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A LA GARDE Nationale. Citoyens! Paris, Impr. du Gouvernement, Février 1848. Oblong folio poster on white paper. Les murailles révolutionnaires de 1848, vol i, p. 30 (listing a later issue). First issue. Thanking the Garde National for its 'fraternelle union avec le Peuple' and asking for its continued support for the difficult tasks ahead of the Provisional Government. Dated 24 february 1848 and with the names of Dupont, Arago, Marie, Lamartine, Crémieux, Ledru-Rollin, Garnier-Pagès, Louis Blanc, Marrast, Flocon and Albert. The last four are mentioned as 'secrétaires' which word has been crossed out. Added a handwritten note stating that this is the first 'tirage' which was 'depuis rectifié.'At head of poster: République Française. Au nom du Peuple Français. EUR 150
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CAHIER d'objets d'utilité et de réformes nationales à proposer à l'Assemblée des Etats-Généraux. No place, 1789. xxii, 54 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Martin & Walter. First edition. - Very rare In fact a project for a constitution which stands for freedom of commerce, freedom of corn-trade, freedom for the industry, suppression of religious orders and reform of the tax system. EUR 375
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COMMUNE de Paris (de 1794). Département de police. Du 26 Fructodor l'an II (12 Septembre 1794). l'Administration de la police régénérée, aux commissaires de police et comitéscivils des quarante-huit sections. (Paris), De l'imprimerie de Lottin, l'an II (1794). Poster on white paper (52 x 41 cm) bound in a volume. 4to. Modern half morocco. Not in Martin & Walter; not in Tourneux. Original edition. Deals with protection of the quality of bread produced and to see to it that the same quality is delivered in all quarters of the city. EUR 150
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CONFERENCE entre un ministre d'Etat et un conseiller au Parlement. No place, 1787. - (Bound with:) SUITE de la conférence du ministre avec le conseiller. No place, 1787. - ({Bound with:) SECONDE SUITE de la conférence du ministre avec le conseiller. No place, (1787). - (Bound with:) LA NOUVELLE CONFERENCE entre un ministre d'Etat et un conseiller au Parlement. No place, (1787). Together 4 pieces in 1 volume. 39 pp.; 43 pp.; 26 pp.; 36 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, spine with gilt lettering. Kress B.1194 & B.1343 (for the first three, different editions); not in Goldsmiths; Conlon 87:284 & 87:790 (all four). Original editions, quite scarce. Discussing the state of affairs in France in the preceding years, especially the ministries of Calonne and Necker, in the form of dialogues between a minister (Necker) and an advisor. EUR 750
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DISCOURS d'un Gentil-Homme François à la Noblesse de France, sur l'ouverture de l'assemblee des Estats generaux dans la ville de Paris en ceste anne 1614. Avec deux advertissemens particuliers à Mrs. les Deputez du Clergé & de la Nobless. (Drop-head title). No place, (1614). 87, (1) pp. 12mo. Modern boards. Lindsay & Neu 2954; Welsh, Second Checklist, 333; Bourgeois & André 2101. Original edition. - Somewhat browned throughout. 'Il réserve à la noblesse à peu près seule le droit d'en demander la réformation. Enfin, il attaque vivement les officiers de justice et de finances, comme la plupart des pamphlétaires d'alors' (Bourgeois & André). EUR 350
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DISCOURS sur la députation du Parlement à M. le prince de Condé. (Drop-head title). No place, no date (1649). 11 pp. 4to. Modern half vellum, marbled boards, label with gilt lettering. Moreau 1147; not in Welsh. Original edition. - Lightly browned. 'Un des pamphlets les plus hardis et les plus insolents de toute la Fronde, mais non les plus rares'. The text was apparently written by a certain Portail, 'conseiller au Parlement.' EUR 150
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EXTRAIT des registres du Parlement (de Toulouse). (Drop-head title). (At end:) Toulouse, Imprimerie de la veuve de Bernard Pijon, (1761). 104, 26, (2) pp. 8vo. Sewn, old blind cover, uncut (backstrip gone). Not in Conlon. Rare and important arret. The extrait covers the details about the important arrest of 22 June 1761. Although important it never attracted much attention due to the fact that it was shortly after overshadowed by the demand to examen the Constitution of the Jesuits (15 September 1761), which preceded the condemnation of the Jesuits, and the suicide of the young Calas (13 October 1761), both affairs which attracted much attention. The debate deals with a serious conflict between the Parlement in Toulouse, and the Cours des Aides in Montpellier: while the Parlement saw itself as the true representative of the Languedoc, the Cours des Aides saw itself as the true defender of the provincial liberties, treathened by the Parlement.See at length: Dubevat, Histoire du Parlement de Toulouse, vol 2, p. 345 and Du Mege, Histoire de Languedoc, vol 10, p. 524. EUR 175
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JESUITES, LES, Marchands, Usuriers, Usurpateurs, & leurs cruautés dans l'ancien & le nouveau continent. Pour servir de suite au Livre intitulé: Les Jesuites criminels de LezeMajesté. A La Haye, Chez les Freres Vaillant, 1759. - (Followed by:) LES JESUITES criminels de Leze majesté dans la Théorie et dans la Pratique. A La Haye, Chez les freres Vaillant, 1759. Two works in one volume. (i-ii), iii-viii, 388 pp.; (i-ii), iii-xxi, (3, blanks), 332 (misnumbered 226) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt and with raised bands and gilt lettering, minor repair to rear cover. First work: Conlon 59:241; Kress S.4160; Goldsmiths 9443; Higgs 2055; Sabin 36085; Borba de Moraes, vol. i, p. 427.First edition. Second work: Conlon 58:213 (first edition); Borba de Moraes, vol. i, p. 427.Second edition, first published in 1758. NUC gives only two copies of this edition. This is a precious collection of two rare works published in the year the order was suppressed in Portugal. The first work provides a wealth of information on the commercial activities of the Society in South America and in Asia, maritime commerce and trade, sugar-refineries, trade in grain to Malta, on the missions in Asia (Manilla, Indies, China, Japan), the ill-luck in the ventures of the cardinal de Tournon, the destruction of missions in China of which the Jesuits are accused by the anonymous author, missions in Paraguay, the persecution of Palafox, the missions in a.o. Quito, the relations with the indians and their indoctrination, etc. etc. The work ends with an elaborate index which makes the use and perusal of this violent work very easy.The second work is a history of the political scheming of the Society since its foundation in 1540 upto the end of the sixteenth century.- Small repairs to the margin of 6 leaves. Both titles have an old ownership entry in the blank margins. EUR 2800
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JOURNAL des Gens du Monde. Paris, A. Mie, (1833). Leaflet of one page. 4to. Hatin 389. Prospectus of this journal to be directed by M. Gavarni. EUR 75
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LETTRE d'un Anglois à Paris. A Londres, 1787. 24 pp. 8vo. Modern boards, original blind covers preserved. Kress B.1261; Stourm, p. 137; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. On French government finances and especially the taxes on the eve of the revolution. The author also sharply rejects the privileges of the clergy, the class that does not pay taxes, has accumulated an enormous wealth and is yet again exempted from paying taxes. The nobility also has priviliges but the author intelligently observes that the nobility is used to sacrifice and serving the state in various capacities, and, contrary to the clergy, it's position in the state is closely tied to the state itself, in other words, a collapse of the state will have immediate impact on the nobility and their status. It discusses the position of Calonne and the possibilities of reform and the various forms of opposition any reform will provoke from various groups. EUR 200
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LETTRE du Chevalier Georges de Paris. A Monseigneur le Prince de Condé. A Paris, (at end:) Chez Nicolas Boisset, 1649. - (Followed by:) LA SECONDE lettre du Chevalier Georgesà Monsieur le Prince. A Paris, Chez Iean Brunet 1649. 2 parts in one volume. 18 pp.; 8 pp. 4to. Modern boards, gilt lettering to spine. Moreau 2099; not in Welsh. Original edition. - One leaf of the second pamphlet neatly repaired in outer inner blank margin. Naudé refers to this pamphlet on several occasions and calls it one of the most remarkable ones. It should be noted that these remarks refer to the first pamphlet; the second pamphlet is not written by the same author and of lesser quality. EUR 275
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MANIFESTE de la part de sa Majesté le Roy de Sardaigne. (A Turin, par Jean Baptiste Chais Imprimeur du Roy, 1733). 10 pp. 4to. Modern boards, label with gilt lettering. First edition. On the participation on the French side in the War of Polish Succession. The war was ended by Treaty of Vienna. EUR 250
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MEMOIRE sur la Répartition des Impositions ordinaires, & Confection des Rôles de 1790. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1790. 46 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 9848; Tourneux 13560; not in Monglond; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. Important document which shows how the new taxes were received and viewed which were levied by degrees issued by the Assemblée Constituante in 1789 and 1790. The pages 30-46 contain the 'pièces justificatives.' EUR 175
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OFFICIER, L', et Catholique royal sur le droict annnel (sic) et le I. article du tier (sic) Estat. No place, 1615. 163, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled sides, gilt lettering. Kress 337; BMSTC, French Books, 1601-1700, B-37; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Bourgeois & André; not in Lindsay & Neu; not in Welsh. First edition. - Old name and date written in upper blank margin of title-page. The 'Droit annuel' often called the Paulette (see: Marion, M., Dictionnaire des Institutions de la France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles), had to be paid by the 'propriétaires d'offices' if they were to pass their position over to their heirs. This copy has on verso title-page a text 'Au Lecteur' which is signed G.R.P.D.B., covering the whole page. Another copy of this work we had collated identical but did not have this text. EUR 450
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POLITIQUE, LE, du temps. Touchant tout ce qui s'est passé depuis le 26 aoust 1648 jusques à l'heureux retour du Roy en sa ville de Paris. Discours qui peut servir de mémoire à l'histoire. Dedié Aux Curieux. No place, 1648. 22 pp. 4to. Modern half red morocco, gilt lettering, marbled boards. Moreau 2812; not in Lindsay & Neu; not in Welsh. Original edition. 'Très rare. On voit par ce pamphlet ce que les partisans du Prince de Condé qu'en pensaient du rôle qu'il était appelé à jouer pendant la régence, ce qu'en pensait peut-être le prince lui-même' (Moreau). - Verso page 21 is blank, the next leaf, mounted, is numbered, verso, page 22, recto blank. EUR 250
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PROCES-VERBAL des séances de l'Assemblée administrative du Département de l'Aube. Tenues à Troyes, dans les mois de Novembre et Décembre 1790 - [aux mois de Novembre & Décembre 1791. IIe Session.] A Troyes, Chez Sainton, André, 1791-1792. Two volumes. (4), 518, (12) pp.; 429, (13) pp. 4to. Contemporary calf, spines gilt with red and green labels and gilt lettering, gilt fillets on sides, gilt inside dentelles, all edges gilt, some minor imperfections. Not in Martin & Walter; not in Monglond; Lecestre, p. 18 & p. 19. First edition. The first volume deals with the session from 3 November upto 15 December 1790 and dealt with a great variety of subjects: population du département, sur l'agriculture, sur l'industrie, sur le commerce, sur les arts, sur les grands communications, sur les rivières, sur les routs, travaux publics, ateliers de charité, encouragemens et secours de bienfaisance, biens nationaux, contribution patriotique, etc., etc. Henri Picot Dampierre was the president of the Assembly.The second volume covers the session that was held from 15 November upto 14 December 1791: this session covered a great variety of subjects: Frais d'administration, dépense de l'ordre judiciaire de l'année 1791, frais du culte, pensions et secours accordés aux ecclésiastiques et communautés religieuses, dépenses relatives aux travaux des routes, aux travaux de charité, au bien public, à la mendicité, population du département, sur l'agriculture, sur l'industrie, sur le commerce, sur les arts, sur les grands communications, sur les rivières, sur les routs, travaux publics, ateliers de charité, encouragemens et secours de bienfaisance, biens nationaux, contribution patriotique, etc., etc.The first volume has the gilt stamped name of H.P. Dampierre in the center of both sides with above a gilt stamped fleuron with the text "La Nation, la Loi et le Roi", the second volume has the gilt stamped name of T. Cobin, Pr. Général in center of both sides with above the gilt stamped fleuron 'Droits de l'Homme'. H.P Dampierre was the President of the Assembly. EUR 2500
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PROCEZ-VERBAL de tout ce qui s'est passé en la Chambre du Tiers Estat. Touchant le premier article de leur Cahyer presenté au Roy. No place, 1615. (2), 174 (misnumbered 156) pp. 8vo. Modern half calf, raised bands, spine gilt withgilt lettering, marbled boards. Lindsay & Neu 3369. This work deals with Article I of the "Procez Verbal" of the Third Estate meeting in 1614-1615. This Article pertains to the sovereignty of the King. References are also made to Ravaillac, assassin of Henry IV, Robert Estienne's Greek Testament, and lists of names of the deputies. - Somewhat stained in places. EUR 275
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PROMPT et salutaire advis. Vive Jésus-Christ, vive le Roy, & le Parlement, François & tous ses bons sujects. No place, 1649. 11, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards, gilt lettering. Moreau 2903; not in Welsh. Originaledition. 'Fort mal écrit, mais curieux' (Moreau). EUR 150
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RAISONS, LES, ou les Motifs véritables de la deffense du parlement & des Habitans de Paris. Contre les Perturbateurs du repos public, & les Ennemis du Roy & de l'Estat. A Paris, 1649. 26 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Moreau 2967; not in Welsh. First edition. 'Expose complet, mais très-passioné, de ce qui s'est passé en 1648 et 1649, jusqu'à l'arrêt qui déclare le cardinal Mazarin ennemi public' (Moreau). Ex-libris Bruno Monnier, Chateau de Mantry, Jura. EUR 200
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RAPPORT de la commission d'enquête sur l'insurrection qui a éclaté dans la journée du 23 juin et sur les événements du 15 mai (1848). (Paris, Imprimerie de l'Assemblée Nationale, 1848). 3 volumes in one. 376 pp.; 335, (1) pp.; 254 (misnumbered 252) pp. 4to. Contemporary red half morocco, corners, marbled boards, spine gilt with gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Bibliothèque Nationale. La Révolution de 1848, 866. Original edition. The events of May 15 deal with a large demonstration mounted by Parisian clubists and workers to pressure the Assembly to send troops to the aid of Poland which escalated into an invasion of the Assembly and the proclamation of a New Provisional Government, including Louis Blanc and other leftists. But the Executive Commission soon dispersed the demonstrators, arrested the most popular leaders -including Albert, Barbès and Blanqui- and suppressed many of the clubs. Draconian laws prohibited street gatherings, consequent mass arrests, and the Assembly's hostility to social reform created a situation electric with fear and anger. This was precipitated into insurrection by the Assembly's decision on 21 June to slash the rolls of the National Workshops. For four days, an unprecedented civil war tore the city in two. The June uprising started with several large gatherings at the Place de la Bastille and at the Pantheon on 22 June and the morning of June 23 and were followed by the erection of hundreds of barricades throughout eastern Paris. The June days then were an insurrection of Parisian workers against the government of the Second Republic which was crushed by the army in the bloodiest street figthing in Paris before the Commune of 1871. Alexis de Tocqueville noted the working-class character in the insurrection, and Karl Marx called the June Days the first great class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. Very valuable source. The rapports contain a.o.: Documents relatifs à Louis Blanc. - Documents relatifs à M. Caussidiére. - Documents relatifs à l'affaire de Belgique. - Actes du Gouvernement provisoire. - Documents sur les Clubs. - Ateliers nationaux. - Documents fournis par les préfectures, etc. The leading man of this 'Commission d'Enquête' was A. Bauchart who was vehemently attacked by Victor Hugo and Louis Blanc. A major and fundamental source for the 1848 revolution. - Quire 10 in the third volume disbound but complete. EUR 1000
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RECIT du sanglant et terrible massacre, arrivé dans la ville de Moscou, ainsi que de la fin effrayante et tragique du dernier Duc Démétrius 1606. Traduit pour la première fois en François par le prince Augustin Galitzin. Paris, 1859. 6, 45, (1) pp. Small 8vo. Sewn, uncut, in original printed covers. Catalogue Russica, R-277. First French edition. The Regent, Boris Godunov had the heir to the throne, Demetrius, murdered to become tsar himself. In the ensuing struggle in which the populace rose and exterminated the Polish garrison, all of Moscow outside the Kremlin was burned and plundered. EUR 150
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RECUEIL General des Estats tenus en France, sous les Rois, Charles VI. Charles VIII. Charles IX. Henry III. & Loüis XIII. Dedié A Monseigneur le Premier President. A Paris, Au Palais, 1651. Two parts in one volume. (6), 357 (misnumbered 265), (1) pp.; 294 (misnumbered 290), (12) pp. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt double fillets on sides (corners somewhat worn, head and foot of spine chipped, joints starting to split). Not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700. First edition. The work has been compiled by Toussaint Quinet and is dedicated to Mathieu Mole, 'Chevalier, Premier President'. Contains, among others: Les trois estats tenus à Tours - La harangue de par la noblesse de toute la France - L'ordre des estats tenus à Bloys - Noms, surnoms et qualitez des députez des trois ordres des Estats Généraux de France, 1614 - etc. - Lightly browned throughout, a few pages with a small dampstain. Handwritten ex-libris on title. EUR 750
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REQUETE aux Deux Chambres. (Drop-head title). Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Lachevardiere, (1828). With one table. 4 pp. 4to. Modern boards. The table is entitled 'Tableau de trente Écoles élémentaires gratuites de Paris, dressé d'après les états trimestriels et mensuels, adressés à la Préfecture du département, pour avril et mai 1828'. Deals with "Société pour l'Instruction élémentaire and the laws of 13 & 14 September 1791 and the law of 1 Mai 1802 concerning public education and the fact that not much has come of it. The text is signed by 'Un membre de la société pour l'Instruction publique'. The Dictionnaire de Pédagogie contains a long article on this society (pp. 2792-2796). EUR 150
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ARREST du Conseil d'Etat du roy, En faveur du dernier emprunt. 30 Décembre 1785. No place, no date (1785). 3, (1) pp. Small 4to. Modern boards. Only edition. Ficticious 'arret', secretly printed (and possibly due to those circumstances not very well printed), forming a violent diatribe against the pillaging of the treasury ('que pendant plus de quinze mois le trésor royal a été en proie à la cupidité de deux hommes dont l'un y a dilapidé plus de 80 million, ....'), and the conditions under which the new loan has been issued. Of course, this pamphlets is not listed in any of the standard bibliographies. EUR 200
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CITATEUR REPUBLICAIN, Le, Recueil de Principes, de Liberté, ou Choix Principaux de Traités de Démocratie extraits de divers Écrits de Philosophie, ancienne et nouvelle. Nouveau Corps d'ouvrage Divisé par Livraisons. Paris, Rouannet, 1834. viii, 324 pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards, label with gilt lettering. Not in Hatin; not in Catalogue Collectif des Périodiques. Complete collection consisting of all 8 parts. This work compiles textes drawn from the works of such authors as Prudhomme, Jacques Roux, Mably, Hélvetius, La Vicomterie, d'Holbach, Lamenais and dealing with subjects such as the freedom of the press, the relation between government and citizen, the necessity of the republic for France, taxes, responsibility of the ministers, death penalty, the constitution, luxury, divorce, etc. etc.A very good copy of this interesting work, some scattered and unobtrusive spotting, and with two original yellow covers (of the first and the seventh 'livraison') bound in, and complete with the 'Rapport des pièces de la publication du Citateur Républicain' and the tables which were supplied after the last number was published. EUR 600
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CONSTITUTIONS des Treize États-Unis de l'Amérique. A Philadelphie, Et se trouve à Paris, Chez Ph. D. Pierres, Pissot père & fils, 1783. With the seal of the United States designed by Franklin on title. (4), 540 pp. Large 8vo. Contemporary quarter mottled roan and with marbled boards, (some restoration to spine, edges worn, a very good and clean copy. Sabin 16118; Streeter Sale, ii, 1035; Leclerc 854; Howes C.716; not in Muller; not in Fay; Livingston, Franklin and his Press at Passy, pp. 181-188; Echeverria & Wilkie 783/24. First French edition. This work contains the constitutions of the thirteen original states of the newly-emerged United States of America. Inspired by Benjamin Franklin, who was then Ambassador to the French court and who had negociated with Great Britain for the independence of the thirteen colonies, six hundred copies were printed of which one hundred were on large-paper. The work was translated by the Duc de la Rochefoucauld, and annotated by him. Included are here the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the several treaties of amity and commerce between the United States and the countries of France, Sweden and the Netherlands.'Franklin's grand gesture in publishing and distributing these constitutions, about which there was an intense interest and curiosity among statesmen, was one of his chief achievements as propagandist for the new American republic' (Streeter). The seal of the United States -eagle, stars and stripes- and designed by Franklin, is not only in the imprint on the title-page, it is also the first use of the seal in a book. - Especially internally a fine, clean copy. EUR 5000
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CONVERSATION familière entre M. le Comte de Falkenstein et Louis XVI. Paris, 1777. 80 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Conlon 77:207; not in Barbier; not in Quérard. First edition. 'A l'époque, l'empereur Joseph II voyageait en France sous le nom de Falkenstein' (Conlon). Fictitious and satirical dialogue between the two rulers on politics and political philosophy. Half-title, title and text all printed within a double line ornamental border. Very nice copy, uncut. EUR 250
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CRI, LE, du Coeur, Dialogue sur l'Édit du Roi du 30 Mai 1774, entre Jacques L'Essouflé, colporteur, et Claude Francoeur Compagnon charbonnier. A Paris, Chez Cailleau, 1774. 16 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Conlon. First edition. Piece in 'vulgar' language, entirely in praise of Louis XVI and his first edict which ordered the 'remise du droit de joyeux avènement' and further stipulated that the payments of interests and reimbursments was to continue on the dates as previously set. The edict was registered on May 30, 1774. EUR 250
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ELANS, LES, d'un Patriote, ou Nouvelles bases politiques. Seconde édition mieux liée, plus précise & plus lucide. En France, et ne se trouve, quant-à-présant, que dans les mains de quelques gens de bien, 1785. (6), 59, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Conlon 85:267; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in INED; unknown to Barbier. Interesting project for a far reaching reform of the administration and the taxes. Based on the Conlon entry, which only gives the first editions of works, this second edition was published in the same year as the first edition. EUR 175
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EXPOSE des motifs et projet de loi portant demande de crédits pour divers travaux de navigation intérieure, présentes par M. le ministre des travaux publics. Séance du 7 Avril 1840. (Chambre des députés, 83). (Paris, Henry, 1840). - (With:) CHAIX D'EST-ANGE, G.L.A.V.C. Rapport fait au nom de la Commission chargée de l'examen du projet de loi relatif à la navigation intérieure. Séance du 12 Mai 1840 (Chambre des députés, no. 129). (Paris, Henry, 1840). - (With:) PROJET de loi sur la navigation intérieure; avec l'exposé des motifs par le ministre des Travaux publics. Séance du 5 juin 1840 (Chambre des Pairs, 97). No place, no date. 3 volumes. 40 pp; 64 pp.; 22 pp. Two volumes in 4to and one 8vo. Modern boards. Deal with a huge project of 23.400.00 Francs at the time to be financed by the governement for the improvement of the fluvial infrastructure. In the 'Rapport' the importance of improving the fluvial infrastructure to stimulate economic activity and prosperity is stressed: 'C'est que en effet la question des transports embrasse et domine aujourd'hui toutes les autres questions d'économie politique.' The expenditures in the various projects are listed and detailed. EUR 325
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EXTRAITS du Drapeau Blanc. Paris, A la Librairie Classique Élémentaire, 1823. (6), 100 pp. 8vo. Modern boards, contemporary blind covers preserved. See Hatin, pp. 340 and 345 for the journals Le Défenseur and the Drapeau Blanc. Contains articles by Saint-Victor and several by Lamennais: among which De la Saint-Alliance, De l'Espagne, and Quelques Réflexions sur notre État présent.Most of the collaborators of the Drapeau Blanc had previously been working for Le Défenseur, the short-lived royalist periodical and successor to the much more succesful Conservateur. With the establishment of the Villèle government part of the staff of Le Défenseur identified itself with power, a smaller minority called l'incorruptible, moved to found the Drapeau Blanc.The Drapeau Blanc was an ultraroyalist newspaper of the Restoration and expressed from the start the most extreme ultraroyalist views to be found in the whole of the Restoration press. From 1820 on, the censors removed a great many articles from the Drapeau Blanc.The 'Avertissement' claims that the continuous requests for the reprinting of certain articles has made the present publication necessary in which the more important articles on politics and religious questions are published again. - The first leaf with a repaired tear in the outer blank margin, paper somewhat browned, last part of the volume with a faint stain in the outer blank margin. EUR 400
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GAZETTE, La, des Halles touchant les affaires du Temps. Premiere nouvelle. A Paris, Chez Michel Mettayer, 1649. - (Bound with:) LA GAZETTE de la place Maubert ou suitte de laGazette des Halles. Touchant les Affaires du temps. Seconde nouvelle. A Paris, Chez Michel Mettayer, 1649. - (Bound with:) SUITTE de la Gazette de la Place Maubert par l'Autheur de la Gazette de Halles; touchant les affaires du temps. A Paris, Chez Michel Mettayer, 1649. Three pieces in one volume. 7, (1) pp.; 11, (1) pp.; 14 pp. 4to. Modern marbled boards, gilt lettering. Moreau 1470 (first work) & 1469 (second and third work); not in Welsh. Original editions. 'Naudé dit, page 220 du Mascurat, qu'il ne faut pas les négliger; ....' (Moreau). EUR 600
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HISTOIRE générale de l'Afrique noire de Madagascar et des Archipels. Publiée sous la direction d'Hubert Descamps. Paris, PUF, Bordas, 1973. With many (colored) illustrations. 4 volumes. Large 8vo. Original decorated publisher's imitation leather. Vol. 1 & 2: Des origines à 1800. Vol. 3 & 4: De 1800 à nos jours. EUR 200
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HISTOIRE générale du travail. Publiée sous la direction de L.H. Parias. Paris, Nouvelle librairie de France, (1959-61). With many plates and illustrations. 4 volumes. 390 pp.; 374 pp.; 403 pp.; 366 pp. Small 4to. Original boards with dustwrappers. 1. Préhistoire et antiquité. 2. L'âge de l'artisanat (Ve-xviiie siècles). 3. L'ère des révolutions. (1765-1914). 4. La civilisation industrielle. (De 1914 à nos jours). EUR 150
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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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LETTRE du Père Michel religieux hermite de l'ordre de Camaldoli, prés Grosbois, à Monseigneur le Duc d'Engoulesme, sur les cruautez des Mazarinistes en Brie. A Paris, 1649. 32 pp. 4to. Modern boards, gilt lettering. Moreau 2128; not in Welsh. Original edition. 'Guy Patin la cite parmi les meilleurs pamphlets, ..... ' (Moreau). EUR 150
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LETTRE sur la paix, à Mr. le Comte de *** (24 décembre 1762). A Lyon, 1763. 45 pp. 12mo in 8s. Modern marbled boards. Conlon 63:1331 (listed under Thomas, A.L.);Catalogue de l'Histoire de France, ii, p. 418, nr. 890. Edition from the first year of publication (there was also a Paris imprint). This letter was attributed to both J.N. Moreau (Barbier & Quérard) and A.-L. Thomas (Conlon) and thus accordingly was later collected in the Varietés morales of Moreau (1785) and in the Oeuvres of Thomas (1822).Both an analysis of the current situation of France and a program for its recovery. The author laments the weakend position and morals of the French nation and people after the Seven Years War which had just ended in the last months of 1762. He then proceeds to compare the situation in France to that of Great Britain which had laid the foundations of its empire during the war. He goes on to discuss the rulers of France and he expresses his high hopes for a long peace in which the losses of war can be repaired and relieved. Although the author understands and shares the criticism on the authorities and the monarchy he does point to past misfortunes and reminds the reader that the monarchy has always regained its former strength and glory with the institutions renewed and improved. His prograsm consists of an appeal to the nobility to serve the nation well and use its riches for virtue, the intellectuals are urged to re-educate the people.'A dieu ne plaise, que je veuille dégrader ma patrie: mais dans l'image de ce qu'elle a été, j'aime à lui faire appercevoir ce qu'elle peut être encore' (p. 17). EUR 250
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LETTRE à l'auteur de la Brochure Intitulée: Bavardage Patriotique, sur l'Administration Provinciale de la Haute-Guienne. No place, 1782. 31, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards. Not in Conlon; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First edition (?) Defense of the provincial assemblees especially in matters of commerce and exports. EUR 150
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LETTRES Critiques sur l'Examen Impartial des Immunités Ecclésiastiques. Addressées à l'Auteur de cet Ouvrage. Seconde Edition. En France, 1751. 70, (2) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Conlon S51:11; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in INED (see 1094 for the work by Chauvelin). The 'Avis de l'Editeur', printed verso title-page states the first manuscript was lost and that it had been necessary to ask the author for another copy of the manuscript. The author did indeed supply another copy of the manuscript but only after he had made considerable changes in the text. This suggests that this is the first printing of the text. The Examen Impartial was written by the Abbé Louis-Philippe Chauvelin in which he argued that, although the clergy was entitled to its special prerogatives, it could not use these to claim total exemption from taxation.According to Conlon a second volume was published in 1753 entitled 'Suite des Lettres Critiques ....'. Conlon also knows of no other edition but the present one as the first publication of this text. EUR 175
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LETTRES Historiques, Politiques et Critiques d'un Observateur impartial, Contenant des connoissances probables, sur la source des nouveaux Troubles qui agitent les Provinces Belgiques, depuis la rentrée du Gouvernement en 1790, jusqu'à l'époque de la mort de l'Empereur Leopold II. A Londres, 1792-1794. Five parts in one volume. 64 pp.; (1), vi, 55, (1) pp.; (7), 107 pp.; 20 pp.;(2), 110 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, corners, marbled boards, very light damage to foot of spine. Not in Martin & Walter; not in Monglond. First edition? Counter-revolutionary pamphlet, most likely written by a Frenchman, defending the case of Belgium, published in the form of seven letters (first piece contains the first letter, the second piece the second letter, the third piece the letters three, four and five, and the fifth piece the letters six and seven), and addressed to the 'nation Belgique'. The fourth piece is a libel entitled 'Prospectus ou Avant-propos du tableau de l'émigration des royalistes françois.' No place, 1793. - The outer margins of the second letter strengthened, some leaves cut short at top not affecting text, in general somewhat browned. EUR 400
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MASCARADE, LA. Journal politique. Rédacteur-gérant E.B. Labaume. Year I, nrs 1-3, 5, 7. (February-March 1869). Lyon, Imprimerie Labaume, 1869. 5 nrs. 4 pages each. Folio. Folded, disbound. Not in Catalogue de l'Histoire de France; not in Union List of Serials. The fourth page of each number contains advertisements only. EUR 125
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MEMOIRE sur la nécessité de modifier notre législation sur les grains. (Drop-head title). (Paris, A. Egron, ab. 1821). - (Followed by:) OBSERVATIONS sur l'importation et l'exportation des grains. A messieurs les membres de la Chambre des députés des départements, la Société d'agriculture, sciences et arts de l'arrondissement de Trévoux. (Drop-head title). (Paris, Pillet aîné, ab. 1821). - (Followed by:) EXTRAIT des registres des délibérations du conseil municipal de la ville de Marseille. Séance du 11 avril 1821. Marseille, A. Ricard, 1821. 3 works bound in 1 volume. 19, (1) pp.; 3, (1) pp.; 42 pp. 4to. Modern boards. None in Goldsmiths, none in Einaudi, Kress only has the third text: S.6314. Original editions. Interesting collection of works on corn trade.The first work is a plea for the restriction of the free importation of foreign grain: 'de protéger efficacement notre agriculture contre l'invasion des blés étrangers, et en même temps d'encourager ses travaux par la diminution de l'impôt territorial et par la libre exportation de ses produits.'The work is heavily annotated in a contemporary hand in the margins, under the first annotation there is a lead-pencilled note reading: 'note du Vte de Noailles.' At the end a printed note stating the the text was signed by the representatives of 55 departments.The second work is also in favor of limiting or prohibiting the import of foreign grains, the third text however, opposes explicitly the first and argues in favor of the existing situation. EUR 600
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MEMOIRES d'André Masséna, Duc de Rivoli, Prince d'Essling, Maréchal d'empire, rédigés d'après les documents qu'il a laissés et sur ceux du dépot de la guerre et du dépot des fortifications recueillis par le Général Koch. Avec un Atlas. Paris, Paulin et le Chevalier, 1849-1850 (réédition 1966-1967, Paris, Jean de Bonnot.) With frontispiece illustration of historical figure to every volume. 7 volumes (vol. 8 is portfolio with 14 maps of historical battles). 8vo. Original publisher's cloth, richly decorated in gilt on sides and spines, top edges gilt, slight wear at extremities. Tulard 974; Sandler 1933. One of the first memoirs of a 'Maréchal de l'Empire', but not actually edited by himself, and more an account of the battles in which he took part. The memoires end when Masséna is replaced by Marmont. Historians still debate on the military and political capacities of this clerk in the store of his uncle who became prince and marshall of the Empire but, as Napoleon said, he was victory dearest child (battle of Loano, battle of Zurich, Naples, Lobau; battle of Bussaco against Wellington). The original edition of these memoirs is a great rarity and its atlas almost always lacking. EUR 450
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NOUVELLES Observations sur le défaut de noviciat, sur le mode actuel d'admission, et sur le nobre des Agens de Change de Paris. Par l'Auteur des Observations sur l'Ordonnancedu 29 mai 1816. Paris, Chez G. Dufour, 1821. (2), 31, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. Protesting against the right of the 'syndicat' of the 'agens de change' to present candidates for vacancies, urging to increase the number of 'agens the change' and demanding a term of three years for training for those who wish to become 'agent de change' and requesting that they are able to present 'un certificat de bonne conduite' after these three years and be only allowed into the profession upon the approval of a jury formed by 'banquiers et négocians.' EUR 150
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PIECES heureusement échappées de la France. A Londres, 1775. 35, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Conlon 75:460; Frere, ii, p. 67 (for the first piece only); Weller, Die falschen und fingierten Druckorte, ii, p. 198. First edition. Secretly printed publication containing: 'Haute messe célébrée par l'Abbé Perchel, Conseiller-clerc du ci-devant soi-disant Conseil supérieur de Rouen' (pages 3-13), and 'Oraison funèbre de très-hauts et très-puissants Seigneurs, en leur vivant les gens tenants les Conseils superieurs de France, Prononcée dans la grande salle de l'Hôtel-de-ville de C ... le Lundi 28 Novembre 1774, à l'occasion de l'Enregistrement de l'Edit portant le rétablissement des Parlemens. Par M.D***, Avocat à Rouen' (page 14-35).Violent pieces against the 'Conseils Supérieurs.' The first piece was also directed against the abbé Perchel who had made himself quite unpopular while being active on the Conseil supérieur, or 'parlement Maupeou'. EUR 250
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PIECES intéressantes. No place, no date. - (Bound with:) NOUVELLES pieces intéressantes. No place, no date. - (Bound with:) SUITE des Nouvelles pieces intéressantes. No place, no date. - (Bound with:) SECONDE Suite des Nouvelles pieces intéressantes. No place, no date. - (Bound with:) PIECES très-intéressantes et peu connues sur les États Généraux. No place, 1788. - (Bound with:) NOUVEAU recueil de pieces intéressantes et peu connues, sur les affaires du temps. No place, no date. 6 pieces bound in 1 volume. (2), 34 pp.; (2), 68 pp.; (2), 29, (1) pp.; (2), 22 pp.; (2), 27, (1) pp.; (2), 16 pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards, red label with gilt lettering. - Last piece with a waterstain in upper outer corner, lightly touching the text. Contains, among others: Discours prononcés par M. Séguier, Au Lit de Justice du 8 mai 1788. Sur l'Ordonnance concernant l'administration de la Justice; Discours prononcé par M. d'Aligre, Au lit de Justice du 8 Mai 1788; Lettre du Cardinal de Fleury au Conseil de Louis XVI; Apologie de la Cour Pléniere, Par M. l'Abbé Vélin, de l'Académie des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres, de la Société des Antiquaires de Londres, etc.; Réponse aux Questions d'un Citoyen. Par un Militaire; Protestations que la Noblesse de Toulouse a remises à M. le Comte de Perigord, le 10 Juillet 1788; Réflexions sur l'Ordre du Tiers-Etat. EUR 350
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RECUEIL des Pieces les plus Curieuses qui ont esté faites pendant le regne du Connestable M. de Luyne. Comme se voit par la Table suivante. Troisieme edition, Revueuë, corrigée & augmentée. No place, 1625. (40), 534 (misnumbered 536) pp. Small 8vo. Early 20th century vellum, handwritten title on spine. Bourgeois & André 2376; not in Lindsay & Neu; not in Welsh; not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700. Third edition, revised, corrected and augmented. Collection of 65 pieces, some in verse, published in the period 1619-1621, the year in which Luynes died. The Duc de Luynes was allowed all real power after Louis XIII had forced the Queen-Mother into exile in 1617. The next four years, which ended with the death of de Luynes, saw the unedifying spectacle of two revolts made by the Queen-Mother, supported by various great noblemen, against her own son, and an armed rising of the Huguenots. Only with the rise to power of Richelieu in 1624 did the monarchy become master of the situation at home. - Equally browned throughout, copy with generous margins. EUR 900
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RELACAO do modo com que desempenhou o chéfe de divisao, Donald Campbell, a commissao de que o encarregou, o Almirante Lord Nelson, na viagem ao porto de Tripoli, a fim de effeituar a paz entre o Baxa daquella regencia, e a coroa de Portugal. Lisboa, Na officina de Simao Thaddeo Ferreira, 1799. 15, (1) pp. Small 4to. 18th-century half calf,marbled boards, spine gilt (very lightly rubbed). Da Silva, vol. vii, p. 71, nr 164. First edition. 'Este opusculo interessante pelo assumpto, honroso para a marinha de guerra portugueza .....' (Da Silva). EUR 200
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SALUT, Le, de la Pologne. Paris, Garnier frères, 1864. 72 pp. Small 8vo. Sewn, original printed covers, spine repaired, small spot on front cover. Lorentowicz, La Pologne en France, vol. ii, 4812. First edition. Letters by Charles Rózycki and André Towianski, translated by Jacques Malvesin. EUR 175
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VOIX, La, de Varsovie. Revue bi-mensuelle de la vie polonaise. Paris, 1939-1940. With plates. Year 1, 14 numbers bound in 2 volumes. 8vo. Half morocco, spine withraised bands, gilt lettering, corners, marbled boards, top edges gilt, original covers partly preserved. All published. Contributions by: H. Hanoteaux, Paul Hazard, S. Kaczynski, H. de Korab, A.D. Toledano, a.o. EUR 300
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(AUGEARD, J.M.) Lettre d'un ami à M. Necker. (Drop-head title). No place, no date (1781). 23, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary plain wrappers, uncut. Conlon 81:714 (listing an issue of 16 pages only); not in INED; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Einaudi 1178 (as part of a collection of writings "pour & contre M. Necker"); Mattioli 728 & 729, also as part of the same collection. First edition ? Apparently a scarce critical review of Necker's policy and especially his Compte-rendu au Roi. Augeard was himself a "Fermier général" and later secretary to the queen: his memoirs (published in the second half of the nineteenth century) show he severly disliked Necker and Calonne. He is described as competent in finances and sufficiently well placed in high circles to observe both people and events.- Small stamp in blank margin of the first page, somewhat browned, heavier on pages 4-8. An uncut copy, margins a bit frayed. EUR 300
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(BAILLY, S.) Discours et mémoires, par l'auteur de l'Histoire de l'astronomie. A Paris, Chez De Bure, 1790. With folding table. 2 volumes. (4), 454 pp.; (4), 434 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, marbled boards. Martin & Walter 1192. First collective edition of previously published pieces, rare. Volume 1 contains eulogies of Corneille, Molière, Leibnitz, Captain Cook, etc., volume 2 contains reports on magnetism, on the project of a new Hôtel-de-Dieu, etc., for the greater part edited and signed collectively with Franklin, Le Roy, Guillotin, Lavoisier, a.o.Jean-Sylvain Bailly was a brilliant scientist and a politician. His scientific successes brought him admission to the prestigious Académie des Sciences in 1763, and he was later admitted to the Académie française and appointed to the Académie des Belles-Lettres by the king, at which time he was the only man together with de Fontenelle, to hold the distinction of membership of all three academies. The first volume of the present work, although not considered to be a literary masterpiece, reveals Bailly's theory of government: he loved the king and respected the institution of the monarchy, but he also believed fervently in a meritocracy, which was neither present nor possible under an absolute monarchy. Bailly researched the theories of Mesmer and his disciples and unmasked them as charletans and he reported on the conditions in the hospitals and slaughterhouses. EUR 800
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(BERNARD, J.) Discours prononcé par le Père François Gérard, Électeur de St.-Martin devant les Électeurs de sa Commune et Grand nombre d'assistans jeunes et vieux. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie de Goetschy, (1830). 4 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. First edition. Spirited pamphlet, forming part of the publications from the society 'Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera', and attacking the ultra's in power and urging the people to vote in the upcoming election.The society 'Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera' was formed to aid opposition candidates for election to the Chamber of Deputies in the period 1827-1834. It was directed by a central committee in Paris and operated through a network of local committees and agents throughout the country. After the Revolution of 1830, the original directors of the society (among whom Barrot, Guizot and de Rémusat) withdrew, and leadership passed to young republicans, including Godefroy Cavaignac, Etienne Garnier-Pagès, and Louis Blanc. Under their direction the society published pamphlets, distributed letters of political intelligence and advice to members. EUR 75
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(BETHUNE, PH. DE). Le Conseiller d'Estat; ou recueil Des plus Generales Considerations servant au maniment des Affaires publiques. Divise en trois parties. La I. contient les moyens d'établir un Estat. La II. les moyens de le conserver. La III. les moyens de l'accroittre. A Paris, Chez Estienne Richer, 1633. With title vignette. (4), 24, 496 pp. 4to. Contemporary polished calf, gilt fillet on sides, spine with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, spine repaired at head and foot, some small blemishes to the covers, unidentified gilt stamped arms in the center of both sides. Bourgeois & André 6094; INED 481; Goldsmiths 715; BMSTC, French books 1601-1700, C.1391, 1392, 1393 listing the editions from 1632, 1645 and 1665 but not this one; Greasse, ii, p. 252 (1645 Elzevier edition); not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli. Second edition, rare, first published in 1632. 'Le Conseiller d'État se présente comme un manuel général de politique ..... L'ouvrage nous fait faire le tour des principales questions soulevèes par l'existence du pouvoir et des gouvernants. Envisageant d'abord la forme de l'État, il en indique les principaux types. Il évalue les avantages et les dèsavantages de l'État populaire, de la Seigneurie (l'Aristocratie) et de la Principauté' (Thuau, Raison d'État et Pensée Politique à l'Époque de Richelieu, p. 278-280). The work examines the relations and interdependance of states, the position of church and religion, and furthermore examines the laws, councils, magistrates and officers and their functions, foreign policy and treaties. The work is hostile to the popular state ("démocratie suisse") and the author shows himself to be in favour of tolerance: of heretics is not asked to renounce their faith but to obey the laws. States can survive with two religions within its borders, but civil war will ruin them. The principal statement (and opinion) of Bethune is: "Raison d'Etat n'est autre chose que raison d'intérêt."The work also deals with economic policy and what actually constitutes the wealth of a nation: agriculture, commerce and trade, manufactures, and sound financial policy. In fact, Guy Thuillier, in Revue économique, volume 9, no 1 (January, 1958) writes: "Le Conseiller d'Estat; ou recueil Des plus Generales Considerations servant au maniment des Affaires publiques a rarement attiré l'attention des historiens. On trouve pourtant, dans ce véritable manuel de science politique, résumées sous une forme commode et parfois très precise, la plupart des idées qui avaient cours au début du XVIIe siècle en matière d'économie politique." In this long article, entitled Politique et économie au XVIIe siècle. Le "Conseiller d'Etat" de Philippe de Bethune (1633), Thuillier gives an extensive exposition of contents and importance of this book from the point of view of sound economic policy for the state.Philippe de Bethune, the younger brother of the famous Sully, was an important French diplomat serving both Henry III and Henry IV in Scotland, Rome, the Savoie and Germany. - Somewhat browned throughout. EUR 1000
