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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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(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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(GRAZIANI, A.M.) La vie du Cardinal Jean François Commendon. Où l'on voit ses voyages, ambassades, legations & negotiations, dans les plus considérables cours des Empereurs, rois, princes & républiques de l'Europe. Par M. (V.E.) Fléchier, évêques de Nîmes, de l'Académie Françoise. Paris, la Veuve Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1695. Title printed in red and black. With engraved frontispiece. (34), 492, (36) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands (somewhat rubbed and worn). Lorentowicz, La Pologne en France, ii, 1409; BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700, G-687. Third French edition. Graziani travelled extensively through Europe by order of the Popes of his days. Later he was sent to Poland as a nuntio and he stayed there for several years. He also accompanied the Pope to Germany and Poland. His work is an important source for the second half of the 16th century. The translation is by Valentin-Esprit Fléchier. EUR 375
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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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(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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MABLY, (G. BONNOT) DE. Le droit public de l'Europe, fondé sur les traités. Troisième édition, revûe, corrigée & augmentée. Genève, par la Compagnie des Libraires, 1764. 3 volumes. xii, 525, (1) pp.; (4), 563, (1) pp.; iii,(1), 507, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, labels with gilt lettering, marbled edges. Camus 246; Tchémerzine-Scheler, iv, p. 247. Third and best edition, greatly augmented and revised and expanded into three volumes. - Fine copy. ' ..... Mably had assembled summaries of the major international treaties and agreements of the past century. This was published, with the explanatory notes, in two volumes in 1746, as Le Droit public de l'Europe, ..... It consists of résumés and citations, together with a considerable explanatory apparatus, of the chief international treaties and agreements among the major European powers, from Westphalia onwards. As such, the first edition of the Droit public is a virtual history of international relations from 1648 to 1740. (......) Mably's handbook was a model of clarity and rational exposition, and it met with instant success, not only in France, but abroad as well' (Johnson Kent Wright, A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France. The Political Thought of Mably, pp. 36-37.) EUR 750
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MABLY, (G. BONNOT) DE. Le droit public de l'Europe, fondé sur les traités. Nouvelle édition. A Genève et se trouve à Paris, Chez Bailly, 1776. 3 volumes. xii, 525, (1) pp.; iv, 563, (1) pp.; iv, 507, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt triple fillets on sides, spines gilt in compartments, red and green labels with gilt lettering, all edges gilt, slightly worn. Camus 246; Tchémerzine-Scheler, iv, 247. Re-issue of the third and best edition (1764), which was greatly augmented and revised and expanded into three volumes compared to the editions published in 1746 and 1748. ' ..... Mably had assembled summaries of the major international treaties and agreements of the past century. This was published, with the explanatory notes, in two volumes in 1746, as Le Droit public de l'Europe, ..... It consists of résumés and citations, together with a considerable explanatory apparatus, of the chief international treaties and agreements among the major European powers, from Westphalia onwards. As such, the first edition of the Droit public is a virtual history of international relations from 1648 to 1740. (......) Mably's handbook was a model of clarity and rational exposition, and it met with instant success, not only in France, but abroad as well' (Johnson Kent Wright, A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France. The Political Thought of Mably, pp. 36-37.) - Stamped ex-libris Emile Duvernoy on titles. EUR 750
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MANUSCRIPT - MONTESQUIEU - ANALYSE de l'Esprit des Loix. Unsigned and not dated 18th-century manuscript of 28 pp. Folio. Sewn (loose, disbound). Anonymous manuscript in a quite legible hand dealing with the Esprit des Loix and dealing extensively with political freedom, with natural law, commenting specifically on these subjects, with the monarchy, despotism, democracy, economics and commerce, nobility and the people, luxury, inequality under the various forms of government, etc. A quite interesting manuscript revealing some of the perceptions with which the Esprit des Loix was received. EUR 900
