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A LA GARDE Nationale. Citoyens! Paris, Impr. du Gouvernement, Février 1848. Oblong folio poster on white paper. Les murailles révolutionnaires de 1848, vol i, p. 30 (listing a later issue). First issue. Thanking the Garde National for its 'fraternelle union avec le Peuple' and asking for its continued support for the difficult tasks ahead of the Provisional Government. Dated 24 february 1848 and with the names of Dupont, Arago, Marie, Lamartine, Crémieux, Ledru-Rollin, Garnier-Pagès, Louis Blanc, Marrast, Flocon and Albert. The last four are mentioned as 'secrétaires' which word has been crossed out. Added a handwritten note stating that this is the first 'tirage' which was 'depuis rectifié.'At head of poster: République Française. Au nom du Peuple Français. EUR 150
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ARREST du Conseil d'Estat, Portant Reglement des Ports de Lettres & Pacquets arrivans dans la Ville de Lyon, tant du dedans que du dehors du Royaume. Du vingt-quatriéme May 1666. A Lyon, Chez Antoine Ivllieron, 1666. 7, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards. - Slightly browned and paperspotted. Settles a conflict between the 'Maistre des Courriers' of Lyon and merchands from the same city 'au sujet des Taxes des ports de Lettres & Pacquets, .....' EUR 175
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BIBLIOGRAPHICA Textilia Historiae. Towards a General Bibliography on the History of Textiles Based on the Library and Archives of the Center for Social Research on Old Textiles (CSROT). Edited by Seth Siegelaub. New York, International General, 1997. With black and white illustrations. 415, (1) pp. 4to. Original publisher's cloth, illustrated dustwrapper. First edition. The work is the first general bibliography attempting to outline and document all facets of the literature of the world history of textiles. To put all this material into perspective, it also contains a critical introduction on the history and character of the literature, and a selection of the most important books on textiles classified by subject and country. Contains over 5,000 works published since the 15th century on textiles as art, craft, technology, industry & commerce. Including archaeological, ethnographic, religious, secular, decorative and folk textiles - Asia, Europe, the Americas, Oceania, Africa, prehistoric, ancient, medieval, renaissance, baroque, rococo - woven silk, wool, linen, cotton, velvet, printed textiles, embroidery, lace, carpets, dyeing, tapestry, costume, and related subjects. Most with collations; descriptions and some illustrations. A great and indispensible work. EUR 150
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COMMUNE de Paris (de 1794). Département de police. Du 26 Fructodor l'an II (12 Septembre 1794). l'Administration de la police régénérée, aux commissaires de police et comitéscivils des quarante-huit sections. (Paris), De l'imprimerie de Lottin, l'an II (1794). Poster on white paper (52 x 41 cm) bound in a volume. 4to. Modern half morocco. Not in Martin & Walter; not in Tourneux. Original edition. Deals with protection of the quality of bread produced and to see to it that the same quality is delivered in all quarters of the city. EUR 150
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ETRENNES à la Capitale par une Compagnie de Citoyens zélés. No place, Par la Compagnie, 1770. 20 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Conlon 70:203. First edition. - Faint waterstain in outer upper blank margin of the last leaves. Proposes the creation of some sort of public toilets in the streets of Paris. EUR 100
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JESUITES, LES, Marchands, Usuriers, Usurpateurs, & leurs cruautés dans l'ancien & le nouveau continent. Pour servir de suite au Livre intitulé: Les Jesuites criminels de LezeMajesté. A La Haye, Chez les Freres Vaillant, 1759. - (Followed by:) LES JESUITES criminels de Leze majesté dans la Théorie et dans la Pratique. A La Haye, Chez les freres Vaillant, 1759. Two works in one volume. (i-ii), iii-viii, 388 pp.; (i-ii), iii-xxi, (3, blanks), 332 (misnumbered 226) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt and with raised bands and gilt lettering, minor repair to rear cover. First work: Conlon 59:241; Kress S.4160; Goldsmiths 9443; Higgs 2055; Sabin 36085; Borba de Moraes, vol. i, p. 427.First edition. Second work: Conlon 58:213 (first edition); Borba de Moraes, vol. i, p. 427.Second edition, first published in 1758. NUC gives only two copies of this edition. This is a precious collection of two rare works published in the year the order was suppressed in Portugal. The first work provides a wealth of information on the commercial activities of the Society in South America and in Asia, maritime commerce and trade, sugar-refineries, trade in grain to Malta, on the missions in Asia (Manilla, Indies, China, Japan), the ill-luck in the ventures of the cardinal de Tournon, the destruction of missions in China of which the Jesuits are accused by the anonymous author, missions in Paraguay, the persecution of Palafox, the missions in a.o. Quito, the relations with the indians and their indoctrination, etc. etc. The work ends with an elaborate index which makes the use and perusal of this violent work very easy.The second work is a history of the political scheming of the Society since its foundation in 1540 upto the end of the sixteenth century.- Small repairs to the margin of 6 leaves. Both titles have an old ownership entry in the blank margins. EUR 2800
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JOURNAL des Gens du Monde. Paris, A. Mie, (1833). Leaflet of one page. 4to. Hatin 389. Prospectus of this journal to be directed by M. Gavarni. EUR 75
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L'AMI DU PEUPLE EN 1848. An Ier de la République reconquise, par F.-V. Raspail. Paris, Au Bureau du Journal, 27 février-14 mai 1848. 21 numbers of 2 pages each. Folio. Modern halfred morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Hatin 439; Izambard, La Presse Parisienne de 1848-1849, p. 6; La Révolution de 1848, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1948, 450 (incomplete, runs upto April 20 !). Extremely rare complete set of this important journal, especially since, according to Izambard, the first two numbers were distributed as posters. Publication ceased after Raspail was arrested on May 15, 1848.The whole is preceded by 'Lettre du Citoyen F.V. Raspail, Représentant du Peuple, Aux Citoyens Électeurs de la Seine, Merci!', dated September 22, 1848, and by 'République Démocratique et Sociale. Raspail Président', dated November 1, 1848, both posters of great rarity. 'Contre les gens du National, de la famille Arago à Buchez, et du journaliste Marrast à l'avocat Marie de Saint-Georges, Raspail était des plus virulents' (Maitron, DBMOF, vol. iii, pp. 281-283).François Vincent Raspail, doctor, publicist and republicain activist. Between 1825 and 1830 Raspail published about 50 articles ranging from botany, zoology, and paleontology to microscopic anatomy, physiology, and forensic medicine. These studies were based on an early statement of cell theory, and he may be seen as a founder of microchemistry. He was also a pioneer advocate of antisepsis and improved sanitation and diet. His scientific career was limited by his continued refusal to accept official positions or awards. Also important were his studies on prison conditions and industrial safety.He was closely involved in the three great revolutionary movements of the century. The present journal was a democratic-socialist newspaper during the 1848 revolution. It was among the very few which survived for a longer period after the Provisional Government abolished or suspended almost all the restraints that the previous regime had placed on the press. It's success was mainly due to Raspail who also presided over a club with the same name. His involvement in the journée of 15 May led to his detention, and he was sentenced to six years in prison in March 1849; while in prison he was elected a deputy for Paris and Lyons in the September by-elections and won 37,000 votes, mainly from Paris and Lyons, in the presidential elections of December 1848. The first poster refers to his election as deputy, thanking those who voted for him, the second to his 'presidential campaign' in 1848. - One poster cut short lightly touching the last line. EUR 4500
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PROCES-VERBAL des séances de l'Assemblée administrative du Département de l'Aube. Tenues à Troyes, dans les mois de Novembre et Décembre 1790 - [aux mois de Novembre & Décembre 1791. IIe Session.] A Troyes, Chez Sainton, André, 1791-1792. Two volumes. (4), 518, (12) pp.; 429, (13) pp. 4to. Contemporary calf, spines gilt with red and green labels and gilt lettering, gilt fillets on sides, gilt inside dentelles, all edges gilt, some minor imperfections. Not in Martin & Walter; not in Monglond; Lecestre, p. 18 & p. 19. First edition. The first volume deals with the session from 3 November upto 15 December 1790 and dealt with a great variety of subjects: population du département, sur l'agriculture, sur l'industrie, sur le commerce, sur les arts, sur les grands communications, sur les rivières, sur les routs, travaux publics, ateliers de charité, encouragemens et secours de bienfaisance, biens nationaux, contribution patriotique, etc., etc. Henri Picot Dampierre was the president of the Assembly.The second volume covers the session that was held from 15 November upto 14 December 1791: this session covered a great variety of subjects: Frais d'administration, dépense de l'ordre judiciaire de l'année 1791, frais du culte, pensions et secours accordés aux ecclésiastiques et communautés religieuses, dépenses relatives aux travaux des routes, aux travaux de charité, au bien public, à la mendicité, population du département, sur l'agriculture, sur l'industrie, sur le commerce, sur les arts, sur les grands communications, sur les rivières, sur les routs, travaux publics, ateliers de charité, encouragemens et secours de bienfaisance, biens nationaux, contribution patriotique, etc., etc.The first volume has the gilt stamped name of H.P. Dampierre in the center of both sides with above a gilt stamped fleuron with the text "La Nation, la Loi et le Roi", the second volume has the gilt stamped name of T. Cobin, Pr. Général in center of both sides with above the gilt stamped fleuron 'Droits de l'Homme'. H.P Dampierre was the President of the Assembly. EUR 2500
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PROGRAMMES des prix proposés par la Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale, Dans sa séance générale du 22 Novembre 1826, pour être décernés en 1827, 1828, 1829 et1830. (Paris, Imprimerie de Madame Huzard, 1826). With one folding table. 53, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards with leather label and gilt lettering. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. - Rare and important document. Presided by Chaptal, assisted by de Gerando, Costaz, Jamard, the Comte de Lasteyrie and the duc de Doudeauville, the Société d'encouragement pour l'Industrie counted among its members the most important representatives of the industrial and commercial interests of the age. The society proposed for four consecutive years (1827-1830) 35 prices with a total of 115,000 francs, for proposals which would lead to improvement in the 'arts mechaniques, la chimie, l'agriculture, l'économie', or inventions of importance in one of these areas of commercial or industrial activity. The text details the subject for each price and as such gives outstanding information on the actual situation in the mentioned fields. For exemple: for the Arts mècaniques there is a 'prix pour la fabrication des briques, tuiles et carreaux, par machines' and the text outlines the current situation and the use other nations make of such machines and details the specific requirements to be in competition for the price. For the Arts Mécaniques, as for the other subjects, several inventions or improvements are asked for or suggested and in all instances the text outlines the current situation, and describes what is wanted i.e. Agriculture: Pour la construction d'un moulin propre à nettoyer le sarrasin, Pour un semis de pins d'Ecosse (pinus rubra). Arts Chimiques: Pour le prefectionnement des fonderies de fer, etc. etc. The folding table is a recapitulation of the main subjects and the desired inventions, dates for submitting the plans and proposals, and dates for the distribution of the prices and the prices themselves. EUR 600
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RAPPORT de la commission d'enquête sur l'insurrection qui a éclaté dans la journée du 23 juin et sur les événements du 15 mai (1848). (Paris, Imprimerie de l'Assemblée Nationale, 1848). 3 volumes in one. 376 pp.; 335, (1) pp.; 254 (misnumbered 252) pp. 4to. Contemporary red half morocco, corners, marbled boards, spine gilt with gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Bibliothèque Nationale. La Révolution de 1848, 866. Original edition. The events of May 15 deal with a large demonstration mounted by Parisian clubists and workers to pressure the Assembly to send troops to the aid of Poland which escalated into an invasion of the Assembly and the proclamation of a New Provisional Government, including Louis Blanc and other leftists. But the Executive Commission soon dispersed the demonstrators, arrested the most popular leaders -including Albert, Barbès and Blanqui- and suppressed many of the clubs. Draconian laws prohibited street gatherings, consequent mass arrests, and the Assembly's hostility to social reform created a situation electric with fear and anger. This was precipitated into insurrection by the Assembly's decision on 21 June to slash the rolls of the National Workshops. For four days, an unprecedented civil war tore the city in two. The June uprising started with several large gatherings at the Place de la Bastille and at the Pantheon on 22 June and the morning of June 23 and were followed by the erection of hundreds of barricades throughout eastern Paris. The June days then were an insurrection of Parisian workers against the government of the Second Republic which was crushed by the army in the bloodiest street figthing in Paris before the Commune of 1871. Alexis de Tocqueville noted the working-class character in the insurrection, and Karl Marx called the June Days the first great class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. Very valuable source. The rapports contain a.o.: Documents relatifs à Louis Blanc. - Documents relatifs à M. Caussidiére. - Documents relatifs à l'affaire de Belgique. - Actes du Gouvernement provisoire. - Documents sur les Clubs. - Ateliers nationaux. - Documents fournis par les préfectures, etc. The leading man of this 'Commission d'Enquête' was A. Bauchart who was vehemently attacked by Victor Hugo and Louis Blanc. A major and fundamental source for the 1848 revolution. - Quire 10 in the third volume disbound but complete. EUR 1000
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REQUETE aux Deux Chambres. (Drop-head title). Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Lachevardiere, (1828). With one table. 4 pp. 4to. Modern boards. The table is entitled 'Tableau de trente Écoles élémentaires gratuites de Paris, dressé d'après les états trimestriels et mensuels, adressés à la Préfecture du département, pour avril et mai 1828'. Deals with "Société pour l'Instruction élémentaire and the laws of 13 & 14 September 1791 and the law of 1 Mai 1802 concerning public education and the fact that not much has come of it. The text is signed by 'Un membre de la société pour l'Instruction publique'. The Dictionnaire de Pédagogie contains a long article on this society (pp. 2792-2796). EUR 150
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ACTION héroïque de la marquise de Rozerswick. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Rouen, Bonel, (1753). 1 page. Small 4to. Disbound. Defense against gangsters known as 'Miquelets'.On verso of this leaf: RELATION véritable de soixante voleurs et assassineurs, lesquels ont été pris et conduits dans les prisons de Paris. (Drop-head title). No place, (1753). EUR 75
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ANNEE TERRIBLE, L', ou prédictions véritables et remarquables des prodiges étonnans qui doivent arriver en France dans le cours de cette année 1756. (Drop-head title). No place, (1756). 2 pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Reveils the prophecies said to originate from the Near East and communicated by the captain of a merchant ship. The prophecies include that in Paris there will show up many birds of prey, called: 'greffiers, procureurs and huissiers' and that the poor will become poorer, etc. One margin strengthened. EUR 75
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ARREST du Conseil d'Etat du roy, En faveur du dernier emprunt. 30 Décembre 1785. No place, no date (1785). 3, (1) pp. Small 4to. Modern boards. Only edition. Ficticious 'arret', secretly printed (and possibly due to those circumstances not very well printed), forming a violent diatribe against the pillaging of the treasury ('que pendant plus de quinze mois le trésor royal a été en proie à la cupidité de deux hommes dont l'un y a dilapidé plus de 80 million, ....'), and the conditions under which the new loan has been issued. Of course, this pamphlets is not listed in any of the standard bibliographies. EUR 200
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CITATEUR REPUBLICAIN, Le, Recueil de Principes, de Liberté, ou Choix Principaux de Traités de Démocratie extraits de divers Écrits de Philosophie, ancienne et nouvelle. Nouveau Corps d'ouvrage Divisé par Livraisons. Paris, Rouannet, 1834. viii, 324 pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards, label with gilt lettering. Not in Hatin; not in Catalogue Collectif des Périodiques. Complete collection consisting of all 8 parts. This work compiles textes drawn from the works of such authors as Prudhomme, Jacques Roux, Mably, Hélvetius, La Vicomterie, d'Holbach, Lamenais and dealing with subjects such as the freedom of the press, the relation between government and citizen, the necessity of the republic for France, taxes, responsibility of the ministers, death penalty, the constitution, luxury, divorce, etc. etc.A very good copy of this interesting work, some scattered and unobtrusive spotting, and with two original yellow covers (of the first and the seventh 'livraison') bound in, and complete with the 'Rapport des pièces de la publication du Citateur Républicain' and the tables which were supplied after the last number was published. EUR 600
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CONSTITUTIONS des Treize États-Unis de l'Amérique. A Philadelphie, Et se trouve à Paris, Chez Ph. D. Pierres, Pissot père & fils, 1783. With the seal of the United States designed by Franklin on title. (4), 540 pp. Large 8vo. Contemporary quarter mottled roan and with marbled boards, (some restoration to spine, edges worn, a very good and clean copy. Sabin 16118; Streeter Sale, ii, 1035; Leclerc 854; Howes C.716; not in Muller; not in Fay; Livingston, Franklin and his Press at Passy, pp. 181-188; Echeverria & Wilkie 783/24. First French edition. This work contains the constitutions of the thirteen original states of the newly-emerged United States of America. Inspired by Benjamin Franklin, who was then Ambassador to the French court and who had negociated with Great Britain for the independence of the thirteen colonies, six hundred copies were printed of which one hundred were on large-paper. The work was translated by the Duc de la Rochefoucauld, and annotated by him. Included are here the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the several treaties of amity and commerce between the United States and the countries of France, Sweden and the Netherlands.'Franklin's grand gesture in publishing and distributing these constitutions, about which there was an intense interest and curiosity among statesmen, was one of his chief achievements as propagandist for the new American republic' (Streeter). The seal of the United States -eagle, stars and stripes- and designed by Franklin, is not only in the imprint on the title-page, it is also the first use of the seal in a book. - Especially internally a fine, clean copy. EUR 5000
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CONVERSATION familière entre M. le Comte de Falkenstein et Louis XVI. Paris, 1777. 80 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Conlon 77:207; not in Barbier; not in Quérard. First edition. 'A l'époque, l'empereur Joseph II voyageait en France sous le nom de Falkenstein' (Conlon). Fictitious and satirical dialogue between the two rulers on politics and political philosophy. Half-title, title and text all printed within a double line ornamental border. Very nice copy, uncut. EUR 250
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CRI, LE, du Coeur, Dialogue sur l'Édit du Roi du 30 Mai 1774, entre Jacques L'Essouflé, colporteur, et Claude Francoeur Compagnon charbonnier. A Paris, Chez Cailleau, 1774. 16 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Conlon. First edition. Piece in 'vulgar' language, entirely in praise of Louis XVI and his first edict which ordered the 'remise du droit de joyeux avènement' and further stipulated that the payments of interests and reimbursments was to continue on the dates as previously set. The edict was registered on May 30, 1774. EUR 250
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ELANS, LES, d'un Patriote, ou Nouvelles bases politiques. Seconde édition mieux liée, plus précise & plus lucide. En France, et ne se trouve, quant-à-présant, que dans les mains de quelques gens de bien, 1785. (6), 59, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Conlon 85:267; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in INED; unknown to Barbier. Interesting project for a far reaching reform of the administration and the taxes. Based on the Conlon entry, which only gives the first editions of works, this second edition was published in the same year as the first edition. EUR 175
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ESSAI sur la marine, ou l'on propose une nouvelle constitution; Par le Chevalier de ***, ancien officier de la marine. A Amsterdam, 1782. With a folding table. (2), xxiv, 298, (2) pp. 8vo. Sewn, contemporary marbled covers. Conlon 82:272; not in Polak; not in Quérard; not in Barbier; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. Written by someone who served in the navy for some 20 years and who knew that the navy was an indispensable force in any conflict over the colonies or in any conflict with the English. He proposes in this work a great number of reforms and innovations to make the navy more effective, capable of resisting the English and more effective in both protecting foreign possessions as well as commerce and trade.Contains chapters on divisions of the navy and its officers, several types of ships of the navy, organization on the ships and number of actual employed officers, soldiers etc., dealing with discipline, internal policing, necessity of uniforms, necessary education of officers in various fields, new subjects to be included in educational programs and feeding and provisioning.A copy of this book at the New York Public Library has a manuscript note by which the book can possibly be attributed to Charles François Philippe de Charniéres. The note furthermore states that de Charnieres naval career parallels that described in the preface of the work. - Clear spot in lower outer corner, affecting the front cover and the first three leaves. Name on title, an uncut copy. EUR 500
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EXTRAITS du Drapeau Blanc. Paris, A la Librairie Classique Élémentaire, 1823. (6), 100 pp. 8vo. Modern boards, contemporary blind covers preserved. See Hatin, pp. 340 and 345 for the journals Le Défenseur and the Drapeau Blanc. Contains articles by Saint-Victor and several by Lamennais: among which De la Saint-Alliance, De l'Espagne, and Quelques Réflexions sur notre État présent.Most of the collaborators of the Drapeau Blanc had previously been working for Le Défenseur, the short-lived royalist periodical and successor to the much more succesful Conservateur. With the establishment of the Villèle government part of the staff of Le Défenseur identified itself with power, a smaller minority called l'incorruptible, moved to found the Drapeau Blanc.The Drapeau Blanc was an ultraroyalist newspaper of the Restoration and expressed from the start the most extreme ultraroyalist views to be found in the whole of the Restoration press. From 1820 on, the censors removed a great many articles from the Drapeau Blanc.The 'Avertissement' claims that the continuous requests for the reprinting of certain articles has made the present publication necessary in which the more important articles on politics and religious questions are published again. - The first leaf with a repaired tear in the outer blank margin, paper somewhat browned, last part of the volume with a faint stain in the outer blank margin. EUR 400
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HISTOIRE générale du travail. Publiée sous la direction de L.H. Parias. Paris, Nouvelle librairie de France, (1959-61). With many plates and illustrations. 4 volumes. 390 pp.; 374 pp.; 403 pp.; 366 pp. Small 4to. Original boards with dustwrappers. 1. Préhistoire et antiquité. 2. L'âge de l'artisanat (Ve-xviiie siècles). 3. L'ère des révolutions. (1765-1914). 4. La civilisation industrielle. (De 1914 à nos jours). EUR 150
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LETTRE à un petit capitaliste de Province sur les nouvelles entreprises de messageries. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie de Lachevardiere, (1829). 40 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Original edition. Dated: Paris, le 10 décembre 1829.Deals with the monopoly on freight companies and their services. EUR 100
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LETTRES sur la Désertation, la Milice, et sur le recrutement des troupes réglées. No place, 1770. 4 parts in one volume. (2), 35, (1) pp.; 24 pp.; 25, (5) pp.; 19, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, marbled boards (marbled paper a little rubbed). Conlon 70:331. First edition. The first work, dealing with desertion, states among other things that capital punishment is useless ('inutile') as it does not prevent solders from deserting. The second and third part are two 'Lettres sur la Milice', the fourth on the recruitment of regular troops. EUR 300
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MASCARADE, LA. Journal politique. Rédacteur-gérant E.B. Labaume. Year I, nrs 1-3, 5, 7. (February-March 1869). Lyon, Imprimerie Labaume, 1869. 5 nrs. 4 pages each. Folio. Folded, disbound. Not in Catalogue de l'Histoire de France; not in Union List of Serials. The fourth page of each number contains advertisements only. EUR 125
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MEMOIRE sur les États-Généraux; Où l'on a réuni tous les détails relatifs à la convocation aux Assemblées de Bailliages, de Villes & de Paroisses, au nombre & à la qualité des Députés, enfin à la confection des cahiers & à la forme de délibération que l'on suit dans les États. On y a joint des Fragmens considérables du Procès-Verbal des États de 1356, et plusieurs autres Pièces originales. A Lausanne, Et se trouve à Paris, 1788. (4), vi, 188, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt back, marbled boards. First edition. The 'pièces justificatives' give full texts of valuable documents: 'la première sur-tout est importante, parce qu'elle est infiniment rare, et que c'est le plus ancien procès-verbal d'États-Généraux que nous connoissions. Les autres, moins précieuses, sont peut-être plus rare encore: on ne les trouve dans aucun Dépôt public.' Significant for the discussions preceding the Revolution. EUR 175
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NOUVEAU Tableau de Spa, Manuel indispensable à ceux qui fréquentent ce lieu funeste & à tout homme qui veut connoitre les moeurs de ce siecle. No place, 1784. (4), 107, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Conlon 82:652 for the first edition, published in 1782, of 62 pages. Second, largely expanded edition. Satirical piece dealing with the 'healing' qualities of the Spa water. EUR 175
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NOUVELLES Observations sur le défaut de noviciat, sur le mode actuel d'admission, et sur le nobre des Agens de Change de Paris. Par l'Auteur des Observations sur l'Ordonnancedu 29 mai 1816. Paris, Chez G. Dufour, 1821. (2), 31, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. Protesting against the right of the 'syndicat' of the 'agens de change' to present candidates for vacancies, urging to increase the number of 'agens the change' and demanding a term of three years for training for those who wish to become 'agent de change' and requesting that they are able to present 'un certificat de bonne conduite' after these three years and be only allowed into the profession upon the approval of a jury formed by 'banquiers et négocians.' EUR 150
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ORDONNANCE des Trésoriers généraux de France, Grand Voyers en la Généralité de Paris. Sur la largeur des Grands Chemins. Du 17. Decembre 1686. No place, no date (1686). 8 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. - Date of the text handwritten in upper blank margin of title-page, tiny hole in lower blank margin of title-page. Ordonnance dealing with the diminishing width of the roads which creates difficulties for two approaching vehicles to pass each other, with the lack of maintenance of the roads by those who are responsible for maintenance and reiterating the meaning and content of several 'coutumes' and laws. EUR 150
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PIECES heureusement échappées de la France. A Londres, 1775. 35, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Conlon 75:460; Frere, ii, p. 67 (for the first piece only); Weller, Die falschen und fingierten Druckorte, ii, p. 198. First edition. Secretly printed publication containing: 'Haute messe célébrée par l'Abbé Perchel, Conseiller-clerc du ci-devant soi-disant Conseil supérieur de Rouen' (pages 3-13), and 'Oraison funèbre de très-hauts et très-puissants Seigneurs, en leur vivant les gens tenants les Conseils superieurs de France, Prononcée dans la grande salle de l'Hôtel-de-ville de C ... le Lundi 28 Novembre 1774, à l'occasion de l'Enregistrement de l'Edit portant le rétablissement des Parlemens. Par M.D***, Avocat à Rouen' (page 14-35).Violent pieces against the 'Conseils Supérieurs.' The first piece was also directed against the abbé Perchel who had made himself quite unpopular while being active on the Conseil supérieur, or 'parlement Maupeou'. EUR 250
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PIECES intéressantes. No place, no date. - (Bound with:) NOUVELLES pieces intéressantes. No place, no date. - (Bound with:) SUITE des Nouvelles pieces intéressantes. No place, no date. - (Bound with:) SECONDE Suite des Nouvelles pieces intéressantes. No place, no date. - (Bound with:) PIECES très-intéressantes et peu connues sur les États Généraux. No place, 1788. - (Bound with:) NOUVEAU recueil de pieces intéressantes et peu connues, sur les affaires du temps. No place, no date. 6 pieces bound in 1 volume. (2), 34 pp.; (2), 68 pp.; (2), 29, (1) pp.; (2), 22 pp.; (2), 27, (1) pp.; (2), 16 pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards, red label with gilt lettering. - Last piece with a waterstain in upper outer corner, lightly touching the text. Contains, among others: Discours prononcés par M. Séguier, Au Lit de Justice du 8 mai 1788. Sur l'Ordonnance concernant l'administration de la Justice; Discours prononcé par M. d'Aligre, Au lit de Justice du 8 Mai 1788; Lettre du Cardinal de Fleury au Conseil de Louis XVI; Apologie de la Cour Pléniere, Par M. l'Abbé Vélin, de l'Académie des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres, de la Société des Antiquaires de Londres, etc.; Réponse aux Questions d'un Citoyen. Par un Militaire; Protestations que la Noblesse de Toulouse a remises à M. le Comte de Perigord, le 10 Juillet 1788; Réflexions sur l'Ordre du Tiers-Etat. EUR 350
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PUISSE-t-il se trouver! Rêve patriotique. Allemagne (Leipzig), 1814. 103, (1) pp. Small 8vo. Modern boards. Reflections on the political situation in France after the Revolution and the Empire, and developing a political theory for the future. EUR 200
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TRAITE des trois imposteurs. En Suisse, Imprimerie philosophique, 1793. - (Followed by:) PIGAULT-LEBRUN (DE L'ESPINOY, G.C.A.) Le citateur. Nouvelle édition. Paris, Imprimerie de Mocquet et Comp., 1834. With portrait. 2 works bound in 1 volume. (2), 168, iii pp.; 252 pp. 16mo. 19th-century half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments (slightly rubbed and worn). First work: Van der Linde, Spinoza, 102; Abraham Wolf Spinoza Collection, 313. Often attributed to Lucas although not absolutely proven to be a correct attribution. The 'coterie holbachique' did much to promote this anti-religious text in which Jesus, Mohammed and Spinoza are considered to have been impostors. See at length: Presser, De tribus impostoribus, p. 164 and Van der Linde, Spinoza.'Contrary to what one would believe, this is not the French translation of the well-known Latin treatise 'De Tribus impostoribus' but the same as L'Esprit de Spinosa, most likely written by Lucas. The book was placed on the Index in 1783' (Abraham Wolf Spinoza Collection, note to number 309). Jonathan I. Israel, in his great work Radical Enlightenment. Philosophy and the making of Modernity 1650-1750, deals with this text and its history, meaning and impact (pp. 695-700). Second work: Drujon 94.Forbidden because of its attack on the Bible, the book was originally published in 1803, and placed on the Index in 1825. Every new edition of this work caused an outcry and provoked the call for banishment of the book. EUR 450
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VOYAGE de Robertson aux Terres Australes, traduit sur le manuscrit anglois. Amsterdam (France), 1767. (4), 474 pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, green label with gilt lettering. Hartig 59; Trousson pp. 161-162; Gove p. 356; INED 3858; cf.: Negley 979. The first edition appeared in 1766. Utopian account of which it is suggested that it is a translation from the English. The work is evidently inspired by the Physiocratic ideas and draws also inspiration from Rousseau's Contrat Social. Contains also political, economical and moral ideas, points to the importance of agriculture and population, and pleads for the nationalization of the trade. The Encyclopedists appear as the 'Pansophistes' and are criticized (pp. 146 and ff.) The main story is that the hero has sailed with Sir Francis Drake to South America and, by his narrative, to have inspired William Penn to found an ideal city in North America. EUR 800
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(AUFFRAY, J.) Idées patriotiques, sur la nécessité de rendre la liberté au commerce. A Lyon, Chez Louis Cutty, 1762. 38 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Goldsmiths 9761; Higgs 2711; INED 135; Masui, p. 397; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; Conlon 62:564; not in Mattioli. First edition, scarce. Twelve suggestions pertaining to the 'réglementation des corporations commerçantes' to further freedom (of trade). Jean Auffray was closely attached to Baudeau and Dupont de Nemours and the other économistes, he was one of the editors of the Éphémerides and of the first Gazettes dealing with agriculture and commerce. 'Citoyen zélé mais écrivain médiocre, il n'obtint pas la réputation que devaient lui mériter les vues utiles répandues dans ses différents ouvrages' (Coquelin & Guillaumin, i, p. 96.) - Nice copy, partly uncut. EUR 800
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(BARANTE, A.G.P. BRUGIERE DE.) De la Littérature Française pendant le dix-huitième siècle. A Paris, Chez Léopold Colin, 1809. (4), 267, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with green label and gilt lettering, marbled boards. Brunet, i, col. 643. First edition. - Outer lower blank margin of pp. 259-260 torn off without affecting the text. The work was published in 1808 although it was written as early as 1805. The work 'attira immédiatement l'attention du public. L'ouvrage eut de multiples éditions et devint fort populaire. L'auteur considérait la littérature dans son influence sur les idées, les moeurs et les croyances de la nation. Mme de Staël lui consacra une critique élogieuse, contribuant à lancer son ami dans les voies de la célébrité littéraire' (Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, vol. 5, col. 177-178). EUR 250
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(BARBEU-DUBOURG, J.) Petit Code de la Raison Humaine, ou Exposition succinte de ce que dicte à tous les hommes, Pour éclairer leur conduite & assurer leur bonheur. Par M.B.D. (Paris), 1789. (iii)-xxii (misnumbered xxiv), 112 (misnumbered 114) pp. 12mo. Modern half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering. Echeverria & Wilkie 789/7; INED 218; no edition in Kress; no edition in Goldsmiths; no edition in Einaudi; not in Sabin. Final edition of this little collection of 102 maxims and reflexions forming a perfect abridged statement of the philosophy of the Enlightenment.'Both signatures a and b have had the first leaf of each cancelled; no located copy still has them present' (Echeverria & Wilkie). After the half-title and title the numbering of the prelims is: vii-ix, verso of ix an unnumbered blank page, ix again, verso numbered xii, xv-xxiv. This is a copy with a5r numbered ix (see Echeverria & Wilkie). The dedication is 'A Monsieur B.F. (i.e. Benjamin Franklin). - Small tear in outer blank margin of the title-page and a few unobtrusive spots, verso title-page and recto last page with strengthened inner margin. The first edition was published in 1774 and a second one was printed in 1782 in Paris on the press of Benjamin Franklin. Livingston (19) writes: 'It was again printed in 1789, a close copy, typographically, of Franklin's Passy press edition, and this is the only edition recorded in the Catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale (1914).' According to Quérard (I, 175), this edition 'est plus complète que les autres', and he adds 'ce petit traité renferme beaucoup d'idées sur le commerce maritime.' 'Éloge de la famille et du mariage, du travail, de la tolérance. Défense du droit de propriété et de l'impôt foncier. Idées agrariennes sur la population et l'agriculture' (INED). On page 87 these lines on the USA: 'La Pensylvanie est le premier pays policé de l'univers où la tolérance réciproque de tous les cultes religieux ait été garantie par une loi authentique.'The pages 89-90 are omitted in the numbering, page (91)-end contains notes to the various maxims. EUR 900
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(BARGETON, D.) Lettres. Ne repugnate vestro bono, & hanc spem, dum ad verum pervenitis, alite in animis; libenterque meliora excipite & opinione ac voto juvate. Dernière édition, revûë, & considerablement augmentée avec Notes. A Londres, 1750. (4), 40 pp.; 300 pp.; 36 pp.; 31, (1) pp.; 67, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with red label with gilt lettering (very lightly rubbed). Stourm, p. 80; Conlon 50:340; Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, 5, pp. 456-457. Fourth edition. This is an extremely important work: 'Ces lettres devinrent le principal point de départ des discussions pour et contre l'imposition des biens ecclésiastiques. Un seul arrêt du Parlement en supprima près de quarante' (Stourm). - Last text with large waterstain. Daniel Bargeton (1678-1757), studied law in Toulouse and was received at the bar in 1698. After the death of Louis XIV he entered the service of the Duc du Maine. He later became one of the collaborators of the d'Aguesseau and composed in 1749 a work (the present one) against the immunity of the eclessiastical goods. The King approved of the work and the author received 3000 livres. The work had an immediate succes going through four editions within a year. The reaction of the church was predicatable: they opposed the work and succeeded in having the Lettres suppressed by an arrêt du Parlement on June 1, 1750. It is composed of four letters and the Remonstrances du Clergé, Présentées au Roi, le 24 Août 1749, au sujet de la levée du Vingtiéme. The book was apparently written on instigation of the general controller Machault in an attempt to introduce the new tax (the 'vingtième'). It is also one of the first works advocating equality on matters of taxation and pointing to the fact that the clergy has no real claims to being exempted of taxation. The text of the work is in French, despite the Latin title. The work produced a large number of replies among which Duranthon's Réponse aux lettres contre l'immunité des biens ecclésiastiques and works by Beauvais, Chauvelin, Constantin, and others, numbering over 30 in total. EUR 375
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(BEAURIEU, G.G. DE.) L'élève de la nature. Nouvelle édition avec figures. A Paris, Chez J.G. Mérigot jeune, 1793. With 3 engraved frontispieces. 3 volumes. 195 pp.; 196 pp.;204 pp. 12mo. Modern boards. Gove, pp. 350-352; Lichtenberger, Le Socialisme Utopique, chapitre IV; cf.: Hartig & Soboul, p. 58; Valette 16; Kress 6522; cf.: INED 348; not in Negley; not in Versins. Integral re-edition published during the Revolution, of this utopian account of physiocratic inspiration. Including also the 'Lettres à l'auteur des Ephémérides du Citoyen (P.S. Dupont de Nemours) sur un pays très florissant où il n'y a point de villes', dealing with 'Nouvelle Yorck', 'La Virginie' and 'Williams-Burg'. The work was first published in 1763 and was clearly inspired by Rousseau's Emile.'(Beaurieu) avait la passion des enfants et s'occupait sans cesse de leur éducation (.....). Il conçut l'idée d'exécuter pratiquement 'L'Elève de la Nature' en faisant des expériences sur deux couples séparés (.....). C'est comme un exemple singulier de ces illusions morales, pédagogiques et humanitaires, dont le rôle effectif fut considérable, que j'ai cru pouvoir rappeler le nom oublié du pauvre Beaurieu' (Lichtenberger). EUR 500
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(BEAUSOBRE, L. DE.) Essai sur le Bonheur, ou Réflexions Philosophiques sur les biens et les maux de la vie humaine. A Berlin, Chez A. Haude & J.C. Spener, 1758. 220 pp. 12mo. Contemporary boards, paper labels to spine. Conlon 58:493; Schosler, p. 26; Cioranescu 10861. First edition, rare. Louis de Beausobre (1730-1783), son of Isaac de Beausobre, French author born in Berlin into a family of emigrated protestants. Frederic the Great took care of his education and made him his advisor for French affairs. He became a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences in 1753.This work is a defense of philosophical optimism echoeing the 'tout est bien' conclusions that many derived from Leibniz's Theodicy. He elaborates on this theory before entering into a detailed defense of it, examining the differences between what came to be known as natural evil and moral evil. - Bound in at the end the catalogue of Cl. and Ant. Philibert of 'Livres qui se trouvent en nombre, ou qui sont sous Presse à Geneve & à Coppenhague'. With the Lasberg library label on spine. EUR 900
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(BELLEPIERRE DE NEUVE-EGLISE, L.J.) Le Patriote artesien. Dédié à Monseigneur le Comte d'Artois. Par M. de ***, ancien Officier de Cavalerie. A Paris, Chez Despilly, Le Clerc, 1761. With engraved frontispiece. xvi, 341, (3) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red edges. INED 382; Higgs 2578; Musset-Pathay 1514; not in Kress; Goldsmiths, and Einaudi. First edition. 'Agronomique. De la décadence de l'agriculture, du commerce et des arts dans la province d'Artois, et des moyens de les ranimer. 'Ce n'est pas dans la simple agriculture que consiste le seul bonheur d'un État; c'est dans tous les Arts de nécessité première'' (INED).Contains statistical information on all sorts of commerce in all sorts of products among which wine, cotton, fish, tobacco, etc. as well as on a large number of professions: Peintres, Boulangers, Bouchers, Traiteurs, Miroitiers, Potiers, etc. - Small stamp on title. Very good copy. EUR 750
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(BERINGTON, S.) Mémoires de Gaudence de Lucques, prisonnier de l'Inquisition, augmentée de plusieurs cahiers qui avoient été perdus à la douane de Marseille, enrichis des savantes remarques de M. Rhedi, et de figures en taille-douce. A Amsterdam, & se trouve à Liège, Chez F.J. Desoer, 1777. With 4 engraved frontispieces. 4 parts in2 volumes. 147 pp.; (4), 143 pp.; (4) 144 pp.; (4) 164 pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt in compartments, labels with gilt lettering, marbled edges. Gove p. 297; Versins p. 108; cf.: Hartig 50; Trousson pp. 143-144 & 266; Negley 93. Augmented edition of this at the time immense popular adventure-utopia. The original edition appeared in London in 1737 as The memoirs of Sigr. Gaudentio di Lucca. It was mistakenly attributed to Bishop Berkeley. It was not until 1935 that the true author was identified (Lee M. Ellison, Gaudentio Di Lucca, a forgotten utopia 1935). With Berkeley as its supposed author this utopia 'attained to a rank and dignity comparable to that of the Republic of Plato, the Utopia of Sir Thomas More, and the New Atlantis of Lord Bacon' (Ellison). This version was translated from the English by Milts and revised by Saint-Germain, who in the process added several ideas of his own, and it was augmented by Dupuy Demportes. Thus it became one of the most important imitations of the Histoire de Sévarambes by Vairasse d'Alais. The basic story is the confession of Gaudence before the Inquisition about his adventures and travels in and to the land of the Mezzoranies. In this land there were hardly any laws, there was abundance, equality, no death penalty, public warehouses and only one road connected with the outside world. EUR 800
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(BERNARD, J.) Discours prononcé par le Père François Gérard, Électeur de St.-Martin devant les Électeurs de sa Commune et Grand nombre d'assistans jeunes et vieux. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie de Goetschy, (1830). 4 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. First edition. Spirited pamphlet, forming part of the publications from the society 'Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera', and attacking the ultra's in power and urging the people to vote in the upcoming election.The society 'Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera' was formed to aid opposition candidates for election to the Chamber of Deputies in the period 1827-1834. It was directed by a central committee in Paris and operated through a network of local committees and agents throughout the country. After the Revolution of 1830, the original directors of the society (among whom Barrot, Guizot and de Rémusat) withdrew, and leadership passed to young republicans, including Godefroy Cavaignac, Etienne Garnier-Pagès, and Louis Blanc. Under their direction the society published pamphlets, distributed letters of political intelligence and advice to members. EUR 75
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(BLANCHET, J.) L'Homme éclairé par ses besoins. A Paris, Chez Durand le Neveu, 1764. (4), 355, (5, Approbation, privilège, errata, table) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with label and gilt lettering, all edges red, very lightly rubbed. INED 532; Conlon 64:579; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Higgs. First edition. 'Des besoins et des passions d'où ont dérivé les connoissances humaines. Passages sur l'esprit de proprieté, les excès du luxe, l'excellence de l'agriculture, la répartition des impôts, la population, le mariage, le divorce et le célibat: ...' (INED). - Name of the author written on the title in a contemporary hand. EUR 450
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(BOISGELIN DE CUCE, JEAN DE DIEU-RAYMOND.) Précis des Conférences des Commissaires du Clergé, avec les Commissaires du Conseil, Concernant la demande faite aux Bénéficiers, de la prestation des Foi & Hommages, Aveux &Dénombrements, pour les Fiefs, dépendants des Bénéfices dans la mouvance du Roi. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Guillaume Desprez, 1786. 186, (4, errata) pp. 4to. Contemporary blue paper over boards (slightly rubbed). Martin & Walter 3778; Catalogue de l'Histoire de France, v, p. 440; Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique, ii, p. 942-943; Lemay, Dictionnaire des Constituants, p. 105. First edition. 'Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Cucé de Boisgelin, cardinal, l'un des prélats de France les plus connus de la fin du XVIIIe siècle et l'un des principaux défenseurs de l'Eglise dans la crise révolutionnaire. On le voit figurer aux assemblées du clergé et à l'Assemblée des Notables' (Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique). 'Elu aux États généraux en 1789, il s'opposa, en juin, à la réunion des trois ordres, se prononça contre l'abandon des biens du clergé et contre la suppression de la dîme, mais offrit au nom du clergé une somme de 400 millions. Élu président pour quinze jours, le 25 novembre 1789, il essaya en 1790 de s'opposer à la Constitution civile du clergé, en proposant de réunir un concile national pour réorganiser l'Église en France' (Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, vi, p. 818).Bound before this text is the following: INSTRUCTION dressée par la Commission du Clergé, par la demande faite aux Bénificiers, des Foi & Hommage, Aveux & Dénombrements. (Drop-head title). Paris, de l'Imprimerie de G. Desprez, 1785. 60 pp. 4to. EUR 900
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(BOISGUILBERT, P. LE PESANT DE.) Le détail de la France, sous le regne present. Augmentée en cette nouvelle Édition, de plusieurs Mémoires & Traitez, sur la même matiere. No place (Rouen?), Année 1707. 2 volumes in 1. (2), 294 pp.; (2), 300 (misnumbered 302, 277-278 omitted in numbering), 12 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, spine damaged at head and foot, rear cover damaged, front joint tender. Kress 2542; Goldsmiths 4429 & 4430; Einaudi 581; Carpenter VIII (9); INED, Pierre de Boisguilbert où la naissance de l'économie politique, i, p. 495 ff; Gerits, A., Le Détail de la France in Quaerendo, vol 16/3 (1986), pp. 198-207. One of at least 7 editions published in 1707. The 12 pages at the end of volume two are printed in a small caracter and contains the supplement, here written with one 'p' and which is only rarely found. Aiiii and Aiii in the supplement have been interchanged. 'In the second half of the seventeenth century the great advance in economic theory and method had been concentrated mainly in England. The appearance of the first writings of Pierre de Boisguilbert, notably his Détail de la France (first published in 1695), can be taken as a sign that eventually, in the course of the eighteenth century, pre-eminence in political economy would pass to France - before subsequently being assumed by Scotland. As regards France, the title of the definitive edition of Boisguilbert's writings (1966) is well justified: Pierre de Boisguilbert: où la naissance de l'économie politique ...... Boisguilbert regarded the economic situation of France as one of disastrous decline and widespread poverty, and he began to study, with mounting passion, the causes and policies in the preceding decades which had brought this about. The depression seemed to have been specially severe in agriculture, which had suffered from Colbert's policy of favouring industrial development. Whether or not his alarming assessment of France's economic decline was correct, Boisguilbert, in seeking to analyse and establish the causes of what had happened, made general, theoretical and conceptual contributions of fundamental importance, including, among others, such monetary, or macro-economic, concepts, clearly though precisely formulated as: the propensity to consume or save, the velocity of circulation, the state of confidence, the expectations of businessmen, multiplying or cumulative effects, and, especially, the fundamental notion of equilibrium (Hutchison, T., Before Adam Smith. The Emergence of Political Economy 1662-1776, pp. 107-115). Boisguilbert was 'chiefly preoccupied with the problem of French fiscal policy and nearly as fact-minded as was Vauban, he differed from the latter not only in the much wider scope of his interests but also in the fact that he was theoretically articulate - perhaps more so than any other writer before Cantillon' (Schumpeter, p. 215 note). 'Boisguilbert is largely remembered as a precursor of the Physiocrats and as the economist whom Marx linked with Petty as marking the start of classical political economy. His influence was undoubtedly more extensive: much of Cantillon's circular flow analysis appears inspired by his work; while Roberts in his Boisguilbert, Economist of the Reign of Louis XIV, (1935) argues for considerable similarity between his fundamental economic ideas and some of Adam Smith's' (New Palgrave, i, p. 259). EUR 1500
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(BOISGUILBERT, P. LE PESANT DE.) Le détail de la France, sous le regne present. Augmentée en cette nouvelle Édition, de plusieurs Mémoires & Traitez, sur la même matiere. No place (Rouen?), Année 1707. 2 volumes in 1. (2), 294 pp.; (2), 300 (misnumbered 302, 277-278 omitted in numbering) pp. 8vo. Contemporary green vellum, raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, red edges. Kress 2542; Goldsmiths 4429 & 4430; Einaudi 581; Mattioli 370; Carpenter VIII (9); INED, Pierre de Boisguilbert où la naissance de l'économie politique, i, p. 495 ff; Gerits, A., Le Détail de la France in 'Quaerendo', vol 16/3 (1986), pp. 198-207. One of at least 7 editions published in 1707. This is the edition normally found, without the rare supplement of 12 pages. The last line on page 294 (volume 1) contains only the word 'place'. There are copies from the same year and the same pagination were the last line on page 294 ends with the words 'éclairez que ceux qui se trouvent en place.' In the second half of the seventeenth century the great advance in economic theory and method had been concentrated mainly in England. The appearance of the first writings of Pierre de Boisguilbert, notably his Détail de la France (first published in 1695), can be taken as a sign that eventually, in the course of the eighteenth century, pre-eminence in political economy would pass to France - before subsequently being assumed by Scotland. As regards France, the title of the definitive edition of Boisguilbert's writings (1966) is well justified: Pierre de Boisguilbert: où la naissance de l'économie politique ...... Boisguilbert regarded the economic situation of France as one of disastrous decline and widespread poverty, and he began to study, with mounting passion, the causes and policies in the preceding decades which had brought this about. The depression seemed to have been specially severe in agriculture, which had suffered from Colbert's policy of favouring industrial development. Whether or not his alarming assessment of France's economic decline was correct, Boisguilbert, in seeking to analyse and establish the causes of what had happened, made general, theoretical and conceptual contributions of fundamental importance, including, among others, such monetary, or macro-economic, concepts, clearly though precisely formulated as: the propensity to consume or save, the velocity of circulation, the state of confidence, the expectations of businessmen, multiplying or cumulative effects, and, especially, the fundamental notion of equilibrium (Hutchison, T., Before Adam Smith. The Emergence of Political Economy 1662-1776, pp. 107-115). Boisguilbert was 'chiefly preoccupied with the problem of French fiscal policy and nearly as fact-minded as was Vauban, he differed from the latter not only in the much wider scope of his interests but also in the fact that he was theoretically articulate - perhaps more so than any other writer before Cantillon' (Schumpeter, p. 215 note). 'Boisguilbert is largely remembered as a precursor of the Physiocrats and as the economist whom Marx linked with Petty as marking the start of classical political economy. His influence was undoubtedly more extensive: much of Cantillon's circular flow analysis appears inspired by his work; while Roberts in his Boisguilbert, Economist of the Reign of Louis XIV, (1935) argues for considerable similarity between his fundamental economic ideas and some of Adam Smith's' (New Palgrave, i, p. 259). EUR 1500