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(BOISGELIN DE CUCE, JEAN DE DIEU-RAYMOND.) Précis des Conférences des Commissaires du Clergé, avec les Commissaires du Conseil, Concernant la demande faite aux Bénéficiers, de la prestation des Foi & Hommages, Aveux &Dénombrements, pour les Fiefs, dépendants des Bénéfices dans la mouvance du Roi. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Guillaume Desprez, 1786. 186, (4, errata) pp. 4to. Contemporary blue paper over boards (slightly rubbed). Martin & Walter 3778; Catalogue de l'Histoire de France, v, p. 440; Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique, ii, p. 942-943; Lemay, Dictionnaire des Constituants, p. 105. First edition. 'Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Cucé de Boisgelin, cardinal, l'un des prélats de France les plus connus de la fin du XVIIIe siècle et l'un des principaux défenseurs de l'Eglise dans la crise révolutionnaire. On le voit figurer aux assemblées du clergé et à l'Assemblée des Notables' (Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique). 'Elu aux États généraux en 1789, il s'opposa, en juin, à la réunion des trois ordres, se prononça contre l'abandon des biens du clergé et contre la suppression de la dîme, mais offrit au nom du clergé une somme de 400 millions. Élu président pour quinze jours, le 25 novembre 1789, il essaya en 1790 de s'opposer à la Constitution civile du clergé, en proposant de réunir un concile national pour réorganiser l'Église en France' (Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, vi, p. 818).Bound before this text is the following: INSTRUCTION dressée par la Commission du Clergé, par la demande faite aux Bénificiers, des Foi & Hommage, Aveux & Dénombrements. (Drop-head title). Paris, de l'Imprimerie de G. Desprez, 1785. 60 pp. 4to. EUR 900
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(BOISSEL, F.) Le cathéchisme du Genre Humain, dénoncé par le ci-devant évêque de Clermont, à la Séance du 3 novembre 1789..... avec deux adresses à la Nation Françoise l'une en faveur de sa Constitution ..... l'autre contre les principales institutions de son nouveau régime ..... 2e éd., revue et corrigée et augmentée. A Paris 1792. - (Followed by:) ADRESSE à la Nation Françoise. (Drop-head title). No place, no date (Paris, EDHIS, 1967). Two works in one volume. (2), vi, 240 pp.; 40 pp. 8vo. Boards. Reprint of this rare and important work in a limited and numbered edition of 500 copies. The best edition of this most important socialist work, containing the 'Plan de cadastre de Babeuf' which had been published at the beginning of the great Revolution, Boissel proposes a plan of reformation aiming to perfect equality and community of men. A social philosophy severely criticising institutions and customs, and suggesting a complete change through education which should be available for all and denouncing property, marriage and religion as oppressive and as the cause of inequality. EUR 150
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(BROUSSE, M.) Lettre d'un Religieux, envoyée à Monseigneur le Prince de Condé, à S. Germain en Laye. Contenant la verité de la vie & moeurs du Cardinal Mazarin: Avec exhortation audit Seigneur Prince d'abandonner son party. A Paris, Chez Rolin de la Haye, 1649. 11, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards. Moreau 1895; Welsh, Second Checklist, 1151. First edition. - Top margins cut short. EUR 175
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(BROUSSE.) Le vray Courtisan sans flaterie, Qui déclare ce que c'est que l'Authorité Royale. Revueu & corrigé pour la seconde Edition. A Paris, Chez la veuve d'Anthoine Coulon, 1649. 16 pp. 4to. Modern boards, label with gilt lettering. Moreau 4067; not in Welsh. Second edition. Against absolute royal power: 'l'auteur conclut ..... que les rois ne sont pas libres de tout faire, et qu'ils ont au-dessus d'eux la raison, la nature et le christianisme' (Moreau). EUR 175
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(CAPMARTIN DE CHAUPY, B.) Observations sur le refus que fait le Chastelet de reconnoître la Chambre Royale. En France, 1754. (2), 258 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering. Conlon 54:522; Catalogue de l'Histoire de France, v, p. 242, 2610. First edition. - Small stain in upper margin of title-page and first few pages, copy with wide margins, rare. Bertrand Capmartin de Chaupy (1720-1798) shows himself in this work 'le champion de l'autorité la plus absolue' (Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, vii, p. 1070.) EUR 600
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(CARLI, G.R.) L'Uomo Libero ossia Ragionamenti sulla Libertà naturale e civile dell'Uomo. Edizione Seconda Riscontrata, corretta, ed accresciuta sull'Originale dell'Autore. In Milano, Nell' Imperial Monistero di S. Ambrogio Magg. Per Antonio Agnelli, 1779. Engraved title vignette, title-page laid down. 196 pp. 12mo. Contemporary full vellum, labels with gilt lettering, foot of spine chipped. Feltrinelli, 99. Second enlarged edition of this quite rare work directed against the principles championed by Hobbes and Rousseau concerning human liberty. It was considered of exceptional importance to the Italian Enlightenment. Carli, one of the main figures of the Italian Enlightenment, was together with Beccaria and Verri the leading intellectual of the 'École de Milan.'In this stringent criticism of Rousseau's Contrat Social he formulates his picture of an anti-egalitarian society in strict opposition to Rousseau. 'Men are condemned by nature to a state of permanent inequality, physical, moral and economic. It is not an accident that society is divided into two classes, rich and poor. Unlike Verri, for whom economic development had in itself the power to improve the conditions of the poorer classes by allowing them to participate in consumption, and unlike Beccaria who continued to see inequality as the chief problem to be solved, Carli was convinced that development would increase not only inequality but also class conflict. The only remedy was the power of the sovereign, of a monarch who could guard against despotism but at the same time defend civil society against anarchy' (Carpanetto and Ricuperati, Italy in the Age of Reason, 1685-1789, p. 270). Carli exposes the myth of a power, which by limiting ownership and liberty, ensured -through strong centralization - the safety and happiness of his subjects and he remained convinced that politics consisted of adjustments and cautious provisions rather than of radical reform. - With contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, earlier inscription crossed out. A very nice copy. EUR 2000
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(CASTEL) DE SAINT-PIERRE, (CH.I.) Discours sur la Polysynodie, où l'on démontre Que la Polysynodie, ou pluralité des Conseils, est la forme de Ministère la plus avantageuse pour un Roi, & pour son Royaume. Par M. l'Abbé de Saint Pierre, ci-devant de l'Académie Françoise. A Amsterdam, Chez du Villard & Changuion, 1719. Title printed in red and black, with a charming vignette. 265, (6, Table des Matières), (13, publisher's catalogue) pp. 12mo. Near contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands and red label with gilt lettering. Einaudi 931; Peignot, ii, p. 109; Cioranescu 58697; no copies in NUC. Second and augmented edition. In this very rare and important work Castel de Saint-Pierre proposes that enlightened despotism (which he favored) be tempered by a complex system of councils; an important feature of the system was to be a political academy of forty experts, who should be appointed by the king upon nomination by the heads of the great corporations -magistracy, clergy and nobility- and who should in turn recommand candidates for the principal state offices, in addition to studying all political questions. This government, which Castel called 'aristomonarchy', would both deny any political role to the masses and strictly limit the functions of the hereditary nobility, to whom the abbé was hostile.At the time of publication the book was considered to be 'une attaque insultante contre le feu roi.' The Académie française was outraged and the abbé was excluded from this illustrious body without him being given the opportunity to explain the contents of his book. The first edition was printed in a very limited number of copies only, and this second edition was published after the expulsion of Castel de Saint-Pierre from the Académie française: the title-page states that the author was 'formerly of the Académie Françoise.'In fact this book proposes a decentralized system of government, a theory close to those held by the Duc de Bourgogne and his circles and announcing Montesquieu.Contains furthermore the two letters to M. de Sacy concerning Castel de Saint-Pierre's expulsion from the Académie Française. De Sacy was in fact one of the few supporters of Saint-Pierre in the Academy. EUR 2500
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(CHAMOUSSET, CL. H. PIARRON DE.) Vues d'un Citoyen. A Paris, Chez Lambert, 1757 (Paris, EDHIS, 1970). 2 volumes in one. (8), 239, (1) pp.; (6), 277, (5) pp. 12mo. Imitating a contemporary binding in full calf, spine gilt in compartments, labels with gilt lettering, red edges. INED 3575; Kress S.4093; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Higgs 1500. Reprint of the very rare first edition of this important work. The reprint has been published in a limited and numbered edition of 250 copies and 30 destined not for the trade and is since long out-of-print. This work contains the Mémoires sur la conservation des enfants, Plan d'une maison d'association avec addition et éclaircissements, and the Plan général pour l'administration des hopitaux. All of these were separately published in previous years and are described in detail in INED, nrs 3572-3574.In one of the memoirs dealing with foundlings the author outlines a plan to diminish the mortality-rate and improve their lot by suggesting that these children should be put to work in the colonization of Louisiana.Chamousset was one of the most eminent personalities of the 18th-century where the fight against pauperism and mendicity is concerned. He devoted his entire life, his social position and the considerable means at his disposal to the improvement of the conditions of the workers, the relief of the disabled, the sick and the poor, he tranformed his house into a hospital where the sick of both sexes were received and helped for free and where they received compensation for the losses suffred from their illness and its treatment once they were cured and left. He was the first who had the idea of founding mutual aid societies where the workers, paying a small weekly fee, were granted first class medical help in case of illness: He is understandably credited with being the precursor of the Friendly Society in his conception of the Maison d'association. EUR 250
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(CHARLES-ALBERT, ÉLECTEUR DE BAVIERE.) Manifeste de l'Electeur de Bavière. Munich, 1741. 30 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Conlon 41:392 (an edition of 13 pp. only). First edition. On his differences with the Court of Vienna, concerning the succession of emperor Charles VI of Habsburg. EUR 150
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(CHAUVELIN, H.P.) Examen impartial des immunités ecclésiastiques, contenant les maximes du droit public et les faits historiques qui y ont rapport. Londres (Paris?), 1751. 3 parts in 1 volume. (6), 112 pp.; 175 pp.; 171 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt fillet on sides, marbled edges, spine somewhat rubbed, slightly damaged at head and foot. Stourm 81; Conlon 51:499; INED 1094 (one part only); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. Judicial and historical work dealing with Machault's plans to tax the ecclesiastical properties. The clergy maintained that they were exempt from tax and that whatever they paid was a voluntary gift. Chauvelin maintains that the clergy can not be exempt from taxes if the king thinks he ought to ask a contribution from them. The issue was hotly debated at the time, as the long list of works cited by Stourm shows. EUR 400
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(CHOISEUL, E.F. DE.) Mémoire historique Sur la négociation de la France & de l'Angleterre, depuis le 26 Mars 1761 jusqu'au 20 Septembre de la même année, avec les Pièces justificatives. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1761. (2), iv, 194 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, joint with short split at head and foot, lightly rubbed, extremities slightly shaved. Sabin 47516; Howes M.507; JFBL C309; Conlon 61:583; Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, 230. First edition. A document of great importance, being an important beginning to the negociations which later resulted in the British securing much of North America. Deals also with Treaty of Paris which ended the French-Indian War, the cession of Canada, limits of Louisiana, Cape Breton, etc.Choiseul, Comte de Stainville and later Duc de Choiseul, had served as ambassador in Rome and in Vienna when he was appointed Secretary for War in 1761 and two years later Secretary for Marine. He was therefore the statesman who directed France through the closing scenes of the Seven Years War. A man of energy and ability, he could not save his country from defeat, but at least he perceived the defects of her military and naval organisation, defects which he did much to remedy. It was mainly by his reforms that France proved such a formidable adversary in the War of the American Revolution. -With small library stamp (Bib. du Dist. d'Amiens) on the title-page. EUR 750
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(COSTAZ, C.A.) Corps de marchands et communautés d'arts et métiers. A Paris, Imprimerie de Madame Huzard, 1821. 23, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards, morocco label with giltlettering. Kress C.696; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. Claude-Anthelme Costaz was one of the founders, in 1802, of the Society for the Encourement of National Industry (Société pour l'encouragement de l'industrie nationale.) He was also the one commissioned to produce statistical tables concerning manufactures and industry. He produced three of them which showed the situation and its development with the dates 1789, 1800 and 1812 as the three different points of measurement and comparison. The present text is 'en grande partie, extrait d'un ouvrage que j'ai publié, il y a environ quatre ans, sur l'Administration de l'agriculture, du commerce, des arts, des manufactures, et des subsistances. Lorsque je le rédigeai, je ne prévoyais pas que la France touchait au moment où l'on demanderait le rétablissement des corps de marchands et des communautés d'arts et métiers' (Avertissement). EUR 150
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(DELORMEL, J.) La Grande Periode, ou le retour de l'Age d'Or. Ouvrage dans lequel on trouve les causes des désordres passés, des espérances pour l'avenir, & le germe du meilleur plan de gouvernement ecclésiastique, civil et politique. Par M. D***. A Paris, Chez Blanchon, Et Belin, 1790. With one engraved plate and an explanatory leaf. (8), 453, (1, errata) pp. 8vo. Nineteenth-century half calf, marbled boards, raised bands with gilt lettering (spine somewhat discolored). Martin & Walter, 10024; Monglond, i, p. 829; Caillet 2959. First edition. The author, Jean Delormel, was lawyer and professor.'Parmi les initiés, nous trouvons Delormel que l'on a accusé d'avoir trahi les secrets dont il avait été instruit dans son rare and curieux ouvrage intitulé; la grande période solaire .... (the present work) et qui périt d'une mort tragique attribuée à une vengeance occulte' (Pezzani). C'est sans doute le seul ouvrage initiatique qui mette au grand jour la véritable doctrine ésotérique des mystères anciens' (Caillet). - Last leaf with loss of paper in blank lower outer corner. EUR 750
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(DESMOULINS, L.-C.-S.) Discours de la lanterne aux Parisiens. En France (at end: Se trouve à Paris, Le Jay fils), L'an premier de la liberté (1789). (2), 62 pp. 8vo. Sewn, disbound. Monglond, i, 9; Martin & Walter, 10467. First edition. Defends Revolutionary action by explaining the political conditions under which violence was acceptable (see: Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, i, pp. 310-313). EUR 175
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(DESMOULINS, L.-C.-S.) La France libre. Seconde édition. No place, 1789. 47, (1 blank) pp. 8vo. Sewn, disbound. Martin & Walter, 10468 (not this edition); Monglond, i, 9 (not this issue). Second edition, published in the same year as the first. It advocates a republicanism that could justify popular political participation (see: Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, i, pp. 310-313). EUR 150
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(DEVENNE, F.) Souspirs François sur la paix Italienne. Iouxte la Copie imprimée à Anvers, 1649. 8 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Moreau 3710; Goldsmiths 1059; not in Kress. One of at least seven different issues of the same date. This is one with the I in capital, and more than the last three strophes on the last page. - Corner of page 3/4 torn away without loss of text. 'Pamphlet plein d'insolence et qui ne manque pas de poésie. Le Parlement supprima le pamphlet par arrêt; ce qui n'empècha pas qu'il n'en fût fait encore deux éditions augmentées, et qu'on n'en reproduisît trois strophes entières dans la Plainte de la France à genoux devant la reine' (Moreau). EUR 175
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(DIDEROT, D.) "Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville" [printed in:] Opuscules philosophiques et littéraires, la plupart posthumes ou inédites, (edited by J.B.A. Suard and S.J. Boudet de Vauxcelles). Paris, Imprimerie de Chevet, 1796. (16), 270, (2) pp. 8vo. Modern half green morocco, corners, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, all edges gilt. INED 4256; O'Reilly & Reitman 9275; Kroepelien 1320. First edition and one of the few copies printed in 8vo and on 'papier vélin', the others being in 12mo on ordinary paper. Diderot's Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville was written circa 1772 and appears in print here for the first time. The lyrical descriptions by Bougainville of Tahiti in his Voyage autour du Monde (1771) captivated the European imagination with its vision of a people innocent of European notions of power, property and religion, and one with nature. Diderot's 'Supplement' is generally regarded as the classic literary expression of these themes and, although it does not unequivocally endorse the supposed blessings of the state of nature, 'there is no question that Diderot's work on the whole is one of the most comprehensive and enthusiastic panegyrics of primitivism in the century' (A. Owen Aldridge, "The State of Nature: an undiscovered country in the history of ideas", in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century XCVII, 1972, p. 16).In the 'Supplement' Diderot 'met en scène, dans ce dialogue, deux personnages anonymes qui épiloguent sur le voyage de Bougainville et en lisent un prétendu 'Supplément' contenant le discours d'adieu d'un vieux Tahitien au moment du départ de Bougainville, ainsi que l'entretien entre Orou et l'aumônier. Avec un cynisme autorisé par la non-publication, Diderot a cherché à établir dans cet essai le fondement d'une morale nouvelle et conforme à la nature; et à propos de cette morale, il reprend tout le procès de la civilisation. Document capitale qui résume toute la philosophie d'un homme, d'un groupe de penseurs et de toute une époque, et que la voyage de Bougainville a servi à polariser' (O'Reilly & Reitman). Lichtenberger, quoted in INED, called this work "Le summum de la litérature sauvage du XVIIIe."This collection of inedited and/or posthumous works contains, apart from the described work by Diderot, another work by Diderot, entitled Entretien d'un philosophe and further more: 'Réflexions sur le Bonheur' by Mme du Chatelet, 'Anecdotes sur le Roi de Prusse' by Thomas, 'Du Bonheur des Sots' by Necker,' 'Le Bon Homme; Le Vrai Philosophe' by Dumarsais and 'Les Femmes, Dialogue' by Galiani. EUR 4000
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(DIDEROT, D.) Le Fils naturel, ou les épreuves de la vertu. Comédie en cinq actes, et en prose, avec l'histoire véritable de la pièce. A Amsterdam (Paris), 1757. ix, (1), 11-299 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with red morocco label with gilt lettering, very lightly rubbed. Adams, Bibliographie des Oeuvres de Denis Diderot 1739-1900, FN1; Cioranescu 24091; Diderot et son temps, Bibliothèque royale, Bruxelles (1985), 81; Tchemerzine-Scheler, ii, p. 941, (a); Thomas, p. 45. First edition of Diderot's first dramatical work. The Fils naturel was sufficiently novel -in techniques of staging and acting as well as new emphasis in character analysis and intellectual content- to make it controversial. The plays of Diderot were in sober fact revolutionary, not merely in an aesthetic sense but also in a political one. The motivations, the values, the morality, the self-evident truths set forth in the Fils naturel and later the Pere de famille were those of a new social class just beginning to feel its own power and to respect its own intuitions. (......) If you would judge beforehand, wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America, of the literature of a people which is lapsing into democracy, study its dramatic productions ..... The tastes and propensities natural to democratic nations, in respect to literature, will therefore be first discernible in the drama, and it may be foreseen that they will break out with vehemence.'The part entitled Histoire véritable de la pièce (pp. 137-299) consists in reality of three dialogues with Dorval, the hero of the play, in which numerous acpects of acting and dramatic composition are discussed. Within the framework of these imaginary interviews, Diderot propounded many new conceptions of drame, conceptions that he was not the first to feel but that he was the first to express, at least in so comprehensive a way. And because Diderot was an author singularly endowed with the gifts of plausibility and persuasion, his precepts as stated in these conversations were fully as influential as the example of the play itself. This play by Diderot is also extremely important because it marks the beginning of a new era in the history of the drame: French literature in the eighteenth century saw a new dramatic form being born .... Foreshadowed and prepared by the school of tearful comedy, the drame acquired with Diderot a very distinct and clear-cut personality. Thus it is from the Fils naturel that its real existence dates' (Arthur M. Wilson, Diderot, chapter 20).The book was published anonymous because of several sour remarks, especially in Act III, regarding heaven and the ways of its providence which prevented the work from being published under public license. EUR 1750
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(DREVON, J.F.H. DE.) Voyage en Suede, contenant un état detaillé de sa population, de son agriculture, de son commerce, et de ses finances; suivi de l'Histoire Abrégée de ce Royaume & de ses différentes formes de gouvernement, depuis Gustave I en 1553, jusqu'en 1786 inclusivement, sous le règne de Gustave III, actuellement sur le trône, et de quelques particularités relatives à l'histoire du Dannemarc. Par un Officier Hollandois. La Haye, Chez P.F. Gosse, 1789. (2), 14, 518, (2, errata, blank) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine with raised bands, hinges repaired, spine damaged, bookblock broken but still solid, some minor rubbing. Kress B.1577; Goldsmiths 13771; INED 1462; not in Einaudi; Barbier, iv, 1087. First edition. Drevon (1734-1797), Grandmaster of the Horse and Chamberlain of Prince William V of Orange. He travelled to Sweden in 1785 where his travels took him to Göteborg, Trollhättan, Mariestad, Orebro, Stockholm, Uppsala Osterby and then on to Denmark where he visited Dalarna, Falun, Västerås, Köping, Ostergötland, Småland, Blekinge, Malmö, Lund, Ystad en Landskrona. - Copy from the library of Hilding Pleijel, with ex-libris, and on heavy paper with ample margins. Internally a nice and pleasing copy. EUR 250
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(DU PERRON.) Nouveau Réglement pour la filature des soies. No place, no date (Lyon, 1774). - (Bound with:) DU PERRON. Programme de deux nouvelles Machines proposées au Ministre, par le Sieur Du Perron, Ingénieur des Mines, des Académies royales de Caën & de Rouen. No place, Année 1775. 2 works in 1 volume. 24 pp.; 4 pp. Small 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering. First work: Conlon 74:915; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Higgs; not in INED.Second work: Conlon 75:1003; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Higgs; not in INED. First editions. The 'Nouveau réglement' is followed by a large number of approbations showing the importance of the silk industry and its problems The texts are heavily underlined and annotated in the hand of Michel Adanson.- A very scarce text. The title-page contains the following text: 'Ce Mémoire n'a été imprimé que pour en rendre la lecture plus facile, & pour éviter la peine & la dépense des manuscrits. Tous les Exemplaires resteront entre les mains de l'Imprimeur, jusqu'à ce qu'il plaise au Ministre d'en permettre la publicité'. EUR 350
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(DUCLOS, C.P.) Considérations sur les moeurs de ce siècle. A Amsterdam, Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1751. Title printed in red and black, with title-vignette.(4), 366 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, raised bands (uncut). Conlon 51:580; Higgs 226; INED 1511; not in Mattioli. One of three editions from the year of first publication: Conlon lists an edition without publisher or place, INED lists a Paris edition. Duclos deals with individual morality and states that the best government is that which makes the largest number of people happy. In favor of agriculture, 'utile à tous.' 'Sociologie morale' (INED). Important social study on the 18th century by the historiographer of Louis XV. - One quire misbound. EUR 300
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(DUPONT DE NEMOURS, P.S.) Philosophie de l'univers. Troisième édition, augmentée de plusieurs notes, et d'une table des matières. A Paris, Chez Goujon fils, Fructidor an VII (1799). With a fine portrait engraved by Cathelin afterJ. Ducreux. 399, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary boards (uncut). Schelle 64; Einaudi 1673; Mattioli 1081 (2nd edition); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Third, enlarged edition. Because Dupont de Nemours sided with the King in 1792, he was imprisoned in the observatory of the Mazarin College, from which he succeeded in escaping to the country-side. During the time that elapsed before he was discovered and arrested again, he wrote the above work in the form of a letter to Lavoisier. This enlarged edition starts with 'Oromasis. Poëme'. The main text starts on page 37/38 with a separate titlepage reading 'Principes et recherches sur la philosophie de l'univers. Lettre à Mr. et Mme. Lavoisier.' The titlepage bears the date 1792. See: Schelle, Du Pont de Nemours, pp. 331 ff. EUR 1250
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(DUVOISIN, J.B.) Défense de l'ordre social contre les principes de la Révolution Française. Par M. l'Abbé D.V.V.G. de L. Londres, Octobre 1798. (6), 384 pp. 8vo. Contemporary paper covered boards, loss of board at foot of spine, uncut. Martin & Walter, 12624; Monglond, iv, col. 447. First edition. Jean Baptiste Duvoisin (19 october 1744, Langres - 9 july 1813). He studied at the Sorbonne, was nominated Royal Professor at this celebrated institute, became bishop of Leon, was exiled in 1792 and returned in 1801. He attracted the attention of Napoleon due to his outstanding work, was made bishop of Nantes and had Napoleon's confidence. He was one of the four bishops residing with the Pope during his stay in Savone and Fontainebleau. He is the author of various works which all had as its expressed aim to defend religion against the political and philosophical opinions of his days.The present work was written during his exile in England and defends the until recent existing social order against the principles of the French revolution and discusses among other things the consitutions of 1791 and 1795, tolerance, souvereignty of the people, the right of revolt, etc. EUR 250
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(ESSUILE, J. F. BARANDIERY MONTMAYEUR, COMTE D'.) Observations sur divers objets importans. A Berlin, Aux dépens de la Société Typographique, 1787. 215, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled wrappers, spine a bit damaged, uncut. Kress B.1209; INED 1751; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Conlon 87:1837; see also Weulersse, Le Mouvement physiocratique en France, vol. ii, pp. 456-460 on his opinions as expressed in his other important work, Traite des Communes .... (1777). First edition. This work is a collection of memoirs in which the author, close to the ideas of the Physiocrats, proposes several reforming projects: Sur la diminuation des matelots en France, et sur les moyens de les multiplier - la mauvaise administration du Royaume - project de création d'une caisse nationale pour secourir les pauvres sortant de la prison - De la Pêche - De la Fabrication du Sel - De l'achat et de la vente du sel par la Ferme générale - Idée sur le Commerce du Sel - des Laisses de Mer, et de leur culture - Observations sur la comsommation de Bois en France - Partage des Communes, etc. At the end there is a project entitled "Caisse de secours national en faveur des personnes innocentes, que la nécessité de rechercher les coupables, a fait priver de leur liberté". - Some pages with a brown spot in the lower outer blank margin, an uncut copy, margins a bit frayed. EUR 500
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(GARAY DE MONGLAVE, F.E.) Biographie pittoresque des Pairs de France, suivie du recensement des votes pours et contre le droit d'ainesse. Paris, Tous les Marchands de Nouveautés (imprimerie d'A. Béraud), 1826. (4), 152 pp. 32mo. Modern blue boards, original covers preserved. Drujon, p. 56. First edition. Publication seized and condamned to destruction by 'arrêt' of 28 november, 1826, and the arrest ordered of the author, publisher and printer who were indeed fined and imprisoned. EUR 175
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(GILBERT, C.) Histoire de Calejava ou de l'Isle des Hommes raisonnables. Avec le Paralelle de leur Morale & du Christianisme. No place, 1700 (Paris, EDHIS, 1970). 329, (7) pp. 12mo. Imitation of a contemporary binding, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, red edges. Hartig, p. 36; Negley 424; Gove, p. 198; Fortunati & Trousson, Dictionary of Literary Utopias, p. 273. Well executed reprint after the only copy known, which is in the Réserve de la Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. This edition was printed in a limited edition of 250 numbered copies (this is number 140) and 30 copies not destined for the trade. The reprint is since long out-of-print. The book was probably published in Dijon by Jean Ressayre. The author, a lawyer from Dijon, realized, when he had a printed copy of his book in his hands, the possible dangerous consequences of publication and apparently convinced the printer to give him the entire edition which he destroyed with the exception of one copy. This last fact is doubted by Van Wijngaarden in his Les Odyssées philosophiques en France entre 1616 et 1789, in which work the chapter 3 is devoted to this work and its context.'Presented as scattered indications, the utopian picture occupies only a small part of the book, namely the chapters 5 & 6. Calejava was a community republic which practised economic communism relying on a rational collective urbanism and a system of public stores. Everybody has to work, but only five hours a day. The law allows divorce and encourages bigamy; celibacy, on the other hand, is severely punished and monastic chastity is considered a scandalous aberration. Children, taken away from their families at the age of four, are brought up by the State.Most of the dialogues deal with philosophical and religious ideas: it is clear that Gilbert was close to the libertine current and there are valid reasons for finding in this work an 'anti-Christian deism' (see Fortunati and Trousson). EUR 225
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(GOUDAR, A.) Le Procès des Trois Rois, Louis XVI. de France-Bourbon, Charles III. d'Espagne-Bourbon, et George III. d'Hanovre, Fabricant de Boutons, Plaidé au Tribunal des Puissances-Européenes. Par Appendix, l'Appel au Pape. Traduit de l'Anglois. Londres (i.e. Leipzig), Chez George Carenaught, Libraire prés de Temple-Bar, 1780. With one large folding engraved plate by William Jones after John Philips representing the Tribunal of European Powers, bound as frontispiece. 8, 192 pp. 8vo. Later paste-paper wrappers, spine a little worn and chipped but firm. Mars 140; Echeverria & Wilkie 780/58; Fay, p. 13; Peignot, ii, p. 224 (attributing the work to Linguet); not in Sabin, not in JFBL; not in Muller; not in Leclerc. One of several editions from the year of first publication of this popular and influential parody of Britsh politics towards America. There is of course no English original. This contentious political work was written by Ange Goudar and published, as most of his works, anonymously. The attribution is to Goudar because of stylistic similarities to his other works. Aimed especially at Great Britain, this satire of the three major powers in the American War is in the form of a mock trial, which finds Great Britain quilty of starting the war. Extensive discussion of the U.S. B. Franklin, who is supposedly shown in the frontispiece, represents the U.S. and makes two speeches the latter of which is a translation of almost all the Declaration of Independence. The work was very severely prosecuted and provoked many counterfeit editions representing a true 'succès de scandal'.The sheets of this edition were put through the press several times; thus, all copies show a mixture of sheets in which some of the corrections listed in the errata have been made, but in others the corrections have not been made. - Old repairs to folds of plate and gutter margin of pp. 7/8, small tear above repair in the same pages, paper a little browned, title verso strengthened. Pages 5-6 and 3-4 interchanged. Copy with stamp (surplus) from the Library of Congress. EUR 750
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(GOYON DE LA PLOMBANIE, H.) L'homme en société, ou Nouvelles vues politiques et économiques pour porter la population au plus haut degré en France. A Amsterdam, Chez Marc Michel Rey, 1763 (Paris, EDHIS, 1970). 2 volumes. xii, 262 pp.; (4), 280 pp.12mo. Imitation of a contemporary calf binding, spine gilt in compartments, labels with gilt lettering, red edges. Kress 6105; Higgs 3036; INED 2117; Goldsmiths 9831; not in Einaudi. Well executed reprint of the very rare and important first edition, published in a limited and numbered editon of 250 copies only, and 30 not destined for the trade, since long out-of-print. The author's rarest and most important work, containing subversive and for the time modern ideas, for which reason the author apparently had his work published anonymously and outside France. Among other things this work is more or less very modern in the sense that the author believes that the State 'doit s'occuper de l'agriculture, de l'industrie, du commerce, des finances, de la population, des forces de terres et de mer.' See: Lichtenberger, Le socialisme au 18e siècle, pp. 329-334, and Spengler, French Predecessors of Malthus, pp. 86-90 and the whole of his socialist and utopian ideas is also elaborately dealt with in J.-C. Perrot's work 'Histoire intellectuelle de l'Économie Politique', chapter entitled Le despotisme de la raison dans l'utopie économique de Goyon de la Plombanie, pp. 284-304. EUR 275
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(GUILLOTIN, J.I.) Pétition des citoyens domiciliés à Paris, du 8 Décembre 1788. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, Chez Clousier, imprimeur du Roi, 1788. (2), 20 pp. 4to. Disbound. Martin & Walter, 16125. The text edited by Guillotin and adopted by the 'six corps des marchands de la ville de Paris', deals with the summoning of the Etats-Généraux. EUR 175
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(HAUTERIVE, A.M. BLANC DE LA NAUTTE, COMTE D'.) De l'État de la France à la fin de l'an VIII. A Paris, Chez Henrics, Brumaire An 9 (octobre 1800). iv, 350, (2) pp. Large 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, red label and gilt lettering. Kress B.4197; Goldsmiths 17829; Einaudi 2859; not in Mattioli; INED 2232; Stourm, p. 318; Catalogue de l'Histoire de France, iii, p. 211. First edition. Deals with the political situation of France in comparison with the other European nations: The political situation before the war; General thoughts on the present situation of France; Present situation of France considering its allies; Present situation of France considering its ennemies; Present situation of France considering the neutrals; Internal situation of France, followed by two chapters dealing with: 'Population et industrie de la France' and with 'Moeurs et Lois de la France.' According to Barbier the work was composed not only under supervision of Talleyrand but even partly written by him. Alexandre-Maurice Blanc de Lanautte, Comte d'Hauterive, was diplomat and economist, born in Aspres (Hautes-Alpes) on 14 April 1754. He went with Choiseul-Gouffier to Constantinopel, spent some years in New York, and returned to France in 1798 and started working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From the 18th Brumaire to the fall of the Empire he was involved in all the major negociations of the period. - Small hole in half-title, occasional light spotting, small library stamp on half-title, a very attractive copy. EUR 600
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(HAY DU CHASTELET, P.) Traitté de la politique de France. A Cologne, Chez P. du Marteau, 1669. Small sphere on title. (1-4), 5-264 pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, rubbed and worn. Cf.:Bourgeois & André 2969; Willems 1602; Sauvy 5; INED 1073; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. Upon its first publication by Elzevier in Utrecht in 1669, also anonymous, the identity of the author was discovered and he was put in the Bastille (for 15 days). The author may be considered as a precursor of Vauban and Castel de Saint Pierre for his revolutionary ideas of reforming the tax system, and for his ideas concerning the clergy, commerce, protestants, etc. 'In Colbert's time Paul Hay, Marquis de Chatelet and forerunner of Vauban, pointed out that extreme poverty conduced to death and disease and thus served to depeople rural regions; that tax reforms were necessary to improve economic conditions. Although he opposed the association of rural with urban workers, on the ground that the former would become insolent and acquire corrupt customs, he asserted, like Colbert, that man's happiness is the end of 'la politique.' He condamned the expulsion of the Hugenots as unchristian' (Spengler, French Predecessors of Malthus, p. 12). Spengler also points to the fact that this work, first published in 1669, inspired some of Vauban's ideas on taxation. - Author's name on title. Slightly waterstained. EUR 600
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(LA GERVAISAIS, N.L.M.M., MARQUIS DE.) La tactique de Tribune. Paris, Hivert, Delaforest, 1826. - (Bound with:) NOTE relative à la brochure intitulée La Tactique de la Tribune, qui vient d'être distribuée à la Chambre. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie d'A. Henry, (1826). - (Bound with:) (LA GERVAISAIS, N.L.M.M., MARQUIS DE.) Contre-note en réponse à Note relative à la brochure intitulée La Tactique de Tribune. Paris, Hivert, Delaforest, 1826. Three works in one volume. 26 pp.; 3, (1) pp.; 7, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards, label with gilt lettering. First work: Kress C.1708; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli.Second work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli.Third work: Kress C.1706; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli. First editions. A criticism of the government's financial plans, the 'Note' accuses La Gervaisais of not quite understanding the English budget (about which he spoke in the first text) and the last text is a defense of La Gervaisais against his anonymous opponent.According to Michaud, the works of La Gervaisais were always published by Hivert and Delaforest and were never meant for the trade but were distributed by him among friends, politicians, ministers, journalists, etc. EUR 400
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(LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, F. DE.) Memoires de M.D.L.R. Sur les Brigues à la mort de Louys XIII. Les guerres de Paris & de Guyenne, & la Prison des Princes. Apologie pour Monsieur de Beaufort. Memoires de Monsieur de la Chastre. Articles dont sont convenus Son Altesse Royalle & Monsieur le Prince pour l'expulsion du Cardinal Mazarin. Lettre du Cardinal à Monsieur de Brienne. A Cologne, Chez Pierre van Dyck, 1662. (4), 400 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, slightly rubbed. Brunet iii, col. 848; Willems 1997; Rahir 3104; Tchemerzine-Scheler, p. 25-27; Marchand, J., Bibliographie générale raisonnée de la Rochefoucauld, 3. One of three editions: rather complicated bibliographically: this copy is partly in conformity with the work described on p. 25 in Tchermezine-Scheler: the title-page is identical but the errors in numbering are not present with the exception of the second one; the work is partly in conformity with the copy described on p. 27: the same errors in pagination, but the title-page is not identical to our copy; according to Rahir this copy is the third edition, according to Willems this is the first edition, one of the copies without the errata-leaf, and according to Marchand this is the "seconde édition originale". The book was printed in Brussels by Foppens, it contains, after the title, "Le Libraire au Lecteur" in which text mention is made of the errors in the text due to the haste with which the book is given to the public, followed by the Memoires de la Rochefoucauld, p. 21: Guerre de Paris; p. 100: Retraite de Monsieur de Longueville en son Gouvernementde Normandie, pendant la guerre de Paris, 1649; p. 115: Recapitulation de ce que dessus Avec la prison des Princes; p. 149: Ce qui se passa depuis la prison des Princes Jusqu'à la guerre de Guyenne; p. 189: Guerre de Guyenne, et la derniere de Paris; p. 257: Apologie ou deffence de Monsieur de Beaufort; Contre la Cour, la Noblesse & le Peuple; p. 277: Memoires de Monsieur de la Chastre Sur ce qui s'est passé à la fin de la vie de Louys XIII & au commencement de la Regence; p. 385: Lettre escrite à Monsieur de Brienne, dont il est parlé dans la Relation; p. 387: Articles & conditions dont S.A.R & M. le Prince sont convenus pour l'expulsion du C. Mazarin, en consequence des Declarations du Roy, & des Articles des Parlemens de France; p. 394: Lettre de Monsieur le Cardinal Mazarin à Monsieur de Brienne.The famous memoirs about the civil wars in France during the minority of Louis XVI clandestinely published by La Rochefoucauld (1613-80), best known for his Maxims. The author joined the aristocratic anarchy of the Fronde, and took part in the sieges of Paris and Mardyke. - Bookplate on front paste-down. EUR 750
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(LE SEURE.) Testament politique de M. de Silhouete. No place, 1772. - (Followed by:) LETTRE sur les Nos 45 & 49 de M. Linguet. No place, no date. - (Followed by:) (LAURENT, C.I.) Lettressur la censure des Principes de Morale de M. l'Abbé de Mably. No place, (1784). - (Followed by:) (CONSTANT DE REBECQUE, M.S.F. DE.) Dernieres pensées du Roi de P***, Écrites de sa main. A Berlin (Geneve), 1787. With a nice title vignette. - (Followed by:) RARETEZ, LES, qui se voyent dans l'eglise royale de S. Denis; Avec des remarques curieuses. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de J. Chardon, 1749. Large vignette on title with fleur-de-lys and a nice head-piece. Five works in one volume. 156, (4, 3 errata, 1, blank) pp; (2), 26 pp.; 48 pp.; 41, (1) pp.; 16 pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, corners bumped, joints and extremities rubbed. First work: INED 2863; not in Kress; not in Higgs; not in Einaudi; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. Etienne Silhouette, to a certain extent influenced by the ideas of Fr. Quesnay, was controleur-général des finances in 1759. He planned to tax the land property of the nobility and to reduce pensions, which provoked his disgrace.The last 4 pages with the errata have been bound between the pages 6 and 7. Second work: The text is preceded by the following title: Lettre aux Rédacteurs du Mercure, sur les Numéros 46 & 49 de M. Linguet, où l'on donne une idée assez juste de la confiance dûe, en général, à ses Annales, & en particulier, à ces Critiques sur les Gouvernemens & les Loix. The text is a scathing attack on Linguet and his works. Third work: Conlon 84:1339; Le Bucher Bibliographique, 768.First edition.The Principes de Morale were condamned by the Sorbonne: the Abbé Laurent here presents a warm and ardent defence of the book in the form of three letters to his nephew. One of the interesting observations he makes is that an unjust judgement, or a biased judgement with regard to decisions of censorship, not only destroys public confidence, but creates general contempt, one of the reasons, the Abbé argues, that censorship must be exercised with great reluctance.Fourth work: Conlon 87:1663; Weller, p. 232; Haag, La France Protestante, iv, p. 32.Marc-Samuel-Francois Constant had a military career in the service of the United Provinces but left the army relatively young. This was apparently due to his friendship with Voltaire who had recognized and stimulated his litererary talents. A list of his works is given both in Quérard and Haag. This work was published the year after the death of the Prussian king. Another edition was published in 1806.Fifth work: This work was not located in any of the bibliographies consulted. Verso title-page the "Approbation" reads: "J'ai lu un Manuscrit intitulé le Trésor, les Corps saints, les Tombeaux, & les Raretez qui se voyent dans l'Eglise Royale de saint Denis en France, avec des Remarques curieuses. Faits à Paris ce 11 May 1715." A work with this title has not been located either. It describes the church of Saint Denis and its architecture and history, it has a section "Remarques sur la veneration que les Rois de France ont toujours porté aux saintes Reliques qui sont dans l'Eglise & dans le Trésor de saint Denis." Margins a bit short.Between the first and second work has been bound an issue of L'Année Littéraire, no 14, 18 avril 1786.Bookplate pasted on front paste-down "A M. l'Abbé Pascal, Bibliothécaire de S.A.S. Monseigneur le Duc de Penthiévre." EUR 750
