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LITERATURA sotsial' no-revolyutsionnoi partii 'Narodnoi Voli'. (Paris), 1905. (2), ii, 978 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, spine in compartments andwith gilt lettering, original covers preserved. Zaleski 1772. Reprint of the complete sets of the journals 'Narodnaya Volja' (1879-1885), 'Listok Narodnoi Voli' (1880-1881) and 'Rabochaya Gazeta' (1880-1881), edited by V. Bazilevsky. Includes documents (programs), proclamations and other material published by these journals. The journal of the radical political group 'Narodnaya Volya' (People's Will), a group of radical revolutionaries which broke away from the 'Zemlya i Volya' (Land and Liberty) at a famous meeting. The Narodnaya repesented those who were convinced that efforts to promote an economic revolution, which had formed the basis of the 'to the people' movement, were useless unless political liberty was first attained; hence, they addressed themselves directly to the task of wringing from the government by force and threats concessions which would allow the people of Russia to participate in the work of the government. This program made a wide appeal, outside the ranks of the revolutionaries themselves, to a large body of the public.The Rabochaya Gazeta (Workers' Gazette) was produced by a group of about thirty students capable of spreading propaganda through speeches and leaflets among the working classes. It was written in a deliberately simple and popular style and contained stories with a social background, descriptions of the difficulties of the working class life, vivid accounts of the unemployment, dismissals, fines and reduced wages in various factories in St Petersburg.See: F. Venturi, Roots of Revolution, with an elaborate chapter on the Narodnaya Volja and their journal as well as the Rabochaya Gazeta.Copy which belonged to Vera Gotz. EUR 750
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(HERZEN, A. PSEUD.:) ISKANDER. Kontsy i nachala. S predisloviem avtora. Norrkoeping, Eric Biornström, 1863. (2), iv, (2, blank), 96 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, top edge gilt, original covers preserved. Anderson 302; Kilgour 436; Zaleski 197. First separate edition: Herzen's letters to Turgenev, which first appeared in My Past and Thoughts, published here with a new introduction. 'Herzen's renewed interest in Russia's past and future was closely linked to his bitter disappointment in the "old world". He was a discerning critic of bourgeois society, even if his strictures were not always fair. The modern reader is struck especially by certain far-sighted observations, that seem to anticipate criticism of a complex phenomenon we have come to refer to as "mass culture". Herzen's most interesting comments in this respect are to be found in a series of articles entitled Ends and Beginnings, in which he conducted a polemic with Ivan Turgenev, who had become the moral authority for liberal Westernizers in Russia' (Andrzej Walicki, A History of Russian Thought, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1980, p. 170). Alexander Herzen (1812-70) was a prominent nineteenth-century Russian social thinker and is known as the 'father of Russian socialism.' Early in his intellectual development, Herzen was influenced by German idealist thinkers such as Schiller and Schelling. He believed in the autonomy and dignity of the individual and opposed forces, such as family and state, that oppressed the individual. Later, under the influence of French socialist thinkers such as Charles Fourier, Herzen's thought became more radical. Herzen projected his earlier concern for the oppressed individual onto society at large and he became a supporter of socialism. The socialism he envisioned was a loose federation of self-governing communes. Only in such a system could the ideal society be achieved- according to Herzen that society would be a free association of individuals which provided for the full flowering of each personality. Herzen initially placed his hopes for this future order in the European socialist movement. After the failure of the 1848 revolutions to achieve socialist principles, however, Herzen became disillusioned about European prospects and turned his attention to Russia. Herzen argued that socialist transformation would actually come first to Russia because communal institutions such as the peasant commune survived and bourgeois attitudes hadn't yet emerged. This sense of the advantages of Russian 'backwardness' was influential among the Populists in the 1870s. Herzen has been called a 'gentry revolutionary.' The illegitimate son of a wealthy landowner, Herzen viewed the gentry as a progressive class. The revolution he envisioned was for the people but not necessarily by them. Also, his socialism was a national destiny rather than a class one, and because he promoted the value of individualism in collectivist form--in other words, the full flowering of the individual could best be realized in a socialist order. Among Herzen's works are From the Other Shore (1848-50) and The Russian People and Socialism and his autobiography, My Past and Thoughts.He founded a periodical, the famous Kolokol, in whose pages the free word first appeared in the Russian language, unhampered by censor or police, exposing the government's secrets, criticizing bureaucratic abuses, approving the good intentions of the czar, the 'liberator', and trying to dictate to him a reform program. EUR 750
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(HERZEN, A. PSEUD.:) ISKANDER. Kontsy i nachala. S predisloviem avtora. Norrkoeping, Eric Biornström, 1863. (2), iv, (2, blank), 96 pp. 8vo. Modern boards, original coverspreserved. Anderson 302; Kilgour 436; Zaleski 197. First separate edition: Herzen's letters to Turgenev, which first appeared in My Past and Thoughts, published here with a new introduction. 