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Photo ROMEYER-DHERBEY, Gilbert. 

ROMEYER-DHERBEY, Gilbert. 

Une Trace infime d'encre pâle : six études de littérature & philosophie mêlées. 

Paris, encre marine, 2003.
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50 €

First edition.

Presentation copy to Guy Samama.

Photo PASCAL, Joseph. 

PASCAL, Joseph. 

Le Livre d'un homme de raison. 

Genève, Perret-Gentil, 1966.
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First edition..
Joseph Pascal (1886-1982) former teacher, freemason and unionist, devoted his retirement to writing books of rationalist inspiration.
Nice sending of the author to Jacques Duboin (1878-1976) French economist and politician.

Photo DE BEAUVOIR, Simone. 

DE BEAUVOIR, Simone. 

La Force des choses. 

Paris, Gallimard Nrf, 1963.
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First edition.
Common paper.

Autobiographical account of the period from the end of WWII to 1960. The story includes the time of the publication of The Second Sex, which makes her very famous, the Cold War, or the war in Algeria which she describes as a “personal drama”.

Photo [COURTOIS, Jacques]. 

[COURTOIS, Jacques]. 

L'Espoir est pour demain. 

Granville, Imprimerie granvillaise, 1950.
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First edition.
Book with subtitle: "Essay on existence: from the Universe to Man". Vast program of a philosophy of Nature and History.
Written under his pseudonym : J-A Tregastel.
Handwritten sending to Jacques Duboin (1878-1976) French economist and politician.

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DUPREEL, Eugène. 

Les Sophistes: Protogoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias. 

Neuchatel, Editions du Griffon, 1948.
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First edition.

Photo ALHAIZA, Adolphe. 

ALHAIZA, Adolphe. 

Charles Fourier et sa sociologie sociétaire. 

Paris, Librairie Marcel Riviére, 1911.
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80 €

First edition.
Jean-Adolphe Alhaiza is a French essayist, disciple of Charles Fourier and the Societary School. Exposition of the doctrine of Charles Fourier.
"This succinct, but very accurate work, also contains an absolutely unpublished historical summary of the Societary School, from Fourier to the present day." (p.7).

Photo GAGNEUR, Marie-Louise. 

GAGNEUR, Marie-Louise. 

Le Droit au bonheur : Charles Fourier, d’après Zola et Jaurès. 

Paris, Dentu, 1901.
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Louise Marie Gagneur (1832-1902) was a French writer and feminist activist.
Essay inspired by the publication of Travail by Emile Zola. Gagneur celebrates Zola's novel, which highlights Fourierist ideas "with a power of eloquence, a depth, a philosophical scope, a mastery that make this incomparable book a glorious and victorious stage in our literary, philosophical and social movement" (p. 12).

Marie-Louise Gagneur believed in the transformative power of the intellectual production to which she contributed: "The transformation can therefore occur today without shock, without revolution, by the FORCE OF THE IDEA alone" (Droit au bonheur, p. 12).

Photo FENELON, François Salignac de la Mothe. 

FENELON, François Salignac de la Mothe. 

L'Education des filles. 

Paris, Jouaust librairie des bibliophiles, 1885.
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Introduction by Octave Gréard and frontispiece by Lalauze.

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MARION, Henri. 

Leçons de psychologie appliquée à l'éducation. 

Paris, Armand Colin et Cie, 1882.
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30 €

First edition.
Henri Marion is a French philosopher, pedagogue and teacher of pedagogy. He was the first holder of a chair in educational science in Paris, in 1887.

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LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, François de. 

Les Maximes de La Rochefoucauld suivies des réflexions diverses. 

Paris, Jouaust librairie des bibliophiles, 1881.
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Beautiful edition of the moralist's writings and preceded by a preface and notes by Thenard.

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WRONSKI, Hoëné. 

Sept manuscrits inédits, écrits de 1803 à 1806. 

Paris, A dépot des ouvrages de l'auteur, 1879.
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550 €

First edition published after the death of Wronski.

