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[LIVRE d'HEURES ENLUMINÉ].

Livre d’Heures à l’usage de Paris.

s.l., s.n., [circa 1420].

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From a follower of the Boucicaut Master.

The painter uses an extensive palette with sharp contrasts, and does not hesitate to use a bright minium red that he contrasts with the blues and greens in the happiest of ways.
The abstract backgrounds and the systematic use of a grassy ground, give to the whole manuscript a beautiful coherence and a great elegance.

Some of the preserved paintings, such as those of the Annunciation to the Shepherds, the Crucifixion, and St. Margaret, bear witness to the artist's talent and the high quality of this manuscript.

It should be noted that the composition of the The Flight into Egypt is closely mirrors of a Boucicaut composition.

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DEMIDOFF, Anatole de || DURAND, André || RAFFET, Auguste.

Excursion pittoresque et archéologique en Russie par le Havre, Hambourg, Lubeck, Saint-Pétersbourg, Moscou, Nijni-Nowgorod, Yaroslaw et Kasan, exécutée en 1839.

Paris, Gihaut frères, [v.1842].

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Scarce first edition of this atlas of the second excursion to Russia, financed by Anatole de Demidoff and sought after for its beautiful lithographs of the greatest Russian cities and their famous landmarks.

More commonly found is the atlas of the first excursion of 1837, which accompanies the book "Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie exécutée en 1837."

The second expedition, executed in 1839, departed from Le Havre and passed through Hamburg, Lubeck, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslaw, and Kasan.

The views published in the present second album are the most famous, since they included beautiful lithographs of the largest Russian towns and their celebrated places, such as the Winter Palace and the Alexandrine column in St. Petersburg, the banks of the Volga in Nizhniy-Novgorod, the Kremlins of Kasan and Moscow.

LA PEROUSE, Jean-François de Galaup (Comte de).

Voyage de la Pérouse autour du Monde, publié conformément au décret du 22 Avril 1791, et rédigé par M. L.A. Milet-Mureau.

Paris, Imprimerie De La Republique, 1797.

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First edition.
A complete copy.

DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector.

Traite sur la Cavalerie.

Paris, Imprimerie de Guillaume Desprez, 1776.

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First edition of this famous treatise on cavalry, one of the most spectacular ever published.

The treatise itself, adorned with a beautiful frontispiece by Pierre Charles Ingouf, depicting Louis XVI reviewing the mounted troops, a title vignette by Macret, and four headings and three tailpieces engraved by various artists after Van Blaremberghe, is illustrated with 11 copper-engraved tactical plates, seven of which are double-page spreads and one folded.

This copy bears the coat of arms of the Duke of Condé, second in the list of 69 subscribers to the work, after the Duke of Chartres, who was the author's godfather.

Text volume only. The atlas, bearing the coat of arms of the Prince of Condé, was sold at the 1988 Biennale des Antiquaires, Librairie Léonce Laget, Paris, and then at Christie's in 2016.

[HOET, Gérard] || [PICART, Bernard] || [HONDT, Pieter de] || [SAURIN, Pierre] ||.

Figures de la Bible. Taferelen der voornaamste Geschiedenissen van het oude en nieuwe testament.

La Haye, Pieter de Hondt, 1728.

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First edition.
One of the most beautiful illustrations of the Bible in the eighteenth century.
This remarkable iconograph of the Bible in which Gérard Hoet and Bernard Picart mainly participated includes 214 full-page plates (29 double-page), the legend of which is written in Hebrew, English, German, Latin, French and Dutch.
The two frontispieces are captioned in French, the rest of the text is written in Dutch. Each chapter ends with a beautiful engraved cul-de-lampe.
This set of prints was first started by Picart in 1720 with the assistance of the Dutch painter Gérard Hoet, for what would undoubtedly become the pinnacle of the "Figures of the Bible". The Figures of the Bible are collections of engravings, which represent or signify Scripture through cycles of prints covering the entire Bible, a single Testament, or even a single biblical book. It is a genre that became popular with printing in the sixteenth century.
Pierre de Hondt, recovers the engravings of Picart, who with his multilingual legends already had a desire for European distribution, to accompany texts by Pierre Saurin (cf. Brunet). Everything is newly decorated with typographic ornaments.

Beautiful copy of Talleyrand at Chateau de Valençay with his ex libris in each volume.

