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COMMISSION de Gouvernement pour les travailleurs. Séances du 3 et du 5 Mars 1848. No place, (1848). Large oblong sheet, text printed in 4 columns, verso blank. Proceedings of the discussions devoted to the organization of labour. EUR 75
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INSTRUCTION pour les bayles marchands des maîtres passementiers, veloutiers, demassiers & satiniers de la ville de Toulouse; appellans & supplians. Contre les bayles du corpsdes maîtres boutonniers & bonnetiers de la même ville; intimez & deffendeurs. (Drop-head title). (Toulouse, ab. 1732). 16 pp. Folio. Modern boards. Not in Blanc, Bibliographie des corporations ouvrières. EUR 125
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MEMOIRE SIGNIFIE. Pour les Gardes des Marchands de la Ville de Tours, appellans. Contre les Jurés, Corps & Métiers des Maîtres Bonnetiers de la même Ville, Intimés. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie de J. Chardon, 1760. 23, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards. ' ..... les Bonnetiers, n'étant que des Ouvriers, ainsi qu'un Arrêt solemne; de 1688 le décide; ils ne peuvent se qualifier Marchands, ni leurs Jurés Gardes; les Marchands étant les seuls en droit de prendre ces deux qualités.' The hosiers fighting for free enterprise, which is considered to threaten order and peace in all commercial cities. EUR 75
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PETITION à l'Assemblée nationale, pour les ouvriers-rubaniers de la ville de Paris, tendante à demander la suppression des métiers mécaniques à faire des rubans; machine qui tend à avilir, par ses mauvaises productions, cette branche de commerce, et à paraliser les bras de plus de cent-mille ouvriers, tant de la capitale, que des autres grandes villes du royaume. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Impr. de Berthomier, (1791). 8 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 13648. EUR 175
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REGLEMENT concernant les avancemens des équipages des vaisseaux du Roi. Du 8 février 1789. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Versailles, Imprimerie royale, 1789. 10 pp. 4to. Loose leaves as issued, folded. Actes Royaux, vi, 42292. EUR 150
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STATUTS des Bonnetiers, Aulmulciers & Mitonniers, en la ville de Paris. Registrés en Parlement le 4 juillet 1608 & ès Bannières du Chastelet, le 20 aoust audit an. (Drop-headtitle). (On page 12:) Paris, Chez P. Prault, 1736. 14 pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Preceded by: MEMOIRE pour les maistres boursiers à Paris, contre les Bonnetiers de Paris. 2 pp.Pages 13-14 of the 'Statuts' contain the 'Arrest de la cour de Parlement' concerning the production of bonnets. - Not quite clean. EUR 175
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STATUTS et règlemens pour la manufacture de draps de Carcassonne, Cité, Saptes & Conques, arrêtés en présence & sous l'autorité du Juge-Mage & Lieutenant-général en la sénéchaussée de Carcassonne & Béziers: ensemble les arrêts du Conseil & Lettres-patentes de Sa Majesté, portant autorisation d'iceux & l'arrêt d'enregistrement au Parlement de Toulouse. Du 26 Octobre 1666. A Carcassonne, Chez J.B. Coignet, 1746. With large vignette on title-page. 512, xxviii pp. 4to. Contemporary calf, worn and rubbed. Not in Blanc, Bibliographie des corporations ouvrières; not in Bourgeois & André. With 'Table des Arrets, Edits, Reglemens et Ordonnances contenues dans ce recueil pour la Jurande de Carcassonne.' The volume covers the period 1666-1746. Scarce. - The binder at the time has erroneously put quire z (pp. 177-184) again where quire Zz (pp. 361-368) should have been bound, and which is consequently lacking. Bookplate of Dr Ch. Boyer on front paste-down, and old ownership entries in blank portion of title-page. - The binder at the time has erroneously put quire z (pp. 177-184) again where quire Zz (pp. 361-368) should have been bound, and which is consequently lacking. Bookplate of Dr Ch. Boyer on front paste-down, and old ownership entries in blank portion of title-page. EUR 400
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BREVET of mastership, name not filled in, dated 9 april 1661. Manuscript document on vellum. Oblong folio, folded. Tear in blank lower margin. This is a diploma or certificate for a master plummer, location faubourg St. Germain, dated in the left upper corner. Verso also the indication of 'plombier fontainier du faubourg St. Germain', followed by the sentence 'Controlle par moy Chauffart' and a signature. A name has not been filled in. EUR 150
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COMMISSION DE GOUVERNEMENT pour les travailleurs. Séances du 3 et du 5 Mars 1848. No place, (1848). Large oblong sheet, text printed in 4 columns, verso blank. Proceedings of the discussions devoted to the organization of labour. EUR 75
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COMMISSION DE GOUVERNEMENT pour les travailleurs. Séances du 3 et du 5 Mars 1848. No place, (1848). Large oblong, text printed in 4 columns, verso blank. Disbound. Proceedings of the discussions devoted to the organization of labour. EUR 75
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L'ATELIER. Organe spécial de la classe ouvrière rédigé par des ouvriers exclusivement. Paris, 1840-1850 (Paris, EDHIS, 1978). Three volumes. 4to. Cloth. Important workers' newspaper appearing monthly from September 1840 to July 1850. It was edited by about seventy-five skilled workers, including twenty-six printing workers, and its articles were written by a collective of printers, hat makers, jewelers, and other skilled workers. L'Atelier is of central importance as a mouthpiece of workers' demands for state-financed producers' cooperatives and associations and for its class analysis of relations of production and surplus labour. However, it stressed its hostility to violence, expropriation, and collectivist or "communist" solutions. It was consistently democratic and called for political solutions to workers' grievances. The editors were in contact with English workers and Italian refugees in London and corresponded with the Chartists. The editor of this reprint, Maurice Agulhon, considers the 1840's as a turningpoint in the revolutionary movement. 'The prestige of streetbattles and secret societies has dropped. The workman is now reading, writing and starts to organize himself. They are now becoming selfconfident autonomic power.' Since then this attitude is specifically called 'Socialism'. L'Atelier wished to be a leading cultural and political journal. It was edited and written by men who lived at the heart of militant Paris. The journal reflects all aspects of this life, and offers the scholar opinions and information of a remarkable objective nature and sometimes of a thrilling subjective nature. Complete copies of the original imprint hardly exist anymore. They have rarely been on the market and have always been offered in incomplete state. The Union List of Serials lists 3 sets only, two of which appear to be complete. This reprint was done in a limited number of copies, on fine quality paper and well bound. EUR 400
