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PROJET de loi sur le clergé et utilité du mariage des prêtres. Paris, Garnery & Volland, novembre 1789. Charming vignette of a rooster eating grapes on title. 16 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 14699. 'Le Mariage des ecclésiastiques sera permis .... Les enfans des curés seront préférés à tous autres pour leur succéder ....' EUR 150
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LETTRE aux académiciens du royaume et à tous les Français sensés. A Paris, Chez Le Jay, 1769. (2), 66 pp. 8vo. 19th-century boards. Conlon 69:282. First edition. Criticizing the habits of the time, the lust for luxury, the decline of morals, the formalities in social contacts. - Title on stub, outer upper corner stained in blank margin. EUR 175
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(BAZARD, S.A.) Doctrine de Saint-Simon. Exposition. Première année 1828-1829. Troisième édition, revue et augmentée. Paris, au Bureau de l'Organisateur, 1831. - (Bound with:) (BAZARD, S.A. & B.P. ENFANTIN). Religion saint-simonienne. Lettre à M. le Président de la Chambre des Députés. (Paris, Imprimerie Everat, 1830). 2 works in 1 volume. 432 pp.; 8 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments with gilt lettering. First work: Walch-Gerits, Supplement, 143; Kress C.2783; Goldsmiths 27194; Einaudi 1595. Third, revised and augmented edition. The preface, covering the pages 5-57 has been written by Enfantin and is followed by Gustave d'Eichtal's A un catholique sur la vie et le caractère de Saint-Simon, covering the pages 59-73. Second work: Walch-Gerits, Supplement, 22; Kress C.2441; Goldsmiths 26585; Einaudi 368. EUR 300
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(COYER, G. FR.) Lettre à une jeune dame, nouvellement mariée. (Drop-head title). (Paris), 7 août 1749. - (Followed by:) REPONSE d'une jeune dame angloise, nouvellement mariée à Paris, à M. l'abbé C*** (Coyer). (Drop-head title). (Paris), 15 september 1749. 2 pieces. 8 pp. and 8 pp. 4to. Loose in folded leaves. INED 1228 (the first piece); Conlon 49:449 & 260. First editions. Coyer's text was reprinted later in his Bagatelles morales. It is a critical satire on French usages and customs in marriage and includes an indirect criticism of luxury: 'si on bornoit le luxe, les maisons et les empires subsisteroient trop longtemps. On s'ennuye à à voir toujours les mêmes choses.'The second piece is a satyrical reply to the first. EUR 250
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(GOEZMANN DE THURNE, L.V. DE.) Essais politiques sur l'autorité, et les richesses Que le Clergé Séculier & Régulier ont acquises depuis leur établissment. No place, 1776. - (Bound with:) (PUYSEGUR, F.J. DE CHASTENET DE.) Pieces détachées relatives au Clergé Séculier et Regulier. A Amsterdam, Chez Marc Michel Rey, 1771. With one folding engraved plate, and four folding tables. 3 volumes. Together 4 volumes bound in 2. iv, 228 pp.; x, (2), 190, (2), 104 pp.; (4), 54, (2), 23, 84, 123, (1) pp.; (4), 219, (1), xx pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines richly gilt with gilt lettering, gilt stamped 'P' at foot of spines. First work: INED 2058; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. 'De la jurisdiction ecclésiastique, des abus du monachisme, des moyens d'y remédier. Les chapitres XVII-XX traitent de l'influence du monachisme sur la décadence relative des États, des moyens de le réduire à un plus petit nombre, et des ressources à tirer des biens monastiques. La force et la richesse d'un État consistent en une culture, une population et un numéraire relativement plus importants que dans les autres pays. Néfaste influence du monachisme sur ces trois facteurs, urgente nécessité de certaines réformes: mise en valeur rationnelle des biens religieux, ce qui augmenterait la population, répartition plus équitable du numéraire, etc.' (INED).Second work: INED 3681; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Higgs.First edition.'Sur l'histoire ecclésiastique, la suppression souhaitable des ordres religieux, l'illégitimité des biens de l'Église, et la religion naturelle' (INED). In volume 1, pp. 14-50: 'Mémoire sur le commerce, les finances et l'économie', where the State is considered to be the proprietor of all the capital and business and therefore as having the right to dispose of it for the public benefit. In volume 2 we find the text Du Droit souverain sur les bien-fonds du Clergé et des moines by Cerfvol (see INED 1013). - A very nice copy. EUR 900