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BOURDET, Eugène. 

Vocabulaire Des Principaux Termes de La Philosophie Positive: Avec Notices Biographiques Appartenant Au Calendrier Positiviste. 

Paris, Germer Baillière, 1875.
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In the last quarter of the 19th century, the positivism of Auguste Comte gradually transformed into a true religion "of humanity" which rethought all the rites and structures left by the Christian church. These mutations are accompanied by a new vocabulary that Eugène Bourdet presents to us.

Photo BOUILLIER, Francisque. 

BOUILLIER, Francisque. 

Histoire de la philosophie cartésienne. 

Paris, Ch. Delagrave et Cie, 1868.
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80 €

Third edition.

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LAVERDANT, Gabriel-Désiré. 

Grégoire VII ou le Pape et l'Empereur au moyen âge. 

Paris, Vrayet de Surcy, 1860.
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First edition.
Presentation copy to François Barrier.
Gabriel Désiré Laverdant (1810-1884), was director of the Phalange in 1840, he was one of those Fourierists who sought the rapprochement of the Fourierist movement with the Catholics, he called himself a "phalansterian Catholic".

François Barrier, central personality of the Fourierist movement, he adhered to the Fourierist doctrine in 1843. He was, in 1845, one of the founders of the Phalansterian project of the Agricultural Union of Africa and became the main animator and financial supporter of the Societary School of Lyon in the 1850s. He created a "Fourierist" bank which would notably finance the Texas Phalanstery. In 1864, he left Lyon and his career as a surgeon to join Paris to reorganize the Societary School and devote himself to writing Fourierist treatises.

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LEROUX, Pierre. 

Malthus et les économistes ou y aura-t-il toujours des pauvres ?. 

Boussac, Imprimerie de Pierre Leroux, 1849.
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New edition printed by the author in his printing house in Boussac.
Pierre-Henri Leroux (1797 - 1871) is an editor, philosopher, theoretician of socialism. In 1843, Leroux obtained a patent to create a printing press in Boussac, he settled there, brought his family and friends, then, over the months, disciples seduced by his theories and by the way of life of the community that he founded in this small town in Creuse.
“Yes, it is capitalist industry that kills; it is not, as Malthus says, Nature.” (p.60)

Copy which was bound for François Barrier, central personality of the Fourierist movement, he adhered to the Fourierist doctrine in 1843. He was, in 1845, one of the founders of the Phalansterian project of the African Agricultural Union and became the main leader and financial support from the Lyon School of Society in the 1850s. He created a “Fourierist” bank which notably financed the Texas phalanstery. In 1864, he left Lyon and his career as a surgeon to go to Paris to reorganize the School of Society and devote himself to writing Fourierist treatises.

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[FOURIERISME]. 

Le Phalanstère en Algérie : Banquet du 7 avril 1848. Journée électorale du 9 avril. Plan d'organisation du travail. 

Alger, Imprimerie de A. Bourget, 1848.
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This booklet provides a record of the commemorative banquet held in Algiers on April 7, 1848, to honor the memory of Fourier. Organized by the leading members of the Sig colony and chaired by administrator Jules Duval, the event featured speeches from various prominent figures. Subsequent sections detail the events of April 9th, election day, when Algiers' Fourierists deliberated on the statutes of a Phalansterian circle aimed at uniting them and selecting a representative for the National Assembly. The booklet concludes with an extensive treatise on the organization of labor within the Agricultural Union and the colony's governing statutes.

Photo CABET, Etienne. 

CABET, Etienne. 

Voyage en Icarie. 

Paris, Au Bureau du populaire, 1848.
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Fifth edition.
Major work by Cabet in which he describes his socialist utopia.
Etienne Cabet places himself alongside Charles Fourier or Robert Owen among the promoters of alternative social projects. Cabet is the first philosopher to describe himself as a communist.
In 1849, Cabet went to the United States to try to found an Icarian community there.