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(LE VAYER DE BOUTIGNY, R.) Traité des bornes de la puissance ecclesiastique et de la puissance civile avec un sommaire chronologique des entreprises des papes, pour étendre la puissance spirituelle, & des Suites que ces entreprises ont eu, sur tout en France, comme aussi des faits concernant les disputes du tems. Par un conseiller de Grand chambre. Amsterdam, François Changuion, 1734. Title printed in red and black. (4), 192 pp. 8vo. Contemporarycalf with decorated spine and raised bands, joints and edges rubbed. Barbier, iv, 775; Catalogue de l'histoire de France, v, 442 nr. 17; Conlon 34:552. First edition. Roland Le Vayer de Boutigny (1627-1685), one of the most influential councellers of Louis XIV, informed the king at his request on the precise relation between the French State and the Catholic Church in France, and the precise range of his power in ecclesiatical matters. His Dissertations sur l'autorité légitime des rois en matière de régale (1682) is considered 'la synthèse la plus achevée du système gallican' (Dictionnaire de Theologie Catholique.) The manuscript was copied and published probably in Cologne. Le Vayer corrected this fraudulent edition just before his death, but the work continued to appear with different titles and under different author names. Our copy is one of these variant editions of this fundamental text. It was finally published in 1753 under Le Vayers own name as Traité de l'autorité des rois touchant l'administration de l'église.The present work was edited by Delpech de Mérinville.With bookplate on front paste-down: "De Champagneux. Bourgoin." EUR 500
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(LESCHASSIER, J.) Pour la seureté de la vie et de l'Estat des Roys. Contre les impietez de ceux qui ont escrit contre leurs puissances souveraines. No place, 1626. 32 pp. Small 8vo. Modern hard-grained half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Bourgeois & André 1974; Lindsay & Neu 5490; Welsh, 993; BMSTC, French books 1601-1700, D.689. Second edition, first published in 1613 as 'Discours pour la sureté de la vie et de l'état des rois'. - Somewhat browned. Against the theory of the Jesuits, and as stated again by Sanctarel in his Tractatus (1625), that 'le Pape peut disposer les Roys; il peut les faire tuer.'Jacques Leschassier (1550-1625), lawyer and partisan of the royal party at the time of the Ligue. His collected works were published in 1649. 'Oeuvre d'un avocat très réputé' (Bourgeois & André). EUR 200
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(LEVIS, G.P.M. DUC DE.) Collection of manuscript responses addressed to the Duc de Lévis, Pair de France and Minister of State, all dated in 1819-1820, answering inquiries by the Duc mostly pertaining to the consumption of corn in the cities of Lille, Strassbourg, Marseille, Angers, Caen and Lyon. In total 40 pages in 4to and folio, bound in one folio volume. Modern boards. Original handwritten statistical documents of great interest and signed by the mayors of the cities in question. The returned papers to the Duc de Lévis by the cities of Lille, Marseille, Angers, Caen and Lyon also contain the questions to which was answered, the papers of Strasbourg also contains a statistical survey entitled 'Entrée et sortie du froment & farine en cette ville depuis le 29 Aout 1818 jusqu'au 27 Septembre 1819'.The Duc Gaston Pierre Marc de Lévis (1764-1830), member of the Académie française, Pair de France, was a representative at the Estates general in 1789 and belonged to the minority of nobles accepting the principles of the revolution. The events of August 10, 1792, made him an émigré and he only returned to France in 1799 and lived in retirement. With the restoration he became a member of the chamber of the Pairs and in this assembly he dealt in particular with financial matters. EUR 1250
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(LINGUET, S.N.H.) Du plus heureux gouvernement, ou Parallèle des constitutions politiques de l'Asie avec celles de l'Europe; servant d'introduction à la Théorie des loix civiles ..... Tome premier [- second, suite de la première partie]. Londres, 1774. A Londres, 1774 (Paris, EDHIS, 1970). Two volumes in one. xxxii, 148 pp.; (4), 256 pp. 8vo. Imitation leather. Quérard, v, 318; not in Goldsmiths, Higgs, INED, or Kress. Very well done reprint of the first edition of this important and quite rare work, edition published in a limited and numbered edition of 250 copies and 30 copies not destined for the trade, since long out-of-print. After extensive criticism from the Physiocrat corner following the publication of the Théorie des loix civiles in 1767, Linguet here reveals his views on what he considers the best form of government to provide the greatest possible happiness to the population, advocating the preservation of private property as practised in Asia, more particularly in China, under the authority of a humane ruler, and reforms in taxation, customs, jurisprudence, and the condition of women, which he also believes to be better in Asia than in Europe. He particularly criticizes the constitutional system of Great Britain, highlighting the harshness and corruption of its rulers.Linguet (1736-1794) was the most sarcastic of all the writers against the Physiocrat school and devoted his career largely to the subversion of the Enlightenment's reforming ideals. A highly talented lawyer who originally achieved fame as a defender of civil liberties, he threw himself into the midst of political and philosophical controversies, under the impulse of an innate and quarrelsome love of contradiction, publishing numerous pamphlets. In 1777, he founded an important journal, Annales politiques, civiles et littéraires, as a vehicle for polemic on various fronts. But Linguet's status as a scourge of liberalism was confirmed by the Jacobins, who had him guillotined.The half-titles read: Oeuvres de Linguet Tome Premier (-Second); this work was first published in his oeuvres. EUR 275
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(LISOLA, F. DE). La France politique ou ses desseins executez et à executer sur le plan des passez; Projettez en pleine Paix contre l'Espagne au Pays-Bas & ailleurs. Et tirez de ses mémoires,Ambassades, Négociations et Traittez. A Charleville, Chez Denis François, 1671. With sphere on title. - (Bound with:) (LISOLA, F. DE.) L'Orateur François, ou Harangue de Monsieur l'Archevesque d'Ambrun, Interpretée par les Evenemens de notre temps, & l'Etat des affaires presentes. A Cologne, Chez Martin Lambert, 1674. With sphere on title. - (Bound with:) MEMOIRE du Proces Extraordinaire. Contre Madame de Brinvilliers, & de la Chaussée Valet de Monsr. Sainte-Croix. Pour Raison des Empoisonnemens des diverses Personnes Avec la defension, Et l'Arrest de la Cour donné contre ladite Dame, du 16 Juillet 1676. Suivant la Copie de Paris. A Amsterdam, Chez Henry & Theodore Boom, 1676. - (Bound with:) (LISOLA, F. DE.) Manifeste par lequel Il se reconnoit combien juste, convenable, & necessaire a esté l'emprisonnement du Prince Guillaume de Furstenberg, tant Pour le maintien de l'autorité de S.M.I. que pour la tranquilité générale de l'Empire, et pour l'avancement de la Paix. Par Christophle Wolfang. A Strasbourg, 1674. Four works bound in one volume. (16), 525, (1) pp.; 95, (1) pp.; (2), 140 pp.; 105, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. First work: Willems 2063; Bourgeois & André 8149; not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700.First edition ? Bourgeois & André mention a Brussels edition from the same year.Refutation of the ambition of France towards a universal monarchy: with this work Lisola aimed at warning Europe for the ambitions of France and in it he tried to prove that France is aiming at dominating Europe and establishing a "universal monarchy."Foot of margin of title-page and lower outer margin of same strengthened. Second work: Willems 2086; Bourgeois & André 8149; Barbier, iii, 734; Cioranescu 43570; not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700.First edition.Lisola attacks in a very vivid style the archbishop who had placed Louis XIV above the Emperor and all the other kings. Third work: Willems 1901: "Ce petit volume, qui reproduit exactement l'édition originale de Paris ..... est rare."The title is a general title: the work consists of two parts and they both have their own separate title-page.Fourth work: Bourgeois & André 8149; Quérard, iii, 1002; Cioranescu 43575; not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700.First edition.The brothers Franz and William Fürstenberg believed that the essential problem of statecraft in Europe consisted in coming intelligently to terms with the rising power of France. They belonged to an important group of men of different countries at this time who were not French but served France. The intrigues of the brothers had resulted in an offensive alliance between the French Monarchy and the electorate of Cologne. The adventure turned out to be a disaster and Franz, on the conclusion of the treaty between the Holy Roman Emperor and Cologne (May 11, 1674), was deprived of all his preferments in Germany and compelled to take refuge in France. His brother was captured and shipped to Vienna and kept in prison untill the signature of the treaty of Nijmwegen (1679).François de Lisola was born in Franche-Comté and served the Habsburg Emperor as diplomat, and a good diplomat. He represented the emperor at the English court, was sent on a mission to Poland, and was appointed ambassador in Spain. His main concern was the rising power of France and the pretensions of Louis XIV and especially his plans with the Spanish Netherlands. In the years 1667-1674 he published a number of works warning Europe and combatting the policy of Louis XIV. This was the period in which the French army, together with a number of allies, posed an serious threat to both the United Provinces and the Spanish Netherlands. EUR 1500
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(LONGUE, L.P. DE) Les princesses malabares, ou le célibat philosophique. Ouvrage intéressant et curieux avec des notes historiques et critiques. A Amsterdam, aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1735. With title-vignette. (12), 202, (6) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary red morocco, gilt triple fillet on sides, spine gilt, all edges gilt (slightly worn). Hartig, p. 46 (according to Hartig the work has also been attributed to Lenglet du Fresnoy and to P. Quesnel); Peignot, Livres condamnés, ii, p. 53; Cioranescu 40825; Weller, ii, p. 97; not in Negley; not in Trousson; not in Valette; not in Gove; not in Versins; INED 2944. The first edition appeared in 1734. - Some slight browning. The key to the author is given by Drujon in his Livres à clef. Allegorical and satirical utopia, especially satirizing religious history. 'Écrites dans un style métaphorique rempli d'énigmes et d'allégories, les pensées de Longue sont assez difficilement saisissables. Chronologe critique des principaux systèmes religieux qui ont 'tyranisé le genre humain'' (INED).All the names are anagrams and at the end three pages giving the key to the names are to be found. The work was prohibited after its publication and burnt by 'Arrêt du Parlement du 31 décembre 1734'. EUR 900
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(LOPPIN, I.) L'Heureuse rencontre d'une mine d'or trouvee en France, pour l'enrichissement du Roy et de ses sujets. A Paris, Chez Mathurin Henault, 1649. 8 pp. 4to. Modern half morocco, boards, gilt lettering to spine. Moreau 1631 (and see also nrs 552-554); not in Welsh; Kress S.977. Pirated edition according to Moreau. The first edition appeared in 1648 and was entitled Avis très-juste et légitime au roi très-chrétien, pour le repos et soulagement de trois ordres de son Etat, .... (Moreau 552), a second edition was entitled Avis et moyens justes, légitimes et de très facile exécution, ...... (Moreau 553) of which the present work is a pirated edition. Finally, in 1651 the third edition appeared entitled Avis donnés au Roi, pour l'accroissement et prospérité de son Etat ..... (Moreau 554). The full title of the second edition is given in the pirated edition as well, on page 3. EUR 175
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(LOUIS XIII.) Lettre patente du Roy, portant revocation d'assignation, fortification, & autres surcharges du peuple, du 9 Janvier 1613. (Drop-head title). (Grenoble, 24 Janvier 1613). 8 pp. 12mo. Modern boards (Lobstein). Lindsay & Neu 2837; Actes Royaux, 5862; not in Welsh. Original edition. EUR 150
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(LOUIS XVI). Ordonnance du Roi, pour la suppression du Corps des Officiers d'Administration & des écrivains de la Marine. Du 27 Septembre 1776. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1777. 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux, vi, 39334 (withwrong date of publication). EUR 125
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(LOUIS XVI). De par le Roi. (Drop-head title) (At end:) A Paris, Chez N.H. Nyon, 1789. (2), (2 blank) pp. 4to. Folded leaf, uncut. Dated 9 août 1789. 'Sa Majesté est informé que des troupes de brigands répandues dans le Royaume, s'attachent à tromper les habitans de plusieurs communautés, en leur persuader qu'ils peuvent ...... attaquer les châteaux, en enlever les archives ....', and orders the local authorities to do whatever is in their means to combat the incitement of the local population "par des gens mal intentionnés." EUR 75
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(LOUIS XVI.) Ordonnance du Roi, concernant les embaucheurs & fauteurs de désertion. Du 2 octobre 1777. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1777. 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux, vi, 39682; not in Wroth & Annan. Deals with individuals trying to lure solders away from the army. The ordonnance deals with various ways of deserting and the punishments: death for trying to have a soldier deserting to the enemy; trying to get a soldier to desert to a foreign country, the galley for 30 years, those who are able to indentify both the provocateur and the soldier, and in case both get caught, can earn 200 livres; etc. The ordonnance is specifically aimed at the French colonies: Isles de France & Bourbon, Pondichery (India) and Cap de Bonne-espérance. EUR 175
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(LOUIS XVI.) Déclaration du Roi, pour le rétablissement de l'ordre & de la tranquillité dans son royaume. Donnée à Versailles le 14 Août 1789. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1789. With a nice head-piece. 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Gives explicit and detailed instructions for the maintenance of public order in the kingdom. EUR 125
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(MARAT, J.P.) Manuscript copy of a letter by Marat taken from 'L'école des citoyens' done byAlbert Martin (dit l'ouvrier Martin), member of the provisional gouvernment of 1848. 2, (2 blank) pp. Small 4to. The original text by Marat was dated 3 mars 1792. EUR 125
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(MEY, CL.) Maximes du droit public françois. Tome Premier [-Tome Second]. En France, 1772. Two volumes. vii, (1, errata), 541, (1) pp.; vi, 653, (1, errata) pp. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, spines richly gilt, contrasting labels with gilt lettering, paper covered boards, small accident to top of spine of second volume. Conlon 72:1049; Camus 950; Peignot p. 314; Weller, Die falschen und fingierten Druckorte, ii, p.191; R. Darnton, The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France 1769-1789, 420; Le Bucher Bibliographique, 566. Scarce first edition of this work, a sort of political encyclopedia dealing with the rights of the sovereign and the people. Camus writes about the immense erudition of the author noting the importance of the book. It analyses the principles of governement in general and that of France in particular. Mey states that the government is for the people and not the other way around, it claims that despotism is contrary to divine law, to natural law and even contrary to the goal of government, it claims that in a well-ordered and well governed society people have the right to property and personal liberty, that France is a monarchy and not a "état déspotique", that there are laws that limit the powers of the executive, and, the part considered most offensive, the author shows that the odious practice of the "lettres de cachet" is contrary to the right of liberty, to private liberty and to liberty of action and initiative, that it is unjust, contrary to what the goal of society and government is; he refutes the arguments on which this practise is based and concludes that one is not bound to obey. This is a very interesting legal and political treatise, and given its immense erudition and detailed reasoning, a sort of political and legal encyclopedia, on the rights of the sovereign and the rights of the people and disucsses the relation between both. Evidently, the book was banned and forbidden and the governement very actively tried to suppress the book (see Peignot).Apart from the small defect mentioned a very nice copy of a scare work. EUR 900
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(MIRABEAU, H.G. RIQUETTI DE.) Correspondance pour servir de suite à l'Histoire secrette de la cour de Berlin. Potsdam, 1789. 102 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled covers, uncut, cover nearly loose, stiching almostgone. Monglond, i, col. 497; not in Martin & Walter; not in Pochet-Deroche. Original edition. Undoubtedly very rare continuation of his Histoire secrette ....., not listed by Martin & Walter, not mentioned in the biography Mirabeau, by the Duc de Castries (Fayard, 1986).'Ce livre fut condamné au feu par arrêt du 10 février 1789 (Barb.)' (Monglond). Written in the form of 12 letters, Mirabeau set out to 'dénoncer à l'Europe un amas de gens pervers, qui à la faveur d'une secte, odieuse à la fois & ridicule, ont surpris les intentions d'un Prince qui vouloit être un honnête homme' (Avis de l'Éditeur). - Internally fine. EUR 400
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(MIRABEAU, V. RIQUETTI DE & F. QUESNAY.) L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Cinqième édition. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1760-1764. With title-pages in red and black. 6 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, contrasting spine labels with gilt lettering. I-III: L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Cinqième édition. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1764. (4), viii, 308, (2) pp.; (4), 423, (1) pp.; (4), 422, (2) pp.IV: L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Tome Quatrième. Précis de l'Organisation, ou Mémoire sur les États Provinciaux. Sixième Édition. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1760. (4), 208, (2) pp. - (Followed by:) Réponse aux Objections contre le Mémoire sur les États Provinciaux. (Drop-head title). - (Followed by:) Questions intéressantes sur la Population, l'Agriculture et le Commerce, Proposées aux Académies & autres Sociétés savantes des Provinces. (Drop-head title). (2), 336 pp. (the 'Réponse' and the 'Questions' continuously paginated).V: L'Ami des Hommes, Nouvelle Édition, Augmentée des Lettres sur les Corvées & la Milice. Cinquième Partie. Mémoire sur l'Agriculture envoyé a la très-louable Société d'Agriculture de Berne; Avec L'Extrait des six premiers Livres du Corps complet d'Economie Rustique de feu M. Thomas Hale. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1762. (4), vi, 281, (5) pp. - (Followed by:) L'Ami des Hommes, Nouvelle Édition, Augmentée des Lettres sur les Corvées & la Milice. Sixième Partie. Réponse a l'Essai sur les Ponts et Chaussées, la Voierie et les Corvées. Sixième Partie. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1762. (4), 206 pp.VI: L'Ami des Hommes, Nouvelle Édition, Augmentée des Lettres sur les Corvées & la Milice. Septieme Partie. Tableau Economique avec ses Explications. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1762. With 6 engraved folding tables. (4), 162, (4) pp. - (Followed by:) L'Ami des Hommes, Nouvelle Édition, Augmentée des Lettres sur les Corvées & la Milice. Huitieme Partie. Lettres pour servir de Suite a l'Ami des Hommes. Huitieme Partie. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1762. (4), 104 pp. EUR 850
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(MIRABEAU, V. RIQUETTI DE.) L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Troisième édition. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1758. 2 volumes. (12), 523, (1) pp.; (4), 520, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, corners lightly bumped. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Higgs Third edition. These two volumes contain the complete text of the first three volumes of the Ami des Hommes published in this period. The following parts (4-6) published in the years 1759-1760 have not been published with this third edition. The edition is apparently quite rare: Kress, Goldsmiths and Higgs listing various editions published in the period upto 1762 but none of these reference works lists this third edition in two volumes. EUR 600
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(MONDENARD, J. SAINT-SARDOS DE MONTAIGU DE.) Considérations sur l'organisation sociale, appliquées à l'état civil, politique et militaire de la France et de l'Angleterre; à leurs moeurs, leur agriculture, leur commerce et leurs finances, à l'époque de la paix d'Amiens. Paris, Chez Migneret, 1802. 3 volumes. x (misnumbered xii), 349, (1) pp.; (4), 322, (2) pp.; (4), 335, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spines gilt in compartments, red label and gilt lettering, gilt ornamental border on sides. Kress B.4568; INED 3230bis; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. 'Ouvrage principal de Mondénard. Celui-ci, émigré en Angleterre, le publia anonymement à son retour. Conservateur, farouche défenseur de la propriété et de la grande culture, il s'en prend aux excès de la Révolution mais accepte quelques-uns de ses principes. Idées justes, notamment sur les rapports entre la machine et l'emploi' (INED). The first volume deals with political science; volume two with population and economics, the colonies and slavery, agriculture and commerce; the third volume deals with finances, mendicity and prisons. The work was published on the occassion of the peace of Amiens with the hope of establishing a rapprochement between France and England. It is interesting to note that the absence of a commercial agreement with the peace of Amiens is considered to be one of the causes of its failure within little more than a year and that Mondénard deals with the subject of economics and commerce in relation to the peace of Amiens (see: Coquelin & Guillaumin, vol. 2, p. 199, and the Historical Dictionary of Napoleonic France, 1799-1815, p. 16). - Some scribbling on half-title of first volume, handwritten name and date on title of first volume. EUR 1250
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(MONTESQUIEU, CH.L. DE SECONDAT, BARON DE.) Défense de l'Esprit des Loix, A laquelle on a joint quelques Éclaicissemens. A Genève, Chez Barrillot & Fils, 1750. 207, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary polished calf, spine gilt incompartments, label with gilt lettering. Tchemerzine-Scheler, iv, p. 931; Le Petit p. 498; Cabeen 93 (a 80 page work bound with the 1749 edition of the Esprit des Loix; Cabeen does not list the present original edition!); Conlon 50:793; INED 3552. Original edition. The work ends on page 196 and is followed by Éclaircissements sur l'Esprit des Loix (unnumbered leaf forming the pages 197-198, text covering the pages 199-207). The Esprit des Loix was severely attacked and the present work is a dignified 'Défense'. Montesquieu died not long after it was published while on a visit to Paris. Despite the success of the Esprit des Loix and the present work, the quarrel over Montesquieu's main work continued with Jansenists, Jesuits and others attacking the author. The Esprit des Loix was eventually placed on the Index (29 November 1751) and condamned by the Sorbonne. EUR 2400
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(NOVI DE CAVEIRAC, J.) Apologie de Louis XIV, et de son Conseil sur la révocation de l'Edit de Nantes pour servir de réponse à la lettre d'un patriote sur la tolérance civile des protestans de France avec une dissertation sur la journée de la S. Barthelemi. (Paris?), 1758. Vignette on title. (2), vi, (4), 565, (1, advertisment), lxiii, (1, blank), (1, errata) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands. INED 3400bis; Higgs 1869; Perry, From Theology to History, appendices 11 (listing a 12mo edition only); Sauvy, Quelques démographes ignorés, 362 ff; Conlon 58:966; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. According to Sauvy the work was originally published as Paradoxes intéressans sur la cause et les effets de la révocation de l'Edit de Nantes, le dépopulation et la répopulation du royaume, l'intolérance civile et rigoureuse d'un gouvernement, pour servir .... and 'sur certains exemplaires, le titre est modifié Apologie de Louis XIV.' According to Conlon however, the Paradoxes intéressans.... is the re-edition of the present work. - Very good copy. 'L'auteur fait un grand étalage d'érudition et de science en matière d'économie politique. La Dissertation offre des recherches curieuses' (Michaud). The Lettre d'un patriote was written by Antoine Court. 'Fanatiquement intolérant, Caveirac a fourni aux évêques du Languedoc, consultés par Voyer d'Argenson, les arguments propres à rejeter l'adoucissement du sort du protestants. La principale raison invoquée en faveur de cet adoucissement étant la dépopulation et l'appauvrissement qui résultaient de la révocation de l'Edit de Nantes, l'abbé fut amené à étudier le problème général de la dépopulation et il le fit avec soin. Nous nous trouvons donc non devant un savant cherchant la vérité, mais devant un avocat cherchant l'argument nécessaire à une démonstration' (Sauvy, op.cit). EUR 900
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(NOVI DE CAVEIRAC, J.) Mémoire Politico-Critique, Ou l'on examine s'il est de l'interêt de l'Église & de l'État d'établir pour les Calvinistes du Royaume une nouvelle forme de se marier. Et où l'onréfute l'Écrit qui a pour titre: Mémoire Théologique & Politique sur les mariages clandestins des Protestans de France. No place, 1756. (8), 228, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt triple fillet on sides, spine richly gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, marbled edges. Conlon 56:1138; INED 3401; Sauvy, Quelques Démographes ignorés du XVIIIe siècle, p. 362 ff. First edition. The abbé Caveirac, 'fanatiquement intolérant, (....) a fourni aux éveques du Languedoc, consultés par Voyer d'Argenson, les arguments propres à rejeter l'adoucissement du sort des protestants. La principale raison invoquée en faveur de cet adoucissement étant la dépopulation et l'appauvrissement qui résultaient de la révocation de l'Edit de Nantes, l'abbé fut amené à étudier le problème général de la dépopulation et il le fit avec soin' (Sauvy).De Caveirac draws four lines of defense: one, the depopulation as a result of the Edict of Nantes is seriously overestimated; two, the question is whether a large population is really that advantageous for a country; three, even if there is the problem of depopulation, there are other and more important reasons for it than the departure of the protestants; four, development of a policy which favours an increase of the population.The work 'Mémoire Théologique & Politique sur les mariages clandestins des Protestans de France', against which Caveirac opposes, was written by Ripert de Monclar.The revocation of the Edict of Nantes led to the departure of large groups of Protestants from France. Many authors, among whom Novi de Caveirac, tried to argue that the decreasing population of France and the resulting problems had other causes than the departure of the Protestants, and maintained their strong opposition to any legal status of the protestants in France and above all opposed the right to marry of protestants. - An excellent copy, ex-libris of M. Dupleix de Bacquencourt, intendant d'Amiens. EUR 1000
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(ORLEANS, L.P.A. D') De la situation des Ouvriers en Angleterre. Mémoire présenté à la commission d'enquête sur les conditions du travail par M. le Comte de Paris. Paris, Michel Lévy frères, Librairie Nouvelle, 1873. With tables in the text. (4), 297, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, corners, marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, very lightly rubbed. Einaudi 4221. First edition. Louis-Philippe Albert d'Orléans, Comte de Paris, Orleanist pretender and publicist. He became heir to the throne of Louis-Philippe in 1842. After the fall of the Second Empire in 1870 he sought fusion with the Bourbon house in which understanding Chambord would be the pretender with the count of Paris as his successor. Chambord consistently rejected. In 1886 the count was expelled and from then on lived in England until his death. - First and last leaves with some spotting. With handwritten and signed dedication by the author to C. Fortescue (?) on the half-title and the bookplate of Barlingford on front paste-down. EUR 425
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(QUERBEUF, Y.M.M.) Principes de Messieurs Bossuet et Fénelon, sur la Souverainité, Tirés du 5e Avertissement sur les Lettres de M. Jurieu, et d'un Essai sur le Gouvernement Civil. A Paris, Chez Laillet, Dufresne, Pichard, Lallement, 1791. xx, 340 pp. 8vo. Modern half calf, marbled boards, spine with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering. Quérard, vii, p. 391; de Backer & Sommervogel, vi, col 1337. First edition. Published by the Abbé Emery.'Cette édition ..... fut supprimée, à l'exception de trois cents exemplaires que l'on mit à couvert et que l'on a remis au jour en 1797 avec ce nouveau titre: La Politique du Vieux Temps, ....' (De Backer & Sommervogel). EUR 225
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(RENOUARD, CH.) Il faut semer pour recueillir. Aux électeurs et aux éligibles. Paris, Imprimerie d'Auguste Barthelemy, Septembre 1827. 16 pp. 8vo. Disbound. Appeal to the public to use their rights and have them registered so that they can vote or be elected. Pages 10-16 contain a 'Formulaire électoral' which was drawn up by Ernest Deslozeaux to help the people to establish and if necessary maintain their rights. Interesting pamphlet published by the society 'Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera'. The society was formed to aid opposition candidates for election to the Chamber of Deputies in the period 1827-1834. It was directed by a central committee in Paris and operated through a network of local committees and agents throughout the country. After the Revolution of 1830, the original directors of the society (among whom Barrot, Guizot and de Rémusat) withdrew, and leadership passed to young republicans, including Godefroy Cavaignac, Etienne Garnier-Pagès, and Louis Blanc. Under their direction the society published pamphlets, distributed letters of political intelligence and advise to members. EUR 175
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(RETIF DE LA BRETONNE, N.E.) Le plus fort des Pamphlets. L'ordre des Paysans aux États-Généraux. No place, 1789 (Paris, EDHIS, 1967). 80 pp. 8vo. Boards. Jacob (Paul Lacroix), chapter XLII Reprintof the extremely rare first edition of one of the rarest of Restif de la Bretonne's works. Published in a limited and numbered edition of 500 copies. Although often attributed to B.V.A. Noilliac (see Martin & Walter 25906 and Lichtenberger, Le Socialisme au XVIIIe siècle) the work is certainly by Nicolas Edme Rétif de la Bretonne. 'Restif est incontestablement l'auteur de ce factum politique, qui n'a jamais été cité que dans un Catalogue de livres à prix marqués, en date du 19 juillet 1869 et que nous n'avons pas eu l'occasion d'examiner, parce qu'il a été vendu immédiatement, au prix de 7 fr. Restif avait préludé à son Plus fort des Pamphlets, par le Thesmographe; dans la préface de ce volume des Idées singulières, il proposait aux États-Généraux de créer dans l'État quatre ordres, au lieu de trois: 'Il y aurait donc, dit-il, l'ordre du Clergé, celui de la Noblesse, celui de la Bourgeoisie, celui des Paysans; lesquels auraient chacun leur orateur.' EUR 125
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(RICHARD, C.L.) Lettre d'un ancien officier breton, à un gentilhomme de la même province, Sur les troubles dont elle est agitée. No place, no date (1766). 11, (1) pp. 12mo. Modern boards, gilt lettering to spine. Conlon 66:1343;both Quérard and Michaud have an entry dedicated to the Dominican Richard and a listing of his numerous works, but neither knows of this work. First edition. - Lightly and equally browned. Very rare little pamphlet which criticizes the English theories concerning royal power and which defends the divine authority of the king.Charles-Louis Richard devoted his great learning and his pen to the defense of religious principles and produced a large number of important and useful theological compilations. His opposition to the revolution forced him into exile in the Low Countries. When he was in Mons he was discovered and tried and despite his old age (83) he was executed. EUR 225
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(RICHEMONT, L.A. CAMUS DE.) De la situation politique de l'Europe et des intérêts de la France. (Paris), Ant. de Bernard, (1829). 91, (1) pp. Folio. Modern half blue morocco, gilt lettering to spine. Lithographed text, published in bookform in the same year, 1829, in 8vo, 112 pp., by Levavasseur, according to Quérard, vol. xii, p. 380. The author deals with this question: 'Sous quelles vues d'utilité et dans quels desseins l'Angleterre et l'Autriche cherchent-elles à entraîner la France dans une coalition contre la Russie?' The different parts of this manuscript have been dated 5 April, 10 Mai, and 9 June 1829 and are each signed by the author. Richemont belonged to a small minority which opposed an 'entente cordiale' with Great Britain. The author, better known as Camus de Richemont, had already been charged, in 1801, with an important mission to the Indian seas where he was to investigate the means by which it was possible to defense French interests in that part of the world against Great Britain. Upon his return he submitted indeed an important memoir of the situation and suggested means by which this defense could be organised.The text ends thus: 'J'ai pensé qu'il pouvait y avoir (dans les circonstances présentes) quelque inconvénient à donner à mes deux mémoires une publicité complète. Je me suis donc borné, dans des vues d'intérêt public, à ne faire autographier que le petit nombre d'exemplaires que je me proposais de distribuer, soit dans les Chambres, soit au dehors, aux personnes qui, par leur position et leur influence politique, peuvent donner du poids à mes propositions, et les recommander à la considération du gouvernement, si elles obtiennent leur approbation.' EUR 1250
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(SAINT-JOSEPH, P. DE.) Catechisme des Partisans, ou Resolutions Théologiques touchant l'Imposition, Levées & Employ des Finances. Dressé par Demandes & Responces, pour plus grande facilité. Par le R. P.D.P.D. S.I. A Paris, Chez Cardin Besongne, 1649. With large vignette on title. 32 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Moreau 652; Kress 788; Goldsmiths 1019; INED 4055; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli. First edition of this very rare pamphlet offering thoughts on the power of the king in financial matters and on the organisation of the collecting of the taxes. - Somewhat spotted throughout. 'Très remarquable pamphlet' (Moreau). See for an elaborate account of the man and his works Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique, xii, 2e partie, col. 2042-2044. - Rare. EUR 300
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(SAINTARD, P.) Essai sur les colonies françoises; ou Discours politique sur la nature du gouvernement, de la population & du commerce de la colonie de S.D. (Saint-Domingue). No place, 1754. (8), 360 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, all edges red, joint very lightly shaved. Kress 5397; Einaudi 4931; INED 4032; Sabin 75518; Chadenat 1478; Leclerc 1411; not in JFBL; not in Goldsmiths; not in Muller; not in Echeverria & Wilkie. First edition and very rare of this very important work dealing with the French colonies and urging the King to redress the colonial situation of France thereby attempting to safe the colonial power of France. In this period France was, with Spain, the foremost colonial power in the world and in possession of important parts of the America's. Very good and interesting political, commercial and demographical description of Saint-Domingo and also dealing with jursidiction, councils, inhabitants, military service, etc.It is interesting to note that there was apparently a second volume planned which however never saw the light of day. This volume has eleven chapters, but the 'Tables des Discours, Première Partie' mentions a 'Seconde Partie' containing the chapters 12-18, but without giving the pagination of this second part. Also the errata-leaf mentions the errata of the 'première partie', suggesting that there was a second volume planned. None of the reference works, with the exception of INED, has noted this fact, nor has anybody, including INED, ever seen a second volume. - The first and last pages a bit browned. EUR 2500
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(SAINTARD, P.) Roman Politique sur l'État présant Des affaires de l'Amérique, ou Lettres de M***. à M***. Sur les moyens d'établir une Paix solide & durable dans les Colonies, & la Liberté générale du Commerce extérieur. A Amsterdam, Et se trouve à Paris chez Duchesne, 1756. xlvii, (1), 352 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, red edges. Echerverria & Wilkie 56/40; Sabin 75520; Chadenat 4121; JFBL S61; INED 4034; Higgs 1501; Kress 5567; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition, very rare. 'There are several issues of this edition occasioned by cancellanda (D4-5, D11-12, E10, G11, and I5-8, all of which are present in this copy). No copy is known, however, that is not a mixture of both canellanda and cancellantia: thus, what the original text was as first printed is problematic. (.....) In the two BN copies, (....), the imprint date has been alterted in manuscript to read M.DCC.LVII. (This is also the case with the present copy where the second 'I' has been added in manuscript.) This is a series of letters dated July-September 1756, forming an essay on international power politics with special reference to European colonial systems in America' (Echeverria & Wilkie).'Intéressant pour l'origine de la guerre du Canada' (Chadenat). 'A consideration of Europe's involvement in North America with a view to establishing a balance of power among the colonizing nations which would eliminate war and encourage commerce' (JFBL). 'Déterminer la nature des divers équilibres propres aux différentes colonies septentrionales et méridionales des peuples de l'Europe, en étudiant les variations de leurs cultures, leur commerce, leur population, leurs différentes distances, etc.' (INED). - Contemporary signature and author's name in blank portion of title. EUR 3500
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(SALMASIUS, C.) Defensio Regia, pro Carolo I, ad Serenissimum Magnae Brittanniae regem Carolum II. Filium natu majorem, haeredem & successorem legitimum. No place (Leyde), Sumptibus regiis, 1649. (2), 720 pp. 12mo. 19th-century calf, gilt floral ornaments on sides, spine gilt with gilt lettering, gilt inside dentelles, all edges gilt, binding signed at foot of spine: Bozerian jeune. Lalanne, Dictionnaire Historique de la France, vol. ii, p. 1637; Willems 658; not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700. One of various editions published in the year as its original publication in folio, and often reprinted. The work provoked the famous reply by Milton Pro populo Anglicano defensio, contre Claudii anonymi, alias Salmasii, defensionem regiam. 'Claude Saumaise (1588-1658), l'un des plus célèbres érudits et critiques du XVIIe siècle. Il embrassa le protestantisme, alla s'établir à Leyde (1631), où il succéda comme professeur à Joseph Scaliger. Appelé en Suède par Christine, près de laquelle il séjourna un an, il retourna en Hollande. Sa réputation était immense parmi ses contemporains .....' (Lalanne, op.cit). EUR 400
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(SARPI, P. DIT) FRA PAOLO. Discours Dogmatique et Politique, Sur l'origine, la nature, les prétendues immunités, et la véritable destination des Biens Ecclésiastiques. Ouvrage posthume de Fra-Paolo. Traduit de l'Italien (par F.M. de Marsy). A Avignon, Chez Alexandre Girard, 1750. (6), 248 pp. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, two corners very lightly bumped. Conlon 50:875; Catalogue de l'Histoire de France, v, p. 218. First French edition. Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623), Venetian statesman and historian. Sarpi was a member of the order of the Serviti, but was nevertheless very critical of the papacy and the church. He succeeded in defending the rights of the state against papal attack. In his Istoria dell'interdetto di Venezia (1624) he advocated a policy of rigorous jurisdiction over everything pertaining to the temporal interests of the church, anticipating in some respects the doctrine of the separation of the two powers. Sarpi ranks with Machiavelli and Guicciardini as one of the great historical writers of the sixteenth century.The current work is a learned historical exposition dealing with the possessions of the Church, how these were acquired and how they are used: Sarpti points to the fact that originally the gifts received by the church aimed at supporting the church and clergy and to provide aid for the poor: he denounces the misuses and corruption and the extreme wealth of the church. - Stamp of Edmond Vallée on first blank. EUR 400
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(SCHMID D'AVENSTEIN, G.L.) Principes de la Législation universelle. A Amsterdam, Chez Marc-Michel Rey, 1776. 2 volumes. xx, 389, (3) pp.; (4), 474, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with red labels and gilt lettering, red edges. INED 4116; Einaudi A.867; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Leblanc 113; Mattioli 3269. First edition. 'Économie politique. Doctrine plus agrarienne que populationniste, très proche de celle des physiocrates' (INED, giving a long and extensive analysis of the work). There are sections discussing population (Schmid advocates a continuous increase), family life, property (he defends private ownership of land), luxury, taxation (Schmid favours direct over indirect taxation), commerce (he advocates, among other things, free trade for the colonies and an autonomous government) and war. One of the best expositions of the body of economic thought of the time.George-Louis Schmid (or Schmidt), born in Avenstein in 1720, entered the service of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar and retired in 1757 to Nyon in the Vaud. He had close relations with Voltaire, Diderot and d'Alembert and the other leading philosophes of the 18th century. - Some occasional browning. An excellent copy of a scarce work. EUR 2500
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(SENAC DE MEILHAN, G.) Considérations sur les richesses et le luxe. A Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, Chez la veuve Valade, 1787. viii, 499, (5) pp. 8vo. Contemporaryhalf calf, morocco label with gilt lettering, marbled boards, vellum corners, red sprinkled edges. Kress B.1336; Goldsmiths 13327; INED 4141; Stourm, p. 146; Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, 224; Mattioli 3341; not in Einaudi; JFBL S257; not in Echeverria & Wilkie; not in Sabin. First edition of this "brilliantly written" (Palgrave) refutation of Terray and Necker. The work is a true economic program and largely influenced by physiocratic ideas: in 47 chapters the author deals with population, money, interest, 'commerce des grains', the colonies in the Americas, ancient and modern colonies, France and England, etc. etc. 'A condemnation of luxury goods because of their tendency to deplate a nation of its capital, which ought to be invested in productive enterprises' (JFBL). The book was very favorably received by his contemporaries and contributed importantly to the fall of Necker. EUR 750
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(SENAC DE MEILHAN, G.) Considérations sur l'ésprit et les moeurs. A Londres, et se trouve à Paris, Chez les Marchands des Nouveautés, 1787. (4), 388 pp. + errata leaf. 8vo. Contemporary paper covers, somewhat worn at spine, uncut and unopened. INED 4140; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Conlon 87:2725. First edition. 'Sur l'homme en société. Quelques réflexions sur l'influence respective de la guerre et de la paix sur le caractère national ......' (INED). A well written work giving interesting insights into society on the eve of the revolution. EUR 450
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(SERVAN, J.-M.-A.) Des Assassinats et des Vols politiques, ou des Proscriptions et des Confiscations. Par Guillaume-Thomas Raynal. A Londres, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Debarle, 1795. 64 pp. 8vo. Modern blind wrappers. Feugère 113; Martin & Walter 28815. First edition. Although published with the use of the name of Raynal, the work is in fact written by Servan.Historical treatise on assassinations and expropriation ("political theft"), banishment and confiscation from ancient times to the present. Evidently an ardent critique (and evidently inspired by the French Revolution) on the practise by those in power in turbulent times to confiscate, ban, expropriate and even kill opponents, real or imagined. Montesquieu is cited who already warned that these practices must be avoided at all times as the practise to punish on a grand scale requires too much power in the hands of few. It is better practise to forgive than to punish, and not to exile too many. - Equally browned throughout. EUR 250
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(SIMOND, L.) Voyage d'un Français en Angleterre, pendant les années 1810 et 1811; avec des observations sur l'état politique et moral, les arts et la littérature de ce pays, et sur les moeurs et les usages de ses habitans. A Paris, Chez Treuttel et Würtz, et à Strasbourg, même maison de commerce, 1816. With 15 plates (14aquatints, some of costumes), 13 engraved vignettes and two tables. 2 volumes. xi, (1), 525, (1) pp.; (4), 450 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Kress B.6806; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Abbey, Scenery, 18 (second edition). First edition. - Very lightly browned. Louis Simond, French traveller (1767-1831). He left France for the United States in 1792 where he travelled extensively, went to England where he also travelled extensively and returned to France at the beginning of the Restoration, travelled in Switzerland and Italy and retired to Geneva, where he died. The present work was received favorably and with much interest: the reading public was very interested in learning about the English nation with which communications had been so difficult during the long revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. This was in no small measure due to the fact that the author did not bother very much to write about topography but focussed on social conditions, history, politics, economics, judicial administration and the laws.The tables are entitled: Tableau des Progrès de la dette Anglaise and Table de Dépréciation des Espèces. - Very lightly browned. EUR 450