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(BOISSEL, F.) Le cathéchisme du Genre Humain, dénoncé par le ci-devant évêque de Clermont, à la Séance du 3 novembre 1789..... avec deux adresses à la Nation Françoise l'une en faveur de sa Constitution ..... l'autre contre les principales institutions de son nouveau régime ..... 2e éd., revue et corrigée et augmentée. A Paris 1792. - (Followed by:) ADRESSE à la Nation Françoise. (Drop-head title). No place, no date (Paris, EDHIS, 1967). Two works in one volume. (2), vi, 240 pp.; 40 pp. 8vo. Boards. Reprint of this rare and important work in a limited and numbered edition of 500 copies. The best edition of this most important socialist work, containing the 'Plan de cadastre de Babeuf' which had been published at the beginning of the great Revolution, Boissel proposes a plan of reformation aiming to perfect equality and community of men. A social philosophy severely criticising institutions and customs, and suggesting a complete change through education which should be available for all and denouncing property, marriage and religion as oppressive and as the cause of inequality. EUR 150
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(BORDELON, L.) Entretiens serieux et comiques des cheminées de Paris. A Paris, Chez Prault, 1712. 22 pp. 12mo. Modern boards. Conlon, Prélude, 16218. First edition. The Abbé Laurent was a polygraph, a number of his works deals with philosophy and religion.This is the original edition of a work later expanded with another 8 dialogues and published in 1736 (see D.J. Adams, Bibliographie d'ouvrages français en form de dialogue, 1700-1715, 224).This orignal edition contains four dialogues in which the habits and customs of the period are discussed.At the end two pages with a list of books 'qui se vendent en la même Boutique.' EUR 250
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(BOUHOURS, D.) La manière de Bien Penser dans les Ouvrages d'Esprit. Dialogues. Troisième Édition, revûe & corrigée. A Amsterdam, Chez Pierre Mortier, 1705. With engraved frontispiece and title-vignette. (8), 463, 33pp. 12mo. Later overlapping vellum, red label with gilt lettering (remains of old paper label). This edition not in Adams, Bibliographie d'ouvrages français en forme de dialogue, 1700-1750; Brunet, i, 1169 (other editons); Sommervogel, Dictionnaire des Ouvrages Anonymnes et Pseudonymes publiés par les Religieux de la Compagnie de Jésus, p. 540 (other editions). Scarce third edition, originally published in 1687. - Somewhat browned throughout, with modern bookplate. Dominique Bouhours (1628-1702) taught, among others, at the collège de Clermont where he was introduced to the literary circles by Rapin. He met and became befriended with Boilleau, Racine, La Fontaine, La Bruyère and Bussy-Rabutin. His taste and knowledge of language brought him into a position where writers 'lui soumettaient leurs ouvrages.' His name became known when he entered into a vived debate with the Jansenists. EUR 400
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(BOUREAU DESLANDES, A.F.) Essay sur la marine et sur le commerce. No place, 1743. 176 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands (somewhat rubbed and shaved, small defects to covers.) Polak 1130; Sabin 19744 (English translation only); Alden & Landis 743/67; JFBL D200 (Amsterdam edition from the same year); Conlon 43:288; Kress 4651; Goldsmith 7971; Einaudi 661; INED 737. First edition, one of two different editions; there is also one published at Amsterdam, chez François Changuion, same year, in 189 pages. No priority established. - A few pages with a faint waterstain in upper half, tear in page 47-48 touching some letters but not affecting legibility. 'Place tenue par la marine chez les peuples de l'antiquité et en France depuis le commencement de la monarchie. "La Marine soutenue par l'autorité royale doit servir à protéger le commerce, à l'étendre, à lui donner chaque jour de nouveau accroissemens, et (....) le commerce doit servir à introduire l'abondance et toute sorte de richesses dans le royaume, à le rendre aussi puissant qu'il peut être." Critique de luxe, éloge des manufactures: l'une des plus graves conséquences de la révocation de l'Edit de Nantes fut le départ d'ouvriers, il faudrait imiter Edouard IV qui fit venir en Angleterre des ouvriers spécialisés' (INED).Includes interesting details relating to America, particularly the design of Cromwell to become possessor of that country, the expedition of Thomas Gage, etc. Also pleading for the introduction of foreign specialists into France to stimulate industry and trade. The author is also listed under Deslandes in several reference works. EUR 600
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(BOURRU, E.C.) L'Art de se traiter soi-même dans les maladies vénériennes, et de se guérir de leurs différens symptômes. Ouvrage fondé sur une nouvelle théorie de ces maladies, & dans lequel on explique, d'une maniere plus vraisemblable, l'opération des remedes employés à leur traitement. Par M.***, Docteur-Régent de la Faculté de Médecine en l'Université de Paris. A Paris, Chez J.P. Costard, 1770. With head and tail pieces. xxxvi, 487, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red morocco label with gilt lettering, red edges, joints a bit rubbed. Blake, p. 61; Wellcome, ii, p. 215. First edition. Bourru was librarian of the faculty of medicine in Paris. He published mostly on venereal diseases and this is one of his popular treatises. EUR 300
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(CAMPOMANES, P.D. DE.) Discurso sobre el fomento de la industria popular. Madrid, En la Imprenta de D. Antonio de Sancha, 1774. (8), 198 pp. (Roman numbering). 8vo. Contemporary half calf, corners, marbled boards, red label with gilt lettering (somewhat rubbed, sides somewhat shaved). Kress 6998; Goldsmiths 11127; Einaudi 821; Higgs 5957; not in Colmeiro. First edition of this important book of which Venturi wrote: 'one of the fundamental books of the Spanish Enlightenment' (F. Venturi, Italy and the Enlightenment. Studies in a Cosmopolitan Century, p. 274). - The first 7 leaves have been bound in reversed order. A good copy of a scarce and important work. 'Pedro Rodriguez de Campomanes (1723-1802), an eminent Spanish jurist, economist and statesman. As a member of the group of enlightened ministers who gave lustre to the reign of Charles III, he laboured for the reform of taxation, the promotion of agriculture and manufactures, the diffusion of education and the adaptation of Spanish institutions to the needs of the age. Eminently upright and disinterested, he was one of the foremost benefactors of his country. His theoretic views and practical efforts strikingly resemble those of his illustrious contemporary Turgot' (Palgrave, i, p. 208). 'A man of wide culture and great ability, he tried his hand, both in office and out of it, on the great economic problems of his time and country. Of his writings, the one most relevant to our purpose is his Discurso sobre el fomento de la industria popular, which was to move McCulloch to fervent eulogy.' 'They (Campomanes and Jovellanos) were practical reformers in the line of economic liberalism, and neither bothered about nor contributed to the progress of analysis. But they understood the economic process better than did many a theorist. And, in view of the date of Campomanes Discurso (1774) it is not without interest to observe how little, if anything, he stood to learn from the Wealth of Nations' (Schumpeter, p. 172-173 and note). The Discurso sobre al fomento .... and the Discurso sobre la Educacion Popular .... 'are intended to show the dignity and importance of arts and manufactures; the patronage to which they are entitled; the drawbacks under which they laboured in Spain from corporation priviliges and vicious taxes and regulations; and the many advantages that would result from the systematic and judicious training of those engaged in them' (McCulloch, p. 361). EUR 900
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(CAPMARTIN DE CHAUPY, B.) Observations sur le refus que fait le Chastelet de reconnoître la Chambre Royale. En France, 1754. (2), 258 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering. Conlon 54:522; Catalogue de l'Histoire de France, v, p. 242, 2610. First edition. - Small stain in upper margin of title-page and first few pages, copy with wide margins, rare. Bertrand Capmartin de Chaupy (1720-1798) shows himself in this work 'le champion de l'autorité la plus absolue' (Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, vii, p. 1070.) EUR 600
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(CARLI, G.R.) L'Uomo Libero ossia Ragionamenti sulla Libertà naturale e civile dell'Uomo. Edizione Seconda Riscontrata, corretta, ed accresciuta sull'Originale dell'Autore. In Milano, Nell' Imperial Monistero di S. Ambrogio Magg. Per Antonio Agnelli, 1779. Engraved title vignette, title-page laid down. 196 pp. 12mo. Contemporary full vellum, labels with gilt lettering, foot of spine chipped. Feltrinelli, 99. Second enlarged edition of this quite rare work directed against the principles championed by Hobbes and Rousseau concerning human liberty. It was considered of exceptional importance to the Italian Enlightenment. Carli, one of the main figures of the Italian Enlightenment, was together with Beccaria and Verri the leading intellectual of the 'École de Milan.'In this stringent criticism of Rousseau's Contrat Social he formulates his picture of an anti-egalitarian society in strict opposition to Rousseau. 'Men are condemned by nature to a state of permanent inequality, physical, moral and economic. It is not an accident that society is divided into two classes, rich and poor. Unlike Verri, for whom economic development had in itself the power to improve the conditions of the poorer classes by allowing them to participate in consumption, and unlike Beccaria who continued to see inequality as the chief problem to be solved, Carli was convinced that development would increase not only inequality but also class conflict. The only remedy was the power of the sovereign, of a monarch who could guard against despotism but at the same time defend civil society against anarchy' (Carpanetto and Ricuperati, Italy in the Age of Reason, 1685-1789, p. 270). Carli exposes the myth of a power, which by limiting ownership and liberty, ensured -through strong centralization - the safety and happiness of his subjects and he remained convinced that politics consisted of adjustments and cautious provisions rather than of radical reform. - With contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, earlier inscription crossed out. A very nice copy. EUR 2000
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(CASTEL) DE SAINT-PIERRE, (CH.I.) Discours sur la Polysynodie, où l'on démontre Que la Polysynodie, ou pluralité des Conseils, est la forme de Ministère la plus avantageuse pour un Roi, & pour son Royaume. Par M. l'Abbé de Saint Pierre, ci-devant de l'Académie Françoise. A Amsterdam, Chez du Villard & Changuion, 1719. Title printed in red and black, with a charming vignette. 265, (6, Table des Matières), (13, publisher's catalogue) pp. 12mo. Near contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands and red label with gilt lettering. Einaudi 931; Peignot, ii, p. 109; Cioranescu 58697; no copies in NUC. Second and augmented edition. In this very rare and important work Castel de Saint-Pierre proposes that enlightened despotism (which he favored) be tempered by a complex system of councils; an important feature of the system was to be a political academy of forty experts, who should be appointed by the king upon nomination by the heads of the great corporations -magistracy, clergy and nobility- and who should in turn recommand candidates for the principal state offices, in addition to studying all political questions. This government, which Castel called 'aristomonarchy', would both deny any political role to the masses and strictly limit the functions of the hereditary nobility, to whom the abbé was hostile.At the time of publication the book was considered to be 'une attaque insultante contre le feu roi.' The Académie française was outraged and the abbé was excluded from this illustrious body without him being given the opportunity to explain the contents of his book. The first edition was printed in a very limited number of copies only, and this second edition was published after the expulsion of Castel de Saint-Pierre from the Académie française: the title-page states that the author was 'formerly of the Académie Françoise.'In fact this book proposes a decentralized system of government, a theory close to those held by the Duc de Bourgogne and his circles and announcing Montesquieu.Contains furthermore the two letters to M. de Sacy concerning Castel de Saint-Pierre's expulsion from the Académie Française. De Sacy was in fact one of the few supporters of Saint-Pierre in the Academy. EUR 2500
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(CHAMOUSSET, CL. H. PIARRON DE.) Vues d'un Citoyen. A Paris, Chez Lambert, 1757 (Paris, EDHIS, 1970). 2 volumes in one. (8), 239, (1) pp.; (6), 277, (5) pp. 12mo. Imitating a contemporary binding in full calf, spine gilt in compartments, labels with gilt lettering, red edges. INED 3575; Kress S.4093; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Higgs 1500. Reprint of the very rare first edition of this important work. The reprint has been published in a limited and numbered edition of 250 copies and 30 destined not for the trade and is since long out-of-print. This work contains the Mémoires sur la conservation des enfants, Plan d'une maison d'association avec addition et éclaircissements, and the Plan général pour l'administration des hopitaux. All of these were separately published in previous years and are described in detail in INED, nrs 3572-3574.In one of the memoirs dealing with foundlings the author outlines a plan to diminish the mortality-rate and improve their lot by suggesting that these children should be put to work in the colonization of Louisiana.Chamousset was one of the most eminent personalities of the 18th-century where the fight against pauperism and mendicity is concerned. He devoted his entire life, his social position and the considerable means at his disposal to the improvement of the conditions of the workers, the relief of the disabled, the sick and the poor, he tranformed his house into a hospital where the sick of both sexes were received and helped for free and where they received compensation for the losses suffred from their illness and its treatment once they were cured and left. He was the first who had the idea of founding mutual aid societies where the workers, paying a small weekly fee, were granted first class medical help in case of illness: He is understandably credited with being the precursor of the Friendly Society in his conception of the Maison d'association. EUR 250
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(CHAMPLAIR.) L'Ami de la Concorde, ou Essai sur les motifs d'éviter les procès et sur les Moyens d'en tirer la source. Par un Avocat au Parlement. Londres, 1765. With engraved folding frontispiece, mounted on a stub. 102 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Conlon 65:649. First edition. Divided into two parts: the first explains the legal procedures before the courts, the risks, the cost, etc., and in the second part the author proposed means to dimish the number of trials, by way of instruction of youth. - Very lightly browned, small repair to outer blank margin of title-page. EUR 225
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(CHEMIN-DUPONTES, J.B.) Année religieuse des Théophilantropes, ou Adorateurs de Dieu, et amis des hommes; Recueil de discours et extraits sur la religion et la morale universelle, pour être lus pendant le cours de l'année, soit dans les temples publics, soit dans les familles. Paris, au Bureau des ouvrages de la Théophilantropie, an VI - 1797. 4 volumes. 167, 4 pp.; 182, 4 pp.; 162 pp.; 131 pp. 16mo. Contemporary blue marbled boards. Cf.: Martin & Walter 7194. Theophilantrophy, a synthetic religion that flourished briefly under the Directory. The Parisian bookseller and former freemason, J.-B. Chemin-Dupontès wrote in September 1796 a pamphlet, Manuel des Théopanthrophiles, a term later changed to théophilantropes, meaning 'lovers of God and man.' The movement spread slowly and by May 1797 the movement was noted by the press. By the end of the year it began to expand, producing a yearbook and creating branches throughout the country. The movement reached its peak in the autumn of 1798 when it had fifteen churches in Paris alone. Outside Paris, it had strength in the department of the Seine and cells in former centers of dechristianization like Dijon, Macon, and Auxerre. Its services consisted of readings, drawn from an eclectic range of materials, hymns, either set in plain song or the chant de départ, and moralizing addresses. EUR 300
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(CHEMIN-DUPONTES, J.B.) Manuel des Théophilantropes, ou adorateurs de Dieu et amis des hommes; contenant l'exposition de leurs dogmes, de leur morale et de leurs pratiques religieuses, avec une instruction sur l'organisation et la célébration du culte. Rédigé par C***. Paris, au bureau des ouvrages de la Théophilantropes, an VI, 1798. With coloured frontispiece - (Followed by:) (CHEMIN-DUPONTES, J.B.) Instruction élémentaire sur la morale religieuse, par demande et réponses, rédigée par C***. Paris, au Bureau du courier de la librairie, an VI, 1798. - (Followed by:) (CHEMIN-DUPONTES, J.B.) Recueil de cantiques, hymnes et odes, pour les fêtes religieuses et morales des Théophilantropes, ou adorateurs de Dieu et amis des hommes, précédé des invocations et formules qu'ils récitent dans lesdites fêtes. Paris, au Bureau des ouvrages de la Théophilantropie, an VI, 1798. With 8 folding leaves of musical notation. - (Followed by:) (CHEMIN-DUPONTES, J.B.) Année religieuse des Théophilantropes, ou adorateurs de Dieu et amis des hommes; recueil de discours et extraits sur la religion et la morale universelles, pour être lus pendant le cours de l'année, soit dans les temples publics, soit dans les familles. Paris, au bureau des ouvrages de la Théophilantropie, an VI, 1797. 2 volumes (of 4). Together 5 volumes in 1. 59 pp.; (4), 36 pp.; 61 pp.; 167 pp.; 176 pp. and 4 pp. of advertising. 16mo. Contemporary calf (a little worn). Martin & Walter I, 7201, 7200, 7194 and Anonymes, 15184. Theophilantrophy, a synthetic religion that flourished briefly under the Directory. The Parisian bookseller and former freemason, J.-B. Chemin-Dupontès wrote in September 1796 a pamphlet, Manuel des Théopanthrophiles, a term later changed to théophilantropes, meaning 'lovers of God and man.' The movement spread slowly and by May 1797 the movement was noted by the press. By the end of the year it began to expand, producing a yearbook and creating branches throughout the country. The movement reached its peak in the autumn of 1798 when it had fifteen churches in Paris alone. Outside Paris, it had strength in the department of the Seine and cells in former centers of dechristianization like Dijon, Macon, and Auxerre. Its services consisted of readings, drawn from an eclectic range of materials, hymns, either set in plain song or the chant de départ, and moralizing addresses. EUR 450
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(COLLIER, J.) Die Kunst sinnreich zu quälen in practischen Regeln, Zum Unterricht aller derjenigen, welche die Neigung haben, diese öconomische Wissenschaft im menschlichen Umgange zum weitern Aufnehmen zu bringen. Aus dem Englischen der Frau Lenox. Hamburg und Leipzig, bey Georg Christ. Grund und Adam Heinr. Holle, 1754. With a large and charmingtitle vignette. 180 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, corners, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled boards, a bit rubbed. Newberry Check List of Courtesy Books, 391 (English edition); Price & Price, English Literature, 199; Holzmann & Bohatta, ii, 12639 (1793 edition) and 12687 (1792 edition). First German edition, first published in English in 1753 as An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting. An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting is the first English book on the craft of nagging. A bitingly funny social satire, it is also an advice book, a handbook of anti-etiquette, and a comedy of manners. Collier describes methods for 'teasing and mortifying' one's intimates and acquaintances in a variety of social situations by taking advantage of their affections and goodwill. Written primarily for wives, mothers, and the mistresses of servants, the book suggests the difficulties women experienced exerting their influence in private and public life - and the ways they got round them. In anatomizing the art of emotional abuse Collier piques readers into acknowledging their own faults, and persuades them that tormenting is a useful skill, even as she censures its effects. The Essay provides a fascinating glimpse into eighteenth-century daily life, the treatment of servants and dependants and the bringing up of children. It is also, in part, a satire on the conduct manuals of the time, which idealised compliant femininity. It sardonically reflects on the general powerlessness of women at the time, and reveals some of the ingenious subterfuges by which middle-class women tried to improve their bargaining positions.It delivers its central advice with irony: 'Remember always to do unto every one, what you would least wish to have done unto yourself.' Collier 'addresses both those who can hurt by power (husbands, but chiefly mistresses of servants) and those who can hurt by affection (wives, friends). Writing as a sufferer, not inflicter, of hurt, she explores "labyrinths and inward turns of the mind", most frighteningly the power of women to sap women's confidence' (The Feminist Companion to Literature in English). According to Holzmann & Bohatta the translation was by J.C. Siede. - Lightly browned. EUR 350
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(COLLINS, A.) Discours sur la Liberté de Penser. Ecrit à l'occasion d'une nouvelle Secte d'Esprits forts, ou de Gens qui pensent librement. Traduit de l'Anglois & augmenté d'une Lettre d'un Medecin Arabe. A Londres (The Hague), 1714. With woodcut vignette on title. 2 parts in 1 volume. xvi, 261, (3, blank, errata, blank) pp.; 29, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, sprinkled edges (lightly rubbed). Conlon, Prélude au Siècle des Lumières en France, 17285; Schosler, p. 187; Weller, Die falschen und fingierten Druckorte, p. 80; Graesse, Trésor des livres rares et précieux, ii, p. 408. First French edition of this defense of a universal right of freethinking and the corollary rights of free expression and toleration. It provoked numerous replies representing freethinking as a pretense to justify an antecedent commitment to moral libertinage, skepticism, and atheism. Anthony Collins' (1676-1729) most notable book, a deist manifesto and immediately adopted by the Philosophes. It proclaims the right and necessity to inquiry freely and fearlessly into all subjects, especially religion which was Collins' constant and fundamental thesis. Its master statement is the present work, first published in 1713, and translated by H. Scheurleer and J. Rousset. The general definition of the right to think freely was applied mainly to religion. Collins pointed out that the new science and the new philosophy had exposed many errors of the past; the Reformation was the result of fearless thinking on the part of few leaders; the abundant literature of travel exposed the superstitions of peoples throughout the world and also the infinite numbers of pretenders to divine revelation. The work concludes with a refutation of the standard objections to freethinking and a long list of freethinkers is given which includes Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Bacon, Hobbes etc. Collins then asserted that he might as well have added other names, such as Montaigne, Descartes, Grotius, Milton, Sir William Temple, and the master, Locke. Anthony Collins was a key figure and self-proclaimed apostle of "freethinking", Locke's amiable friend, considered by Voltaire as "un des plus terribles ennemies de la religion chrétienne" (but also as representing the best of English deism, a noble-minded blend of Hobbes' Naturalism and Locke's empiricism), and seen on the continent as essentially a "Spinozist" (See Jonathan I. Israel, Radical Enlightenment. Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750, chapter 33 ("English Deism and Europe"), section three on Anthony Collins, pp. 614-619.The second part has a separate title-page: Lettre d'un Medecin Arabe à un fameux Professeur de l'Université de Hall en Saxe, sur les Reproches faits à Mahomet, de son recours aux Armes, de la Pluralité de ses Femmes, De l'Entretien de ses Concubines, et de l'Idée de son Paradis. Traduite de l'Arabe. No place, Anno 1713. EUR 800
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(COSTAZ, C.A.) Corps de marchands et communautés d'arts et métiers. A Paris, Imprimerie de Madame Huzard, 1821. 23, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards, morocco label with giltlettering. Kress C.696; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. Claude-Anthelme Costaz was one of the founders, in 1802, of the Society for the Encourement of National Industry (Société pour l'encouragement de l'industrie nationale.) He was also the one commissioned to produce statistical tables concerning manufactures and industry. He produced three of them which showed the situation and its development with the dates 1789, 1800 and 1812 as the three different points of measurement and comparison. The present text is 'en grande partie, extrait d'un ouvrage que j'ai publié, il y a environ quatre ans, sur l'Administration de l'agriculture, du commerce, des arts, des manufactures, et des subsistances. Lorsque je le rédigeai, je ne prévoyais pas que la France touchait au moment où l'on demanderait le rétablissement des corps de marchands et des communautés d'arts et métiers' (Avertissement). EUR 150
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(CREQUY, C.M. DE.) Résultat des Assemblées Provinciales, à l'usage des Etats d'une Province. Bruxelles (Chartres), 1788. (8), 174, (2) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Renouvin, Assemblées provinciales, 235; Goldsmiths 13526; not in INED; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli; not in Granier; not in Dada. First edition, very rare. 'Le seul résumé commode que les contemporains aient pu avoir entre les mains' (Renouvin). Survey of reports and results of the provincial assemblees in various provinces during the years 1778-1788, divided into the various subjects dealt with, such as: impositions - cadastre - grandes routes - commerce & manufactures - agriculture - mendicité - projets de bien public - etc.The author deals with economics and administration in a reforming spirit, close to the physiocratic ideas. Deals also with taxes, commerce, manufactures, agriculture, mendicity and public assistance.According to Goldsmiths the 'province' is Artois. EUR 750
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(DE FORGES, COMTE.) Des véritables intérêts de la patrie. A Paris, Chez les Libraires Associés, 1764. vi, (2), 194 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spinegilt in compartments, gilt lettering, joint starting to split at foot. Kress 6183 (edition published in Rotterdam of 204 pp.); INED 1869 (edition published in Rotterdam of 204 pp.); Goldsmiths 9943; Einaudi 1929; Higgs 3343; Leblanc 244 (edition published in Rotterdam of 127 pages only); Conlon 64:787 (edition published in Rotterdam of 204 pp). First edition. Apparently there are at least three editions published in the same year, no priority established. Observations concerning economics, finances, justice, the army, education and population (the christian morals are favorable to population whereas luxury is not): deals furthermore with 'L'Argent', 'Du Luxe', 'Des Subsides', 'Des Obligations de la Patrie envers les Citoyens', 'De L'Administration des Finances', 'Des Impôts', 'Des Rentes', 'Des Pensions', 'Des Charges', 'Des Ambassades', 'Des Guerres', 'De la Discipline Militaire', 'Des Réformes', 'Des Désertions', 'Des Grades Militaires', 'Des Fondations', 'De L'Usure', 'Des Loteries', 'Des Monnoyes', 'Des Marchandises', 'Des Voitures & des Postes', 'Des Chemins', 'Des Mines d'Or & d'Argent', 'De l'Agriculture', 'De la Population', 'Du Commerce', 'De l'economie particuliere', etc. EUR 400
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(DELISLE DE SALES, J.B.C.; PSEUD. OF J.B. ISOARD.) De la philosophie de la nature, ou traité de la morale pour le genre humain, tiré de la philosophie et fondé sur la nature. Cinqième édition et la seule conforme au manuscritoriginal. A Londres, et se trouve dans la plûpart des capitales de l'Europe, 1789. With engraved frontispieceand 13 engraved plates. 7 volumes. (2), clxlii, 256 pp.; (2), 351 pp.; (2), 418 pp.; (2), 422 pp.; (2), 452 pp. (2), 419 pp.; (2), 413 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, title labels with gilt lettering, marbled boards. Peignot, Livres condamnés, i, pp. 96-98; Schosler p. 60; cf.: INED 1331; Darnton, The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France 1769-1789, 542. Fifth edition. The best and most complete editon of this work which forced the author into exile while his property was confiscated. The first edition was published in 1766 and caused a scandal. In it, he professed atheism, nihilism, and the work was condamned to be burnt. Deslisle fought the decision and was supported by the philosophes who championed him as the champion of freedom of thought. They organized a collection on behalf of his defence (to which Voltaire donated 500 livres) and although he was discharged by the Parlement he nevertheless fled to Ferney were 'Le Patriarche' urged him to go to Prussia (see at length: Belin, Le mouvement philosophique, pp. 301-306). EUR 800
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(DELISLE) DE SALES (PSEUD.OF J.B.C. ISOARD.) Examen Pacifique des Paradoxes d'un célèbre Astronome en faveur des Athées, Suivi d'un Essai Philosophique et Religieux, sur une nouvelle Cosmogonie. Par J. de Sales, .... No place, 1804. iv, 116 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gilt triple fillet on sides, spine gilt with title label with gilt lettering, slightly shaved, dark spot at bottom of front cover. Not in Martin & Walter; Cioranescu 22856. Only edition, very rare, published in a limited number of copies and not destined for the trade. Verso of half-title reads: Cet écrit, imprimé à un très-petit nombre d'exemplaires, n'est point destiné à être mis en vente par des Libraries: mais il sera donné à quelques hommes purs, qui, Philosophes sans le dire, s'honorent d'annoncer qu'ils ont une Religion. Directed against Sylvain Maréchal, l'Homme sans Dieu and author of the famous and libertarian Manifesto of the Equals and his Dictionnaire des Athées and against the famous Lalande who had published a Notice sur Sylvain Maréchal, avec des Supplémens pour le Dictionnaire des Athées. - Title somewhat spotted, throughout a faint stain in the upper blank margin. EUR 800
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(DELISLE) DE SALES, (J.B.C. IZOUARD, PSEUD.:) De la Paix de l'Europe et de ses bases. Par J. Delisle de Sales. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Crapelet, chez Maradan, An IX - 1800. (4), 383, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. INED 1329. First edition. 'Philosophique et historique. Quelques-uns des événements politiques européens des dernières années, suggèrent à Delisle des réflexions de droit international et de science politique' (INED).Jean Baptiste Claude Isouard, writing as Delisle de Sales, published in 1766 his De la Philosophie de la Nature which caused a scandal for professing atheism and nihilism. The work was condamned to be burned, the author imprisoned and the censor exiled. Delisle filed for appeal and was supported by the whole circle of the philosophes who saw in him the champion of the liberty of thought and expression. The work is apparently very scarce. Isouard spent the rest of his life trying to earn himself a reputation as a writer and philosopher and his production of works dealing with a variety of subjects is impressive. EUR 600
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(DELORMEL, J.) La Grande Periode, ou le retour de l'Age d'Or. Ouvrage dans lequel on trouve les causes des désordres passés, des espérances pour l'avenir, & le germe du meilleur plan de gouvernement ecclésiastique, civil et politique. Par M. D***. A Paris, Chez Blanchon, Et Belin, 1790. With one engraved plate and an explanatory leaf. (8), 453, (1, errata) pp. 8vo. Nineteenth-century half calf, marbled boards, raised bands with gilt lettering (spine somewhat discolored). Martin & Walter, 10024; Monglond, i, p. 829; Caillet 2959. First edition. The author, Jean Delormel, was lawyer and professor.'Parmi les initiés, nous trouvons Delormel que l'on a accusé d'avoir trahi les secrets dont il avait été instruit dans son rare and curieux ouvrage intitulé; la grande période solaire .... (the present work) et qui périt d'une mort tragique attribuée à une vengeance occulte' (Pezzani). C'est sans doute le seul ouvrage initiatique qui mette au grand jour la véritable doctrine ésotérique des mystères anciens' (Caillet). - Last leaf with loss of paper in blank lower outer corner. EUR 750
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(DEVENNE, F.) Souspirs François sur la paix Italienne. Iouxte la Copie imprimée à Anvers, 1649. 8 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Moreau 3710; Goldsmiths 1059; not in Kress. One of at least seven different issues of the same date. This is one with the I in capital, and more than the last three strophes on the last page. - Corner of page 3/4 torn away without loss of text. 'Pamphlet plein d'insolence et qui ne manque pas de poésie. Le Parlement supprima le pamphlet par arrêt; ce qui n'empècha pas qu'il n'en fût fait encore deux éditions augmentées, et qu'on n'en reproduisît trois strophes entières dans la Plainte de la France à genoux devant la reine' (Moreau). EUR 175
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(DIDEROT, D.) "Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville" [printed in:] Opuscules philosophiques et littéraires, la plupart posthumes ou inédites, (edited by J.B.A. Suard and S.J. Boudet de Vauxcelles). Paris, Imprimerie de Chevet, 1796. (16), 270, (2) pp. 8vo. Modern half green morocco, corners, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, all edges gilt. INED 4256; O'Reilly & Reitman 9275; Kroepelien 1320. First edition and one of the few copies printed in 8vo and on 'papier vélin', the others being in 12mo on ordinary paper. Diderot's Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville was written circa 1772 and appears in print here for the first time. The lyrical descriptions by Bougainville of Tahiti in his Voyage autour du Monde (1771) captivated the European imagination with its vision of a people innocent of European notions of power, property and religion, and one with nature. Diderot's 'Supplement' is generally regarded as the classic literary expression of these themes and, although it does not unequivocally endorse the supposed blessings of the state of nature, 'there is no question that Diderot's work on the whole is one of the most comprehensive and enthusiastic panegyrics of primitivism in the century' (A. Owen Aldridge, "The State of Nature: an undiscovered country in the history of ideas", in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century XCVII, 1972, p. 16).In the 'Supplement' Diderot 'met en scène, dans ce dialogue, deux personnages anonymes qui épiloguent sur le voyage de Bougainville et en lisent un prétendu 'Supplément' contenant le discours d'adieu d'un vieux Tahitien au moment du départ de Bougainville, ainsi que l'entretien entre Orou et l'aumônier. Avec un cynisme autorisé par la non-publication, Diderot a cherché à établir dans cet essai le fondement d'une morale nouvelle et conforme à la nature; et à propos de cette morale, il reprend tout le procès de la civilisation. Document capitale qui résume toute la philosophie d'un homme, d'un groupe de penseurs et de toute une époque, et que la voyage de Bougainville a servi à polariser' (O'Reilly & Reitman). Lichtenberger, quoted in INED, called this work "Le summum de la litérature sauvage du XVIIIe."This collection of inedited and/or posthumous works contains, apart from the described work by Diderot, another work by Diderot, entitled Entretien d'un philosophe and further more: 'Réflexions sur le Bonheur' by Mme du Chatelet, 'Anecdotes sur le Roi de Prusse' by Thomas, 'Du Bonheur des Sots' by Necker,' 'Le Bon Homme; Le Vrai Philosophe' by Dumarsais and 'Les Femmes, Dialogue' by Galiani. EUR 4000
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(DIDEROT, D.) Le Fils naturel, ou les épreuves de la vertu. Comédie en cinq actes, et en prose, avec l'histoire véritable de la pièce. A Amsterdam (Paris), 1757. ix, (1), 11-299 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with red morocco label with gilt lettering, very lightly rubbed. Adams, Bibliographie des Oeuvres de Denis Diderot 1739-1900, FN1; Cioranescu 24091; Diderot et son temps, Bibliothèque royale, Bruxelles (1985), 81; Tchemerzine-Scheler, ii, p. 941, (a); Thomas, p. 45. First edition of Diderot's first dramatical work. The Fils naturel was sufficiently novel -in techniques of staging and acting as well as new emphasis in character analysis and intellectual content- to make it controversial. The plays of Diderot were in sober fact revolutionary, not merely in an aesthetic sense but also in a political one. The motivations, the values, the morality, the self-evident truths set forth in the Fils naturel and later the Pere de famille were those of a new social class just beginning to feel its own power and to respect its own intuitions. (......) If you would judge beforehand, wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America, of the literature of a people which is lapsing into democracy, study its dramatic productions ..... The tastes and propensities natural to democratic nations, in respect to literature, will therefore be first discernible in the drama, and it may be foreseen that they will break out with vehemence.'The part entitled Histoire véritable de la pièce (pp. 137-299) consists in reality of three dialogues with Dorval, the hero of the play, in which numerous acpects of acting and dramatic composition are discussed. Within the framework of these imaginary interviews, Diderot propounded many new conceptions of drame, conceptions that he was not the first to feel but that he was the first to express, at least in so comprehensive a way. And because Diderot was an author singularly endowed with the gifts of plausibility and persuasion, his precepts as stated in these conversations were fully as influential as the example of the play itself. This play by Diderot is also extremely important because it marks the beginning of a new era in the history of the drame: French literature in the eighteenth century saw a new dramatic form being born .... Foreshadowed and prepared by the school of tearful comedy, the drame acquired with Diderot a very distinct and clear-cut personality. Thus it is from the Fils naturel that its real existence dates' (Arthur M. Wilson, Diderot, chapter 20).The book was published anonymous because of several sour remarks, especially in Act III, regarding heaven and the ways of its providence which prevented the work from being published under public license. EUR 1750
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(DIDEROT, D.) Pensées sur l'interpretation de la Nature. No place, 1754. - (Bound with:) (BOUGEANT, H.) Amusement philosophique sur la langage des Bestes. A Paris, Chez Gissey, Bordelet, Ganeau, 1739. Two works in one volume. (4), 99, (5, table) pp.; (2), 157, (5) pp. 12mo. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt spine with raised bands, sprinkled edges. First work: Adams PE4; Tchemerzine-Scheler, ii, 938; Le Bucher Bibliographique, 708; L'Illuminismo francese alla Fondazione Feltrinelli, 263; not in Thomas, Checklist. This edition is one of three published in 1754: the original edition, of which only two copies are known, was published in 1753. The text is identical with the "Londres" edition of the work (Adams PE3), and is most likely printed in the Netherlands. The title-page is followed by "Aux Jeunes-Gens Qui se disposent à l'étude de la Philosophie Naturelle", page 99 contains "Observation sur un endroit de la page 43". Provenance: B. Dumolin gilt stamped on front cover. This work is not only extremely rare, but also one of the most important - and least read - essays by Diderot. Although published anonymously the work was authorized. D'Hémery noted in his journal that the Pensées, 'attributed to Diderot', had been published with tacit permission, another interesting and representative example of Malesherbes policy of keeping the press as free as he could."The Pensées sur l'Interprétation de la nature is a short book devoted to taking stock of some of the current implications of the scientific method and was intended to be a handbook for the "philosophy", the new learning, of the day. (.....) The pages that followed opened up new points of view, sometimes by positive statements, sometimes by asking questions, sometimes by stating what Diderot labeled 'conjectures.' It was a book that suggested many of the most important problems in the philosophy of science, a tentative book sending out patrols along the frontiers of knowledge. For an extensive discussion of this important and rare work see: A.M. Wilson, Diderot, pp. 187-198.According to Jonathan Israel in his Radical Enlightenment (p. 711) Diderot tried to uncover the contradictions within Newtonianism, while reworking the concept "thinking matter" with its ultimate implication that "le monde peut être Dieu." '(......) discerning readers were left in no doubt, then or subsequently that Diderot's "God", as Sylvain Maréchal later expressed it, 'diffère peu de celui de Spinosa.'Second work: Conlon 39:350; Cioranescu 13210.First edition of Bougeant's provocative philosophical conceit written in response to Cartesian doctrine of the 'animal-machine', his satirical study of the language of animals. Bougeant proposed a parallel between animal sensibility and human folly. In his very telling criticism of the Cartesian doctrine and the prevailing alternatives, he concluded that the only solution, which would not threaten religion, was to grant souls to animals, but to consider these souls of demons or fallen angels inhabiting animal bodies as a punishment. This position allowed him to concede reason and true language to beasts. This publication caused widespread discussion, was translated into English and German, and brought him stern disciplinary measures from the church authorities. EUR 1200
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(DREVON, J.F.H. DE.) Voyage en Suede, contenant un état detaillé de sa population, de son agriculture, de son commerce, et de ses finances; suivi de l'Histoire Abrégée de ce Royaume & de ses différentes formes de gouvernement, depuis Gustave I en 1553, jusqu'en 1786 inclusivement, sous le règne de Gustave III, actuellement sur le trône, et de quelques particularités relatives à l'histoire du Dannemarc. Par un Officier Hollandois. La Haye, Chez P.F. Gosse, 1789. (2), 14, 518, (2, errata, blank) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine with raised bands, hinges repaired, spine damaged, bookblock broken but still solid, some minor rubbing. Kress B.1577; Goldsmiths 13771; INED 1462; not in Einaudi; Barbier, iv, 1087. First edition. Drevon (1734-1797), Grandmaster of the Horse and Chamberlain of Prince William V of Orange. He travelled to Sweden in 1785 where his travels took him to Göteborg, Trollhättan, Mariestad, Orebro, Stockholm, Uppsala Osterby and then on to Denmark where he visited Dalarna, Falun, Västerås, Köping, Ostergötland, Småland, Blekinge, Malmö, Lund, Ystad en Landskrona. - Copy from the library of Hilding Pleijel, with ex-libris, and on heavy paper with ample margins. Internally a nice and pleasing copy. EUR 250
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(DULAURE, J.A.) Des Divinités Génératrices, ou du Culte du Phallus chez les Anciens et les Modernes; Des Cultes du Dieu de Lampsaque, de Pan, de Vénus, etc.; origine, motifs, conformités, variétés, progrès, altérations et abus de ces cultes chez différens peuples de la terre; de leur continuation chez les Indiens et les Chrétiens d'Europe; des moeurs des nations et des tems où ces cultes ont existé. Par J.A.D******. Paris, 1805. (4), xxiv, 427, (1, errata) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, marbled boards, corners, label with gilt lettering. Caillet, i, 3345; Gay, i, 860; Pia, Dictionnaire des Oeuvres Erotiques, pp. 133-134. First edition of Dulaure's classic on phallic cults, largely concerned with the rituals of classical antiquity and -- especially -- their survivals in modern European folklore, a famous book in its field by one of the pioneers of the anthropological method of investigating human history. A very good copy of a uncommon book. EUR 350
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(DULAURENS, H.J.) Le compère Mathieu, ou les bigarrures de l'esprit humain. A Londres, aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1777. With 3 frontispieces and 6 engravings. 3 volumes. (6),320 pp.; (4), 338 pp.; (4), 380 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt with raised bands. INED 1560; Cioranescu 26453 (gives 1766 as date). First published in 1766. 'Roman philosophique et satirique, d'inspiration assez voltairienne, bien que Dulaurens reste fidèle à l'esprit du christianisme' (INED). The first volume contains considerations on marriage, volume two contains reflections on the different usages and customs, on the fanaticism and intolerance of the Catholics, in the third volume the author deals with the taxes, the inquisition, the obligations of a christian towards his wife, usury and marriage.The author, born in Douai in 1719, entered aged 16 the congregation of the Trinitaires. He left the order after a conflict with the Jesuits about certain thesis he upheld in public and edited, together with Grouber de Groubental, a pamphlet against the Jesuits entitled Jésuitiques (1761). Grouber was sent to the Bastille and Dulaurens escaped to the Netherlands and from then on moved through Europe. In 1767 he was condamned (in absence) to lifelong imprisonment by the Ecclesiastical Chamber of Mayence because of his anti-religious and immoral writings. He had a 'esprit pétillant et sarcastique,' to the point where some of his writings were even attributed to Voltaire. - Neither INED nor Cioranescu indicate the presence of the frontispieces or engravings. However, the plates all have indications as to where in the volumes they should be placed. EUR 800
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(DUTENS, L.) Recherches sur l'Origine des découvertes attribuées aux Modernes, Où l'on démontre que nos plus célèbres Philosophes ont puisé la plûpart de leurs connoissances dans les Ouvrages des Anciens: & que plusieurs vérités importantes sur la Religion ont été connues des Sages du Paganisme. A Paris, Chez la veuve Duchesne, 1766. Two volumes. xlviii, 228 pp.; (4), 257, (3) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red labels with gilt lettering, red edges, small accident to foot of spine, small spot to upper cover of volume two. Conlon 66:830; Caillet, i, 3472; Cioranescu 27175. First edition, reprinted with a slightly modifed title ten years later. The author discusses Descartes, Malebranche, Locke, Leibnitz, Buffon, and Newton and tackles fields from natural history to astronomy, from God and the soul, to medicine and mechanics. Dutens endeavors to show that the topics discussed in his (the 18th) century may seem a modern discussion but were in fact already known to the Ancients.'Dutens reprend ici une idée souvant exprimée par Bossuet, à savoir que tout oeuvre nouvelle a eu son précurseur, et il y ajoute la notion leibnizienne d'harmonie: les modernes harmonisent, assument sur nouveaux frais des idées qu'ils n'ont pas découvertes. (.....) Ecrivant en plein xviiie siècle, membre éminent de la république des lettres de son temps, Dutens apparaît cependant comme un héritier de l'humanisme florentin et concordiste. Les Anciens sont une source infinie de réflexion et de re-création pour la pensée moderne qui doit y trouver constamment des moyens de perfectionner ses connaissances' (P. Ranson in: Encyclopédie Philosophique Universelle, iii, 'Les Oeuvres Philosophiques').Louis Dutens lived for many years in England and became, in 1758, secretary to lord Mackensie, minister for England at the court in Sardinia. After his return to England he accompagnied several diplomats as secretary on missions to Italy and retired from public life in 1784 in London with the title of historiographer to the King of England. EUR 900
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(G. GUILLAUMIN.) Dictionnaire universel Théorique et Pratique du Commerce et de la navigation ..... Paris, Librairie de Guillaumin et Cie., 1861-1863. 2 volumes. (4), vii, (1), 1438 pp.; (4), 1828 pp. Large 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine in compartments, with raised bands and gilt lettering. First volume in the second edition, second volume in the first edition, with a 'supplément indiquant les changements survenus dans le tarif des douanes.' Deals with: marchandises, géographie et statistique commerciale, métrologie universelle, comptabilité, droit commercial terrestre et maritime, navigation, marine marchande, douanes, économie politique, commerciale et industrielle. - Copy from the library of Edmond Vallée with his discrete red stamp recto on the front free end-paper of both volumes. EUR 600
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(GARAY DE MONGLAVE, F.E.) Biographie pittoresque des Pairs de France, suivie du recensement des votes pours et contre le droit d'ainesse. Paris, Tous les Marchands de Nouveautés (imprimerie d'A. Béraud), 1826. (4), 152 pp. 32mo. Modern blue boards, original covers preserved. Drujon, p. 56. First edition. Publication seized and condamned to destruction by 'arrêt' of 28 november, 1826, and the arrest ordered of the author, publisher and printer who were indeed fined and imprisoned. EUR 175
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(GAYOT DE PITAVAL, F.) Question d'Estat: Fille reclamée par deux mères. A Paris, Chez Nicolas le Gras, 1716. (2), 26 pp. 4to. Disbound. Deals with the substitution of a girl in 1709 by a mid-wife and claimed by both the real mother and the assumed mother. The memo is written for Jean Chalant, weaver in Lyons and for Jeanne Pesche, his wife, and for Antoinette Servant, widow of Jean-Louis Pesche, defendants, against Gasparde Decousu, 'fille majeure', claimant. EUR 150
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(GILBERT, C.) Histoire de Calejava ou de l'Isle des Hommes raisonnables. Avec le Paralelle de leur Morale & du Christianisme. No place, 1700 (Paris, EDHIS, 1970). 329, (7) pp. 12mo. Imitation of a contemporary binding, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, red edges. Hartig, p. 36; Negley 424; Gove, p. 198; Fortunati & Trousson, Dictionary of Literary Utopias, p. 273. Well executed reprint after the only copy known, which is in the Réserve de la Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. This edition was printed in a limited edition of 250 numbered copies (this is number 140) and 30 copies not destined for the trade. The reprint is since long out-of-print. The book was probably published in Dijon by Jean Ressayre. The author, a lawyer from Dijon, realized, when he had a printed copy of his book in his hands, the possible dangerous consequences of publication and apparently convinced the printer to give him the entire edition which he destroyed with the exception of one copy. This last fact is doubted by Van Wijngaarden in his Les Odyssées philosophiques en France entre 1616 et 1789, in which work the chapter 3 is devoted to this work and its context.'Presented as scattered indications, the utopian picture occupies only a small part of the book, namely the chapters 5 & 6. Calejava was a community republic which practised economic communism relying on a rational collective urbanism and a system of public stores. Everybody has to work, but only five hours a day. The law allows divorce and encourages bigamy; celibacy, on the other hand, is severely punished and monastic chastity is considered a scandalous aberration. Children, taken away from their families at the age of four, are brought up by the State.Most of the dialogues deal with philosophical and religious ideas: it is clear that Gilbert was close to the libertine current and there are valid reasons for finding in this work an 'anti-Christian deism' (see Fortunati and Trousson). EUR 225
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(GIN, P.L.C.) Les vrais principes du gouvernement françois, démontrés par la raison et par les faits. Par un François. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée. A Genève, et se trouve à Paris, Chez tous les Libraires qui vendent les Nouveautés, 1780. With engraved frontispiece. (4), xxiv, 427, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments with red label and gilt lettering, a beautiful copy. INED 2037 (1782 edition); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli; Mornet, Les origines intellectuelles de la Révolution, pp. 217-8. Rare second edition, as the first not to be found in any of the reference works. 'Il y défend les lois fondamentales de la monarchie pure, réfute la théorie de la liberté politique ou de constitution de Montesquieu, celle de l'équilibre des pouvoirs et refuse de donner des limites à la puissance du monarque' (Mornet). The present work, which is primarily a defence of monarchic government against the theories of Montesquieu and Mably, is notable for a variety of observations on economic issues. Gin identifies the products of agriculture and manufacture as the basic forms of wealth, and condemns import on the grounds that they lead to a diminution in the population. 'Sociologie politique. De la monarchie, en général, et du gouvernement français en particulier. Plusieurs passages consacrés à des questions économiques. Réflexions sur les impôts et sur les richesses en général' (INED). EUR 1100
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(GIN, P.L.C.) Les vrais principes du gouvernement françois, démontrés par la raison et par les faits. Par un François. A Genève, 1777. - (Preceded by:) (BONCERF, P.F.) Inconvénients des Droits féodaux. Nouvelle édition, à laquelle on a joint que Montesquieu a écrit sur les Fiefs, dans les Livres XXX & XXXI de l'Esprit des Loix. A Paris, 1776. Two works bound in one volume. (4), vii, (1), 316, (4) pp.; (2), 155, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering, red edges (rearcover lightly shaved, upper joint with a short split, two corners bumped). First work: INED 2037 (later edition); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Mornet, Les origines intellectuelles de la Révolution, pp. 217-8. Rare first edition. 'Il y défend les lois fondamentales de la monarchie pure, réfute la théorie de la liberté politique ou de constitution de Montesquieu, celle de l'équilibre des pouvoirs et refuse de donner des limites à la puissance du monarque' (Mornet). The present work, which is primarily a defence of monarchic government against the theories of Montesquieu and Mably, is notable for a variety of observations on economic issues. Gin identifies the products of agriculture and manufacture as the basic forms of wealth, and condemns import on the grounds that they lead to a diminution in the population. 'Sociologie politique. De la monarchie, en général, et du gouvernement français en particulier. Plusieurs passages consacrés à des questions économiques. Réflexions sur les impôts et sur les richesses en général' (INED).Second work: Kress 7193; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; this edition not in INED; Camus 1566; Peinot, Livres Condamnés, i, p. 43 (with wrong date).Third edition, published in the same year as the first edition.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. The solemn condemnation of the pamphlet by the parlement of Paris, which the king vetoed, and the ensuing controversy in the press, in which Voltaire took a prominent part, established Boncerf's reputation and resulted in the translation of the work into many European languages. The pages 70-end contain the relevant texts by Montesquieu. The work was first published anonymously, a second edition was published with the pseudonym M. Francaleu. EUR 1750
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(GIN, P.L.C.) Les vrais principes du gouvernement françois, démontrés par la raison et par les faits. Par un François. A Genève, 1777. (4), vii, (1), 316, (4) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, marbled edges. INED 2037 (later edition); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli; Mornet, Les origines intellectuelles de la Révolution, pp. 217-8. Rare first edition. - Some annotations concerning author and book on verso front free blank. A very nice copy with good margins. 'Il y défend les lois fondamentales de la monarchie pure, réfute la théorie de la liberté politique ou de constitution de Montesquieu, celle de l'équilibre des pouvoirs et refuse de donner des limites à la puissance du monarque' (Mornet). The present work, which is primarily a defence of monarchic government against the theories of Montesquieu and Mably, is notable for a variety of observations on economic issues. Gin identifies the products of agriculture and manufacture as the basic forms of wealth, and condemns import on the grounds that they lead to a diminution in the population. 'Sociologie politique. De la monarchie, en général, et du gouvernement français en particulier. Plusieurs passages consacrés à des questions économiques. Réflexions sur les impôts et sur les richesses en général' (INED). EUR 1500