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MEMOIRE signifié pour les jurés en charge & communauté des maîtres brodeurs & chasubliers de la ville & fauxbourgs de Paris, intimés. Contre Denis Portier, Louise Pineau veuve Duport; Marie-Magdelaine Lebray veuve Dimanche; Nicole Chatellus femme Buisseux; tous ouvriers et ouvrières sans qualité, travaillant des arts de broderie en or et en argent dans le fauxbourg Saint-Antoine, appellans des saisis sur eux faites. Et encore, contre les Dames religieuses de l'Abbaye Saint-Antoine intervenantes; et Jean-Baptiste Foin maître brodeur. (Drop-head title). (At end:) (Paris), Imprimerie de D'Houry père, 1755. With engraved head-piece. - (Followed by:) REPONSE au Mémoire signifié le 22 Juillet 1755. Pour les Jurés en charge & Communauté des maîtres brodeurs, chasubliers de la ville & fauxbourgs de Paris, intimés. Contre la veuve Duport et consorts, ouvriers sans qualité, travaillans des arts de broderie en or et en argent dans le fauxbourg Saint-Antoine, appellans. Les Dames religieuses du fauxbourg Saint-Antoine, intervenantes et appellantes. Et Jean-Baptiste Foin, l'un des maîtres de la Communauté, intervenant. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie de D'Houry père, 1755. With engraved head-piece. 2 pieces in 1 volume. 12 pp.; 6 pp. 4to. Modern boards. First piece spotted, at end of both: Monsieur l'Abbé Macé, Rapporteur, Gillet des Aulnois, Procureur Deals with the question 'si le Privilege de s'établir dans le Fauxbourg Saint-Antoine, pour y exercer publiquement toutes sortes de Métiers, sans être obligés de se faire reçevoir Maîtres, peut s'étendre jusqu'à ceux, qui travaillent les matières d'or & d'argent.'- The second piece is in folio but each page has been folded to match the binding. Contemporary annotations on the first page. EUR 250
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VOEU sur la dernière classe du peuple à l'Assemblé des Notables. No place, (1787) (Paris, EDHIS, 1976). 31, (1) pp. 8vo. Boards. Not in INED; not in Goldsmiths; notin Kress; Conlon 87:1288. Reprint of this very rare and important little work, editon limited to 150 numbered copies and 30 not destined for the trade, and since long out-of-print. The unknown author of this tract brings up the question of the defense of the interests of the lower classes of the population, those who have no property nor any other wealth, no status, no rights and who ask only this: to have work to do, the certainty that this work will enable them to live and not to be robbed by the taxes. EUR 125
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(CAMBON, J. & D.V. RAMEL DE NOGARET.) Rapports de la Commission des finances, et lois sur la dette publique, sur sa consolidation, sur l'imprunt volontaire et sur l'emprunt forcé, suivie de l'instruction sur l'emploi forcé. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale, 1793. With folding tables. (2), 2-130, (8), (139)-189, (190-192), 193-230 (last misnumbered 130) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Kress B.2517; Goldsmiths 15699 (4to edition); Stourm 222. First edition. Official publication including Cambon's report and the law of 24 August, as well as Nogaret's report. 'Célèbre rapport sur le grand Livre de la dette publique. Le Grand Livre de la dette publique sera le titre unique et fondamental de tous les créanciers de l'état.' (Stourm). The whole idea behind the 'Grand Livre' was to do something about the two main causes of the confusion which prevailed concerning the finances of the state. These two causes were: the excessive amount of assignats in circulation and their consequent depreciation, and the ignorance prevailing as to the actual debt of the country. Cambon proposed to draw up the 'Grand Livre' of the national debt. It was this great measure upon which his fame as financier rests. (See: Palgrave 206-7; see also at length: Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution).Dominique-Vincent Ramel de Nogaret, representative of the Third Estate, was mainly interested in financial questions, voted in favor of the assignats. 'Mais le nom de Ramel-Nogaret demeure surtout attaché au ministère des Finances du Directoire qu'il exerça de janvier 1796 à juillet 1799. C'était une tâche difficile, c'est le moins qu'on puisse dire. L'opinion rentière lui reprocha la débâcle des assignats et la banqueroute des 2/3, alors qu'il fut un excellent ministre: allègement de la dette, refus des expédients, refonte du système fiscal (après lui il demeura en l'état pendant tout le XIXe siècle), début de la construction de l'administration des Finances qu'achèvera Gaudin' (Soboul, A. Dictionnaire historique de la Révolution française, p. 882).Cambon, once occupied with the finances of France, wrote three important reports which are all necessary reading for anyone who wants to appreciate the financial condition of France when foreign war added to the complications of the revolution. His work was of high quality and great importance. 'Cambon was without doubt the greatest financier of the French revolution; he shared Mirabeau's abhorrence of national bankruptcy; he strove to draw his country from the financial embarrasment caused by the depreciation of the assignats; he managed the treasury skilfully and with absolute honesty, and he possessed Montesquieu's power of making financial statements lucid and even interesting' (Palgrave, pp. 206-207; see also: Stourm, Les finances de l'Ancien Régime et de la Révolution, and Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799). EUR 750
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(CAMBON, J. & D.V. RAMEL DE NOGARET.) Rapports de la Commission des finances, et lois sur la dette publique, sur sa consolidation, sur l'imprunt volontaire et sur l'emprunt forcé, suivie de l'instruction sur l'emploi forcé. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale, 1793. With folding tables. (2), 2-130, (8), (139)-189, (190-192), 193-230 (last misnumbered 130) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf (a bit worn). Kress B.2517; Goldsmiths 15699 (4to edition); Stourm 222. First edition. Official publication including Cambon's report and the law of 24 August, as well as Nogaret's report. 'Célèbre rapport sur le grand Livre de la dette publique. Le Grand Livre de la dette publique sera le titre unique et fondamental de tous les créanciers de l'état.' (Stourm). The whole idea behind the 'Grand Livre' was to do something about the two main causes of the confusion which prevailed concerning the finances of the state. These two causes were: the excessive amount of assignats in circulation and their consequent depreciation, and the ignorance prevailing as to the actual debt of the country. Cambon proposed to draw up the 'Grand Livre' of the national debt. It was this great measure upon which his fame as financier rests. (See: Palgrave 206-7; see also at length: Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution).Dominique-Vincent Ramel de Nogaret, representative of the Third Estate, was mainly interested in financial questions, voted in favor of the assignats. 