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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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ARRET du Conseil d'Etat du roi, qui ordonne l'exécution, dans le port de Dunkerque, des arrêts & règlemens qui accordent la préférence à la ferme générale, dans les adjudications de tabacs provenans de prise. Du 2 Avril 1783. Paris, 1783. 4 pp. 4to. Modern boards with leather label. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Originaledition. EUR 100
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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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DECLARATION du roi, portant réglement général pour le tabac; donnée à Paris, le 1er Août 1721. Paris, 1785. 22 pp. 4to. Modern boards with leather label. EUR 125
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DECRET de la Convention Nationale, du 26 Juillet 1793, l'an second de la République Françoise, lu au Directoire du Département des Vosges, et consigné sur ses registres le 4 Août suivant. Contre les Accapareurs. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Epinal, Imprimerie Haener, 1793. 7, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. Measures against those trying to create monopolies. EUR 75
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DECRETS de la Convention nationale, des 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 & 15 Décembre 1792 ..... relatifs aux procès & jugement de Louis Capet. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Chaalons, Chez Collignon, imprimeur , (1793). 16 pp. 4to. Disbound. Not in Martin & Walter. Louis XVI was condemned to death on January 23, 1793. EUR 100
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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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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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LOI donnée à Paris, le 16 Août 1792, l'an quatrième de la liberté. (Toulon, 1792). 3 pp. 4to. Modern boards with leather label. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Original edition. Deals with prices for tobacco and salt. EUR 80
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LOI relative au tabac de cantine pour les troupes. Donnée à Paris, le 6 Août 1791. Paris, 1791. 2 pp. 4to. Modern boards with leather label. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Originaledition. EUR 75
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LOI relative à l'importation du Tabac. Donnée à Paris, le 24 Avril 1791. (Toulon, 1791). 4 pp. 4to. Modern boards with leather label. Not in Krress; not in Goldsmiths. Original edition. EUR 75
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LOI relative à la réduction des droits d'entrée sur le tabac. Du 5 septembre 1792. (Drop-head title). (Grenoble), De l'Imprimerie du Surre, fils, 1792. 3 pp. 4to. Modern boards with leather label. Goldsmiths 15220; not in Kress. 'Les tabacs du Levant seront admis en balles; ceux d'Amerfort & autres de Hollande en panier, & ceux des colonies en paquets'. EUR 100
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MEMOIRE SIGNIFIE. Pour les Gardes des Marchands de la Ville de Tours, appellans. Contre les Jurés, Corps & Métiers des Maîtres Bonnetiers de la même Ville, Intimés. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie de J. Chardon, 1760. 23, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards. ' ..... les Bonnetiers, n'étant que des Ouvriers, ainsi qu'un Arrêt solemne; de 1688 le décide; ils ne peuvent se qualifier Marchands, ni leurs Jurés Gardes; les Marchands étant les seuls en droit de prendre ces deux qualités.' The hosiers fighting for free enterprise, which is considered to threaten order and peace in all commercial cities. EUR 75
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MEMOIRE signifié pour Germain Desrosiers, Fermier Général des Devoirs, Impôt & Billot, & autres droits de la province de Bretagne aux années 1783 & 1784, Défendeur en Requête& Assignation des ..... & de sa part Demandeur en Requête du...contre Messire René-François- Joseph du Beberil de Cherville, chevalier, Procureur- Général-Syndic des Etats, Demandeur & Défenseur. (Drop-head title). Rennes, J.Ch. Vatar, (ab. 1784). 13 pp. 4to. Modern boards. The tax collectors of the province ofBretagne are accused by the Etats of having introduced non-existing regulations which they then used for collecting taxes on brandy. EUR 175
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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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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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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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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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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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STATUTS et règlemens pour la manufacture de draps de Carcassonne, Cité, Saptes & Conques, arrêtés en présence & sous l'autorité du Juge-Mage & Lieutenant-général en la sénéchaussée de Carcassonne & Béziers: ensemble les arrêts du Conseil & Lettres-patentes de Sa Majesté, portant autorisation d'iceux & l'arrêt d'enregistrement au Parlement de Toulouse. Du 26 Octobre 1666. A Carcassonne, Chez J.B. Coignet, 1746. With large vignette on title-page. 512, xxviii pp. 4to. Contemporary calf, worn and rubbed. Not in Blanc, Bibliographie des corporations ouvrières; not in Bourgeois & André. With 'Table des Arrets, Edits, Reglemens et Ordonnances contenues dans ce recueil pour la Jurande de Carcassonne.' The volume covers the period 1666-1746. Scarce. - The binder at the time has erroneously put quire z (pp. 177-184) again where quire Zz (pp. 361-368) should have been bound, and which is consequently lacking. Bookplate of Dr Ch. Boyer on front paste-down, and old ownership entries in blank portion of title-page. - The binder at the time has erroneously put quire z (pp. 177-184) again where quire Zz (pp. 361-368) should have been bound, and which is consequently lacking. Bookplate of Dr Ch. Boyer on front paste-down, and old ownership entries in blank portion of title-page. EUR 400
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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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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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CONSTITUTION FRANCAISE, présentée au Roi par l'Assemblée Nationale, le 3 septembre 1791. Dijon, Impr. P. Causse, 1791. (2), 83 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Cf.: Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 4106. The Constitution of 1791 was the first written constitution in France and one of the earliest in the world. Drawn up by the national Assembly between 6 July 1789 and 3 September 1791 and accepted by Louis XVI on 13 September 1791. It defined the citizenry and its rights, organized the different branches of government, and imposed general limits on certain kinds of governmental action. (.....) The Constitution of 1791 is an interpretation of the political past of France and a diagnosis of its misfortunes as well as a prescription. The constitution also preserves in many details the reflection of conditions and events during the period when it was being written. In both these ways it grew out of the political history of France. (P. Dawson in: Historical Dictionary of the French revolution, 1789-1799). - Copy without one leaf of printer's publicity preceding the titlepage. EUR 500
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CONSTITUTIONS des Treize États-Unis de l'Amérique. A Philadelphie, Et se trouve à Paris, Chez Ph. D. Pierres, Pissot père & fils, 1783. With the seal of the United States designed by Franklin on title. (4), 540 pp. Large 8vo. Contemporary quarter mottled roan and with marbled boards, (some restoration to spine, edges worn, a very good and clean copy. Sabin 16118; Streeter Sale, ii, 1035; Leclerc 854; Howes C.716; not in Muller; not in Fay; Livingston, Franklin and his Press at Passy, pp. 181-188; Echeverria & Wilkie 783/24. First French edition. This work contains the constitutions of the thirteen original states of the newly-emerged United States of America. Inspired by Benjamin Franklin, who was then Ambassador to the French court and who had negociated with Great Britain for the independence of the thirteen colonies, six hundred copies were printed of which one hundred were on large-paper. The work was translated by the Duc de la Rochefoucauld, and annotated by him. Included are here the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the several treaties of amity and commerce between the United States and the countries of France, Sweden and the Netherlands.'Franklin's grand gesture in publishing and distributing these constitutions, about which there was an intense interest and curiosity among statesmen, was one of his chief achievements as propagandist for the new American republic' (Streeter). The seal of the United States -eagle, stars and stripes- and designed by Franklin, is not only in the imprint on the title-page, it is also the first use of the seal in a book. - Especially internally a fine, clean copy. EUR 5000
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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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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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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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MEMOIRE de ce que les Srs députez de leurs Hautes Puissances les Seigneurs Etats Généraux des Provinces Unies des Pays-Bas, ont proposé de la part de leurs Hautes Puissances au Sieur Comte d'Avaux, ambassadeur extraordinaire de Sa Majesté Très-Chrétienne. No place, (1701). 15, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound, loose. Knuttel 14577 (calls for 4 pp. only). Deals with the "Traité de Partage", signed March 25, 1700, between the King of England, the States General of United Provinces and the French King, with the possible difficulties that may arise after the death of the Spanish King, the withdrawal of French troops from the Spanish Netherlands and their replacement by Spanish troops, the cession of certain Dutch cities, the maintanance of the rights of the Dutch in the Spanish Netherlands with regard to their trade and commerce, choice of harbours, etc., the renewal and improvement of the Treaty of Munster (1648), etc. etc. Dated March 22, 1701. Signed at end: Alexandre Stanhope. EUR 175
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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 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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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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PROCES de don Augustin Iturbide, ex-empereur du Mexique. Paris, H. Langlois fils et Cie., 1827. 64 pp. 8vo. Modern boards, label with gilt lettering. Augustin de Iturbide or Yturbide was emperor of Mexico from May 1822 to March 1823. He joined the army at the time the Hidalgo insurrection broke out and by his splendid courage and brilliant military talents he rapidly rose in military rank. When the opportunity arose Iturbide made a bid for power but was soon forced to resign. He retired to Leghorn in Italy but decided once more to try his luck and made another attempt to gain power and set sail to Mexico. Congress immediately issued an act of outlawry (of which Iturbide was unaware being at sea on his way to Mexico) and although he landed in disguise he was almost immediately recognized, arrested and shot, on the 19 July, 1824, in Padilla.At head of title: Causes politiques célèbres du XIXe siècle, rédigées par une société d'avocats et de publicistes. EUR 175
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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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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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RELACAO do modo com que desempenhou o chéfe de divisao, Donald Campbell, a commissao de que o encarregou, o Almirante Lord Nelson, na viagem ao porto de Tripoli, a fim de effeituar a paz entre o Baxa daquella regencia, e a coroa de Portugal. Lisboa, Na officina de Simao Thaddeo Ferreira, 1799. 15, (1) pp. Small 4to. 18th-century half calf,marbled boards, spine gilt (very lightly rubbed). Da Silva, vol. vii, p. 71, nr 164. First edition. 'Este opusculo interessante pelo assumpto, honroso para a marinha de guerra portugueza .....' (Da Silva). EUR 200
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ROSAS et Montevideo devant la Cour d'Asises. (Le 14 Octobre 1851). Paris, Madame de Lacombe, 1851. 127 pp. 8vo. Modern boards, original covers preserved. Sabin 73220. Defamation trial brought before the Cour d'Assises of Paris by the Montevidean General Pacheco y Obes against the directors of the Journal des Débats and the Revue des Deux-Mondes concerning the events in Latin America. Includes 'pièces justificatives'. EUR 250
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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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(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. (2), 155, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering. 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 400
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(BONNEMAIN, A.J.T.) Les chemises rouges, ou mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du règne des anarchistes. Se trouve à Paris, A l'Imprimerie, Passage du Commerce, .... Chez Deroy, Maret, an VII (1799). Withengraved frontispiece and 2 titlepages printed in red. 2 volumes in 1. (2), iv, xxxxviii, 223, (1) pp.; (2), 249, (1), vi pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, marbled edges (one corner very lightly bumped). Martin & Walter 4113; Tourneux, i, 3962. Original edition, very rare. 'Documents relatifs à la tentative d'assassinat sur Léonard Bourdon à Orléans, à la conspiration de Batz, à Cécile Renault et à ses complices. Réproduction des discours, lettres, actes d'accusation et interrogatoires des prévenus' (Tourneux).The upper part of the title-pages containing the title is printed in white against a red background, the lower half, containing indication of volume, place and date, is printed in red against a white background. EUR 950
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(BOULLEMER DE LA MARTINIERE, J.B.) Compte rendu à l' Assemblée des Représentans de la Commune, le 11 Mai 1790. Par le Procureur-Syndic de la Commune, des Travaux du Parquet, depuis le mois d' Octobre 1789. (Drop-head title). (Paris), (At end:) Imprimerie de Lottin l'aîné, & Lottin, 1790. 16 pp. 4to. Disbound. Martin & Walter, i, 4653. Annual report about the activities during the year: contains among others the denounciation of the marquis de Favras, M. de la Grey and Marat about which the report states: M. Marat a pris la fuite. Le procès doit se faire par contumace. - Loose, dampstain in blank outer margin. EUR 100
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(CALLAND, V.) Suppression des loyers par l'élévation de tous les locataires au droit de propriété. Paris, Ledoyen, 1857. 64 pp. 12mo. Modern half morocco. Project for 'Palais de familles' where the tenants become proprietor after having paid their rent during 20 years. It is signed also by Albert Lenoir, official architect of the government and by Louis de Noiron, economist.Victor Calland was a sociologist, influenced by Proudhon, Saint-Simon and Fourier, critical of the social state, and turned later to catholicism where he became an important figure in the social movement of catholicism. He did much to promote social responsibility among the catholics and stressed the importance of social work and social welfare. EUR 125
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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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(DELISLE) DE SALES, (J.B.C. IZOUARD, PSEUD.:) De la Paix de l'Europe et de ses bases. Par J. Delisle de Sales. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Crapelet, chez Maradan, An IX - 1800. (4), 383, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. INED 1329. First edition. 'Philosophique et historique. Quelques-uns des événements politiques européens des dernières années, suggèrent à Delisle des réflexions de droit international et de science politique' (INED).Jean Baptiste Claude Isouard, writing as Delisle de Sales, published in 1766 his De la Philosophie de la Nature which caused a scandal for professing atheism and nihilism. The work was condamned to be burned, the author imprisoned and the censor exiled. Delisle filed for appeal and was supported by the whole circle of the philosophes who saw in him the champion of the liberty of thought and expression. The work is apparently very scarce. Isouard spent the rest of his life trying to earn himself a reputation as a writer and philosopher and his production of works dealing with a variety of subjects is impressive. EUR 600
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(DUCHESNE, N.) Code de la police, ou Analyse des réglemens de police, divisé en douze titres. Troisième édition revue, corrigé, augmentée mise en deux parties. A Paris, Chez Prault père, 1761. 2 volumes in 1. xxiv, 240 pp.; 304, (39), vi pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering (rear cover with small damage, one corner bumped). INED 1504; Cf.: Camus 1099. Third, revised, augmented and corrected edition. - A trifle waterstained at beginning and at end. Rules and regulation concerning the police and all which affects public order. Chapter 3 deals with usages and customes, prostitution, public drunkenness; chapter 4 deals with health and food, chapter 5 deals with grain and the matter of control on their cultivation and sale and times of scarcity, the different prices of different sorts of bread in Paris. The second volume contains documents and commentaries on the commerce and trade, manufacturers, laboureres, the poor, etc. The author is in favour of the freedom of trade within the kingdom, and argues for protection of the labourers from the magistrates and wages in proportion to the services rendered. He also deals with the causes of mendicity and proposes measures to remedy the situation. 'Un lexique par matières facilite l'utilisation de cet ouvrage particulierement riche' (INED). EUR 600
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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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(G. GUILLAUMIN.) Dictionnaire universel Théorique et Pratique du Commerce et de la navigation ..... Paris, Librairie de Guillaumin et Cie., 1861-1863. 2 volumes. (4), vii, (1), 1438 pp.; (4), 1828 pp. Large 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine in compartments, with raised bands and gilt lettering. First volume in the second edition, second volume in the first edition, with a 'supplément indiquant les changements survenus dans le tarif des douanes.' Deals with: marchandises, géographie et statistique commerciale, métrologie universelle, comptabilité, droit commercial terrestre et maritime, navigation, marine marchande, douanes, économie politique, commerciale et industrielle. - Copy from the library of Edmond Vallée with his discrete red stamp recto on the front free end-paper of both volumes. EUR 600
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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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(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. 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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(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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(LALOURCE, J.C.) Mémoire à consulter, et consultation pour Jean Lioncy, créancier & syndic de la masse de la raison de commerce établie à Marseille sous le nom de Lioncy frères & Gouffre, contre le corps et Société des PP. Jésuites. (Marseille?), De l'Imprimerie de P. Allex, Le Prieur, 1761. (4), 531, (1) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red label with gilt lettering, a bit worn. Gazin, p. 274; JFBL L64; not in Sabin; not in Echeverria & Wilkie; Higgs 2484; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Conlon. First editon. Le Père La Valette was sent to Martinique where he engaged in business transactions which were not authorized by his superiors nor by the ecclesiastical authorities. He went bankrupt for total of 3 millions and his bankruptcy caused that of the Marseille based tradinghouse of Lioncy frères et Gouffre. They filed a complaint not only against the Père La Valette and the Jesuits of Martinique, but also against the 'Province des jésuites de Paris' which, as they claimed, had shown solidarity, and were therefore also responsible for the claim. EUR 400
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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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(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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(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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(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.) 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 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.) 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, 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, 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). 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). Ordonnance du Roi concernant les attroupemens. Du 11 Mai 1789. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1789. 3, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Folded leaf, uncut. Gatherings of four or more people with arms of other instruments of violence, will be prosecuted. EUR 75
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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.) 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.) 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.) Déclaration du Roi, pour le rétablissement de l'ordre & de la tranquillité dans son royaume. Donnée à Versailles le 14 Août 1789. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1789. With a nice head-piece. 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Gives explicit and detailed instructions for the maintenance of public order in the kingdom. EUR 125
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(LOUIS XVI.) Déclaration du Roi, portant sanction d'un décret de l'Assemblée nationale, du 21 Octobre 1789, pour l'établissement d'une loi martiale. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1789. 4 pp. 4to. Folded leaf. Declaration announcing martial law against "attroupemens" (mobs). EUR 125
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(MAHY DE CORMERE, G.F. DE.) Justification de M. de Favras, prouvée par les faits et par la procédure. Paris, L. Potier de Lille, l'auteur, et chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1791. With engraved portrait. 2 volumes in 1. vi, 112 pp.; (iii)-xvi, 331 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gil lettering to spine. Tourneux, i, 1658; Martin & Walter 8287. First edition. Thomas de Mahy, Marquis de Favras (1744-1790) was a former officer of the Guards of the Comte de Provence and a counterrevolutionary conspirator whose silence during his trial probably spared Provence great embarrasment. Favras tried to organize a force of former bodyguards and retired officers to defend the royal family after 14 July, during the crisis of 5-6 October he tried to take charge of the situation at Versailles and when he failed he accompagnied the royal family to Paris and continued his recruiting efforts, probably with encouragement of some sort from Provence. He was arrested and tried and went to his death without naming anyone. Madame de Favras received a pension from Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. The Favras execution was the first case of a noble's being subjected to a commoner's penalty. (See Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799, i, pp. 374-5).The second volume starts with signature A2, as usual: all copies we have handled lacked leaf A1. Copy signed by the author at the beginning of both parts. EUR 450
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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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(MATON DE LA VARENNE, P.A.L. DE.) Mémoire pour les exécuteurs des jugemens criminels de toutes les villes du royaume, ou l'on prouve la légitimité de leur état. Troisième édition, Revue, corrigée & augmentée. A Paris, Chez Froullé, 1790. 24 pp. 4to. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering to spine, marbled boards. Martin & Walter 23431; Tourneux, iv, 25295. Third revised and augmented edition of this very rare text. The drop-head title reads: Mémoire à Nosseigneurs de l'Assemblée nationale. Pour Charles-Henri Sanson, Exécuteur des Jugemens Criminels de la Ville, Prévôté & Vicomté de Paris; Louis-Cyr-Charlemagne Sanson, Exécuteur de la Prévôté de l'Hôtel du Roi; & leurs Confreres dans les différentes Villes du Royaume. This is the defense of the civil rights of the executioners, "hommes maintenant si calomniés par des lâches qui les attaquent." EUR 300
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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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(MONTESQUIEU, CH.L. DE SECONDAT, BARON DE.) Défense de l'Esprit des Loix, A laquelle on a joint quelques Éclaicissemens. A Genève, Chez Barrillot & Fils, 1750. 207, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary polished calf, spine gilt incompartments, label with gilt lettering. Tchemerzine-Scheler, iv, p. 931; Le Petit p. 498; Cabeen 93 (a 80 page work bound with the 1749 edition of the Esprit des Loix; Cabeen does not list the present original edition!); Conlon 50:793; INED 3552. Original edition. The work ends on page 196 and is followed by Éclaircissements sur l'Esprit des Loix (unnumbered leaf forming the pages 197-198, text covering the pages 199-207). The Esprit des Loix was severely attacked and the present work is a dignified 'Défense'. Montesquieu died not long after it was published while on a visit to Paris. Despite the success of the Esprit des Loix and the present work, the quarrel over Montesquieu's main work continued with Jansenists, Jesuits and others attacking the author. The Esprit des Loix was eventually placed on the Index (29 November 1751) and condamned by the Sorbonne. EUR 2400
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(NICODEME, P.J.) Exercise des commerçans contenant Des Assertions Consulaires sur l'Edit du mois de Novembre 1563, le titre XVI de l'Ordonnance du mois d'Avril 1667; ensemble sur l'Edit du mois de Janvier 1718, portant établissement d'une Jurisdiction Consulaire en la Ville de Valenciennes: avec les Déclarations interprétatives, & des Arrêts de Réglement. Des idées, projets & Parères sur la partie des Lettres de change, Billets à ordre & au Porteur, & sur plusieurs autres affaires de Commerce, avec différentes Questions, Remarques & Consultations, suivis d'une chronologie des Ordonnances sur les faillites & banqueroutes. Dédié à Mgr. Hue de Miroménil, Garde des Sceaux de France. A Paris, Chez Vallade, 1776. (8), 724 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, red edges. Kress 7236; Goldsmiths 11424; Einaudi 2155; Camus 2132; Pardessus, Bibliothèque de Jurisprudence Commerciale, 59; not in INED. First edition. Dedication to Hue de Miromesnil, followed by an Avis du Libraire. The main work is divided into two parts: the first deals with the 'Assertions Consulaires' from the edict of 1563 by which the Juge-Consuls of Paris were created and all following legislation and further creation of similar positions; the second part deals with the 'Lettres de change & billets de Commerce' and contains a collection of (legal and commercial) propositions concerning trade, commerce and business. The author also shows how, based on the same principles, opposing viewpoints and even contradictory legislation has grown in time. This work collects many documents and laws and regulations issued over the previous centuries with the relevant jurisprudence and is a very interesting and useful sourcebook. - Very good copy. EUR 900
