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FILS, LE, du Père duchêne illustré paraissant deux fois par semaine. Paris, Imprimerie Serrière et Co., 1er florial-4 prairial an 79 (20 April-24 May 1871). Each numbercarries a coloured caricature on the title-page. 10 numbers of 8 pages each. Large 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Lemonnyer, Les Journaux de Paris, p. 29; Del Bo, Comune di Parigi, p. 31; Berleux, La Caricature Politique en France, p. 42; Le Quillec, 946; Schulkind Commune Collection, p. 30. Original edition, all published. The journal was edited by A. Spoll, directors were Monreal and Blondeau.'Favorable naturellement à la Commune, ce qui n'empêche pas les critiques .....' (Le Quillec). EUR 750
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L'AMI DU PEUPLE EN 1848. An Ier de la République reconquise, par F.-V. Raspail. Paris, Au Bureau du Journal, 27 février-14 mai 1848. 21 numbers of 2 pages each. Folio. Modern halfred morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Hatin 439; Izambard, La Presse Parisienne de 1848-1849, p. 6; La Révolution de 1848, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1948, 450 (incomplete, runs upto April 20 !). Extremely rare complete set of this important journal, especially since, according to Izambard, the first two numbers were distributed as posters. Publication ceased after Raspail was arrested on May 15, 1848.The whole is preceded by 'Lettre du Citoyen F.V. Raspail, Représentant du Peuple, Aux Citoyens Électeurs de la Seine, Merci!', dated September 22, 1848, and by 'République Démocratique et Sociale. Raspail Président', dated November 1, 1848, both posters of great rarity. 'Contre les gens du National, de la famille Arago à Buchez, et du journaliste Marrast à l'avocat Marie de Saint-Georges, Raspail était des plus virulents' (Maitron, DBMOF, vol. iii, pp. 281-283).François Vincent Raspail, doctor, publicist and republicain activist. Between 1825 and 1830 Raspail published about 50 articles ranging from botany, zoology, and paleontology to microscopic anatomy, physiology, and forensic medicine. These studies were based on an early statement of cell theory, and he may be seen as a founder of microchemistry. He was also a pioneer advocate of antisepsis and improved sanitation and diet. His scientific career was limited by his continued refusal to accept official positions or awards. Also important were his studies on prison conditions and industrial safety.He was closely involved in the three great revolutionary movements of the century. The present journal was a democratic-socialist newspaper during the 1848 revolution. It was among the very few which survived for a longer period after the Provisional Government abolished or suspended almost all the restraints that the previous regime had placed on the press. It's success was mainly due to Raspail who also presided over a club with the same name. His involvement in the journée of 15 May led to his detention, and he was sentenced to six years in prison in March 1849; while in prison he was elected a deputy for Paris and Lyons in the September by-elections and won 37,000 votes, mainly from Paris and Lyons, in the presidential elections of December 1848. The first poster refers to his election as deputy, thanking those who voted for him, the second to his 'presidential campaign' in 1848. - One poster cut short lightly touching the last line. EUR 4500
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SENTENCE du Châtelet de Paris, rendue la compagnie assemblée. (Drop-head title). (Paris), (at end:) J.Ch. Desaint, (1789). 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Not in Martin & Walter; Tourneux I, 716. Security measures in view of the elections. Signed at end by Morel. EUR 75
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TABLEAU des massacres commis dans le palais d'Avignon, sous les ordres des principaux Chefs de l'Armée de Monteux. (Drop-head title). No place, (1815). Large woodcut, covering one-third of the leaf, depicting the cruelties. 1 leaf (verso blank). Folio. Folded and mounted in a 4to modern half morocco binding, gilt lettering to spine. Very interesting broadside showing in the illustration the cruelties and atrocities commited during the days of 16 and 17 October 1791, showing a number of victimes and murderers, with explanatory text. It also gives, at the bottom of the sheet, the names of a number of those involved in the massacre who are still alive. The whole is a call to murder these 'hommes de sang' ! The broadside deals with the notorious massacre of La Glacière: when an antirevolutionary mob murdered a prominent municipal official, the Revolutionaries took revenge. On the night of 16-17 October 1791, they murdered more than sixty papists in the prisons of the Palace of the Popes and threw their bodies to the bottom of La Glacière, one of the towers of the palace. The broadside has been produced because of the return of a number of these murderers to Avignon during the Hundred Days. EUR 900
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ULTIMATUM d'un citoyen du Tiers-Etat au mémoire des princes, présenté au Roi. No place, 1789. (2), 68, (2) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Martin & Walter. Discusses the rights of the Third Order in view of the presentations of the nobility and the clergy. The last 2 pages contain a catalogue of books concerning the same subject. - Bookplate of De Bruère, de Bourgneuf pasted on title. EUR 225
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COLLECTION of pamphlets against the candidacy for the presidency of Louis-Napoléon. Paris, Imp. Lacrampe fils et Comp., (ab. 1848). With many satirical wood-engravings. 14 nrs (of 30 published). 1 or 2 pages each. Folio. Catalogue de l'Histoire de France, xi, page 355, nr 2248; not in Izambard, La presse Parisienne. The colletion we offer contains the nrs 1-3, 6, 8, 10, 12-13, 15-16, 21, 24-25 and 29. A note of the publisher in nrs 24/25 announces the publication of 30 nrs in all. The Catalogue de l'Histoire de France also describes an incomplete set, lacking the numbers 9, 18,19, 25, 26 and 30. - Extremely rare. EUR 900