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(GIN, P.L.C.) Les vrais principes du gouvernement françois, démontrés par la raison et par les faits. Par un François. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée. A Genève, et se trouve à Paris, Chez tous les Libraires qui vendent les Nouveautés, 1780. With engraved frontispiece. (4), xxiv, 427, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands and red label with gilt lettering, gilt triple fillet on sides, all edges gilt. INED 2037 (1782 edition); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Mornet, Les origines intellectuelles de la Révolution, pp. 217-8. Rare second edition, as the first not to be found in any of the reference works. 'Il y défend les lois fondamentales de la monarchie pure, réfute la théorie de la liberté politique ou de constitution de Montesquieu, celle de l'équilibre des pouvoirs et refuse de donner des limites à la puissance du monarque' (Mornet). The present work, which is primarily a defence of monarchic government against the theories of Montesquieu and Mably, is notable for a variety of observations on economic issues. Gin identifies the products of agriculture and manufacture as the basic forms of wealth, and condemns import on the grounds that they lead to a diminuation in the population. 'Sociologie politique. De la monarchie, en général, et du gouvernement français en particulier. Plusieurs passages consacrés à des questions économiques. Réflexions sur les impôts et sur les richesses en général' (INED). - A splendid large paper copy and printed on 'papier de Hollande.' EUR 1250
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(GOSSET, P.) Projet de société pour la création d'approvisionnements et réserves en blés et farines et usines à faire le pain pour Paris et le département de la Seine; présenté à S.E. le comte de Persigny, ministre de l'intérieur, de l'agriculture et du commerce. Paris, Imprimerie centrale de Napoléon Chaix et Cie., 1853. 20 pp. 4to. Modern boards, original cover preserved. ' .... elle touche essentiellement aux intérêts de l'agriculture et de la population entière: c'est la question des blés, des approvisionnements et réserves, et de la panification.' EUR 150
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(GOUDAR, A.) Le Procès des Trois Rois, Louis XVI. de France-Bourbon, Charles III. d'Espagne-Bourbon, et George III. d'Hanovre, Fabricant de Boutons, Plaidé au Tribunal des Puissances-Européenes. Par Appendix, l'Appel au Pape. Traduit de l'Anglois. Londres (i.e. Leipzig), Chez George Carenaught, Libraire prés de Temple-Bar, 1780. With one large folding engraved plate by William Jones after John Philips representing the Tribunal of European Powers, bound as frontispiece. 8, 192 pp. 8vo. Later paste-paper wrappers, spine a little worn and chipped but firm. Mars 140; Echeverria & Wilkie 780/58; Fay, p. 13; Peignot, ii, p. 224 (attributing the work to Linguet); not in Sabin, not in JFBL; not in Muller; not in Leclerc. One of several editions from the year of first publication of this popular and influential parody of Britsh politics towards America. There is of course no English original. This contentious political work was written by Ange Goudar and published, as most of his works, anonymously. The attribution is to Goudar because of stylistic similarities to his other works. Aimed especially at Great Britain, this satire of the three major powers in the American War is in the form of a mock trial, which finds Great Britain quilty of starting the war. Extensive discussion of the U.S. B. Franklin, who is supposedly shown in the frontispiece, represents the U.S. and makes two speeches the latter of which is a translation of almost all the Declaration of Independence. The work was very severely prosecuted and provoked many counterfeit editions representing a true 'succès de scandal'.The sheets of this edition were put through the press several times; thus, all copies show a mixture of sheets in which some of the corrections listed in the errata have been made, but in others the corrections have not been made. - Old repairs to folds of plate and gutter margin of pp. 7/8, small tear above repair in the same pages, paper a little browned, title verso strengthened. Pages 5-6 and 3-4 interchanged. Copy with stamp (surplus) from the Library of Congress. EUR 750
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(GOYON DE LA PLOMBANIE, H. DE.) Vues Politiques sur le Commerce, Ouvrage dans lequel on traite particulièrement des Denrées, & où l'on propose de nouveaux moyens pour encourager l'Agriculture & les Arts, & pour augmenter le Commerce général du Royaume. A Amsterdam, Aux depens de la Compagnie, 1759. Title printed in red and black. viii, 296 pp. 12mo. Contemporary blind marbled covers, paper shelf number to spine, uncut. Kress 5781; Goldsmiths 9441; Einaudi 2671; Mattioli 1484; Higgs 1978; INED 2119; Conlon 59:827; Spengler, French Predecessors of Malthus, pp. 86-90. First edition. The copies catalogued in Kress and Higgs have 535 pages and the title ends after the words 'Commerce général', lacking the additon 'du Royaume'. No priority has been established, either of these editions is very rare. The author, philantropist and utopian socialist, proposes in this work to 'faire entrer tous les moyens de mettre en exécution les projets les plus grands pour le bonheur de la nation': the founding of a state-owned agricultural company for the sale of its products with the purpose of maintaining price stability, the foundation of 'sociétiés de crédit', development of the use of machines, etc. The whole of his socialist and utopian ideas is also elaborately dealt with in J.-C. Perrot's work 'Histoire intellectuelle de l'Économie Politique', chapter entitled Le despotisme de la raison dans l'utopie économique de Goyon de la Plombanie, pp. 284-304. See also A. Lichtenberger, Le Socialisme au XVIIIe siècle, pp. 329-334. - Occasional faint dampstain, a very good copy. EUR 1600
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(GRAILLARD DE GRAVILLE, B.C.) Entendons-nous. Ouvrage posthume de M. Gobbe-Mouche. (Paris), aux Boulevards, (1760). 39, (1) pp. Small 8vo. Modern boards. Conlon 60:796. First edition. Aphorisms on theatre, writers, women, etc. The author was editor of the Recueil A-Z. EUR 175
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(HAY DU CHASTELET, P.) Traitté de la politique de France. A Cologne, Chez P. du Marteau, 1669. Small sphere on title. (1-4), 5-264 pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, rubbed and worn. Cf.:Bourgeois & André 2969; Willems 1602; Sauvy 5; INED 1073; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. Upon its first publication by Elzevier in Utrecht in 1669, also anonymous, the identity of the author was discovered and he was put in the Bastille (for 15 days). The author may be considered as a precursor of Vauban and Castel de Saint Pierre for his revolutionary ideas of reforming the tax system, and for his ideas concerning the clergy, commerce, protestants, etc. 'In Colbert's time Paul Hay, Marquis de Chatelet and forerunner of Vauban, pointed out that extreme poverty conduced to death and disease and thus served to depeople rural regions; that tax reforms were necessary to improve economic conditions. Although he opposed the association of rural with urban workers, on the ground that the former would become insolent and acquire corrupt customs, he asserted, like Colbert, that man's happiness is the end of 'la politique.' He condamned the expulsion of the Hugenots as unchristian' (Spengler, French Predecessors of Malthus, p. 12). Spengler also points to the fact that this work, first published in 1669, inspired some of Vauban's ideas on taxation. - Author's name on title. Slightly waterstained. EUR 600
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(HERBERT, C.J.) Observations sur la liberté du commerce des grains. A Amsterdam, Et se vend à Paris, Chez Michel Lambert, Humblot, 1759. - (Bound with:) (LE MOYNE DE BELLE-ISLE.) Mémoire surla liberté de l'exportation et de l'importation des grains. (Drop-head title) No place, no date (1764). - (Bound with:) (CARADEUC) DE LA CHALOTAIS, L.-R. de. Discours ... pour l'enregistrement de l'édit du Roi concernant la liberté de la sortie et de l'entrée des grains dans le royaume. (Drop-head title). (In fine:) A Rennes, Chez Vatar, (1764). - (Bound with:) LETTRE du Parlement séant à Toulouse au Roi, au sujet de l'Edit de sa Majesté donné à Compiègne au mois de juillet 1764, concernant la liberté de la sortie et de l'entrée des grains dans le royaume. (Drop-head title). (In fine:) A Toulouse, en Parlement, 11 août 1764. - (Bound with:) (BOURGELAT, Claude). Lettre d'un ingénieur de province, à un inspecteur des ponts et chaussées, pour servir de suite à l'Ami des hommes. A Avignon (Paris, Duchesne), 1760. - (Bound with:) FONTETTE, François-Jean d'Orceau de. Lettre de M. de Fontette, Intendant de Caen à M***. Avec son mémoire pour justifier la construction et l'entretien des grands chemins dans la Généralité de Caen. No place, no date (1760). - (Bound with:) VERON DE FORBONNAIS, François. Lettre de M. Du T... négociant à Paris, à M. Rissch, négociant à Francfort sur les ouvrages et bijoux d'Or et d'Argent . (Drop-head title). No place, no date (1756). Seven works bound in one volume. (4), 60 pp.; 40 pp.; 23, (1) pp.; 6 pp.;(2), 72 pp.; 40 pp.; 59, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, green label with gilt lettering, red sprinkled edges. First work: INED 2257; Kress 5784; not in Goldsmiths; not in Mattioli; not in Einaudi; not in Higgs.First edition.In favour of free trade in grains: agriculture is the best way to provide work for people and the best way to make sure that agricultre develops is free trade in grains. According to the note in INED this little and very scarce tract was intended as introduction for another work which would deal with the ways and means to provide work.The work has also been attributed to Claude Humbert Piarron de Chamousset. Second work: INED 2798; Higgs 3160; Goldsmiths 9981; not in Kress; not in Mattioli; not in Einaudi.First edition.This work has been published without a title-page and is identical to the three copies preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France and is also identical to the copies listed in Higgs, Goldsmiths and INED.In favour of the suppression on monopolies which will bring many advantages to the trade in grains. Third work: INED 943; Higgs 3166; Goldsmiths 9975; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli.First edition."J'ai l'honneur de vous annoncer ... la liberté du commerce des grains." In favour of the edict and in favour of even enlarging its reach.Fourth work: Not in INED; not in Higgs; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Mattioli; not in Einaudi.In favour of free trade but regretting the fact the port of Agde is not allowed to export.Fifth work: INED 739; not in Kress, not in Goldsmiths, not in Higgs; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli (only mentioned as part of Mirabeau's Ami des Hommes, edition Hambourg 1760).First edition.On the inconveniencies of the "corvées" and the "milices".Sixth work: INED 1858; not in Kress, Goldsmiths, Einaudi, Higgs or Mattioli.Dealing with the inconveniencies of the "corvées" levied in "nature" (that is, work) and taxes in relation to the construction of roadsSeventh work: INED 4431; Higgs 1187; Goldsmiths 9144; not in Kress, Einaudi or Mattioli.First edition and very rare.An economists defense of the silver- and goldsmith jewellers and argues that various measures and regulations with regards to this profession in fact are not only an obstacle but are also responsible for a continued rising of the prices.Tear in inner and upper margin page 3, and pages 9-12, not affecting text. EUR 2250
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(HERZEN, A. PSEUD.:) ISKANDER. Kontsy i nachala. S predisloviem avtora. Norrkoeping, Eric Biornström, 1863. (2), iv, (2, blank), 96 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, top edge gilt, original covers preserved. Anderson 302; Kilgour 436; Zaleski 197. First separate edition: Herzen's letters to Turgenev, which first appeared in My Past and Thoughts, published here with a new introduction. 'Herzen's renewed interest in Russia's past and future was closely linked to his bitter disappointment in the "old world". He was a discerning critic of bourgeois society, even if his strictures were not always fair. The modern reader is struck especially by certain far-sighted observations, that seem to anticipate criticism of a complex phenomenon we have come to refer to as "mass culture". Herzen's most interesting comments in this respect are to be found in a series of articles entitled Ends and Beginnings, in which he conducted a polemic with Ivan Turgenev, who had become the moral authority for liberal Westernizers in Russia' (Andrzej Walicki, A History of Russian Thought, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1980, p. 170). Alexander Herzen (1812-70) was a prominent nineteenth-century Russian social thinker and is known as the 'father of Russian socialism.' Early in his intellectual development, Herzen was influenced by German idealist thinkers such as Schiller and Schelling. He believed in the autonomy and dignity of the individual and opposed forces, such as family and state, that oppressed the individual. Later, under the influence of French socialist thinkers such as Charles Fourier, Herzen's thought became more radical. Herzen projected his earlier concern for the oppressed individual onto society at large and he became a supporter of socialism. The socialism he envisioned was a loose federation of self-governing communes. Only in such a system could the ideal society be achieved- according to Herzen that society would be a free association of individuals which provided for the full flowering of each personality. Herzen initially placed his hopes for this future order in the European socialist movement. After the failure of the 1848 revolutions to achieve socialist principles, however, Herzen became disillusioned about European prospects and turned his attention to Russia. Herzen argued that socialist transformation would actually come first to Russia because communal institutions such as the peasant commune survived and bourgeois attitudes hadn't yet emerged. This sense of the advantages of Russian 'backwardness' was influential among the Populists in the 1870s. Herzen has been called a 'gentry revolutionary.' The illegitimate son of a wealthy landowner, Herzen viewed the gentry as a progressive class. The revolution he envisioned was for the people but not necessarily by them. Also, his socialism was a national destiny rather than a class one, and because he promoted the value of individualism in collectivist form--in other words, the full flowering of the individual could best be realized in a socialist order. Among Herzen's works are From the Other Shore (1848-50) and The Russian People and Socialism and his autobiography, My Past and Thoughts.He founded a periodical, the famous Kolokol, in whose pages the free word first appeared in the Russian language, unhampered by censor or police, exposing the government's secrets, criticizing bureaucratic abuses, approving the good intentions of the czar, the 'liberator', and trying to dictate to him a reform program. EUR 750
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(HERZEN, A. PSEUD.:) ISKANDER. Kontsy i nachala. S predisloviem avtora. Norrkoeping, Eric Biornström, 1863. (2), iv, (2, blank), 96 pp. 8vo. Modern boards, original coverspreserved. Anderson 302; Kilgour 436; Zaleski 197. First separate edition: Herzen's letters to Turgenev, which first appeared in My Past and Thoughts, published here with a new introduction. 'Herzen's renewed interest in Russia's past and future was closely linked to his bitter disappointment in the "old world". He was a discerning critic of bourgeois society, even if his strictures were not always fair. The modern reader is struck especially by certain far-sighted observations, that seem to anticipate criticism of a complex phenomenon we have come to refer to as "mass culture". Herzen's most interesting comments in this respect are to be found in a series of articles entitled Ends and Beginnings, in which he conducted a polemic with Ivan Turgenev, who had become the moral authority for liberal Westernizers in Russia' (Andrzej Walicki, A History of Russian Thought, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1980, p. 170). Alexander Herzen (1812-70) was a prominent nineteenth-century Russian social thinker and is known as the 'father of Russian socialism.' Early in his intellectual development, Herzen was influenced by German idealist thinkers such as Schiller and Schelling. He believed in the autonomy and dignity of the individual and opposed forces, such as family and state, that oppressed the individual. Later, under the influence of French socialist thinkers such as Charles Fourier, Herzen's thought became more radical. Herzen projected his earlier concern for the oppressed individual onto society at large and he became a supporter of socialism. The socialism he envisioned was a loose federation of self-governing communes. Only in such a system could the ideal society be achieved- according to Herzen that society would be a free association of individuals which provided for the full flowering of each personality. Herzen initially placed his hopes for this future order in the European socialist movement. After the failure of the 1848 revolutions to achieve socialist principles, however, Herzen became disillusioned about European prospects and turned his attention to Russia. Herzen argued that socialist transformation would actually come first to Russia because communal institutions such as the peasant commune survived and bourgeois attitudes hadn't yet emerged. This sense of the advantages of Russian 'backwardness' was influential among the Populists in the 1870s. Herzen has been called a 'gentry revolutionary.' The illegitimate son of a wealthy landowner, Herzen viewed the gentry as a progressive class. The revolution he envisioned was for the people but not necessarily by them. Also, his socialism was a national destiny rather than a class one, and because he promoted the value of individualism in collectivist form--in other words, the full flowering of the individual could best be realized in a socialist order. Among Herzen's works are From the Other Shore (1848-50) and The Russian People and Socialism and his autobiography, My Past and Thoughts.He founded a periodical, the famous Kolokol, in whose pages the free word first appeared in the Russian language, unhampered by censor or police, exposing the government's secrets, criticizing bureaucratic abuses, approving the good intentions of the czar, the 'liberator', and trying to dictate to him a reform program. EUR 750
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(HERZEN, A. PSEUD.:) ISKANDER. Kontsy i nachala. S predisloviem avtora. Norrkoeping, Eric Biornström, 1863. (2), iv, (2, blank), 96 pp. 8vo. Sewn in the original yellow printed covers. Anderson 302; Kilgour 436; Zaleski 197. First separate edition: Herzen's letters to Turgenev, which first appeared in My Past and Thoughts, published here with a new introduction. 'Herzen's renewed interest in Russia's past and future was closely linked to his bitter disappointment in the "old world". He was a discerning critic of bourgeois society, even if his strictures were not always fair. The modern reader is struck especially by certain far-sighted observations, that seem to anticipate criticism of a complex phenomenon we have come to refer to as "mass culture". Herzen's most interesting comments in this respect are to be found in a series of articles entitled Ends and Beginnings, in which he conducted a polemic with Ivan Turgenev, who had become the moral authority for liberal Westernizers in Russia' (Andrzej Walicki, A History of Russian Thought, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1980, p. 170). Alexander Herzen (1812-70) was a prominent nineteenth-century Russian social thinker and is known as the 'father of Russian socialism.' Early in his intellectual development, Herzen was influenced by German idealist thinkers such as Schiller and Schelling. He believed in the autonomy and dignity of the individual and opposed forces, such as family and state, that oppressed the individual. Later, under the influence of French socialist thinkers such as Charles Fourier, Herzen's thought became more radical. Herzen projected his earlier concern for the oppressed individual onto society at large and he became a supporter of socialism. The socialism he envisioned was a loose federation of self-governing communes. Only in such a system could the ideal society be achieved- according to Herzen that society would be a free association of individuals which provided for the full flowering of each personality. Herzen initially placed his hopes for this future order in the European socialist movement. After the failure of the 1848 revolutions to achieve socialist principles, however, Herzen became disillusioned about European prospects and turned his attention to Russia. Herzen argued that socialist transformation would actually come first to Russia because communal institutions such as the peasant commune survived and bourgeois attitudes hadn't yet emerged. This sense of the advantages of Russian 'backwardness' was influential among the Populists in the 1870s. Herzen has been called a 'gentry revolutionary.' The illegitimate son of a wealthy landowner, Herzen viewed the gentry as a progressive class. The revolution he envisioned was for the people but not necessarily by them. Also, his socialism was a national destiny rather than a class one, and because he promoted the value of individualism in collectivist form--in other words, the full flowering of the individual could best be realized in a socialist order. Among Herzen's works are From the Other Shore (1848-50) and The Russian People and Socialism and his autobiography, My Past and Thoughts.He founded a periodical, the famous Kolokol, in whose pages the free word first appeared in the Russian language, unhampered by censor or police, exposing the government's secrets, criticizing bureaucratic abuses, approving the good intentions of the czar, the 'liberator', and trying to dictate to him a reform program. EUR 750
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(HOLBACH, P.H.D.TH. D'.) Système social, ou Principes naturels de la morale et de la politique. Avec un examen de l'influence du gouvernement sur les moeurs. Londres (Amsterdam, M.M. Rey), 1773. 3 volumes in 1. 318 pp.; 252 pp.; (iv), 239, (1) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering, gilt fillet on sides, marbled edges. Vercruysse 1773-A6; Naville 419; Thomas, Checklist, 78; R. Darnton, The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789, 662; Kress S.4739; Goldsmiths 10952; Einaudi 2911; Higgs 5873. The third issue listed by Vercruysse, who had seen only the copy from the collection Michel Bernstein. It is apparently a very rare issue. Paul-Henri Dietrich Thiery d'Holbach (1723-1789), the formemost exponent of atheistic materialism and the most intransigent polemicist against religion in the Enlightenment. On settling in Paris, Holbach had associated with the younger philosophes who, with Diderot, d'Alembert and Rousseau, were grouping around the Encyclopédie, to which he also became a major contributor. His Salon soon became the main social center, and a sort of intellectual headquarters, for the Encyclopedist movement. Among those attending were Diderot, Grimm, Helvétius, d'Alembert, Rousseau, Boulanger, Condillac, Naigeon, Turgot, and Condorcet. The Baron also counted among his acquaintances many foreigners, notably Hume, Gibbon, Smith, Priestley, Walpole, Garrick, Sterne, Beccaria and Franklin. It is little surprizing that Holbach was also known as le premier maître d'hôtel de la philosophie. Almost everything he wrote -whether because it expounded atheism and materialism, attacked Christianity, or castigated absolute monarchy, the state church, and feudal privilege- was highly subversive under the Ancien régime and could have exposed him to the severst penalties. Consequently, his innumerable manuscripts were usually forwarded through secret channels to Holland for publication, after which the books were smuggled back into France. EUR 1000
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(HOLBACH, P.H.D.TH. D'.) Système social, ou Principes naturels de la morale et de la politique. Avec un examen de l'influence du gouvernement sur les moeurs. Londres (Amsterdam, M.M. Rey), 1773. 3 volumes in 1. viii, 218, (2) pp.; (4), 174, (2) pp.; (4), 166, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, label and gilt lettering, red edges, tiny defect to upper front joint and lower rear joint. Vercruysse 1773-A4; Naville 419; Thomas, Checklist, 78; Kress S.4739; Goldsmiths 10952; Einaudi 2911; Higgs 5873. First edition. Paul-Henri Dietrich Thiery d'Holbach (1723-1789), the formemost exponent of atheistic materialism and the most intransigent polemicist against religion in the Enlightenment. On settling in Paris, Holbach had associated with the younger philosophes who, with Diderot, d'Alembert and Rousseau, were grouping around the Encyclopédie, to which he also became a major contributor. His Salon soon became the main social center, and a sort of intellectual headquarters, for the Encyclopedist movement. Among those attending were Diderot, Grimm, Helvétius, d'Alembert, Rousseau, Boulanger, Condillac, Naigeon, Turgot, and Condorcet. The Baron also counted among his acquaintances many foreigners, notably Hume, Gibbon, Smith, Priestley, Walpole, Garrick, Sterne, Beccaria and Franklin. It is little surprizing that Holbach was also known as le premier maître d'hôtel de la philosophie. Almost everything he wrote -whether because it expounded atheism and materialism, attacked Christianity, or castigated absolute monarchy, the state church, and feudal privilege- was highly subversive under the Ancien régime and could have exposed him to the severst penalties. Consequently, his innumerable manuscripts were usually forwarded through secret channels to Holland for publication, after which the books were smuggled back into France. EUR 1200
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(HOLBACH, P.H.D.TH. D'.) Histoire critique de Jésus Christ, ou, Analyse raisonnée des Evangiles. No place, (Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey?), (1770). viii, xxxii, 398, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf, gilt triple fillet on sides, spine gilt with raised bands and label with gilt lettering, red edges. Vercruysse 1770-A4; Naville p. 417; Thomas, Checklist, p. 76; Darnton, The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France 1769-1789, 286; Le Bucher bibliographique, 741. First edition. 'Examen critique et érudit en dix-huit chapitres des quatre évangiles canoniques. Les récits évangéliques ne sont qu'un tissu de fables, erreurs et contradictions. Le dernier chapitre dresse un tableau du Christianisme depuis Constantin. Soulignant le caractère néfaste général de la religion chrétienne, Holbach invite ses lecteurs à mener une vie conforme à la nature' (Vercruysse, D'Holbach et ses Amis, 1760-1789, p. 16). The work was put on the index on February 16, 1778. - Author's name on title in an old hand. EUR 1250
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(HOLBACH, P.H.D.TH. D'.) Système social, ou Principes naturels de la morale et de la politique. Avec un examen de l'influence du gouvernement sur les moeurs. Londres (Amsterdam, M.M. Rey), 1773. 3 volumes. viii, 218, (2) pp.; (4), 174, (2) pp.; (4), 166, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spines richly gilt with labels and gilt lettering. Vercruysse 1773-A4; Naville 419; Thomas, Checklist, 78; Kress S.4739; Goldsmiths 10952; Einaudi 2911; Higgs 5873; R. Darnton, The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789, 662. First edition. Paul-Henri Dietrich Thiery d'Holbach (1723-1789), the foremost exponent of atheistic materialism and the most intransigent polemicist against religion in the Enlightenment. On settling in Paris, Holbach had associated with the younger philosophes who, with Diderot, d'Alembert and Rousseau, were grouping around the Encyclopédie, to which he also became a major contributor. His Salon soon became the main social center, and a sort of intellectual headquarters, for the Encyclopedist movement. Among those attending were Diderot, Grimm, Helvétius, d'Alembert, Rousseau, Boulanger, Condillac, Naigeon, Turgot, and Condorcet. The Baron also counted among his acquaintances many foreigners, notably Hume, Gibbon, Smith, Priestley, Walpole, Garrick, Sterne, Beccaria and Franklin. It is little surprizing that Holbach was also known as le premier maître d'hôtel de la philosophie. Almost everything he wrote -whether because it expounded atheism and materialism, attacked Christianity, or castigated absolute monarchy, the state church, and feudal privilege- was highly subversive under the Ancien régime and could have exposed him to the most severe penalties. Consequently, his innumerable manuscripts were usually forwarded through secret channels to Holland for publication, after which the books were smuggled back into France. EUR 1100
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(HOLBACH, P.H.D.TH. D'.) Système social, ou Principes naturels de la morale et de la politique. Avec un examen de l'influence du gouvernement sur les moeurs. Londres (Amsterdam, M.M. Rey), 1773. 3 volumes in 1. viii, 218, (2) pp.; (4), 174, (2) pp.; (4), 166, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt with leather labels and gilt lettering, gilt triple line border on sides, lightly worn. Vercruysse 1773-A4; Naville 419; Thomas, Checklist, 78; Kress S.4739; Goldsmiths 10952; Einaudi 2911; Higgs 5873; R. Darnton, The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789, 662. First edition. Paul-Henri Dietrich Thiery d'Holbach (1723-1789), the formemost exponent of atheistic materialism and the most intransigent polemicist against religion in the Enlightenment. On settling in Paris, Holbach had associated with the younger philosophes who, with Diderot, d'Alembert and Rousseau, were grouping around the Encyclopédie, to which he also became a major contributor. His Salon soon became the main social center, and a sort of intellectual headquarters, for the Encyclopedist movement. Among those attending were Diderot, Grimm, Helvétius, d'Alembert, Rousseau, Boulanger, Condillac, Naigeon, Turgot, and Condorcet. The Baron also counted among his acquaintances many foreigners, notably Hume, Gibbon, Smith, Priestley, Walpole, Garrick, Sterne, Beccaria and Franklin. It is little surprizing that Holbach was also known as le premier maître d'hôtel de la philosophie. Almost everything he wrote -whether because it expounded atheism and materialism, attacked Christianity, or castigated absolute monarchy, the state church, and feudal privilege- was highly subversive under the Ancien régime and could have exposed him to the severst penalties. Consequently, his innumerable manuscripts were usually forwarded through secret channels to Holland for publication, after which the books were smuggled back into France. EUR 1100
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(HOLBERG, L. DE) Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum novam telluris theoriam ac historiam quintae monarchiae adhuc nobis incognitae exhibens a bibliotheca B. Abelini. Copenhagen & Leipzig, J. Preuss, 1741. With engraved frontispiece and 3 plates (of which one folding). (2), 380 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt triple fillet on sides, spine gilt with raised bands, joints starting to split but still strong, corners a bit bumped. Hartig 49; Trousson 123; Negley 575; Gove 303; Versins 432. First edition. In this tale of adventure, with its mock of millenarian echoes, the hero happens upon a civilization of sensate mobile trees. In Holberg's fable a bizarre species that has many reasonable customs superior to the irrationalities of the European world is used primarily to satirize human frailties by contrast. The Manuel's in their Utopian Thought in the Western World define this and similar works as 'Darwinian' because the new society always represents a much later stage of biological development. It was therefore necessary to 'find' societies hundreds of thousands years ahead of us and encircling the globe was therefore no longer possible. Falling into a hole in the earth and landing upon a society underground was one of the solutions. - Browned and paperspotted throughout. EUR 750
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(JEZE.) Journal du Citoyen. A La Haye, 1754. With title vignette and many tables in the text. x, 486 (misnumbered 484) pp. 8vo.Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt, red edges (lightly worn, extremities rubbed, front joint split). Kress 5363; Goldsmiths 8892; Higgs 923; INED 2357; Conlon 54:746; not in Einaudi. First edition. - Somewhat browned throughout. 'A statistical handbook on Paris - government, finance, tariffs, dues, trades, etc.' (Higgs), among other things also the Compagnie des Indes is being dealt with.'Guide pratique de Paris. "Ce que vous ne trouverez guère que dans ce journal, ce sont les chambres ou hôtels garnis qu'il y a dans chaque quartier, les endroits où l'on donne à manger, le prix des loyers et celui des repas." Nombreux renseignements et chiffres sur la vie économique et sociale de Paris' (INED). "Sous ce titre se trouve un ouvrage rempli de details interessants sur Paris, et qu'on chercherait vainement ailleurs. On y trouve les prix d'une foule d'objets de commerce et d'usage journalier, la description tres detaillee des lieux les plus frequentes" (Dufour, 'Biblio de Paris', p 278). EUR 650
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(JOLY, C.) Traité des restitutions des grands, précédé d'une lettre touchant quelques points de la morale chrestienne. (Bruxelles, Fr. Foppens), 1665. Sphere on title. (2), 96, 228 pp. 16mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, slightly worn, top and bottom of spine a little damaged, small repair to upper margin of boards. Willems 1366; Bourgeois & André 6540; Peignot, Livres condamnés, i, p. 199; Kress 1158; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Le Bucher bibliographique, 537. In this counterfeit edition page 225 is correctly numbered and the word 'obeissant' on page 228 of the first edition, is here spelled 'obeyssant'. The original edition was of the same year and was published by Elzevier in Amsterdam. 'Le chanoine de Notre Dame expose ses idées hardies sous forme de deux lettres, dont la première concerne la morale chrétienne seule. Dans la seconde, il soutient que les grands et les puissants sont 'obligés en conscience de réparer et restituer tous les torts et dommages qui sont faits à leurs peuples.' Le prince ne peut établir de nouveaux impôts que 'selon les lois et les formes anciennes de son Etat, qui sont immuables et qui ne peuvent être latérées sous prétexte d'aucune nécessité', c.-à-d. sans le consentement des États-Généraux et la vérification du Parlement: 'car les rois ne sont pas maîtres de nos vies et de nos biens.' Il critique la lourdeur des impôts, les prêts usuraires des partisans: d'où ruine des princes et des peuples: et, à la fin, il cite des exemples de restitution. Intéressant, malgré une érudition copieuse et lourde' (Bourgeois & André). Small wonder this work was published outside France, where another work of the author was burnt in the same year. 'Claude Joly (1607-1700), French political theorist. Joly's writings are characteristic of the intellectual unrest which marked the troubled period of the Fronde and which inspired the many timely political pamphlets known as Mazarinades. Among them his pamphlets stand out because of their synthetic and philosophic treatment of the problems of government. Joly maintained that this work was by no means factional but on the contrary conformed to traditional French political principles. Opposed to despotism, he declared that the people had actually instituted the kingship and that consequently kings derived their authority from them. This theory he attempted to reconcile by rather subtle arguments with the principle of the divine right of kings' (Henri Sée in ESS, iv, p. 413). EUR 1100
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(LA GERVAISAIS, N.L.M.M., MARQUIS DE.) La tactique de Tribune. Paris, Hivert, Delaforest, 1826. - (Bound with:) NOTE relative à la brochure intitulée La Tactique de la Tribune, qui vient d'être distribuée à la Chambre. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie d'A. Henry, (1826). - (Bound with:) (LA GERVAISAIS, N.L.M.M., MARQUIS DE.) Contre-note en réponse à Note relative à la brochure intitulée La Tactique de Tribune. Paris, Hivert, Delaforest, 1826. Three works in one volume. 26 pp.; 3, (1) pp.; 7, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards, label with gilt lettering. First work: Kress C.1708; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli.Second work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli.Third work: Kress C.1706; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli. First editions. A criticism of the government's financial plans, the 'Note' accuses La Gervaisais of not quite understanding the English budget (about which he spoke in the first text) and the last text is a defense of La Gervaisais against his anonymous opponent.According to Michaud, the works of La Gervaisais were always published by Hivert and Delaforest and were never meant for the trade but were distributed by him among friends, politicians, ministers, journalists, etc. EUR 400
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(LE SEURE.) Testament politique de M. de Silhouete. No place, 1772. - (Followed by:) LETTRE sur les Nos 45 & 49 de M. Linguet. No place, no date. - (Followed by:) (LAURENT, C.I.) Lettressur la censure des Principes de Morale de M. l'Abbé de Mably. No place, (1784). - (Followed by:) (CONSTANT DE REBECQUE, M.S.F. DE.) Dernieres pensées du Roi de P***, Écrites de sa main. A Berlin (Geneve), 1787. With a nice title vignette. - (Followed by:) RARETEZ, LES, qui se voyent dans l'eglise royale de S. Denis; Avec des remarques curieuses. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de J. Chardon, 1749. Large vignette on title with fleur-de-lys and a nice head-piece. Five works in one volume. 156, (4, 3 errata, 1, blank) pp; (2), 26 pp.; 48 pp.; 41, (1) pp.; 16 pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, corners bumped, joints and extremities rubbed. First work: INED 2863; not in Kress; not in Higgs; not in Einaudi; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. Etienne Silhouette, to a certain extent influenced by the ideas of Fr. Quesnay, was controleur-général des finances in 1759. He planned to tax the land property of the nobility and to reduce pensions, which provoked his disgrace.The last 4 pages with the errata have been bound between the pages 6 and 7. Second work: The text is preceded by the following title: Lettre aux Rédacteurs du Mercure, sur les Numéros 46 & 49 de M. Linguet, où l'on donne une idée assez juste de la confiance dûe, en général, à ses Annales, & en particulier, à ces Critiques sur les Gouvernemens & les Loix. The text is a scathing attack on Linguet and his works. Third work: Conlon 84:1339; Le Bucher Bibliographique, 768.First edition.The Principes de Morale were condamned by the Sorbonne: the Abbé Laurent here presents a warm and ardent defence of the book in the form of three letters to his nephew. One of the interesting observations he makes is that an unjust judgement, or a biased judgement with regard to decisions of censorship, not only destroys public confidence, but creates general contempt, one of the reasons, the Abbé argues, that censorship must be exercised with great reluctance.Fourth work: Conlon 87:1663; Weller, p. 232; Haag, La France Protestante, iv, p. 32.Marc-Samuel-Francois Constant had a military career in the service of the United Provinces but left the army relatively young. This was apparently due to his friendship with Voltaire who had recognized and stimulated his litererary talents. A list of his works is given both in Quérard and Haag. This work was published the year after the death of the Prussian king. Another edition was published in 1806.Fifth work: This work was not located in any of the bibliographies consulted. Verso title-page the "Approbation" reads: "J'ai lu un Manuscrit intitulé le Trésor, les Corps saints, les Tombeaux, & les Raretez qui se voyent dans l'Eglise Royale de saint Denis en France, avec des Remarques curieuses. Faits à Paris ce 11 May 1715." A work with this title has not been located either. It describes the church of Saint Denis and its architecture and history, it has a section "Remarques sur la veneration que les Rois de France ont toujours porté aux saintes Reliques qui sont dans l'Eglise & dans le Trésor de saint Denis." Margins a bit short.Between the first and second work has been bound an issue of L'Année Littéraire, no 14, 18 avril 1786.Bookplate pasted on front paste-down "A M. l'Abbé Pascal, Bibliothécaire de S.A.S. Monseigneur le Duc de Penthiévre." EUR 750
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(LECLAIRE.) De l'origine des crises monétaires et des moyens à employer pour les prévenir. Paris, Imprimerie de Madame Veuve Bouchard-Huzard, 1865. 24 pp. 8vo. Modern boards, original green printed covers preserved. First edition. The author was 'entrepreneur de peinture' and after founding the 'Maison Leclaire' was the first in France to grant workers a share in the profits of the company. The system of Leclaire served as a model for Louis Blanc in the 4th edition of his 'Organisation du travail' (1845). EUR 250
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(LEVESQUE DE POUILLY, L.J.) Theorie des sentimens agréables, où après avoir indiqué les règles que la nature suit dans la distribution du plaisir, on établit les principes de la théologie naturelle, et ceux de la philosophie morale. A Paris, Chez Debure père, 1774. With engraved frontispiece and 2 engraved plates. xxxii, 352, (4) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands. Schosler, p. 114; Bibliothèque Voltaire, 2111. First published in 1736. This is the 5th edition enlarged by an Eloge historique de l'auteur, two discourses the author had held in Reims and contains also his description of an antique monument found in Reims. The content of this work is described in Michaud as 'le dessein de Levesque est de prouver que le bonheur est dans la pratique des devoirs.' EUR 350
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(LONGUE, L.P. DE) Les princesses malabares, ou le célibat philosophique. Ouvrage intéressant et curieux avec des notes historiques et critiques. A Amsterdam, aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1735. With title-vignette. (12), 202, (6) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary red morocco, gilt triple fillet on sides, spine gilt, all edges gilt (slightly worn). Hartig, p. 46 (according to Hartig the work has also been attributed to Lenglet du Fresnoy and to P. Quesnel); Peignot, Livres condamnés, ii, p. 53; Cioranescu 40825; Weller, ii, p. 97; not in Negley; not in Trousson; not in Valette; not in Gove; not in Versins; INED 2944. The first edition appeared in 1734. - Some slight browning. The key to the author is given by Drujon in his Livres à clef. Allegorical and satirical utopia, especially satirizing religious history. 'Écrites dans un style métaphorique rempli d'énigmes et d'allégories, les pensées de Longue sont assez difficilement saisissables. Chronologe critique des principaux systèmes religieux qui ont 'tyranisé le genre humain'' (INED).All the names are anagrams and at the end three pages giving the key to the names are to be found. The work was prohibited after its publication and burnt by 'Arrêt du Parlement du 31 décembre 1734'. EUR 900
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(MANDEVILLE, B. DE.) Pensées libres sur la Religion, l'Eglise, et le bonheur de la Nation. Traduites de l'Anglois du Docteur B.M. Par Mr. Van Effen. A Amsterdam, Chez François l'Honoré, 1738. Titles printed in red and black. 2 volumes in one. (20),220 pp.; (4), 233, (23) pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering on red morocco label, very lightly rubbed along joints, with the gilt stamped coat-of-arms of the Duc de la Rochefoucauld and the small stamp of the Chateau de La Roche-Guyon on the title-page. Barbier, iii, p. 825. First published as Free thoughts on Religion, the Church, and National Happiness, ...., London, 1720 and immediately translated into French, German and Dutch. The first French edition was published in The Hague by van Duren in 1722 in two continuously paginated volumes. This is the second French edition. After the Fable of the Bees this is Mandeville's best known book, A well known treatise against religion, theology and particularly clerical politics, and a plea for civil and religious toleration and peace. 'Mandeville followed Bayle in skeptically arguing for toleration and against priestcraft, in particular clerical politics. He pointed out that most men believe about God what they have been taught from infancy, but few men live according to their professed beliefs. Atheists, whether abstruse philosophers or aristocratic libertines, are few and harmless' (IESS, ix, p. 555). Following his great countrymen Erasmus and Grotius (Mandeville was of Dutch birth and education), he attacked religious hypocrisy and supported sincere 'inward religion.' He claimed to be an adherent of the Church of England, his clerical critics viewed him as a dangerous unbeliever. Translated by the Dutch writer and editor Justus van Effen."In the Scottish Enlightenment, Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, and Adam Smith disapproved of the "licentiousness" of his system, yet various Mandevillean ideas appear in their writings. Hume, Smith, Dugald Stewart, Lord Kames, and especially Adam Ferguson all employed the notion, clearly visible in Mandeville, that arts and institutions are often unintended consequences of human action -products not of individual genius but of the slow accretion of the knowledge and practices of ordinary men (Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, vol. 3, pp 16-17). EUR 1100
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(MASSON, P.J.) Instruction sur les Affaires contentieuses des Négocians, La manière de les prévenir, ou de les suivre dans les Tribunaux. A Paris, Chez Le Clerc, A Charleville, Chez Raucourt, 1786. xviii, (2), 492 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering (two very light and minor defects to sides). Goldsmiths 13195; Camus 2220 (for the 1736 edition of Masson's work); not in Kress; Einaudi 3788 (1736 edition); not in Mattioli. This work is a new edition, considerably enlarged and rearranged by Le Clerc, 'syndic de la librairie', of Masson's Instruction sur les Lettres de Change, the 1739 edition and which was first published in 1736. EUR 450
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(MIRABEAU, V. RIQUETTI DE & F. QUESNAY.) L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Cinqième édition. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1760-1764. With title-pages in red and black. 6 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, contrasting spine labels with gilt lettering. I-III: L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Cinqième édition. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1764. (4), viii, 308, (2) pp.; (4), 423, (1) pp.; (4), 422, (2) pp.IV: L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Tome Quatrième. Précis de l'Organisation, ou Mémoire sur les États Provinciaux. Sixième Édition. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1760. (4), 208, (2) pp. - (Followed by:) Réponse aux Objections contre le Mémoire sur les États Provinciaux. (Drop-head title). - (Followed by:) Questions intéressantes sur la Population, l'Agriculture et le Commerce, Proposées aux Académies & autres Sociétés savantes des Provinces. (Drop-head title). (2), 336 pp. (the 'Réponse' and the 'Questions' continuously paginated).V: L'Ami des Hommes, Nouvelle Édition, Augmentée des Lettres sur les Corvées & la Milice. Cinquième Partie. Mémoire sur l'Agriculture envoyé a la très-louable Société d'Agriculture de Berne; Avec L'Extrait des six premiers Livres du Corps complet d'Economie Rustique de feu M. Thomas Hale. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1762. (4), vi, 281, (5) pp. - (Followed by:) L'Ami des Hommes, Nouvelle Édition, Augmentée des Lettres sur les Corvées & la Milice. Sixième Partie. Réponse a l'Essai sur les Ponts et Chaussées, la Voierie et les Corvées. Sixième Partie. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1762. (4), 206 pp.VI: L'Ami des Hommes, Nouvelle Édition, Augmentée des Lettres sur les Corvées & la Milice. Septieme Partie. Tableau Economique avec ses Explications. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1762. With 6 engraved folding tables. (4), 162, (4) pp. - (Followed by:) L'Ami des Hommes, Nouvelle Édition, Augmentée des Lettres sur les Corvées & la Milice. Huitieme Partie. Lettres pour servir de Suite a l'Ami des Hommes. Huitieme Partie. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1762. (4), 104 pp. EUR 850
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(MIRABEAU, V. RIQUETTI DE.) L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Troisième édition. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1758. 2 volumes. (12), 523, (1) pp.; (4), 520, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, corners lightly bumped. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Higgs Third edition. These two volumes contain the complete text of the first three volumes of the Ami des Hommes published in this period. The following parts (4-6) published in the years 1759-1760 have not been published with this third edition. The edition is apparently quite rare: Kress, Goldsmiths and Higgs listing various editions published in the period upto 1762 but none of these reference works lists this third edition in two volumes. EUR 600
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(MONDENARD, J. SAINT-SARDOS DE MONTAIGU DE.) Considérations sur l'organisation sociale, appliquées à l'état civil, politique et militaire de la France et de l'Angleterre; à leurs moeurs, leur agriculture, leur commerce et leurs finances, à l'époque de la paix d'Amiens. Paris, Chez Migneret, 1802. 3 volumes. x (misnumbered xii), 349, (1) pp.; (4), 322, (2) pp.; (4), 335, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spines gilt in compartments, red label and gilt lettering, gilt ornamental border on sides. Kress B.4568; INED 3230bis; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. 'Ouvrage principal de Mondénard. Celui-ci, émigré en Angleterre, le publia anonymement à son retour. Conservateur, farouche défenseur de la propriété et de la grande culture, il s'en prend aux excès de la Révolution mais accepte quelques-uns de ses principes. Idées justes, notamment sur les rapports entre la machine et l'emploi' (INED). The first volume deals with political science; volume two with population and economics, the colonies and slavery, agriculture and commerce; the third volume deals with finances, mendicity and prisons. The work was published on the occassion of the peace of Amiens with the hope of establishing a rapprochement between France and England. It is interesting to note that the absence of a commercial agreement with the peace of Amiens is considered to be one of the causes of its failure within little more than a year and that Mondénard deals with the subject of economics and commerce in relation to the peace of Amiens (see: Coquelin & Guillaumin, vol. 2, p. 199, and the Historical Dictionary of Napoleonic France, 1799-1815, p. 16). - Some scribbling on half-title of first volume, handwritten name and date on title of first volume. EUR 1250
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(MONTALIVET, M.C. BACHASSON DE.) Lettre d'un jeune pair de France aux Français de son age. Paris, Le Normant Fils, imprimeur du Roi, 1827. 16 pp. 8vo. Folded sheets, uncut. Larousse, Grand dictionnaire universel, vol. 11, p. 486. First edition. As a young liberal politician the author was noted for his publication concerning the freedom of the press, directed against Peyronnet and also this brochure raised much interest.At head of title: 'Les amis de la liberté de la presse'.The Société des Amis de la Liberté de la Presse appeared briefly during the electoral campaign of 1827 when François-René Chateaubriand rallied Ultra and moderate royalists opposed to the Villèle government to protest censorship of the press and to elect deputies to the Chamber who would abolish censorship laws. Chateaubriand had become a dangerous opponent of the Villéle government in June 1824 when the celebrated writer had been unceremoniously dismissed from his post as minister of foreign affairs. The ordinances of 24 June 1827, which reimposed censorship on the periodical press, provided Chateaubriand with an opportunity for political revenge that he eagerly seized. Chateaubriand's society, probably never more than an informal grouping, formed early in June and included royalists, doctrinaires, and some members of the Center Left opposition that a common opposition, often personal, to the Villèle government, outrage at the reimposition of censorship, and admiration of Chateaubriand temporarily united in 1827. Meetings of the society brought together such figures as Prosper de Barante, the duc de Choiseul, the comte de Montalivet and the baron Hyde de Neuville, journalists like Alexis de Jussieu and Louis-François Bertin de Vaux and ambitious young intellectuals as de Salvandy and Villemain. Along with the more famous and influential society 'Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera', the 'Amis' had an impact on the electoral campaign of 1827. Indirect testimony to the government's fear of the society's effectiveness lies in the policies adopted by the postal service. Because it could not be relied upon to deliver political pamphlets to provincial cities and towns, trusted friends of the society had to carry many works personally (See: Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the Second Empire). EUR 250
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(MONTESQUIEU, CH.L. DE SECONDAT, BARON DE.) Défense de l'Esprit des Loix, A laquelle on a joint quelques Éclaicissemens. A Genève, Chez Barrillot & Fils, 1750. 207, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary polished calf, spine gilt incompartments, label with gilt lettering. Tchemerzine-Scheler, iv, p. 931; Le Petit p. 498; Cabeen 93 (a 80 page work bound with the 1749 edition of the Esprit des Loix; Cabeen does not list the present original edition!); Conlon 50:793; INED 3552. Original edition. The work ends on page 196 and is followed by Éclaircissements sur l'Esprit des Loix (unnumbered leaf forming the pages 197-198, text covering the pages 199-207). The Esprit des Loix was severely attacked and the present work is a dignified 'Défense'. Montesquieu died not long after it was published while on a visit to Paris. Despite the success of the Esprit des Loix and the present work, the quarrel over Montesquieu's main work continued with Jansenists, Jesuits and others attacking the author. The Esprit des Loix was eventually placed on the Index (29 November 1751) and condamned by the Sorbonne. EUR 2400
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(MORELLY.) Naufrage des isles flottantes; ou Basiliade du célébre Pilpai. Poéme heroique. Traduit de l'indien par Mr. M******. A Messine (Paris), Par une Société de Libraires, 1753. Titles printed in red and black, with engraved frontispiece, and title-vignettes. 2 volumes. (2), xxxvii, (1), 216 pp.; (2), 307, (1, corrections) pp. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spines gilt with raised bands, corners, labels and gilt lettering, somewhat rubbed, small defect to upper cover of volume one. First edition, one of the rare issues with the portrait looking to the left and a slightly different collation for the preliminaries compared to the copies ordinarely found. According to Versins in his study published in 1963 in 'Ailleurs', this is the truely first edition, first issue. Chinard however claims that the copies with the portrait looking to the right are the first issues. 'Oeuvre du fondateur du communisme. Epopée allégorique, sorte d'utopie qui propose une société meilleure. Les idées de Morelly seront plus solidement exposées dans le Code de la nature (1755). Diatribes violentes contre la propriété, mère de tous les crimes; souhait d'une postérité nombreuse; critique de l'indissolubilité du mariage (dans la société de Morelly, il n'y a d'ailleurs ni divorce, ni adultère, ni prostitution, ni grossesse honteuse); attaques portées contre le commerce capitaliste, qui ne fait vivre qu'un tiers des hommes, etc.' (INED). 'Sous une forme allégorique, l'auteur dépeint une société fondée sur des principes communistes, morcelée en petits groupes économiques indépendants, comptant chacun cent personnes. Les idées philosophiques et sociales de Morelly exposées dans cette 'épopée' ont été l'objet d'une critique acerbe de la part de ces contemporains' (Hartig & Soboul). Trousson points to the fact that Morelly's communism is of a negative sort: their is no marriage, no property, no police, no church, no privileges, etc. It is, in fact, an anarchist state, ruled only by the laws of nature, a society without any contract whatsoever and far from the Contract Social. Nothing is forbidden since one can not make any mistakes or do wrong if one follows the rules of nature (or better, nothing wrong can exist for those who live according to nature). The majority of the ideas which were later further elaborated in Morelly's Code de la Nature are already presented here. The work is considered to be one of the most important utopian works of the 18th century. EUR 3750