'Mais le nom de Ramel-Nogaret demeure surtout attaché au ministère des Finances du Directoire qu'il exerça de janvier 1796 à juillet 1799. C'était une tâche difficile, c'est le moins qu'on puisse dire. L'opinion rentière lui reprocha la débâcle des assignats et la banqueroute des 2/3, alors qu'il fut un excellent ministre: allègement de la dette, refus des expédients, refonte du système fiscal (après lui il demeura en l'état pendant tout le XIXe siècle), début de la construction de l'administration des Finances qu'achèvera Gaudin.' (Soboul, A. Dictionnaire historique de la Révolution française, p. 882).Cambon, once occupied with the finances of France, wrote three important reports which are all necessary reading for anyone who wants to appreciate the financial condition of France when foreign war added to the complications of the revolution. His work was of high quality and great importance. 'Cambon was without doubt the greatest financier of the French revolution; he shared Mirabeau's abhorrence of national bankruptcy; he strove to draw his country from the financial embarrasment caused by the depreciation of the assignats; he managed the treasury skilfully and with absolute honesty, and he possessed Montesquieu's power of making financial statements lucid and even interesting.' (Palgrave, pp. 206-207; see also: Stourm, Les finances de l'Ancien Régime et de la Révolution, and Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799). EUR 750
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(DUPRE DE SAINT-MAUR, N.F.) Recherches sur la valeur des monnoies, et sur le prix des grains, avant et après le Concile de Francfort. A Paris, Chez Nyon, Didot le jeune & Saugrain le jeune, 1762. xxxvii (misnumbered xxxvi), (3), 389,(3) pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands. Kress 6015; Goldsmiths 9786; Einaudi 1688; INED 1644; Higgs 2771. First edition of a study on the relationship between the value of coinage, citing numerous sources, grain prices and other vital commodities. The avertissement compares various European currencies and attempts to establish their real value by referring to workers' and soldiers' wages and assessing their purchase powers, while the introduction proposes a way of determining a fair price for wheat. The author's approach is predominantly historical (the title refers to a 794 edict which fixed the price of grain), providing a wide variety of statistical information. EUR 900
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(GENTON & L. GREPPO & ALLERAT.) La vérité sur les événements de Lyon au mois d'avril 1834. Paris, Dentu; Lyon, Chambert, 1834. With 2 plates. - (Followed by:) SALA, A. Les ouvriers lyonnais en 1834. Esquisses historiques. Paris, Hivert, 1834. - (Followed by:) RELATION historique des événements de Lyon, pendant les journées des 9, 10, et 11 avril 1834. - Journées de 12, 13, 14 14 avril à Lyon, faisant suite à la Relation historique des événements de Lyon. (Drop-head title). (Lyon, Impr. J.M. Boursy, 1834). - (Followed by:) BEAULIEU, C. Histoire du commerce, de l'industrie et des fabriques de Lyon, depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours. Lyon, A. Baron, 1838. 4 works bound in 1 volume. (4), ii, (2), 280 pp.; 164 pp.; 16 pp.; vii, (1), 310 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, labels with gilt lettering, boards and extremities very lightly rubbed. First work: Charléty, Bibliographie de Lyon, ii, 3643.Second work: Charléty, Bibliographie de Lyon, ii, 3638.Third work: Not in Charléty, Bibliographie de Lyon.Fourth work: Kress C.4556; Goldsmiths 30372; not in Einaudi. All first editions. The Lyon revolts of 1831-1834 were the last of a century-long series of labor disturbances in the city's silk industry, France's largest urban artisinal trade. The uprisings of 1831 and 1834 marked the final efforts of France's most militant preindustrial work-force to secure decent incomes and a voice in the management of an industry in which their influence had steadily declined (Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restauration to the Second Empire, vol. i, pp. 651-656). EUR 500
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(LOUIS XV.) Edit du Roy, donné à Versailles au mois de Septembre 1723. Portant rétablissement de lieutenant & greffier du premier chirurgien du Roy. (Drop-head title). Grenoble, Gaspard & Giroud, (1723). 48 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Catalogue des Actes Royaux, v, 28911; not in Bourgeois & André. Includes (pp. 8-45): STATUTS et règlemens pour la Communauté des maistres chirurgiens de la ville de Versailles. These statutes contain 82 articles, dated March 1719. EUR 400
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(MIEL, E.) Manes Emeticaris, par des lettres circulaires à messieurs et dames de la Cour. (Drop-head title). No place, (mars 1760). - (Followed by:) MIEL, LE. Manuscript letter of 1 page, signed Le Miel and dated A Mamers, ce 17 avril 1760. - (Followed by:) AVIS très-important et salutaire pour avertir les Etats de plusieurs accidents qui y doivent surement arriver par divers fleaux de la colère de Dieu. (Drop-head title). No place, (ab. 1760). 12mo. - (Followed by:) (MIEL, E.) Manes Emeticaris, par des lettres circulaires à messieurs et dame de la Cour. (Drop-head title). No place, (mars, 1760). 4 pieces bound in 1 volume. 2 pp.; 1 p.; 4 pp.; 2, 1 (manuscript addition) pp. 4to. Modern boards. None in Conlon. Original editions? Writings by a some sort of 'visionnaire' explaining to the King the secret of how to achieve a general peace. Gives ways to submit all the christian princes through the acquisitions of corn sufficient for France for 20 years, etc. Includes proposals to guarantee work for the poor people. The first and fourth peace are identical, but to the latter the author has added manuscript additions. Also at the end of the third piece some manuscript additions. The third text is in small 8vo, mounted on stubs.The manuscript sections are all addressed to a 'Madame', the first signed Le Mile, the second Elisée Miel. EUR 250
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BLANC, H. Bibliographie des corporations ouvrières avant 1789. (Paris 1885), reprint Genève 1970. 102 pp. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Besterman 1820. Lists 1141 items, divided in 3 sections: Printed works; manuscripts; and an index with the subjects, names of printing places, and authors. EUR 75
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BLANC, L. Organisation du travail. Cinqième édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée d'une polémique entre M. Michel Chevalier et l'auteur, ainsi que d'un appendice indiquant ce qui pourrait être tenté dès à présent. Paris, au Bureau de la Société de l'Industrie fraternelle, 1848. (4), 284 pp. 12mo. Contemporary half calf. Kress C.7283; Goldsmiths 36031; not in Einaudi. Important edition of this famous text, containing supplements not reprinted in later editions. Louis Blanc's leading economic ideas are those of 'association' and 'the right to work'. In the present work he looks to the State to ensure that the opportunity to work under reasonable conditions of payment and employment shall be available for every citizen. Although Blanc wishes the State to institute this new system he does not wish it to take over the running of industry. It was here that Blanc and the Fourierists held opposing views; to Blanc the Fourierists wished to run the State and industry and control everything by means of a hierarchy of industrial administrators chosen from above (see G.D.H. Cole, A History of Socialist Thought, i, p. 170). EUR 250
