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Photo VATTEL, Emmerich de. 

VATTEL, Emmerich de. 

Questions de droit naturel, et observations sur le traité du droit de la nature de M. le Baron de Wolf. 

Berne, Société typographique, 1762.
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First edition of the last work published by the famous Swiss jurist.
Despite his critical remarks regarding Wolff's theory, he declared himself to be Wolff's disciple and set himself the task of commenting on Wolff's work to make it more useful.
Thus, he aimed to accustom young people studying natural law to clear, precise and clear argumentation. If Woff ever made a mistake, he proposed to correct it ("Warning").

Photo ÉRASME || GUEUDEVILLE, Nicolas (trad.). 

ÉRASME || GUEUDEVILLE, Nicolas (trad.). 

Les Colloques d'Érasme. 

Leide, Pierre vander Aa & Boudouin Jansson vander Aa, 1720.
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First edition of this translation by Gueudeville of the famous Colloquies of Erasmus, a collection of satirical and moral dialogues written by the great Dutch humanist of the 16th century. These texts, both erudite and accessible, aim to instruct while entertaining, by denouncing the failings of the society and the Church of his time. This edition is sought after for the engravings in the style of Hooge placed at the head of the chapters.

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HUARTE, Jean. 

L'Examen des Esprits pour les Sciences. 

Amsterdam, Jean de Ravestein / Pierre Mortier [Daniel Elzevier], 1672.
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First edition of the French translation by François Savinien d'Alquié.
Beautiful Elzevirian edition decorated with a frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe.
On our copy, a butterfly replaces the name of the publisher with that of Pierre Mortier with the date of 1704.
Fresh copy.

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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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First edition.
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.

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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 [BAYLE, Pierre] || DESCARTES, René. 

[BAYLE, Pierre] || DESCARTES, René. 

Recueil de quelques pièces curieuses concernant la philosophie de monsieur Descartes. 

Amsterdam, Henry Desbordes, 1684.
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First edition.
Collection of writings relating to Cartesian philosophy by Malebranche, Louis Le Valois, Abbé De Lannion under the pseudonym of Guillaume Wander, Pierre Bayle.

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FOURIER, Charles. 

La Fausse industrie morcelée, répugnante, mensongère, et l'antidote, l'industrie naturelle, combinée, attrayante, véridique, donnant quadruple produit. 

Paris, Bossange, 1835.
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First edition.
The last and most enigmatic of Charles Fourier's books. First volume (on 2) only.
Fourierist exegetes see the beginnings of a planetary ecology, Fourier inventing a practical ecosophy source of wealth and abundance.
Like pagination, the speech is often disjointed, linking demonstrations and free discussions moving from one subject to another.

Photo MALEBRANCHE, Nicolas. 

MALEBRANCHE, Nicolas. 

Entretiens sur la Metaphysique & sur la Religion. 

Rotterdam, Reiner Leers, 1688.
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First edition.
The Entretiens sur la métaphysique et sur la religion are the most accomplished of all Malebranche's works. A true literary work, demonstrating a magnificent mastery of the art of dialogue, these fourteen conversations are a model of pedagogy.

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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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D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond. 

Mélanges de littérature, d'histoire et de philosophie. 

Amsterdam, Zacharie Chatelain et fils, 1773.
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New edition.
Compilation of D'Alembert's text begun in the midst of the Encyclopédie crisis and during the years when its publication was banned. He constantly refers to it and publishes some of the articles there. D'Alembert also fuels, through these texts, the controversy with Rousseau on the status of Literature.

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LOCKE, John. 

Essai philosophique concernant l'entendement humain, où l'on montre qu'elle est l'étendue de nos connoissances certaines, et la manière dont nous y parvenons. 

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1729.
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Second edition augmented of the french translation.
Major work by John Locke in which he develops an empiricist theory of knowledge that opposes the innate ideas of Descartes.

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HAMELIN, Gabriel || LE CANU. 

Philosophia. 

[Caen], s.n., [v. 1730].
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Original manuscript.
Philosophy course given in Caen by Professor Le Canu (?) around 1730.

The writer was Gabriel François Hamelin de Préfosse (1713-1776) who was a doctor of medicine in Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue.

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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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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POMPERY, Edouard (de). 

Théorie de l'association et de l'unité universelle de C. Fourier. 

Paris, Capelle, 1841.
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First edition.
Édouard de Pompéry (1812-1895), French political journalist, publicist and essayist. He worked to bring together the work of the Freemason lodges and the theories of Charles Fourier.
This work was the subject of a fierce polemic with the editors of La Phalange (the journal of the Fourierists of the First Circle). The controversy centered on the notion of free will and the ability of each individual to act or not to act on the course of things. Pompéry was accused of promoting a false doctrine, under the guise of societal theory.