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(MORELLY.) Naufrage des isles flottantes; ou Basiliade du célébre Pilpai. Poéme heroique. Traduit de l'indien par Mr. M******. A Messine (Paris), Par une Société de Libraires, 1753. Title printed in red and black, with engraved frontispiece, and a title-vignette. 2 volumes. Frontispiece, (2), xli, (1), 216 pp.; (4), 307, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, richly gilt spines, red labels with gilt lettering, red edges (slightly rubbed). Negley, Utopian Literature, 810; Hartig & Soboul, p. 54; Trousson, pp. 145-150; Versins, Encyclopédie de l'Utopie et de la Science fiction, pp. 602-603; Higgs 665; INED 3319; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition, the head on the frontispiece turned to the right (to the title-page) which is claimed by Chinard as the first issue, first edition. Versins claims that copies with the head of the frontispiece facing away from the title-page are the first issues of the first editions. 'Oeuvre du fondateur du communisme. Epopée allégorique, sorte d'utopie qui propose une société meilleure. Les idées de Morelly seront plus solidement exposées dans le Code de la nature (1755). Diatribes violentes contre la propriété, mère de tous les crimes; souhait d'une postérité nombreuse; critique de l'indissolubilité du mariage (dans la société de Morelly, il n'y a d'ailleurs ni divorce, ni adultère, ni prostitution, ni grossesse honteuse); attaques portées contre le commerce capitaliste, qui ne fait vivre qu'un tiers des hommes, etc.' (INED). 'Sous une forme allégorique, l'auteur dépeint une société fondée sur des principes communistes, morcelée en petits groupes économiques indépendants, comptant chacun cent personnes. Les idées philosophiques et sociales de Morelly exposées dans cette 'épopée' ont été l'objet d'une critique acerbe de la part de ces contemporains' (Hartig & Soboul). Trousson points to the fact that Morelly's communism is of a negative sort: their is no marriage, no property, no police, no church, no privileges, etc. It is, in fact, an anarchist state, ruled only by the laws of nature, a society without any contract whatsoever and far from the Contract Social. Nothing is forbidden since one can not make any mistakes or do wrong if one follows the rules of nature (or better, nothing wrong can exist for those who live according to nature). The majority of the ideas which were later further elaborated in Morelly's Code de la Nature are already presented here. The work is considered to be one of the most important utopian works of the 18th century. EUR 3500
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(MURALT, B.L. DE.) Lettres sur les Anglois et les François et sur les voïages. No place, 1726. Titles printed in red and black. 3 parts in one volume. (18), 200 pp.; (6), 200 pp.; (6), 224 pp. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf, spine richly gilt with red label and gilt lettering, all edges red, front joint split but solid, head and foot of spine damaged. INED 3346 (edition published in 1767); Conlon 25:572. Second edition, considerably augmented. The first edition, published the previous year in Cologne, had one volume only (see Conlon). A celebrated work by the Anglophile Swiss author Beat de Muralt (1665-1749) who influenced Voltaire, Rousseau, and Albrecht von Haller. Although the book had circulated widely in manuscript before publication, it proved to be a pioneer work in shifting Swiss and German interests from French classicism to English achievements and attitudes. Muralt had in fact travelled in France and England as early as 1694-1695. While in England he picked up some deistic views which on his return to Bern caused his banishment. It is one of the earliest detailed portraits in French of English society, it provides the reader with a vibrant foreigner's-eye view of late 17th century social life in England and France (but mainly of course in London and Paris) and it questions the perceived intellectual superiority of the French and in a sense this book preceeds the 'Anglomania' which surfaced during the century.The work was refuted by the abbé Desfontaines (in 1726) who wrote an Apologie du caractère des Français et des Anglais.Stamp neatly erased from first title-page, the first title-page has added in a contemporary hand the name of the author, the last title-page contains only the title, not giving the year of publication. EUR 900
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(NOVI DE CAVEIRAC, J.) Mémoire Politico-Critique, Ou l'on examine s'il est de l'interêt de l'Église & de l'État d'établir pour les Calvinistes du Royaume une nouvelle forme de se marier. Et où l'onréfute l'Écrit qui a pour titre: Mémoire Théologique & Politique sur les mariages clandestins des Protestans de France. No place, 1756. (8), 228, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt triple fillet on sides, spine richly gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, marbled edges. Conlon 56:1138; INED 3401; Sauvy, Quelques Démographes ignorés du XVIIIe siècle, p. 362 ff. First edition. The abbé Caveirac, 'fanatiquement intolérant, (....) a fourni aux éveques du Languedoc, consultés par Voyer d'Argenson, les arguments propres à rejeter l'adoucissement du sort des protestants. La principale raison invoquée en faveur de cet adoucissement étant la dépopulation et l'appauvrissement qui résultaient de la révocation de l'Edit de Nantes, l'abbé fut amené à étudier le problème général de la dépopulation et il le fit avec soin' (Sauvy).De Caveirac draws four lines of defense: one, the depopulation as a result of the Edict of Nantes is seriously overestimated; two, the question is whether a large population is really that advantageous for a country; three, even if there is the problem of depopulation, there are other and more important reasons for it than the departure of the protestants; four, development of a policy which favours an increase of the population.The work 'Mémoire Théologique & Politique sur les mariages clandestins des Protestans de France', against which Caveirac opposes, was written by Ripert de Monclar.The revocation of the Edict of Nantes led to the departure of large groups of Protestants from France. Many authors, among whom Novi de Caveirac, tried to argue that the decreasing population of France and the resulting problems had other causes than the departure of the Protestants, and maintained their strong opposition to any legal status of the protestants in France and above all opposed the right to marry of protestants. - An excellent copy, ex-libris of M. Dupleix de Bacquencourt, intendant d'Amiens. EUR 1000
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(ORLEANS, L.P.A. D') De la situation des Ouvriers en Angleterre. Mémoire présenté à la commission d'enquête sur les conditions du travail par M. le Comte de Paris. Paris, Michel Lévy frères, Librairie Nouvelle, 1873. With tables in the text. (4), 297, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, corners, marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, very lightly rubbed. Einaudi 4221. First edition. Louis-Philippe Albert d'Orléans, Comte de Paris, Orleanist pretender and publicist. He became heir to the throne of Louis-Philippe in 1842. After the fall of the Second Empire in 1870 he sought fusion with the Bourbon house in which understanding Chambord would be the pretender with the count of Paris as his successor. Chambord consistently rejected. In 1886 the count was expelled and from then on lived in England until his death. - First and last leaves with some spotting. With handwritten and signed dedication by the author to C. Fortescue (?) on the half-title and the bookplate of Barlingford on front paste-down. EUR 425
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(PECHMEJA, J. DE.) Télèphe en XII livres. A Paris, Chez Devaux, Patris, l'an Troisième (1795). With two engraved frontispieces. 2 volumes in one. (6, including frontispiece), 202 pp.; (6, including frontispiece), 204 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with gilt lettering, red edges. Soboul & Hartig, p. 68; Negley 898; Lichtenberger, Le Socialisme au XVIIIe siècle, p. 368. Third edition. Utopian account imitating the Télemaque. The author denounces the tyranny exercized by the rich over the poor. He mediates in a slave revolt against their oppressors and attacks the principle of slavery and inequality. - First and last leaves with a waterstain. EUR 500
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(PINONDEL DE LA BERTOCHE, H.) Mémoire sur la bonification des maremmes toscanes et la création de 400 poderi dans la Colmate de Castiglione et dans les montagnes de Melete près Portiglione. Paris, Imprimerie de Guiraudet et Jouaust, 1857. With three large folding maps. (4), 44 pp. 4to. Modern boards, original printed covers preserved. First edition ? Deals with the project in Tuscany and Castiglione dell'Pescaja to fertilize marshes and other areas where either the soil or the air is unhealthy and which are therefore thinly populated. Large project to gain or re-gain such lands and to turn them into practical use, attract population and increase the revenues from the soil. This work includes covering the unhealthy soil with mud, called 'colmatage', directing clean and healthy water to these areas, etc. The present work is divided into four sections: the first lists work done sofar and work that remains to be done; the second describes the various circumstances which make the project difficult; the third suggest ways to achieve the goals set, and the fourth list projected work and projects and the financial consequences.Among the measures discussed is the establishment of an agricultural school and an orphanage for both sexes. The work also contains a detailed timeframe for the project.Reference is made to large projects executed in Holland and France (Bourgoin, Camargue, La Rochelle).The author was 'Syndic des marais de Bourgoin.' EUR 325
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(PLUMART DE DANGEUL, L.J.) Remarques sur les Avantages et les Desavantages de la France et de la Grande-Bretagne, par rapport au commerce et autres sources de la puissance des Etats. Traduction de l'Anglois du Chevalier John Nickolls. Troisième édition. Imprimé à Leyde, et se trouve à Paris, chez les frères Estienne, 1754. Title printed in red and black. vi, (8), 411, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering (lightly rubbed, corners a bit bumped). Kress 5382; Goldsmiths 8917; Higgs 743; not in Einaudi (listing two other editions); not in INED (listing another edition); Conlon 54:951. At least four editions appeared in 1754, of which two are entitled third edition: the present one and another one published in Dresden and augmented with an Essai sur la Police & le Commerce des Grains. The work was being published as a translation but was actually written by Louis-Joseph Plumart (or Plumard) de Dangeul who used the pseudonym of John Nickolis. 'd'Argenson admire beaucoup cet ouvrage, qu'il place même audessus de l'Esprit des Lois de Montesquieu' (Stourm, p. 98). 'Documentation particulièrement riche, accompagnée d'observations personnelles sur la population, les classes sociales, le commerce, l'économie' (INED). 'Mid-eighteenth-century populationism is best represented in the works of Plumard de Dangeul, Goyon de la Plambaine and Jaubert. Dangeul was concerned primarily to combat celibacy, the principal check (in his opinion) to population growth; for he looked upon such growth as a ''certain sign'' of the "health of the body politic'', as a stimulator of agriculture and manufactures, and as a partial source of relief to the taxpayers (the cost of government being relatively fixed).' 'The forces unfavorable to population growth operated more powerfully in some social classes than in others. Both the marriage rate and fertility within marriage were lower in the military class than in any other group; they increased in the following order: magistrates, financiers, merchants, artisans, comfortable laborers, and uncomfortable laborers. In general, Dangeul concluded, the French social system valued least and burdened most heavily the more useful classes, and thereby checked their increase and that of the population as a whole' (Spengler, French predeccessors of Malthus, pp. 82-86). The second part of the work deals with England: advantages of its geographical isolation, its natural ressources, its government and its commerce. EUR 600
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(PLUMART DE DANGEUL, L.J.) Remarques sur les Avantages et les Desavantages de la France et de la Grande-Bretagne, Par Rapport au Commerce, & aux autres Sources de la Puissance des Etats. Traduction de l'Anglois du Chevalier John Nickolls. A Leyde, 1754. Title printed in red and black. vi, (8), 408 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt back with gilt lettering, gilt triple-line border on sides (very lightly rubbed, some wear to extremeties). Kress 5380; Goldsmiths 8915; Higgs 741; INED 3607; not in Einaudi (listing two other editions); Conlon 54:951. First edition. The work was being published as a translation but was actually written by Louis-Joseph Plumart (or Plumard) de Dangeul who used the pseudonym of John Nickolis. 'd'Argenson admire beaucoup cet ouvrage, qu'il place même audessus de l'Esprit des Lois de Montesquieu.' (Stourm, p. 98). 'Documentation particulièrement riche, accompagnée d'observations personnelles sur la population, les classes sociales, le commerce, l'économie.' (INED). 'Mid-eighteenth-century populationism is best represented in the works of Plumard de Dangeul, Goyon de la Plambaine and Jaubert. Dangeul was concerned primarily to combat celibacy, the principal check (in his opinion) to population growth; for he looked upon such growth as a ''certain sign'' of the "health of the body politic'', as a stimulator of agriculture and manufactures, and as a partial source of relief to the taxpayers (the cost of government being relatively fixed).' 'The forces unfavorable to population growth operated more powerfully in some social classes than in others. Both the marriage rate and fertility within marriage were lower in the military class than in any other group; they increased in the following order: magistrates, financiers, merchants, artisans, comfortable laborers, and uncomfortable laborers. In general, Dangeul concluded, the French social system valued least and burdened most heavily the more useful classes, and thereby checked their increase and that of the population as a whole.' (Spengler, French predeccessors of Malthus, pp. 82-86). The second part of the work deals with England: advantages of its geographical isolation, its natural ressources, its government and its commerce. EUR 750
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(PLUMART DE DANGEUL, L.J.) Remarques sur les Avantages et les Desavantages de la France et de la Grande-Bretagne, Par Rapport au Commerce, & aux autres Sources de la Puissance des Etats. Traduction de l'Anglois du Chevalier John Nickolls. A Leyde, 1754. Title printed in red and black. vi, (8), 408 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with gilt lettering, gilt triple fillets, all edges gilt, some very, very light wear to extremeties and joints. Kress 5380; Goldsmiths 8915; Higgs 741; INED 3607; not in Einaudi (listing two other editions); Conlon 54:951. First edition. The work was being published as a translation but was actually written by Louis-Joseph Plumart (or Plumard) de Dangeul who used the pseudonym of John Nickolis. 'd'Argenson admire beaucoup cet ouvrage, qu'il place même audessus de l'Esprit des Lois de Montesquieu' (Stourm, p. 98). 'Documentation particulièrement riche, accompagnée d'observations personnelles sur la population, les classes sociales, le commerce, l'économie' (INED). 'Mid-eighteenth-century populationism is best represented in the works of Plumard de Dangeul, Goyon de la Plambaine and Jaubert. Dangeul was concerned primarily to combat celibacy, the principal check (in his opinion) to population growth; for he looked upon such growth as a ''certain sign'' of the "health of the body politic'', as a stimulator of agriculture and manufactures, and as a partial source of relief to the taxpayers (the cost of government being relatively fixed).' 'The forces unfavorable to population growth operated more powerfully in some social classes than in others. Both the marriage rate and fertility within marriage were lower in the military class than in any other group; they increased in the following order: magistrates, financiers, merchants, artisans, comfortable laborers, and uncomfortable laborers. In general, Dangeul concluded, the French social system valued least and burdened most heavily the more useful classes, and thereby checked their increase and that of the population as a whole' (Spengler, French predeccessors of Malthus, pp. 82-86). The second part of the work deals with England: advantages of its geographical isolation, its natural ressources, its government and its commerce. - A very good copy. EUR 600
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(POTERAT, MARQUIS DE.) Observations politiques et morales de finance et de commerce. Ou examen approfondi d'un ouvrage de M. R***, de Geneve, sur l'emprunt et l'impot. A Lausanne, 1780. 235, (misnumbered 135), (1, errata) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with red label and gilt lettering, red edges. Kress B.308; Goldsmiths 12044; Einaudi 4508; INED 3645; Coquelin & Guillaumin, ii, p. 424; not in Mattioli. First and only edition, a reply to Rillet de Saussure's Lettres sur l'imprunt et l'impot, 1779. 'Bonnes doctrines. L'auteur y attaque les emprunts avec une chaleur philosophique; mais il n'en appreciait pas les effets utiles dans des circonstances données' (Coquelin & Guillaumin). 'Economique et financier. Passages sur le luxe et son imposition; sur la nécessité de reculer l'âge minimum de la prononciation de voeux religieux; sur les successions collatérales' (INED). - A very good large paper copy. EUR 1250
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(POTERAT, MARQUIS DE.) Observations politiques et morales de finance et de commerce. Ou examen approfondi d'un ouvrage de M. R***, de Geneve, sur l'emprunt et l'impot. A Lausanne, 1780. 235, (misnumbered 135), (1, errata) pp. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf, gilt triple fillet on sides, gilt inside dentelles, spine gilt with red label and gilt lettering. Kress B.308; Goldsmiths 12044; Einaudi 4508; INED 3645; Coquelin & Guillaumin, ii, p. 424. First and only edition, a reply to Rillet de Saussure's Lettres sur l'imprunt et l'impot, 1779. 'Bonnes doctrines. L'auteur y attaque les emprunts avec une chaleur philosophique; mais il n'en appreciait pas les effets utiles dans des circonstances données.' (Coquelin & Guillaumin). 'Economique et financier. Passages sur le luxe et son imposition; sur la nécessité de reculer l'âge minimum de la prononciation de voeux religieux; sur les successions collatérales.' (INED). EUR 1500
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(RETIF DE LA BRETONNE, N.E.) Le plus fort des Pamphlets. L'ordre des Paysans aux États-Généraux. No place, 1789 (Paris, EDHIS, 1967). 80 pp. 8vo. Boards. Jacob (Paul Lacroix), chapter XLII Reprintof the extremely rare first edition of one of the rarest of Restif de la Bretonne's works. Published in a limited and numbered edition of 500 copies. Although often attributed to B.V.A. Noilliac (see Martin & Walter 25906 and Lichtenberger, Le Socialisme au XVIIIe siècle) the work is certainly by Nicolas Edme Rétif de la Bretonne. 'Restif est incontestablement l'auteur de ce factum politique, qui n'a jamais été cité que dans un Catalogue de livres à prix marqués, en date du 19 juillet 1869 et que nous n'avons pas eu l'occasion d'examiner, parce qu'il a été vendu immédiatement, au prix de 7 fr. Restif avait préludé à son Plus fort des Pamphlets, par le Thesmographe; dans la préface de ce volume des Idées singulières, il proposait aux États-Généraux de créer dans l'État quatre ordres, au lieu de trois: 'Il y aurait donc, dit-il, l'ordre du Clergé, celui de la Noblesse, celui de la Bourgeoisie, celui des Paysans; lesquels auraient chacun leur orateur.' EUR 125
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(ROSNY, J.) Histoire secréte d'un écu de six livres transformé en une piece de cinq francs; Contenant sa naissance et son entrée dans le monde, sous Louis XIV; ses aventures sous Louis XV et sous Louis XVI; ses malheurs et sa proscription sous le règne de la terreur; son émigration et son enterrement sous Robespierre; sa résurrection et sa métamorphose sous le consulat et Bonaparte. Par l'Auteur du Péruvien à Paris. Paris, Chez Frechet et Cie., de l'Imprimerie de Hocquet et Cie., An XII-(1804). With engraved frontispiece showing an écu with the head of Louis XIV and a piece of 5 francs with the head of Bonaparte. 163, (3) pp. Small 8vo. 19th-century half cloth, marbled boards, label with gilt lettering. Monglond, vi, p. 868-869; not in Martin & Walter; Goldsmiths 18907; Einaudi 4868; not in Kress. First edition. EUR 275
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(SAINT-JOSEPH, P. DE.) Catechisme des Partisans, ou Resolutions Théologiques touchant l'Imposition, Levées & Employ des Finances. Dressé par Demandes & Responces, pour plus grande facilité. Par le R. P.D.P.D. S.I. A Paris, Chez Cardin Besongne, 1649. With large vignette on title. 32 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Moreau 652; Kress 788; Goldsmiths 1019; INED 4055; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli. First edition of this very rare pamphlet offering thoughts on the power of the king in financial matters and on the organisation of the collecting of the taxes. - Somewhat spotted throughout. 'Très remarquable pamphlet' (Moreau). See for an elaborate account of the man and his works Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique, xii, 2e partie, col. 2042-2044. - Rare. EUR 300
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(SAINTARD, P.) Essai sur les colonies françoises; ou Discours politique sur la nature du gouvernement, de la population & du commerce de la colonie de S.D. (Saint-Domingue). No place, 1754. (8), 360 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, all edges red, joint very lightly shaved. Kress 5397; Einaudi 4931; INED 4032; Sabin 75518; Chadenat 1478; Leclerc 1411; not in JFBL; not in Goldsmiths; not in Muller; not in Echeverria & Wilkie. First edition and very rare of this very important work dealing with the French colonies and urging the King to redress the colonial situation of France thereby attempting to safe the colonial power of France. In this period France was, with Spain, the foremost colonial power in the world and in possession of important parts of the America's. Very good and interesting political, commercial and demographical description of Saint-Domingo and also dealing with jursidiction, councils, inhabitants, military service, etc.It is interesting to note that there was apparently a second volume planned which however never saw the light of day. This volume has eleven chapters, but the 'Tables des Discours, Première Partie' mentions a 'Seconde Partie' containing the chapters 12-18, but without giving the pagination of this second part. Also the errata-leaf mentions the errata of the 'première partie', suggesting that there was a second volume planned. None of the reference works, with the exception of INED, has noted this fact, nor has anybody, including INED, ever seen a second volume. - The first and last pages a bit browned. EUR 2500
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(SAINTARD, P.) Roman Politique sur l'État présant Des affaires de l'Amérique, ou Lettres de M***. à M***. Sur les moyens d'établir une Paix solide & durable dans les Colonies, & la Liberté générale du Commerce extérieur. A Amsterdam, Et se trouve à Paris chez Duchesne, 1756. xlvii, (1), 352 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, red edges. Echerverria & Wilkie 56/40; Sabin 75520; Chadenat 4121; JFBL S61; INED 4034; Higgs 1501; Kress 5567; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition, very rare. 'There are several issues of this edition occasioned by cancellanda (D4-5, D11-12, E10, G11, and I5-8, all of which are present in this copy). No copy is known, however, that is not a mixture of both canellanda and cancellantia: thus, what the original text was as first printed is problematic. (.....) In the two BN copies, (....), the imprint date has been alterted in manuscript to read M.DCC.LVII. (This is also the case with the present copy where the second 'I' has been added in manuscript.) This is a series of letters dated July-September 1756, forming an essay on international power politics with special reference to European colonial systems in America' (Echeverria & Wilkie).'Intéressant pour l'origine de la guerre du Canada' (Chadenat). 'A consideration of Europe's involvement in North America with a view to establishing a balance of power among the colonizing nations which would eliminate war and encourage commerce' (JFBL). 'Déterminer la nature des divers équilibres propres aux différentes colonies septentrionales et méridionales des peuples de l'Europe, en étudiant les variations de leurs cultures, leur commerce, leur population, leurs différentes distances, etc.' (INED). - Contemporary signature and author's name in blank portion of title. EUR 3500
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(SALGUES, J.B. & E. JONDOT & MUTIN.) La Philosophie rendue à ses vrais principes, ou cours d'études sur la religion, la morale et les principes de l'ordre social. Pour servir à l'instruction de la Jeunesse. A Paris, Chez Mlle. Chatain, 1800 - An VIII. Two volumes in 1. 307, (1) pp.; 308 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, labels with gilt lettering, sprinkled edges, small accident to upper cover. First edition. The first volume is a history of philosophy and an attempt to prove the existence of God on philosophical grounds, the second volume is an attack on the philosophical principles of the philosophes. - Copy with the handwritten ex-libris of La Mennais on the title-page. EUR 450
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(SCHMID D'AVENSTEIN, G.L.) Principes de la Législation universelle. A Amsterdam, Chez Marc-Michel Rey, 1776. 2 volumes. xx, 389, (3) pp.; (4), 474, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with red labels and gilt lettering, red edges. INED 4116; Einaudi A.867; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Leblanc 113; Mattioli 3269. First edition. 'Économie politique. Doctrine plus agrarienne que populationniste, très proche de celle des physiocrates' (INED, giving a long and extensive analysis of the work). There are sections discussing population (Schmid advocates a continuous increase), family life, property (he defends private ownership of land), luxury, taxation (Schmid favours direct over indirect taxation), commerce (he advocates, among other things, free trade for the colonies and an autonomous government) and war. One of the best expositions of the body of economic thought of the time.George-Louis Schmid (or Schmidt), born in Avenstein in 1720, entered the service of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar and retired in 1757 to Nyon in the Vaud. He had close relations with Voltaire, Diderot and d'Alembert and the other leading philosophes of the 18th century. - Some occasional browning. An excellent copy of a scarce work. EUR 2500
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(SELIS, N.J.) L'inoculation du Bon Sens. A Londres, 1761. 59, (1) pp. 12mo. Old boards, gilt lettering to spine, two corners lightly bumped,somewhat discoloured, two small defects to spine. Conlon 61:1046 (listing an edition of 34 pp.); Barbier, vol. ii, p. 923 lists several editions, also the present one. Barbier also reveals that the work has been attributed to G. Jean Soret. One of three different editions from the year of first publication. Pamphlet directed against the 'beaux-esprits'. - Some scribbling onto title-page. EUR 250
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(SENAC DE MEILHAN, G.) Considérations sur l'ésprit et les moeurs. A Londres, et se trouve à Paris, Chez les Marchands des Nouveautés, 1787. (4), 388 pp. + errata leaf. 8vo. Contemporary paper covers, somewhat worn at spine, uncut and unopened. INED 4140; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Conlon 87:2725. First edition. 'Sur l'homme en société. Quelques réflexions sur l'influence respective de la guerre et de la paix sur le caractère national ......' (INED). A well written work giving interesting insights into society on the eve of the revolution. EUR 450
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(SERVAN, J.M.A.) Discours sur le progrès des connoissances humaines en général, de la Morale, et de la Législation en particulier; Lu dans une Assemblée publique de l'Académie de Lyon. Par M.S**, ancien Magistrat. No place, 1781. viii, 159, (1) pp. 8vo. Original blind wrappers, uncut copy. INED 4168; Cioranescu 60152; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. Deals with moral questions and legislation, finances (pp. 41-43, 100-112) and in praise of Forbonnais, Silhouette and Turgot. 'L'esprit général de notre fiscalité moderne est de favoriser les gains énormes et le luxe vicieux, d'écraser l'état enfin sous le poids unique de l'inégalité des richesses.' Also thoughts on commerce and agriculture: 'l'agriculture est le bras de l'état, le commerce en est la main.' In favor of economic liberty and condamnation of slavery and religious fanaticism which drives the protestants out of France. EUR 600
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(SERVAN, J.M.A.) Discours sur le progrès des connoissances humaines en général, de la Morale, et de la Législation en particulier; Lu dans une Assemblée publique de l'Académie de Lyon. Par M.S**, ancien Magistrat. No place, 1781. viii, 159, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartements, marbled edges, somewhat rubbed. INED 4168; Cioranescu 60152; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. Deals with moral questions and legislation, finances (pp. 41-43, 100-112) and in praise of Forbonnais, Silhouette and Turgot. 'L'esprit général de notre fiscalité moderne est de favoriser les gains énormes et le luxe vicieux, d'écraser l'état enfin sous le poids unique de l'inégalité des richesses.' Also thoughts on commerce and agriculture: 'l'agriculture est le bras de l'état, le commerce en est la main.' In favor of economic liberty and condamnation of slavery and religious fanaticism which drives the protestants out of France. Servan (1737? - 1807) was an orator and magistrate, admired by Voltaire among others. In this work where he broadly assesses human understanding with a particular focus on legal systems and finance, he also discusses the ideas of Rousseau, Helvétius, Locke and Shaftesbury. EUR 600
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(SIMOND, L.) Voyage d'un Français en Angleterre, pendant les années 1810 et 1811; avec des observations sur l'état politique et moral, les arts et la littérature de ce pays, et sur les moeurs et les usages de ses habitans. A Paris, Chez Treuttel et Würtz, et à Strasbourg, même maison de commerce, 1816. With 15 plates (14aquatints, some of costumes), 13 engraved vignettes and two tables. 2 volumes. xi, (1), 525, (1) pp.; (4), 450 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Kress B.6806; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Abbey, Scenery, 18 (second edition). First edition. - Very lightly browned. Louis Simond, French traveller (1767-1831). He left France for the United States in 1792 where he travelled extensively, went to England where he also travelled extensively and returned to France at the beginning of the Restoration, travelled in Switzerland and Italy and retired to Geneva, where he died. The present work was received favorably and with much interest: the reading public was very interested in learning about the English nation with which communications had been so difficult during the long revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. This was in no small measure due to the fact that the author did not bother very much to write about topography but focussed on social conditions, history, politics, economics, judicial administration and the laws.The tables are entitled: Tableau des Progrès de la dette Anglaise and Table de Dépréciation des Espèces. - Very lightly browned. EUR 450
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(STEVENS, J.) Examen du gouvernement d'Angleterre, comparée aux constitutions des Etats-Unis. Ou l'on réfute quelques assertions contenues dans l'ouvrage de M. Adams, intitulé: Apologie des Constitutions des Etats-Unis d'Amerique, & dans celui de M. Delolme, intitulée: De la Constitution d'Angleterre. Par un Cultivateur de New-Jersey. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois, & accompagné de Notes. A London, et se trouve à Paris, chez Froullé, 1789. viii, 291, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf,green marbled boards, spine gilt with red label and gilt lettering, yellow edges. Sabin 41646; Echeverria & Wilkie 789/118; not in JFBL; Fay 25; Schelle 32; Einaudi 5482; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First French edition of the text by Stevens. This translation is particularly important for the political contents of the notes which were added by Dupont de Nemours, Condorcet and Gallois, which in fact take up by far the greater part of the book (pp. 67-291). Because of these important notes this work is much sought after. Echeverria, in his work Mirage in the West, points to the fact that the American constitutions were the subject of intense interest and study during the years 1789 and 1790. In this period the new American federal Constitution and Bill of Rights were studied, discussed and cited. (pp. 163-164). The work is sometimes attributed to W. Livingstone, erroneously. See A.D. Turnbull, John Stevens, (1928), pp. 90-91. EUR 1000
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(STRAATMAN, H. DE.) Testament politique de Charles, Duc de Lorraine et de Bar. Déposé entre les mains de l'Empereur Léopold à Presbourg, le 29 Novembre 1687 en faveur du Roy de Hongarie et de ses successeurs arrivans à l'Empire. A Lipsic, chez Georges Weitman, 1696. (2), xix, (1), 113, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary brown calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands (slightly rubbed and shaved). Quérard, Superchéries, i, pp. 700-701; not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700. First edition. - Paper browned due to the quality of the paper. Quérard has a long note on this work and its author. The text formulates in a strong and decisive tone the politics of the House of Austria. The text was published again by the 'Académie des Bibliophiles' in 1866 by Anatole de Montaiglon and with a bibliographic study. A second edition was published in 1760, Ratisbonne. Among other things, the author puts forth a project for perpetual peace. EUR 350
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(SUZE, CHARLES DE.) Suite des Erreurs et de la vérité; ou développement du livre des hommes rappellés au principe universel de la science. Par un Ph...Inc... A Salomonopolis, Chez Androphile, à la Colonne inébranlable, MMMMM DCC LXXXIV. (4), 445, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary catspaw calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red edges, small repair to head of spine and to lower upper joint. Schosler, p. 163; Vercruysse, Bibliographie d'Holbach, p. 44; Caillet 9770. First edition. In 1775 Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin published his Des Erreurs et de la Vérité..... This work is apparently a counterfeit sequel to that work, attributed to Charles de Suze, author of Clef des Erreurs et de la Vérité. The work has also been attributed to Holbach and Condorcet. The present work reviews a number of the questions dealt with in the genuine work by Saint-Martin such as good and evil, liberty and necessity, but developing however the very antithesis of the teachings of Saint-Martin. Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin (1743-1803), French philosopher, known as 'le philosophe inconnu', the name under which his works were published. He came under the influence of Martinez de Pasquales who taught a species of mysticism drawn from cabbalistic sources, and endeavoured to found thereon a secret cult with magical rites. EUR 750
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(TIXEDOR, F.X.) Nouvelle France, ou France commerçante. Par Mr. F. X. T(ixedor) Juge de C(onflans). A Londres, 1765. (4), viii, 264 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, marbled edges. Kress 6305; Goldsmiths 10097; INED 4337; Higgs 3430; Leblanc 384; not in Einaudi. First edition. Kress states work to be published first in 1755, for which statement no evidence could be found, nor does Kress have this 1755 edition, nor does Goldsmiths. 'Cet ouvrage comporte quatre parties: Du commerce en général; Des avantages qui reviendront à la France par l'établissement d'un solide commerce; De la facilité des établissements de commerce et marine dans la France; Des obstacles qui peuvent s'opposer à un solide établissement de commerce dans la France. Cette dernière rubrique se termine par des considérations sur l'établissement du commerce propre à la monarchie française' (Leblanc). 'Economique. Réflexions sur le commerce en général et sur ces avantages. Intérêt de la France à posséder un 'solide commerce', d'autant plus que notre pays offre des conditions particulièrement favorables à son développement et à celui de la marine. Défense du systême des douanes intérieures' (INED). EUR 350
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(VAUVENARGUES, L. DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE.) Introduction à la connoissance de l'Ésprit Humain, suivi de Reflexions et de Maximes. A Paris, Chez Antoine-Claude Briasson, 1746. (20), 384, (2, errata) pp. 8vo. Contemporary blind paper covers (uncut). En Français dans le Texte, 149; Conlon 46:842; Cabeen 2649; Cioranescu 62969; Schosler, p. 180. First edition. Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715-1747), French moralist and epigrammatist, born at Aix-en-Provence. Vauvenargues is notable for his incisive insights and formulations, principally in regard to character and moral ideas. He was a deist and not a Christian; but, believing religion necessary to social order, he opposed the propaganda of the philosophes. His philosophy, however, was secular in spirit, concerned with the problem of human nature and of what men should be and how they should live. Like other thinkers of his time, he justified the passions. Although Vauvenarques was not interested in political philosophy, he did argue against the notion that men are, or may be naturally, politically or socially equal: 'Law cannot make men equal in spite of nature'. Hierachy, in all respects, is inevitable. The present work includes his famous Réflexions et Maximes. - Half-title and last leaf pasted to the inside of the covers, pages 305-end with stain in lower outer blank margin. Copies with the errata are very rare! EUR 800
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(VENTO DES PENNES, L.N.) La Noblesse ramenée à ses vrais principes, ou Examen du dévelopement de la Noblesse commerçante. A Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Desaint et Saillant, 1759. iv, 307, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, red edges. Kress 5819; Einaudi 5860; Higgs 1981; INED 4410; Leblanc 217; Conlon 59:1259; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. 'Sans partager l'opinion de Coyer, l'auteur de La Noblesse Commerçante, Vento admet cependant la nécessité de développer le commerce, et expose quelques moyens aptes à le favoriser. En outre, Vento juge le célibat des prêtres et des officiers nécessaire, raison qui etaye encore sa théorie selon la noblesse ne doit pas déroger en s'occupant de commerce' (INED). EUR 400
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(VENTO DES PENNES, L.N.) La Noblesse ramenée à ses vrais principes, ou Examen du dévelopement de la Noblesse commerçante. A Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Desaint et Saillant, 1759. iv, 307, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary polished calf, spine richly gilt with gilt lettering, marbled edges. Kress 5819; Einaudi 5860; Higgs 1981; INED 4410; Leblanc 217; Conlon 59:1259; not in Goldsmiths; not in Mattioli. First edition. 'Sans partager l'opinion de Coyer, l'auteur de La Noblesse Commerçante, Vento admet cependant la nécessité de développer le commerce, et expose quelques moyens aptes à le favoriser. En outre, Vento juge le célibat des prêtres et des officiers nécessaire, raison qui etaye encore sa théorie selon la noblesse ne doit pas déroger en s'occupant de commerce' (INED). - Some light spotting on title-page. EUR 400
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(WRAXALL, N.W.) Court Examen de l'état politique de la Grande-Bretagne au commencement de l'année 1787; Traduit de l'Anglois de M.P., sur la septième édition. Par M.L.D. A Paris, Chez Hardouin & Gattey, 1787. 76 pp. 8vo. Sewn in contemporary paper cover with gilt floral decoration on sides. Conlon 87:2869; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First French edition of 'A short History of the political state of Great Britain', and translated by Louis Dutens. The translator states in the preface that the work had considerable success in England and even provoked two critical replies, one of which is entitled Réplique au Court Examen and which is attributed to Fox. EUR 250
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ACADEMIE FRANCAISE - DE LA HARPE, (J.F.) Des talens dans leurs rapports avec la société et le bonheur public. Pièce qui a remporté le prix de l'Académie Françoise en 1771. Paris, chez la veuve Regnard & Demonville, 1771. - (Bound with:) DE LA HARPE, (J.F.) Eloge de François de Salignac de la Motte-Fénélon, archévêque-duc de Cambray, précepteur des enfans de France. Discours qui a remporté le prix de l'Académie Françoise en 1771. Paris, la veuve Regnard & Demonville, 1771. - (Bound with:) MAURY, (J.S.) Eloge de François de Salignac de la Motte-Fénélon, archévêque-duc de Cambray, précepteur des enfans de France. Discours qui a obtenu l'accesit, au jugement de l'Académie Françoise, en 1771. Paris, la veuve Regnard & Demonville, 1771. - (Bound with:) DOIGNI DU PONCEAU. Epitre à un homme de lettres célibataire. Pièce qui a concouru pour le prix de l'Académie Françoise, en 1773. Paris, J.B. Brunet & Demonville, 1773. - (Bound with:) DE LA HARPE, (J.F.) La navigation. Ode qui a remporté le prix de l'Académie Françoise, en 1773. Paris, J.B. Brunet & Demonville, 1773. - (Bound with:) (NECKER, J.) Eloge de Jean-Baptiste Colbert. Discours qui a remporté le prix de l'Académie Françoise, en 1773. Paris, J.B. Brunet & Demonville, 1773. - (Bound with:) ANDRE-MURVILLE, P.N.) Epitre d'un jeune poëte à un jeune guerrier. Pièce qui a concouru pour le prix de l'Académie Française, en 1773. Paris, J.B. Brunet & Demonville, 1773. - (Bound with:) (BEAUHARNAIS, F. DE.) A tous les penseurs, salut. Par Madame la comtesse de B ..... No place, (ab. 1773). - (Bound with:) CHAMFORT, (S.R.N.) DE. Eloge de La Fontaine. Ouvrage qui a remporté le prix, au jugement de l'Académie de Marseille, le 25 août 1774. Paris, Ruaul, 1774. - (Bound with:) DE LA HARPE, (J.F.) Eloge de La Fontaine, qui a concouru pour le prix de l'Académie de Marseille, en 1774. Paris, Lacombe, 1774. 10 pieces bound in 1 volume. 11, (1) pp.; 45, (2) pp.; 60 pp.; 8 pp.; 14 pp.;(8), 135 pp.; 15 pp.; 28 pp.; 47, (1) pp.; 62, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, red edges, sides somewhat worn, one corner bumped. Conlon 71:1069, 1070, 1173; 73:739, 950, 1090, 528, 565; 74:766, 1117. All first editions. Interesting collection of prize-winning essays. EUR 500
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AGUESSEAU, (H.F.) D'. Oeuvres de M. Le Chancelier d'Aguesseau. A Paris, Chez les Libraires Associés, 1761-1789. 13 volumes. xliv, (2), xlv-cxlviii, 622 pp.; xxviii, 686 pp.; xx, 782 pp.; xxiv, 731, (1) pp.; (4), xxii, 730 pp.; (4), xvi, 773, (1) pp.; (4), xlviii, 685, (1) pp.; (4), 711, (1) pp.; (4), xx, 731, (1) pp.; (4), xvi, 460, (2), xii, 316 pp.; (4), xvi, 678 pp.; (4), xxviii, 648 xlix, (1) pp.; (4), lxxxviii, 704 pp. 4to. Contemporary tree calf, spines gilt in compartments with red labels and gilt lettering, lightly rubbed and worn, a few volumes with some damage to either head or foot of spine. Camus 1349; Conlon 61:443. First edition. Henri François d'Aguesseau, (1668-1751), French magistrate during the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV and one of the most distinguished of the chancellors who flourished under the French system of parlements. As a magistrate he bansihed corruption from the tribunals, he was responsible for improving the forms and uniformity of procedure; he was influential in ascertaining more accurately jurisdictional limits. It was, however, through his grandes ordonnances that he left his most permanent marks on French jurisprudence. His work marks an epoch in French jurisprudence and his name ranks with that of L'Hôpital. - Some ocassional light browning. EUR 1500
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ARGENSON, (R,L. DE VOYER D'.) Considérations sur le Gouvernement ancien et présent de la France. Par M. le marquis d'Argenson. A Amsterdam, Chez Marc Michel Rey, 1765. Title-page printed in red and black and with title vignette. vii, (1), 312 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands and red edges. Menger 544; Stourm, p. 107; Higgs 3368; not in Kress, not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Renouvin, Assemblées provinciales, pp. 31-36; Lichtenberger, Le Socialisme au XVIIIe siècle, pp. 93-103; cf. Mattioli 76. Third edition, newly set and printed. The work was severely prosecuted in France, but M.M. Rey printed at least three different editions during the years 1764-1765. René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, Marquis d'Argenson (1694-1757), French writer on economic and political subjects. The main principle in d'Argenson's philosophy was universal liberalism- 'not too much government' (pas trop gouverner). In politics the 'democracy' which he wished to 'admit into the monarchic state' depended primarily on the abolition of inherited distinctions between the estates and on the decentralization of administration. In the economic sphere he demanded the cessation of all interference with the production and circulation of goods (G. Weulersse in ESS, vol. 2, p. 182). 'En matière sociale et politique les idées de d'Argenson sont à la fois hardies, brutales et timorées... d'Argenson tend vers une sorte de socialisme imposé et surveillé par une aristocratie qui n'en prendrait que ce qu'elle voudrait' (Mornet, Les Origines Intellectuelles de la Révolution Française). EUR 800
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ARGENSON, (R.L. DE VOYER D'.) Considérations sur le Gouvernement ancien et présent de la France. A Amsterdam, Chez Marc Michel Rey, 1765. Title-page printed in red and black and with title vignette. xvi, 328 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, marbled boards, vellum corners. Menger 544; Stourm, p. 107; Higgs 3368; not in Kress, not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Renouvin, Assemblées provinciales, pp. 31-36; Lichtenberger, Le Socialisme au XVIIIe siècle, pp. 93-103. Second edition, first issue. This second edition has two issues: one with an errata-leaf (pp. xv-xvi) and numbered preliminaries, the second issue has no errata-leaf while the errata are corrected and the preliminaries are unnumbered. The work was severely prosecuted in France, but M.M. Rey printed at least three different editions during the years 1764-1765. René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, Marquis d'Argenson (1694-1757), French writer on economic and political subjects. The main principle in d'Argenson's philosophy was universal liberalism- 'not too much government' (pas trop gouverner). In politics the 'democracy' which he wished to 'admit into the monarchic state' depended primarily on the abolition of inherited distinctions between the estates and on the decentralization of administration. In the economic sphere he demanded the cessation of all interference with the production and circulation of goods (G. Weulersse in ESS, vol. 2, p. 182). 'En matière sociale et politique les idées de d'Argenson sont à la fois hardies, brutales et timorées... d'Argenson tend vers une sorte de socialisme imposé et surveillé par une aristocratie qui n'en prendrait que ce qu'elle voudrait.' (Mornet, Les Origines Intellectuelles de la Révolution Française). - Name of the author written on the title in an contemporary hand, with small owner's stamp on title (M. de Chamineville) and the bookplate of Charles Chabroud, avocat and constitutionel. EUR 900
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ARGENSON, (R.L. DE VOYER) D'. Considérations sur le gouvernement ancien et présent de la France. A Amsterdam, Chez Marc-Michel Rey, 1765. Title printed in red and black with vignette. 7, (1), 312 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf (slightly damaged and worn). Cf.: Menger 544; Stourm, p. 107; Higgs 3090; not in Kress, not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Renouvin, Assemblées provinciales, pp. 31-36; Lichtenberger, Le Socialisme au XVIIIe siècle, pp. 93-103. One of the issues published during the years 1764-1765. Although written as early as 1737, the author's theories have already much in common with those of the Physiocrats. The work was severely prosecuted in France, but M.M. Rey printed at least three issues during the years 1764-1765. René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, Marquis d'Argenson (1694-1757), French writer on economic and political subjects. The main principle in d'Argenson's philosophy was universal liberalism- 'not too much government' (pas trop gouverner). In politics the 'democracy' which he wished to 'admit into the monarchic state' depended primarily on the abolition of inherited distinctions between the estates and on the decentralization of administration. In the economic sphere he demanded the cessation of all interference with the production and circulation of goods (G. Weulersse in ESS, vol. 2, p. 182). 'En matière sociale et politique les idées de d'Argenson sont à la fois hardies, brutales et timorées ..... d'Argenson tend vers une sorte de socialisme imposé et surveillé par une aristocratie qui n'en prendrait que ce qu'elle voudrait' (Mornet, Les Origines Intellectuelles de la Révolution Française). EUR 600
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ARGENSON, (R.L. DE VOYER) D'. Considérations sur le gouvernement ancien et présent de la France. A Amsterdam, Chez M.M. Rey, 1764. Title printed in red and black, with title-vignette. xvi, 328 pp.8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt, slightly rubbed. Goldsmiths 10051; Higgs 3090; Weulersse i, p. xix; Stourm, p. 107; Menger p. 544; cf.: INED 87; Renouvin, Assemblées provinciales, pp. 31-36; Lichtenberger, Le Socialisme au XVIIIe siècle, pp. 93-103; Conlon 64:512; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; Mattioli 76, but the 1784 edition. First edition. Although written as early as 1737, the author's theories have already much in common with those of the Physiocrats. The work was severely prosecuted in France, but M.M. Rey printed at least three issues during the years 1764-1765. René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, Marquis d'Argenson (1694-1757), French writer on economic and political subjects. The main principle in d'Argenson's philosophy was universal liberalism- 'not too much government' (pas trop gouverner). In politics the 'democracy' which he wished to 'admit into the monarchic state' depended primarily on the abolition of inherited distinctions between the estates and on the decentralization of administration. In the economic sphere he demanded the cessation of all interference with the production and circulation of goods (G. Weulersse in ESS, vol. 2, p. 182). 'En matière sociale et politique les idées de d'Argenson sont à la fois hardies, brutales et timorées ..... d'Argenson tend vers une sorte de socialisme imposé et surveillé par une aristocratie qui n'en prendrait que ce qu'elle voudrait' (Mornet, Les Origines Intellectuelles de la Révolution Française). EUR 900
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ARTS AND CRAFTS - COLLECTION of 71 ordinances, arrests, etc. concerning arts and handicrafts, with emphasis on spinning, from the period 1615-1789. Folio or 4to. Sewn, the folio pieces folded. Details opgeslagen in map Cat. EUR 1500
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AVENTINUS, J. Annalium Boiorum, sive veteris Germaniae libri VII. In quibus non solum Boiariae, sive Bavariae regionum, urbium, fluminum, & Syluarum, sedetiam Germaniae veteris descriptio Chorographica populorum, religionis, legum, constitutionum & morum, ut & Heroum, Ducum & Regum veterum & recentiorum Germaniae, bellorum & rerum gestarum, migrationum & expeditionum historia adeo luculenta & fidelissima habetur, ut non tam Bavariae, quam totius Germaniae Chronicon dicimereatur. Francoforti, impensis Ludovici Regis, 1627. (24), 514, (2, blank), (40) pp. Folio. 18th-century polished calf, red label with gilt lettering, raised bands, gilt double fillet on sides, slightly rubbed. Neue Deutsche Biographie, i, p. 469. Johannes Aventinus, historian, 1477-1534. He went with his teacher Konrad Celtis to Vienna and devoted his time at the university there to further study of the humanists. After his return to Germany he was invited to the court in Munich where he received the commission of writing a history of Bavaria. The work is in terms of contents important since the author was given access to a great number of sources which have been lost since. 'Mit freiem Geiste, fern von jeder Schablone, hat er den Stoff gemeistert und aus seiner humanistischen Gesinnung heraus neu gestaltet, wenn er sich dabei auch manchmal allzu nachgiebig seiner eigenartigen Phantasie überließ. De eine Anzahl Quellen, die er noch benutzen konnte, inzwischen verlorengegangen sind, ist sein Text für den Inhalt jener heute maßgebend, wie sich z.B. erst vor kurzem nach der Auffindung alter Salzburger Annalen gezeigt hat' (NDB). - Browned throughout. EUR 1250
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BABEUF - SENCIER, G. Le babouvisme après Babeuf. Sociétés secrètes et conspirations communistes (1830-1848). Geneve, Mégariotis, no date. 348 pp. 8vo. Modern cloth, gilt lettering. Grandin II, 766. Reprint ofthe edition published in Paris in 1912. Traces the influence of Babouvist ideas among the 19th century revolutionaries, the role they played in the subsequent 19th century revolutions and in the secret societies. EUR 75
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BACHOFEN, J.J. Das Mutterrecht. Eine Untersuchung über die Gynaikokratie der alten Welt nach ihrer religiösen und rechtlichen Natur. Zweite unveränderte Auflage. Basel, B. Schwabe, 1897. With 9 engraved plates, some folding. (4), xl, 440 pp. 4to. Contemporary half morocco, marbled boards, corners, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering (some light discolouring). Printing and the Mind of Men, 349 (first edition). Second edition, first published in 1861. Johann Jakob Bachofen was a prolific writer on art, Roman Law and Greek antiquity, but his fame rests on the present work. In his investigations Bachofen found numerous myths and reports of a very early matriarchate, especially of the descent of name and property in the maternal line. Attempting to explain its origin he collected and compared with amazing persistence all the relevant material in the writings of the ancients. Bachofen considered that the matriarchate had been common among all primitive peoples at a certain stage in their development and concluded that mankind had once lived in a state of unregulated promiscuity and that the difficulty of establishing paternity in such a society had led to the tracing of decent through the mother and to her dominant role in the community. EUR 750