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BLANC, L. Paris, Cauville Frères, 1845. xxvii, (1), 240, 20 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi (cf.: 516). Fourth edition. The only edition with the 'Compte-rendu' of the Maison Leclaire, one of the first French companies which granted its employees a proportional share in the benefits of their work. The 'Compte-rendu' did not appear in any of the later editions. EUR 225
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BLANC, L. Organisation du travail. Cinqième édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée d'une polémique entre M. Michel Chevalier et l'auteur, ainsi que d'un appendice indiquant ce qui pourrait être tenté dès à présent. Paris, au Bureau de la Société de l'Industrie fraternelle, 1848. (4), 284 pp. 12mo. Modern half morocco, marbled sides, spine gilt with gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Kress C.7283; Goldsmiths 36031; not in Einaudi. Important edition of this famous text, containing supplements not reprinted in later editions. Louis Blanc's leading economic ideas are those of 'association' and 'the right to work'. In the present work he looks to the State to ensure that the opportunity to work under reasonable conditions of payment and employment shall be available for every citizen. Although Blanc wishes the State to institute this new system he does not wish it to take over the running of industry. It was here that Blanc and the Fourierists held opposing views; to Blanc the Fourierists wished to run the State and industry and control everything by means of a hierarchy of industrial administrators chosen from above (See G.D.H. Cole, A History of Socialist Thought, i, p. 170). EUR 250
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BLANC, L. Organisation du travail. Cinqième édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée d'une polémique entre M. Michel Chevalier et l'auteur, ainsi que d'un appendice indiquant ce qui pourrait être tenté dès à présent. Paris, au Bureau de la Société de l'Industrie fraternelle, 1848. (4), 284 pp. 12mo. Sewn, original printed covers, spine a bit damaged, uncut, unopened. Kress C.7283; Goldsmiths 36031; not in Einaudi. Important edition of this famous text, containing supplements not reprinted in later editions. Louis Blanc's leading economic ideas are those of 'association' and 'the right to work'. In the present work he looks to the State to ensure that the opportunity to work under reasonable conditions of payment and employment shall be available for every citizen. Although Blanc wishes the State to institute this new system he does not wish it to take over the running of industry. It was here that Blanc and the Fourierists held opposing views; to Blanc the Fourierists wished to run the State and industry and control everything by means of a hierarchy of industrial administrators chosen from above (G.D.H. Cole, A History of Socialist Thought, i, p. 170). EUR 250
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BONCERF, (P.F.) De la nécessité et des moyens d'occuper avantageusement tous les gros ouvriers. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Lottin l'aîné & J.R. Lottin, 1790. viii, 40 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Cf.: Martin & Walter 4024; INED 606; Kress S.5343; Goldsmiths 13965. Second edition, first published in 1789, with 16 pages only. On the expense and danger to public order of unemployed workmen, formerly employed on public works, with suggestions for their employment. Includes an extensive table: Etat des matières du sol, & des fabriques étrangères importées dans le royaume, pendant l'année 1788, & que la France peur obtenir pour la plus grande partie de son sol & de ses fabriques, si les opérations qu'on a indiquées sont faites, même en partie.Pierre-François Boncerf, French writer on agrarian subjects. While a clerk in the ministry of finance under Turgot he published a pamphlet, Les inconvénients des droits féodaux. According to Palgrave the work was published with the consent of Turgot. In it he attacked the contemporary system of feudal dues as ruinous to those who pay them, of little advantage to its benificiaries and contrary to the principles of freedom. - Slightly browned, name in blank portion of title-page erased, some pencil underlinings in the text. EUR 300
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COMPAGNONS ORFEVRES - HARLAY, A. DE. A tous ceux qui ces présentes lettres verront, Achilles de Harley, Conseiller du Roy en ses Conseil, son Procureur général, & Garde de la Prévosté & Vicomté de Paris, le siège vacant. Salut. (Drop-head title). No place, (1671). 8 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700; not in Bourgeois & André. Original edition. - First and last page slightly stained. Very important ordinance pertaining to the working conditions of the 'Compagnons orfèvres', ordering that they should 'se retirer chez les maîtres pour y travailler au mois & à la semaine, & non à la tache .....' EUR 250
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DEZAMY, (A.) T. Code de la communauté. Paris, Prévost, Rouannet, 1842 (Paris, EDHIS, 1967). With a folding lithograph plan of a 'Palais communal'. vii, (1, blank), (9)-292, (4, table des matières, blank, errata, blank) pp. 8vo. Printed paper covers. DBMOF, ii, pp. 84-86; Stammhammer, i, p. 64,; Dolléans & Crozier, p. 44. A well executed rerpint of the exceptionally scarce first edition, and one of the key books in the history of socialism. The cover is also a reprint of the original covers of the original work. This edition was published in an editon of 500 numbered copies only and is since long out-of-print. Alexandre Théodore Dézamy (1803-1850) was the leading representative of the Babeuf tradition in the decades preceding 1848. The present work is a communist utopia which owed much to Fourier, Morelly, and Cabet. Although Dezamy had worked for a time with Cabet, he later came to critizise sharply Cabet's conciliatory tactics and his opportunism, rejecting his appeal for bourgeois aid for the working class as unrealistic and calling upon the proletariat to unite and free itself. There is much support in Dezamy's writing for Werner Sombart's contention that Dezamy anticipated Marxian revolutionary socialism. Marx himself, in the Holy Family, had said about Dézamy 'un des disciples communistes les plus conséquents des philosophes matérialistes du XVIIIe siècle' who had 'développé la doctrine du matérialisme en tant que doctrine de l'humanisme réel et comme base logique du communisme.' Dézamy was also a talented materialist philosopher, which he had proven in a work criticizing Lamennais's Du passé et de l'avenir du peuple. The Code de la Communauté 'décrit un phalanstère communiste qui fut également penser à l'abbaye de Thélème de Rabelais. Le livre respire le matérialisme du XVIIIe siècle.' The book is divided into 19 chapters and contains (pp. 264-269) 47 articles 'of faith'. For the Cabet-Dézamy controversy, and an extensive analysis of the above work, see: H.P.G. Quack, de Socialisten, vol. iii, pp. 244 ff. and J. Prudhommeaux, Icarie et son fondateur Etienne Cabet. Our copy is dated on the titlepage 1842, while the printed cover gives as date of publication 1843: verso titlepage it is stated that the book will be published in parts. With 'la dernière livraison je donnerai une belle couverture imprimée.' The publication and distribution began in 1842, hence a titlepage dated 1842, and the last livraison was issued in 1843, hence the cover dated 1843. The original printed cover also reads differently from the titlepage with respect to publishers: Paris, chez Dezamy, éditeur, Prevot, Rouanet (sic), Pandellé. EUR 300