'Herzen's renewed interest in Russia's past and future was closely linked to his bitter disappointment in the "old world". He was a discerning critic of bourgeois society, even if his strictures were not always fair. The modern reader is struck especially by certain far-sighted observations, that seem to anticipate criticism of a complex phenomenon we have come to refer to as "mass culture". Herzen's most interesting comments in this respect are to be found in a series of articles entitled Ends and Beginnings, in which he conducted a polemic with Ivan Turgenev, who had become the moral authority for liberal Westernizers in Russia' (Andrzej Walicki, A History of Russian Thought, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1980, p. 170). Alexander Herzen (1812-70) was a prominent nineteenth-century Russian social thinker and is known as the 'father of Russian socialism.' Early in his intellectual development, Herzen was influenced by German idealist thinkers such as Schiller and Schelling. He believed in the autonomy and dignity of the individual and opposed forces, such as family and state, that oppressed the individual. Later, under the influence of French socialist thinkers such as Charles Fourier, Herzen's thought became more radical. Herzen projected his earlier concern for the oppressed individual onto society at large and he became a supporter of socialism. The socialism he envisioned was a loose federation of self-governing communes. Only in such a system could the ideal society be achieved- according to Herzen that society would be a free association of individuals which provided for the full flowering of each personality. Herzen initially placed his hopes for this future order in the European socialist movement. After the failure of the 1848 revolutions to achieve socialist principles, however, Herzen became disillusioned about European prospects and turned his attention to Russia. Herzen argued that socialist transformation would actually come first to Russia because communal institutions such as the peasant commune survived and bourgeois attitudes hadn't yet emerged. This sense of the advantages of Russian 'backwardness' was influential among the Populists in the 1870s. Herzen has been called a 'gentry revolutionary.' The illegitimate son of a wealthy landowner, Herzen viewed the gentry as a progressive class. The revolution he envisioned was for the people but not necessarily by them. Also, his socialism was a national destiny rather than a class one, and because he promoted the value of individualism in collectivist form--in other words, the full flowering of the individual could best be realized in a socialist order. Among Herzen's works are From the Other Shore (1848-50) and The Russian People and Socialism and his autobiography, My Past and Thoughts.He founded a periodical, the famous Kolokol, in whose pages the free word first appeared in the Russian language, unhampered by censor or police, exposing the government's secrets, criticizing bureaucratic abuses, approving the good intentions of the czar, the 'liberator', and trying to dictate to him a reform program. EUR 750
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(HERZEN, A. PSEUD.:) ISKANDER. Kontsy i nachala. S predisloviem avtora. Norrkoeping, Eric Biornström, 1863. (2), iv, (2, blank), 96 pp. 8vo. Sewn in the original yellow printed covers. Anderson 302; Kilgour 436; Zaleski 197. First separate edition: Herzen's letters to Turgenev, which first appeared in My Past and Thoughts, published here with a new introduction. 'Herzen's renewed interest in Russia's past and future was closely linked to his bitter disappointment in the "old world". He was a discerning critic of bourgeois society, even if his strictures were not always fair. The modern reader is struck especially by certain far-sighted observations, that seem to anticipate criticism of a complex phenomenon we have come to refer to as "mass culture". Herzen's most interesting comments in this respect are to be found in a series of articles entitled Ends and Beginnings, in which he conducted a polemic with Ivan Turgenev, who had become the moral authority for liberal Westernizers in Russia' (Andrzej Walicki, A History of Russian Thought, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1980, p. 170). Alexander Herzen (1812-70) was a prominent nineteenth-century Russian social thinker and is known as the 'father of Russian socialism.' Early in his intellectual development, Herzen was influenced by German idealist thinkers such as Schiller and Schelling. He believed in the autonomy and dignity of the individual and opposed forces, such as family and state, that oppressed the individual. Later, under the influence of French socialist thinkers such as Charles Fourier, Herzen's thought became more radical. Herzen projected his earlier concern for the oppressed individual onto society at large and he became a supporter of socialism. The socialism he envisioned was a loose federation of self-governing communes. Only in such a system could the ideal society be achieved- according to Herzen that society would be a free association of individuals which provided for the full flowering of each personality. Herzen initially placed his hopes for this future order in the European socialist movement. After the failure of the 1848 revolutions to achieve socialist principles, however, Herzen became disillusioned about European prospects and turned his attention to Russia. Herzen argued that socialist transformation would actually come first to Russia because communal institutions such as the peasant commune survived and bourgeois attitudes hadn't yet emerged. This sense of the advantages of Russian 'backwardness' was influential among the Populists in the 1870s. Herzen has been called a 'gentry revolutionary.' The illegitimate son of a wealthy landowner, Herzen viewed the gentry as a progressive class. The revolution he envisioned was for the people but not necessarily by them. Also, his socialism was a national destiny rather than a class one, and because he promoted the value of individualism in collectivist form--in other words, the full flowering of the individual could best be realized in a socialist order. Among Herzen's works are From the Other Shore (1848-50) and The Russian People and Socialism and his autobiography, My Past and Thoughts.He founded a periodical, the famous Kolokol, in whose pages the free word first appeared in the Russian language, unhampered by censor or police, exposing the government's secrets, criticizing bureaucratic abuses, approving the good intentions of the czar, the 'liberator', and trying to dictate to him a reform program. EUR 750
