and denouncing property, marriage and religion as oppressive and as the cause of inequality. EUR 150
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(BONNAUD, J.-J.) Discours à lire au Conseil, en présence du Roi, par un ministre patriote, Sur le projet d'accorder l'État Civil aux Protestans. No place, 1787. 2 parts in 1 volume. 208, (4), 209-332, lxxv, (1, blank) pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt (covers slightly worn). De Backer & Sommervogel, i, 1731, nr 4; INED 617; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. - The last 75 pages contain the 'Pièces Justificatives'. The present work is a famous attack on the reformed religions. The Duchesse de Noailles devoted much time and energy in distributing the work, so much energy and time that the book has also been called the Mémoire de Madame de Noailles.'Ce qu'ont fait les protestants avant la révolution de l'Édit de Nantes, ce qu'ils ont fait depuis, et ce qu'ils feraient dans les circonstances actuelles si le gouvernement sanctionnait leur état. Conclusion: il serait extrêmement dangereux pour la France de réhabiliter le protestantisme. L'absence des Huguenots, d'ailleurs, ne nuit aucunement à la population ou à l'économie' (INED). Bonnaud (Jacques-Julien according to INED, Jean Baptiste according to Larousse) was born in America in 1740. He fell under the protection of de Marbeuf after having published the present work, was appointed 'grand vicaire' of Lyon and was later given the task of the administration of the diocese of de Marbeuf. Bonnaud published more works in all of which he attacked the revolutionary principles. He was arrested in August 1792 and perished in the September massacres of 1792. EUR 600
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(BORDELON, L.) Entretiens serieux et comiques des cheminées de Paris. A Paris, Chez Prault, 1712. 22 pp. 12mo. Modern boards. Conlon, Prélude, 16218. First edition. The Abbé Laurent was a polygraph, a number of his works deals with philosophy and religion.This is the original edition of a work later expanded with another 8 dialogues and published in 1736 (see D.J. Adams, Bibliographie d'ouvrages français en form de dialogue, 1700-1715, 224).This orignal edition contains four dialogues in which the habits and customs of the period are discussed.At the end two pages with a list of books 'qui se vendent en la même Boutique.' EUR 250
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(BOUREAU DESLANDES, A.F.) Essay sur la marine et sur le commerce. No place, 1743. 176 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands (somewhat rubbed and shaved, small defects to covers.) Polak 1130; Sabin 19744 (English translation only); Alden & Landis 743/67; JFBL D200 (Amsterdam edition from the same year); Conlon 43:288; Kress 4651; Goldsmith 7971; Einaudi 661; INED 737. First edition, one of two different editions; there is also one published at Amsterdam, chez François Changuion, same year, in 189 pages. No priority established. - A few pages with a faint waterstain in upper half, tear in page 47-48 touching some letters but not affecting legibility. 'Place tenue par la marine chez les peuples de l'antiquité et en France depuis le commencement de la monarchie. "La Marine soutenue par l'autorité royale doit servir à protéger le commerce, à l'étendre, à lui donner chaque jour de nouveau accroissemens, et (....) le commerce doit servir à introduire l'abondance et toute sorte de richesses dans le royaume, à le rendre aussi puissant qu'il peut être." Critique de luxe, éloge des manufactures: l'une des plus graves conséquences de la révocation de l'Edit de Nantes fut le départ d'ouvriers, il faudrait imiter Edouard IV qui fit venir en Angleterre des ouvriers spécialisés' (INED).Includes interesting details relating to America, particularly the design of Cromwell to become possessor of that country, the expedition of Thomas Gage, etc. Also pleading for the introduction of foreign specialists into France to stimulate industry and trade. The author is also listed under Deslandes in several reference works. EUR 600
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(BRISSOT DE WARVILLE, J.P.) Point de banqueroute, ou Lettres à un créancier de l'Etat, sur l'impossibilité de la banqueroute nationale, et sur les moyens de ramener le crédit et la paix. Londres, 1787. - (Followed by:) (BRISSOT DE WARVILLE, J.P.) Point de banqueroute, ou Lettre à un créancier de l'Etat, sur les conséquences de la révocation des deux impôts, relativement à la dette nationale. Seconde partie. Paris, Rue du Bacq, à côté de la Grille des Jacobins, 1787. 2 works in 1 volume. (2), 58 pp.; 111 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering, gilt stamped liberty cap on back. Kress B.1170; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; INED 821; Martin & Walter 5205 (refers to three different edition without giving details.) First edition. Later in the year these letters were published with the addition of two more letters, while earlier in the same year the first letter had been published separately. 'Eloquente condamnation de la banqueroute. Nécessité de réunir les Etats généraux. Point de banqueroute, pas d'impôts et la France est sauvée. Examen du mémoire de Calonne' (Stourm). Includes references to America. In 1787 three different editions were published: the first letter only; all 4 letters; and the present work, containing the first two letters.Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville was an aspiring philosophe before the revolution who had published several books advocating various political and humanitarian reforms. During the revolution he rose to fame and influence. His rise from an impoverished and little-known writer to one of the most important politicians in Revolutionary France is remarkable. He deserves praise for his commitment to liberty and political equality, for his abolitionist and humanitarian causes, and for his political talents in leading the Girondins. EUR 600
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(BROUSSE, M.) Lettre d'un Religieux, envoyée à Monseigneur le Prince de Condé, à S. Germain en Laye. Contenant la verité de la vie & moeurs du Cardinal Mazarin: Avec exhortation audit Seigneur Prince d'abandonner son party. A Paris, Chez Rolin de la Haye, 1649. 11, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards. Moreau 1895; Welsh, Second Checklist, 1151. First edition. - Top margins cut short. EUR 175
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(BROUSSE.) Le vray Courtisan sans flaterie, Qui déclare ce que c'est que l'Authorité Royale. Revueu & corrigé pour la seconde Edition. A Paris, Chez la veuve d'Anthoine Coulon, 1649. 16 pp. 4to. Modern boards, label with gilt lettering. Moreau 4067; not in Welsh. Second edition. Against absolute royal power: 'l'auteur conclut ..... que les rois ne sont pas libres de tout faire, et qu'ils ont au-dessus d'eux la raison, la nature et le christianisme' (Moreau). EUR 175
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(CAPMARTIN DE CHAUPY, B.) Observations sur le refus que fait le Chastelet de reconnoître la Chambre Royale. En France, 1754. (2), 258 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering. Conlon 54:522; Catalogue de l'Histoire de France, v, p. 242, 2610. First edition. - Small stain in upper margin of title-page and first few pages, copy with wide margins, rare. Bertrand Capmartin de Chaupy (1720-1798) shows himself in this work 'le champion de l'autorité la plus absolue' (Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, vii, p. 1070.) EUR 600
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(CARNEY, DE.) Devis général pour la construction des nouveaux chemins. Du 20 Juin 1742. (Drop-head title). No place, (1742). - (Followed by:) (CARNEY, DE). Devis général de l'entretien deschemins de la sénéchaussée de Carcassonne. Du 20 Janvier 1744. (Drop-head title). No place, (1744). 2 pieces bound in 1 volume. 22 unnumbered pp.; 16 unnumbered pp. 4to. Modern boards. Both works not in Conlon; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Both texts are signed at the end 'De Carney'. - A waterstain throughout in the inner and the outer blank margins. Deals with the roads from Carcassonne to Narbonne, Narbonne to Béziers, Béziers to Pézenas, and from Narbonne to Roussillon and are remarkably detailed concerning the construction specifications. EUR 175
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(CASTEL) DE SAINT-PIERRE, (CH.I.) Discours sur la Polysynodie, où l'on démontre Que la Polysynodie, ou pluralité des Conseils, est la forme de Ministère la plus avantageuse pour un Roi, & pour son Royaume. Par M. l'Abbé de Saint Pierre, ci-devant de l'Académie Françoise. A Amsterdam, Chez du Villard & Changuion, 1719. Title printed in red and black, with a charming vignette. 265, (6, Table des Matières), (13, publisher's catalogue) pp. 12mo. Near contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands and red label with gilt lettering. Einaudi 931; Peignot, ii, p. 109; Cioranescu 58697; no copies in NUC. Second and augmented edition. In this very rare and important work Castel de Saint-Pierre proposes that enlightened despotism (which he favored) be tempered by a complex system of councils; an important feature of the system was to be a political academy of forty experts, who should be appointed by the king upon nomination by the heads of the great corporations -magistracy, clergy and nobility- and who should in turn recommand candidates for the principal state offices, in addition to studying all political questions. This government, which Castel called 'aristomonarchy', would both deny any political role to the masses and strictly limit the functions of the hereditary nobility, to whom the abbé was hostile.At the time of publication the book was considered to be 'une attaque insultante contre le feu roi.' The Académie française was outraged and the abbé was excluded from this illustrious body without him being given the opportunity to explain the contents of his book. The first edition was printed in a very limited number of copies only, and this second edition was published after the expulsion of Castel de Saint-Pierre from the Académie française: the title-page states that the author was 'formerly of the Académie Françoise.'In fact this book proposes a decentralized system of government, a theory close to those held by the Duc de Bourgogne and his circles and announcing Montesquieu.Contains furthermore the two letters to M. de Sacy concerning Castel de Saint-Pierre's expulsion from the Académie Française. De Sacy was in fact one of the few supporters of Saint-Pierre in the Academy. EUR 2500
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(CHAMOUSSET, CL. H. PIARRON DE.) Vues d'un Citoyen. A Paris, Chez Lambert, 1757 (Paris, EDHIS, 1970). 2 volumes in one. (8), 239, (1) pp.; (6), 277, (5) pp. 12mo. Imitating a contemporary binding in full calf, spine gilt in compartments, labels with gilt lettering, red edges. INED 3575; Kress S.4093; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Higgs 1500. Reprint of the very rare first edition of this important work. The reprint has been published in a limited and numbered edition of 250 copies and 30 destined not for the trade and is since long out-of-print. This work contains the Mémoires sur la conservation des enfants, Plan d'une maison d'association avec addition et éclaircissements, and the Plan général pour l'administration des hopitaux. All of these were separately published in previous years and are described in detail in INED, nrs 3572-3574.In one of the memoirs dealing with foundlings the author outlines a plan to diminish the mortality-rate and improve their lot by suggesting that these children should be put to work in the colonization of Louisiana.Chamousset was one of the most eminent personalities of the 18th-century where the fight against pauperism and mendicity is concerned. He devoted his entire life, his social position and the considerable means at his disposal to the improvement of the conditions of the workers, the relief of the disabled, the sick and the poor, he tranformed his house into a hospital where the sick of both sexes were received and helped for free and where they received compensation for the losses suffred from their illness and its treatment once they were cured and left. He was the first who had the idea of founding mutual aid societies where the workers, paying a small weekly fee, were granted first class medical help in case of illness: He is understandably credited with being the precursor of the Friendly Society in his conception of the Maison d'association. EUR 250
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(CHAMPLAIR.) L'Ami de la Concorde, ou Essai sur les motifs d'éviter les procès et sur les Moyens d'en tirer la source. Par un Avocat au Parlement. Londres, 1765. With engraved folding frontispiece, mounted on a stub. 102 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Conlon 65:649. First edition. Divided into two parts: the first explains the legal procedures before the courts, the risks, the cost, etc., and in the second part the author proposed means to dimish the number of trials, by way of instruction of youth. - Very lightly browned, small repair to outer blank margin of title-page. EUR 225
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(CHAUDON, L.M.) Dictionnaire anti-philosophique, Pour servir de Commentaire & de Correctif au Dictionnaire Philosophique, & autres Livres qui ont paru de nos jours contre le Christianisme: Ouvrage Dans lequel on donne en abrégé les preuves de la Religion, & la Réponse aux objections de ses Adversaires; Avec La notice des principaux Auteurs qui l'ont attaqué, & l'apologie des Grands Hommes qui l'ont défendu. Nouvelle Édition considérablement augmentée. Par Monsieur ***. A Avignon, Chez La Veuve Girard & François Seguin, Antoine Aubanel, 1769. Two volumes. xxxii, 288 pp.; 256 pp. 8vo. Contemporary blind grey wrappers, spine with very small loss. Cioranescu 18828 (first edition of one volume only). Second and largely augmented edition. One of the more interesting works against Voltaire's Dictionnaire Philosophique which provoked many refutations. The author, Louis-Mayeul Chaudon, was a representative of what is called 'le rationalisme pieux'. - Entirely uncut, some quires browned, quire G & H in volume 2 interchanged, title printed within a nice printed border. EUR 650
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(CHAUVELIN, H.P.) Examen impartial des immunités ecclésiastiques, contenant les maximes du droit public et les faits historiques qui y ont rapport. Londres (Paris?), 1751. 3 parts in 1 volume. (6), 112 pp.; 175 pp.; 171 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt fillet on sides, marbled edges, spine somewhat rubbed, slightly damaged at head and foot. Stourm 81; Conlon 51:499; INED 1094 (one part only); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. Judicial and historical work dealing with Machault's plans to tax the ecclesiastical properties. The clergy maintained that they were exempt from tax and that whatever they paid was a voluntary gift. Chauvelin maintains that the clergy can not be exempt from taxes if the king thinks he ought to ask a contribution from them. The issue was hotly debated at the time, as the long list of works cited by Stourm shows. EUR 400
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(CHICANEAU DE NEUVILLE, D.P.) Dictionnaire philosophique ou Introduction à la connoissance de l'homme. Londres (Paris), 1751. (4), iv, 381, (1) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, a bit rubbed. Conlon 51:503; Weller, ii, p. 129; Schosler, p. 210. First edition, undoubtedly printed in France. According to the entry in Michaud, Vauvenargues, Duclos, d'Alembert and Trublet were among those who supplied material for this dictionary. It is arranged in alphabetical order and deals with all the subjects relative to man, morals, happiness, politics, vices and virtues, pleasures and passions, the qualities of heart and mind, etc., in short, those subjects which either oppose or contribute to our happiness and well-being.Didier Pierre Chicaneau de Neuville was born into a noble family and had a long and varied career, was among others inspector of the booktrade in Nîmes, and became professor of history at the Collège Royal in Toulouse. EUR 800
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(CHOISEUL, E.F. DE.) Mémoire historique Sur la négociation de la France & de l'Angleterre, depuis le 26 Mars 1761 jusqu'au 20 Septembre de la même année, avec les Pièces justificatives. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1761. (2), iv, 194 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, joint with short split at head and foot, lightly rubbed, extremities slightly shaved. Sabin 47516; Howes M.507; JFBL C309; Conlon 61:583; Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, 230. First edition. A document of great importance, being an important beginning to the negociations which later resulted in the British securing much of North America. Deals also with Treaty of Paris which ended the French-Indian War, the cession of Canada, limits of Louisiana, Cape Breton, etc.Choiseul, Comte de Stainville and later Duc de Choiseul, had served as ambassador in Rome and in Vienna when he was appointed Secretary for War in 1761 and two years later Secretary for Marine. He was therefore the statesman who directed France through the closing scenes of the Seven Years War. A man of energy and ability, he could not save his country from defeat, but at least he perceived the defects of her military and naval organisation, defects which he did much to remedy. It was mainly by his reforms that France proved such a formidable adversary in the War of the American Revolution. -With small library stamp (Bib. du Dist. d'Amiens) on the title-page. EUR 750
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(CLEMENT DE BOISSY, A.A.) Le maire du palais. No place, 1771. 124 pp. Small 8vo. Modern boards. Conlon 71:798. First edition. 'Athanase AlexandreClément de Boissy (1716-1793), conseiller à la Chambre des comptes, érudit, théologien' (Lalanne, Dictionnaire historique de la France, i, p. 540). Discusses political power in relation to the contemporary discussions concerning the parlements and the influence of royal advisers. EUR 200
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(CLICQUOT DE BLERVACHE, S.) Le Réformateur. A Amsterdam, Chez Arkstée & Merkus (Paris), 1756. With 1 folding table. 2 volumes in 1. xxxiii, (4), 240 pp.; vii, 268 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt double fillets on sides with gilt flower designs in the corners, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, marbled edges. INED 1141; Higgs 1476; Einaudi 1137; Weulersse, Mouvement physiocratique, i, xxv; not in Kress. First edition. 'Cliquot de Blervache, s'inspirant de quelques-unes des considérations qui avaient dicté à Vauban son projet de Dîme Royale, et à Boulainvilliers son plan de réforme financière, pose en principe 'que ce qui est le plus simple approche le plus de la perfection', et prétend réduire tous les impôts à deux au plus' (Weulersse, ii, p. 348). The attribution is still uncertain. See: J. de Vroil, Étude sur Cliquot de Bervache, p. xxxiii. EUR 750
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(CONSIDERANT, V.) Bases de la politique positive. Manifeste de l'Ecole Sociétaire fondé par Fourier. Deuxième édition. Paris, Bureau de la Phalange, 1842. 218, 45 (publisher's catalogue) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary cloth, label with gilt lettering, original covers preserved. Del Bo, Fourier, p. 12; Einaudi 1240; Goldsmiths 33064; not in Kress. Second edition, first published in 1841. Victor Considérant was a French political and economic theorist whose principal work was to clarify, popularize and apply specifically to the problems of his day the doctrine of Charles Fourier, whose best advocate he remains. EUR 400
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(COSTAZ, C.A.) Corps de marchands et communautés d'arts et métiers. A Paris, Imprimerie de Madame Huzard, 1821. 23, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards, morocco label with giltlettering. Kress C.696; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. Claude-Anthelme Costaz was one of the founders, in 1802, of the Society for the Encourement of National Industry (Société pour l'encouragement de l'industrie nationale.) He was also the one commissioned to produce statistical tables concerning manufactures and industry. He produced three of them which showed the situation and its development with the dates 1789, 1800 and 1812 as the three different points of measurement and comparison. The present text is 'en grande partie, extrait d'un ouvrage que j'ai publié, il y a environ quatre ans, sur l'Administration de l'agriculture, du commerce, des arts, des manufactures, et des subsistances. Lorsque je le rédigeai, je ne prévoyais pas que la France touchait au moment où l'on demanderait le rétablissement des corps de marchands et des communautés d'arts et métiers' (Avertissement). EUR 150
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(COURTILZ DE SANDRAS, G. DE.) Nouveaux intérêts des princes de l'Europe, revûs, corrigés & augmentés par l'auteur, selon l'état où les affaires s'y trouvent aujourd'hui. Seconde édition. Cologne, Pierre Marteau (La Haye, van Bulderen), 1686. Sphere on title. (20), 519, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary polished calf, spine gilt with raised bands, somewhat worn and rubbed, short split at foot and top of front cover. Bourgeois & André 3027; Sauvy, Livres saisis à Paris, 218. Second edition. 'L'auteur a pris pour modèle l'ouvrage du duc de Rohan, Les intérêts et maximes des princes et états de l'Europe, dont il donne des extraits dans la seconde partie de son livre et auquel il ajoute ses remarques personnelles. Il se montre l'adversaire de l'empereur Léopold Ier et du duc Charles de Lorraine. Sans doute il y a beaucoup de verbiage dans cet ouvrage: toutefois, celui qui l'a écrit ne mérite pas d'être rangé (.....) 'parmi les auteurs de troisième ordre, nés pour être les singes des grands écrivains'' (Bourgeois & André). The Habsburg King Leopold had given refuge to Charles de Lorraine whose territory (Lorraine) was occupied by the French. At the court of Leopold he distinguished himself in various military campaigns, notably against the Turkish armies.'Parfois élogieux pour Louis XIV, l'auteur prend fermement position contre la révocation de l'Edit de Nantes' (Sauvy). - Name and scribbling on title. EUR 350
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(COYER, G. FR.) Lettre à une jeune dame, nouvellement mariée. (Drop-head title). (Paris), 7 août 1749. - (Followed by:) REPONSE d'une jeune dame angloise, nouvellement mariée à Paris, à M. l'abbé C*** (Coyer). (Drop-head title). (Paris), 15 september 1749. 2 pieces. 8 pp. and 8 pp. 4to. Loose in folded leaves. INED 1228 (the first piece); Conlon 49:449 & 260. First editions. Coyer's text was reprinted later in his Bagatelles morales. It is a critical satire on French usages and customs in marriage and includes an indirect criticism of luxury: 'si on bornoit le luxe, les maisons et les empires subsisteroient trop longtemps. On s'ennuye à à voir toujours les mêmes choses.'The second piece is a satyrical reply to the first. EUR 250
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(COYER, G.F.) Chinki, histoire cochinchinoise, qui peut servir à d'autres pays. Londres, 1768. 96 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Goldsmiths 10389 (other issue); Einaudi 1382; Higgs 4327;INED 1225; Weulersse, i, p. xxvi; not in Kress; not in Mattioli. First edition. The most important criticism on the Corps des Arts et Métiers before the reforms of Turgot. Cochinchina stands for France, Chinki for the French peasant, whose work is the most favourable to the nation, but who is ruined by the taxes. The author also recommends the emancipation of the Jews. With this subject is dealt with at length in chapter 21, where the Jews are called 'Banians'. At the time the work was also attributed to Voltaire and Clicquot de Blervache. EUR 500
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(CREQUY, C.M. DE.) Résultat des Assemblées Provinciales, à l'usage des Etats d'une Province. Bruxelles (Chartres), 1788. (8), 174, (2) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Renouvin, Assemblées provinciales, 235; Goldsmiths 13526; not in INED; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli; not in Granier; not in Dada. First edition, very rare. 'Le seul résumé commode que les contemporains aient pu avoir entre les mains' (Renouvin). Survey of reports and results of the provincial assemblees in various provinces during the years 1778-1788, divided into the various subjects dealt with, such as: impositions - cadastre - grandes routes - commerce & manufactures - agriculture - mendicité - projets de bien public - etc.The author deals with economics and administration in a reforming spirit, close to the physiocratic ideas. Deals also with taxes, commerce, manufactures, agriculture, mendicity and public assistance.According to Goldsmiths the 'province' is Artois. EUR 750
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(CRUCE, E.P. OU EMERI DE LACROIX.) Le nouveau Cynée. öu discours des occasions et moyens d'establir une paix générale et la liberté du commerce par tout le monde. A Paris, Chez J. Villery, 1623 (Paris, EDHIS, 1976). (12), 226, (16) pp. 8vo. Imitation leather. Goldsmiths' 529. The work is very rare: Van den Dungen counts fewer than a dozen copies known worldwide. Reprint of this extremely rare and important work, published in a limited editon of 150 numbered copies and 30 copies not destined for the trade and since long out-of-print. Le Nouveau Cynée 'is, in essence, an early plea for the settlement of international disputes by means of arbitration. It is also a condemnation of war on rational rather than religious grounds. 'Mit seinem Nouveau Cynée begründete Emeric Crucé den modernen Pazifismus ... So war Crucé der erste, der ein wirklich universelles Friedenssystem verfasste' (almost 100 years before the Abbé de Saint-Pierre's Projet pour rendre la Paix perpetuelle en Europe) writes Ter Meulen in his famous work; his colleague Christian Lange confirms this in his equally well-known study where he calls Crucé 'le prémier internationaliste véritable'. More recently, Hinsley had written that Crucé's book was, 'in the records of modern history, the first proposal for an international organization that was also a proposal for maintaining peace'.'This little work, in short, is of major significance in the history of peace writings, particularly as regards the idea of international organization. There is thus little cause for surprise to find that the two most famous collections of peace literature that exist possess a copy of it. Neither should it cause surprise to learn that a further two copies ... are to be found in two equally famous collections, this time of economic literature (the Seligman Collection at Columbia and the Goldsmiths' Collection at London). For Crucé is not only considered an early advocate of international arbitration, but equally the founder of the free trade doctrine in France ... To facilitate and increase international commerce he proposes the introduction of one currency in Europe, and one system of weights and measures, and the joining together of seas and waterways. Crucé insisted that the economic interests of nations were in peace, rather than war, but this would only become the accepted dogma of political economy one hundred and fifty years later, when Adam Smith published the Wealth of Nations ... One of the reasons commonly suggested of the long obscurity which befell this book is precisely its striking originality. Contemporaries hardly took note of the book, as its thesis appeared too unconventional, and the author's proposal unrealistic and utopian ... His patience bore fruit, (however,) and he is now regarded as the 'véritable précurseur du libéralisme moderne, ... sans doute le premier écrivain qui ait entrevu le rapport intime entre le commerce et la paix'. This estimate indicates that the absence of Crucé's work in the major collections on the history of economic literature might constitute a serious gap' (Peter van den Dungen, The Hidden History of a Peace "Classic": Emeric Crucé's Le Nouveau Cynée, p. 27ff). EUR 225
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(D'OLIVIER, P.) Discours sur l'abus des dévotions populaires, prononcé en 1777, par P** D'O****, alors vicaire d'une petite paroisse située dans les montagnes d'Auvergne. No place, 1788. 56 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering to spine, marbled boards. Martin & Walter 10867; Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799, i, p. 324. First edition. Courageous opposition against so-called miracles and superstitious devotion towards Saints. As all the publications of the future 'enragé', of great rarity.Pierre Dolivier was an advocate of extensive social reform. Denouncing suffrage based on property ownership, he appealed for social equality in the future, writing: "I wish that in its social policy the state establish a just equality of means so that each member can attain the full enjoyment of every right that is due him' (Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799, i, p. 324.) EUR 375
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(DARIGRAND, E.F.) L'anti-financier, ou relevé de quelques-unes des malversations dont se rendent journellement coupables les Fermiers-Généraux, & des vexations qu'ils commettent dans les Provinces: servant de réfutation d'un écrit intitulé: Lettre servant de Réponse aux remonstrances du Parlement de Bordeaux. Précédée d'une épitre au Parlement de France, accompagnée de notes historiques. A Amsterdam, (Paris, Lambert), 1763. (2), 130 (misnumbered 230) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, red edges. Kress 6086; Kress S.4296; Goldsmiths 9873; INED 1276; Higgs 3017, all citing other 8vo editions. Published in the same year as the first issue of the first edition but without the Réponse aux objets des remonstrances du Parlement de Bordeaux, which was included in the second issue of the first edition. - Lacks the half title and frontispiece, if printed. In this vehemently work, the 'Fermiers-Généraux' were accused of corruption. It caused the imprisonment of it's author, the printer (Lambert) and distributor (Ormancey) in the Bastille. Four years after its publication the book was still sold secretly at high prices. EUR 225