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(PHILLIPPOT, P.) Instruction générale sur la jurisdiction consulaire, avec un Recueil des édits, déclarations, lettres-patentes du Roi, donnés en faveur de Messieurs les juges & consuls de laCour de la Bourse Commune des Marchands de la ville de Bordeaux. Ensemble l'établissement de deux foires franches, & le nom de tous les bourgeois qui ont été juges & consuls depuis l'installation de la Cour de la Bourse jusqu'à présent. Nouvelle édition. A Bordeaux, Chez Pierre Phillippot, 1791. (4), pp. 1-126, 129-144, 143-206, 127-128, 207-392, 403-537, followed by 10 unnumbered pages and again 42 numbered pages. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, front joint split at foot, joints slightly worn. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Stourm; not in Camus. Apparently made up from separately published pieces and brought together with a general title, hence the irregular pagination. The last (10) and 42 pp. form a supplement with 'arrests' etc., up to 1788. - Scribbling and name, the latter crossed out, on title. On first fly-leaf ownership's entry from Jean Serre, professor at the University of Bordeaux. EUR 600
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(PROST DE ROYER, A.F.) Lettre à Monseigneur l'Archevêque de Lyon, dans laquelle on traite du prêt à intérêt à Lyon, appellé dépôt de l'argent, suivant ses rapports: 1. Le droit naturel. 2. L'État des choses & les conséquences. 3. Le droit divin. 4. Les opinions humaines & la doctrine de l'Église. 5. Le droit civil. 6. Le droit civil particulier au commerce de Lyon. Avignon, 1763. (2), 93, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands. Kress 6131; Goldsmiths 9895; Higgs 2911; Conlon 63:1220; cf.: INED 3669; not in Einaudi. First edition. 'Prost dénonce l'usure mais justifie l'intérêt par le droit naturel, la raison et la nécessité des choses, l'Écriture Sainte, le droit canonique, le droit civil' (INED). - Name of author in ink on title. EUR 200
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(PROST DE ROYER, A.F.) Lettre à Monseigneur l'Archevêque de Lyon, dans laquelle on traite du prêt à intérêt à Lyon, appellé dépôt de l'argent, suivant ses rapports: 1. Le droit naturel. 2. L'État des choses & les conséquences. 3. Le droit divin. 4. Les opinions humaines & la doctrine de l'Église. 5. Le droit civil. 6. Le droit civil particulier au commerce de Lyon. A Avignon, 1763. (2), 93 pp. 8vo. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering. Kress 6131; Goldsmiths 9895; Higgs 2911; Conlon 63:1220; cf.: INED 3669; not in Einaudi. First edition, rare. 'Prost dénonce l'usure mais justifie l'intérêt par le droit naturel, la raison et la nécessité des choses, l'Écriture Sainte, le droit canonique, le droit civil' (INED). EUR 200
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(REMOUARD, A.CH. & J.L.E. LERMINIER.) Manuel de l'électeur-juré. Aux électeurs du département du Var. (At end:) Paris, Imprimerie de Gaultier-Laguionie, (1830). 16 pp. 8vo. Sewn, disbound. Not in Walch; not in Walch-Gerits. At head of title: 'Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera.' 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 175
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(RENDU.) Essai d'une loi populaire-agraire. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Impr. des Frères Chaignieau, (about 1790/91). 15, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Musset-Pathay; not in Martin & Walter. First (and only?) edition. Tries to formulate an agrarian law in which a limitation of agricultural land is being set: no one can own more land than he is able to cultivate himself. EUR 125
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(RIGNON.) A sa grandeur M(onsei)gneur le Chancelier de France, président de la Chambre des Pairs, et à leurs Seigneuries Messieurs les Membres de cette Chambre. (Drop-head title). At end:) Paris, Imprimerie de Gaultier-Laguionie, 1829. 7, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Sewn. Claims indemnities for losses suffered during the Revolution by proprietors of forests. More specifically: this deals with the "droit de triage" which is the right to re-claim a third of wood or forest which had previously been freely given to the inhabitants of a community living on the territory of the proprietor. This right was abolished with the law of August 28, 1792. EUR 125
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(ROHAN, H. DUC DE.) Interests et Maximes des Princes & des Estats Souverains. A Cologne, Chés Jean du Païs, 1666. Sphere on title. - (Bound with:) MAXIMES des Princes et Estats Souverains. A Cologne, 1665. Sphere on title. (8), 248 pp.; 245, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, handwritten title to spine. Willems 1371; Rahir 1431; BMSTC, French Books, 1601-1700, I.102; Barbier, ii, col. 954. These two volumes are usually found bound together: the first text is by de Rohan, or at least based on de Rohan's work, additional material has been added. The author of the second text has remained unknown. This edition is rare. Willems writes that the text by de Rohan is almost unchanged, there was only substantial new matter added concerning subjects that de Rohan had not dealt with. The work is the chef-d'oeuvre in this particular field of political literature: its main thesis is that the interest of the state imposes itself upon kings: this interest of the state is the tyrant imposing itself upon the tyrant. It is written to give an overview of the situation in Europe and to determine which position France should take in various conflicts or potential conflicts, to establish what the influence of various countries and rulers is on and in various parts of Europe. It maintains that what constitutes good government changes over time just as conditions change over time and that good government bases itself not on old conceptions and abstractions but on the situation as it is at present. De Rohan was most likely influenced by the theorists of "raison d'Etat" in Italy, where he served for a long time. EUR 700
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(ROMIEUX), C. Les élémens du contrat social, ou Le développement du droit naturel de l'homme sur la propriété; principes de loix présentés à la Convention nationale et au Comité de Constitution, le douze novembre 1792. A Paris, chez l'auteur, 1792. 15, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Martin & Walter 29836; not in Camus. First edition. - A trifle waterstained. Développement des principes. - Principes de la distribution sociale et des salaires. - Des secours ou dons gratuits. - De la propriété. EUR 125
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(ROUSSEL, P.J.A.) Politique de tous les cabinets de l'Europe, pendant les règnes de Louis XV et de Louis XVI; contenant des pièces authentiques sur la correspondance secrète du Cte de Broglie;Un ouvrage sur la situation de toutes les puissances de l'Europe, dirigé par lui et exécuté par M. Favier; Les doutes sur le Traité de 1756, par le même; Plusieurs mémoires du Cte de Vergennes, de M. Turgot, etc. Manuscrits trouvés dans le cabinet de Louis XVI. Seconde édition, considérablement augmentée de notes et commentaires, et d'un mémoire sur le pacte de famille, par L.P. Ségur l'aîné. A Paris, Chez F. Buisson, an IX (1801). 3 volumes. (6), 399, (1) pp.; (4), 404 pp.; (4), 435, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spines richly gilt, gilt ornamental fillet on sides, labels with gilt lettering, slightly rubbed and worn, small damage to head of spine of vol. 1. Peloux 224; not in Martin & Walter. Roussel was a lawyer who published this material about the secret correspondence of the Comte de Broglie. Interesting because at the time the affairs of Europe were conducted by diplomacy rather than war. The King himself was engaged in a secret correspondence as well. (See: Cobban, A History of Modern France, vol. 1). EUR 600
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(SACCO, F.C.) Dei Monti di Pieta in generale, del sacro Monte di Pieta della citta di Bologna Dissertatio due con la serie cronologica de' Signori Presidenti allo stesso monte Dall'Anno 1561 fino al corrente 1775 illustrata con varie annotazioni: aggiuntavi la serie De' Notari Segretarj del medesimo per detto tempo, ed in fine la tavola de'cognomi, e delle cose notabili. In Bologna, Nella Stamperia del Longhi, 1775. With engraved frontispiece. 196 pp. 4to. Contemporarymarbled supple boards, joints a bit worn and paper of covers in general a bit shaved. Einaudi 4925; Goldsmiths 11335; Higgs 6442; Kress, Italian Economic Literature, i, 456; not in Mattioli; not in Melzi. First edition. A history of the Monte di Pieta (or Monts de Piété in French) in general and of that of Bologna.The Monts de Piété were formed first in the 15th century in Italy and the name was given to charitable funds for granting loans on the security of pawned articles. There has been a dispute over the question whether this was allowed as the lenders took a small interest to cover working expenses: the Dominicans took the position that this system was based on usury while the Franciscans warmly defended the system. However, in 1515, the Lateran council and the pope, Leo X, sanctioned the right to levy a modest interest, provided the object were not to realize a private gain. The official Monts were effective as an attempt to eliminate the private pawnbroker although the practise did not disappear entirely. The loans were important for the small and medium size business in a period when credit organization was yet undeveloped. It was only in the second half of the fifteenth century that the decay of handicraft economy and the ensuing impoverishment of the masses furnished the necessary driving force for the establishment of a considerable number of charitable pawnshops, the montis pietatis, in central and northern Italy. They did spread after the founding of first mons in Perugia (1462) and important institutions were founded in the 16th century such as Turin, 1519 and Rome, 1539 and in the papal territories in southern France: Avignon 1577.The name of the author appears at the beginning of the dedication. The first "dissertation" deals with the history of the Monti di Pieta in general, the second "dissertation" with the Monte di Pieta in Bologna in general and is followed by a year-by-year list of its principal presidents and management and summaries of activities. EUR 750
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(SAIGE, J.) Catéchisme du citoyen, ou Élémens du droit public français, Par demandes & par réponses; suivi de Fragmens politiques par le même auteur. En France, 1788. 220, (2) pp. 8vo. Modern half red morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering. INED 4025; Mornet 1363. One of the two issues of the improved 1788 edition, enlarged with the 'Fragmens politiques', including a.o. 'Réflexions sur les droits des Etats Généraux, relativement à la concession des subsides'; 'De l'autorité des magistrats', etc. The author stresses the inconveniences of inequality. He is in favour of the provincial assemblees and cites in this respect Mirabeau, Turgot and Necker. 'De nombreuses déclamations s'inspirèrent de Rousseau. Citons le Catéchimse du Citoyen de Saige. 'Partout ou l'inégalité s'est augmentée jusqu'au point d'accumuler toute la propriété de l'État dans une portion quelconque de l'association, le reste des citoyens sans domicile dans le reste de leur patrie, réduits à une subsistance précaire et forcés pour se procurer de se soumettre à un travail perpétuel' est contraint à l'abrutissement. See at length: Lichtenberger, Le socialisme au 18e siècle, pp. 427-8. - Slightly stained at blank upper margin throughout. EUR 450
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(SAIGE, J.) Catéchisme du citoyen, ou Élémens du droit public français par demandes & par réponses. A Genève, (Bordeaux), 1787. vii, 301, (1) pp. 12mo. Sewn, contemporary marbled covers, paper partlygone at foot of spine, uncut. Cf.: INED 4025; Mornet 1363 (both listing a 1788 edition only). First improved edition, enlarged with the 'Fragmens politiques', including a.o. 'Réflexions sur les droits des Etats Généraux, relativement à la concession des subsides'; 'De l'autorité des magistrats', etc. The author stresses the inconveniences of inequality. He is in favour of the provincial assemblees and cites in this respect Mirabeau, Turgot and Necker. 'De nombreuses déclamations s'inspirèrent de Rousseau. Citons le Catéchimse du Citoyen de Saige. 'Partout ou l'inégalité s'est augmentée jusqu'au point d'accumuler toute la propriété de l'État dans une portion quelconque de l'association, le reste des citoyens sans domicile dans le reste de leur patrie, réduits à une subsistance précaire et forcés pour se procurer de se soumettre à un travail perpétuel' est contraint à l'abrutissement' (Lichtenberger, Le socialisme au 18e siècle, pp. 427-8). - Small piece torn off from pp. 189/90 and 191/2 with loss of a few letters. EUR 500
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(SAIGE, J.) Catéchisme du citoyen, ou Élémens du droit public français par demandes & par réponses; suivi de Fragmens politiques. En France, 1788. (4), 140 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. INED 4025; Mornet 1363. One of the two issues of the improved 1788 edition, enlarged with the 'Fragmens politiques', including a.o. 'Réflexions sur les droits des Etats Généraux, relativement à la concession des subsides'; 'De l'autorité des magistrats', etc. The author stresses the inconveniencies of inequality. He is in favour of the provincial assemblees and cites in this respect Mirabeau, Turgot and Necker. 'De nombreuses déclamations s'inspirèrent de Rousseau. Citons le Catéchimse du Citoyen de Saige. 'Partout ou l'inégalité s'est augmentée jusqu'au point d'accumuler toute la propriété de l'État dans une portion quelconque de l'association, le reste des citoyens sans domicile dans le reste de leur patrie, réduits à une subsistance précaire et forcés pour se procurer de se soumettre à un travail perpétuel' est contraint à l'abrutissement. See at length: Lichtenberger, Le socialisme au 18e siècle, pp. 427-8. EUR 375
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(SAINT-PREST, J.Y. DE.) Histoire des traités de paix et autres negotiations du dix-septième siècle, depuis la paix de Vervins, jusqu'à la paix de Nimegue: où l'on donne l'origine des prétentions anciennes & modernes de toutes les puissances de l'Europe, & une analyse exacte de leurs negotiations, tant publiques que particulières. A Amsterdam, Chez J.F. Bernard & A La Haye, Chez Vaillant & Prevost, 1725. Titles printed in red and black, two engraved title-vignettes. 2 volumes. (2), vi, 730, (22) pp.; 632, (24), (2), 185, (3) pp. Folio. Contemporary calf, spines gilt with raised bands, covers scratched and somewhat worn, top and bottom of spine slightly torn, some browning. Bourgeois & André 3212; Sabin 75477; Camus 238; Brunet 2375; Querard 369; not in JFBL; not in European Americana. Only edition. Although an independant work, it forms an indispensable addition to the Corps Diplomatique by Dumont et Rousset and is an indispensable source giving much valuable information on the European peace treaties and other negociations from 1570 till the late 17th century. The work by Dumont & Rousset lacks all the secret treaties, it does not contain translations of foreign texts, no historical notes, no comments and copied texts are not always exact. Of particular interest is the appendix to volume II which gives the complete text of the Treaty of Westphalia. This appendix is rare and hardly ever mentioned in the bibliographies. Also dealing with America, Africa and the East Indies as many of the European wars and treaties of the period dealt with overseas colonies and overseas trade. 'Saint-Prest, secrétaire de Torcy, a pu se documenter aisément. Son ouvrage, aux divisions très nettes, est un résumé historique des conditions qui ont provoqué la conclusion de chaque traité: on y trouve toutes les notions indispensables' (Bourgeois & André). Nevertheless, 'le recueil de Drumont a une importance capitale. On peut d'ailleurs suppléer à l'absence de commentaire par les deux ouvrages suivants: Saint-Prest' (the present work) and the work by de Flassan, Histoire générale et raisonnée de la diplomatie française depuis la fondation de la monarchie jusqu'à la fin du règne de Louis XVI, which was published in 1809 in Paris. - With bookplates of G. Parthey, T.A. Walker and Frederic Nicola on marbled frontpapers. EUR 1750
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(SALMASIUS, C.) Defensio Regia, pro Carolo I, ad Serenissimum Magnae Brittanniae regem Carolum II. Filium natu majorem, haeredem & successorem legitimum. No place (Leyde), Sumptibus regiis, 1649. (2), 720 pp. 12mo. 19th-century calf, gilt floral ornaments on sides, spine gilt with gilt lettering, gilt inside dentelles, all edges gilt, binding signed at foot of spine: Bozerian jeune. Lalanne, Dictionnaire Historique de la France, vol. ii, p. 1637; Willems 658; not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700. One of various editions published in the year as its original publication in folio, and often reprinted. The work provoked the famous reply by Milton Pro populo Anglicano defensio, contre Claudii anonymi, alias Salmasii, defensionem regiam. 'Claude Saumaise (1588-1658), l'un des plus célèbres érudits et critiques du XVIIe siècle. Il embrassa le protestantisme, alla s'établir à Leyde (1631), où il succéda comme professeur à Joseph Scaliger. Appelé en Suède par Christine, près de laquelle il séjourna un an, il retourna en Hollande. Sa réputation était immense parmi ses contemporains .....' (Lalanne, op.cit). EUR 400
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(SALMASIUS, C.) Defensio Regia, pro Carolo I, ad Serenissimum Magnae Brittanniae regem Carolum II. Filium natu majorem, haeredem & successorem legitimum. Rothomagi, apud Ioannem Berthelin, Ioannemm Viret, Ioannem Du Bosc & Jacobum Besogne, 1650. (24), 681, (1, blank) pp. 12mo. Contemporary supple vellum, title handwritten on spine. Lalanne, Dictionnaire Historique de la France, vol. ii, p. 1637. Originally published in 1649, and often reprinted. The work provoked the famous reply by Milton 'Pro populo Anglicano defensio, contre Claudii anonymi, alias Salmasii, defensionem regiam'. Where Salmasius defended Charles II, Milton defended the right of the people to try and execute an unjust king. - Handwritten annotations on first and last blanks. 'Claude Saumaise (1588-1658), l'un des plus célèbres érudits et critiques du XVIIe siècle. Il embrassa le protestantisme, alla s'établir à Leyde (1631), où il succéda comme professeur à Joseph Scaliger. Appelé en Suède par Christine, près de laquelle il séjourna un an, il retourna en Hollande. Sa réputation était immense parmi ses contemporains.....' (Lalanne, op.cit) EUR 400
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(SARPI, P. DIT) FRA PAOLO. Discours Dogmatique et Politique, Sur l'origine, la nature, les prétendues immunités, et la véritable destination des Biens Ecclésiastiques. Ouvrage posthume de Fra-Paolo. Traduit de l'Italien (par F.M. de Marsy). A Avignon, Chez Alexandre Girard, 1750. (6), 248 pp. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, two corners very lightly bumped. Conlon 50:875; Catalogue de l'Histoire de France, v, p. 218. First French edition. Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623), Venetian statesman and historian. Sarpi was a member of the order of the Serviti, but was nevertheless very critical of the papacy and the church. He succeeded in defending the rights of the state against papal attack. In his Istoria dell'interdetto di Venezia (1624) he advocated a policy of rigorous jurisdiction over everything pertaining to the temporal interests of the church, anticipating in some respects the doctrine of the separation of the two powers. Sarpi ranks with Machiavelli and Guicciardini as one of the great historical writers of the sixteenth century.The current work is a learned historical exposition dealing with the possessions of the Church, how these were acquired and how they are used: Sarpti points to the fact that originally the gifts received by the church aimed at supporting the church and clergy and to provide aid for the poor: he denounces the misuses and corruption and the extreme wealth of the church. - Stamp of Edmond Vallée on first blank. EUR 400
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(SERVAN, J.-M.-A.) Des Assassinats et des Vols politiques, ou des Proscriptions et des Confiscations. Par Guillaume-Thomas Raynal. A Londres, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Debarle, 1795. 64 pp. 8vo. Modern blind wrappers. Feugère 113; Martin & Walter 28815. First edition. Although published with the use of the name of Raynal, the work is in fact written by Servan.Historical treatise on assassinations and expropriation ("political theft"), banishment and confiscation from ancient times to the present. Evidently an ardent critique (and evidently inspired by the French Revolution) on the practise by those in power in turbulent times to confiscate, ban, expropriate and even kill opponents, real or imagined. Montesquieu is cited who already warned that these practices must be avoided at all times as the practise to punish on a grand scale requires too much power in the hands of few. It is better practise to forgive than to punish, and not to exile too many. - Equally browned throughout. EUR 250
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(SEXBY, E.) Traicté politique composé par William Allen, Anglois, et traduit nouvellement en françois, Où il est prouvé par l'exemple de Moyse, et par d'autres, tirés hors de l'escriture, que tuer un tyran 'titulo vel exercitio', n'est pas un meurtre. Lugduni, 1658. (2), 94, (2) pp. 12mo. Later overlapping vellum, gilt lettering to spine. Quérard, Supercheries, i, 271; Brunet, i, 189-190: '...... livre assez recherché'. This is the 1793 reprint done by Mercier de Compiegne, published with the same date and place as the original first French edition and also very rare. Famous pamphlet first published as Killing no Murder in 1657 published under the name of William Allen. It is an apology for tyrannicide ironically dedicated to Cromwell himself, printed in Holland and sent over to England. Sexby followed the book to England, to concert measures for carrying out its principles. He was arrested on 24 July while about to embark for Flanders. He died in the Tower on 13 January 1658. Sexby schemed for a long time against Cromwell from the moment the two men breached. This was the result of Cromwell's refusal to support the Frondeurs in France and his abandonment of other projects against France while Sexby strongly favored an Anglo-Spanish alliance against France. From that moment on Sexby allied himself with the disaffected Republicans and started disseminating pamphlets against the Protector and took a leading part in the schemes for joint risings of royalists and levellers. A vital part of all these schemes was the assassination of Cromwell. EUR 450
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(STEVENS, J.) Examen du gouvernement d'Angleterre, comparée aux constitutions des Etats-Unis. Ou l'on réfute quelques assertions contenues dans l'ouvrage de M. Adams, intitulé: Apologie des Constitutions des Etats-Unis d'Amerique, & dans celui de M. Delolme, intitulée: De la Constitution d'Angleterre. Par un Cultivateur de New-Jersey. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois, & accompagné de Notes. A London, et se trouve à Paris, chez Froullé, 1789. viii, 291, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf,green marbled boards, spine gilt with red label and gilt lettering, yellow edges. Sabin 41646; Echeverria & Wilkie 789/118; not in JFBL; Fay 25; Schelle 32; Einaudi 5482; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First French edition of the text by Stevens. This translation is particularly important for the political contents of the notes which were added by Dupont de Nemours, Condorcet and Gallois, which in fact take up by far the greater part of the book (pp. 67-291). Because of these important notes this work is much sought after. Echeverria, in his work Mirage in the West, points to the fact that the American constitutions were the subject of intense interest and study during the years 1789 and 1790. In this period the new American federal Constitution and Bill of Rights were studied, discussed and cited. (pp. 163-164). The work is sometimes attributed to W. Livingstone, erroneously. See A.D. Turnbull, John Stevens, (1928), pp. 90-91. EUR 1000
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(STRAATMAN, H. DE.) Testament politique de Charles, Duc de Lorraine et de Bar. Déposé entre les mains de l'Empereur Léopold à Presbourg, le 29 Novembre 1687 en faveur du Roy de Hongarie et de ses successeurs arrivans à l'Empire. A Lipsic, chez Georges Weitman, 1696. (2), xix, (1), 113, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary brown calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands (slightly rubbed and shaved). Quérard, Superchéries, i, pp. 700-701; not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700. First edition. - Paper browned due to the quality of the paper. Quérard has a long note on this work and its author. The text formulates in a strong and decisive tone the politics of the House of Austria. The text was published again by the 'Académie des Bibliophiles' in 1866 by Anatole de Montaiglon and with a bibliographic study. A second edition was published in 1760, Ratisbonne. Among other things, the author puts forth a project for perpetual peace. EUR 350
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(VILLELE, J. DE.) Projet de loi sur le tabac, présenté à la Chambre des Députés dans la séance du 6 avril 1824. Paris, Impr. Royale, avril 1824. 58 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not inEinaudi. First edition. The Comte Joseph de Villele was head of the longest ministry of the Restoration era. In domestic affairs Villele put France on a stable financial basis, his most important achievement and one which lasted throughout the nineteenth century. In foreign affairs France regained her prestige during the Villele ministry. He was one of the ablest, if not the ablest, of the Restoration statesmen and his administrative and financial abilities were considerable.Includes statistical tables. EUR 175
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(WICQUEFORT, A. DE.) Discours Historique de l'Élection de l'Empereur et des Électeurs de l'Empire. Par le Resident de Brandebourg. A Paris, Chez Augustin Courbé, 1658. (16), 511 (misnumbered 519), (1) pp. 4to. Later full speckled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, gilt fillet on sides, marbled edges, small tear in lower front joint. BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700, B.33. First edition, dedicated to the French chancellor Séguier. Deals with the difficult electoral process in the Holy Roman Empire. During the interregnum between the death of Ferdinand III (1657) and the succession in 1658 by his son Leopold (who was king of Bohemia and Hongaria, but not Roman king) the author attempted to inform a French audiance by presenting a detailed history of and the principles by which the electoral process of the German emperor took place, explaining that the election of Holy Roman Emperor is the monopoly of seven princes of the Holy Empire, four of which are catholic and three of which are protestant. Each of these and their respective family are treated in this work outlining the history of each and with an explanation of their rights.Abraham de Wicquefort was born in Amsterdam in 1598, studied in Paris and became the official representative of the Margrave of Brandenbourg in Paris until he fell in disgrace with Mazarin who had him thrown into the Bastille in the year of publication of the present volume. - Leaf Xxiij with a tear in the outer blank margin. Very nice copy, from the Duc de la Rochefoucauld, author of the famous Maximes, and with a contemporary signature in the lower blank margin of the title-page and the stamp of the library at the Chateau Roche-Guyon in the blank outer margin of the title-page. EUR 1400