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MALEBRANCHE, Nicolas. 

De la Recherche de la Vérité. 

Paris, Bordelet, 1749.
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During the publication of this treatise (first ed. : 1675), the first published by Malebranche, his contemporaries especially retained Cartesianism: dualism of thought and extension, rule of evidence, method using the Regulae of Descartes, influence of Dioptrics and the Treatise on Man, Cartesian physics. Even the concept of the soul, a simple occasion for the movements of the body, could be drawn from the Cartesians La Forge and Cordemoy. Malebranche still appears as one of many Cartesians trying to relate to Augustinianism. The break with Cartesianism came with the publication of Enlightenments on the Search for Truth (1678). Until then centered on man, Malebranche's thought here operates a theocentric reversal. From now on, everything starts from God. All physical relationships, like all moral values, are only the expression of an immutable Order.
Many figures in the text.

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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First edition.
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).

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DESCARTES, René. 

Les Principes de la philosophie de René Descartes. 

Paris, Nicolas Le Gras, 1681.
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Fourth edition.
"The Principles of Philosophy" by René Descartes is a fundamental work of Western philosophy. In this treatise, Descartes sets out his vision of the world, based on metaphysical and physical principles. He develops his method of doubt, his famous "cogito, ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am), and his conceptions on the nature of the soul and the body.

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[MANUSCRIT]. 

Metaphysica. 

s.l., s.n., 1775.
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Original manuscript.
Course in metaphysics and ontology with a long section on theodicy.

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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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[VOLTAIRE]. 

Souvenirs de Madame de Caylus. 

Amsterdam, Marc Michel Rey, 1770.
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Edition published the same year as the original edition.
Bengesco [II, pp.415-417] comments at length on the difference between this edition and that of Geneva at Robert. The text in Rey's edition goes as far as the hardback edition of the Robert edition except for the last sentence. S

ome hypotheses suggest that it was Diderot who had this Amsterdam edition published, whereas Madame de Caylus's manuscript had been passed from hand to hand for several years. However, a few rare copies have a 22-page notebook with a preface by Voltaire which is absent from our copy [cf. Bengesco].

Photo LECHEVALIER, Jules. 

LECHEVALIER, Jules. 

Études sur la science sociale. Année 1832. Théorie de Charles Fourier. 

Paris, Librairie générale de Capelle [Renduel], 1834.
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First edition.
Jules Lechevalier Saint-André is a French utopian socialist publicist and economist. He is considered one of the pioneers of social economics. The year 1832 marks his conversion to Fourierism after having been a Saint-Simonian.

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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]. 

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 [BLANCHET, Jean]. 

[BLANCHET, Jean]. 

L'Homme éclairé par ses besoins. 

Paris, Durand, 1764.
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First edition.
The work of a philosopher who was won over to the ideas of the Lumières, Blanchet is resolutely modern: the 18th century is marked by the reign of science and the arts, and the passions of modern man are the subject of vibrant praise, including self-esteem, because it is they which allow the realization of the great projects of humanity, which a Diderot would not deny.

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GRETRY, André-Ernest. 

Mémoires ou essai sur la musique. 

Paris, Prault, 1789.
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First edition.
The Memoirs of Gretry constitute a document of particular importance for the musical and literary history of the 18th century. There are indeed many details concerning not only the life of Gretry, his feelings, his musical works, but also music in general, comedy, painting, travel .... and various writers and composers.

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[FOURIERISME]. 

Catalogue raisonné des publications de l'École sociétaire. 

Paris, Paul Renouard, [1842].
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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.

Photo OCELLUS, Lucanus. 

OCELLUS, Lucanus. 

De la nature de l'univers Avec la Traduction Françoise & des Remarques, par M. l'Abbé Batteux. 

Paris, Saillant, 1768.
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First edition of the Batteux's translation in french. With the text in greek.
Bound after, Timée de Locres "De l'Ame du Monde" and Aristote "Lettres d'Aristote à Alexandre sur le Système du Monde", also with the translation of Batteux.

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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!".

Photo EBERHARD, Jean Auguste || SOCRATE. 

EBERHARD, Jean Auguste || SOCRATE. 

Examen de la Doctrine touchant le salut des payens, ou nouvelle apologie pour Socrate. 

Amsterdam, E. Van Harrevelt, 1773.
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First edition in French.
Eberhard is a German Protestant philosopher and theologian, disciple of Leibniz he was one of the most virulent opponents of Kant.

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COUSIN, Victor. 

Cours de philosophie.
Introduction à l'histoire de la philosophie. 

Paris, Pichon et Didier, 1828.
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First edition.

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