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(DARIGRAND, E.F.) L'anti-financier, ou relevé de quelques-unes des malversations dont se rendent journellement coupables les Fermiers-Généraux, & des vexations qu'ils commettent dans les Provinces: servant de réfutation d'un écrit intitulé: Lettre servant de Réponse aux remonstrances du Parlement de Bordeaux. Précédée d'une épitre au Parlement de France, accompagnée de notes historiques. A Amsterdam (Paris, Lambert), 1763. With engraved allegorical frontispiece. - (Bound with:) SUPPLEMENT à l'anti-financier ou exposé de quelques nouveaux abus commis par les employés dans la partie des domaines & contrôles. (Drop-head title). No place, (1763). Together 2 volumes in 1. (4), 100 pp.; (2), 26 pp. 8vo. Modern half vellum, labelwith gilt lettering. First work: Kress 6086; Goldsmiths 9873; INED 1276; Higgs 3017; Peignot I, 90-92; Weulersse I, xxvi. Second issue of the first edition, including at the end the Réponse aux objects des remonstrances du Parlement de Bordeux, which was not included in the first issue. In this vehemently work, the 'Fermiers-Généraux' were accused of corruption. It caused the imprisonment of the author, the printer (Lambert) and the distributor (Ormancey) in the Bastille. Four years after its publication the book was still sold secretly at high prices. Verso half-title contains the "explication" of the frontispiece. Second work: not in Kress; Goldsmiths 10025; Higgs 3018; INED 4797.According to Goldsmiths this is not by Darigrand, but a reply to Darigrand's work. EUR 475
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(DARIGRAND, E.F.) L'anti-financier, ou relevé de quelques-unes des malversations dont se rendent journellement coupables les Fermiers-Généraux, & des vexations qu'ils commettent dans les Provinces: servant de réfutation d'un écrit intitulé: Lettre servant de Réponse aux remonstrances du Parlement de Bordeaux. Précédée d'une épitre au Parlement de France, accompagnée de notes historiques. A Amsterdam (Paris, Lambert), 1763. With frontispiece. - (Bound with:) (DARIGRAND, E.F.) L'antropophagie, ou les antrophages. A Amsterdam, 1764. With engraved allegorical frontispiece. Together 2 volumes in 1. (4), 100 pp.; 37 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. First work: Kress 6086; Goldsmiths 9873; INED 1276; Higgs 3017; Peignot, i, 90-92; Weulersse, i, xxvi; not in Einaudi (listing the 1764 edition). Second issue of the first edition, including at the end the Réponse aux objects des remonstrances du Parlement de Bordeaux, which was not included in the first issue. In this vehemently work, the 'Fermiers-Généraux' were accused of corruption. It caused the imprisonment of the author, the printer and the distributor (Ormancey) in the Bastille. Four years after its publication the book was still sold secretly at high prices. The half-title gives verso an explanation of the frontispiece.Second work: Kress S.4328; not in Goldsmiths; INED 4546; not in Higgs; not in Einaudi.Satirical poem against the taxfarmers (see at length: INED) of which Darigrand was supposed to have been the author. EUR 450
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(DARIGRAND, E.F.) L'anti-financier, ou relevé de quelques-unes des malversations dont se rendent journellement coupables les Fermiers-Généraux, & des vexations qu'ils commettent dans les Provinces: servant de réfutation d'un écrit intitulé: Lettre servant de Réponse aux remonstrances du Parlement de Bordeaux. Précédée d'une épitre au Parlement de France, accompagnée de notes historiques. Amsterdam, (Paris, Lambert), 1763. With engraved frontispiece. (4), 100 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Kress 6086; Goldsmiths 9873; INED 1276; Higgs 3017; not in Einaudi (listing the 1764 edition). Second issue of the first edition, inlcuding at the end the Réponse aux objets des remonstrances du Parlement de Bordeaux, which was not included in the first issue. In this vehemently work, the 'Fermiers-Généraux' were accused of corruption. It caused the imprisonment of the author, the printer (Lambert) and the distributor (Ormancey) in the Bastille. Four years after its publication the book was still sold secretly at high prices. EUR 375
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(DARIGRAND, E.F.) L'anti-financier, ou relevé de quelques-unes des malversations dont se rendent journellement coupables les Fermiers-Généraux, & des vexations qu'ils commettent dans les Provinces: servant de réfutation d'un écrit intitulé: Lettre servant de Réponse aux remonstrances du Parlement de Bordeaux. Précédée d'une épitre au Parlement de France, accompagnée de notes historiques. A Amsterdam, (Paris, Lambert), 1763. With frontispiece. - (Bound with:) SUPPLEMENT à l'anti-financier ou exposé de quelques nouveaux abus commis par les employés dans la partie des domaines & contrôles. No Place, (1763?). - (Bound with:) REPONSE à l'auteur de l'antifinancier. A La Haye, 1764. Together 3 volumes in 1. (4), 60, 107, (1) pp.; (2), 26 pp.; 24 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, red edges, lightly worn, some spots. First work: Kress 6086; Goldsmiths 9873; INED 1276; Higgs 3017; Conlon 63:751. First issue of the first edition. In this vehemently written work, the fermiers-généraux were accused of corruption. It caused the author's imprisonment in the Bastille. The volume was printed by Lambert and distributed by Ormancy, who also were arrested. Four years after its publication the book was still sold secretly at high prices. Second work: Not in Kress; Goldsmiths 10025; Higgs 3018; INED 4797; Conlon 63:752.First edition.According to Goldsmiths this is not by Darigrand, but a reply to Darigrand's work, INED also believes this work to be written by another, anonymous, author, Conlon lists it under Darigrand.Third work: Not in Kress; Goldsmiths 10020; Higgs 3268; INED 4778; Conlon 64:441.First edition.Loosely inserted: ARRET de la cour du parlement de Rouen, qui ordonne que la brochure intitulée: Réponse à l'auteur de l'anti-financier, fera lacerée & brulé par l'exécuteur de la Haute-Justice, au pied du grand escalier de palais; enjoint à ceux qui en auroient des exemplaires, de les apporter au Greffe de la Cour, pour y être pareillement lacérés & brulés, &c. Du 9 Avril 1764. (Drop-head title). A Rouen, Chez J.J. le Boullenger, (1764).Not in Kress; Goldsmiths 10017; Higgs 3252. EUR 750
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(DARIGRAND, E.F.) L'anti-financier, ou relevé de quelques-unes des malversations dont se rendent journellement coupables les Fermiers-Généraux, & des vexations qu'ils commettent dans les Provinces: servant de réfutation d'un écrit intitulé: Lettre servant de Réponse aux remonstrances du Parlement de Bordeaux. Précédée d'une épitre au Parlement de France, accompagnée de notes historiques. A Amsterdam, (Paris, Lambert), 1763. With frontispiece. - (Followed by:) AIGUILLON, A.E. DE VIGNEROT-DUPLESSIS-RICHELIEU, DUC D'. Correspondance de Monsieur le Duc d'Aiguillon, au sujet de l'Affaire de M. le Comte de Guines & du Sieur Tort, & autres intéressés. Pendant les années 1771, 1772, 1773, 1774 & 1775. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Quillau, 1775. - (Followed by:) LETTRES à M. l'abbé Raynal sur l'Histoire de la Révocation de l'Edit de Nantes, qu'il se propose de publier. No place, 1782. - (Followed by:) (BONNER DE VALGUIER & MAISONVAL). Etat abrégé des loix, revenues, usages et productions de Grande-Bretagne. A Londres et se vend à Paris, Chez la veuve Delormel & Fils, 1757. Together 4 works bound in 1 volume. (4), 60, 107, (1) pp.; xxiv, 224 pp.; 109, (1) pp.; 57, (1) pp. and 1 table. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, gilt triple fillets on sides, red label with gilt lettering (very slightly worn). First work: Kress 6086-7; Goldsmiths 9873; INED 1276; Higgs 3017. First issue of the first edition. In this vehemently written work, the fermiers-généraux were accused of corruption. It caused the author's imprisonment in the Bastille. The volume was printed by Lambert and distributed by Ormancy, who also were arrested. Four years after its publication the book was still sold secretly at high prices.Second work: Not in Kress; Conlon 75:640 (claiming two volumes).First edition.Of importance for the history of the years preceding the Revolution.Third work: Conlon 82:401.First edition.Fourth work: INED 620; Conlon 57:547.First edition. EUR 750
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(DAVENNE, FR.) Factum de la sapience éternelle, & requeste remonstrative présentée au Parlement, &c. (Drop-head title). No place, (1652). 11, (1 blank) pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Moreau, Bibliographie des Mazarinades, 1361; not in Welsh. - A little browned. EUR 180
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(DELAUNAY.) Histoire d'un pou françois, ou l'espion d'une nouvelle espèce, tant en France qu'en Angleterre. Contenant les portraits de personnages intéressans dans ces deux Royaumes, &c.&c. Paris, 1781. With small title-vignette. 112 pp. 8vo. Sewn, contemporary blind cover, uncut. Sabin 32029; Echeverria & Wilkie 781/19; not in Fay; not in Leclerc; not in JFBL. Second edition, first published in 1779. An anti-U.S., anti-French squib with satires on Benjamin Franklin and on the U.S. Congress. 'A satire on the political affairs of the time, especially Franklin's mission to France' (Sabin). - Some unobtrusive spotting in margins. EUR 225
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(DELISLE DE SALES, J.B.C.; PSEUD. OF J.B. ISOARD.) De la philosophie de la nature, ou traité de la morale pour le genre humain, tiré de la philosophie et fondé sur la nature. Cinqième édition et la seule conforme au manuscritoriginal. A Londres, et se trouve dans la plûpart des capitales de l'Europe, 1789. With engraved frontispieceand 13 engraved plates. 7 volumes. (2), clxlii, 256 pp.; (2), 351 pp.; (2), 418 pp.; (2), 422 pp.; (2), 452 pp. (2), 419 pp.; (2), 413 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, title labels with gilt lettering, marbled boards. Peignot, Livres condamnés, i, pp. 96-98; Schosler p. 60; cf.: INED 1331; Darnton, The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France 1769-1789, 542. Fifth edition. The best and most complete editon of this work which forced the author into exile while his property was confiscated. The first edition was published in 1766 and caused a scandal. In it, he professed atheism, nihilism, and the work was condamned to be burnt. Deslisle fought the decision and was supported by the philosophes who championed him as the champion of freedom of thought. They organized a collection on behalf of his defence (to which Voltaire donated 500 livres) and although he was discharged by the Parlement he nevertheless fled to Ferney were 'Le Patriarche' urged him to go to Prussia (see at length: Belin, Le mouvement philosophique, pp. 301-306). EUR 800
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(DELISLE) DE SALES (PSEUD.OF J.B.C. ISOARD.) Examen Pacifique des Paradoxes d'un célèbre Astronome en faveur des Athées, Suivi d'un Essai Philosophique et Religieux, sur une nouvelle Cosmogonie. Par J. de Sales, .... No place, 1804. iv, 116 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gilt triple fillet on sides, spine gilt with title label with gilt lettering, slightly shaved, dark spot at bottom of front cover. Not in Martin & Walter; Cioranescu 22856. Only edition, very rare, published in a limited number of copies and not destined for the trade. Verso of half-title reads: Cet écrit, imprimé à un très-petit nombre d'exemplaires, n'est point destiné à être mis en vente par des Libraries: mais il sera donné à quelques hommes purs, qui, Philosophes sans le dire, s'honorent d'annoncer qu'ils ont une Religion. Directed against Sylvain Maréchal, l'Homme sans Dieu and author of the famous and libertarian Manifesto of the Equals and his Dictionnaire des Athées and against the famous Lalande who had published a Notice sur Sylvain Maréchal, avec des Supplémens pour le Dictionnaire des Athées. - Title somewhat spotted, throughout a faint stain in the upper blank margin. EUR 800
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(DELORMEL, J.) La Grande Periode, ou le retour de l'Age d'Or. Ouvrage dans lequel on trouve les causes des désordres passés, des espérances pour l'avenir, & le germe du meilleur plan de gouvernement ecclésiastique, civil et politique. Par M. D***. A Paris, Chez Blanchon, Et Belin, 1790. With one engraved plate and an explanatory leaf. (8), 453, (1, errata) pp. 8vo. Nineteenth-century half calf, marbled boards, raised bands with gilt lettering (spine somewhat discolored). Martin & Walter, 10024; Monglond, i, p. 829; Caillet 2959. First edition. The author, Jean Delormel, was lawyer and professor.'Parmi les initiés, nous trouvons Delormel que l'on a accusé d'avoir trahi les secrets dont il avait été instruit dans son rare and curieux ouvrage intitulé; la grande période solaire .... (the present work) et qui périt d'une mort tragique attribuée à une vengeance occulte' (Pezzani). C'est sans doute le seul ouvrage initiatique qui mette au grand jour la véritable doctrine ésotérique des mystères anciens' (Caillet). - Last leaf with loss of paper in blank lower outer corner. EUR 750
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(DEVENNE, F.) Souspirs François sur la paix Italienne. Iouxte la Copie imprimée à Anvers, 1649. 8 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Moreau 3710; Goldsmiths 1059; not in Kress. One of at least seven different issues of the same date. This is one with the I in capital, and more than the last three strophes on the last page. - Corner of page 3/4 torn away without loss of text. 'Pamphlet plein d'insolence et qui ne manque pas de poésie. Le Parlement supprima le pamphlet par arrêt; ce qui n'empècha pas qu'il n'en fût fait encore deux éditions augmentées, et qu'on n'en reproduisît trois strophes entières dans la Plainte de la France à genoux devant la reine' (Moreau). EUR 175
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(DIDEROT, D.) Pensées sur l'interpretation de la Nature. No place, 1754. - (Bound with:) (BOUGEANT, H.) Amusement philosophique sur la langage des Bestes. A Paris, Chez Gissey, Bordelet, Ganeau, 1739. Two works in one volume. (4), 99, (5, table) pp.; (2), 157, (5) pp. 12mo. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt spine with raised bands, sprinkled edges. First work: Adams PE4; Tchemerzine-Scheler, ii, 938; Le Bucher Bibliographique, 708; L'Illuminismo francese alla Fondazione Feltrinelli, 263; not in Thomas, Checklist. This edition is one of three published in 1754: the original edition, of which only two copies are known, was published in 1753. The text is identical with the "Londres" edition of the work (Adams PE3), and is most likely printed in the Netherlands. The title-page is followed by "Aux Jeunes-Gens Qui se disposent à l'étude de la Philosophie Naturelle", page 99 contains "Observation sur un endroit de la page 43". Provenance: B. Dumolin gilt stamped on front cover. This work is not only extremely rare, but also one of the most important - and least read - essays by Diderot. Although published anonymously the work was authorized. D'Hémery noted in his journal that the Pensées, 'attributed to Diderot', had been published with tacit permission, another interesting and representative example of Malesherbes policy of keeping the press as free as he could."The Pensées sur l'Interprétation de la nature is a short book devoted to taking stock of some of the current implications of the scientific method and was intended to be a handbook for the "philosophy", the new learning, of the day. (.....) The pages that followed opened up new points of view, sometimes by positive statements, sometimes by asking questions, sometimes by stating what Diderot labeled 'conjectures.' It was a book that suggested many of the most important problems in the philosophy of science, a tentative book sending out patrols along the frontiers of knowledge. For an extensive discussion of this important and rare work see: A.M. Wilson, Diderot, pp. 187-198.According to Jonathan Israel in his Radical Enlightenment (p. 711) Diderot tried to uncover the contradictions within Newtonianism, while reworking the concept "thinking matter" with its ultimate implication that "le monde peut être Dieu." '(......) discerning readers were left in no doubt, then or subsequently that Diderot's "God", as Sylvain Maréchal later expressed it, 'diffère peu de celui de Spinosa.'Second work: Conlon 39:350; Cioranescu 13210.First edition of Bougeant's provocative philosophical conceit written in response to Cartesian doctrine of the 'animal-machine', his satirical study of the language of animals. Bougeant proposed a parallel between animal sensibility and human folly. In his very telling criticism of the Cartesian doctrine and the prevailing alternatives, he concluded that the only solution, which would not threaten religion, was to grant souls to animals, but to consider these souls of demons or fallen angels inhabiting animal bodies as a punishment. This position allowed him to concede reason and true language to beasts. This publication caused widespread discussion, was translated into English and German, and brought him stern disciplinary measures from the church authorities. EUR 1200
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(DIERES). Mémoire en forme de consultation, présenté à Messieurs de l' Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres & Arts de Rouen, sur les effets de la Céruse dont font usage en Normandie plusieurs Particuliers, pour hater la façon de leurs Cidres. Suivi de la Réponse de l'Académie à cette question. A Rouen, Chez Et.-Vinc. Machuel, 1772. (2), 18 pp. 8vo. Sewn, contemporary chinz covers, uncut, edges frayed. Conlon 72:738. First edition. At the end an answer of the author on the reply by the Académie, signed 'Dieres'. EUR 175
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(DITTMER, A.D.A. & H.A. CAVE. PSEUD:) FONGERAY, M. DE. Les soirées de Neuilly, esquisses dramatiques et historiques. Ornées du portrait de l'éditeur et d'un fac similé de son écriture. Paris, Moutardier, 1827. With portrait (an overdrawn portrait of Stendhal) and 1 facsimile. 362, (1) pp. 8vo. Sewn, original printed covers, discoloured, uncut, internally clean and with large margins. Escoffier 652. First edition. The authors, working under the assumed collective name of Jacques Grivet de Fongeray, were collaborators of the Saint simonian Globe. Contains: Les alliés, ou l'invasion. - Une conspiration de province. - Les conversions. - Les Français en Espagne. The book is complete and ends with "Fin". But a year later a second volume was published, not anticipated when this volume was published: hence this volume does not carry a volume indication (the later published volume does). EUR 125
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(DU LAURENS, H.J.) L'Antipapisme révelé, ou les Rêves de l'Antipapiste. A Genève, Chez George Lapret, à l'Enseigne de la Mitre, 1767. xl, 128 pp. Small 8vo. Polished calf with gilt triple fillets on sides, spine in 6 compartments and gilt, dark brown morocco label with gilt lettering, gilt inside dentelles, binding signed Kohler. Peignot, vol. i, p. 119 and vol. ii, p. 209; Cioranescu 26456; Conlon 67:810. First edition, rare, condamned to destruction. The author, born in Douai in 1719, entered aged 16 the congregation of the Trinitaires. He left the order after a conflict with the Jesuits about certain thesis he upheld in public and edited, together with Grouber de Groubental a pamphlet against the Jesuits entitled Jésuitiques (1761). Grouber was sent to the Bastille and Dulaurens escaped to the Netherlands and from then on moved through Europe. In 1767 he was condamned (in absence) to lifelong imprisonment by the Ecclesiastical Chamber of Mayence because of his anti-religious and immoral writings. He had a 'esprit pétillant et sarcastique,' to the point where some of his writings were even attributed to Voltaire.'Moine défroqué, pamphlétaire, poète, romancier; toujours satirique et antireligieux, toujours persécuté, malheureux, proscrit, vagabond; ne cessant jamais de donner libre cours à son imagination féconde et à sa prodigieuse facilité' (Catalogue Viollet-le-Duc, ii, 100). - A lovely copy. EUR 1200
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(DU PERRON.) Nouveau Réglement pour la filature des soies. No place, no date (Lyon, 1774). - (Bound with:) DU PERRON. Programme de deux nouvelles Machines proposées au Ministre, par le Sieur Du Perron, Ingénieur des Mines, des Académies royales de Caën & de Rouen. No place, Année 1775. 2 works in 1 volume. 24 pp.; 4 pp. Small 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering. First work: Conlon 74:915; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Higgs; not in INED.Second work: Conlon 75:1003; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Higgs; not in INED. First editions. The 'Nouveau réglement' is followed by a large number of approbations showing the importance of the silk industry and its problems The texts are heavily underlined and annotated in the hand of Michel Adanson.- A very scarce text. The title-page contains the following text: 'Ce Mémoire n'a été imprimé que pour en rendre la lecture plus facile, & pour éviter la peine & la dépense des manuscrits. Tous les Exemplaires resteront entre les mains de l'Imprimeur, jusqu'à ce qu'il plaise au Ministre d'en permettre la publicité'. EUR 350
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(DU PLESSIS-MORNAY DE MARLI, P.) De la puissance légitime du prince sur le peuple, et du peuple sur le prince. Traité très-utile et digne de lecture en ce temps, escrit en Latin par Estienne Junius Brutus etnouvellement traduit en François. No place, 1581. 264 pp. 8vo. 19th-century Russian morocco, gilt ornamental border, gilt edges, top of sides a bit discoloured (Thouvenin). PMM 94; Adams L.151 (under Languet); Hauser 2220; Labitte, De la Démocratie chez les Prédicateurs de la Ligue, pp. 60-64; Weill, Les Théories sur le Pouvoir Royal en France pendant les Guerres de Religion, pp. 109-121; Méaly, Les Publicistes de la Réforme sous François II et Charles IX, pp. 221-247; not in BMSTC (French). First French edition, earlier published, in 1579, in Latin. The most influential and most radical of the Huguenot political works 'was the Vindiciae contra Tyrannos, which was published under a pseudonym in 1579. It may have been a collaborative work, but there is little doubt that Philippe Duplessis de Mornay was a major contributor, if not the sole author. He was a nobleman with a good education, who fought with Henry of Navarra and by 1576 was a major advisor to him. After 1594 he emerged as the elder statesman for the Huguenots. The Vindiciae consists of four questions and their answers. Are subjects bound to obey a prince if their orders contradict the law of God? The answer is, of course, no. Who may resist such a prince? The people as a whole, the officers of the people, but also a private person who has received a special call from God to save the people from a tyrant. The author then turns from religion to ask whether a prince who devastates the commonwealth can be resisted. His answer demonstrates that the people created the French monarchy and the officers of the kingdom, and the Estates general elect the king. There is a covenant between king and people in which the king pledges to rule justly. If he violates that pledge by bad law or overtaxation, the people or their officers can resist and depose him. The final question establishes that neighboring princes are obliged to aid the subjects of a prince who is a tyrant. There is in the Vindiciae a sense that France was a federation of communities, in which communities such as La Rochelle and Montauban were sovereign in their own right and contracted with the king to rule them. One of the most common accusations hurled at the Huguenots was that they intended to 'cantonnize' France in imitation of the Swiss Confederation; the Vindiciae provides some justification for the charge' (Frederic J. Baumgartner, France in the Sixteenth Century, p. 302).Sometimes it has been attributed to Th. de Bèze or to H. Languet, but Duplessis Mornay is now generally recognized as at least the auctor intellectualis. This first French version is generally preferred to the Latin edition. Together with Fr. Hotman the author is the first to put forward the question of a social contract. The translation is by Fr. Estienne. EUR 6000
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(DU PUY, P.) Histoire des plus illustres favoris anciens et modernes. Recueillie par feu Monsieur F.D.P. Avec un Iournal de ce qui s'est passé à la mort du Maréchal d'Ancre. Sur l'Imprimé A Leyde (Lyon), Chez Jean Elsevier, 1660. (16), 624 pp. 12mo. Modern calf, spine giltwith raised bands and red label, gilt outside dentelles. Willems 852; Gay-Lemonyer, ii, 545; BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700, P-62. Counterfeit edition of the original 1659-edition by Elzevier, Leyden. - Copy from the library of Bruno Monnier. EUR 350
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(DUBREUIL, S.) Hommage à la vérité, contre l'oppression, l'injustice, l'inhumanité et les rapines du Directoire et de ses représentans au Corps-législatif; ou second et dernier Appel à leurcruauté pour en obtenir la mort. Par une famille de rentiers et créanciers de l'Etat, réduite à l'agonie du désespoir par l'extrême besoin. (Drop-head title). No place, (1798). 47, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Martin & Walter, 11270; Tourneux, iv, 22565. One of three different editions, according to Martin and Walter, all published in the same year. Of Babouvist inspiration. The Dubreuil family had participated in the Babeuf conspiration. EUR 225
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(DUBREUIL, S.) Hommage à la vérité, contre l'oppression, l'injustice et les rapines du Directoire et de ses représentans au Corps-législatif; ou Appel à leur cruauté pour en obtenir la mort. Par une famille de rentiers et créanciers de l'Etat, réduite à l'agonie du désespoir par l'extrême besoin. (Drop-head title). No place, (1798). 71, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Martin & Walter, 11270; Tourneux, iv, 22565. One of three different editions (according to Martin & Walter) all published in the same year. Of Babouvist inspiration. The Dubreuil family had participated in the Babeuf conspiracy. EUR 300
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(DUBUAT DE NANCAY, L.G.) Les origines, ou l'ancien gouvernement de la France, de l'Allemagne, et de l'Italie: ouvrage historique, où l'on voit, dans leur origine, la Roïauté & ses attributs, la Nation & ses différentes Classes, les Fiefs & le Vasselage, les Dignitez, la Hierarchie, les Immunités Ecclésiastiques, & les Domaines; la Milice, la Chevalerie; la Justice Distributive; la Compétence des Tribunaux, leur Forme; les Parlements, les autres Cours Souveraines, les Etats Généraux, la Pairie, la Législation, & les Coutumes. A La Haye, 1757. 4 volumes. (4), 48, 390 pp.; (4), 557, (1) pp.; (4), 451, (1) pp.; (4), 359, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, labels with gilt lettering, red edges, small spot on front cover of volume 4. Monod, Bibliographie de l'histoire de France, 1022; Conlon 57:701; not in INED. First edition, scarce. ' ..... il met à la base de l'histoire la distinction d'un peuple libre et d'un peuple sujet. Il affirme en effet, l'existence, à l'origine de la monarchie, d'un ordre essentiellement militaire qui constituait seul la nation' (Carcassonne, Montesquieu et le problème de la Constitution française). Pp. 358-359 of volume 4 contain the errata to all 4 volumes.Dubuat-Nançay (1732-1787), diplomat and historian is seen as one of Cantillon's disciples because of his emphasis upon the standard of living and his treatment of luxury. He differed from Cantillon, however, both in his general philosophy and in his analysis of social problems. Thus he believed that the ruin of France could be averted only through the restoration of a feudal regime. In his emphasis upon agriculture he resembled Sully and the agrarians; in his notion of a providential natural order and of the net productivity of agriculture, the physiocrats. Unlike Cantillon, Dubuat-Nançay was a populationist in that he explicitly favored, with some qualification, as large a population as could be supported in life and health on a given territory (see for an elaborate analysis of the work and ideas of Dubuat-Nançay: J.J. Spengler, French Predecessors of Malthus, pp. 144-150). - Armorial bookplate in all volumes on front paste-down. EUR 1100
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(DUBUCQ, J.B. & P.U. DUBUISSON.) Lettres critiques et politiques sur les colonies & le commerce des villes maritimes de France. Adressées à G.T. Raynal. Par M***. A Genève, et se trouve à Paris, 1785. 14, (2), 292 pp. 8vo. Early 19th-century half calf. Kress B.851; cf.: Goldsmiths 12968; INED 1485; Einaudi 1629; Sabin 21032; Echeverria & Wilkie 785/23; JFBL D303; Feugère 278; Hogg 1112; not in Fay; not in Leclerc. One of two editions from the year of the first edition, according to Echeverria & Wilkie there is another edition of (8), 264, 13 pp. which they consider to be the first. The final 13 pages contain the 'Conversation D'Un Officier d'Artillerie' which is lacking in some copies and which was printed as an appendix. A note at the foot of page 264 refers to this addition: 'J'ai cru devoir joindre ici un morceau qui n'est pas étranger aux matières que j'ai traitées.' The Lettres defend the arret of the Conseil d'Etat of 30 August 1784 by a purportedly impartial examination of the related issues. This important arret significantly reversed a basic French colonial policy established in 1727 allowing French West Indian planters to import from the US and other foreign nations certain commodities essential to their economy, which merchants in France were supplying only in insufficient quantities and at high prices, and also to export important products to the US and other foreign markets. It established duty free ports at Saint Lucia; Saint Pierre in Martinique; Point-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe; Scarborough in Tobago; and Cap Français, Port-au-Prince, and Cayes Saint Louis in Santo Domingo. At these ports, foreign ships could sell all kinds of wood and lumber, coal, cattle, salt beef, salt cod and other salt fish, rice, Indian corn, vegetables, hides, furs, resins, and tar; and could purchase molasses, rum, and goods of French origin. The degree provoked a flood of protests from spokesmen for the merchants in French ports, who hitherto had enjoyed a virtual monopoly of the West Indian trade. EUR 1400
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(DUCLOS, C.P.) Considérations sur les moeurs de ce siècle. A Amsterdam, Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1751. Title printed in red and black, with title-vignette.(4), 366 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, raised bands (uncut). Conlon 51:580; Higgs 226; INED 1511; not in Mattioli. One of three editions from the year of first publication: Conlon lists an edition without publisher or place, INED lists a Paris edition. Duclos deals with individual morality and states that the best government is that which makes the largest number of people happy. In favor of agriculture, 'utile à tous.' 'Sociologie morale' (INED). Important social study on the 18th century by the historiographer of Louis XV. - One quire misbound. EUR 300