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DOLLEANS, E. & G. DEHOVE. Histoire du travail en France. Mouvement ouvrier et législation sociale. Paris, Domat Montchrestien, 1953-1955. 2 volumes. (2), 417, (1) pp.; 408, (1) pp. 8vo. Sewn, original printed covers. Original edition. EUR 100
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GIRARDIN, E. DE. L'abolition de la misère par l'élévation des salaires. Lettres à M. Thiers. Rapporteur de la commission de l'Assistance et de la Prévoyance publique. Se vend à Paris, à l'administration de librairie, (imprimerie Gerdès), 1850. 96 pp. 8vo. Sewn, disbound. Stammhammer, i, p. 91; Dolléans & Crozier, p. 59; Goldsmiths 37064; not in Mattioli; Palgrave, ii, pp. 214-215 ; Einaudi 2589 (2nd edition). First edition of this pamphlet addressed to Thiers, and suggesting better pay to alleviate the conditions of the poor. Emile de Girardin was editor of La Presse and opened its columns for the socialists. He is considered as 'the father of modern journalism and a man with a genius for publicity' (Georges Duveau). He was a man who carried everything to extremes, an unscrupulous speculator, an original and impartial thinker, a devoted friend, active in business and eminent as a man of letters. He was the man who founded several journals during his lifetime which he offered for very small subscription fees, at half or even less the amount charged by the other journals. By the time of his death de Girardin was worth in excess of 8 million francs, proof that the age of mass journalism had arrived. - Small hole in title affecting the word 'de' in the title. EUR 400
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GODART, J. L'Ouvrier en soie. Monographie du tisseur lyonnais. Etude historique, économique et sociale. Première partie. La réglementation du travail. Le maître ouvrier en draps d'or, d'argent et de soie, de l'établissement de la manufacture à Lyon (1466) au décret des 2-17 mars 1791 portant suppression de toutes les maîtrises et jurandes. Lyon, Bernoux & Cumin, 1899. With engraved frontispiece and 2 engravings. (8), iii, 542, (2) pp. 4to. Sewn in original printed covers, uncut. Bourgeois & André 5793; Maitron 12, p. 295; Charléty, Bibliographie de Lyon, 1369. All published. - A large paper copy, 17 copies were issued for the author, numbered 14-30: this is number 15. Standard work. 'L'industrie de la soie a donné lieu à des ouvrages importants. Il faut mettre à part celui de J. Godart ..... qu'il convient de regarder comme ayant la valeur d'une source' (Bourgeois & André). EUR 175
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GODART, J. L'Ouvrier en soie. Monographie du tisseur lyonnais. Etude historique, économique et sociale. Première partie. La réglementation du travail. Le maître ouvrier en draps d'or, d'argent et de soie, de l'établissement de la manufacture à Lyon (1466) au décret des 2-17 mars 1791 portant suppression de toutes les maîtrises et jurandes. Lyon, Bernoux & Cumin, 1899. With engraved frontispiece and 2 engravings. (8), iii, 542, (2) pp. 4to. Contemporary half morocco, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled boards, corners, top edge gilt, original covers preserved, a bit rubbed. Bourgeois & André 5793; DBMOF, vol. xii, p. 295; Charléty, Bibliographie de Lyon, 1369. All published. Standard work. 'L'industrie de la soie a donné lieu à des ouvrages importants. Il faut mettre à part celui de J. Godart ..... qu'il convient de regarder comme ayant la valeur d'une source' (Bourgeois & André). - Printed on 'grand papier de Hollande', number 52, signed by Godart. One of only 110 copies of a 'tirage de luxe.' EUR 250
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GUIRAUD, P. Études économiques sur l'antiquité. Paris, Hachette, 1905. (4), 297 pp. 8vo. Half cloth. Deals among other matters with: L'impôt sur le capital à Athènes. - La population en Grèce. - L'évolution du travail en Grèce. - L'impérialisme Romain - etc. EUR 75
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HAUSER, H. Les compagnonnages d'arts & métiers à Dijon aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Paris, Picard & Fils, 1907. (4), 220 pp. 8vo. Half cloth. Bourgeois & André 5595; Lecotté, Essai Bibliographique sur les Compagnonnages, 409. First edition. Compagnonnages, more-or-less secret societies of workers. Each of the rival compagnonnages included artisans from various skilled trades, and they fought bitterly against one another for control of jobs. Their goal was mutual assistance, finding jobs for members, and helping apprentices to learn their trade. These organisations existed before the Revolution and survived the police state of the First Empire. During the Restoration, they benefited from official tolerance and regained a certain amount of importance, but they never reached more than an elite minority of the artisans and only in about a dozen trades. The principal ones were the Devoirants or Devorants, and the Gavots, also known as the Renards de la Liberté. EUR 150
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LATERRIERE, J. DE. Des associations ouvrières en matière d'agriculture et d'industrie. Des syndicats et de l'instruction populaire. Paris, Dentu, 1864. 96 pp. Small 8vo. Modern boards, original covers preserved. Against the 'associations ouvrières'. The author (of whom we could not trace any information) defends free enterprise and feels that 'Il faut laisser les patrons débattre librement le prix des salaires avec leurs ouvriers, et laisser l'ouvrier prélever, à son gré, sur son salaire, l'épargne qui sa prévoyance doit l'engager à faire ....' The workers may found small 'sociétés de secours mutuels'. As for the 'patrons': se sont eux qui, chefs d'usine, exposent leur fortune, leur personne, leur honneur même aux chances des affaires. EUR 150
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LATRADE, (L. CHASSAIGNAC DE.) Développements de la proposition concernant les associations d'ouvriers présentés (à l'Assemblée Nationale). Séance du 22 juin 1848. (Drop-head title). Paris, A. Henry, (1848). - (Followed by:) CORBON, (C.A.) Rapport fait au nom du Comité des travailleurs sur la proposition du citoyen Alcan, relative aux associations, soit entre ouvriers, soit entre patrons et ouvriers. Séance du 4 juillet 1848. (Drop-head title). Paris, A. Henry, (1848). - (Followed by:) MOURAUD, P. Rapport fait au nom du Comité des travaux publics, sur la proposition du citoyen Latrade, concernant les associations d'ouvriers pour les entreprises de travaux publics. 12 juillet 1848. (Drop-head title). Paris, A. Henry, (1848). - (Followed by:) TOURRET, (C.G.) Projet de décret relatif aux actes et contracts à passer pour la constitution et l'organisation des associations ouvrières. Séance du 9 Septembre 1848. (Drop-head title). Paris, A. Henry, (1848). - (Followed by:) GILLON, P. Rapport fait au nom du Comité du travail, sur le projet de décret relatif aux actes et contrats à passer pour la constitution et l'organisation des sociétés ouvrières. Séance du 25 Septembre 1848. (Drop-head title). Paris, A. Henry, (1848). 5 pieces bound in 1 volume. 6 pp.; 8 pp.; 13, (1) pp.; 6 pp.; 10 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. These five pieces dealing with workers associations and the organization of labour and published by the Assemblée Nationale, are numbered 111, 174, 209, 435 and 484 at top of each first page.This small collection of works deals with the workers' cooperatives, the principal objective of the early French labor movement. They discuss government support for the cooperatives and contain among others the important proposal by Corbon (2nd text) in which he introduced a bill to provide government encouragement through 3 million francs in credit to cooperatives consisting of workers or workers and employers. EUR 350