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MARAT, (J.P.) Plan de législation criminelle. Ouvrage dans lequel on traite de délits et des peines, de la force des preuves et des présomptions, et de la manière d'acquerir ces preuves etses présomptions durant l'instruction de la procédure, de manière à ne blesser ni la justice, ni la liberté, et à concilier la douceur avec la certitude des châtiments, et l'humanité avec la sûreté de la société civile. A Paris, Chez Rochette, 1790. With engraved portrait as frontispiece. 155 (misnumbered 157) pp. 8vo. Modern half morroco, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, top edge gilt, corners. Bougeart, p. 367; Martin & Walter 22850; INED 3053. Second edition, the first being published in 1780 in Neufchâtel at Marat's own expenses. Both Bougeart and Martin & Walter list the edition offered here. According to Cheveremont, in the Index du Bibliophile, the first edition is 'introuvable dans le commerce.' 'Droit criminel. Relation entre la situation économique d'un état et la délinquance. Un chapitre sur les délits contre les moeurs; moyens de prévenir les crimes qui naissent du déréglement social.' (INED). Marat here argues, among other things, that the king is merely the first minister of the law; he speaks only in its name and, should he exceed his legitimate power, may justly be resisted by his people. (See for an analysis: Louis R. Gottschalk, Jean Paul Marat. A Study in Radicalism, pp. 22-24).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.Marat's treatise is divided into four parts. The first one, a discussion of the general principles of criminal laws shows him to be a follower of Beccaria, whose treatise Dei delitti e delle Pene (1764) had revolutionized penal law. In the second chapter he classifies crimes and punishments, then considers different forms of proof, and in the fourth and last section presents the rules of judicial procedure. Comparisons with the legal codes of other countries, amongst them Japan and Russia, help to illustrate his enlightened viewpoint. Marat maintains that the rate of delinquency within a society depends on its economic situation. This outline of criminal law was partly incorporated into the penal code adopted by the Emperor Joseph II. EUR 1400
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SCHEWARDNADSE, M. Die Todesstrafe in Europa. Eine rechtsvergleichende Darstellung mit einer rechtsgeschichtlichen Einleitung. München, Rudolph Müller & Steinicke, 1914. 100 pp. 8vo. Blind half cloth with paper title-label (Thesis. Univ. Zürich). The author was born in Kutais, Russia.Includes a selective bibliography. EUR 125
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SCHMAUSS, J.J. Tableau du gouvernement actuel de l'Empire d'Allemagne, ou Abrégé du droit public de l'Empire. Traduit de l'Allemand, avec des notes historiques et critiques par M*** (le comte Dubuat-Nancay). A Paris, Chez la veuve Bordelet, 1755. xxxvi, 405, (1) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary green morocco, gilt triple fillet on sides with gilt floral ornament in the corners, spine gilt with raised bands, all edges gilt, some very light wear. Conlon 55:1047. First French edition. An abridged edition of the author's Einleitung zu der Staats-Wissenschaft, 1741-1747. - With bookplate on inside frontcover and a small ticket verso front free endpaper. A lovely copy, printed on 'papier de Hollande'. EUR 750
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VOLNEY, C.F. (CHASSEBOEUF, COMTE DE.) The law of nature, or principles of morality deduced from the physical constitution of mankind and the universe. Printed for T. Stephens by F. & R. Bailey, 1796. viii, (2), 161, (1) pp. 16mo. Contemporary marbledcalf, gilt decorative border on sides, spine gilt with gilt lettering. Martin & Walter, 33801. First English edition. Volney, French philosophe and historian. His revolutionary career was quite distinguished: he defended civil rights and freedoms, attacked the church strongly, and later opposed the excesses of the Jacobins. In 1795 he went to the United States where he was well received by Washington. Adams, however, was unforgiving of Volney's severe criticisms of his political writings. In addition, a theological quarrel with Joseph Priestley, who was then in America, did not dispose Adams favorably towards visiting philosophers. Accused of being a secret agent, Volney was forced to leave America in 1798, but by then he had travelled all over the country. The present work is a translation of his important La Loi naturelle, ou Catéchimse du citoyen français. In this work he affirmed a natural law given by God, but this natural law is essentially physical. The moral aspect of natural law is only an extension of the biological requirement for self-preservation and 'perfection' on the part of the individual and the species. Consequently, morals could become an exact science (L.G. Crocker in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy). "Volney was in essence a man of the Enlightenment. His rationalism, his distrust of all forms of prejudices, his hostility against dogmas, his faith in progress, his open mind for alternative ideas, and his deep concern for the investigation of facts made him a true disciple of Diderot, Helvétius, and d'Holbach. Volnay, however, thought differently from his predecessors on several important points and opened the way for the development of ethnology and cross-cultural psychology. (.....) Volnay was one of the first Europeans to understand the importance of the scientific study of acculturation, but he came too early" (Muarice Mauviel in: Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, vol. 4, pp. 233-235). EUR 750
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VOSGES - LOI donnée à Paris, le 17 Août 1792, l'an quatrième de la Liberté. Lue au Conseil du Département des Vosges & consignée sur ses Registres le 2 Septembre suivant. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Epinal, chez Haener, (1792). 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. On the creation of a criminal court (judges, prosecutors, jury, etc) dealing with the events of August 10. Issued by Danton, a nice provincial edition. August 10, 1792 is the date that marked the end of the French monarchy after more than 13 centuries. EUR 75
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