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(MORELLY.) Naufrage des isles flottantes; ou Basiliade du célébre Pilpai. Poéme heroique. Traduit de l'indien par Mr. M******. A Messine (Paris), Par une Société de Libraires, 1753. Titles printed in red and black, with engraved frontispiece, and title-vignettes. 2 volumes. (2), xxxvii, (1), 216 pp.; (2), 307, (1, corrections) pp. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spines gilt with raised bands, corners, labels and gilt lettering, somewhat rubbed, small defect to upper cover of volume one. First edition, one of the rare issues with the portrait looking to the left and a slightly different collation for the preliminaries compared to the copies ordinarely found. According to Versins in his study published in 1963 in 'Ailleurs', this is the truely first edition, first issue. Chinard however claims that the copies with the portrait looking to the right are the first issues. 'Oeuvre du fondateur du communisme. Epopée allégorique, sorte d'utopie qui propose une société meilleure. Les idées de Morelly seront plus solidement exposées dans le Code de la nature (1755). Diatribes violentes contre la propriété, mère de tous les crimes; souhait d'une postérité nombreuse; critique de l'indissolubilité du mariage (dans la société de Morelly, il n'y a d'ailleurs ni divorce, ni adultère, ni prostitution, ni grossesse honteuse); attaques portées contre le commerce capitaliste, qui ne fait vivre qu'un tiers des hommes, etc.' (INED). 'Sous une forme allégorique, l'auteur dépeint une société fondée sur des principes communistes, morcelée en petits groupes économiques indépendants, comptant chacun cent personnes. Les idées philosophiques et sociales de Morelly exposées dans cette 'épopée' ont été l'objet d'une critique acerbe de la part de ces contemporains' (Hartig & Soboul). Trousson points to the fact that Morelly's communism is of a negative sort: their is no marriage, no property, no police, no church, no privileges, etc. It is, in fact, an anarchist state, ruled only by the laws of nature, a society without any contract whatsoever and far from the Contract Social. Nothing is forbidden since one can not make any mistakes or do wrong if one follows the rules of nature (or better, nothing wrong can exist for those who live according to nature). The majority of the ideas which were later further elaborated in Morelly's Code de la Nature are already presented here. The work is considered to be one of the most important utopian works of the 18th century. EUR 3750
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(MORELLY.) Naufrage des isles flottantes; ou Basiliade du célébre Pilpai. Poéme heroique. Traduit de l'indien par Mr. M******. A Messine (Paris), Par une Société de Libraires, 1753. Title printed in red and black, with engraved frontispiece, and a title-vignette. 2 volumes. Frontispiece, (2), xli, (1), 216 pp.; (4), 307, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, richly gilt spines, red labels with gilt lettering, red edges (slightly rubbed). Negley, Utopian Literature, 810; Hartig & Soboul, p. 54; Trousson, pp. 145-150; Versins, Encyclopédie de l'Utopie et de la Science fiction, pp. 602-603; Higgs 665; INED 3319; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition, the head on the frontispiece turned to the right (to the title-page) which is claimed by Chinard as the first issue, first edition. Versins claims that copies with the head of the frontispiece facing away from the title-page are the first issues of the first editions. 'Oeuvre du fondateur du communisme. Epopée allégorique, sorte d'utopie qui propose une société meilleure. Les idées de Morelly seront plus solidement exposées dans le Code de la nature (1755). Diatribes violentes contre la propriété, mère de tous les crimes; souhait d'une postérité nombreuse; critique de l'indissolubilité du mariage (dans la société de Morelly, il n'y a d'ailleurs ni divorce, ni adultère, ni prostitution, ni grossesse honteuse); attaques portées contre le commerce capitaliste, qui ne fait vivre qu'un tiers des hommes, etc.' (INED). 'Sous une forme allégorique, l'auteur dépeint une société fondée sur des principes communistes, morcelée en petits groupes économiques indépendants, comptant chacun cent personnes. Les idées philosophiques et sociales de Morelly exposées dans cette 'épopée' ont été l'objet d'une critique acerbe de la part de ces contemporains' (Hartig & Soboul). Trousson points to the fact that Morelly's communism is of a negative sort: their is no marriage, no property, no police, no church, no privileges, etc. It is, in fact, an anarchist state, ruled only by the laws of nature, a society without any contract whatsoever and far from the Contract Social. Nothing is forbidden since one can not make any mistakes or do wrong if one follows the rules of nature (or better, nothing wrong can exist for those who live according to nature). The majority of the ideas which were later further elaborated in Morelly's Code de la Nature are already presented here. The work is considered to be one of the most important utopian works of the 18th century. EUR 3500
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(TIPHAIGNE DE LA ROCHE, C.F.) Histoire des Galligènes, ou Mémoires de Duncan. A Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, Arkstée & Merkus; la veuve Durand, 1765 (Paris, EDHIS, 1976). 2 volumes in 1. (4), 165 pp.; (4), 136 pp. 8vo. Modern leather, gilt lettering to spine.. Hartig 58; Trousson p. 267; Gove p. 354; Versins pp. 887-888. Reprint of this excessively rare work, edition limited to 150 numbered copies and 30 copies not destined for the trade. Communist utopian work in which the author made ridiculous the so-called progress resulting from private property and social circumstances of the time. The only copy known of this thrilling work was in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, but disappeared. The above reprint was made after a copy luckily found in a private collection. EUR 150
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BABEUF - BUONARROTI, P. Conspiration pour l'égalité dite de Babeuf, suivie du procès auquel elle donna lieu, et des pièces justificatives, etc., etc. Bruxelles, à la Librairie Romantique, 1828. With an engraved and a lithographed frontispiece, one of Gracchus Babeuf and one of Buonarroti. Two volumes in one. (2), viii, 325 pp.; (4), 327, (4, errata) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, green labels, marbled boards, corners. Tourneux, i, 4868; Martin & Walter 17; Goldsmiths 25714. The very rare first edition. Without any doubt the most complete blueprint for the establishment of communism, the actual instructions to move from idea to reality. The most essential exposition of the doctrine of the Equals by a friend of Babeuf. 'By making Robespierre and his colleagues appear as conscious architects of a communist republic, based on blueprints provided by Rousseau, G. Mably and A. Morellet, it injected a spirit of revolutionary messianism into continental socialism, founded a long-lived historical school, and created a martyrology that inspired many of the future men of 1848' (E. Eisenstein in Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799, i, p. 130). For a further detailed analysis of Babeuf and his conspiracy see: Rose, Gracchus Babeuf, and E. Eisenstein, The First Professional Revolutionary: F.M. Buonarroti. Buonarroti was condamned to deportation and when he picked up his revolutionary life after his return, in Grenoble, Geneva and finally Paris, where he died in 1833, his actions formed a major source of inspiration for the socialists and republicans of the 19th century. EUR 2500