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HOMMES ET CHOSES du temps de la Commune. Récits et Portraits pour servir à l'Histoire de la Première Révolution Sociale. Paris, Genève, Bruxelles, Londres, 1871 (Paris, EDHIS, 1968). (6), 226 pp. 12mo. Original printed covers. Del Bo, La Comune di Parigi, p. 67. Reprint of this extremely rare work, published in a limited and numbered editon and since long out of print. EUR 125
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PERDU CHENE, LE, de la Révolution. Confiance, Sécurité, Intelligence, Patrie. An premier de la République. Paris, Imp. Schneider, (July 1848). 2 pp. Folio. Folded leaf. Izambard, La Presse Parisienne, p. 125. All published. Editor was A.F. Lacroix, collaborator: Lelarge. EUR 175
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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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RAPPORTS sur les opérations et les faits militaires auxquels la Garde Nationale a pris part, dans les journées des 5 et 6 Juin (1832). Paris, Imprimerie de Crapelet, Juin 1832. (4), 90 pp. 4to. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, original printed covers preserved. First edition. Jean Maximin Lamarque was a general and Restoration deputy. He died on 2 June 1832. His funeral (5 june) which coincided with a Parisian cholera epidemic and an economic crisis producing widespread unemployment and high bread prices, was an opportunity for a liberal demostration to counter the Orleanist rally at Casimir Périer's funeral on 16 May.After a funeral service at the Madeleine, Lamarque's body was to be carried to the pont d'Austerlitz, where it would be embarked for burial in the general's home town near Bordeaux. The huge procession of supporters, political refugees from Spain, Poland, and Italy, and the largely republican artillery units of the National Guard sang the 'Marseillaise' and called for the establishment of a republic. Violence broke out during speeches at the bridge, (.....). An attempt was made to carry the coffin to the Pantheon, and barricades were thrown up from the place des Victoires to the Jardin des Plantes. The insurrection, though widespread, was leaderless, and Louis-Philippe, after some hesistation, brought regular troops into the city. By the evening of 5 June the revolt had been confined to the fourth arrondissement. On 6 June, units of the army and the National Guard wiped out the last vestiges of resistance in the cloister of the church of St.-Merri with artillery and the bayonet. The total number of dead was estimated at 800. The case of the barricade of the rue du Cloître Saint-Merri inspired Victor Hugo in his Les misérables. EUR 225
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REVOLUTIONS DU XIXe SIECLE, LES. Deuxième Série. 1835-1848. Collection of rare French revolutionary publications from the years 1835-1848. Paris, EDHIS 1979. 12 volumes, 11 in 4to, 1 in folio. Original publisher's leather. Well-done reprint, all volumes with a table at the beginning and an index at the end, and since long out-of-print. I-II: Le Mouvement Ouvrier, 1834-1848. - III-IV: La Propagande socialiste, 1834-1848. - V: Cabet, le Communisme icarien de 1840 à 1847. - VI-VIII: Révolutionaires et Néo-Babouvistes, 1835-1847. - IX-XI: Les procès des sociétés secrètes devant la Cour des Pairs: L'insurrection de Mai 1839 - L'attentat Darmès, 11 Mai 1840 - L'attentat Quénisset, 13 Septembre 1841. - XII: Feuilles populaires et documents divers, 1835-1848.Important collection offering a wealth of rare and very difficult to find material from the period and forming a wonderful source. Each volume with a table of contents and an index. A detailed list of contents per volume is available upon request. EUR 1500
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TARIF au minimum des prix de la façon des étoffes de soie, librement débattu et consenti entre les délégués des fabricans et des ouvriers ..... du 25 octobre 1831, pour recevoir son exécution à partir de Ier novembre prochain. Lyon, J.M. Boursy, (1831). Folio poster on white paper (38,3 x 44,5 cm), folded and bound in a small 4to volume. Modern half morocco. Not in Charléty. Following a slump in production at the beginning of 1831 and following a petition by the weavers and others demanding a new tariff in October, the new prefect of the Rhone, Bouvier Dumoulard, ordered weavers and merchant representatives to negociate new piecework rates. A preliminary agreement was arrived at on October 31. When it became apparent that many merchants ignored it and that some even withheld commission for new work to indicate their displeasure at any attempt to fix the cost of labor, the weavers responded with a strike and when National Guard units composed largely of merchants and their clerks fired on demonstrators a general uprising began. It was suppressed by Marchal De Soult at the cost of 550 lives. During this revolt the first black flags appeared with the devise: Vivre en travaillant, ou mourir en combattant (see: Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the Second Empire, vol. i, p. 654). - Some staining. A document of great importance and of great rarity. EUR 1200
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(DAVENNE, FR.) Factum de la sapience éternelle, & requeste remonstrative présentée au Parlement, &c. (Drop-head title). No place, (1652). 11, (1 blank) pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Moreau, Bibliographie des Mazarinades, 1361; not in Welsh. - A little browned. EUR 180
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(DUPONT DE NEMOURS, P.S.) Avant-dernier chapitre de l'histoire des Jacobins. (Paris), In fine: De l'Imprimerie de l'Auteur, seconde édition, (1792). 30 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Schelle 51; Martin & Walter 12137; not in Monglond; not in Tourneux. Second edition. Drop-head title on the first page reads: Lettre de M. Du Pont aux citoyens constitutionnaires, 14 mai de l'an IV. Fundamental criticism of Jacobine politics in which Du Pont discusses the circumstances through which the assembly has lost so much of its sovereignty, delivers an excellent analysis of constitutional politics and argues for the return to a constitutional and legitimate government of which he also recapitulates the fundamental principles. EUR 300