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AGUESSEAU, (H.F.) D'. Oeuvres de M. Le Chancelier d'Aguesseau. A Paris, Chez les Libraires Associés, 1761-1789. 13 volumes. xliv, (2), xlv-cxlviii, 622 pp.; xxviii, 686 pp.; xx, 782 pp.; xxiv, 731, (1) pp.; (4), xxii, 730 pp.; (4), xvi, 773, (1) pp.; (4), xlviii, 685, (1) pp.; (4), 711, (1) pp.; (4), xx, 731, (1) pp.; (4), xvi, 460, (2), xii, 316 pp.; (4), xvi, 678 pp.; (4), xxviii, 648 xlix, (1) pp.; (4), lxxxviii, 704 pp. 4to. Contemporary tree calf, spines gilt in compartments with red labels and gilt lettering, lightly rubbed and worn, a few volumes with some damage to either head or foot of spine. Camus 1349; Conlon 61:443. First edition. Henri François d'Aguesseau, (1668-1751), French magistrate during the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV and one of the most distinguished of the chancellors who flourished under the French system of parlements. As a magistrate he bansihed corruption from the tribunals, he was responsible for improving the forms and uniformity of procedure; he was influential in ascertaining more accurately jurisdictional limits. It was, however, through his grandes ordonnances that he left his most permanent marks on French jurisprudence. His work marks an epoch in French jurisprudence and his name ranks with that of L'Hôpital. - Some ocassional light browning. EUR 1500
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AIGUILLON, (E.-A. DE VOGNEROT DU PLESSIS DE RICHELIEU D'.) Autograph Letter Signed, dated Compiègne, 15 august 1771. 1 leaf (verso blank) for the letter and 3 pages and a few lines on the 4th page for the Report. Folio. At the top of the letter the manuscript note: 'Répondu le 23 août 1771'.Dated Compiègne, 15 august 1771 and addressed to Monsieur le Ministre de Monteynard, concerning the 'Canton de Schwitz' which regrets that its alliance with France has suffered. D'Aiguillon encloses with his letter a report of all that has been found concerning this matter in the archives of the Foreign Office.In 1770 d'Aiguillon became Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 1775 following the disgrace of de marquis de Monteynard he became also Minister of War. EUR 150
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BACHOFEN, J.J. Das Mutterrecht. Eine Untersuchung über die Gynaikokratie der alten Welt nach ihrer religiösen und rechtlichen Natur. Zweite unveränderte Auflage. Basel, B. Schwabe, 1897. With 9 engraved plates, some folding. (4), xl, 440 pp. 4to. Contemporary half morocco, marbled boards, corners, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering (some light discolouring). Printing and the Mind of Men, 349 (first edition). Second edition, first published in 1861. Johann Jakob Bachofen was a prolific writer on art, Roman Law and Greek antiquity, but his fame rests on the present work. In his investigations Bachofen found numerous myths and reports of a very early matriarchate, especially of the descent of name and property in the maternal line. Attempting to explain its origin he collected and compared with amazing persistence all the relevant material in the writings of the ancients. Bachofen considered that the matriarchate had been common among all primitive peoples at a certain stage in their development and concluded that mankind had once lived in a state of unregulated promiscuity and that the difficulty of establishing paternity in such a society had led to the tracing of decent through the mother and to her dominant role in the community. EUR 750
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BARREME, N. Mémoire à Nosseigneurs de Parlement. Pour Nicolas Barreme, cy-devant premier Commis de ministres, l'un des Directeurs Généraux de la Compagnie des Indes, & chargé directementdes Ordres de S.A.R. Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans, Regent du Royaume. (Drop-head title). (Paris), De l'Imprimerie de Jacques Chardon, 1727. 14 pp. Folio. Modern boards. Kress 3675; not in Goldsmiths; not in Conlon. First edition. Deals with a conflict between Barreme and a certain Bouret about a deal in which Barreme exchanged '7 millions d'Effets Royaux' for 'Actions de la Compagnie des Indes & des Billets payable au porteur.' EUR 150
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BELLIEVRE & SILLERI. Mémoires, contenant un Journal concernant la négociation de la paix traitée à Vervins l'an 1598, entre Henri IV, roi de France & de Navarre, Philippe II, roi d'Espagne, & Charles Emanuel, duc de Savoye. A La Haye, Chez A. Moetjens, 1696. Titles printed in red and black. 2 volumes. (26), 266 pp.; (14),269-587, (5) pp. 12mo. Modern brown morocco, blind stamped borders on both sides, spines gilt with raised bands and red labels, gilt outside dentelles. Cf.: Hauser 3154; BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700, B.527. First (and only ?) edition. Bellièvre and Sillery were sent by Henri IV as plenipotentiaries to the Congress of Vervins, where they concluded peace with Phillip II of Spain in 1598. The present work contains their correspondence from January to August of 1598, together with a journal relating to the negotiations, written by the secretary of the Cardinal of Florence, all relating to the peace of Vervins. This treaty, signed on 2 May 1598 effectively re-established the treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis of nearly forty years before. The Spaniards agreed to abandon Brittany and Calais, together with their conquests along the Netherlands frontier. France, therefore, had recovered her territorial integrity, and the period of Spanish intervention had been brought to a close. - Second volume with waterstain, small wormhole in lower blank margin of last 30 pages. From the library of Bruno Monnier. EUR 400
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BIELFELD, (J.F.) DE. Institutions politiques. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée. Leide, Chés (sic) Samuel et Jean Luchtmans, 1767-1772. With engraved title-vignettes, engraved portrait and 5 folding tables. 3 volumes. (4), viii, 710, (12) pp.; (6), 736, (8) pp.; xxiv, 892, (26) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, corners, marbled boards, yellow edges. Humpert 7491; Camus 215; Higgs 3984 (citing an edition running upto 1774); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi (although Kress has a mixed edition of which the third volume is the volume here described, see S.4180); Leblanc 240; Carpenter, Economic Bestsellers, XX.7. The improved, revised and augmented edition, complete with the often lacking third volume which was published in 1772 for the first time. - The binders knife has touched parts of the folding tables 4 and 5, with loss of a few letters. 'Cet ouvrage est écrit à l'usage des gouvernants. Il concerne l'art de règner. Bielfeld veut réduire la politique en système, la transformer en une science qui puisse être enseignée. Il divise ses Institutions Politiques en deux parties: 1: Tout ce qui regarde l'intérieur d'un État: cadre législatifs et politiques, finances, manufactures, commerce, navigation, armée, marine ....; 2: Tout ce qui concerne la politique étrangère et les rapports d'un État avec les autres puissances' (Leblanc).'This is essentially a cameralistic guide for rulers. Bielfeld, although a German, first published his books in French; he relied in large measure upon the French data and writers' (Spengler, French predecessors of Malthus, p. 79). The Supplément aux Institutions Politiques pour cette nouvelle édition is to be found in the second volume covering the pages 647-736."This Cameralistic treatise is by a Prussian state official. It was more successful outside Germany than any other Cameralistic work, presumably because it was written in the international language of the Eighteenth Century -- French" (Carpenter, Economic Bestsellers, XX.7) EUR 1000
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BIELFELD, (J.F.) DE. Institutions politiques. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée. A Leyde, & se vend à Leipsick, en Foire, Chez J.F. Bassompierre, Fils, 1768-1774. With engraved portrait-frontispiece and five folding tables. 3 volumes. xii, 608 pp.; iv, 635, (1) pp.; xvi, 800 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, red labels with gilt lettering, red edges, a bit rubbed. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Humpert; Leblanc 240; Carpenter, Economic Bestsellers, XX.9. Improved, revised and augmented edition, with the third volume. 'Cet ouvrage est écrit à l'usage des gouvernants. Il concerne l'art de règner. Bielfeld veut réduire la politique en système, la transformer en une science qui puisse être enseignée. Il divise ses Institutions Politiques en deux parties: 1: Tout ce qui regarde l'intérieur d'un État: cadre législatifs et politiques, finances, manufactures, commerce, navigation, armée, marine ....; 2: Tout ce qui concerne la politique étrangère et les rapports d'un État avec les autres puissances' (Leblanc).'This is essentially a cameralistic guide for rulers. Bielfeld, although a German, first published his books in French; he relied in large measure upon the French data and writers' (Spengler, French predecessors of Malthus, p. 79). The Supplément aux Institutions Politiques pour cette nouvelle édition is to be found in the second volume covering the pages 557-628."This Cameralistic treatise is by a Prussian state official. It was more successful outside Germany than any other Cameralistic work, presumably because it was written in the international language of the Eighteenth Century -- French" (Carpenter, Economic Bestsellers, XX.9) EUR 1250
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BIGWOOD, G. Le régime juridique et économique du commerce de l'argent dans la Belgique du Moyen Age. (Bruxelles, Lamertin & Hayez, 1921-1922). With many tables, of which 2 folding. 2 volumes. (6), 683pp.; (6), 496, (1, errata) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, raised bands, gilt lettering, original covers preserved (Académie Royale de Belgique. Classe des Lettres et des Sciences morales et politiques. Mémoires. Deuxième série, vol. XIV). Pirenne 1907. Includes many details on legal procedures and legal aspects of money lending and trade. This is the trade-edition of the work. EUR 400
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BONENFANT, P. Cartulaire de l'Hôpital Saint-Jean de Bruxelles. (Actes des xii & xiii siècles). Bruxelles, Palais des Académies, 1953. li, 433, (9) pp. Folio. Original publishers cloth with smallgilt stamp on frontcover (unopened, uncut; front hinge slightly weak). The book contains a historical introduction on the hospital, its archives, and the acts of the cartulaire (51 pages). The text of 278 documents is given (in Latin) dating from 1131 upto 1300, with introduction and critical commentary. With one loosely inserted photographic illustration depicting seals of the hospital; table of various seals; name, place and subjct index; bibliography, Latin and Dutch Glossary. EUR 300
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BONIFACIUS VIII. Sextus Decretalium liber a Bonifacio VIII. In Concilio Lugdunensi Editus .... (With the Commentary of Johannes Andreae). (Basel, Amerbach, Petri & Froben, 1511.) Printed in red and black, with central text block surrounded by commentary. With large woodcut printer's device on title and with a three-quarter page large woodcut of the Pope seated with an open book meeting an audiance of people, and with two large woodcuts relative to the Three of Consanguinity. - (Bound with:) CLEMENT V. Constitutiones in Concilio Viennensi Edite .... (Basel, Amerbach, Petri & Froben, 1511.) Printed in red and black, with central text block surrounded by commentary. With large woodcut printer's device on title and with a three-quarter page large woodcut of the Pope seated with an open book meeting an audiance of people. - (Bound with:) JOHN XXII. Extravagantes Viginti ... (Basel, Amerbach, Petri & Froben, 1511.) Printed in red and black, central text surrounded by commentary, large woodcut printer's device on title. Two parts in one. Three works bound together in one volume. (6), 177, 5 leaves, with the final blank; 72, (4) leaves; 39, (1), 39, (3) leaves. Large folio. Original blind-panelled pigskin over wooden boards, clasps gone, two tears at top and bottom of spine. None of these editions is in Adams.A rare volume of three important texts in medieval canon law and very nicely printed by the short-lived partnership of three of Basel's greatest printers, Adam Petri, Johann Amerbach and Johan Froben. First work: The great work on canon law by Bonifacius VIII (Benedetto Gaetano). He added a large number of constitutions to the general ecclesiastical legislation, which came to be known as Liber Sextus, since the Decretals of Gregory IX, promulgated in 1239, consists of five books. Giovanni d'Andrea was one of the great canonists of his age and his gloss is incorporated in all early editions.Verso third leaf - recto fifth leaf contain the Arbor consanguinitatis and the Arbor affinitatis of Johannes Andreae. Second work: Clement V was elected pope in 1305 as successor to Benedict XI. He fixed his residence in Avignon thus inaugurating the seventy years' 'Captivity'. Clement was seen as being heavily dependant on the French king, Philip the Fair, who insisted on a formal condemnation of Clement's predecessor, Bonifacius VIII, on charges of heresy and immorality.Third work: John XII was elected pope in 1316 as candidate of Robert of Anjou and fixed his residence in Avignon where he remained the rest of his life. His reign was filled with theological and political conflicts. He was however a capable administrator, enlarged and reorganized the Curia, put the Papal finances on a sound basis and strengthened the hierarchy by founding new, and defining the frontiers of old, dioceses. - Some small worming throughout mostly but not exclusively limited to the lower blank margin, first title neatly rebacked, ownership inscription at top of first title dated 1588. Numerous contemporary marginal annotations in red ink. EUR 7500
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BORNIER, P. Conférences des ordonnances de Louis XIV, avec des anciennes ordonnances du royaume, le droit écrit & les arrêts. Enrichies d'annotations et de décisions importantes. Nouvelle édition, corrgée & augmentée des édits déclarations & arrêts donnez en interprétation des ordonnances; de plusieurs réglemens du Conseil; et d'un grand nombre de nouvelles notes. A Paris, Chez les Associez Choisis, 1719. 2 volumes. (20), 558, (2, separate title for the 'arrêts du Conseil d'État'), cclviii, (93) pp.; (6), 812, (70) pp. 4to. Contemporary calf (worn and rubbed). Camus 1128; Bourgeois & André, 6283. First published in 1678, this is the fourth edition. 'L'auteur est conseiller du roi, lieutenant particulier en la sénéchaussée, gouvernement et siège présidial de Montpellier. Son ouvrage comprend deux parties. Dans la première sont traitées les matières civiles: dans la seconde, les matières criminelles, les duels, le règlement des maréchaux de France, le commerce, la procédure du conseil' (Bourgeois & André). EUR 600
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BOUGEANT, (G.H.) Histoire des guerres et des négociations qui précédèrent le Traité de Westphalie, sous le règne de Louis XIII, & le ministère des cardinaux Richelieu & Mazarin. Composée sur les mémoires du Comte d'Avaux, ambassadeur du roi très-chrétien dans les Cours du Nord, en Allemagne & en Hollande, & plénipotentiaire au Traité de Munster. A Paris, Chez Musier fils & Durand, 1767. 3 volumes. (14), 599, (33) pp.; (4), 656 pp.; (4), 660 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, somewhat rubbed and worn, damage to head and foot of volumes. Camus 245; cf.: Bourgeois & André 3731. First published in 1727. Important work for international diplomacy and international law 'Bougeant s'est servi de nombreux documents, en particulier des mémoires du Comte d'Avaux: il cite toujours ses sources en marge, et, pour rendre son ouvrage maniable, il a composé des tables commodes' (Bourgeois & André). Important work, which, since its publication, formed the basis for many later works on the subject. It was compiled after the memoirs of d'Avaux, who was minister plenipotentiary during the negotiations which led to the Treaty of Münster. - Small library stamp in blank margin of the half-titles, paper shelf labels on the front paste-downs. EUR 750
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BOUGEANT, (G.H.) Histoire des guerres et des négociations qui précédèrent le Traité de Westphalie, sous le règne de Louis XIII, & le ministère des cardinaux Richelieu & Mazarin. Composée sur les mémoires du Comte d'Avaux, ambassadeur du roi très-chrétien dans les Cours du Nord, en Allemagne & en Hollande, & plénipotentiaire au Traité de Munster. A Paris, Chez P.J. Mariette, 1744. 3 volumes. (10), 599, (35) pp.; (10), 656 pp.; (2), 660, (4) pp.4to. Contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, red labels with gilt lettering, red edges, small damage to top of spine of volume 2. Camus 245; Bourgeois & André 3731. Second or third edition, first published in 1727. Rare and important work in international diplomacy and international law. 'Bougeant s'est servi de nombreux documents, en particulier des mémoires du Comte d'Avaux: il cite toujours ses sources en marge, et, pour rendre son ouvrage maniable, il a composé des tables commodes.' (Bourgeois & André). Important work, which, since its publication, formed the basis for many later works on the subject. It was compiled after the memoirs of d'Avaux, who was minister plenipotentiary during the negotiations which led to the Treaty of Münster. - With handwritten ex-libris Bruno Monnier, and his ticket. A very nice copy. EUR 900
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BOUTHILLIER, D. Plaidoyé de Me. Denis Bouthillier, advocat en la cour de Parlement. Pour les religieux du monastère de Marmoustier. Contre le visiteur & syndic de la Congrégation des Benédictins. A Paris, Chez Barthelemy Macé, 1606. 66, (2) pp. 8vo. 19th-century half blue cloth, marbled boards.Not in Lindsay & Neu; not in Welsh. Original edition. - The last leaf has recto an engraving with in the center three fleur-de-lis, above the epitaph Pietate et Iustitia, above and beneath a long handwritten note in an ancient hand. The Abbaye de Marmoustier, Saint-Radegonde, close to Tours, was founded by Saint-Martin and adherring to the rules of Saint Benedict, founder of numerous monastries in France and England. In the 18th century they went over to the Maurists, the congregation which takes its name from St. Maurus (6th century), a disciple of St. Benedict of Nursia. EUR 225
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BRISSOT (DE WARVILLE, J.P.) Député du département d'Eure-et-Loire, à ses commettans. Précédé d'autres pièces intéressantes de Brissot, viz. 1. Projet de déclaration de l'Assemblée nationale aux puissances étrangères. 2. Rapport fait au nom du Comité de défense générale sur les dispositions du gouvernement Britannique envers la France, & sur les mesures à prendre. 3. Rapport sur les hostilités du Roi d'Angleterre & du Stadhouder des Provinces Unies. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de P. Provost; Réimprimé à Londres pour R. Edwards, .... & T. Spilsbury & Fils, .... 1794. (2), 76, 224 pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, gilt ornamental border on sides, spine gilt in compartments and with red label and gilt lettering. Not in Tourneux; not in Martin & Walter; not in Monglond. First edition. Brissot de Warville (1754-1793), French journalist social reformer and revolutionary leader. His great humanitarian zeal found a ready outlet in journalism, which he aimed to make a medium of enlightenment and social reform. His interest in the abolition of slavery led him to organize in 1788 the 'Société des Amis des Noirs', which under Brissot's direction later exercised a considerable influence on revolutionary colonial policy. Shortly after the revolution began Brissot launched a daily newspaper, Le Patriote Français, which was to become the chief organ of the Girondists. He soon made his influence felt in revolutionary circles; and in the Legislative Assembly and later in the Convention he became one of the recognized leaders of the Girondists, who were also called Brissotins. He was particularly influential in the precipitation of the foreign wars, through which he hoped that revolutionary doctrine would be disseminated. After the victory of the Mountain in May, 1793, Brissot was proscribed with the other leaders of his party and on October 31 he mounted the scaffold. EUR 300
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BYNKERSHOEK, C. VAN. Cornellii van Bynkershoek, jcti et senatoris, opuscula varii argumenti, his inscriptionibus: I Praetermissa ad L.2. D. de Orig. juris. II. De rebus mancipi et nec mancipi. III. De jure occidendi, et exponendi liberos apud veteres romanos. IV. De cultu religionis peregrinae apud veteres romanos. V. De captatoriis institutionibus. VI. De legatis poena nomine. Leiden, Johannes van der Linden, 1719. - (Bound with:) BYNKERSHOEK, C. VAN. Cornelii van Bynkershoek, Jurisconsulti & Senatoris, curae secundae de jure occidendi et exponendi liberos apud veteres romanos ad virum clarissimum Gerardum Noodt, Jurisconsultum & Antecessorem in Academia Lugduno-Batava. Leiden, Johannes van der Linden, 1723. Title page printed in red and black. 2 works in 1 volume. (16), 408, (3), (1 blank) pp.; (8), 100 pp. Small 4to. Contemporary vellum, small piece of head of spine gone; front hinge weak. Dekkers 15 (10 and 13); Ahsmann & Feenstra 478; Heijnsbergen p. 79 ff. First edition of both works. Collection of treatises on various legal subjects. All show the remarkable integration of previously unedited sources of Roman law and the style and argumentative force that was derived from the study of classical Greek and Latin authors. As such it is a fine example of the achievements of the Dutch humanistic judicial tradition. One of the pieces became more known because of a quite curious controversy it aroused with Bynkershoek's collegue, professor of Law in Leiden, and friend (until that day) Gerard Noodt. Bynkershoek arrives in this work at different conclusions as Noodt on the relatively minor subject 'De occidendi et exponendi liberos apud veteres romanos' (the abandoning and killing of children). At that point the discussion among the former friends escalates. Noodt answers Bynkershoek in 1722 with an 'Amica Responsio' (Ahsmann & Feenstra, 477) formulated, however, in a quite virulent tone. The year thereupon Bynkershoek replies with the here contained 'Curae secundae', in the dedication whereoff he deplored Noodts attitude. Then the text of the 'Amico Responsio' is provided on half of the page to which Bynkershoek adds his sometimes sarcastic commentaries. Noodt thereupon shows his disdain in a work of 1724, but the controversy came to an end with his passing away in 1725. The 'Opuscula' and the 'Curae secundae' have been reprinted many times hereafter but this is the first edition of both works. EUR 800
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CAMBACERES, (J.J.R. DE.) Rapport sur le mode de préparer les lois organiques de la Constitution, et sur les moyens de la mettre partiellement et successivement en activité. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale, floréal an III (1795). 18, (2 blank) pp. 8vo. Sewn, disbound. Martin & Walter, 5869. EUR 125
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CHABROUD, (J.B.) C. Opinion sur quelques questions relatives à l'ordre judiciaire, le 30 mars 1790. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1790. - (Followed by:) CHABROUD, (J.B.) C. Rapport de la procédure du Châtelet sur l'affaire des 5 et 6 octobre. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1790. - (Followed by:) CHABROUD, (J.B.) C. Pièces justificatives du rapport de la procédure du Châtelet, sur l'affaire des 5 et 6 octobre. Paris, Baudouin, 1790. - (Followed by:) CHABROUD, (J.B.) C. Opinion prononcé à la séance du 20 juillet 1790 et Motion sur le jugement des appels. (Drop-head title). Paris, Baudouin, (1790). - (Followed by:) CHABROUD, (J.B.) C. Essai sur l'organisation de la justice en France. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1790). - (Followed by:) CHABROUD, (J.B.) C. Rapport et projet de loi sur les délits et les peines militaires. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1791). - (Followed by:) CHABROUD, (J.B.) C. Rapport de l'affaire du régiment Royal-Comtois et de la sentence du Conseil de guerre de 1773. (Drop-head title). Paris, De l'Imprimerie Nationale, (1791). 7 pieces bound in 1 volume. (2), 30 pp.; (2), 118 pp.; (2), 69 pp.; 11 (misnumbered 12) pp.; 19 pp.; 39 pp.; 40 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Martin & Walter 6568, 6571, 6572, 6569, 6564, 6574 and 6575. First edition. - Occasional browning. Chabroud (1750-1816) represented the Tiers in the assembly. He was mainly occupied with judicial questions and did much to reorganize the judicial system in revolutionary France and served in several capacities. EUR 600
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CHAMPOLLION-FIGEAC, A. Captivité du roi François I. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1847. With 12 folding facsimiles. lxxviii, 658, (2) pp. 4to. Half morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. (Collection de documents inédits sur l'histoire de France). Franklin 154; Hauser, 1085. First edition. Source covering the period 1523-1526 containing 248 pieces concerning the captivity of the king from various international sources (France, Spain, England, Portugal and Italy). EUR 350
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CHATELET - REGLEMENT concernant la juridiction du Châtelet. Paris, Imprimerie de la veuve d'Antoine-Urbain Coustelier, 1726. 8 pp. Folio, folded. Sewn. Catalogue des Actes Royaux, V, 29540. First and most important jurisdiction of the French Kingdom, the Châtelet was placed immediately under the jurisdiction of the Parlement de Paris. The last case with which it had to deal were the events of 5-6 october 1789. EUR 175
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CHENIER, M.J. (B.) Rapport fait à la Convention nationale, au nom du Comité d'instruction publique, suivi du décret rendu en conséquence à la séance du 14 nivôse, l'an troisième (3 janvier 1795). (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1795). 12 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Martin & Walter 7297. Original edition. Famous report on the rewards to be paid to artists and literary authors, among which Adanson, Delille, Ducis, La Harpe, Lamarck, Marmontel, Collin d'Harleville, Rétif de la Bretonne and Thomas Paine. EUR 125
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CHOISEUL, (E.F. DE STAINVILLE.) Mémoires de M. le duc de Choiseul, ancien ministre de la marine, de la guerre, & des affaires étrangères; écrits par lui-même, et imprimé sous ses yeux, dans son cabinet, à Chanteloup, en 1778. A Chanteloup & se vend à Paris, Chez Buisson, 1790. 2 volumes in 1. 254 pp.; 251, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, flat spine with green label with gilt lettering, marbled boards, slightly rubbed and worn. Cioranescu 19559; INED 1110; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. - Stamp on title-pages: M. Chevalier du Fau. 'Nouveau plan de finance; réflexions sur la liberté d'exportation des grains' (INED). Served in many capacities the French Royal Family, concluded several treaties, among which the famous 'Pacte de Famille' with Spain, the Bourbons, Naples and Parma in order to maintain the French position at sea and in the colonies.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. EUR 500