PASSALACQUA, Joseph.

Catalogue raisonné et historique des antiquités découvertes en Egypte.

Paris, Galerie d'Antiquites Egyptiennes, 1826.

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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".

LEON L'AFRICAIN [Leo Africanus, Johannes (al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi).].

De Totius Africae descriptione, libri IX.
Quibus non solùm Africae regionum, insularum, & oppidorum fitus, locorum q intreualla accuratè complexus est, sed Regum familius, bellorum causas &euentus, resq. In ea memorabiles, tam à seipso diligente obseruatione indagatas, q in veris Maurorum Annalib. Memoriae traditas, copiose descripsit, recéns in Latinam linguam conuersi Ioan. Floriano Interprete.

Anvers, Ioan. Latium, 1556.

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Rare first latin edition of this famous description of Africa.
Born Al Hassan Ibn Mahommed Al Wezaz Al Fasi probably in Granada in about 1494, the author received a great part of his education at Fez, later travelling through most of northern Africa between 1507-1520.
He undertook his most famous series of journeys across the Sahara into modern day Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Chad between 1513 and 1515.
Later he travelled to Constantinople and Egypt, and while travelling home from there in 1520 was captured by pirates and presented to Pope Leo X in Rome.
There he converted to Christianity, was baptized and adopted his Christian name.
First published in Italian in 1550, this first Latin edition was the basis for the English translation of 1600.

A complete copy, with the 2 final blank leaves often missing and in a contemporary binding.

CHAMPOLLION, Jean François.

Précis du système hiéroglyphique des anciens égyptiens, ou Recherches sur les élémens premiers de cette écriture sacrée.

Paris, Treuttel et Würtz, 1824.

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Deciphering of the hieroglyphic language by Champollion.
The Rosetta Stone, brought back by the Napoleonic expeditions to Egypt, gave the same text in three different languages, it is the key that gave Champollion the understanding of the language of the ancient Egyptians.
After laying down the principle of phonetic writing in 1822 in his Letter to M. Dacier, he continued his work and his demonstrations until he had an intimate knowledge of this language: "It is a complex system, a writing at the same time figurative, symbolic and phonetic, in the same text, the same sentence, I would almost say in the same word"

His Precis of the hieroglyphic system gives us with many examples an unprecedented understanding of hieroglyphs, thus cutting the grass under the feet of his opponents (and competitors) such as Thomas Young.

The discovery of Champollion suddenly gave humanity access to three millennia of its history.

[CONDORCET, Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de].

Essai sur la Constitution et les Fonctions des Assemblees Provinciales, Ou l'on trouve un Plan pour la Constitution & l'Administration de la France.
[Suivi de]
Sur la nécessité de faire ratifier la Constitution par les Citoyens, et sur la formation des communautés de Campagne. [1789].

Paris, s.n., 1788.

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Two important works from Condorcet.
1- "Essai sur la Constitution" : Scarce fist edition of the Condorcet's "most important political work" (Badinter Condorcet).
It is one of the fundamental texts in French political history and "the most important book of Constitutional Law that was published at that time and even since" (Allengry, Condorcet guide de la Révolution Française).
In this work, Condorcet is one of the first authors to claim the right to vote for women.
2. "Sur la nécessité de faire ratifier la Constitution par les citoyens", is less known but important, since Condorcet studies the question of whether, and under what conditions, a nation may confer upon an assembly the power to give it a constitution or to accept it on its behalf.

WEIS, Jean-Martin.

Représentation des fêtes données par la Ville de Strasbourg pour la convalescence du Roi; à l'arrivée et pendant le séjour de Sa Majesté en cette Ville.

Paris, Aubert, 1744.

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Unique edition of the festival celebrating the arrival of Louis XV in Strasbourg in October 1744. Published at the city's expense, the work is composed of a calligraphic title, 20 engr. calligraphic explanation pp.,- an equestrian portrait of Louis XV and 11 etchings on double pages swarming with 1000 lively details (onlookers, dances, acrobats...). They depict the arrival and the procession of the king into the town, the Cardinal of Rohan's welcome in the front of the cathedral, the night festivities (fireworks on the Ill, illuminated buildings) and the day festivities (water jousting, games, dances and sword exercises). Some foxing or otherwise soiled, armorial binding (joint split, sides and corners rubbed...).

