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[Necker, Jacques].

"J'ai servi le Roi pendant cinq années avec un zèle auquel je n'ai jamais connu de bornes ; [...]".

s.l., s.n., [1787].

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75 €

In this essay, Necker (732-1804), financier and politician from Geneva, Minister of Finance of Louis XVI) justified his administration and policy in response to the attacks of Charles de Calonne (1734-1802, Minister and Controller General of Finance of Louis XVI between 1783 and 1787), his successor.
It consists of letters between Calonne and Necker, a letter addressed to Louis XVI and a praise of the former minister.

MOSER, Henri.

A travers l'Asie centrale, impressions de voyage.

Paris, Plon, Nourrit et Cie, 1885.

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250 €

First edition.

Travel story through the Kyrgyz steppe, Russian Turkestan, Bukhara, Khiva, the land of the Turcomans and Persia ...richly illustrated by 117 drawings by Van Muyden and 16 Heliotypies.

AUFRERE, Anthony.

A Warning to Britons against french perfidy and cruelty.

London, Cadell, 1798.

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75 €

Book translated from German testimony of the exactions of the revolutionary armies of the Rhine against the Prussian armies.

LA HARPE, Jean-Francois.

Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages, contenant ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable, de plus utile et de mieux avéré dans les pays où les voyageurs ont pénétré; les moeurs des habitans, la religion, les usages, arts et sciences, commerce et manufactures.

Paris, Ledoux et Tenré, 1816.

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600 €

[MOIR, John] || [HASTINGS, Warren] || [SOULÈS, François].

Affaires de l'Inde depuis le commencement de la Guerre avec la France en 1756 jusqu'à la conclusion de la Paix en 1783.

Londres et Paris, Buisson, 1788.

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350 €

First edition.
Beautiful fold-out map of India, Cochinchina and the Indonesian islands.
The book recounts France's loss of influence in India during and after the Seven Years' War which saw the fall of the first French colonial empire, and India's shift to English influence.

[LESCONVEL, Pierre de].

Anecdotes secrètes des Règnes de Charles VIII et de Louis XII. Avec des notes historiques.

La Haye, J.Neaulme, 1741.

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350 €

[GAZAIGNES, Jean-Antoine].

Annales de la Société des soi-disans Jésuites ; ou Recueil historique-chronologique de tous les actes, écrits, dénonciations, avis doctrinaux, requêtes, ordonnances, mandemens, instructions pastorales, décrets, censures, bulles, brefs, édits, arrêts, sentences & jugemens émanés des tribunaux ecclésiastiques & séculiers. Contre la doctrine, l'enseignement, les entreprises & les forfaits des soi-disans Jésuites, depuis 1552, époque de leur naissance en France, jusqu'en 1763.

Paris, s.n., 1764-1769.

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The Annales de la Société des soi-disans Jésuites is a collection of historical acts, documents, and letters that was published between 1764 and 1771 to denounce the place of the Order of Jesuits in French society. The collection was produced by the Abbé Jean-Antoine Gazaignes and consists of five volumes (Last is missing in our copy). It contains information about the founding of the order, its doctrines, its activities, and its various political movements. The Annales are of great importance for understanding the history of the Jesuits and their influence on French society. The Annales have also served as the basis for many historical works and studies on the Jesuits and their role in French history.

[THEATRE].

Arrests du Conseil d'Etat du roi, lettres patentes, acte de société et règlements de messieurs les premiers gentilshommes de la Chambre de roi, concernant les comédiens françois.

Paris, Christophe Ballard, 1761.

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1500 €

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Letters patent reorganizing the operation of the troupe of the Comédie Française.

Bound with the following:
"Règlement pour les comédiens françois ordinaires du roi"
Defining article by article, the organization of the troupe of the Comédie Française: schedules, remuneration, rights and duties.

DE MARTONNE, Edouard.

Atlas des cartes administratives et ethnographiques des colonies de l'A.O.F.