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BABEUF - SENCIER, G. Le babouvisme après Babeuf. Sociétés secrètes et conspirations communistes (1830-1848). Geneve, Mégariotis, no date. 348 pp. 8vo. Modern cloth, gilt lettering. Grandin II, 766. Reprint ofthe edition published in Paris in 1912. Traces the influence of Babouvist ideas among the 19th century revolutionaries, the role they played in the subsequent 19th century revolutions and in the secret societies. EUR 75
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BERNSTEIN - SOUVARINE - TWO RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS, The. An exceptional collection of old and rare journals, books and pamphlets mainly from the libraries of Léon Bernstein and Boris Souvarine. Amsterdam, Dekker & Nordemann, 1980. With portraits and facs. 188 pp. Large 8vo. Sewn. Catalogue 26 of the former antiquarian department of Dekker & Nordemann in Amsterdam, now A. Gerits & Son. The collection described in this catalogue is now in the Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. EUR 75
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CABET, (E.) Le vrai Christianisme suivant Jésus-Christ. 3ième édition. Paris, 1848. 636, xii pp. Small 8vo. Sewn, original printed cover, uncut. Prudhommeaux, pp. 162-163. Third edition, first published in 1846. The author tries to prove that Christ is the precursor of modern times and his teaching is a breviary of democracy.'Aux environs de 1840, Jésus est tenu en grande estime par tous les démocrates. Pour Louis Blanc, Raspail, Barbès et Ledru-Rollin, sans parler de Buchez, de Pierre Leroux et de Lamartine, "le Christ demeure le précurseur des temps modernes, et l'Evangile le bréviaire de la Démocratie"' (Prudhommeaux). EUR 300
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CABET, (E.) Révolution de 1830 et situation présente (mai 1833) expliquées et éclairées par les révolutions de 1789, 1792, 1799 et 1804, et par la restauration. 2e édition, 2e tirage. Paris, Deville-Cavellin, Pagnerre, 1833. 2 volumes in 1. (4), 247, (1) pp.; 276 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt with black label with gilt lettering, marbled edges. Prudhommeaux 4; Desanti, Les socialistes de l'Utopie, p. 283; DBMOF, vol. i, p. 333. - Small hole in p. 133-134 causing lost of few letters, a few light spots. Cabet, famous utopian socialist, wrote this book during the spring and summer of 1832. It is 'son premier ouvrage important .... qui lui valut, pour offenses diverses au roi et au gouvernement, cinq ans de prisons d'abord .....' (Maitron). 'Le livre montre qu'il faut regagner le terrain perdu par les réformes sociales depuis le Directoire, revenir à la Convention, reconquérir les libertés de presse, d'association, la gratuité de l'enseignement, le suffrage universel et suprimer le budget des cultes' (Desanti). EUR 400
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CHATEL, (F.F.) Sermon de M. l'abbé Chatel, à l'ouverture de la nouvelle Eglise Française, rue de la Sourdière, no 23. Paris, Barba, Libraire, Galerie de Nemours, Palais Royal; Et les marchands de Nouveautés, 1831. 15 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. DBMOF, 1, p. 398. First edition. A sermon held by the principal founder of this christian socialist church in which he announces that a mass will be celebrated in commemoration of 'des braves morts en défendant nos libertés'.The rue de la Sourdière was the first location of the 'Église catholique française' of which Chatel was the principal founder. Liturgy was read in French, the authority of the pope rejected, confession was suppressed, as was celibacy. Chatel aimed at founding a church for the people and had some influence and a large audiance for some time. EUR 175
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DEZAMY, (A.) T. Code de la communauté. Paris, Prévost, Rouannet, 1842 (Paris, EDHIS, 1967). With a folding lithograph plan of a 'Palais communal'. vii, (1, blank), (9)-292, (4, table des matières, blank, errata, blank) pp. 8vo. Printed paper covers. DBMOF, ii, pp. 84-86; Stammhammer, i, p. 64,; Dolléans & Crozier, p. 44. A well executed rerpint of the exceptionally scarce first edition, and one of the key books in the history of socialism. The cover is also a reprint of the original covers of the original work. This edition was published in an editon of 500 numbered copies only and is since long out-of-print. Alexandre Théodore Dézamy (1803-1850) was the leading representative of the Babeuf tradition in the decades preceding 1848. The present work is a communist utopia which owed much to Fourier, Morelly, and Cabet. Although Dezamy had worked for a time with Cabet, he later came to critizise sharply Cabet's conciliatory tactics and his opportunism, rejecting his appeal for bourgeois aid for the working class as unrealistic and calling upon the proletariat to unite and free itself. There is much support in Dezamy's writing for Werner Sombart's contention that Dezamy anticipated Marxian revolutionary socialism. Marx himself, in the Holy Family, had said about Dézamy 'un des disciples communistes les plus conséquents des philosophes matérialistes du XVIIIe siècle' who had 'développé la doctrine du matérialisme en tant que doctrine de l'humanisme réel et comme base logique du communisme.' Dézamy was also a talented materialist philosopher, which he had proven in a work criticizing Lamennais's Du passé et de l'avenir du peuple. The Code de la Communauté 'décrit un phalanstère communiste qui fut également penser à l'abbaye de Thélème de Rabelais. Le livre respire le matérialisme du XVIIIe siècle.' The book is divided into 19 chapters and contains (pp. 264-269) 47 articles 'of faith'. For the Cabet-Dézamy controversy, and an extensive analysis of the above work, see: H.P.G. Quack, de Socialisten, vol. iii, pp. 244 ff. and J. Prudhommeaux, Icarie et son fondateur Etienne Cabet. Our copy is dated on the titlepage 1842, while the printed cover gives as date of publication 1843: verso titlepage it is stated that the book will be published in parts. With 'la dernière livraison je donnerai une belle couverture imprimée.' The publication and distribution began in 1842, hence a titlepage dated 1842, and the last livraison was issued in 1843, hence the cover dated 1843. The original printed cover also reads differently from the titlepage with respect to publishers: Paris, chez Dezamy, éditeur, Prevot, Rouanet (sic), Pandellé. EUR 300