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(HOLBACH, P.H.D.TH. D'.) Système de la nature, ou des loix du monde physique et du monde moral. Par M. Mirabaud. A Londres, 1780. 2 volumes. (xii), 47, (1), 371, (1) pp.; (4), ii, 464 pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spines gilt in compartments and with red and green labels with gilt lettering, ornamental gilt border on sides, a trifle worn. Vercruysse 1780-A1. First published in 1770.Volume one starts with four texts by Voltaire: Sentiment de Voltaire sur le Systême de la Nature (pp. 1-34), followed by Sur le Livre des Trois Imposteurs (pp. 35-38) and followed by Dialogue de Logomacos et Dondindac sur l'Etre suprême (pp. 39-42), followed by Le Pour et le Contre (pp. 43-47). This is Holbach's most famous work and expounds a complete theorie of materialism.Holbach contributed some four hundred articles to the Encyclopédie of his lifelong friend and colleague Denis Diderot. Diderot, d'Alembert, Helvetius, Voltaire and others of the philosophes met frequently for dinner and philosophical discussion at the Baron's house, which became known as 'the café of Europe' (among foreign visitors were Wilkes, Hume and Sterne). In the Système Holbach rejected the Cartesian mind-body dualism and attempted to explain all phenomena, physical and mental, in terms of matter in motion. Holbach rejected religion because he saw it as a wholly harmful influence, and he tried to supply a desirable alternative. In fact he outlined a whole ethical and political philosophy, which he expanded in his later works.Holbach may not have been a great original thinker (his important ideas can already be found in predecessors such as Hobbes, Locke and La Mettrie), but by combining various elements in their thought and pressing it to the logical conclusion he reached the most extreme position in eighteenth-century free-thought. In fact, the present book caused a rift in the ranks of the philosophes, dividing them between deists and atheists, and even provoked Voltaire to reply in defense of religion.The pages 401-464 of vol. II contain: Abrégé du Code de La Nature and the Réquisitoire du 18 août 1770 (by Seguier) qui condamne à être brûlés, différens livres ou brochures (de d'Holbach). - Pages 7-10 of the main work in volume one loose (A4-A5), never bound in as there are no marks showing these pages were torn out. EUR 800
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(MALVAUX, J. DE.) Les moyens de détruire la mendicité en France, en rendant les mendians utiles à l'état sans les rendre malheureux; tirés des mémoires qui ont concouru pour le prix accordé enl'année 1777, par l'Académie des Sciences, arts & belles lettres de Chaalons-sur-Marne. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée. Chaalons-sur-Marne, Seneuze, Paindavoine, Delalain, 1780. viii, 512, (4) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, small damage to foot of spine, somewhat rubbed and shaved. Kress B.295; Goldsmiths 12061; Granier, Bibliographie Charitable 1337; cf.: INED 3039; Coquelin & Guillaumin, ii, p. 129; not in Einaudi. Second, improved edition of this important text 'rempli de vues ingénieuses et de faits spécieux qu'on ne saurait trop méditer' (Coquelin & Guillaumin) which was first published in 1779. 'Moyens propres à supprimer la mendicité (politique, moraux, coactifs, etc). S'attacher à détruire la mendicité illégitime. Ce n'est pas par les hôpitaux, jugés néfastes, mais par le travail qu'on aide les mendiants, qu'ils soient valides ou invalides; Malvaux admet néanmoins l'existence de bonnes oeuvres, de Monts-de-Piété, de loteries, etc. Enfin, il propose de supprimer ce qu'il estime être les sources de la mendicité, telles l'usure, la prostitution, etc.' (INED). EUR 500
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(MIRABEAU, H.G. RIQUETTI DE.) Essai sur le despotisme. Seconde édition, augmentée & corrigée par l'éditeur de cet ouvrage. Londres, 1776. (2), viii, 308 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments with label and gilt lettering, lightly shaved, corners somewhat bumped. Goldsmiths 11518; INED 3188 (1831 edition); Martin & Walter 24430; Higgs 6537 (for the first and second edition). Second, revised, enlarged and corrected edition. Philosophical and political study on despotism and its effects it pretents to refute the theories of Rousseau while the author in reality attacks straight forward the government. Still to the point remains his remark that: 'La nation finit toujours par être plus puissante que le tyran lorsque le pouvoir arbitraire parvenu à son dernier délire a dissous tous les liens de l'opinion et épuisé les ressources que la terre offre à ceux qui la cultivent en liberté. Ainsi les hommes se vengent tôt ou tard.' 'Dans cet insolent libelle, intitulé Essai sur le Despotisme, sous couleur de réfuter les théories de Jean-Jacques sur la bonté naturelle de l'homme, l'auteur s'attaquait de front aux pouvoirs.' (Duc de Castries, Mirabeau, p. 105). Important work proclaiming democratic ideas and openly attacking despotism: 'Après cette vue philosophique générale, l'ouvrage s'attaquait seulement au 'despotisme d'un seul.'' (Duc de Castries, op.cit.) - With the errata at the end of page 308. EUR 450