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LECLAIRE - EXTRAIT du recueil de notes sur les abus introduits dans la peinture en bâtiment, ainsi que dans la dorure, la tenture et la vitrerie; avec les moyens de les prévenir et de les faire cesser. Suivi d'un règlement d'ouvriers. Paris, Carilian-Goeury, 1841. (16) pp, 3-33 pp. (complete). - (Followed by:) DES AMELIORATIONS qu'il serait possible d'apporter dans le sort des ouvriers peintres en bâtiments, suivies des réglements d'administration et de répartition des bénéfices que produit le travail, et mis en pratique en 1842 dans sa maison. Paris, Ve Bouchard-Huzard, 1843. 61 pp. - (Followed by:) DIALOGUES sur la concurrence sans limites dans la peinture en bâtiments, ainsi que dans le dorure, la tenture et la vitrerie. Paris, Carilian-Goeury, 1842. (4), 36 pp. - (Followed by:) COMPTE RENDU aux clients de sa maison des résultats qu'ils lui ont aidé à obtenir pour le bien-être de ses ouvriers. Société de secours mutuels intéressée dans une entreprise industrielle. Participation de l'ouvrier aux bénéfices du patron. Paris, Ve Bouchard-Huzard, 1865. 31 pp. - (Followed by:) SUPPLEMENT au compte rendu. Paris, Ve Bouchard-Huzard, 1867. 20 pp. - (Followed by:) SOCIETE DE SECOURS MUTUELS des ouvriers et employés de la maison Leclaire. 28e assemblée générale annuelle, 5 mai 1867. Discours prononcé par M. Barral, ouvrier peintre en lettres. Paris, Ve Bouchard-Huzard, 1867. 16 pp. - (Followed by:) PROCES-VERBAL de la 29e assemblée générale de la Société de prévoyance et de secours mutuels des ouvriers et employés de la maison Leclaire. 3 mai 1868. Paris, Ve Bouchard-Huzard, (1868). 40 pp. - (Followed by:) MAISON LECLAIRE devenue A. Defournaux et Cie. Société de secours mutuels intéressée dans une entreprise industrielle. Association de l'ouvrier aux bénéfices du patron. Règlement de la maison. Règlement de la Société de prévoyance et de secours mutuels des ouvriers et employés de la maison Leclaire. Paris, Ve Bouchard-Huzard, Guillaumin et Cie., 1873. xxvi, 142 pp. - (Followed by:) REGLEMENT de la Société de prévoyance et de secours mutuels pour les ouvriers peintres de la maison Leclaire, autorisée par décision du Ministre de l'intérieur (no 160), en date du 28 septembre 1838. Paris, Ve Bouchard-Huzard, 1854. 16 pp. - (Followed by:) REGLEMENT à observer dans les ateliers par les ouvriers et employés. Paris, Ve Bouchard-Huzard, 1854. With folding table. 32 pp. Together 10 pieces. 8vo. 8 pieces bound in 1 volume, modern half morocco, 2 separately bound in modern boards. Maison Leclaire was the first company to apply worker's participation in the profits of the company and maintained a system of mutual insurance and mutual aid. The system of Leclaire served as a model for Louis Blanc in the 4th edition of his 'Organisation du travail' (1845). A highly interesting collection. EUR 1250
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LEVACHER-DUPLESSES, (A.) Requête au Roi et Mémoire sur la nécessité de rétablir les corps de marchands et les communautés des arts et métiers; présentés à sa Majesté le 16 septembre 1817, par les marchands et artisans de la ville de Paris. Paris, chez l'auteur et chez J. Smith, 1817. - (Followed by:) (LEVACHER-DUPLESSIS, A.) Appendice. No place, (1818). - (Followed by:) PETITION adressée aux Chambres, par les délégués des marchands et artisans de la ville de Paris. (Drop-head title). (Paris), J. Smith, (1821). - (Followed by:) EXTRAIT du régistre des délibérations de la chambre de commerce de Paris. (Paris), Hacquart, (1821). 4 works bound in 1 volume. 68 pp.; 16 pp.; 4 pp.; 7, (1) pp. 4to. Modernboards. First & second work: Einaudi 3376; Kress B.6963-6964; Goldsmiths 21765 (without the supplement); Third work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Fourth work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. All original editions, the first three concerning the re-establishment of professional corporations, while the fourth text opposes the proposal. EUR 250
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LEVACHER-DUPLESSES, (A.) Requête au Roi et Mémoire sur la nécessité de rétablir les corps de marchands et les communautés des arts et métiers; présentés à sa Majesté le 16 septembre 1817, par les marchands et artisans de la ville de Paris. Paris, chez l'auteur et chez J. Smith, 1817. 68 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Kress B.6963; Goldsmiths 21765; Einaudi 3376. First edition. In 1818 an 'Appendice' was published. EUR 125
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LYON - MEMOIRE des électeurs fabricants d'étoffes en soie de la ville de Lyon. No place, 1789. 31, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, paper covered boards, gilt lettering to spine. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Martin & Walter. First edition. - Very rare. Deals with the problems arising from the fact that labourers and merchants had been given the liberty to establish 'de convenir entr'eux du prix des façons', the labourers were in no position to protect their interests in these negociations and hence their daily income fell to well below daily needs: 'mais à l'égard des ouvriers en soie, destitués de tous moyens, dont la subsistance journalière dépend toute entiere de leur travail journalier, cette liberté les livre totalement à la merci du fabricant, .....'Includes 'tableau du produit de la main d'oeuvre des maîtres-ouvriers'; 'Tableau des dépenses journalières qui forment les charges annuelles des maîtres-ouvriers fabricants, & calcul d'icelles pour la nourriture & entretien des personnes à leur charge, & le paiement des traveaux du compagnon'; 'Tarif du prix des façons qu'on donne par aune dans les fabriques étrangères, notamment à Milan. Vienne en Autriche & à Londres, sans être chargé d'aucun frais pour la fabrication'. Lyon, one of the greatest cities of France, center of the silk industry, and major commercial entrepôt. It was an important commercial center, with four annual fairs, and a major banking center. EUR 400
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MARTIN, G. Les associations ouvrières au XVIIIe siècle (1700-1792). Paris, A. Rousseau, 1900. (6), 277 pp. 8vo. Sewn in original printed covers, small damage to front cover, with a spot, a bit discoloured, an uncut copy. First edition. According to Dolléans & Crozier the first edition appeared in 1899. But the appearance of an errata-leaf following the title at least suggests that this is the first edition. Deals a.o. with: La royauté et les associations ouvrières; La législation sur les associations ouvrières avant 1789; La loi de Le Chepalier; etc. - Inscribed by the author, the name of the dedicatee erased. EUR 100