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COCHIN, (H.) Oeuvres, contenant le recueil de ses mémoires et consultations. Nouvelle édition. A Paris, Chez T. Hérissant fils, Durand, Durand neveu, 1762-1771. 6 volumes. xvi, lxii, (2), 699 pp.; (4), iv, 726, (2) pp.; viii, 784 pp.; viii, 784 pp.; viii, 771, (1) pp.; iv, 776 pp. 4to. Contemporary calf, spines gilt with raised bands, red edges. Camus 1354. - Repair to title of volume 4. Henri Cochin, 1687-1747, was one of the most famous and influential lawyers of the Parlement de Paris. EUR 1000
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COMPAGNONS ORFEVRES - HARLAY, A. DE. A tous ceux qui ces présentes lettres verront, Achilles de Harley, Conseiller du Roy en ses Conseil, son Procureur général, & Garde de la Prévosté & Vicomté de Paris, le siège vacant. Salut. (Drop-head title). No place, (1671). 8 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700; not in Bourgeois & André. Original edition. - First and last page slightly stained. Very important ordinance pertaining to the working conditions of the 'Compagnons orfèvres', ordering that they should 'se retirer chez les maîtres pour y travailler au mois & à la semaine, & non à la tache .....' EUR 250
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CONSTITUTION OF 1793 - PROJET de Constitution du Peuple Français. Imprimé par ordre de la Convention Nationale. (Drop-head title). A Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale, 10 juin 1793. 1 leaf, verso blank. Folio. Folded, mounted in a 4to modern half morocco binding, gilt lettering on spine. Not in Martin & Walter; not in Tourneux. Extremely rare and original poster. - Fine copy. This is the proposed Jacobin project of a constitution for the French Republic, ratified by the Convention on 24 June 1793, approved nationally in a referendum of primary assemblies but never put into effect. The Convention was elected in the summer of 1792 to draft a republican constitution that would replace the monarchical one of 1791. A number of projects were submitted, of which the most influential was the marquis de Condorcet's, reported on 15 February 1793. After the arrest of the Girondins the Convention voted to debate the constitution each afternoon until agreement was reached. M.-J. Hérault de Séchelles presented a version on 10 June, which was accepted with some modifications on 24 June. The Convention presented the new constitution to France along with a succession of social measures. The democratic language of the constitution was displayed in the context of these Revolutionary laws that abridged hitherto sacrosanct property rights. As literature, the 1793 constitution has an extraordinary power, which found immediate recognition when Hérault de Séchelles read the draft on 10 June. The fact that the revolutionaries of 1848 were inspired by this constitution and that it passed into the ideological armory of the Third Republic is sufficient proof of its power. It represents a fundamental historical document, that contributed much to the later democratic institutions and developments. See at length: Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, i, pp. 238-242. EUR 4500
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CONTI, ARMAND DE BOURBON, PRINCE DE. Mémoires de Monseigneur le prince de Conty touchant la conduite de sa maison. A Paris, (Denis Thierry & Claude Barbin), 1669. 107, (1) pp. 12mo. Modern boards, label with gilt lettering. Dealing with the duties and obligations of a 'gouverneur de province' which makes this little work a true vade-mecum. - Running titles ocassionaly touched by the binder's knife, a few leaves repaired in the outer upper corner nowhere touching text, some scribbling to title-page. EUR 175
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COUPE, J.M. Idées simples de constitution. (Drop-head title). (Paris), De l'Imprimerie nationale, (1793). 7 parts in 1. 6 pp.; 6 pp.; 6 pp.; 8 pp.; 10 pp.; 8 pp.and 12 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Martin & Walter 8533 All published. The Abbé Jacques Michel Coupé adopted the principles of the revolution and became president of the district of Noyon and was elected deputy for the Oise in the Legislative Assembly. He had an active career during the revolution in several capacities and ended his career as a member of the Conseil de Cinq Cents. He retired from public life in 1797 and wrote several books from that date on until his death in 1807.In these separately paginated pieces he develops his ideas about a constitution dealing with a range of subjects: La Souveraineté; Assemblées souveraines; Administration générale, Liberté de la Prese; Contributions; Force publique; Bon ordre; De la force du gouvernement; etc. EUR 225
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CURT, (L.) DE. Décret sur les principes constitutionnels de la marine, du 26 juin 1790; précédé du Rapport fait à l' Assemblée Nationale au nom du Comité de la Marine, Par M. de Curt, Député de la Guadeloupe, Membre et Sécretaire de ce Comité. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale, 1790. 15, (1 blank) pp. 8vo. Sewn, disbound. Martin & Walter, 9015 (without mentioning the Décret); Polak 2169. First edition. - Spot in the lower outer blank margin. Printed names of the members of the committee at end among whom 'de Robespierre.'Reforming the navy after the reforms initiated by de Seignelai earlier in the century. The measures taken by de Seignelai are deemed the causes of the French naval weakness and the inferiority of the French navy. EUR 150
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DAMIENS - ARREST de la Cour de Parlement, contre Robert-François Damiens, par lequel il est déclaré dûement atteint & convaincu du crime de parricide par lui commis sur la personne du Roi (Louis XV). A Paris, Chez P.G. Simon, 1757. 13 pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Not in Conlon. On January 5, 1757, Damiens attacked Louis XV with a knife, without doing much harm. Enligthened people were terrified by the violent punishment put on Damiens. It provoked numerous publications against certain forms of punishment. EUR 150
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DEMEUNIER, (J.N.) Rapport sur l'organisation du Ministère, fait au nom du Comité de Constitution. Par M. Démeunier. Imprimé par ordre de l'Assemblée nationale. (Drop-head title). A Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale, (1790). 40 pp. 8vo. Modern red half morocco, gilt lettering, marbled boards. Martin & Walter 10098; not in Monglond; Dictionnaire des Constituants I, pp. 278-280. First edition. - Browned throughout, light staining in outer blank margins. Page 26-end contain a 'Projet de décret sur l'organisation du ministère, présenté par le Comité de Constitution.' EUR 125
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DUFRICHE DE VALAZE, (C.E.) Loix pénales, dédiées à Monsieur frère du Roi. A Alençon, de l'Imprimerie de Malassis le jeune, 1784. (6), 420, (4) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt, green label with gilt lettering (lightly damaged at head and foot of spine, corners bumped). INED 1535; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in Goldsmiths; not in Mattioli; not in Camus. First edition. The first part deals with jurisdiction on mariage, abortion, etc. The second part deals with economics: 'il faut multiplier les manufactures car elles favorisent le luxe' (INED). Concerning questions of justice, the author demands equal treatment before the law for all social classes! The last 2 leaves contain the 'Approbation, Privilège du Roi' and the errata. - Sometimes also listed under Valazé. Somewhat browned throughout, lower outer corner of half-title torn away, page 63 has an contemporary handwritten piece of paper pasted in with comments on the text. EUR 300
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DUPIN, CH. Système de l'Administration Britannique en 1822, considéré sous les rapports des finances, de l'industrie, du commerce et de la navigation, d'après un exposé ministériel. Paris, Bachelier, 1823. - (Bound with:) (FRISELL, F.) De la Constitution de l'Angleterre, et des changemens principaux qu'elle à éprouvés, tant dans son esprit que dans sa forme, depuis son origine jusqu'a nos jours; avec Quelques remarques sur l'ancienne constitution de la France. Par un Anglais. Seconde édition. A Paris, Chez le Normant, 1820. - (Bound with:) SEPTENNALITE, LA, du Parlement d'Angleterre, ou Journal des Discussions, qui ont eu lieu dans les deux chambres lors de cette proposition; suivi des opinions de Tindal, Smollet, Belsham, Coxe et Blackstone, Publicistes Anglais. Extrait de l'Histoire du Parlement d'Angleterre. Londres, Treuttel et Würtz, Treuttel fils et Richter, 1824. 3 volumes in one. (4), 160 pp.; 100 pp.; 174 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled boards, red label with gilt lettering. First work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi.First edition.Baron Charles Dupin (1784-1873), mathematician, engineer, politician, peer of France and Senator of the Second Empire. Charles Dupin favored representative institutions about which he wrote in his Lois fundamentales de la France (1814). He visited England several times between 1816 and 1819 and during these trips he assembled most of the material that served him so well in the composition of some of his more important works. Second work: The name of the author is given by Barbier who writes that the name of the author appeared on the title page of the fourth edition. The first and second edition were both published in 1820. Fraser Frisell (1774-1846), a friend of Chateaubriand and Joubert, was educated at the University of Glasgow. He was in France in 1793 when he was thrown in jail following the decree of the Convention ordering the arrest of strangers. On the renewal of the war in 1803 he was again in France, and was thrown again in jail although not for long. He took up residence in Paris for the remainer of his life. Frisell was a man of considerable accomplishments. Chateaubriand called him 'le Gréco-Anglais.' Third work: First edition (?).Deals with the seven years term of the English parlement. EUR 400
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DUPONT DE NEMOURS - LOI RELATIVE à l'adresse aux François sur les contributions publiques. Donnée à Paris le vingt-huit Juillet 1791. (Drop-head title). Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1791. With one folding table. 32 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Kress B.2081 (different edition); Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 1426; Stourm, p. 161 (also describing another edition); not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. One of two editions published in the same year. Stourm explicitly stresses the importance of the law which Du Pont de Nemours had put up for voting on the evening of the 24th of June, 1791: 'La plus célèbre et la plus fréquemment citée est celle du 24 juin 1791, que Dupont de Nemours fit voter dans la séance du soir de cette date. On y trouve des très curieux renseignements sur le poids comperatif des charges de l'ancien régime et du régime inauguré par la Constituante, comparaison toute à l'avantage du nouveau régime, naturellement.' (Stourm). The folding table has been signed by the members of the 'Comités des contributions publiques' among which is Dupont de Nemours. EUR 375
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DUPONT DE NEMOURS - CONVENTION additionnelle et explicative du Traité de Commerce avec l'Angleterre. Du 15 janvier 1787. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, N.H. Nyon, 1787. 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Addition to and further explanation of the Treaty of 26 September 1786, negotiated by Dupont de Nemours. The liberal character of this treaty provoked strong protest from the manufacturers and industrialists. EUR 175
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EMERIGON, B.-M. Traité des Assurances et des Contrats à la grosse. A Marseille, Chez Jean Mossy, 1783. 2 volumes. (8), xvi, 686 pp.; (4), 680, (4 errata, advertisements) pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt spine with raised bands, contrasting labels with gilt lettering, marbled edges, a bit rubbed. Camus 2250; Kress B.573; Goldsmiths 12420; McCulloch, p. 246; not in Einaudi; Mansutti, 568; Catalogus Utrecht, ii, p. 813; Polak 3150. Rare first edition. This work by Émérigon (1716-1784) was considered at the time 'un oracle presque toujours sûr en matière d'assurance et cité devant les tribuneaux comme une autorité qui fait pour ainsi dire loi' (Dictionnaire de Biographie Française XII, 1241) Deals not only with the subject mentioned in the title, but covers the whole of maritime law. (i.e. chapter 6: du navire; chapter xii: des risques maritimes; vol. 2, chapter iii: Du change maritime etc.) 'Le Traité des assurances n'est pas borné à la seule matière qu'indique son titre. Il embrasse la presque totalité du droit maritime, et ne saurait être trop recommandé à ceux qui s'occupent de cette importante partie de la législation' (Camus).The author acquired during his long career an immense knowledge about the subjects concerned here, and in fact supplied much very important material to Valin for his important work on the ordinance of 1681.'The author of this work, an advocate in the parliament of Aix and a councillor in the admiralty court of Marseilles, died in 1784 ... He had by long practice and study acquired a very extensive and profound knowledge of maritime and commercial law. This treatise is of the highest authority. It is said by Lord Tenterden, in the preface to his work on maritime law, to be "peculiarly valuable for its extent of learned research, and the numerous and apt citations of the texts of the civil law and of the marine ordinances, the opinions of former writers, and the adjudications of the courts of justice of his own country, which are to be found in every part of it' (McCulloch). - 95 leaves (including the front blank and final blank) of volume one with a stain in the outer margin. With approbation and privilège. EUR 2500
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EMMERY (DE GROSYEULX, J.L.C.) Rapport fait au nom d'une commission, composée des représentans du peuple Henri Larivière, Thibaudeau, André (de la Lozère), Bonaventure et Emmery, chargée de revoir les loisanti-constitutionnelles. Séance du 12 Messidor an V (30 Juin 1797). (Drop-head title). A Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale, (1797). 26 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Martin & Walter; not in Monglond. Original edition. EUR 150
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EON (DE BEAUMONT, C.G.L.A.A.T. D'.) Lettres, mémoires & négociations particulières du Chevalier d'Eon, Ministre Plénipotentiaire de France aupres Du Roi de la Grande Bretagne; avec MM. les Ducs de Praslin, de Nivernois, de Saint-Foy & Regnier de Guerchy Ambassadeur Extraordinaire, &c. &c. &c. Imprimé chez l'Auteur, Aux Dépens du Corps Diplomatique, & se vend A Londres, chez Jaquke Dixwell, 1764. With folding table, title printed in red and black. 3 parts in 1 volume. 26, (2), 36, (2), 202 pp.; 75, (1) pp.; (2), 59, (2) pp. 4to. Contemporary polished calf, gilt ornamental border on sides, richly gilt spine with red label with gilt lettering, with small repair to head and foot of spine, boards lightly spotted, corners a bit bumped. Conlon 64:768. First edition. - With the bookplates of Lord Lilford and Library Lilford on the front paste-down, and the bookplate of William Hartcup on recto of the first free frontpaper. The Chevalier Eon de Beaumont, after brilliant studies, entered, in 1755, into the services of the King on instigation of the Prince de Conti. What Eon entered into was the 'Secret du Roi, service de renseignements qui, dans l'ombre, doublait la diplomatie officielle.' Thus Eon started out on missions commissioned by the King. After very succesful missions to Russia, and after courageous behaviour during the Seven Year's War, Eon gets slowly on into difficulties with certain circles at the Court, notably Madame de Pompadour, the duc de Praslin and the Comte de Guerchy, 'protégé de Praslin et de la Marquise'. His troubles get worse after rumours that he actually is a woman, and after the death of Louis XV, Louis XVI, informed about the 'Secret du Roi' wants to see all documents still in the hands of the Chevalier back. The final settlement is that Eon returns as a woman. It is one of the strangest outcomings of ugly negociations over important and compromizing papers and the Chevalier whose financial demands in exchange are exhorbitant. Interestingly enough, Eon had dressed and had presented himself as 'Mademoiselle Lea de Beaumont' on his first mission to Russia. EUR 1000
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ESCARRA, J. Cours de Droit Maritime, rédigé d'après les notes et avec l'autorisation de Jean Escarra ..... Licence 3e année 1948-1949. Paris, Les Cours du Droit, (1949). 530 pp. Large 8vo. Contemporary half marbled calf, marbled boards, extra, raised bands with gilt lettering, spine somewhat discoloured. Stencilled publication of his lectures on maritime law. These were never published as a printed book. The volume deals with naval personnel, maritime transporation, accidents at sea, assistance and aiding at sea, contracts and insurance, various legal requirements and responsabilities and many other interesting subjets relative to the subject. EUR 225
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ESCHASSERIAUX JEUNE, (R.) Rapport fait au nom de la Commission chargée de la révision des lois contre les émigrés. (21 fructidor an II - 7 septembre 1794) (Drop-head title). (Paris), De l'Imprimerie nationale, 1794). With 2 folding tables. 218 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco.Not in Martin & Walter; Catalogue de l'histoire de France, vi, 227.934 In April 1792 the National Convention decreed that those émigrés who had left France after 1 July 1789 and who had not returned before 1 May 1792 were banished forever, in October it banished the émigrés forever and decreed the death penalty for those who returned to their homeland. In between clergymen who refused to take the oath to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy were forced to leave France which forced thousands to leave. The departures were continuous from the fall of the Bastille until the execution of Robespierre, but the reflux began in the summer of 1794, and tens of thousands returned under the Directory. EUR 300
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ESSCHASSERIAUX JEUNE, (R.) Rapport fait au nom des Comités de législation et des finances, concernant la liquidation des créances et droits sur les biens nationaux provenant des émigrés, et de confiscations prononcées par les lois. (Drop-head title). A Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale, (1795). 56 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Stourm, p. 234; not in Martin & Walter; not in Monglond. First edition. René Eschassériaux (1754-1831), moderate, wrote several reports on the émigrés and the 'biens nationaux', became secretary to the Convention and was elected somewhat later into the Council of Five Hundred. EUR 100
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FALLETTI, L. Evolution de la juridiction civile du magistrat provincial sous le Haut-Empire. Paris, Librairie Gnrale dce Droit & de Jurisprudence, 1926. (6), 186 pp. 8vo. Sewn, original printed covers, a bit discoloured (Thèse, Université de Paris, Faculté de Droit). EUR 75
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FAUCHON, M. Etude juridique et historique sur le bailliage de Mortain. Avranches, De l'Imprimeire de l'Avranchin, 1923. 136 pp. 8vo. Sewn, original printed covers, small damage to spine (Thèse, Université de Paris). With 'pièces justificatives' and bibliography. EUR 75
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FERRARIS, F.L. Promta bibliotheca, canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica, necnon ascetica, polemica, rubristica, historica, de principalioribus et fere omnibus quae in dies occurrunt, necpenes, omnes facile ..... (Ed. J.P. Migne). Paris, 1863-1866. 8 volumes bound in 4. Royal 8vo. Contemporary half vellum, corners, marbled boards, red and green labels with gilt lettering, red edges. Cf. Camus 31; Petzholdt 624; Hurter, iv, 1620-1. Famous work of which this is the last and best edition, edited by the Abbé Mignet who added an enormous amount of notes and six indexes. 'Sa célébrité lui vient cependant surtout d'un ouvrage qu'il composa sous forme de dictionnaire, très utile et très connu des théologiens et des canonistes.' The 'Prompta Bibliotheca' was printed for the first time in 1746 in Bologne and has seen many editions well into the second half of the 19th century due to the great richness of the subjects dealt with. His enormous erudition offered him the means to keep track of some 700 authors, and not less surprizing is his abundant citing from pontifical constitutions, decisions taken by the Roman Rota and the decisions taken by the various congregations of the roman clergy. The depth and accuracy of the work coupled with the alphabetical organization the work represents more or less a canonical library. It is the reason why Ferraris was copied so often without receiving the proper recognition. EUR 2000
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FERREIRA BORGES, J. Observacoens sobre um opusculo intitulado 'Parecer de dous concelheiros da Coroa Constitucional sobre os meios de restaurar o governo representative en Portugal'. Londres, Impresso por Bingham, 1832. - (Bound with:) FERREIRA BORGES, J. Revista critica da segunda edicçao do opusculo: 'Parecer de dous concelheiros de coroa constitucional sobre os meios de se resaurar o governo representativo en Portugal'. Londres, Impr. por R. Greenlaw, 1832. - (Bound with:) FERREIRA BORGES, J. Representaçao de conselheiro d'estado honorario. Lisboa 1836. - (Bound with:) FERREIRA BORGES, J. Memoria en refutaçao do relatorio e decretos do ministro das justicas o rev. Antonio Manoel Lopez Vieira de Castro, na parte relativa a administraçao commercial pelo author de codigo. Lisboa 1837. - (Bound with:) FERREIRA BORGES, J. Exame critico do valor politico das expressoes soberania do pove, e soberania das cortes: e outro sim das bases da organisaçao do poder legislativo no systeme representtativo, e da sançao do rei. Lisboa, Typografia transmontana, 1837. - (Bound with:) FERREIRA BORGES, J. Defeza da legislaçao conteuda nos artigos 115 e 116 do docigo do processo commercial portuguez, ou demonstraçao do que é hoje o recurso de revista segundo as cathegorias do Poder judicial marcadas na carta constitucional da monarchia portugueza. (Lisboa, na impressao de Galhardo e Irmaos, 1836). - (Bound with:) FERREIRA BORGES, J. Das fontes, especialidade, e excellencia da administraçao commercial segundo o codigo commercial portuguez. Porto, Typographia commercial Portuense, 1835. 7 works bound in 1 volume. 22 pp.; (2), 19, (2) pp.;8 pp.; viii, 46, (1) pp.; 27 pp.; (2) 14 pp.; xix, (1), 23, (1), 123 (appendices) pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gil lettering, small damage to head of spine, lightly rubbed. Da Silva, Diccionario bibliographico Portuguez, 3246-3247 and 3255-3259. First editions. José Ferreira Borges (1786-1838), Portuges economist and jurist. He studied law at the University of Coimbra and was a practising attorney at Oporto from 1802 until 1820. He was forced to emigrate in 1823 because of his activities in the constitutionalist movement. He lived in London until 1827 and again from 1828 to 1833. He was the author of the Codigo commercial portuguez of 1833, known as the 'Commercial Code of Ferreira Borges' and which served as the commercial law of the country for almost fifty-six years. As civil servant he served at many posts: Membro da Junta provisional do Governo Supremo do Reino (proclamed August 24, 1820); Advogado na Cidade do Porto; Deputado as Cortes Constituintes en 1821. EUR 700
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FLAVIGNY, (M.A.CH.) DE. Rapport fait au nom de la Commission chargé d'examinier le projet de loi tendant à assimiler les navires chiliens entrant dans les ports de France ou en sortant, aux navires français, en ce qui concerne les droits de navigation et autre taxes portant sur la coque des navires. (Drop-head title). (At end:) (Paris), Imprimerie de l'Assemblée Nationale, no date. - (Followed by:) SCHNEIDER, (J.E.) Projet de loi tendant à assimiler les navires chiliens entrant dans les ports de France ou en sortant, aux navires français, en ce qui concerne les droits de navigation et autres taxes portant sur la coque des navires. Précédé de l'exposé des motifs. (Drop-head title). (At end: Paris), Imprimerie de l' Assemblée Nationale, (1851). 2 pieces. 8 & 6, (2 blank) pp. 8vo. Uncut, unopened. At head of first page: No 1642 and No 1610 respectively with the heading: République Française. Assemblée Nationale Législative.Concerning a law which aimed to protect the French commercial interests. The 'coque' of a ship is its hull. EUR 125
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GARMANNUS, CHR. Commentatio de ratione belli seu ut a Gallis dici solet Raison de Guerre ex jure et moribus gentium. Copenhagen, Hoepfner, 1747. Charming title vignette. (8), 46 pp. 4to. Sewn, no covers. Thesis defended before Chr.L. Scheidt, German historian and jurist, who spent some years at Copenhagen University. EUR 175
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GARNIER, (J.J.) Traité de l'origine du gouvernement françois; où l'on examine ce qui est resté en France sous la première Race de nos Rois, de la forme du gouvernement qui subsistoit dans les Gaules sous la domination romaine. A Paris, Chez Vente, 1765. vi, 236, (4) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raisedbands (somewhat rubbed). Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, xv, pp. 503-505; Conlon 65:814. First edition. Price winning work which was written in answer to the following question, posed by the Académie des Inscriptions: Examen de ce qui est resté en France sous la première race de nos rois de la forme de gouvernement qui subsistait dans les Gaules sous la domination des Romains in 1761. The text was not published before 1765. EUR 200
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GARNIER, (J.J.) Traité de l'origine du gouvernement françois; où l'on examine ce qui est resté en France sous la première Race de nos Rois, de la forme du gouvernement qui subsistoit dans les Gaules sous la domination romaine. A Paris, Chez Vente, 1765. (2), vi, 236, (4) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with gilt lettering. Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, XV, pp. 503-505; Conlon 65:814; Camus, 879. First edition. Price winning work which was written in answer to the following question, posed by the Académie des Inscriptions: Examen de ce qui est resté en France sous la première race de nos rois de la forme de gouvernement qui subsistait dans les Gaules sous la domination des Romains in 1761. The text was not published before 1765. - With partly erased bookplate on front paste-down, and small library stamp on title-page. EUR 225