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(DULAURENS, H.J.) Le compère Mathieu, ou les bigarrures de l'esprit humain. A Londres, aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1777. With 3 frontispieces and 6 engravings. 3 volumes. (6),320 pp.; (4), 338 pp.; (4), 380 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt with raised bands. INED 1560; Cioranescu 26453 (gives 1766 as date). First published in 1766. 'Roman philosophique et satirique, d'inspiration assez voltairienne, bien que Dulaurens reste fidèle à l'esprit du christianisme' (INED). The first volume contains considerations on marriage, volume two contains reflections on the different usages and customs, on the fanaticism and intolerance of the Catholics, in the third volume the author deals with the taxes, the inquisition, the obligations of a christian towards his wife, usury and marriage.The author, born in Douai in 1719, entered aged 16 the congregation of the Trinitaires. He left the order after a conflict with the Jesuits about certain thesis he upheld in public and edited, together with Grouber de Groubental, a pamphlet against the Jesuits entitled Jésuitiques (1761). Grouber was sent to the Bastille and Dulaurens escaped to the Netherlands and from then on moved through Europe. In 1767 he was condamned (in absence) to lifelong imprisonment by the Ecclesiastical Chamber of Mayence because of his anti-religious and immoral writings. He had a 'esprit pétillant et sarcastique,' to the point where some of his writings were even attributed to Voltaire. - Neither INED nor Cioranescu indicate the presence of the frontispieces or engravings. However, the plates all have indications as to where in the volumes they should be placed. EUR 800
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(DUMAS, J.F.) Adresse aux Etats-Généraux, aux Etats particuliers et Assemblées provinciales et municipales du Royaume; contenant des recherches et observations sur l'origine de l'impôt, sadivision en personnel et réel, les différentes formes de sa répartition depuis Saint-Louis jusqu'à nos jours, l'origine des abus qui, sous le nom de privilèges, ont introduit l'inégalité, et enfin le seul moyen propre à corriger tous les inconvéniens, à alléger le peuple, et à augmenter les revenus de l'Etat. Par M. D***. A Dublin, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Maradan, 1789. With 6 folding tables. (4), 381, 11 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, a few scretches, sprinkled edges. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Stourm; INED 1564; not in Martin & Walter; not in Horward. First edition. Project for a fair distribution of taxes in kind, an historical and administrative approach. - With the bookplate of Madame Justin Debonne. EUR 300
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(DUPONT DE NEMOURS, P.S.) Avant-dernier chapitre de l'histoire des Jacobins. (Paris), In fine: De l'Imprimerie de l'Auteur, seconde édition, (1792). 30 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Schelle 51; Martin & Walter 12137; not in Monglond; not in Tourneux. Second edition. Drop-head title on the first page reads: Lettre de M. Du Pont aux citoyens constitutionnaires, 14 mai de l'an IV. Fundamental criticism of Jacobine politics in which Du Pont discusses the circumstances through which the assembly has lost so much of its sovereignty, delivers an excellent analysis of constitutional politics and argues for the return to a constitutional and legitimate government of which he also recapitulates the fundamental principles. EUR 300
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(DUPONT DE NEMOURS, P.S.) Oeuvres posthumes de M. Turgot, ou Mémoire de M. Turgot sur les administrations provinciales, mis en parallèle avec celui de M. Necker, suivi d'une lettre sur ce plan, & des observations d'un républicain (J.P. Brissot) sur ces mémoires, & en général sur le bien qu'on doit attendre de ces administrations dans les monarchies. Lausanne, 1787. With engraved portrait as frontispiece. (i)-iv, (5)-167 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf,spine gilt, gilt triple fillet on sides, top of spine stained, joint slightly split at top Kress B.1203; Einaudi 1668; INED 1614bis & 818; Schelle, Dupont de Nemours, 28; cf: Goldsmiths 13504. Second issue of the first edition. Goldsmiths gives the first issue which copy is lacking the preliminary leaves. The text of the first work, Mémoire sur les municipalités a établir en France, was drawn up by Dupont de Nemours, who used a draft made by Turgot. Written in a period when Turgot was at the height of his power and influence, the Mémoire aims at reforming the political and economical practices of France. It was never put into practice since Turgot's time as finance minister was limited to twenty months as the result of heavy pressure by all those who had something to lose by this reforming minister. The text of the Mémoire occupies the pages 5-98. The pages 99-112 consists of a draft of a letter by Dupont de Nemours to Mirabeau on the reforms proposed by Turgot in the Mémoire entitled Lettre adressée à M. le comte de M*** (Mirabeau) sur le plan de M. Turgot'. The third and last part (pp. 113-167) is Brissot de Warville's republican proposal of the institution of the Assemblée des Etats Généraux and is entitled Observations d'un Républicain. See for an analysis of Turgot's work Lavergne, Les Assemblées provinciales sous Louis XVI.'Pour donner à chacun la conscience de ses devoirs envers l'État et de ses obligations envers la collectivité, il faut rendre sensible aux habitants le lien qui les unit à leur village; aux provinces, celui qui les unit à l'État' (Renouvin, op.cit.) - First 20 pages with a faint stain in the margin. EUR 750
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(DUPONT DE NEMOURS, P.S.) - PROCES-VERBAL de l'Assemblée des Trois Etats du baillage de Nemours, concernant la convocation des Etats Généraux. No place, no date. 150 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards. Not in Schelle; Martin & Walter 10540. First edition. Dupont de Nemours was representative for the Third Estate and was not only one of those who signed the 'Procès-verbal' but he also delivered a speech at the delibirations (pp. 95 ff.) EUR 450
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(DURANTHON, A.) Réponse aux lettres contre l'immunité des biens ecclésiastiques. No place, 1750. (2), vi, 61, (1, blank), 64, 74, (2), 73, (1, blank), 86 pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, marbled edges, top of spine slightly damaged. INED 1662; Stourm, p. 80; Conlon 50:535. First edition. 'Réfutation d'un auteur anonyme; le clergé n'est aucunement obligé de donner des déclarations exactes de ses revenus ni de contribuer aux charges d'État. L'immunité des biens d'Église est fondée sur les maximes les plus inébranlables de la religion et de l'État' (INED). Contains 5 letters in all (INED cites 3 letters).According to Stourm the anonymous work in question is the work 'Lettres Ne Repugnate vestro bono .....' by Daniel Bargeton.Bound in are the following texts: LETTRE d'un imprimeur de Londres aux défenseurs du Clergé de France, au sujet de la Réponse aux lettres contre l'immunité des biens ecclésiastiques. Londres 1750. (2), 64 pp. - REFLEXIONS sur un écrit intitulé: Lettre d'un imprimeur de Londres. No place, no date. 8 pp. Both works were condemned by an arrest of May 21, 1751. The first mentioned work has been bound between the third and the fourth letter of the main work. - With partially removed bookplate on front paste-down. EUR 600
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(DUVOISIN, J.B.) Défense de l'ordre social contre les principes de la Révolution Française. Par M. l'Abbé D.V.V.G. de L. Londres, Octobre 1798. (6), 384 pp. 8vo. Contemporary paper covered boards, loss of board at foot of spine, uncut. Martin & Walter, 12624; Monglond, iv, col. 447. First edition. Jean Baptiste Duvoisin (19 october 1744, Langres - 9 july 1813). He studied at the Sorbonne, was nominated Royal Professor at this celebrated institute, became bishop of Leon, was exiled in 1792 and returned in 1801. He attracted the attention of Napoleon due to his outstanding work, was made bishop of Nantes and had Napoleon's confidence. He was one of the four bishops residing with the Pope during his stay in Savone and Fontainebleau. He is the author of various works which all had as its expressed aim to defend religion against the political and philosophical opinions of his days.The present work was written during his exile in England and defends the until recent existing social order against the principles of the French revolution and discusses among other things the consitutions of 1791 and 1795, tolerance, souvereignty of the people, the right of revolt, etc. EUR 250
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(ECOLE) NORMALE d'Avignon. Avignon, Bonnet fils, imprimeur de la Préfecture, (1832). Folio poster on white paper. Announcement of the foundation of a primary school in Avignon, with details of the courses and the way of application. EUR 75
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(ENFANTIN, P.) Religion saint-simonienne. Lettre du Père Enfantin à Charles Duveyrier. Lettre du Père Enfantin à François et à Peifer, chefs de l'Église de Lyon. Le Prêtre. L'homme et la femme. (Extrait du Globe du 18 juin 1831). Paris, Everat, 1831. - (Bound with:) (BARRAULT, E.) Religion saint-simonienne. Prédication. L'art. Paris, au Bureau du Globe et de l'Organisateur, 1831. - (Bound with:) (TRANSON, A.) De la religion saint-simonienne. Aux élèves de l'école polytechnique. Paris, au Bureau de l'Organisateur, 1830. - (Bound with:) LECHEVALIER, J. Aux saint-simoniens. Lettre sur la division survenue dans l'association saint-simonienne. Paris, Everat, 1831. - (Bound with:) (BAZARD, S.A. & P. ENFANTIN.) Religion saint-simonienne. Lettre à M. le Président de la Chambre des Députés. (Paris, Everat, 1830). - (Bound with:) (CARNOT, H.) Doctrine saint-simonienne. Résumé général de l'exposition faite en 1829 et 1830. Extrait de la Revue Encyclopédique. Deuxième édition. Paris, au Bureau de l'Organisateur et du Globe, 1831. - (Bound with:) RELIGION SAINT-SIMONIENNE. Communion générale de la famille saint-simonienne. (Extrait de l'Organisateur). (Paris, Everat, 1831.) - (Bound with:) (LEMONNIER, C.) Religion saint-simonienne. Église de Toulouse. Enseignement de l'Athénée. Avenir de la femme. Toulouse, A. Henault, 1831. - (Bound with:) RELIGION SAINT-SIMONIENNE. Cérémonie du 27 novembre. Paris, au Bureau du Globe, 1831. Nine works bound in one volume. (2), 22 pp.; 25, (1) pp.; 70 pp.; 56 pp.; 8 pp.; (2), 45 pp.; 40 pp.; 18 pp.; 24 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering. First work: Walch 319; Kress C.2795; Goldsmiths 27192; Einaudi 1745. Second work: Walch 389: cf.: Einaudi 4960; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Third work: Walch 811; Goldsmiths 26607; Einaudi 5723; not in Kress. Fourth work: Walch 586; Kress C.2862; Goldsmiths 27210; not in Einaudi. Signed and dated at end: Paris 20 décembre 1831. Jules. Fifth work: Walch 350; Kress C.2441; Einaudi 368; not in Goldsmiths. Signed at end: Bazard et Enfantin, chefs de la religion saint-simonienne. Sixth work: Walch 740; Kress C.2752 (3rd edition); Goldsmiths 27179; Einaudi 902. Seventh work: Walch-Gerits, Supplement, p. 330; Goldsmiths 27217; Einaudi 4670; not in Kress.Eighth work: Walch-Gerits, Supplement, p. 250; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. Ninth work: Not in Walch; not in Walch-Gerits, Supplement; Kress C.2928; Goldsmiths 27216; Einaudi 4669. EUR 1250
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(ENFANTIN, P.) Religion saint-simonienne. Morale. Réunion générale de la famille. Enseignements du Père Suprème. Les trois familles. Paris, Librairie saint-simonienne, 1832. With portrait as frontispiece (loose). (4), 207, (4) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half hard-grained morocco, marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, top of spine and upper joint a bit rubbed. Cf.: Walch 316; Walch-Gerits, Supplement, 175; Kress C.3132; Goldsmiths 27774; Einaudi 1749. First edition. The text of Les trois familles was written by E. Barrault. This work provoked prosecution on the grounds of 'immorality' of the saint-simonian family and of Enfantin, Chevalier and Barrault personally. Oval stamp on title-page: Bibliotheque Saint-Simonienne and in the center of the oval "Pereire", on front paste-down a label: "P 85". EUR 225
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(ESSUILE, J. F. BARANDIERY MONTMAYEUR, COMTE D'.) Observations sur divers objets importans. A Berlin, Aux dépens de la Société Typographique, 1787. 215, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled wrappers, spine a bit damaged, uncut. Kress B.1209; INED 1751; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Conlon 87:1837; see also Weulersse, Le Mouvement physiocratique en France, vol. ii, pp. 456-460 on his opinions as expressed in his other important work, Traite des Communes .... (1777). First edition. This work is a collection of memoirs in which the author, close to the ideas of the Physiocrats, proposes several reforming projects: Sur la diminuation des matelots en France, et sur les moyens de les multiplier - la mauvaise administration du Royaume - project de création d'une caisse nationale pour secourir les pauvres sortant de la prison - De la Pêche - De la Fabrication du Sel - De l'achat et de la vente du sel par la Ferme générale - Idée sur le Commerce du Sel - des Laisses de Mer, et de leur culture - Observations sur la comsommation de Bois en France - Partage des Communes, etc. At the end there is a project entitled "Caisse de secours national en faveur des personnes innocentes, que la nécessité de rechercher les coupables, a fait priver de leur liberté". - Some pages with a brown spot in the lower outer blank margin, an uncut copy, margins a bit frayed. EUR 500
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(ESSUILE, J.F. DE BARANDIERY-MONTMAYEUR DE.) Traité des communes, ou Observations sur leur origine & état actuel, d'après les anciennes ordonnances de nos rois, les coutumes, édits, déclarations, arrêts & réglements intervenus sur cette matière; les droits qu'y ont les seigneurs, les communautés & chacun des habitans; ou joignant la politique à l'économie, on démontre leur inutilité, le préjudice qu'elles font à l'agriculture, & l'avantage que l'on retireroit de leur aliénation ou partage. A Paris, Chez Colombier, 1777. With two folding tables. 395, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering. Cf: Kress 6726 (listing the 1770 edition only); Einaudi 789 (listing the 1779 edition only); Goldsmiths 11547; INED 1752; not in Mattioli. Second edition, title-edition, brought on the market 7 years after the first edition by another publisher who only changed the title and apparently using the unsold copies of the first edition. 'Des biens communaux: origine historique, étendue, répartition géographique; l'on ne peut, dans l'état actuel de ces communes, en tirer aucun profit, notamment pour l'agriculture. Au contraire, leur stérilité nuit de 'la manière le plus dangereuse autant à la population et à la subsistance des hommes qu'à la multiplication et à la nourriture des bestiaux.' Essuile propose de les partager et d'en faire bénéficier les pauvres; ce partage avantageux est tout à fait confomre aux désirs des législateurs.' With the 'pièces justificatives' in both French and Latin.For the importance of this work and the development of physiocrat ideas see: Weulersse, i, pp. 411-12. EUR 1000
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(FAIGUET DE VILLENEUVE, J.) L'Économie politique. Projet Pour enrichir et pour perfectioner l'Espéce Humaine. A Londres, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Moreau, Pissot, Knapen, Brocas et Humblot, 1763 (Paris, EDHIS, 1973). (4), xi, (1), 212 pp. Small 8vo. Modern boards. INED 1772; Kress 6100; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Higgs 2859; Coquelin & Guillaumin, i, p. 754. Well executed reprint of the very rare first edition of this work, reprinted in a limited number of 250 copies and 30 copies not destined for the tade. 'Social et économique. Pour faciliter le mariage et développer l'aisance, encourager chez les gens peu fortunés l'épargne, l'économie et une éducation utilitaire; utiliser largement les religieux dans les professions libérales improductives, favoriser l'agriculture, supprimer les maîtrises et chefs-d'oeuvre' (INED). EUR 150
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(FICHTE, J.G.) Beitrag zur Berichtigung des Publikums über die französische Revolution. Erster Theil [- Erster Theil ... Zweites Heft]. Zur Beurtheilung ihrer Rechtmäßichkeit. No place, 1793. - (Bound with:) WURMBRAND, Jos. VON: (pseud. von Ad. KNIGGE). Josephs von Wurmbrand, kaiserlich abyssinischen Ex-Ministers, jezzigen Notarii caesarii publici in der Reichsstadt Bopfingen, politisches Glaubensbekenntniß, mit hinsicht auf die französische Revolution und deren Folgen. Frankfurt und Leipzig, 1792. 2 works in 1 volume. xxiii, (1 blank), 199, (1 blank), (2 druckfehler), 201-435, (3 nacherinnerung) pp.; viii, (2, inhalt), 173, (1) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary boards with label (cover somewhat worn and rubbed, but solid; some light browning throughout; small stamp on title and verso). First work: Baumgartner & Jacobs, A1, 4x and 4x a. First edition of Fichte's principal work, very rare, all published. The leaders in German literary life were almost unanimous in welcoming the 1789 revolutionary events in France. Philosophers like Kant, Herder, Fichte, poets like Klopstock, Hölderlin and Wieland were enraptured by what they heard. Even when some of them like Fichte and Knigge were aware by 1791 of the continuing political unrest and upheaval, they kept defending the true principles and motives of the revolution against its detractors in terms which had impressed many of its readers as being subversively democratic: '...und so scheint mir die französische Revolution ein reiches Gemälde über den grossen Tert: Menschenrecht und Menschenwert' (from the introduction of Fichte's work). But the historical phenomenon was even more important because it formed the basis of Fichte's philosopical insights: the originality of Fichte's ethical system consisted in the synthesis it established between the autonomous ethics originating in Kant and the French Revolution, and social and anti-individualistic ethics. Contrary to the way he was later recepted, Fichte did not support but combat agressive nationalism and pan-Germanism; in fact his views harmonized with his cosmopolitan idea of Humanism. Through his followers (like Krause and others who also published in French) Fichte influenced many later social thinkers like Proudhon and Carlyle. The work was written in Zürich were Fichte worked as a tutor to meet his financial needs. Despite this difficulty, it proved to be decisive for his future career through the expansion of his social contacts and the intensive study of Kant. Second work: Goedeke, IV 1, 617,25.First edition, rare. Adolp Freiherr Knigge (1752-1796) mostly known through his popular social ethics ' .... über den Umgang mit Menschen ....' also wrote three anonymously published 'Staatsromane' of which this is one. Already during his lifetime Knigge was considered a 'German jacobin', attacked and prosecuted as such. It required some courage to criticise so openly German absolutism and discuss the causes and necessity of the French revolution and the effects on other European countries. Just like Fichte, he thought the political change to be legitimate, and though he disapproves of the terror, he excuses it because of the agelong suppression of the French people. Knigge advocated democratic institutions and prepared by this the civil revolution which seemed inevitable to him. EUR 2500
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(FRANCAIS DE NANTES, A.) Le manuscrit de feu M. Jérome, contenant son oeuvre inédite, une notice biographique sur sa personne, un facsimilé de son écriture, et le portrait de cet illustre écrivain. Paris, Bassange frères, 1825. With lithographed frontispiece and folding facsimiles. (4), 463, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled boards. Rochas, i, p. 398 ff. First edition, much sought after due also to the magnificent frontispiece designed by Eugene Delacroix and engraved by Hocquart. Antoine Français de Nantes had a career in the administration and was influential during the revolution, member of the 'Assemblée Législative' and later of the 'Conseil des Cinq Cents'. In this work, published like many other works he wrote under a supposed name, and written well before the famous work by Tocqueville, Français de Nantes showed a clear view of developments and the growing power and influence of America: he predicted ' .... qu'un jour arriverait où le Nouveau Monde aurait la prétention de régenter, et peut-être même de gouverner son frère aîné ....', and he suggests that it would be wise to anticipate on ' .... la crise dans laquelle on se trouverait engagé entre le joug des Tartares et les doctrines de Boston' (page 13).The work itself is the story of the author travelling by boat to Batavia, being shipwrecked and returning after 15 years. His account offers him the possibility to comment, analyse and reflect on the profound changes Europe underwent as a result of the French revolution and reign of Napoleon. EUR 600
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(FREMINVILLE, E. DE LA POIX DE.) Traité historique de l'origine et nature des Dixmes, Et des biens possedés par les Ecclésiastiques en franche Aumône, & de leurs charges. Par M. E.D.L.P.D.F. Bailly des Ville& Marquisat de la Palisse. A Paris, Chez Valleyre père, 1762. (2), x, (4), 468, (20) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red edges, corners very lightly bumped. Kress 6021; INED 2614; Higgs 2669; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Leblanc; not in Masui; not in Stammhammer, Bibliographie der Finanzwissenschaft; not in Camus; Conlon 62:879. First edition. Historical and juridical treatise which studies the dîmes in relation to religion, law and the origins of the monarchy and stating that the dîmes were not, at the outset, due to the church. Edme de la Poix de Fréminville studied law. His main interests were related to feudal questions and his works were of importance. - Occasional light browning. Rare. EUR 600
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(FRESSON, F.-A.) Règlement de police pour la ville de Versailles. (Drop-head title). Paris, Louis-Denis Delatour & Pierre Simon, 1721. 8 pp. 4to. Disbound. This is an attempt to regulate, in 36 articles, the influx of "un grand nombre de mandiants & gens sans aveu", who seek refuge in Versailles. The regulations seek to administer the public spaces, trades, fairs, activities of merchants (instructions where they can buy and sell, and what they can sell, butchers can only bring one dog which may not move freely, etc.), activities of public dancers and other entertainers, etc. EUR 200
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(GALLAND, A. PSEUD.:) ZO D'AXA. Les feuilles. Dessins de Steinlen, Willette, Léandre, Hermann-Paul, Couturier, Anquetin, Luce. Paris, Société Libre d'édition des gens de lettres, 1900. With reproductions of black and white drawings. 305 pp. 8vo. Original decorated cover, kept in boards holder in a boards slipcase. Maitron, Le Mouvement anarchiste en France, p. 589; DBMOF, 15, p. 355-356. Contains texts and drawings published by Zo d'Axa during the years 1897-1899. Zo d'Axa published these 'a chaque occasion' and they are here collected and published again in bookform. Adventurer, traveller, anti-militarist, individualist, satirist, journalist, founder of two of the most legendary French magazines of the 1890s, L'Endehors and La Feuille, Zo d'Axa (1864-1930) led a turbulent life. In May 1891, he published the first number of the weekly magazine L'En Dehors. Many anarchists contributed, but the paper was soon shut down with the suppression of the anarchists. After the arrest of Ravachol & companions, Zo d'Axa launched a subscription to help the families of the prisoners. For this he was arrested and imprisoned in Mazas for a month. Released, he was still harrassed and opted for exile in London, then traveled in Europe. Expelled from Italy, he went to Greece, then Constantinople. January 1, 1893, while disembarking in Jaffa he was seized and put in irons on a French ship and returned to Paris, where he ended up with another 18 months in the prison of Sainte-Pélagie.Zo d'Axa was beyond any ideology and expressed his position as follows: 'nous allons - individuels, sans la Foi qui sauve et qui aveugle. Nos dégoûts de la Société n'engendrent pas en nous d'immuables convictions. Nous nous battons pour la joie des batailles et sans rêve d'avenir meilleur. Que nous importent les lendemains qui seront dans des siècles! .....' EUR 500
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(GARAY DE MONGLAVE, F.E.) Biographie pittoresque des Pairs de France, suivie du recensement des votes pours et contre le droit d'ainesse. Paris, Tous les Marchands de Nouveautés (imprimerie d'A. Béraud), 1826. (4), 152 pp. 32mo. Modern blue boards, original covers preserved. Drujon, p. 56. First edition. Publication seized and condamned to destruction by 'arrêt' of 28 november, 1826, and the arrest ordered of the author, publisher and printer who were indeed fined and imprisoned. EUR 175
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(GAYOT DE PITAVAL, F.) Question d'Estat: Fille reclamée par deux mères. A Paris, Chez Nicolas le Gras, 1716. (2), 26 pp. 4to. Disbound. Deals with the substitution of a girl in 1709 by a mid-wife and claimed by both the real mother and the assumed mother. The memo is written for Jean Chalant, weaver in Lyons and for Jeanne Pesche, his wife, and for Antoinette Servant, widow of Jean-Louis Pesche, defendants, against Gasparde Decousu, 'fille majeure', claimant. EUR 150
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(GENTON & L. GREPPO & ALLERAT.) La vérité sur les événements de Lyon au mois d'avril 1834. Paris, Dentu; Lyon, Chambert, 1834. With 2 plates. - (Followed by:) SALA, A. Les ouvriers lyonnais en 1834. Esquisses historiques. Paris, Hivert, 1834. - (Followed by:) RELATION historique des événements de Lyon, pendant les journées des 9, 10, et 11 avril 1834. - Journées de 12, 13, 14 14 avril à Lyon, faisant suite à la Relation historique des événements de Lyon. (Drop-head title). (Lyon, Impr. J.M. Boursy, 1834). - (Followed by:) BEAULIEU, C. Histoire du commerce, de l'industrie et des fabriques de Lyon, depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours. Lyon, A. Baron, 1838. 4 works bound in 1 volume. (4), ii, (2), 280 pp.; 164 pp.; 16 pp.; vii, (1), 310 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, labels with gilt lettering, boards and extremities very lightly rubbed. First work: Charléty, Bibliographie de Lyon, ii, 3643.Second work: Charléty, Bibliographie de Lyon, ii, 3638.Third work: Not in Charléty, Bibliographie de Lyon.Fourth work: Kress C.4556; Goldsmiths 30372; not in Einaudi. All first editions. The Lyon revolts of 1831-1834 were the last of a century-long series of labor disturbances in the city's silk industry, France's largest urban artisinal trade. The uprisings of 1831 and 1834 marked the final efforts of France's most militant preindustrial work-force to secure decent incomes and a voice in the management of an industry in which their influence had steadily declined (Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restauration to the Second Empire, vol. i, pp. 651-656). EUR 500
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(GERY, A.G. DE.) Discours prononcé par un de MM. les curés de la ville de Lyon, le dimanche 4 décembre 1768. A l'occasion de l'émeute populaire, arrivée dans cette ville, le dimanche précédent. A Lyon, De l'Imprimerie d'Aimé de la Roche, 1768. 30 pp. 12mo. Modern boards. Charléty, i, 2665. First and only edition. The 'émeute populaire' about which is spoken, seems to have been provoked by the rumour that doctors were looking for children to dissect after killing them first. The sermon was preached the Sunday following the riots and the preacher rejects the notion that the hospital could indulge in such horrid practices and points to the fact that the poor, who were the rioters, are treated gratis by the hospital and the doctors. EUR 350
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(GILBERT, C.) Histoire de Calejava ou de l'Isle des Hommes raisonnables. Avec le Paralelle de leur Morale & du Christianisme. No place, 1700 (Paris, EDHIS, 1970). 329, (7) pp. 12mo. Imitation of a contemporary binding, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, red edges. Hartig, p. 36; Negley 424; Gove, p. 198; Fortunati & Trousson, Dictionary of Literary Utopias, p. 273. Well executed reprint after the only copy known, which is in the Réserve de la Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. This edition was printed in a limited edition of 250 numbered copies (this is number 140) and 30 copies not destined for the trade. The reprint is since long out-of-print. The book was probably published in Dijon by Jean Ressayre. The author, a lawyer from Dijon, realized, when he had a printed copy of his book in his hands, the possible dangerous consequences of publication and apparently convinced the printer to give him the entire edition which he destroyed with the exception of one copy. This last fact is doubted by Van Wijngaarden in his Les Odyssées philosophiques en France entre 1616 et 1789, in which work the chapter 3 is devoted to this work and its context.'Presented as scattered indications, the utopian picture occupies only a small part of the book, namely the chapters 5 & 6. Calejava was a community republic which practised economic communism relying on a rational collective urbanism and a system of public stores. Everybody has to work, but only five hours a day. The law allows divorce and encourages bigamy; celibacy, on the other hand, is severely punished and monastic chastity is considered a scandalous aberration. Children, taken away from their families at the age of four, are brought up by the State.Most of the dialogues deal with philosophical and religious ideas: it is clear that Gilbert was close to the libertine current and there are valid reasons for finding in this work an 'anti-Christian deism' (see Fortunati and Trousson). EUR 225
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(GILLOT, J.) Le caton français. Au Roy. No place, 1614. 64 pp. 8vo. Modern green half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Lelong 20235; Bourgeois & André 2124; Lindsay & Neu 3027; Welsh 500. Giving council on political and economic matters to Louis XIII, and also opposing the Spanish alliance and the Jesuits, and in favour of De Condé. Jacques Gillot was one of the authors of the famous 'Satyre Menipée.' EUR 300
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(GILLOT, J.) Le caton français. Au Roy. No place, 1614. 64 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Lelong 20235; Bourgeois & André 2124; Lindsay & Neu 3027; Welsh 500. Giving council on political and economic matters to Louis XIII, and also opposing the Spanish alliance and the Jesuits, and in favour of De Condé. Jacques Gillot was one of the authors of the famous 'Satyre Menipée.' EUR 175
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(GILLOT, J.) Le caton français. Au Roy. No place, 1614. 64 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Lelong 20235; Bourgeois & André 2124; Lindsay & Neu 3027; Welsh 500. Giving council on political and economic matters to Louis XIII, and also opposing the Spanish alliance and the Jesuits, and in favour of De Condé. Jacques Gillot was one of the authors of the famous 'Satyre Menipée.' EUR 275