VIGOUREUX, Clarisse.

Parole de Providence.

Paris, Bossange, Novembre 1834.

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Scarce first edition of the only work by the first female disciple of Charles Fourier.
Clarisse Vigoureux (1789-1865), born Charlotte-Dorothée-Claire Gauthier, was a fervent follower of Fourier's theories: it was she who introduced Victor Considerant to Fourierism (the latter married his daughter Julie).
She put her personal fortune at the service of the Fourierist cause by financing Phalanges (the journal of Charles Fourier) and later the exile of Considerant and then their attempt to found the Réunion phalanstery in Texas. Ruined, she will end her life alone in San Antonio.

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 African Agricultural Union and became the main leader and financial supporter from the Lyon Corporate School in the 1860s.

His work responded to the Words of a Believer, published in April 1834 by Lamennais, in which he promoted violence in the service of the class struggle. Clarisse Vigoureux, deeply pacifist and feminist, will answer him:
"What is this war cry and this reverberation which has been heard on all sides? [...] I ask the stronger sex who knows how to dethrone their kings, and who, calling himself a king, does not know how to hold the reins of the world" (excerpt from the preface)
This book will be condemned by the Roman Church and put in the Index catalog on September 22, 1836.

On the false title we see. finds the following mention written in pencil : "Given by Miss Beuque to Mr Barrier. (April 1845). Aimée Beuque (1788-1871) met Charles Fourier at Clarisse Vigoureux in 1828 and immediately adhered to his ideas, she will lead the Fourierist circles of Lyon. François Barrier, professor of medicine at the Faculty of Lyon, adhered to the Fourierist doctrine in 1844.

SAVARY, Jacques.

Le Parfait Négociant ou instruction générale pour ce qui regarde le commerce.

Paris, Jean Guignard, 1675.

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3500 €

First edition.
A famous merchant born in 1622 in Doué (Anjou) from a noble family, Savary became a wealthy merchant and retired from business at the age of 36. He was chosen by Colbert to be one of the writers of the commercial code of 1673 which was called "Code Savary". He wrote in 1675 the "Perfect trader" which is the compilation of the knowledge he had gathered for the drafting of the ordinance. The legal solutions are clear, sensible, practical, honest. The book is a business bible whose importance Max Weber underlined. This work became a classic, reprinted many times and translated into German, English and Italian.

[JESUITES].

Lettres édifiantes et curieuses écrites des missions étrangères.

Paris, J.G. Mérigot le jeune, 1780-1783.

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The present edition, enlarged and corrected by l'Abbé de Querbeuf, is preferred to the original, as it is arranged systematically according to geographic region : Volumes I to V relate to the Levant, VI to IX to North and South America, X to XV to India, XVI to XXIV to China, and XXV to XXVI to India and China.
Copy with the 56 plates and maps as called by Howes (L-299).
Volume VIII contains the third French printing of famous Kino map of California.

FOURIER, Charles.

Théorie des Quatre Mouvemens et des Destinées Générales. Prospectus et Annonce de la Découverte.

Leipzig [Lyon], [Pelzin], 1808.

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3500 €

First edition.
Founding work of Fourierism.
It is in this book that Charles Fourier sets out for the first time his theories on the organization of human societies. Discoveries, which, according to him, is on a par with Newton's theory of gravitation. Fourier defines four phases of universal history (ascending chaos, ascending plenitude, descending plenitude, descending chaos), each phase subdivided into a multitude of times. Humanity is currently going through the fifth time of the first phase: Civilization. The revelation to humanity of "passionate attraction" will bring about Harmony, a phase of bliss in which Fourier's Utopia is realized.
When it was published, no one understood anything about this work, riddled with neologisms, divisions and subdivisions, extravagant considerations... the press passed over the book in silence and Fourier, annoyed that he was not recognized as a Genius, would not publish again for fourteen years.

Rare untouched copy.

DESCARTES, René.

Specimina Philosophiae: Seu Dissertatio de Methodo Recte regendæ rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandæ: Dioptice, et Meteora.

Amsterdam, Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1644.

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First latin edition of the Discours de la Méthode.