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GEE, J. Considérations sur le commerce et la navigation de la Grande-Bretagne. Ouvrage traduit de l'anglois, de M. Joshua Gee, sur la quatrième édition. A Londres, chez A. Bettesworth & C. Hitch, S. Birt, 1749. - (Bound with:) (MONTESQUIEU, Ch.L. DE SECONDAT DE.) Défense de l'Esprit des loix, à laquelle on a joint quelques éclaircissements. A Genève, chez Barrilot & fils, 1750. 2 works in 1 volume. xxviii, 268 pp.; 207, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red title-label with gilt lettering. First work: Goldsmiths 8382; Sabin 26828; Alden & Landis 749/110; Echeverria & Wilkie 749/5; Carpenter, Economic Bestsellers, XII (5); not in Kress; not in Einaudi. First edition in French. Translated by J.B. de Secondat, son of Montesquieu. Reviews England's commercial situation, indicating trade carried on with many regions, and includes suggestions for improvement. A large part relates to the trade of the plantations in America and contains discussions of British trade with Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and New England. The first English edition appeared in 1729.Second work: Tchemerzine-Scheler, iv, p. 931; Le Petit p. 498; Cabeen 93 (a 80 page work bound with the 1749 edition of the Esprit des Loix; Cabeen does not list the present original edition!); Conlon 50:793; INED 3552.First edition.The work ends on page 196 and is followed by Éclaircissements sur l'Esprit des Loix (unnumbered leaf forming the pages 197-198, text covering the pages 199-207). The Esprit des Loix was severely attacked and the present work is a dignified 'Défense'. Montesquieu died not long after it was published while on a visit to Paris. Despite the success of the Esprit des Loix and the present work, the quarrel over Montesquieu's main work continued with Jansenists, Jesuits and others attacking the author. The Esprit des Loix was eventually placed on the Index (29 November 1751) and condamned by the Sorbonne. EUR 1250
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GODARD, (J). Exposé des travaux de l'Assemblée-générale des Représentans de la Commune de Paris, Depuis le 25 Juillet 1789, jusqu'au mois d'Octobre 1790, époque de l'organisation définitive de la Municipalité; Fait par ordre de l'Assemblée; rédigé par M. Godard, ..... et imprimé aux frais des Représentans. A Paris, de l'Imprimerie de Lottin l'aîné, & J.-R. Lottin, 1790. 4, 248 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt back with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering (somewhat rubbed). Martin & Walter 15069; Tourneux 5564; Monglond, i, p. 853. First edition. Contains also: 'Liste des cent vingt représentants de la Commune convoqués le 25 juillet 1789', pp. 241 ff.; 'Liste des soixante représentants convoqués le 5 août suivant pour être réunis aux cent vingt', pp. 231-2; 'Liste des trois cent reprèsentants convoqués le 18 septembre', pp. 233 ff.; 'Liste des reprèsentants de la Commune, nommés depuis le 18 septembre en remplacement de ceux qui ont donné leur démission ou dont les pouvoirs étaient limités et n'ont pas été continués', pp. 246-8. EUR 225
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GOURCY, (F.A.E.) DE. Quel fut l'État des personnes en France, Sous la premiere & la seconde Race de nos Rois? Ouvrage cournonné par l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres en 1768: Où l'on essaye d'éclaircir, d'après les seuls monumens du temps, les questions les plus intéressantes de nos Antiquités, sur la condition, les droits & les engagemens respectifs des hommes nés Libres, des Affranchis, des Serfs, des Colons, des Lites, des Fiscalins, des hommes du Roi & de l'Église; sur le Clergé, la Noblesse, le Tiers-Etat; sur les Bénéfices militaires, le Vasselage, les Fiefs, les Seigneuries & Justices privées, & le Gouvernement féodal. A Paris, Chez Desaint, 1769. - (Followed by:) (GOURCY, F.A.E. DE.) Discours sur cette question: Est-il à propos de multiplier les Académies? A Paris, Chez Desaint, 1769. Two works in one volume. (4), xvi, 293, (3) pp.; (4), 38, (2) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands and with gilt lettering, red edges, corners lightly bumped, one small scratch to upper cover. First work: Conlon 69:837; Cioranescu 31715; Camus 865; Quérard, iii, 430: 'C'est un excellent morceau, rempli d'érudition.'First edition. Second work: Conlon 69:836; Cioranescu 31714.First edition. 'Le caractère des ouvrages de l'abbé de Gourcy est la méthode et la netteté des idées. Son style est simple et sa critique judicieuse; ses raisonnements sont solides et ses connaissances étendues' (Quérard, iii, 430). EUR 500
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GOURCY, (F.A.E.) DE. Quel fut l'État des personnes en France, Sous la premiere & la seconde Race de nos Rois? Ouvrage cournonné par l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres en 1768: Où l'on essaye d'éclaircir, d'après les seuls monumens du temps, les questions les plus intéressantes de nos Antiquités, sur la condition, les droits & les engagemens respectifs des hommes nés Libres, des Affranchis, des Serfs, des Colons, des Lites, des Fiscalins, des hommes du Roi & de l'Église; sur le Clergé, la Noblesse, le Tiers-Etat; sur les Bénéfices militaires, le Vasselage, les Fiefs, les Seigneuries & Justices privées, & le Gouvernement féodal. A Paris, Chez Desaint, 1769. - (Followed by:) (GOURCY, F.A.E. DE.) Discours sur cette question: Est-il à propos de multiplier les Académies? A Paris, Chez Desaint, 1769. Two works in one volume. (4), xvi, 293, (3) pp.; (4), 38, (2) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, red edges, corners lightly bumped, one small scratch to upper cover. First work: Conlon 69:837; Cioranescu 31715; Camus 865; Quérard, iii, 430: 'C'est un excellent morceau, rempli d'érudition.'First edition. Second work: Conlon 69:836; Cioranescu 31714.First edition. 'Le caractère des ouvrages de l'abbé de Gourcy est la méthode et la netteté des idées. Son style est simple et sa critique judicieuse; ses raisonnements sont solides et ses connaissances étendues' (Quérard iii, 430). EUR 350
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GRELLET-DUMAZEAU, TH. Traité de la Diffamation, de l'injure et de l'outrage. Riom, E. Leboyer, Paris, Joubert, 1847. Two volumes. (4), vi, 428 pp.; (4), 432 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half red calf, marbled boards, green labels with gilt lettering, some very minor rubbing. First edition. Widely acclaimed work from the moment of its publication and dealing with slander and insult in relation to both private persons as well as public servants.The author was 'président de la Cour de Riom', and founded in 1827 the Album de la Creuse, a political journal of liberal tendency.- Verso half-title of volume 1 contains the errata for both volumes. EUR 400
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GUILDS - ARREST de la Cour de Parlement de Paris, donné entre les officiers de la senechausée & siège présidial, le prevost & les eschevins de la ville du Mans, & les seigneurs hauts-iusticiers de la province du Maine, d'une part. Et la communauté des marchands de ladite ville & province: les six corps des marchands de la ville de Paris, Roüen & Tours, d'autre part. Sur l'érection & establissement des iuridictions consulaires. Avec les doctes plaidoyez des advocats des parties. (Drop-head title). (Paris), De l'Imprimerie de Nicolas Bessin, 1647. 12 pp. Small 4to. Disbound. EUR 175
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GUYTON (DE MORVEAU), L.B. Opinion sur la responsabilité solidaire des ministres. Prononcée le 23 juillet 1792, l'an 4 de la liberté. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1792). 10 pp. 8vo. 19th-century boards. Martin & Walter 16279; not inMonglond. Original edition. 'Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau, savant chimiste (1737-1816), contribua à l'établissement de l'école polytechnique. (Camus). In 1789 Guyton became president of the Dijon Patriotic Club; and in 1790 he was elected procureur général syndic of the Côte d'Or, one of the new 'departments' into which Burgundy was divided. He held this important administrative post until elected to the National Assembly in August 1791. This took him to Paris, where he remained for the rest of his life. In 1792 he became a deputy to the National Convention, which declared France a republic, and he was among the majority who voted for the execution of Louis XVI in January 1793. For an extensive survey of Guyton's life and works, see Dictionary of Scientific Biography, v, pp. 600-4. EUR 125
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HEEREN, A.H.L. Manuel de l'histoire ancienne considérée sous le rapport des constitutions, du commerce et des colonies des divers États de l'Antiquité. Traduit de l'Allemand de A.H.L. Heeren, ....... Par Al. Thurot. Seconde édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée. Paris, Chez Firmin Didot, Père et Fils, 1827. (4), xx, 525, (7, Genealogical tables, errata) pp. 8vo. Original printed covers, uncut, a nice copy. ESS, vii, p. 310. Second French edition. Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren (1760-1842), German historian. Heeren began his career as theologian but later turned his interests to classical philology and history. His entire life was dominated by Winckelmann's and Goethe's conception of Greece. His philosophy of history was largely determined by Herder, his interest in constitutional history and political geography was awakened and promoted through the influence of Montesquieu and his preoccupation with problems of economic history may be traced to reminiscences of his Hanseatic childhood. Heeren is one of the forerunners of the historical school in history, economics, jurisprudence and political science. With Niebuhr he may be considered the founder of the modern scientific study of ancient history; through his pupil Pertz he stimulated the critical study of mediaeval sources; his interest in constitutional history left its mark on Waitz, and his study of political geography on Ritter. EUR 225
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HENRION DE PANSEY, (P.P.N.) Traité des fiefs de Dumoulin, analysé et conféré avec les autres feudistes. A Paris, Chez Valade, 1773. (4), (4), 717, (2) pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, green label with gilt lettering, a few minor imperfections. Camus 1574; Conlon 73:886. First edition. 'Travail exécuté avec une profondeur digne de Dumoulin' (Quérard). Uptill then Henrion Depensey was a more or less obscure lawyer and legal scholar but this work made his name and he established himself as a prominent lawyer and was henceforth consulted in the important matters of his days. The name of the author is sometimes spelled as De Pensey. EUR 600
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HENRYS, C. Oeuvres de M. Claude Henrys, conseiller du Roy, et son premier Avocat au Baillage & Siége Présidial de Forès. Contenant son recueil d'arrêts, vingt-deux questions posthumes Tirées des Ecrits de l'Auteur trouvés après son décès. Ses plaidoyers et harranques. Avec des observations sur les changements de la jurisprudence, arrivés depuis la mort de l'auteur. Une Conférence de la jurisprudence de tous les Pays du Droit Ecrit du Royaume; Et des Moyens faciles & seurs (sic) pour la rendre certaine & conforme dans tous les Tribunaux. Par M. B.J. Bretonnier, Avocat au Parlement. Cinqième édition, Revuë, corrigée et Augmentée de Sommaires, & d'un grand nombre de Nouvelles observations par le même Auteur; avec des Additions & quelques autres Observations de feu M. Matthieu Terrasson, écuyer, Ancien Avocat au Parlement, à laquelle on a joint un Supplément tiré des Mémoires de feu M*** aussi ancien Avocat au Parlement, & plusieurs Consultations des plus célébres Avocats, trouvées parmi les Manuscrits de feu M. Bretonnier. A Paris, Chez Michel Brunet, 1738. Printed in 2 columns. 4 volumes. (8), xxxx, (40, Table des Questions & Sommaires), 822 pp.; (68), 1009, (1) pp.; (66), 972 pp.; (32), 1033 pp. + 1 leaf (Approbation). Folio. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering (some light damage to head and foot of spines, a few corners bumped, some scratching, upper cover of two volumes with a dark spot, one joint split). Camus 1444. First edition published in 1639. Celebrated work by Claude Henrys, 1615-1662, whose main purpose was to reform the legislation of the kingdom. 'Les ouvrages de Henrys sont remarquables par le profondeur et la solidité du raisonnement, la méthode dans la discussion, et l'application judicieuse des autorités' (Michaud). Henrys had an enormous reputation and his decisions were regarded as laws. - Good copy despite the small defects to the bindings mentioned. EUR 2000
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HOLTZENDORF, F. VON. Die Deportation als Strafmittel in alter und neuer Zeit und die Verbrechercolonien der Engländer und Franzosen in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung und criminalpolitischen Bedeutung dargestelt. Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1859. xxiii, (1 errata), 749 pp. 8vo. Contemporary publisher's cloth, slightly worn at edges, paperspotted, some occasional leadpencil underlinings. First edition. One of the few legal studies on deportation as alternative for a.o. death penalty. Describes and analyses historical forms of deportation; In the Roman Empire; the English criminal practice as basis for the deportation law of other countries and as intertwined with colonial expansion; the French system. Deals also with the places of deporation: USA, Georgia (Oglethorpe, Howard), Bermuda Islands; Australia (extensively); South America, French Guyana, Devils' Island. The author concludes with a criminological and theoretical treatise on deportation. With an appendix of legal texts on deportation (England, France) and statistical tables on deportation (number of transports, number of transported, crimes committed, etc.) EUR 450
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JOUY, L.F. DE. Principes et Usages concernant les Dîmes, par feu M. Louis-Franc. de Jouy, avocat au Parlement. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée et considérablement augmentée. A Paris, Chez Durand Neveu, 1775. (4), 457, (1, blank), (6) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments with gilt lettering (lightly rubbed and shaved). Goldsmiths 11324; Higgs 6218; not in Kress (citing the 1751 edition 5127); not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Mattioli. Last and best edition. - Small unobtrusive spot in outer margin throughout. Louis-François de Jouy specialized in canonical law and gained a reputation of such high learning that the clergy of France nominated him into one of their councils. The present work is a detailed survey of the history of the Dîme, its various definitions such as the Dîmes ecclésiastiques, the Dîmes inféodées, the Dîmes personelles, etc., etc. EUR 400
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JOUY, L.F. DE. Principes et Usages concernant les Dîmes, par feu M. Louis-Franc. de Jouy, avocat au Parlement. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée et considérablement augmentée. Paris, Chez Durand Neveu, 1775. (4), 457, (1, blank), (6) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering (lightly rubbed and shaved along extremities). Goldsmiths 11324; Higgs 6218; not in Kress (citing the 1751 edition 5127); not in Einaudi; not in INED. Last and best edition. Louis-François de Jouy specialized in canonical law and gained a reputation of such high learning that the clergy of France nominated him into one of their councils. The present work is a detailed survey of the history of the Dîme, its various definitions such as the Dîmes ecclésiastiques, the Dîmes inféodées, the Dîmes personelles, etc., etc. EUR 400
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KRUG, W.T. System der practischen Philosophie. Wien, Franz Härter'schen Buchhandlung, 1818 (volumes i & ii), Königsberg, A.W. Unzer, 1819 (volume iii). 3 volumes in 2. viii, 483, (1) pp.; viii, 312 pp.; xii, 314 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled boards (volumes i & ii) and contemporary half calf, marbled boards, extra (volume iii). Adickes 2526; Ziegenfuss, i, pp. 691-692. First edition. 1: Rechtslehre. 2: Tugendlehre. 3: Religionslehre. Added: volume 2 in the Köningsberg edition, 1818. The importance of Krug as a philosopher is not so much his philosophy but his great ability to raise interest in the subject and to encourage liberal thought in matters of state and church. - Bookplate of J.H. Anderhub in first volume, the other volumes with a small stamp on the title page: Bibl. Coll. Colocensis S.l. EUR 225
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LAMPADIUS, J. Tractatus de constitutione Imperii Romano-Germanici. Accessit Eiusdem Discursus de Natura Nummi, & Interpretatio L. 2. C. de Usucap. pro Hered. Item Iacobi Augusti Thuani Germaniae Descriptio ex eius lib. 2. Histor. Leiden, Joannis Maire, 1634. With engraved title. 382 (misnumbered 380) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporaryoverlapping vellum, handwritten title, name, place and date to spine, monogram stamped on front cover, ties present. Not in Camus; Kleinheyer & Schroeder, Deutsche Juristen aus fuenf Jahrhunderten, pp. 162-165. First edition of this important work on Roman-Germanic constitutional law. Jacob Lampadius, 'der bedeutentste Staatsman von Braunschweig-Luneberg' (ADB) died in 1649 in Munster where he was one of the negociators of the peace. The first part gives his theory of the State, which he does not see as a divine creation, nor does he hold the theory of a 'contract'. He analyses the transition of power from the Roman emperor to the German emperor, the influence of the Pope as a foreign power in German affairs, and the dependence of a number of German princes on Rome. EUR 600
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LEONARD, F. Recueil des traitez de paix, de trève, de neutralité, de confédération, d'alliance et de commerce, faits par les Rois de France, avec tous les princes et potentats de l'Europe, et autres, depuis pres de trois siècles. En Six tomes. Assemblé, mis en ordre, & imprimé par Frederic Leonard. A Paris, 1693. 6 volumes. 4to. Contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt with raised bands. Sabin 40104; not in JFBL; not in Echeverria & Wilkie; Bourgeois & André 3208; Conlon, Prélude 6247; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Scarce and very important collection with the original texts of the treaties, including treaties relative to America. The compiler states: 'Je les ai recherchez avec soin, et à mesure que j'en ai recouvré, je les ai imprimez de différents caractères ..... Pour trouver ces anciens Traitez, j'ai eu besoin des ordres du Roi, du secours de Messieurs ses Ministres, et ses Ambassadeurs.' - Fine copy with the gilt stamped coat of arms of Alexandre, duc de La Rochefoucauld, grand veneur de France et grand maître de la garde-robe on sides of all volumes, and his discrete small stamp on title-page of all volumes. Among the texts are: Traité entre le Roy Louis XIII et Charles I, Roy d'Angleterre, pour la restitution de la Nouvelle France, l'Acadie, le Canada, et des navires et marchandises pris de part et d'autre. 1632. - Paix accordée par le Roy de France aux Iroquois de la nation Tsonnoutuon. A Québec le 22 de Mai 1666, and furthermore, treaties with Tripoli, Marocco, the Ottoman Empire, Siam, Algeria, Tunesia, etc. The work covers the period 1435-1692.This massive compilation is the first major collection of French treaties, beginning in 1435 and running to 1692, including many treaties relating to America. Many important French state papers appeared here for the first time, especially ones from the 15th and 16th centuries. It was not until the early 17th century that published versions of treaties began to appear simultaneously with the event, and even then treaties between kings were often secret, or contained secret sections, for decades. Thus, the Leonard set offers either first or very early printings of many documents of the greatest importance, inlcuding a number with importance for the Americas. The NUC entry for this work describes it in six volumes and locates five sets. Sabin states the work consists of six regular volumes plus two additional volumes of twenty-nine treaties with separate titlepages for each, covering treaties from 1697 to 1719 which were published much later, in 1719. This set includes the original six volumes published in 1693, and is complete in and of itself. Frances Davenport identifies eleven for which the Leonard set gives the first or first French printing between 1556 and 1684, as follow: Davenport 20. Treaty between France and Spain, 1556, by which the French agreed to stay out of Spanish America and the Spanish agreed to leave alone French fisheries off the North American coast. Davenport 22. Treaty between France and Spain, 1585. A similar agreement to keep France out of the Indies. Davenport 26. Treaty between France and England, 1603. This treaty was made while England and Spain were still at war, and arranged for the French and British to take concerted action, with England raising a fleet to attack the Spanish New World dominions. It became a dead letter when James I made peace with Spain the next year. Davenport 29. A defensive alliance between the Netherlands, France and England, in which the latter two agreed not to interfere with Dutch trade in the New World. Davenport 32. Treaty between the Netherlands and France, agreeing not to interfere with each other's trade in the New World. Davenport 34. Treaty between England and France, settling the brief war between the powers of 1627-28. In this war the British had seized much of New France, including Quebec, which was restored with the peace. Davenport 36. Treaty between Great Britain and France (St. Germain-en-laye). This treaty followed up Davenport 34, above, and called for the specific restoration of all of Canada; England gave up Nova Scotia reluctantly, and only in the face of French naval superiority. Davenport 37. Treaty between France and Portugal, 1641. Portugal, having won independence back from Spain, agrees to cooperate with the French and Dutch against Spain in the New World. Davenport 68. Agreement between Spain and the Netherlands, made by Spain in an attempt to defend its New World possessions. Davenport 73. Cessation of hostilities in America between France and Sweden on one hand, and Denmark and Brandenburg on the other, 1679. This war had involved battles between the West Indian possessions of all powers, and restored the status quo while allowing free trade in West Indian ports. Davenport 77. Treaty between Spain and France, 1684 (Ratisbon). This treaty supposedly brought peace between the Spanish and French throughout the world, but was really a screen by Louis XIV for his incursions on Spanish dominions in the New World. Immediately after it he authorized La Salle to start his colony on the Gulf of Mexico, and attempted to seize northern New Spain. A most important collection. EUR 12500
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LESSIUS, L. De justitia et iure ceterisque Virtutibus cardinalobus Libri Quatuor, Ad 2.2 D. Thomae à quaest. 47. usquue ad quaest. 171. Editio sexta, auctior et castigatior; Cum Appendice de Monte Pietatis. Antverpiæ, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Balthasarem Moretum, 1626. With beautiful engraved title by C. Galle after P. Rubens. (16), 825, (1, Approbatio), (66), + imprint leaf. Folio. Contemporary richly blind-tooled calf over boards, five raised bands to spine, clasps preserved. De Backer & Sommervogel, iv, col. 1730; not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700; not in Camus; Kress S.457 (1617 edition); not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli. Sixth edition, first published in 1605. The edition from 1621 was the first edition with the engraved title after P. Rubens, this is the second edition with the same engraved title-page. A work of moral theology which is 'one of the earliest treatises to investigate the ethics of economics' (The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, p. 818). De justitia et jure is Lessius's most important book. It was notable especially for its analysis of contemporary commercial practice, and Lessius's opinions on the morality of various business arrangements exercised a substantial influence on the thinking of statesmen and church leaders. 'Combining a full command of earlier scholastic authorities with a hitherto unprecedented grasp of market phenomena, Lessius provided fresh insights that challenged traditional economic doctrine in authoritative fashion. Lessius is, certainly, the foremost continuator of the Spanish school of economic thought. Further, he has claims for consideration as a major contributor to the development of economic analysis ...' (B. Gordon, Economic Analysis before Adam Smith, pp. 245-246).The Catholic Encyclopedia writes: This work, composed with great accuracy, shows best the soundness of judgement, the common sense, and the clearness of mind which distinguishes Lessius. The chapters on interest and other commercial subjects are epoch-making in the treatment of those difficult questions; Lessius was especially consulted by the merchants of Antwerp on matters of justice. EUR 5500
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LINDET, (J.B.R.) Rapport fait à la Convention Nationale, le quatrième jour des Sans-Culottides de l'an 2 (20 septembre 1794) au nom des Comités de salut public, de sûreté générale, et de la législation, sur la situation intérieure de la République. (Paris), de l'Imprimerie du Comité de salut public, an 3 (1794). 69, (1) pp. 12mo. 19th-century half morocco, marbled boards, spine with raised bands. Martin & Walter 21575. Original edition. Lindet became a staunch member of the Mountain and as such displayed an implacable hostility toward those whom he believed were enemies of the Revolution and of the newly established Republic. His major role in and contribution to the French Revolution came from his service on the Committee of Public Safety. Elected to this body on 6 April 1793, he would have the longest tenure of any of its members and would demonstrate a tremendous capacity for hard work and an outstanding talent for administration.In the present report an unrepentant Lindet defended the earlier purge of the Girondin deputies and stated that abuses of power were unavoidable in great revolutions.'Jean Baptiste Robert Lindet, homme politique, né à Bernay (Eure) et mort à Paris. Député à l'Assemblée législative, puis à la Convention, il vota la mort du roi sans appel ni sursis, poursuivit avec acharnement les Girondins et fut, pendant la terreur, membre du Comité de Salut Public, où il fut spécialement chargé des subsistances. Décrété d'accusation après l'insurrection du 1er prairial (20 mai 1795), il fut amnistié, et, impliqué dans le complot de Babeuf, fut acquitté bien que contumax. Il fut ministre des finances du 30 priarial (1799) au 18 brumaire' (Lalanne, Dictionnaire Historique de la France, ii, p. 1144.) - Very rare, printed on 'papier vélin'. EUR 300
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LINGUET - ARREST de la Cour de Parlement, du 29 mars 1775. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, P.G. Simon, imprimeur du Parlement, 1775. 7, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. See at length: Levy, The Ideas and Careers of Linguet, chapter 4. On Linguet's expulsion from the 'Tableau des avocats'. EUR 125
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LOFFICIAL, L.P. Rapport au nom du Comité des domaines, sur la demande en indemnité formée par le citoyen Charles-François Mainbourg, concessionnaire de domaines en l'isle de Corse. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1793). 32 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Martin & Walter 21650. First edition. EUR 175
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LOUIS XV - DECLARATION du Roi, qui ordonne qu'il ne sera pourvu qu'à vie aux Offices de gouverneurs et lieutenants du Roi, crées dans les villes closes, par Édit de Novembre 1733, et que l'emploi de leurs gages ou appointements, soit fait dans les états de l'ordinaire des guerres. Du 4 Mai 1766. (Paris), 1766. 4to poster on white paper. Not in Catalogue des Actes Royaux, but see vi, 36170. EUR 75
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LOUIS XV - EDICT du Roy portant rétablissement des offices de gouverneurs, lieutenans de Roy, majors, maires, lieutenans de maires, et autres officiers des Hôtels de Ville. Du mois de Novembre 1733. Aix, Joseph David, 1734. Folio poster on white paper. Not in Catalogue des Actes Royaux. On verso a contemporary ms note: M. Laugier à pub.- et afficher.Somewhat browned but confined to the blank margin and corners. EUR 75