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(GIMAT DE BONNEVAL, J.-B.) Fanfiche ou les mémoires de Mademoiselle de *** Premiere partie [- Seconde Partie]. A Peine, 1748. Two volumes in one. vi, 117, (1) pp.; (2), 121, (3) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, edges red, small damage to upper lower joint. Conlon 48:507; Cioranescu 31168. First edition. - Ex-libris and ticket on front paste-down Libertine novel with a "black" leaning. EUR 450
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(GIN, P.L.C.) Les vrais principes du gouvernement françois, démontrés par la raison et par les faits. Par un François. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée. A Genève, et se trouve à Paris, Chez tous les Libraires qui vendent les Nouveautés, 1780. With engraved frontispiece. (4), xxiv, 427, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments with red label and gilt lettering, a beautiful copy. INED 2037 (1782 edition); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli; Mornet, Les origines intellectuelles de la Révolution, pp. 217-8. Rare second edition, as the first not to be found in any of the reference works. 'Il y défend les lois fondamentales de la monarchie pure, réfute la théorie de la liberté politique ou de constitution de Montesquieu, celle de l'équilibre des pouvoirs et refuse de donner des limites à la puissance du monarque' (Mornet). The present work, which is primarily a defence of monarchic government against the theories of Montesquieu and Mably, is notable for a variety of observations on economic issues. Gin identifies the products of agriculture and manufacture as the basic forms of wealth, and condemns import on the grounds that they lead to a diminution in the population. 'Sociologie politique. De la monarchie, en général, et du gouvernement français en particulier. Plusieurs passages consacrés à des questions économiques. Réflexions sur les impôts et sur les richesses en général' (INED). EUR 1100
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(GIN, P.L.C.) Les vrais principes du gouvernement françois, démontrés par la raison et par les faits. Par un François. A Genève, 1777. - (Preceded by:) (BONCERF, P.F.) Inconvénients des Droits féodaux. Nouvelle édition, à laquelle on a joint que Montesquieu a écrit sur les Fiefs, dans les Livres XXX & XXXI de l'Esprit des Loix. A Paris, 1776. Two works bound in one volume. (4), vii, (1), 316, (4) pp.; (2), 155, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering, red edges (rearcover lightly shaved, upper joint with a short split, two corners bumped). First work: INED 2037 (later edition); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Mornet, Les origines intellectuelles de la Révolution, pp. 217-8. Rare first edition. 'Il y défend les lois fondamentales de la monarchie pure, réfute la théorie de la liberté politique ou de constitution de Montesquieu, celle de l'équilibre des pouvoirs et refuse de donner des limites à la puissance du monarque' (Mornet). The present work, which is primarily a defence of monarchic government against the theories of Montesquieu and Mably, is notable for a variety of observations on economic issues. Gin identifies the products of agriculture and manufacture as the basic forms of wealth, and condemns import on the grounds that they lead to a diminution in the population. 'Sociologie politique. De la monarchie, en général, et du gouvernement français en particulier. Plusieurs passages consacrés à des questions économiques. Réflexions sur les impôts et sur les richesses en général' (INED).Second work: Kress 7193; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; this edition not in INED; Camus 1566; Peinot, Livres Condamnés, i, p. 43 (with wrong date).Third edition, published in the same year as the first edition.Pierre-François Boncerf, French writer on agrarian subjects. While a clerk in the ministry of finance under Turgot he published a pamphlet, Les inconvénients des droits féodaux. According to Palgrave the work was published with the consent of Turgot. In it he attacked the contemporary system of feudal dues as ruinous to those who pay them, of little advantage to its benificiaries and contrary to the principles of freedom. The solemn condemnation of the pamphlet by the parlement of Paris, which the king vetoed, and the ensuing controversy in the press, in which Voltaire took a prominent part, established Boncerf's reputation and resulted in the translation of the work into many European languages. The pages 70-end contain the relevant texts by Montesquieu. The work was first published anonymously, a second edition was published with the pseudonym M. Francaleu. EUR 1750
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(GIN, P.L.C.) Les vrais principes du gouvernement françois, démontrés par la raison et par les faits. Par un François. A Genève, 1777. (4), vii, (1), 316, (4) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, marbled edges. INED 2037 (later edition); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli; Mornet, Les origines intellectuelles de la Révolution, pp. 217-8. Rare first edition. - Some annotations concerning author and book on verso front free blank. A very nice copy with good margins. 'Il y défend les lois fondamentales de la monarchie pure, réfute la théorie de la liberté politique ou de constitution de Montesquieu, celle de l'équilibre des pouvoirs et refuse de donner des limites à la puissance du monarque' (Mornet). The present work, which is primarily a defence of monarchic government against the theories of Montesquieu and Mably, is notable for a variety of observations on economic issues. Gin identifies the products of agriculture and manufacture as the basic forms of wealth, and condemns import on the grounds that they lead to a diminution in the population. 'Sociologie politique. De la monarchie, en général, et du gouvernement français en particulier. Plusieurs passages consacrés à des questions économiques. Réflexions sur les impôts et sur les richesses en général' (INED). EUR 1500
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(GIN, P.L.C.) Les vrais principes du gouvernement françois, démontrés par la raison et par les faits. Par un François. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée. A Genève, et se trouve à Paris, Chez tous les Libraires qui vendent les Nouveautés, 1780. With engraved frontispiece. (4), xxiv, 427, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands and red label with gilt lettering, gilt triple fillet on sides, all edges gilt. INED 2037 (1782 edition); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Mornet, Les origines intellectuelles de la Révolution, pp. 217-8. Rare second edition, as the first not to be found in any of the reference works. 'Il y défend les lois fondamentales de la monarchie pure, réfute la théorie de la liberté politique ou de constitution de Montesquieu, celle de l'équilibre des pouvoirs et refuse de donner des limites à la puissance du monarque' (Mornet). The present work, which is primarily a defence of monarchic government against the theories of Montesquieu and Mably, is notable for a variety of observations on economic issues. Gin identifies the products of agriculture and manufacture as the basic forms of wealth, and condemns import on the grounds that they lead to a diminuation in the population. 'Sociologie politique. De la monarchie, en général, et du gouvernement français en particulier. Plusieurs passages consacrés à des questions économiques. Réflexions sur les impôts et sur les richesses en général' (INED). - A splendid large paper copy and printed on 'papier de Hollande.' EUR 1250
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(GODEFROY, E.) Banque de crédits fonciers et agricoles. (Drop-head title). Paris, Decourchant, (about 1850). 40 pp. 8vo. Sewn in contemporary blind green cover. The statutes of this proposed bank follow after the 16 pages of introduction, at the end of the introduction the name of the author has been printed. EUR 125
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(GOEZMANN DE THURNE, L.V. DE.) Essais politiques sur l'autorité, et les richesses Que le Clergé Séculier & Régulier ont acquises depuis leur établissment. No place, 1776. - (Bound with:) (PUYSEGUR, F.J. DE CHASTENET DE.) Pieces détachées relatives au Clergé Séculier et Regulier. A Amsterdam, Chez Marc Michel Rey, 1771. With one folding engraved plate, and four folding tables. 3 volumes. Together 4 volumes bound in 2. iv, 228 pp.; x, (2), 190, (2), 104 pp.; (4), 54, (2), 23, 84, 123, (1) pp.; (4), 219, (1), xx pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines richly gilt with gilt lettering, gilt stamped 'P' at foot of spines. First work: INED 2058; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. 'De la jurisdiction ecclésiastique, des abus du monachisme, des moyens d'y remédier. Les chapitres XVII-XX traitent de l'influence du monachisme sur la décadence relative des États, des moyens de le réduire à un plus petit nombre, et des ressources à tirer des biens monastiques. La force et la richesse d'un État consistent en une culture, une population et un numéraire relativement plus importants que dans les autres pays. Néfaste influence du monachisme sur ces trois facteurs, urgente nécessité de certaines réformes: mise en valeur rationnelle des biens religieux, ce qui augmenterait la population, répartition plus équitable du numéraire, etc.' (INED).Second work: INED 3681; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Higgs.First edition.'Sur l'histoire ecclésiastique, la suppression souhaitable des ordres religieux, l'illégitimité des biens de l'Église, et la religion naturelle' (INED). In volume 1, pp. 14-50: 'Mémoire sur le commerce, les finances et l'économie', where the State is considered to be the proprietor of all the capital and business and therefore as having the right to dispose of it for the public benefit. In volume 2 we find the text Du Droit souverain sur les bien-fonds du Clergé et des moines by Cerfvol (see INED 1013). - A very nice copy. EUR 900
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(GOSSET, P.) Projet de société pour la création d'approvisionnements et réserves en blés et farines et usines à faire le pain pour Paris et le département de la Seine; présenté à S.E. le comte de Persigny, ministre de l'intérieur, de l'agriculture et du commerce. Paris, Imprimerie centrale de Napoléon Chaix et Cie., 1853. 20 pp. 4to. Modern boards, original cover preserved. ' .... elle touche essentiellement aux intérêts de l'agriculture et de la population entière: c'est la question des blés, des approvisionnements et réserves, et de la panification.' EUR 150
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(GOUDAR, A.) Le Procès des Trois Rois, Louis XVI. de France-Bourbon, Charles III. d'Espagne-Bourbon, et George III. d'Hanovre, Fabricant de Boutons, Plaidé au Tribunal des Puissances-Européenes. Par Appendix, l'Appel au Pape. Traduit de l'Anglois. Londres (i.e. Leipzig), Chez George Carenaught, Libraire prés de Temple-Bar, 1780. With one large folding engraved plate by William Jones after John Philips representing the Tribunal of European Powers, bound as frontispiece. 8, 192 pp. 8vo. Later paste-paper wrappers, spine a little worn and chipped but firm. Mars 140; Echeverria & Wilkie 780/58; Fay, p. 13; Peignot, ii, p. 224 (attributing the work to Linguet); not in Sabin, not in JFBL; not in Muller; not in Leclerc. One of several editions from the year of first publication of this popular and influential parody of Britsh politics towards America. There is of course no English original. This contentious political work was written by Ange Goudar and published, as most of his works, anonymously. The attribution is to Goudar because of stylistic similarities to his other works. Aimed especially at Great Britain, this satire of the three major powers in the American War is in the form of a mock trial, which finds Great Britain quilty of starting the war. Extensive discussion of the U.S. B. Franklin, who is supposedly shown in the frontispiece, represents the U.S. and makes two speeches the latter of which is a translation of almost all the Declaration of Independence. The work was very severely prosecuted and provoked many counterfeit editions representing a true 'succès de scandal'.The sheets of this edition were put through the press several times; thus, all copies show a mixture of sheets in which some of the corrections listed in the errata have been made, but in others the corrections have not been made. - Old repairs to folds of plate and gutter margin of pp. 7/8, small tear above repair in the same pages, paper a little browned, title verso strengthened. Pages 5-6 and 3-4 interchanged. Copy with stamp (surplus) from the Library of Congress. EUR 750
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(GOUDAR, A.) Testament politique de Louis Mandrin, généralissime des troupes des contrebandiers, écrit par lui-même dans sa prison. Genève, 1755 (Paris, EDHIS, 1976). 67 pp. 8vo. Imitation leather. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi, cf.: Mars, Ange Goudar, 14. Reprint of this very rare work, limited to an edition of 150 numbered copies and 30 copies not destined for the trade. This work, untraceable nowadays, has played an important role in the spread of the popular myth of Mandrin. It attacks the 'système des fermes, cet impôt déguisé empêche l'accroissement véritable de la richesse nationale, d'autant plus qu'il utilise 300.000 personnes 'improductives' puisqu'elles ne créent pas de la valeur, contrairement à l'agriculture.' EUR 125
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(GOYON DE LA PLOMBANIE, H. DE.) Vues Politiques sur le Commerce, Ouvrage dans lequel on traite particulièrement des Denrées, & où l'on propose de nouveaux moyens pour encourager l'Agriculture & les Arts, & pour augmenter le Commerce général du Royaume. A Amsterdam, Aux depens de la Compagnie, 1759. Title printed in red and black. viii, 296 pp. 12mo. Contemporary blind marbled covers, paper shelf number to spine, uncut. Kress 5781; Goldsmiths 9441; Einaudi 2671; Mattioli 1484; Higgs 1978; INED 2119; Conlon 59:827; Spengler, French Predecessors of Malthus, pp. 86-90. First edition. The copies catalogued in Kress and Higgs have 535 pages and the title ends after the words 'Commerce général', lacking the additon 'du Royaume'. No priority has been established, either of these editions is very rare. The author, philantropist and utopian socialist, proposes in this work to 'faire entrer tous les moyens de mettre en exécution les projets les plus grands pour le bonheur de la nation': the founding of a state-owned agricultural company for the sale of its products with the purpose of maintaining price stability, the foundation of 'sociétiés de crédit', development of the use of machines, etc. The whole of his socialist and utopian ideas is also elaborately dealt with in J.-C. Perrot's work 'Histoire intellectuelle de l'Économie Politique', chapter entitled Le despotisme de la raison dans l'utopie économique de Goyon de la Plombanie, pp. 284-304. See also A. Lichtenberger, Le Socialisme au XVIIIe siècle, pp. 329-334. - Occasional faint dampstain, a very good copy. EUR 1600
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(GOYON DE LA PLOMBANIE, H.) L'homme en société, ou Nouvelles vues politiques et économiques pour porter la population au plus haut degré en France. A Amsterdam, Chez Marc Michel Rey, 1763 (Paris, EDHIS, 1970). 2 volumes. xii, 262 pp.; (4), 280 pp.12mo. Imitation of a contemporary calf binding, spine gilt in compartments, labels with gilt lettering, red edges. Kress 6105; Higgs 3036; INED 2117; Goldsmiths 9831; not in Einaudi. Well executed reprint of the very rare and important first edition, published in a limited and numbered editon of 250 copies only, and 30 not destined for the trade, since long out-of-print. The author's rarest and most important work, containing subversive and for the time modern ideas, for which reason the author apparently had his work published anonymously and outside France. Among other things this work is more or less very modern in the sense that the author believes that the State 'doit s'occuper de l'agriculture, de l'industrie, du commerce, des finances, de la population, des forces de terres et de mer.' See: Lichtenberger, Le socialisme au 18e siècle, pp. 329-334, and Spengler, French Predecessors of Malthus, pp. 86-90 and the whole of his socialist and utopian ideas is also elaborately dealt with in J.-C. Perrot's work 'Histoire intellectuelle de l'Économie Politique', chapter entitled Le despotisme de la raison dans l'utopie économique de Goyon de la Plombanie, pp. 284-304. EUR 275
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(GRIMOARD, P.H.) Lettre du Marquis de Caraccioli à M. d'Alembert. No place, (ab. 1780). (2), 37 pp. - (Bound with:) DISCOURS au Roi. No place, (ab. 1780). 4 pp. - (Bound with:) (CALONNE, C.A.de.) Les comments. No place, no date. Paginated (33)-52 pp. - (Bound with:) REQUETE au roi, sur la retraite de M. Necker. Par un ancien résident à la Cour de France. No place, (ab. 1780). Paginated (53)-60. - (Bound with:) (SAINT-VINCENT, P.A.R. DE.) Observations modestes d'un citoyen, sur les opérations des finances de M. Necker, & sur son Comte rendu, adressées à MM. les pacifiques auteurs des Comment, des Pourqoui & des autres pamphlets anonymes. No place, (ab. 1780). (2), 3-55 pp. - (Bound with:) NECKER, (J.) Mémoire donné au Roi, en 1778. No place, (ab 1781). (4), 27 pp. - (Bound with:) (DU TILLET DU VILLARS.) Précis d'un projet d'établissement du cadastre dans le Royaume. Par M.D.T.D.V. Paris, Imprimerie Clousier, et chez Pissot, Barrois, 1781. (4), 80 pp. - (Bound with:) M. TURGOT à M. Necker, & sur l'administration de M. Necker. Par un citoyen français. Londres, et se trouve à Paris, chez les libraires qui vendent les nouveautés, 1780. With 1 large folding table. 86 pp. 8 works bound in one. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, one corner bumped, lower part of front cover with a dark stain. First work: Goldsmiths 12189; INED 2154 (bound with item 4); not in Kress; cf.: Einaudi 1178; Mattioli 1518.First edition.Sometimes attributed to Galiani. Second work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmith; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Mattioli 1518. Third work: Goldsmiths 12168 (anon. attribution); Einaudi 795; not in Kress; not in INED; Stourm, p. 127; Mattioli 728 & 729 (as part of volumes "pour & contre Necker").First edition.Fourth work: INED 2154; Einaudi 4697; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Mattioli 728 & 729 (as part of volumes "pour & contre Necker.")First edition.Fifth work: Kress B.422; Goldsmiths 12200; cf.: Einaudi 4963; INED 4066; Mattioli 728 & 729 (as part of volumes "pour & contre Necker.")First edition.Sixth work: Cf.: Kress B.389; Goldsmiths 12233; Einaudi 4105; INED 3865; Mattioli 728 & 729 (as part of volumes "pour & contre Necker.")First edition.Seventh work: Kress S.4977; INED 1693; not in Einaudi; not in Goldsmiths; not in Mattioli.First edition.Eight work: Mattioli 728 & 729 (as part of volumes "pour & contre Necker."); Einaudi attributes the first part to Turgot (see 1178), and the second is generally attributed to Doigny du Ponceau. However, although both parts are often listed as separate publications, here there is one titlepage, continuous pagination and signatures; half-title to the second part "Sur l'administration ...." and no title lacking as is evident from the signatures and pagination. For Doigny du Ponceau see: INED 1439. Interesting collection of works dealing with Necker and his policies. EUR 1250
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(GUESDE, J. & P. LAFARGUE.) Aux travailleurs de France. Le Conseil National du Parti Ouvrier Français (1889-1900). Paris, Librairie Jacques & Cie., 1901. (4), 91, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, original covers preserved. First edition Contains manifests of the Parti Ouvrier Français, collected and introduced by Bracke. At head of title: Onze ans d'histoire socialiste. EUR 225
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(GUYOT, G.G.) Réflexions sur les moyens qui conduisent aux grandes fortunes. (At end:) Paris, De l'Imprimerie de la Veuve Lamesle, 1758. 31, (1) pp. 12mo. Modern boards. Conlon58:778. First edition. Satirical piece about the ways in which to make fortune, stating that 'la Fortune' is not blind and does not distribute her gifts to those who have least merit to them, but, on the contrary, that fortune 'est clairvoyante. Elle est laborieuse, prudente & docile. Elle est intelligente & communément juste & constante dans le choix ...' and then proceeds to give examples from luck and hard work and full exploitation of ones talents to those who climb the ladder by making good use of others, those in commerce and trade, those in power, those who inherit, etc. Satirically concluding that those who work hard and achieve something by own force least merit fortune, and those who climb by using others of course do merit fortune. EUR 175
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(HAUTERIVE, A.M. BLANC DE LA NAUTTE, COMTE D'.) De l'État de la France à la fin de l'an VIII. A Paris, Chez Henrics, Brumaire An 9 (octobre 1800). iv, 350, (2) pp. Large 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, red label and gilt lettering. Kress B.4197; Goldsmiths 17829; Einaudi 2859; not in Mattioli; INED 2232; Stourm, p. 318; Catalogue de l'Histoire de France, iii, p. 211. First edition. Deals with the political situation of France in comparison with the other European nations: The political situation before the war; General thoughts on the present situation of France; Present situation of France considering its allies; Present situation of France considering its ennemies; Present situation of France considering the neutrals; Internal situation of France, followed by two chapters dealing with: 'Population et industrie de la France' and with 'Moeurs et Lois de la France.' According to Barbier the work was composed not only under supervision of Talleyrand but even partly written by him. Alexandre-Maurice Blanc de Lanautte, Comte d'Hauterive, was diplomat and economist, born in Aspres (Hautes-Alpes) on 14 April 1754. He went with Choiseul-Gouffier to Constantinopel, spent some years in New York, and returned to France in 1798 and started working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From the 18th Brumaire to the fall of the Empire he was involved in all the major negociations of the period. - Small hole in half-title, occasional light spotting, small library stamp on half-title, a very attractive copy. EUR 600
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(HAY DU CHASTELET, P.) Traitté de la politique de France. A Cologne, Chez P. du Marteau, 1669. Small sphere on title. (1-4), 5-264 pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, rubbed and worn. Cf.:Bourgeois & André 2969; Willems 1602; Sauvy 5; INED 1073; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. Upon its first publication by Elzevier in Utrecht in 1669, also anonymous, the identity of the author was discovered and he was put in the Bastille (for 15 days). The author may be considered as a precursor of Vauban and Castel de Saint Pierre for his revolutionary ideas of reforming the tax system, and for his ideas concerning the clergy, commerce, protestants, etc. 'In Colbert's time Paul Hay, Marquis de Chatelet and forerunner of Vauban, pointed out that extreme poverty conduced to death and disease and thus served to depeople rural regions; that tax reforms were necessary to improve economic conditions. Although he opposed the association of rural with urban workers, on the ground that the former would become insolent and acquire corrupt customs, he asserted, like Colbert, that man's happiness is the end of 'la politique.' He condamned the expulsion of the Hugenots as unchristian' (Spengler, French Predecessors of Malthus, p. 12). Spengler also points to the fact that this work, first published in 1669, inspired some of Vauban's ideas on taxation. - Author's name on title. Slightly waterstained. EUR 600
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(HAY DU CHASTELET, P.) Traité de la politique de France. Reveü, corrigé, & augmenté d'une Seconde partie. Avec quelques réflexions sur ce Traité par le Sr. Ormegregny. Cologne (Amsterdam), P. du Marteau, 1680. 2 volumes in 1. (12), 13-296 pp.; 135, (1) pp. 12mo. Later morocco, gilt fillets on sides, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering (joints, bands and extremeties somewhat worn). Bourgeois & André 2969; Sauvy, Livres saisis à Paris, p. 5; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; cf.: INED 1073. Augmented edition. Upon its first publication in 1669, also anonymously and outside France, the identity of the author was discovered and he was put in the Bastille (for 15 days). The author may be considered as a precursor of Vauban and Castel de Saint Pierre for his revolutionary ideas of reforming the tax system, and for his ideas concerning the clergy, commerce and protestants, etc. 'In Colbert's time Paul Hay, marquis de Chatelet, and forerunner of Vauban, pointed out that extreme poverty conducted to death and disease and thus served to depeople rural regions; that tax reforms were necessary to improve economic conditions. Although he opposed the association of rural with urban workers, on the ground that the former would become insolent and acquire corrupt customs, he asserted, like Colbert, that man's happiness is the end of 'la politique'. He condemned the expulsion of the Huguenots as unchristian' (Spengler, French predecessors of Malthus, p. 12). Spengler also points to the fact that this work inspired some of Vauban's ideas on taxation (see also: Vignes, Origines de la dîme de Vauban). The Réflexions added under the pseudonym of Ormegregny are by Pierre Dumoulin. They deal only with the two chapters concerning the clergy and the protestants. EUR 600
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(HEBERT, J.R.) Petit carême de l'abbé Maury, ou sermons prêchés dans l'Assemblée des Enragés. Sermon pour le premier dimanche de carême de l'année 1790. Cours complet de morale aristocratique, à l'usage des jeunes gentilshommes de ce siècle. (Drop-head titles). (Paris, Imprimerie de J. Grand, 1790). 10 nrs - (Followed by:) (HEBERT, J.R.) Vie privée de l'Abbé Maury, écrite sur ces mémoires fournis par lui-même, pour joindre à son petit carême. (Paris, Imprimerie de J. Grand), 1790. - (Followed by:) (HEBERT, J.R.) Le Chien et le Chat, ou les deux Mirabeau. (Paris, Imprimerie de J. Grand), 1790. - (Followed by:) LA NOUVELLE lanterne magique, pièce curieuse. Dédiée aux Gens de Province, Par un Sous Lieutenant de Riquette Cravatte. A Paris, de l'Imprimerie des Savoyards, 1790. - (Followed by:) VIE PRIVEE et politique de J.-R. Hébert, auteur du Père Duchéne. Pour faire suite aux Vies de Manuel, Pétion, Brissot et d'Orléans. A Paris, Se trouve à l'Imprimerie de Franklin, l'An II de la République (1794). 5 works in 1 volume. 80 pp.; (2), 28 pp.; 16 pp.; (2), 36 pp.; 36 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering on spine, marbled boards. First work: Not in Martin & Walter; Tourneux 23995; Hatin, p. 167. All published of the first series. Second work: Martin & Walter 16432; Tourneux 23996. Third work: Martin & Walter, Journaux, 201; Tourneux 11357; Hatin p, 167. Periodical of which 3 numbers in all were published according to Tourneux and 4 according to Hatin, who however states never to have seen no. 3. Fourth work: Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 10814; not in Tourneux. Fifth work: Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 17996w; not in Tourneux. All original editions. - Rare and interesting 'receuil' by and on Hébert. Jacques-René Hébert (1757-1794), member of the Paris Commune, dechristianizer, leader of the Paris sans-culottes. He began to publish the Père Duchesne in 1790, which journal became by far the most popular of all revolutionary journals. Hébert did not aim at a bourgeois republic but at a democratic one, which was a disturbing prospect. Jean Siffrein Maury (1746-1817) was a cleric and counterrevolutionary. (For both see: Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799. vol i, pp. 457 ff and vol. ii, pp. 645-646). EUR 1100
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(HELVETIUS, C.A.) De l'esprit. A La Haye, Chez Pierre Moetjens, (Provins, Michelin), 1759. With title-vignettes, titles printed inred and black. 3 volumes. (4), viii, x, 244 pp.; (4), xi, 209 pp.; (4), 166, iv, 34 pp. 12mo. Contemporary polished calf, spines gilt in compartments, gilt fillets on sides, gilt lettering to spine, a very good copy. Smith, E.10; Keim p. 714; Thomas, Checklist, p. 72; not in Tchemerzine-Scheler. Rare clandestine edition, made 'à la Hollandaise' by Michelins in Provins, of this epoch-making work which brought together the 'philosophes' in a common front against their ennemies (see: Belin, Commerce des livres prohibés, p. 102). - In this copy the 'Tables sommaires' are bound before the 'discourses.' Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771) obtained the lucrative post of fermier-général in which he soon grew rich. He became known, however, for the philantropic and enlightened uses he made of his great wealth, particularly as a patron of the philosophers and men of letters. He resigned in 1751 from tax-farming, married and retired to his country estate, thenceforth devoting himself primarily to philosophical and literary persuits. The publication in 1758 of his principal work, De l'Esprit, proved to be one of the ideological causes célébres of the eighteenth century. Appearing at a moment of political reaction, De l'Esprit was noisily condemned by the authorities, both ecclesiastical and ministerial, for its dangerously heretical and subversive opinions. No book during the eighteenth century, except perhaps Rousseau's Emile, evoked such an outcry from the religious and civil authorities or such universal public interest. Condemned as atheistic, materialistic, sacrilegious, immoral and subversive, it enjoyed a remarkable succès de scandale. It lost its privilège within a fortnight of its publication. It was attacked in Church periodicals and in polemical pamphlets, in the literary salons and in popular songs, from bishops' pulpits and from the stage of the Théâtre français. When the work appeared it was censured by the Sorbonne, the pope and the Parlement of Paris and in 1759 it was burnt by the public executioner. Even Diderot found himself unable to subscribe to it. But in spite of Diderot's systematic refutation of the work and in spite of the fact that Helvétius never collaborated in the Encyclopédie the authorities held the sensationalistic philosophy expounded by the encyclopédistes responsible for Helvétius dangerous principles. The appearance of De l'Esprit was thus an important factor in the second suppression of the Encyclopédie. The thought of Helvétius sprang mainly from the predominant current of sensualism in the Enlightenment, which he fashioned with marked originality into what may be described as a thoroughgoing doctrine of 'environmental behaviorism'. EUR 1000