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(SULLY), M. DE BETHUNE DE. Mémoires des sages et royales oeconomies d'Estat, domestiques, politiques et militaires de Henry le Grand, l'Exemplaire des Roys, le Prince des Vertus, des Armes & des Loix, & le Père en effet de ses peuples françois. Et des servitudes utiles obeyssances convenables et administrations loyales de Maximilian de Béthune, l'un des plus confidens, familiers et utiles soldats et serviteurs du grand Mars des François. (Rouen, et se trouve à Paris, Thomas Iolly, Louys Billaine, Augustin Courbé, 1652-1663). 8 volumes in 6. (36), 713, (1) pp.; 561, (23) pp.; (20), 770 pp.; 707, (47) pp.; (36), 475, (1), (4), 452, (4) pp.; (2), 371, (1), (4), 267, (1) pp. 16mo. 19th-century speckled vellum. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED (all citing other editions). First volume published 'Iouxte la coppie imprimée à Amstelredam', 1652, the second volume dated at end 1663, with a title-page without publisher, place or dated and entitled 'Suitte de la premiere partie .... Tome second', page numbering starting with page 3, (Aii); volumes 3 and 4 dated 1663, published Rouen and Paris, and volumes 5-8 dated 1662, published Rouen and Paris. - Last two pages (769-770) of volume 3 in manuscript, engraved bookplate on front pate-down of all volumes, on the first two blanks in the first volume a previous owner noted, among other things: 'cette petite editon en huit tomes, reliés en six volumes, est la meilleure et la plus complette que l'on puisse avoir'. Blanqui: 'Le livre sera éternellement digne d'être consulté comme le point de départ des réforme économiques qui ont mis fin aux abus du moyen-âge et qui ont abouti à la Révolution Française.' Guillaumin & Coquelin: 'Nous possédons peu de monuments historiques aussi précieux que les mémoirs de Sully ..... C'est une narration étendue des événements du règne d'Henry IV, des opérations du gouvernement, surtout de celui Sully dirigea.' Schumpeter: 'Maximilien de Béthune, created Duke de Sully by Henry IV, the latter's minister of finance, was a much greater, and especially stronger man than was the most famous of his successors, Colbert. He reformed the fiscal system of France most succesfully and saw much beyond the range of what he actually accomplished. Moreover, he knew - which is the criterion of greatness in a fiscal administrator - how to make fiscal policy an element and tool of general economic policy.' EUR 750
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(TIXEDOR, F.X.) Nouvelle France, ou France commerçante. Par Mr. F. X. T(ixedor) Juge de C(onflans). A Londres, 1765. (4), viii, 264 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, marbled edges. Kress 6305; Goldsmiths 10097; INED 4337; Higgs 3430; Leblanc 384; not in Einaudi. First edition. Kress states work to be published first in 1755, for which statement no evidence could be found, nor does Kress have this 1755 edition, nor does Goldsmiths. 'Cet ouvrage comporte quatre parties: Du commerce en général; Des avantages qui reviendront à la France par l'établissement d'un solide commerce; De la facilité des établissements de commerce et marine dans la France; Des obstacles qui peuvent s'opposer à un solide établissement de commerce dans la France. Cette dernière rubrique se termine par des considérations sur l'établissement du commerce propre à la monarchie française' (Leblanc). 'Economique. Réflexions sur le commerce en général et sur ces avantages. Intérêt de la France à posséder un 'solide commerce', d'autant plus que notre pays offre des conditions particulièrement favorables à son développement et à celui de la marine. Défense du systême des douanes intérieures' (INED). EUR 350
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(TURMEAU DE LA MORANDIERE, D.L.) Appel des Etrangers dans nos Colonies. A Paris, Chez Dessain Junior, 1763 (Paris, EDHIS, 1973). xxiv, 142 pp. Small 8vo. Modern boards. INED 4363; Sauvy, Quelques démographes ignorés du XVIIIe siècle, pp. 355-362; Conlon 63:1345; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Higgs 3214; Sabin 97459. The very scarce first edition is almost impossible to find, which led to its being reprinted in the EDHIS series. Well executed, printed in a limited editon of 250 copies of which 30 copies not destined for the trade. In this work the author calls for vigorous recruitment and immigration policy; he enumerates the causes of depopulation and attacks the growing practice of contraception. The causes of depopulation according to the author are: the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, the colonies, the taxes (he proposes to limit the taxes on manufactures) and luxery, which 'freine la nuptialité' and by consequence limits the number of children. According to Sauvy, the author had well understood the subtleties of the 'produit net' and was an adversary of colbertism. He advocated immigration of people from all nations and all religions to France and its colonies and outlines a policy to reach these goals. NUC lists only one copy of this work (RPJCB). EUR 150
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(VALDORI, G. DE.) Anecdotes du ministère du Cardinal de Richelieu et du règne de Louis XIII avec quelques particularitez du commencement de la Régence d'Anne d'Autriche. Tirées & traduites de l'Italien du Mercurio de Siri. A Amsterdam, Aux dépens de la Compagnie (Rouen), 1717. Title printed in red and black. 2 volumes. (8), 472 pp.; 417, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary polished calf, spines gilt with raised bands, gilt inside and outside dentelles. Cf.: Bourgeois & André 8680; Thuau, Raison d'État et Politique à l'époque de Richelieu, p. 234; Conlon 17:745 (under Siri); Weller, Die falschen und fingierten Druckorte, ii, p. 83. First French edition, printed in Rouen according to Weller. Compilation from the Italian Il Mercurio overo historia dei correnti tiempi by the Italian historian Vittorio Siri. Siri had made an analysis of the Franco-Italian relations under Richelieu and Mazarin, the ambitions of Richelieu, the French court life, etc. Siri lived in France in the years 1649-1650 and this work contains 'une foule de pièces, fournis principalement de Hugues de Lionne, instructions, dépêches, mémoires, etc' (Bourgeois & André). - First pages of volume one with tiny hole in lower blank margin. From the library of Bruno Monnier. EUR 600
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(WICQUEFORT, A. DE.) Discours Historique de l'Élection de l'Empereur et des Électeurs de l'Empire. Par le Resident de Brandebourg. A Paris, Chez Augustin Courbé, 1658. (16), 511 (misnumbered 519), (1) pp. 4to. Later full speckled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, gilt fillet on sides, marbled edges, small tear in lower front joint. BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700, B.33. First edition, dedicated to the French chancellor Séguier. Deals with the difficult electoral process in the Holy Roman Empire. During the interregnum between the death of Ferdinand III (1657) and the succession in 1658 by his son Leopold (who was king of Bohemia and Hongaria, but not Roman king) the author attempted to inform a French audiance by presenting a detailed history of and the principles by which the electoral process of the German emperor took place, explaining that the election of Holy Roman Emperor is the monopoly of seven princes of the Holy Empire, four of which are catholic and three of which are protestant. Each of these and their respective family are treated in this work outlining the history of each and with an explanation of their rights.Abraham de Wicquefort was born in Amsterdam in 1598, studied in Paris and became the official representative of the Margrave of Brandenbourg in Paris until he fell in disgrace with Mazarin who had him thrown into the Bastille in the year of publication of the present volume. - Leaf Xxiij with a tear in the outer blank margin. Very nice copy, from the Duc de la Rochefoucauld, author of the famous Maximes, and with a contemporary signature in the lower blank margin of the title-page and the stamp of the library at the Chateau Roche-Guyon in the blank outer margin of the title-page. EUR 1400
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(WRAXALL, N.W.) Court Examen de l'état politique de la Grande-Bretagne au commencement de l'année 1787; Traduit de l'Anglois de M.P., sur la septième édition. Par M.L.D. A Paris, Chez Hardouin & Gattey, 1787. 76 pp. 8vo. Sewn in contemporary paper cover with gilt floral decoration on sides. Conlon 87:2869; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First French edition of 'A short History of the political state of Great Britain', and translated by Louis Dutens. The translator states in the preface that the work had considerable success in England and even provoked two critical replies, one of which is entitled Réplique au Court Examen and which is attributed to Fox. EUR 250
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AGUESSEAU, (H.F.) D'. Oeuvres de M. Le Chancelier d'Aguesseau. A Paris, Chez les Libraires Associés, 1761-1789. 13 volumes. xliv, (2), xlv-cxlviii, 622 pp.; xxviii, 686 pp.; xx, 782 pp.; xxiv, 731, (1) pp.; (4), xxii, 730 pp.; (4), xvi, 773, (1) pp.; (4), xlviii, 685, (1) pp.; (4), 711, (1) pp.; (4), xx, 731, (1) pp.; (4), xvi, 460, (2), xii, 316 pp.; (4), xvi, 678 pp.; (4), xxviii, 648 xlix, (1) pp.; (4), lxxxviii, 704 pp. 4to. Contemporary tree calf, spines gilt in compartments with red labels and gilt lettering, lightly rubbed and worn, a few volumes with some damage to either head or foot of spine. Camus 1349; Conlon 61:443. First edition. Henri François d'Aguesseau, (1668-1751), French magistrate during the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV and one of the most distinguished of the chancellors who flourished under the French system of parlements. As a magistrate he bansihed corruption from the tribunals, he was responsible for improving the forms and uniformity of procedure; he was influential in ascertaining more accurately jurisdictional limits. It was, however, through his grandes ordonnances that he left his most permanent marks on French jurisprudence. His work marks an epoch in French jurisprudence and his name ranks with that of L'Hôpital. - Some ocassional light browning. EUR 1500
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ALGAROTTI, (F.) Lettres du Comte Algarotti sur la Russie, Contenant l'état du Commerce, de la Marine, des revenus, & des forces de cet Empire: avec l'histoire de la guerre de 1735 contre lesTurcs, & des observations sur la mer Baltique, & la mer Caspienne. Traduite de l'Italien. A Londres, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Merlin, 1769. (4), 337, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, a bit worn and rubbed. Kress 6601; Higgs 4560; Conlon 69:492; Garnier, Bibliographie de la Russie, 162; Catalogue Russica, i, A450; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Mattioli. First French edition, rare. Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764) was an Italian poet, art and music critic, dandy and man of letters. The son of wealthy merchant, he became the darling of the European aristocracy. In 1733 he captured the attention of Émilie du Chatelet when he stayed with her and Voltaire (Voltaire called him his 'cher cygne de Padoue') to write Il Neutonianismo per le dame which was translated into English by Elizabeth Carter. Leaving France for London, he became the paramour of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu who was ready to sacrafice her reputation and move to Italy with him. But Algarotti fled with Lord Baltimore to Russia, a trip recorded in his Viaggi in Russia (1760). Algarotti later became a constant companion to Frederic of Prussia who ordered a monument to be erected at Pisa to the memory of Algarotti (A Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century History, Edited by Jeremy Black and Roy Porter, p. 22). EUR 500
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ARGENSON, (R,L. DE VOYER D'.) Considérations sur le Gouvernement ancien et présent de la France. Par M. le marquis d'Argenson. A Amsterdam, Chez Marc Michel Rey, 1765. Title-page printed in red and black and with title vignette. vii, (1), 312 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands and red edges. Menger 544; Stourm, p. 107; Higgs 3368; not in Kress, not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Renouvin, Assemblées provinciales, pp. 31-36; Lichtenberger, Le Socialisme au XVIIIe siècle, pp. 93-103; cf. Mattioli 76. Third edition, newly set and printed. The work was severely prosecuted in France, but M.M. Rey printed at least three different editions during the years 1764-1765. René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, Marquis d'Argenson (1694-1757), French writer on economic and political subjects. The main principle in d'Argenson's philosophy was universal liberalism- 'not too much government' (pas trop gouverner). In politics the 'democracy' which he wished to 'admit into the monarchic state' depended primarily on the abolition of inherited distinctions between the estates and on the decentralization of administration. In the economic sphere he demanded the cessation of all interference with the production and circulation of goods (G. Weulersse in ESS, vol. 2, p. 182). 'En matière sociale et politique les idées de d'Argenson sont à la fois hardies, brutales et timorées... d'Argenson tend vers une sorte de socialisme imposé et surveillé par une aristocratie qui n'en prendrait que ce qu'elle voudrait' (Mornet, Les Origines Intellectuelles de la Révolution Française). EUR 800
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ARGENSON, (R.L. DE VOYER D'.) Considérations sur le Gouvernement ancien et présent de la France. A Amsterdam, Chez Marc Michel Rey, 1765. Title-page printed in red and black and with title vignette. xvi, 328 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, marbled boards, vellum corners. Menger 544; Stourm, p. 107; Higgs 3368; not in Kress, not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Renouvin, Assemblées provinciales, pp. 31-36; Lichtenberger, Le Socialisme au XVIIIe siècle, pp. 93-103. Second edition, first issue. This second edition has two issues: one with an errata-leaf (pp. xv-xvi) and numbered preliminaries, the second issue has no errata-leaf while the errata are corrected and the preliminaries are unnumbered. The work was severely prosecuted in France, but M.M. Rey printed at least three different editions during the years 1764-1765. René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, Marquis d'Argenson (1694-1757), French writer on economic and political subjects. The main principle in d'Argenson's philosophy was universal liberalism- 'not too much government' (pas trop gouverner). In politics the 'democracy' which he wished to 'admit into the monarchic state' depended primarily on the abolition of inherited distinctions between the estates and on the decentralization of administration. In the economic sphere he demanded the cessation of all interference with the production and circulation of goods (G. Weulersse in ESS, vol. 2, p. 182). 'En matière sociale et politique les idées de d'Argenson sont à la fois hardies, brutales et timorées... d'Argenson tend vers une sorte de socialisme imposé et surveillé par une aristocratie qui n'en prendrait que ce qu'elle voudrait.' (Mornet, Les Origines Intellectuelles de la Révolution Française). - Name of the author written on the title in an contemporary hand, with small owner's stamp on title (M. de Chamineville) and the bookplate of Charles Chabroud, avocat and constitutionel. EUR 900
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ARGENSON, (R.L. DE VOYER) D'. Considérations sur le gouvernement ancien et présent de la France. A Amsterdam, Chez Marc-Michel Rey, 1765. Title printed in red and black with vignette. 7, (1), 312 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf (slightly damaged and worn). Cf.: Menger 544; Stourm, p. 107; Higgs 3090; not in Kress, not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Renouvin, Assemblées provinciales, pp. 31-36; Lichtenberger, Le Socialisme au XVIIIe siècle, pp. 93-103. One of the issues published during the years 1764-1765. Although written as early as 1737, the author's theories have already much in common with those of the Physiocrats. The work was severely prosecuted in France, but M.M. Rey printed at least three issues during the years 1764-1765. René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, Marquis d'Argenson (1694-1757), French writer on economic and political subjects. The main principle in d'Argenson's philosophy was universal liberalism- 'not too much government' (pas trop gouverner). In politics the 'democracy' which he wished to 'admit into the monarchic state' depended primarily on the abolition of inherited distinctions between the estates and on the decentralization of administration. In the economic sphere he demanded the cessation of all interference with the production and circulation of goods (G. Weulersse in ESS, vol. 2, p. 182). 'En matière sociale et politique les idées de d'Argenson sont à la fois hardies, brutales et timorées ..... d'Argenson tend vers une sorte de socialisme imposé et surveillé par une aristocratie qui n'en prendrait que ce qu'elle voudrait' (Mornet, Les Origines Intellectuelles de la Révolution Française). EUR 600
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ARGENSON, (R.L. DE VOYER) D'. Considérations sur le gouvernement ancien et présent de la France. A Amsterdam, Chez M.M. Rey, 1764. Title printed in red and black, with title-vignette. xvi, 328 pp.8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt, slightly rubbed. Goldsmiths 10051; Higgs 3090; Weulersse i, p. xix; Stourm, p. 107; Menger p. 544; cf.: INED 87; Renouvin, Assemblées provinciales, pp. 31-36; Lichtenberger, Le Socialisme au XVIIIe siècle, pp. 93-103; Conlon 64:512; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; Mattioli 76, but the 1784 edition. First edition. Although written as early as 1737, the author's theories have already much in common with those of the Physiocrats. The work was severely prosecuted in France, but M.M. Rey printed at least three issues during the years 1764-1765. René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, Marquis d'Argenson (1694-1757), French writer on economic and political subjects. The main principle in d'Argenson's philosophy was universal liberalism- 'not too much government' (pas trop gouverner). In politics the 'democracy' which he wished to 'admit into the monarchic state' depended primarily on the abolition of inherited distinctions between the estates and on the decentralization of administration. In the economic sphere he demanded the cessation of all interference with the production and circulation of goods (G. Weulersse in ESS, vol. 2, p. 182). 'En matière sociale et politique les idées de d'Argenson sont à la fois hardies, brutales et timorées ..... d'Argenson tend vers une sorte de socialisme imposé et surveillé par une aristocratie qui n'en prendrait que ce qu'elle voudrait' (Mornet, Les Origines Intellectuelles de la Révolution Française). EUR 900
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ASSEMBLEE DE NOTABLES DE 1787 - DISCOURS prononcé de l'ordre du Roi en sa présence par M. de Calonne, Contôleur général des Finances, dans l'Assemblée des Notables, Tenue à Versailles, le 22 Février 1787. AVersailles, De l'Imprimerie de Ph.-D. Pierres, 1787. - (Bound with:) DISCOURS prononcées à l'Assemblée de Notables, Du Vendredi 25 Mai 1787. A Versailles, De L'Imprimerie de Philippe-Denys Pierres, 1787. - (Bound with:) PROCES-VERBAL de l'Assemblée de Notables, Tenue à Versailles, en l'année M.DCCLXXXVII. With 2 leaves containing the 'Plan de la Salle d'Assemblée' and 2 leaves containing the 'Explication'. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1788. 3 works bound in 1 volume. 34 pp.; 36 pp.; (4), 326 pp. 4to.Modern half calf, spine gilt with red label and gilt lettering, marbled boards, sprinkled edges. First work: Kress B.1173; Goldsmiths 13431; Einaudi 798.First edition.Calonne had hoped, with the backing from the leading men of the kingdom (the 'Notables' were choosen, not elected), that the loans he needed would be undoubtedly forthcoming. But when Calonne in his opening speech declared that the royal finances were running a substantial deficit, the question was asked why Necker was able to create a surplus in times of war and without new taxes, where Calonne had had no war and had introduced new taxes (the third vingtieme) and still had a deficit? Calonne was shortly after replaced by Brienne whose appointment did revive credit instantly. On May 25 the Assembly was closed with an closing speech by Brienne. Second work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths.This work contains the speeches by Lamoignon, Lomenie de Brienne, Dillon, d'Aligre, Nicolay, Barentin, Abbé de la Fare, Angran d'Alleray and Le Peletier. Third work: Renouvin, Assemblées provinciales, p. x. P.S. Dupont de Nemours, who was secretary of the Assembly, was not only the editor of the proceedings, but also of the Mémoire presented to the Assembly by Calonne concerning the reforms proposed in the field of financial as well as economical administration. EUR 900
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BABEUF - (LAMBERT, C.G.) Lettre Écrite par M. le Contrôleur général, à M. le Président de l'Assemblée Nationale, le 28 Juin 1790. (Drop-head title). (A Paris, De l'imprimerie Royale, 1790). - (Bound with:) (LAMBERT, C.G.) Lettre de M. le Contrôleur général, à M. le Président de l'Assemblée Nationale. Du 12 Juillet 1790. (Drop-head title). (A Paris, De l'imprimerie Royale, 1790). - (Bound with:) (LAMBERT, C.G.) Lettre de M. le Contrôleur général, à M. le Président de l'Assemblée Nationale. Du 10 Août 1790. (Drop-head title). (A Paris, De l'imprimerie Royale, 1790). - (Bound with:) (LAMBERT, C.G.) Lettre de M. le Contrôleur général, à M. le Président de l'Assemblée Nationale. Du 18 Août 1790. (Drop-head title). (A Paris, De l'imprimerie Royale, 1790). Four works in one volume. 20 pp.; 18 pp.; 8 pp.; 18 pp. 4to. Modern half red morocco, gilt lettering to spine. Martin & Walter, 18865, 18866, 18867, 18869. All original editions, scarce. Those four letters all deal with the difficulties met in collecting the taxes. The first letter, which contains a 'Releve de la situation des perceptions de la Regie générale des aides dans les villes et lieux qui composent ci-devant les Généralités d'Amiens et de Soissons', strongly denounces for the cities and villages of Montdidier, Guise, Peronne, Saint-Quentin and Roye the activities of the 'Sieur Babeuf' and his petition against the taxes.During the revolution, in a period which R.B. Rose in his Gracchus Babeuf, The First Revolutionary Communist, labels "The Tax Rebellion of 1789-1790" Babeuf published his "Petition sur les Impôts" which he had circulating in 1790. With Paris and Normandy, Picardy is generally conceded to have been one of the three most heavily taxed regions of France in terms of the burden per head of the population. See Rose, op.cit., chapter 5.'Détails sur les activités de Babeuf' (Martin & Walter, 18865). EUR 1500
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BABEUF, F.N.C. Journal de la Conféderation. Nr 1-3 (no date - 4 juillet 1790.) (Drop-head titles). (Paris), De l'Imprimerie de Laillet & Garnery, 1790 (Paris, EDHIS, 1966). 24 pp. 8vo. Boards. Martin & Walter, Journaux, 637 (2 mnumbers only). Reprint of this rare journal, published by the famous Babeuf. All published. 'Apart from continuing and documenting the theme of his attacks on the "frightful conspiracy of the General Farmers and the Cour des Aides", Babeuf carefully identified the journal with the contemporary protest of the leaders of the Paris districts against plans to reorganize the municipal government, plans that threathened their autonomy and their political cohesion' (R.B. Rose, Gracchus Babeuf, The First Revolutionary Communist, (1978), p. 75). EUR 75
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BAILLY - (MENARD DE SAINT-JUST, S.P.) Eloge historique de Jean Sylvain Bailly, au nom de la République des Lettres, par une société de gens de lettres; suivi de notes et de quelques pièces en prose et en vers. A Londres, Dans le Strand, Chez S.P. Rinistad-Stumear, 1794. (4), 266 pp. 12mo. Modern half calf, gilt lettering to spine, marbled boards, top edge gilt, uncut. Martin & Walter 23884; Tourneux, iv, 21736. First edition, very rare. Jean-Sylvain Bailly, scientist and politician (1736-1793). He was president of the National Assembly and mayor of Paris. Bailly set up an observatory in the upper story of the Louvre's south gallery and began to make observations of the comets and the planets Mars and Venus. His successes brought him admission to the prestigious Académie des Sciences in 1763. In 1771 Bailly published a masterful dissertation in which he explored a new theory on the satellites of Jupiter. Bailly surfaced as the spokesman for the Third Estate and when the Third Estate retired to the tennis court Bailly led the assembly in taking the famous oath that created the National Assembly. Bailly remained firm in his belief that the "nation when assembled cannot be given orders". He was later found guilty as responsible for the Champ de Mars massacre and executed. - Ex libris Bibliothèque Paul Lacombe on front paste-down, printed in 25 copies only, and printed on "papier vélin." EUR 600
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BALZAC, (J.L. GUEZ DE.) Le Prince. Revue, corrigé & augmenté de nouveau par l'autheur. Avec les sommaires sur les chapitres. Paris, Michel Bobin, 1660. (16), 420 pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, topof spine damaged, a little worn. Tchemerzine-Scheler, i, 358b; Bourgeois & André 2747; BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700, G-867. First published in 1631 in 4to, there were editions published in 1632 (4to), 1634 and 1642 (both 8vo) and two editions in 1660, in 8vo and one in 12mo. Eulogy of Louis XIII by the great French author. Jean Louis Guez de Balzac is chiefly remembered for introducing into French prose a new clearness and precision and encouraging the development of the language on national lines by emphasizing its most idiomatic elements. Old library stamp verso front free blank. EUR 350
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BELLE-ISLE, (C.L.A. FOUQUET, DE.) Testament politique du Maréchal Duc de Belle-Isle. A Amsterdam, Aux dépens des Libraires Associés, 1761. 12mo. - (Bound with:) (TIXEDOR, F.X.) Nouvelle France, ou France commerçante. Par Mr. F. X. T. (Tixedor) Juge de C. (Conflans). A Londres, 1765. 2 works in 1 volume. 216 pp.; (4), viii, 264 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, marbled edges, very lightly rubbed. First work: Goldsmiths 9713 (listing it under Chevrier); INED 379; Higgs 2627; Einaudi 1076 (listing an edition from 1762, also under Chevrier); Conlon 61:576 (Chevrier); not in Kress. First edition. First work: 'Politique et social. Réflexions sur l'intolérance, qui est parfois nécessaire (mais dommages causés par l'émigration des protestants); les impôts, qui sont moins lourds que mal répartis; la néfaste célibat des prêtres; la nécessité des lois somptuaires, bien que `le luxe qui perd un petit état en enrichit un grand'; le duel, qui peut mener à la destruction de l'espèce humaine; l'exemption d'impôts des pères de famille qui favoriserait la population; .....' (INED). According to Querard, the work is by Chevrier where indeed several reference works list it.Second work: Kress 6305; Goldsmiths 10097; INED 4337; Higgs 3430; Leblanc 384; Conlon 65:1299; not in Einaudi.First edition. Kress states the work was published first in 1755, for which statement no evidence could be found, nor does Kress have this 1755 edition, nor does Goldsmiths and Conlon lists it under 1765 thereby indicating that there is no 1755 edition.'Cet ouvrage comporte quatre parties: Du commerce en général; Des avantages qui reviendront à la France par l'établissement d'un solide commerce; De la facilité des établissements de commerce et marine dans la France; Des obstacles qui peuvent s'opposer à un solide établissement de commerce dans la France. Cette dernière rubrique se termine par des considérations sur l'établissement du commerce propre à la monarchie française. (Leblanc). 'Economique. Réflexions sur le commerce en général et sur ces avantages. Intérêt de la France à posséder un 'solide commerce', d'autant plus que notre pays offre des conditions particulièrement favorables à son développement et à celui de la marine. Défense du systême des douanes intérieures' (INED). - With the engraved bookplate of Alexis de Lamothe, Avocat. EUR 750
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BERCHOUX, (J. DE.) L'Art politique, Poëme en Quatre Chants, suivi de pièces fugitives et oeuvres diverses. A Paris, Chez Le Normant, 1819. With engraved frontispiece. x, 204 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled paper. Quérard, i, p. 279; not in Vicaire. First edition. Educational poem in 4 songs treating the origins of power (song 1), the monarchy (song 2), the republic (song 3) and absolute power (song 4), the whole accompagnied with historical notes. - Nice copy, uncut and unopened. EUR 325
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BERRY - (LOUIS XVI.) Lettres patentes du Roi, portant établissement d'une Administration Provinciale dans le Berry. Données à Marly, le 9 Mai 1779. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, P.G. Simon, 1779. 3, (1 blank) pp. 4to. As issued, uncut. Actes royaux (Bibl. Nationale), vi, 40159. EUR 75
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BERTALL (PSEUD. OF CHARLES-ALBERT D'ARNOUX.) Les communeux. 1871. Types - Caractères - Costumes. Londres, Paris, Gottschalk, (1871). 34 coloured plates preceded by titlepage and avant-propos. 4to.Original decorated gilt cloth, somewhat discoloured. Del Bo p. 57; Berleux p.14; Le Quillec 237. First edition. A famous collection of pictures of characters and costumes of the Paris Commune: the supreme general, the chief of police, the arrest of a priest hostage, the barricade commander, a 'petroleur', etc. Critical and with a keen eye for the people depicted (their pride, vanity, poverty, sense of importance, etc.) this is a very nice work. EUR 400
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BIELFELD, (J.F.) DE. Institutions politiques. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée. A Leyde, & se vend à Leipsick, en Foire, Chez J.F. Bassompierre, Fils, 1768-1774. With engraved portrait-frontispiece and five folding tables. 3 volumes. xii, 608 pp.; iv, 635, (1) pp.; xvi, 800 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, red labels with gilt lettering, red edges, a bit rubbed. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Humpert; Leblanc 240; Carpenter, Economic Bestsellers, XX.9. Improved, revised and augmented edition, with the third volume. 'Cet ouvrage est écrit à l'usage des gouvernants. Il concerne l'art de règner. Bielfeld veut réduire la politique en système, la transformer en une science qui puisse être enseignée. Il divise ses Institutions Politiques en deux parties: 1: Tout ce qui regarde l'intérieur d'un État: cadre législatifs et politiques, finances, manufactures, commerce, navigation, armée, marine ....; 2: Tout ce qui concerne la politique étrangère et les rapports d'un État avec les autres puissances' (Leblanc).'This is essentially a cameralistic guide for rulers. Bielfeld, although a German, first published his books in French; he relied in large measure upon the French data and writers' (Spengler, French predecessors of Malthus, p. 79). The Supplément aux Institutions Politiques pour cette nouvelle édition is to be found in the second volume covering the pages 557-628."This Cameralistic treatise is by a Prussian state official. It was more successful outside Germany than any other Cameralistic work, presumably because it was written in the international language of the Eighteenth Century -- French" (Carpenter, Economic Bestsellers, XX.9) EUR 1250
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BONAPARTE, L. Documens Historiques et Réflexions sur le Gouvernement de la Hollande. Par Louis Bonaparte, ex-roi de Hollande. A Paris, Chez Aillaud, Fantin, Delachaux, 1820. Three volumes. (4), 333, (1) pp.; (4), 432 pp.; (4), 388 pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spines gilt in compartments, gilt fillet on all sides, red labels with gilt lettering, marbled edges, a very nice copy. Tulard 916. First edition. - A very nice copy despite a small damage to the rear cover of volume one. Very interesting memoirs (and apology of his conduct and politics) by Louis Bonaparte, third brother of Napoleon Bonaparte.Made king of Holland (1806-1810) he enraged Napoleon by becoming a Dutch nationalist. He formed a Dutch ministry and governed with his Parliament, upholding traditional rights and religious freedom, and giving great attention to domestic needs. Among other things, he improved flood control and organized a national health program. He stimulated agriculture, introduced a new criminal code, and established the Royal Academy of Sciences and the Royal Library, and all this in a short reign of only 4 years. At the same time he refused to decree military conscription or institute the Code Napoléon (both were "un-Dutch") or to enforce the Continental System, which he called "immoral." In 1810 Napoléon forced Louis to abdicate and annexed Holland to France. Louis found asylum in Austria. The present work infuriated the dying Napoléon at Saint-Helena when he read it. EUR 450
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BOULAY (DE LA MEURTHE, A.J.C.J.) Essai sur les causes qui, en 1649, amenèrent en Angleterre l'établissement de la république; sur celles qui devaient l'y consolider; sur celles qui l'y firent périr. Seconde édition. Paris, Baudouin, Prairial an VII (1799). (2), 132 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine (Lobstein-Laurenchet). Martin & Walter 4563; Robert & Cougny, Dictionnaire des Parlementaires Français, p. 425-426. Original edition. A work on the 1648 English revolution, the Tudors and Stuarts, Cromwell, presbytarians, the establishment of the republic, its consolidation and its decline. According to Robert & Cougny, the work caused 'beaucoup de bruit" and was intended to provoke a comparison between the English revolution and the French revolution, in which Boulay played an important role as one of the leaders of the moderate party. He occupied a seat in the Council of Five Hundred as well as a number of other positions, was exiled on the accusation of having conspired for the return of Bonaparte and lived in Germany upto 1820. EUR 150
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BOURBON CONDE, DUC D'ENGHIEN - (BOUVENS, DE.) Discours funébre prononcé dans la chapelle de St. Patrik à Londres, le 26 avril 1804, au service solemnel célébré pour le repos de l'âme de S.A.S Mgr. Le Duc d'Enghien. (Drop-head title). No place, (1804). 16 pp. Small 8vo. Modern boards. First edition. Louis-Antoine de Bourbon Condé, duc de Enghien (1772-1804), last of the Condé's, Bourbon First Princes of the Blood, executed by Napoleon. Napoleon wished to discourage the émigrés in Germany from any thought of attacking France and to deliver a forceful warning to the Bourbon pretender, Louis XVIII, and his court. He sent soldiers into Baden -altogether illegally- who seized the duc d'Enghien and returned him to Vincennes to be tried for treason. The Duke was guiltless unless one considers that ten years earlier he had served in the émigré army of his grandfather. Nevertheless, a court-martial, formed at Vincennes, found him guilty, and he was executed on 20 March 1804. EUR 250
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BOURGES - (LOUIS XVI.) Lettres patentes du Roi, en interprétation de celle du 9 Mai 1779, portant établissement d'une Administration provinciale dans la Généralité de Bourges. Données à Versailles le 30 juillet 1779. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, P.G. Simon, 1779. 3, (1 blank) pp. 4to. As issued, uncut, margins a bit frayed. Cf.: Actes royaux (Bibl. Nationale), vi, 40219. EUR 75
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BOYER, A. De l'état des ouvriers et de son amélioration par l'organisation du travail Paris, Dubois, 1841 (Paris, EDHIS, 1979). 165, (1) pp. Small 8vo. Sewn. Kress C. 5395; Goldsmiths 32324; Puech, La vie et l'oeuvre de Flora Tristan, p. 319 ff. Reprint of the extremely rare first edition. Boyer was greatly influenced by the ideas Louis Blanc developed concerning the organisation of labour. Boyer pointed to the relation between technical improvement and the misery of the working classes. He thought thoroughly about social insurance and security, retirement pensions, etc. In many of his ideas he was an advanced thinker. His ideas greatly influenced Flora Tristan. The book was published in 5 seperate instalments and is rarely found complete. EUR 125
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BREMOND, J.B. Les cinq chapitres de développement des observations au peuple françois, sur l'organisation sociale, la formation et les travaux des assemblées municipales, de districts, provinciales et nationales. A Paris, Chez Louis Jorry, Libraire-Imprimeur de Monseigneur le Dauphin & des Enfants de France, 1789. With 3 folding tables. 5 parts in 1 volume. 16 pp.; 20 pp.; 28 pp.; 32 pp.; 64 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; INED 770; Martin & Walter, i, 5067. First edition of this elaborate project aiming at a new social organization for France. - Rare in this complete state. 'Projet de loi sur l'organisation sociale (Bremond prive les célibataires de certains droits), sur l'impôt, qui doit être proportionnel aux propriétés, sur la banque nationale, etc' (INED).The preface is dated 20 Septembre 1789, and Bremond, after having declared that he presents here a project for a new social organization for France, states that this model for France is presented in a projet for a law "d'après les principes de l'Administration Municipale de la Province de Provence".The plates are models: Modele du Cadastre d'une Centurie - Modele du Cadastre d'une Municipalité (with subdivisions: Nombre & Nature des bestiaux - Productions territoriales & valeur commerciale brut - Produit des travaux des Arts & Manufactures, & valeur des matieres premieres nationales & étrangeres qui sont employées) - Modele du Cadastre d'un District, d'une Province & du Royaume. EUR 800
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BRICQUEVILLE, (A.F.B.C. DE.) Discours Prononcé par le colonel Bricqueville, lors de la discussion du budget de la guerre, à la Chambre des députés. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie de L.E. Herhan, (1833). 4 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. This speech, delivered on June 13, 1833, was printed and distributed by the 'Société des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen' and deals with the poor state of the army, pay, and conscriptions. The author states that he will vote against the proposed budget if the re-organisation of the army is not taken up too. EUR 125
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CABET - LUX, H. Etienne Cabet und der Ikarische Kommunismus. Mit einer historischen Einleitung. Stuttgart, Verlag von J.H.W. Dietz, 1894. With an engraved portrait of Cabet as frontispiece. xii, 294, (2) pp. 8vo. Original blindstamped cloth, title on frontcover and spine in gilt, marbled edges. (Internationale Bibliothek, 18). Prudhommeaux, p. xxxv, nr 13; Stammhammer ii, p. 198. First edition. - Stamp of A.P.A. Schulungshaus Bucherei in blank portion of title-page, contemporary ownership's entry on front blank, last leaf contains a catalogue of Dietz. EUR 75
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CABET, (E.) Voyage en Icarie. Cinquième édition. Paris, Bureau du Populaire, 1848. (4), viii, 600 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, marbled boards. Prudhommeaux 35. The last and most complete edition of the most famous utopian account of the 19th century. Etienne Cabet (1788-1856), French communist and social reformer. Cabet was educated as a lawyer, became a director of the Carbonari and devoted himself to democratic propaganda. Because of his inflammatory denunciations against the government Cabet was exiled; he lived in England for five years, where he came under the influence of Robert Owen, and returned to France a convert to communism. He expounded his theories in the famous Voyage en Icarie, a description of a utopia in which the government alone engages in commerce and supervises work and education. The only unit outside of the government is the family, which remains under the leadership of the head of the family. Ardent disciples rallied about Cabet and raised subscriptions to finance a vanguard which sailed for Texas in 1848 to establish an Icarian city after Cabet's model. The land which Cabet had bought, and of the location of which he had only a vague idea, was located in the middle of the wilderness, in Fanin, Texas. After suffering many perils and privations the explorers beat a retreat to New Orleans. Cabet joined his disciples the next year, bringing with him new converts, and the Icarian city was created at Nauvoo, an old Mormon town in Illinois. At first the colony prospered but disagreements developed and in 1856 the founder and two hundred of his followers abandoned the settlement. After Cabet's death the colony moved to Cheltenham, Iowa, and later to Corning, continuing to follow in large measure Cabet's ideas. As late as 1881 a Cabetian colony was founded at Cloverdale, California. 'It is in fact little realized today that if France is the 'classic land of socialism' the United States contests with Russia the claim to be considered the classic land of communism. The story of the communists in America, where they were then known as Primitive Christians, is perhaps one of the most incredible in the history of Utopias.' (D. Owen Evans, Social Romanticism in France, 1830-1848, pp. 56-58). 'His (Cabet) importance lies in his attempt to institute, or at least to further the establishment of, a completely communistic society, in which the supreme control of all essential activities was to be in the hands of the State.' 'The deepest influences on his social doctrine were those of Thomas More and of Robert Owen -the Owen of the years after 1832, when the leaders of the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union were anticipating the immediate advent of the New Moral World, to be achieved, not by violent revolution, but by the refusal of the entire working class to continue labouring under the old conditions, and by the joining together of all trades to set on foot a new system of Co-operative production and distribution under their collective control. Cabet's Communism went a great deal further than Owenism towards complete community of living: he blended Owenite millennialism with communistic aspirations drawn from the record of primitive Christianity and of the social radicalism of the Middle Ages and the Catholic Renaissance.' (G.D.H. Cole, A History of Socialist Thought, I, chapter VII). EUR 300
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CABET, (E.) Voyage en Icarie. Cinquième édition. Paris, Bureau du Populaire, 1848. (4), viii, 600 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering, marbled boards. Prudhommeaux 35. The last and most complete edition of the most famous utopian account of the 19th century. Etienne Cabet (1788-1856), French communist and social reformer. Cabet was educated as a lawyer, became a director of the Carbonari and devoted himself to democratic propaganda. Because of his inflammatory denunciations against the government Cabet was exiled; he lived in England for five years, where he came under the influence of Robert Owen, and returned to France a convert to communism. He expounded his theories in the famous Voyage en Icarie, a description of a utopia in which the government alone engages in commerce and supervises work and education. The only unit outside of the government is the family, which remains under the leadership of the head of the family. Ardent disciples rallied about Cabet and raised subscriptions to finance a vanguard which sailed for Texas in 1848 to establish an Icarian city after Cabet's model. The land which Cabet had bought, and of the location of which he had only a vague idea, was located in the middle of the wilderness, in Fanin, Texas. After suffering many perils and privations the explorers beat a retreat to New Orleans. Cabet joined his disciples the next year, bringing with him new converts, and the Icarian city was created at Nauvoo, an old Mormon town in Illinois. At first the colony prospered but disagreements developed and in 1856 the founder and two hundred of his followers abandoned the settlement. After Cabet's death the colony moved to Cheltenham, Iowa, and later to Corning, continuing to follow in large measure Cabet's ideas. As late as 1881 a Cabetian colony was founded at Cloverdale, California. 'It is in fact little realized today that if France is the 'classic land of socialism' the United States contests with Russia the claim to be considered the classic land of communism. The story of the communists in America, where they were then known as Primitive Christians, is perhaps one of the most incredible in the history of Utopias' (D. Owen Evans, Social Romanticism in France, 1830-1848, pp. 56-58). 'His (Cabet) importance lies in his attempt to institute, or at least to further the establishment of, a completely communistic society, in which the supreme control of all essential activities was to be in the hands of the State.' 'The deepest influences on his social doctrine were those of Thomas More and of Robert Owen -the Owen of the years after 1832, when the leaders of the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union were anticipating the immediate advent of the New Moral World, to be achieved, not by violent revolution, but by the refusal of the entire working class to continue labouring under the old conditions, and by the joining together of all trades to set on foot a new system of Co-operative production and distribution under their collective control. Cabet's Communism went a great deal further than Owenism towards complete community of living: he blended Owenite millennialism with communistic aspirations drawn from the record of primitive Christianity and of the social radicalism of the Middle Ages and the Catholic Renaissance' (G.D.H. Cole, A History of Socialist Thought, i, chapter VII). EUR 300
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CABET, (E.) Voyage en Icarie, roman philosophique et social. Deuxième édition. Paris, J. Mallet et Cie., 1842. (4), vii, (4), 566, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half hard-grained morocco, spine gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering, small damage to headband, gilt stamped name of Yovanne Boivin at foot of spine. Prudhommeaux 35; Trousson, p. 269. First edition with the title under which it became famous. The 1840 (actually 1839) edition, in 2 volumes, was published as Voyage et aventures de Lord Carisdall en Icarie. It was done in a very limited number of copies and distributed among friends of the author only, and hence never put in the trade. Also the author's name appears here for the first time on the titlepage. Etienne Cabet (1788-1856), French communist and social reformer. Cabet was educated as a lawyer, became a director of the Carbonari and devoted himself to democratic propaganda. Because of his inflammatory denunciations against the government Cabet was exiled; he lived in England for five years, where he came under the influence of Robert Owen, and returned to France a convert to communism. He expounded his theories in the famous Voyage en Icarie, a description of a utopia in which the government alone engages in commerce and supervises work and education. The only unit outside of the government is the family, which remains under the leadership of the head of the family. Ardent disciples rallied about Cabet and raised subscriptions to finance a vanguard which sailed for Texas in 1848 to establish an Icarian city after Cabet's model. The land which Cabet had bought, and of the location of which he had only a vague idea, was located in the middle of the wilderness, in Fanin, Texas. After suffering many perils and privations the explorers beat a retreat to New Orleans. Cabet joined his disciples the next year, bringing with him new converts, and the Icarian city was created at Nauvoo, an old Mormon town in Illinois. At first the colony prospered but disagreements developed and in 1856 the founder and two hundred of his followers abandoned the settlement. After Cabet's death the colony moved to Cheltenham, Iowa, and later to Corning, continuing to follow in large measure Cabet's ideas. As late as 1881 a Cabetian colony was founded at Cloverdale, California. 'It is in fact little realized today that if France is the 'classic land of socialism' the United States contests with Russia the claim to be considered the classic land of communism. The story of the communists in America, where they were then known as Primitive Christians, is perhaps one of the most incredible in the history of Utopias' (D. Owen Evans, Social Romanticism in France, 1830-1848, pp. 56-58). 'His (Cabet) importance lies in his attempt to institute, or at least to further the establishment of, a completely communistic society, in which the supreme control of all essential activities was to be in the hands of the State. The deepest influences on his social doctrine were those of Thomas More and of Robert Owen -the Owen of the years after 1832, when the leaders of the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union were anticipating the immediate advent of the New Moral World, to be achieved, not by violent revolution, but by the refusal of the entire working class to continue labouring under the old conditions, and by the joining together of all trades to set on foot a new system of Co-operative production and distribution under their collective control. Cabet's Communism went a great deal further than Owenism towards complete community of living: he blended Owenite millennialism with communistic aspirations drawn from the record of primitive Christianity and of the social radicalism of the Middle Ages and the Catholic Renaissance' (G.D.H. Cole, A History of Socialist Thought, volume i, chapter VII). EUR 750