Copy which was bound for François Barrier, central personality of the Fourierist movement, he adhered to the Fourierist doctrine in 1843. He was, in 1845, one of the founders of the Phalansterian project of the African Agricultural Union and became the main leader and financial support from the Lyon School of Society in the 1850s. He created a “Fourierist” bank which notably financed the Texas phalanstery. In 1864, he left Lyon and his career as a surgeon to go to Paris to reorganize the School of Society and devote himself to writing Fourierist treatises.

Photo CONSIDERANT, Victor || PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph. 

CONSIDERANT, Victor || PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph. 

Les Socialistes peints par eux-mêmes. 

Besançon, Imprimerie de J. Jacquin, [1848].
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300 €

First edition.
Publication, probably by the Fourierist circles of Besançon, of the public correspondence between Victor Considerant and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who were then in full conflict in the aftermath of the 1848 revolution.

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[FOURIERISME]. 

Le Sept Avril à Besançon. 

Besançon, J. Bonvalot, 1847.
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The political banquet was born during the French Revolution. In 1789, in all cities of France, the open-air banquet, in the streets, was a new form of sociability to affirm patriotic enthusiasm and the unity of the Nation. During these civic meals, new liberties were celebrated.

Under the reign of Louis-Philippe, the political banquet was reborn as a means of circumventing the ban on political gatherings imposed by the reactionary government of Minister Guizot.

Fourierists, after the death of Charles Fourier in 1837, adopted this practice and met each year to celebrate his birthday (April 7, 1772) with a banquet. In Paris, in the provinces, and abroad, numerous banquets were thus organized, during which speakers took turns extolling the social theories of their master and proposing many toasts.

In 1847 and 1848, this subversive function of the banquet spread to all political factions and gained momentum. In February 1848, the prefect of police in Paris banned a banquet. Following this ban, a protest demonstration turned into an insurrection within a few days, bringing an end to the July Monarchy.

This account of the Besançon banquet in 1847 includes toasts by Just Muiron: "To the genius of Fourier!", Ledoux: "To the organization of labor!", Renaud: "To the confusion of false wisdom!", Vuillemin: "To all the benefactors of humanity!".

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HENNEQUIN, Victor. 

Les Amours au phalanstère. 

Paris, A la librairie phalanstérienne, 1847.
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800 €

First edition.
Exposition of Fourier's ideas and theories dealing with love and the regulation and organization of relations between the sexes in the Phalanstery. Each being in one of the roles defined by Fourier: the chaste Vestals, the Damsels, the Angels and the Fairies (experts in love), ... Hennequin with Fourier considers that adultery and prostitution are invariants of human societies and must therefore be organized.

Hennequin's work is bound in the penultimate position with four other Fourierist brochures:

GUEPIN. Traité d'économie sociale. Paris, sn, 1835. 108 pages.

- [Anonymous]. Catéchisme de Fourier ou Fourier réfuté par lui-même. Paris, Maison, 1841. (8)-98-(2) pages.

- Le Sept Avril. Banquets commémoratifs de la naissance de Charles Fourier - Années 1843 et 1844. Paris, À la librairie sociétaire, 1844. 36 pages.

- PELISSIER. Choix de Poésies d'un Sourd-Muet. Paris, Rue St-Jacques, sd. 72 pages.

Photo HENNEQUIN, Victor. 

HENNEQUIN, Victor. 

Les Amours au Phalanstère. 

Paris, A la librairie Phalanstérienne, 1847.
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800 €

First edition.
Exposition of Fourier's ideas and theories dealing with love and the regulation and organization of relations between the sexes in the Phalanstery. Each being in one of the roles defined by Fourier: the chaste Vestals, the Damsels, the Angels and the Fairies (experts in love), ... Hennequin with Fourier considers that adultery and prostitution are invariants of human societies and must therefore be organized.

Photo [FOURIERISME]. 

[FOURIERISME]. 