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(HELVETIUS, CL.-A.) Le vrai sens du système de la nature, Ouvrage posthume de Mr. Helvetius. Londres, 1774. (4), v-viii, 96 pp. 8vo. Old printed decorated wrappers (uncut, slightly foxed, scribbling on title). Smith, A5; Tchermerzine-Scheler, iii, p. 679-a.; cf. Conlon 74:1054 and Cioranescu 33653 listing the 151 pages edition only; not in Barbier; not in Thomas; Darnton, The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France 1769-1789, 717; Le Bucher Bibliographique, 723. The rarest of the three editions of the first year of publication: the work is most likely not written by Helvetius. David Smith lists the work in his bibliography of the writings of Helvetius but under "Apocryphal Works". According to Vercruysse, Bibliographie d'Holbach, p. 45, this work can neither be attributed to d'Holbach nor Helvetius. It does however give a faithfull resumé of d'Holbachs Système de la Nature and certainly originates from his circle. We handled some copies of the 151 page edition (Tchemerzine 679b) in the past, and it is cited by most bibliographers next to the 84 page edition (Tchemerzine 679c), but the 96 pp. edition seems to lack in most collections. EUR 600
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(HENRIQUEZ, J.) Code des Seigneurs Hauts-Justiciers et Féodaux, ou Maximes concernant les Fiefs & Droits féodaux, les Justices seigneuriales, & les Droits qui appartiennent aux Seigneurs à cause de leur Justice. Par M**** Avocat en Parlement. A Senlis, chez Des Rocques; & à Paris, Chez Nyon, Knapen, Duchesne, 1761. xii, 368, (4) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, front joint split but solid, red edges. Camus 1074 (later editions); Conlon 61:745. First edition. Jean Henriquez (1728-1800?), lawyer, and later procureur du roi in the prévoté of Dun. EUR 300
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(HENRY III.) Lettres patentes de déclaration du Roy, sur le fait de la marine & admiraulté de France. Publiez en Parlement le troisiesme iour d'Avril, 1576. A Rouen, De l'Imprimerie de Martin le Mesgissier, 1612. Royal coat of arms on title. 20 unnumbered pp. 12mo. Modern boards. Catalogue des Actes Royaux, i, 2896 (1584 edition); Lindsay & Neu 2777. First collective edition of these offical texts issued during the reign of Henry III with the purpose of confirming and enlarging the rights and prerogatives of the admiralty of France. Handwritten date (12 fevrier 1576) on title-page. EUR 200
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(HERBERT, C.J.) Essai sur la police générale des grains, sur leurs prix & sur les effets de l'agriculture. A Berlin, 1757. iv, xviii, 435, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering, red edges. Higgs 1474; Kress 5617 (incomplete copy); Weulersse, i, xx; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED. The best edition. Including the 'Arrêt du Conseil d'Etat du Roi, qui, entr'autres dispositions, ordonne que le commerce de toute espèce de grains sera libre entièrement par terre et par les rivières, de province à province, dans l'intérieur du Royaume. Du 17 Septembre 1754', to which referrence is made in the Avertissement. The basic importance of agriculture in the life of the French nation was equally emphasized by C.J. Herbert, who held labor and land to be the primary resources of a nation, and agriculture its basic industry. Upon agriculture depended a nation's power and wealth, its ability to colonize, the fruitfulness of its commerce, and the capacity of its territory to support population. Having demonstrated the basic importance of agriculture to the political and economic strength of France, Herbert indicated that French agriculture was languishing, and its revivification was essential to the aggrandizement of the nation and to the felicity of its inhabitants; ..... Herbert advocated the improvement of grain markets and prices through inauguration of the right to export grain, modifications in the tax system, and the establishment of a research bureau to discover how agriculture could be improved, and why some provinces were more favorable to agriculture, manufacturing, and population growth than others. (Spengler, French predecessors of Malthus, pp. 67-72). Valuable work, cited with praise by Adam Smith. EUR 750
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(HERBERT, C.J.) Observations sur la liberté du commerce des grains. A Amsterdam, Et se vend à Paris, Chez Michel Lambert, Humblot, 1759. - (Bound with:) (LE MOYNE DE BELLE-ISLE.) Mémoire surla liberté de l'exportation et de l'importation des grains. (Drop-head title) No place, no date (1764). - (Bound with:) (CARADEUC) DE LA CHALOTAIS, L.-R. de. Discours ... pour l'enregistrement de l'édit du Roi concernant la liberté de la sortie et de l'entrée des grains dans le royaume. (Drop-head title). (In fine:) A Rennes, Chez Vatar, (1764). - (Bound with:) LETTRE du Parlement séant à Toulouse au Roi, au sujet de l'Edit de sa Majesté donné à Compiègne au mois de juillet 1764, concernant la liberté de la sortie et de l'entrée des grains dans le royaume. (Drop-head title). (In fine:) A Toulouse, en Parlement, 11 août 1764. - (Bound with:) (BOURGELAT, Claude). Lettre d'un ingénieur de province, à un inspecteur des ponts et chaussées, pour servir de suite à l'Ami des hommes. A Avignon (Paris, Duchesne), 1760. - (Bound with:) FONTETTE, François-Jean d'Orceau de. Lettre de M. de Fontette, Intendant de Caen à M***. Avec son mémoire pour justifier la construction et l'entretien des grands chemins dans la Généralité de Caen. No place, no date (1760). - (Bound with:) VERON DE FORBONNAIS, François. Lettre de M. Du T... négociant à Paris, à M. Rissch, négociant à Francfort sur les ouvrages et bijoux d'Or et d'Argent . (Drop-head title). No place, no date (1756). Seven works bound in one volume. (4), 60 pp.; 40 pp.; 23, (1) pp.; 6 pp.;(2), 72 pp.; 40 pp.; 59, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, green label with gilt lettering, red sprinkled edges. First work: INED 2257; Kress 5784; not in Goldsmiths; not in Mattioli; not in Einaudi; not in Higgs.First edition.In favour of free trade in grains: agriculture is the best way to provide work for people and the best way to make sure that agricultre develops is free trade in grains. According to the note in INED this little and very scarce tract was intended as introduction for another work which would deal with the ways and means to provide work.The work has also been attributed to Claude Humbert Piarron de Chamousset. Second work: INED 2798; Higgs 3160; Goldsmiths 9981; not in Kress; not in Mattioli; not in Einaudi.First edition.This work has been published without a title-page and is identical to the three copies preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France and is also identical to the copies listed in Higgs, Goldsmiths and INED.In favour of the suppression on monopolies which will bring many advantages to the trade in grains. Third work: INED 943; Higgs 3166; Goldsmiths 9975; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli.First edition."J'ai l'honneur de vous annoncer ... la liberté du commerce des grains." In favour of the edict and in favour of even enlarging its reach.Fourth work: Not in INED; not in Higgs; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Mattioli; not in Einaudi.In favour of free trade but regretting the fact the port of Agde is not allowed to export.Fifth work: INED 739; not in Kress, not in Goldsmiths, not in Higgs; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli (only mentioned as part of Mirabeau's Ami des Hommes, edition Hambourg 1760).First edition.On the inconveniencies of the "corvées" and the "milices".Sixth work: INED 1858; not in Kress, Goldsmiths, Einaudi, Higgs or Mattioli.Dealing with the inconveniencies of the "corvées" levied in "nature" (that is, work) and taxes in relation to the construction of roadsSeventh work: INED 4431; Higgs 1187; Goldsmiths 9144; not in Kress, Einaudi or Mattioli.First edition and very rare.An economists defense of the silver- and goldsmith jewellers and argues that various measures and regulations with regards to this profession in fact are not only an obstacle but are also responsible for a continued rising of the prices.Tear in inner and upper margin page 3, and pages 9-12, not affecting text. EUR 2250
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(HOLBACH, P.H.D.TH. D'.) Système de la nature. Ou des loix du monde physique & du monde moral. Par M. Mirabaud. Sécretaire perpétuel, et l'un des quarante de l'Académie Françoise. Londres (Amsterdam, M.M. Rey), 1770. 2 volumes. (12), 366 pp.; (6), 408 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt triple fillet on sides, green labels with gilt lettering. Printing and the Mind of Man, 215; Vercruysse 1770-A7; Naville 417; Thomas, Checklist, 78; Kress 6737; Goldsmiths 10607; INED 2289; Higgs 5120; Peignot, ii, 181-184; not in Einaudi. Second issue of the first edition, with the errata corrected. This is Holbach's most famous work (and in which he was very likely assisted by Diderot) and expounds a complete theorie of materialism.Holbach contributed some four hundred articles to the Encyclopédie of his lifelong friend and colleague Denis Diderot. Diderot, d'Alembert, Helvetius, Voltaire and others of the philosophes met frequently for dinner and philosophical discussion at the Baron's house, which became known as 'the café of Europe' (among foreign visitors were Wilkes, Hume and Sterne). In the Système Holbach rejected the Cartesian mind-body dualism and attempted to explain all phenomena, physical and mental, in terms of matter in motion. Holbach rejected religion because he saw it as a wholly harmful influence, and he tried to supply a desirable alternative. In fact he outlined a whole ethical and political philosophy, which he expanded in his later works. Holbach may not have been a great original thinker (his important ideas can already be found in predecessors such as Hobbes, Locke and La Mettrie), but by combining various elements in their thought and pressing it to the logical conclusion he reached the most extreme position in eighteenth-century free-thought. In fact, the present book caused a rift in the ranks of the philosophes, dividing them between deists and atheists, and even provoked Voltaire to reply in defense of religion. EUR 1100
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(HOLBACH, P.H.D.TH. D'.) Histoire critique de Jésus Christ, ou, Analyse raisonnée des Evangiles. No place, (Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey?), (1770). viii, xxxii, 398, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf, gilt triple fillet on sides, spine gilt with raised bands and label with gilt lettering, red edges. Vercruysse 1770-A4; Naville p. 417; Thomas, Checklist, p. 76; Darnton, The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France 1769-1789, 286; Le Bucher bibliographique, 741. First edition. 'Examen critique et érudit en dix-huit chapitres des quatre évangiles canoniques. Les récits évangéliques ne sont qu'un tissu de fables, erreurs et contradictions. Le dernier chapitre dresse un tableau du Christianisme depuis Constantin. Soulignant le caractère néfaste général de la religion chrétienne, Holbach invite ses lecteurs à mener une vie conforme à la nature' (Vercruysse, D'Holbach et ses Amis, 1760-1789, p. 16). The work was put on the index on February 16, 1778. - Author's name on title in an old hand. EUR 1250
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(HOLBACH, P.H.D.TH. D'.) La contagion Sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la superstition. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois. Londres (Amsterdam, M.M. Rey), 1768. 2 volumes in 1. x, (2), 169 pp.; (4), 184 pp. 12mo. Early 19th-century calf, gilt and blind stamped borders on sides, spine gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, somewhat rubbed and worn, damage to head of spine. Vercruysse, 1768-A2; Thomas, Checklist, p. 75; Naville, p. 414; Peignot i, p. 180. First edition. The work was presented as a translation of a text by John Trenchard. First noticed in the Correspondance littéraire of 15 August 1768, condamned 'à être lacérée et brûlée' on 18 August 1770 and actually done the 20th. The 15 chapters of the work underline the desastrous role of religion, especially if tied to civil power ('pouvoir civil'). The religious morality is rejected in favour of a natural morality, contains also a profound statement in favour of tolerance as well as in favor of a lay society. The work belongs, with a group of other works such as Le Christiansisme dévoilée, Théologie portative, Lettres à Eugénie and Histoire critique de Jésus-Christ to the works in which the recurring theme is a vehement restatement of almost all the arguments for unbelief current in eighteenth-century France. - The binding of this work suggests that one holds a 19th century churchbook although the spine reads 'La Contagion Sacrée'. EUR 600
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(HOLBACH, P.H.D.TH. D'.) Système de la nature, Ou des loix du monde physique & du monde moral. Par M. Mirabaud. Sécretaire perpétuel, & l'un des quarante de l'Académie Françoise. Nouvelle Édition. Premiere Partie [- Seconde Partie]. A Londres, 1781. 2 volumes. (12), 316, pp.; (4), 385, (3) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, gilt triple fillet on sides, all edges gilt. Vercruysse 1781-A1. This is Holbach's most famous work (and in which he was very likely assisted by Diderot) and expounds a complete theorie of materialism.Holbach contributed some four hundred articles to the Encyclopédie of his lifelong friend and colleague Denis Diderot. Diderot, d'Alembert, Helvetius, Voltaire and others of the philosophes met frequently for dinner and philosophical discussion at the Baron's house, which became known as 'the café of Europe' (among foreign visitors were Wilkes, Hume and Sterne). In the Système Holbach rejected the Cartesian mind-body dualism and attempted to explain all phenomena, physical and mental, in terms of matter in motion. Holbach rejected religion because he saw it as a wholly harmful influence, and he tried to supply a desirable alternative. In fact he outlined a whole ethical and political philosophy, which he expanded in his later works.Holbach may not have been a great original thinker (his important ideas can already be found in predecessors such as Hobbes, Locke and La Mettrie), but by combining various elements in their thought and pressing it to the logical conclusion he reached the most extreme position in eighteenth-century free-thought. In fact, the present book caused a rift in the ranks of the philosophes, dividing them between deists and atheists, and even provoked Voltaire to reply in defense of religion.The pages 339-385 contain l'Abrégé du code de la nature and the Réquisitoire du 18 août 1770. - A very good copy. EUR 1000
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(HOLBACH, P.H.TH. D'). Théologie portative, ou Dictionnaire abrégé de la Religion Chrétienne. Par l'Abbé Bernier, licencié en Théologie. A Rome, 1775. 213, (3) pp. 8vo. Contemporary red morocco, gilt double fillet with ornamental gilt border on sides, spine gilt with raised bands, green morocco label with gilt letering, all edges gilt. Vercruysse 1775-A7; d'Holbach et ses Amis, 1574; Pfälzische Landesbibliothek, Katalog zur Ausstellung 1989, 38; Naville 413; Thomas, Checklist, 78; Le Bûcher Bibliographique, 761; Peignot, i, 117; Darnton, The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789, 676. First published in 1768, in which year it saw two new editions as well, condamned in 1776 to be flogged and burnt. Attribution has been made to Dulaurens and Voltaire but nowadays the book is generally acknowledged to have been written at least for the major part by Holbach. - A beautiful copy of this interesting and quite scarce work. 'Annoncé par d'Alembert à Voltaire le 14 août 1767; condamné à la lacération et au feu par le Parlement de Paris le 16 février 1776. Il s'agit peut-être d'un ouvrage collectif où la part d'Holbach dans ses 'propos de table' est cependant prépondérante. Dictionnaire facétieux de la vie religieuse, des croyances et usages, d'Aron' à 'Zèle', sur un ton hostile et franc qui fait songer à Voltaire. Dans le discours préliminaire, le pseudo-abbé fait l'apologie ironique de la religion, de son alliance avec le trône, etc.'The 'Arret' by which this work was forbidden stated that this publication was 'scandaleuse, impie, blasphématoire, tendant à anéantir les fondemens de la religion, et conséquemment à détruire les principes de sûreté et honnêteté publique ....'This biting satirical anti-religious dictionary was translated into Russian in 1925. EUR 1750
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(HURAULT, M. DE BELESBAT ET DU FAY.) Le recueil des excellens et libres discours sur l'estat présent de la France. Imprimé nouvellement. No place, 1606. 11 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. 18th-century marbled calf, spine gilt (slightly worn, head and lower bands slightly damaged). Adams H.1196; not in BMSTC (French); cf.: Alden & Landis, 606/65 (listing 3 parts only); not in JFBL; not in Sabin; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. The separate pieces are listed as follows: 1-2: Hauser 3040; cf.: Lindsay & Neu 1321; 3-6: Hauser 3061, 2931; cf.: Lindsay & Neu 1835; 7: Not in Hauser; Lindsay & Neu 1330; 8: Cf.: Hauser 3031; Lindsay & Neu 2333; 9: Not in Hauser; Lindsay & Neu 2334; 10: Cf.: Hauser 3187; Lindsay & Neu 2332; 11: Not in Hauser; Lindsay & Neu 2314. Originally published in 1588, and called by Allen, in his Political thought in the Sixteenth Century, 'the most clear-sighted and fair-minded of all the writers of that troubled time. (....) It contains far the best contemporary appreciation of the situation ....' (p. 343). Contains: (HURAULT, M.) Discours sur l'estat présent de la France. - (Followed by:) (HURAULT, M.) Second discours sur l'estat présent de la France. 2 parts. (1592). Together 162, (2, blank) lvs. - (ARNAULD, A.) La Fleur de Lys. Qui est le discours d'un François retenu dans Paris, sur les impiétez & desguisemens contenus au manifeste d'Espagne publié au mois janivor (sic) dernier, 93. - (Followed by:) (ARNAULD, A.) L'anti-espagnol, et exhortation de ceux de Paris, qui le se veulent faire Espagnols: à tous les François de leur party, de se remettre en l'obeyssance du Roy Henry IIII. & se délivrer de la tyrannie de Castille. - (Followed by:) (ARNAULD, A.) Discours des grands effects qui ont suivy la conversion du Roy. - (Followed by:) (ARNAULD, A.) Libre discours sur la délivrance de la Bretagne. (1593-98). 4 parts. Together 64, (1) lvs. - (Followed by:) MAILLARD, A. Apologie de maistre André Maillart, conseiller du Roy & maistre des requestes ordinaires de sa Maiesté. No place 1588. 72 pp. - (Followed by:) (MAILLARD, A.) Le Francophile pour très-grand, très-chrestien, très-mananime et très belligieux Prince Henri Auguste IIII, Roy de France & de Navarre. Contre les conspirations du Roy d'Espagne, du Pape & des rebelles de France. No place 1606. 115 (misnumbered 113) pp. - (Followed by:) (MAILLARD, A.) La fulminante pour feu très-grand et très-chrestien Prince Henry III, Roy de France & de Pologne. Contre Sixte V soy disant Pape de Rome & les rebelles de la France. No place, 1606. 58 pp. - (Followed by:) (LESCHASSIER, J.) La maledie de la France. (ab. 1606). 45 pp. (Caption title). - (Followed by:) COPIE d'une lettre escrite au Roy par un gentil-homme François. Sur les bruits qui courent que sa Majesté veut aller assieger Sedan. No place 1606. 27 pp.These 11 parts are preceded by a general titlepage as given above, and by preliminaries containing an Avis de l'imprimeur and an index giving the titles of all 11 parts. The first two parts include references to Spanish control of Indian riches and to Spanish treasures of the Indies. The texts by Arnauld refer to Spanish cruelties and to Spanish expulsion of the French from Florida. Extremely rare and interesting 'recueil', which may also be considered as the first book in which having colonies is regarded as necessary for economic development. See at length: Noel, Histoire du commerce du monde, vol. 2, pp. 192ff. EUR 2500
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(HURAULT, M. DE BELESBAT ET DU FAY.) Le Recueil des excellens et libres discours sur l'estat prèsent de la France. Imprimé nouvellement. No place, 1598. 6 parts in 1 volume. (4), 162, 65 leaves. 12mo. Contemporary limp vellum (ties gone). Adams H.1196; not in BMSTC (French); European Americana 598/55; not in JFBL; not in Sabin. Originally published in 1588, and called by Allen, in his Political thought in the Sixteenth Century, 'the most clear-sighted and fair-minded of all the writers of that troubled time. (....) It contains far the best contemporary appreciation of the situation ....' (p. 343). - With a small wormtrack in the lower blank margin of the first 5 leaves, a few leaves with a small dampstain in the lower outer corner, name handwritten in blank portion of title-page. An interesting collection and extremely rare. Collection of 6 pieces re-issued under a general title, the separate works are listed as follows: 1-2. (HURAULT, M.) Discours sur l'estat présent de la France. - (Followed by:) (HURAULT, M.) Second discours sur l'estat présent de la France. 2 parts. (1592). Together 162, (2, blank) lvs. (Hauser 3040; Lindsay & Neu 1321).3. (ARNAULD, A.) La fleur de lys. Qui est le discours d'un François retenu dans Paris, sur les impiétez & desguisemens contenu au manifeste d'Espagne publié au mois de Janvier denier. (Drop-head title). No place, (1594). 19 leaves and recto of leaf 20. (Cf. Hauser 2931; cf: Lindsay & Neu 1835).4. (ARNAULD, A.) L'anti Espagnol, et exhortation de ceux de Paris, qui ne se veulent faire Espagnols: à tous les François de leur party, de se remettre en l'obeyssance du Roy Henry III & se délivrer de la tyrannie de Castille. (Drop-head title). No place, (1594). Leaf 20 verso-leaf 48 recto. (Cf. Hauser 3061; Lindsay & Neu 1834).5. DISCOURS des grands effects qui ont suivy la conversion du Roy. Tiré d'une Harangue faicte à .....sur la réduction de la ville de Lyon. Envoyée à Monsieur De Revol. (Drop-head title). No place, (1594). leaf 48 verso-leaf 58. (Not in Lindsay & Neu).6. LIBRE DISCOURS sur la délivrance de la Bretagne. (Drop-head title). No place, (1594). Leaf 59-(65). (Not in Lindsay & Neu).The first two parts include references to Spanish control of Indian riches and to Spanish treasures of the Indies. The texts by Arnauld refer to Spanish cruelties and to Spanish expulsion of the French from Florida. EUR 1750
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(JANSENIUS, C. PSEUD.:) ALEXANDER PATRICIUS ARMACANUS. Mars Gallicus, seu De Justitia armorum et foederum regis Galliae, libri duo. Edition novissima. No place, 1639. 442, (10) pp. 16mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, a bit worn. Cf.: Willaert, Bibliotheca Janseniana Belgica, 2011; Bourgeois & André 8466. The first edition appeared 1635. A violent attack on French ambitions generally, and on Richelieu's indifference to international Catholic interests in particular.The author is Cornelis Jansen, the Flemish bishop around whose theological writings and doctrines the movement of Jansenism developped in the seventeenth century. The movement was confined principally to France, where it had an important and many sided influence on social and political life in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. - Contemporary ownership's entry on title. EUR 450
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(JEZE.) Journal du Citoyen. A La Haye, 1754. With title vignette and many tables in the text. x, 486 (misnumbered 484) pp. 8vo.Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt, red edges (lightly worn, extremities rubbed, front joint split). Kress 5363; Goldsmiths 8892; Higgs 923; INED 2357; Conlon 54:746; not in Einaudi. First edition. - Somewhat browned throughout. 'A statistical handbook on Paris - government, finance, tariffs, dues, trades, etc.' (Higgs), among other things also the Compagnie des Indes is being dealt with.'Guide pratique de Paris. "Ce que vous ne trouverez guère que dans ce journal, ce sont les chambres ou hôtels garnis qu'il y a dans chaque quartier, les endroits où l'on donne à manger, le prix des loyers et celui des repas." Nombreux renseignements et chiffres sur la vie économique et sociale de Paris' (INED). "Sous ce titre se trouve un ouvrage rempli de details interessants sur Paris, et qu'on chercherait vainement ailleurs. On y trouve les prix d'une foule d'objets de commerce et d'usage journalier, la description tres detaillee des lieux les plus frequentes" (Dufour, 'Biblio de Paris', p 278). EUR 650
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(JOLY, C.) Traité des restitutions des grands, précédé d'une lettre touchant quelques points de la morale chrestienne. (Bruxelles, Fr. Foppens), 1665. Sphere on title. (2), 96, 228 pp. 16mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, slightly worn, top and bottom of spine a little damaged, small repair to upper margin of boards. Willems 1366; Bourgeois & André 6540; Peignot, Livres condamnés, i, p. 199; Kress 1158; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Le Bucher bibliographique, 537. In this counterfeit edition page 225 is correctly numbered and the word 'obeissant' on page 228 of the first edition, is here spelled 'obeyssant'. The original edition was of the same year and was published by Elzevier in Amsterdam. 'Le chanoine de Notre Dame expose ses idées hardies sous forme de deux lettres, dont la première concerne la morale chrétienne seule. Dans la seconde, il soutient que les grands et les puissants sont 'obligés en conscience de réparer et restituer tous les torts et dommages qui sont faits à leurs peuples.' Le prince ne peut établir de nouveaux impôts que 'selon les lois et les formes anciennes de son Etat, qui sont immuables et qui ne peuvent être latérées sous prétexte d'aucune nécessité', c.-à-d. sans le consentement des États-Généraux et la vérification du Parlement: 'car les rois ne sont pas maîtres de nos vies et de nos biens.' Il critique la lourdeur des impôts, les prêts usuraires des partisans: d'où ruine des princes et des peuples: et, à la fin, il cite des exemples de restitution. Intéressant, malgré une érudition copieuse et lourde' (Bourgeois & André). Small wonder this work was published outside France, where another work of the author was burnt in the same year. 'Claude Joly (1607-1700), French political theorist. Joly's writings are characteristic of the intellectual unrest which marked the troubled period of the Fronde and which inspired the many timely political pamphlets known as Mazarinades. Among them his pamphlets stand out because of their synthetic and philosophic treatment of the problems of government. Joly maintained that this work was by no means factional but on the contrary conformed to traditional French political principles. Opposed to despotism, he declared that the people had actually instituted the kingship and that consequently kings derived their authority from them. This theory he attempted to reconcile by rather subtle arguments with the principle of the divine right of kings' (Henri Sée in ESS, iv, p. 413). EUR 1100
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(JURIEU, P.) Les soupirs de la France esclave, qui aspire après la liberté. Amsterdam, septembre 1, 1689 - octobre 1, 1690 (Paris, EDHIS, 1976). 228 pp. 4to. Modern leather. Well executed reprint of this rare and important work. Edition limited to 150 numbered copies and 30 copies not destined for the trade. This reprint is since long out-of-print. Above anything else, the Soupirs de la France Esclave ..... is a vehement protest against the absolutism of Louis XIV and strongly pleads for the rights of the people: 'les peuples ont établi les Rois pour conserver les personnes, la vie, la liberté et les biens des particuliers'; but the French government has become so tyrannical that it now sees everything as its rightful property; properly speaking there is no State or government but only the conveniences of the King. It should be noted that the work is not an apology of egalitarianism: it blames Louis XIV for having abolished the privileges of the different classes by which it has also erased all distinctions between the classes.The first three memoirs describe the oppression and the tyranny under which the people suffer and the general misery. The next two memoirs reveals by which means the court has established it absolut power and its abuses, in the memoirs 6-8 the author maintains that the crown is elective and the Salic Law of no value, that power rests with the Estates general ('les dépositaires du pouvoir') and superior to the King and that the 'Parlement' has been created to represent these Estats general. The memoirs 9 and 10 deal with the 'Grand Conseil', the 'maires du palais', 'des pairs, des ducs, comtes, etc.' who once were independant but are today no more than slaves. The memoirs 11-15 deal with the earlier periods of France when there was no standing army and oppressing taxes and how the monarchy can be brought back to its former state.'Cette publication fut naturellement l'objet d'une surveillance spéciale de la police de Louis XIV. On détruisit avec le plus grand soin tous les exemplaires sur lesquels on put mettre la main; et elle devint si rare, qu'en 1772 le chancelier Maupeou en acheta un exemplaire dans une vente au prix de cinq cents livres sur l'enchère du Duc d'Orléans' (Brunet).The work is also often attributed to Michel Le Vassor and it has also been supposed that Jurieu is the author of the last 2 memoirs only. EUR 125
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(LA GERVAISAIS, N.L.M. MAGON DE.) L'Auteur du système. (1720-1825). Paris, Hivert & Ponthieu (imprimé par A. Pihan Delaforest), 1825. (2), 22 pp. 8vo. Sewn, uncut, no cover. Kress C.1461; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli; Quérard, Anonymes, i, 319. First edition. One of the many pamphlets this political figure and economist published during the years 1815-1838.This one is particularly directed against the ministry of finance and aims to demonstrate the ministry's unbalanced policy.The title is an obvious allusion to John Law and his system.According to Michaud, the works of La Gervaisais were always published by Hivert and Delaforest and were never meant for the trade but were distributed by him among friends, politicians, ministers, journalists, etc. and they are consequently quite rare. EUR 225
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(LA GERVAISAIS, N.L.M.M., MARQUIS DE.) La tactique de Tribune. Paris, Hivert, Delaforest, 1826. - (Bound with:) NOTE relative à la brochure intitulée La Tactique de la Tribune, qui vient d'être distribuée à la Chambre. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie d'A. Henry, (1826). - (Bound with:) (LA GERVAISAIS, N.L.M.M., MARQUIS DE.) Contre-note en réponse à Note relative à la brochure intitulée La Tactique de Tribune. Paris, Hivert, Delaforest, 1826. Three works in one volume. 26 pp.; 3, (1) pp.; 7, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards, label with gilt lettering. First work: Kress C.1708; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli.Second work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli.Third work: Kress C.1706; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli. First editions. A criticism of the government's financial plans, the 'Note' accuses La Gervaisais of not quite understanding the English budget (about which he spoke in the first text) and the last text is a defense of La Gervaisais against his anonymous opponent.According to Michaud, the works of La Gervaisais were always published by Hivert and Delaforest and were never meant for the trade but were distributed by him among friends, politicians, ministers, journalists, etc. EUR 400