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CAMPANELLA, TH. De monarchia Hispanica discursus. Harderwijk, (Claes van Wieringen), 1640. (12), 415, (1) pp. (pp. 337-360 misnumbered 137-160). 12mo. Modern panelled calf, raised bands, gilt lettering. Wittop Koning, Harderwijker Boekdrukkers, 145; Sabin 10197; Willems 967; this edition not in JFBL. One of the four Latin editions that appeared posthumously for the first time in 1640. This is the counterfeited Amsterdam, Elsevier edition of the same year (see Willems 967). - Lower half of title and first few pages waterstained. In it, Spain is appointed the divine agent in Campanella's utopian vision of the institution of a universal monarchy which would be handed over to the papacy for government in a paradisical age. The last chapters deal with the New World.Tomaso Campanella (1568-1639), Italian philosopher. He is the author of two famous and important utopias: the universal theocratic monarchy described in his Monarchia di Spagne (Amsterdam, 1640), and the communistic Città del sole (Frankfurt, 1623). Like the utopias of More and other Renaissance writers the Città des sole owes much to Plato's Republic; it owes still more to contemporary accounts of the Incas and to the exemple of religious communities such as those founded by the Anabaptists and the Catholic missionaries. To community of goods Campanella added that of women. He subjected all social life -economic, sexual and educational- to stringent regulation. It is significant that he animated his whole community with the conceptions of natural right and equality (Rodolfo Mondolfo in ESS, volume iii, p. 166). EUR 1000
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CAMPANELLA, TH. De Monarchia Hispanica. Editio novissima, aucta et emendata ut præfatio ad lectorem indicat. Amsterodami, Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1641. With very nice engraved title. (8), 376 pp. 24mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, handwritten title to spine, ticket with number at foot of spine. Willems 971: "Réimpression plus correcte de l'édition parue l'année précédante (no 967); Peignot, i, p. 69. "Texte philosophique et politique du philosophe italien Thomas Campanella dans lequel il "indique au Roi d'Espagne les moyens de parvenir à la Monarchie Universelle" (Peignot). Spain is appointed the divine agent in Campanella's utopian vision of the institution of a universal monarchy which would be handed over to the papacy for government in a paradisical age.Tomaso Campanella (1568-1639), Italian philosopher. He is the author of two famous and important utopias: the universal theocratic monarchy described in his Monarchia di Spagne (Amsterdam, 1640), and the communistic Città del sole (Frankfurt, 1623). Like the utopias of More and other Renaissance writers the Città des sole owes much to Plato's Republic; it owes still more to contemporary accounts of the Incas and to the exemple of religious communities such as those founded by the Anabaptists and the Catholic missionaries. To community of goods Campanella added that of women. He subjected all social life -economic, sexual and educational- to stringent regulation. It is significant that he animated his whole community with the conceptions of natural right and equality (Rodolfo Mondolfo in ESS, volume iii, p. 166).- With a modern ex-libris on the front paste-down. Apparently a second work has once been bound with the Campanella which is, however, no longer present. To preserve the binding intact the space has been filled with a small block which gives the impression of being paper. EUR 900
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CATHERINE II. Mémoires, écrits par elle-même et précédés d'une préface par A. Herzen. Londres, Trübner & Cie, 1859. xvi, 352 pp. 8vo. Contemporary boards, spine with label with gilt lettering, orginal front cover preserved, top edge gilt, top of spine lightly damaged . Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, i, pp. 211-214. Original edition edited by Alexander Herzen, very rare, of the memoirs of Catherine the Great. The preface, also written by Herzen, is highly critical and could not have been published in tsarist Russia. 'On the strength of her remarkable memoirs and her correspondence with Grimm she has a higher place in French literature than she can be given in Russia' (Mirsky).- Small stamp on original cover, lightly damaged. EUR 750
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CHAMPOLLION-FIGEAC, A. Captivité du roi François I. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1847. With 12 folding facsimiles. lxxviii, 658, (2) pp. 4to. Half morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. (Collection de documents inédits sur l'histoire de France). Franklin 154; Hauser, 1085. First edition. Source covering the period 1523-1526 containing 248 pieces concerning the captivity of the king from various international sources (France, Spain, England, Portugal and Italy). EUR 350
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COLLOT D'HERBOIS, J.M. Almanach du Père Gérard pour l'année 1792, IIIe de la liberté. Ouvrage qui à remporté le prix proposé par la Societé des amis de la Constitution, séante aux Jacobins. A Paris, Chez Buisson, 1792. With engraved frontispiece. 160 pp. 32mo. Contemporary polished calf, gilt triple fillets on sides, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, all edges gilt. Martin & Walter, 7937; Tourneux, 11739b. One of 6 editions from the year of first publication. Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois was a member of the Committee of Public Safety. He started a career as actor and joined a touring troupe visiting France, Holland and Switzerland performing on stage and writing plays. At the outbreak of the Revolution Collot embraced the ideal of the constitutional monarchy and produced a number of plays in which he praised the new Revolutionary ideals, constitutional monarchy, and patriotism. These plays enjoyed enormous popularity and established Collot as a leading Revolutionary playwright.He began his political career with the publication of the present work. It won first prize in a contest held by the Jacobins for a patriotic almanac to educate the public on the new constitution. - Rear cover somewhat stained, but nevertheless a beautiful copy with large margins. EUR 500
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CONTI, ARMAND DE BOURBON, PRINCE DE. Mémoires de Monseigneur le prince de Conty touchant la conduite de sa maison. A Paris, (Denis Thierry & Claude Barbin), 1669. 107, (1) pp. 12mo. Modern boards, label with gilt lettering. Dealing with the duties and obligations of a 'gouverneur de province' which makes this little work a true vade-mecum. - Running titles ocassionaly touched by the binder's knife, a few leaves repaired in the outer upper corner nowhere touching text, some scribbling to title-page. EUR 175
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COUPE, J.M. Idées simples de constitution. (Drop-head title). (Paris), De l'Imprimerie nationale, (1793). 7 parts in 1. 6 pp.; 6 pp.; 6 pp.; 8 pp.; 10 pp.; 8 pp.and 12 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Martin & Walter 8533 All published. The Abbé Jacques Michel Coupé adopted the principles of the revolution and became president of the district of Noyon and was elected deputy for the Oise in the Legislative Assembly. He had an active career during the revolution in several capacities and ended his career as a member of the Conseil de Cinq Cents. He retired from public life in 1797 and wrote several books from that date on until his death in 1807.In these separately paginated pieces he develops his ideas about a constitution dealing with a range of subjects: La Souveraineté; Assemblées souveraines; Administration générale, Liberté de la Prese; Contributions; Force publique; Bon ordre; De la force du gouvernement; etc. EUR 225
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CREMIEUX, (I.-M., DIT ADOLPHE.) Consultation pour MM. Alexandre Ferrier et Cie, gérans de l'entreprise des Télégraphs publics; Par M. Ad. Crémieux, ..... Suivi d'Adhésions motivées de MM. Lacoste, Dalloz, Hennequin, Delangle, Odilon Barrot, De Vatimesnil, Dupin, Parquin, ..... (Paris, Everat, 1832). 32 pp. 4to. Modern boards. First edition. Against the monopoly of the telegraph. The text is preceded by a facsimile of a letter by Ferrier and Cie.Crémieux later became one of the members of the Provisional government during the 1848 revolution. EUR 200
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CUSTINE, (A), DE. La Russie en 1839 par le Marquis de Custine. Paris, Librairie d'Amyot, 1843. With 1 folding table. 4 volumes. (4), xxxi, (1), 354 pp.; (4), 416 pp.; (4), 470 pp. 544 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering and numbering, marbled boards. En Français dans le Texte, 262; Vicaire 1090. The very rare first edition of this famous work (and one of the most important ever written) on Russia and de Custine's major work. The book was an instant success with the French reading public and was subsequently translated into most European languages. In Russia, the book was banned and several attempts to discredit it were published in France and Germany. It was only in the early twentieth century that it became possible to consider a translation into Russian, and two highly abridged versions were published. It was only in the late 20th century that the book became available in Russia, thanks to a translation by Vera Mil'china and Aleksandr Ospovat. It was at this point that Custine experienced a new revival, this time among Russians, as they discovered this fascinating analysis of the Russian state and national character. Reviews by Viktor Erofeev and others pointed to the deep veracity of Custine's observations on such matters as Russian bureaucracy, inefficiency, subservience to authority, suspicion of foreigners and manipulation of the truth. Custine's observation of his own growing paranoia in the autocratic Russian state rang true to Russian readers. Moreover, research suggested that several dissidents in Nicholas's Russia used Custine as a mouthpiece for their own criticisms of the system: here was a kindred spirit, so to speak. These four volumes document not only Custine's travels through the Russian empire, but also the social fabric, economy, and way of life during the reign of Nicholas. Custine is justly famous for his superb La Russie en 1839: Custine is a masterly writer and this book is full of penetrating observations on Russia as he was a keen observer.Astolphe de Custine was born into the French nobility on the eve of the Revolution. His father's family had possessed the title "marquis" since the early 18th century and owned a famous porcelain works. His mother, Delphine, also came from a prestigious family, and was known for her intelligence and great beauty.Custine was raised by his strong-willed mother, and saw a lot of the writer Chateaubriand. Custine was given an excellent education and seemed to be headed towards a life in society. He spent time in the diplomatic service, attending the Congress of Vienna, and even accepted a military commission. In the early 1820s, Custine went along with a marriage arranged by his mother. The Marquis, later to admit his homosexuality, genuinely loved his wife and had a son with her, but she died after only a few years of marriage.Custine eventually discovered that his knack was for travel writing. He wrote a decently received account of a trip to Spain, and was encouraged by Honoré de Balzac to write accounts of other "half-European" parts of Europe, like southern Italy and Russia. In the late 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America appeared, whose last chapter contained the prophecy that the future belonged to Russia and America. With that, Custine decided that Russia would be his next writing effort. Custine was later dubbed by some historians "the de Tocqueville of Russia". Custine visited Russia in 1839, spending most of his time in St. Petersburg, but also visiting Moscow and Yaroslavl. Most of Custine's mocking was reserved for the Russian nobility and Nicholas I. Custine said Russia's aristocracy had "just enough of the gloss of European civilization to be 'spoiled as savages,' but not enough to become cultivated men. They were like 'trained bears who made you long for the wild ones.'" Custine criticizes Nicholas for the constant spying he ordered and for repressing Poland, but does not criticize him for being a total autocrat or for maintaining slavery. Custine had more than one conversation with the Tsar, and concluded it was possible that the Tsar only behaved as he did because he felt he had to. "If the Emperor has no more of mercy in his heart than he reveals in his policies, then I pity Russia; if, on the other hand, his true sentiments are really superior to his acts, then I pity the Emperor" (Kennan, 76). Custine said the air felt freer the moment one crossed into Prussia. For an elaborate discussion of the book see: George F. Kennan, The Marquis de Custine and his Russia in 1839, Princeton University Press, 1971.Theodore Dalrymple wrote about this book: "Custine analyzed Russian society by reference to the psychology of the individuals who made it up. His work is a supreme example of the subtle interplay between the abstract information about a political system and the imaginative entry into the worldview of the people who live in it that is necessary for the understanding of any society. Custine's book is a prolonged meditation upon the effect of a particular political regime and its institutions upon human character, thought, and action-and, by implication, a meditation upon the dialectical interplay of political conditions and human character everywhere. As Custine well understood, the effect of czarism upon the Russian psyche was pregnant with significance for the future, not just for the Russians themselves but for the whole world, because Russia was destined to play so large a part in the world's history."A famous phrase illustrates de Custine's sharp eye and psychological insight: "il n'y manque rien-que la liberté; c'est à dire la vie" (they are short of nothing, except liberty; that is, life).- Very, very lightly foxed, first volume with the bookplate of Andre Gutzwiller. EUR 6000
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DAUBAN, C.A. Le fond de la société sous la Commune, décrit d'après les documents qui constituent les archives de la justice militaire, avec des considérations critiques sur les moeurs du temps et sur les événements qui ont précédé la Commune. Paris, E. Plon et Cie., 1873. With folding frontispiece and folding facsimiles of documents. (4), 481 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half hard-grained morocco, marbled baords, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering, very lightly rubbed. Del Bo, Comune, 58; Le Quillec, 664. First edition. EUR 150
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DAYOT, A. L'invasion. - Le siège 1870. - La Commune 1871. D'après des peintures, gravures, photographies, sculptures, médailles, autographes, objets du temps. Paris, E. Flammarion, (1910). With numerous illustrations. 364 pp. Oblong 4to Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, label with gilt lettering, extremities a bit worn. Del Bo, Comune di Parigi, 58. Original edition. Excellent work presenting an elaborate iconography depicting engravings, paintings, sculptures, medaillions, objects, autographs and photos, etc. etc. with explanatory texts both regarding the image and the events to which it refers. EUR 175
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DE GRAVE, (C.J.) République des Champs-Elysées, ou Monde Ancien. Ouvrage dans lequel on démontre principalement: que les Champs Elysées et l'Enfer des Anciens sont le nom d'une ancienne République d'homme justes et religieux, située à l'extrémité septentrionale de la Gaule, et surtout dans les Isles du Bas-Rhin ..... Gand, Goesin-Verhaeghe, 1806. 3 volumes. (3)-38, 266, (6), xlviii, (2) pp.; (2), 251, (3), xli (3) pp.; (2), 266, (2), lviii, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments, labels with gilt lettering, marbled edges, somewhat rubbed and worn, joints weak, one joint split. Negley 453; Valette 143; Versins 416B; Caillet 4756. Original edition and, according to Caillet, printed in a limited number of copies and quite scarce. - Tear in margin of vol. 1 page 20, not affecting the text. The Belgian Charles Joseph de Grave (1731-1805), a wellknown 'jurisconsulte', held during his life several political functions also when Belgium was united with France. He dedicated his last years to study and writing, and died suddenly when the république was in process of being published. He is classified in Versins, Encyclopédie de l'utopie as a Hétéroclite, a 'Fou scientific'. These writers present, with help of special kinds of analogic argumentation a quasi scientific, but also almost magical picture, mostly of subjects that at the time are not considered very relevant any more. They are comparable to science fiction writers, but less fantastic: they believe in what they write and know it's true ('une érudition dérivé'). De Grave is speculating in this work on Atlantis and lost continents, carefully decoding all symbols in reality that direct to the hidden 'pays Elyséen'. EUR 600
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DEGRASSALIO, C. Regalium Franciae libri duo, iura omnia & dignitates Christianiss. Galliae Regum, continentes. Carolo Degrassalio Carcassonensi authore. Item tractatus iura seu privilegia aliqua Regni Franciae continens, per Ioannem Ferrault V.I licentiatum editus. (Paris), apud Pocetum le Preux, 1545. (16), 351, (1) pp. 8vo. 18th century half calf, marbled boards, corners, red label with gilt lettering, split along joint, foot and head of spine damaged, ubbed along edges. Not in Adams; BMSTC (French) p. 130. Second or third edition, first published in 1538, there were two editions in 1545. Just as Ferrault, Degrassalius pleaded for total independence of the French throne in wordly matters, and just as Ferrault he was one of the first to theorize on the absolute power of the King. 'Le livre de Grassaille est le plus complet: Grassaille a profité des travaux de Ferrault et de tous les savants comme Guy Pape, Boyer, Montaigne, qui avaient étudié avant lui le droit public français. Le roi ne reconnait, ni en droit, ni en fait, aucun supérieur dans les choses temporelles, pas plus le souverain pontife que tout autre. A lui faire les ordonnances, de battre monnaie, d'établir des impôts nouveaux, de surveiller les communes. Quant à ses droit sur l'Église, quelques-uns sont communs à tous les monarques, d'autres n'appartiennent qu'au roi de France' (Weill, Les Théories sur le pouvoir Royal en France, pp. 15-17). - With library stamps on title-page, and library stamp recto and verso fly-leaf. Title-page a bit browned. EUR 1250
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DEMEUNIER, (J.N.) Rapport sur l'organisation du Ministère, fait au nom du Comité de Constitution. Par M. Démeunier. Imprimé par ordre de l'Assemblée nationale. (Drop-head title). A Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale, (1790). 40 pp. 8vo. Modern red half morocco, gilt lettering, marbled boards. Martin & Walter 10098; not in Monglond; Dictionnaire des Constituants I, pp. 278-280. First edition. - Browned throughout, light staining in outer blank margins. Page 26-end contain a 'Projet de décret sur l'organisation du ministère, présenté par le Comité de Constitution.' EUR 125
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DESTUTT DE TRACY, A.L.C. Élemens d'Idéologie. Première Partie [-Cinquième Partie]. Seconde édition. A Paris, Chez Courcier, An XI = 1803 (-XIII = 1804, 1805, and 1818). With two folding tables in volume two. 5 volumes bound in four. (4), xxvii (misnumbered xxxii), 456 pp.; xiv, 454, (2) pp.; viii, 671, (1) pp.; vi, 527, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary green calf, spines richly gilt in compartments, red labels with gilt lettering, gilt ornamental borders on sides, all edges gilt. E. Kennedy, A 'Philosophe' in the Age of Revolution. Destutt de Tracy and the Origins of 'Ideology', pp. 112-166 with an elaborate analysis. The volumes one and four are in the second edition, the other volumes are in the original edition. The first volume has been augmented with valuable notes. A truely beautiful copy of Destutt de Tracy's famous and principal work, published over a period of more than 10 years. Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher and propounder of the doctrine of Ideology. During the French revolution he became so disgusted with the extremists among the revolutionairies that he retired from politics to Auteuil, where he joined the celebrated group of philosopher-scientists which found its center at the home of Mme. Helvétius. Among his intimates were Cabanis and Condorcet, Volney and Garat. Imprisoned for a year under the Terror, he began to study the works of Condillac and John Locke, the result of which was his elaboration of the discipline he called Ideology. The group associated with Destutt de Tracy took the name Idéologues from his doctrine. They became influential in 1795 in two new institutions, The École Normale and the Institut Nationale.'Il eut une influence indéniable sur les économistes, des littérateurs et surtout des philosophes du 19e siècle comme Thomas Browne, Stuart Mill, Spence, Taine et Ribot' (Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, xi, pp. 116-7). He coined the word 'idéologues', long before it acquired its pejorative sense at the hands of Marx, by which Destutt meant the science of ideas. It embraced and intertwinned psychological, moral, economic and social phenomena but which gave primacy to economics because he thought that the purpose of society was to satisfy man's material needs. Tracy rejected the physiocratic notion of value, substituting a labour theory that Ricardo subsequently endorsed in his 'Principles'. He differs on various points with Say and Smith. On numerous topics he was far less thorough and rigorous than either Smith or Say, but his exposition of the capitalization theory of taxation was superior to the rest. Along with Say, Destutt de Tracy was one of the earliest members of the French liberal school. - The first few leaves of volume one with a very small wormtrack in the lower blank margin. An exceptionally nice copy. EUR 3500
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DEYEUX, (TH.) Des Aristocraties en général et spécialement, par Deyeux. Dédié aux hommes vrais. Paris, E. Houdaille, 1836. 2 volumes. (4), 316 pp.; (4), 315, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary cloth, label with gilt lettering, uncut copy. Not in Vicaire (listing other works); Quérard, ii, p. 549; Louandre & Bourquelot, iii, p. 259. First edition, very rare. - Some scattered and unobtrusive spotting. Little known and curious work treating the 'Aristocraties financières et commerciale', 'De l'Aristocratie des Académiciens', 'De l'Aristocratie des Journalistes', 'De l'Aristocratie des Sectes', 'De l'Aristocratie dévote et impie', 'De l'Aristocratie des Prisonniers', 'De l'Aristocratie comparée dans les animaux', 'De l'Aristocratie du monopole dans les arts, dans le commerce, la littérature et les moeurs', 'De l'Aristocratie de l'Education', 'De l'Aristocratie judiciaire', 'De l'Aristocratie de la capitale et des provinces', etc. etc. The work ends with a chapter entitled "De l'Aristocratie de l'honneur et du mérite personnel en France en 1836."The tendency of the work can best be summarized by these lines from the 'Résumé': 'Partout où il y a aristocratie, il y a complot de quelques-uns contre le grand nombre; et ces quelques-uns toujours se diront la majorité'; '.... et un jour on demandera compte aux claquers du petit parterre, qui ont, en spéculant sur elles, applaudi les aristocraties, ..... '; 'On a supprimé les associations du peuple, supprimons les associations de l'aristocratie'. EUR 650
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DONATO, N. L'homme d'État, par Nicolo Donato; Ouvrage traduit de l'Italien en François, Avec un grand nombre d'Additions considérables, extraites des Auteurs les plus célebres qui ont écrit sur les matières politiques. A Liege, Chez Clement Plomteux, 1767. 2 volumes in 1. viii, 450 pp.; (4), 258 pp. 4to. Contemporarymarbled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, corners lightly bumped, top of spine slightly damaged. Higgs 4246 and Conlon 67:792 both listing the 3 volumes edition in 12mo; Camus 221; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First French edition, originally published in Italian as L'uomo di governo, 1753. Nicolo Donato, elected 93rd doge of Venice in 1618, and auhor of this book which contains a treatise on public finance: a classification under seven headings, and a statement giving details of public expenditure relating more particularly to the Venetian state. The translation was done by J.B.R. Robinet. - Somewhat browned throughout. EUR 900
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DUPIN, CH. Système de l'Administration Britannique en 1822, considéré sous les rapports des finances, de l'industrie, du commerce et de la navigation, d'après un exposé ministériel. Paris, Bachelier, 1823. - (Bound with:) (FRISELL, F.) De la Constitution de l'Angleterre, et des changemens principaux qu'elle à éprouvés, tant dans son esprit que dans sa forme, depuis son origine jusqu'a nos jours; avec Quelques remarques sur l'ancienne constitution de la France. Par un Anglais. Seconde édition. A Paris, Chez le Normant, 1820. - (Bound with:) SEPTENNALITE, LA, du Parlement d'Angleterre, ou Journal des Discussions, qui ont eu lieu dans les deux chambres lors de cette proposition; suivi des opinions de Tindal, Smollet, Belsham, Coxe et Blackstone, Publicistes Anglais. Extrait de l'Histoire du Parlement d'Angleterre. Londres, Treuttel et Würtz, Treuttel fils et Richter, 1824. 3 volumes in one. (4), 160 pp.; 100 pp.; 174 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled boards, red label with gilt lettering. First work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi.First edition.Baron Charles Dupin (1784-1873), mathematician, engineer, politician, peer of France and Senator of the Second Empire. Charles Dupin favored representative institutions about which he wrote in his Lois fundamentales de la France (1814). He visited England several times between 1816 and 1819 and during these trips he assembled most of the material that served him so well in the composition of some of his more important works. Second work: The name of the author is given by Barbier who writes that the name of the author appeared on the title page of the fourth edition. The first and second edition were both published in 1820. Fraser Frisell (1774-1846), a friend of Chateaubriand and Joubert, was educated at the University of Glasgow. He was in France in 1793 when he was thrown in jail following the decree of the Convention ordering the arrest of strangers. On the renewal of the war in 1803 he was again in France, and was thrown again in jail although not for long. He took up residence in Paris for the remainer of his life. Frisell was a man of considerable accomplishments. Chateaubriand called him 'le Gréco-Anglais.' Third work: First edition (?).Deals with the seven years term of the English parlement. EUR 400
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DURAND-SAVOYAT, M. A propos de l'armée. Pétition aux gouvernants de la France par Durand-Savoyat Cultivateur. Genève, Imprimerie Ve Blanchard & Cie, 1872. 32, (2) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Anti-military pamphlet, ending with with a poem by Rémi entitled 'Les victimes de la Ricamarie', a violent indictment against the army which had shot miners on strike from the mines at Ricamarie.Verso last leaf the announcement of another work by the same author: Insoumis et Déserteurs ou Les consuls Français; Les Conseils de Guerre; Les Prisons militaires. EUR 175
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EVANS, TH. Réfutation des Mémoires de la Bastille, Sur les Principes Généraux des Loix, de la Probabilité et de la Vérité; dans une suite de lettres à Monsieur Linguet, Ci-devant Avocatau Parlement de Paris. Par Thomas Evans, Solliciteur à la Chancellerie, & Procureur au Banc du Roi en Angleterre. A Londres, De l'Imprimerie de Edw. Cox, Imprimeur de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales, se vend chez J. Murray, 1783. (4), 68 pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards, label with gilt lettering on spine, original marbled paper covers preserved. Conlon 83:1071. First French edition, all published. Fully supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Evans published a brochure (the present work) in which he attempted to undermine Linguet's credibility as a witness to and victim of despotism, which was the subject of Linguet's Mémoires sur la Bastille, published in 1783. (See: D.G. Levy, The Ideas and Careers of Simon-Nicoals-henri Linguet. A Study in Eighteenth-Century French Politics, p. 223). Thomas Evans was apparently an informer in the service of Moustier, the French ambassador in London. It seems that Evans suggested to Moustier that one sure way to get rid of Linguet would be to persuade his mistress's husband to initiate proceedings against Linguet on the charge of adultery. Evans was sure that Linguet would be convicted. The work ends with the mention 'Fin de la Première Lettre', but no more letters were published. - A large paper copy. EUR 400
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FALLETTI, L. Evolution de la juridiction civile du magistrat provincial sous le Haut-Empire. Paris, Librairie Gnrale dce Droit & de Jurisprudence, 1926. (6), 186 pp. 8vo. Sewn, original printed covers, a bit discoloured (Thèse, Université de Paris, Faculté de Droit). EUR 75
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FERGUSON, A. An Essay on the History of Civil Society. Edinburgh, printed for A. Millar & T. Caddel in the Strand, London, and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, 1767.viii, 430 pp., complete with the final blank. 4to. Original speckled calf, expertly repaired, spine (renewed) gilt with raised bands with the original title label preserved, paste-downs and endpapers new, gilt fillet on sides, red sprinkled edges. Kress 6432; Goldsmiths 10264; Higgs 3973; Mattioli 1254; not in Chuo. First edition of a sociological classic and the principal work of Adam Ferguson, professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and a leader of the Scottish Enlightenment. 'Ferguson is today remembered for his Essay..... rather than for his contributions to moral philosophy or Roman history: he was what we would now call an intellectual historian, tracing the gradual rise of the human mind from barbarism to political and social refinement .... Debates between Reid, Dugald Stewart, Hume, Adam Smith, Lord Kames and Ferguson himself reveal Scottish philosophy, in general, to be important sociologically. Ferguson's thought was part of a general eighteenth century movement, stimulated by the French, built upon English empirical traditions, and hostile to Cartesian speculation. Ferguson is sometimes considered the father of modern systematic sociology, and although he himself was soon forgotten amidst the antiempirical reactions of Heglian disciples, the influence of the philosophical group to which he belonged was attested to by such nineteenth-century political thinkers as Comte, Mill and Marx. His discussions of politics, economics, history, easthetics, literature and ethnology were a synthesis of the thought of his time' (Encyclopedia of Philosophy). - Copy discarded from the library of the Freie Universität Berlin with their stamp (and a stamp reading 'Gestrichen') on verso of title, a very small and light dampstain in the inner margin of the preliminaries. A very good copy with wide margins of an important and scarce book. EUR 10000
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FERGUSON, A. An Essay on the History of Civil Society. Edinburgh, printed for A. Millar & T. Caddel in the Strand, London, and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, 1767.viii, 430 pp., complete with the final blank. 4to. Contemporary polished calf, gilt double fillet on sides, spine gilt with raised bands and red label with gilt lettering, rubbed and lightly worn at edges of boards, joints and spine-ends expertly strengthened, spine lightly and occasionally shaved. Kress 6432; Goldsmiths 10264; Higgs 3973; not in Chuo. First edition of a sociological classic and the principal work of Adam Ferguson, professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and a leader of the Scottish Enlightenment. - Upper blank portion of the title-page neatly cut away, page one slightly dust soiled, else fine with broad margins. 'Ferguson is today remembered for his Essay..... rather than for his contributions to moral philosophy or Roman history: he was what we would now call an intellectual historian, tracing the gradual rise of the human mind from barbarism to political and social refinement .... Debates between Reid, Dugald Stewart, Hume, Adam Smith, Lord Kames and Ferguson himself reveal Scottish philosophy, in general, to be important sociologically. Ferguson's thought was part of a general eighteenth century movement, stimulated by the French, built upon English empirical traditions, and hostile to Cartesian speculation. Ferguson is sometimes considered the father of modern systematic sociology, and although he himself was soon forgotten amidst the antiempirical reactions of Heglian disciples, the influence of the philosophical group to which he belonged was attested to by such nineteenth-century political thinkers as Comte, Mill and Marx. His discussions of politics, economics, history, easthetics, literature and ethnology were a synthesis of the thought of his time. (Encyclopedia of Philosophy.) EUR 9000
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FIEVEE, J. Lettres sur l'Angleterre, et Réflexions sur la philosophie du XVIIIe siecle. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Munier, Chez Perlet, Desenne, 1802. (4), 277, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporaryhalf calf, marbled boards, raised bands, rubbed along joints. Cioranescu 28619; not in Martin & Walter. First edition. Joseph Fiévée was sent to England by Napoléon Bonaparte as an agent. In the Lettres Fiévée vehemently opposes the philosophical ideas of the revolutionary party. He turned into a secret agent for Bonaparte and informed him widely on events, public opinion, administration, and all with a surprizing insight and depth (Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, vol. 13).The son of a Parisian restaurant owner, Joseph Fiévée became a publisher during the French Revolution, most notably editing La Chronique de Paris, a newspaper; it was here that he started his career as journalist, but unfortunately incurred the suspicion of authorities who had him imprisoned during the Reign of Terror. He was a member of the royalist network around the Abbey de Montesquiou, and was forced to go into hiding during the Directoire. While in hiding, he wrote his novel on changing times and mores, La Dot de Suzette, which was a great literary success.From 1800 to 1803, he wrote a column for the Gazette de France. He was again imprisoned in the Temple (Paris) by order of Joseph Fouché, but he was freed at the request of Bonaparte. He became a kind of secret agent for Napoleon, informing him of political affairs in France and England.From 1804 to 1807, he was editor in chief of the Journal des débats, which became Journal de l'Empire. He was ennobled by the Emperor; was named "maître des requêtes" to the Conseil d'État in 1810; then "Préfet" of the Nièvre départment from 1813 to 1815.A supporter of Louis XVIII of France during the initial Restoration, he was banished during the Hundred Days. Having become one of the intellectuals of the "ultra" party and writer for the papers La Quotidienne and the Conservateur, he eventually became more politically liberal after 1818. A strong supporter of the freedom of the press, he was sentenced to three months of prison in the Conciergerie where Casimir Perier visited him. He became a contributor to the journals Temps in 1829 and National in 1831.Joseph Fiévée married in 1790 (his brother-in-law was Charles Frédéric Perlet), but his wife died giving birth, leaving him one child. At the end of the 1790's, he met the writer Théodore Leclercq who became his life compagnon, and the two would live and raise Fiévée's son together. When becoming Préfet, Fiévée and Leclercq moved to the Nièvre province, and their open relationship greatly shocked the locals. The two men were received together in the salons of the Restoration, they are buried together in the same tomb at the Père Lachaise cemetery. - Bookplate "Bibliothèque de Mr. le Baron de Warenghiem." EUR 350
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FONTENELLE, (B. LE BOUYER DE). La République des Philosophes, ou Histoire des Ajaoiens. Ouvrage posthume de Mr. de Fontenelle. On y joint une Lettre sur la Nudité des Sauvages. A Genève, 1768 (Reprint Paris, EDHIS, 1970). (12), 188 pp. Small 8vo. Imitation of contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering. INED 1857; Hartig & Soboul, p. 60; Cioranescu 30782; Conlon 68:855. Well executed reprint of this rare work, which was not written by Fontenelle (see below). The reprint was done in a limited edition of 250 numbered copies of which 30 copies not destined for the trade. 'Utopie politique. Description enthousiaste des moeurs des Ajaoiens, république 'communiste', 'peuple le plus heureux qui soit sur le globe terrestre, tant par la sagesse de ses lois que par l'exactitude avec laquelle on les pratique.' Le tien et le mien sont ignorés. Les terres appartiennent à l'État. On tient un registre des naissances et des morts afin de se rendre compte du nombre de bouches à nourrir, etc.' (INED).Lichterberger in his Le Socialisme au XVIIIe Siècle, p. 373-4 , gives a further and elaborate analysis of the work. In a note Lichterberger states that it has been believed that the book was written in the 17th century. EUR 125
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FOURIER, CH. (F.M.) Égarement de la raison démontré par les ridicules des sciences incertaines et Fragments par Charles Fourier. (Extrait de la Phalange, Revue de la Science sociale). Paris, Au Bureau de la Phalange, et à la Librairie Phalanstérienne, 1847. iv, 96 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering on spine, marbled boards. Del Bo, p. 9; Kress C.7090; Goldsmiths 35451; not in Del Bo-Gerits, Supplement; not in Einaudi. Very likely the true original edition of this work, continuously paginated: all other copies we handled, as well as those listed in the bibliographies, number 128 pages, with the pages 1-32 numbered 193-224. We know of one other copy identical to this one: in the Waseda University Library in Tokyo. That copy and this copy do not contain the misnumbered pages as described above. The present copy has 96 pages, but the 'Table' lists a number of short treatises, the "Fragments" from page 97 to 127, with no error in the pagination. EUR 750
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FRANKLIN, B. Mélanges de Morale, d'Économie et de Politique, Extraits des Ouvrages de Benjamin Franklin, et précédés d'une notice sur sa vie, Par A. Ch. Renouard, advocat. Paris, Chez Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1824. With portrait-frontispiece and folding facsimile (split along one fold). 2 volumes. vii, (1), 252 pp.; (4), 186 pp. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spines gilt with green and red labels with gilt lettering. Sabin 25544; not in Howes; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli. First French edition. - Some dampstaining at the beginning and end of each volume but still a good copy. EUR 500
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FRANKLIN, B. Vie de Benjamin Franklin, Écrite par lui-même, suivi de ses Oeuvres morales, politiques et littéraires, Dont la plus grande partie n'avoit pas encore été publié. Traduit de l'Anglais, avec des Notes, par J. Castéra. Tome Premier [- Tome Second]. A Paris, Chez F. Buisson, An VI de la République (1798). Portrait-frontispiece of Franklin by Duplessis and engraved by Alex. Tardieu. Two volumes. (4), viii, 382 pp.; (4), 438 pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt in compartments, red title-labels, and blue volume labels, gilt stamped monogram SD at foot of spine on a red label, gilt fillet on all sides, very lightly damaged at head of spines, very small split in joint of front cover of volume 1. Quérard, France Littéraire, iii, 119; Brunet ii, 1382; Sabin 25543 (only volume 2); Fay, p. 37; not in Howes. First edition of this translation and followed by various other works, among which the famous Bonhomme Richard and various other pieces for the greater part not published before in French. There was an earlier publication of Franklin's memoirs, an unauthorized edition in 1791 by Gibelin, but it is in this edition the time Franklin spent at Passy is being dealt with. The first complete publication of his memoirs was published in 1868. EUR 1000
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GARNIER, (J.J.) Traité de l'origine du gouvernement françois; où l'on examine ce qui est resté en France sous la première Race de nos Rois, de la forme du gouvernement qui subsistoit dans les Gaules sous la domination romaine. A Paris, Chez Vente, 1765. vi, 236, (4) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raisedbands (somewhat rubbed). Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, xv, pp. 503-505; Conlon 65:814. First edition. Price winning work which was written in answer to the following question, posed by the Académie des Inscriptions: Examen de ce qui est resté en France sous la première race de nos rois de la forme de gouvernement qui subsistait dans les Gaules sous la domination des Romains in 1761. The text was not published before 1765. EUR 200
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GARNIER, (J.J.) Traité de l'origine du gouvernement françois; où l'on examine ce qui est resté en France sous la première Race de nos Rois, de la forme du gouvernement qui subsistoit dans les Gaules sous la domination romaine. A Paris, Chez Vente, 1765. (2), vi, 236, (4) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with gilt lettering. Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, XV, pp. 503-505; Conlon 65:814; Camus, 879. First edition. Price winning work which was written in answer to the following question, posed by the Académie des Inscriptions: Examen de ce qui est resté en France sous la première race de nos rois de la forme de gouvernement qui subsistait dans les Gaules sous la domination des Romains in 1761. The text was not published before 1765. - With partly erased bookplate on front paste-down, and small library stamp on title-page. EUR 225
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GARONNE AINE. Réflexions sur le commerce de France; Par M. Garonne aîné. Sur nos manufactures. Sur les Douanes. Sur le Traité de Commerce fait avec l'Angleterre en 1786. Sur les Franchisesdes Ports. Sur la possibilité de former à Paris un Entrepôt, qui offrirait de grands avantages et beaucoup de facilités au Commerce de cette Ville. A Paris, Chez P. Mongie, Capelle et Compagnie, An XII-1804. (4), 134, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering (somewhat rubbed and worn, one joint with short split). Goldsmiths 18857; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in INED. First edition. 'Ancien député de la ville et du commerce du Cote près l'Assemblée constituante, de la Société royale de littérature et des Beaux-Arts de Gand' (Quérard, La France Littéraire). The last leaf (with a small part of the outer lower blank margin cut away) contains a number of errata. EUR 225
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GAUME, ABBé J.(-J.) L'Europe en 1848 ou considérations sur l'organisation du travail. Le communisme et le christianisme. Paris, Gaume frères, 1848. 77, (3) pp. 8vo. Original printed covers, title within nice printed ornamental borders, uncut and unopened. Not in Kress, Goldsmiths, Einaudi, Mattioli; Stammhammer, i, p. 87. Original edition. Study on communism and socialism and the various movements active in Europe around 1848 affecting the social order and christianity. The Abbé, however, was interested in the social question and sought ways to deal with this question within the framework of the then existing christian order. Gaume is especially known for his thoughts on education which gave rise to the famous question of the classics. His writings on education are all inspired by one and the same thought; vividly struck by the religious and moral deterioration of his age, the author seeks its remote cause, and believes he finds it in the Renaissance, which was for society a resurrection of the paganism of antiquity, prepared the way for the Revolution, and was, in fine, the primal source of all the evil. Such is the dominating idea of the works "La Révolution" (8 vols., 1856) and "Histoire de la societé domestique" (2 vols., 1854). It is again met with in "Les Trois Rome" (1857). But to cure the ills of society it was necessary to devise a new method of moulding childhood and youth; this was to consist in catechetical instruction and the exclusion of pagan authors from classical studies. His views on education provoked a lively controversy among Catholics.- Nice copy, some occasional browning. EUR 225
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GODARD, (J). Exposé des travaux de l'Assemblée-générale des Représentans de la Commune de Paris, Depuis le 25 Juillet 1789, jusqu'au mois d'Octobre 1790, époque de l'organisation définitive de la Municipalité; Fait par ordre de l'Assemblée; rédigé par M. Godard, ..... et imprimé aux frais des Représentans. A Paris, de l'Imprimerie de Lottin l'aîné, & J.-R. Lottin, 1790. 4, 248 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt back with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering (somewhat rubbed). Martin & Walter 15069; Tourneux 5564; Monglond, i, p. 853. First edition. Contains also: 'Liste des cent vingt représentants de la Commune convoqués le 25 juillet 1789', pp. 241 ff.; 'Liste des soixante représentants convoqués le 5 août suivant pour être réunis aux cent vingt', pp. 231-2; 'Liste des trois cent reprèsentants convoqués le 18 septembre', pp. 233 ff.; 'Liste des reprèsentants de la Commune, nommés depuis le 18 septembre en remplacement de ceux qui ont donné leur démission ou dont les pouvoirs étaient limités et n'ont pas été continués', pp. 246-8. EUR 225
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GOURCY, (F.A.E.) DE. Quel fut l'État des personnes en France, Sous la premiere & la seconde Race de nos Rois? Ouvrage cournonné par l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres en 1768: Où l'on essaye d'éclaircir, d'après les seuls monumens du temps, les questions les plus intéressantes de nos Antiquités, sur la condition, les droits & les engagemens respectifs des hommes nés Libres, des Affranchis, des Serfs, des Colons, des Lites, des Fiscalins, des hommes du Roi & de l'Église; sur le Clergé, la Noblesse, le Tiers-Etat; sur les Bénéfices militaires, le Vasselage, les Fiefs, les Seigneuries & Justices privées, & le Gouvernement féodal. A Paris, Chez Desaint, 1769. - (Followed by:) (GOURCY, F.A.E. DE.) Discours sur cette question: Est-il à propos de multiplier les Académies? A Paris, Chez Desaint, 1769. Two works in one volume. (4), xvi, 293, (3) pp.; (4), 38, (2) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands and with gilt lettering, red edges, corners lightly bumped, one small scratch to upper cover. First work: Conlon 69:837; Cioranescu 31715; Camus 865; Quérard, iii, 430: 'C'est un excellent morceau, rempli d'érudition.'First edition. Second work: Conlon 69:836; Cioranescu 31714.First edition. 'Le caractère des ouvrages de l'abbé de Gourcy est la méthode et la netteté des idées. Son style est simple et sa critique judicieuse; ses raisonnements sont solides et ses connaissances étendues' (Quérard, iii, 430). EUR 500