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BAILLET, A. Jugemens des Savans sur les principaux ouvrages des Auteurs. Revûs, corrigez, & augmentez par Mr. de la Monnoye. Nouvelle édition, Augmentée I. de L'Anti-Baillet de Menage, avec des Observations de Mr. de la Monnoye; 2. des Reflexions sur les Jugemens des Savans; 3. des Reflexions sur la Vie de Descartes par Baillet; 4. des Jugemens des Savans sur les Maitres d'Eloquence par Mr. Gibert, Professeur de Rhetorique. A Amsterdam, Aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1725. Titles printed in red and black, with title vignettes and portrait-frontispiece. 8 volumes in 4. (6), lxxvii, (1), 237, (1) pp.; (8), 478 pp.; (2), 310, (2, blank) pp.; (2), 402 pp.; (6), 350 pp.; (2), vi, 299, (1) pp.; (8), 379, (1) pp.; xv, (1), 408 pp. 4to. Contemporary polished calf, spines richly gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering, bindings with some very minor spots, volume two with small damage, contrasting labels with gilt lettering, a very nice copy. Schosler, p. 21; Huisman, D., Dictionnaire des Philosophes, i, p. 229-230; Colonia, ii, p. 358; Willaert, Bibliotheca Janseniana Belgica, 9212; Petzholt, pp. 27-28; Besterman, pp. 467-468. Important work describing and discussing approximately 5000 works. - Very good copy. Adrien Baillet was converted to Jansenism by Walon de Beaupuis and Godefroi Hermant and it was the latter who obtained for him the post of librarian of François-Chrétien de Lamoignon. His first task was to catalogue the very large and beautiful library and this work forced him to develop a thorough knowledge about many of the books. In two years time he produced a catalogue of 32 volumes cathering an enormous knowledge in the process. It was the access to so many books and his formidable knowledge which made him decide to produce a sort of 'catalogue raisonné' of the production of the human mind, the Jugemens des Savans ....., the most celebrated and useful of all his works. The praise bestowed on the Jansenists in this work brought down on Baillet the hatred of the Jesuits. EUR 1500
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BAYLE, P. Pensées diverses Écrites à un Docteur de Sorbonne, A l'occasion de la Comète qui parut au mois de décembre 1680. Quatrième éditon. A Rotterdam, Chez Reinier Leers, 1704. 2 volumes. - (Followed by:) BAYLE, P. Continuation des Pensées diverses Ecrites à un Docteur de Sorbonne, à l'occasion de la Comete qui parut au mois de Decembre 1680 ou Reponse à plusieurs difficultez que Monsieur *** a proposées à l'Auteur. A Rotterdam, Chez Reinier Leers, 1705. 2 volumes. Together 4 volumes. (30), 312 pp.; (2), 315-530, (8), 531-616, (18) pp.; (30), 360 pp.; (2), 363-802, (32) pp. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf, spines richly gilt, red morocco labels with gilt lettering. Mori, p. 348, 350 and 351; Delvolve 6, 29 and 33; Sauvy, 1021. Fourth edition of the first work (first published in 1681), second edition of the second work (first published in 1704). The first work (second volume, pp. 531-616) includes the Addition aux Pensées diverses sur les Comètes ou Réponse à un libelle intitulé: Courte Revue des maximes de morale et des principes de religion de l'Auteur des Pensées diverses sur les Comètes &c., Pour servir d'instruction aux juges ecclésiastiques qui en voudraient connaitre, which was first published in 1694. The appearance of a comet in December 1680 and the belief that the appearance of comets signaled evil and disaster gave Bayle the opportunity to continue his attack on superstition, on intolerance, on poor philosophy and history: he proved that there had been comets without disasters and that there had been disasters without the previous appearance of comets. Moreover, Bayle argues, miracles are against all reason. 'There is nothing more consonant with God's infinite greatness than His maintenance of the laws which He Himself established; there could be nothing more unworthy than to imagine Him intervening to interrupt their regular operation' (Paul Hazard, The European Mind, 1680-1715, p. 188). In the Continuation, published in August 1704, Bayle resumed and further explored the themes from his Pensées diverses. He notably develops a comparative analysis of atheism and idolatry and tries to demonstrate the preference of the former. He also gives a minute criticism of the proof for divine existence that certain authors thought to infer from universal human consensus (see Labrousse, i, p. 253-4). Bayle's conclusion towards an atheistic rationalism 'marque sans doute le plus profond -et le plus délicat- des analyses philosophiques de Bayle' (Mori, Bayle Philosophe, pp. 140-146). - The last two volumes with some browning throughout and a few marginal spots. Very good copies. EUR 1750
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BELLE-ISLE, (C.L.A. FOUQUET, DE.) Testament politique du Maréchal Duc de Belle-Isle. A Amsterdam, Aux dépens des Libraires Associés, 1761. 12mo. - (Bound with:) (TIXEDOR, F.X.) Nouvelle France, ou France commerçante. Par Mr. F. X. T. (Tixedor) Juge de C. (Conflans). A Londres, 1765. 2 works in 1 volume. 216 pp.; (4), viii, 264 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, marbled edges, very lightly rubbed. First work: Goldsmiths 9713 (listing it under Chevrier); INED 379; Higgs 2627; Einaudi 1076 (listing an edition from 1762, also under Chevrier); Conlon 61:576 (Chevrier); not in Kress. First edition. First work: 'Politique et social. Réflexions sur l'intolérance, qui est parfois nécessaire (mais dommages causés par l'émigration des protestants); les impôts, qui sont moins lourds que mal répartis; la néfaste célibat des prêtres; la nécessité des lois somptuaires, bien que `le luxe qui perd un petit état en enrichit un grand'; le duel, qui peut mener à la destruction de l'espèce humaine; l'exemption d'impôts des pères de famille qui favoriserait la population; .....' (INED). According to Querard, the work is by Chevrier where indeed several reference works list it.Second work: Kress 6305; Goldsmiths 10097; INED 4337; Higgs 3430; Leblanc 384; Conlon 65:1299; not in Einaudi.First edition. Kress states the work was published first in 1755, for which statement no evidence could be found, nor does Kress have this 1755 edition, nor does Goldsmiths and Conlon lists it under 1765 thereby indicating that there is no 1755 edition.'Cet ouvrage comporte quatre parties: Du commerce en général; Des avantages qui reviendront à la France par l'établissement d'un solide commerce; De la facilité des établissements de commerce et marine dans la France; Des obstacles qui peuvent s'opposer à un solide établissement de commerce dans la France. Cette dernière rubrique se termine par des considérations sur l'établissement du commerce propre à la monarchie française. (Leblanc). 'Economique. Réflexions sur le commerce en général et sur ces avantages. Intérêt de la France à posséder un 'solide commerce', d'autant plus que notre pays offre des conditions particulièrement favorables à son développement et à celui de la marine. Défense du systême des douanes intérieures' (INED). - With the engraved bookplate of Alexis de Lamothe, Avocat. EUR 750
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BERCHOUX, (J. DE.) L'Art politique, Poëme en Quatre Chants, suivi de pièces fugitives et oeuvres diverses. A Paris, Chez Le Normant, 1819. With engraved frontispiece. x, 204 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled paper. Quérard, i, p. 279; not in Vicaire. First edition. Educational poem in 4 songs treating the origins of power (song 1), the monarchy (song 2), the republic (song 3) and absolute power (song 4), the whole accompagnied with historical notes. - Nice copy, uncut and unopened. EUR 325
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BERTALL (PSEUD. OF CHARLES-ALBERT D'ARNOUX.) Les communeux. 1871. Types - Caractères - Costumes. Londres, Paris, Gottschalk, (1871). 34 coloured plates preceded by titlepage and avant-propos. 4to.Original decorated gilt cloth, somewhat discoloured. Del Bo p. 57; Berleux p.14; Le Quillec 237. First edition. A famous collection of pictures of characters and costumes of the Paris Commune: the supreme general, the chief of police, the arrest of a priest hostage, the barricade commander, a 'petroleur', etc. Critical and with a keen eye for the people depicted (their pride, vanity, poverty, sense of importance, etc.) this is a very nice work. EUR 400
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BIELFELD, (J.F.) DE. Institutions politiques. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée. A Leyde, & se vend à Leipsick, en Foire, Chez J.F. Bassompierre, Fils, 1768-1774. With engraved portrait-frontispiece and five folding tables. 3 volumes. xii, 608 pp.; iv, 635, (1) pp.; xvi, 800 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, red labels with gilt lettering, red edges, a bit rubbed. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Humpert; Leblanc 240; Carpenter, Economic Bestsellers, XX.9. Improved, revised and augmented edition, with the third volume. 'Cet ouvrage est écrit à l'usage des gouvernants. Il concerne l'art de règner. Bielfeld veut réduire la politique en système, la transformer en une science qui puisse être enseignée. Il divise ses Institutions Politiques en deux parties: 1: Tout ce qui regarde l'intérieur d'un État: cadre législatifs et politiques, finances, manufactures, commerce, navigation, armée, marine ....; 2: Tout ce qui concerne la politique étrangère et les rapports d'un État avec les autres puissances' (Leblanc).'This is essentially a cameralistic guide for rulers. Bielfeld, although a German, first published his books in French; he relied in large measure upon the French data and writers' (Spengler, French predecessors of Malthus, p. 79). The Supplément aux Institutions Politiques pour cette nouvelle édition is to be found in the second volume covering the pages 557-628."This Cameralistic treatise is by a Prussian state official. It was more successful outside Germany than any other Cameralistic work, presumably because it was written in the international language of the Eighteenth Century -- French" (Carpenter, Economic Bestsellers, XX.9) EUR 1250
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BOISSY-D'ANGLAS, (F.A. DE.) Courtes observations sur le projet de décret présenté au nom du Comité d'instruction publique sur le dernier degré d'instruction, adressées à la Convention Nationale. (Paris), Imprimerie Nationale, 28 Germinal l'an 2 (17 Avril 1794). 15, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Martin & Walter 3898. First edition. François-Antoine, Comte de Boissy d'Anglas was deputy to the National Assembly, National Convention, and Council of Five Hundred.He was a succesful lawyer and belonged to several literary academies but supported the Revolution and represented the Third Estate of Annonay, he defended the storming of the Bastille, and was later sent on a mission to Lyon to calm bread riots there. He emerged as the leading spokesman for the coalition of moderates and former Montagnards who controlled the Convention after Thermidor. EUR 100
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BONIFACIUS VIII. Sextus Decretalium liber a Bonifacio VIII. In Concilio Lugdunensi Editus .... (With the Commentary of Johannes Andreae). (Basel, Amerbach, Petri & Froben, 1511.) Printed in red and black, with central text block surrounded by commentary. With large woodcut printer's device on title and with a three-quarter page large woodcut of the Pope seated with an open book meeting an audiance of people, and with two large woodcuts relative to the Three of Consanguinity. - (Bound with:) CLEMENT V. Constitutiones in Concilio Viennensi Edite .... (Basel, Amerbach, Petri & Froben, 1511.) Printed in red and black, with central text block surrounded by commentary. With large woodcut printer's device on title and with a three-quarter page large woodcut of the Pope seated with an open book meeting an audiance of people. - (Bound with:) JOHN XXII. Extravagantes Viginti ... (Basel, Amerbach, Petri & Froben, 1511.) Printed in red and black, central text surrounded by commentary, large woodcut printer's device on title. Two parts in one. Three works bound together in one volume. (6), 177, 5 leaves, with the final blank; 72, (4) leaves; 39, (1), 39, (3) leaves. Large folio. Original blind-panelled pigskin over wooden boards, clasps gone, two tears at top and bottom of spine. None of these editions is in Adams.A rare volume of three important texts in medieval canon law and very nicely printed by the short-lived partnership of three of Basel's greatest printers, Adam Petri, Johann Amerbach and Johan Froben. First work: The great work on canon law by Bonifacius VIII (Benedetto Gaetano). He added a large number of constitutions to the general ecclesiastical legislation, which came to be known as Liber Sextus, since the Decretals of Gregory IX, promulgated in 1239, consists of five books. Giovanni d'Andrea was one of the great canonists of his age and his gloss is incorporated in all early editions.Verso third leaf - recto fifth leaf contain the Arbor consanguinitatis and the Arbor affinitatis of Johannes Andreae. Second work: Clement V was elected pope in 1305 as successor to Benedict XI. He fixed his residence in Avignon thus inaugurating the seventy years' 'Captivity'. Clement was seen as being heavily dependant on the French king, Philip the Fair, who insisted on a formal condemnation of Clement's predecessor, Bonifacius VIII, on charges of heresy and immorality.Third work: John XII was elected pope in 1316 as candidate of Robert of Anjou and fixed his residence in Avignon where he remained the rest of his life. His reign was filled with theological and political conflicts. He was however a capable administrator, enlarged and reorganized the Curia, put the Papal finances on a sound basis and strengthened the hierarchy by founding new, and defining the frontiers of old, dioceses. - Some small worming throughout mostly but not exclusively limited to the lower blank margin, first title neatly rebacked, ownership inscription at top of first title dated 1588. Numerous contemporary marginal annotations in red ink. EUR 7500
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BOULAINVILLIERS, (H.) DE. Lettres sur les anciens Parlemens de France qu'on nomme Etats-Généraux. Par M. de Boulainvilliers. Tome Premier [- Tome Troisième]. A Londres, Chez T. Wood & S. Palmer, 1753. 3 volumes. (4), 235, (1) pp.; (4), 224 pp.; (4), 207, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red labels with gilt lettering. Monod, Bibliographie de l'histoire de France, 1132; Simon, Boulainvilliers, p. 144ff.; Conlon 53:490. First separate edition. One of De Boulainvillier's major works. The Lettres was a brief for the regent, defending his dynastic right to his office. They were also a plea for the dukes, urging the nobility to support them against the Parlement. And above all, the Lettres was an appeal to Orléans, inviting him, in the course of a history of the Estates General, to revive the assemblies of the "nation". Boulainvilliers pursued all these aims in his Lettres, orchestrating them in an impressively complex performance. The Lettres was his most strenuous effort at writing French history as a princely client, counselor, and controversialist. The Lettres was also his masterpiece (Harold A. Ellis, Boulainvilliers and the French Monarchy, p. 144.)All his works were prohibited in France and not published untill after his death, and then primarily outside France. These fourteen letters were first published as part of his great work, the Histoire de l'ancien gouvernement de la France, published in 1727. EUR 900
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BOURDON-DESPLANCHES, (L.J.) Projet nouveau sur la manière de faire utilement en France le commerce des grains. Par M. Bourdon Desplanches, ancien premier Commis dans les Finances. A Bruxelles, et se trouve à Paris, Chez la Veuve Esprit, 1785. 152 pp. 8vo. Modern half citron morocco, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering, marbled boards, top edge gilt, a lovely copy. Kress B.820; Goldsmiths 12849; INED 735bis; Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, 132; not in Einaudi. First edition. 'C'est une réponse à l'ouvrage de Roubaud: Représentation aux Magistrats ...... L'auteur expose le régime des blés en France et critique la liberté absolue de son commerce et de sa circulation. Il propose le maintien de la législation en vigeur, mais il la tempère en proposant la création de Compagnies de Commerce, qui auront seules la faculté de faire sortir ou entrer les blèes du royaume. Celles-ci devront créer, dans les villes importantes, des greniers où les cultivateurs et propriétaires pourront porter les grains invendus, qui leur sont achetés à un prix fixe. L'auteur termine son étude par une critique du Traité de l'Administration des Finances de Necker en ce qui concerne les paragraphes relatifs aux grains contrarient les propositions exposées dans cet ouvrage' (Leblanc, op.cit). 'La liberté illimitée du commerce des grains présente de multiples inconvénients pour l'economie et la population. Bourdon propose un système plus modéré: créer une compagnie de commerce chargée exclusivement de l'exportation et de l'importation des grains, de l'établissement de greniers publics, de la fixation en chaque endroit du prix du pain, etc. Ce système, en outre, permettrait de supprimer les impôts sans diminuer les revenus du roi: perception d'un droit sur le quintal de blé' (INED). EUR 1250
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BRICQUEVILLE, (A.F.B.C. DE.) Discours Prononcé par le colonel Bricqueville, lors de la discussion du budget de la guerre, à la Chambre des députés. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie de L.E. Herhan, (1833). 4 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. This speech, delivered on June 13, 1833, was printed and distributed by the 'Société des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen' and deals with the poor state of the army, pay, and conscriptions. The author states that he will vote against the proposed budget if the re-organisation of the army is not taken up too. EUR 125
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BRUN DE LA COMBE, (J.A.) La France régénérée. Ouvrage publié par numéros. Londres, et se trouve à Paris, chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1788. 35, (1) pp. Small 8vo. Modern marbled boards. Martin & Walter 5445. In 1785 the author had published an important and audacious work "Le triomphe du Nouveau Monde", which, however, was seized and forbidden immediately upon its publication because of the advanced socialist ideas contained in it. (See at length: Lichtenberger, Socialisme au XVIIIe siècle). In this pamphlet, published at the eve of the Revolution, the author lists 40 articles of general reforms. EUR 150
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BURET, E. De la misère des classes laborieuses en Angleterre et en France; De la nature de la misère, de son existence, de ses effets, de ses causes, et de l'insufficance des remèdes qu'on lui a opposés jusqu'ici, avec l'indication des moyens propres à en affranchir les sociétés. Paris, Chez Paulin, 1840. 2 volumes. (4), viii, 432 pp.; (4), 492, (4, numbered v-vii) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments and with gilt lettering, a few minor imperfections. Kress C.5117; Goldsmiths 31647; Stammhammer i, p. 41; Granier, Bibliographie Charitable, 1425; Dada 223; Einaudi 749 (1842 edition); not in Mattioli. The very scarce first edition of one of the most important books on the poverty and misery of the working classes in the 19th-century. Antoine Eugene Buret had a short career (1810-1842) but what won for him chiefly the esteem of the economic world was his work De la Misère...... Buret's condemnation of the exploitation of the working classes in England was the first of its kind, preceding that of Engels, and went further in theory and analysis than Villermé in his study of France published in the same year. In this book Buret expressed and accentuated the opinions of the rising socialist school. Buret perceived the vice of the industrial system to be caused by the separation of capital and labour. Revolution is, in his view, too destructive a solution, but his own proposals were hardly less profound in their call for social change. The social consequence of intensive industrialisation were far more noticeable and more extreme in England than anywhere else in Europe, and European social reformers tended to look to England for the illustration of their theories. Buret shows in this work a clear perception of the problems and proposed well-developed and well-written theoretical solutions. As a follower of Sismondi, he criticized the liberal economy with important arguments (see: Palgrave, i, pp. 194 ff. and Maitron, Dictionnaire Biographique du Mouvement Ouvrier Français, i, p. 328.)"The development of ideas concerning the correlations between crime and poverty culminated in Buret's survey, La misère des classes laborieuses ..... The subject was truly poverty, not crime, the laboring classes, not the dangerous classes.Nevertheless, poverty and the laboring classes still exhibited most of the characteristics which were the property of the criminal world; the social terror they roused was still stamped with the specific horror formerly attching to crime.Distress (la misère) had never before been analyzed in such detail. The importance of this analyis has been pointed out so often that we need not revert to it here" (Louis Chevalier, Labouring Classes and Dangerous Classes in Paris during the first half of the nineteenth century, p. 142). - Scattered spotting throughout, repair to blank inner margin of half-title and title in volume 2. The "Table des Matières" of volume one (numbered vii-viii) has been bound at the end. EUR 1500
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CABET - LUX, H. Etienne Cabet und der Ikarische Kommunismus. Mit einer historischen Einleitung. Stuttgart, Verlag von J.H.W. Dietz, 1894. With an engraved portrait of Cabet as frontispiece. xii, 294, (2) pp. 8vo. Original blindstamped cloth, title on frontcover and spine in gilt, marbled edges. (Internationale Bibliothek, 18). Prudhommeaux, p. xxxv, nr 13; Stammhammer ii, p. 198. First edition. - Stamp of A.P.A. Schulungshaus Bucherei in blank portion of title-page, contemporary ownership's entry on front blank, last leaf contains a catalogue of Dietz. EUR 75
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CABET, (E.) Voyage en Icarie. Cinquième édition. Paris, Bureau du Populaire, 1848. (4), viii, 600 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, marbled boards. Prudhommeaux 35. The last and most complete edition of the most famous utopian account of the 19th century. Etienne Cabet (1788-1856), French communist and social reformer. Cabet was educated as a lawyer, became a director of the Carbonari and devoted himself to democratic propaganda. Because of his inflammatory denunciations against the government Cabet was exiled; he lived in England for five years, where he came under the influence of Robert Owen, and returned to France a convert to communism. He expounded his theories in the famous Voyage en Icarie, a description of a utopia in which the government alone engages in commerce and supervises work and education. The only unit outside of the government is the family, which remains under the leadership of the head of the family. Ardent disciples rallied about Cabet and raised subscriptions to finance a vanguard which sailed for Texas in 1848 to establish an Icarian city after Cabet's model. The land which Cabet had bought, and of the location of which he had only a vague idea, was located in the middle of the wilderness, in Fanin, Texas. After suffering many perils and privations the explorers beat a retreat to New Orleans. Cabet joined his disciples the next year, bringing with him new converts, and the Icarian city was created at Nauvoo, an old Mormon town in Illinois. At first the colony prospered but disagreements developed and in 1856 the founder and two hundred of his followers abandoned the settlement. After Cabet's death the colony moved to Cheltenham, Iowa, and later to Corning, continuing to follow in large measure Cabet's ideas. As late as 1881 a Cabetian colony was founded at Cloverdale, California. 'It is in fact little realized today that if France is the 'classic land of socialism' the United States contests with Russia the claim to be considered the classic land of communism. The story of the communists in America, where they were then known as Primitive Christians, is perhaps one of the most incredible in the history of Utopias.' (D. Owen Evans, Social Romanticism in France, 1830-1848, pp. 56-58). 'His (Cabet) importance lies in his attempt to institute, or at least to further the establishment of, a completely communistic society, in which the supreme control of all essential activities was to be in the hands of the State.' 'The deepest influences on his social doctrine were those of Thomas More and of Robert Owen -the Owen of the years after 1832, when the leaders of the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union were anticipating the immediate advent of the New Moral World, to be achieved, not by violent revolution, but by the refusal of the entire working class to continue labouring under the old conditions, and by the joining together of all trades to set on foot a new system of Co-operative production and distribution under their collective control. Cabet's Communism went a great deal further than Owenism towards complete community of living: he blended Owenite millennialism with communistic aspirations drawn from the record of primitive Christianity and of the social radicalism of the Middle Ages and the Catholic Renaissance.' (G.D.H. Cole, A History of Socialist Thought, I, chapter VII). EUR 300
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CABET, (E.) Voyage en Icarie. Cinquième édition. Paris, Bureau du Populaire, 1848. (4), viii, 600 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering, marbled boards. Prudhommeaux 35. The last and most complete edition of the most famous utopian account of the 19th century. Etienne Cabet (1788-1856), French communist and social reformer. Cabet was educated as a lawyer, became a director of the Carbonari and devoted himself to democratic propaganda. Because of his inflammatory denunciations against the government Cabet was exiled; he lived in England for five years, where he came under the influence of Robert Owen, and returned to France a convert to communism. He expounded his theories in the famous Voyage en Icarie, a description of a utopia in which the government alone engages in commerce and supervises work and education. The only unit outside of the government is the family, which remains under the leadership of the head of the family. Ardent disciples rallied about Cabet and raised subscriptions to finance a vanguard which sailed for Texas in 1848 to establish an Icarian city after Cabet's model. The land which Cabet had bought, and of the location of which he had only a vague idea, was located in the middle of the wilderness, in Fanin, Texas. After suffering many perils and privations the explorers beat a retreat to New Orleans. Cabet joined his disciples the next year, bringing with him new converts, and the Icarian city was created at Nauvoo, an old Mormon town in Illinois. At first the colony prospered but disagreements developed and in 1856 the founder and two hundred of his followers abandoned the settlement. After Cabet's death the colony moved to Cheltenham, Iowa, and later to Corning, continuing to follow in large measure Cabet's ideas. As late as 1881 a Cabetian colony was founded at Cloverdale, California. 'It is in fact little realized today that if France is the 'classic land of socialism' the United States contests with Russia the claim to be considered the classic land of communism. The story of the communists in America, where they were then known as Primitive Christians, is perhaps one of the most incredible in the history of Utopias' (D. Owen Evans, Social Romanticism in France, 1830-1848, pp. 56-58). 'His (Cabet) importance lies in his attempt to institute, or at least to further the establishment of, a completely communistic society, in which the supreme control of all essential activities was to be in the hands of the State.' 'The deepest influences on his social doctrine were those of Thomas More and of Robert Owen -the Owen of the years after 1832, when the leaders of the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union were anticipating the immediate advent of the New Moral World, to be achieved, not by violent revolution, but by the refusal of the entire working class to continue labouring under the old conditions, and by the joining together of all trades to set on foot a new system of Co-operative production and distribution under their collective control. Cabet's Communism went a great deal further than Owenism towards complete community of living: he blended Owenite millennialism with communistic aspirations drawn from the record of primitive Christianity and of the social radicalism of the Middle Ages and the Catholic Renaissance' (G.D.H. Cole, A History of Socialist Thought, i, chapter VII). EUR 300
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CABET, (E.) Voyage en Icarie, roman philosophique et social. Deuxième édition. Paris, J. Mallet et Cie., 1842. (4), vii, (4), 566, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half hard-grained morocco, spine gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering, small damage to headband, gilt stamped name of Yovanne Boivin at foot of spine. Prudhommeaux 35; Trousson, p. 269. First edition with the title under which it became famous. The 1840 (actually 1839) edition, in 2 volumes, was published as Voyage et aventures de Lord Carisdall en Icarie. It was done in a very limited number of copies and distributed among friends of the author only, and hence never put in the trade. Also the author's name appears here for the first time on the titlepage. Etienne Cabet (1788-1856), French communist and social reformer. Cabet was educated as a lawyer, became a director of the Carbonari and devoted himself to democratic propaganda. Because of his inflammatory denunciations against the government Cabet was exiled; he lived in England for five years, where he came under the influence of Robert Owen, and returned to France a convert to communism. He expounded his theories in the famous Voyage en Icarie, a description of a utopia in which the government alone engages in commerce and supervises work and education. The only unit outside of the government is the family, which remains under the leadership of the head of the family. Ardent disciples rallied about Cabet and raised subscriptions to finance a vanguard which sailed for Texas in 1848 to establish an Icarian city after Cabet's model. The land which Cabet had bought, and of the location of which he had only a vague idea, was located in the middle of the wilderness, in Fanin, Texas. After suffering many perils and privations the explorers beat a retreat to New Orleans. Cabet joined his disciples the next year, bringing with him new converts, and the Icarian city was created at Nauvoo, an old Mormon town in Illinois. At first the colony prospered but disagreements developed and in 1856 the founder and two hundred of his followers abandoned the settlement. After Cabet's death the colony moved to Cheltenham, Iowa, and later to Corning, continuing to follow in large measure Cabet's ideas. As late as 1881 a Cabetian colony was founded at Cloverdale, California. 'It is in fact little realized today that if France is the 'classic land of socialism' the United States contests with Russia the claim to be considered the classic land of communism. The story of the communists in America, where they were then known as Primitive Christians, is perhaps one of the most incredible in the history of Utopias' (D. Owen Evans, Social Romanticism in France, 1830-1848, pp. 56-58). 'His (Cabet) importance lies in his attempt to institute, or at least to further the establishment of, a completely communistic society, in which the supreme control of all essential activities was to be in the hands of the State. The deepest influences on his social doctrine were those of Thomas More and of Robert Owen -the Owen of the years after 1832, when the leaders of the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union were anticipating the immediate advent of the New Moral World, to be achieved, not by violent revolution, but by the refusal of the entire working class to continue labouring under the old conditions, and by the joining together of all trades to set on foot a new system of Co-operative production and distribution under their collective control. Cabet's Communism went a great deal further than Owenism towards complete community of living: he blended Owenite millennialism with communistic aspirations drawn from the record of primitive Christianity and of the social radicalism of the Middle Ages and the Catholic Renaissance' (G.D.H. Cole, A History of Socialist Thought, volume i, chapter VII). EUR 750
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CADET DE VAUX, A.A. Moyens de prévenir le retour des disettes. A Paris, Chez D. Colas, 1812. viii, 239, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled covers, uncut. Kress S.6013; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. Cadet de Vaux was first apprenticed to the philanthropist Piarron de Chamousset, he practiced pharmacy and became in 1777 one of the cofounders of the first daily newspaper in Paris, Le Journal de Paris. Many of his activities before the revolution were concerned with the disinfection of cesspools and wells, the reform of sanitary conditions in prisons, industrial hygiene, and the removal of cemeteries from the center of Paris. He was elected to membership of the American Philosophical Society in 1787. From the beginning of his career Cadet de Vaux had a strong interest in chemistry and science, which he sought to apply to such fields as agriculture, nutrition, and public health. He had been instrumental, together with Parmentier, in founding the École de Boulangerie, where he also lectured on such subjects as the analysis of wheat and flour, methods of preservation, and the technology of baking. Cadet de Vaux spent the last 40 years of his long life (1743-1828) mostly at his estate in Fraconville where his many projects included agriculture (methods for preserving crops, prevention of mole infestation, cultivation of fruit and tobacco, etc.), home economics and nutrition. A product of the Enlightenment, utilitarian in his scientific outlook, Cadet de Vaux numbered among his friends Benjamin Franklin, Condorcet, and La Rocheoucauld-Liancourt, with all of whom he shared many interests. EUR 400
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CANETTI, E. Masse und Macht. Hamburg, Claassen Verlag, (1960). 568 pp. 8vo. Contemporary publisher's cloth with original dustwrapper. First edition of this deeply learned philosophical masterwork, a treatise on the psychology of mass behavior, the product of decades of study by the Nobel laureate. Very good copy of this highly important and fascinating work attempting to analyse the phenomena 'masse' and 'macht' and their relationship by including all its forms in all cultures. The work was as influential as it was controversial. EUR 150
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CASTEL DE SAINT PIERRE, C.I. Annales politiques. Londres (Paris), 1758. 2 volumes. 402 pp.; 402 pp. 12mo. Contemporary speckled calf, spine with raised bands, contrasting labels with gilt lettering, very lightly rubbed. INED 981 (first edition); Higgs 1862; Einaudi 930 (first edition); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Second edition, first published in 1757, of one of the best works of the celebrated Castel de Saint-Pierre. One of the author's lesser known works, published after the Ouvrages politiques and hence not included therein. It forms a contemporary public history of the period 1658-1739, and is full of impartial judgement and good sense. The whole is preceded by an essay on the political events in Europe and France in 1735 and includes in his accounts the subjects of usages and customs, rules, regulations and laws. An ardent humanist and great fighter for universal peace, he published a world-peace plan, based on a proto-type of the E.E.C. In 1731 cardenal Fleury had forbidden him to publish anything on politics. Most of his works were published at his own account in Holland or under a bogus imprint. this work was published after the author's death by his family because of the vehement critical comments on Louis XIV. Grimm considered this work as better and more reliable than Voltaire's Siècle de Louis XIV. EUR 500
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CASTEL DE SAINT PIERRE, CH.I. Annales politiques. Londres (Paris), 1758. 2 volumes. 402 pp.; 402 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands. Higgs 1862 (other edition); INED 981 (other edition); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Einaudi 930 (listing the first edition). Second edition, first published in 1757. One of the author's lesser known works, published after the Ouvrages politiques and hence not included therein. It forms a contemporary public history of the period 1658-1739, and is full of impartial judgement and good sense. An ardent humanist and great fighter for universal peace, he published a world-peace plan, based on a proto-type of the E.E.C. In 1731 cardenal Fleury had forbidden him to publish anything on politics. Most of his works were published at his own account in Holland or under a bogus imprint. Published after the author's death by his family because of the vehement critical comments on Louis XIV. Grimm considered this work as better and more reliable than Voltaire's Siècle de Louis XIV. EUR 450
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CATHERINE II. Mémoires, écrits par elle-même et précédés d'une préface par A. Herzen. Londres, Trübner & Cie, 1859. xvi, 352 pp. 8vo. Contemporary boards, spine with label with gilt lettering, orginal front cover preserved, top edge gilt, top of spine lightly damaged . Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, i, pp. 211-214. Original edition edited by Alexander Herzen, very rare, of the memoirs of Catherine the Great. The preface, also written by Herzen, is highly critical and could not have been published in tsarist Russia. 'On the strength of her remarkable memoirs and her correspondence with Grimm she has a higher place in French literature than she can be given in Russia' (Mirsky).- Small stamp on original cover, lightly damaged. EUR 750
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CHATEL, (F.F.) Sermon de M. l'abbé Chatel, à l'ouverture de la nouvelle Eglise Française, rue de la Sourdière, no 23. Paris, Barba, Libraire, Galerie de Nemours, Palais Royal; Et les marchands de Nouveautés, 1831. 15 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. DBMOF, 1, p. 398. First edition. A sermon held by the principal founder of this christian socialist church in which he announces that a mass will be celebrated in commemoration of 'des braves morts en défendant nos libertés'.The rue de la Sourdière was the first location of the 'Église catholique française' of which Chatel was the principal founder. Liturgy was read in French, the authority of the pope rejected, confession was suppressed, as was celibacy. Chatel aimed at founding a church for the people and had some influence and a large audiance for some time. EUR 175
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CHEMIN-(DUPONTES), J.B. Code religieux et moral des Théophilantropes, ou adorateurs de Dieu et amis des hommes, contenant 1. Le mauel, ou exposition de leurs dogmes, de leur morale et de leurs pratique; 2. Le rituel, ou recueil des hymnes, avec l'ordre des exercices; 3. L'instruction élémentaire de morale, par demandes et réponses; 4. L'année religieuse, ou recueil d'extraits puisés dans les moralistes anciens et modernes, sur la religion et la morale universelles. Le tout rédigé, publié et mis en ordre. Paris, chez l'éditeur, an VI (1798). (2), 53, (1), 35, 107 pp.; 36, 36 pp. of musical notation, 159, 176, 162, 131 pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands. Martin & Walter 7195 (also: 7200, 7206, 7194). Collection made up by the author, with a general title, of all his publications of the year VI (1798). Theophilantrophy, a synthetic religion that flourished briefly under the Directory. The Parisian bookseller and former freemason, J.-B. Chemin-Dupontès wrote in September 1796 a pamphlet, Manuel des Théopanthrophiles, a term later changed to théophilantropes, meaning 'lovers of God and man.' The movement spread slowly and by May 1797 the movement was noted by the press. By the end of the year it began to expand, producing a yearbook and creating branches throughout the country. The movement reached its peak in the autumn of 1798 when it had fifteen churches in Paris alone. Outside Paris, it had strength in the department of the Seine and cells in former centers of dechristianization like Dijon, Macon, and Auxerre. Its services consisted of readings, drawn from an eclectic range of materials, hymns, either set in plain song or the chant de départ, and moralizing addresses. EUR 300
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CHEMIN-(DUPONTES), J.B. Code de religion et de morale naturelle, à l'usage des adorateurs de Dieu et amis des hommes. Rédigé, publié et mis en ordre par J.B. Chemin, adopté par les différens Conseils de direction de la Théophilantropie, et constamment suivi depuis l'origine de ce culte. Nouvelle édition. Paris, chez l'auteur, an VII (1799). - (Followed by:) CHEMIN-(DUPONTES), J.B. Morale des sages de tous les pays et de tous les sicles, ou Collection épurgée des moralistes anciens et modernes. Seconde édition. Paris, chez l'auteur, an VII (1799). - (Followed by:) RECUEIL de discours prononcés dans divers temples de Théophilantropes. Paris, au bureau des ouvrages de la Théophilantropie, années VI et VII (1798-99). 19 pieces brought together under a general title. - (Followed by:) DUBROCA, J.F. Discours sur divers sujets de morale, pour les fêtes nationales. Seconde édition, augmentée des discours sur les fêtes de la fondation de la République, de l'anniversaire du 14 juillet, et de la bienfaisance. Paris, N.L.M. Desessarts, an VIII (1799). Bound in 4 volumes. xxiv, 264 pp. and 24 pp. of musical notation; 360 pp.; (2), 16, 12, 23, 21, (1), 24, 24, 12, 18, 8, 2, 12, 21, 11, 12, 11, 11, 8, 8, 16 pp.; (4), 333, (2) pp. 12mo. Contemporary green calf, blind stamped ornamental decorations on sides within gilt fillet, spines gilt in compartments, name of 'M. Louis d'Aurignac' gilt stamped at foot of spines, bindings by Lacaze aîné, Auch, with his ticket on the front paste-down. First work: Martin & Walter 7196; Caillet, 2310: 'Curieux et intéressant document .....' Second work: Martin & Walter 7203. Third work: Includes pieces on 'La puissance de la morale', 'L'amour de la patrie', by J.A. Michel; 'Sur l'instruction; Sur la philosophie; Sur la fête de la vieillesse; Sur la fête de l'agriculture; Sur le mariage et le divorce; Sur la superstition et la religion naturelle', (by P.N. Laurisset); etc. Fourth work: Martin & Walter 11275 (first edition only). Theophilantrophy, a synthetic religion that flourished briefly under the Directory. The Parisian bookseller and former freemason, J.-B. Chemin-Dupontès wrote in September 1796 a pamphlet, Manuel des Théopanthrophiles, a term later changed to théophilantropes, meaning 'lovers of God and man.' The movement spread slowly and by May 1797 the movement was noted by the press. By the end of the year it began to expand, producing a yearbook and creating branches throughout the country. The movement reached its peak in the autumn of 1798 when it had fifteen churches in Paris alone. Outside Paris, it had strength in the department of the Seine and cells in former centers of dechristianization like Dijon, Macon, and Auxerre. Its services consisted of readings, drawn from an eclectic range of materials, hymns, either set in plain song or the chant de départ, and moralizing addresses. EUR 1250
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CHENEDOLLE, CH. La génie de l'Homme, Poëme. Paris, A la librairie stéreotype, chez H. Nicolle, 1807. (4), vii, (1), 199, (1) pp. 8vo. Sewn, contemporary blind covers, uncut (spine damaged). Escoffier, 166. First edition. 'Edition originale de ce poème qui eut, à l'époque, plus qu'un succès d'estime et qui fut réimprimé en 1812 et en 1822' (Escoffier). 'Il a été un poète de transition, continuateur de Delille et précurseur de Lamartine' (R. Limouzin-Lamothe in Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, viii, columns 981-82). EUR 200
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COEN, V. DE. Carnet de Bourse. Bruxelles, Des Presses de E. Hellemans, no date (early 20th century). With 108 black and white illustrations, recto and verso of each page. (118) pp. Small 4to. Original printed covers, cloth spine. Before the title-page are bound two leaves entitled 'Préface de Pot-Pourri': En France tout finit par des Chansons! Chez nous, c'est par là qu'on commence! These leaves contain three songs by Léopold Pels. The illustrations are ridiculing the terms used at the stockmarket, such as Coupons, with an illustration showing a group of men cutting someone into pieces using axes and saws, etc. EUR 350
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COLBERT - PELLISSERY, R.A. Eloge politique de Colbert, Qui n'a point été présenté à l'Académie Française pour le Prix de la St. Louis 1773. Seconde édition. A Londres, 1777. With 4 folding tables. 2 volumes. - (Bound with:) (FABRE DE CHARRIN). Tableau du Ministère de Colbert. A Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, chez Lejay, J.F. Bastien, Angot, 1774. - (Bound with:) (NECKER, J.) Eloge de Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Discours Qui à remporté le Prix de l'Académie Françoise en 1773. A Paris, chez Demonville, 1788. - (Bound with:) COSTER, (J.F.) Eloge de Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Discours Qui a obtenu le premier Accessit, ou jugement de l'Académie Françoise, en 1773. A Paris, Chez J.B. Brunet, & Demonville, 1773. - (Bound with:) (BRUNY, DE.) Examen du Ministère de M. Colbert. A Paris, Imprimerie d'Houry, 1774. 5 works in 2 volumes. xxiv, 16, 214 pp.; (2), 132 pp.; (4), 152 pp.; 135, (1) pp.; 64 pp.; (2), xvi, 295, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, raised bands, contrasting labels on spines with gilt lettering (slightly worn, some splitting along joints but solid). First work: INED 3512; Kress, Goldsmiths, Einaudi, Higgs all cite the 1775 edition in one volume; Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, p. 9. Second work: Kress 7009; INED 1768; Higgs 5974; Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, p. 9; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. Third work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Higgs; not in Leblanc, all citing the 1773 edition. Fourth work: Kress 6926; Einaudi 1339; Higgs 5714; Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, p. 9; not in INED; not in Goldsmiths. Fifth work:Kress 6996; Goldsmiths 11130; Einaudi 726; INED 859; Higgs 5973; Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, p. 9. Second, fourth and fifth work in first edition, first work in second edition, third work in third edition. - Some very light browning but a good copy indeed. Copy from the library of the Baron Zangiacomi with his armorial bookplate. Interesting collection of works on Colbert (1619-1683), the famous Ministre et Sécretaire d'Etat and Contrôleur général des Finances. The first work contains after the preliminairies 16 pages entitled 'Maximes générales d'un bon gouvernement suivant les opérations Economiques et Politiques de Jean Bapt. Colbert, Ministre d'Etat, Contrôleur Général des Finances. Par Mr. de Pellissery', no place, no date. There are copies with a title-page with a titlevignette giving Philadelphie, 1777 as place and date. The text is separately listed in INED 3513bis where it is remarked that this text was not published with the first edition (Lausanne 1775, 1 volume only), which edition was seized and destroyed by the police. The text forms integral part of the Eloge politique de Colbert in spite of the separate titlepage and 'ces maximes constituent une charte du colbertisme.' (INED). EUR 1400
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COLLEGE LOUIS-LE-GRAND - TRES-HUMBLES et très-respectueuses représentations de l'Université de Paris, Au Roi, Au sujet des Lettres-Patentes du 20 Août 1767. (Drop-head title). (Paris, la veuve Thiboust, 1767). 58 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Conlon 67:50. Original edition. The 'Lettres-patentes' of August 20, 1767 contained rules and regulations concerning the Collège Louis-le-Grand and affiliated colleges, and instructions for the administration of those colleges and they caused the present text to be published by the university. The text has the printed name of the director, Hamelin, at the end. EUR 175
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COMTE, A. Correspondance inédite. Paris, au siège de la Société Positiviste, 1903-1904. 4 volumes. (4), 346 pp.; (4), 403, (1) pp.; (4), 340 pp.; (4) 339, (1) pp. 8vo. Sewn, original printed covers, a bit discoloured along edges, uncut. - All volumes weak in the original covers. Comte came under the influence of the writers with whom throughout the subsequent course of his life he was to retain some degree of intellectual affiliation during his years at the École Polytechnique. He was influenced by Bonald and de Maistre, from whom he borrowed the notion of an order governing the evolution of human society, by Condorcet, from whom he borrowed the idea that this evolution was attended by progress, and between 1818 and 1824 he was associated as secretary, disciple and friend with Saint-Simon, who stimulated his interest in economics. And it was during this period that Comte worked out his general conception of social science, to which he gave the name sociology. His influence can be seen in the French scientific movement of the last half of the nineteenth century, represented by Taine, Renan and Berthelot, and in the writings of such outstanding English figures as John Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer, in spite of the latter's repudiation of Comte's laws of evolution. Contemporary sociology not only owes to the creator of positivism its existence as an independent science but possesses the seal of his authority upon three fundamental precepts in its methodology: the necessity of treating social facts like physical phenomena, of reducing them in the final analysis to social beliefs and of applying to them the method of experimental investigation (Réne Hubert in IESS). EUR 300
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CONTI, ARMAND DE BOURBON, PRINCE DE. Mémoires de Monseigneur le prince de Conty touchant la conduite de sa maison. A Paris, (Denis Thierry & Claude Barbin), 1669. 107, (1) pp. 12mo. Modern boards, label with gilt lettering. Dealing with the duties and obligations of a 'gouverneur de province' which makes this little work a true vade-mecum. - Running titles ocassionaly touched by the binder's knife, a few leaves repaired in the outer upper corner nowhere touching text, some scribbling to title-page. EUR 175
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COORNAERT, E. Les corporations en France avant 1789. Deuxième édition revue et augmentée. Paris, Editions ouvrières, (1968). 316 pp. 8vo. Sewn in original publishers covers, dustwrapper present, uncut copy. Cf.: Lecotté, Essai Bibliographique sur les Compagnonnages, 215. Still a valuable study, contains a bibliography. EUR 125
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COURIER, P.L. Oeuvres complètes de P.L. Courier. Bruxelles, A la librairie Parisienne, 1828. With portrait as frontispiece. 4 volumes. 426, (2, table + blank) pp.; (3)-378 pp.; 438, (2, table + blank) pp.; 505, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, raised bands with title labels with gilt lettering, spines somewhat rubbed and shaved, covers of 4th volume also somewhat rubbed and shaved. Not in Vicaire (listing another edition, 1828-1830); not in Escoffier. First edition? 'Styliste impeccable, admirateur des Provinciales, disciple de Voltaire, "Paul-Louis, vigneron" a renouvelé la tradition française du pamphlet politique en des formules incisives: "les gendarmes se sont multipliés en France, bien plus encore que les violons, quoique moins nécessaires pour la danse." Il a eu de nombreux imitateurs qui n'égalèrent point' (Roger Pierrot in En Français dans le Texte.)'Paul-Louis Courier (1773-1825), anticlerical polemicist, skeptic, classical scholar, journalistic gadfly, and pamphleteer. (.....) Courier actively collaborated with the opposition during the Restoration and achieved a powerful reputation as pamphleteer and editorial contributor to various journals of the Left. (.....) Not extreme in politics, Courier merely hoped for a better constitutional monarchy and focused his unique polemics on the aggressive clericalism in the ranks of the ultras. (.....) Although known as a skeptic, Courier's humor and satirical style made him less the philosopher that the term implies and more of a latter-day Voltaire, or, on occasion a Holbach. (.....) Courier's courage as a writer in a time of repression, as well as his works on Greek literature, have established his place in nineteenth-century French intellectual life.' (Daniel Rader in: Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the Second Empire, vol. i, pp. 271-272). Although not a fanatic, Courier was murdered in 1825, his body was found in the woods of Larçay. Two trials were held but they did not shed any light on this murder. - Volume 2 lacks the half-title. With the gilt stamped arms of the Society of Writers to the Signet on both front and back covers of all four volumes. EUR 750
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COURTOIS, R. Recherches sur la statistique physique, agricole et médicale de la province de Liège par Richard Courtois, docteur en médecine, sous-directeur du jardin botanique de l'université de Liège. Verviers, Chez M.-R. Beaufays, 1828. With many tables in the text and 19 folding tables (6 in the text and 13 bound at the end). 2 volumes. (2), 254 pp.; (4), 281, (1), (13, folding tables), 23 (supplement) pp. 8vo. Modern cloth, labels with gilt lettering, partly unopened and uncut. 3 copies in OCL and RLIN: Library of Congress and Harvard (2). First and only edition. Although the works of Bernouilli and Laplace foreshadowed the application of probability to the measurement of uncertainty in the social sciences, it was only around 1825 with the works by the statistician and sociologist Quetelet that the first steps were taken in making this wish a practical reality (S. Stigler, The History of Statistics, pp. 161 ff.) Quetelet's compatriote Richard-Joseph Courtois was born in Verviers 1806 and died in 1835. In his only 29 years he nevertheless succeeded to compose a botanical study which brought him a prize from the University of Gand at the age of 17. He got his doctorate in medicine at the age of 19, and published several books. He found himself in the midst of the debate of men like Quetelet, Keverberg, and Say about the usefulness and application of statistical research. In the preface to the second volume Courtois denies against Say that 'la connaissance de la situation physique des états ne peut nous éclairer que faiblement sur les moyens d'améliorer le sort de l'homme'. Just like Quetelet from 1827 to 1835, Courtois assembles in this book a wealth of data not only on the flora and fauna, the geology, climate and agriculture of the area under his consideration (the Belgian province of Liège) but also on the social organisation of the medical and social care (hospitals, prisons, vaccination etc.). In chapter 10 of the second volume he finally comes to an : 'examen des causes qui influent d'une manière spéciale sur la santé et les maladies des habitans'; the factors in the physical constitution of the region that determine the health of the population (tables of the meteorological constitution and the medical constitution of the population.) In chapter XIII Courtois brings forward his estimates of the population of the province Liège and here cites Quetelet's study on the populations, births, and mortality in the Low Countries. He also tries to relate the number of mariages, births and mortality rates (included are tables of suicides and centenarians) to the whole of the population (citing again another mémoire by Quetelet) and tries to draw conclusions from it. Though there is no discussion or reference to pure statistical methods, or sign of their actual application, it is interesting to see the virutally unknown Courtois, already before Quetelets groundbreking work of 1842 (Sur l'Homme etc.), trying to draw conclusions from the mass of data assembled on the composition, growth and development of the population of this limited area. - Slight dampstaining and wrinkling throughout. EUR 750
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COYER, (G.F.) Bagatelles morales et dissertations, par Monsieur l'Abbé Coyer; avec le Testament littéraire de Mr. l'Abbé Desfontaines. Nouvelle édition, augmentée. A Londres, et se vend à Francfort, Chez Knoch & Eslinger, 1769. Title printed in red and black. (4), 303 (misnumbered 203) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary speckled calf, spine richly gilt in floral ornaments, red edges. INED 1224 (first edition); Versins 210; Einaudi 1381 (later edition); Higgs 2130; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First published in 1754, this is an augmented edition. Recueil de pièces diverses. Considérations sur le commerce ("nerf de l'État"), le luxe, le célibat, les impôts, la population, l'allaitement maternel, etc. Critiques assez vives de la société, et annonce de bouleversements sociaux, notamment dans l'Année Merveilleuse et dans l'Astrologue du Jour: 'Riches, faites usage du peu de temps qui vous reste à jouir de votre fortune, car elle va bientôt passer en d'autres mains' (INED). The two named pieces in this INED entry are extensively analysed in Lichtenberger's Le Socialisme au XVIIIe siècle, pp. 47-49. Criticizes the French society and predicts social revolutions. EUR 250