M. Victor Considérant et l'École de Fourier. 

Reims, L. Jacquet, 1846.
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First edition.
Rare offprint of an article published in the journal Champagne catholique.
This journal was created at the end of the July Monarchy to defend moral and religious interests against the anticlerical political groups that were beginning to organize. Here the article targets Fourier's system, of which Victor Considérant was then the best-known promoter.
"His ideas of association are destined, without doubt, to play an important role in the future developments of civilization; we must deplore that Fourier has cast disfavor on them, by associating them with the deepest immorality." (p.35).

Photo FENELON, François Salignac de la Mothe. 

FENELON, François Salignac de la Mothe. 

Abrégé de la vie des plus illustres philosophes de l'antiquité. 

Limoges, Barbou frères, 1846.
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Synthetic presentation of the main philosophers of antiquity and their philosophies.

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[Union agricole d'Afrique]. 

Ensemble de Documents et brochures sur le phalanstère fouriéristes d'Algerie. 

s.l., s.n., 1845-1850.
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The project of the Agricultural Union of Africa was born from the meeting of French colonial interests in Algeria and the Fourierist desire to found a community following the phalansterian principles. These interests came together in Lyon where there was an active Fourierist group with the meeting of Captain Gautier, an officer of the Army of Africa, with Miss Aimée Beuque, a convinced Fourierist.
The project of a civil joint stock company running a colony in Algeria took shape during the year 1845 and the Agricultural Union of Africa was founded in December 1845. Its goal was to experiment with the Fourierist principle of associating capital, labor and talent.
It has thirty-three members including the members of the organizing committee: Fleury Imbert, François Barrier, Felix Beuque and Sister (Aimée), Captain Gautier...
On November 8, 1846, a royal ordinance authorized the Lyon Committee to found a Civil Colonization Society on the condition that it welcome three hundred European families, at least two-thirds of whom must be of French origin. Louis Philippe allocates three thousand hectares to the Union at the foot of the hills of the Sig Valley, eighteen kilometers from the sea, on the road from Oran to Mascara.
The first settlers will settle in Algeria during the year 1847. Gradually losing the Fourierist essence of the beginning, the Sig colony will nevertheless last until the end of the 19th century.

Inthis volume, are bound a series of documents from the organizing committee of the Agricultural Union of Africa:

- Draft Statutes of a Civil Society, For the Exploitation of a Rural Property in Algeria, Lyon, Dumoulin, 1845. 23 pages.
First edition.
One of the first documents relating to the Union. It presents the draft statutes of the company before its foundation, which would not take place until the end of 1845. The document also presents the members of the organizing committee and the list of the first subscribers.

- The Agricultural Union of... Civil joint-stock company for the exploitation of a rural property in Africa, Lyon, Boitel, [1845]. 16 pages.
First edition.
Work of the organizing committee from its formation until October 25, 1845. The end of the document gives the model of the power of attorney to be sent to subscribers for the founding of the company.

- Letter of application for membership, November 1845. 3 pages
Document in civil character probably sent to the subscribers who, on the eve of the filing of the application for a concession, seek to extend the number of concessionaires from ten to twelve people.
"ten to twelve people capable by their wealth and their position of lending us effective support."

- Plan with caption, (nd). (2) folding plates.
Probably the plan of the colony as it was planned in the early days of the project. It shows an enclosure of 400x300 meters grouping together residential and manufacturing buildings.

- Contract of enrollment of associated workers, Lyon, December 15, 1846. 2 pages.
Exceptional document presenting the contract that linked the Union with the associated workers.
Our copy is completed and countersigned by Félix Beuque (member of the board of directors) and Jacob Held, a 36-year-old ploughman and shoemaker from Geneva. Jacob Held commits for one year and becomes a shareholder with 50 francs.