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GOURCY, (F.A.E.) DE. Quel fut l'État des personnes en France, Sous la premiere & la seconde Race de nos Rois? Ouvrage cournonné par l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres en 1768: Où l'on essaye d'éclaircir, d'après les seuls monumens du temps, les questions les plus intéressantes de nos Antiquités, sur la condition, les droits & les engagemens respectifs des hommes nés Libres, des Affranchis, des Serfs, des Colons, des Lites, des Fiscalins, des hommes du Roi & de l'Église; sur le Clergé, la Noblesse, le Tiers-Etat; sur les Bénéfices militaires, le Vasselage, les Fiefs, les Seigneuries & Justices privées, & le Gouvernement féodal. A Paris, Chez Desaint, 1769. - (Followed by:) (GOURCY, F.A.E. DE.) Discours sur cette question: Est-il à propos de multiplier les Académies? A Paris, Chez Desaint, 1769. Two works in one volume. (4), xvi, 293, (3) pp.; (4), 38, (2) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, red edges, corners lightly bumped, one small scratch to upper cover. First work: Conlon 69:837; Cioranescu 31715; Camus 865; Quérard, iii, 430: 'C'est un excellent morceau, rempli d'érudition.'First edition. Second work: Conlon 69:836; Cioranescu 31714.First edition. 'Le caractère des ouvrages de l'abbé de Gourcy est la méthode et la netteté des idées. Son style est simple et sa critique judicieuse; ses raisonnements sont solides et ses connaissances étendues' (Quérard iii, 430). EUR 350
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GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC, A. Autograph Letter Signed, dated 28 May 1836, to the Comte de Montalembert. 2 pages. 4to. Disbound. Deals with an article written by Montalembert which was published in the 'Revue de Paris' and dealing with the black people in the Antilles and with the petition by the 'hommes de couleurs'. Granier de Cassagnac here develops his opinions concerning the subject.Adolphe Granier de Cassignac (1806-1880) was one of the most important semiofficial journalists of the Second Empire and a vocal representative of conservative and authoritarian bonapartism. His first publication was a brochure entitled Aux Électeurs de France (1831) in which he proclaimed his belief in democracy, a position he would later abandon. He headed for Paris and found employment as a journalist for the Orleanist journals Revue de Paris and Journal des Débats. Granier de Cassagnac was disturbed by the revolutionary days of 1830, he supported the presidential candidacy of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.Charles-Forbes, Comte de Montalembert was a politician, notable and liberal Catholic, came from an ancient aristocratic family. In his youth he demonstrated a combined interest in both liberal and Catholic causes, which presaged his liberal Catholicism and his leadership of the cause of liberty of education in France during the July monarchy. EUR 175
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GUEVARRE, A. La mendicita sbandita col sovvenimento de' poveri tanto nelle citta, che ne' borghi, luoghi, e terre de' stati di qua, e di la da' monti, e colli di sua maesta Vittorio Amedeo re' di Sicilia, di Gerusalemme, e Cipro &c. Come altresi lo stabilimento degli ospizij generali, e delle congregazioni di carita d'ordine della maesta sua. In Torino, nella stampa di Gianfrancesco Mairesse e Giovanni Radix, 1717. - (Bound with:) INSTRUZIONI, e regole degli ospizj generali per li poveri da fondarsi in tutti gli stati della S.R. maesta' del re di Sicilia &c. Di ordine della medesima maesta. In Torino, nella stampa di Gianfrancesco Mairesse e Giovanni Radix, 1717. With coat of arms on title. - (Bound with:) INSTRUZIONI, e regole delle congregazioni di carita da fondarsi d'ordine della S.R. maesta' del re' di Sicilia &c. nelle citta, e ne' luoghi degli suoi stati, ove non possono farsi ospizij generali per li poveri. In Torino, nella stampa di Gianfrancesco Mairesse e Giovanni Radix, no date. - (Bound with:) NUOVA Aggiunta al libro della Mendicita sbandita col sovvenimento de' poveri tanto nelle città, che ne' borghi, luoghi, e trre de'Stati di quà, e di là da' Monti, e Colli di sua Maesta. In Torino, Appresso Gio. Francesco Mairesse, 1738. With title vignette. Four works in one volume. viii, 196 pp.; 144, (4) pp.; 52, (3) pp; 34 pp. Small 4to. Modern marbled calf (imitation old style), spine with raised bands and gilt, gilt floral borders on sides, sprinkled edges. Not in Kress, but Kress, Italian 211, 212 and 213 (also bound in 1 volume), fourth work not in Kress Italian: Einaudi 2800, 5106 and 5107; Goldsmiths 5393, 5394, 5395 for the first three works, the fourth not in Goldsmiths; Mattioli 1535 for the first work only, the other three not in Mattioli; ICCU locates 3 copies: Biblioteca del Seminario vescovile Biella, Biblioteca civica Mondovi' and Biblioteca nazionale universitaria Torino. First editions of all works, the first blueprint for the set-up of anti-poverty institutions that were to bring together publicly-funded secular charities, government, religious charity provisions and private beneficence. It is also the first centralized model for diversified charity provisons, from almshouse or hospice, to employment advice for the able-bodied, bread allowances handedn out to non-residents: a rationalization resting on a unified and up-to-date record of information on the assisted individuals. A rare study and proposal concerning the administration of charity in Turin with the overall aim of eradicating begging and mendicancy. Begging was an increasing problem all over Europe at the time, and many cities and communities founded charitable institutions to deal with the situation. - The first and most substantial work outlines the foundation of a ospedale generale or an almshouse in Turin, to alleviate the situation of the poor. Although run in conjunction and close contact with the Turin churches, the almshouse is set up as a secular organisation, with representatives from the city government on its board. Once the poorhouse is up and running, private charity will be forbidden; Turin citizens will not be allowed to privately support beggars, vagabonds or the homeless. The rules and regulations for the proposed ospedale generale are presented in 54 paragraphs, detailing organisation, health provisions, catchment area, and financial administration. The second half discusses the 37 most common objections raised against publicly-funded charitable organisations.The two folloowing works bound with it contain a general instruction for the organisation of charitable institutions within the Duchy of Savoy, issued the same year. Pertinent observations are made on who needs to be supported, where and how to found charitable institutions, how to govern them, and how to prepare the accounts. Even though the administration of charity appears to be a secular concern, carried out with the support of the clergy, it is suggested that the weekly bread ration should be handed out after church on Sunday, to force the recipients to attend mass. A special chapter is devoted to the Regole del Segretario outlining the detailed information to be kept on the recipients of charity. Sample entries show that some of the poor are transferred to the hospice, others receive some bread, the able-bodied and young are advised to find employment, and others are returned to their own parish. An interesting concept is the institution of 'adoption schemes', well-off families in the parish adopt one of the poor, and treat him or her as one of their dependants. The poor either have to work or pray for their adoptive families. Special, more detailed rules are given for the poor who actually live in the almshouse, as to their religious and spiritual support, exercises, food, working hours and clothing regulations.First work has a few leaves with some spotting, small dampstain in the blank outer corner, the second has a few leaves with a dampstain in the upper blank margin, third work with a small wormtrack in the inner margin: copy printed on strong paper and with generous margins. EUR 750
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HAGEMEIERUS, J. De foedere Civitatum Hanseaticarum commentarius. Francofurti ad Moenum, apud Ioannem Beyerym, 1662. 51 unnumbered leaves. 8vo. Modern half vellum. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. - Cut short, touching the author's name on title-page with loss, very close to headlines but nowhere else with loss. Some leaves browned. The Hanseatic League, an association of German towns which during the 13th and 14th centuries secured the entire trade of the countries surrounding the Baltic, exporting their produce to Germany, England, and the markets of western Europe, and carrying back the manufactured goods of the west and the special products of warmer climats. Monopoly was the watchword of the Hanseatic from beginning to end of their career; but while their policy enabled them, in the infancy of European nations, to amass wealth and gain power, their blind adherence to the same aims and methods in face of the discoveries, new economic views, and developed political life of the 16th century, led to the final destruction of their organisation. EUR 350
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HALL, CH. Autograph Letter Signed to Emile Duval, dated 15 june 1886, sent from 131 Picadilly. The addressee was at that moment in the Bath Hotel at Piccadilly. 2 pages. Small 8vo. Kept in the envelope, with poststamp. Charles Hall (1843-1900) was the second son of Charles Hall and Sarah Duval, daughter of Francis Duval. He represented the western division of Cambridgeshire in the short parliament of 1886-1892.In the above letter he mentions that he is busy preparing for the elections of 1886. EUR 150
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HEEREN, A.H.L. Manuel de l'histoire ancienne considérée sous le rapport des constitutions, du commerce et des colonies des divers États de l'Antiquité. Traduit de l'Allemand de A.H.L. Heeren, ....... Par Al. Thurot. Seconde édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée. Paris, Chez Firmin Didot, Père et Fils, 1827. (4), xx, 525, (7, Genealogical tables, errata) pp. 8vo. Original printed covers, uncut, a nice copy. ESS, vii, p. 310. Second French edition. Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren (1760-1842), German historian. Heeren began his career as theologian but later turned his interests to classical philology and history. His entire life was dominated by Winckelmann's and Goethe's conception of Greece. His philosophy of history was largely determined by Herder, his interest in constitutional history and political geography was awakened and promoted through the influence of Montesquieu and his preoccupation with problems of economic history may be traced to reminiscences of his Hanseatic childhood. Heeren is one of the forerunners of the historical school in history, economics, jurisprudence and political science. With Niebuhr he may be considered the founder of the modern scientific study of ancient history; through his pupil Pertz he stimulated the critical study of mediaeval sources; his interest in constitutional history left its mark on Waitz, and his study of political geography on Ritter. EUR 225
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HEGENITIUS, G. Itinerarium Frisio-Hollandicum, et Abr. Ortelli Itinerarium Gallo-Brabanticum. In quibus quæ visu, quæ lectu digna. Leiden, Elzevier, 1630. Title in red and black and with the Elzevier printers device, some woodcut tailpieces. 177, (9), 183-343, (7), index) pp. 24mo. Modern full morocco, spine gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering, triple fillet on both sides, crowned monogram in the center of both sides, inside dentelles, all edges gilt (binding by Chatelin). Willems 330; Rahir 306. 'Ce volume se joint aux Républiques. Les presses elzeviriennes de Leyde l'ont réproduit avec des augmentations, dans le format in 12, en 1661 et 1667' (Willems). Original edition of Gotfridus Hegenitius's description of his journey to Groningen, Friesland and Holland during the years 1626-7. Hegenitius (ca.1597 - after 1646) was born in Silesia. Before he matriculated at Leiden University to study Law in 1627, he made this journey starting from Hamburg to Delfzijl, Groningen, Leeuwarden, Franeker, Harlingen, Dokkum, Stavoren, Enkhuisen, Hoorn, Alkmaar, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Leiden, The Hague, Rotterdam Dordrecht and other Frisian and Dutch cities. On his travels he recorded many texts of epitaphs and inscriptions, mirroring one of the main interests of the time. He dedicated his description to his fellow students Arnold van der Mijle and Frederick Lodewijk van Aitzema, dated Leiden, July 1628 while the three of them were living in the house of the famous Leiden professor and Neo-Latin poet Caspar Barlaeus. The Elzeviers decided to add the well-known travel report of the famous cartographer Abraham Ortelius and Johannes Vivianus of their archeological, cultural and historical journey through the Southern Low Countries and Luxembourg, up to Nancy and, on their way back, to Koblenz and Frankfurt in Germany during the late summer of 1575, which was first published in 1584 by Plantin at Antwerp. The contents is conceived as a letter from Ortelius and Vivianus to Gerard Mercator, personal friend and cartographic collegue of Ortelius. Both works together were meant to form an interesting volume on the Northern and Southern Low Countries in the famous Elzevier series of the 'res Republicae' (the 'Republics'): descriptions of various countries. EUR 600
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HENNEQUIN, V. Les Amours au Phalanstère. Paris, à la Librairie Phalanstérienne, 1849. - (Preceded by:) CONSIDERANT, V. Exposition abrégée du Système Phalanstérien de Fourier. Suivie d'études sur quelques Problèmes fondamentaux de la Destinée Sociale. Troisième édition. Paris, A la librairie Sociétaire, 1846. 2 works in one volume. 64 pp.; 114, (12, catalogue) pp. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, red and green label, extremities a bit worn, spine lightly shaved. First work: Del Bo, p. 30. Second edition probably: Del Bo lists one edition dated 1847. Hennequin was editor of the Démocratie Pacifique and one of the most ardent propagandists of the theories of Fourier which he tried to diffuse in the smaller villages and towns by delivering courses. This work is an exposition of the ideas and theories of Fourier dealing with love and the regulation or organisation of relations between the sexes in the Phalanstère.Second work: Del Bo, p. 13.- Some unobtrusive spotting. EUR 325
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HOBBES, T. De la Nature Humaine, ou Exposition des facultés, des actions & des passions de l'Ame, & de leurs causes déduites d'après des principes philosophiques qui ne sont communémentni reçus ni connus. Par Thomas Hobbes: Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois. Londres (Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey), 1772. (4), iv, 171, (1) pp. Small 8vo. Later dark green half hard-grained morocco, green marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, outer margins of both sides of covers with some rubbing and loss of paper. Vercruysse, 1772, D2; Conlon 72:860; Thomas, p. 75; Tchemerzine-Scheler, iii, 729; Peignot, Livres Condamnés, p. 221; Robert Darnton, The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France 1769-1789, 465. Very rare French translation by the baron d'Holbach of Hobbes' Human Nature (1650), and to this day the only one made, and condamned and forbidden at the time. When Hobbes made his third visit to the continent, on which he was accompanied by the young Earl of Devonshire, he began to take his place among philosophers. At Paris, he was an intimate of Mersenne, who was the centre of a scientific circle that included Descartes and Gassendi (who became one of Hobbes's firmest friends), and at Florence he took part in discussions with Galileo. 'The state of turmoil in England on his return drove Hobbes to make his first systematic attempt to employ his new geometrical approach and mechanistic psychology to present the realities beneath the appearances of the contemporary issues. His Elements of Law, circulated in 1640 in manuscript form during the session of Parliament, was the result. This work, which demonstrated the need for undivided sovereignty, was published in 1650 in two parts, Human Nature and De Corpore Politico. However, its arguments were taken from general principles of psychology and ethics, rather than from appeals to divine right. Many regard Hobbes's Human Nature as one of his best works. .....'Hobbes later claimed that his life would have been in danger because of the views expressed in Elements of Law, had not the king dissolved Parliament in May 1640. Six months later, when the Long Parliament impeached Thomas Wentworth, earl of Strafford, Hobbes fled to the Continent in fear for his life, later priding himself on being "the first of all that fled." A warm welcome awaited him in Mersenne's circle, and he settled down in Paris to his most productive philosophical period' (Encyclopedia of Philosophy, iv, p. 31).This is not only the only translation into French of one of Hobbes' most important books but it also shows the impressive knowledge of Holbach and his wide range and firm grasp of the subjects that fascinated him all his life. EUR 1800
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HYDE DE NEUVILLE, (J.G.) Des Inconséquences ministérielles ou Lettre d'un Député à MM. les Propriétaires de Lyon: par M. Hyde de Neuville, Député de la Nièvre. Paris, Le Normant fils, Imprimeur du Roi, 1827. 16 pp. Small 8vo. Disbound. First edition. At head of title 'Les Amis de la Liberté de la Presse' which organisation published this brochure.Jean-Guillaume Hyde de Neuville (1776-1857) was deputy, minister, and diplomat of the Restoration. In 1797 he was involved with the royalist club in Clichy and after 18 Brumaire Hyde de Neuville became one of the most active agents of the Bourbons, who made him their representative in Brittany. Accused of complicity in the 'infernal machine' plot of 24 December 1800, he emigrated to the United States. Hyde returned to France in June 1814 and, having frequently risked his life for the Bourbon cause, was warmly received by Louis XVIII. In August 1815 the department of Nièvre elected him to the Chamber of Deputies where, although he spoke as an extreme ultra, he voted somewhat more moderately. After having been working in the United States as minister, he was again elected to the Deputies in 1822. After 1827 he became the leader of the opposition to Joseph de Villèle and a member of the Agier group of royalist dissidents. EUR 175
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JEANNERET, G. Paris pendant la Commune révolutionnaire de 71. Neuchatel, Chez les Principaux Libraires, 1872 (Paris, EDHIS, 1968). 335, (1) pp. 12mo. Sewn. Del Bo, Comune di Parigi, p. 67. Reprint of this very rare and important work, published in a limited and numbered editon and since long out-of-print. - Nr 339 of 1000 copies on 'papier vergé à la main'. Vivid and simple account of an eye witness. Although published under the name of Georges Jeanneret, the work was written by an unknown exile. EUR 125
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L'ETOILE, P. DE. Journal du règne de Henry IV, roi de France et de Navarre. Par Pierre de l'Etoile, ..... Avec des remarques historiques et politiques du Chevalier C.B.A. et plusieurs pièces historiques du même temps. La Haye, Le frères Vaillant, (Paris, veuve Gandouin), 1741. Titles printed in red and black. 4 volumes. (10), 502, (28) pp.; (2), 587, (37) pp.; (2), 534, (34) pp.; (2), 552, (36) pp. 8vo. Contemporary boards, paper labels to spines, slightly worn, corners and extremeties bumped. Monod 3399; Quérard, i, 667; Hauser 1420; Conlon 41:618; Barbier, ii, 1027. The first two volumes were published in 1732, the last two volumes were published in 1736. This is the second edition with the additional material which was supplied by either Lenglet du Fresnoy (according to Quérard) or P.C. Bouges (according to Hauser). The period covered is 1589-1610. Pierre de l'Etoile (1546-1611) was a catholique but 'élevé par Béroalde dans les idées de tolérance.' In 1569 he enters in the service of the crown and from 1580 onward he starts to note all the facts he knows and hears of, starts to collect books, documents, etc. Despite his careful attitude in politics he becomes known as a 'politique' and is imprisoned in the Conciergerie for a couple of days (31 July-7 August 1589). The manuscripts he left and of which parts have been edited and published much later are of great value and importance: 'Evidemment, un anecdotier et un épigrammatiste comme l'Estoile ne peut être manié qu'avec précaution, mais c'est une mine précieuse. ..... Pour M. Robiquet l'exactitude des chroniques de l'Estoile est démontrée à chaque instant par les constatations des Registres du Bureau de la Ville de Paris. La bonne foi et la véracité de ce témoin sont aussi mises au-dessus de toute discussion' (Hauser). EUR 600
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LA METTRIE, (J.O.) DE. Oeuvres philosophiques. Nouvelle édition, corrigée et augmentée. A Berlin, 1775. 3 volumes. iv, 296 pp.; (4), 270, (1) pp.; 150 pp. 8vo. 19th-century half calf, marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, marbled edges, spines a bit discoloured, a bit scuffed. Stoddard 70; Quépat 191; cf.: Drujon, p. 289. Julien Offray de Lamettrie (1709-1751), French physician and philosopher. He was one of the first to develop a materialistic doctrine. His outlook, however, was more vitalistic than mechanistic, since it attributed to matter the capacity of sensation and feeling-indeed all the powers that were hitherto attributed to the soul. La Mettrie's works were severely prosecuted in France and the author took refuge in Holland, where he also raised opposition. In 1784 he had to leave for Berlin, where he continued to work with the protection of Frederic the Great. 'Long neglected after his death, La Mettrie has been recognized since the latter part of the nineteenth century as one of the major forerunners of modern materialism. His nonreductive form of materialism may be regarded as an early version of a theory that is widely advocated at the present time by, among others, Ernest Nagel and various American naturalists; and his view that human beings can be fruitfully considered as a certain type of machine has obvious similarities to the principles underlying the science of cybernetics' (Encyclopedia of Philosophy, iv, pp. 381-382). 'La Mettrie's whole concern with pathology indicates a liberal and reformist attitude in that age of generally illiberal and disordered institutions' (R.J. White, The Anti-Philosophers. A Study of the Philosophes in Eighteenth-century France.) EUR 625
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LAGARDE, M.-A. Nouvelle biographie pittoresque des Députés de la Chambre Septennale, publiée par M.-A. Lagarde. Paris, Chez les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1826. (2), ii, 155, (1) pp. 32mo. Modern blue boards, original covers preserved. Drujon, p. 55 First edition. 'Destruction ordonnée par arrêt de la Cour royale de Paris en date du 28 octobre 1826' (Drujon). EUR 250
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LAMPADIUS, J. Tractatus de constitutione Imperii Romano-Germanici. Accessit Eiusdem Discursus de Natura Nummi, & Interpretatio L. 2. C. de Usucap. pro Hered. Item Iacobi Augusti Thuani Germaniae Descriptio ex eius lib. 2. Histor. Leiden, Joannis Maire, 1634. With engraved title. 382 (misnumbered 380) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporaryoverlapping vellum, handwritten title, name, place and date to spine, monogram stamped on front cover, ties present. Not in Camus; Kleinheyer & Schroeder, Deutsche Juristen aus fuenf Jahrhunderten, pp. 162-165. First edition of this important work on Roman-Germanic constitutional law. Jacob Lampadius, 'der bedeutentste Staatsman von Braunschweig-Luneberg' (ADB) died in 1649 in Munster where he was one of the negociators of the peace. The first part gives his theory of the State, which he does not see as a divine creation, nor does he hold the theory of a 'contract'. He analyses the transition of power from the Roman emperor to the German emperor, the influence of the Pope as a foreign power in German affairs, and the dependence of a number of German princes on Rome. EUR 600
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LATOUR, J.P.B. La prise de Chièvremont ou les Moeurs du dixième siècle; anecdote historique liégeoise. Par J.P.B. Latour. Liege, Imprimerie Philosophique, 1824. (2), viii, (7)-160 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, marbled boards (Duquesne, Gand). First edition. A second edition, also dated 1824 but published in 1825, has only the initials of the author with the mention "ouvrage mis à l'index en France". The work deals with the famous capture of Chèvremont in 987 by the bishop Notger.During the entire 10th century Chèvremont had been the seat of continued resistance against the authorities: it succesfully resisted various attempts at capture and refused to be subdued. In time, the city also became the harbour of brigands and the like. With the arrival of Notger, the counsellor of emperor Otto II, who came in charge of all the possessions of the church in Liege, the matter became not only one of strategy but also one of daily peace: the fortress was a threat to his authority and as the home of brigands the fortress was a continued threat and menace to the countryside. How Notger took Chevremont has never been convincingly established: the usual story is that he took the city by dressing his soldiers as monks, and once inside they massacred the garrison. Once the fortress was taken it was thoroughly demolished and according to an old tradition every bishop of Liege has to take the oath that the place will never be recreated. - Very lightly browned. EUR 200
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LE MAITRE, (A.) La Metropolitée, ou De l'établissement des villes Capitales, de leur Utilité passive & active, de l'Union de leurs parties & de leur anatomie, de leur commerce, &c. Par Le Sieur le Maitre, ..... A Amsterdam, Chés Balthes Boekholt, pour Jean van Gorp, 1682 (Paris, EDHIS, 1973). With frontispiece. (16), 192 pp. Small 8vo. Imitation leather. INED 2786; Kress S.1542; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Conlon, Prélude, 1043. Well executed reprint of the first (and only?) edition of this extremely rare work, reprinted in a limited edition of 250 copies and 30 copies not destined for the trade. 'Ouvrage plein d'intérêt dans lequel on trouve toute une théorie du commerce et de l'aménagement du territoire. L'éloge qui y est fait des grandes villes (sans elles, les richesses, la bonté, les forces et la gloire d'un État sont imperceptibles; leur cause finale et essentielle étant l'utilité publique, elles doivent être très opulentes), contraste avec les critiques qu'on leur adressera si souvent au siècle suivant' (INED).The author studies the interest, utility and influence of the large cities, how they were formed, their size and location in an area, and the indispensable institutions of a city: librairies, academies, gardens, banks and the stock-market ('bourses'). The author is against luxury, in favour of freedom of trade, the nobility should get active in commerce and pleads for social care (hospitals, orphanages, etc) as a means to prevent mendicity and crime.The word 'population' is being used in this work, it appears on page 142, while its earliest use was dated around 1748. The word is here used in the meaning of population and not in the meaning of number of inhabitants. EUR 250
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LEONARD, F. Recueil des traitez de paix, de trève, de neutralité, de confédération, d'alliance et de commerce, faits par les Rois de France, avec tous les princes et potentats de l'Europe, et autres, depuis pres de trois siècles. En Six tomes. Assemblé, mis en ordre, & imprimé par Frederic Leonard. A Paris, 1693. 6 volumes. 4to. Contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt with raised bands. Sabin 40104; not in JFBL; not in Echeverria & Wilkie; Bourgeois & André 3208; Conlon, Prélude 6247; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Scarce and very important collection with the original texts of the treaties, including treaties relative to America. The compiler states: 'Je les ai recherchez avec soin, et à mesure que j'en ai recouvré, je les ai imprimez de différents caractères ..... Pour trouver ces anciens Traitez, j'ai eu besoin des ordres du Roi, du secours de Messieurs ses Ministres, et ses Ambassadeurs.' - Fine copy with the gilt stamped coat of arms of Alexandre, duc de La Rochefoucauld, grand veneur de France et grand maître de la garde-robe on sides of all volumes, and his discrete small stamp on title-page of all volumes. Among the texts are: Traité entre le Roy Louis XIII et Charles I, Roy d'Angleterre, pour la restitution de la Nouvelle France, l'Acadie, le Canada, et des navires et marchandises pris de part et d'autre. 1632. - Paix accordée par le Roy de France aux Iroquois de la nation Tsonnoutuon. A Québec le 22 de Mai 1666, and furthermore, treaties with Tripoli, Marocco, the Ottoman Empire, Siam, Algeria, Tunesia, etc. The work covers the period 1435-1692.This massive compilation is the first major collection of French treaties, beginning in 1435 and running to 1692, including many treaties relating to America. Many important French state papers appeared here for the first time, especially ones from the 15th and 16th centuries. It was not until the early 17th century that published versions of treaties began to appear simultaneously with the event, and even then treaties between kings were often secret, or contained secret sections, for decades. Thus, the Leonard set offers either first or very early printings of many documents of the greatest importance, inlcuding a number with importance for the Americas. The NUC entry for this work describes it in six volumes and locates five sets. Sabin states the work consists of six regular volumes plus two additional volumes of twenty-nine treaties with separate titlepages for each, covering treaties from 1697 to 1719 which were published much later, in 1719. This set includes the original six volumes published in 1693, and is complete in and of itself. Frances Davenport identifies eleven for which the Leonard set gives the first or first French printing between 1556 and 1684, as follow: Davenport 20. Treaty between France and Spain, 1556, by which the French agreed to stay out of Spanish America and the Spanish agreed to leave alone French fisheries off the North American coast. Davenport 22. Treaty between France and Spain, 1585. A similar agreement to keep France out of the Indies. Davenport 26. Treaty between France and England, 1603. This treaty was made while England and Spain were still at war, and arranged for the French and British to take concerted action, with England raising a fleet to attack the Spanish New World dominions. It became a dead letter when James I made peace with Spain the next year. Davenport 29. A defensive alliance between the Netherlands, France and England, in which the latter two agreed not to interfere with Dutch trade in the New World. Davenport 32. Treaty between the Netherlands and France, agreeing not to interfere with each other's trade in the New World. Davenport 34. Treaty between England and France, settling the brief war between the powers of 1627-28. In this war the British had seized much of New France, including Quebec, which was restored with the peace. Davenport 36. Treaty between Great Britain and France (St. Germain-en-laye). This treaty followed up Davenport 34, above, and called for the specific restoration of all of Canada; England gave up Nova Scotia reluctantly, and only in the face of French naval superiority. Davenport 37. Treaty between France and Portugal, 1641. Portugal, having won independence back from Spain, agrees to cooperate with the French and Dutch against Spain in the New World. Davenport 68. Agreement between Spain and the Netherlands, made by Spain in an attempt to defend its New World possessions. Davenport 73. Cessation of hostilities in America between France and Sweden on one hand, and Denmark and Brandenburg on the other, 1679. This war had involved battles between the West Indian possessions of all powers, and restored the status quo while allowing free trade in West Indian ports. Davenport 77. Treaty between Spain and France, 1684 (Ratisbon). This treaty supposedly brought peace between the Spanish and French throughout the world, but was really a screen by Louis XIV for his incursions on Spanish dominions in the New World. Immediately after it he authorized La Salle to start his colony on the Gulf of Mexico, and attempted to seize northern New Spain. A most important collection. EUR 12500
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LEQUIN, Y. Les ouvriers de la région lyonnaise (1848-1914). 1. La formation de la classe ouvrière régionale. 2. Les intérêts de classe et la république. Lyon, PUF, (1977). With illustrations. 2 volumes. viii, 573 pp.; vi, 500 pp. 8vo. Sewn in original publishers covers, a bit discoloured. Inserted: copy of a handwritten letter by Robert Brécy to the author, signed and dated 5 février 78. Stamp on title of first volume. EUR 125
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LINDSAY, R.O. & J. NEU (COMPILERS). French Political Pamphlets 1547-1648. A Catalog of Major Collections in American Libraries. Madison, Milwaukee, London, University of Wisconsin Press, 1969 xii, 510 pp. Large 8vo. Cloth with dustwrapper. Important bibliography listing nearly 6800 pamphlets with their locations. Entries are arranged chronologically, then alphabetically by the author. Includes title-page information and collation. EUR 75
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LISSAGARAY, (H.P.O.) Les huit journées de Mai. Derrière les barricades. Bruxelles, Bureau du Petit Journal, 1871 (Paris, EDHIS, 1968). viii, 322, (2) pp. 12mo. Printed covers. Del Bo, Comune, 69. Reprint of the scarce first edition, published in a limited edition of a 1000 numbered copies. Up to now, the author states, the events have been told by the conquerors only. Their biased stories are opposed here through an account based on reports from eye-witnesses. 'Nous n'avons pas admis et nous n'admettrons que des témoignages directs, sévèrement contrôlés.' EUR 125
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LOUIS XVI. Proclamation du Roi, et recueil de pièces rélatives à l'arreté du Conseil du département du 6 juin 1792, concernant le maire et le procureur de la commune de Paris. A Paris, Chez Le Petit et Guillemard, 1792. - (Followed by:) (ROEDERER, P.L.) Rapport et conclusions du procureur-général syndic du département de Paris, relativement aux événemens du 20 juin; lu au Conseil du département, le 6 juillet 1792. (Drop-head title). No place, no date. - (Followed by:) (PELTIER, J.G.) Le cri de la douleur, ou journée du 20 juin; par l'auteur du 'Domine salvum fac Regem'. Extrait de la 'Correspondance politique ou tableau de Paris' des 22 et 24 juin. A Paris, Chez Senneville, 1792. - (Followed by:) NECKER, J. Réflexions présentés à la nation française. No place, (1792). - (Followed by:) SUR LE PROCES de Louis XVI. Supplément aux 'Réflexions de M. Necker'. (Paris), De l'Imprimerie de Froullé, (1792). - (Followed by:) GUILLAUME, L.M. Projet de défense pour Louis XVI. (Paris), chez les libraires du ci-devant Palais-Royal, (1792). - (Followed by:) (DUGOUR, A.J.) Mémoire justificatief pour Louis XVI, ci-devant Roi des Français. En réponse à l'acte d'accusation qui lui a été lu à la Convention Nationale, le mardi 11 décembre 1792, l'an quatrième de la liberté et le premier de l'égalité. Par A.J.D.G. A Paris, Chez Fr. Dufart, 1793. - (Followed by:) (MALHERBES, CHR. G. LAMOIGNON DE.) Observations des défenseurs de Louis sur une imputation particulière qui lui a été faite dans la Convention; précédées de leur lettre d'envoi au citoyen-président. (Drop-head title). (Paris), De l'Imprimerie nationale, (1793). - (Followed by:) LOUIS XVI. Testament écrit par lui, lu dans la séance de la Commune, le 21 janvier 1793. (Drop-head title). No place, (1793). - (Followed by:) JOURGNIAC DE SAINT-MENARD, F. Mon agonie de trente-huit heures, ou récit de ce qui m'est arrivé, de ce que j'ai vu et entendu, pendant ma détention dans la prison de l'Abbaye Saint-Germain, depuis le 22 août jusqu'au 4 septembre. Dixième édition corrigée. A Paris, Chez Desenne, 1792. Ten works bound in one volume. (2), 16 pp.; 30, 121, (1) pp.; 31, (1) pp.; 64 pp.; 16 pp.; 70 pp.; 240 pp.; 8 pp.; 7, (1) pp.; 61, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, corners, spine with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering reading 'Mémoire pour Louis XVI', corners somewhat bumped. First work: Not in Tourneux; not in Martin & Walter. Second work: Martin and Walter 29637.Original edition.The work by Roederer contains 'un important dossier de 38 pièces justificatives' (Martin & Walter) covering the last 121 pages. Third work: Martin & Walter 26720.Fourth work: Cf.: Martin & Walter 25706 (other issue).One of two issues from the year of original publication.Fifth work: Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 17358.Sixth work: Martin & Walter 16038.Original edition.Seventh work: Martin & Walter 11671.Original edition.Eighth work: Martin & Walter 22494 & Anonymes, 10990.Original edition.Also signed by Tronchet and De Sèze.Ninth work: Not in Martin & Walter.Tenth work: Martin & Walter 17543.Original issue, including a warning against counterfeit editions.- Interesting collection from the library of M.J.E. Faivre du Bouvot, with his bookplate. EUR 1250
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LYON - REPRESENTANS, LES, du Peuple, députés par la Convention Nationale, près de l'Armée des Alpes, et dans divers Départemens de la République, étant actuellement à Ville-Affranchie; .... A Ville-Affranchie, De l'Imprimerie d'Amable Leroy, (1793). Large folio poster (54x45 cm), bound inone volume. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Not in Martin & Walter where a similar piece is listed (nr 8694): a brochure of 6 pages in 4to. - Two folds strengthened at the back of the poster. Issued the 2nd day of the 1st décade of the 2nd month of the year II (2 brumaire an II, 23 October 1793), signed by Couthon, Laporte, Chateauneuf-Randon, and Maignet, reorganizing the central committee of the Committees of Surveillance (local Revolutionary organizations established under popular pressure for the supervision, arrest, and punishment of suspects that were gradually brought under the control of the central government) and the revolutionary committees of each section, determining the suspects which were to be arrested, and summoning commerce, trade, manufacturers and labourers to resume work. The degree of 14 Frimaire Year II (4 December 1793) put the surveillance committees, like all other institutions of the Terror, under the control of national agents in each district and defined their function within the framework of a system of government that made the Committee of Public Safety the preeminent organ. By the end of Frimaire all the departemental committees were suppressed. EUR 450
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MABLY (G. BONNOT DE.) Observations sur les Grecs. Par M. l'Abbé de Mably. A Geneve, Par la Compagnie des Libraires, 1749. (10), 273, (1, blank), xii pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands and red label with gilt lettering. Conlon 49:689. First edition. 'This new book, Mably wrote in its dedication, "is merely a series of reflexions on the manners, the government, and the politics of Greece, in which I examine the general and particular causes of its prosperity and its misfortunes." ...... The importance of these two works, the Observations sur les Grecs and the Observations sur les Romains (1751) for Mably's intellectual evolution can scarcely be overestimated, for his new appeal to classical antiquity was to form the cornerstone on which the whole structure of his mature political thought was erected.' The book was published again in 1764 as Observations sur l'histoire de la Grèce, and despite Mably's claim that it was the revised and reworked version of 'a worthy subject', 'the original and its revision are far more similar to one another than Mably's comments would indicate. Most of the themes and arguments of the first are faithfully reproduced in the second; the vast majority of the alterations are indeed stylistic' (Johnson Kent Wright, A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France. The Political Thought of Mably, pp. 31-52). According to Kent Wright the quality of the erudition sustaining the arguments in the book has notably improved from earlier days where Mably had largely relied on modern historians, whereas the present work is founded on a far more thorough knowledge of ancient sources. - Old bookplate partly torn off from the front paste-down, a catalogue entry of the 1766 edition pasted on the end-paper. EUR 300
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MABLY, (G. BONNOT DE.) Le droit public de l'Europe fondé sur les traitez conclus jusqu'en l'année 1740. Nouvelle édition, augmentée de remarques historiques, politiques, & critiques par Mr. Rousset. A Amsterdam, Chez Meynard Uitwerf, 1748. Titles printed in red and black. With title-vignettes. 2 volumes in 1. (20), 296, (16) pp.; (4), 278, (14), (4, publisher's catalogue) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt letteriing, red edges, slightly worn. Tchémerzine-Scheler, iv, p. 247; Camus 246. This is an unauthorized edition published by the Huguenot Rousset, a stipendiary of the Dutch governement. He added an enormous commentary of his own, highly critical of Mably. Rousset acknowledged the usefulness of the compilation, but constantly castigated its author for his biases against the Dutch and the Austrians. In his eyes mably was plainly an agent of Versailles, inspired by the raison-d'état principles of Richelieu and Colbert. ' ..... Mably had assembled summaries of the major international treaties and agreements of the past century. This was published, with the explanatory notes, in two volumes in 1746, as Le Droit public de l'Europe, ..... It consists of résumés and citations, together with a considerable explanatory apparatus, of the chief international treaties and agreements among the major European powers, from Westphalia onwards. As such, the first edition of the Droit public is a virtual history of international relations from 1648 to 1740. (......) Mably's handbook was a model of clarity and rational exposition, and it met with instant success, not only in France, but abroad as well' (Johnson Kent Wright, A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France. The Political Thought of Mably, pp. 36-37.) EUR 600
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MABLY, (G. BONNOT) DE. Des principes des négociations, pour servir d'introduction au droit public de l'Europe fondé sur les traités. A La Haie (Paris), 1757. viii, 278 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments,label with gilt lettering, red edges. Tchemerzine-Scheler, iv, 249; INED 2990; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in Goldsmiths; Higgs 1601. One of two editions published in 1757, the other edition being printed in Amsterdam in 8vo. The present work was intended as a long 'introduction' to his earlier published work Le droit public de l'Europe, published in 1746 and revised in 1748 and 1764. - Fine copy. 'Mably's writings on diplomacy were of course deeply marked by the record of French performance in the international arena (.....) - the striking failure of the Bourbon monarchy, for over a century, to achieve any rational strategic goals, or even to maintain its position relative to its principal rivals in Europe.' The chief strategic goal was to maintain its position against Spain and England. This policy barely survived the adventurism of the War of the Austrian Succession -the period of Mably's own involvement in French diplomacy - which produced minimal gains in Europe and ominous setbacks in the rest of the world. (.....) The present work is Mably's balance sheetof the record of international relations in Europe in 1757, summarizing the lessons of his diplomatic work. (.....) Far from being a mere handbook for diplomats, the work is a sustained critique of the whole practice of modern European warfare, of the type whose greatest example was to be the Seven Years' War.'Mably argues that it is pointless for any European power, of whatever rank, to undertake a project of purely military expansion the main reason being that there was no longer anything to be gained from war. Power in postfeudal Europe was the result of wealth, wealth was the result of commerce-and commerce depended on peace.Mably's goal was to try to found a rational science of diplomacy, making it into an effective tool of political agency-exactly what it had never been, in his eyes. The work furthermore contains a direct attack on commercial ideology, of the type that occurs again and again in his mature writings. The question first arises in chapter XVII of the Principes, whose subject is commercial treaties between states and what follows is essentially a dialogue with David Hume, whose Political Discourses on the 'vulgar subjects' -the phrase is Hume's- of commerce, money and trade had appeared in a number of French editions after 1752. (see for an elaborate analysis: Johnson Kent Wright, A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-century France. The Political Thought of Mably, pp. 52 ff.) EUR 750
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MALEBRANCHE, (N.) Reponse du Pere Malebranche prêtre de l'Oratoire, à la Troisième Lettre de M. Arnauld Docteur de Sorbonne, touchant les Idées & les Plaisirs. A Amsterdam, Chez Henry Wetstein, 1704. (6), 400, (2) pp.; (4), 42 pp. Small 8vo. Nineteenth century polished calf, gilt triple fillet ons sides, richly decorated spine with raised bands, labels with gilt lettering, inside dentelles, all edges gilt (E. Niedrée). Not in Thomas; not in Cioranescu; not in Conlon, Prélude. First edition, apparently rare. At the end of this answer by Malebranche to objections raised by Arnauld has been bound, with its own pagination, the three letters by Arnauld against Malebranche. The Malebranche-Arnauld debate was one of the great intellectual events of the seventeenth century, and it attracted the attention of many, including Leibniz, Locke and Newton. Malebranche also had a significant impact on the French Enlightenment. His ideas received a wide and thorough hearing in the Republic of Letters, thanks initially to the efforts of Pierre Bayle and, later, of the Encyclopédistes. In Britain, the philosophers George Berkeley and David Hume were, despite their critiques of Malebranche's views, deeply indebted to his analysis of causation and, in the case of Berkeley, to his understanding of the relationship between God and creation (see Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, vol. 3, pp. 9-12).Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715), one of the principal figures in the development of Cartesianism, was born in Paris and received his formal intellectual training in philosophy and theology at the Collège de la Marche and the Sorbonne. In 1664 he came upon Descartes's posthumously published Traité de l'Homme, an early, unfinished work describing the mechanics of human physiology and indicating Descartes's distinction between soul and body. Deeply impressed, Malebranche applied himself to the study of Cartesian philosophy, mathematics, and natural science. This study resulted in the publication of his famous De la Recherche de la Vérité followed, five years later, by his Traité de la Nature et de la grâce. Both works aroused an immense controversy which forced Malebranche to spend much of his life explaining and defending his views and in doing so showed his considerable talent for philosophic argument. He examined and refuted objections and, in doing so, used the occasion to elaborate or revise some of his views.Malebranche was continually involved in polemics with, among others, Foucher, Le Valois (de la Ville), Fontenelle, Leibniz, Régis and Lamy. The most interesting and important polemic -and the most acrimonious and voluminous- was with that exceptionally keen critic, coauthor of the Port Royal Logic, and philosophically talented Jansenist, Antoine Arnauld. Arnauld's most important attack on Malebranche was his Des Vrayes et Fausses Idées, Cologne, 1683. EUR 650