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(PERREAU, J.A.) Le Roi voyageur, ou Examen Des abus de l'Administration de la Lydie. A Londres, Chez T.P. Cadel, 1784. (8), 211, (5) pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards. INED 3522; Kress S.5048; Conlon 84:1625; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli; Hartig & Soboul, p. 68; not in Valette; not in Negley. First edition of this utopian work in the usual fashion: after a so-called translated manuscript on the institutions of "Lydia" are analysed while in fact the work contains criticism of contemporary society and institutions. In favour of freedom of trade, agriculture and work, and analysing the financial and economic institutions of France.Perreau (died in Toulouse in 1813) was professor of 'droit de la nature et des gens' at the Collège de France, and later became professor of law at the l'École centrale du Panthéon. He edited in 1791 the 'Journal du vrai citoyen' founded with the aim of protecting the constitutional principles. EUR 750
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(RICCI, L.) Riforma degl' istituti pii della città di Modena. Modena, eredi di Bart. Soliani, (1787). (2), 3-7, (1), 221, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half calf, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. Kress, Italian Economic Literature, 563; Einaudi 4757; McCulloch, p. 306; not in Goldsmiths; Mattioli, as part of the Scrittori Classici ..... but no separate edition. First edition. Ludovico Ricci (1742-1799) was born near Modena. He held different posts chiefly connected with charity organisations and taxation. The above work is a valuable monograph, full of historic and scientific statistics. The economic problem of the administration of charity forced itself on governments and Ricci studied the problem for Modena. His study far surpasses the limits of a monograph relating solely to a small state. He treats the problem of the reform of the charity institutions from a rational and systematic point of view. He shows the economic disadvantages of an improved system of public charity, that it tends to the increase of beggary and of the numbers of the poor. Those poor only who are unable to work should be relieved, those who are able to work should be helped solely by work being procured for them. Ricci's views on population are theoretically interesting: he has been called a precursor of Malthus, but, though he touches on the population question, he regards it from a different point of view from Malthus, and more closely approaches modern scientific conclusions (Palgrave, iii, pp. 309-310).'Remarkable for being one of the first works published in Italy, in which the utility of such institutions was called in question' (McCulloch). - Somewhat spotted. EUR 750
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(TERRASSON, J.) Sethos, histoire ou vie tirée des monumens anecdotes de l'ancienne Egypte. Traduit d'un manuscrit Grec. A Paris, Chez Jacques Guerin, 1731. Titles printed in red and black. 3 volumes. (4), xxviii, 426, xii pp.; (4), 427-562, 322 pp.; (4), 323-832 (misnumbered 842), (6, fautes à corriger) pp. 12mo. Contemporary tree calf, spines richly gilt with labels and gilt lettering. Hartig p. 45; Trousson, pp. 134-135; Negley 1092; Gove, pp. 286-287; Versins, p. 874; cf. Valette 310 (edition of 1813); Conlon 31:680. First edition. Supposed translation from a Greek manuscript describing a still innocent nation not affected by luxury and ambition. It is written in the tradition of Télémaque and is more or less conservative utopian account. 'Il s'agit d'un jeune prince égyptien qui, après son initiation aux mystères de son état, parcourt le monde et régénère tous les royaumes où regne l'injustice. Il arrivera ainsi, après avoir fait le tour de l'Afrique, jusque chez les Atlantes et découvrira là, une monarchie élective qui, visiblement, est aux yeux de notre Abbé le nec plus ultra de l'utopie' (Versins). Van Wijngaarden, in his Les Odysées Philosophiques en France entre 1616 et 1789, devotes 7 pages to the work. Hartig is the only reference work calling for 'cartes' in his description, no other reference work calls for maps. EUR 800