Milestone in the history of science which marked an epistemological rupture.
The Latin translation of the Discourse on the Method was first undertaken by Etienne de Courcelles but Descartes revised it, modified it and introduced variants compared to the French text of 1637. We find there for the first time the phrase (page 31) : "cogito, ergo sum".
The scientific texts following the Discourse are illustrated with numerous woods in the text.

DE SAINCT JULIEN, Pierre.

De L'Origine des Bourgongnons, et antiquité des estats de Bourgongne.

Paris, Nicolas Chesneau, 1581.

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First edition.
One of the most sought after books on the history of Burgundy.

Complete copy with all the plates representing the cities of Dijon, Beaune, Autun, Mascon, Chalon sur Saone and Tournus.

D'AQUIN, Thomas.

Summa de veritate celeberrimi doctoris sancte Thome Aquinatis.

Coloniae Agrippinae, Quentell, 1508.

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Post-incunable edition.
The most famous work of St Thomas Aquinas, which brings together 29 questions on the truth, and 253 articles of answers. These disputed issues correspond to the first disputes led by Thomas Aquinas as master of theology at the University of Paris during the academic year 1256–1257, when Thomas Aquinas was a young professor. He exposes the different modes of truth according to being.

DESCARTES, René.

Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison et chercher la vérité dans les sciences.
Plus la Dioptrique et les Météores qui sont des essais de cette méthode.

Paris, Michel Bobin & Nicolas Le Gras, 1668.

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The true third edition with the privilège dated 28 avril 1668.

[AFFAIRE DU COLLIER DE LA REINE].

Recueil de 36 pièces concernant l'affaire du Collier de la Reine.

Paris, s.n., 1785-1788.

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The most exhaistive set we've met. With the famous plate of the Collier.

Set of 36 pieces, mostly in first edition, with 11 additional portraits and the plate reproducing the "Collier".

Portraits :
Volume I
1.Jeanne de Saint-Remy de Valois, épouse du comte de La Motte
2. Comte de La Motte
3. Mle de La Tour
4. Comte de Cagliostro
5 Seraphina Felichiani Comtesse de Cagliostro
6. Louis René Edouard Prince de Rohan Guémené
7. Mademoiselle Leguet d'Esigny d'Olisva
8. M.N. Leguay d'Olivia
Volume II :
9. De Bette d'Etienville
10. Madame Mella de Courville Sulbark
11. Monsieur le Baron de la Fages