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(LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, F. DE.) Memoires de M.D.L.R. Sur les Brigues à la mort de Louys XIII. Les guerres de Paris & de Guyenne, & la Prison des Princes. Apologie pour Monsieur de Beaufort. Memoires de Monsieur de la Chastre. Articles dont sont convenus Son Altesse Royalle & Monsieur le Prince pour l'expulsion du Cardinal Mazarin. Lettre du Cardinal à Monsieur de Brienne. A Cologne, Chez Pierre van Dyck, 1662. (4), 400 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, slightly rubbed. Brunet iii, col. 848; Willems 1997; Rahir 3104; Tchemerzine-Scheler, p. 25-27; Marchand, J., Bibliographie générale raisonnée de la Rochefoucauld, 3. One of three editions: rather complicated bibliographically: this copy is partly in conformity with the work described on p. 25 in Tchermezine-Scheler: the title-page is identical but the errors in numbering are not present with the exception of the second one; the work is partly in conformity with the copy described on p. 27: the same errors in pagination, but the title-page is not identical to our copy; according to Rahir this copy is the third edition, according to Willems this is the first edition, one of the copies without the errata-leaf, and according to Marchand this is the "seconde édition originale". The book was printed in Brussels by Foppens, it contains, after the title, "Le Libraire au Lecteur" in which text mention is made of the errors in the text due to the haste with which the book is given to the public, followed by the Memoires de la Rochefoucauld, p. 21: Guerre de Paris; p. 100: Retraite de Monsieur de Longueville en son Gouvernementde Normandie, pendant la guerre de Paris, 1649; p. 115: Recapitulation de ce que dessus Avec la prison des Princes; p. 149: Ce qui se passa depuis la prison des Princes Jusqu'à la guerre de Guyenne; p. 189: Guerre de Guyenne, et la derniere de Paris; p. 257: Apologie ou deffence de Monsieur de Beaufort; Contre la Cour, la Noblesse & le Peuple; p. 277: Memoires de Monsieur de la Chastre Sur ce qui s'est passé à la fin de la vie de Louys XIII & au commencement de la Regence; p. 385: Lettre escrite à Monsieur de Brienne, dont il est parlé dans la Relation; p. 387: Articles & conditions dont S.A.R & M. le Prince sont convenus pour l'expulsion du C. Mazarin, en consequence des Declarations du Roy, & des Articles des Parlemens de France; p. 394: Lettre de Monsieur le Cardinal Mazarin à Monsieur de Brienne.The famous memoirs about the civil wars in France during the minority of Louis XVI clandestinely published by La Rochefoucauld (1613-80), best known for his Maxims. The author joined the aristocratic anarchy of the Fronde, and took part in the sieges of Paris and Mardyke. - Bookplate on front paste-down. EUR 750
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(LAFOY, G. DE.) Parallèle des assemblées provinciales établies en Normandie, avec l'assemblée des États de ce duché. No place, 1788. - (Bound with:) (LAFOY, G. DE.) Additions au parallèle. No place, 1788. 2 volumes in 1. 34 pp.; 42 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, corners, slightly worn. Quérard, iii, p. 779 (first part only); Renouvin, Les assemblées provinciales, xv; Frère ii, 132. First (and only?) edition. - With bookplate on front paste-down. Historical and comparative essay while the addition discusses the Procès-verbal de l'Assemblée Provinciale de la haute Normandie.The author was a lawyer at the Parlement de Rouen and recognized learned jurisconsult, born in St. Malo and died in Rouen. The preface to the additions suggest that they have been published by someone else after the author died. EUR 225
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(LAFOY, G. DE.) Parallèle des Assemblées provinciales établies en Normandie, avec l'Assemblée des Etats de ce duché. No place, 1788. - (Followed by:) ADDITION au Parallèle. No place 1788. 2 parts. 34 and 42 pp. 8vo. Sewn, disbound. Quérard, iii, p. 779 (first part only);Renouvin, Les assemblées provinciales, xv; Frère ii, 132. First (and only?) edition. Historical and comparative essay while the addition discusses the Procès-verbal de l'Assemblée Provinciale de la haute Normandie.The author was a lawyer at the Parlement de Rouen and recognized learned jurisconsult, born in St. Malo and died in Rouen. The preface to the additions suggest that they have been published by someone else after the author died. EUR 225
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(LALANCE, A.) La crise de l'industrie cotonnière. Mulhouse, Imprimerie Veuve Bader & Cie., 1879. 20, (1 blank) pp. 8vo. Sewn, original printed covers, a bit browned at edges. Deals with the crises in the coton industry and analyses the arguments put forth by protectionists and the liberals as possible solutions for the grave situation the industry found itself in. EUR 125
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(LAVAUX, C.) Mémoire à l'Assemblée nationale, pour les vingt salpêtriers du Roi, établis dans la ville, fauxbourgs & banlieue de Paris. (Drop-head title). (Paris), N.H.H. Nyon, (1790). 67, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter 19769. Original edition. Includes detailed information on the costs of exploitation during the year 1786. EUR 225
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(LE CORREUR, J.) Traité de la pratique des billets entre les négocians. Par ...... Docteur en Théologie. Seconde édition revûë & augmentée. A Mons (Paris), Chez Gaspard Migeot à l'Enseigne des trois Vertus, 1684. Device on title. (8), 345,(1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, speckled edges, a bit worn. Barbier, iv, 766; Kress 1600; Goldsmiths 2557; Einaudi 3291; INED 2746. Second edition: the work was published in the same year by Thierry in Paris. - Front blank loosening. 'Théologique et juridique. Le Correur se demande si la pratique des billets entre les négociants est une bonne institution. Il s'aide pour cela d'explications et de passages tirés de l'Écriture Sainte, des écrits des Saints Pères, des décrets des Conciles, et des ordonnances royales, que ceux qui condamnent cette pratique allèguent généralement. Il espère avoir ainsi démontré le bien-fondé de cette pratique' (INED). EUR 375
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(LE LABOUREUR, J.) Histoire du gouvernement de la France; de l'origine et de l'autorité des Pairs du Royaume et du Parlement. On y a joint un Traité des Pairies d'Angeleterre; et un autre de laGrandesse d'Espagne. A La Haye & Francfort sur Meyn, Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1743. With engraved frontispiece, titleprinted in red and black. (2), 378, (2, catalogue of Jean van Duren, La Haye) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands. Monod, Bibliographie de l'Histoire de France, 1015; De Réal, Science du gouvernement, viii, pp. 252 ff. First published in 1740 as Histoire de la Pairie de France ....... and reprinted in 1743 under the present title. 'Le Laboureur est l'un des écrivains qui ont le plus contribué à éclaircir l'histoire de France' (Michaud). 'L'auteur entreprend de prouver que ..... le Parlement de Paris représente les Etats du Royaume quand le Roy y va avec les Pairs' (De Réal). The work has sometimes been attributed to De Boulainvilliers. EUR 325
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(LE LABOUREUR, J.) Histoire de la pairie de France et du Parlement de Paris, Où l'on traite aussi des électeurs de l'Empire, & du Cardinalat. Par Monsieur D.B. On y a joint des Traitez touchantles Pairies d'Angleterre, mâles et femelles, & l'origine des Grands d'Espagne, par M. de G***. A Londres, Chez Samuel Harding, 1745. Titles printed in red and black. 2 volumes in 1. (6), 186 pp.; (2), 250, (2) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt unidentified monogram on sides, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, lower compartment of spine damaged. Monod, Bibliographie de l'Histoire de France, 1015; De Réal, Science du gouvernement, viii, 252. First published in 1740, and reprinted as Histoire du Gouvernement de la France ..... in 1743. 'Le Laboureur est l'un des écrivains qui ont le plus contribué à éclaircir l'histoire de France' (Michaud). 'L'auteur entreprend de prouver que le Parlement de Paris représente les États du Royaume quand le Roy y va avec les Pairs' (De Réal). This work has sometimes erroneously been attributed to De Boulainvilliers. EUR 400
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(LE SEURE.) Testament politique de M. de Silhouete. No place, 1772. - (Followed by:) LETTRE sur les Nos 45 & 49 de M. Linguet. No place, no date. - (Followed by:) (LAURENT, C.I.) Lettressur la censure des Principes de Morale de M. l'Abbé de Mably. No place, (1784). - (Followed by:) (CONSTANT DE REBECQUE, M.S.F. DE.) Dernieres pensées du Roi de P***, Écrites de sa main. A Berlin (Geneve), 1787. With a nice title vignette. - (Followed by:) RARETEZ, LES, qui se voyent dans l'eglise royale de S. Denis; Avec des remarques curieuses. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de J. Chardon, 1749. Large vignette on title with fleur-de-lys and a nice head-piece. Five works in one volume. 156, (4, 3 errata, 1, blank) pp; (2), 26 pp.; 48 pp.; 41, (1) pp.; 16 pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, corners bumped, joints and extremities rubbed. First work: INED 2863; not in Kress; not in Higgs; not in Einaudi; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. Etienne Silhouette, to a certain extent influenced by the ideas of Fr. Quesnay, was controleur-général des finances in 1759. He planned to tax the land property of the nobility and to reduce pensions, which provoked his disgrace.The last 4 pages with the errata have been bound between the pages 6 and 7. Second work: The text is preceded by the following title: Lettre aux Rédacteurs du Mercure, sur les Numéros 46 & 49 de M. Linguet, où l'on donne une idée assez juste de la confiance dûe, en général, à ses Annales, & en particulier, à ces Critiques sur les Gouvernemens & les Loix. The text is a scathing attack on Linguet and his works. Third work: Conlon 84:1339; Le Bucher Bibliographique, 768.First edition.The Principes de Morale were condamned by the Sorbonne: the Abbé Laurent here presents a warm and ardent defence of the book in the form of three letters to his nephew. One of the interesting observations he makes is that an unjust judgement, or a biased judgement with regard to decisions of censorship, not only destroys public confidence, but creates general contempt, one of the reasons, the Abbé argues, that censorship must be exercised with great reluctance.Fourth work: Conlon 87:1663; Weller, p. 232; Haag, La France Protestante, iv, p. 32.Marc-Samuel-Francois Constant had a military career in the service of the United Provinces but left the army relatively young. This was apparently due to his friendship with Voltaire who had recognized and stimulated his litererary talents. A list of his works is given both in Quérard and Haag. This work was published the year after the death of the Prussian king. Another edition was published in 1806.Fifth work: This work was not located in any of the bibliographies consulted. Verso title-page the "Approbation" reads: "J'ai lu un Manuscrit intitulé le Trésor, les Corps saints, les Tombeaux, & les Raretez qui se voyent dans l'Eglise Royale de saint Denis en France, avec des Remarques curieuses. Faits à Paris ce 11 May 1715." A work with this title has not been located either. It describes the church of Saint Denis and its architecture and history, it has a section "Remarques sur la veneration que les Rois de France ont toujours porté aux saintes Reliques qui sont dans l'Eglise & dans le Trésor de saint Denis." Margins a bit short.Between the first and second work has been bound an issue of L'Année Littéraire, no 14, 18 avril 1786.Bookplate pasted on front paste-down "A M. l'Abbé Pascal, Bibliothécaire de S.A.S. Monseigneur le Duc de Penthiévre." EUR 750
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(LE VAYER DE BOUTIGNY, R.) Traité des bornes de la puissance ecclesiastique et de la puissance civile avec un sommaire chronologique des entreprises des papes, pour étendre la puissance spirituelle, & des Suites que ces entreprises ont eu, sur tout en France, comme aussi des faits concernant les disputes du tems. Par un conseiller de Grand chambre. Amsterdam, François Changuion, 1734. Title printed in red and black. (4), 192 pp. 8vo. Contemporarycalf with decorated spine and raised bands, joints and edges rubbed. Barbier, iv, 775; Catalogue de l'histoire de France, v, 442 nr. 17; Conlon 34:552. First edition. Roland Le Vayer de Boutigny (1627-1685), one of the most influential councellers of Louis XIV, informed the king at his request on the precise relation between the French State and the Catholic Church in France, and the precise range of his power in ecclesiatical matters. His Dissertations sur l'autorité légitime des rois en matière de régale (1682) is considered 'la synthèse la plus achevée du système gallican' (Dictionnaire de Theologie Catholique.) The manuscript was copied and published probably in Cologne. Le Vayer corrected this fraudulent edition just before his death, but the work continued to appear with different titles and under different author names. Our copy is one of these variant editions of this fundamental text. It was finally published in 1753 under Le Vayers own name as Traité de l'autorité des rois touchant l'administration de l'église.The present work was edited by Delpech de Mérinville.With bookplate on front paste-down: "De Champagneux. Bourgoin." EUR 500
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(LEBLOIS, M.J.) Acte d'accusation contre les membres du Comité révolutionnaire de Nantes. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie du cit. Roudier, (1794). 15, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Martin & Walter 19901A Original edition. Deals with the trial against Bourbotte, Bo, Goulin, Chaux, Moreau, Bachelier, Perrochaux, Mainguet, Lévêque, Naud, Bolognie, Gallon, Durassier, Bataillé, Joly and Pinard.Browned, uncut. EUR 75
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(LECLUSE). Le déjeuné de la rapée, ou discours des Halles et des Ports. Nouvelle édition, Revuë & augmentée des Etrennes aux Riboteurs, & des Chansons. Avec Un Extrait de l'Inventaire des Meubles & Effets trouvés dans le magazin d'une des Harangeres de la Halle. Et une liste des plus rares Curiosités trouvées dans le même magazin. A la Grenouillere; Et se trouvent à Paris, Chez Duchesne, no date. 48 pp. 12mo. Modern boards. Cioranescu 38382; Conlon 48:604. Originally published in 1748 with the title 'Léclusade, ou déjeuné de la Rapée', 18 pages. - A few leaves with a stain in the blank outer margin, one leaf with a small repair to blank upper margin. A niece piece, characteristic for the literature written in vulgar speech (litterature poissairde) of the 18th century. EUR 250
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(LEDRU-ROLLIN, A.-A.) Mémoire pour M. Houel et les époux Lepage, demandeurs, contre M. Gabriel Daguier, défendeur éventuel. (At end:) Paris, Imprimerie Panckoucke, (after 1842). (2), 34 pp. 4to. Disbound. Upon his admission to the bar in 1830, Ledru added to his surname that of his maternal great-grandmother, Rollin, in order to avoid confusion with another lawyer named Charles Ledru.The matter dealt with in this trial is: 'Un prêtre catholique romain peut-il adopter? EUR 175
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(LESCHASSIER, J.) Pour la seureté de la vie et de l'Estat des Roys. Contre les impietez de ceux qui ont escrit contre leurs puissances souveraines. No place, 1626. 32 pp. Small 8vo. Modern hard-grained half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Bourgeois & André 1974; Lindsay & Neu 5490; Welsh, 993; BMSTC, French books 1601-1700, D.689. Second edition, first published in 1613 as 'Discours pour la sureté de la vie et de l'état des rois'. - Somewhat browned. Against the theory of the Jesuits, and as stated again by Sanctarel in his Tractatus (1625), that 'le Pape peut disposer les Roys; il peut les faire tuer.'Jacques Leschassier (1550-1625), lawyer and partisan of the royal party at the time of the Ligue. His collected works were published in 1649. 'Oeuvre d'un avocat très réputé' (Bourgeois & André). EUR 200
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(LEVIS, G.P.M. DUC DE.) Collection of manuscript responses addressed to the Duc de Lévis, Pair de France and Minister of State, all dated in 1819-1820, answering inquiries by the Duc mostly pertaining to the consumption of corn in the cities of Lille, Strassbourg, Marseille, Angers, Caen and Lyon. In total 40 pages in 4to and folio, bound in one folio volume. Modern boards. Original handwritten statistical documents of great interest and signed by the mayors of the cities in question. The returned papers to the Duc de Lévis by the cities of Lille, Marseille, Angers, Caen and Lyon also contain the questions to which was answered, the papers of Strasbourg also contains a statistical survey entitled 'Entrée et sortie du froment & farine en cette ville depuis le 29 Aout 1818 jusqu'au 27 Septembre 1819'.The Duc Gaston Pierre Marc de Lévis (1764-1830), member of the Académie française, Pair de France, was a representative at the Estates general in 1789 and belonged to the minority of nobles accepting the principles of the revolution. The events of August 10, 1792, made him an émigré and he only returned to France in 1799 and lived in retirement. With the restoration he became a member of the chamber of the Pairs and in this assembly he dealt in particular with financial matters. EUR 1250
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(LINGUET, S.N.H.) Observations sur un imprimé ayant pour titre: Mémoire pour Me Gerbier, ancien avocat, avec cette épigraphe: Quod genus hoc hominum. Paris, Imprimerie Ph. Denys Pierres, 1775. 36 pp. 4to. Disbound. Linguet had outperformed the most celebrated lawyer in Paris, Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Gerbier in a famous case and won it: Gerbier never forgave him. Linguet subsequently was dismissed from the bar and suspended for a year. Linguet accused Gerbier of being instrumental in the suspension, Gerbier defended himself and this is Linguet's answer to that defense. EUR 250
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(LINGUET, S.N.H.) La dixme royale, avec de courtes réflexions sur ce qu'on appele la contrebande, et l'usage de regarder comme inaliénable le domaine de nos rois. La Haye (Paris), 1764. - (Bound with:) (LINGUET, S.N.H.) Nécessité d'une réforme dans l'administration de la justice et dans les loix civiles en France, avec la réfutation de quelques passages de 'L'esprit des loix.' Amsterdam (Paris), 1764. - (Bound with:) (CHAMPLAIR, M.) L'ami de la concorde, ou Essai sur les motifs d'éviter les procès, & sur les moyens d'en tarir la source. Londres (Paris), 1765. With folding engraved frontispiece. - (Bound with:) DES GLANNIERES, R. Plan d'imposition économique et d'administration des finances. Paris, P.G. Simon, 1774. With three tables on two 4to leaves. - (All preceded by:) (DARIGRAND, E.F.) L'anti-financier, ou relevé de quelques-unes des malversations dont se rendent journellement coupables les Fermiers-généraux, & des vexations qu'ils commetent dans les provinces: servant de réfutation d'un écrit intitulé 'Lettre servant de réponse aux remonstrances du Parlement de Bordeaux.' Précédée d'une Epitre au Parlement de France, accompagnée de notes historiques. Amsterdam, (Paris Lambert), 1763. 5 works in 1 volume 78 pp.; (2), 105 pp. + 1 errata leaf; 102 pp.; 40, (2) pp.; 108 pp. 8vo. Sewn, old blind covers, covers loose, uncut. First work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Higgs 3256; Stourm, p. 110.First (and only?) edition.Stourm (p. 110) and Higgs suppose this to be the original edition of what was reprinted in 1787 with the title L'impôt territorial, ou la dîme royale avec tous ses avantages. None of the other reference works however, makes that allusion, although they know the 1787 work. Darline Gay Levy, in her study of Linguet (The Ideas and Careers of Simon-Nicolas-Henri Linguet) however states the book was written by Linguet and later published again under the title already given above: 'Linguet lent the support of his publicity to the Calonne property tax, modelled in large part after the project for a dîme royale first proposed by the economist Vauban at the end of the seventeenth century (sic !) He had only to represent his own version of Vauban's program, his Dixme royale of 1764. Linguet revised and reissued the work, with the title De l'impôt territorial, ..... Second work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Higgs; INED 2923.First edition.'Linguet s'intérrese à la forme administrative de la justice et à ses réformes, réformes dont la substance lui est fournie par la réfutation de quelques passages de L'esprit des lois. Cet ouvrage est surtout une critique de Montesquieu' (INED).'In his Nécessité d'une réforme dans l'administration ..... Linguet drafted a project for forestalling decadence with reforms calculated to satisfy the material interests and elicit the allegiance of France's propertied Third Estate. Linguet's working assumption in the Nécessité ..... was that rulers could command obedience, even in societies where the instinctive will to obey had been destroyed - only now, they had to appeal to their subjects' interests, decreeing and enforcing laws that guaranteed their properties' (Darlene Gay Levy, The Ideas and Careers of Simon-Nicolas-Henri Linguet, p. 25.) Third work: Not in Camus; Conlon 65:649.First edition.Divided into two parts: the first explains legal procedures before the courts, the risks, cost, etc., and in the second part the author proposes reforms to diminish the number of trials.Fourth work: Kress 7006, INED 1376, Higgs 6079 all citing a 4to edition; Goldmsiths 11169 citing an edition of 35, (3) pp; Einaudi 1540.First edition.'Plan fiscal: division de la population française en huit classes; impôts remplacés par 'la taille nette' assise sur le capital, le droit et le revenu. Les citoyens seront ainsi délivrés du quart de leurs impôts, et les revenus de l'État accrus de moitié' (INED). The work aroused much controversy provoking answers from Baudeau, Grouber de Groubenthal and the Comte d'Alban.Fifth work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Higgs (all citing later editions or editions with 100 resp. 104 pp.); Peignot, Livres condamnés, i, pp. 90-92.Second or third issue of the original edition, including the Réponse which did not form part of the first issue, but without the engraved frontispiece. In this vehemently written work the 'fermiers-généraux' were accused of corruption. The accusation caused the author's imprisonment. The volume was printed by Lambert and distributed by Ornmancey who was arrested with the author. Four years after its publication the work was still being sold secretly at high prices.The volume contains a separately printed title-page at the very beginning reading: Receuil des différentes pièces curieuses et singulières. 1768. EUR 2000
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(LINGUET, S.N.H.) Consultation pour le Marquis de Soyecourt. Paris, Imprimerie Ph.D. Pierres, 1774. 30 pp. 4to. Modern boards. The Marquis de Soyecourt was talked into large investments into the forges of Hainaut by the Comte and Comtesse de Hautoy and these investments appeared to be of no value, nor did they bring in any substantial revenues. His case was argued by Linguet. EUR 350
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(LINGUET, S.N.H.) Du plus heureux gouvernement, ou Parallèle des constitutions politiques de l'Asie avec celles de l'Europe; servant d'introduction à la Théorie des loix civiles ..... Tome premier [- second, suite de la première partie]. Londres, 1774. A Londres, 1774 (Paris, EDHIS, 1970). Two volumes in one. xxxii, 148 pp.; (4), 256 pp. 8vo. Imitation leather. Quérard, v, 318; not in Goldsmiths, Higgs, INED, or Kress. Very well done reprint of the first edition of this important and quite rare work, edition published in a limited and numbered edition of 250 copies and 30 copies not destined for the trade, since long out-of-print. After extensive criticism from the Physiocrat corner following the publication of the Théorie des loix civiles in 1767, Linguet here reveals his views on what he considers the best form of government to provide the greatest possible happiness to the population, advocating the preservation of private property as practised in Asia, more particularly in China, under the authority of a humane ruler, and reforms in taxation, customs, jurisprudence, and the condition of women, which he also believes to be better in Asia than in Europe. He particularly criticizes the constitutional system of Great Britain, highlighting the harshness and corruption of its rulers.Linguet (1736-1794) was the most sarcastic of all the writers against the Physiocrat school and devoted his career largely to the subversion of the Enlightenment's reforming ideals. A highly talented lawyer who originally achieved fame as a defender of civil liberties, he threw himself into the midst of political and philosophical controversies, under the impulse of an innate and quarrelsome love of contradiction, publishing numerous pamphlets. In 1777, he founded an important journal, Annales politiques, civiles et littéraires, as a vehicle for polemic on various fronts. But Linguet's status as a scourge of liberalism was confirmed by the Jacobins, who had him guillotined.The half-titles read: Oeuvres de Linguet Tome Premier (-Second); this work was first published in his oeuvres. EUR 275
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(LISOLA, F. DE). La France politique ou ses desseins executez et à executer sur le plan des passez; Projettez en pleine Paix contre l'Espagne au Pays-Bas & ailleurs. Et tirez de ses mémoires,Ambassades, Négociations et Traittez. A Charleville, Chez Denis François, 1671. With sphere on title. - (Bound with:) (LISOLA, F. DE.) L'Orateur François, ou Harangue de Monsieur l'Archevesque d'Ambrun, Interpretée par les Evenemens de notre temps, & l'Etat des affaires presentes. A Cologne, Chez Martin Lambert, 1674. With sphere on title. - (Bound with:) MEMOIRE du Proces Extraordinaire. Contre Madame de Brinvilliers, & de la Chaussée Valet de Monsr. Sainte-Croix. Pour Raison des Empoisonnemens des diverses Personnes Avec la defension, Et l'Arrest de la Cour donné contre ladite Dame, du 16 Juillet 1676. Suivant la Copie de Paris. A Amsterdam, Chez Henry & Theodore Boom, 1676. - (Bound with:) (LISOLA, F. DE.) Manifeste par lequel Il se reconnoit combien juste, convenable, & necessaire a esté l'emprisonnement du Prince Guillaume de Furstenberg, tant Pour le maintien de l'autorité de S.M.I. que pour la tranquilité générale de l'Empire, et pour l'avancement de la Paix. Par Christophle Wolfang. A Strasbourg, 1674. Four works bound in one volume. (16), 525, (1) pp.; 95, (1) pp.; (2), 140 pp.; 105, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. First work: Willems 2063; Bourgeois & André 8149; not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700.First edition ? Bourgeois & André mention a Brussels edition from the same year.Refutation of the ambition of France towards a universal monarchy: with this work Lisola aimed at warning Europe for the ambitions of France and in it he tried to prove that France is aiming at dominating Europe and establishing a "universal monarchy."Foot of margin of title-page and lower outer margin of same strengthened. Second work: Willems 2086; Bourgeois & André 8149; Barbier, iii, 734; Cioranescu 43570; not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700.First edition.Lisola attacks in a very vivid style the archbishop who had placed Louis XIV above the Emperor and all the other kings. Third work: Willems 1901: "Ce petit volume, qui reproduit exactement l'édition originale de Paris ..... est rare."The title is a general title: the work consists of two parts and they both have their own separate title-page.Fourth work: Bourgeois & André 8149; Quérard, iii, 1002; Cioranescu 43575; not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700.First edition.The brothers Franz and William Fürstenberg believed that the essential problem of statecraft in Europe consisted in coming intelligently to terms with the rising power of France. They belonged to an important group of men of different countries at this time who were not French but served France. The intrigues of the brothers had resulted in an offensive alliance between the French Monarchy and the electorate of Cologne. The adventure turned out to be a disaster and Franz, on the conclusion of the treaty between the Holy Roman Emperor and Cologne (May 11, 1674), was deprived of all his preferments in Germany and compelled to take refuge in France. His brother was captured and shipped to Vienna and kept in prison untill the signature of the treaty of Nijmwegen (1679).François de Lisola was born in Franche-Comté and served the Habsburg Emperor as diplomat, and a good diplomat. He represented the emperor at the English court, was sent on a mission to Poland, and was appointed ambassador in Spain. His main concern was the rising power of France and the pretensions of Louis XIV and especially his plans with the Spanish Netherlands. In the years 1667-1674 he published a number of works warning Europe and combatting the policy of Louis XIV. This was the period in which the French army, together with a number of allies, posed an serious threat to both the United Provinces and the Spanish Netherlands. EUR 1500
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(LISOLA, F. DE.) Bouclier d'estat et de justice, contre le dessein manifestement découvert de la Monarchie Universelle, sous le vain prétexte de pretentions de la Reyne de France. No place (Brussels, Foppens ?), 1667. 358, (2) pp. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. Bourgeois & André 8149; Willems 2030. One of three editions published in the same year. One of the publications of the time that tried to disprove the claims of France to Spanish properties (Brabant) through the rights of the French queen Marie-Thérèse. It was therefore strongly forbidden to bring it into France. F.P. Baron de Lisola (1612-1675) was a succesfull diplomate and publicist, praised by Pierre Bayle for his magnificent style. He was charged with important diplomatic missions, notably for the Emperor of Austria. The work saw many editions and was translated in Spanish, Italian, German and English. This edition has the 6 lines of errata at the end as called for by Willems and was probably published in Brussels. - First blank partly loose. EUR 500