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LOUIS XV - MOTIFS des résolutions du Roy. (At end:) Aix, Joseph David, 1733. 12 pp. 4to. Later blind cover, uncut, small dampstain in outer blank margin, copy with large margins. Deals with the hostile attitude of Russia and Austria againt the election of Stanislas Lexzinski to the Polish throne. With the Treaty of Vienna France accepted the resignation of Stanislas without having offered support to him. EUR 200
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LOUIS XV - (DUVAUCEL, F.) Epitre sur la paix. Au Roy. (1748). One title-leaf and 9 pp. of manuscript. Folio. Sewn. Contemporary manuscript of this 'Epitre' which is in fact a praise in verse of Louis XV. It ends: 'J'attends de votre Majesté / Un Louis par pure bonté / Je le demande en écriture / C'est d'un contrat la signature.' It pertains to the marriage contract for the daughter of François Duvaucel, greffier au Chatelet de Paris and the nephew of Simon de La Haye et de Cuisy, a tax-collector. The text deals clearly with the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle of 1748. - The piece has once been folded and has a slight waterstain in the fold, mainly on the titleleaf. EUR 250
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LOUIS XVI - ARRET du Conseil d'Etat du Roi, qui restreint la fouille du salpêtre; décharge les communautés des fournitures à faire aux salpêtriers; & permet auxdites communautés de se rédimer de la fouille, par l'établissement des nitrières artificielles. Du 8 Août 1777, (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1777. 6, (2 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. Not in Actes Royaux. Regulating the production of saltpetre, which would play later, during the Revolution, such an important role. EUR 100
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LOUIS XVI - RATIFICATION de la convention conclue entra Sa Majesté et le Gouvernement Général des Pays-Bas, relativement aux limites des Etats respectifs. Du 29 décembre 1779. (Drop-headtitle). (At end:) Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1780. 18, (2 blank) pp. 4to. Folded leaves. Catalogue Actes Royaux, VI, 40350; not in Knuttel. Original edition. This convention completed the treaty of 16 May 1769, dealing with the division of the possessions of both France and Austria in the Low Countries. The agreement concerning the borders was signed in Brussels. EUR 125
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LOUIS XVI - CONVENTION provisoire pour servir d'explication à la Convention préliminaire de commerce & de navigation du 25 avril 1741, entre le Roi (Louis XV) et le Roi de Suède. Conclueà Versailles le 1er juillet 1784. Ratifiéé par le Roi (Louis XVI) le 26 du même mois: et par le Roi de Suède, à Stockholm le 10 août suivant. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1784. 14 pp. 4to. Disbound. Several of the 14 articles deal with the island Saint-Barthelemew (West Indies), which France ceded to Sweden. EUR 225
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LOUIS XVI. Proclamation du Roi, et recueil de pièces rélatives à l'arreté du Conseil du département du 6 juin 1792, concernant le maire et le procureur de la commune de Paris. A Paris, Chez Le Petit et Guillemard, 1792. - (Followed by:) (ROEDERER, P.L.) Rapport et conclusions du procureur-général syndic du département de Paris, relativement aux événemens du 20 juin; lu au Conseil du département, le 6 juillet 1792. (Drop-head title). No place, no date. - (Followed by:) (PELTIER, J.G.) Le cri de la douleur, ou journée du 20 juin; par l'auteur du 'Domine salvum fac Regem'. Extrait de la 'Correspondance politique ou tableau de Paris' des 22 et 24 juin. A Paris, Chez Senneville, 1792. - (Followed by:) NECKER, J. Réflexions présentés à la nation française. No place, (1792). - (Followed by:) SUR LE PROCES de Louis XVI. Supplément aux 'Réflexions de M. Necker'. (Paris), De l'Imprimerie de Froullé, (1792). - (Followed by:) GUILLAUME, L.M. Projet de défense pour Louis XVI. (Paris), chez les libraires du ci-devant Palais-Royal, (1792). - (Followed by:) (DUGOUR, A.J.) Mémoire justificatief pour Louis XVI, ci-devant Roi des Français. En réponse à l'acte d'accusation qui lui a été lu à la Convention Nationale, le mardi 11 décembre 1792, l'an quatrième de la liberté et le premier de l'égalité. Par A.J.D.G. A Paris, Chez Fr. Dufart, 1793. - (Followed by:) (MALHERBES, CHR. G. LAMOIGNON DE.) Observations des défenseurs de Louis sur une imputation particulière qui lui a été faite dans la Convention; précédées de leur lettre d'envoi au citoyen-président. (Drop-head title). (Paris), De l'Imprimerie nationale, (1793). - (Followed by:) LOUIS XVI. Testament écrit par lui, lu dans la séance de la Commune, le 21 janvier 1793. (Drop-head title). No place, (1793). - (Followed by:) JOURGNIAC DE SAINT-MENARD, F. Mon agonie de trente-huit heures, ou récit de ce qui m'est arrivé, de ce que j'ai vu et entendu, pendant ma détention dans la prison de l'Abbaye Saint-Germain, depuis le 22 août jusqu'au 4 septembre. Dixième édition corrigée. A Paris, Chez Desenne, 1792. Ten works bound in one volume. (2), 16 pp.; 30, 121, (1) pp.; 31, (1) pp.; 64 pp.; 16 pp.; 70 pp.; 240 pp.; 8 pp.; 7, (1) pp.; 61, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, corners, spine with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering reading 'Mémoire pour Louis XVI', corners somewhat bumped. First work: Not in Tourneux; not in Martin & Walter. Second work: Martin and Walter 29637.Original edition.The work by Roederer contains 'un important dossier de 38 pièces justificatives' (Martin & Walter) covering the last 121 pages. Third work: Martin & Walter 26720.Fourth work: Cf.: Martin & Walter 25706 (other issue).One of two issues from the year of original publication.Fifth work: Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 17358.Sixth work: Martin & Walter 16038.Original edition.Seventh work: Martin & Walter 11671.Original edition.Eighth work: Martin & Walter 22494 & Anonymes, 10990.Original edition.Also signed by Tronchet and De Sèze.Ninth work: Not in Martin & Walter.Tenth work: Martin & Walter 17543.Original issue, including a warning against counterfeit editions.- Interesting collection from the library of M.J.E. Faivre du Bouvot, with his bookplate. EUR 1250
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LOYSEAU, CH. Traicté du Deguerpissement et Delaissement par Hypotheque. Par Charles Loyseau Sieur de la Noue Avocat en Parlement. Edition troisième, reveuë, corrigée & augmentée par l'Autheur. A Paris, Chez Abel l'Angelier, 1606. Title printed in red and black and with nice title vignette. (24) pp., 53, (1, blank), 48, 99, 58, 75, 57 numbered leaves, (18) pp. 4to. Contemporary reversed calf, spine with raised bands, a bit spotted. Not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700; no earlier editions in BMSTC (French); cf. Camus 1449 (Oeuvres). Third and much augmented and revised edition. Charles Loyseau (1564-1627), French jurist whose works are highly valued, devoted to public and private law. In his Traité de déguerpissement (first edition: 1597) Loyseau, following the example of Dumoulin, attempts to achieve the synthesis of Roman law with the various coutumes of the north of France. This work based on extensive historical and practical knowledge shows the progress of ideas in the seventeenth century in the direction of a codification of French law (Georges Boyer in ESS, ix, p. 622). EUR 900
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LYON - REPRESENTANS du peuple, envoyés dans la Commune-Affranchie, pour y assurer le bonheur du Peuple avec le triomphe de la République, dans tous les départemens environnans, et près l'armée des Alpes. (Drop-head title). A Commune-Affranchie, De l'Imprimerie républicaine, (1793). 1 leaf, verso blank. Folio. Folded and mounted in a 4to modern half morocco binding, gilt lettering on spine. Not in Martin & Walter; not in Charléty. Rare poster. - Central fold strengthened, slightly browned. Decisions signed by Fouché, de Nantes, Laporte and Albitte, dated 21 December 1793, explicitly forbidding the current authorities to dispose any of the commercial papers entrusted to them without the explicit and specific authorization of the Représentants du peuple. At head of title: 'Au nom de peuple français.' EUR 350
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LYON - REPRESENTANS DU PEUPLE, LES, envoyés dans la Commune-Affranchie, pour y assurer le bonheur du peuple avec le triomphe de la République, dans tour les départemens environnans,et près l'armée des Alpes. (Drop-head title). A Commune-Affranchie, De l'Imprimerie républicaine, (1793). 1 leaf, verso blank. Folio. Folded and mounted in a 4to modern half morocco binding, gilt lettering on spine. Not in Martin & Walter; not in Charléty. Rare poster. - Fine copy with full margins. Arret of 29 December 1793, signed by Fouché de Nantes, Albitte and Laporte, dealing with the supervision of the right of requisition and the destination of the confiscated objects.At head of title: 'Au nom du peuple français.' EUR 350
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LYONNE, (H.) DE. Mémoires ..... au Roy, interceptez par ceux de la garnison de Lille. Le Sr. Héron, courier du Cabinet les portant de l'armée à Paris. No place (Bruxelles, Foppens), 1668. (4), 76 pp. 12mo. 19th-century polished calf, spine richly gilt, gilt triple fillet on both sides, all edges gilt. Bourgeois & André 3909; Willems 2040; BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700, L1488. First edition, a very nice copy. The memoirs of Lyonne with annotations by Michel le Tellier, concerning the war. At the end a letter of Ernest, landgrave of Hesse, assuring the King of his lasting devotion, and the text of the peace treaty with Portugal (March 1667). - Copy from the library of Jacques Vieillard with bookplate and Bruno Monnier, with bookplate. A very fine copy. EUR 350
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MABLY, (G. BONNOT DE.) Le droit public de l'Europe fondé sur les traitez conclus jusqu'en l'année 1740. Nouvelle édition, augmentée de remarques historiques, politiques, & critiques par Mr. Rousset. A Amsterdam, Chez Meynard Uitwerf, 1748. Titles printed in red and black. With title-vignettes. 2 volumes in 1. (20), 296, (16) pp.; (4), 278, (14), (4, publisher's catalogue) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt letteriing, red edges, slightly worn. Tchémerzine-Scheler, iv, p. 247; Camus 246. This is an unauthorized edition published by the Huguenot Rousset, a stipendiary of the Dutch governement. He added an enormous commentary of his own, highly critical of Mably. Rousset acknowledged the usefulness of the compilation, but constantly castigated its author for his biases against the Dutch and the Austrians. In his eyes mably was plainly an agent of Versailles, inspired by the raison-d'état principles of Richelieu and Colbert. ' ..... 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 600
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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. De la législation, ou Principes des loix. A Amsterdam (Paris), 1776. 2 volumes in 1. viii, 264 pp.; iv, 264 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, marbled edges. Camus 121; Conlon 76:1238; Tchemerezine-Scheler, iv, p. 251. First edition. The present work marks a return to the dialogue form of Des Droits et des Devoir du Citoyen (written in the late 1750s) in the work of Mably. The central preoccupation is an ambitious program of political reform, designed to redress the ills and injustices caused by excessive social inequality; it moves from general statements of principle to consideration of the specific contexts and prospects for reform in different European states. This sustained critique of social inequality was accompanied by a serious and approving reflection on the notion of a communauté des biens. The grounds of the critique are twofold, involving an appeal both to natural principle and to historical evidence. This is, moreover, one of the books that won Mably his reputation as a "communist" writer. De la Législation, in particular, has long been seen as one of the most coherent presentations of an early socialist viewpoint to have emerged from the French enlightenment (Johnson Kent Wright, A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France. The Political Thought of Mably, pp. 94 ff with elaborate analysis). - A very nice copy. 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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MABLY, (G. BONNOT) DE. De la législation, ou principes des loix. A Amsterdam, 1777. 2 volumes in 1. 222 pp.; 220 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, a bit rubbed. Cf.: Camus 121. Second edition. - Fine copy. The present work marks a return to the dialogue form of Des Droits et des Devoir du Citoyen (written in the late 1750s) in the work of Mably. The central preoccupation is an ambitious program of political reform, designed to redress the ills and injustices caused by excessive social inequality; it moves from general statements of principle to consideration of the specific contexts and prospects for reform in different European states. This sustained critique of social inequality was accompanied by a serious and approving reflection on the notion of a communauté des biens. The grounds of the critique are twofold, involving an appeal both to natural principle and to historical evidence. This is, moreover, one of the books that won Mably his reputation as a "communist" writer. De la Législation, in particular, has long been seen as one of the most coherent presentations of an early socialist viewpoint to have emerged from the French enlightenment (See for an elaborate analysis: Johnson Kent Wright, A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France. The Political Thought of Mably, pp. 94 ff.) EUR 500
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MABLY, (G. BONNOT) DE. Des principes des négociations, pour servir d'introduction au droit public de l'Europe fondé sur les traités. A La Haie (Paris), 1757. viii, 278 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments,label with gilt lettering, red edges. Tchemerzine-Scheler, iv, 249; INED 2990; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in Goldsmiths; Higgs 1601. One of two editions published in 1757, the other edition being printed in Amsterdam in 8vo. The present work was intended as a long 'introduction' to his earlier published work Le droit public de l'Europe, published in 1746 and revised in 1748 and 1764. - Fine copy. 'Mably's writings on diplomacy were of course deeply marked by the record of French performance in the international arena (.....) - the striking failure of the Bourbon monarchy, for over a century, to achieve any rational strategic goals, or even to maintain its position relative to its principal rivals in Europe.' The chief strategic goal was to maintain its position against Spain and England. This policy barely survived the adventurism of the War of the Austrian Succession -the period of Mably's own involvement in French diplomacy - which produced minimal gains in Europe and ominous setbacks in the rest of the world. (.....) The present work is Mably's balance sheetof the record of international relations in Europe in 1757, summarizing the lessons of his diplomatic work. (.....) Far from being a mere handbook for diplomats, the work is a sustained critique of the whole practice of modern European warfare, of the type whose greatest example was to be the Seven Years' War.'Mably argues that it is pointless for any European power, of whatever rank, to undertake a project of purely military expansion the main reason being that there was no longer anything to be gained from war. Power in postfeudal Europe was the result of wealth, wealth was the result of commerce-and commerce depended on peace.Mably's goal was to try to found a rational science of diplomacy, making it into an effective tool of political agency-exactly what it had never been, in his eyes. The work furthermore contains a direct attack on commercial ideology, of the type that occurs again and again in his mature writings. The question first arises in chapter XVII of the Principes, whose subject is commercial treaties between states and what follows is essentially a dialogue with David Hume, whose Political Discourses on the 'vulgar subjects' -the phrase is Hume's- of commerce, money and trade had appeared in a number of French editions after 1752. (see for an elaborate analysis: Johnson Kent Wright, A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-century France. The Political Thought of Mably, pp. 52 ff.) EUR 750
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MABLY, (G. BONNOT) DE. De la législation, ou Principes des loix. A Amsterdam (Paris), 1776. 2 volumes in 1. viii, 264 pp.; iv, 264 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red morocco label with gilt lettering, marbled edges. Camus 121; Conlon 76:1238; Tchemerezine-Scheler, iv, p. 251. First edition. The present work marks a return to the dialogue form of Des Droits et des Devoir du Citoyen (written in the late 1750s) in the work of Mably. The central preoccupation is an ambitious program of political reform, designed to redress the ills and injustices caused by excessive social inequality; it moves from general statements of principle to consideration of the specific contexts and prospects for reform in different European states. This sustained critique of social inequality was accompanied by a serious and approving reflection on the notion of a communauté des biens. The grounds of the critique are twofold, involving an appeal both to natural principle and to historical evidence. This is, moreover, one of the books that won Mably his reputation as a "communist" writer. De la Législation, in particular, has long been seen as one of the most coherent presentations of an early socialist viewpoint to have emerged from the French enlightenment. (See for an elaborate analysis: Johnson Kent Wright, A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France. The Political Thought of Mably, pp. 94 ff.)'Cet ouvrage est sous la forme d'un dialogue entre un Suédois et un Anglias, le Suédois avait sûrement bien lu son Platon' (Camus). - Armorial bookplate on front paste-down, a beautiful copy. EUR 750
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MANENT, J.P. Leaf of theses 'pro baccalaureatus gradû, in utroque jure' defended in Toulouse in July 1761. Toulouse, Typ. N. Caranove, (1761). Large leaf, text printed within ornamental border. 4to. Disbound (tiny wormhole). The border is by the woodengraver J. Raynaud, one of the best engravers of Toulouse at the time. Verso a long handwritten note in Latin. EUR 175
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MANGIN, A. De l'Usurpation des Titres commerciaux. Paris, Librairie de Cournol, 1863. 63, (1) pp. 8vo. Original printed covers, uncut and unopened. First edition. Deals with the law, discussed in 1863, to modify to a certain extent the Code de Commerce by creating a new commercial enterprise in addition to those already recognized by the law: the société à responsabilité limitée. Those already legally known were: sociétés anonyme, sociétés en commandite, and sociétés en nom collectif. Page 25-end contain the 'pièces justificatives.' - With the stamp 'timbre imperial' on verso title-page and on a number of other pages. EUR 175
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MANUSCRIPT - LINGUET - CONTEMPORARY manuscript of 34 leaves written in a very legible hand, and dealing with the conflict between Linguet and the Duc d'Aiguillon. Folio. Modern boards. Contemporary manuscript by an unknown author and dealing with the way in which Linguet had been treated by the Duc d'Aiguillon after Linguet had defended the Duc in a trial brought against the Duc by the Parlement of Britanny. Linguet claimed that he was not properly rewarded for his legal briefs and work for the Duc, and certainly had not been properly rewarded given the slander he was submitted to by the Duc's enemies at that time. The grievances of Linguet continued for over a decade and the whole thing was finally settled in an enormous and quite public trial in Paris when Linguet triomphed in the courtroom and the Duc d'Aiguillon was ordered to pay Linguet a supplement in legal honorariums of 24,000 livres, in 1787. The present manuscript is a 'Mémoire au Roi' and was probably written around 1775, and is in defense of Linguet. EUR 900
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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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MANUSCRIPT - PARLEMENTS - SUR LE PARLEMENT DE FRANCE. Undated manuscript from the second part of the 18th century. (Between 1750 and 1789). 56 pp. Folio. Disbound. Anonymous study dealing with the various French parlements (Bretagne, Bourgogne, Normandie, Aquitaine, Le Berry, le Vermandois, Lorraine, Champagne, Provence, Angoulême, etc.), from the origin of these institutions up to the middle of the 16th century. Written in a legible hand, with on a number of pages many marginal additions and corrections in a very small, and difficult to read hand. EUR 600
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MANUSCRIPT - SPAIN - RELACION de la manera et forma que tienen en Espana en su justicia civil y criminal. Undated, but almost certainly mid-18th century manuscript of 13 pp. in a very well legible handwriting. Folio. Folded leaves. With a light waterstain in bottom blank inner margins.On civil and criminal law. EUR 350
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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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MARCHANGY, (L.A.F. DE.) Plaidoyer de M. de Marchangy, Avocat-Général à la Cour Royale de Paris; Prononcé le 29 Aout 1822, devant la Cour d'assises de la Seine, dans la Conspiration de la Rochelle. A Paris, Chez Anth. Boucher, et chez les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1822. 241, (1) pp. + booksellers catalogue (Boucher) of 8 pages. 8vo. Sewn in original blind wrappers. First edition. - Somewhat browned throughout, uncut. Marchangy was the government prosecutor at the trial of the four sergeants of La Rochelle. This prosecution was his most famous case: the four sergeants were executed for their part in a Carbonari plot to overthrow the government. The Carbonari or Charbonnerie, a secret revolutionary group opposed to the Bourbon Restoration government, most active from 1821 to 1823. It was started after conspirators who had fled to Italy and had been in contact with the orginal Italian Carbonari, returned to France to found their own Carbonari, in May 1821. The society grew rapidly, merged with another secret revolutionary group, the Knights of Liberty, and had perhaps 50,000 members within two years. The Carbonari were remarkably unsuccesful at revolution. The most famous uprising of this revolutionary group was that of four sergeants of La Rochelle. These unfortunate young soldiers, too open with their comrades about a planned uprising, were executed on 21 September 1822. They could probably have saved themselves by cooperating with the government in tracking down the carbonari leadership. Their silence earned them liberal sainthood. (See: Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the Second Empire, volume i, pp. 152-154.) EUR 350
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MARCHANGY, (L.A.F. DE.) Plaidoyer de M. Marchangy dans la cause entre le sieur Malte-Brun, auteur de la Géographie de toutes les Parties du Monde, et du Précis de la Géographie universelle, et le sieur Dentu, éditeur de la Géographie moderne de Pinkerton, traduite par M. Walckenaer, et publiée en 1804. Questions de plagiat et de contrefaçon, et plainte en calomnie. A Paris, (at end:) Imprimerie de Poulet, 1811. 64 pp. 8vo. Sewn, contemporary blind covers, uncut. First edition. Louis-Antoine-François de Marchangy, lawyer and writer. He rose to fame as both a literary figure and a prominent prosecutor for the Restoration government. His most famous case was his prosecution of the four sergeants of La Rochelle who were executed in 1822 for their part in a Carbonari plot to overthrow the government. His summary for the prosecution lasted five hours and was published as a 196-page book. In numerous other cases, he supported the repressive conservative government against the liberal opposition. EUR 225
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MARITIME LAW - FRISO, JUNIUS B. S. (PSEUD. OF F.A. V.D. KEMP). Verzameling van Staetspapieren tot de Vereenigde Nederlanden betrekkelijk door Junius Brutus Secundus Friso. Te Leiden, Bij L. Herdingh, 1780. (5), 6-8, (1), x-xx, 44 pp. 8vo. Sewn, contemporary paper covers,a bit dog-eared. Knuttel 19390. In the preface the British people are praised for the defense of their freedom as an example for the Dutch. It forms the overture to the legal and political considerations and recommendations of certain Frisian cities to the states of Holland and Friesland on the legitimacy of military protection of Dutch merchant ships (the right of unlimited convoy), the consequences for the relationship with sea-powers France and Britain and notably the risk of a military conflict with the British over property of the VOC and in the Far East. EUR 150
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MARTINS DE COSTA, J. Tratado da forma dos libellos, das allegaçôes judiciaes. Coimbra, 1764. (10), 216 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands (slightlyworn). - Some pages waterstained; most pages browned. EUR 250
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MATTHAEUS, A. De Nobilitate, de Principibus, de Ducibus, de Comitibus, de Baronibus, de Militibus, Equitibus, Ministerialibus, Armigeris, Barscalcis, Marscalcis, Adelscalcis, de Advocatis Ecclesiæ de Comitatu Hollandiæ et Dioecesi Ultraiectina. Libri Quatuor In quibis passim Diplomata & Acta hactenus nondum visa. Amstelodami, & Lugd. Batavor. apud Jansonio-Waesbergios & Felicem Lopez, 1686. Title printed in redand black and with engraved illustrations. 2 parts in one volume. (24), 768 pp.; (56), 769-1151, (1) pp. 4to. Contemporary blind-stamped vellum, sprinkled edges. Brunet 28790; Camus 871; Ahsmann & Feenstra, 381; Dekkers, p. 112, nr 10. First edition. - Small handwritten ownership's entry in blank margin of title reading 'Bibliothecae J. Niefert .....? in Velen, 1810', tiny stamp in blank margin of title, handwritten note about the book on verso preliminary blank. The author, son of Antonius Matthaeus, was professor of law in both Leiden and Utrecht. This is the only edition of this historical treatise on the nobility. EUR 500
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MAUPEOU - PROCES-VERBAL de ce qui s'est passé au Lit de Justice, tenu par le Roi (Louis XV), au Château de Versailles, le samedi 13 avril 1771. Sur l'imprimé de l'Imprimerie royale, Nantes, Imprimerie de Vatar, 1771. (2), 25 pp. 4to. Sewn. Thesuppression of the 'Grand Conseil' during the judicial reforms of Maupeou. EUR 200
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MENGAUD, (A.) Tableau des événemens politiques et militaires, arrivés dans la République Cisalpine depuis une année. Adressé au représentant du peuple Dubois-Dubais, pour être communiqué au Conseil des Anciens. Lu dans la séance du 17 messidor an 7 (5 juillet 1799). (Drop-head title). Paris, Impr. Nationale, (1799). 23, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Martin & Walter 23795. Original edition. The Cisalpine Republic was created by N. Bonaparte with the support of Italian revolutionaries and the principal sister republic in Italy during the French occupation, it served as a model for other French-dominated republics in Italy and, for some Italians, heralded the eventual union of all Italy. The aspirations of Italian radicals however were sacrificed to French interests. The Cisalpine Republic was independant in name only since the French provided its two constitutions and controlled its political life. EUR 175