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FOURIER, CH. Traité de l'association domestique-agricole. A Paris, Bossange père, P. Mongie ainé; A Londres, M. Bossange et Comp., 1822. 2 volumes - (Followed by:) FOURIER, CH. Sommaire du traité de l'association domestique-agricole ou attraction industrielle. Paris, Bossange Père, P. Mongie ainé, Londres Martin Bossange et Cie., 1823. Three volumes. lxiv, 592 pp.; viii, 648 pp.; (2), 8, 8B-8E, 9-16, (1329)-1398, B1398-1398E, 1399-1448, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary green half calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, corners, gilt fillets on sides (some very light browning, first four leaves of the second work with a dampstain in the lower outer blank corner.) First work: Del Bo 5; Kress C.864; Goldsmiths 23694; Einaudi 1960 (both works). Second work: Del Bo 6; Kress C.1060; Goldsmiths 23997. First editions of the main work of Fourier, together with the very rare supplement. The first volume is signed by Fourier on verso of the half title. This is Fourier's most important work, containing 'the essence of Fourier's doctrine' (David Owen Evans, Social Romanticism in France 1830-1848, p. 129.) The main thesis of the work is the discovery of the 'harmonie'. The whole work tries to pove how this 'harmonie' can be established and how life and society should be constructed to ensure succes. Fourier tried to get as much attention as possible for his ideas and to that end he published the 'Sommaire du traité...' in 1823, the often lacking supplement. The work however remained however virtually unnoticed. Although Fourier is often seen as a dreamer and fantast, he preceded in many of his ideas Marx. The theory of poverty and exploitation and its relation to the means of production can already be found with him, and the Marxist conception of the all-round man is an idea on which Fourier elaborately worked and which is the most important result of his 'harmonie'. 'He (Fourier) was emphatically a serious social thinker who contributed much of permanent value, not only to Socialist and Co-operative ideas, but also to the solution of the entire problem of work and of the incentives and human relations connected with it. (see: Kolakowsky: History of Marxism; Quack, de Socialisten, and G.D.H. Cole, A history of socialist thought.)It is little realized even today that many Fourierist communities were actually established, chiefly in the United States where the way had been prepared by Robert Owen. Fourierism was introduced to the United States by Albert Brisbane, whose Social Destiny of Man appeared in 1840. Brisbane had studied in France under Fourier in 1834. In 1842 the New York Tribune, then edited by Horace Greeley, placed at his disposal a column in which for over a year he popularized Fourier's doctrines. (.....) The direct effect of Brisbane's writings was the making of of a large number of experiments in community-living all over the United States during the eighteen-forties. The most famous of these were the North American Phalanx of New Jersey, which had 112 members and flourished for 12 years; the Wisconsin Phalanx, consisting of 32 families settled on 1,800 acres of land; and Brook Farm in the Commonwealth of Massachussetts (....); others associated with the enterprise were William Henry Channing, Henry Ward Beecher, George Ripley, Charles Dana, and Daniel Hawthorne. Another Fourierist commune was established in Texas by Fourier's disciple Victor Considerant in 1849, which lasted till the Civil War (See David Owen Evans, op.cit. pp. 48-49).The 'Sommaire du Traité ....' contains, bound before the title page, the leaf 'Instructions pour le Vendeur et l'Acheteur', and contains, on the last page, the 'Appendice aux Conclusions' as well as the two inserted quires, the first, B8-E8, containing 'Banques Rurales', the second, B1398-1398E, containing 'Carton à placer entre 1398 et 1399. Antienne du chap. III. La 4e phase de civilisation, I, 159.' Extremely rare in this complete state, in conformity with the details given by Del Bo.Bound in, in the 'Sommaire du Traité', is a handwritten and signed letter by Charles Fourier, dated 9 Octobre, 1836, written on paper of 'La Réforme Industrielle ou Le Phalanstère, ....' of 4 pages, the first leaf with the letter by Fourier, recto second leaf blank, verso second leaf the addressee: madame Cara Ghribaut (??), rue St. Victor, no 76, à la 2e Cour à Paris. Fourier writes, in a moving sentence about his meeting a female friend of the addressee: '.... est une jolie femme, je m'en suis fort bien aperçu, et si j'avais eu 30 ans de moins je lui aurais dit ce que j'en pensais; mais j'ai trop à redouter que de pareils aveux ne soient indifferens à qui en serait l'objet.' EUR 16000
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FOURIER, CH. Traité de l'Association domestique-agricole. A Paris, Bossange père, P. Mongie ainé; A Londres, M. Bossange et Comp., 1822. 2 volumes - (Followed by:) FOURIER, CH. Sommaire du Traité de l'Association domestique-agricole ou attraction industrielle. Paris, Bossange père, P. Mongie ainé, Londres M. Bossange et Cie., 1823. Two works in 3 volumes. lxxx, 592 pp.; viii, 648 pp.; (2), 16, (1329)-1448, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half calf, marbled boards, raised bands and gilt lettering and numbering (first two volumes), original blind covers, kept in a half vellum case with vellum overlapping edges, kept in a box (the 'Sommaire'). First work: Del Bo 5; Kress C.864; Goldsmiths 23694; Einaudi 1960 (both works). Second work: Del Bo 6; Kress C.1060; Goldsmiths 23997. First editions of the main work of Fourier, together with the very rare supplement. The first volume is signed by Fourier on verso of the half title. This is Fourier's most important work, containing 'the essence of Fourier's doctrine' (David Owen Evans, Social Romanticism in France 1830-1848, p. 129.) - The first and the last leaf of the Supplement are pasted to the inside of the cover, supplement loosening but still holding, main work occasionally cut short at upper margin, not affecting text. The main thesis of the work is the discovery of the 'harmonie'. The work is an elaborate exposition of how this 'harmonie' can be established and how life and society should be constructed to ensure succes. Fourier tried to get as much attention as possible for his ideas and to that end he published the 'Sommaire du traité...' in 1823, the often lacking supplement. The work however remained however virtually unnoticed. Although Fourier is often seen as a dreamer and fantast, he preceded in many of his ideas Marx. The theory of poverty and exploitation and its relation to the means of production can already be found with him, and the Marxist conception of the all-round man is an idea on which Fourier elaborately worked and which is the most important result of his 'harmonie'. 