List of pieces
Volume I :
1. Mémoire pour dame Jeanne de Saint-Remy de Valois, épouse du comte de La Motte. [Paris], de l'imprimerie de L. Cellot, 1785. 46 pages.
2. Mémoire pour le comte de Cagliostro, accusé ; contre M. le procureur-général, accusateur. Paris, de l'imprimerie de Lottin,1786. (4)-51 pages.
3. Requête au Parlement, les chambres assemblées, par le comte de Cagliostro, Paris, de l'imprimerie de Lottin,1786. 7 pages
4- Requête au parlement, les chambres assemblées, par le Cardinal de Rohan. Paris, Emmanuel Flon, 1786. 8 pages
5. Requête introductive au parlement, les chambres assemblées, par le Cardinal de Rohan, Paris, Emmanuel Flon, 1786. 40 pages. Une tache p.39/40
6. Mémoire pour la demoiselle le Guay d'Oliva fille mineure [...], Paris, Simon & Nyon, 1786. (4)-46 pages.
7. Réponse pour la Comtesse de Valois-Lamotte au mémoire du Comte de Cagliostro, Paris, de l'imprimerie de L. Cellot, 1786. 48 pages
8.Mémoire pour Louis-René-Édouard de Rohan cardinal de la Sainte Eglise romaine [...] contre M. le procureur-général, Paris, de l'imprimerie de Cl. Simon, 1786. 158 pages.
9. Pièces justificatives pour M. le cardinal de Rohan, accusé, Paris, de l'imprimerie de Cl. Simon, 1786. 24 pages.
10. Sommaire pour la comtesse de Valois-La Motte, accusée ; contre M. le procureur-général, accusateur. Paris, de l'imprimerie de L. Cellot, 1786. 62 pages.
11. Second mémoire pour la demoiselle Le Guay d'Oliva, Analyse et résultat des récolemens & confrontations, Paris, Simon & Nyon, 1786. 56 pages.
12. Réflexions rapides pour M. le Cardinal de Rohan sur le sommaire de la Dame de La Motte, Paris, Simon, sd. 24 pages.
13. Requête à joindre au Mémoire du comte de Cagliostro. Paris, de l'imprimerie de Lottin, 1786. 11 pages
14. Requête pour le sieur Marc-Antoine Retaux de Villette contre le procureur général, Paris, Simon & Nyon, 1786. 19 pages.
15. Arrêt du Parlement, la Grand'Chambre assemblée du 31 mai 1786, Paris, Simon, 1786. 20 pages.
16. Mandement du Vicaire-Général de la Grande Aumaunerie de France, qui permet l'usage des Oeufs pendant le Carême. 1786. 6 pages.
17. Mémoire pour le Comte de Cagliostro, demandeur, contre Me Chesnon, le Fils et le Sieur de Launay [...] défendeurs, Paris, de l'imprimerie de Lottin, 1786. 37 pages
Volume II :
18. La Dernière pièce du fameux collier, sn, sd. (2)-34 pages.
19. Ma correspondance avec M. le Comte de Cagliostro, seconde édition, Milan, Aux dépens de la société des Gagliostriens, 1786. (2)-38 pages.
20. Suite de ma correspondance avec M. le Comte de Cagliostro, Milan, Aux dépens de la société Cagliostrienne. 16 pages.
21. Requête au Roi pour le comte de Cagliostro contre le Sieur Chesnon fils et le Sieur de Launay, Paris, Lottin, 1787. 72 pages.
22. Pièce importante dans l'Affaire du Marquis de Launey contre le Sieur de Cagliostro, Grangé, 1787. 8 pages.
23. Au Roi, Alexandre comte de Cagliostro contre le Sieur de Launey et le sieur Chesnon fils. Requête de production nouvelle Lottin, 1787. 8 pages.
24. Réponse à la pièce importante du Sieur de Launey pour le Comte de Cagliostro, contre le Sieur de Launey et la Sieur Chesnon, Fils, Lottin, 1787. (2)-25 pages.
25. Confessions du comte de C*** avec l'histoire de ses voyages en Russie, Turquie, Italie et dans les pyramides d'Egypte, Au Caire, Cailleau, 1787. (2)-57 pages.
(8 ff. bl.)
26. Défense à une accusation d'escroquerie. Mémoire à consulter et consultation. Mémoire à consulter Pour Jean-Charles-Vincent de Bette d'Etienville Contre le Sieur Vauchier. Paris, Cellot, 1786. (2)-30 pages
27. Second mémoire à consulter et consultation, sur la défense à une accusation d'escroquerie, pour Jean-Charles-Vincent de Bette d'Etienville, Paris, Cailleau, 1786. (2)-29 pages
28. Mémoire pour M. le Baron de Fages-Chaulnes contre les Sieurs Vaucher et Loque, Paris, Prault, 1786. (2)-30 pages.
29. Mémoire pour le Sr de Bette d'Etienville servant de réponse à celui de M. de Fages, Paris, Cailleau, 1786. (2)-30 pages.
30. Mémoire pour les Sieurs Vaucher, horloger & Loque, Bijoutier contre le sieur Bette d'Etienville, le Baron de Fages-Chaulnes & autres accusés, Paris, Prault, 1786. 88 pages.
31. Supplément et suite aux mémoires du sieur de Bette d'Etienville, Paris, Cailleau, 1786. (2)-69 pages.
32. Réponse de M. Le Comte de Précourt aux Mémoires des Sieurs D'Etienville, Vaucher & Locque. Paris, Prault, 1776 (i.e. 1786). 42 pages
33. Mémoire à consulter et consultation pour F. François-Valentin Mulot contre le sieur Loque & le sieur Vaucher [...] Paris, Demonville, 1786. 48 pages.
34. Plaidoyer de Me Montigny, pour le Sieur de Bette d'Etienville. Paris, Cailleau, 1786. (2)-70 pages.
35. Résumé pour Jean-Charles-Vincent deBette d'Etienville. Paris. Vve d'Houry & Debure. 1787. 23 pages.
36. Réplique Pour le Sieur de Bette d'Etienville; contre les Sieurs Vauchez & Loque. Paris. Bannard. 1788(2)-18 pages
Reliées in fine 7 pages manuscrites. Copie du "supplément n°52 aux nouvelles extraordinaires de divers endroit" donnant les arrêt concernants Mme de la Motte et du Sieur de Vilette (4) pages, suivi de centurie attribuée à Nostradamus qui concernerait l'affaire du collier.