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COYER, (G.F.) Bagatelles morales et dissertations, avec le Testament littéraire de l'abbé Desfontanes. Nouvelle édition. A Londres, & se vend à Francfort, Chez Knoch & Eslinger, 1759. Title in red and black. Printer's device on title. (4), 289, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt double fillet on sides (a trifle worn and rubbed, corners bumped). INED 1224 (first edition); Versins 210; Einaudi 1381 (later edition); Higgs 2130; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First published in 1754, this is an augmented edition. - Title-page and first twenty pages with a faint stain in the lower margin. 'Recueil de pièces diverses. Considérations sur le commerce ("nerf de l'État"), le luxe, le célibat, les impôts, la population, l'allaitement maternel, etc. Critiques assez vives de la société, et annonce de bouleversements sociaux, notamment dans l'Année Merveilleuse et dans l'Astrologue du Jour:'Riches, faites usage du peu de temps qui vous reste à jouir de votre fortune, car elle va bientôt passer en d'autres mains' (INED). The two named pieces in this INED entry are extensively analysed in Lichtenberger's Le Socialisme au XVIIIe siècle, pp. 47-49. Criticizes the French society and predicts social revolutions. EUR 400
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COYER, (G.F.) Bagatelles morales et dissertations, avec le Testament littéraire de l'abbé Desfontanes. Nouvelle édition, augmentée. A Londres, et se vend à Francfort, Chez Knoch & Eslinger, 1763. Title printed within an engraved ornamental border. 288 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, red edges. INED 1224 (first edition); Versins 210; Einaudi 1381 (later edition); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. 'Recueil de pièces diverses. Considérations sur le commerce ("nerf de l'État"), le luxe, le célibat, les impôts, la population, l'allaitement maternel, etc. Critiques assez vives de la société, et annonce de bouleversements sociaux, notamment dans l'Année Merveilleuse et dans l'Astrologue du Jour: 'Riches, faites usage du peu de temps qui vous reste à jouir de votre fortune, car elle va bientôt passer en d'autres mains' (INED). The two named pieces in this INED entry (l'Année Merveilleuse and l'Astrologue du Jou) are extensively analysed in Lichtenberger's Le Socialisme au XVIIIe siècle, pp. 47-49. Criticizes the French society and predicts social revolutions. EUR 450
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CREMIEUX, (I.-M., DIT ADOLPHE.) Consultation pour MM. Alexandre Ferrier et Cie, gérans de l'entreprise des Télégraphs publics; Par M. Ad. Crémieux, ..... Suivi d'Adhésions motivées de MM. Lacoste, Dalloz, Hennequin, Delangle, Odilon Barrot, De Vatimesnil, Dupin, Parquin, ..... (Paris, Everat, 1832). 32 pp. 4to. Modern boards. First edition. Against the monopoly of the telegraph. The text is preceded by a facsimile of a letter by Ferrier and Cie.Crémieux later became one of the members of the Provisional government during the 1848 revolution. EUR 200
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CUPPE, P. Le ciel ouvert à tous les hommes, ou, Traité Theologique qui sans déranger rien des Pratiques de la Religion, on prouve solidement par l'Ecriture Sainte, et par la Raison, que tous les Hommes sont sauves. Blois(?), no date. Manuscript of 128 pp. Folio. In leaves, folded into 6 separate quires, kept in amodern marbled box, with black label with gilt lettering (small loss to paper on upper cover). Peignot ii, p. 215; Le Bucher Bibliographique, 701; Darnton, The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France 1769-1789, 94; Conlon 68:747. One of the manuscript copies of this 'dangerous' text which was published for the first time in 1768.Ira O. Wade, in his The Clandestine Organization and Diffusion of Philosophic Ideas in France from 1700 to 1750 (1938), presents a full analysis of the various manuscript versions and its content in chapter I, 'Pierre Cuppé and Le Ciel Ouvert à tous les Hommes.' Our manuscript belongs to what Wade lables the 'second' group, that is, one of the mss. belonging to the revised version as the author apparently continuously worked on the text until his death in 1744. The text circulated for quite some time in manuscript before it was published in 1768 due to the reactions the author justly feared from both the church and the parlements. The work was forbidden on the same grounds which served to confiscate and burn books written by the Baron d'Holbach.The work was a 'monstrueuse reaction contre les exagérations d'alors sur "le petit nombre des élus" et contre la damnation sommaire de tous les infidèles, c'est-à-dire contre l'esprit janseniste. Notre auteur ouvre les portes du ciel à tous dès leur mort ....''Apparently disturbed by the rigorous exclusions on the part of the Jansenists he, in this work, elaborated a system of theology as inclusive in its tenets as that of any of the early English Deists who were preoccupied with saving the savages of North America' (Wade, p. 33).Due to the dangerous content of the work the author refrained from printing the work for a long time. De Colonia, in 1730, spoke already of a dangerous manuscript that circulated (See: Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique, vii, 1737).The introduction is signed, on page 3 with the name 'Kuppis' de Blois.- First leaf somewhat browned, a very interesting and scarce manuscript, written in a very neat and legible hand. EUR 1000
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CUSTINE, (A), DE. La Russie en 1839 par le Marquis de Custine. Paris, Librairie d'Amyot, 1843. With 1 folding table. 4 volumes. (4), xxxi, (1), 354 pp.; (4), 416 pp.; (4), 470 pp. 544 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering and numbering, marbled boards. En Français dans le Texte, 262; Vicaire 1090. The very rare first edition of this famous work (and one of the most important ever written) on Russia and de Custine's major work. The book was an instant success with the French reading public and was subsequently translated into most European languages. In Russia, the book was banned and several attempts to discredit it were published in France and Germany. It was only in the early twentieth century that it became possible to consider a translation into Russian, and two highly abridged versions were published. It was only in the late 20th century that the book became available in Russia, thanks to a translation by Vera Mil'china and Aleksandr Ospovat. It was at this point that Custine experienced a new revival, this time among Russians, as they discovered this fascinating analysis of the Russian state and national character. Reviews by Viktor Erofeev and others pointed to the deep veracity of Custine's observations on such matters as Russian bureaucracy, inefficiency, subservience to authority, suspicion of foreigners and manipulation of the truth. Custine's observation of his own growing paranoia in the autocratic Russian state rang true to Russian readers. Moreover, research suggested that several dissidents in Nicholas's Russia used Custine as a mouthpiece for their own criticisms of the system: here was a kindred spirit, so to speak. These four volumes document not only Custine's travels through the Russian empire, but also the social fabric, economy, and way of life during the reign of Nicholas. Custine is justly famous for his superb La Russie en 1839: Custine is a masterly writer and this book is full of penetrating observations on Russia as he was a keen observer.Astolphe de Custine was born into the French nobility on the eve of the Revolution. His father's family had possessed the title "marquis" since the early 18th century and owned a famous porcelain works. His mother, Delphine, also came from a prestigious family, and was known for her intelligence and great beauty.Custine was raised by his strong-willed mother, and saw a lot of the writer Chateaubriand. Custine was given an excellent education and seemed to be headed towards a life in society. He spent time in the diplomatic service, attending the Congress of Vienna, and even accepted a military commission. In the early 1820s, Custine went along with a marriage arranged by his mother. The Marquis, later to admit his homosexuality, genuinely loved his wife and had a son with her, but she died after only a few years of marriage.Custine eventually discovered that his knack was for travel writing. He wrote a decently received account of a trip to Spain, and was encouraged by Honoré de Balzac to write accounts of other "half-European" parts of Europe, like southern Italy and Russia. In the late 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America appeared, whose last chapter contained the prophecy that the future belonged to Russia and America. With that, Custine decided that Russia would be his next writing effort. Custine was later dubbed by some historians "the de Tocqueville of Russia". Custine visited Russia in 1839, spending most of his time in St. Petersburg, but also visiting Moscow and Yaroslavl. Most of Custine's mocking was reserved for the Russian nobility and Nicholas I. Custine said Russia's aristocracy had "just enough of the gloss of European civilization to be 'spoiled as savages,' but not enough to become cultivated men. They were like 'trained bears who made you long for the wild ones.'" Custine criticizes Nicholas for the constant spying he ordered and for repressing Poland, but does not criticize him for being a total autocrat or for maintaining slavery. Custine had more than one conversation with the Tsar, and concluded it was possible that the Tsar only behaved as he did because he felt he had to. "If the Emperor has no more of mercy in his heart than he reveals in his policies, then I pity Russia; if, on the other hand, his true sentiments are really superior to his acts, then I pity the Emperor" (Kennan, 76). Custine said the air felt freer the moment one crossed into Prussia. For an elaborate discussion of the book see: George F. Kennan, The Marquis de Custine and his Russia in 1839, Princeton University Press, 1971.Theodore Dalrymple wrote about this book: "Custine analyzed Russian society by reference to the psychology of the individuals who made it up. His work is a supreme example of the subtle interplay between the abstract information about a political system and the imaginative entry into the worldview of the people who live in it that is necessary for the understanding of any society. Custine's book is a prolonged meditation upon the effect of a particular political regime and its institutions upon human character, thought, and action-and, by implication, a meditation upon the dialectical interplay of political conditions and human character everywhere. As Custine well understood, the effect of czarism upon the Russian psyche was pregnant with significance for the future, not just for the Russians themselves but for the whole world, because Russia was destined to play so large a part in the world's history."A famous phrase illustrates de Custine's sharp eye and psychological insight: "il n'y manque rien-que la liberté; c'est à dire la vie" (they are short of nothing, except liberty; that is, life).- Very, very lightly foxed, first volume with the bookplate of Andre Gutzwiller. EUR 6000
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D'OLIVIER, P. La voix d'un citoyen, sur la manière de former les Etats-Généraux. No place, 1788. (2), 34 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering to spine, marbled boards. Martin & Walter 10868; Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799, i, p. 324. The very rare first edition and the first work by Dolivier or D'Olivier. Proposing an entirely new way of electing deputees, with the aim to diminish the prerogatives of the nobility and the clergy. Demanding also to fix the price of bread in a separate chapter entitled: 'Requête aux futurs Etats-Généraux pour prévenir la trop grande cherté du blé'. As all the publications of the future 'enragé', of great rarity. The author's name is often spelled: Dolivier. Pierre Dolivier was an advocate of extensive social reform. Denouncing suffrage based on property ownership, he appealed for social equality in the future, writing: "I wish that in its social policy the state establish a just equality of means so that each member can attain the full enjoyment of every right that is due him' (Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799, i, p. 324.)Pierre Dolivier, "red priest" with radical ideas about property, social justice, ideas which certainly influenced Babeuf and his movement and conspiracy. Among the papers of Babeuf Dolivier's most influential book was found, "Essai sur la Justice Primitive" and Dolivier's name appeared on a list of possible candidates for the future gouvernment after the "coup d'état": an order to arrest him was issued on the grounds that he was member of the conspiracy of Babeuf and his Equals. Dolivier escaped arrest. EUR 750
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DAUBAN, C.A. Le fond de la société sous la Commune, décrit d'après les documents qui constituent les archives de la justice militaire, avec des considérations critiques sur les moeurs du temps et sur les événements qui ont précédé la Commune. Paris, E. Plon et Cie., 1873. With folding frontispiece and folding facsimiles of documents. (4), 481 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half hard-grained morocco, marbled baords, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering, very lightly rubbed. Del Bo, Comune, 58; Le Quillec, 664. First edition. EUR 150
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DEMEUNIER, (J.N.) Rapport sur l'organisation du Ministère, fait au nom du Comité de Constitution. Par M. Démeunier. Imprimé par ordre de l'Assemblée nationale. (Drop-head title). A Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale, (1790). 40 pp. 8vo. Modern red half morocco, gilt lettering, marbled boards. Martin & Walter 10098; not in Monglond; Dictionnaire des Constituants I, pp. 278-280. First edition. - Browned throughout, light staining in outer blank margins. Page 26-end contain a 'Projet de décret sur l'organisation du ministère, présenté par le Comité de Constitution.' EUR 125
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DESFORGES, (P.J.B. CHOUDARD.) Tom Jones à Londres, Comedie en cinq actes, en vers, tirée du roman de Fielding. Représentée, pour la première fois, par les Comédiens Italiens ordinaires du Roi, le 22 Octobre 1782. Par M. Desforges. A Paris, Chez F.J. Baudouin, 1782. - (Followed by:) DESFORGES, (P.J.B.CHOUDARD.) Tom Jones et Fellamar, suite de Tom Jones à Londres; comedie en cinq actes et en vers, par M. Desforges. Représentée, pour la première fois, par les Comédiens Italiens ordinaires du Roi, le Mardi 17 Avril 1787. A Paris, Chez Prault, Imprimeur du Roi, 1788. 2 volumes in one. 87, (1) pp.; 80 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt decorated spine with gilt lettering. Cioranescu 23412 (first work, edition with 121 pages) & 12418 (second work, dated 1788). First edition. Fielding's Tom Jones was immensely popular from the very beginning and was translated and adapted widely in Europe. This is one of the adaptations in which the text is transformed into a comedy. EUR 300
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DESTUTT DE TRACY, A.L.C. Élemens d'Idéologie. Première Partie [-Cinquième Partie]. Seconde édition. A Paris, Chez Courcier, An XI = 1803 (-XIII = 1804, 1805, and 1818). With two folding tables in volume two. 5 volumes bound in four. (4), xxvii (misnumbered xxxii), 456 pp.; xiv, 454, (2) pp.; viii, 671, (1) pp.; vi, 527, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary green calf, spines richly gilt in compartments, red labels with gilt lettering, gilt ornamental borders on sides, all edges gilt. E. Kennedy, A 'Philosophe' in the Age of Revolution. Destutt de Tracy and the Origins of 'Ideology', pp. 112-166 with an elaborate analysis. The volumes one and four are in the second edition, the other volumes are in the original edition. The first volume has been augmented with valuable notes. A truely beautiful copy of Destutt de Tracy's famous and principal work, published over a period of more than 10 years. Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher and propounder of the doctrine of Ideology. During the French revolution he became so disgusted with the extremists among the revolutionairies that he retired from politics to Auteuil, where he joined the celebrated group of philosopher-scientists which found its center at the home of Mme. Helvétius. Among his intimates were Cabanis and Condorcet, Volney and Garat. Imprisoned for a year under the Terror, he began to study the works of Condillac and John Locke, the result of which was his elaboration of the discipline he called Ideology. The group associated with Destutt de Tracy took the name Idéologues from his doctrine. They became influential in 1795 in two new institutions, The École Normale and the Institut Nationale.'Il eut une influence indéniable sur les économistes, des littérateurs et surtout des philosophes du 19e siècle comme Thomas Browne, Stuart Mill, Spence, Taine et Ribot' (Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, xi, pp. 116-7). He coined the word 'idéologues', long before it acquired its pejorative sense at the hands of Marx, by which Destutt meant the science of ideas. It embraced and intertwinned psychological, moral, economic and social phenomena but which gave primacy to economics because he thought that the purpose of society was to satisfy man's material needs. Tracy rejected the physiocratic notion of value, substituting a labour theory that Ricardo subsequently endorsed in his 'Principles'. He differs on various points with Say and Smith. On numerous topics he was far less thorough and rigorous than either Smith or Say, but his exposition of the capitalization theory of taxation was superior to the rest. Along with Say, Destutt de Tracy was one of the earliest members of the French liberal school. - The first few leaves of volume one with a very small wormtrack in the lower blank margin. An exceptionally nice copy. EUR 3500
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DEYEUX, (TH.) Des Aristocraties en général et spécialement, par Deyeux. Dédié aux hommes vrais. Paris, E. Houdaille, 1836. 2 volumes. (4), 316 pp.; (4), 315, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary cloth, label with gilt lettering, uncut copy. Not in Vicaire (listing other works); Quérard, ii, p. 549; Louandre & Bourquelot, iii, p. 259. First edition, very rare. - Some scattered and unobtrusive spotting. Little known and curious work treating the 'Aristocraties financières et commerciale', 'De l'Aristocratie des Académiciens', 'De l'Aristocratie des Journalistes', 'De l'Aristocratie des Sectes', 'De l'Aristocratie dévote et impie', 'De l'Aristocratie des Prisonniers', 'De l'Aristocratie comparée dans les animaux', 'De l'Aristocratie du monopole dans les arts, dans le commerce, la littérature et les moeurs', 'De l'Aristocratie de l'Education', 'De l'Aristocratie judiciaire', 'De l'Aristocratie de la capitale et des provinces', etc. etc. The work ends with a chapter entitled "De l'Aristocratie de l'honneur et du mérite personnel en France en 1836."The tendency of the work can best be summarized by these lines from the 'Résumé': 'Partout où il y a aristocratie, il y a complot de quelques-uns contre le grand nombre; et ces quelques-uns toujours se diront la majorité'; '.... et un jour on demandera compte aux claquers du petit parterre, qui ont, en spéculant sur elles, applaudi les aristocraties, ..... '; 'On a supprimé les associations du peuple, supprimons les associations de l'aristocratie'. EUR 650
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DIDEROT - ADAMS, D. Bibliographie des oeuvres de Denis Diderot 1739-1900. Ferney, Centre International d'Études du XVIII siècle, 2000. With 72 illustrations. 2 volumes. 460,(4) pp.; 477, (3) pp. 4to. Original publisher's boards (Publications du Centre International d'Étude du XVIIIe siècle). First edition. Destiné à combler l'une des grandes lacunes bibliographiques du siècle des Lumières, cet ouvrage répertorie toutes les éditions des oeuvres de Diderot parues jusqu'en 1900. Editions originales, réimpressions, traductions, sont méthodiquement décrites, avec leurs localisations dans les bibliothèques d'Europe, d'Amérique, d'Asie ....David Adams ne s'est pourtant pas contenté de décrire les résultats de ses recherches; dans une introduction historique et analytique, il cherche aussi à évaluer la réputation et l'influence de Diderot depuis le dix-huitième siècle telle qu'elles se révèlent à travers les données de la bibliographie matérielle. Le portrait du philosophe qui se dégage de ces recherches diffère de manière significative de celui que nous ont proposé de nombreux commentateurs, qui se fondent uniquement sur le témoignage des archives ou sur les réactions souvent hostiles de critiques, intéressés ou désintéressés.Les notices sont composées des éléments suivants: la cote de l'exemplaire décrit; la transcription du titre et du faux-titre; le format du volume; les dimensions de la page imprimée; les signatures; la pagination; les filigranes; la numérotation des pages; les réclames; la tomaison; le nombre de lignes; la hauteur de l'exemplaire; le contenu; les titres courants; les bandeaux, lettrines et ornements; les planches hors texte; des notes et commentaires; enfin la liste des autres exemplaires répertoriés.Le premier volume est consacré aux éditions collectives des oeuvres de Diderot et à l'Encyclopédie, le deuxième aux oeuvres individuelles et aux index: I. Remerciements; Liste des abréviations; Introduction; Liste chronologique des éditions; A. Editions complètes; B. Choix de textes, extraits; C. Théâtre; D. Romans et contes; E. Poésies; F. Correspondance; G. l'EncyclopédieII. H. oeuvres individuelles; Liste des ouvrages cités; Index des oeuvres répertoriées; Index des libraires, éditeurs et d'imprimeurs; Index général. EUR 400
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DIDEROT - ADAMS, D. Bibliographie des oeuvres de Denis Diderot 1739-1900. Ferney, Centre International d'Études du XVIII siècle, 2000. With 72 illustrations. 2 volumes. 460,(4) pp.; 477, (3) pp. 4to. Original publisher's boards (Publications du Centre International d'Étude du XVIIIe siècle). First edition. Destiné à combler l'une des grandes lacunes bibliographiques du siècle des Lumières, cet ouvrage répertorie toutes les éditions des oeuvres de Diderot parues jusqu'en 1900. Editions originales, réimpressions, traductions, sont méthodiquement décrites, avec leurs localisations dans les bibliothèques d'Europe, d'Amérique, d'Asie ....David Adams ne s'est pourtant pas contenté de décrire les résultats de ses recherches; dans une introduction historique et analytique, il cherche aussi à évaluer la réputation et l'influence de Diderot depuis le dix-huitième siècle telle qu'elles se révèlent à travers les données de la bibliographie matérielle. Le portrait du philosophe qui se dégage de ces recherches diffère de manière significative de celui que nous ont proposé de nombreux commentateurs, qui se fondent uniquement sur le témoignage des archives ou sur les réactions souvent hostiles de critiques, intéressés ou désintéressés.Les notices sont composées des éléments suivants: la cote de l'exemplaire décrit; la transcription du titre et du faux-titre; le format du volume; les dimensions de la page imprimée; les signatures; la pagination; les filigranes; la numérotation des pages; les réclames; la tomaison; le nombre de lignes; la hauteur de l'exemplaire; le contenu; les titres courants; les bandeaux, lettrines et ornements; les planches hors texte; des notes et commentaires; enfin la liste des autres exemplaires répertoriés.Le premier volume est consacré aux éditions collectives des oeuvres de Diderot et à l'Encyclopédie, le deuxième aux oeuvres individuelles et aux index: I. Remerciements; Liste des abréviations; Introduction; Liste chronologique des éditions; A. Editions complètes; B. Choix de textes, extraits; C. Théâtre; D. Romans et contes; E. Poésies; F. Correspondance; G. l'EncyclopédieII. H. oeuvres individuelles; Liste des ouvrages cités; Index des oeuvres répertoriées; Index des libraires, éditeurs et d'imprimeurs; Index général. EUR 400
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DONATO, N. L'homme d'État, par Nicolo Donato; Ouvrage traduit de l'Italien en François, Avec un grand nombre d'Additions considérables, extraites des Auteurs les plus célebres qui ont écrit sur les matières politiques. A Liege, Chez Clement Plomteux, 1767. 2 volumes in 1. viii, 450 pp.; (4), 258 pp. 4to. Contemporarymarbled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, corners lightly bumped, top of spine slightly damaged. Higgs 4246 and Conlon 67:792 both listing the 3 volumes edition in 12mo; Camus 221; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First French edition, originally published in Italian as L'uomo di governo, 1753. Nicolo Donato, elected 93rd doge of Venice in 1618, and auhor of this book which contains a treatise on public finance: a classification under seven headings, and a statement giving details of public expenditure relating more particularly to the Venetian state. The translation was done by J.B.R. Robinet. - Somewhat browned throughout. EUR 900
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DURAND-SAVOYAT, M. A propos de l'armée. Pétition aux gouvernants de la France par Durand-Savoyat Cultivateur. Genève, Imprimerie Ve Blanchard & Cie, 1872. 32, (2) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Anti-military pamphlet, ending with with a poem by Rémi entitled 'Les victimes de la Ricamarie', a violent indictment against the army which had shot miners on strike from the mines at Ricamarie.Verso last leaf the announcement of another work by the same author: Insoumis et Déserteurs ou Les consuls Français; Les Conseils de Guerre; Les Prisons militaires. EUR 175
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DUSAULX, (J.) De la passion du Jeu, depuis les temps anciens jusqu'a nos jours; ....... Dédié a Monsieur. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1779. Woodcut French royal arms on titles, 2 woodcut head-pieces and several tail-pieces. 2 volumes in one. xxxvi, 267, (1) pp.; (4), 335, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt with red label with gilt lettering, joints lightly rubbed, upper joint with small split at head and foot. INED 1682; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition of this classic study of the sociology of gambling by the reformed cambling addict Dusaulx. Dusaulx clearly sets the blame for the spread of gambling and the decline of public morals on the government's political and financial interests. 'Although much of the evidence which Dusaulx, himself an ex-gambler, marshals is only what had been said before, part of his originality lies in his very forthright interpretation of the facts, and part of it lies in his much greater reliance on striking illustrations, intended to appeal to the reader's sensibilities more than to his purely rational faculties' (J. Dunkley, Gambling: a Social and Moral Problem in France, 1685-1792, pp. 145-152).Dusaulx blames Mazarin for introducing cards at court to prolong Louis XIV's minority, and thus placed the nobility on a steady course to ruin, and he blames John Law for introducing the country to a novel form of gambling, i.e. speculation, which spread to wide sections of the population. But the root of it all is the introduction of state lotteries, which implicitly sanctions and encourages private gambling. The governements which organise them, contribute to the moral depravation of their subjects. Although the study is mainly concerned with gambling in France there are other interesting chapters involving stories of gambling in other countries, including a translation of the Emperor of China's edicts on gambling.'Du jeu, au point de vue historique et moral. Seconde partie, chapitres XLIII-L sur les loteries. Dusaulx relève les erreurs de Jean Le Clerc à leur sujet, et conclut, à l'instar du Parlement de Paris, que 'ses coupables jeux sont la ruine du pauvre Peuple'' (INED).Dusaulx himself was caught by the passion for the game and was financially ruined by it. In 1775 he wrote a book Lettre et réflexions sur la fureur du jeu, in which he analyzed the psychology of the player-gambler and showed how he had liberated himself from this vice. He became later partisan of the 'philosophes' and founded 'La Musée français' in december 1784.The book was printed at the press of Monsieur, later Louis XVIII. - Last four leaves with small loss in outer blank margin and with a very light stain in upper outer margin, with the bookplate of J. Maugin on the front paste-down. A good copy. EUR 1000
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EMERIGON, B.-M. Traité des Assurances et des Contrats à la grosse. A Marseille, Chez Jean Mossy, 1783. 2 volumes. (8), xvi, 686 pp.; (4), 680, (4 errata, advertisements) pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt spine with raised bands, contrasting labels with gilt lettering, marbled edges, a bit rubbed. Camus 2250; Kress B.573; Goldsmiths 12420; McCulloch, p. 246; not in Einaudi; Mansutti, 568; Catalogus Utrecht, ii, p. 813; Polak 3150. Rare first edition. This work by Émérigon (1716-1784) was considered at the time 'un oracle presque toujours sûr en matière d'assurance et cité devant les tribuneaux comme une autorité qui fait pour ainsi dire loi' (Dictionnaire de Biographie Française XII, 1241) Deals not only with the subject mentioned in the title, but covers the whole of maritime law. (i.e. chapter 6: du navire; chapter xii: des risques maritimes; vol. 2, chapter iii: Du change maritime etc.) 'Le Traité des assurances n'est pas borné à la seule matière qu'indique son titre. Il embrasse la presque totalité du droit maritime, et ne saurait être trop recommandé à ceux qui s'occupent de cette importante partie de la législation' (Camus).The author acquired during his long career an immense knowledge about the subjects concerned here, and in fact supplied much very important material to Valin for his important work on the ordinance of 1681.'The author of this work, an advocate in the parliament of Aix and a councillor in the admiralty court of Marseilles, died in 1784 ... He had by long practice and study acquired a very extensive and profound knowledge of maritime and commercial law. This treatise is of the highest authority. It is said by Lord Tenterden, in the preface to his work on maritime law, to be "peculiarly valuable for its extent of learned research, and the numerous and apt citations of the texts of the civil law and of the marine ordinances, the opinions of former writers, and the adjudications of the courts of justice of his own country, which are to be found in every part of it' (McCulloch). - 95 leaves (including the front blank and final blank) of volume one with a stain in the outer margin. With approbation and privilège. EUR 2500
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EVANS, TH. Réfutation des Mémoires de la Bastille, Sur les Principes Généraux des Loix, de la Probabilité et de la Vérité; dans une suite de lettres à Monsieur Linguet, Ci-devant Avocatau Parlement de Paris. Par Thomas Evans, Solliciteur à la Chancellerie, & Procureur au Banc du Roi en Angleterre. A Londres, De l'Imprimerie de Edw. Cox, Imprimeur de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales, se vend chez J. Murray, 1783. (4), 68 pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards, label with gilt lettering on spine, original marbled paper covers preserved. Conlon 83:1071. First French edition, all published. Fully supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Evans published a brochure (the present work) in which he attempted to undermine Linguet's credibility as a witness to and victim of despotism, which was the subject of Linguet's Mémoires sur la Bastille, published in 1783. (See: D.G. Levy, The Ideas and Careers of Simon-Nicoals-henri Linguet. A Study in Eighteenth-Century French Politics, p. 223). Thomas Evans was apparently an informer in the service of Moustier, the French ambassador in London. It seems that Evans suggested to Moustier that one sure way to get rid of Linguet would be to persuade his mistress's husband to initiate proceedings against Linguet on the charge of adultery. Evans was sure that Linguet would be convicted. The work ends with the mention 'Fin de la Première Lettre', but no more letters were published. - A large paper copy. EUR 400
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FERGUSON, A. An Essay on the History of Civil Society. Edinburgh, printed for A. Millar & T. Caddel in the Strand, London, and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, 1767.viii, 430 pp., complete with the final blank. 4to. Original speckled calf, expertly repaired, spine (renewed) gilt with raised bands with the original title label preserved, paste-downs and endpapers new, gilt fillet on sides, red sprinkled edges. Kress 6432; Goldsmiths 10264; Higgs 3973; Mattioli 1254; not in Chuo. First edition of a sociological classic and the principal work of Adam Ferguson, professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and a leader of the Scottish Enlightenment. 'Ferguson is today remembered for his Essay..... rather than for his contributions to moral philosophy or Roman history: he was what we would now call an intellectual historian, tracing the gradual rise of the human mind from barbarism to political and social refinement .... Debates between Reid, Dugald Stewart, Hume, Adam Smith, Lord Kames and Ferguson himself reveal Scottish philosophy, in general, to be important sociologically. Ferguson's thought was part of a general eighteenth century movement, stimulated by the French, built upon English empirical traditions, and hostile to Cartesian speculation. Ferguson is sometimes considered the father of modern systematic sociology, and although he himself was soon forgotten amidst the antiempirical reactions of Heglian disciples, the influence of the philosophical group to which he belonged was attested to by such nineteenth-century political thinkers as Comte, Mill and Marx. His discussions of politics, economics, history, easthetics, literature and ethnology were a synthesis of the thought of his time' (Encyclopedia of Philosophy). - Copy discarded from the library of the Freie Universität Berlin with their stamp (and a stamp reading 'Gestrichen') on verso of title, a very small and light dampstain in the inner margin of the preliminaries. A very good copy with wide margins of an important and scarce book. EUR 10000
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FERGUSON, A. An Essay on the History of Civil Society. Edinburgh, printed for A. Millar & T. Caddel in the Strand, London, and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, 1767.viii, 430 pp., complete with the final blank. 4to. Contemporary polished calf, gilt double fillet on sides, spine gilt with raised bands and red label with gilt lettering, rubbed and lightly worn at edges of boards, joints and spine-ends expertly strengthened, spine lightly and occasionally shaved. Kress 6432; Goldsmiths 10264; Higgs 3973; not in Chuo. First edition of a sociological classic and the principal work of Adam Ferguson, professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and a leader of the Scottish Enlightenment. - Upper blank portion of the title-page neatly cut away, page one slightly dust soiled, else fine with broad margins. 'Ferguson is today remembered for his Essay..... rather than for his contributions to moral philosophy or Roman history: he was what we would now call an intellectual historian, tracing the gradual rise of the human mind from barbarism to political and social refinement .... Debates between Reid, Dugald Stewart, Hume, Adam Smith, Lord Kames and Ferguson himself reveal Scottish philosophy, in general, to be important sociologically. Ferguson's thought was part of a general eighteenth century movement, stimulated by the French, built upon English empirical traditions, and hostile to Cartesian speculation. Ferguson is sometimes considered the father of modern systematic sociology, and although he himself was soon forgotten amidst the antiempirical reactions of Heglian disciples, the influence of the philosophical group to which he belonged was attested to by such nineteenth-century political thinkers as Comte, Mill and Marx. His discussions of politics, economics, history, easthetics, literature and ethnology were a synthesis of the thought of his time. (Encyclopedia of Philosophy.) EUR 9000
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FIEVEE, J. Lettres sur l'Angleterre, et Réflexions sur la philosophie du XVIIIe siecle. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Munier, Chez Perlet, Desenne, 1802. (4), 277, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporaryhalf calf, marbled boards, raised bands, rubbed along joints. Cioranescu 28619; not in Martin & Walter. First edition. Joseph Fiévée was sent to England by Napoléon Bonaparte as an agent. In the Lettres Fiévée vehemently opposes the philosophical ideas of the revolutionary party. He turned into a secret agent for Bonaparte and informed him widely on events, public opinion, administration, and all with a surprizing insight and depth (Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, vol. 13).The son of a Parisian restaurant owner, Joseph Fiévée became a publisher during the French Revolution, most notably editing La Chronique de Paris, a newspaper; it was here that he started his career as journalist, but unfortunately incurred the suspicion of authorities who had him imprisoned during the Reign of Terror. He was a member of the royalist network around the Abbey de Montesquiou, and was forced to go into hiding during the Directoire. While in hiding, he wrote his novel on changing times and mores, La Dot de Suzette, which was a great literary success.From 1800 to 1803, he wrote a column for the Gazette de France. He was again imprisoned in the Temple (Paris) by order of Joseph Fouché, but he was freed at the request of Bonaparte. He became a kind of secret agent for Napoleon, informing him of political affairs in France and England.From 1804 to 1807, he was editor in chief of the Journal des débats, which became Journal de l'Empire. He was ennobled by the Emperor; was named "maître des requêtes" to the Conseil d'État in 1810; then "Préfet" of the Nièvre départment from 1813 to 1815.A supporter of Louis XVIII of France during the initial Restoration, he was banished during the Hundred Days. Having become one of the intellectuals of the "ultra" party and writer for the papers La Quotidienne and the Conservateur, he eventually became more politically liberal after 1818. A strong supporter of the freedom of the press, he was sentenced to three months of prison in the Conciergerie where Casimir Perier visited him. He became a contributor to the journals Temps in 1829 and National in 1831.Joseph Fiévée married in 1790 (his brother-in-law was Charles Frédéric Perlet), but his wife died giving birth, leaving him one child. At the end of the 1790's, he met the writer Théodore Leclercq who became his life compagnon, and the two would live and raise Fiévée's son together. When becoming Préfet, Fiévée and Leclercq moved to the Nièvre province, and their open relationship greatly shocked the locals. The two men were received together in the salons of the Restoration, they are buried together in the same tomb at the Père Lachaise cemetery. - Bookplate "Bibliothèque de Mr. le Baron de Warenghiem." EUR 350
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FONTENELLE, (B. LE BOUYER DE). La République des Philosophes, ou Histoire des Ajaoiens. Ouvrage posthume de Mr. de Fontenelle. On y joint une Lettre sur la Nudité des Sauvages. A Genève, 1768 (Reprint Paris, EDHIS, 1970). (12), 188 pp. Small 8vo. Imitation of contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering. INED 1857; Hartig & Soboul, p. 60; Cioranescu 30782; Conlon 68:855. Well executed reprint of this rare work, which was not written by Fontenelle (see below). The reprint was done in a limited edition of 250 numbered copies of which 30 copies not destined for the trade. 'Utopie politique. Description enthousiaste des moeurs des Ajaoiens, république 'communiste', 'peuple le plus heureux qui soit sur le globe terrestre, tant par la sagesse de ses lois que par l'exactitude avec laquelle on les pratique.' Le tien et le mien sont ignorés. Les terres appartiennent à l'État. On tient un registre des naissances et des morts afin de se rendre compte du nombre de bouches à nourrir, etc.' (INED).Lichterberger in his Le Socialisme au XVIIIe Siècle, p. 373-4 , gives a further and elaborate analysis of the work. In a note Lichterberger states that it has been believed that the book was written in the 17th century. EUR 125
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FOURIER, CH. Traité de l'association domestique-agricole. A Paris, Bossange père, P. Mongie ainé; A Londres, M. Bossange et Comp., 1822. 2 volumes - (Followed by:) FOURIER, CH. Sommaire du traité de l'association domestique-agricole ou attraction industrielle. Paris, Bossange Père, P. Mongie ainé, Londres Martin Bossange et Cie., 1823. Three volumes. lxiv, 592 pp.; viii, 648 pp.; (2), 8, 8B-8E, 9-16, (1329)-1398, B1398-1398E, 1399-1448, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary green half calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, corners, gilt fillets on sides (some very light browning, first four leaves of the second work with a dampstain in the lower outer blank corner.) First work: Del Bo 5; Kress C.864; Goldsmiths 23694; Einaudi 1960 (both works). Second work: Del Bo 6; Kress C.1060; Goldsmiths 23997. First editions of the main work of Fourier, together with the very rare supplement. The first volume is signed by Fourier on verso of the half title. This is Fourier's most important work, containing 'the essence of Fourier's doctrine' (David Owen Evans, Social Romanticism in France 1830-1848, p. 129.) The main thesis of the work is the discovery of the 'harmonie'. The whole work tries to pove how this 'harmonie' can be established and how life and society should be constructed to ensure succes. Fourier tried to get as much attention as possible for his ideas and to that end he published the 'Sommaire du traité...' in 1823, the often lacking supplement. The work however remained however virtually unnoticed. Although Fourier is often seen as a dreamer and fantast, he preceded in many of his ideas Marx. The theory of poverty and exploitation and its relation to the means of production can already be found with him, and the Marxist conception of the all-round man is an idea on which Fourier elaborately worked and which is the most important result of his 'harmonie'. 'He (Fourier) was emphatically a serious social thinker who contributed much of permanent value, not only to Socialist and Co-operative ideas, but also to the solution of the entire problem of work and of the incentives and human relations connected with it. (see: Kolakowsky: History of Marxism; Quack, de Socialisten, and G.D.H. Cole, A history of socialist thought.)It is little realized even today that many Fourierist communities were actually established, chiefly in the United States where the way had been prepared by Robert Owen. Fourierism was introduced to the United States by Albert Brisbane, whose Social Destiny of Man appeared in 1840. Brisbane had studied in France under Fourier in 1834. In 1842 the New York Tribune, then edited by Horace Greeley, placed at his disposal a column in which for over a year he popularized Fourier's doctrines. (.....) The direct effect of Brisbane's writings was the making of of a large number of experiments in community-living all over the United States during the eighteen-forties. The most famous of these were the North American Phalanx of New Jersey, which had 112 members and flourished for 12 years; the Wisconsin Phalanx, consisting of 32 families settled on 1,800 acres of land; and Brook Farm in the Commonwealth of Massachussetts (....); others associated with the enterprise were William Henry Channing, Henry Ward Beecher, George Ripley, Charles Dana, and Daniel Hawthorne. Another Fourierist commune was established in Texas by Fourier's disciple Victor Considerant in 1849, which lasted till the Civil War (See David Owen Evans, op.cit. pp. 48-49).The 'Sommaire du Traité ....' contains, bound before the title page, the leaf 'Instructions pour le Vendeur et l'Acheteur', and contains, on the last page, the 'Appendice aux Conclusions' as well as the two inserted quires, the first, B8-E8, containing 'Banques Rurales', the second, B1398-1398E, containing 'Carton à placer entre 1398 et 1399. Antienne du chap. III. La 4e phase de civilisation, I, 159.' Extremely rare in this complete state, in conformity with the details given by Del Bo.Bound in, in the 'Sommaire du Traité', is a handwritten and signed letter by Charles Fourier, dated 9 Octobre, 1836, written on paper of 'La Réforme Industrielle ou Le Phalanstère, ....' of 4 pages, the first leaf with the letter by Fourier, recto second leaf blank, verso second leaf the addressee: madame Cara Ghribaut (??), rue St. Victor, no 76, à la 2e Cour à Paris. Fourier writes, in a moving sentence about his meeting a female friend of the addressee: '.... est une jolie femme, je m'en suis fort bien aperçu, et si j'avais eu 30 ans de moins je lui aurais dit ce que j'en pensais; mais j'ai trop à redouter que de pareils aveux ne soient indifferens à qui en serait l'objet.' EUR 16000
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FOURIER, CH. Traité de l'Association domestique-agricole. A Paris, Bossange père, P. Mongie ainé; A Londres, M. Bossange et Comp., 1822. 2 volumes - (Followed by:) FOURIER, CH. Sommaire du Traité de l'Association domestique-agricole ou attraction industrielle. Paris, Bossange père, P. Mongie ainé, Londres M. Bossange et Cie., 1823. Two works in 3 volumes. lxxx, 592 pp.; viii, 648 pp.; (2), 16, (1329)-1448, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half calf, marbled boards, raised bands and gilt lettering and numbering (first two volumes), original blind covers, kept in a half vellum case with vellum overlapping edges, kept in a box (the 'Sommaire'). First work: Del Bo 5; Kress C.864; Goldsmiths 23694; Einaudi 1960 (both works). Second work: Del Bo 6; Kress C.1060; Goldsmiths 23997. First editions of the main work of Fourier, together with the very rare supplement. The first volume is signed by Fourier on verso of the half title. This is Fourier's most important work, containing 'the essence of Fourier's doctrine' (David Owen Evans, Social Romanticism in France 1830-1848, p. 129.) - The first and the last leaf of the Supplement are pasted to the inside of the cover, supplement loosening but still holding, main work occasionally cut short at upper margin, not affecting text. The main thesis of the work is the discovery of the 'harmonie'. The work is an elaborate exposition of how this 'harmonie' can be established and how life and society should be constructed to ensure succes. Fourier tried to get as much attention as possible for his ideas and to that end he published the 'Sommaire du traité...' in 1823, the often lacking supplement. The work however remained however virtually unnoticed. Although Fourier is often seen as a dreamer and fantast, he preceded in many of his ideas Marx. The theory of poverty and exploitation and its relation to the means of production can already be found with him, and the Marxist conception of the all-round man is an idea on which Fourier elaborately worked and which is the most important result of his 'harmonie'. 'He (Fourier) was emphatically a serious social thinker who contributed much of permanent value, not only to Socialist and Co-operative ideas, but also to the solution of the entire problem of work and of the incentives and human relations connected with it (see: Kolakowsky: History of Marxism; Quack, de Socialisten, and G.D.H. Cole, A history of socialist thought.)It is little realized even today that many Fourierist communities were actually established, chiefly in the United States where the way had been prepared by Robert Owen. Fourierism was introduced to the United States by Albert Brisbane, whose Social Destiny of Man appeared in 1840. Brisbane had studied in France under Fourier in 1834. In 1842 the New York Tribune, then edited by Horace Greeley, placed at his disposal a column in which for over a year he popularized Fourier's doctrines. (.....) The direct effect of Brisbane's writings was the making of a large number of experiments in community-living all over the United States during the eighteen-forties. The most famous of these were the North American Phalanx of New Jersey, which had 112 members and flourished for 12 years; the Wisconsin Phalanx, consisting of 32 families settled on 1,800 acres of land; and Brook Farm in the Commonwealth of Massachussetts (....); others associated with the enterprise were William Henry Channing, Henry Ward Beecher, George Ripley, Charles Dana, and Daniel Hawthorne. Another Fourierist commune was established in Texas by Fourier's disciple Victor Considerant in 1849, which lasted till the Civil War (See David Owen Evans, op.cit. pp. 48-49).The Sommaire .... lacks the leaves B8-8E containing the text 'Banques rurales', and the leaves B1398-1398E containing the text 'Antienne du chapitre III', both of which are later insertions, but does contain the preliminary leaf 'Introductions pour le vendeur et l'acheteur' and the final leaf 'Appendice aux conclusions'. EUR 3500
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FOURIER, CH. (F.M.) Oeuvres complètes. Paris, Librairie Sociétaire, 1841-1845. 6 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spines richly gilt with gilt lettering. Del Bo, Fourier, p. 8; Del Bo-Gerits, Supplement, p. 16. Second edition, scarce. 1. Théorie des quatre mouvements et des destinées générales. Deuxième édition. With 1 folding table. (4), xxxvi, 484 pp. 2-5. Théorie de l'unité universelle (Traité de l'association domestique-agricole). Deuxième édition. With 1 folding table. (4), lxviii, (2), xlii, 243, (1), 107 pp.; xv, 451 pp.; viii, 593, (1) pp.; xii, 603 pp. 6. Le nouveau monde industriel et sociétaire. Deuxième édition. With two plates. (2), xvi, 489 pp. Del Bo does not mention the plates in vol. 6. EUR 1800
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FOURIER, CH. (F.M.) Égarement de la raison démontré par les ridicules des sciences incertaines et Fragments par Charles Fourier. (Extrait de la Phalange, Revue de la Science sociale). Paris, Au Bureau de la Phalange, et à la Librairie Phalanstérienne, 1847. iv, 96 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering on spine, marbled boards. Del Bo, p. 9; Kress C.7090; Goldsmiths 35451; not in Del Bo-Gerits, Supplement; not in Einaudi. Very likely the true original edition of this work, continuously paginated: all other copies we handled, as well as those listed in the bibliographies, number 128 pages, with the pages 1-32 numbered 193-224. We know of one other copy identical to this one: in the Waseda University Library in Tokyo. That copy and this copy do not contain the misnumbered pages as described above. The present copy has 96 pages, but the 'Table' lists a number of short treatises, the "Fragments" from page 97 to 127, with no error in the pagination. EUR 750
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FRANKLIN, B. Mélanges de Morale, d'Économie et de Politique, Extraits des Ouvrages de Benjamin Franklin, et précédés d'une notice sur sa vie, Par A. Ch. Renouard, advocat. Paris, Chez Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1824. With portrait-frontispiece and folding facsimile (split along one fold). 2 volumes. vii, (1), 252 pp.; (4), 186 pp. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spines gilt with green and red labels with gilt lettering. Sabin 25544; not in Howes; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli. First French edition. - Some dampstaining at the beginning and end of each volume but still a good copy. EUR 500
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FRANKLIN, B. Vie de Benjamin Franklin, Écrite par lui-même, suivi de ses Oeuvres morales, politiques et littéraires, Dont la plus grande partie n'avoit pas encore été publié. Traduit de l'Anglais, avec des Notes, par J. Castéra. Tome Premier [- Tome Second]. A Paris, Chez F. Buisson, An VI de la République (1798). Portrait-frontispiece of Franklin by Duplessis and engraved by Alex. Tardieu. Two volumes. (4), viii, 382 pp.; (4), 438 pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt in compartments, red title-labels, and blue volume labels, gilt stamped monogram SD at foot of spine on a red label, gilt fillet on all sides, very lightly damaged at head of spines, very small split in joint of front cover of volume 1. Quérard, France Littéraire, iii, 119; Brunet ii, 1382; Sabin 25543 (only volume 2); Fay, p. 37; not in Howes. First edition of this translation and followed by various other works, among which the famous Bonhomme Richard and various other pieces for the greater part not published before in French. There was an earlier publication of Franklin's memoirs, an unauthorized edition in 1791 by Gibelin, but it is in this edition the time Franklin spent at Passy is being dealt with. The first complete publication of his memoirs was published in 1868. EUR 1000
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GARNIER, (J.J.) Traité de l'origine du gouvernement françois; où l'on examine ce qui est resté en France sous la première Race de nos Rois, de la forme du gouvernement qui subsistoit dans les Gaules sous la domination romaine. A Paris, Chez Vente, 1765. vi, 236, (4) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raisedbands (somewhat rubbed). Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, xv, pp. 503-505; Conlon 65:814. First edition. Price winning work which was written in answer to the following question, posed by the Académie des Inscriptions: Examen de ce qui est resté en France sous la première race de nos rois de la forme de gouvernement qui subsistait dans les Gaules sous la domination des Romains in 1761. The text was not published before 1765. EUR 200
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GARNIER, (J.J.) Traité de l'origine du gouvernement françois; où l'on examine ce qui est resté en France sous la première Race de nos Rois, de la forme du gouvernement qui subsistoit dans les Gaules sous la domination romaine. A Paris, Chez Vente, 1765. (2), vi, 236, (4) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with gilt lettering. Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, XV, pp. 503-505; Conlon 65:814; Camus, 879. First edition. Price winning work which was written in answer to the following question, posed by the Académie des Inscriptions: Examen de ce qui est resté en France sous la première race de nos rois de la forme de gouvernement qui subsistait dans les Gaules sous la domination des Romains in 1761. The text was not published before 1765. - With partly erased bookplate on front paste-down, and small library stamp on title-page. EUR 225
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GARONNE AINE. Réflexions sur le commerce de France; Par M. Garonne aîné. Sur nos manufactures. Sur les Douanes. Sur le Traité de Commerce fait avec l'Angleterre en 1786. Sur les Franchisesdes Ports. Sur la possibilité de former à Paris un Entrepôt, qui offrirait de grands avantages et beaucoup de facilités au Commerce de cette Ville. A Paris, Chez P. Mongie, Capelle et Compagnie, An XII-1804. (4), 134, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering (somewhat rubbed and worn, one joint with short split). Goldsmiths 18857; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in INED. First edition. 'Ancien député de la ville et du commerce du Cote près l'Assemblée constituante, de la Société royale de littérature et des Beaux-Arts de Gand' (Quérard, La France Littéraire). The last leaf (with a small part of the outer lower blank margin cut away) contains a number of errata. EUR 225
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GAULTIER DE BIAUZAT, J.F. Doléances sur les surcharges que les gens du peuple supportent en toute espèce d'impôts; Avec des Observations Historiques & Politiques sur l'origine & les accroissemens de la Taille; sur l'assujettissement du Tiers-Etat au paiement de la totalité de ce Tribut, & sur les moyens légitimes de soulager les Taillables, & de rétablir les Finances, sans recourir à de nouveaux Impôts. No place, 1788. viii, (3, errata, 1 blank), 248 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering, marbled boards. Kress B.1420; Goldsmiths 13636.1; Einaudi 2418; INED 1990; Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, 354; Martin & Walter 14448; Lemay, Dictionnaire des Constituants, i, pp. 393-395; Stourm, p. 148. First edition, copy with errata leaves. 'Un des meilleurs exposés de l'état financier de l'époque. Les gens du peuple donnent au fisc les trois cinqième de leur revenu. Histoire de la taille. Nécessité de revenir à l'égalité et de décharger le peuple. Cet brochure de 248 pages eut beaucoup de retentissement.' (Stourm).'Critique du système fiscal s'appuyant sur l'histoire. Gaultier étudie surtout la taille pour montrer que c'est le Tiers-État qui supporte le poids des impôts' (INED).'Cette brochure fit une grande impression sur l'opinion contemporaine. Elle donne de précieux renseignements sur le système fiscal de l'Ancien Régime, qu'elle critique, en montrant que les gens du peuple supportent tout le poids de l'impôt. L'auteur réclame une égalité proportionnelle dans sa répartition et s'élève contre les exemptions et les privilèges' (Leblanc, op.cit). EUR 650