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MEXICO - MANUSCRIPT reproduction of about 1866, with several contemporary manuscript corrections, containing the conclusion of the Tribunal de Commerce de Paris concerning the indemnities to be paid to Chéron, contractor of public works, and to be paid by Paulon due to the transfer of the project already started to a British company by the name of Smith & Knight. (1866). 26 pp. Small folio. Sewn. Interesting contemporary document concerning the first investments for the construction of a railway from Vera-Cruz to Mexico, and for which Chéron claims reimbursement of 1.031,794 francs with specifications of various investments: salaries paid, instruments bought, direction and assistants in Mexico, costs of travel, etc. EUR 500
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MICHEL DE L'HOSPITAL - (GUIBERT, J.A.H. DE.) Éloge historique de Michel de l'Hospital, chancelier de France. No place, 1777. 125, (1) pp. + 1 errata leaf Small 8vo. Contemporary calf, gilt triple fillet on sides, worn and rubbed, corners bumped. Conlon 77:1055. First edition. This is the first copy we have handled in which an errata-leaf is present. Michel de l'Hospital was a famous and important sixteenth century French stateman. He completed his legal studies in Padua after having been exiled by François I. In Italy he imbided humanistic ideas, especially the belief in absolute government. As a stateman L'Hospital was an exponent of religious toleration and of a unified absolute monarchy and was one of the first men in France to express the politique idea that the welfare of the absolute monarchy should supersede all other interests. As chancellor of France from 1560 to 1568 he endeavored to save the nation from three outstanding problems threathening the monarchy. He tried to end religious controversy by advocating tolerance, he curtailed the powers of the nobles and, finally, he planned to establish a uniform legal code and an organized systems of tribunals.Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte de Guibert (1743-90), military writer. He was one of the most important and influential military writers of the eighteenth century. His most famous work, Essai générale de tactique (1772), established his reputation as a military writer overnight and gave access to the most celebrated salons. Guibert represents an important transition from the Ancien Régime to the age of Napoleon. - Internally a fine and clean copy. EUR 175
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MONTESQUIEU, (CH. L. DE SECONDAT DE.) Oeuvres de Montesquieu avec éloges, analyses, commentaires, remarques, notes, réfutations, imitations; par MM. Destutt de Tracy, Villemain, membres de l'Institut; d'Alembert,Helvétius, Voltaire, Condorcet et Bertolini. A Paris, Chez Dalibon, 1827. 8 volumes. (1), 411 pp.; (4), 483 pp.; (4), 495 pp.; (4), 488 pp.; (4), 475, (1) pp.; (4), 544 pp.; (4), 460 pp.; (4), 464 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt with raised bands, marbled sides, spines somewhat discoloured, spine of volume 3 lightly rubbed. Not in Cabeen, Montesquieu, A bibliography. Very good copy of the 'de luxe' edition of the oeuvres of Montesquieu, with the important volume containing Destutt's commentary on l'Esprit des Lois, still one of the best criticisms ever written. Volume 1: Grandeur des Romains; volumes 2-5 Esprit des Loix; volume 6: Oeuvres diverses; volume 7: Lettres persanes; volume 8: Destutt de Tracy's Commentaire. - Copy with wide margins and printed on heavy paper, some minor imperfections to the binding of some volumes, an uncut and clean copy. EUR 1250
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MORELLET, (A.) Observations sur un article du Journal de Paris, du sextidi 6 floréal, relatif à l'ouvrage intitulé: La Cause des Pères, et réponse du citoyen Morellet aux reproches du représentant Chazal. A Paris, Chez Maret, (1795). 29, (1 blank) pp. 8vo. Sewn, disbound, partly loose. Martin & Walter 25246. After 1789 Morellet became a violent opponent of the revolutionary laws, thus dramatically emphasizing the gap between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. His La Cause des Pères was the work in which he violently opposed some of the new revolutionary laws, and more in particular a 'projet de dècret contre les pères et mères, aïeuls et aïeules d'émigrés, présenté par Chazal, ....' The essence of the mentioned project was the confiscation of wealth and property of émigrés thus depriving the grandparents of the émigrés of income and property too. - Duststained. Morellet's book was reviewed and he here examens the review, answering and refuting criticism and countering reproaches made by the representative Chazal. EUR 275
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MUELLER E. Le Prieure de Saint-Leu d'Esserent. Par l'Abbé Eug. Müller. Cartulaire. Premiere Partie - De 1080 à 1150 (Seconde partie - De 1151 à 1538). Pontoise, Aux Bureaux de la Société Historique, 1900-1901. Two volumes. 210 pp. (continuously paginated) 4to. Original printed wrappers, rear cover of first volume slightly damaged. (Publications de la Société Historique du Vexin). Stein 3468. First edition ? Stein gives: Montdidier, Bellin, same dates, same number of pages. Enclosed with the second volume is a 'carton de 4 pages destiné à remplacer les pages 17 à 20 du premier fascicule ....'The volumes contains the "Chartes I-CICVIII". EUR 175
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NARDIN, L. & J. MAUVEAUX. Histoire des corporations d'arts et métiers des ville et Comté de Montbéliard et des seigneuries en dépendant d'après les papiers inédits de ces sociétés et les archives de la principauté. Paris, H. Champion, 1910. With 1 plate. 2 volumes. 510 pp.; 276 pp. 8vo. Sewn, original printed covers, uncut, unopened. Bourgeois & André 5636. First edition. The first volume deals with 'l'histoire générale et l'histoire particulière des corporations', the second volume contains Règles, statuts & ordonnances. EUR 150
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NOODT, (G.) Du Pouvoir des Souverains, et de la Liberté de Conscience, en deux discours, traduits du Latin de Mr. Noodt, professeur en droit dans l'université de Leide par Jean Barbeyrac. A Amsterdam, Chez Thomas Lombrail, 1707. With engraved frontispiece. xx, 186, (6 publisher's catalogue) pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, somewhat rubbed, spine ends damaged, edges worn. Not in Camus; Ashmann & Feenstra nr. 438; cf. Dekkers, p. 124, 9. First French edition. Noodt was professor of Law succesively in Nijmegen, Franeker, Utrecht and Leiden. As a writer on jurisprudence he acquired a wide, international reputation. Two of his political treatises were translated into French by Jean Barbeyrac. Influenced by Grotius, about whom he lectured extensively, he advocated the importance of natural law. He was also involved with the negotiations that led to the peace of Nijmegen in 1678. Compared to his contemporaries, Noodt didn't publish much, but it was of high quality. His Latin style was modelled after the best writers, and his works soon rose to the rank of standard authority, so that scholars talked of the 'methodus Noodti'.The work had appeared in Latin in Leiden 1699 as the text of his speech when he resigned as principal of Leiden University: Dissertatio de jure summi imperii et lege regia. The first 20 pages contain a preface by Barbeyrac. - Lacks 1 leaf (p. xxi-xxii, divisional title). Rare. EUR 375
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OPTICAL INTRUMENTS - (LOUIS XVI.) Lettres patentes du Roi, portant établissement d'un Corps d'ingénieurs en instruments d'optique, de physique & de mathématique. Données à Versailles le 7 février 1787. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1787. 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Catalogue générale Bibliothèque Nationale. Actes Royaux, 41810. Defining and establishing the rights of the engineers in order to safeguard them from claims from other guilds. EUR 150
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OUDOT, (CH.-F.) Loi sur les biens des détenus, précédée du rapport fait par le représentant du peuple Oudot, au nom des comités de législation, des finances et de sûreté générale. Du 12 Brumaire, an 3 (2 novembre 1794). (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, Imprimerie du dépôt des lois, (1794). 8 pp. 4to. Folded as issued, uncut, unopened. Martin & Walter, iii, 26143 (listing an 8vo edition only). At head of title No 147, in blank margin B.N. 80 D.148 (all printed). EUR 125
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PASSY, L. Le livre des métiers de Gisors au XVIe siècle. Ponthoise, Société historique du Vexin, 1907. vii, 262 pp. 4to. Modern half morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettering, marbled boards, original covers preserved. (Publications de la Société Historique du Vexin). First edition. Contains a 'Glossaire du Livre des Métiers de Gisors' and a 'Table des noms de personnes et des noms de lieux'. EUR 250
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PASTORET, (C.) E. (J.P. DE). Conseil des Cinq-Cents. Motion d'ordre. Séance du 17 pluviôse, an V (5 février 1797). (Drop-head title). A Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale, (1797). 7, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Martin & Walter 26575. The Conseil des Cinq Cents was a lower house of the Legislature established by the Constitution of 1795. Deals with the treatment of the conspirators of Grenelle. After the betrayal of the Babeuf conspiracy, the Jacobins continued to believe that the troops could be subverted (something that Babeuf and his fellow conspirators had always believed) and that believe continued after the betrayal. Ten thousand bored and underpaid troups were encamped at Grenelle, near the Camp de Mars, dreaming enviously of comrades now winning spectecular and glorious victories in Italy, and being paid by their general in plundered coin. Rumours of mutiny among them circulated throughout the summer, and dubious elements were periodically discharged. But when on 9 September several hundred Jacobins marched to Grenelle expecting a dragoon regiment to defect to them, informers in their ranks had already alerted the authorities, and the soldiers charged the marchers with drawn swords. Twenty were cut to pieces, and another thirty of those arrested then or subsequently were shot after military trials. (See: W. Doyle, The Oxford History of the French Revolution, pp. 326-327). EUR 100
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PATRU, (O.) Les oeuvres diverses de Mr. Patru de l'Académie Françoise. Contenant Ses Plaidoyers, Harangues, Lettres, Vies de quelques-uns de ses Amis, & des remarques sur la Langue Françoise, qui n'ont paru que dans cette nouvelle Édition, ainsi que plusieurs Pièces qui ont été trouvées parmi les papiers de l'Auteur après sa mort. Tome Premier [-Tome Second]. A Paris, Chez Sebastien Marbre-Cramoisy, 1692. Titles printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece in both volumes. Two volumes. (20), 523, (3) pp.; (8), 3-453, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, labels to spine, red edges. Camus 1341; Cioranescu 53628-31 (various editions but not this one); Graesse v, p. 170 (various editions but not this one); BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700, P673. Rare edition, not in the mentioned works, and only found at the British Library and Harvard Law. There were earlier editions in 1670 and 1681 making this the third edition. Olivier Patru (1604-81), a lawyer and lexicographer, is best remembered as one of the first polishers and refiners of the French language. He was received into the French Academy in 1640 on instigation of Richelieu (and was the last academic to be elected under the protection of Richelieu), and upon his acceptance he gave a speech so fine that the Academy insisted that every new member henceforth should make such an speech; new members still do to the present day. Patru had a special interest in further elaborating the rules of the language, he took an active part in the editing of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie and worked with Richelet on the famous Dictionnaire françois.He is praised for his eloquence and style: "ses plaidoyers n'offrent presque aucune trace du mauvais gout qui defigurent ceux des avocats de son temps" (Camus).The second volume seems to lack leaf A1: no text is missing however: this may have been a blank. Slightly browned, somewhat heavier in places. EUR 600
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PENN - MARSILLAC, J. La vie de Guillaume Penn, fondateur de la Pensylvanie; premier législateur connu des États-Unis de l'Amérique. Ouvrage contenant l'historique des premiers fondemens de Philadelphie, des loix et de la Constitution des États-Unis de l'Amérique, des principes et actions de la Société des Amis (vulgairemant connus sous le nom de Quakers, etc.) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie du Cercle Social, 1791. 2 volumes. 264 pp.; 294 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt, contrasting labels with gilt lettering, marbled edges, small damage to top of spine. Sabin 44820; Fay 28; Howes M.323; Muller 1201; JFBL M184; Echeverria & Wilkie 791/56; Wilkerson 552. First edition. 'A laudatory biography used as a vehicle for promoting democratic ideas in France' (JFBL).Based almost exclusively on Penn's own writings, from which liberal excerpts are quoted. The appendix gives the text of several documents, including the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776" (Wilkerson). The work includes a description of Philadelphia as well as a printing of the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776. The author, who lived several years in America, was a French military physician who had converted to Quakerism and gave up his commission to become a spokesman for French Quakers. EUR 400
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PEREIRA DE FIGUEIREDO, A. Portuguezes nos Concilios Geraes: Isto he, Relaçao dos Embaixadores, Prelados, e Doutores Portuguezes, que tem assistido nos Concilios geraes do Occidente, desdos Primeiros Lateranenses ate' o novissimo tridentino. Lisboa, Na Officina de Antonio Gomes, 1787. 134, (2, errata, blank), 10 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, small defect to rear cover, small defect to head of spine, sprinkled edges. Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique, xii, 1er partie, col. 1215-1217; Hurter, v, col. 353-354. First edition? Antonio Pereira de Figueiredo (1725-1797) studied with the Jesuits but left them in 1742 and entered the 'Perès de l'Oratoire' in Lisbon and became the theologian of the marquis de Pombal. In many of his works he opposed the authority of Rome and the rights of the Popes. Apparently a scarce book, not listed in the Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique, nor in Hurter or Michaud.The last 10 pages contain: NOVOS retoques aos Portuguezes nos Concilios Geraes, por seu Mesmo Author (Drop-head title). At end: Lisboa, Na Officina de Antonio Gomes, 1788. EUR 450
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PIERQUIN, H. La juridiction du point d'honneur sous l'Ancien Régime et le tribunal des maréchaux de France. Paris, Picard & Fils, 1904. 161 pp. 8vo. Sewn, original printed covers, uncut (Thèse. Faculté de Droit, Université de Paris). EUR 75
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POSTAL SERVICES - (LOUIS XV.) Déclaration du Roy, qui établit des peines contre les emploïés dans les Postes, qui seront convaincus d'avoir décacheté les paquets & lettres pour prendre les effets qui y sont renfermés. Donnée à Versailles le 8 octobre 1742. (Drop-head title). (Rennes, 1742). 4 pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Cf.: Catalogue des Actes Royaux, v, 32267-8 (other editions). - With a waterstain in the margin. EUR 75
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POULTIER, (F.M.) Rapport et projet d'une loi relative aux mines. (Drop-head title). Paris, Impr. nationale, pluviôse an III (1795). 38 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Martin & Walter 28080. Proposes to leave land in the possession of the proprietors on condition that the mining concessions will be exclusively governmental. EUR 100
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PUFENDORF, S. De Jure Naturæ et Gentium, Libri Octo. Cum integris Commentariis Virorum Clarissimorum Jo. Nicolai Hertii, atque Joannis Barbeyraci, Accedit Eris Scandica. Recensuit & Animadversionibus illustravit Gottridus Mascovius. Francofurti & Lipsæ, Ex Officina Knochiana, 1744. With frontispiece, title-vignettes, and titles printed and red and black. 2 volumes. (6, frontispiece, title, 'Privilegium Caesareum'), xxix, (1), 854 pp.; (2), 500, (28), 372, (4) pp. 4to. Contemporary vellum, labels with gilt lettering, very lightly rubbed, rear cover of volume 2 with small damage. Camus 148; Macdonell & Manson, Great Jurists of the World, pp. 305-344. Esteemed and important Frankfurt edition of The law and nature of nations (first published in Lund in 1672) and enlarged with the author's Eris Scandica, (first published in 1686), and with the important notes by Hertius and Barbeyrac. 'Samuel von Pufendorf (1632-1694), German jurist, statesman and historian. Pufendorf, leaning on Hobbes, was a representative of the natural law school of international law. Whereas Grotius had distinguished between natural and positive law of nations, Pufendorf considered all international law as a part of natural law. He could not conceive of any real international law arising from the customs and treaties of the nations. This view, although long abandoned by legal science, is historically important for its contribution to the development of general principles of jurisprudence' (Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences). By introducing the ideas of Grotius and Hobbes into German thought he made their ideas really effective for the first time. The translator's notes are of value and gave the translation its esteemed reputation.'Samuel Pufendorf, in his great systematic treatise on natural and international law, began by taking exception to Grotius's opinion that morals and mathematics are not equally certain. Nor was this ideal of demonstration confined to law and politics. It was extended to all branches of social study, producing the systems of natural religion and rational ethics that prevailed throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Finally, it produced the systems of natural economy that continued to pass as economic science well into the nineteenth century. It would be impossible to exaggerate the importance that these conceptions had in the early modern development of social studies' (George H. Sabine, A History of Political Theory, pp. 395 ff).The Eris Scandica is a collection of polemical pieces, and covers the last 376 pages in volume 2, with a separate title-page. It was written in answer to the violent attacks on the present work in Sweden and Germany on the ground of its divorcing natural law from theology. - Browned throughout, paste-downs partially or entirely loose. EUR 1500
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PUFENDORF, S. VON. De rebus gestis Friderici Wilhelmi Magni, Electoris Brandenburgici, Commentariorum libri Novendecim. Berlin, for Jeremias Schrey & Heirs of Heinrich-Johann Meyer, 1695. With fine engraved frontispieceand dito portrait by S. Blesendorff. (12), 1634, (82) pp. Folio. Later overlapping vellum. First edition. 'Unter seinen Geschichtwerken ist die Biographie des Großen Kurfürsten wohl das bedeutendste, sie hat eine Erneuerung der historischen Methode in Deutschland eingeleitet.' (Kleinheyer & Schröder, Deutsche Juristen aus fünf Jahrhunderten, 3.Auflage, p. 224). This is a very valuable history of the reign, as well as a monumental biography, of Frederick Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg, under whose rule Prussia recovered greatly from the devastation of the Thirty Years War. Samuel von Pufendorf, German jurist, statesman and historian. His historical works are numerous and the present one belongs to the most important of these works. Not only are they based on a thorough use of the archives, but they also set forth a view of events marked by great vision and keen political insight. EUR 1200
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QUADRUPLE ALLIANCE - TRAITE entre le Roy (Louis XV), l'Empereur et le Roy de la Grande Bretagne, pour la pacification de l'Europe. Conclu à Londres le 2 d'août 1718. A Paris, Chez François Fournier, 1719. 112 pp. 4to. Disbound. Cf.: Knuttel, iv, 16421 (edition published in The Hague). First edition of this important treaty which provoked the shifting of the balance of power that would follow. It united for some time France with Austria and Great Britain. EUR 225
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REBENAC, (FR. DE PAS) DE. Harangue faite à N.S. Père le Pape, par Monsieur de Rebenac, envoyé extraordinaire de France. (Drop-head title). No place, (1691). 7, (1 blank) pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Not in Bourgeos & André. At end: 'Imprimé avec Permission de Mrs les Jurats' which supposes printing in or around Bordeaux.Text in which the author expresses on behalf of the French King concerns about the fact that the "Maison d'Autiche" (House of Austria, i.e. Habsburg) is apparently more interested in combatting the Catholics in England and the Calvinists in France, and establishing its influence in Italy than curbing the rising strength of the Ottoman empire.- Equally and lightly browned throughout. EUR 125
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REGNAULD D'EPERCY, (P.I.) Rapport des Comités réunis de Constitution, d'Agriculture et de Commerce, des Finances, des Impositions et des Domaines. Paris, Impr. nationale, 1791. (2), 53 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Kress S. 5353 (lacks title); not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Stourm; Martin & Walter 28886. Important report concerning the mines, in which the foundation is laid for the actual legislation: mines are such a national interest that they should be explored by the state and not by private enterprise. Contains a reference to Turgot (p. 14). EUR 225
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RENUSSON, P. DE. Traitez du Douaire, et de la Garde-Noble et Bourgeoisie, qu'on appelle Bail en plusieurs Coustumes. A Paris, Par la Compagnie des Libraires, 1724. (10), 343, (13), (8), 230, 12 pp. 4to. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, all edges red, top of spine slightly damaged, a few spots to the binding, upper extremities with small damage. Camus 1527 (1743 edition). First published in 1699. The 'Douaire' is described in Marion as 'Jouissance accordée à la femme survivant à son mari d'une parti des biens de celui-ci. Le douaire était stipulé avant le mariage. Il était surtout constitué en immeubles.' Renusson was a learned lawyer and his works have been reprinted and used well into the late 18th century and are still worthwhile consulting according to Michaud. - Some scattered and unobtrusive browning, the first 30 pages with a wormtrack in lower blank margin. EUR 750
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ROBERT, A. Quatre livres des arrests et choses jugées par la Cour. Oeuvre composée en Latin. Mis en François par I. Tournet, avec plusieurs additions de l'auteur. Cinquième et dernière édition, reveuë, corrigée et augmentée de quinze célèbres arrests et plaidoyez totables du mesme autheur, extraicts des audiences. Rouen, Estienne Vereul, 1642. Engraved vignette on title. (16), 630, (78), 2 (blank), 72 (misnumbered 74) pp. 4to. Contemporary calf, gilt double fillet on sides, spine gilt with raised bands, upper joint somewhat split at foot. Cf.: Camus 1308; Gavet p. 300; not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700. The original Latin edition appeared in 1599. This is the best French edition. The author was murdered during the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew. He was lawyer at the Parlement of Paris. One of his pleas deals with: 'a diversité du prix des monnoyes et scavoir si en cas de payement il faut suivre le prix et la valeur des espèces telles qu'elles estoient au temps du contract.' - Large paper copy from the library of Louis François Neel, with engraved bookplate. EUR 800
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ROBESPIERRE - PIECES trouvées dans les papiers de Robespierre et complices; imprimées en exécution du décret du 3 vendémiaire (23 septembre). Affaire Chabot. Faction Proly. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale, Brumaire, l'an III (1794). 99, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 13968. Original edition. Supplement to the Courtois report, printed in a limited number of copies. EUR 250
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RODOCANACHI, E. Les corporations ouvrières à Rome depuis la chute de l'Empire romain. Paris, A. Picard & Fils, 1894. With coloured frontispiece and 1 plate of seals. 2 volumes. cx, 478 pp.; 470 pp. Royal 4to. Original boards, a bit rubbed and worn, lightly damaged at head and foot of spine, uncut. Original edition of this important study of the corporations between the Middle Ages upto and including the nineteenth century. The general introduction of 110 pages is followed by a history, statutes and bibliography of each corporation. The corporations have been divided into groups: agriculture, alimentation, commerce du vin, fourniture ménagères, industrie du batiment, commerce et transport, fabrication des tissus et habillement, industries de luxe, arts libéraux, diverses. - Copy inscribed by the author for J. Monod. EUR 500
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ROLLAND, P. Deux tarifs du tonlieu de Tournai des 12e et 13e siècles (avec leurs traductions en dialecte Picard du 15e siècle). Lille, Emile Raoust, 1935. With 1 plate. 135, (1) pp. 8vo. Sewn in original printed covers, nice uncut copy (Mémoires de la Société d'histoire du Droit des Pays Flamands, Picards et Wallons, 1). 'Droit seigneurial, analogue au droit de plaçage, et dù pour les places occupées par les marchandises mises en vente dans les foires et marchés' (Marion, Dictionnaire des Institutions de la France, p. 537). EUR 75
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SAINT-JUST, (A.L.L.) Discours prononcé le 26 décembre (1792) à la Convention nationale, sur Louis XVI, par le citoyen Saint-Just, Député du Département de l'Aisne; ...... (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Troyes, Chez la veuve Gobelet, (1792). 12 pp. 4to. Folded leaves, loose, disbound. Martin & Walter 30702. Dealing with the trial against Louis XVI and the attempts by the Girondins to gain time. Against those who Saint-Just calls the defenders of the King, with the famous phrase: "If he [the king] is innocent, the people is quilty." EUR 150
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SAINTE-CROIX, G. E. J. GUILHEM DE CLERMONT-LODEVE, BARON DE. De l'état et du sort des colonies des anciens peuples. Ouvrage dans lequel on traite du gouvernement des anciennes républiques, de leur droit public, &c. avec des observations sur les colonies des Nations modernes, & la conduite des Anglois en Amérique. Philadelphie, 1779. xiv, 336 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt fillet on sides, warped. INED 4042; JFBL S-62; Kress B.229; Goldsmiths 11784.1; not in Einaudi; Echeverria/Wilkie 779/94; Sabin 75529. First edition, second issue. Guillaume-Emmanuel-Joseph Guilhem de Clermont-Lodève, Baron de Sainte- Croix, born Mourmoiron 1746, died in Paris 1809. After a trip to St. Domingo, with his uncle who died there because of battle injuries, and some years in the French Army, Sainte-Croix devoted himself to historical studies. In this work he deals with ancient commercial empires and compares them with eighteenth century imperialism, chiefly by the British in North America. An anti-British, pro-U.S. work that includes a section entitled: 'Observations sur les colonies des nations modernes & sur la conduite des Anglois dans l'Amérique Septentrionale' (Echeverria & Wilkie). - Some unobtrusive scattered browning. EUR 600