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(FICHTE, J.G.) Beitrag zur Berichtigung des Publikums über die französische Revolution. Erster Theil [- Erster Theil ... Zweites Heft]. Zur Beurtheilung ihrer Rechtmäßichkeit. No place, 1793. - (Bound with:) WURMBRAND, Jos. VON: (pseud. von Ad. KNIGGE). Josephs von Wurmbrand, kaiserlich abyssinischen Ex-Ministers, jezzigen Notarii caesarii publici in der Reichsstadt Bopfingen, politisches Glaubensbekenntniß, mit hinsicht auf die französische Revolution und deren Folgen. Frankfurt und Leipzig, 1792. 2 works in 1 volume. xxiii, (1 blank), 199, (1 blank), (2 druckfehler), 201-435, (3 nacherinnerung) pp.; viii, (2, inhalt), 173, (1) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary boards with label (cover somewhat worn and rubbed, but solid; some light browning throughout; small stamp on title and verso). First work: Baumgartner & Jacobs, A1, 4x and 4x a. First edition of Fichte's principal work, very rare, all published. The leaders in German literary life were almost unanimous in welcoming the 1789 revolutionary events in France. Philosophers like Kant, Herder, Fichte, poets like Klopstock, Hölderlin and Wieland were enraptured by what they heard. Even when some of them like Fichte and Knigge were aware by 1791 of the continuing political unrest and upheaval, they kept defending the true principles and motives of the revolution against its detractors in terms which had impressed many of its readers as being subversively democratic: '...und so scheint mir die französische Revolution ein reiches Gemälde über den grossen Tert: Menschenrecht und Menschenwert' (from the introduction of Fichte's work). But the historical phenomenon was even more important because it formed the basis of Fichte's philosopical insights: the originality of Fichte's ethical system consisted in the synthesis it established between the autonomous ethics originating in Kant and the French Revolution, and social and anti-individualistic ethics. Contrary to the way he was later recepted, Fichte did not support but combat agressive nationalism and pan-Germanism; in fact his views harmonized with his cosmopolitan idea of Humanism. Through his followers (like Krause and others who also published in French) Fichte influenced many later social thinkers like Proudhon and Carlyle. The work was written in Zürich were Fichte worked as a tutor to meet his financial needs. Despite this difficulty, it proved to be decisive for his future career through the expansion of his social contacts and the intensive study of Kant. Second work: Goedeke, IV 1, 617,25.First edition, rare. Adolp Freiherr Knigge (1752-1796) mostly known through his popular social ethics ' .... über den Umgang mit Menschen ....' also wrote three anonymously published 'Staatsromane' of which this is one. Already during his lifetime Knigge was considered a 'German jacobin', attacked and prosecuted as such. It required some courage to criticise so openly German absolutism and discuss the causes and necessity of the French revolution and the effects on other European countries. Just like Fichte, he thought the political change to be legitimate, and though he disapproves of the terror, he excuses it because of the agelong suppression of the French people. Knigge advocated democratic institutions and prepared by this the civil revolution which seemed inevitable to him. EUR 2500
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(GENTON & L. GREPPO & ALLERAT.) La vérité sur les événements de Lyon au mois d'avril 1834. Paris, Dentu; Lyon, Chambert, 1834. With 2 plates. - (Followed by:) SALA, A. Les ouvriers lyonnais en 1834. Esquisses historiques. Paris, Hivert, 1834. - (Followed by:) RELATION historique des événements de Lyon, pendant les journées des 9, 10, et 11 avril 1834. - Journées de 12, 13, 14 14 avril à Lyon, faisant suite à la Relation historique des événements de Lyon. (Drop-head title). (Lyon, Impr. J.M. Boursy, 1834). - (Followed by:) BEAULIEU, C. Histoire du commerce, de l'industrie et des fabriques de Lyon, depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours. Lyon, A. Baron, 1838. 4 works bound in 1 volume. (4), ii, (2), 280 pp.; 164 pp.; 16 pp.; vii, (1), 310 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, labels with gilt lettering, boards and extremities very lightly rubbed. First work: Charléty, Bibliographie de Lyon, ii, 3643.Second work: Charléty, Bibliographie de Lyon, ii, 3638.Third work: Not in Charléty, Bibliographie de Lyon.Fourth work: Kress C.4556; Goldsmiths 30372; not in Einaudi. All first editions. The Lyon revolts of 1831-1834 were the last of a century-long series of labor disturbances in the city's silk industry, France's largest urban artisinal trade. The uprisings of 1831 and 1834 marked the final efforts of France's most militant preindustrial work-force to secure decent incomes and a voice in the management of an industry in which their influence had steadily declined (Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restauration to the Second Empire, vol. i, pp. 651-656). EUR 500