'He (Fourier) was emphatically a serious social thinker who contributed much of permanent value, not only to Socialist and Co-operative ideas, but also to the solution of the entire problem of work and of the incentives and human relations connected with it (see: Kolakowsky: History of Marxism; Quack, de Socialisten, and G.D.H. Cole, A history of socialist thought.)It is little realized even today that many Fourierist communities were actually established, chiefly in the United States where the way had been prepared by Robert Owen. Fourierism was introduced to the United States by Albert Brisbane, whose Social Destiny of Man appeared in 1840. Brisbane had studied in France under Fourier in 1834. In 1842 the New York Tribune, then edited by Horace Greeley, placed at his disposal a column in which for over a year he popularized Fourier's doctrines. (.....) The direct effect of Brisbane's writings was the making of a large number of experiments in community-living all over the United States during the eighteen-forties. The most famous of these were the North American Phalanx of New Jersey, which had 112 members and flourished for 12 years; the Wisconsin Phalanx, consisting of 32 families settled on 1,800 acres of land; and Brook Farm in the Commonwealth of Massachussetts (....); others associated with the enterprise were William Henry Channing, Henry Ward Beecher, George Ripley, Charles Dana, and Daniel Hawthorne. Another Fourierist commune was established in Texas by Fourier's disciple Victor Considerant in 1849, which lasted till the Civil War (See David Owen Evans, op.cit. pp. 48-49).The Sommaire .... lacks the leaves B8-8E containing the text 'Banques rurales', and the leaves B1398-1398E containing the text 'Antienne du chapitre III', both of which are later insertions, but does contain the preliminary leaf 'Introductions pour le vendeur et l'acheteur' and the final leaf 'Appendice aux conclusions'. EUR 3500
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HERZEN, A. Lettres de France et d'Italie (1847-1852). Traduit du Russe par Mme N(atalie) H(erzen). Édition des enfants de l'auteur. Genève, 1871. xvi, 311, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, original covers preserved. Zaleski 79; not in Catalogue Russica. First French edition. Alexander Herzen (1812-70) was a prominent nineteenth-century Russian social thinker and is known as the 'father of Russian socialism.' Early in his intellectual development, Herzen was influenced by German idealist thinkers such as Schiller and Schelling. He believed in the autonomy and dignity of the individual and opposed forces, such as family and state, that oppressed the individual. Later, under the influence of French socialist thinkers such as Charles Fourier, Herzen's thought became more radical. Herzen projected his earlier concern for the oppressed individual onto society at large and he became a supporter of socialism. The socialism he envisioned was a loose federation of self-governing communes. Only in such a system could the ideal society be achieved- according to Herzen that society would be a free association of individuals which provided for the full flowering of each personality. Herzen initially placed his hopes for this future order in the European socialist movement. After the failure of the 1848 revolutions to achieve socialist principles, however, Herzen became disillusioned about European prospects and turned his attention to Russia. Herzen argued that socialist transformation would actually come first to Russia because communal institutions such as the peasant commune survived and bourgeois attitudes hadn't yet emerged. This sense of the advantages of Russian 'backwardness' was influential among the Populists in the 1870s. Herzen has been called a 'gentry revolutionary.' The illegitimate son of a wealthy landowner, Herzen viewed the gentry as a progressive class. The revolution he envisioned was for the people but not necessarily by them. Also, his socialism was a national destiny rather than a class one, and because he promoted the value of individualism in collectivist form--in other words, the full flowering of the individual could best be realized in a socialist order. Among Herzen's works are From the Other Shore (1848-50) and The Russian People and Socialism and his autobiography, My Past and Thoughts.He founded a periodical, the famous Kolokol, in whose pages the free word first appeared in the Russian language, unhampered by censor or police, exposing the government's secrets, criticizing bureaucratic abuses, approving the good intentions of the czar, the 'liberator', and trying to dictate to him a reform program. EUR 375
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JUNQUA, LE DR. (P.F.) De la sagesse dans la production et de la fraternité dans la consommation ou le communisme des républiques de l'avenir. Paris, Derveaux, 1879. (2), 398, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering (discoloured), marbled boards. (Publications de l'église de la liberté). Stammhammer 116 (cites an edition of 2 volumes published in 1880). First edition. In this curious book the author develops his own communism for the future republics. His communism is a threefold communism: 'Et nous aurons, de la sorte, avec ce triple communisme: communisme d'origine, communisme de production, communisme de consommation, la trinité parfaite dans les développements de l'être, comme nous l'avons trouvée dans l'être lui-même.' Pierre-François Jungua or Junqua had a tumultuous career in the church and ended as the founder of the Librairie anticlericale and wrote a number of socialist works of christian inspiration. EUR 200
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LEFRANCAIS, G. Étude sur le mouvement communaliste à Paris, en 1871. Neuchâtel, Imprimerie G. Guillaume fils, 1871 (Paris, EDHIS, 1968). 428, 72 pp. 8vo. Printed covers. Del Bo, Comune di Parigi, p. 68; Noël, Dictionnaire de la Commune, pp. 233-234; Stammhammer I, p. 131; Lemonnyer, Essai bibliographique sur les publications de la proscription française, p. 2. Reprint of the first and rare edition, published in a limited edition of 1000 copies and out-of-print. 'L'un des témoignages les plus importants dus à un Communard et le seul, dit Kropotkin, qui mette dans sa vraie lumière la véritable importance historique - communaliste - de ce mouvement.' (Noël). 'Tout ce récit fait sans parti pris et avec une rare impartialité ..... Ce livre est et restera l'une des plus précieuses publications à consulter pour l'histoire de la Commune de Paris.' (Lemonnyer). EUR 125