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GENLIS, (S. COMTESSE DE.) Les Diners du Baron d'Holbach, dans lesquels se trouvent rassemblées, sous leurs noms, une partie des gens de la cour et des littérateurs les plus remarquables du 18e siècle;par Mme la Comtesse de Genlis. A Paris, Chez C.J. Trouvé, 1822. xx, 532 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering, marbled edges. Cabeen 1342; Cioranescu 30691. First edition. - Some light, scattered and unobtrusive foxing. A sarcastic and controversial description of the intolerance, fanaticism and eccentricities of the 18th-century philosophers. With the exception of Helvétius and Diderot, Mme de Genlis knew all the philosophers. Among those described here are Holbach, Grimm, d'Alembert, Helvétius, Diderot, l'abbé Galiani, l'abbé Morellet, Mme Geoffrin, Mme du Deffand, etc.For Madame de Genlis the philosophes are a band of conspirators formed to destroy the institutions of France, and Voltaire is head of the cabal, who supplied money and meeting place. Interesting as one of the earliest post-revolutionary reactions against the so-called sins of the philosophes. EUR 1100
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GIOJA, M. Filosofia della statistica esposta da Melchiorre Gioja autore degli elementi di filosofia. Milano, Presso Gio. Pirotta in Santa Radegonda, Febbrajo 1826. With five folding tables. 2 parts in1 volume. xvi, 308 pp.; 416 pp. 4to. Contemporary boards (a few small library markings, lightly worn). Goldsmiths, Additions, 24785.1; Einaudi 2570; Italian Economic Literature in the Kress Library 1475-1850, 885 First edition. Melchiorre Gioja (1767-1829) studied first theology, then mathematics, economics and statistics, to which last he applied himself steadily. Schumpeter affirms the importance of the results of Gioja's statistical research (p. 511, 519) and also Babbage saw in him an important predecessor. He was involved in politics, imprisoned several times and lost various positions including that of director of the statistical office at Milan. He initiated with Custodi and Romagnosi the Annali universali di statistica (1824-1871). The first part contains the 'Discorso elementare sull'indole, ull'estensione, sui vantaggi della statistica.' EUR 1100
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GONCOURT, EDMOND & JULES DE. Histoire de la Société Française pendant la Revolution. Paris, Maison Quentin, 1889. With 43 (of 44) illustrations, some double-page, some coloured. (4), 374, (2) pp. 4to. Contemporary hard-grained half morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, marbled boards. This is the first illustrated edition of the book: it was first published in 1855 and various other editons were published in some 10 years following. In the entire period between 1855 and the publication of this book the Goncourts collected a lot of additonal material which was, together with the plates, here used for the first time. It is of course no coincidence that the book was published in 1889, 100 years after the French Revolution. The Goncourt brothers for a decade tried their hand at various historical works before they acquired the reputation by which they are known today: theirs is the phrase "History is a novel which has been lived, the novel is a history which could have taken place". There is one plate lacking: one of the two plates taken from the Magazin des Modes nouvelles françaises et anglaises, 1790. EUR 350
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GOUJET, (C.P.) De l'État des Sciences en France, Depuis la mort de Charlemagne, jusqu'à celle du Roi Robert. Dissertation qui a remporté le Prix de l'Académie des Belles Lettres en 1737 parM. l'Abbé Goujet, .... A Paris, Par la Compagnie des Libraires associés à l'impression de la Collection des Historiens de France, 1737. (4), 125, (3) pp. 12mo. Modern marbled boards, label with gilt lettering. Conlon 37:491. First edition of this interesting overview of the intellectual "production" in France. The Abbé Claude-Pierre Goujet was trained by the Jesuits but became a jansenist. He studied theology and had the courage to uphold principles in his 'thèse de license' which were condamned by the 'Bulle Unigenitus' in 1713. He was the author of a large number of works as well as editor of numerous others. Poverty forced Goujet, at the end of his life, to sell his library, which he had built during 50 years of collecting, to the Duc de Béthune-Charost. - Innermargin of half-title, title and first leaf strengthened. EUR 250
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GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC, A. Autograph Letter Signed, dated 28 May 1836, to the Comte de Montalembert. 2 pages. 4to. Disbound. Deals with an article written by Montalembert which was published in the 'Revue de Paris' and dealing with the black people in the Antilles and with the petition by the 'hommes de couleurs'. Granier de Cassagnac here develops his opinions concerning the subject.Adolphe Granier de Cassignac (1806-1880) was one of the most important semiofficial journalists of the Second Empire and a vocal representative of conservative and authoritarian bonapartism. His first publication was a brochure entitled Aux Électeurs de France (1831) in which he proclaimed his belief in democracy, a position he would later abandon. He headed for Paris and found employment as a journalist for the Orleanist journals Revue de Paris and Journal des Débats. Granier de Cassagnac was disturbed by the revolutionary days of 1830, he supported the presidential candidacy of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.Charles-Forbes, Comte de Montalembert was a politician, notable and liberal Catholic, came from an ancient aristocratic family. In his youth he demonstrated a combined interest in both liberal and Catholic causes, which presaged his liberal Catholicism and his leadership of the cause of liberty of education in France during the July monarchy. EUR 175
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GUEVARRE, A. La mendicita sbandita col sovvenimento de' poveri tanto nelle citta, che ne' borghi, luoghi, e terre de' stati di qua, e di la da' monti, e colli di sua maesta Vittorio Amedeo re' di Sicilia, di Gerusalemme, e Cipro &c. Come altresi lo stabilimento degli ospizij generali, e delle congregazioni di carita d'ordine della maesta sua. In Torino, nella stampa di Gianfrancesco Mairesse e Giovanni Radix, 1717. - (Bound with:) INSTRUZIONI, e regole degli ospizj generali per li poveri da fondarsi in tutti gli stati della S.R. maesta' del re di Sicilia &c. Di ordine della medesima maesta. In Torino, nella stampa di Gianfrancesco Mairesse e Giovanni Radix, 1717. With coat of arms on title. - (Bound with:) INSTRUZIONI, e regole delle congregazioni di carita da fondarsi d'ordine della S.R. maesta' del re' di Sicilia &c. nelle citta, e ne' luoghi degli suoi stati, ove non possono farsi ospizij generali per li poveri. In Torino, nella stampa di Gianfrancesco Mairesse e Giovanni Radix, no date. - (Bound with:) NUOVA Aggiunta al libro della Mendicita sbandita col sovvenimento de' poveri tanto nelle città, che ne' borghi, luoghi, e trre de'Stati di quà, e di là da' Monti, e Colli di sua Maesta. In Torino, Appresso Gio. Francesco Mairesse, 1738. With title vignette. Four works in one volume. viii, 196 pp.; 144, (4) pp.; 52, (3) pp; 34 pp. Small 4to. Modern marbled calf (imitation old style), spine with raised bands and gilt, gilt floral borders on sides, sprinkled edges. Not in Kress, but Kress, Italian 211, 212 and 213 (also bound in 1 volume), fourth work not in Kress Italian: Einaudi 2800, 5106 and 5107; Goldsmiths 5393, 5394, 5395 for the first three works, the fourth not in Goldsmiths; Mattioli 1535 for the first work only, the other three not in Mattioli; ICCU locates 3 copies: Biblioteca del Seminario vescovile Biella, Biblioteca civica Mondovi' and Biblioteca nazionale universitaria Torino. First editions of all works, the first blueprint for the set-up of anti-poverty institutions that were to bring together publicly-funded secular charities, government, religious charity provisions and private beneficence. It is also the first centralized model for diversified charity provisons, from almshouse or hospice, to employment advice for the able-bodied, bread allowances handedn out to non-residents: a rationalization resting on a unified and up-to-date record of information on the assisted individuals. A rare study and proposal concerning the administration of charity in Turin with the overall aim of eradicating begging and mendicancy. Begging was an increasing problem all over Europe at the time, and many cities and communities founded charitable institutions to deal with the situation. - The first and most substantial work outlines the foundation of a ospedale generale or an almshouse in Turin, to alleviate the situation of the poor. Although run in conjunction and close contact with the Turin churches, the almshouse is set up as a secular organisation, with representatives from the city government on its board. Once the poorhouse is up and running, private charity will be forbidden; Turin citizens will not be allowed to privately support beggars, vagabonds or the homeless. The rules and regulations for the proposed ospedale generale are presented in 54 paragraphs, detailing organisation, health provisions, catchment area, and financial administration. The second half discusses the 37 most common objections raised against publicly-funded charitable organisations.The two folloowing works bound with it contain a general instruction for the organisation of charitable institutions within the Duchy of Savoy, issued the same year. Pertinent observations are made on who needs to be supported, where and how to found charitable institutions, how to govern them, and how to prepare the accounts. Even though the administration of charity appears to be a secular concern, carried out with the support of the clergy, it is suggested that the weekly bread ration should be handed out after church on Sunday, to force the recipients to attend mass. A special chapter is devoted to the Regole del Segretario outlining the detailed information to be kept on the recipients of charity. Sample entries show that some of the poor are transferred to the hospice, others receive some bread, the able-bodied and young are advised to find employment, and others are returned to their own parish. An interesting concept is the institution of 'adoption schemes', well-off families in the parish adopt one of the poor, and treat him or her as one of their dependants. The poor either have to work or pray for their adoptive families. Special, more detailed rules are given for the poor who actually live in the almshouse, as to their religious and spiritual support, exercises, food, working hours and clothing regulations.First work has a few leaves with some spotting, small dampstain in the blank outer corner, the second has a few leaves with a dampstain in the upper blank margin, third work with a small wormtrack in the inner margin: copy printed on strong paper and with generous margins. EUR 750
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HAGEMEIERUS, J. De foedere Civitatum Hanseaticarum commentarius. Francofurti ad Moenum, apud Ioannem Beyerym, 1662. 51 unnumbered leaves. 8vo. Modern half vellum. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. - Cut short, touching the author's name on title-page with loss, very close to headlines but nowhere else with loss. Some leaves browned. The Hanseatic League, an association of German towns which during the 13th and 14th centuries secured the entire trade of the countries surrounding the Baltic, exporting their produce to Germany, England, and the markets of western Europe, and carrying back the manufactured goods of the west and the special products of warmer climats. Monopoly was the watchword of the Hanseatic from beginning to end of their career; but while their policy enabled them, in the infancy of European nations, to amass wealth and gain power, their blind adherence to the same aims and methods in face of the discoveries, new economic views, and developed political life of the 16th century, led to the final destruction of their organisation. EUR 350
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HEEREN, A.H.L. Manuel de l'histoire ancienne considérée sous le rapport des constitutions, du commerce et des colonies des divers États de l'Antiquité. Traduit de l'Allemand de A.H.L. Heeren, ....... Par Al. Thurot. Seconde édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée. Paris, Chez Firmin Didot, Père et Fils, 1827. (4), xx, 525, (7, Genealogical tables, errata) pp. 8vo. Original printed covers, uncut, a nice copy. ESS, vii, p. 310. Second French edition. Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren (1760-1842), German historian. Heeren began his career as theologian but later turned his interests to classical philology and history. His entire life was dominated by Winckelmann's and Goethe's conception of Greece. His philosophy of history was largely determined by Herder, his interest in constitutional history and political geography was awakened and promoted through the influence of Montesquieu and his preoccupation with problems of economic history may be traced to reminiscences of his Hanseatic childhood. Heeren is one of the forerunners of the historical school in history, economics, jurisprudence and political science. With Niebuhr he may be considered the founder of the modern scientific study of ancient history; through his pupil Pertz he stimulated the critical study of mediaeval sources; his interest in constitutional history left its mark on Waitz, and his study of political geography on Ritter. EUR 225
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HELVETIUS, (C.A.) Oeuvres complètes de M. Helvétius. Londres, 1777. With engraved portait of Helvetius bound before the title-page. 4 volumes. (4), iii,(1, blank), 484 pp.; (2), xx, 513, (2, approbation, privilège du Roi) pp.; xxv, iii, 586 pp.; xiv, 616 pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spines richly gilt with raised bands, labels with gilt lettering. Smith, Bibliography of the Writings of Helvétius, O3; Keim p. 715; Tchemerzine-Scheler, iii, p. 684; Thomas, Checklist, p. 73. 'Publication of this edition, the only Oeuvres to include the 'Système de la Nature', can be attributed to Jean Edme Dufour, who had earlier worked for Bassompierres, and Philippe Roux of Maastricht, whose association with Dufour lasted from 1775 to 1787' (D. Smith, p. 25). EUR 900
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HELVETIUS, (C.A.) Oeuvres complettes de M. Helvétius. Nouvelle édition, corrigée et augmentée sur les manuscrits de l'Auteur, avec sa Vie et son Portrait. A Londres (Bouillon, Société Typographique), 1781. With engraved portrait-frontispiece, titles printed in red and black. 2 volumes. lxxi, 409, (1) pp.; (4), iv, 708 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spines richly gilt with red and green labels and gilt lettering (very lightly rubbed). Smith, O6; Keim 715; Tchermerzine-Scheler, iii, p. 684; Thomas p. 72. This is the much desired 4to edition of the complete works. EUR 1200
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HENNEQUIN, V. Les Amours au Phalanstère. Paris, à la Librairie Phalanstérienne, 1849. - (Preceded by:) CONSIDERANT, V. Exposition abrégée du Système Phalanstérien de Fourier. Suivie d'études sur quelques Problèmes fondamentaux de la Destinée Sociale. Troisième édition. Paris, A la librairie Sociétaire, 1846. 2 works in one volume. 64 pp.; 114, (12, catalogue) pp. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, red and green label, extremities a bit worn, spine lightly shaved. First work: Del Bo, p. 30. Second edition probably: Del Bo lists one edition dated 1847. Hennequin was editor of the Démocratie Pacifique and one of the most ardent propagandists of the theories of Fourier which he tried to diffuse in the smaller villages and towns by delivering courses. This work is an exposition of the ideas and theories of Fourier dealing with love and the regulation or organisation of relations between the sexes in the Phalanstère.Second work: Del Bo, p. 13.- Some unobtrusive spotting. EUR 325
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HERBART, (J.F.) Zur Lehre von der Freyheit des menschlichen Willens. Briefe an den Herrn Professor Griepenkerl von Herbart. Göttingen, In der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1836. xxiv, 255, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled boards, handwritten paper label on spine (corners lightly bumped). Ziegenfuß, i, p. 514. Scarce first edition. Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776-1841), German philosopher, psychologist, and educational theorist. He entered the University of Jena in 1794. Although he studied under J.G. Fichte, Herbart was unable to accept Fichte's view of the ego and its psychology, and in reaction he laid the basis for his own metaphysical and psychological views. Herbart's ideas were in fact the bases of the chief German pedagogical school of the late nineteenth century and exerted considerable influence in the United States through pedagogues trained at Jena. The Herbartians (for example, Stoy and Rein) had their last center in the Jena pedagogical seminary until the postrevolutionary school reforms terminated their declining influence. - Old ownership entry on front pastedown: A.G. Bruschius, Frankfurt a/M 1836. A very good copy. EUR 425
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HOBBES, T. De la Nature Humaine, ou Exposition des facultés, des actions & des passions de l'Ame, & de leurs causes déduites d'après des principes philosophiques qui ne sont communémentni reçus ni connus. Par Thomas Hobbes: Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois. Londres (Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey), 1772. (4), iv, 171, (1) pp. Small 8vo. Later dark green half hard-grained morocco, green marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, outer margins of both sides of covers with some rubbing and loss of paper. Vercruysse, 1772, D2; Conlon 72:860; Thomas, p. 75; Tchemerzine-Scheler, iii, 729; Peignot, Livres Condamnés, p. 221; Robert Darnton, The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France 1769-1789, 465. Very rare French translation by the baron d'Holbach of Hobbes' Human Nature (1650), and to this day the only one made, and condamned and forbidden at the time. When Hobbes made his third visit to the continent, on which he was accompanied by the young Earl of Devonshire, he began to take his place among philosophers. At Paris, he was an intimate of Mersenne, who was the centre of a scientific circle that included Descartes and Gassendi (who became one of Hobbes's firmest friends), and at Florence he took part in discussions with Galileo. 'The state of turmoil in England on his return drove Hobbes to make his first systematic attempt to employ his new geometrical approach and mechanistic psychology to present the realities beneath the appearances of the contemporary issues. His Elements of Law, circulated in 1640 in manuscript form during the session of Parliament, was the result. This work, which demonstrated the need for undivided sovereignty, was published in 1650 in two parts, Human Nature and De Corpore Politico. However, its arguments were taken from general principles of psychology and ethics, rather than from appeals to divine right. Many regard Hobbes's Human Nature as one of his best works. .....'Hobbes later claimed that his life would have been in danger because of the views expressed in Elements of Law, had not the king dissolved Parliament in May 1640. Six months later, when the Long Parliament impeached Thomas Wentworth, earl of Strafford, Hobbes fled to the Continent in fear for his life, later priding himself on being "the first of all that fled." A warm welcome awaited him in Mersenne's circle, and he settled down in Paris to his most productive philosophical period' (Encyclopedia of Philosophy, iv, p. 31).This is not only the only translation into French of one of Hobbes' most important books but it also shows the impressive knowledge of Holbach and his wide range and firm grasp of the subjects that fascinated him all his life. EUR 1800
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HOLBACH, (P.H.D.TH.) D'. Éléments de la morale universelle, ou catéchisme de la nature, Par feu M. le baron d'Holbach ..... A Paris, Chez G. de Bure, (in fine: De l'Imprimerie de Didot, fils aîné), 1790. (6), 208 pp. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, boards covered with red paper, spine gilt in compartments with gilt lettering, very lightly rubbed. Vercruysse, 1790, A2; Tchemerzine-Scheler, iii, p. 732; not in Thomas, Checklist; not in L'Illuminismo francese alla Fondazione Feltrinelli; not in the Exhibition catalogue at the Hambacher Schloss; Vercruysse, Holbach et ses Amis,1760-1789, p. 12. First edition, published posthumously one year after the death of Holbach. The work was edited by Naigeon, but his interference was only stylistic (see Vercruysse). The work was written around 1765 but only published after de Bure was given the manuscript by the family, as he himself states in the 'Avertissement du Libraire'.'Véritable catéchisme, développant par questions et réponses rapides, les principes moraux d'Holbach, embrassant tous les sujets.' - Last page with a spot at the bottom. EUR 2200
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HYDE DE NEUVILLE, (J.G.) Des Inconséquences ministérielles ou Lettre d'un Député à MM. les Propriétaires de Lyon: par M. Hyde de Neuville, Député de la Nièvre. Paris, Le Normant fils, Imprimeur du Roi, 1827. 16 pp. Small 8vo. Disbound. First edition. At head of title 'Les Amis de la Liberté de la Presse' which organisation published this brochure.Jean-Guillaume Hyde de Neuville (1776-1857) was deputy, minister, and diplomat of the Restoration. In 1797 he was involved with the royalist club in Clichy and after 18 Brumaire Hyde de Neuville became one of the most active agents of the Bourbons, who made him their representative in Brittany. Accused of complicity in the 'infernal machine' plot of 24 December 1800, he emigrated to the United States. Hyde returned to France in June 1814 and, having frequently risked his life for the Bourbon cause, was warmly received by Louis XVIII. In August 1815 the department of Nièvre elected him to the Chamber of Deputies where, although he spoke as an extreme ultra, he voted somewhat more moderately. After having been working in the United States as minister, he was again elected to the Deputies in 1822. After 1827 he became the leader of the opposition to Joseph de Villèle and a member of the Agier group of royalist dissidents. EUR 175
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JOUY, L.F. DE. Principes et Usages concernant les Dîmes, par feu M. Louis-Franc. de Jouy, avocat au Parlement. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée et considérablement augmentée. A Paris, Chez Durand Neveu, 1775. (4), 457, (1, blank), (6) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments with gilt lettering (lightly rubbed and shaved). Goldsmiths 11324; Higgs 6218; not in Kress (citing the 1751 edition 5127); not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Mattioli. Last and best edition. - Small unobtrusive spot in outer margin throughout. Louis-François de Jouy specialized in canonical law and gained a reputation of such high learning that the clergy of France nominated him into one of their councils. The present work is a detailed survey of the history of the Dîme, its various definitions such as the Dîmes ecclésiastiques, the Dîmes inféodées, the Dîmes personelles, etc., etc. EUR 400
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JOUY, L.F. DE. Principes et Usages concernant les Dîmes, par feu M. Louis-Franc. de Jouy, avocat au Parlement. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée et considérablement augmentée. Paris, Chez Durand Neveu, 1775. (4), 457, (1, blank), (6) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering (lightly rubbed and shaved along extremities). Goldsmiths 11324; Higgs 6218; not in Kress (citing the 1751 edition 5127); not in Einaudi; not in INED. Last and best edition. Louis-François de Jouy specialized in canonical law and gained a reputation of such high learning that the clergy of France nominated him into one of their councils. The present work is a detailed survey of the history of the Dîme, its various definitions such as the Dîmes ecclésiastiques, the Dîmes inféodées, the Dîmes personelles, etc., etc. EUR 400
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KNAPP, G.F. Die neuern Ansichten über Moralstatistik. Vortrag. Jena, Friedrich Mauke 1871. 19, (1) pp. 8vo. Sewn, original printed covers, edges frayed, (Sonderdruck aus B. Hildebrand's Jahrbüchern für Nationalökonomie und Statistik Bd. XVI Heft 4 und 5). First edition of a lecture given on 29 April 1871 at the University of Leipzig. Knapp (1842-1926) studied in Munich, Berlin and Göttingen, and in 1867 became head of the statistical office of the municipality of Leipzig, in 1869 extraordinary professor of economics in Leipzig and in 1874 professor in Strasbourg. He was one of the leading German Kathedersozialisten (socialist professors), and co-founder of the Verein für Sozialpolitik.At the beginning of his career he carried out some important work in statistics: he was the first to develop a systematic theory of mortality measurement in his Über die Ermittlung der Sterblichkeit ... (1868). 'Opposing the viewpoints of Quételet and his followers, who claimed that man's behaviour is governed by statistical "laws," he viewed statistics simply as a tool in the realistic study of the manifold social phenomena and fully realized the limitations of statistical observations' (ESS). EUR 250
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KUHN, J. Jacobi und die Philosophie seiner Zeit. Ein Versuch, das wissenschaftliche Fundament der Philosophie historisch zu erörtern. Mainz, Bei Florian Kupferberg, 1834. xvi, 558, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt withgilt lettering, marbled boards (slightly rubbed, corners lightly bumped). Ziegenfuß, i, p. 694. First edition, rare. Johannes Kuhn, born in Wäscherbeuren in 1806, died in Tübingen in 1887 and was strongly influenced by Jacobi. Kuhn studied philosophy, theology, mathematics and physics in Tübingen. He became professor in 1832 and became involved in the controversies around Strauß's Leben Jesu. He was one of the founders of the Jahrbüchern für Theologie und Philosophie. Jacobi was, with Hamann, a leading representative of the philosophy of feeling and a major critic of Kant. - Small unobtrusive stamp on title. EUR 400
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LA METTRIE, (J.O.) DE. Oeuvres philosophiques. Nouvelle édition, corrigée et augmentée. A Berlin, 1775. 3 volumes. iv, 296 pp.; (4), 270, (1) pp.; 150 pp. 8vo. 19th-century half calf, marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, marbled edges, spines a bit discoloured, a bit scuffed. Stoddard 70; Quépat 191; cf.: Drujon, p. 289. Julien Offray de Lamettrie (1709-1751), French physician and philosopher. He was one of the first to develop a materialistic doctrine. His outlook, however, was more vitalistic than mechanistic, since it attributed to matter the capacity of sensation and feeling-indeed all the powers that were hitherto attributed to the soul. La Mettrie's works were severely prosecuted in France and the author took refuge in Holland, where he also raised opposition. In 1784 he had to leave for Berlin, where he continued to work with the protection of Frederic the Great. 'Long neglected after his death, La Mettrie has been recognized since the latter part of the nineteenth century as one of the major forerunners of modern materialism. His nonreductive form of materialism may be regarded as an early version of a theory that is widely advocated at the present time by, among others, Ernest Nagel and various American naturalists; and his view that human beings can be fruitfully considered as a certain type of machine has obvious similarities to the principles underlying the science of cybernetics' (Encyclopedia of Philosophy, iv, pp. 381-382). 'La Mettrie's whole concern with pathology indicates a liberal and reformist attitude in that age of generally illiberal and disordered institutions' (R.J. White, The Anti-Philosophers. A Study of the Philosophes in Eighteenth-century France.) EUR 625
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LABORDE, A. DE. De l'esprit d'association dans tous les intérêts de la communauté, ou Essai sur le complément des bien-être et de la richesse en France par le complément des institutions. Paris, Gide fils, 1818. (2), x, 584 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, extra, marbled boards, gilt lettering. Kress C.98; Einaudi 3149; not in Goldsmiths; not in Mattioli. First edition. 'Ce livre est surtout remarquable par la justesse de ses prévisions et par son excellente appréciation des institutions les plus favorables au développement de la prospérité publique ..... lorsque M. de Laborde publia cet exposé des avantages de l'esprit 'association', riche de faits et plein d'aperçus lumineux sur les véritables sources de la puissance industrielle et politique des Etats' (Blanqui, Histoire de l'Économie politique, ii, p. 295). EUR 325
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LANSON, G. Nivelle de La Chaussée et la comédie larmoyante. Deuxième édition, revue, complétée et augmentée d'un appendice. Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie., 1903. vi, 322 pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, uncut. GustaveLanson was a literary historian whose methods recast the way French literature was taught in the early twentieth century. He also directed the publication of the Manuel bibliographique de la littérature française, a project that laid the foundation for modern French studies.At head of title: Les Origines du Drame Contemporain. EUR 150
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LAVELEYE, A. DE & A. DE GRANDSAGNE. Nécessité et moyen d'occuper les ouvriers qui manquent d'ouvrage en France. Mémoire présenté au Roi et aux Chambres. Paris, Imprimerie de Decourchant, 1831. With one folding map. 78, (2) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco with gilt lettering and marbled boards. Goldsmiths 26898; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in Jouffroy, Recherches sur les sources de la création d'une Grande Lignes de Chemin de Fer au XIXe siècle; not in The Pioneer Period of European Railroads. First edition. - Very lightly spotted. Discusses the problems of unemployement, and proposes to put the unemployed to work by developping large-scale railroad projects, which in its turn will greatly contribute to the economy, and discusses the financial implications of the project. The folding map shows France indicating railroads in red (north-south) and blue (east-west). EUR 225
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LAVERGNE, L. DE. Les assemblées provinciales sous Louis XVI. Paris, M. Levy frères, 1864. xx, 519, (1) pp. 8vo. Half morocco. The best edition, with the valuable notes. EUR 225
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LE MAITRE, (A.) La Metropolitée, ou De l'établissement des villes Capitales, de leur Utilité passive & active, de l'Union de leurs parties & de leur anatomie, de leur commerce, &c. Par Le Sieur le Maitre, ..... A Amsterdam, Chés Balthes Boekholt, pour Jean van Gorp, 1682 (Paris, EDHIS, 1973). With frontispiece. (16), 192 pp. Small 8vo. Imitation leather. INED 2786; Kress S.1542; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Conlon, Prélude, 1043. Well executed reprint of the first (and only?) edition of this extremely rare work, reprinted in a limited edition of 250 copies and 30 copies not destined for the trade. 'Ouvrage plein d'intérêt dans lequel on trouve toute une théorie du commerce et de l'aménagement du territoire. L'éloge qui y est fait des grandes villes (sans elles, les richesses, la bonté, les forces et la gloire d'un État sont imperceptibles; leur cause finale et essentielle étant l'utilité publique, elles doivent être très opulentes), contraste avec les critiques qu'on leur adressera si souvent au siècle suivant' (INED).The author studies the interest, utility and influence of the large cities, how they were formed, their size and location in an area, and the indispensable institutions of a city: librairies, academies, gardens, banks and the stock-market ('bourses'). The author is against luxury, in favour of freedom of trade, the nobility should get active in commerce and pleads for social care (hospitals, orphanages, etc) as a means to prevent mendicity and crime.The word 'population' is being used in this work, it appears on page 142, while its earliest use was dated around 1748. The word is here used in the meaning of population and not in the meaning of number of inhabitants. EUR 250
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LE RICHE. Avis aux Spéculateurs patriotes, ou Mémoire pour l'Établissement d'un nouvelle navigation sur la rivière de Seine. Par M. Le Riche, Lieutenant-Particulier au Bailliage de Bar-sur-Seine. A Paris, Chez Seguy, Morin, Desenne, La veuve Amaulry, Et chez les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1787. (6), 74, 18, (2) pp. 8vo. Sewn in contemporary marbled covers, edges a bit dust-soiled, some loss of paper to spine, uncut. Conlon 87:2217; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First edition of this "Mémoire sur la Navigation de la riviere de Seine, depuis Marcilly jusques à la ville de Bar-sur-Seine", the "nouvelle navigation" to which the title refers. Dedicated 'A Monseigneur Le Comte de Brienne'. The last 18 pages contain the 'pièces justificatives', the last leaf contains the 'table' (recto) and the errata (verso). EUR 225
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LEBER, (J.) M.C. De l'État réel de la presse et des pamphlets, depuis François 1er jusqu'à Louis XIV: Ou Revue anecdotique et critique des principaux actes de nos rois et de quelques documents curieux et peu connus sur la publication et la vente des livres dans le seizième siècle. Paris, Chez Techner, 1834. (4), 115, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering. Original edition. Nice copy, uncut, printed on heavy paper and with large margins, of this book dealing with printing and publishing in the 16th century. EUR 175
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LECKY, W.E.H. History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe. London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1865. 2 volumes. xxx, 447, (1) pp.; xi, (1) 449, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf, spines richly gilt with raised bands, labels with gilt lettering, gilt stamped ornamental border on sides, marbled edges, rear cover of volume one with a small spot, a very nice copy. First edition. Lecky (1838-1903) was an Irish historian, educated at Trinity College, and became a fine scholar and trenchant writer. He was an individualist in political philosophy, rationalist in religion, and a liberal in politics. He was admirably fitted to give an interpretation of history that would appeal to the triumphant middle classes of Victorian England. The above work won for Lecky immediate reknown as philosophic historian. These volumes occupy an important place in the movement to interprete history in terms of ideas and beliefs. It describes the decay of theology in Europe and the rise of rationalism until its triumph in the eighteenth century. - Rare and important. EUR 600
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LEQUIN, Y. Les ouvriers de la région lyonnaise (1848-1914). 1. La formation de la classe ouvrière régionale. 2. Les intérêts de classe et la république. Lyon, PUF, (1977). With illustrations. 2 volumes. viii, 573 pp.; vi, 500 pp. 8vo. Sewn in original publishers covers, a bit discoloured. Inserted: copy of a handwritten letter by Robert Brécy to the author, signed and dated 5 février 78. Stamp on title of first volume. EUR 125
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LESSIUS, L. De justitia et iure ceterisque Virtutibus cardinalobus Libri Quatuor, Ad 2.2 D. Thomae à quaest. 47. usquue ad quaest. 171. Editio sexta, auctior et castigatior; Cum Appendice de Monte Pietatis. Antverpiæ, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Balthasarem Moretum, 1626. With beautiful engraved title by C. Galle after P. Rubens. (16), 825, (1, Approbatio), (66), + imprint leaf. Folio. Contemporary richly blind-tooled calf over boards, five raised bands to spine, clasps preserved. De Backer & Sommervogel, iv, col. 1730; not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700; not in Camus; Kress S.457 (1617 edition); not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli. Sixth edition, first published in 1605. The edition from 1621 was the first edition with the engraved title after P. Rubens, this is the second edition with the same engraved title-page. A work of moral theology which is 'one of the earliest treatises to investigate the ethics of economics' (The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, p. 818). De justitia et jure is Lessius's most important book. It was notable especially for its analysis of contemporary commercial practice, and Lessius's opinions on the morality of various business arrangements exercised a substantial influence on the thinking of statesmen and church leaders. 'Combining a full command of earlier scholastic authorities with a hitherto unprecedented grasp of market phenomena, Lessius provided fresh insights that challenged traditional economic doctrine in authoritative fashion. Lessius is, certainly, the foremost continuator of the Spanish school of economic thought. Further, he has claims for consideration as a major contributor to the development of economic analysis ...' (B. Gordon, Economic Analysis before Adam Smith, pp. 245-246).The Catholic Encyclopedia writes: This work, composed with great accuracy, shows best the soundness of judgement, the common sense, and the clearness of mind which distinguishes Lessius. The chapters on interest and other commercial subjects are epoch-making in the treatment of those difficult questions; Lessius was especially consulted by the merchants of Antwerp on matters of justice. EUR 5500
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LITTRE, E. Paroles de Philosophie Positive. Paris, Adolphe Delahays, 1859. 62 pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards, red label with gilt lettering. First edition. 'Je me propose, dans le présent opuscule, d'examiner ce qu'est la philosophie positive, en quelle condition se trouve le milieu social où elle a pris naissance, quels services elle doit rendre et quels services on peut lui rendre' (p. 5).Littré was very succesful in his principal philosophical activity, the propagation of Auguste Comte's Positivism. He became for a time Comte's principal disciple and heir apparent as Director of Positivism and High Priest of the Religion of Humanity. However, Littré broke with Comte in 1852 over a combination of personal and political disagreements and thereafter took an increasingly independent line on Comte's doctrine as well, forming a loose group of disciples that found its principal expression in the journal La Philosophie positive (See W.M. Simon in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. iv, p. 487). EUR 250
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LITTRE, E. TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, addressed to L.-M. Quicherat, dated 19 March and 12 June 1859, the first to thank Quicherat for his research concerning the word 'afin', the second thanking him for his comments on an article by Littré in the 'Journal des Savants' also dealing with linguistics. Mesnil, 1859. 2 pieces. 2, ( 2 blank) pp. and 3, (1 blank) pp. Small 8vo. Maximilien-Paul-Emile Littré (1801-1881), well known French linguist, philosopher and politician, author of among others the famous Dictionnaire de la langue française.Louis-Marie Quicherat (1799-1884), French linguist, known among others for his Dictionnaire latin-français. EUR 125
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LOCKE, J. Ragionamenti sopra la Moneta l'interesse del Danaro le finanze et il commercio scritti e pubblicati in diverse occasioni ..... Tradotti la prima volta dall'Inglese con varie annotazioni. In Firenze, Appresso Andrea Bonducci, 1751. Titles printed in red and black, large folding table, engraved vignette on title of first volume. Two volumes in one. xxxiii, (1, blank), 191 (misnumbered 189) pp.; xxiii, (1, blank), 316, (2), 116 pp. 4to. Contemporary Italian vellum boards, label with gilt lettering to spine. Einaudi 3476; Goldsmiths 8635; Higgs 115; Yolton 164; Attig 507; Kress, Italian Economic Literature, i, 275. First Italian edition, rare. A very good copy of this handsomely printed book translating John Locke's Several Papers relating to Money, Interest, and Trade. The translators, Giovani Francesco Pagnini and Angelo Tavanti, take their text from the 1740 folio Works of John Locke (the fourth collected edition). At the end of the second volume is a 116 pages essay by Pagnini on the correct price and value of money entitled Essay on the just price of things, the correct value of money and on the trade of the Romans. Pagnini was destined to become one of the major economic historians in the eighteenth century with the publication of his History of the tithe in 1765-66.The year of publication of this translation, and the translation itself, represent an interesting moment in time: 1751 is also the year Galiani's famous and important Della Moneta was published. Galiani's roots were firmly planted in the southern culture which had been rekindled by the work of Locke and Newton. One of Galiani's first intellectual undertakings had been the translation of Locke's essay on financial problems, which he dropped when he heard that in Florence another version was being produced, edited by Pagnini and Tavanti (the present work) (Carpanetto and Ricuperati, Italy in the Age of Reason 1685-1789, p. 250). - Front paste-down with a few wormtracks, an old bookplate verso of the front blank, a very fine large paper copy, printed on heavy paper. EUR 7000
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MABLY (G. BONNOT DE.) Observations sur les Grecs. Par M. l'Abbé de Mably. A Geneve, Par la Compagnie des Libraires, 1749. (10), 273, (1, blank), xii pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands and red label with gilt lettering. Conlon 49:689. First edition. 'This new book, Mably wrote in its dedication, "is merely a series of reflexions on the manners, the government, and the politics of Greece, in which I examine the general and particular causes of its prosperity and its misfortunes." ...... The importance of these two works, the Observations sur les Grecs and the Observations sur les Romains (1751) for Mably's intellectual evolution can scarcely be overestimated, for his new appeal to classical antiquity was to form the cornerstone on which the whole structure of his mature political thought was erected.' The book was published again in 1764 as Observations sur l'histoire de la Grèce, and despite Mably's claim that it was the revised and reworked version of 'a worthy subject', 'the original and its revision are far more similar to one another than Mably's comments would indicate. Most of the themes and arguments of the first are faithfully reproduced in the second; the vast majority of the alterations are indeed stylistic' (Johnson Kent Wright, A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France. The Political Thought of Mably, pp. 31-52). According to Kent Wright the quality of the erudition sustaining the arguments in the book has notably improved from earlier days where Mably had largely relied on modern historians, whereas the present work is founded on a far more thorough knowledge of ancient sources. - Old bookplate partly torn off from the front paste-down, a catalogue entry of the 1766 edition pasted on the end-paper. EUR 300
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MABLY, (G. BONNOT DE). Entretiens de Phocion, sur le rapport de la morale avec la politique, traduits du grec de Nicolès, avec des remarques. Zürich, Heidegger & Compagnie, 1763. xxviii, 247, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Higgs; not in INED. Edition printed in the same year as the first edition, which edition was actually printed in France under a Dutch imprint. Probably written in 1761 and published in 1763, this was by far the best known and best received work by Mably. It was awarded the prize for the best work of the year by the Société littéraire suisse and it was translated into Italian, German, Swedish, English, Polish, Spanish and Greek and was twelve times reprinted before the revolution.The dialogue purports to be the translation af a Greek manuscript recently discovered at Monte Cassino, whose author, a certain Nicocles, had been present at a series of didactic conversations between the doomed Athenian commander Phocion and a young fellow-citizen named Aristias. After a long exploration of the "relations between politics and morality," the dialogue ends on a sharply pessimistic note, befitting its somber historical context. Despite its classical costume, Entretiens de Phocion is certainly contemporary in its concerns: a reaction to the political and intellectual upheavals of the decade of the 1750s. For an elaborate analysis of the work see: J.K. Wright, A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-century France. The Political Thought of Mably, pp. 80-93.Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709-1785), French historian, moralist and political philospher. After he retired Mably began to produce a number of works, most of which were oriented about the purpose of ameliorating the contemporary evils of France but which carried him into widely ramified branches of social and political philosophy. His works plainly reveal his intimate acquaintance with the thought of Plato, Cicero, Locke, and his brother Condillac. Although he firmly believed that political and legal equality had no meaning without economic equality. Mably connot, however, be classed as a communist, although he is frequently so regarded and although he actually inspired Babeuf. He believed communism to be the ideal system and posited the possibility that it had existed in the primitive state of man. But a quality of realism and an inclination toward the evolutionary standpoint prevented him from espousing any political system which failed to take full account of human nature and of the peculiar history and customs of the people concerned. EUR 450
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MAIGNE DE LA GRAVIERE, FILS. Un mot sur le Chemin de Fer du Centre par Clermont ou par Limoges. Paris, Imprimerie de Lacour et Maisrasse, 1843. With a large folding map. 63, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards, original blue printed covers preserved. Not in Cole, The Pioneer Period of European Railroads. First edition. EUR 150
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MALINOWSKI, B. Freedom and civilization. London, Allen & Unwin, 1947. xiv, 338 pp. 8vo. Original publisher's cloth, slightly rubbed. Thinkers of the Twentieth Century p. 488; IESS, ix, p. 548. First English edition (the American edition appeared in 1944). Though for a period after WW II anthropologists reacted strongly against the dominance of Malinowksi, he recently regained his rightful position as one of the giants among the founding fathers of the modern discipline. As a scientist he came to new views on the theoretical representation of culture, from which he did not exclude his own. Edited by Malinowski's wife, this book is his final expression of his basic beliefs and conclusions regarding war, totalitarianism and the future of humanity. The book was left unfinished in 1942 because of Malinowski's death (see: Thinkers of the Twentieth Century). - Scribbling on first blank flyleaf. EUR 100
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MANUSCRIPT - ORBIS PIUS ou le monde religieux jusquà 1790 inclus. No place, first half of the 19th-century. 1921, (1), (36) pp. Folio. Contemporary half black morocco, corners, marbled boards, spine a bit rubbed, somewhat damaged at head and foot, corners bumped. Contains an alfabetical listing of places in Europe where upto 1790 had been various ecclesiastical bodies (abbeys, dioceses, chapters etc.) sometimes with details of their history, organisation and eventual suppresion during the French Revolution. Having arrived at the entry 'Rome' a chronological list of all popes has been inserted, as well as a chronological list of popes, councils, religious orders, heretics, remarkable events and personalities of the history of the church. This history is divided in 10 epochs, the tenth starting with the French Revolution. At the 'S' of Saints, a calender of Saints is inserted listing a saint for every day of the year. From page 1243 onward a calculation of archbishopric, bishopric and abbatial revenues has been made. As last part is added a description in verse of the earth: 'voyage autour du monde en vers artificiels'. It seems as if the writer tries to reconstruct the world of the late 18th century. But some questions remain: The writer knows of the death of Pope Pius VI in 1799 but mentions only twelve French parlements, ommitting Nancy which was added in 1775 as the thirteenth after the acquisition of Lorraine in 1766. He does not refer to France's departemental division (1789), listing only the old gouvernements. From the description of Africa one can infer that the midst 19th century discoveries of Livingstone a.o. have not yet penetrated common world views: only the north eastern region and coastal areas are mentioned, and the mysterious kindom of Monomotapa. So the 'voyage' must be dated earlier, and the manuscript probably between 1800 and 1850. EUR 600
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MANUSCRIPT - PARLEMENTS - SUR LE PARLEMENT DE FRANCE. Undated manuscript from the second part of the 18th century. (Between 1750 and 1789). 56 pp. Folio. Disbound. Anonymous study dealing with the various French parlements (Bretagne, Bourgogne, Normandie, Aquitaine, Le Berry, le Vermandois, Lorraine, Champagne, Provence, Angoulême, etc.), from the origin of these institutions up to the middle of the 16th century. Written in a legible hand, with on a number of pages many marginal additions and corrections in a very small, and difficult to read hand. EUR 600
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MARAT, J.P. Les chaines de l'esclavage. Ouvrage destiné à développer les noirs attentats des princes contre les peuples; les ressords (sic) secrets, les ruses, les menées, les artifices,les coups d'état qu'ils employent pour détruire la liberté, et les scènes sanglantes qui accompagnent le despotisme. Précédées d'un discours préliminaire et accompagnées de nouvelles notes par A. Havard. Paris, A. Havard, 1833. With portrait. xii, 330 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine in compartments, discoloured, a bit rubbed. Cf.: Bougeart, pp. 366; Martin & Walter 22849; Monglond, ii, 479. Famous work by Marat, first written in French while Marat was in England, translated by him into English and published in 1774 and in French in 1792. Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793), radical editor, Montagnard deputy to the National Convention, was one of the foremost radicals of the Revolution, notorious for his denunciations of the conspirators, his calls for popular violence, and his advocacy of a dictatorship. Marat became one of the most fiery Revolutionary journalists and believed himself to be the apostle of Liberty. The Chains of Liberty represents a notable point in the history of the struggle between capital and labour. It is a powerful social, economic and political analysis of Europe in the 1770s, in which Marat fulminates against 'the partnerships of merchants, financiers, tax-farmers, speculators, bill-brokers, stock-jobbers, etc.' leaving in the cities 'only two classes of inhabitants, of which one is plunged into misery, and the other rolls in abundance'. - A little paperspotted. EUR 450
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MARCHANGY, (L.A.F. DE.) Plaidoyer de M. de Marchangy, Avocat-Général à la Cour Royale de Paris; Prononcé le 29 Aout 1822, devant la Cour d'assises de la Seine, dans la Conspiration de la Rochelle. A Paris, Chez Anth. Boucher, et chez les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1822. 241, (1) pp. + booksellers catalogue (Boucher) of 8 pages. 8vo. Sewn in original blind wrappers. First edition. - Somewhat browned throughout, uncut. Marchangy was the government prosecutor at the trial of the four sergeants of La Rochelle. This prosecution was his most famous case: the four sergeants were executed for their part in a Carbonari plot to overthrow the government. The Carbonari or Charbonnerie, a secret revolutionary group opposed to the Bourbon Restoration government, most active from 1821 to 1823. It was started after conspirators who had fled to Italy and had been in contact with the orginal Italian Carbonari, returned to France to found their own Carbonari, in May 1821. The society grew rapidly, merged with another secret revolutionary group, the Knights of Liberty, and had perhaps 50,000 members within two years. The Carbonari were remarkably unsuccesful at revolution. The most famous uprising of this revolutionary group was that of four sergeants of La Rochelle. These unfortunate young soldiers, too open with their comrades about a planned uprising, were executed on 21 September 1822. They could probably have saved themselves by cooperating with the government in tracking down the carbonari leadership. Their silence earned them liberal sainthood. (See: Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the Second Empire, volume i, pp. 152-154.) EUR 350
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MARCHANT, (F.) La Constitution en Vaudevilles, Suivie des Droits de l'Homme, de la Femme & de plusieurs autres vaudevilles constitutionnels. Par M. Marchant. A Paris, Chez les Libraires Royalistes, 1792. With a beautiful coloured frontispiece 'avant la lettre' of a patriot playing with an 'emigrette', possibly the first representation of the game of yo-yo. 160 pp. 32mo. Contemporary polished calf, gilt triple fillets on sides, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, all edges gilt. Martin & Walter, 22975; Tourneux, ii, 11744; Cohen-de Ricci, p. 677. First edition. - A beautiful copy. The work opens with an 'Épitre dédicatoire a MM. les Émigrés', the half-title reads: La Constitution en Vaudevilles, Almanach civique pour l'année 1792.This is one of the rare copies with the coloured frontispiece 'avant la lettre'. EUR 900
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MARTHA-BEKER. Rapport fait à la Commission de l'Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Clermont-Ferrand, sur le prolongement du Chemin de Fer de Bourges à Clermont, par M. Martha-Beker, rapporteur. Clermont, Imprimerie de Thibaud-Landriot et Cie., 1842. 70 pp. 8vo. Modern boards, original yellow printed covers preserved. Not in Cole, The Pioneer Period of European Railroads. Original edition. The Academy of Clermont-Ferrand had ordered a commission to report on the necessity of a railroad connection between Paris and Clermont-Ferrand. Members of the commission were: Baudin, Cariol, Delapchier-Duchasseint, de Douhet, Mallay, Smith, et Martha-Beker. The report was approved by the Academy in its session of June 2, and its publication was ordered. EUR 150
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MARTIN, G. La grande industrie en France sous le règne de Louis XV. Paris, Ancienne Librairie Thorin et Fils, Albert Fontemoing, 1900. (4), 402 pp. Large 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, raised bands and gilt lettering (Bibliothèque de la Société des Études historiques. Fascicule III. Fondation Raymond). L'administration - Les manufactures et les inventions. - Patrons et ouvriers. EUR 125
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MASSON, (J.) P. Descriptio fluminum Galliae, qua Francia est. Parisiis, apud Ludovicum Billaine, 1678. (8), 565, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, handwritten title and date on spine. BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700, M-643 (first edition from 1618); Bourgeois & André 255. Second edition. - Some very light occasional browning, short tear in outer blank margin of pages 59-60. 'Dans l'oeuvre immense de l'infatigable historien, critique et jurisconsulte, la Description des fleuves de la Gaule, publiée après sa mort par son frère Jean Masson, doit être mise à part. L'auteur ne se borne pas à décrire sèchement le cours des principales rivières (la Loire, la Seine, le Rhône, la Garonne); il étudie en même temps les contrées que celles-ci traversent et les peuples riverains. Les renseignements sont généralement précis: on relève parfois des inexactitudes, mais elles sont peu graves' (Bourgeois & André). EUR 750