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MALINOWSKI, B. Freedom and civilization. London, Allen & Unwin, 1947. xiv, 338 pp. 8vo. Original publisher's cloth, slightly rubbed. Thinkers of the Twentieth Century p. 488; IESS, ix, p. 548. First English edition (the American edition appeared in 1944). Though for a period after WW II anthropologists reacted strongly against the dominance of Malinowksi, he recently regained his rightful position as one of the giants among the founding fathers of the modern discipline. As a scientist he came to new views on the theoretical representation of culture, from which he did not exclude his own. Edited by Malinowski's wife, this book is his final expression of his basic beliefs and conclusions regarding war, totalitarianism and the future of humanity. The book was left unfinished in 1942 because of Malinowski's death (see: Thinkers of the Twentieth Century). - Scribbling on first blank flyleaf. EUR 100
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MANN, TH. Freud und die Zukunft. Vortrag gehalten in Wien am 8. Mai 1936 zur Feier von Sigmund Freuds 80. Geburtstag. Wien, Bermann-Fischer Verlag, 1936. 42, (2) pp. 8vo. Original covers as issued (very slight wear tospine). Potempa, Thomas Mann-Bibliographie. Das Werk, nr. 610. Original edition. In view of the growing number of adherants to national socialism, Mann had advocated a rather moderate going together of modernity and socialism. When he left Germany in 1933 to lecture in Belgium, Holland and France, his children advised him not to return, and he settled in Switzerland. 1936 became an important year when a pivotal personal development took place. When challenged to take a stand against the emigrants in January, he, eventually, openly refuted national socialism, and was deprived of his German citizenship in December. After this event he took part in many anti-fascist activities, also after he resided in the USA from 1938 onwards. While in the middle of these soul searching questions, he wrote this speech in April and early May 1936. While no political change could be expected anymore, the last lines of this text, although in the context of a discourse on Freud, cannot but have expressed his inner feelings and hope: 'Eröffn' ich Räume vielen Millionen, Nicht sicher zwar, doch tätig-frei zu wohnen Solch ein Gewimmel möcht' ich sehn, Auf freiem Grund mit freiem Volke stehn. Es ist das Volk einer angst- und hassbefreiten, zum Frieden gereiften Zukunft.' (It is the people of a future, liberated of fear and hate, and ripened for peace.) EUR 375
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MANUSCRIPT - PARLEMENTS - SUR LE PARLEMENT DE FRANCE. Undated manuscript from the second part of the 18th century. (Between 1750 and 1789). 56 pp. Folio. Disbound. Anonymous study dealing with the various French parlements (Bretagne, Bourgogne, Normandie, Aquitaine, Le Berry, le Vermandois, Lorraine, Champagne, Provence, Angoulême, etc.), from the origin of these institutions up to the middle of the 16th century. Written in a legible hand, with on a number of pages many marginal additions and corrections in a very small, and difficult to read hand. EUR 600
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MARAT, (J.-P.) Le Junius français. Journal politique. 2 Juin 1790 - 24 Juin 1790. Paris, EDHIS, 1967. 13 numbers (of 8 pp. each) bound in 1 volume. 8vo. Sewn, original blue cover. Union List of Serials, iii, 2254 (listing 1 complete set: NYPL); Gottschalk, pp. 67 & 70; not in Bougeard. Reprint after the copy of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Limited edition of 500 copies. ' I am going to fight for my country with two hands.' EUR 75
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MARAT, J.P. Les chaines de l'esclavage. Ouvrage destiné à développer les noirs attentats des princes contre les peuples; les ressords (sic) secrets, les ruses, les menées, les artifices,les coups d'état qu'ils employent pour détruire la liberté, et les scènes sanglantes qui accompagnent le despotisme. Précédées d'un discours préliminaire et accompagnées de nouvelles notes par A. Havard. Paris, A. Havard, 1833. With portrait. xii, 330 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine in compartments, discoloured, a bit rubbed. Cf.: Bougeart, pp. 366; Martin & Walter 22849; Monglond, ii, 479. Famous work by Marat, first written in French while Marat was in England, translated by him into English and published in 1774 and in French in 1792. Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793), radical editor, Montagnard deputy to the National Convention, was one of the foremost radicals of the Revolution, notorious for his denunciations of the conspirators, his calls for popular violence, and his advocacy of a dictatorship. Marat became one of the most fiery Revolutionary journalists and believed himself to be the apostle of Liberty. The Chains of Liberty represents a notable point in the history of the struggle between capital and labour. It is a powerful social, economic and political analysis of Europe in the 1770s, in which Marat fulminates against 'the partnerships of merchants, financiers, tax-farmers, speculators, bill-brokers, stock-jobbers, etc.' leaving in the cities 'only two classes of inhabitants, of which one is plunged into misery, and the other rolls in abundance'. - A little paperspotted. EUR 450
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MARCHANGY, (L.A.F. DE.) Plaidoyer de M. de Marchangy, Avocat-Général à la Cour Royale de Paris; Prononcé le 29 Aout 1822, devant la Cour d'assises de la Seine, dans la Conspiration de la Rochelle. A Paris, Chez Anth. Boucher, et chez les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1822. 241, (1) pp. + booksellers catalogue (Boucher) of 8 pages. 8vo. Sewn in original blind wrappers. First edition. - Somewhat browned throughout, uncut. Marchangy was the government prosecutor at the trial of the four sergeants of La Rochelle. This prosecution was his most famous case: the four sergeants were executed for their part in a Carbonari plot to overthrow the government. The Carbonari or Charbonnerie, a secret revolutionary group opposed to the Bourbon Restoration government, most active from 1821 to 1823. It was started after conspirators who had fled to Italy and had been in contact with the orginal Italian Carbonari, returned to France to found their own Carbonari, in May 1821. The society grew rapidly, merged with another secret revolutionary group, the Knights of Liberty, and had perhaps 50,000 members within two years. The Carbonari were remarkably unsuccesful at revolution. The most famous uprising of this revolutionary group was that of four sergeants of La Rochelle. These unfortunate young soldiers, too open with their comrades about a planned uprising, were executed on 21 September 1822. They could probably have saved themselves by cooperating with the government in tracking down the carbonari leadership. Their silence earned them liberal sainthood. (See: Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the Second Empire, volume i, pp. 152-154.) EUR 350
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MARCHANT, (F.) La Constitution en Vaudevilles, Suivie des Droits de l'Homme, de la Femme & de plusieurs autres vaudevilles constitutionnels. Par M. Marchant. A Paris, Chez les Libraires Royalistes, 1792. With a beautiful coloured frontispiece 'avant la lettre' of a patriot playing with an 'emigrette', possibly the first representation of the game of yo-yo. 160 pp. 32mo. Contemporary polished calf, gilt triple fillets on sides, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, all edges gilt. Martin & Walter, 22975; Tourneux, ii, 11744; Cohen-de Ricci, p. 677. First edition. - A beautiful copy. The work opens with an 'Épitre dédicatoire a MM. les Émigrés', the half-title reads: La Constitution en Vaudevilles, Almanach civique pour l'année 1792.This is one of the rare copies with the coloured frontispiece 'avant la lettre'. EUR 900
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MESMER, (F.A.) Mémoire sur la Découverte du Magnétisme Animal; par M. Mesmer, .... A Geneve, et se trouve à Paris, Chez P. Fr. Didot le Jeune, Librairie-Imprimeur de Monsieur, 1779.(2), vi, 85, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine elaborately gilt in compartments (corners lightly bumped). Printing and the Mind of Man, 225; En Français dans le Texte, 171; Garrison-Morton 4992.1; Grolier 100 'Medicine', 47; Norman M4. The very rare first edition. - Some light marginal browning. Discussing and describing one of the best-remembered 'alternative' medicines of all time. Mesmer maintained 'that a magnetic fluid pervades the universe, exists in every living being, and affects the nervous system. Experimenting with the use of his "magnetism" he found that there was a healing magnetic power in his own hands and that he could obtain results in treating nervous disorders without a magnet, a faculty which he called ''animal magnetism''' (PMM). Whilst 'Mesmerism' in its own right was discredited, Mesmer's theories laid the foundation for hypnosis and suggestion theories. Indeed Mesmer himself induced sleep, known as 'Mesmeric sleep' which term was used before James Braid coined the term 'hypnosis'. Mesmer lived for some time in a comfortable town house in Vienna before he moved to Paris, where he had enough time and money to indulge his passion for music. He was well befriended with the Mozarts and Mozart's first opera, Bastien und Bastienne took place in Mesmer's garden, and Mozart later made room for mesmerism in a scene in Cosi fan tutte.But there is another side to this book as well, a political side. 'The crashing failure of the Social Contract, Rousseau's least popular book before the Revolution, raises a problem for scholars searching for the radical spirit in the 1780's: if the greatest political treatise of the age failed to interest many literate Frenchmen, what form of radical ideas did suit their tastes? One such form appeared in the unlikely guise of animal magnetism or mesmerism. Mesmerism aroused enormous interest during the pre-revolutionary decade; and although it had originally no relevance whatsoever to politics, it became, in the hands of radical mesmerists like Nicolas Bergasse and Jacques-Pierre Brissot, a camouflaged political theory very much like Rousseau's' (R. Darnton, Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France, Boston, 1968). EUR 9500
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MICHEL DE L'HOSPITAL - (GUIBERT, J.A.H. DE.) Éloge historique de Michel de l'Hospital, chancelier de France. No place, 1777. 125, (1) pp. + 1 errata leaf Small 8vo. Contemporary calf, gilt triple fillet on sides, worn and rubbed, corners bumped. Conlon 77:1055. First edition. This is the first copy we have handled in which an errata-leaf is present. Michel de l'Hospital was a famous and important sixteenth century French stateman. He completed his legal studies in Padua after having been exiled by François I. In Italy he imbided humanistic ideas, especially the belief in absolute government. As a stateman L'Hospital was an exponent of religious toleration and of a unified absolute monarchy and was one of the first men in France to express the politique idea that the welfare of the absolute monarchy should supersede all other interests. As chancellor of France from 1560 to 1568 he endeavored to save the nation from three outstanding problems threathening the monarchy. He tried to end religious controversy by advocating tolerance, he curtailed the powers of the nobles and, finally, he planned to establish a uniform legal code and an organized systems of tribunals.Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte de Guibert (1743-90), military writer. He was one of the most important and influential military writers of the eighteenth century. His most famous work, Essai générale de tactique (1772), established his reputation as a military writer overnight and gave access to the most celebrated salons. Guibert represents an important transition from the Ancien Régime to the age of Napoleon. - Internally a fine and clean copy. EUR 175
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MIRABEAU, (H.G. RIQUETTI DE). Aux Bataves sur le Stathouderat. Par le Comte de Mirabeau. No place 1788. 88 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled boards. Martin & Walter 24427 (other edition); Quérard, La France Littéraire, vi, p. 155: "On trouve un passage curieux sur la déclaration des droits du peuple." One of various editions published in the year 1788. - With two stamps in the blank portion of the title-page. A defense of the Dutch republican party against the Prussian intervention on behalf of the Stadhouder Willem V, which allows Mirabeau to dwell on the "Batavian question" and the questions of the rights of man: this text contains 26 articles dealing with the rights of man including the declaration that the liberty of the press is absolute.The work is followed by 27 pages entitled "Pieces Fugitives. II." containing the following: A l'Imperatrice de Russie - Epitre de M. de Voltaire à Madame la Duchesse de Choiseul - M. de Chaubanon à M. Lorry, sur son traité de la Mélancholie - Le Chevalier de Bouffliers à M. de Voltaire - Epitre au Pape sur ce qu'il à défendu la Castration dans ses Etats; par M. de Voltaire - Epitre de M. de Voltaire au Roi de Danemarc - Epigramme de M. de Voltaire contre Piron. EUR 150
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MONTJOIE, (F.L.C. VENTRE DE LA TOULOUBRE, DIT GALART DE.) L'Ami du Roi, des François, de l'ordre et sur-tout de la vérité; ou Histoire de la Révolution de France, et de l'Assemblée nationale. Pour former, avec le journal intitulé l'Ami du Roi, et commencé le 1er juin 1790, un corps complet d'histoire du tems actuel. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Crapart (vol. II: De l'Imprimerie de l'Ami du Roi; vol III & IV: De l'Imprimerie de l'Ami du Roi & Chez Gattey, vol V: Chez Gattey), 1791-1792. 5 parts in 1 volume. x, 150 pp.; (4), 156 pp.; (4), 156 pp.; (4), 156 pp.; (4), 148 pp. 4to. Modern half red morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Martin & Walter 25019; Tourneux 10520; Catalogue Pochet-Deroche 1392; not in Monglond. First edition. - Lovely copy of a very rare work. Montjoie published the journal Ami du Roi but felt that the events preceding the revolution were largely ignored in that journal. He therefore published the present work which was intended to fill 'ce vuide'. It covers the period April 1788-August 1789. These journals were in support of the king, and it was said of the Ami du Roi that the king actually read it and subsidized it. EUR 1250
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MOREAU DE JONNES, A. Manuscript text signed dealing with (Pierre Victorin) Vergniaud (1753-1793), Girondin Conventionnel and famous speaker. Undated. 2 pp. pasted on boards. Small 4to. Moreau de Jonnès (1778-1870), winner of the first Prix Statistique of the Académie Royale in 1819, was the leading French statistician of the first half of the nineteenth century. In 1834, Thiers appointed him head of the government's department of statistics. Alexandre Moreau de Jonnès here speaks about his recollections of the Conventionnel Vergniaud whom he apparently knew quite well.The upper line of the first page slightly shaved with loss of a word, and the margins of first page cut short. EUR 175
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MOREAU DE JONNES, A. Le Commerce au dix-neuvième siècle, État actuel de ses transactions dans les principales contrées des deux hémispheres; causes et effets de son agrandissement et de sa décadence, et moyens d'accroitre et de consolider la prospérité agricole, industrielle, coloniale et commerciale de la France; Ouvrage qui a remporté le prix extraordinaire fondé par S.E. le Baron de Damas, et décerné par l'Académie Royale de Marseille. A Paris, Chez l'Auteur, Regnard, Arthus-Bertrand, 1825. Two volumes. xii, 395, (1) pp.; (4), 362, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt in compartments, red labels with gilt lettering, marbled boards, upper joint of volume one tender, some discolouring of the marbled covers. Kress C.1502; Goldsmiths 24522; not in Einaudi. First edition of this important survey on international commerce and trade in the early 19th-century. Moreau de Jonnès (1778-1870), winner of the first Prix Statistique of the Académie Royale in 1819, was the leading French statistician of the first half of the nineteenth century. In 1834, Thiers appointed him head of the government's department of statistics.The present work starts with an analysis of the causes and effects of growth in commercial volume in the 19th century in general, broken down by country (Great Britain, France, USA), imports, exports, consumption, colonial commerce and trade, naval powers, means of consolidating and enlarging French commerce, with Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Great-Britain, Netherlands, Germany, Africa, Colonies, America, etc. - With old ownership's entry on both half-titles. Copy signed by the author on verso half-title, as required. EUR 800
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MOREAU, C. Bibliographie des Mazarinades, publiée pour la Société de l'Histoire de France. New York, Burt Franklin, no date (ca 1960) 3 (of 4) volumes. (6), lxiv, 426 pp.; (6), 398 pp.; (6), 464 pp. 8vo. Original publishers red cloth. Besterman2472; Petzholdt, 227. Photomechanic reprint after the 1850/51 edition. Standard bibliography containing the original work A-Z, lacking volume 4 containing the supplements of 1876 and 1904. EUR 150
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NAPOLEON - PROCES-VERBAL des séances de la Commission du Conseil des Anciens, créée par la loi du 19 Brumaire an 8 (10 novembre 1799). A Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale, (1799). (4), 439, (1 blank) pp. 8vo. Sewn, contemporary blind covers, uncut, unopened (lower cover partly torn off). Not in Martin & Walter. First edition. The Council of Ancients agreed to move the legislature to Saint-Cloud, outside Paris, on 9 November 1799. The move much facilitated Bonaparte's coup d'état and the Council of Ancients did not survive the coup it had facilitated. At Saint-Cloud on 10 November, the Five Hundred actively opposed Bonaparte when he appeared before them. The Ancients, however, were more submissive; after troops loyal to Bonaparte had ejected the opposition from the lower house, the remaining deputies voted the abolition of the Directory, its replacement with a three-man executive, and the establishment of provisional commissions chosen from the two councils. See at length: Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, i, pp. 253-255.Interesting documentation marking the end of the Council of Ancients.- At head of title: Corps législatif. Browned and partially dampstained. EUR 350
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NOIRET, CH. Mémoires d'un ouvrier rouennais. Rouen, François, Libraire, 1836 (Paris, EDHIS, 1979). vi, 91, (3) pp. 8vo. Printed covers. DBMOF, vol. ii, pp. 154 ff. Reprint of the extremely rare original edition. This little tract is a history of the development of the industry in and around Rouen and the deplorable conditions of the working classes. Charles Noiret was a republican and socialist and it was this work this established his name. He showed that the wages had dropped dramatically since the economic crises of 1830, that abuses were abundant and rights few. He proposed the foundation of 'Sociétés d'ouvriers pour l'exploitation de l'industrie': the working classes would subscribe for 1 or 2 francs a month with the aim of having, in the course of a coule of years, accumulated sufficient funds for the foundation of a 'coopérative de production'. EUR 125
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ORWELL, G. The Road to Wigan Pier. With a Foreword by Victor Gollancz. London, Victor Gollancz, 1937. With 32 photographs. xxiv, 264 pp. 8vo. Original printed limp orangeboards (spotting to edges, otherwise very good). (Left Book Club). First edition, a limited edition which preceded the trade edition published in the same year. On the front cover we can read: Not for sale to the Public. Gollancz' original Left Book club edition, with the 32 illustrations of housing conditions omitted from most later editions, is a classic of social reportage and has established a place in the English documentary tradition. The manuscript, result from Orwell's visit to Northern England's most depressed industrial areas, was finished in December 1936 and the book appeared in March 1937. The Left Book Club issued part I only separately again in May 1937 (32 pages only) as a supplement for 'Propaganda distribution'. EUR 300
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OWEN, R. Le livre du nouveau monde moral contenant le système social rationel basé sur les lois de la nature humaine par Robert Owen abrégé et traduit de l'Anglais par T.W. Thornton. Paris, Paulin, Éditeur, 1847. (5), 6-72 pp. Small 8vo. Modern marbled boards, spine with label withgilt lettering. N.L.W., A Bibliography of Robert Owen, 72; Einaudi 4246; Goldsmiths 35458; not in Mattioli; not in Kress. First French edition, abridged version of Owen's The Book of the New Moral World, published between 1836 and 1844. The pages 5-18 contain "Notice sur la vie et les travaux de Robert Owen" by Thornton.On the question of labour relations Thornton was a great supporter of Cooperation which was considered a possible alternative to class war and strikes, and the basis for an alliance between labour and capital: and this explains his interest in Robert Owen and his ideas and experiments. Owen, in the USA in the mid-40s of the 19th century, returned to France when he learned about the revolution that had broken out, in the hope to win sympathy and adherants for his ideas. The current little work had been the first attempt to win attention for his ideas and while in France, Owen had more borchures and works published or translated, but he gained little influence.The present work is quite scarce in the trade. A very nice and clean copy. EUR 1250
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PASQUIER, E. Les Oeuvres d'Estienne Pasquier, Contenant ses recherches de la France; Son Plaidoyé pour M. le Duc de Lorraine; Celuy de Me Versoris, pour les Jesuites, Contre l'Université de Paris; Clarorum virorum ad Steph. Pasqueirium Carmina; Epigrammatum Libri sex; Epitaphiorum liber; iconum liber, cum nonnullis Theod. Pasquierii In Francorum Regum Icones notis. Ses Lettres; ses oeuvres meslées; et es lettres de Nicolas Pasquier, fils d'Estienne. A Amsterdam, Aux depens de la Compagnie des Libraires Associez, 1723. Titles printed in red and black. 2 volumes. (4), xxii, 1364 columns; (4), xlviii (misnumbered xlix, xxxix omitted in numbering), 1482 columns. Folio. Contemporary calf, spines richly gilt with raised bands, contrasting labels with gilt lettering (very lightly rubbed). Hauser 872; Tchemerzine-Scheler iv, p. 94; Brunet iv, col. 405-6. First collective edition. 'Source trop négligée' (Hauser). 'Cette collection contient les Recherches de la France, les Plaidoyers, les Lettres, les Poésies latines et françaises, et les autres ouvrages de Pasquier déjà publiés séparément, à l'exeption du Catéchisme des Jésuites, des Ordonnances générales d'Amour, et de quelques autres opuscules' (Brunet). According to Tchemerzine-Scheler the work was printed at Trévoux. For an elaborate account of the contents see Hauser. - Very nice copy. Both volumes have at the foot of the spine a red label with the letters LMDM, probably signifying La Maignon de Malesherbes. EUR 1250
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PASQUIER, E. D. Histoire de mon temps. Mémoires du Chancelier Pasquier, publiés par M. le duc d'Audiffret-Pasquier. Paris, Plon, 1893-1903. With portrait heliogravure in vol. 1 and two other portraits heliogravures.6 parts in 3 volumes. xi, (1 blank), 536 pp; (4), 458 pp.; (4), 448 pp.; (4), 550 pp.; (4), 581 pp.; (4) 485 pp. Royal 8vo. Contemporary half dark green morocco (turned uniformly dark brown on spines) with raised bands, marbled boards, top edges gilt. Tulard 1120. Part 1 in original edition, other parts later issues from early years of publication (originally 1893-1894). Pasquier (1767-1862) held various influential posts (member of parliament, state counseller, and head of police) that gave him special insights in the events of his time, and gave his memoires (covering the period 1789-1830, all the régimes from Louis XVI to Napoleon III!) a great importance. As a state counseller Pasquier made himself conspicuous as the responsable officer for all matters concerning the Jews who where striving for political and legal equality in his times in France. Taine considers him to be 'le temoin le mieux informé et le plus judicieux pour la première moitié de ce siècle'. Consultation of Pasquier is indispensable for the internal history of the empire (Tulard). EUR 550
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PASTORET, (C.) E. (J.P. DE). Conseil des Cinq-Cents. Motion d'ordre. Séance du 17 pluviôse, an V (5 février 1797). (Drop-head title). A Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale, (1797). 7, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Martin & Walter 26575. The Conseil des Cinq Cents was a lower house of the Legislature established by the Constitution of 1795. Deals with the treatment of the conspirators of Grenelle. After the betrayal of the Babeuf conspiracy, the Jacobins continued to believe that the troops could be subverted (something that Babeuf and his fellow conspirators had always believed) and that believe continued after the betrayal. Ten thousand bored and underpaid troups were encamped at Grenelle, near the Camp de Mars, dreaming enviously of comrades now winning spectecular and glorious victories in Italy, and being paid by their general in plundered coin. Rumours of mutiny among them circulated throughout the summer, and dubious elements were periodically discharged. But when on 9 September several hundred Jacobins marched to Grenelle expecting a dragoon regiment to defect to them, informers in their ranks had already alerted the authorities, and the soldiers charged the marchers with drawn swords. Twenty were cut to pieces, and another thirty of those arrested then or subsequently were shot after military trials. (See: W. Doyle, The Oxford History of the French Revolution, pp. 326-327). EUR 100
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POMPERY, E. DE. Théorie de l'Association et de l'Unité universelle de C. Fourier; Introduction religieuse et philosophique. Paris, Capelle, 1841. - (Bound with:) PELLARIN, Ch. Allocutions d'un Socialiste, par Ch. Pellarin, auteur de: Fourier, sa vie et sa théorie. Paris, Capelle, Librairie Sociétaire, 1846. Two works in one volume. (8), xvi, 384 pp.; 48 pp. 8vo.Modern half hard-grained morocco, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, the letters H.D. stamped in gilt at foot of spine. First work: Del Bo, p. 40; not in Kress; Goldsmiths 32488; Einaudi 4496. First edition. - With the bookplate of Henry Delpech on front paste-down. Edouard de Pompery adopted the ideas of Fourier in 1839, the year in which he lectured at a meeting of the freemasons of Brest on Fourier's ideas and system. He also published in the Phalange, the Démocratie pacifique, the Revue sociale of Pierre Leroux and the Courrier Français.A bit paperspotted.Second work: Del Bo, p. 39; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in EinaudiFirst edition, and a rare work by the man who is chiefly known for his often reprinted work on Fourier's life and theories, an important and very good book on Fourier.Pellarin started out as a Saint-Simionist but became a Fourierist after he had read the Traité de l'Association domestique-agricole.A bit browned. EUR 600
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PUFENDORF, S. De Jure Naturæ et Gentium, Libri Octo. Cum integris Commentariis Virorum Clarissimorum Jo. Nicolai Hertii, atque Joannis Barbeyraci, Accedit Eris Scandica. Recensuit & Animadversionibus illustravit Gottridus Mascovius. Francofurti & Lipsæ, Ex Officina Knochiana, 1744. With frontispiece, title-vignettes, and titles printed and red and black. 2 volumes. (6, frontispiece, title, 'Privilegium Caesareum'), xxix, (1), 854 pp.; (2), 500, (28), 372, (4) pp. 4to. Contemporary vellum, labels with gilt lettering, very lightly rubbed, rear cover of volume 2 with small damage. Camus 148; Macdonell & Manson, Great Jurists of the World, pp. 305-344. Esteemed and important Frankfurt edition of The law and nature of nations (first published in Lund in 1672) and enlarged with the author's Eris Scandica, (first published in 1686), and with the important notes by Hertius and Barbeyrac. 'Samuel von Pufendorf (1632-1694), German jurist, statesman and historian. Pufendorf, leaning on Hobbes, was a representative of the natural law school of international law. Whereas Grotius had distinguished between natural and positive law of nations, Pufendorf considered all international law as a part of natural law. He could not conceive of any real international law arising from the customs and treaties of the nations. This view, although long abandoned by legal science, is historically important for its contribution to the development of general principles of jurisprudence' (Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences). By introducing the ideas of Grotius and Hobbes into German thought he made their ideas really effective for the first time. The translator's notes are of value and gave the translation its esteemed reputation.'Samuel Pufendorf, in his great systematic treatise on natural and international law, began by taking exception to Grotius's opinion that morals and mathematics are not equally certain. Nor was this ideal of demonstration confined to law and politics. It was extended to all branches of social study, producing the systems of natural religion and rational ethics that prevailed throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Finally, it produced the systems of natural economy that continued to pass as economic science well into the nineteenth century. It would be impossible to exaggerate the importance that these conceptions had in the early modern development of social studies' (George H. Sabine, A History of Political Theory, pp. 395 ff).The Eris Scandica is a collection of polemical pieces, and covers the last 376 pages in volume 2, with a separate title-page. It was written in answer to the violent attacks on the present work in Sweden and Germany on the ground of its divorcing natural law from theology. - Browned throughout, paste-downs partially or entirely loose. EUR 1500
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RAYNAL, (G.T.F.) Oeuvres de M. l'Abbé Raynal. A Geneve, Chez J.L. Pellet, 1784. 4 volumes. x, (2), 339, (1) pp.; (6), 372 pp.; (4), iv, 415, (1) pp; (4), 416 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines richly gilt with raised bands and marbled edges, volume 3 with small damage at bottom of front cover, lower upper joint of volume 4 with small loss of 1 cm. Feugère 96; not in Conlon. First edition. Volume 1: Histoire du Stadhoudérat; volume 2: Histoire du Parlement d'Angleterre; volumes 3 & 4: Mémoires Politiques. - Quire D in volume one present twice, leaf A1 in volume four with a dark spot, a very good copy of this rather scarce work. EUR 1100
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RAYNAL, (G.T.F.) Révolution de l'Amérique. Par l'Abbé Raynal, Auteur de l'Histoire Philosophique & Politique des Établissements & du Commerce des Éuropéens dans les deux Indes. A Londres, Chez Lockier Davis, Holborn, 1781. With portrait-frontispiece and a charming title-vignette. xii, 192, (2) pp. 12mo. Sewn in contemporary blind wrappers, paper label to spine, an uncut copy. Echeverria & Wilkie 781/103; Howes R.85; Sabin 68103 note; Fay 15; Feugère 76; not in JFBL (see R61 for another edition); Kress B.407; INED 3749. One of many editions from the same year, some with, most without the frontispiece. Historical essay on the American revolution. Raynal sympathized with the colony. He has some reflexions on the future of the economy and on demography. He advises the Americans to be on their guard for 'une trop inégale répartition des richesses' (INED). 'An analysis of the causes of the American Revolution together with a history of its progress, from a pro-Colonial point of view' (JFBL).'Raynal in his Révolution de l'Amérique was an authentic subversive when he argued from the concept of popular sovereignty to the right of revolution and asserted that "there is no form of governement whose prerogative is to be immutable." He urged the Americans to found their liberty on constitutionalism, union, freedom of conscience, and the education of the people' (Echeverria, Mirage in the West, pp. 69-70).The pages viii-xii contain an announcement by the Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon, that Raynal has proposed to announce two competitions for essays for which he has provided the funds, further the subjects of these essays and the conditions for participation. The subject for the year 1783 is: La Découverte de l'Amérique a-t-elle été utile ou nuisible au Genre Humain ? The price is 1200 livres. - Very nice and uncut copy. EUR 450
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REBENAC, (FR. DE PAS) DE. Harangue faite à N.S. Père le Pape, par Monsieur de Rebenac, envoyé extraordinaire de France. (Drop-head title). No place, (1691). 7, (1 blank) pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Not in Bourgeos & André. At end: 'Imprimé avec Permission de Mrs les Jurats' which supposes printing in or around Bordeaux.Text in which the author expresses on behalf of the French King concerns about the fact that the "Maison d'Autiche" (House of Austria, i.e. Habsburg) is apparently more interested in combatting the Catholics in England and the Calvinists in France, and establishing its influence in Italy than curbing the rising strength of the Ottoman empire.- Equally and lightly browned throughout. EUR 125
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RENAUDOT, T. (ED.) Recueil général des questions traictées es Conférences du Bureau d'Adresse, sur toutes sortes de matières; par les plus beaux esprits de ce temps. A Paris, Chez la veuve G. Loyson, 1655-1656. 5 volumes. (16), 840 (misnumbered 838) pp.; (8), 840 (misnumbered 868), (8, misbound) pp.; (4), 904, (6) pp.; (10), 920 pp.; (8), 478 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spines richly gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering (somewhat worn). Brunet, iv, 1173; Sgard, Dictionnaire des Journaux, i, pp. 238-240. The original French editions are very rare, and poorly represented even in major collections. - On all titles ownership's entry of Abraham Girard, dated 1658. Some occasional spotting. Volume 2 without a publisher's name. Collection of 345 essays concerning a wide range of subjects, edited by Theophraste Renaudot and his sons Isaac and Eusèbe. Théophraste Renaudot (1586-1653), founder of French journalism and of various institutions for social betterment. Touched by the hordes of paupers who infested Paris after the wars of religion, he opened the first employment agency. In 1631 he established what is generally regarded as the first French newspaper, the Gazette, later called Gazette de France, which appeared weekly up to 1914. Both Louis XII and Richelieu, realizing the power exerted by the press upon public opinion, contributed to the Gazette, and Richelieu granted Renaudot a news monopoly. He founded, in anticipation of the Academy of Sciences, a learned society, whose purpose was to give a weekly lecture, followed by a symposium, on any subject other than theology and politics. The conferences were open to all who bothered to come and they were conducted in French, the topic of each conference was decided by the participants. To allow maximum freedom of speech and expression the names of the contributors were not given in the printed texts. It is known that many of the leading philosophers took part in these conferences: Gassendi, Descartes, Campanella, Mersenne and both father and son Pascal are only a few of those believed to have participated.Topics dealt with are among others "The movement or immobility of the earth" (a highly controversial subject), perpetual motion, a variety of medical topics, a large number of philosophical topics, and also social issues were discussed: S'il est meilleur à un Etat d'avoir des Esclaves? - De la mémoire artificielle - Du règlement des pauvres - De la cabbale - Des comètes - De la Methode (de Descartes) - De la coustume - De l'imagination, etc. etc..After the death of his protector, Richelieu, all Renaudot's 'innocent inventions', with the exception of his newspaper, were suppressed by the Parlement of Paris, but they exerted a lasting influence upon the institutional development of France. EUR 9000
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RHODES, DE PLAISANCE, J.B. La Paix universelle, ou le Mariage philosophique du commerce avec l'agriculture et sa famille entière, Reposant sur l'Empire universel des intimes et légitimes liaisons qui existent naturellement entre la nature, l'homme, l'agriculture, les arts, les sciences, les commerces, les gouvernans, les potentats, les nations, l'ensemble des sociétés civilisées, en un mot, entre les prinicipales et fondamentales bases qui soutiennent, aliementent et perpétuent le majestueux et systématique édifice de la civilisation et du pacte social. A Tarbes, chez R. Lagarrique, imprimeur de la Préfecture, Août 1830. 95, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards, gilt lettering on spine (original printed covers preserved). Goldsmiths 26117; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli. First edition. The author published a number of tracts on agriculture in 1822. The greater part of the work details the situation after the 'Philosophical mariage between commerce and agriculture': 'Les droits respectifs de ces nouveaux époux', 'Leur langage', 'Leur éducation', 'Leurs lois fondamentales', etc. EUR 250
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ROUSSEAU - GUDIN (DE LA BRENELLERIE), P.PH. Supplément au Contrat Social. A Paris, Chez Maradan & Perlet, 1791. With folding table. xii, 298, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, yellow edges, very lightly worn. Conlon, Ouvrages Français relatifs à Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1751-1799, 861; Einaudi 2787; INED 2181; Martin & Walter, 15893. One of two editions (the other being in 12mo) from the year of first publication, no priority established. 'Le plus grand problème de la politique, c'est de trouver le moyen de n'avoir dans un Etat ni gens désoeuvrés, ni gens sans propriété.' Includes demographical considerations and demographical table for Paris, Lyons and Bordeaux for the years 1709-1789. The work was adressed to the Assemblée nationale and it argued in favor of a constitutional monarchy. Only Conlon lists both the 8vo and 12mo edition of this work. EUR 600
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ROUSSEAU, J.J. Discours sur l'origine et les fondemens de l'inégalité parmi les hommes. A Amsterdam, Chez Marc-Michel Rey, 1755. With engraved frontispiece by Sormique after Eisen, title-vignette, title printed in red and black. lxx, (2), 262, (2, errata, avis pour le relieur) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, very lightly rubbed. Dufour 55; Tchemerzine-Scheler, v, p. 532; Goldsmiths 9064; Kress 5470; Higgs 940; Mattioli 3139. First edition, first issue, with the aigu accent on 'conformé' on page 11 added by hand, and the misspelling of the authors name on both the title-page and at the end of the Dedicace: Jean Jaques (sic) Rousseau. The pages lxvii-lxviii, 111-112 and 139-140 are cancels. It was in the late autumn of 1753 the Academy of Dijon announced yet another essay competition, this time on the question 'What is the origin of inequality among men, and is it authorized by Natural Law?' Rousseau responded promptly: 'if the Academy had the courage to raise such a question', he decided, 'I would have the courage to write about it.' 'The result was an essay which is remarkable both as philosophy and science. In less than a hundred pages, Rousseau outlined a theory of the evolution of the human race which prefigured the discoveries of Darwin; he propelled the study of anthropology and linguistics into new channels, and he made a seminal contribution to political and social thought. Even if his argument was seldom fully understood by his readers, it altered people's ways of thinking about themselves and about their world; it even changed their ways of feeling. Of all his books, Rousseau's Discours sur l'origine et les fondemens......... -often referred to as his second Discours- has perhaps been the most influential. (......) It is the masterpiece of his early years' (Cranston, M., Jean-Jacques. The early life and work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 1712-1754, chap. 15). - Small stamp in blank outer margin of title-page partly erased. EUR 2500
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ROUZADE, LEONIE. Two Autograph Letters Signed, one dated 22 January, 1902 to a friend (very likely Alix Lebey) informing him of the death of her husband, Auguste Rouzade. The second, dated 28July, 1915 adressed to Alix Lebey, concerning his intended visit, her state of mind and her present life and the translations of her works. 4 pp. 4 pp. 8vo. Léonie Rouzade (1839-1916) was a militant adherant of the Libre Pensée, feminist and socialist. She married Auguste Rouzade who introduced her to the theories of Fourier and Cabet. She founded the Union des Femmes socialistes and she was the author a various works concerning feminism and socialism. She was the first women to stand for municpal election in France in 1881. The first letter informs a friend that her husband and life-long compagnion August Rouzade has died, the second letter, written 13 years later, deals with her life since the death of her husband, a moving testimony of someone who still has great difficulties in accepting that her partner has gone, and the fact that some of her works (Petit catéchisme de morale laïque et socialiste and La Femme et le Peuple) have been translated into English. She urges the recipient of the letter to leave her alone: she lives indendent and alone and prefers to end her life in tranquility and would not ask of anyone to make long travels just to meet and greet her. She died a year later. EUR 150
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SAINT-JUST, (A.L.L.) Discours prononcé le 26 décembre (1792) à la Convention nationale, sur Louis XVI, par le citoyen Saint-Just, Député du Département de l'Aisne; ...... (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Troyes, Chez la veuve Gobelet, (1792). 12 pp. 4to. Folded leaves, loose, disbound. Martin & Walter 30702. Dealing with the trial against Louis XVI and the attempts by the Girondins to gain time. Against those who Saint-Just calls the defenders of the King, with the famous phrase: "If he [the king] is innocent, the people is quilty." EUR 150
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SAINT-SIMON - CHARLETY, S. Histoire du Saint-Simonisme (1825-1864). Paris, Hartmann, 1931. With 16 plates. (10), 386, (1) pp. 8vo. Sewn in original printed covers, an uncut copy. Second, improved and definitive edition. - Blank upper outer corner of half-title and first flyleaf cut away. Esteemed biography of the saint-simonian movement. Contains an important bibliography covering the pages 365-379. EUR 125
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SAINTE-CROIX, G. E. J. GUILHEM DE CLERMONT-LODEVE, BARON DE. De l'état et du sort des colonies des anciens peuples. Ouvrage dans lequel on traite du gouvernement des anciennes républiques, de leur droit public, &c. avec des observations sur les colonies des Nations modernes, & la conduite des Anglois en Amérique. Philadelphie, 1779. xiv, 336 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt fillet on sides, warped. INED 4042; JFBL S-62; Kress B.229; Goldsmiths 11784.1; not in Einaudi; Echeverria/Wilkie 779/94; Sabin 75529. First edition, second issue. Guillaume-Emmanuel-Joseph Guilhem de Clermont-Lodève, Baron de Sainte- Croix, born Mourmoiron 1746, died in Paris 1809. After a trip to St. Domingo, with his uncle who died there because of battle injuries, and some years in the French Army, Sainte-Croix devoted himself to historical studies. In this work he deals with ancient commercial empires and compares them with eighteenth century imperialism, chiefly by the British in North America. An anti-British, pro-U.S. work that includes a section entitled: 'Observations sur les colonies des nations modernes & sur la conduite des Anglois dans l'Amérique Septentrionale' (Echeverria & Wilkie). - Some unobtrusive scattered browning. EUR 600
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SAVARY, (C.E.) Lettres sur la Grece, faisant suite de celles sur l'Égypte. A Paris, Chez Onfroi, 1788. With 1 folding map and 1 folding plate. (4), 362, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary blind covers, some loss of paper to upper part of spine, uncut. Blackmer Collection 1493; not in Hage Chahine. First edition, second issue, with the errata corrected. 'In September 1779, after an extended sojourn in Egypt, Savary left Alexandria for Asia Minor and the islands of the Archipelago. He spent about six months on Crete and also visited several islands of the Dodecanese (Simi, Cos, Cassos and Castellorizo). The French consul of Rhodes, Pontier, supplied him with information on that island. There is also a short description of Kimolos (Argentiera). Savary returned to France in 1780 and stayed in the home of the French academician M. Le Monnier, to whose wife the Lettres sur la Grèce are addressed. His letters on Greece are very interesting and center on actual conditions of the places he visited, the character of the modern inhabitants, rather than the antiquarian approach he favoured in Egypt. The letters continue the anti-Turkish and sentimental tradition begun by Guys and Choiseul-Gouffier. He died suddenly in 1788 while preparing a second volume of letters on Greece which was never published' (Blackmer). - Very nice copy in its original wrappers. Ziii & Ziv loose without damage, have never been sewn in. Copy from the Fürstlich-Starhemberg'sche Familien Bibliothek Schloß Eferding and with small stamp in upper blank margin of the title-page: Aus Schloß Haus, 1893. EUR 500
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SAVOY, É. Paupérisme et Bienfaisance. Fribourg, Fragnière Frères, Éditeurs, 1922. With some statistical tables in the text and a bibliography. 423 pp. 8vo. Sewn, original publisher's printed paper covers, slightly frayed at edges, an uncut and unopened copy. 2 copies in OCLC and RLIN (NYP and ILO). The author first deals with doctrines, causes and remedies for poverty in general. Then he discerns among the more practical means to combat poverty between preventive and curative means. A chapter is dedicated to a historical survey of the problem of social assistance in the region of Fribourg (Switzerland), interregional aspects, assistance to foreigners and some statistics. At the end he deals with poor law and organisation in Fribourg region. EUR 150
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SCHMALZ, (T.A.H.) Economie politique. Ouvrage traduit de l'Allemand par H. Jouffroy. Revu et annoté sur la traduction de M. Frétot. Paris, A. Bertrand, 1826. 2 volumes. xix, (1), 341, (1, errata) pp.; (4), 315, (1, errata) pp. 8vo.Modern half morocco, spine gilt in compartments and gilt lettering, marbled boards, original blind covers preserved. Kress C.1775; Goldsmiths 24808; Einaudi 5161; Palgrave, iii, p. 363; McCulloch, p. 24. First edition in French of this work on the principles of economics, originally published in 1818 as Staatswirtschaftslehre in Briefen an einen teutschen Erbprinzen. - Very good copy. The author tried to revive the theories of the Physiocrats in Germany. At the end of volume 2 he gives a Tableau économique suivant Quesnay, followed by a Tableau économique suivant la méthode italienne. 'In economics, Schmalz has been called "the last of the Physiocrats." Though he criticised Adam Smith severely, he was opposed to protective duties. He compared Colbertism to the Ptolemaic, physiocracy to the Copernican system of the world, Smith being the Tycho Brahe holding an intermediate position between the two. The doctrines of Quesnay, he was convinced, would ere long everywhere triumph' (Palgrave).The work ends with a discussion on the nature of government: 'M. Schmalz has not proposed to solve what Burke truly calls the finest problem in legislation, that is, to determine "what the State ought to take upon itself to direct by the public wisdom, and what it ought to leave, with as little interference as possible, to individual exertion." He has, however, made various observations on the principles by which the interference of government should be regulated; the subjects in regard to which it is most necessary; and the extent to which it should be carried' (McCulloch). EUR 900