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BANCAL DES ISSARTS, (J.H.) Du nouvel ordre social; Par Henry Bancal, député à la Convention nationale. Imprimé par ordre du Comité de Constitution de la Convention nationale. A Paris, Chez les Directeurs de l'Imprimerie du Cercle Social, 1792 (Paris, EDHIS, 1978). 52 pp. 8vo. Sewn in printed covers. Martin & Walter 1287; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED. Reprint of this very rare work, published in a limited number of copies. This work by Jean-Henri Bancal des Issarts is the perfect expression of Girondin thought: liberal in economics, ownership based on individual efforts and work and protected by the law, condamnation of too much social inequality and in favour of a system of public, free and secular instruction. It is the work of a man who was drifting towards atheism and he was viewed by many in the Convention during the Revolution as an atheist.Later in the Revolution, which he served in various positions and on various posts, he was sent on a mission to Dumouriez who handed him over the Austrians who kept him in prison for 33 months. During this period Bancal converted to religion and after his release he published his Du nouvel ordre social fondé sur la religion, a work in which he sought to create a constitutional, civil and economic order based on religious principles. It was ill received by the Directoire and marked the end of the public career of this remarkable man. EUR 125
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BARERE (DE VIEUZAC, B.) Premier rapport fait au nom du Comité de Salut Public. Sur les moyens d'extirper la mendicité dans les campagnes, et sur les secours que doit accorder la République aux citoyens indigens. Séance du 22 Floréal (11 Mai 1794). (Paris, 1794). 85, (1) pp. 12mo. 19th-century half vellum, corners. Martin & Walter 1653. First edition. The report reaffirmed the principles of the Ventôse decrees: the ownership of land would 'attach all citizens to property and the fatherland'. See at length: Gershoy, Bertrand Barère, A Reluctant Terrorist, pp. 228 ff.'Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac, held legal office at Tarbes, prosperous, eloquent, ingratiating manners and literary taste, he was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1789, moved steadily to the left, gained influence in the Convention as a local orator. Member of the Committee of Public Safety. He was arrested after the riots of 12 Germinal (1 April 1795) when the new majority in the Convention decided to dispose of the alledged suporters of the riot: Collot d'Herbois, Billaud-Varenne and Barère. Barère survived and died a poor pensioner of Louis-Philippe. When David, in 1832, went to see the aged Barère, to discuss the plan of portraying the great men of the Revolution, the old revolutionary sat up and declared: 'Do not forget Robespierre!' He was a man of pure integrity, a true republican.' (Cobban, A., A History of Modern France, vol. I). In 1789 he brought out the first issue of his 'Point du Jour', one of the best and most nearly impartial of the newspapers of the day; it continued to appear until the end of the Constituent Assembly. Barère was a man of great charm, and he quickly made a place for himself in Parisian society. He was one of the circle surrounding the duke of Orléans. He joined, but rarely attended, the Jacobins, the more conservative 'Society de 1789', and the Abbé Fauchet's masonic 'Société des Amis de la Vérité'. He supported Robespierre's proposal that free Negro proprietors become citizens, as well as political rights for Jews and Protestants. It was due largely to Barère's efforts and those of Danton that the Committee of Public Safety was created, and he was the first to be elected to it. He later served the committee above all as its principal rapporteur. After a long discussion late at night, Barère could summarize a question rapidly and luminously, posing it so clearly that it could be easily resolved. EUR 200