[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.

FOURIER, Charles.

Théorie des Quatre Mouvemens et des Destinées Générales. Prospectus et Annonce de la Découverte.

Leipzig [Lyon], [Pelzin], 1808.

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2000 €

First edition.
Founding work of Fourierism. It is in this book that Charles Fourier sets out for the first time his theories on the organization of human societies. Discoveries, which, according to him, is on a par with Newton's theory of gravitation. They must lead Humanity to a state of universal Harmony.

Some handwritten corrections.

Bound with is a rare brochure by Fourier:

[FOURIER], Mnémonique géographique ou méthode pour apprendre en peu de leçons la géographie, la statistique et la politique. Paris, Impr. Carpentier-Méricourt, [1824]. 15-(1) pages.
"Brand-new views on the teaching of one of the positive sciences, formerly cultivated, that Fourier was most fond of. The procedures he indicates, and particularly that of the Theory of Causes in Creation, are related to his system of Universal Unity. This piece is very curious. " (notice from the 'catalogue raisonné de l'école sociétaire', 1842).

BOUTMY, Emile || RIBOT, Alexandre.

Cours d'Histoire Constitutionnelle donnés à l'École libre des sciences politiques.

s.l., s.n., 1886.

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2000 €

Original manuscripts.
Rare and well-preserved set of two constitutional history courses given at Sciences Po Paris in 1886 by the founders of the school: Emile Boutmy and Alexandre Ribot.
Perfectly readable and careful manuscripts by a writer who will remain unknown who was a listener of Emile Boutmy's course on the Constitution of the United States in May-June 1886 and the course on the French Constitution since 1789 given by Alexandre Ribot in February-March 1886.
Created by Emile Boutmy in the aftermath of the 1870 defeat and the Paris Commune, the École Libre des Sciences Politiques (now known as Sciences-Po) aimed to teach political science as a positive science. She will form the elite of french politicians until today.
1886 was the last year in which Boutmy gave his course on the Constitution of the United States; we know a transcription of it in the notes left by Pierre de Coubertin who was also a listener of this course the same year. A comparison of the transcription of Coubertin's notes and our manuscript leads us to believe that our collection is more faithful (seems to be a word for word transcription) of Boutmy's teaching.

Alexandre Ribot's course on the French Constitution (second part of a more extensive course on European constitutions) leaves an important part on the birth of the Third Republic whose constitutional laws were only passed in 1875.

REGEMORTES, Louis de.

Description du nouveau pont de pierre, construit sur la rivière d'Allier a Moulins; avec l'exposé des motifs qui ont déterminé son emplacement, et les dessins et détails relatifs à sa construction.

Paris, Lottin, 1771.

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2000 €

First edition.
Monumental impression for the description of the Moulins bridge built from 1754 to 1762 under the direction of Louis de Règemortes, engineer of bridges and roads: Plans, sections, elevations and maps.
Note the impressive fifth plank measuring over 1.80m long representing the foundations of the bridge.
"The work that has illustrated his name is the construction of the Moulins bridge, for which several unsuccessful attempts had been made in the previous century. The success of the project drawn up by Louis de Règemorte is mainly due to the establishment of a general masonry base. , strongly defended against the action of water, with unsinkable longitudinal levees attached to the wedges, to prevent the disastrous effect of scouring and flooding which had brought the ruin of the works undertaken on the same point from 1679 to 1689. " Tarbé de Saint-Hardouin (Biographical notes on the engineers of the bridges and roads since the creation of the body, in 1716, until our days, Baudry, 1884)

The now "Pont Règemortes" still crosses the Allier more than 250 years more late proof of the success of the engineer.

[VOLTAIRE].

L'Homme aux quarante ecus.

[Genève], s.n., 1768.

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1750 €

The rare first edition, first issue with the errata.

Voltaire's only work on economics.
Written as a criticism of the physiocracts and the work of Le Mercier de la Rivière in particular, it was sufficiently controversial to be condemned and ordered to be burned by Parliament in 1768.

[EON DE BEAUMONT, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste].

Les Loisirs du Chevalier d'Éon de Beaumont, ancien Ministre Plénipotentiaire de France, sur divers sujets importans d'Administration.