Paris, Forest, 1922.

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100 €

New edition.
Rare atlas for the French West Africa.

TARDIEU, Ambroise || VUILLEMIN, A.

Atlas Universel de Géographie ancienne et moderne.

Paris, Furne et Cie, 1858.

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150 €

Beautiful maps mounted on tabs in the middle (card size: 417x540 mm).

TONNEAU, Alfred.

Au Salève, Souvenirs, Descriptions et Légendes.

Genève, Ch. Eggimann & Cie, [1897].

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220 €

Numerous photographs by Edmond Meylan in the text.

HERBELOT DE MOLAINVILLE, Barthélemy d'.

Bibliothèque orientale, ou dictionnaire universel.

Paris, Moutard, 1781.

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750 €

New edition done by Desessart.
Considered as the first western encyclopædia of the Islamic world.
"It was based on the Arabic bibliography (the Kashf al-Zunun) of Hadji Khalfa (Katip Celebi), of which it is in large part a translation, but it also contains material from numerous other Arabic, Persian and Turkish publications and manuscripts." (wikipedia).

MOUTON, Léo.

Bussy d'Amboise et Madame de Montsoreau.

Paris, Hachette, 1912.

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95 €

First edition.
Fine copy.

[NOAILLES].

Campagne de Monsieur le Maréchal Duc de Noailles en Allemagne l'an 1743.

Amsterdam, Marc Michel Rey, 1760-1761.

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300 €

First edition.
Adrien Maurice de Noailles (1708-1766) was Commander-in-Chief of the German Army during the Austrian Succession War (1740-1748).
This work brings together many letters to serve the history of this campaign where the French armies did not really shine.

PASSALACQUA, Joseph.

Catalogue raisonné et historique des antiquités découvertes en Egypte.

Paris, Galerie d'Antiquites Egyptiennes, 1826.

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6000 €

First edition.

Catalogue of the private collection of Joseph Passalacqua, which he assembled through private excavations in Egypt between 1822 and 1825 and exhibited in Paris at 12 Rue des Filles-Saint-Thomas. He tried to sell this collection of antiquities to France, but it was eventually bought by the King of Prussia. The ensemble formed the core of the Berlin Museum's Egyptian collections.

Presentation copy to the Duc D'Augoulème with it's gilt arms on covers.
Binding from Simier, "Relieur du Roi".

SIBOUR, Ernest.

Centralisation industrielle excessive ses causes, ses effets : Industries & Métiers disparus ou qui sont en décadence dans le chef-lieu du département des Hautes-Alpes.

Gap, Jean, 1890.

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60 €

First edition.
Book that studies the upheavals that the steam engine caused in the artisanal fabric of the Hautes Alpes. "In a word, we are trying to bring out the effect produced by this new direction, this irresistible impulse given to industry by the steam engine which has annihilated the manual production of the workman in many localities, without any compensation for them." (from the preface).

GUILLAUME, Laurent-Mathieu.

Charte constitutionnelle précédée de la déclaration de Saint-Ouen, mises en vers.

Paris, Guillaume et cie, 1829.

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250 €

First edition.
Curious publication from doctrinaire circles (royalists who hoped to reconcile the monarchy with the revolution) under the Restoration. Vignette by Couché fils representing Louis XVIII meditating on the charter. The Constitutional Charter of June 4, 1814 is the constitution of the Kingdom of France in force under the First then the Second Restoration
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[MOSSE, J.-M].

Chronique de Paris, ou Le Spectateur moderne, contenant des tableaux des moeurs et usages, caractères, anecdotes et ridicules du jour ; des mélanges polémiques et critiques sur un grand nombre d'hommes de lettres et d'écrits de ce temps ; des révélations de plagiats ; des petites nouvelles et faits singuliers concernant les lettres, les beaux-arts, les théâtres, les journaux, les modes, etc.

Paris, Au bureau de la chronique, 1819.