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SECTION 'HOMME-ARME' - MANUSCRIPT originating from the 'Section de l'homme armé' of the '7e administration municipale deparée' sub-section 'des enfants rouges', provinding the lists of names of people who had a right to vote and the voting results, dated 27 february 1792. 7 pp. - (Followed by:) Votinglist of the Assemblée générale of the Section des Enfants Rouges of March 2, 1792. 11 pp. - (Followed by:) A list of March 8, 1792. 1 page. - (Followed by:) Short proceedings of meetings of May 14, May 15, June 5, June 10, June 12, June 19, June 26, June 27, July 8, July 21, July 24, July 25, July 29, July 31, and August 3, 1792, all including list of members present at the meetings. 31 pp. In total 50 pp. (excluding a number of empty leaves). Folio. - Some margins frayed, and a few leavswith marginal tears, three leaves with some waterstaining. Small blank pieces cut off from first title leaf. 'Sections' were basic political divisions and centers of Revolutionary activity in Paris. They played a dual role: first as geographic and administrative subdivision of the municipality, and second, as foyers of the Revolution. The large number of poor in the sections, underestimated at 10 percent of the population, led to the establishment of lay committees on poverty (See at length: Historical Dictionay of the French Revolution, ii, pp. 885-889.)The lists of March 1792 contains the names of the citizens who have voted for the nomination of 7 commissaires of the Section, with the counting. A note dated May 8, 1792 contains a declaration of costs by one of the participants. (8vo). The handwriting is difficult to read and demands much experience to spell out all the texts, the attendance lists and voting results, however, are very legible. EUR 2000
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SHEFFIELD, J. (BAKER HOLROYD.) Observations sur le commerce des États d'Amérique, pour servir de suite aux Révolutions des États-Unis d'Amérique. Traduites de l'Anglais par Mirabeau. Nouvelle édition fort augmentée, avec un Supplément. A Paris, Chez Moutardier, an V, 1796. xvi, 335 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, somewhat rubbed, vellum corners. Howes H.616; not in Echeverria & Wilkie; not in Sabin; not in Leclerc; not in Fay; not in Goldsmiths; not in Kress; not in Einaudi. Improved edition of De Mirabeau's translation. This Mirabeau translation did not include the statistical tables to be found in other editions. A detailed exposition and statistical comparison of the imports and exports of Great Britain and the United States, from 1700 to 1783. With each edition, Sheffield substantially revised and enlarged the text. Written in opposition to the bill introduced by Pitt in 1783, proposing to relax the navigation laws in favour of the States, the work was influential in determining the abandonment of the motion. Sheffield points up the weak position of America and continually stresses the growing commercial importance and potential of the West Indies and Canada (especially Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, particularly with regard to fisheries, lumber, and ship-building). Howes writes that the work was very influential in shaping England's trade policy from 1783 to 1789, so detrimental to American commerce and shipping interests as to contribute greatly to the formation of a Federal union, better able, than were the separate federated states, to retaliate against British maritime might. EUR 500
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SIGONIUS, C. De republica Hebraeorum libri VII. Variis annotationibus & antiquitatibus Veteris & Novi Testamenti in theologia maximè necessariis illustrati & duplo ferè auctiores redditi,nec non ab erroribus, quibus hactenus scatuerunt, purgati. In lucem altera vice editi à J. Nicolai. Leiden, C. Boutestein, 1701. With folding table, title printed in red and black. (16), 712 pp. 4to.Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands (slightly worn). Hurter, iii, pp. 303-304. Carlo Sigonius (c1524 - 1584) Italian humanist and historiographer, born in Modena. He studied Greek under the learned Franciscus Portus of Candia and attended the philosophical schools of Bologna and Pavia. A much valued edition of his complete works was published as late as 1732 - 1737 in 6 folio volumes by Argelati and is still sought after today. Sigonius' fame rests chiefly on his publications on Greek and Roman antiquities, for which he gathered his material in situ in many archives and libraries. Here his publication on the history of the Jewish people, including their religious, political and military organization. - Copy from the library of Baron Zangiacomi - Chateau de Laplagne, with both bookplates. EUR 600
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SLEIDAN, J. Histoire de la reformation, ou Mémoires de Jean Sleidan, Sur l'État de la Réligion et de la République sous l'Empire de Charles Quint, Traduits de nouveau en François, par Pierre François le Courrayer, avec des Notes. A la Haye, Chez Frederic Straatman, 1767. Titles printed in red and black. 3 volumes. xlii, 448 pp.; (2), 502 pp.; (2), 361, (85) pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, red and green labels with gilt lettering. Conlon 67:1288. Originally published in 1555 as De Statu religionis et reipublicae Carolo quinto Caesare. - Very good copy. Sleidanus was one of the three historians of the German Reformation who dominated both Catholic and Protestant citations, the other two being Hospinien and Chytraeus. Sleidanus did not provide much detail on the lives of the Reformers, but supplied an extract of public acts and original documents deposited in the Strasbourg archives. His fidelity to these documents made him a trusted authority for both sides in the historical debates. (Israels Perry, E., From Theology to History: French religious controversy and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, pp. 27-28.) 'Johannes Sleidanus (1506-1556), annalist of the German Reformation. Adopting Protestant views of a Calvinist type, in 1536 he entered the service of the Bellay brothers who were in correspondence with the Schmalkaldic League, and in 1540-1 he was employed in diplomatic missions for the French crown. In 1544 he was appointed as historiographer of the Reformation by Philip of Hesse. He represented a group of South German cities at the Council of Trent and took part in the negociations of the German Protestants with Henry II of France in 1552. His work De Statu Religionis.... and its large collection of documents make it the chief contemporary source for the period, though the author's impartiality met with little favour from his contemporaries, Protestant or Catholic' (The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church). EUR 1250
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SPENCER, H. Over-Legislation. Reprinted, with additions, from the Westminster Review, for July, 1853. London, John Chapman, 1854. Small 8vo. - (Bound with:) SPENCER, H. The Man versus The State: containing The New Toryism, The Coming Slavery, The Sins of Legislators, and The Great Political Superstition. Reprinted from the Contemporary Review, With a Postscript. London, Williams & Norgate, 1884. - (Bound with:) SPENCER, H. The Classification of the Sciences. (London & Edinburgh, 1871). With three printed tables. Three volumes bound in one. (2), 42 pp.; (2,Publisher's advertisment), (2), ii, 113, (1) pp.; (4, half-title and Preface to the Third edition), iii (Preface to the Second edition), (1, blank), 26 pp., followed by the pages 26a-26x entitled 'Postscript, Replying to Criticisms', followed by the pages 27-64 containing 'Reasons for Dissenting from the Philosophy of M. Comte' and 'Appendix.' 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt back with raised bands, green label with gilt lettering, extra (somewhat rubbed and shaved). Second work: First collected editon.These four papers had been originally published in the Contemporary Review in February, April, May, June and July of the same year (i.e. 1884). For this collective edition, Spencer adds both a Preface of 2 pages and a Postscript of 6 pages.The purpose of these essays was to propose a new creed for liberals - the limitation of state-functions to protection against foreign aggression and the maintenance of justice at home. Spencer had been watching with alarm the gradual encroachment of the state upon the liberty of the individual, and its ever-widening sphere of activity.Lacks the half-title? - Engraved bookplate on the front paste-down: Jos Cowen, library ticket (indicating case, shelf and number) in lower outer corner, and a stamped number on the first blank. The first text contains many lead-pencil annotation marks in the margins. Third work: Lacking the title-page, the half title only giving the title of the work; the preface to the third edition is dated Febr., 1871. It is the third edition of the text and the title-page would have read: The Classification of the Sciences: to which are added reasons for dissenting from the Philosophy of M. Comte ....Interesting small collection of works by Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), the English philosopher-scientist and leading figure in the intellectual revolution of the nineteenth century. Spencer was enormously influential and played a significant role in the development of biology, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. For the various social sciences, the primary significance of Spencer is that he was among the first to affirm that human society can be studied scientifically and to do so from an evolutionary point of view. With E.B. Taylor and Lewis H. Morgan, Spencer ranks among the three great cultural evolutionists of the nineteenth century. EUR 600
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STAEL (-HOLSTEIN, A.L.G. NECKER, DE.) Considérations sur les principaux événemens de la Révolution Françoise. Ouvrage posthume. Paris, Delaunay, Bossange et Masson, 1818. 3 volumes. x, 440 pp.; (4), 424 pp.; (4), 395, (3) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, marbled boards and marbled edges, a bit rubbed. Martin & Walter 31988; Tourneux, i, 14; Escoffier, 302. First edition. 'Le plan en est immense; il comprend trois objects distincts: la vie politique de M. Necker, l'histoire de la période révolutionnaire, enfin l'exposé d'une théorie des gouvernements divers' (Biographie Universelle).Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Baronne de Staël-Holstein (1766-1817), daughter of Suzanne Curchot and Jacques Necker, finance minister to Louis XVI. Her interest in philosophy began with a study of Rousseau, whose fervent admirer she remained throughout her life. Mme de Staël never questioned the absolute value of personal liberty. This belief she attributed to Protestantism, her family religion. To her, Protestantism rested on the principle of personal interpretation, and the source of one's convictions was to be looked for in the heart, just as it was in the teachings of Rousseau's Savoyard vicar. A true daughter of the eighteenth century, Madame de Staël was at once a passionate lover of France and a cosmopolitan, and she adhered firmly to the current faith in the indefinite perfectibility of the liberated spirit. "Germaine de Staël was the first women intellectual: she wrote novels and plays as well as works on history, philosophy, and politics. She always proclaimed the women's right to speak and be heard. Her constant and paramount concern was liberty, for which enlightenment was necessary, but which must also stem from a heartfelt commitment" (Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, volume 4, pp. 121-124). - Tear in title-page of volume 1, touching the names and addresses of the publishers. EUR 450
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STRACCHA, B. Tractatus De Mercatura, seu Mercatore, ..... Huc accessit Petri Santernae Lusitani Tractatus, de Sponsionibus & Assecurationibus mercatorum. Alios praeterea Tractatus aliundeexcerptos, unum videlicet D. Ioan Nider, De contractu mercaturae: alterum D. Bald. de Ubald. Perusini, de Constituto, in Iureconsultorum gratiam adiunximus, duoque D. Roberici Suarez Consilia, de Usu maris, & mercibus super illo transuehendis, Cum Indice rerum singularium locupletissimo. Lugduni, Apud Sebastianum Honoratis, 1558. With woodcut device and figurated initials. 635, 82 pp. + colophon leaf, reading Lugduni, excudebat Iacobus Forus. 8vo. Contemporary supple wrinkled vellum, handwritten title to spine, a bit spotted and spine a bit browned. Ars Mercatoria S31.4; BMSTC (French), p. 409; not in Einaudi (5491 for the first edition); Kress, IEL, 31 and Kress 77; Goldsmiths 69.1; not in Camus, Bibliothèque de droit, (other edition cf. nr. 2169); Adams S.1911; Baudrier, Bibliographie Lyonnaise, iv, p. 174. Classic of commercial and maritime law. It includes a lengthy section on bankruptcy and maritime law and was first published in 1553, followed by editions in 1555 and 1556. The additional work by the Portugese author Santerna appears here for the first time as part of the work by Straccha (according to Kress, Italian Economic Litertaure). The work covers the pages 481-569, with separate title-page, followed by the work by Nider (pp. 570-609), Ubaldis (pp. 610-618) and finally Suarez (pp. 619-635). - Some scribbling onto title-page in blank margins, at foot of title-page, in the blank margin a contemporary handwritten ownership's entry. The author, Benvenuto Straccha (1509-1578), was the first to present, in the present work, a systematic exposition of commercial law, which he was the first to view as distinct from civil law, and to examine it from the practical standpoint. It deals with commerce in general, the merchant class, mercantile contracts, maritime law, bankruptcy and mercantile practice.Benvenuto Stracca (or Straccha) was an Italian humanist jurist. Stracca's work is distinguished by the care with which he studies the practical arguments which are disregarded by the other jurists of his period and by the absence of the scholastic categories and formulae so much in vogue at the time. Previously commercial law had been studied only with regard to individual cases, as part of civil and canon law. It was Stracca's distinctive merit to have been the first to present a systematic exposition of commercial law as a complex of norms separate from the other branches of the law and to have carried it out from both the practical and the legal aspect. 'His work contains information of interest to economists. He shows the usefulness of trade and navigation; discusses the restrictions on certain branches of trade, and expresses comparatively moderate opinions on the theory of usury' (Palgrave). The present work is his first and most significant work in the field of commercial law.The text by Santerna deals with maritime insurance of commercial transports and was originally published in Venice in 1552. The present edition of the Mercatura is the first to include all these additonal treatises on similar subjects. EUR 4000
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SULLY, (M. BETHUNE) DE. Mémoires du Duc de Sully. Nouvelle édition. A Paris, Chez Étienne Ledoux, 1822. With 2 portraits. 6 volumes. (4), xxxi, (1), 490 pp.; (4), 515,(1) pp.; (4), 494 pp.; (4), 532 pp.; (4), 495, (1) pp.; (4). 405, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf, gilt and blind stamped fillets on both sides, spines gilt with raised bands, gilt outside dentelles, a very nice copy. Hauser 2574; not in Kress. Blanqui: 'Le livre sera éternellement digne d'être consulté comme le point de départ des réforme économiques qui ont mis fin aux abus du moyen-âge et qui ont abouti à la Révolution Française.' Guillaumin & Coquelin: 'Nous possédons peu de monuments historiques aussi précieux que les mémoirs de Sully ..... C'est une narration étendue des événements du règne d'Henry IV, des opérations du gouvernement, surtout de celui Sully dirigea.' Schumpeter: 'Maximilien de Béthune, created Duke de Sully by Henry IV, the latter's minister of finance, was a much greater, and especially stronger man than was the most famous of his successors, Colbert. He reformed the fiscal system of France most succesfully and saw much beyond the range of what he actually accomplished. Moreover, he knew - which is the criterion of greatness in a fiscal administrator - how to make fiscal policy an element and tool of general economic policy.'The sixth volume contains at the end the following: ÉLOGE de Sully, Née à Rosni, en 1559; mort au Chateau de Villebon, le 21 décembre 1641. Par M. le Comte Daru. 40 pp. - Ex libris Bruno Monnier, Chateau de Mantry, Jura. EUR 650
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TEMPLE, (W.) Les Oeuvres mélées de Monsieur le Chevalier Temple. Seigneur de Shene; Baronet; Ambassadeur du Roy de la Grande Bretagne auprès des Provinces Unies, & aux Traittez d'Aix la Chapelle, en 1668 & à Nimeque en 1678 &c. A Utrecht, Chez Antoine Schouten, 1693. Sphere on title. Two volumes in one. (12), 283 (misnumbered273), (1) pp.; (2), 437 (misnumbered 435), (3) pp. 12mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, handwritten name, date and title to spine, sprinkled edges. BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700, T150. First French edition. - Tiny wormtrack in the outer blank margin of the first three quires, somewhat larger on a few pages, not touching text, old ownership entry in blank portion of the title-page, dated 1693. The first volume contains among others: 'La recherche, ou l'essai de l'origine & de la nature du Gouvernement', 'La Recherche des moyens d'avancer le commerce en Irlande', 'Des Considérations générales sur l'etat & les intêréts de l'Empire, de la Suede, du Danemarc, de l'Espagne, de la Hollande, de la France, & de la Flandre par rapport à l'Angleterre en l'année 1671 .....' while the second volume mainly contains literary texts.Sir William Temple (1628-1699) was a diplomat (Envoy to Brussels 1665-68 and ambassador at The Hague 1668-70 and 1674-79), who turned to miscellaneous writing during leisure periods in his career and retirement at Moor Park, Surrey, where he employed Jonathan Swift as a secretary. He negociated the triple alliance between England, Holland and Sweden in 1668. EUR 450
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THEROIGNE DE MERICOURT - PELLET, M. Etude historique et biographique sur Théroigne de Méricourt. Paris, Maison Quantin, (1886). With two portraits and a folding facsimile of her handwriting. (4), 126, (2) pp. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, corners, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine, a bit rubbed, original front cover preserved. Edition limited to 300 copies, of which this is number 154 and printed on "vergé". One of very few biographies of this famous woman from Liege, whose fame rests on her support and activities in favour of the French revolution and her captivity in the Salpêtière for almost 24 years. She grew slowly but irreversibly mad after she had been publicly flogged on May 15, 1793, by a group of revolutionairies.Captivated by the revolution and its principles she followed the debates in the assembly almost daily, she founded a club (Club des Droits de l'Homme) and, after a short sejourn in Belgium, where she was born, and where she tried to raise the revolution against the emperor Joseph II for which she was emprisoned, returned to France and sided with Brissot. In a speech held on March 25, 1792 she urged women to take up arms and liberate themselves from current conditions, in which "l'ignorance, l'orgueil et l'injustice des hommes les tiennent asservies", and she tried to organize women in a club. She publicly deplored the conflict between the Montagne and the Gironde and called upon women to seek a national reconciliation.She was one of the new and unusual figures that surfaced in the revolution and its unprecedented atmosphere in the early days: Théroigne de Méricourt sat among the men at the Jacobin cub in her National Guard uniform and rallied the faint-hearted at the Tuileries on 10 August. The role of women in the revolution is a remarkable one (Claire Lacombe, Olympe de Gouges, to name but two others) and very often their interventions pushed matters to extremes. The Abbé Grégoire can not have been the only one to lament the influence of "crapulous and seditious women ....." EUR 250
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THIARD (DE BISSY, A.-M.-T.) Budget des Recettes. Session de 1834. Discours du Général Thiard. Député de Saone-et-Loire. (Séance du 19 Mai). (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie de Bourdon, (1834). 16 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. First edition. The author, belonging to the extreme left, declares among other things: 'Ce n'est point d'une Chambre nommé par le privilège que le pays peut attendre la réforme d'un système d'impôts qui pése presque exclusivement sur les classes pauvres, à la décharge de la classe riche, de la classe opulente ....' EUR 175
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THOMAS, (A.L.) Eloge de Marc-Aurele, par M. Thomas, ..... A Amsterdam, et se trouve A Paris, Chez Moutard, 1775. - (Followed by:) LETTRE de M. Terray, Ex-Contrôleur général, à M. Turgot, Ministre des Finances. Pour Servir de Supplément à la Correspondance entre le Sieur Sorhevet & M. de Maupeou. (Drop-head title). No place, no date. - (Followed by:) JOURNAL De ce qui s'est passé à l'occasion du rétablissement du Parlement de Toulouse dans ses fonctions. Novembre 1774. (Drop-head title). No place, no date. - (Followed by:) DUPATY, (C.M.J.B.M.) Discours prononcé par M. Dupaty, avocat-général, Le 13 Mars 1775, A la première audiance de la Grand'chambre, Après le Rétablissement du Parlement. A Bordeaux, De l'Imprimerie de Jean Chapuis, (1775). - (Followed by:) BOISMONT, (N.T.) DE. Oraison funebre de Louis XV, Roi de France et de Navarre, Surnommé le Bien-Aimé. Prononcé dans la Chapelle du Louvre le 30 Juillet 1774, .... A Paris, Chez Demonville, 1774. - (Followed by:) ARRETE du Parlement de Besançon, Du 16 Juillet 1771. (Drop-head title). No place, no date. - (Followed by:) TRES-HUMBLES et très respectueuses Remonstrances, que présentent au Roi, Notre très-honoré et Souverain Seigneur, Les gens tenans sa Cour de Parlement. (Drop-head title). Besançon, 1771. - (Followed by:) DECLARATION des Avocats près la Cour des Monnoies, Sénéchaussée et Siege Présidial de Lyon. Sur le refus par eux fait de reconnoître le Conseil Supérieur établi dans ladite Ville. A Lyon, 1771. - (Followed by:) ORDRE de la Marche et des Cérémonies Qui seront observées au Sacre et Couronnement de sa Majesté Louis XVI, avec les Noms et Qualités des Princes, des Pairs, ..... A Paris, Chez Vente, (1775). Nine works bound in one volume. 82 pp.; 43, (1) pp.; 208 pp.; 26 pp.; 55, (1) pp.; 4 pp.; 27, (1) pp.; 8 pp.; 57, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, red edges. 1: Conlon 75:1685.First edition. 2: INED 4292; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Higgs.First edition.'Apocryphe. .... Pour servir de suite à la Correspondance secrète et familière de M. de Maupeou avec M. de Sor***, par Pidansat de Mairobert. Lettre apocryphe attaquant Maupeou et la politique financière de Turgot. Allusion à un mémoire sur l'emploi des biens ecclésiastiques suivant le voeu de l'Église primitive' (INED). 3: Conlon 75:311, 167 pages only.4: Conlon 75:1002 (edition in 4to of 11 pages).5: Conlon 74:688.6: Not in Conlon.7: Conlon 71:587.First edition.Dated at end: 5 Juin 1771.8: Conlon 71:167.First edition.Declaration of 15 March, 1771.9: Conlon 75:453 (4to edition of 26 pages.) EUR 600
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THORE, T. La vérité sur la Parti Démocratique, par T. Thoré. Deuxième édition. A Paris, Chez Desessart, Masgana, Rouanet, Ve. Barbe, A Bruxelles, Chez Géruzet, 1840. 47, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Stammhammer, i, 247; DBMOF, iii, p. 451. Théophile Thoré (1807-1869) was founder of the Vraie République, was elected in the department of the Seine together with Raspail and the future Napoléon III in 1848. Politically he belonged to the group of Cabet and in general to the more anti-state socialists. He was also an art critic and his articles, which appeared under the pen name of Burger, show that he was a fairly talented one. Baudelaire regarded them very highly. The present work led to his prosecution while the pamphlet was immediately seized and destroyed, hence its great rarity.This particular copy has its original covers preserved, where the mention 'deuxième édition' appears and which gives the printing places, publishers and year of publication. The title-page does not mention any place, publisher or year. The covers of this edition are pink whereas the covers of the 'first edition' (where the mention 'deuxième edition' is absent) are blue. EUR 225
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THORE, T. La vérité sur la Parti Démocratique, par T. Thoré. A Paris, Chez Desessart, Masgana, Rouanet, Ve. Barbe, A Bruxelles, Chez Géruzet, 1840. 47, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Stammhammer, i, 247; DBMOF, iii, p. 451. First edition. Théophile Thoré (1807-1869) was founder of the Vraie République, was elected in the department of the Seine together with Raspail and the future Napoléon III in 1848. Politically he belonged to the group of Cabet and in general to the more anti-state socialists. He was also an art critic and his articles, which appeared under the pen name of Burger, show that he was a fairly talented one. Baudelaire regarded them very highly. The present work led to his prosecution while the pamphlet was immediately seized and destroyed, hence its great rarity.This particular copy has its original covers preserved, which gives the printing places, publishers and year of publication. The title-page does not mention any place, publisher or year. There exist copies with a cover stating 'deuxième édition': those copies are identical to the first edition, apart from the line 'deuxième édition' those covers are pink whereas the covers of the present edition are blue. EUR 300
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TOMASI OR THOMASI, TH. La Vie de Cesar Borgia, appelé du depuis le Duc de Valentinois, descrite par Thomas Thomasi. Traduit de l'Italien (by Casimir Freschot), imprimée A Monte Chiaro, Chez Jean Baptiste Vero (Amsterdam, J. Blaeu), 1671. 495, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering, gilt stamped coat-of-arms in the center of both sides. Willems 1863; BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700, T.430; Rahir 2492 (this copy !). First French edition. An important and rare biography on the prince and condottiero Cesare Borgia, who was named Duke of Valentinois by the French King Louis XII, and this title along with his former position as Cardinal of Valencia explains the nickname "Valentino".Cesare Borgia was greatly admired by Niccolò Machiavelli, who met the Duke on a diplomatic mission in his function as Secretary of the Florentine Chancellery. Machiavelli was at Borgia's court from October 7, 1502 through January 18, 1503. During this time he wrote regular dispatches to his superiors in Florence, many of which have survived and are published in Machiavelli's Collected Works. Machiavelli used many of Borgia's exploits and tactics as examples in The Prince and advised politicians to imitate Borgia. Two episodes were particularly impressive to Machiavelli: the method by which Borgia pacified the Romagna, which Machiavelli describes in chapter VII of The Prince, and Borgia's assassination of his captains on New Year's Eve of 1503 in Senigallia.Upon its first publication, in 1655, the book was almost immediately forbidden and circulated in manuscript versions. The work is sometimes considered an "anti-machiavellian" work since Cesare Borgia is supposed to have been the model for Machiavelli's Prince.Armorial red morocco ex-libris on front paste-down: "ex-libris F. de Rolland de Lastous", and with the arms of Le Goux de la Berchère, bishop of Narbonne on both covers (see Olivier, Hermal & Roton, plate 2334, number 4). He left a good part of his library to his successor, Mgr. de Bauveau, who wrote on the title-page of each of the books thus acquired "Ex libris de Bauveau, arch. de Narbon." or "Mgr. de Bauveau archevêque de Narbonne": this last signature is on the title-page here. The major part of the collection forms today part of the library of Toulouse. EUR 750
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TOMASI, TH. Vita del Duca Valentino, detto il Tiranno di Roma. Descritta da Tomaso Tomasi, Nuovamente ristampata con una aggiunta considerabile, e con un' ampia Tavola, per maggiot commodità del Lettore. Tutto Raccolto Dalla diligenza, e cura Di G.L. Parte Prima [-Parte Seconda]. In Monte Chiaro, Appresso Gio. Batt. Lucio Vero (Amsterdam, J. Blaeu), 1670. Two parts in one volume. (48), 335, (1) pp.; (24), 359, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, handwritten title to spine. Vinciana 666 & 667 for the 1655 (first) edition and the 1671 edition; Melzi, iii, p. 233. Second Italian edition and very rare: one usually finds the third edition printed by Blaeu in 1671. An important and rare biography on the prince and condottiero Cesare Borgia, who was named Duke of Valentinois by the French King Louis XII, and this title along with his former position as Cardinal of Valencia explains the nickname "Valentino".Cesare Borgia was greatly admired by Niccolò Machiavelli, who met the Duke on a diplomatic mission in his function as Secretary of the Florentine Chancellery. Machiavelli was at Borgia's court from October 7, 1502 through January 18, 1503. During this time he wrote regular dispatches to his superiors in Florence, many of which have survived and are published in Machiavelli's Collected Works. Machiavelli used many of Borgia's exploits and tactics as examples in The Prince and advised politicians to imitate Borgia. Two episodes were particularly impressive to Machiavelli: the method by which Borgia pacified the Romagna, which Machiavelli describes in chapter VII of The Prince, and Borgia's assassination of his captains on New Year's Eve of 1503 in Senigallia.Upon its first publication, in 1655, the book was almost immediately forbidden and circulated in manuscript versions.The letters G.L. in the title refer to Gregori Leti and in fact Leti has been considered for some time to have been the author of the book. EUR 1500
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TOULOUSE - RECUEIL des Actes, Mémoires et Arrêts du Conseil privé du Roy. Concernant ce qui s'est passé dans la Ville de Toulouse, entre le Corps des Marchands & le Sindic & Capitouls de la même Ville: Au sujet des Impositions depuis 1550 jusques en 1715. No place, 1715. 83, (5) pp. 4to. Modern half vellum, marbled boards, spine with label with gilt lettering. 'C'est l'unique dessein que l'on s'est proposé dans ce Recueil, où l'on verra tous les mouvemens que le Corps s'est donné pour parvenir à la suppression des Industries qui ont longtems ravagé la Ville de Toulouse, & dont le Corps des Marchands & celui des Artisans se trouvoint accablés, & pour prevenir par une voye suere & facile la disete des grains en rendant libre les Entrées qui mettoint un obstacle à cette espece de Commerce' (page 4).Toulouse, the major city in southwestern France, the capital of the Languedoc was a classic Old Regime city: the parlement and the church dominated a very traditional local elite. The city was administered by eight capitouls, whose offices conferred noble status. Noble estates of the region produced grain for much of the Midi, and aristocratic social and political life in town completely overshadowed a relatively feeble bourgeoisie. Commercial and manufacturing interests were minor compared to their counterparts in Bordeaux, Nantes, Marseille, or even nearby Montpellier. - First three leaves with a faint dampstain in the upper blank margin. EUR 750
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TOURGUENEFF, N. I. La Russie et les Russes. Paris, Au comptoir des imprimeurs unis, 1847. 3 volumes. (4), xi, 564, (2) pp.; (4), 551, (2) pp.; (4), 516, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half red basane, marbled boards, edges bumped, boards rubbed, paperspotted throughout. Catalogue Russica, T- 784; Zaleski 54. First edition, and very rare. Two editions of this work appeared in this same year, no priority could be established. The work is divided in 3 parts: Mémoires d'un proscrit, Tableau politique et social de la Russie, De l'avenir de la Russie. Tourgueneff (1789-1871) political and social reformer, writer on finance was one of the strategists of the coup of december 1825. He wrote a.o. on the economical inexpediency of serfdom and pleaded for the amelioration of the status of the serfs. Living in Paris from 1830 onwards he developped more moderate political and social ideas as reflected in La Russie et les Russes. EUR 900
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TRAHARD, P. La sensibilité révolutionnaire (1789-1794). Paris, Boivin et Cie, 1936. With 6 engravings. 283, (1) pp. 8vo. Original printed covers. Cabeen, iv, 690 and 2147. First edition. 'Trahard's scholarship throws much light on social and psychological milieu of Revolution, showing how intense feeling is often transformed into violence. Provides interesting corollary for theatrical excesses of period. Contains an excellent bibliography' (Cabeen). EUR 75
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TURGOT - EDIT du Roi, portant suppression des jurandes et communautés de commerce, arts & métiers. Donné à Versailles au moi de février 1776. Registré en Parlement le 12 Mars audit an. (Drop-head title). (A Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1776). 19, (1) pp. 4to. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, giltlettering. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Einaudi 2205 (edition printed in Lyon); Catalogue des Actes Royaux 38962. First edition of this extremely important document. The preamble is edited by Turgot and is a wellknown manifest proclaiming the right to work, in fact the very first appearance of this notion of the right to work which was later taken up by Louis Blanc!, and one of the most interesting texts of the 'école physiocratique.' It calls for the suppression of the jurandes (the government of privileged corporations) and formed number 4 of six projects of edicts. The first aimed at the suppression of the corvée, 2, 3, 5, and 6 for the suppression of several regulations, duties, and offices interfering with the provision of Paris, and the present one. The edicts on the suppression of the corvée and the jurandes were the most important reforms Turgot aimed at and over these two the principal battle between Turgot and his enemies was fought. 'As an indirect consequence of the Reformation, some breaking up of the system of trade corporations had been more or less general in almost all countries. But in France, at the period we are touching, the old trade customs and laws still held almost unmitigated rule. Turgot then proceeds to make a declaration of the 'rights of industry', worthy of being placed alongside of the best declarations of political independence: 'God, by giving to man wants, and making his recourse to work necessary to supply them, has made the right to work the property of every man, and this property is the first, the most sacred, the most imprescriptible of all.' The Parlement was against the edicts but the King sided with Turgot and had them compulsorily registered by the Parlement at a lit de justice. Turgot had gained a victory, but by the victory he lost his ministry. The Parlement was exasperated by its defeat. His enemies drew reinforcements, from all sides, in order to crush the man who, because he suppressed some flagrant abuses, was accused, as usual in such circumstances, of 'unsettling everything.' A Grande dame of the Court is said to have expressed the general feeling of 'everybody' when she exclaimed: 'Why these innovations? -are we not well enough as we are?' (Walker Stephens, W., The life and writings of Turgot, pp. 124 ff.) EUR 1250
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VIDAL, F. De la répartition des richesses ou de la justice distributive en économie sociale; ouvrage contenant: l'éxamen critique des théories exposées soit par les économistes, soit par les socialistes. Paris, Capelle, 1846. (4), 500 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half morocco, marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering, corners. Bel Bo, Fourier, p. 69; DBMOF, iii, p. 502; Goldsmiths 34912; not in Kress; not in Einaudi. First edition. Vidal marks the transition from utopian socialism of Saint Simon and Fourier to collectivist socialism. 'In his works, as in those of his contemporary Pecqueur (.....) the principal doctrines of collectivism are clearly expressed and reduced to formulas; among these are the so-called 'iron-law' of wages, the theory that wealth is the produce of work 'of others', and that economic evolution leads infallibly to the socialisation of land and of capital. Vidal, however, does not go so far as this in his conclusions. He contents himself with cooperation for producers, profit-sharing for labourers, and a minimum wage fixed by law. His principal works are De la répartition des richesses .... , a critical explanation of the doctrines of the liberal school and those of the principal French socialists, interesting even at the present day ....' (Palgrave, iii, p. 621). EUR 750
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VIDAL, F. De la répartition des richesses ou de la justice distributive en économie sociale; ouvrage contenant: l'éxamen critique des théories exposées soit par les économistes, soit par les socialistes. Paris, Capelle, 1846. (4), 500 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, raised bands with giltlettering. Bel Bo, Fourier, p. 69; DBMOF, iii, p. 502; Goldsmiths 34912; not in Kress; not in Einaudi. First edition. Vidal marks the transition from utopian socialism of Saint Simon and Fourier to collectivist socialism. 'In his works, as in those of his contemporary Pecqueur (.....) the principal doctrines of collectivism are clearly expressed and reduced to formulas; among these are the so-called 'iron-law' of wages, the theory that wealth is the produce of work 'of others', and that economic evolution leads infallibly to the socialisation of land and of capital. Vidal, however, does not go so far as this in his conclusions. He contents himself with cooperation for producers, profit-sharing for labourers, and a minimum wage fixed by law. His principal works are De la répartition des richesses .... , a critical explanation of the doctrines of the liberal school and those of the principal French socialists, interesting even at the present day ....' (Palgrave, iii, p. 621). - With stamp on title and page 1, some underlining, a faint and small stain in lower blank margin, occasional spotting. EUR 600
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VOLTAIRE (F.M. AROUET DE.) L'Homme aux Quarante écus. No place (Genève, Cramer), 1768. (2), 120 pp. 8vo. Nineteenth-century half morocco, raised bands, gilt lettering, marbled boards. Bengesco 1478; Le Petit, p. 557; Peignot ii, p. 188; R. Darnton, The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France 1769-1789, 317; no copies in Kress, Goldsmiths, Einaudi, Higgs and INED although they record other editions from this year. First edition, with the errata uncorrected and listed on page 120. 'The Homme aux Quarante Ecus is in fact the only one of Voltaire's publications on a distinctly economic subject. The dogmatic and often pompous and heavy style of the Physiocrats had probably bored him, as well as their abstract and subtle mode of reasoning. L'Homme aux Quarante Ecus, directed against Mercier de la Rivière's Ordre naturel et essentiel des societies politiques, is the history of the owner of a small estate yielding a net income of forty crowns a year, who has been frightened by the appearance of several edicts promulgated "by a few gentlemen who, having some leisure, have undertaken to govern the kingdom from their firesides.'' Overflowing with wit and sarcasm, the book consists of conversations between the man with the forty crowns and the most motley succession of people and, with the author's usual unfairness, is not free from misrepresentations and gross exaggerations of Mercier's real meaning' (Palgrave, iii, p. 632). 'Mercier avait prétendu que, dans un Etat organisé selon la doctrine physiocratique, une somme moyenne de cent vingt francs (quarante écus) devait suffire à l'existence de chaque citoyen. De là le titre que Voltaire donne à la réfutation burlesuqe de leur système. Il y ridiculise surtout l'impôt unique sur la terre réclamé par les Economistes, et qui réduira l'homme aux quarante écus à n'en avoir plus que vingt, tandis que prospèreront à côté de lui de gros financiers inexpugnables à l'impôt' (Coquelin et Guillaumin, ii, p. 855).The book is a brilliant parable, which had an enormous success immediately on its appearance. It was quickly condamned and forbidden and most editions appearing from then on were published without indication of either place or printer. - Copy without the half-title. EUR 1400
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VOLTAIRE (F.M. AROUET DE.) Mémoires pour servir à la vie de M. de Voltaire, Écrits par lui-même. A Berlin, 1784. (2), 106 pp. 8vo. Modern boards, label with gilt lettering to spine. Bengesco 1642;Thomas, p. 221 (editions published in England); Quérard, La France Littéraire, vol. x, pp. 365-366. First edition. - Some unobtrusive scattered spotting, leaf Biv with a small loss in the lower blank margin. These memoirs were probably written around 1759 but not published by Voltaire himself. In fact he burned the original manuscript but retained two copies made by his secretary Wagnière. Both came into the hands of others of which one into the hands, in 1783, of Beaumarchais. Beaumarchais, one of the 'entrepreneurs' of the Kehl edition of Voltaire's works, was unwilling to publish these memoirs as he felt that he could not publish what Voltaire had refused to publish himself. But when the memoirs were published in 1784 the publishers of the Kehl edition decided that there was no longer a point in not publishing the text: it was later included in volume LXX of the 8vo edition.Voltaire wrote these memoirs after his dissapointing stay at the court of the Prussian king but was unwilling to publish them and apparently destroyed the original manuscript after the reconciliation between the two man. La Harpe and Mme. Denis later took possession of one of the copies which then started on a 'tour de France' until publication in 1784. La Harpe and Mme. Denis were expelled from Ferney. EUR 900
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ZIEGENHAGEN, F.H. & W.A. MOZART. Lehre vom richtigen Verhältnisse zu den Schöpfungswerken, und durch öffentliche Einführung derselben allein zu bewürkende algemeine Menschenbeglückung .... mit einer Musik von W.A. Mozart. Zu Hamburg zu finden bei dem Herausgeber, (Privately Printed in Hamburg), 1792. With engraved frontispiece and 1 large folding engraved plate and 6 engraved plates by D. Chodowiecki, and 4 folding tables of music (8 pages) by W.A. Mozart. (10), 633 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled boards, lighty rubbed, preserved in a fine morocco and gilt backed folding case. Rümann 1299; Schröder 4549; Music in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 896; Koechel 619; Lanckoronska, Maria und Oehler, Richard, Die Buchillustration des XVIII. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, ii, 119-120 & 214; and see the study by Barbara Richter, Franz Heinrich Ziegenhagen, Leben, Werk und Wirken eines engagierten Kaufmanns und Philanthropen im zeitalter der Aufklärung (2003). First edition of this beautifully illustrated and major work of utopian socialism by the industrialist Franz Heinrich Ziegenhagen (1753-1806), a utopian freemason, who also provided a libretto for a music commission for Mozart bound in at the end (see note below). This is also the first printing of this Mozart cantata ! Franz Heinrich Ziegenhagen was a German merchant and social reformer. He was brought up in the spirit of Pietism but abandoned his protestant faith later in his life and turned into a radical critic of religion. He was succesful as a merchant but never gave up his literary and reforming persuits. He put his entire fortune at the disposal for the spread of his works and ideas and the financial support of the various projects aiming at the practical realization of his ideas. Ziegenhagen died poor and alone in 1806.In Lehre vom richtigen Verhältnis zu den Schöpfungswerken und die durch öffentliche Einfürung desselben allein zu bewürkende algemeine Menschenbeglükkung, Ziegenhagen justifies and describes his utopian project: an attempt at establishing an independent, self-sufficient separate colony based on agricultural as well as innovative educational principles. His ideal was to create a "Erziehungs-kommune" (Educational commune) where children would be brought up without distinction based on titles, financial background or status of whatever nature and where education would not just be theoretical but also practical. The institute was intended to be later transferred into a community with collective property and based on the ideas of Rousseau with a balance between man and nature.Ziegenhagen founded an agricultural property in Billwerder, by Hamburg, and appealed in vain to wealthy citizens, the aristocracy and even the French Convention to support similiar institutions. The project failed and after 12 years he sold the Billwerder property and returned to his Elsass homeland in 1802 where he committed suicide four years later. Chodowiecki's marvelous large folding engraved plate depicts the realization of the author's ideals and having him riding on horseback through the gardens and buildings with various related events happening. Daniel Nicolaus Chodowiecki, the eminent German painter and engraver was one of the best and most sought after illustrators of his time and the beautiful and lively engravings of this book by Chodowiecki add further to the book's importance. The folding engraved frontispiece depicts a large lecture room with natural history illustrations on the walls and a very ornate organ on the far wall. The breathtaking view of the author riding through the colony has already been mentioned. The other engravings depict various classrooms with students studying electrical experiments, using various types of other scientific instruments for experiments as well as learning crafts and skills with a view of a blacksmiths shop. The last plate shows a group of students dissecting a pig with a "Kunst-Kammer" in the background.Perhaps most delightful about this book is the first appearance of a "little German cantata" ("Die ihr des unermeßlichen Weltalls ....") which was composed by Mozart in 1791, the same year as his "Magic Flute" which was also greatly influenced by Masonic imagery. The cantata was intended as an inaugural work for the projected community and was scored for voice and keyboard. Ziegenhagen provided the libretto and commissioned Mozart for the music. The work reflects the authors philosophy and speaks of pacifism and universal brotherhood, with an oblique reference to naturism ! All of this reflects the liberal philosophy of the time, with which Mozart would have come into contact as a member of the Viennese Masonic Lodge. The work here was composed for soprano and piano and later composers would add orchestral arrangements as well as string quartets. Ziegenhagen's connection with Mozart has not been satisfactorily established to date. The autograph of K.619 is at the library of the University of Uppsala, Sweden. EUR 20000
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