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(LOMENIE DE BRIENNE, E.C.) Compte rendu au Roi, au mois de mars 1788, et publié par ses ordres. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1788. (2), xiv, 183 pp. 4to. Contemporary half calf, paper coveredboards, green corners, spine gilt in compartments and with gilt lettering, a bit faded, yellow edges. Cf.: Kress S.5177 (listed again under S.5185 but without the preliminaries); not in Goldsmiths; Einaudi 2245; Stourm, p. 143-145; not in Sabin; not in Echeverria & Wilkie; not in JFBL. Very important 'compte rendu' by the successor of Calonne. Although the figures given for the year 1788 are only provisional, they are still very interesting to consult, especially for the accompanying notes. Pp. 75-76 offer details on the 'créance sur les États-Unis de l'Amérique' amounting to 41.100.000 livres plus 1.600.000 livres of interest over the year 1787. EUR 500
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(LOPPIN, I.) L'Heureuse rencontre d'une mine d'or trouvee en France, pour l'enrichissement du Roy et de ses sujets. A Paris, Chez Mathurin Henault, 1649. 8 pp. 4to. Modern half morocco, boards, gilt lettering to spine. Moreau 1631 (and see also nrs 552-554); not in Welsh; Kress S.977. Pirated edition according to Moreau. The first edition appeared in 1648 and was entitled Avis très-juste et légitime au roi très-chrétien, pour le repos et soulagement de trois ordres de son Etat, .... (Moreau 552), a second edition was entitled Avis et moyens justes, légitimes et de très facile exécution, ...... (Moreau 553) of which the present work is a pirated edition. Finally, in 1651 the third edition appeared entitled Avis donnés au Roi, pour l'accroissement et prospérité de son Etat ..... (Moreau 554). The full title of the second edition is given in the pirated edition as well, on page 3. EUR 175
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(LOUIS XIII.) Lettre patente du Roy, portant revocation d'assignation, fortification, & autres surcharges du peuple, du 9 Janvier 1613. (Drop-head title). (Grenoble, 24 Janvier 1613). 8 pp. 12mo. Modern boards (Lobstein). Lindsay & Neu 2837; Actes Royaux, 5862; not in Welsh. Original edition. EUR 150
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(LOUIS XIV.) Déclaration du Roy, pour l'établissement de la capitation générale. Donnée à Versailles le 12 Mars 1701. Registré en Parlement. Grenoble, Alexandre Giroud, 1701. 12 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Cf.: Catalogue des Actes Royaux 19986;not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Provincial printing of this decree establishing this tax. The population was divided into 22 classes based on professional status and social situation and they were taxed according these. The first class paid 200 livres (Dauphin, Princes of the Blood, ministers, tax farmers) and it ended with one livre for the soldiers, day-labourers). This tax was created in 1695, suppressed in 1698, and re-created with this decree in 1701 and maintained upto 1789. When the tax was re-created in 1701 the division was changed: 'sous la forme d'impôt de répartition: chaqwue généralité eut sa part fixée de manière à ce que la capitation rapportait environ un quart de plus que la première fois' (Marion, Dictionnaire des Institutions, p. 69-71). EUR 175
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(LOUIS XIV.) Ordonnance du Roy, portant déclaration de guerre contre le Duc de Savoye, du 4 décembre 1703. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Fr. Léonard, 1703. 8 pp. 4to. Loose leaves, folded. Actes Royaux, IV, 20953. Original edition. In the War of the Spanish Succession (1700) Savoy went over from the French side to the Austrian side. EUR 125
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(LOUIS XIV.) Déclaration du Roy, pour l'exécution de plusieurs articles des Traitez de Paix conclus à Riswik, qui regardent l'intérest particulier des sujets du Roy. Donnée à Versailles le 23 juin 1698. Paris, François Muguet, 1698. 12 pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Catalogue des Actes royaux, III, 19411. Deals mainly with the commercial relations of France with its opponents. EUR 125
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(LOUIS XIV.) Edit du Roy, portant règlement pour l'égalité dans l'imposition des tailles & les privilèges accordez en faveur de ceux qui rétabliront les domaines abbandonnez, les regarniront de bestiaux, & mettront des fermiers dans les terres qu'ils font valoir par leurs mains. Du mois de janvier 1713. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1713. Royal coat of arms on title. 16 pp. 4to. Sewn. Catalogue desActes Royaux, iv, 25067. Original edition. The taxes were imposed on people and properties with extreme injustice, thus provoking constant complaints. With this edict the king tries yet again to remedy the existing situation and to enforce justice in taxation. EUR 225
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(LOUIS XIV.) Déclaration du Roy, pour l'établissement de la capitation générale. Donnée à Versailles le 12 Mars 1701. Registré en Parlement. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Frederic Leonard, 1701. 12 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Catalogue des Actes Royaux, 19986; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Original printing of this decree re-establishing this tax first created in 1695. The population was divided into 22 classes based on professional status and social situation and they were taxed according to these. The first class paid 200 livres (the Dauphin, Princes of the Blood, ministers, tax farmers) and it ended with one livre (soldiers, day-labourers). - Marginal stain, annoted throughout in the margin in an old hand, sometimes partly touched by the binder's knife. This tax was created in 1695, suppressed in 1698, and re-created with this decree in 1701 and maintained upto 1789. When the tax was re-created in 1701 the division was changed: 'sous la forme d'impôt de répartition: chaque généralité eut sa part fixée de manière à ce que la capitation rapportait environ un quart de plus que la première fois' (Marion, Dictionnaire des Institutions, p. 69-71). EUR 225
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(LOUIS XV). Arrest du Conseil d'Etat du Roy, qui ordonne l'exécution des Statuts & Règlement pour les fabriques de Lyon ..... du 19 Juin 1744. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1744. - (Followed by:) (LOUIS XV). Arrest du Conseil d'Etat du Roy, qui révoque l'Arrêt du Conseil du 10 août 1744. Casse & annulle les Ordonnances du Consulat de la ville de Lyon des 4, 6 & 8 du même mois d'août; ordonne que le règlement du 19 juin 1744 pour la fabrique des étoffes & la Communauté des Fabriquans de Lyon, sera exécuté selon sa forme & teneur, portant néanmoins dérogation aux articles iv, vi, vii & viii du titre 7. dudit règlement. Du 25 Février 1745. (Drop-head title). Lyon, P. Valfray, 1745. 4, 91 pp.; pp. 92-96, 11 pp. Small 4to. Contemporary calf, gilt fillet withfloral ornament in corners, spine with raised bands, rubbed and shaved, in gilt on upper cover: Antoine Defarg, all edges gilt. Catalogue des Actes Royaux, 32611 (incomplete copy); Blanc, Bibliographie des corporations ouvrières, 855 (without collation). First edition. The first 4 pages contain the Arrest and these are followed by: 'Statuts et règlement pour la communauté des Maîtres Marchands, & Maîtres Ouvriers à façon en étoffes d'or, d'argent & de soie, & autres mêlées de soie, laine, poil, fil & coton, de la ville & fauxbourgs de Lyon; & pour la fabrique desdites étoffes.', covering the pp. 1-91. Page 92 is blank, pp. 93-96 contain the second Arrest and the last 11 pages contain the table of contents. - Very rare in this complete state. EUR 450
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(LOUIS XV.) Edit du Roy, donné à Versailles au mois de Septembre 1723. Portant rétablissement de lieutenant & greffier du premier chirurgien du Roy. (Drop-head title). Grenoble, Gaspard & Giroud, (1723). 48 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Catalogue des Actes Royaux, v, 28911; not in Bourgeois & André. Includes (pp. 8-45): STATUTS et règlemens pour la Communauté des maistres chirurgiens de la ville de Versailles. These statutes contain 82 articles, dated March 1719. EUR 400
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(LOUIS XV.) Edit du Roy, portant établissement de marques sur les cuivres. Donné à Versailles au mois de Février 1745. (Drop-head title). Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, imprimeur du Parlement, 1745. 8 pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux, V, 37697. Important edict, dealing in 26 articles with the fabrication of articles of copper and brass. EUR 125
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(LOUIS XV.) Déclaration du Roy, pour l'établissement d'un Conseil de Commerce. Donnée à Vincennes le 14 décembre 1715. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, chez la veuve de François Muguet, 1715. 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Catalogue des Actes Royaux, v, 26220. The establishment of a seventh special conseil, called 'de commerce' and dealing with 'tout ce qui concerne le commerce intérieur & extérieur & les manufactures du Royaume .....' EUR 175
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(LOUIS XV.) Déclaration du Roy, concernant les Mendians & Vagabonds. Donnée à Chantilly le 18 Juillet 1724. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1724. 12 pp. 4to. Disbound. Catalogue des Actes Royaux, v, 29197. Within fifteen days after publication of this declaration, all mendiants and vagabonds should accept all kinds of work in order to earn their living and those who are unable to accept work (disabled, too young, etc.) must register at the nearest hospital where they will be received and will be employed at the benefit of the hosiptal. EUR 150
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(LOUIS XV.) Arrest du Conseil d'Etat du Roi, et Lettres patentes sur icelui, registrées en la Cour des Monnoies le 7 Mars 1770. Qui fixent le prix des piastres aux deux globes, qui seront apportées aux Hôtels des Monnoies. Du 7 Février 1770. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1770. 3, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. Cf.: Actes royaux,vi, 37049 (later issue) Original edition. Dealing with the Piastres du Pérou also known as the Piastres aux Deux Globes and establishing the price of the currency. - Outer margins dampstained EUR 110
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(LOUIS XV.) Ordonnance donnée à Versailles au mois de Février 1731, pour fixer la jurisprudence sur la nature, la forme, les charges ou les conditions des donations. Registrée en Parlement (le 9 mars 1731) (Drop-head title) (At end:) Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1731. 16 pp. 4to. Disbound. Catalogue général. Bibliothèque nationale. Actes Royaux, vol. v, 30537. The king announces the attempt to unify the law and bring uniformity in his realm: the diversity of interpretations throughout gives rise to new trials, creates unequality for the law and uncertainty. Due to the complexity of this work the new corpus will not be ready for some time. However, the laws regulating gifts and donations, based on both Roman law and French law, were less complicated and hence the king has decided to issue a special ordonnance by which the diversity of laws regulating this special subject are made more uniform and comprehensible, which is done in 47 articles. EUR 225
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(LOUIS XV.) Ordonnance du Roi, portant déclaration de guerre contre le Roi de Portugal. Du 20 Juin 1762. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1762. 7, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux, vi, 35235. Original edition. - Some marginal dampstaining. The crowns of Spain and France, forced to defend their interests at the seas and in their colonies and in the "Indes orientales & occidentales" against the English pretentions, invited the King of Portugal to join their alliance, something the king of Portugal refused. The Spanish crown had as its principal object the recovery of Gibraltar. EUR 175
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(LOUIS XV.) Déclaration du Roy, donnée à Versailles le 2 Août 1729, qui établit des peines contre les contrebandiers. Registrée en Parlement (le 13 Septembre 1729). (Drop-head title) (At end:) Grenoble, G. Giroud, (1729). 8 pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Previous measures and punishments against smuggling haven't resulted in the desired effects, hence, in 10 articles, new measures are issued. These measures basically increase punishments and dealamong others with resistence to arrest, corporation between customs officers and smugglers, those dealing in goods being smuggled in, etc. EUR 125
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(LOUIS XV.) Déclaration aux électeurs et princes de l'empire. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1733. 2, (2 blank) pp. 4to. Folded leaf. Catalogue de l'Histoire de France, ii, 387; not in Catalogue Bibliothèque Nationale. The King 'désire de conserver la paix avec le Corps Germanique, & (il) est dans la disposition d'observer avec luy les Traitez de paix, aussi long-temps que Sa Majesté pourra le regarder comme ami.' France offers her protection to those German states not supporting the aims of the Emperor, and solemny swears to be content with what she possesses. EUR 125
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(LOUIS XVI). Ordonnance du Roi, portant défenses aux officiers des amirautés de prendre aucun intérêt, directement ni indirectement, dans les bâtimens armés en course, à peine d'interdiction & de quinze cents livres d'amende. Du 15 janvier 1783. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1783. 2 pp. 4to. Disbound. Cataloge Actes Royaux, vi, 41056. EUR 75
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(LOUIS XVI). Discours du Roi au Parlement, à la séance du 19 Novembre 1787. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, Imprimerie de Philippe-Denys Pierres, (1787). 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. The King reminds the members of the Parlement that he is not amused when they urge him to call a meeting of the 'Notables': 'Je ne crainderai jamais de me trouver au milieu de mes Sujets. Un Roi de France n'est jamais mieux que quand il est entouré de leur amour & de leur fidélité; mais c'est à moi seul à juger de l'utilité & de la nécessité des ces Assemblées, & je ne souffrirai jamais qu'on me demande avec indiscrétion, ce qu'on doit attendre de ma sagesse & de mon amour pour mes Peuples .... 'The king plans to issue an edict 'portant création d'Emprunts successifs pendant cing années' in an attempt to avoid new and heavier taxing while at the same time trying to get his finances in order. EUR 175
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(LOUIS XVI). Ordonnance du Roi, pour la suppression du Corps des Officiers d'Administration & des écrivains de la Marine. Du 27 Septembre 1776. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1777. 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux, vi, 39334 (withwrong date of publication). EUR 125
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(LOUIS XVI). Déclaration du Roi, par laquelle Sa Majesté renouvelle les dispositions des anciennes ordonnances rendues pour empêcher la contrebande. Donnée à Versailles le deux Septembre 1776. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, Chez P.G. Simon, 1777. 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux, vi, 39302. Measures aaginst smuggling, fraud, etc. EUR 110
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(LOUIS XVI). Déclaration du Roi, sur la contribution en cas de déconfiture, dans les établissemens françois de l'Inde. Donnée à Versailles le 22 Février 1777. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, Chez P.G. Simon, 1777. 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux, vi, 39423; not in Wroth & Annan. EUR 125
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(LOUIS XVI). Déclaration du Roi, sur l'administration des biens des mineurs dans les établissemens françois de l'Inde. Donnée à Versailles le 22 Février 1777. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, Chez P.G. Simon, 1777. 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux, vi, 39421; not in Wroth & Annan. EUR 150
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(LOUIS XVI). Lettre du Roi à son altesse sérénissime Monseigneur l'Amiral. Du 5 Juin 1779. (Drop-head title). (Paris, 1779) 3, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Folded leaf, margins frayed, a bit spotted. The King decided togive the order not to attack, hamper, or confiscate any English fishing boats, nor to disturb the fishermen, as this is their only means of subsistence.Old annotation in ink on the blank page indicates that the leaf has been used as a cover for another pamphlet. EUR 125
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(LOUIS XVI). Proclamation du Roi du 28 Septembre 1791. (Drop-head title). A Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1791. 4 pp. 4to. Folded leaf. Not in Martin & Walter. "J'ai accepté la Constitution, j'emploîrai tous mes efforts à la maintenir & à la faire exécuter. Le terme de la révolution est arrivé: (.....) il est temps de fixer l'opinion de l'Europe sur la destinée de la France, ....." EUR 200
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(LOUIS XVI.) Réglement fait par le Roi, sur la formation & la composition des Assemblées qui auront lieu dans la province des Trois-Evéchés, en vertu de l'Edit portant création des Assemblées Provinciales. Du 5 Juillet 1787. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Metz, la veuve Antoine & Fils, (1787). 11, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux (Bibl. Nationale), vi, 41872; see also: Lavergne, Les Assemblées provinciales sous Louis XVI, pp. 284-292. - On the blank leaf a handwritten name. EUR 150
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(LOUIS XVI.) Lettres-patentes du Roi, concernant les manufactures. Données à Marli le 5 Mai 1779. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Lille, Imprimerie de N.J. B. Peterinck-Cramé, 1780. 8 pp. 4to. Disbound. Catalogue général, Bibliothèque Nationale, Actes Royaux, vi, 40157. Deals with the labeling of cloth manufactured in France, of the proper quality, clearly indicating the material used, in an attempt to create uniformity in the rules and regulations throughout the kingdom. EUR 150
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(LOUIS XVI.) Déclaration du Roi, pour la conversion de la Corvée en une prestation en argent. Donnée à Versailles le 27 Juin 1787. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, Chez N.H. Nyon, 1787. 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes Royaux, vi, 41867. Rare and important declaration by which the king, after a period in which the population had a choice, abandons the 'corvée en nature', that is, actual work, and replaces it by a 'contribution pécuniaire' EUR 125
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(LOUIS XVI.) Règlement fait par le Roi, pour l'administration de ses finances & du commerce. Du 5 juin 1787. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1787. 6 pp. 4to. Disbound. Catalogue générale de la Bibliothèque nationale. Actes royaux, vol. vi, 41852; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Conlon. Original edition. Reform in nine articles of the Conseil royal des Finances: the numerous offices are expensive and due to the fact that the "conjonctures présentes ne pouvoient plus comporter" the various services are reduced and simplified: four financial departments headed by an Intendant des Finances, and one for commerce, equally headed by a Intendant. EUR 125
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(LOUIS XVI.) Règlement fait par le Roi, pour la formation de son Conseil royal des finances & de commerce. Du 5 juin 1787. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1787. 6 pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux, vi, 41850. The creation of a Conseil Royal des Finances & de Commerce replacing the two separate council operating at that time: the Conseil du Commerce and the Conseil des finances, which, according to the king, where not operating to his satisfaction. The piece contains 14 articles by which this measure is executed and the newly established conseil is created. EUR 110
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(LOUIS XVI.) Edit du Roi, portant suppression de tous les Offices de Gardes du Trésor Royal, de Trésoriers de la Guerre, de la Marine, de la Maison du Roi & de la Reine, des bâtimens, desdépenses diverses, des ponts & chaussées; & création de cinq administrateurs pour gérer conjointement tout ce qui concerne les recettes & dépenses du Trésor Royal. Donné à Versailles, au mois de Mars 1788. (Drop-head title). (Paris), (At end:) De l'Imprim. de L.M. Cellot, 1788. 8 pp. 4to. Disbound. Cf.: Actes royaux, vi, 42025. EUR 175
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(LOUIS XVI.) Règlement fait par le Roi, portant établissement d'un Conseil d'Administration du Département de la Marine, sous le titre de Conseil de la Marine. Du 19 Mars 1788. (Drop-headtitle). (At end:) A Versailles, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1788. 14 pp. 4to. Disbound. Not in Actes royaux. EUR 150
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(LOUIS XVI.) Edit du Roi, Qui ordonne une fabrication dans la Monnoie de Paris, d'une certaine quantité d'Espèces de billon, qui ne pourra avoir cours que dans les Isles de France & de Bourbon, où elles seront reçues en toutes sortes de payemens, à raison de Trois sous la pièce. Donné à Versailles au mois d'Août 1779. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1779. With illustration of both sides of the coin. 3, (1blank) pp. 4to. Folded leaf. Actes royaux, vi, 40229; not in Wroth and Annan. Aiming at solving the problem of paper money of small value and the drainage from the colonies of small coins ("pieces de deux sous"). The illustration shows the proposed coins, both sides, with the text "Isles de Fr. et de Bourbon" on one side of the coin. EUR 200
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(LOUIS XVI.) Ordonnance du Roi, Pour régler un Uniforme aux Officiers réformés des Troupes des Colonies. Du 28 Novembre 1779. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1779. 3, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux, vi, 40325; Wroth & Annan, 1925. Dresscode for the "Officiers réformés ou retirés, .... ceux qui, sans être attachés à aucun Corps, obtiennent des grades militaires pour donner rang dans lesdites Troupes". EUR 150
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(LOUIS XVI.) Lettre du Roi à M. l'Amiral (pour fixer à la date du 17 juin 1778 le commencement des hostilités entre la France et l'Angleterre). (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, Chez P.G. Simon, 1779. 2 pp. 4to. Actes royaux, vi, 40123. Apparently some uncertainty exists about the exact date of the outbreak of hositlities: as the king of France was insulted by the capture of two of his fregats (la Licorne and la Pallas) on June 17, 1778, this is considered to be the exact date of the outbreak of hostitlies. It is not quite clear why almost a year later this needs to be established: the text states: " ..... qu'il s'est élevé des doutes sur l'époque à laquelle doit être fixé le commencement des hostilités, & qu'il pourroit résulter de cette incertitude des contestations préjudiciables au Commerce", but the how and why remain unclear. EUR 100
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(LOUIS XVI.) Edit du Roi, Portant suppression de divers Offices de Trésoriers & Contrôleurs; & création d'une charge de Trésorier-payeur-général des dépenses du département de la Guerre; & d'une charge de Trésorier-payeur-général des dépenses du département de la Marine. Donné à Versailles au moi de Novembre 1778. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1778. 7, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux, vi, 39977. Original edtion. Reforming bureaucracy in the Ministry of War and that of the Navy as well as economizing on expenditure: the various articles list which positions are redundant, compensation for those who loose their jobs, creation of the new positions (two, to replace many, many positions declared redundant), etc. In all, this edict contains 10 articles. EUR 150
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(LOUIS XVI.) Ordonnance du Roi, Pour régler les quantités de Sel & de Tabac de Cantine, qui doivent être fournies aux Troupes. Du 27 novembre 1778. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1778. 3, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux, vi, 40007bis. The supply of salt as ordered by Ordonnance of October 1, 1743, has proven to be insufficient, while the quantity of tobacco distributed in the army is too large: only part of it is being consumed. This ordonnance adresses both thewse problems: increasing the sell quantity and decreasing the tobacco supply. EUR 125
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(LOUIS XVI.) Déclaration du Roi, concernant la course sur les ennemis de l'état. Donnée à Versailles le vingt-quatre Juin 1778. A Paris, chez P.G. Simon, 1778. 15, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux, vi, 39879. Declaration to encourage shipowners and to incite their emulation. The king, aware of their services rendered during the last war, decides to issue special honorary distinctions, financial renumeration, facilitate financial investment, etc. etc. The declaration furthermore gives various instructions on arming the ships, bonusses to be earned upon capturing ennemi ships and its arms ("cent livres chaque canon du calibre de 4 & au-dessus jusqu'à 12 livres"), the right to acquire arms themselves if they can not be supplied in time and be reimbursed, etc. etc. In all, the declaration contains 62 articles. EUR 200
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(LOUIS XVI.) Ordonnance du Roi, concernant les embaucheurs & fauteurs de désertion. Du 2 octobre 1777. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1777. 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux, vi, 39682; not in Wroth & Annan. Deals with individuals trying to lure solders away from the army. The ordonnance deals with various ways of deserting and the punishments: death for trying to have a soldier deserting to the enemy; trying to get a soldier to desert to a foreign country, the galley for 30 years, those who are able to indentify both the provocateur and the soldier, and in case both get caught, can earn 200 livres; etc. The ordonnance is specifically aimed at the French colonies: Isles de France & Bourbon, Pondichery (India) and Cap de Bonne-espérance. EUR 175
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(LOUIS XVI.) Ordonnance du roi, Portant Règlement sur les Pavillons & marques de commandement que les Vaisseaux porteront à la Mer. Du 19 Novembre 1776. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1776. 12 pp. 4to. Disbound Actes Royaux, vi, 39356. Deals with complaintsfrom the French Navy: claims that the flags they carry are not always recognized by foreign vessels. In 38 articles the matter is dealt with and instructions are laid out for each of the flags indicating the various positions in the hierarchy of the navy, the number of ships under command, the pole on which to hang the flag, etc., etc. EUR 200
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(LOUIS XVI.) Déclaration du Roi, Qui ordonne que les Comptoirs des Marchands de Vins, revêtus en plomb, ainsi que les Vaisseaux de cuivre dont se servent les Laitières, & les Balances de même métal, qu'employent les Regrattiers de sel & les Débitans de tabac, seront supprimés. Donnée à Versailles le 13 Juin 1777. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Aix, Esprit David, 1777. 4 pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux,vi, 39555-8 (other issues). Forbids the use of led (which was used for transporting wine, milk and the like) as it was discovered that led caused serious health problems. EUR 150
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(LUCHET, J.P.L. DE LA ROCHE DU MAINE DE.) Les contemporains de 1789 et 1790, ou Les opinions débatues pendant la première législature; avec les principaux événemens de la Révolution. Rédigé par l'auteur de la Galeriedes Etats-Généraux. A Paris, Chez Lejay, 1790. 3 volumes. xvi, 365 (misnumbered 363) pp.; (4), 440 pp.; (4), 372 pp. 8vo. 19th-century half cloth, marbled boards, labels with gilt lettering. Martin & Walter 22173; Tourneux 430; Monglond, i, 799. First edition. Alphabetical listing of persons, events and subjects (bourreau, brailler, boulanger) with short comments.The author had an impressive career as minor author and the list of his works is quite long. They have almost all been reprinted by Cazin but have faded into oblivion today. EUR 350
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(MARAT, J.P.) Dénonciation faite au tribunal du public, par M. Marat, l'ami du peuple, contre M. Necker, premier ministre des finances. (Drop-head title). (Paris, 1790). (2), 69 pp. - (Bound with:) MARAT, J.P. Appel à la Nation, par J.P. Marat, l'Ami du peuple, citoyen du district des Cordeliers, et auteur de plusieurs ouvrages patriotiques. (Paris, 1790). 67 pp. - (Bound with:) MARAT, (J.P.) Discours de Marat, l'Ami du peuple. Sur la défense de Louis XVI, la conduite à tenir par la Convention, et la marche allarmante que la faction royaliste s'efforce de lui faire suivre dans les jugement du tyran détroné. (Imprimé par ordre de Convention.) (Drop-head title). (Paris), de l'imprimerie de Marat, (1793). 32 pp. - (Bound with:) MARAT, (J.P.) Lettre de Marat, Député du departement de Paris, à la Convention Nationale, lue à la séance du 13 Avril 1793, l'an deuxième de la République Française, imprimée & envoyée aux départemens & Armées, par ordre de la Convention nationale. (Drop-head title). (Paris), de l'imprimerie nationale, (1793). 6 pp. - (Bound with:) GUIRAUT, (F.E.) Oraison funebre de Marat, l'ami du peuple, prononcé par le citoyen Guiraut, membre de la Société des Jacobins, dans la Section du Contrat Social, devant la Convention Nationale .... les sociétés patriotiques, et un grand nombre de fédérés, le 8 août 1793 ..... (Drop-head title). (Paris), de l'imprimerie des 86 Départemens et de la Société des Jacobins, (1793). 15 pp. - (Bound with:) DELAUNEY, P.M. Rapport fait au nom du Comité de législation. Sur les délits imputés à Marat, Membre de la Convention Nationale et envoyé aux départemens & aux Armées. Paris, l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1793. 15 pp. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1793. 15 pp. Together 6 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Martin & Walter 22875, 22867, 22896, 22880, 16185, 9853; Bougeart, pp. 367 (first and second work), 370 (third work), 368 (fourth work). Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793), radical, editor, Montagnard deputy to the National Convention. He was one of the foremost radicals of the Revolution, notorious for his denunciations of conspirators, his calls for popular violence, and his advocacy of a dictatorship. EUR 800