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(PERIER, C.P.) Chambre des Députés. Session 1831. Communication faite au nom du gouvernement, par M. le Président du Conseil, ministre secrétaire d'État au Département de l'intérieur sur les troubles de Lyon. Séance du 17 Décembre 1831. (Drop-head title). Paris, A. Henry , Décembre 1831. 30 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Charléty, Bibliographie de Lyon.At head of title: (No 238). Casimir-Pierre Périer (1777-1832), banker, political leader, and minister. With his brother Scipion, he organized and directed the banking house of Périer and Frères in Paris, and they moved into insurance, textiles, sugar refining, flour miling, iron, and coal. Both served as regents of the Bank of France. In 1817 Casimir won election as a deputy of Paris, and he sat in the Chamber of Deputies from that day untill his death in 1832. Originally a member of the government majority, he was, after 1820, increasingly alienated by the politics of the ultraroyalists and shifted into the opposition. In March 1831 he accepted the king's call to head a new conservative ministry. For the next thirteen months as president of the Council and minister of the interior, he imposed his authoritarian and conservative rule on France and on his associates. He excluded the king from meetings of the ministry, denied his ministers all independence of action, restricted the political activities of civil servants, and ruthlessly suppressed popular disorder. The present work deals with the attitude of the government regarding the insurrection of the Lyon workers in November 1831. The uprising of 1831 and 1834 marked the final efforts of France's most militant preindustrial work force to secure decent incomes and a voice in the management of an industry in which their influence had steadily declined (Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restauration to the Second Empire, vol. I, pp. 653 ff. and vol. II, pp. 791-792). EUR 150
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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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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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BARERE DE VIEUZAC, B. COLLECTION of 43 reports and opinions by Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac, delivered in the Assemblée Constituante and the Convention Nationale, between 1790 and 1795. 43 pieces bound in 1 volume. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering on spine, marbled boards. Interesting collection marking Barère's development of prudent democrat, via a man of the center to would-be mediator and terrorist. (Cf. : Gershoy, Bertrand Barère, a reluctant terrorist. Princeton, 1962).Contains: 1. OPINION sur la réélection illimitée des Membres des Législatures. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale, 1791. 16 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1604). 2. OPINION sur les mesures de Police à prendre contre les Emigrans. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1791. (2), 9, (1 blank) pp. (Martin & Walter, 1607). 3. OPINION contre l'initiative du Roi & des ministres concernant les contributions publiques, initiative proposée par les comités de Constitution & de Révision. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1791). 11, (1 blank) pp. (Martin & Walter, 1608). - Slightly waterstained. 4. RAPPORT sur la vente & aliénation des Domaines de la Couronne, fait au nom du Comité des Domaines. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1790). With extensive financial figures. 63, (1 blank) pp. (Martin & Walter, 1611). 5. RAPPORT sur les Bois & Forêts Nationales. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1790). 29, (1 blank) pp. (Martin & Walter, 1612). 6. RAPPORT sur la restitution des biens des Religionnaires fugitifs & autres dont les biens ont été confisqués pour cause de religion. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1790. 27, (1 blank) pp. (Martin & Walter, 1614). 7. RAPPORT sur les domaines nationaux de l'Isle de Corse. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1791. (2), 25, (1 blank) pp. (Martin & Walter, 1616). - Slightly waterstained and partly browned. 8. RAPPORT sur les hostilités du gouvernement espagnol et sur la nécessité de déclarer que la République française est en guerre avec le roi d'Espagne. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1793). 18 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1623). 9. RAPPORT général sur l'état de la République française. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 63, (1 blank) pp. (Martin & Walter, 1624. With wrong date).10. RAPPORT sur la convocation des assemblées primaires, fait au nom du Comité de Salut Public. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1793). 16 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1626).11. RAPPORT fait au nom du Comité de Salut Public, le premier Août 1793. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1793). 35, (1 blank) pp. (Martin & Walter, 1627,2). - Deals with the British intrigues.12. RAPPORT sur la mission civique des envoyés des assemblées primaires du peuple français. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1793). 14 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1629).13. RAPPORT et décret sur la réquisition civique des jeunes citoyens pour la défense de la patrie. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 20 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1630).14. RAPPORT sur les opérations du Comité (de Salut Public) dans la campagne actuelle. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1793). 19, (1 blank) pp. (Martin & Walter, 1634).15. RAPPORT sur les moyens d'exécution du décret du 17 septembre (1793), concernant les personnes suspectes, & du décret rendu le 30 frimaire (1793). (Drop-head title). (Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1793). 14 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1640). - Slightly waterstained.16. RAPPORT et projet de décret sur les idiômes étrangers, & l'enseignement de la langue française. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 14 pp. (Martin & Walter, I, 1645).17. RAPPORT et projet de décret sur l'établissement d'une Commission nationale des poudres et armes de la République. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 48 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1646).18. RAPPORT sur l'exécution du décret du 11 brumaire (1793), et sur la publication des tableaux du maximum, des denrées et marchandises soumises à la loi du maximum. (Drop-head title). (Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1794). 16 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1647, variant edition of 23 pp.)19. PREMIER RAPPORT sur les moyens d'extirper la mendicité dans les campagnes, & sur les secours que doit accorder la République aux citoyens indigens. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 54 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1653).20. RAPPORT sur l'assassinat de Collot-d'Herbois, représentant du peuple. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 15, (1 blank) pp. (Martin & Walter, 1654).21. RAPPORT sur les crimes de l'Angleterre envers le Peuple français, & sur ses attentats contre la liberté des nations. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 36 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1656, variant edition of 23 pp.) - Browned.22. RAPPORT sur l'éducation révolutionnaire, républicaine & militaire; et décret sur la formation de l'Ecole de Mars. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 16 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1657, variant edition of 23 pp.)23. RAPPORT sur la prise de Charleroi. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 6 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1658).24. RAPPORT sur la bataille de Fleurus. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie de Quiber-Pallissaux, (1794). 8 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1659).25. RAPPORT sur la suite des évènemens du siége d'Ypres, et sur les monumens nationaux environnans Paris. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 4 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1660).26. RAPPORT sur l'état de la fabrication révolutionnaire du salpêtre & de la poudre, & sur la nécessité de supprimer l'agence nationale, ci-devant Régie des poudres et salpêtres. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 19, (1 blank) pp. (Martin & Walter, 1661). - Slightly waterstained.27. RAPPORT sur l'héroïsme des Républicains montant le vaisseau le Vengeur. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie de Quiber-Pallissaux, (1794). 9 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1663).28. RAPPORT sur le progrès des armées de la République. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie de Quiber-Pallissaux, (1794). 8 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1664).29. RAPPORT fait au nom du Comité de Salut Public du 23 messidor an 2. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 4 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1666). - Deals with the victories achieved in Belgium.30. RAPPORT sur la prise de Bruxelles. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 10, (2 blank) pp. (Martin & Walter, 1667).31. RAPPORT sur les succès de l'armée du Rhin. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 3, (1 blank pp. (Martin & Walter, 1668).32. RAPPORT sur la suppression des repas civiques & des fêtes sectionnaires. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 14, (2 blank) pp. (Martin & Walter, 1669).33. RAPPORT sur la prise de Tripstat et de Landrecie. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 8 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1670).34. RAPPORT sur les victoires remportées par les armées de la Moselle, du Rhin, de Sambre-et-Meuse et du Nord. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 14, (2 blank) pp. (Martin & Walter, 1671).35. RAPPORT et projet de décret sur les places à décerner par la Convention nationale aux défenseurs de la patrie qui se seront distingués par des traits de bravour. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 8 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1672).36. RAPPORT sur la prise de Namur & de Kaiserlautern. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 10 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1673). - Browned.37. RAPPORT sur la prise de Nieuport & sur les nouveaux complots tramés par les ennemis de l'intérieur. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 15, (1 blank) pp. (Martin & Walter, 1674).38. RAPPORT sur la prise d'Anvers. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, ( 1794). 4 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1675).39. RAPPORT sur la conspiration ourdie contre la représentation nationale, par Robespierre, Couthon, St.-Just, Lebas & leurs complices. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (9 thermidor an II 1794). 7, (1 blank) pp. (Martin & Walter, 1676).40. RAPPORT sur les évènemens de Paris, du 9 thermidor. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 4 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1677).41. RAPPORT sur la conjuration de Robespierre, Couthon, St.-Just et leurs complices. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 8 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1678). 42. RAPPORT sur la prise de l'isle de Catzan & de l'artillerie des Hollandois. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 8 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1681).43. SECOND MEMOIRE des membres de l'ancien comité de Salut Public, dénoncés par Laurent Lecointre. (At end:) Paris, Imprimerie nationale, pluviôse an III (1795). (2), 44 pp. (Martin & Walter, 1596, however without the titlepage). - The piece is signed by Barère, Collot and Billaud. EUR 2800
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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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COMMUNE OF 1871 - VILLE DE PARIS. 1er Arrondissement. Mairie du Louvre. (Paris), (1870). 1 page, folded. Folio. Announcement concerning the freedom of the people to buy meat from butchers of their choice who have meat for sale, as long as the distribution of meat has not yet been fully organised. Signed by Jules Méline, who was elected as a member of the Commune with 7251 of the 11056 votes, but who resigned as soon as the Commune really started. EUR 75