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MERLINO, (J.F.M.) Rapport fait au nom du Comité de commerce, sur des secours à accorder aux ouvriers de la ville de Lyon. (3 février 1793). (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1793). 10 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Charléty; Martin & Walter 24110. States that 30.000 workers are without work and have nothing to eat. EUR 125
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MONFALCON, J.B. Histoire des insurrections de Lyon, en 1831 et 1834, d'après des documents authentiques; précédées d'un essai sur les ouvriers en soie et sur l'organisation de la fabrique. Lyon, Louis Perrin; Paris, Delauney, Didier, 1834. - (Bound with:) (GENTON, GREPPO, ALLERAT). La vérité sur les événements de Lyon, au mois d'avril 1834. Paris, Dentu; Lyon, Chambert, 1834. With 2 plates. 2 works bound in 1 volume. xii, 334 pp.; (6), ii, (2), 280 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, marbled boards. First work: Charléty, Bibliographie de Lyon, 3652; DBMOF, vol. 3, p. 111; not in Dolléans & Crozier; not in Stammhammer. First edition. Fundamental work on the Lyon revolts and on the labour conditions in Lyon. The first insurrection aimed at obtaining collective contracts and showed for the first time the revolutionary strength of the working classes. The insurrection of 1834 was the answer to an attempt by the government to silence the republican opposition by a law forbidding association of more than 20 persons. Esteemed work about which Maitron states: 'Auteur de la toujour précieuse Histoire des insurrections.'Name written in upper blank margin of title-page.Second work: Charléty, Bibliographie de Lyon, 3643.First edition.- Bookplate of Bibliothèque du Palais on front pastedown. EUR 400
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NARDIN, L. & J. MAUVEAUX. Histoire des corporations d'arts et métiers des ville et Comté de Montbéliard et des seigneuries en dépendant d'après les papiers inédits de ces sociétés et les archives de la principauté. Paris, H. Champion, 1910. With 1 plate. 2 volumes. 510 pp.; 276 pp. 8vo. Sewn, original printed covers, uncut, unopened. Bourgeois & André 5636. First edition. The first volume deals with 'l'histoire générale et l'histoire particulière des corporations', the second volume contains Règles, statuts & ordonnances. EUR 150
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PASSY, L. Le livre des métiers de Gisors au XVIe siècle. Ponthoise, Société historique du Vexin, 1907. vii, 262 pp. 4to. Modern half morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettering, marbled boards, original covers preserved. (Publications de la Société Historique du Vexin). First edition. Contains a 'Glossaire du Livre des Métiers de Gisors' and a 'Table des noms de personnes et des noms de lieux'. EUR 250
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POINTE, (D'ARMEVILLE) N. Compte rendu à la Convention Nationale par Noël Pointe, représentant du peuple près les fonderies de Creusot, de Pont-de-Veaux, & autres établissemens dans les départemens deSaône-et-Loire, l'Ain, Jura, Haute-Saône, Doubs et Côte-d'Or. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Impr. nationale, messidor an III (1795). With large folding table. 94 pp. 8vo. Modern halfmorocco. Martin & Walter 27628. A workman in a arms factory and the only proletarian to be elected into the Convention Nationale, Pointe was sent several times on missions, mainly to control and to activate the production of arms. EUR 175
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RODOCANACHI, E. Les corporations ouvrières à Rome depuis la chute de l'Empire romain. Paris, A. Picard & Fils, 1894. With coloured frontispiece and 1 plate of seals. 2 volumes. cx, 478 pp.; 470 pp. Royal 4to. Original boards, a bit rubbed and worn, lightly damaged at head and foot of spine, uncut. Original edition of this important study of the corporations between the Middle Ages upto and including the nineteenth century. The general introduction of 110 pages is followed by a history, statutes and bibliography of each corporation. The corporations have been divided into groups: agriculture, alimentation, commerce du vin, fourniture ménagères, industrie du batiment, commerce et transport, fabrication des tissus et habillement, industries de luxe, arts libéraux, diverses. - Copy inscribed by the author for J. Monod. EUR 500
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ROSMER, A. Le mouvement ouvrier pendant la guerre (vol. 2: pendant la première guerre mondiale). Paris, Librairie du Travail (vol. 2: Paris, La Haye, Mouton & Co.), 1936-1959. With portrait-frontispiece, facsimiles and illustrations. 2 volumes. 588, (2) pp.; 252 pp. 8vo. Sewn in original printed covers. Maitron 40, pp. 313-322. First edition. Born in 1877 in Patterson (USA) as André Griot, editor of la Vie ouvrière, representative in Moscow for the 'Comité d'adhesion à la IIIe Internationale' and member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party (1923-1924). A work that still stands as a monument and deals with a period in which Rosmer himself was very active although he has minimized his part in the history he described. A third volume was planned but Rosmer was unable to finish it properly. Volume 1: De l'Union sacrée à Zimmerwald, volume 2: De Zimmerwald à la Révolution Russe. Volume 2 was published in the series Société et Idéologies, Deuxième Série, Documents et Témoignages and was printed in an edition of 1000 copies of which this is nr 217. - Cover of volume 1 very lightly worn, with a handwritten and signed dedication by Rosmer to Robert Brécy. EUR 175
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ROSMER, A. Le mouvement ouvrier pendant la guerre (vol. 2: pendant la première guerre mondiale). Paris, Librairie du Travail (vol. 2: Paris, La Haye, Mouton & Co.), 1936-1959. With portrait-frontispiece, facsimiles and illustrations. 2 volumes. 588, (2) pp.; 252 pp. 8vo. Sewn in original printed covers. Maitron 40, pp. 313-322. First edition. Born in 1877 in Patterson (USA) as André Griot, editor of la Vie ouvrière, representative in Moscow for the 'Comité d'adhesion à la IIIe Internationale' and member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party (1923-1924). A work that still stands as a monument and deals with a period in which Rosmer himself was very active although he has minimized his part in the history he described. A third volume was planned but Rosmer was unable to finish it properly. Volume 1: De l'Union sacrée à Zimmerwald, volume 2: De Zimmerwald à la Révolution Russe. Volume 2 was published in the series Société et Idéologies, Deuxième Série, Documents et Témoignages and was printed in an edition of 1000 copies of which this is nr 217. EUR 175