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LENIN, N. Der Kampf um das Brot. Eine Rede gehalten in der ausserord. Sitzung des allrussischen zentralen Vollzugsausschusses der Sowjets der Arbeiter, Bauern, Soldaten und Kosaken-Deputierten. Belp-Bern, Promachos-Verlag, 1918. 36 pp. 8vo. Sewn, original covers, stamp on front cover and on title Drahn 71; not in Zaleski. First German edition. EUR 100
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LENINE, N. La lutte pour le pain. Discours prononcé à l'Assemblée extraordinaire du Comité central exécutif panrusse des Soviets des députés ouvriers, paysans, soldats et cosaques. No place, (ab. 1919). 44 pp. 8vo. Sewn, original printed covers. Not in Zaleski. First French edition? - Stamp on title. EUR 125
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MALON, B. La troisième défaite du prolétariat Français. Neuchatel, G. Guillaume Fils, 1871 (Paris, EDHIS, 1968). 538, (1 table) pp. 12mo. Printed covers. Del Bo, p. 69; Maitron, 7, p. 230 ff. Reprint of the rare first edition, published in a limited (1000) and numbered edition. 'L'un des ouvrages les plus importants sur l'esprit de la Commune en même temps qu'un témoignage capital' (B. Noël, Dictionnaire de la Commune.) Malon, one of the founders of the international shows here the proletarian character of the communalist movement. EUR 150
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PRAGER, R.L. Marx, Engels, Lasalle. Ihre Schriften und Ideen. Erster Teil. Katalog 215. Berlin, Prager, 1924. 62, (2), xii pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, briddle and lightly damaged.With an essay by Gustav Mayer on Marx's stay in Berlin, and an introduction by Ernst Drahn who was partly responsible for the cataloguing. EUR 100
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PRAGER, R.L. Zur sozialen und wirtschaflichen Entwicklung. Katalog 213/14. Erster Teil eines Jubiläumskatalog aus Anlass des 50 jährigen Geschäftsbestehens herausgegeben von R.L. Prager. Berlin, Prager, 1922. (4), 167, (3) pp. 8vo. Brown half cloth, corners, marbled boards, paper label, original wrappers preserved. All published. Contains 5612 priced items.The firm of R.L. Prager was founded by Robert L. Prager (1843-1918) and continued by his son Werner. "Deralte Prager" soon became one of the first, and foremost, specialists in political science, both as a bookseller and publisher. He was one of Martin breslauer's admired teachers and friends for whom Berslauer worked as a young man for a year in 1891 (see "Erinnerungen eines Antiquars", in Festschrift Zobeltitz, 1927, q.v.). This, todya amazing, catalogue of almost 6000 items, has a historical introduction by K. Zielenziger. Catalogue inscribed by W. Prager to M. Breslauer. EUR 125
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PROUDHON, (P.J.) & (F.) BASTIAT. Intérêt et principal. Discussion entre M. Proudhon et M. Bastiat sur l'intérêt des capitaux. (Extrait de la Voix du Peuple). Paris, Garnier frères, 1850. - (Bound with:) THIERS, A. De la propriété. Nouvelle édition augmentée des discours sur le droit au travail et sur le crédit foncier. Bruxelles, 1849. 2 works bound in 1 volume. (4), 198 pp.; 290 pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering. First work: Hoffman, p. 365; Nettlau, p. 19; Goldsmiths 36966; Einaudi 4577; not in Mattioli (listing a few of the letters forming part of Bastiat's Mélanges d'économie politique....). First edition. - First work a bit spotted, second work browned and with a small stamp on the half-title. Earlier Bastiat and Proudhon had had a discussion in the columns of La Voix du Peuple by way of letters. This is the whole discussion made available to the reader for the first time in one volume, but it lacks the 14th letter by Bastiat, published in the work Gratuité du crédit which was published in the same year. Claude Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850), French economist and publicist. He later works show great familiarity with the works of French, American, Italian and Britsh authors, among them Say, Smith, Cournay, Turgot, Ricardo, Mill, Bentham, Senior, Franklin, Carey, Custodi, Donato and Scialoja. After learning of Cobden's Anti-Corn Law League he became an ardent free-trader..... 'Bastiat was one of several writers (Quesnay, Smith, Say and Carey were others) who formed the doctrines of Harmonism, or the optimistic idea that class interests naturally and inevitably coincide so as to promote economic development. The major challenge to this view came from Ricardo and Malthus, whose theories cast a sinister shadow over the prospect of economic progress' (New Palgrave, i, pp. 204-205). Bastiat was, as Schumpeter wrote, not a bad theorist, he was no theorist at all. But he was unrivalled at exposing economic fallacies wherever he found them, and he found them everywhere. He was quite simply a genius of wit and satire, frequently described as a combination of Voltaire and Franklin. In the late 20th century his ideas became more popular among libertarian economists dissatisfied with Keynesian orthodoxy and Marxist alternatives.Second work: The famous apology for property. It consists of 4 parts: Du droit de propriété; Du communisme; Du socialisme; De l'impôt, and is expanded with: Discours sur le droit au travail, prononcé par M. Thiers dans la séance de l'Assemblée Nationale du 13 septembre 1848, and with Disours sur le crédit foncier, prononcé par M. Thiers dans la séance de l'Assemblée Nationale du 10 octobre 1848.Interesting debate in which the two postions can be best shown by quoting the authors: ""La Proprieté, c'est le vol" (Proudhon, p. 56) and Thiers (p. 261): "Le Communisme fera une société esclave". EUR 400