Amsterdam, s.n., 1774-1775.

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1750 €

First edition.
Autobiography of the Chevalier d'Eon, the most famous transvestite in the history of France. But beyond the incredible story of his cross-dressing at the court of Elizabeth of Russia which turned into an international incident, the Chevalier d'Eon was a diplomat who frequented European courts during the reign of Louis XV. This autobiography, published the day after the scandal during which he publicly claimed to be a woman, is centered around his stay at the court of Angleterere.

NIEBUHR, Carsten.

Voyage de M. Niebuhr en Arabie et en d'autres pays de l'orient.

En Suisse, Chez les libraires associés, 1780.

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1500 €

Second edition in french.
Travel journal of scientific exploration that King Frederick V of Denmark has to send to Egypt, Arabia and Syria. Our copy sees all its maps enhanced with colors, in particular the large folding map of the Red Sea, as well as certain engravings of landscapes.

GATTI DE GAMOND, Zoé.

Réalisation d'une commune sociétaire, d'après la théorie de Charles Fourier.

Paris, Chez l'auteur, 1840.

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1500 €

First edition.
Zoé Charlotte de Gamond (1806-1854), Belgian feminist, disciple of Charles Fourier whose work she became a commentator. In September 1841, she bought a monastery in Burgundy, the famous abbey of Cîteaux, in order to establish a phalanstery there, the theoretical aspect of which she had imagined in this work. In particular, she gave a feminist tint to the theories of Charles Fourier. Fourier's "Harmony" was supposed to regenerate the condition of Women. This phalanstery, which operated until 1846, was a financial disaster. The De Gamond couple, thus ruined, returned to Brussels where they led a life of embarrassment and deprivation.

[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 €

First edition.
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.

[MANUSCRIT] SIMON DE CODES || LALLY-TOLLENDAL.

Extracto de la Defensa de Luis 16.

s.l., s.n., 1794.

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Transcription in Spanish of the Defense of Louis XVI by Gérard de Lally-Tollendal who had proposed to be defender of Louis XVI during his trial. It is ultimately Malesherbes who will be preferred to him but Lally-Tollendal insisted on broadcasting his argument as he had prepared it.
Here it is the Spanish translation by Simon de Codes, secretary of the Royal Spanish Academy of Law, which is used.
We can thus see that all of Europe was passionate about this unique trial of one of the most powerful monarchs of the continent.

FOURIER, Charles.

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

Paris, Bossange, 1835-1836.

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1500 €

First edition.
The last and most enigmatic of Charles Fourier's books.
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.

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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[LIVRE d'HEURES ENLUMINÉ].

Livre d’Heures à l’usage de Paris.

DEMIDOFF, Anatole de || DURAND, André || RAFFET, Auguste.

Excursion pittoresque et archéologique en Russie par le Havre, Hambourg, Lubeck, Saint-Pétersbourg, Moscou, Nijni-Nowgorod, Yaroslaw et Kasan, exécutée en 1839.

LA PEROUSE, Jean-François de Galaup (Comte de).

Voyage de la Pérouse autour du Monde, publié conformément au décret du 22 Avril 1791, et rédigé par M. L.A. Milet-Mureau.

First edition. A complete copy.

DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector.

Traite sur la Cavalerie.

[HOET, Gérard] || [PICART, Bernard] || [HONDT, Pieter de] || [SAURIN, Pierre] ||.

Figures de la Bible. Taferelen der voornaamste Geschiedenissen van het oude en nieuwe testament.

PASSALACQUA, Joseph.

Catalogue raisonné et historique des antiquités découvertes en Egypte.

LEON L'AFRICAIN [Leo Africanus, Johannes (al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi).].

CHAMPOLLION, Jean François.

Précis du système hiéroglyphique des anciens égyptiens, ou Recherches sur les élémens premiers de cette écriture sacrée.

[CONDORCET, Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de].

Essai sur la Constitution et les Fonctions des Assemblees Provinciales, Ou l'on trouve un Plan pour la Constitution & l'Administration de la France. [Suivi de] Sur la nécessité de faire ratifier la Constitution par les Citoyens, et sur la formation des communautés de Campagne. [1789].

WEIS, Jean-Martin.