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SCHULZE-DELITZSCH, (H.) Kapitel zu einem deutschen Arbeiterkatechismus. Sechs Vorträge vor dem Berliner Arbeiterverein. Leipzig, 1863. vi, 170 pp. Small 8vo. Half cloth, paper covered boards. Quack, v, p. 267; Stammhammer, i, p. 231; Einaudi 5173. First edition. Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch (1808-1883), German cooperative leader. He represented his city (Delitzsch) in 1848 in the Prussian National Assembly and as one of the leading liberals was repeatedly disciplined by the Prussian government, which dissolved the Assembly by force in 1849. In 1850 he founded the first loan bank and thereafter devoted himself wholly to the founding of the cooperative credit societies, which multiplied rapidly. Schulze-Delitzsch was sharply attacked by Lassalle, who as a disciple of Louis Blanc advocated state aided producers' cooperatives while Schulze-Delitzsch rejected the better known schemes for producers' cooperatives of the early French socialists because of their dependence on state aid or direction. Thus the socialists among the working class held aloof from his societies while the rural classes were drawn to the Raffeisen societies, which, although they owed much to the program of Schulze-Delitzsch, introduced innovations to meet the particular needs of the small peasantry. Nevertheless, Schulze-Delitzsch not only furnished the initial impetus and the commercial foundation for the German cooperative movement as a whole but also secured the legislation that gave it legal status.This work contains six lectures held before the Berlin labourers about the relation between capital and labour but are in fact an attack on the ideas of Ferdinand Lassalle. - Two stamps on title, first few pages browned, bookplate removed from font-pastedown. EUR 250
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SERVANTS - (LOUIS XIV) Déclaration du Roy, Portant Reglement pour le livrée des Domestiques. Donnée à Versailles le premier juillet 1713. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, chez la veuve François Muguet & Hubert Muguet, 1713. 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes Royaux, iv, 25231. Original edition. An earlier ruling had as its purpose to maintain order in the streets of Paris and one of the measures taken was to forbid domestic staff to carry sticks and swords and the like. Domestic staff, however, was difficult to recognize as they are usually not wearing their distinctive livery and hence they can walk around with swords or sticks and mingle with all sorts of people and groups and cause trouble. With this 'Declaration' the wearing of distinctive braids is re-introduced in order to enable the police to accurately survey the streets and maintain the ruling that domestic staff can not walk around armed or semi-armed. EUR 100
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SHEFFIELD, (J.B. HOLROYD.) A letter on the corn laws and on the means of obviating the mischiefs and distress, which are rapidly increasing. Second edition, corrected and considerable enlarged. London, 1815. 62 pp. 8vo. Sewn, modern blind covers. Kress B.6580; Goldsmiths 21171; Einaudi 2913; Black 2899. Second edition, corrected and enlarged. The first edition, published in the same year, consisted of 44 pages only. The author depreciates the application of general principles to the political economy of his country, considering its actual taxation and the price of labour (Palgrave, iii, pp. 390-1). EUR 125
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SIMON, C.G. Etude historique et morale sur le compagnonnage et sur quelques autres associations d'ouvriers depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours. Paris, Capelle, 1853. (4), 5, (1), 166 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Stammhammer, i, 234; Lecotté,Essai Bibliographique sur les Compagnonnages, 817. First edition. Compagnonnages, more-or-less secret societies of workers. Each of the rival compagnonnages included artisans from various skilled trades, and they fought bitterly against one another for control of jobs. Their goal was mutual assistance, finding jobs for members, and helping apprentices to learn their trade. These organisations existed before the Revolution and survived the police state of the First Empire. During the Restoration, they benefited from official tolerance and regained a certain amount of importance, but they never reached more than an elite minority of the artisans and only in about a dozen trades. The principal ones were the Devoirants or Devorants, and the Gavots, also known as the "Renards de la Liberté." EUR 200
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TAUSSIG, F.W. Wages and capital. An examination of the wages fund doctrine. London, New York, Macmillan and Co., 1896. xviii, 329 pp. 8vo. Original publisher's cloth. Batson, p. 76; Einaudi 5559. First edition. An examination of the Wages Fund Doctrine and gives a history of the Wages Fund controversy. Taussig was educated at Harvard University and became professor of political economy in 1892. He dealt in particular with finance and taxation.His principal work as an economic theorist lay in wage theory and in international trade theory and policy. In the former, he attempted to resuscitate a modified version of the wages fund theory, centring on the relative inelasticity of the short-run supply of consumer goods, which he combined with marginal productivity theory. EUR 175
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TRAITEURS, CUISINIERS & AUBERGISTES DE LYON - A MONSEIGNEUR, Monseigneur le controlleur général des finances. No place, (about 1760). 12 pp. Folio. Modern boards. Of interest for the rules and habits of the workers' corporation of 'Traiteurs, Cuisiniers & Aubergistes' of Lyon. A Swiss by the name of Bossant, being refused admission by the corporation, argues that this refutation is not justified while his opponents defence the decision. EUR 100
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VITAL-ROUX. Rapport sur les jurandes et maîtrises; et sur un Projet de statuts et règlemens pour MM. les marchands de vin de Paris. Paris, Imprimerie de Stoupe, 1805. - (Followed by:) DELIBERATIONS des conseils généraux, du commerce et des manufactures, établis près du Ministère de l'Intérieure, sur le rétablissement demandé des corps de marchands et des communautés d'arts et métiers. (Paris), Hacquart, (1821). - (Followed by:) LEGRET, G.P. Sur les corporations. Paris, J.L. Scherff, 1818. - (Followed by:) PILLET-WILL. Réponse au mémoire de M. Levacher-Duplessis, ayant pour titre: Requête et mémoire sur la nécessité de rétablir les corps des marchands et les communautés d'arts et métiers. (Paris), Didot l'aîné, (1817). - (Followed by:) (LEVACHER-DUPLESSIS.) Réponse des délégués des marchands en détail et des maîtres artisans de la ville de Paris. Aux rapport et délibérations des Conseils généraux du Commerce et des manufactures établis auprès de Son Excellence le Ministre de l'Intérieure. (Drop-head title). (Paris, Dondey-Dupré, 1821). 5 works bound in 1 volume. (4), 180 pp.; 37, (1) pp.; iv, 32 pp.; 8 pp.; 27, (1) pp. 4to (first and last piece, the others being in 8vo). Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, vellum corners, spine gilt in compartments, rear joint rubbed, front joint almost loose and spine partially detached. First work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; INED 4465. Large paper copy. The other 4 works not in Kress or Goldsmiths. EUR 300
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