- Pay scale for associated workers and Supplies scale, (nd). (2) pages.
Fascinating document for understanding the internal economy of the Union. Each worker is both an employee and an associate, the salary scale is defined for all hierarchical levels.
It should be noted that while women can claim a maximum of 70% of a man's salary, they can nevertheless access the position of special director of the 1st class (highest position after the General Director). We also see that a salary of 25 francs per year is provided for children from 0 to 5 years old...
On the back, we find the rate for accommodation and full board (with different meal and accommodation options).
Thus, a Worker's Assistant (14th class) will receive 504 francs per year and will spend at least 360 francs on food and 20 francs on accommodation.

- Union Agricole d'Afrique: Extract from the statutes..., Lyon, Boitel, (nd). (4) pages.
Extracts from the statutes and subscription form published after the founding of the civil society.

- Union Agricole d'Afrique joint stock company for the founding of an agricultural and industrial commune in the Sig plain, in Algeria, province of Oran, Lyon, Boitel, (nd). 4 pages.
Prospectus presenting the company.

- Union Agricole d'Afrique joint stock company... Royal concession order. Lyon, Boitel, (nd). 4 pages.
Prospectus reproducing the royal ordinance of concession granted to the Union.

Bulletin of the Union Agricole d'Afrique :

Bulletin intended for the members of the Union to report on the progress of the project and the first steps of the colony in Algeria.
- Bulletin No. 1: 4 pages. Proof presenting handwritten corrections that will be corrected in the distributed copy. In particular, the name of the correspondent of the city of Nancy is crossed out.
- Bulletin No. 1: 4 pages. Printing distributed with the inclusion of the corrections below, a new layout and the addition of the royal ordinance of Louis Philippe granting the concession.
- List of shareholders, Year 1847: 4 pages.
- Bulletin No. 2: Statutes of the Agricultural Union of Africa. 12 pages.
- Bulletin No. 3: Report of the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Union of Africa. 30-(2) pages.
- Bulletin No. 4: 4 pages and 2 plates.
- Bulletin No. 6: Union agricole d'Afrique: Report on the administration, financial year 1847-1848
(2)-8-60 pages.
- Bulletin No. 7: Union agricole d'Afrique. 4 pages.

- Colonisation du Sig, Réponse à Mr le Maréchal Bugeaud, Oran, 1848. 4 pages. Inserted between bulletins No. 4 and No. 6.
Article taken from the Echo d'Oran in which Captain Gautier responds to Marshal Bugeaud who announced the future fall of the Union in an article in the Revue des deux mondes.

- Bulletin de l'Union du Sig. Tome premier - Septembre 1849 - Aout 1850. 282-xliv-[283-298] pages. The first xliv pages bound after page 282.
First year of publication of the Bulletin of the Union of the Sig which replaced the Bulletin of the Agricultural Union of Africa, to report to the members of the activity of the colony in Algeria.

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COUSIN, Victor. 

Fragments de Philosophie Cartésienne. 

Paris, Charpentier, 1845.
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This book by Victor Cousin (1792-1867) consists in several texts dealing with Cartesian Philosophy, as well as letters between Malebranche and Mairan, and between Malebranche and Leibnitz (unpublished).
Victor Cousin is a French philosopher, leader of the "École Éclectique". He edited the works of Descartes, translated Plato and Proclus, wrote a "Histoire de la philosophie au XVIIIème siècle" in 1829, "Du Vrai, du Beau et du Bien" in 1853, and several monographs on famous women of the seventeenth century.
He is considered in France as the founder of the tradition of history studies of Philosophy and the reformer of philosophical teaching in high schools.

Photo PASCAL, Blaise. 

PASCAL, Blaise. 

Lettres écrites à un provincial. 

Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1845.
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TRISTAN, Flora. 

L'Union ouvrière. 