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MATHOREZ, J. Les étrangers en France sous l'Ancien Régime. Histoire de la formation de la population Française. Paris, Edouard Champion, 1919-1921. 2 volumes. viii, 437, (3) pp.; xi, 446, (2) pp. Large 8vo. Contemporary half vellum, marbled boards, red labels with gilt lettering, top edges gilt, original covers preserved. Cabeen 3218. First edition, very important work printed in 550 copies only, of which this is number 180. Volume i: Les causes de la pénétration des étrangers en France. Les orientaux et les extra-européens dans la population française.Volume ii: Les allemands, les hollandais, les scandinaves.'Factual and solid, with considerably more stress on sociological than literary developments. Tendency to consider German literary 'infiltration' in France after 1750 as fairly unsuccesful 'plot.' No bibliography. Numerous explicit footnotes. Alphabetical index of names and places, very complete' (Cabeen). EUR 375
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MESMER, (F.A.) Mémoire sur la Découverte du Magnétisme Animal; par M. Mesmer, .... A Geneve, et se trouve à Paris, Chez P. Fr. Didot le Jeune, Librairie-Imprimeur de Monsieur, 1779.(2), vi, 85, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine elaborately gilt in compartments (corners lightly bumped). Printing and the Mind of Man, 225; En Français dans le Texte, 171; Garrison-Morton 4992.1; Grolier 100 'Medicine', 47; Norman M4. The very rare first edition. - Some light marginal browning. Discussing and describing one of the best-remembered 'alternative' medicines of all time. Mesmer maintained 'that a magnetic fluid pervades the universe, exists in every living being, and affects the nervous system. Experimenting with the use of his "magnetism" he found that there was a healing magnetic power in his own hands and that he could obtain results in treating nervous disorders without a magnet, a faculty which he called ''animal magnetism''' (PMM). Whilst 'Mesmerism' in its own right was discredited, Mesmer's theories laid the foundation for hypnosis and suggestion theories. Indeed Mesmer himself induced sleep, known as 'Mesmeric sleep' which term was used before James Braid coined the term 'hypnosis'. Mesmer lived for some time in a comfortable town house in Vienna before he moved to Paris, where he had enough time and money to indulge his passion for music. He was well befriended with the Mozarts and Mozart's first opera, Bastien und Bastienne took place in Mesmer's garden, and Mozart later made room for mesmerism in a scene in Cosi fan tutte.But there is another side to this book as well, a political side. 'The crashing failure of the Social Contract, Rousseau's least popular book before the Revolution, raises a problem for scholars searching for the radical spirit in the 1780's: if the greatest political treatise of the age failed to interest many literate Frenchmen, what form of radical ideas did suit their tastes? One such form appeared in the unlikely guise of animal magnetism or mesmerism. Mesmerism aroused enormous interest during the pre-revolutionary decade; and although it had originally no relevance whatsoever to politics, it became, in the hands of radical mesmerists like Nicolas Bergasse and Jacques-Pierre Brissot, a camouflaged political theory very much like Rousseau's' (R. Darnton, Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France, Boston, 1968). EUR 9500
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MICKIEWICZ - HONORATION de la mémoire d'Adam Mickiewicz en Italie. Paris, Librairie du Luxembourg, 1881. 130 pp. Small 8vo. Sewn, original covers, spine with small damage at foot, uncut. - Paperspotted. Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet. After having become involved in some political troubles he was ordered to live for a time in Russia where he was soon accepted into the leading literary circles. In 1828 appeared his Konrad Wallentod, a narrative poem describing the battles of the Knights of the Teutonic order with the heathen Lithuanians. Here, under a thin veil, Mickiewicz represented the sanguinary passages of arms and burning hatred which had characterized the long feuds of the Russians and the Poles. After he received permission to travel he travelled to Weimar where he was cordially received by Goethe. He proceeded to Italy visiting Florence, Milan and Venice and finally settled in Rome. It is there that he wrote his Pan Tadeusz, his longest poem and considered by many his masterpiece. He is considered to be the greatest Slavonic poet with the exception of Pushkin. EUR 125
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MOHEAU. Recherches et considérations sur la population de la France. A Paris, Chez Moutard, 1778. With 1 folding table and many tables in the text. 2 parts in 1 volume.xv, (1, corrections & additions), 280, 157, (4, approbation, privilège, corrections & additions du Tome II), (1, blank) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, marbled edges, very lightly rubbed. Kress B.135; Goldsmiths 11690; Einaudi 3956 (incomplete copy, lacking the first 280 pages with the tables); INED 3221; Leblanc 194. First edition. This statistical writer of the 18th century scarcely received at the time due acknowledgement of his deserts. Spengler, in his French predecessors of Malthus, writes: 'Of the eighteenth-century writers on population none was more competent and judicious than M. Moheau.' This, his most famous work, was even attributed to A.J.B.R.A. de Montyon, whose secretary he was. The first part of this work, which was inspired by Messance's earlier study and which embodied some of Messance's statistical data, is a statistical description of the population of France, while the second part deals with the analysis of the factors that influence population growth. For a complete account of Moheau's work see Spengler's "Moheau, Prophet of Depopulation" in the Journal of Political Economy, XLVII (1939), pp. 648-677. McCulloch in his Literature of Political Economy, speaks highly of it, moreover recommending the author's books as a model for similar work (Palgrave, ii, p. 779). EUR 2800
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MONTESQUIEU - (DELEYRE, A.) Le Génie de Montesquieu. A Amsterdam, Chez Arkstée & Merkus, 1758. With vignette on title. iv, 436, (4, catalogue) pp. Small8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, red label with gilt lettering (head and foot of spine slightly damaged, one corner bumped). Conlon 58:626; Cabeen, Montesquieu: A Bibliography, 43; Desgraves 981. Original edition. - A few pages browned. Alexandre Deleyre (1726-1796) left for Paris shortly after he published his Analyse de la philosophie du Chancelier F. Bacon. In Paris he met Montesquieu who introduced him into the circles of the Encyclopédistes whom he supplied with the article 'Fanatisme' which was used by Voltaire in his Dictionnaire philosophique. Deleyre was well acquinted with Condillac and Rousseau and belonged to the group that worked on the Histoire Philosophique & Politique des Établissements ..... of the Abbé Raynal for which he also wrote the last volume entitled Tableau de l'Europe (published in 1774). 'Useful work, consisting of extracts from Montesquieu. Obviously, this book is a convenient medium for one seeking Montesquieu's views on a given subject ....' (Cabeen). EUR 600
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MORAND, (J.F.C.) Mémoires sur la nature, les effets, propriétés, & avantages du feu de Charbon de Terre apprêté, pour être employé commodément, économiquement, & sans inconvénient, au chauffage, & à tous les usages domestiques. A Paris, Chez Delalain, 1770. With four engraved plates. 39, (1), 228, (4) pp. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, marbled boards, with the gilt stamped coat-of-arms of Lemulier de Bressey on spine (very lightly rubbed). Kress S.4632; Higgs 4908; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Conlon 70:1232 First edition. Morand, 1726-1784, was doctor and lecturer in anatomy. He was librairian for the Académie des Sciences and member of most of the foreign 'sociétés savantes'. He devoted himself to the study of sciences and in particular mineralogy. EUR 300
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MOREAU DE JONNES, A. Manuscript text signed dealing with (Pierre Victorin) Vergniaud (1753-1793), Girondin Conventionnel and famous speaker. Undated. 2 pp. pasted on boards. Small 4to. Moreau de Jonnès (1778-1870), winner of the first Prix Statistique of the Académie Royale in 1819, was the leading French statistician of the first half of the nineteenth century. In 1834, Thiers appointed him head of the government's department of statistics. Alexandre Moreau de Jonnès here speaks about his recollections of the Conventionnel Vergniaud whom he apparently knew quite well.The upper line of the first page slightly shaved with loss of a word, and the margins of first page cut short. EUR 175
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MOREAU DE JONNES, A. Le Commerce au dix-neuvième siècle, État actuel de ses transactions dans les principales contrées des deux hémispheres; causes et effets de son agrandissement et de sa décadence, et moyens d'accroitre et de consolider la prospérité agricole, industrielle, coloniale et commerciale de la France; Ouvrage qui a remporté le prix extraordinaire fondé par S.E. le Baron de Damas, et décerné par l'Académie Royale de Marseille. A Paris, Chez l'Auteur, Regnard, Arthus-Bertrand, 1825. Two volumes. xii, 395, (1) pp.; (4), 362, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt in compartments, red labels with gilt lettering, marbled boards, upper joint of volume one tender, some discolouring of the marbled covers. Kress C.1502; Goldsmiths 24522; not in Einaudi. First edition of this important survey on international commerce and trade in the early 19th-century. Moreau de Jonnès (1778-1870), winner of the first Prix Statistique of the Académie Royale in 1819, was the leading French statistician of the first half of the nineteenth century. In 1834, Thiers appointed him head of the government's department of statistics.The present work starts with an analysis of the causes and effects of growth in commercial volume in the 19th century in general, broken down by country (Great Britain, France, USA), imports, exports, consumption, colonial commerce and trade, naval powers, means of consolidating and enlarging French commerce, with Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Great-Britain, Netherlands, Germany, Africa, Colonies, America, etc. - With old ownership's entry on both half-titles. Copy signed by the author on verso half-title, as required. EUR 800
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MORELLET, (A.) Mémoires de l'Abbé Morellet, ...., sur le dix-huitième siècle et sur la Révolution; précédés de l'éloge de l'abbé Morellet par M. Lemontey. Paris, A la librairie Française de Ladvocat, Palais-Royal, 1821. With engraved portrait and 2 plates. 2 volumes. (4), viii, xxxii, 384 pp; (4), 444, iv pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments, green labels with gilt numbering and lettering, marbled edges. Goldsmiths 23119; Cabeen 93; cf.: Kress C.1616 (1822 edition only); cf.: Einaudi 4022 (1822 edition only); cf.: INED 3307 (1822 edition only); Tulard, 1064; not in Mattioli. First edition. 'De précieux renseignements sur la société du Consulat, le rétablissement de l'Académie française et la formation des listes de notabilités dans le dernier volume' (Tulard). Includes details on important 18th-century men such as Turgot, Diderot, Voltaire, etc. The 2 plates in volume 1 reproduce drawings by Benjamin Franklin. The second volume is complete with the double pages 443-444, giving a list of unpublished manuscripts by Morellet. EUR 800
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MORELLET, (A.) Observations sur un article du Journal de Paris, du sextidi 6 floréal, relatif à l'ouvrage intitulé: La Cause des Pères, et réponse du citoyen Morellet aux reproches du représentant Chazal. A Paris, Chez Maret, (1795). 29, (1 blank) pp. 8vo. Sewn, disbound, partly loose. Martin & Walter 25246. After 1789 Morellet became a violent opponent of the revolutionary laws, thus dramatically emphasizing the gap between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. His La Cause des Pères was the work in which he violently opposed some of the new revolutionary laws, and more in particular a 'projet de dècret contre les pères et mères, aïeuls et aïeules d'émigrés, présenté par Chazal, ....' The essence of the mentioned project was the confiscation of wealth and property of émigrés thus depriving the grandparents of the émigrés of income and property too. - Duststained. Morellet's book was reviewed and he here examens the review, answering and refuting criticism and countering reproaches made by the representative Chazal. EUR 275
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MORIN, A. Expériences sur le tirage des voitures faites en 1837 et 1838. Metz, Mme Thiel, Paris, Carilian-Goeury, L. Mathias, 1839. With 2 folding tables and tables in the text. xxviii, 102 pp. 4to. Modern boards, red labels on spine with gilt lettering, original printed covers preserved. First edition. - First part of the work with a large stain in upper margin and in lower blank margin. Arthur Jules Morin was general of artillery and director of the Conservatoire des Arts & Métiers at Paris. He had earlier been a professor of mechanics at Metz. A member of the Académie from 1843, he wrote extensively on hydraulics, mechanics, and ballistics, teaching repeatedly on strength of materials. EUR 275
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MUELLER, F. M. Chips from a German workshop. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1867-1875. With index to vol. III and IV in vol. IV. 4 volumes. xxxiii, (3), 380, (20 publisher's catalogue) pp.; (8) 356, (4 advertisements) pp.; (8), 520, 24 (publisher's catalogue) pp.; viii, 581, (3), 43 (publisher's catalogue) pp. 8vo. Original publisher's cloth (slightly worn, back of vol. III discolored, occasionally paperspotted, partly unopened). Encylopédie Philosophique Universelle, i, p. 1995; LTHK, VII, 360. First edition - Bookplate of St. Catherine's college in vol. 1 and 2. Some library stamps on first few leaves. Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900) who studied in Leipzig, Berlin and Paris came to Great Britain in 1846 where he started his work for an English translation of the Rg-Veda. He was an exceptionally versatile thinker, pioneering in many fields like linguistics, comparative religion, indology, mythology and even literature. Later influential theories in these fields have their origin in his work, and he is considered the founding father of the science of comparative religion. When the giant project of publication of the English translation of the Sacred hymns of the Brahmans had been secured in about 1845, Müller was asked to keep track over the years of his findings on the interpretative process involved. So almost every year Müller published a few articles 'chips from his workshop' on various subjects that had engaged his attention. Therein he tried to bring out even in the most abtruse subjects the points of real interest that ought to engage the attention also of the public at large. When the last two volumes of the Rg-Veda translation passed through the press, he assembled the most important pieces. Volume I is subtitled: Essays on the Science of Religion; volume II: Essays on mythology, Traditions, and Customs; volume III: Essays on Literature, Biography and Antiquities; volume IV: Essays chiefly on the science of language. Among the advertisements in vol. II is the prospectus for the Rg-Veda translation. EUR 700
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NAVARRE, (J.) Discours qui a remporté le prix, par le jugement de l'Académie des Jeux Floraux en l'Année M.D.CC.LXIII, sur ces paroles: Quel seroit en France le Plan d'Etude le plus avantageux? No place, (1763). 72 pp. 12mo. Modern boards with red label and gilt lettering. Conlon 63:1156. First edition of this educational treatise. Navarre, member of the 'congrétation de la Doctrine Chrétienne', was awarded for this essay. 'On trouve dans cet écrit quelques idées qu'on ne s'attendrait pas à rencontrer sous la plume d'un religieux, et qui montrent que les Pères de la Doctrine, comme ceux de l'Oratoire, osaient se montrer novateurs en éducation' (Buisson, Dictionnaire de Pédagogie, vol 2, p. 2013). EUR 200
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NAVIER, (L.H.M.) De l'exécution des travaux publics, et particulièrement des concessions. A Paris, Chez Carilian-Goeury, 1832. (4), 31, (1) pp. 8vo. Sewn, no cover, an uncut copy. Offprint from the Annales des Ponts et Chaussées. The author studies the relationship between price and utility of public works (bridges, canals, roads, railroads, etc.) EUR 125
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NOIRET, CH. Mémoires d'un ouvrier rouennais. Rouen, François, Libraire, 1836 (Paris, EDHIS, 1979). vi, 91, (3) pp. 8vo. Printed covers. DBMOF, vol. ii, pp. 154 ff. Reprint of the extremely rare original edition. This little tract is a history of the development of the industry in and around Rouen and the deplorable conditions of the working classes. Charles Noiret was a republican and socialist and it was this work this established his name. He showed that the wages had dropped dramatically since the economic crises of 1830, that abuses were abundant and rights few. He proposed the foundation of 'Sociétés d'ouvriers pour l'exploitation de l'industrie': the working classes would subscribe for 1 or 2 francs a month with the aim of having, in the course of a coule of years, accumulated sufficient funds for the foundation of a 'coopérative de production'. EUR 125
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ORWELL, G. The Road to Wigan Pier. With a Foreword by Victor Gollancz. London, Victor Gollancz, 1937. With 32 photographs. xxiv, 264 pp. 8vo. Original printed limp orangeboards (spotting to edges, otherwise very good). (Left Book Club). First edition, a limited edition which preceded the trade edition published in the same year. On the front cover we can read: Not for sale to the Public. Gollancz' original Left Book club edition, with the 32 illustrations of housing conditions omitted from most later editions, is a classic of social reportage and has established a place in the English documentary tradition. The manuscript, result from Orwell's visit to Northern England's most depressed industrial areas, was finished in December 1936 and the book appeared in March 1937. The Left Book Club issued part I only separately again in May 1937 (32 pages only) as a supplement for 'Propaganda distribution'. EUR 300
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OWEN, R. Le livre du nouveau monde moral contenant le système social rationel basé sur les lois de la nature humaine par Robert Owen abrégé et traduit de l'Anglais par T.W. Thornton. Paris, Paulin, Éditeur, 1847. (5), 6-72 pp. Small 8vo. Modern marbled boards, spine with label withgilt lettering. N.L.W., A Bibliography of Robert Owen, 72; Einaudi 4246; Goldsmiths 35458; not in Mattioli; not in Kress. First French edition, abridged version of Owen's The Book of the New Moral World, published between 1836 and 1844. The pages 5-18 contain "Notice sur la vie et les travaux de Robert Owen" by Thornton.On the question of labour relations Thornton was a great supporter of Cooperation which was considered a possible alternative to class war and strikes, and the basis for an alliance between labour and capital: and this explains his interest in Robert Owen and his ideas and experiments. Owen, in the USA in the mid-40s of the 19th century, returned to France when he learned about the revolution that had broken out, in the hope to win sympathy and adherants for his ideas. The current little work had been the first attempt to win attention for his ideas and while in France, Owen had more borchures and works published or translated, but he gained little influence.The present work is quite scarce in the trade. A very nice and clean copy. EUR 1250
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PERDIGUIER, A. Les Gavots et les Devoirants ou la Réconciliation des Compagnons. Pièce en cinq actes. Paris, Agricol Perdiguier, 1862. 75, (1) pp. Small 8vo. Sewn in original printed wrappers, lower part of spine gone, handwritten date and a number on front cover. Lecotté, Essai Bibliographique sur les Compagnonnages, 677. First edition. Agricol Perdiguier (1805-1875), originally a working man, was elected a representative to the French national assembly of 1848. He wrote three books on French Compagnonnages, or local groups called Devoirs, of itinerant artisans confederated by crafts into general associations covering the whole of the country -many groups had in secret survived their abolition by law in 1791. Perdiguier was clear-headed and intelligent, deservedly esteemed by his fellow working-men. He travelled all over France for many years in order to study the labour organisations in his country and he is known as the 'réorganisateur du compagnonnage'. The importance of his ideas is to be found in the fact that he felt that the working classes could emancipate only through cooperation. Flora Tristan was deeply influenced by him (see: J.L. Puech, La vie et l'oeuvre de Flora Tristan). EUR 250
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PHOONSEN, J. Wissel-styl tot Amsterdam, vervattende niet alleen wat men gewoon, maar ook wat een voorsichtigh koopman, tot sijn securiteyt, in de wissel-handel dienstig en noodig is. Mitsgaders ordonantien, willekeuren, en reglementen van wisselen tot Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerpen, Lions, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Nurnberg, Augsburg, Breslauw, ..... Als ook Ordonantien van Lodewyk de XIV. wegens de handel der Negotianen en Kooplieden Beschreven, en by een vergadert, door J. Phoonsen. Zynde deezen Druk vermeerderd met de Wissel-regten in Deenmarken, Sweeden, Brandenburg, Pruyssen, en tot Dantzig, yder in zyn eygen spraak, met desselfs Vertaalingen. 't Amsterdam, by Andries van Damme, En Joannes Ratelband, 1711. Title printed in red and black. (8), 336, (4), 384, (2) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum, paper labels to spine gone. Kress S.1445 (first edition); not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; EHB 2206. Probably fifth edition. A very popular handbook on bill-broking for merchants which went through a great number of expanding editions. It includes the regulations and practices of Amsterdam and the other major commercial cities of Europe, for the greater part in the original language with translations into Dutch. Originally published in 1676 the work was published in succesively expanding editions, and also translated into French. The author Johannes Phoonsen (1631-1702) was a 'book-keeper' in the service of an Amsterdam merchant, after he had failed as a merchant on his own account. Yet he was an authority as a writer on the practice of commerce, trade and finance and is credited with several memoirs and recommendations relating to the Amsterdam exchange bank remaining in manuscript. - A few quires with a faint stain in the inner upper margin, a fresh copy. EUR 800
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PIERRE, C. Les hymnes et chansons de la Révolution. Aperçu général et catalogue, avec notices historiques, analytiques et bibliographiques. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1904. With musical notation. (8), xiv, 1040 pp. Folio. Original boards. (Ville de Paris. Publications relatives à la Révolution française.) Tourneux, iv, 26563. Original edition. Deals among other things with: Prédilection du peuple pour la chanson, applications, usage; Nature, forme et but des chansons de la période révolutionnaire, sujets traités; etc. and includes a 'catalogue avec notices historiques, analytiques et bibliographiques' of the 'hymnes et chants (1790-1802)', 'chansons populaires (1789-1802)', 'chansons et couplets politiques ou patriotiques. Extraits d'ouvrages dramatiques (Éditions musicales)'; 'musique instrumentale' and several tables. - - Copy (discarded) from the Music Library, University Groningen, with stamps and labels on initial blank and title-page. EUR 450
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PUFENDORF, S. De Jure Naturæ et Gentium, Libri Octo. Cum integris Commentariis Virorum Clarissimorum Jo. Nicolai Hertii, atque Joannis Barbeyraci, Accedit Eris Scandica. Recensuit & Animadversionibus illustravit Gottridus Mascovius. Francofurti & Lipsæ, Ex Officina Knochiana, 1744. With frontispiece, title-vignettes, and titles printed and red and black. 2 volumes. (6, frontispiece, title, 'Privilegium Caesareum'), xxix, (1), 854 pp.; (2), 500, (28), 372, (4) pp. 4to. Contemporary vellum, labels with gilt lettering, very lightly rubbed, rear cover of volume 2 with small damage. Camus 148; Macdonell & Manson, Great Jurists of the World, pp. 305-344. Esteemed and important Frankfurt edition of The law and nature of nations (first published in Lund in 1672) and enlarged with the author's Eris Scandica, (first published in 1686), and with the important notes by Hertius and Barbeyrac. 'Samuel von Pufendorf (1632-1694), German jurist, statesman and historian. Pufendorf, leaning on Hobbes, was a representative of the natural law school of international law. Whereas Grotius had distinguished between natural and positive law of nations, Pufendorf considered all international law as a part of natural law. He could not conceive of any real international law arising from the customs and treaties of the nations. This view, although long abandoned by legal science, is historically important for its contribution to the development of general principles of jurisprudence' (Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences). By introducing the ideas of Grotius and Hobbes into German thought he made their ideas really effective for the first time. The translator's notes are of value and gave the translation its esteemed reputation.'Samuel Pufendorf, in his great systematic treatise on natural and international law, began by taking exception to Grotius's opinion that morals and mathematics are not equally certain. Nor was this ideal of demonstration confined to law and politics. It was extended to all branches of social study, producing the systems of natural religion and rational ethics that prevailed throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Finally, it produced the systems of natural economy that continued to pass as economic science well into the nineteenth century. It would be impossible to exaggerate the importance that these conceptions had in the early modern development of social studies' (George H. Sabine, A History of Political Theory, pp. 395 ff).The Eris Scandica is a collection of polemical pieces, and covers the last 376 pages in volume 2, with a separate title-page. It was written in answer to the violent attacks on the present work in Sweden and Germany on the ground of its divorcing natural law from theology. - Browned throughout, paste-downs partially or entirely loose. EUR 1500
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PUFENDORF, S. VON. De rebus gestis Friderici Wilhelmi Magni, Electoris Brandenburgici, Commentariorum libri Novendecim. Berlin, for Jeremias Schrey & Heirs of Heinrich-Johann Meyer, 1695. With fine engraved frontispieceand dito portrait by S. Blesendorff. (12), 1634, (82) pp. Folio. Later overlapping vellum. First edition. 'Unter seinen Geschichtwerken ist die Biographie des Großen Kurfürsten wohl das bedeutendste, sie hat eine Erneuerung der historischen Methode in Deutschland eingeleitet.' (Kleinheyer & Schröder, Deutsche Juristen aus fünf Jahrhunderten, 3.Auflage, p. 224). This is a very valuable history of the reign, as well as a monumental biography, of Frederick Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg, under whose rule Prussia recovered greatly from the devastation of the Thirty Years War. Samuel von Pufendorf, German jurist, statesman and historian. His historical works are numerous and the present one belongs to the most important of these works. Not only are they based on a thorough use of the archives, but they also set forth a view of events marked by great vision and keen political insight. EUR 1200
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QUETELET, L.A.J. Météorologie de la Belgique comparée à celle du Globe. Bruxelles, C. Muquardt; Paris, J.B. Baillière & fils, 1867. With engraved frontispiece of the observatory in Bruxelles, illustrations, diagrams and tables in the text. xiv, 505, (1) pp. Large 8vo. Contemporary half green calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, marbled boards. IESS, 13, p. 247; DSB, 1, p. 236v; not in Einaudi. First edition With the publication of the Instructions populaires sur le calcul des probabilités in 1828 and his project of establishing an observatory at Brussels (1832), Quételet's concentration shifted from mathematics and natural science to statistics and social phenomena. Sent to Paris to study astronomy, he met and studied with the illustrous mathematicians Poisson, Laplace and J.B. Fourier. His Sur l'homme ..... 1835 was the birth of 'social physics'. In his later years a great part of his activity consisted in organising international cooperation on astronomy, meteorology, geophysics and statistics. Later works after 1855 are mostly summaries of new researches which supported his ideas developped earlier. 'Quetelet's impact on nineteenth-century thinking can in a certain sense be compared with Descartes's in the seventeenth century. He certainly gave science, new aims and tools .....' (DSB). This work is an example of Quételet's skill in data-collecting for statistical purposes, establishing the 'exposition des lois physiques': The determination of average temperature, rainfall and wind per year, month and day, represented in curves and tables; the probability of periodical differences; relations between temperature, wind, rain and longitudinal and latitudinal position; relative frequency of wind in some countries. Quetelet was the leading force behind the foundation of the Belgian Observatory and was its director for several years; his achievements are numerous and of lasting importance. The nowadays used Body-Mass-Index is also called the Quetelet-index. - Small tear in half title, slightly browned at beginning and end. EUR 600
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RABAN, (L.F.) Petite biographie des députés, publiée par Raban. Paris, Chez les Marchands de nouveautés, 1826. (4), 108 pp. 32mo. Modern boards, original printed covers preserved. Drujon, p. 55. First edition. Seized and condemned, further publication forbidden. Satirical alphabetical listing of the deputies. EUR 200
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RAYNAL, (G.T.F.) Oeuvres de M. l'Abbé Raynal. A Geneve, Chez J.L. Pellet, 1784. 4 volumes. x, (2), 339, (1) pp.; (6), 372 pp.; (4), iv, 415, (1) pp; (4), 416 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines richly gilt with raised bands and marbled edges, volume 3 with small damage at bottom of front cover, lower upper joint of volume 4 with small loss of 1 cm. Feugère 96; not in Conlon. First edition. Volume 1: Histoire du Stadhoudérat; volume 2: Histoire du Parlement d'Angleterre; volumes 3 & 4: Mémoires Politiques. - Quire D in volume one present twice, leaf A1 in volume four with a dark spot, a very good copy of this rather scarce work. EUR 1100
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RENAUDOT, T. (ED.) Recueil général des questions traictées es Conférences du Bureau d'Adresse, sur toutes sortes de matières; par les plus beaux esprits de ce temps. A Paris, Chez la veuve G. Loyson, 1655-1656. 5 volumes. (16), 840 (misnumbered 838) pp.; (8), 840 (misnumbered 868), (8, misbound) pp.; (4), 904, (6) pp.; (10), 920 pp.; (8), 478 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spines richly gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering (somewhat worn). Brunet, iv, 1173; Sgard, Dictionnaire des Journaux, i, pp. 238-240. The original French editions are very rare, and poorly represented even in major collections. - On all titles ownership's entry of Abraham Girard, dated 1658. Some occasional spotting. Volume 2 without a publisher's name. Collection of 345 essays concerning a wide range of subjects, edited by Theophraste Renaudot and his sons Isaac and Eusèbe. Théophraste Renaudot (1586-1653), founder of French journalism and of various institutions for social betterment. Touched by the hordes of paupers who infested Paris after the wars of religion, he opened the first employment agency. In 1631 he established what is generally regarded as the first French newspaper, the Gazette, later called Gazette de France, which appeared weekly up to 1914. Both Louis XII and Richelieu, realizing the power exerted by the press upon public opinion, contributed to the Gazette, and Richelieu granted Renaudot a news monopoly. He founded, in anticipation of the Academy of Sciences, a learned society, whose purpose was to give a weekly lecture, followed by a symposium, on any subject other than theology and politics. The conferences were open to all who bothered to come and they were conducted in French, the topic of each conference was decided by the participants. To allow maximum freedom of speech and expression the names of the contributors were not given in the printed texts. It is known that many of the leading philosophers took part in these conferences: Gassendi, Descartes, Campanella, Mersenne and both father and son Pascal are only a few of those believed to have participated.Topics dealt with are among others "The movement or immobility of the earth" (a highly controversial subject), perpetual motion, a variety of medical topics, a large number of philosophical topics, and also social issues were discussed: S'il est meilleur à un Etat d'avoir des Esclaves? - De la mémoire artificielle - Du règlement des pauvres - De la cabbale - Des comètes - De la Methode (de Descartes) - De la coustume - De l'imagination, etc. etc..After the death of his protector, Richelieu, all Renaudot's 'innocent inventions', with the exception of his newspaper, were suppressed by the Parlement of Paris, but they exerted a lasting influence upon the institutional development of France. EUR 9000
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RHODES, DE PLAISANCE, J.B. La Paix universelle, ou le Mariage philosophique du commerce avec l'agriculture et sa famille entière, Reposant sur l'Empire universel des intimes et légitimes liaisons qui existent naturellement entre la nature, l'homme, l'agriculture, les arts, les sciences, les commerces, les gouvernans, les potentats, les nations, l'ensemble des sociétés civilisées, en un mot, entre les prinicipales et fondamentales bases qui soutiennent, aliementent et perpétuent le majestueux et systématique édifice de la civilisation et du pacte social. A Tarbes, chez R. Lagarrique, imprimeur de la Préfecture, Août 1830. 95, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards, gilt lettering on spine (original printed covers preserved). Goldsmiths 26117; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli. First edition. The author published a number of tracts on agriculture in 1822. The greater part of the work details the situation after the 'Philosophical mariage between commerce and agriculture': 'Les droits respectifs de ces nouveaux époux', 'Leur langage', 'Leur éducation', 'Leurs lois fondamentales', etc. EUR 250
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RIEHL, A. Der philosophische Kriticismus und seine Bedeutung für die positive Wissenschaft. Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1876-1887. 3 parts in 2 volumes. xii, 447, (1) pp.; vii, (1,errata), 292 pp.; xi, (1), 358 pp. 8vo. Original half cloth, marbled boards, corners, gilt lettering on spine, a bit rubbed, red edges. Ziegenfuß, ii. 354. First edition. Alois Riehl (1844-1924), Austrian Neo-Kantian philosopher. Riehle's first philosophy was a realistic metaphysics based on Herbart and indirectly on Leibniz, and it is of interest, just as in the case of Kant, to study the relation between Riehl's precritical and critical writings. A profound study of Kant freed Riehl from his metaphysical dogmatism. The first volume of his Der philosophische Kritizismus marked an important date in the history of the new Kantianism. The work highlighted the hold on Kant of the spirit of the new positive science (not so much through the influence of Descartes as through that of Locke and Hume). Riehl proposed there that the evolution of Kant's thought be studied, and in the second and third volumes of Der philosophische Kritizismus Riehl reassessed and amplified his own views. Volume I: Geschichte und Methode der philosophischen Kriticismus. Volume II: Die sinnlichen und logischen Grundlagen der Erkenntniss. Volume III: Zur Wissenschaftstheorie und Metaphysik. - Some leadpencil annotations, tiny piece torn off in outer upper blank margin of title of voplume 1, a good copy of a rare and important work. EUR 375
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ROBIN, (C.) Nouveau voyage dans l'Amérique septentrionale, en l'année 1781; et campagne de l'armée de M. le Comte de Rochambeau. A Philadelphie, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Moutard, 1782. ix, 222 pp. 8vo. Modern half vellum, red label with gilt lettering. Sabin 72032; Fay 16; Monaghan 1241; Howes 361; Leclerc 999; Echeverria & Wilkie 782/70; not in JFBL. First edition. 'Robin was, upon Franklin's recommendation, attached to the army of Rochambeau as chaplain ..... Bernard Fay describes his book as 'rather ridiculous and dull'. This was substantially the opinion of his contemporaries. When the book was first published Garat gave it a trenchant review in Le Mercure de France. He said that Robin was to seasick to note the crossing ..... He (Robin) illustrated the hospitality of the Americans by remarking that the wife of the host frequently shared her bed with gentleman quests. Vital statistics he gathered by studying tombstones' (Monaghan, op.cit.) Leclerc remarks 'Relation très-estimée.' 'Robin landed in Boston in June 1781, just as the French army was leaving Newport, accompagnied the troops on the march to Yorktown, and apparently returned to France soon after the victory. This work consists of a series of letters and covers the period 14 June-15 November 1781' (Echeverria & Wilkie). EUR 750
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ROUGIER-LABERGERIE, J.B. Essai politique et philosophique sur le commerce et la paix, considéré sous leurs rapports avec l'agriculture. A Paris, de l'Imprimerie de A. C. Forget, 1797. (iii)-xix, (1), 479, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf, spine richly gilt, gilt ornamental border on sides, marbled edges, very lightly rubbed, some discolouring to front cover. Musset-Pathay 591; INED 3929; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. The present volume starts with an ardent plea for free trade, particularly the free trade in grain: 'free trade increases the income of the state and produces more wealth for the people ..... it also means competition and hence stable prices of bread, of wages and of everything'. Rougier then discusses the problems caused by the present war with England and the benefits that peace would bring for all European nations. He ends with a 'call to philosophers, poets, artists, etc. in favour of the peace'. The work deals in various ways with England: it discusses the last trade agreement with the English, it discusses and favours "prohibitisme" (protectionism) drawn from the English example, he discusses the free trade in grain in England, discusses the financial systems of England and Holland and the effects on the prosperity in both countries, and discusses the reasons that would make England accept a peace treaty. Contains furthermore numerous considerations on tarif-barriers, credit, population and longevity. Jean Baptiste Rougier, baron de La Bergerie was passionately occupied with agriculture at the time the revolution broke out. He represented the department of the Yonne at the Assemblé Législative. He became prefect of the Yonne in 1800. He was member of many learned societies, among which the Société centrale d'agriculture, and corresponding member of the 'Institut.' - Small tear in half-title without affecting the text. - Lacks the half-title, tiny wormhole in outer blank margin of first few leaves. Verso front blank handwritten 'L. de la Bédollière 1867' and a handwritten purchase notice dated 1917. EUR 600
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ROUSSEAU, J.J. Discours sur l'origine et les fondemens de l'inégalité parmi les hommes. A Amsterdam, Chez Marc-Michel Rey, 1755. With engraved frontispiece by Sormique after Eisen, title-vignette, title printed in red and black. lxx, (2), 262, (2, errata, avis pour le relieur) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, very lightly rubbed. Dufour 55; Tchemerzine-Scheler, v, p. 532; Goldsmiths 9064; Kress 5470; Higgs 940; Mattioli 3139. First edition, first issue, with the aigu accent on 'conformé' on page 11 added by hand, and the misspelling of the authors name on both the title-page and at the end of the Dedicace: Jean Jaques (sic) Rousseau. The pages lxvii-lxviii, 111-112 and 139-140 are cancels. It was in the late autumn of 1753 the Academy of Dijon announced yet another essay competition, this time on the question 'What is the origin of inequality among men, and is it authorized by Natural Law?' Rousseau responded promptly: 'if the Academy had the courage to raise such a question', he decided, 'I would have the courage to write about it.' 'The result was an essay which is remarkable both as philosophy and science. In less than a hundred pages, Rousseau outlined a theory of the evolution of the human race which prefigured the discoveries of Darwin; he propelled the study of anthropology and linguistics into new channels, and he made a seminal contribution to political and social thought. Even if his argument was seldom fully understood by his readers, it altered people's ways of thinking about themselves and about their world; it even changed their ways of feeling. Of all his books, Rousseau's Discours sur l'origine et les fondemens......... -often referred to as his second Discours- has perhaps been the most influential. (......) It is the masterpiece of his early years' (Cranston, M., Jean-Jacques. The early life and work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 1712-1754, chap. 15). - Small stamp in blank outer margin of title-page partly erased. EUR 2500
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ROUZADE, LEONIE. Two Autograph Letters Signed, one dated 22 January, 1902 to a friend (very likely Alix Lebey) informing him of the death of her husband, Auguste Rouzade. The second, dated 28July, 1915 adressed to Alix Lebey, concerning his intended visit, her state of mind and her present life and the translations of her works. 4 pp. 4 pp. 8vo. Léonie Rouzade (1839-1916) was a militant adherant of the Libre Pensée, feminist and socialist. She married Auguste Rouzade who introduced her to the theories of Fourier and Cabet. She founded the Union des Femmes socialistes and she was the author a various works concerning feminism and socialism. She was the first women to stand for municpal election in France in 1881. The first letter informs a friend that her husband and life-long compagnion August Rouzade has died, the second letter, written 13 years later, deals with her life since the death of her husband, a moving testimony of someone who still has great difficulties in accepting that her partner has gone, and the fact that some of her works (Petit catéchisme de morale laïque et socialiste and La Femme et le Peuple) have been translated into English. She urges the recipient of the letter to leave her alone: she lives indendent and alone and prefers to end her life in tranquility and would not ask of anyone to make long travels just to meet and greet her. She died a year later. EUR 150
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SAINT-SIMON - CHARLETY, S. Histoire du Saint-Simonisme (1825-1864). Paris, Hartmann, 1931. With 16 plates. (10), 386, (1) pp. 8vo. Sewn in original printed covers, an uncut copy. Second, improved and definitive edition. - Blank upper outer corner of half-title and first flyleaf cut away. Esteemed biography of the saint-simonian movement. Contains an important bibliography covering the pages 365-379. EUR 125
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SAINT-SIMON - CHARLETY, S. Histoire du Saint-Simonisme (1825-1864). Paris, Hartmann, 1931. With 16 plates. (10), 386, (1) pp. 8vo. Sewn in original printed covers, a very nice uncut copy. Second, improved and definitive edition. Esteemed biography of the movement and its whereabouts. Contains an important bibliography covering the pages 365-379. EUR 125
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SAVARY, (C.E.) Lettres sur la Grece, faisant suite de celles sur l'Égypte. A Paris, Chez Onfroi, 1788. With 1 folding map and 1 folding plate. (4), 362, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary blind covers, some loss of paper to upper part of spine, uncut. Blackmer Collection 1493; not in Hage Chahine. First edition, second issue, with the errata corrected. 'In September 1779, after an extended sojourn in Egypt, Savary left Alexandria for Asia Minor and the islands of the Archipelago. He spent about six months on Crete and also visited several islands of the Dodecanese (Simi, Cos, Cassos and Castellorizo). The French consul of Rhodes, Pontier, supplied him with information on that island. There is also a short description of Kimolos (Argentiera). Savary returned to France in 1780 and stayed in the home of the French academician M. Le Monnier, to whose wife the Lettres sur la Grèce are addressed. His letters on Greece are very interesting and center on actual conditions of the places he visited, the character of the modern inhabitants, rather than the antiquarian approach he favoured in Egypt. The letters continue the anti-Turkish and sentimental tradition begun by Guys and Choiseul-Gouffier. He died suddenly in 1788 while preparing a second volume of letters on Greece which was never published' (Blackmer). - Very nice copy in its original wrappers. Ziii & Ziv loose without damage, have never been sewn in. Copy from the Fürstlich-Starhemberg'sche Familien Bibliothek Schloß Eferding and with small stamp in upper blank margin of the title-page: Aus Schloß Haus, 1893. EUR 500
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SAVOY, É. Paupérisme et Bienfaisance. Fribourg, Fragnière Frères, Éditeurs, 1922. With some statistical tables in the text and a bibliography. 423 pp. 8vo. Sewn, original publisher's printed paper covers, slightly frayed at edges, an uncut and unopened copy. 2 copies in OCLC and RLIN (NYP and ILO). The author first deals with doctrines, causes and remedies for poverty in general. Then he discerns among the more practical means to combat poverty between preventive and curative means. A chapter is dedicated to a historical survey of the problem of social assistance in the region of Fribourg (Switzerland), interregional aspects, assistance to foreigners and some statistics. At the end he deals with poor law and organisation in Fribourg region. EUR 150
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SCHMALZ, (T.A.H.) Economie politique. Ouvrage traduit de l'Allemand par H. Jouffroy. Revu et annoté sur la traduction de M. Frétot. Paris, A. Bertrand, 1826. 2 volumes. xix, (1), 341, (1, errata) pp.; (4), 315, (1, errata) pp. 8vo.Modern half morocco, spine gilt in compartments and gilt lettering, marbled boards, original blind covers preserved. Kress C.1775; Goldsmiths 24808; Einaudi 5161; Palgrave, iii, p. 363; McCulloch, p. 24. First edition in French of this work on the principles of economics, originally published in 1818 as Staatswirtschaftslehre in Briefen an einen teutschen Erbprinzen. - Very good copy. The author tried to revive the theories of the Physiocrats in Germany. At the end of volume 2 he gives a Tableau économique suivant Quesnay, followed by a Tableau économique suivant la méthode italienne. 'In economics, Schmalz has been called "the last of the Physiocrats." Though he criticised Adam Smith severely, he was opposed to protective duties. He compared Colbertism to the Ptolemaic, physiocracy to the Copernican system of the world, Smith being the Tycho Brahe holding an intermediate position between the two. The doctrines of Quesnay, he was convinced, would ere long everywhere triumph' (Palgrave).The work ends with a discussion on the nature of government: 'M. Schmalz has not proposed to solve what Burke truly calls the finest problem in legislation, that is, to determine "what the State ought to take upon itself to direct by the public wisdom, and what it ought to leave, with as little interference as possible, to individual exertion." He has, however, made various observations on the principles by which the interference of government should be regulated; the subjects in regard to which it is most necessary; and the extent to which it should be carried' (McCulloch). EUR 900
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SCHMAUSS, J.J. Tableau du gouvernement actuel de l'Empire d'Allemagne, ou Abrégé du droit public de l'Empire. Traduit de l'Allemand, avec des notes historiques et critiques par M*** (le comte Dubuat-Nancay). A Paris, Chez la veuve Bordelet, 1755. xxxvi, 405, (1) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary green morocco, gilt triple fillet on sides with gilt floral ornament in the corners, spine gilt with raised bands, all edges gilt, some very light wear. Conlon 55:1047. First French edition. An abridged edition of the author's Einleitung zu der Staats-Wissenschaft, 1741-1747. - With bookplate on inside frontcover and a small ticket verso front free endpaper. A lovely copy, printed on 'papier de Hollande'. EUR 750
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SEGUIN, A. Memento, et Barême de la perspective de notre avenir financier, en cas de naufrage de port. Paris, de l'Imprimerie de A. Henry, Mars 1825. - (Bound with:) SEGUIN, A. Plan extrait de l'ouvrage sur les finances, en 4 volumes in 8vo, par Armand Seguin. (Drop-head title). No place, (1825). 2 works in one volume. 28 pp.; 119, (1) pp., the pages 1-4 incorrectly numbered as 29-32. 8vo. Disbound. First work: Kress C.1550; Goldsmiths 24597; not in Einaudi.Second work: Kress S.5636; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition of both works. - First quire loose. Armand Séguin made a fortune by winning the contract to supply the French revolutionary armies with boot leather. Napoleon, who had no love for profiteers, tried to reduce his fortune through taxes and fines but failed. Séguin survived the Empire and the Restoration and lived thereafter the life of an eccentric, Balzacian rentier, devoting most of his intellectual energies after 1815 to the composition of pamphlets on government finance. He is best known for his memoirs on heat and respiration and as Lavoisier's assistant from 1789 to the latter's death in 1794. EUR 350
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SENAC DE MEILHAN, (G.) Du gouvernement, des moeurs, et des conditions en France avant la Révolution, avec le caractère des principaux personnages du règne de Louis XVI. A Hambourg, Chez B.G. Hoffmann, 1795. vi, 216 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering to spine. INED 4142; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths (cf.: 16217); not in Einaudi; Martin & Walter 31376; Escoffier, 64. First edition and "très rare" according to Escoffier. Written during the author's exile, this work contains chapters on privileges, debts, taxes, etc., reflections of the Ancien Régime, on the philosophes, and deals furthermore with Machault, Terray, Turgot, Necker, Maurepas, Saint-Germain, Pesay, etc. The author states in this work that the growth of wealth in France under Louis XVI had dissolved the social barriers and contributed to the breakdown of the French class system (See at length: Spengler, French Predecessors of Malthus). EUR 800
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SHEFFIELD, J. (BAKER HOLROYD.) Observations sur le commerce des États d'Amérique, pour servir de suite aux Révolutions des États-Unis d'Amérique. Traduites de l'Anglais par Mirabeau. Nouvelle édition fort augmentée, avec un Supplément. A Paris, Chez Moutardier, an V, 1796. xvi, 335 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, somewhat rubbed, vellum corners. Howes H.616; not in Echeverria & Wilkie; not in Sabin; not in Leclerc; not in Fay; not in Goldsmiths; not in Kress; not in Einaudi. Improved edition of De Mirabeau's translation. This Mirabeau translation did not include the statistical tables to be found in other editions. A detailed exposition and statistical comparison of the imports and exports of Great Britain and the United States, from 1700 to 1783. With each edition, Sheffield substantially revised and enlarged the text. Written in opposition to the bill introduced by Pitt in 1783, proposing to relax the navigation laws in favour of the States, the work was influential in determining the abandonment of the motion. Sheffield points up the weak position of America and continually stresses the growing commercial importance and potential of the West Indies and Canada (especially Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, particularly with regard to fisheries, lumber, and ship-building). Howes writes that the work was very influential in shaping England's trade policy from 1783 to 1789, so detrimental to American commerce and shipping interests as to contribute greatly to the formation of a Federal union, better able, than were the separate federated states, to retaliate against British maritime might. EUR 500
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SISMONDI, J.CH.L. SIMONDE DE. De la Richesse commerciale, ou principes d'économie politique, appliqués à la législation du commerce ..... Tome premier [- second]. A Geneve, Chez J.J. Paschoud, 1803. 2 volumes. (iv), lxxxv, (1), 348 pp.; (iv), 448 pp. 8vo. Uncut and largely unopened in the original blue paper wrappers, printed paper labels to spines, spine and frontcover of volume one expertly renewed with almost identical blue paper, marginal waterstaining, somewhat worse at the beginning of each volume and towards the end of volume two, kept in two chemises half blue calf, and boards box. Einaudi 5298; Kress B.4734; Goldsmiths 18617; De Salis, ii, p. 61. Scarce first edition of Sismondi's important work. Born in Geneva, the son of a Calvinist clergyman, Sismondi was 'the first critic of industrial capitalism' (Blaug). De la richesse commerciale 'was intended as a systematic exposition of the ideas of Adam Smith. Yet in it Sismondi also pointed out that he was presenting "an absolutely new" way of looking at aggregate output changes. Crude arithmetic examples depicted output during a given year as a function of investment during a previous year, and showed how a closed economy differed from an economy with international trade, and how the latter differed when there was an export surplus and an import surplus. Algebraic formulas in his footnotes repeated the same arguments presented arithmetically in the text. But the book was little noticed, and so Sismondi's original efforts produced no contribution to the development of economics' (Thomas Sowell in The New Palgrave).De la Richesse commerciale 'has a number of original features, for example, it includes an early statement ascribing the international exchange of goods to differences in factor endowments and factor prices - England, being plentifully endowed with capital, will import labor-intensive goods, such as lace from France, from countries where capital is relatively scarce and wages low. Sismondi here points the way to doctrinal developments that were bought to full fruition by Ohlin in the twentieth century but were overshadowed during the nineteenth century by the Ricardian doctrine of comparative cost, which was primarily designed to demonstrate the gains from trade' (Spiegel, p. 303).Theocharis describes Sismondi as the only French author of his time who was considerably influenced by Canard, noting that in the introduction to De la Richesse commerciale Sismondi 'admitted that many times in the earlier chapters of his book he had nothing better to do than repeat Canard's ideas. He does not, however, imitate Canard in the use of mathematics except once, "car appliquer ce langage à une science qui n'est point exacte c'est s'exposer à des erreurs continuelles". His main attempt at mathematical economics is when he tries to show that in both a closed economy and with foreign trade a country, ceteris paribus, will be progressing, declining or stationary according to the level of wages' (Theocharis, Early developments in mathematical economics (1983), p. 78ff). EUR 5250
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SLEIDAN, J. Histoire de la reformation, ou Mémoires de Jean Sleidan, Sur l'État de la Réligion et de la République sous l'Empire de Charles Quint, Traduits de nouveau en François, par Pierre François le Courrayer, avec des Notes. A la Haye, Chez Frederic Straatman, 1767. Titles printed in red and black. 3 volumes. xlii, 448 pp.; (2), 502 pp.; (2), 361, (85) pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, red and green labels with gilt lettering. Conlon 67:1288. Originally published in 1555 as De Statu religionis et reipublicae Carolo quinto Caesare. - Very good copy. Sleidanus was one of the three historians of the German Reformation who dominated both Catholic and Protestant citations, the other two being Hospinien and Chytraeus. Sleidanus did not provide much detail on the lives of the Reformers, but supplied an extract of public acts and original documents deposited in the Strasbourg