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SALVANDY, N.A. DE. Explication de la nouvelle loi sur les colléges électoraux et les jurys, adressée à tous les électeurs de France. (Drop-head title). (Paris), (at end:) Le Normant Fils, imprimeur du Roi, (ab. 1827) 16 pp. 8vo. Sewn, disbound. At head of title: 'Les amis de la liberté de la presse.'The Société des Amis de la Liberté de la Presse appeared briefly during the electoral campaign of 1827 when François-René Chateaubriand rallied Ultra and moderate royalists opposed to the Villèle government to protest censorship of the press and to elect deputies to the Chamber who would abolish censorship laws. Chateaubriand had become a dangerous opponent of the Villéle government in June 1824 when the celebrated writer had been unceremoniously dismissed from his post as minister of foreign affairs. The ordinances of 24 June 1827, which reimposed censorship on the periodical press, provided Chateaubriand with an opportunity for political revenge that he eagerly seized. Chateaubriand's society, probably never more than an informal grouping, formed early in June and included royalists, doctrinaires, and some members of the Center Left opposition that a common opposition, often personal, to the Villèle government, outrage at the reimposition of censorship, and admiration of Chateaubriand temporarily united in 1827. Meetings of the society brought together such figures as Prosper de Barante, the duc de Choiseul, the comte de Montalivet and the baron Hyde de Neuville, journalists like Alexis de Jussieu and Louis-François Bertin de Vaux and ambitious young intellectuals as de Salvandy and Villemain. Along with the more famous and influential society 'Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera', the 'Amis' had an impact on the electoral campaign of 1827. Indirect testimony to the government's fear of the society's effectiveness lies in the policies adopted by the postal service. Because it could not be relied upon to deliver political pamphlets to provincial cities and towns, trusted friends of the society had to carry many works personally. (See: Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the Second Empire). EUR 175
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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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SCHIRACH, (G.B. VON.) Mémoires pour servir à la Connoissance de l'État Actuel du Royaume de Danemarck. Traduits de l'Allemand de Mr. de Schirach & enrichis de plusieurs additions & corrections de l'Auteur même. No place, 1785. 183, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands, morocco label with gilt lettering, joints starting to split, small damage to head and foot of spine, a bit bumped. Conlon 85:1850; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. Apparently very rare: only one copy recorded in NUC (Yale). First French edition of this interesting economic analysis of the economic and demographic situation in Denmark. Deals in particular with the policy and legal proclamations by which foreigners could obtain the full rights just as every Danish citizen, the so-called 'droit d'indigenat'. Copy from the library of the Abbé Morellet, with his bookplate. André Morellet was an economist and miscellaneous writer and philosophe. He became a disciple of Gournay and in his writings, which chiefly proposed the liberation of commerce and industry, he mainly upheld the ideas of Gournay including his reservations with regard to Physiocracy. EUR 1500
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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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SCHOTT, A.F. Res, quae functionem recipiunt, definit et orationem sollemnem muneris professoris auspicandi caussa. Leipzig, J.F. Langenhemius, 1767. 16 pp. 4to. Disbound, with a small paper backstrip. EUR 175
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SELDEN, J. Mare clausem seu de Dominio Maris Libri Duo. Primo, Mare, ex Jure Naturae seu Gentium, omnium hominum non esse Commune, sed Dominii privati seu Proprietatis capax, pariter acTellurem, esse demonstratur. Secundo, Serenissimum Magnae Britanniae Regem Maris circumflui, ut individuae atque perpetuae Imperii Britannici appendicis, Dominum esse, asseritur. London, Excudebat Will Stanesbeius, pro Richardo Meighen, 1635. With 2 maps in the text and 6 illustrations in the text. (26), 304, (14) pp. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, rebacked, somewhat rubbed and worn, joints cracking and weak but still holding. Ter Meulen & Diermanse, Ecrits sur Grotius, 55; Pollard & Redgrave, STC, 22175. First edition. The famous refutation of Grotius' plea for open and free seas. Selden puts forth that the sea might in fact be controlled by a nation with the exclusion of others. Selden (1548-1654) was a famous English lawyer, and of great erudition. The work was composed around 1618 put not published for political reasons. After re-working the text it was finally published in 1635 on order of Charles I. Complete with the errata leaf. - Some very light browning, but a sound and crisp copy, with generous margins, contemporary handwritten notes on front paste-down, bookplate of Rev. Joshua Rowley on front paste-down, another bookplate on verso of title-page, library stamp on first leaf with a stamp "Duplicate for sale 1769". EUR 3000
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SELDEN, J. Uxor Ebraica, seu de nuptiis et divortis ex jure civili, id est, Divino & Talmudico, Veterum Ebraeorum, libri tres, eiusdem de Successionibus ad leges Ebraeorum in bona defunctorum. Liber singularis: in pontificatum, libri duo. Editio nova. Francofurti ad Oderam (Frankfurt a.d. Oder), Andreas Becman for Jeremiah Schrey, 1673. Title printed in red and black and with a beautiful additional portrait of Selden. Two parts in one volume. (4), 464 (misnumbered 456), (14) pp; (22), 248, (8) pp. 4to. 19th-century half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt (a bit faded) with red label and gilt lettering, corners (a bit bumped). Lowndes, iv, 1635; Brunet, vi, 29075; Camus 409. Second enlarged edition (first edition published in 1646), edited by Johann Christian Beckmann. - Small library stamp in blank margin of title-page and verso last leaf. A learned exposition of rabbinical law relating to marriage and divorce. Appended in this edition are the previously published 'De Successionibus in bona defunctorom ad leges Ebraeorum' (1631) and 'De Successione in Pontificatum Ebraeorum' (1636).John Selden (1584-1654) was one of the foremost jurists and oriental scholars of his day and the author of the famous 'Die Syris' and 'Uxor Ebraica'. He acquired a considerable reputation for his knowledge of rabbinical literature and his scholarly researches in oriental learning. In the pursuit of these studies he amassed a substantial collection of manuscripts and printed books, particularly rich in Hebrew and Arabic works, most of which passed to the Bodleian Library after his death.The beautiful added portrait of John Selden was engraved by Johann Christoph Böcklin, copper engraver in Leipzig. EUR 1200
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SITTLER, L. Un seigneur alsacien de la fin du Moyen Age, Maximin ou Smassmann Ier de Ribeaupierre, 1398-1451. Strasbourg, Heitz & Cie., 1933. With 3 maps. 16, 262 pp. 8vo. Sewn in original printed covers, loose in quires, entirely prepared for stiching which, however, never happened, the cover is undamaged (Collection d'études sur l'histoire du droit et des institutions de l'Alsace, 9). EUR 150
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STRACCHA, B. Tractatus De Mercatura, seu Mercatore, ..... Huc accessit Petri Santernae Lusitani Tractatus, de Sponsionibus & Assecurationibus mercatorum. Alios praeterea Tractatus aliundeexcerptos, unum videlicet D. Ioan Nider, De contractu mercaturae: alterum D. Bald. de Ubald. Perusini, de Constituto, in Iureconsultorum gratiam adiunximus, duoque D. Roberici Suarez Consilia, de Usu maris, & mercibus super illo transuehendis, Cum Indice rerum singularium locupletissimo. Lugduni, Apud Sebastianum Honoratis, 1558. With woodcut device and figurated initials. 635, 82 pp. + colophon leaf, reading Lugduni, excudebat Iacobus Forus. 8vo. Contemporary supple wrinkled vellum, handwritten title to spine, a bit spotted and spine a bit browned. Ars Mercatoria S31.4; BMSTC (French), p. 409; not in Einaudi (5491 for the first edition); Kress, IEL, 31 and Kress 77; Goldsmiths 69.1; not in Camus, Bibliothèque de droit, (other edition cf. nr. 2169); Adams S.1911; Baudrier, Bibliographie Lyonnaise, iv, p. 174. Classic of commercial and maritime law. It includes a lengthy section on bankruptcy and maritime law and was first published in 1553, followed by editions in 1555 and 1556. The additional work by the Portugese author Santerna appears here for the first time as part of the work by Straccha (according to Kress, Italian Economic Litertaure). The work covers the pages 481-569, with separate title-page, followed by the work by Nider (pp. 570-609), Ubaldis (pp. 610-618) and finally Suarez (pp. 619-635). - Some scribbling onto title-page in blank margins, at foot of title-page, in the blank margin a contemporary handwritten ownership's entry. The author, Benvenuto Straccha (1509-1578), was the first to present, in the present work, a systematic exposition of commercial law, which he was the first to view as distinct from civil law, and to examine it from the practical standpoint. It deals with commerce in general, the merchant class, mercantile contracts, maritime law, bankruptcy and mercantile practice.Benvenuto Stracca (or Straccha) was an Italian humanist jurist. Stracca's work is distinguished by the care with which he studies the practical arguments which are disregarded by the other jurists of his period and by the absence of the scholastic categories and formulae so much in vogue at the time. Previously commercial law had been studied only with regard to individual cases, as part of civil and canon law. It was Stracca's distinctive merit to have been the first to present a systematic exposition of commercial law as a complex of norms separate from the other branches of the law and to have carried it out from both the practical and the legal aspect. 'His work contains information of interest to economists. He shows the usefulness of trade and navigation; discusses the restrictions on certain branches of trade, and expresses comparatively moderate opinions on the theory of usury' (Palgrave). The present work is his first and most significant work in the field of commercial law.The text by Santerna deals with maritime insurance of commercial transports and was originally published in Venice in 1552. The present edition of the Mercatura is the first to include all these additonal treatises on similar subjects. EUR 4000
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STRASBOURG - WIR DER MEISTER und Rath samt unsern Freunden den beständigen Räthen thus hiermit Jedermann kund und zu wissen, dass ..... die Ammlungmacher hauptsächlichen angewiesen sind "zur Fabrizirung der Ammlung nur Kleyen, Gerstengrätze, Siebmehl und den Abfall von den Mehl, welches die Becker brauchen, anzuwenden ....." (First part of text, headed by coat of arms). (At end) Strassburg, den 2ten Novembris 1789. 1 page. Folio. Folded, disbound. Signed: Ex mandato, Trombert, Secret.Regulating the ingredients and raw materials to be used in bakeries. EUR 75
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STRUPP, K. Bibliographie du Droit des Gens et des Relations internationales. Leyde, A.W. Sijthoff, 1938 (Reprint 1976). xvii, (3), 521, (1) pp. Large 8vo. Original publisher's cloth. Covers the period 1933 upto and including 1936: books, journals, separate articles, etc. etc. Valuable tool. EUR 225
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TAILLIAR, M. De l'affranchissement des communes dans le nord de la France et des avantages qui en sont résultés. Cambrai, 1837. xii, 397, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half cloth, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine.Sections on: Du développement des institutions communales en Flandre, et de la combinaison des divers principes dont elles procédent. - De la constitution intérieure des communes, et de l'organisation des pouvoirs communaux. Entirely devoted to the Middle Ages. EUR 250
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TARGET, (G.J.B.) Les Etats-Généraux convoqués par Louis XVI. (Suite et 2e suite.) (Drop-head title.) No place, (1789). - (Bound with:) TARGET, (G.J.B.) Projet de déclaration des droits de l'homme en société. (Drop-head title). (Versailles, 1789). - (Bound with:) TARGET, (G.J.B.) Rapport fait au nom du Comité de constitution. (Drop-head title). Paris, Baudouin, 1789. - (Bound with:) TARGET, (G.J.B.) Rapport fait au nom du Comité de constitution à la séance du 31 mars 1790. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1790). 6 volumes in 1. 75 pp.; 41 pp.; 62 pp.; 7 pp.; 8 pp.; 16 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Martin & Walter 32253, 32259, 32260, 32263, 32264, 32265. Among others against any form of rights of veto.Guy-Jean-Baptiste Target (1733-1806), lawyer and jurisconsult. Was received as avocat before the Parlement of Paris in 1752, and over the next thirty-five years earned a reputation as the foremost legal expert at the Parisian bar. Target was one of the prime movers in the Revolutionary national patriot party in 1788-1789. He contributed notably to the Constituent Assembly's legal, constitutional and administrative reforms. With the institution of the new judiciary in Revolutionary France, Target entered the magistracy, becoming judge and later president of one of the capital's civil tribunals. He helped prepare the Civil and Criminal Codes under Napoleon. Target's lifelong stature in legal affairs was reflected in his election to the Académie Française in 1785 and his later appointment to the Institut national. (Scott & Rothaus, Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, ii, 936). EUR 475
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THOMAS PAINE - GREIS, JOHN Republik oder Monarchie? Beantwortet durch Thomas Paine's 'Gesunder Menschenverstand' und 'Menschenrechte'. Nach den Originalquellen bearbeitet von John Greis. Hamburg, Hoffmann und Campe, 1848. viii, 119, (1) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary half calf, corners, marbled boards, gilt stamped title on spine (slightly rubbed). Not in Stephans, Gimbel Paine Collection. Rare first edition. The preface (dated New York, October 1847) of this work consists almost entirely of a citation by Paine, where he states his critical position towards monarchy: ' ... der ganzen Hölle der Monarchie habe ich den Krieg erklärt.' The first chapter is a compilation of texts from the two most important works by Paine. The second chapter is entitled 'Aphorismen', and the subsections are headed: 'Die Amerikanische Revolution', 'Die Einheit des Menschen', 'Kirche und Staat', 'Religion', 'Sclaverei', 'Credit und Geld', 'Stimmrecht' a.o. The selection is made from several works by Paine. Pp. 103-119 contain a short biography: 'Biographie Thomas Paine's'. On the author or his work hardly any information could be found. He seems to have published in the same year a guide for German emigrants to North-America. The year of publication is remarkable. Whereas the French revolution had only affected the cultural elite in Germany, truly political revolutionary events happened all over Germany in March 1848. The king of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm IV was forced by the revolts to establish a sort of parlement, a liberal democratic government and a constitution, assets that were annihilated in November 1848 by the King in a counter-revolution. Paine's statements like: 'Jeder mann hat ein Recht auf eine Stimme und keiner auf mehr... und wer ist er der einen andern ausschliessen möchte?' could have had at least as great a revolutionary alloy in Germany in these days as they had had in Paine's lifetime. But we could not trace any information on the role of this work in history, nor could it be found in the usual bibliographies. Though the work does not appear in Stephans, Gimbel Paine Collection it is present in the library of the American Philosophical Society. EUR 750
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THOMAS, E. Recherches Historiques sur les Droits du Roi aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Paris, E. Dentu, no date (ab. 1895). (2), 162, (2) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary half hard-grained morocco, marbled boards, raised bands with gilt lettering (very lightly rubbed at extremeties). First edition. - Uncut and partially unopened, printed on 'vergé'. Deals with the taxes to be collected on trade and manufactures: 'des droits de sortie et d'entrée, des droits d'acquits de paiement et à caution, et des certificats de descente, De la marque des toiles et autres étoffes dans les frontières des provinces de l'étendue de la ferme'; etc.In the 17th and 18th century France was divided into three different areas where different tax-regimes operated and which had different trading rights: the area called the Cinq grosses fermes, the Provinces étrangères, and the Pays étrangers. EUR 150
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TOBACCO - LOI concernant le tabac. Du 29 Floréal an X de la République française, une & indivisible. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie du Dépôt des Lois, (1802). 7, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound, margins a bit frayed. Not in Martin & Walter. Droits d'entrée. - Droit de fabrication. - Motifs exposés au Corps législatif. EUR 75
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TOULOUSE - RECUEIL des Actes, Mémoires et Arrêts du Conseil privé du Roy. Concernant ce qui s'est passé dans la Ville de Toulouse, entre le Corps des Marchands & le Sindic & Capitouls de la même Ville: Au sujet des Impositions depuis 1550 jusques en 1715. No place, 1715. 83, (5) pp. 4to. Modern half vellum, marbled boards, spine with label with gilt lettering. 'C'est l'unique dessein que l'on s'est proposé dans ce Recueil, où l'on verra tous les mouvemens que le Corps s'est donné pour parvenir à la suppression des Industries qui ont longtems ravagé la Ville de Toulouse, & dont le Corps des Marchands & celui des Artisans se trouvoint accablés, & pour prevenir par une voye suere & facile la disete des grains en rendant libre les Entrées qui mettoint un obstacle à cette espece de Commerce' (page 4).Toulouse, the major city in southwestern France, the capital of the Languedoc was a classic Old Regime city: the parlement and the church dominated a very traditional local elite. The city was administered by eight capitouls, whose offices conferred noble status. Noble estates of the region produced grain for much of the Midi, and aristocratic social and political life in town completely overshadowed a relatively feeble bourgeoisie. Commercial and manufacturing interests were minor compared to their counterparts in Bordeaux, Nantes, Marseille, or even nearby Montpellier. - First three leaves with a faint dampstain in the upper blank margin. EUR 750
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TRONJOLLY DE NANTES, PH. Autograph Letter Signed of 1 page, dated 28 May 1788, to accompany the manuscript (3 pp) of the 'Requisitoire des avocats du Roy en la senechaussée et siège présidial de Rennes, prononcée en l'audience du 20 mai 1788 par M. Phelippe de Tronjolly, premier avocat de Sa Majesté (Louis XVI.)' 1, (3 blank) and 3, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. The entrance to the Court of Justice is closed even for the magistrates, hence the course of justice has been blocked. Maybe at this moment soldiers violate the sanctuary to force registration of edicts not accepted by the parliament in freedom.Tronjolly de Nantes was brought before the Tribunal Révolutionnaire in 1794 and denounced Jean-Baptiste Carrier, who was then executed by the guillotine on 16 December 1794. EUR 400
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TROTZ, CH.H. Jus Agrarium Foederati Belgii. Franeker, 1751-1754. 3 volumes. (12), iii-xx, (10), 683, (1) pp.; (4), 672, (106) pp.; (4), 603, (1), (54) pp. 4to. Contemporary half calf, corners, marbled boards, spines gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering, somewhat rubbed, extremities shaved, two joints with some loss of calf, but in all a decent copy. Kress S.3904; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Ahsmann 355; Dekker, Bibliotheca Belgica Juridica, p. 172, nr 8. First edition. This is the most important work by Trotz. He was born in Kolberg (Germany) in 1703, studied in Halle, Leipzig, Marburg and Utrecht, where he became 'doctor juris' in 1730. He became professor at the University of Franeker in 1741. These three volumes are the fruit of the public disputes he presided over in Franeker. It is still an important historical work of which the first two volumes deal with local law and the third with Roman law. His contributions to public and constitutional law are of great value and importance.The third volume is entitled: 'Jus Agrarium Romanum.' The first volume contains, after the title-page: Dedication (Regiae Magnae Britanniae Principi ...), 5 leaves; Adlocutio ad Studiosos Juris, pp. iii-xx (possibly lacking a divisional title); one leaf entitled 'Nomina Eorum, Qui huic Disputationum Collegio Subscripserunt, ut aetatem ferant, hic subjicere placuit', containing twenty names and the same leaf with the same title again, now with 22 names; followed by JCto Clarissomo Viro Celeberrimo, Christ. Henr. Trotz ..... of three leaves and one leaf contaning recto 'Conspectus Dissertationum et Capitum' and verso Corrigenda.- A very large paper copy. EUR 1250
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USURY - ARREST de la cour de Parlement, qui condamne Jacques Boulleau, Claude Vidy, Nicolas Naudin & Jeanne Lepage, femme de Jacques Filion, au carcan et au bannissement pour neuf ans, pour usures. Condamne pareillement François-Jean-Laurent Bedanne, Marie Rousseau, Marie-Catherine Faucamberge, femme de Pierre Godefroy, Jean Bouin, Françoise Anseau, femme de François Foenix, à faire amende honorable, & au bannissement de neuf ans, aussi pour usures. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1777. 26 pp. 4to. Disbound. This arrest sums up all the ordinances condemming usury since the Capitulaire de Charlemagne of the year 789, and exposes in detail the facts which have motivated the comdemnations. EUR 150
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VOGEL, B. Die privatrechtliche Stellung der Taubstummen und Blinden. Zürich, Zürcher & Furrer, 1912. With bibliography. 78 pp. 8vo. Sewn in original printed covers, slightly soiled (Thesis. University of Zürich.) From the contents: I. Statistik, Begriff, Verkehr mit den Aussenwelt, handlungsfähigkeit. II. A. Normen zum Schutze der Blinden und Taubstummen selber; B. Normen zum Schutze der Taubstummen und blinden gegen die Aussenwelt.; C. Normen zum Schutze der Taubstummen und blinden selber und vor der Aussenwelt. D. Normen, die einen Schutz sowohl der Blinden und Taubstummen selber, als einen solchen der Aussenwelt vor diesen in sich schliessen EUR 100
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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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VULCANIZATION OF RUBBER - COLLECTION of 4 pieces concerning the conflict between Goodyear and Aubert & Girard concerning the monopoly on the invention of vulcanization of rubber, which became of such an importance for the industry of bicycles, motorcars and airplanes. Paris 1855-56. 3 printed brochures and one number of the Feuille Officielle d'Annonces Légales. Contains: 1. PLAIDOIRIE de Me Marie (recueillie par la sténographie) pour MM. Aubert & Girard, contre M. Goodyear. Paris, Imprimerie centrale de Napoléon Chaix et Cie., 1855. 4to. 96 pp. Sewn, original printed covers. - 2. REPONSE aux consultations et adhésions produites par M. Goodyear. (Drop-head title). Signed at end: 7 avril 1855. Marie, ancien bâtonnier. (At end:) (Paris), Imprimerie centrale de Napoléon Chaix et Cie. 4to. 24 pp. Sewn. - 3. DROIT, LE. Journal des Tribunaux, de la Jurisprudence, des Débats judiciaires et de la Législation. Number of 4 april 1855, containing an extensive report on the Goodyear-Aubert & Girard case. Large folio, folded. - 4. BREVETS DE GOODYEAR. Vulcanisation du caoutchouc. Mémoire à consulter, Consultations, Plaidoirie de Me Et. Blanc, Jugement. Paris, Imprimerie Bénard et Compagnie, 1855. 94 pp. 8vo. Sewn, original printed covers. On April 24, 1855 the 'Tribunal correctionnel de la Seine' fully acknowledged the rights of Goodyear, in spite of the rather anti-American vein of the French opponents, with which they apparently tried to influence the judge. EUR 300
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WILDIERS P. & M. CAETHOVEN. Manuel pratique des assurances maritimes. Marchandises - corps - Police d 'assurance Maritime d'Anvers de 1859. Police du Lloyd's. - Clubs. Réassurance. - Avarie Commune. Préface de M. Frédéric Sohr. Antwerp, Éditions Lloyd Anversois, (1936). 341 pp. Large 8vo. Sewn, with later textile rebinding ofspine. Rare first edition of this long time standard handbook on maritime insurance, which won the prestigious Prix Français Genicot in 1938 and went quickly out of print. Because of the war it appeared not until 1947 in a greatly revised second edition and a third in 1964. EUR 250
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ZACCHIA, L. De Salario, seu operariorum mercede Tractatus in tres partes distinctus, In quo quaestiones omnes, tàm ad Theoricam, quàm ad Praxim pertinentes proponuntur, pertractantur, resoluuntur, ..... Cum Duplici Indice. Romae, Ex Typographia Nicolai Tinassi, 1658. - (Bound with:) ZACCHIA, L. Centuria Decisionum Ad Materiam Tractatus De Salario, et Operariorum Mercede. Venetiis, Apud Turrinum, 1664. Title-page of the first work printed in red and black, both title-pages with a large woodcut vignette. Two works in one volume. (100), 404 (misnumbered 406) pp.; (76), 180 pp. Folio. Later half calf, spine with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, marbled boards, three vellum corners (vellum on one corner gone). Vinciana 1161 for the 1679 edition which was the first collected edition of these two works, these two separate original editions lack; Einaudi 6102 also the 1679 edition; Kress S.1150, first work only, second work not in Kress; Goldsmiths 1425, first work only, the second not in Goldsmiths; both not in Camus. Scarce first edition of both works. Lanfranco Zacchia was an Emilian jurist and the author of a Latin treatise (the present one) on wages which deserves mention for the rarity of the consideration of that subject in the days when he wrote. Zacchia distinguishes different forms of wages which he regards as the reward for any description of work. Wages are fixed by the monarch or the law, by custom or contract, and failing these, by a judge, who in fixing them should take account of the ability of the workman, the quality of his work, and the price of food. He also studies the judicial effects on wages of alterations in the value of money. The work deals with the subject in 110 questions or problems, both practical and theoretical, and treating numerous professions and sorts of work. Zacchia also deals, in various places, with the problem of usury.The second work deals with the decisions taken by the Rota, after the title-page there is the "Index Decisionum S. Rotae Romanae Tractatui de Salario seu Operariorum Mercede Annexarum" followed by the "Index Argumentorum Harum decisionum" and followed by the third index, the "Index Locupletissimus Harum decisionum, Alphabetica serie digestus".Both works printed in two columns per page.The woodcut on the first title-page shows the Madonna with Jesus while two angels place a crown on the Madonna's head. - Somewhat browned, somewhat heavier in places. EUR 3500
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