Paris, Chez tous les libraires, 1844.
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Flora Tristan (1803-1844), is a French socialist and feminist activist. She is a major figure of utopian socialism in the 1840s, she will take part in the first steps of internationalism. The Workers' Union is her political manifesto in which we find one of the first projects of workers' organization.
Five years before the famous "Proletarians of all countries unite" by K. Marx, Flora Tristan wrote: "Workers, you are weak and unhappy because you are divided; unite; unity is strength"
One of the first feminists of the social movement, she also affirms that woman is the proletarian of the proletarian.
Flora Tristan's work is bound at the end with 12 other Fourierist brochures:

- PELLERIN, Notice sur Charles Fourier et sur sa théorie d'association, (extrait de l'annuaire du Doubs pour 1838). 23 pages.

- CHEVALIER, Le 10 octobre à Lyon (troisième anniversaire de la mort de Ch. Fourier - Compte rendu), Cluny, Au centre de l'union phalanstérienne, 1840-1841. 33 pages.

- Ecole de Ch. Fourier, Union Phalanstérienne, sl, sd, sn. (2)-vii pages.

- AUCAIGNE, Réalisation en mode transitoire, Cluny, Au centre de l'union phalanstérienne, 1840-1841. 43-(1) pages

- PASSOT, Loi des destinées futures || Mélina B....x, La Fée Sociale, Cluny, Au centre de l'union phalanstérienne, 1840-1841. 36 pages.

- [Un Prêtre catholique romain], Accord des prophéties de l'ancien et du nouveau teastament avec la théorie sociétaire de Ch. Fourier, Cluny, Au centre de l'union phalanstérienne, 1841. 87 pages (salissures sur plusieurs feuillets).

- CHEVALIER, Les 27 et 28 aout à Cluny, Cluny, Au centre de l'union phalanstérienne, 1841. 34 pages.

- CONSIDERANT, Compte rendu de l'exposition du système sociétaire de Fourier les 18, 20, 21 et 22 février 1841 dans la salle de la société philharmonique à Dijon ( Extrait du journal de la côte d'or, revu et augmenté de notes). 24 pages.

- FESTEAU, Les Progressives, huit chansons nouvelles et inédites, Paris, Vieillot, sd. 24 pages.

- [CONSIDERANT], Petit cours de politique et d'économie sociale à l'usage des ignorants et des savants, Paris, librairie sociétaire, 1844. 72 pages.

- CONSIDERANT, Théorie du Droit de propriété et du Droit au travail,Paris, Librairie phalanstérienne, 1848. 36 pages.

- [Anonyme], Recueil des chants de l'Union industrielle dondée au Palmitar (Brésil), Lyon, Mable ainé, 1842. 11 pages.

Photo GAMA MACHADO, José Joaquim da. 

GAMA MACHADO, José Joaquim da. 

Théorie des ressemblances ou essai philosophique sur les moyens de déterminer les dispositions physiques et morales des animaux. 

Paris, H. Fournier et Cie, 1844.
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First edition.
Third part alone of the four parts that appeared over a period of almost thirty years. The first part appeared in 1831, the last in 1858. The subject, on the border between natural history and philosophy, consists in applying a rigorous analogy between animal forms and human psychology. In the tradition of Lavater, Gall and the physiognomists, the physical configuration of the organ is revealing of personal dispositions. Da Gama Machado was a commander and gentleman of the Royal House of the King of Portugal; he lived surrounded by his birds, which he cherished.

Presentation copy to Achille Comte (1802-1866).

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BOUILLIER, Francisque. 

Histoire et critique de la révolution cartésienne. 

Lyon, Boitel, 1842.
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First edition.
Francisque Bouillier (1813-1899) was a French philosopher known above all for his studies on Cartesianism.

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[FOURIERISME]. 

Catalogue raisonné des publications de l'École sociétaire. 

Paris, Paul Renouard, [1842].
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150 €

First edition.
During the 1840s, Fourierists led by Victor Considerant engaged in extensive written propaganda, especially through the Society for the Propagation and Realization of Fourier's Theory, aiming to inspire individuals to initiate or fund experiments in communal living. The Sociétaire Bookstore in Paris produced a vast amount of literature. Catalogs detailing their publications with summaries were frequently released, often accompanying other works. The 1842 catalog serves as an illustration.

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