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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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GOUY, (D'ARCY, L.M.) DE. Première dénonciation solemnelle d'un ministre, faite à l'Assemblée nationale, en la personne du comte de La Luzerne, ministre d'Etat, de la Marine et des Colonies, signée par les représentans de la colonie; approuvée et confimée (sic) par les trois Assemblées provinciales et par l'Assemblée coloniale de Saint-Domingue. Paris, Chez Demonville, 1790. - (Followed by:) (GOUY D'ARCY, L.M. De.) Supplément à la dénonciation de M. de La Luzerne, ministre de la Marine & des Colonies, ou Réponse par des pièces justificatives, sans réplique, au prétendu Mémoire justificatif qu'il a publié en juin 1790. Par les Députés de Saint-Domingue à l'Assemblée Nationale. (Drop-head title). No place, no date, (Paris, 1790.) 2 volumes. (4), 166, 141 pp.; 31 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, marbled boards (volume 1), modern half morocco, marbled boards (volume 2). Martin & Walter 15478 (first volume only); Sabin 28152 (first volume only); not in Echeverria & Wilkie; not in JFBL. Original edition. - Very rare in this complete state. Against the policy of La Luzerne with regards to the colonies. Gouy d'Arcy led the colonial delegates in support of the Tennis Court Oath: the colonies had sent delegates to the upcoming Estates General in France and had even drafted their own cahiers des doléances in which they voiced their demands for more home rule and economic freedom.The original frontcover of volume one is preserved and gives, both recto and verso, the chronology of the events in Saint-Domingue from December 1st 1789 - 22 October 1790. EUR 1000
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HAUREAU, (J.) B. La Montagne. Notices historiques et philosophiques sur les principaux membres de la Montagne par B. Hauréau, avec leurs portraits gravés à l'eau forte par Jeanron. Paris, J. Bréauté, 1834. With 15 portraits on China paper and mounted on 'papier vélin.' xxxii, 256pp. Large 8vo. Modern half morocco, corners, spine in six compartments, gilt lettering, top edge gilt (original green covers preserved, uncut). Tourneux, i, 498; Vicaire, iv, col. 37. First and only edition, very rare. - An excellent copy of a rare book. These biographies, each illustrated with a portrait are those of Danton, C. Desmoulins, Collot d'Herbois, Billaud-Varennes, J.-L. David, Marat, Babeuf, Fouquier-Tinville, Joseph Lebon, Romme, Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, Robespierre jeune, Couthon, Saint-Just, and Robespierre ainé. The author was heavily influenced by the famous work by Buonarotti (Conspiration de Babeuf ), one of the few surviving friends of Babeuf, which was published in 1828. The portrait of Romme is also present, while his name has been omitted from the table of contents and added in a contemporary hand. The sympathy for Babeuf and babouvism and for Robespierre made the book subject to suppression from the moment it was published.The publication was announced for the 10th of May, 1832, but the insurrection prevented this and publication was delayed. The original covers still carries the date 1832. EUR 3750
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K(AMENEV, JU.) Sotsial'demokraticheskija izdanija. Ukazatel' sotsial'demokraticheskoi litaratury na russkom jazyke 1883-1905 gg. Sostavlen pod redaktsiei Ju.K. Izdanie K. Vitenberga. (Indexdes Publications social-democrates russes à l'étranger, 1883-1905). Parizh, 1913. 56, (2) pp. 4to. Modern half morocco, spine lettered in gilt, marbled boards, all edges gilt, original covers bound in. (Russkaja Politicheskaja Literatura Zagranitsei. Bypusk I.) Not in Besterman; not in Winchell. Extremely rare bibliography. One of a few copies (if not the only copy) printed on heavy paper.On page 13 a manuscript addition in the hand of Leonid Bernstein.On the first pastedown an annotation in the hand of Michel Bernstein reading: 'Seul ex. tiré sur beau papier - pour mon père.' EUR 600
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LATRADE, (L. CHASSAIGNAC DE.) Développements de la proposition concernant les associations d'ouvriers présentés (à l'Assemblée Nationale). Séance du 22 juin 1848. (Drop-head title). Paris, A. Henry, (1848). - (Followed by:) CORBON, (C.A.) Rapport fait au nom du Comité des travailleurs sur la proposition du citoyen Alcan, relative aux associations, soit entre ouvriers, soit entre patrons et ouvriers. Séance du 4 juillet 1848. (Drop-head title). Paris, A. Henry, (1848). - (Followed by:) MOURAUD, P. Rapport fait au nom du Comité des travaux publics, sur la proposition du citoyen Latrade, concernant les associations d'ouvriers pour les entreprises de travaux publics. 12 juillet 1848. (Drop-head title). Paris, A. Henry, (1848). - (Followed by:) TOURRET, (C.G.) Projet de décret relatif aux actes et contracts à passer pour la constitution et l'organisation des associations ouvrières. Séance du 9 Septembre 1848. (Drop-head title). Paris, A. Henry, (1848). - (Followed by:) GILLON, P. Rapport fait au nom du Comité du travail, sur le projet de décret relatif aux actes et contrats à passer pour la constitution et l'organisation des sociétés ouvrières. Séance du 25 Septembre 1848. (Drop-head title). Paris, A. Henry, (1848). 5 pieces bound in 1 volume. 6 pp.; 8 pp.; 13, (1) pp.; 6 pp.; 10 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. These five pieces dealing with workers associations and the organization of labour and published by the Assemblée Nationale, are numbered 111, 174, 209, 435 and 484 at top of each first page.This small collection of works deals with the workers' cooperatives, the principal objective of the early French labor movement. They discuss government support for the cooperatives and contain among others the important proposal by Corbon (2nd text) in which he introduced a bill to provide government encouragement through 3 million francs in credit to cooperatives consisting of workers or workers and employers. EUR 350
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LONGUEUE, (L.) Discours familier et préparatoire à des instructions contre la religion des prêtres, prononcé dans le Club révolutionnaire des vrais sans-culottes, séant à Chartres, le dimanche 26 mai, l'an second (1793) ..... et réimprimé le 15 brumaire (15 novembre) par ordre du ministre de l'interieur. (Drop-head title). A Paris, De l'Imprimerie du Lycée des Arts, (1793). 27, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Martin &Walter 21702. First edition. EUR 125