Représentation des fêtes données par la Ville de Strasbourg pour la convalescence du Roi; à l'arrivée et pendant le séjour de Sa Majesté en cette Ville.

VIGOUREUX, Clarisse.

Parole de Providence.

SAVARY, Jacques.

Le Parfait Négociant ou instruction générale pour ce qui regarde le commerce.

[JESUITES].

Lettres édifiantes et curieuses écrites des missions étrangères.

FOURIER, Charles.

Théorie des Quatre Mouvemens et des Destinées Générales. Prospectus et Annonce de la Découverte.

DESCARTES, René.

Specimina Philosophiae: Seu Dissertatio de Methodo Recte regendæ rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandæ: Dioptice, et Meteora.

DE SAINCT JULIEN, Pierre.

De L'Origine des Bourgongnons, et antiquité des estats de Bourgongne.

First edition.One of the most sought after books on the history of Burgundy. Complete copy with all the plates representing the cities of Dijon, Beaune, Autun, Mascon, Chalon sur Saone and Tournus.

D'AQUIN, Thomas.

Summa de veritate celeberrimi doctoris sancte Thome Aquinatis.

DESCARTES, René.

Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison et chercher la vérité dans les sciences. Plus la Dioptrique et les Météores qui sont des essais de cette méthode.

The true third edition with the privilège dated 28 avril 1668.

[AFFAIRE DU COLLIER DE LA REINE].

Recueil de 36 pièces concernant l'affaire du Collier de la Reine.

[Union agricole d'Afrique].

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

FOURIER, Charles.

Théorie des Quatre Mouvemens et des Destinées Générales. Prospectus et Annonce de la Découverte.

BOUTMY, Emile || RIBOT, Alexandre.

Cours d'Histoire Constitutionnelle donnés à l'École libre des sciences politiques.

REGEMORTES, Louis de.

Description du nouveau pont de pierre, construit sur la rivière d'Allier a Moulins; avec l'exposé des motifs qui ont déterminé son emplacement, et les dessins et détails relatifs à sa construction.

[VOLTAIRE].

L'Homme aux quarante ecus.

The rare first edition, first issue with the errata. Voltaire's only work on economics. Written as a criticism of the physiocracts and the work of Le Mercier de la Rivière in particular, it was sufficiently controversial to be condemned and ordered to be burned by Parliament in 1768.

[EON DE BEAUMONT, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste].

Les Loisirs du Chevalier d'Éon de Beaumont, ancien Ministre Plénipotentiaire de France, sur divers sujets importans d'Administration.

NIEBUHR, Carsten.

Voyage de M. Niebuhr en Arabie et en d'autres pays de l'orient.

Second edition in french.Travel journal of scientific exploration that King Frederick V of Denmark has to send to Egypt, Arabia and Syria. Our copy sees all its maps enhanced with colors, in particular the large folding map of the Red Sea, as well as certain engravings of landscapes.

GATTI DE GAMOND, Zoé.

Réalisation d'une commune sociétaire, d'après la théorie de Charles Fourier.

[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.

[MANUSCRIT] SIMON DE CODES || LALLY-TOLLENDAL.

Extracto de la Defensa de Luis 16.

FOURIER, Charles.

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

First edition.
A complete copy.

Essai sur la Constitution et les Fonctions des Assemblees Provinciales, Ou l'on trouve un Plan pour la Constitution & l'Administration de la France.
[Suivi de]
Sur la nécessité de faire ratifier la Constitution par les Citoyens, et sur la formation des communautés de Campagne. [1789].

First edition.
One of the most sought after books on the history of Burgundy.

Complete copy with all the plates representing the cities of Dijon, Beaune, Autun, Mascon, Chalon sur Saone and Tournus.

Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison et chercher la vérité dans les sciences.
Plus la Dioptrique et les Météores qui sont des essais de cette méthode.

The rare first edition, first issue with the errata.

Voltaire's only work on economics.
Written as a criticism of the physiocracts and the work of Le Mercier de la Rivière in particular, it was sufficiently controversial to be condemned and ordered to be burned by Parliament in 1768.

Second edition in french.
Travel journal of scientific exploration that King Frederick V of Denmark has to send to Egypt, Arabia and Syria. Our copy sees all its maps enhanced with colors, in particular the large folding map of the Red Sea, as well as certain engravings of landscapes.