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BAZARD, S.A. (ED.) Doctrine de Saint-Simon. Exposition. Première année. 1828-1829. Troisième édition, revue et augmentée. Paris, au Bureau de l'Organisateur, 1831. 432 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, marbled boards, marbled edges very lightly worn at head and foot of spine. Walch 350; Walch-Gerits, Supplement, 143; Kress C.2783; Goldsmiths 27194; Einaudi 1595. Goldsmiths cites erroneously 4 different authors for the work. It was actually edited by Bazard, the preface was written by Enfantin (pp. 5-57). The pp. 59-73 contain Gustave d'Eichtal's A un catholique sur la vie et le caractère de Saint-Simon. EUR 400
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BIELFELD, (J.F.) DE. Institutions politiques. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée. Leide, Chés (sic) Samuel et Jean Luchtmans, 1767-1772. With engraved title-vignettes, engraved portrait and 5 folding tables. 3 volumes. (4), viii, 710, (12) pp.; (6), 736, (8) pp.; xxiv, 892, (26) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, corners, marbled boards, yellow edges. Humpert 7491; Camus 215; Higgs 3984 (citing an edition running upto 1774); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi (although Kress has a mixed edition of which the third volume is the volume here described, see S.4180); Leblanc 240; Carpenter, Economic Bestsellers, XX.7. The improved, revised and augmented edition, complete with the often lacking third volume which was published in 1772 for the first time. - The binders knife has touched parts of the folding tables 4 and 5, with loss of a few letters. 'Cet ouvrage est écrit à l'usage des gouvernants. Il concerne l'art de règner. Bielfeld veut réduire la politique en système, la transformer en une science qui puisse être enseignée. Il divise ses Institutions Politiques en deux parties: 1: Tout ce qui regarde l'intérieur d'un État: cadre législatifs et politiques, finances, manufactures, commerce, navigation, armée, marine ....; 2: Tout ce qui concerne la politique étrangère et les rapports d'un État avec les autres puissances' (Leblanc).'This is essentially a cameralistic guide for rulers. Bielfeld, although a German, first published his books in French; he relied in large measure upon the French data and writers' (Spengler, French predecessors of Malthus, p. 79). The Supplément aux Institutions Politiques pour cette nouvelle édition is to be found in the second volume covering the pages 647-736."This Cameralistic treatise is by a Prussian state official. It was more successful outside Germany than any other Cameralistic work, presumably because it was written in the international language of the Eighteenth Century -- French" (Carpenter, Economic Bestsellers, XX.7) EUR 1000
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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. Cinquième édition. Paris, Bureau du Populaire, 1848. (4), viii, 600 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine, raised bands, corners, very lightly rubbed. Prudhommeaux 35. The last and most complete edition of the most famous utopian account of the 19th century. - Small library stamp on half-title. 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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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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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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FOURIER, CH.F.M. La fausse industrie morcelée, répugnante, mensongère, et l'antidote, l'industrie naturelle, combinée, attrayante, véridique, donnant quadruple produit (et perfection extrème en toutes qualités, added to title of volume 2). Paris, Bossange père, l'auteur, 1835-1836. 2 volumes bound in 1. 8vo. Modern half calf, spine gilt with gilt lettering, marbled boards, top edge gilt (original covers preserved, uncut). Del Bo, Fourier, 7; Kress C.3953; Goldsmiths 29298; Einaudi 1952; Stammhammer, i, 80. First edition. - Lightly browned. The collation, which is very difficult and irregular, is identical with the collation given by Del Bo. It is one of the rarest works by Fourier, not reprinted in the Oeuvres Complètes and one of the most important of his later works. EUR 2500
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GOUGES-CARTOU, (A.) Mémoire sur les subsistances, Par M. Gouges Cartou, Député du Quercy & Membre du Comité des Subsistances. A Paris, Chez Baudouin, 1789. 55, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter 15301. First edition. - Inner top margins towards the end with a waterstain, not touching text. On corn prices. The first 8 pp. are numbered i-viii and form the 'Avertissement'. The text starts on page 9 with the more appropriate caption title: Mémoire sur les causes de la cherté des grains, et sur les moyens de soulager la misère publique. At the end a Projet d'arrêté. The author favors free trade: his proposed 'projet' reads (article II): 'La circulation des grains & farines sera entièrement libre dans toutes les parties du Royaume, dont la Corse & les Colonies Françaises font partie.' EUR 250