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MANLEY, (M. DE LA RIVIERE.) L'Atalantis de Madame Manley, traduit de l'Anglois. Contenant les intrigues politiques, et amoureuses de la noblesse de cette île et où l'on découvre le secret des révolutions, arrivées depuis l'an 1683, jusques à présent. A La Haye, Chez Henry Scheurleer, 1713. With printer's mark on title. Title printed in red and black. (12), 408 (misnumbered 508), (8) pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine with raised bands, worn and rubbed, damage to head of spine. Not in Conlon, Prélude. First French edition, complete with the key to the names. Mrs. Mary de la Rivière Manley, author of New Atlantis, dauther of sir Roger Manley. The work was entitled Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality, of both Sexes. From the New Atlantis published in 1709, with a second volume following in the same year. In the New Atlantis Mrs Manley fully exhibited her taste for intrigue, and impudently slandered many persons of note, especially those of whiggish proclivities. The result was that on 29 October 1709 she was arrested, together with the publishers and printer of the book (DNB, xii, pp. 920-22.) - Outer top corner of pp. 355/56 torn off with loss of a few letters. EUR 350
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MATHIEZ, A. La vie chère et le mouvement social sous la Terreur. Paris, Payot, 1927. 620 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, original covers preserved. Original edition. The only edition on good quality paper. Excellent study, out of print and much sought after. La Gironde et la vie chère. - Les Enragés et la vie chère. - Le gouvernement révolutionnaire et la vie chère. EUR 175
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NAPOLEON III - PIAT. Candidature de Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, représentant du peuple à la présidence de la République. (Drop-head title). (Paris), N. Chaix, Dated at top of page 1: 4 novembre 1848. 2 pp. Small 8vo. Disbound. Cf.: Bibliothèque nationale. La révolution de 1848. Exposition. (1948), 806 & 808b. Leaflet of propaganda, accompanied by a ballot paper (page 2). Text signed by general Piat. EUR 75
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PELLETAN, E. Histoire des trois journées de Février 1848. Paris, Louis Colas, 1848. (6), 184 pp. 8vo. Modern half hard-grained morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettering, marbled boards, original covers preserved, top edge gilt. Stammhammer, i, p. 171 (3); not in Dolléans & Crozier. First edition. Pierre Clément Eugene Pelletan (1813-1884). Studies law at the Collège Royal in Poitiers, moves to Paris to continue his studies but is more interested in philosophy, economics and history and studies these at the Collège de France and the Sorbonne. He sympathizes with the saint-simonian doctrines, and travels during one year through the north of France, Belgium, Germany and Switserland. He makes his appearance in journalism in 1836 (la Nouvelle Minerve and la France Littéraire). During the revolution of 1848 follows Lamartine into the Hotel de Ville but refuses to be employed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He writes for a large number of journals and remains active in politics until the end of his life. EUR 250
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RALEA, M. L'idée de révolution dans les doctrines socialistes. Étude sur l'évolution de la tactique révolutionnaire. Paris, Rivière, 1923. - (Followed by:) RALEA, M. Révolution et socialisme. Essai de bibliographie. Paris, P.U.F., 1923. 2 volumes in 1. (4), vi, (2) 402 pp.; (80, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern cloth, black leather label, gilt lettering (original covers preserved.) Deals with Saint-Simon and Saint-Simonism, Proudhon, Marx, Babeuf and Babouvism, the revolution of 1848, Blanqui, Chartism, and revolutionary syndicalism. The bibliography contains 527 entries. EUR 225
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RECLUS - NETTLAU, M. Elisée Reclus. Anarchist und Gelehrter (1830-1905). Berlin, Verlag Der Syndicalist, 1928. With portrait. 348 pp. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt lettering, foot of spine slightly discoloured. (Beiträge zur Geschichte des Sozialismus, Syndicalismus, Anarchismus, Band IV). First edition. Jacques Elisée Reclus, French geographer and anarchist. Originally trained for the Protestant ministry, Reclus soon turned to the study of geography and affiliated himself with the revolutionary movement. He was exiled after the coup d'état of 1851 but in 1857 returned to France, where he remained until he was again banished after the fall of the Paris Commune in 1871. He lived for many years in Switzerland, later in close association with Kropotkin.As early as 1851 Reclus concluded that anarchy, or the absence of government, was la plus haute expression de l'ordre. He was a militant member of Bakunin's secret international brotherhood and of other anarchist and republican groups, but never was a party man or a fanatic. A person of engaging charm and one who always preserved his own independence in the controversies of the diverse anarchist schools, Reclus exercised wide influence in anarchist circles throughout the world (Max Nettlau in ESS, vol. xiii, p. 164). EUR 200