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ROSMER, A. Le mouvement ouvrier pendant la guerre (vol. 2: pendant la première guerre mondiale). Paris, Librairie du Travail (vol. 2: Paris, La Haye, Mouton & Co.), 1936-1959. With portrait-frontispiece, facsimiles and illustrations. 2 volumes. 588, (2) pp.; 252 pp. 8vo. Sewn in original printed covers. Maitron 40, pp. 313-322. First edition. Born in 1877 in Patterson (USA) as André Griot, editor of la Vie ouvrière, representative in Moscow for the 'Comité d'adhesion à la IIIe Internationale' and member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party (1923-1924). A work that still stands as a monument and deals with a period in which Rosmer himself was very active although he has minimized his part in the history he described. A third volume was planned but Rosmer was unable to finish it properly. Volume 1: De l'Union sacrée à Zimmerwald, volume 2: De Zimmerwald à la Révolution Russe. Volume 2 was published in the series Société et Idéologies, Deuxième Série, Documents et Témoignages and was printed in an edition of 1000 copies of which this is nr 217. - Cover of volume 1 very lightly worn, with a handwritten and signed dedication by Rosmer to Robert Brécy. EUR 175
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ROSMER, A. Le mouvement ouvrier pendant la guerre (vol. 2: pendant la première guerre mondiale). Paris, Librairie du Travail (vol. 2: Paris, La Haye, Mouton & Co.), 1936-1959. With portrait-frontispiece, facsimiles and illustrations. 2 volumes. 588, (2) pp.; 252 pp. 8vo. Sewn in original printed covers. Maitron 40, pp. 313-322. First edition. Born in 1877 in Patterson (USA) as André Griot, editor of la Vie ouvrière, representative in Moscow for the 'Comité d'adhesion à la IIIe Internationale' and member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party (1923-1924). A work that still stands as a monument and deals with a period in which Rosmer himself was very active although he has minimized his part in the history he described. A third volume was planned but Rosmer was unable to finish it properly. Volume 1: De l'Union sacrée à Zimmerwald, volume 2: De Zimmerwald à la Révolution Russe. Volume 2 was published in the series Société et Idéologies, Deuxième Série, Documents et Témoignages and was printed in an edition of 1000 copies of which this is nr 217. EUR 175
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RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARIES - COLLECTION of 10 portraits, apparently taken from a Russian publication, 'Gallereya russkikh revolyutsionerov', ed. by G.A. Kuklina, representing I.S. Myshkin, Vera Figner, A.V. Dolgushin, P.F. Yakubovtch, D.M. Rogachev, O.E. Veimar, L. G. Deich, Ya.V. Stefanovich, Sophia L. Perovskaya, Lyudmila A. Volkensthein. 10 leaves. 8vo. EUR 175
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SIMON, JULES-FRANCOIS SUISSE, DIT JULES. COLLECTION of Autograph Letters Signed by Jules Simon, philosopher, deputy of Paris, one of the five members of the government of National Defense of 1870, Minister of Education, Prime Minister in 1876. All letters are in his hand and are signed by him. Contains:1. Two letters, undated, (one mentioning only '17 April' c. 1848?), dealing with the 'Crédit au Travail', founded by J.-P. Beluze, icarian communist. 1, (3 blank) pp. and 2 (2 blank) pp. 8vo.The first letter contains an apology for not being able to be present at a meeting at the 'Crédit au Travail; the second, addressed to a certain Cohadon, in which Simon informs him that he is willing to give a lecture with the goal of 'remettre le Crédit au Travail sur ses pieds'.2. Letter, undated, to the administrator of the 'Crédit au Travail' with his subscription form of 100 francs, dated 31 December 1864. 1, (3 blank) pp. for the letter, 12mo; and 1 page oblong 8vo for the subscription form.3. Letter addressed to (J.-P.) Beluze, dated 1867, asking Beluze to excuse him for not being able to attend a meeting and asking him to excuse him at the meeting. 1, (1 blank) pp. 8vo. 4. Letter, undated, concerning the right of lowering 'le capital Social' by simple announcement (very likely also concerning the 'Crédit au Travail'). 1 (3 blank) pp. 8vo.5. Three letters, dated 22 February 1867, 7 March (1867) and one undated (1867), inviting the recepient for lunch and other meetings. 2, (2 blank) pp.; 1, (3 blank) pp.; 1, (3 blank) pp. 12mo.6. Letter to (J.-P. Beluze) undated, concerning the idea of forming a group for raising money to support the 'Crédit au Travail'. 2, (2 blank) pp. 8vo.7. Letter on stationary of the Senate, dated 2 January 1888. Pessimistic letter by Simon to an unknown receipient. '.... et n'avoir pas, comme moi, 73 ans, pour résister à tout cela.' 1, (3 blank) pp. 12mo.8. Letter, undated, inviting the recepient for lunch. 1, (3 blank) pp. 8vo.Added: nr 150 of 'Le Courrier Français. Journal politique quotitien', dated 14 November 1867. Folio. 4 pp. Folded.And added: Subscription form by which Simon pays 100 francs to become 'Associé commanditaire' of the journal 'La Coopération', dated Paris, 8 May 1867 and signed by Jules Simon. 1 page, oblong 8vo.Jules François Simon-Suisse (1814-1896), moral philosopher, republican politician and theorist of radicalism, a founder of the Third Republic. Dedicated to the principles of liberal republicanism, he was a consistent champion of liberty, whether in the political field, where he identified with parliamentarism; in the religious field, where it implied for him toleration of all cults; or in the economic and social field, where it was synonymous with free trade. He was an opponent of socialism, attacking all state intervention except in the interests of women and children or of free, compulsory, education. EUR 600
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THIERS, A. De la propriété. Paris, Paulin, Lheureux et Cie., 1848. (4), 439, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, marbled sides. Goldsmiths 36120; Einaudi 5585; Coquelin & Guillaumin, ii, p. 734; not in Kress; Mattioli 3602. First edition. In August 1848, Thiers ardently defended the idea of private property against proposal made by the anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. To strengthen his position, he also published De la Propriété, a book written in the remarkably short span of three months. The book is in four parts: Du droit de propriété; Du communisme; Du socialisme; de l'impôt. Especially the part entitled De l'influence de l'hérédité sur le travail has been described as a little masterpiece. EUR 300
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ZALESKI, E. Mouvements ouvriers et socialistes. (Chronologie et bibliographie). La Russie. Tome I: 1725-1907 [-Tome II: 1908-1917.] Paris, Les éditions ouvrières, 1956. 2 volumes. 462, (1), (3 blank) pp.; 489, (1 blank), (2), (2 blank) pp. 8vo. Modern red half morocco, gilt lettering to spine, marbled boards. Guide to Historical Literature, X13; not in Besterman. Original edition. An indispensable tool for the subject, with subject and author indexes. EUR 250
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