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LANSAC, M. Les conceptions méthodologiques et sociales de Charles Fourier. Leur influence. Paris, J. Vrin, 1926. (4), 144 pp. 8vo. Modern cloth, original covers preserved (Université de Paris - Faculté de Droit.) Del Bo, Fourier, p. 94. First edition. With index and bibliography. EUR 75
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MAUSS, M. Sociologie et anthropologie. Précédé d'une introduction à l'oeuvre de Marcel Mauss par Cl. Lévi Strauss. Paris, P.U.F., 1950. lii, 392 pp. 8vo. Modern cloth, label with gilt lettering, original publisher's printed covers preserved (Bibliothèque de sociologie contemporaine. Collection dirigée par Georges Gurvitch). Dosse, p. 47v. First edition. - With ex-libris of Francisco de Paula Leite Pinto pasted on front paste-down, and Leite Pinto in gilt at foot of spine. The text of Lévi-Strauss: Introduction à l'oeuvre de Marcel Mauss is no simple presentation of the work of one of the grand, durkheimian, masters of French anthropology. In it Levy Strauss defines for the first time his own structuralistic program, a truly rigorous methodology. As such it is the first unified program proposed for the human sciences since Destut de Tracy in the beginning of the XIXth century. It motivated among others A. Greimas in his project for the construction of a global method for the humanities, seeing in structrualism the meeting point of linguistics and anthropology. It necessitated the director of the series G. Gurvitch also to add a post-scriptum to the avant propos, stating that the introduction though impresssive, is also Lévi-Strauss' 'interprétation très personelle'. For Lévi-Strauss, M. Mauss is the spiritual father of structuralism. The texts of Mauss form a collection of important articles (among which the famous Essai sur le Don of 1923/24), previously published in L'année sociologique (1902/23), Le Journal de Psychologie Normale et Pathologique (1924/26), The Journal of the Royal Anthropological institute (1938) and the Journal de Psychologie (1934). EUR 150
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MOY, C.A. DE. Accord de la religion et des cultes chez une nation libre. Seconde édition. A Paris, Chez J.B. Garnery, l'an quatrième de la liberté (1792). (2), 110 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Martin & Walter 25466; Tourneux iii, 16627a (listed under Demoy). Proposes a legal and social organisation of religious life. EUR 175
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QUETELET, A. Physique sociale, ou essai sur le développement des facultés de l'homme. Bruxelles, C. Muquardt; Paris, J.B. Baillière et fils; Saint Petersbourg, Issakoff, 1869. With 3 engraved plates and many tables throughout the text. 2 volumes. (4), viii, 503, (1) pp.; (4), 485, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half morocco, spine gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering, marbled boards, corners. Einaudi 4597; Palgrave, iii, p. 247; Cocquelin & Guillaumin, ii, p. 490-1; Menger 632. The revised and enlarged edition of Sur l'homme et le développement de ses facultés (1835) with much new material. This is the edition generally referred to. Quetelet was the first to promote the study of human statistics in France. Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874), Belgian astronomer and statistician. He received instruction from Laplace in the theory of probability while he was in Paris to study the methods of practical astronomy. Quetelet's influence on statistics came first of all from his practical work in census taking, the practical rules developed by him still forming the basis of modern census work. In addition he was largely responsible for the extension of statistical study from such physical facts as population, economic resources and the like to the wide field of 'moral statistics', which includes the whole realm of acts determined by moral or psychological factors. In the field of theory Quetelet is known above all for his conception of the homme moyen or average man, a conception which in its positive contribution represents the application of the Gaussian normal law of error to the analysis of distributions of data on human characteristics. As a pioneering conception, however, Quetelet's doctrine was inevitably couched in metaphysical terms-as a theory of social determination through a hypostatized abstraction. EUR 1250