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REVOLUTION OF 1848 - COLLECTION of 20 pieces pertaining to the 1848 elections in the Haute-Garonne and Haute-Loire. 1848. 20 pieces. 4to and 8vo. Contains:1. FORT, L. Aux citoyens frères républicains de la Haute-Garonne. (Drop-head title). Toulouse, (1848). 4to. 2 pp. Profession of faith of the president of the Club du peuple de Cazères.2. AUX électeurs du département de la Haute-Garonne. (Drop-head title). Toulouse, (1848). 4to. 4 pp. In favour of Prosper Gauja, ancien préfet.3. (DUMARC.) Aux électeurs de la Hte Garonne. (Drop-head title). Levignac, 23 mars 1848. 8vo. 1 page. 4. COMITE démocratique d' Angoulême. Respect des propriétés, sécurité des personnes. (Drop-head title). Angoulême, 14 mars 1848. 4to. 3, (1 blank) pp. Inserted an 8vo leaflet of 1 page: CITOYENS de l'armée (from the Département de la Charente). Dated 20 mars 1848.5. GASC, J. A MM les électeurs du département de la Haute-Garonne. (Drop-head title). (Puy (?), 1848). Small 8vo. 4 pp.6. CANDIDATURE de M. de Croze, ancien préfet. A messieurs les électeurs de la Haute-Loire. (Drop-head title). Paris, (1848). 4to. 4 pp.7. CALEMAND-LAFAYETTE, Ch. Aux habitants de la Haute-Loire. (Drop-head title). Puy, 28 mars 1848. 4to. 4 pp.8. (AUDIARD-BONNET.) Aux cultivateurs, aux négociants, au clergé, à tous les travailleurs de la Haute-Loire. (Drop-head title). Puy, (1848). 4to. 3, (1 blank) pp. (Loose). The author was editor of the journal 'La Haute-Loire'.9. (GRELLET, F.) Aux électeurs de la Haute-Loire. (Drop-head title). Puy, (1848). 4to. 3, (1 blank) pp.10. (MALLYE, A.) Aux électeurs de la Haute-Loire. (Drop-head title). Brioude, (1848). Small 4to. 3, (1 blank) pp.11. (AVOND, A.) Aux habitans de la Haute-Loire. (Drop-head title). Paris, mars 1848. 4to. 4 pp.12. (BUREAUD-RIOFREY.) Aux habitants de la Haute-Loire. (Drop-head title). (Paris, 1848). 4to. 4 pp.13. (BUREAUD-RIOFREY.) Aux habitans de la Haute-Loire. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Instruction pour l'élection. Puy, (1848). 4to. 1 page.14. CHARBONNEL. Le citoyen Charbonnel, représentant du peuple pour le départ. de la Haute-Loire, à la France! (Drop-head title). Puy, 27 avril 1848. Small 4to. 1 page.15. (LAMOTHE, A.) Aux électeurs de la Haute-Loire. (Drop-head title). Brioude, 8 avril 1848. Small 4to. 1 page.16. (GRELLET, F.) Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Aux électeurs de la Haute-Loire. (Drop-head title). Puy, (1848). 4to. 3, (1 blank) pp. (Not the same text as item 9).17. (ST.-FERREOL, A.) A mes concitoyens de la Haute-Loire. (Drop-head title). Brioude, 23 mars 1848. 4to. 2, (2 blank) pp.18. (CHOUVY, C.) Aux électeurs de la Haute-Loire. (Drop-head title). Puy, (1848). 4to. 2, (2 blank) pp.19. (COUGUET, E.) Aux électeurs de la Haute-Loire. (Drop-head title). Brioude, 16 avril 1849. Small 8vo. 3, (1 blank) pp.20. (POLGE MONTALBERT, J.) Aux électeurs du Puy-en Velay et de la Haute-Loire. (Drop-head title).(Paris), 26 mars 1848. 4to. 4 pp. EUR 650
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RULHIERE, C. (C.) Histoire de l'anarchie de Pologne, et du démembrement de cette république. Suivi des anecdotes sur la révolution de Russie, en 1762, par le même auteur. Paris, Desenne, Nicolle et Desenne jeune, 1807. 4 volumes. (4), 58, 385 pp.; (4), 564 pp.; (4), 517pp.; (4), 443 pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, the black background of the lettering partly rubbed off. Catalogue Russica, ii, R-1528; cf.: Zaleski, i, 16. First edition. In Paris the problem of Poland was discussed with extraordinary intensity. The circles of diplomats, writers, and economists were extraordinary sensitive. The work of Rulhière, published posthumously in 1807, but which circulated widely in manuscript from the seventies and eighties, is typical. The political element dominated: the struggles of men and circumstances, intrigues, betrayals, violence. But above this rose the desparate will of the Poles to live and act, even when everything around them was collapsing. (See for an elaborate treatment of the Polish question and Rulhière's book: F. Venturi, The End of the Old Regime in Europe, 1768-1776. The First Crisis, chapter VII). The Anecdotes sur la révolution de Russie had appeared already before, in 1797. EUR 300
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RULHIERE, C. (C.) Histoire de l'anarchie de Pologne, et du démembrement de cette république. Suivi des anecdotes sur la révolution de Russie, en 1762, par le même auteur. Paris, Desenne, Nicolle et Desenne jeune, 1807. 4 volumes. (4), 75, (2), 346 pp.; (4), 505 pp.; (4), 469 pp.; (4), 431 pp. 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spines gilt in compartments, labels with gilt lettering, gilt ornamental border on sides, very lightly rubbed. Catalogue Russica, ii, R-1529; cf.: Zaleski, i, 16. First edition. In Paris the problem of Poland was discussed with extraordinary intensity. The circles of diplomats, writers, and economists were extraordinary sensitive. The work of Rulhière, published posthumously in 1807, but which circulated widely in manuscript from the seventies and eighties, is typical. The political element dominated: the struggles of men and circumstances, intrigues, betrayals, violence. But above this rose the desparate will of the Poles to live and act, even when everything around them was collapsing. Consult for an elaborate treatment of the Polish question and Rulhière's book: F. Venturi, The End of the Old Regime in Europe, 1768-1776. The First Crisis, chapter VII).The Anecdotes sur la révolution de Russie had appeared already before, in 1797. - A nice copy. EUR 400
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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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VERMOREL, A. Les hommes de 1848. Troisième édition. Paris, Décembre-Alonnier, 1869. (4), 427, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, extremeties slightly worn. Stammhammer II, p. 337. Vermorel wrote this book dealing with Odilon Barrot, Lamartine, Louis Blanc, Ledru-Rollin, Garnier-Pagès, Carnot, Marrast, etc., while he was in prison for having written an article La grève des peuples contre la guerre. He was elected in the Commune on March 26, where he was a liberal member. He was mortally wounded at the barricades of Chateau-d'Eau. EUR 125
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WASSERMANN, S. Les clubs de Barbès et de Blanqui en 1848. Paris, Edouard Cornély et Cie., 1913. (4), xxii, 248 pp. 8vo. Original printed covers, somewhat discoloured, uncut (Bibliothèque d'Histoire Moderne publiée sous les auspices de la Société d'Histoire Moderne, Fascicule XII). Original edition. Valuable history of the revolution of 1848, the clubs, organisation, membership, activities, etc. The pages v-xxii contain the bibliography. EUR 125
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