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250 €

First edition.
Rare royalist gazette adorned with a beautiful plate of political caricature.
Our volume includes the first three issues, only published.
Talleyrand's copy.

LAVOREL, Jean Marie.

Cluses et le Faucigny, étude historique.

Annecy, J. Nierat, 1888-1889.

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250 €

First edition.

[REVOLUTION].

Code de l'Administration et de l'Aliénation des Biens Nationaux [Suivi de] Supplément au Code de l'Administration.

Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1791.

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200 €

First edition.
Code governing the alienation of the property of the Church and of emigrant nobles which became national property during the Revolution.

[MATHON DE LA COUR, Charles Joseph].

Collection des Comptes-Rendus, piéces Authentiques, états et Tableaux, concernant Les Finances de France depuis 1758 jusqu'en 1787.

Lausanne, Cuchet, 1788.

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175 €

First edition.
The public accounts and in particular their deficits were at the center of the political debates of the 1780s.

MINISTERE DE LA GUERRE.

Compte pour l'année 1827, de l'emploi des crédits affectés à l'inscription des pensions militaires au trésor royal; suivi de l'état des changemens survenus dans les soldes de non-activité et dans les traitemens de réforme pendant la même année.

Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1828.

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60 €

[JESUITES] CARADEUC DE LA CHALOTAIS, Louis René.

Compte rendu des constitutions des Jésuites.

s.l., s.n., 1762.

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60 €

La Chalotais is Attorney General in the Parliament of Brittany, fiercely opposed to the Jesuits. He proposes here a memoir in charge of the constitutions of the Society of Jesus.

COMPTES RENDUS PAR LES MINISTRES.

Comptes rendus par les ministres pour les années 1814 et 1815.

Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1816.

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90 €

First edition.

This work is an account of France's finances in 1814 and 1815, a troubled time during which Napoleon I abdicated (11 April 1814) and was exiled and the return of the monarchy with Louis XVIII.

BORNIER, Philippe.

Conférences des ordonnances de Louis XIV [...] Avec les anciennes ordonnances du Royaume, le droit écrit & les arrêts.

Paris, Chez les Associez choisis par ordre de sa Majesté, 1719.

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350 €

Numerous handwritten notes slipped in the text.

GIDE, Charles.

Conférences sur l'Economie politique.

s.l., Ecole supérieure de guerre, 1908-1912.

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350 €

First edition.
Conferences on Political Economy given to student officers at the Ecole Supérieure de Guerre between 1908 and 1912, on the eve of the First World War.
Charles Gide (1847-1932), is a French economist and teacher. He is the historical leader of the French cooperative movement, the theoretician of the social economy, and the uncle of the writer André Gide.
The subjects of these conferences vary each year of the course:
1908: The Budget
1909-: The Strikes
1910: Tariff Wars and Trade Treaties 1
912: The Causes of the War

Bound with the following we will find the International Law course given Free School of Political Sciences (SciencesPo) by Louis Renault (Nobel Peace Prize in 1907) and written by trainee officers who were auditors.

FALLET, Céline.

Conquête de l'Algérie.

Rouen, Mégard et Cie, 1857.

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40 €

Seconde edition.

[HERBIN DE HALLE, Pierre Etienne].

Conquêtes des français en Egypte.

Pougens, Paris, An vii [1799].

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450 €

First edition.
Work sought after with its beautiful map established by Mentelle and Chanlaire (size 530x635mm).

[DE LOLME, Jean Louis].

Constitution de l'Angleterre.

Amsterdam, E. Van Harrevelt, 1771.

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160 €

First edition.
Political analysis of the English Constitution, highlighting the differences between the English political system and the continental political systems of the time. De Lolme also addresses topics such as the role of the monarchy, the electoral system and the legislative process.

[REVOLUTION].

Constitution française, présentée au Roi par l'Assemblée nationale le 3 septembre 1791.

Dijon, P. Causse, 1791.