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(MARAT, J.P.) Manuscript copy of a letter by Marat taken from 'L'école des citoyens' done byAlbert Martin (dit l'ouvrier Martin), member of the provisional gouvernment of 1848. 2, (2 blank) pp. Small 4to. The original text by Marat was dated 3 mars 1792. EUR 125
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(MARTIN DE MARIVEAUX, J.C.) Appel au Roi. No place, 1788. 35, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Cf.: Martin & Walter, 23291 (different edition). The author, Avocat at the Parlement de Paris, complains about prosecutions he has to suffer from his colleagues and reveals, with the names, cases of misuse or abuse of royal finances, loans, taxes, etc.The pages 21-end contain the 'pieces justificatives' with a Mémoire which has been sent to the Controllor-general in November 1787, and an Extrait des Services du Sieur de Mariveaux, & des promesses de l'Administration. EUR 225
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(MASERS DE LATUDE, H.) Histoire d'une détention de trente-neuf ans, dans les prisons d'état. Ecrite par le prisonnier lui-même. Amsterdam, et se trouve chez les principaux libraires de l'Europe, 1787. - (Bound with:) (SAINT-AULAIRE, Y. DE BEAUPOIL DE). Lettre de M. le marquis de Beaupoil à M. de Bergasse, sur l'Histoire de M. de Latude, & sur les ordres arbitraires. Potsdam, 1787. 2 works in 1 volume. 138 pp.; 54 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, corners, marbled boards, somewhat worn. Catalogue de l'histoire de France, ix, p. 732, nrs 11684 and 11685. First editions. According to Barbier, the author is Marquis de Beaupoil. The caption title of the first work reads: Mémoires du sieur Henri Masers de Latude.Henri Masers de Latude spend the major part of his life in prisons. What brought him there was his ambition and the knowledge that he needed the protection of a person of high standing. He therefore mailed out a parcel containing some sort of powder addressed to Madame de Pompadour and than ran to her informing her of a conspiracy against her. His scheme was discovered and he was thrown into the Bastille. He attempted several escapes but was arrested every time. Several people felt pity for him and tried to ease the conditions under which he was detained but he was not set free until 1784. Michaud, in his Biographie Universelle, devotes a long and very interesting article to this unfortunate man. - Title-page a bit loose at upper inner margin. EUR 250
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(MASSON, P.J.) Instruction sur les Affaires contentieuses des Négocians, La manière de les prévenir, ou de les suivre dans les Tribunaux. A Paris, Chez Le Clerc, A Charleville, Chez Raucourt, 1786. xviii, (2), 492 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering (two very light and minor defects to sides). Goldsmiths 13195; Camus 2220 (for the 1736 edition of Masson's work); not in Kress; Einaudi 3788 (1736 edition); not in Mattioli. This work is a new edition, considerably enlarged and rearranged by Le Clerc, 'syndic de la librairie', of Masson's Instruction sur les Lettres de Change, the 1739 edition and which was first published in 1736. EUR 450
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(MATHON DE LA COUR, C.J.) Collection de comptes-rendus, pièces authentiques, états et tableaux concernant les finances de France, depuis 1758 jusqu'en 1787. Lausanne, et se trouve à Paris, Cuchet, Gattey, 1788. xii, 231, (1) pp. 4to. Modern half morocco, marbled sides, gilt lettering. Kress B.1446; Goldsmiths 13646; Einaudi 1179; Stourm 27. First edition. 'Ouvrage indispensable à posséder.' (Stourm). Financial reports of fundamental importance, which would certainly have remained unknown if it was not for the unflagging courage of Mathon de la Cour. Contains the reports by Boullogne (1758), de Silhouette (1759), Terray (1770, 1772-1774), Turgot (1775), Cluny (1776), Necker (1781), etc. EUR 450
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(MATHON DE LA COUR, C.J.) Collection de comptes-rendus, pièces authentiques, états et tableaux, concernant les finances de France depuis 1758 jusqu'en 1787. A Lausanne, et se trouve à Paris, chez Cuchet & Gattey, 1788. - (Bound with:) NECKER, (J.) Mémoire donné au roi en 1778. (Paris, 1778). - (Bound with:) NECKER, (J.) Compte rendu au Roi, Par M. Necker, ..... Au mois de janvier 1781. Imprimé par ordre de Sa majesté. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie du Cabinet du Roi, 1781. With 1 large folding leaf, 2 coloured folding maps. - (Bound with:) CARACCIOLI. Lettre du marquis de Caraccioli à M. d'Alembert. (Paris, 1788). - (Bound with:) NECKER, (J.) Sur le compte rendu du roi en 1781. Nouvelle éclaircissements. A Paris, Hotel de Thou, 1788. - (Bound with:) (LOMENIE DE BRIENNE, E.C. DE.) Compte rendu au roi au mois de mars 1788 et publié par ses ordres. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1788. - (Bound with:) RESULTAT du Conseil d'État du roi tenu à Versailles le 27 décembre 1788. (Drop-head title). (Paris, 1788). 7 works bound in 1 stout volume. xii, 231, (1) pp.; 27 pp.; (4), 116 pp.; 44 pp.; viii, 284 pp.; (2), xiv, (2), 183, (1) pp.; (2), 26 pp. 4to. Contemporary half calf, richly gilt spine with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, paper covered boards, front joint with short split. First work: Kress B.1446; Goldsmiths 13646; Einaudi 1179; Stourm 27. First edition. - Copy from the library of Mr. Brossays Duperray, with his armorial bookplate. 'Ouvrage indispensable à posséder' (Stourm). Highly important financial reports which would certainly have remained unknown if it was not for the unflagging courage of Mathon de la Cour. Contains the reports by Boullogne (1758), de Silhouette (1759), Terray (1770, 1772-1774), Turgot (1775), Cluny (1776), Necker (1781), etc.Second work: Einaudi 4105; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Stourm; INED 3365.One of three editions published in the same year.Third work: Kress B.360; Goldsmiths 12183 & 12184; Einaudi 4094; not in INED.First edition, the scarce edition printed at the Cabinet du Roi, intended for Royal use only and not put in the trade. There were two further printings in the same year at the Imprimerie Royale.The publication had an astonishing succes with the public and did much to establish Necker's reputation. It is of great importance for being the first public report of government economic policy in France.Fourth work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Stourm 127; Barbier 642.First edition.Attributed to the Comte de Grimoard by Barbier, and to Galiani or the Comte de Grimoard by Stourm. Fifth work: Kress B.1452; Goldsmiths 13648; INED 3373; Stourm 126; not in Einaudi.First edition.Rather violent work criticizing the financial administration of Calonne.Sixth work: Goldsmiths 13636; Stourm 143; Einaudi 2245; cf.: Kress S.5185; not in INED.First edition.The minister was Loménie de Brienne, the text was drawn up by Souffloy de Mercy. 'Le successeur de Calonne, Loménie de Brienne, fit imprimer en 1788 l'important compte rendu de la situation des finances, dans lequel on a coutume de rechercher les derniers chiffres des budgets de la monarchie. Ces chiffres n'en sont pas moins utiles à consulter, à défaut d'autres, surtout en raison des nombreux commentaires qui les accompagnent' (Stourm). These comments on the details were supplied by Souffloy de Mercy.Seventh work: Goldsmiths 13733; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in Stourm.First edition.On the composition of the forthcoming meeting of the États-Généraux. EUR 1250
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(MATHON DE LA COUR, C.J.) Collection de comptes-rendus, pièces authentiques, états et tableaux, concernant les finances de France, depuis 1758 jusqu'en 1787. Lausanne, et se trouve à Paris, Cuchet, Gattey, 1788. - (Followed by:) (LOMENIE DE BRIENNE, E.C.) Compte rendu au Roi, au mois de Mars 1788, et publié par ses ordres. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1788. 2 works bound in 1 volume. xii, 231, (1) pp.; (1), xiv, (2), 183 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt back with raised bands. First work: Kress B.1446; Goldsmiths 13646; Einaudi 1179; Stourm 27. First edition. 'Ouvrage indispensable à posséder' (Stourm). Highly important financial reports, which would certainly have remained unknown, if it was not for the unflagging courage of Mathon de la Cour. Contains reports by Boullogne (1758), de Silhouette (1759), Terray (1770, 1772-1774), Turgot (1775), Cluny (1776), Necker (1781), etc. Second work: Kress S.5177 & S.5185 (without the preliminaries); Goldsmiths 13636; Einaudi 2245; Stourm 143; not in Einaudi; not in INED.First edition.'Le successeur de Calonne, Loménie de Brienne, fit imprimer en 1788 l'important compte rendu de la situation des finances, dans lequel on a coutume de rechercher les derniers chiffres des budgets de la monarchie.' 'Ces chiffres n'en sont pas moins utiles à consulter, à défaut d'autres, surtout en raison des nombreux commentaires qui les accompagnent' (Stourm). Of interest also for the comments on the details supplied by Souffloy de Mercy, who did much of the text. EUR 750
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(MATHON DE LA COUR, CH. J.) Collection de comptes-rendus, pièces authentiques, états et tableaux, concernant les finances de France, depuis 1758 jusqu'en 1787. A Lausanne, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Cuchet & Gattey, 1788. With tables in the text. - (Bound with:) SABATIER, (J.J.) Adresse à l'Assemblée nationale, sur la Dépense de l'Etat, les impôts, la construction des routes, le commerce des grains, la mendicité, & les secours à accorder aux cultivateurs; la conservation des biens des pupilles, des mineurs; l'administration de la justice; les gabelles, &c. A Paris, Chez Prault, 1790. - (Bound with:) BREMOND, J.B. Premières observations au peuple françois, sur la quadruple aristocratie qui existe depuis deuz siècles, sous le nom de haut Clergé, de possédants fiefs, de Magistrats, & du haut Tiers; & vues générales sur la constitution & la félicité publique. A Versailles, Chez Blaizot, 1789. With engraved frontispiece. - (Bound with:) BREMOND, J.B. Secondes observations au peuple françois. Compte rendu à la Nation, de la somme de sa contribution, du produit net de sa recette & de sa dépense. Dénonciation du travail en finance, & restauration de la chose publique, par la seule réforme des abus de l'impôt, de sa répartition & du recouvrement. Suite des vues générales sur la constitution & sur la félicité publique. No place, 1789. Together 4 volumes bound in 1. xii, 231, (1) pp.; vi, 191, (1) pp.; 96 pp.; 184 pp.4to. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, corners, green paper covered boards, corners somewhat bumped, marbled edges. First work: Kress B.1446; Goldsmiths 13646; Einaudi 1179; Stourm 27: 'Ouvrage indispensable à posséder.' First edition. Higly important financial reports, which certainly would have remained unknown, if it was not for the unflagging courage of Mathon de la Cour. Contains reports by Boullogne (1758), De Silhoutte (1759), Terray (1770, 1772, 1773 & 1774), Turgot (1775), Cluny (1776), Necker (1781) etc. Second work: Martin & Walter 30495; INED 4016; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. Devoted mainly to the question of tax reforms. Lacks half-title. Third and fourth work: Stourm 191; INED 771; Martin & Walter 5071; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. 'Dénonciation du travail en finance, et restauration de la chose publique, par la seule réforme des abus de l'impôt, de sa répartition et du recouvrement. Vues générales sur la constitution et la félicité publique. Bremond veut relever l'agriculture, supprimer la mendicité et répartir proportionnellement l'impôt à raison des propriétés' (INED). Complete copy with the general half-title for the two works. EUR 750
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(MATHON DE LA COUR, CH. J.) Collection de comptes-rendus, pièces authentiques, états et tableaux, concernant les finances de France, depuis 1758 jusq'en 1787. Lausanne, et se trouve à Paris, Cuchet & Gattey, 1788. With numerous tables in the text. - (Followed by:) (NECKER, J.) Sur le compte rendu au Roi en 1781. Nouveaux éclaircissemens. A Paris, Hotel de Thou, 1788. 2 works bound in 1 volume. xii, 231, (1) pp.; viii, 284 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red labels with gilt lettering, blue srinkled edges, tiny defect to foot of spine. First work: Kress B.1446; Goldsmiths 13646; Einaudi 1179; Stourm 27. First edition. 'Ouvrage indispensable à posséder.' (Stourm). Highly important financial reports, which certainly would have remained unknown, if it was not for the unflagging courage of Mathon de la Cour. Contains reports by: Boullogne (1758), De Silhouette (1759), Terray (1770, 1772, 1773 and 1774), Turgot (1775), Cluny (1776), Necker (1781), etc. Second work: Kress B.1452; Goldsmiths 13648; INED 3373; Einaudi 4112; Stourm 126.Original edition of this violent work, criticizing the financial administration of Calonne of 1784-87. EUR 1000
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(MATTHIEU, P.) Histoire des derniers troubles de France, Sous les regnes des Roys Tres-Chrestiens Henry III, Roy de France & de Pologne, & Henry IIII, Roy de France & de Navarre. Divisée enplusieurs livres. Et dédiée au Roy Tres-Chrestien. Iouxte la copie imprimée A Lyon, Par Estienne Bonaventure, 1597. 12 unnumbered leaves, 58, 111 numbered leaves, 9 unnumbered leaves, 8 unnumbered leaves (title-page and preface to 5th book), 364 numbered leaves. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum, ties renewed in the 19th century, title handwritten on spine, and at foot of spine also handwritten: Ex Biblioth. Thuana. Hauser 1448; BMSTC (French) p. 185; Adams M-901 (edition 1594); Monod, Bibliographie de l'Histoire de France, 3513; Tchemerzine-Scheler iv, p. 627. Third edition. 'Pure compilation, mêlée de résumés de pièces et de digressions nombreuses, mais faite avec beaucoup d'intelligence par un catholique navarriste. Commence par un 'discours des grands effets qui ont suyvi la conversion du Roi. Tiré d'un harangue ..... sur la reduction de la ville de Lyon'. The four books contain: I: From the peace of 1576 to 1585; II: July 1585 - May 1588; III: to the Convocation of the Etats; IV: From the convocation to 1589. This particular copy contains a fifth book, to be found in some copies, which however is not by Matthieu, with a separate title-page reading: 'Le Cinqiesme Livre des derniers troubles de France, Contenant L'Histoire des Choses plus memorabels advenues depuis la mort de Roy Henri III. au mois d'Aoust 1589, jusques au siege de la Fere. Imprimé l'an de notre Salut, 1597.' Pierre Matthieu was one of the official historians of Henry IV.- The front pastedown contains a handwritten note in an old hand reading: 'La fin est une piece en vers latin inédite J.A. de Thou, et de son écriture', while the rear paste-down has the following manuscript note: Ces vers latins que je crois (these three words crossed out) inédite sont de la main de leur illustre auteur. Ce volume vient de sa bibliothèque. Voir Catal. Bibl. Thuana, 1679, t. 1, p. 362. It seems most lilely that this copy orginates from the library of Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617), councillor of Henry III and later Henry IV, author of the important 'Histoire de mon temps' and of Latin poetry, and celebrated bibliophile. The Latin verse is to be found on verso page 364, has 12 lines and is written on the occasion of the death of Gabrielle d'Estrées, mistress of Henry IV. It is not a very flattering verse which partially reads (in translation): 'Locuste est morte. La courtisane ne souillera plus la couche royale, et ne salira plus de son nom l'honnête roi Henry.... ' EUR 1900
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(MATTHIEU, P.) Histoire des derniers troubles de France, Sous les regnes des Roys Tres-Chrestiens Henry III, Roy de France & de Pologne, & Henry IIII, Roy de France & de Navarre. Divisée enplusieurs livres. Et dédiée au Roy Tres-Chrestien. Iouxte la copie imprimée A Lyon, Par Estienne Bonaventure, 1597. 12 unnumbered leaves, 58, 111 numbered leaves, 9 unnumbered leaves. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum (somewhat worn, ties gone). Hauser 1448; BMSTC (French) p. 185; Adams M-901 (edition 1594); Monod, Bibliographie de l'Histoire de France, 3513. Third edition, first published in 1584 and 1594. - First 12 leaves with a dampstain in the lower outer corner. 'Pure compilation, mêlée de résumés de pièces et de digressions nombreuses, mais faite avec beaucoup d'intelligence par un catholique navarriste. Commence par un 'discours des grands effets qui ont suivi la conversion du Roi. Tiré d'un harangue ..... sur la reduction de la ville de Lyon'. The four books contain: I: From the peace of 1576 to 1585; II: July 1585 - May 1588; III: to the Convocation of the Etats; IV: From the convocation to 1589. EUR 450
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(MATTHIEU, P.) Histoire des derniers troubles de France. Soubs les regnes des Roys Tres-Chrestiens Henry III, Roy de France & de Pologne, & Henry IIII, Roy de France & de Navarre. Divisée en Plusieurs Livres. Contenant tout ce qui s'est passé durant les derniers troubles iusques à la paix faite entre les Rois de France et d'Espagne. Avec un recueil des Edicts & Articles accordez par le Roy Henri IIII pour la ré-union de ses subiects. No place, Imprimé l'an de grace, 1599. 4 unnumbered leaves, 169 numbered leaves, 10 unnumbered leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf (title-page), 74 numbered leaves, 4 unnumbered leaves, 2 unnumbered leaf (title-page and table), 123 numbered leaves. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum, handwritten title on spine. Hauser 1448; BMSTC (French) p. 185 (edition 1597); Adams M-901 (edition 1594); Monod, Bibliographie de l'Histoire de France, 3513 (other editions). First published in 1584, this is one of the more elaborate editions, very much updated. There are some copies of the 1597 edition already containing the 5th book (see below), and this 1599 edition is yet further augmented. 'Pure compilation, mêlée de résumés de pièces et de digressions nombreuses, mais faite avec beaucoup d'intelligence par un catholique navarriste. Commence par un 'discours des grands effets qui ont suivi la conversion du Roi. Tiré d'un harangue ..... sur la reduction de la ville de Lyon'. The four books contain: I: From the peace of 1576 to 1585; II: July 1585 - May 1588; III: to the Convocation of the Etats; IV: From the convocation to 1589. This particular copy contains a fifth book, to be found in some copies, which however is not by Matthieu, with a separate title-page reading: 'Le Cinqiesme Livre, ou Recueil contenant l'Histoire des choses plus memorables advenuës en France depuis la closture des Estats de Blois, jusques à la publication de la Paix faicte entre les Roys de France & d'Espagne, au mois de Juin, l'an mil cinq cents quatre vingts dix-huict. Imprimé l'An de Grace, 1599. This text is followed by: Recueil des Edicts et Articles accordez par le Roy Henri IIII pour la réunion de ses subiets. Imprimé l'An de Grace, 1599. EUR 900
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(MEY, CL.) Maximes du droit public françois. Tome Premier [-Tome Second]. En France, 1772. Two volumes. vii, (1, errata), 541, (1) pp.; vi, 653, (1, errata) pp. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, spines richly gilt, contrasting labels with gilt lettering, paper covered boards, small accident to top of spine of second volume. Conlon 72:1049; Camus 950; Peignot p. 314; Weller, Die falschen und fingierten Druckorte, ii, p.191; R. Darnton, The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France 1769-1789, 420; Le Bucher Bibliographique, 566. Scarce first edition of this work, a sort of political encyclopedia dealing with the rights of the sovereign and the people. Camus writes about the immense erudition of the author noting the importance of the book. It analyses the principles of governement in general and that of France in particular. Mey states that the government is for the people and not the other way around, it claims that despotism is contrary to divine law, to natural law and even contrary to the goal of government, it claims that in a well-ordered and well governed society people have the right to property and personal liberty, that France is a monarchy and not a "état déspotique", that there are laws that limit the powers of the executive, and, the part considered most offensive, the author shows that the odious practice of the "lettres de cachet" is contrary to the right of liberty, to private liberty and to liberty of action and initiative, that it is unjust, contrary to what the goal of society and government is; he refutes the arguments on which this practise is based and concludes that one is not bound to obey. This is a very interesting legal and political treatise, and given its immense erudition and detailed reasoning, a sort of political and legal encyclopedia, on the rights of the sovereign and the rights of the people and disucsses the relation between both. Evidently, the book was banned and forbidden and the governement very actively tried to suppress the book (see Peignot).Apart from the small defect mentioned a very nice copy of a scare work. EUR 900
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(MIRABEAU, H.G. RIQUETTI DE.) Essai sur le despotisme. Seconde édition, augmentée & corrigée par l'éditeur de cet ouvrage. Londres, 1776. (2), viii, 308 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments with label and gilt lettering, lightly shaved, corners somewhat bumped. Goldsmiths 11518; INED 3188 (1831 edition); Martin & Walter 24430; Higgs 6537 (for the first and second edition). Second, revised, enlarged and corrected edition. Philosophical and political study on despotism and its effects it pretents to refute the theories of Rousseau while the author in reality attacks straight forward the government. Still to the point remains his remark that: 'La nation finit toujours par être plus puissante que le tyran lorsque le pouvoir arbitraire parvenu à son dernier délire a dissous tous les liens de l'opinion et épuisé les ressources que la terre offre à ceux qui la cultivent en liberté. Ainsi les hommes se vengent tôt ou tard.' 'Dans cet insolent libelle, intitulé Essai sur le Despotisme, sous couleur de réfuter les théories de Jean-Jacques sur la bonté naturelle de l'homme, l'auteur s'attaquait de front aux pouvoirs.' (Duc de Castries, Mirabeau, p. 105). Important work proclaiming democratic ideas and openly attacking despotism: 'Après cette vue philosophique générale, l'ouvrage s'attaquait seulement au 'despotisme d'un seul.'' (Duc de Castries, op.cit.) - With the errata at the end of page 308. EUR 450
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(MIRABEAU, H.G. RIQUETTI DE.) Errotika Biblion. A Rome (Paris or Neuchatel), De l'Imprimerie du Vatican, 1783. iv, 192 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, marbled boards, small damage to head of spine. Kearney, Private Case, 1190; Kearney, History of Erotik Literature, p. 80; Darnton, The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 204; Pia, Enfer, 441; Gay-Lemonnyer, ii, p. 150-155. First edition (as distinguished from a counterfeit edition, also dated 1783, with different pagination). The work was divided between three printers in Switzerland (Fauche, Favre, and Vitel) and the book was condamned from the moment it appeared. It was reprinted in 1833 and again immediately forbidden. A notorious and often reprinted work, written by Mirabeau during his imprisonment in the castle of Vincennes, in an effort to portray the corruption and foibles of the clergy and royalty of past ages as affecting and limiting the freedoms of the common populace. According to Kearney, the book "was pursued with such vigour by the authorities that only fourteen copies of the first edition are supposed to have survived. As a compendium of curiosities culled from the pages of ancient writings it is possibly one of the most peculiar books ever put together and shows vividly the sort of eccentric bypaths that erudition and emotion can sometimes take when strangled by the confines of prison." The number of 14 copies is flawed but the first edition is a rather uncommon book.While Mirabeau was in prison he continued his studies and developed further his already impressive erudition. He also wrote, while in prison, another erotic book entitled "Ma Conversion". EUR 1200
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(MIRABEAU, V. RIQUETTI DE & F. QUESNAY.) L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Cinqième édition. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1760-1764. With title-pages in red and black. 6 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, contrasting spine labels with gilt lettering. I-III: L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Cinqième édition. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1764. (4), viii, 308, (2) pp.; (4), 423, (1) pp.; (4), 422, (2) pp.IV: L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Tome Quatrième. Précis de l'Organisation, ou Mémoire sur les États Provinciaux. Sixième Édition. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1760. (4), 208, (2) pp. - (Followed by:) Réponse aux Objections contre le Mémoire sur les États Provinciaux. (Drop-head title). - (Followed by:) Questions intéressantes sur la Population, l'Agriculture et le Commerce, Proposées aux Académies & autres Sociétés savantes des Provinces. (Drop-head title). (2), 336 pp. (the 'Réponse' and the 'Questions' continuously paginated).V: L'Ami des Hommes, Nouvelle Édition, Augmentée des Lettres sur les Corvées & la Milice. Cinquième Partie. Mémoire sur l'Agriculture envoyé a la très-louable Société d'Agriculture de Berne; Avec L'Extrait des six premiers Livres du Corps complet d'Economie Rustique de feu M. Thomas Hale. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1762. (4), vi, 281, (5) pp. - (Followed by:) L'Ami des Hommes, Nouvelle Édition, Augmentée des Lettres sur les Corvées & la Milice. Sixième Partie. Réponse a l'Essai sur les Ponts et Chaussées, la Voierie et les Corvées. Sixième Partie. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1762. (4), 206 pp.VI: L'Ami des Hommes, Nouvelle Édition, Augmentée des Lettres sur les Corvées & la Milice. Septieme Partie. Tableau Economique avec ses Explications. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1762. With 6 engraved folding tables. (4), 162, (4) pp. - (Followed by:) L'Ami des Hommes, Nouvelle Édition, Augmentée des Lettres sur les Corvées & la Milice. Huitieme Partie. Lettres pour servir de Suite a l'Ami des Hommes. Huitieme Partie. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1762. (4), 104 pp. EUR 850
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(MIRABEAU, V. RIQUETTI DE & F. QUESNAY.) L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Avignon, Hambourg, 1756-1761. 10 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, red edges. The L'Ami des Hommes is known for its great number or editions published in the years after 1756. Numerous editions in 4, 7 or 8 volumes can be found in both Kress and Goldsmiths. I-III: L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. A Avignon, 1756. With engraved frontispiece. 431, (1) pp.; 578, (2) pp.; 577, (1) pp.IV: L'Ami des Hommes. Quatrieme Partie. Précis de l'Organisation, ou Mémoire sur les États Provinciaux. No place, 1758. (8), 285, (1) pp.V: L'Ami des Hommes. Suite de la Quatrieme Partie. No place, 1758. Réponse aux Objections contre le Mémoire sur les États Provinciaux. (2), 313, (1) pp. Questions intéressantes sur la Population, l'agriculture et le commerce ..... 150, (2) pp.VI: L'Ami des Hommes. Cinqieme Partie. Mémoire sur l'Agriculture Envoyé à la très-louable Société d'Agriculture de Berne, Avec l'Extrait des six premiers Livres du Corps complet d'Oeconomie Rustique de feu M. Thomas Hale. No place, 1760. 300 (misnumbered 298), (6) pp.VII: L'Ami des Hommes. Sixieme Partie. Réponse à l'Essai sur les Ponts et Chaussées, la Voierie et les Corvées. No place, 1760. (4), 228, (2) pp.VIII: L'Ami des Hommes. Suite de la VI. Partie. Tableau Oeconomique avec ses Explications. No place, 1760. With 6 folding engraved tables. (4), 228, (4) pp.IX: Théorie de l'Impôt. No place, 1761. viii, 422 pp.X: L'Ami des Hommes. Nouvelle édition, augmentée des Lettres sur les Corvées et les Milices. Huitième Partie. Lettres pour servir de suite à l'Ami des Hommes. Huitième Partie. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1760. Title printed in red and black. (4), 104 pp. EUR 1250
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(MIRABEAU, V. RIQUETTI DE & F. QUESNAY.) L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Nouvelle édition corrigée. A Avignon, 1761-1764. 7 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with contrasting spine labels and gilt lettering, marbled edges. - First three leaves of volume 1 with a marginal dampstain. I-III: L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Nouvelle édition corrigée. A Avignon, 1762. With engraved frontispiece. viii, 220, (2) pp.; 304, (2) pp.; 301, (1) pp.IV: L'Ami des Hommes. Quatrième Partie. Précis de l'Organisation, ou Mémoire sur les États Provinciaux. A Avignon, 1764. (8), 160 pp. - (Followed by:) L'Ami des Hommes. Suite de la Quatrième Partie. 1764. Réponse aux Objections Contre le Mémoire sur les États Provinciaux. 252 pp.V: L'Ami des Hommes. Cinqième Partie. Mémoire sur l'Agriculture, envoyé à la très-louable Société d'Agriculture de Berne, Avec l'Extrait des six premiers Livres du Corps complet d'Economie Rustique de feu Mr. Thomas Hale. A Avignon, 1761. viii, 206, (2) pp.VI: L'Ami des Hommes. Sixieme Partie. Réponse à l'essai sur les Ponts et Chaussées, la Voierie et les Corvées. A Avignon, 1761. 142 pp. - (Followed by:) L'Ami des Hommes. Suite de la VI. Partie. Tableau Économique avec ses Explications. A Avignon, 1761. With 6 engraved folding tables. 149, (3) pp.VII: L'Ami des Hommes. Septième Partie. Théorie de l'impôt. A Avignon, 1761. viii, 322, (2) pp. This last volume is bound in a modern matching binding. EUR 800
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(MIRABEAU, V. RIQUETTI DE & F. QUESNAY.) L'Ami des Hommes, ou traité de la Population. Nouvelle édition, Augementée d'une quatrième Partie & de Sommaires. No place, 1759-1760. 6 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, redlabels with gilt lettering, marbled edges. I-III: L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Nouvelle édition, Augmentée d'une quatrième Partie & de Sommaires. No place, 1759. With engraved frontispiece. x, (6), 391, (1) pp.; (12), 534 pp; (12), 526 pp.IV: L'Ami des Hommes, Quatrième Partie. Precis de l'Organisation, ou Mémoire sur les États Provinciaux. No place, 1759. xi, (1), 267, (1) pp. - (Followed by:) L'AMI des Hommes. Suite de la Quatrieme Partie. (2), 376 pp. This last work contains: 'Réponse aux O