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RIDE, A. Esclavage et liberté. Existence de l'homme et des sociétés en harmonie avec les lois universelles. Etat de nature: Liberté, opposition, combat. Inégalité, destruction ou esclavage. La société se forme par le despotisme, intelligence, ordre. L'esclavage, travail, bien-être. Les sociétés tombent ou décadence par l'abus du despotisme et par la souveraineté du peuple, ignorance, désordre; la liberté, opposition, combat; l'égalité, opposition aux lois universelles. La perfection est dans l'aristocratie; intelligence, grandeur des peuples; le patronage: protection, bien-être; la famille: union d'intérêts, developpement. Paris, H.L. Delloye, 1843. 2 volumes. 494 pp.; 476 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, original covers preserved. Bourquelot, vi, 185; Sabin 71273. First edition, extremely rare of this defense of slavery. Astonishing work in which the author tries to prove that inequality is not only the natural state of man, but also a desirable state which is in accordance with natural law and that attempts to change this situation would lead to anarchy, decadence, and the collapse of society. In its initial state a despot should reign after which he should slowly pass on his power to an aristocracy. The work contains among others extensive criticism of Fourier and Considérant, although the author is not totally opposed to the ideas of Fourier. This seems to be an extraordinary rare work as well, only listed by Bourquelot without any further information. The book also deals with the major thinkers of the past century (Voltaire, Rousseau, Volnay) and contemporary economists (Malthus, Ricardo) and other thinkers (Comte, Lamenais) etc.The author owned a property in the Antilles and gives interesting reflections on slavery in the Americas (with a good deal on Louisiana) and has a comparison with the miserable conditions of the English working classes. EUR 4250
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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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SAY, J.B. Petit volume contenant quelques aperçus des hommes et de la societé. A Paris, Chez Deterville, 1817. (4), 176 pp. 12mo. Modern half morocco, marbled sides, original covers preserved, gilt lettering and date on spine, a bit discoloured. Teilhac 376 (listing an 1818 edition as the first); Goldsmiths 21736; not in Einaudi; not in Kress. First edition, printed by P. Didot l'aîné. This is a collection of detached toughts and reflexions. Say revised them several times and all editions have significant differences and all are equally rare. EUR 300
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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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VILLERME, (L.R.) Rapport à l'Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, sur l'État physique et moral des ouvriers employés dans les fabriques de soie, de coton, et de laine; par M. Villermé. (Drop-head title). No place, no date (Paris 1839). With numerous tables throughout the text. Pp. (229)-594. 4to. Modern half cloth, marbled boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Granier, Bibliographie Charitable; not in Dada. First edition. Published in the 'Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques', this report served as the basis for the second part of the Tableau de l'État Physique et Moral des Ouvriers employés dans les manufactures de coton, de laine et de soie, Paris, 1840. Louis-René Villermé (1782-1863), French physician and statistician. He obtained his medicial degree in 1814. His twofold interest in the laboring classes and in social and economic statistics led to a wide range of published works. He was elected a member of the Académie de Médecine in 1823 and of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques in 1832. When the manufacturers of Mulhouse took the initiative in calling public attention to the child labor prevalent in the silk mills, the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques invited Villermé to an investigation of the conditions. His report served as the basis for the law of 1841 extending a measure of protection to children in industry. - Very good copy, with wide margins. EUR 600
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