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500 €

First Dijon's edition.
First French constitution proposed by the National Assembly.
Constitutional monarchy, it will only be applied until August 10, 1792 when the King will be suspended by the legislative body.

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History

[Necker, Jacques].

"J'ai servi le Roi pendant cinq années avec un zèle auquel je n'ai jamais connu de bornes ; [...]".

MOSER, Henri.

A travers l'Asie centrale, impressions de voyage.

First edition.Travel story through the Kyrgyz steppe, Russian Turkestan, Bukhara, Khiva, the land of the Turcomans and Persia ...richly illustrated by 117 drawings by Van Muyden and 16 Heliotypies.

AUFRERE, Anthony.

A Warning to Britons against french perfidy and cruelty.

Book translated from German testimony of the exactions of the revolutionary armies of the Rhine against the Prussian armies.

LA HARPE, Jean-Francois.

Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages, contenant ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable, de plus utile et de mieux avéré dans les pays où les voyageurs ont pénétré; les moeurs des habitans, la religion, les usages, arts et sciences, commerce et manufactures.

[MOIR, John] || [HASTINGS, Warren] || [SOULÈS, François].

Affaires de l'Inde depuis le commencement de la Guerre avec la France en 1756 jusqu'à la conclusion de la Paix en 1783.

First edition.Beautiful fold-out map of India, Cochinchina and the Indonesian islands. The book recounts France's loss of influence in India during and after the Seven Years' War which saw the fall of the first French colonial empire, and India's shift to English influence.

[LESCONVEL, Pierre de].

Anecdotes secrètes des Règnes de Charles VIII et de Louis XII. Avec des notes historiques.

[GAZAIGNES, Jean-Antoine].

[THEATRE].

Arrests du Conseil d'Etat du roi, lettres patentes, acte de société et règlements de messieurs les premiers gentilshommes de la Chambre de roi, concernant les comédiens françois.

DE MARTONNE, Edouard.

Atlas des cartes administratives et ethnographiques des colonies de l'A.O.F.

New edition.Rare atlas for the French West Africa.

TARDIEU, Ambroise || VUILLEMIN, A.

Atlas Universel de Géographie ancienne et moderne.

Beautiful maps mounted on tabs in the middle (card size: 417x540 mm).

TONNEAU, Alfred.

Au Salève, Souvenirs, Descriptions et Légendes.

Numerous photographs by Edmond Meylan in the text.

HERBELOT DE MOLAINVILLE, Barthélemy d'.

Bibliothèque orientale, ou dictionnaire universel.

MOUTON, Léo.

Bussy d'Amboise et Madame de Montsoreau.

First edition. Fine copy.

[NOAILLES].

Campagne de Monsieur le Maréchal Duc de Noailles en Allemagne l'an 1743.

First edition.Adrien Maurice de Noailles (1708-1766) was Commander-in-Chief of the German Army during the Austrian Succession War (1740-1748).This work brings together many letters to serve the history of this campaign where the French armies did not really shine.

PASSALACQUA, Joseph.

Catalogue raisonné et historique des antiquités découvertes en Egypte.

SIBOUR, Ernest.

Centralisation industrielle excessive ses causes, ses effets : Industries & Métiers disparus ou qui sont en décadence dans le chef-lieu du département des Hautes-Alpes.

GUILLAUME, Laurent-Mathieu.

Charte constitutionnelle précédée de la déclaration de Saint-Ouen, mises en vers.

[MOSSE, J.-M].

First edition.Rare royalist gazette adorned with a beautiful plate of political caricature.Our volume includes the first three issues, only published.Talleyrand's copy.

LAVOREL, Jean Marie.

Cluses et le Faucigny, étude historique.

First edition.

[REVOLUTION].

Code de l'Administration et de l'Aliénation des Biens Nationaux [Suivi de] Supplément au Code de l'Administration.

First edition.Code governing the alienation of the property of the Church and of emigrant nobles which became national property during the Revolution.

[MATHON DE LA COUR, Charles Joseph].

Collection des Comptes-Rendus, piéces Authentiques, états et Tableaux, concernant Les Finances de France depuis 1758 jusqu'en 1787.

First edition.The public accounts and in particular their deficits were at the center of the political debates of the 1780s.

MINISTERE DE LA GUERRE.

Compte pour l'année 1827, de l'emploi des crédits affectés à l'inscription des pensions militaires au trésor royal; suivi de l'état des changemens survenus dans les soldes de non-activité et dans les traitemens de réforme pendant la même année.

[JESUITES] CARADEUC DE LA CHALOTAIS, Louis René.

Compte rendu des constitutions des Jésuites.

La Chalotais is Attorney General in the Parliament of Brittany, fiercely opposed to the Jesuits. He proposes here a memoir in charge of the constitutions of the Society of Jesus.

COMPTES RENDUS PAR LES MINISTRES.

Comptes rendus par les ministres pour les années 1814 et 1815.

First edition. This work is an account of France's finances in 1814 and 1815, a troubled time during which Napoleon I abdicated (11 April 1814) and was exiled and the return of the monarchy with Louis XVIII.

BORNIER, Philippe.

Conférences des ordonnances de Louis XIV [...] Avec les anciennes ordonnances du Royaume, le droit écrit & les arrêts.

Numerous handwritten notes slipped in the text.

GIDE, Charles.

Conférences sur l'Economie politique.

FALLET, Céline.

Conquête de l'Algérie.

Seconde edition.

[HERBIN DE HALLE, Pierre Etienne].

Conquêtes des français en Egypte.

First edition.Work sought after with its beautiful map established by Mentelle and Chanlaire (size 530x635mm).

[DE LOLME, Jean Louis].

Constitution de l'Angleterre.

First edition.Political analysis of the English Constitution, highlighting the differences between the English political system and the continental political systems of the time. De Lolme also addresses topics such as the role of the monarchy, the electoral system and the legislative process.

[REVOLUTION].

Constitution française, présentée au Roi par l'Assemblée nationale le 3 septembre 1791.

First Dijon's edition.First French constitution proposed by the National Assembly. Constitutional monarchy, it will only be applied until August 10, 1792 when the King will be suspended by the legislative body.

First edition.

Travel story through the Kyrgyz steppe, Russian Turkestan, Bukhara, Khiva, the land of the Turcomans and Persia ...richly illustrated by 117 drawings by Van Muyden and 16 Heliotypies.

First edition.
Beautiful fold-out map of India, Cochinchina and the Indonesian islands.
The book recounts France's loss of influence in India during and after the Seven Years' War which saw the fall of the first French colonial empire, and India's shift to English influence.

New edition.
Rare atlas for the French West Africa.

First edition.
Fine copy.

First edition.
Adrien Maurice de Noailles (1708-1766) was Commander-in-Chief of the German Army during the Austrian Succession War (1740-1748).
This work brings together many letters to serve the history of this campaign where the French armies did not really shine.

First edition.
Rare royalist gazette adorned with a beautiful plate of political caricature.
Our volume includes the first three issues, only published.
Talleyrand's copy.

First edition.
Code governing the alienation of the property of the Church and of emigrant nobles which became national property during the Revolution.

First edition.
The public accounts and in particular their deficits were at the center of the political debates of the 1780s.

First edition.

This work is an account of France's finances in 1814 and 1815, a troubled time during which Napoleon I abdicated (11 April 1814) and was exiled and the return of the monarchy with Louis XVIII.

First edition.
Work sought after with its beautiful map established by Mentelle and Chanlaire (size 530x635mm).

First edition.
Political analysis of the English Constitution, highlighting the differences between the English political system and the continental political systems of the time. De Lolme also addresses topics such as the role of the monarchy, the electoral system and the legislative process.

First Dijon's edition.
First French constitution proposed by the National Assembly.
Constitutional monarchy, it will only be applied until August 10, 1792 when the King will be suspended by the legislative body.