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Photo [GOUJET, Claude Pierre (Abbé)]. 

[GOUJET, Claude Pierre (Abbé)]. 

Histoire des Inquisitions ; Où l'on rapporte l'origine & le progrès de ces Tribunaux, leurs variations, & la forme de leur Jurisdiction. 

Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1759.
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350 €

First edition.
Interesting work in which Abbé Goujet compiles and comments on the main texts relating to the Inquisition.
The engravings depict scenes of torture and auto-da-fés committed by the Spanish Inquisition.

Photo MARINER, William || MARTIN, John. 

MARINER, William || MARTIN, John. 

Histoire des naturels des îles Tonga ou des Amis, situées dans l'océan Pacifique, depuis leur découverte par le capitaine Cook. 

Paris, Gide fils, 1817.
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400 €

First french edition.
Embarked as a cabin boy on the Port au Prince which trades between America and the Pacific Islands. Mariner landed in 1806 at Lifuka, Tonga. Attacked by local populations, most of the crew lost their lives. William Mariner was, however, taken in by the future king of Tonga: Finau Ulukalala. An ethnologist before his time, he learned their language and was interested in their customs. Adopted by Finau to replace his deceased son, William Mariner took the name Toki'Ukamea as well as several wives who gave him twelve children in four years. Back in England his testimony remains one of the main sources of knowledge of the pre-Christian society of Tonga.

Photo [HISTOIRE DE LA MEDECINE]. 

[HISTOIRE DE LA MEDECINE]. 

Etat général des unions faites des biens et revenus des maladeries, leproseries, aumoneries et autres lieux pieux aux hopitaux des pauvres malades. 

Paris, Denys Thierry, 1705.
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400 €

First edition.
In order to rationalize aid to the sick, the power of Louis XIV issued numerous decrees aimed at merging the various aid centers that existed at the time. Each town, district, religious order then had its own institution. This work contains, city by city, the institutions that must meet and the list of related edicts and decrees.

Photo D'AUDIFFRET, Charles Louis Gaston. 

D'AUDIFFRET, Charles Louis Gaston. 

Système Financier De La France. 

Paris, Guillaumin et Cie, 1854.
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400 €

Second edition.
French politician, administrator and economist, Gaston d'Audiffret, was president of the Court of Auditors and one of the founders of the CIC.

Photo [JESUITES]. 

[JESUITES]. 

Remontrances au parlement et 10 autres pièces. 

Paraguay [i.e. Paris], Imprimerie royale de Nicolas Ier, 1761.
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400 €

First 12mo edition.
Set of pamphleteering pieces against the Jesuits published during the controversy over the Jesuits which raged during the years 1761 and 1762.
The following pieces are particularly noteworthy:
- Remontrances au parlement with a folding map of France.
- Les Jésuitiques
- L'Apparition du Cardinal Bellarmin
- Advis secrets de la Société de Jésus.

Photo GUEPIN, Ange. 

GUEPIN, Ange. 

Histoire de Nantes. 

Nantes, Prosper Sebire, 1839.
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400 €

Second edition.
Book searched on the history of Nantes. Drawings by Peter Hawke.

Our copy with an autograph dedication of the son of the author F.C. Guépin dated October 1873 to his nephew Charles Guieysse (socialist activist, close to Charles Peguy).

Photo NECKER, Jacques || [GRIMOARD, Philippe-Henri de]. 

NECKER, Jacques || [GRIMOARD, Philippe-Henri de]. 

Lettre du marquis de C*** [Caraccioli], à M. D'A*** [d'Alembert]. 

Paris, [s. n.], 1781.
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400 €

This harsh pamphlet was published as part of a political campaign against Necker, then Finance Minister of Louis XVI, in the spring of 1781. It ended with the minister's resignation on May 19th1781.

This fictional letter features Louis-Antoine Caraccioli and D'Alembert, questioning the reasons for Necker's popularity. It is traditionally attributed to Philippe-Henri de Grimoard (Barbier and BNF).

This letter is bound with six other texts related to Necker :

1) Mémoire donné au roi, par M. Necker. 1778. (4)-50 pages ---
2) Observations modestes d'un citoyen, sur les opérations de finances de M. Necker [...] 98 pages --
3) Suite des observations d'un citoyen 45 pages ----
4) Lettre du marquis de C***, à M. D'A***. Paris le 1er Mai 1781 51 pages ---
5) Lettre d'un ami, à M. Necker 23 pages ----
6) Les comment 45 pages ----
7) Compte rendu au roi, par l'abbé Terray 18 pages ----.

Photo DAMOREAU, Estienne. 

DAMOREAU, Estienne. 

Traité des négociations de banque et des monnoyes étrangères. 

Paris, Guillaume Cavelier-Pissot, 1727.
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400 €

First edition.

A practical book for bankers, traders and merchants working in Europe at the beginning of the 18th century. Its subjects are numismatics, the explanation of exchange rates and conversions and the explanation of bank negotiations, illustrated by many plates.

Photo REID, Thomas. 

REID, Thomas. 

Recherches sur l'entendement humain, d'après les principes du sens commun. 

Amsterdam, Jean Meyer, 1768.
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400 €

Rare first french edition.
Thomas Reid is a Scottish philosopher.
In this book define his philosphy based on the realism of the five senses and thus opposes the system of ideas, born with the philosophy of Descartes.
Chapter on view gives rise to lengthy arguments on the lens. In Section IX, Reid defined a non-Euclidean geometry.

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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400 €

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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400 €

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.

Photo GODWIN, William. 

GODWIN, William. 

Recherches sur la population, et sur la faculté d'accroissement de l'espèce humaine ; contenant une réfutation des doctrines de M. Malthus sur cette matière. 

Paris, J-P. Aillaud, 1821.
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450 €

First french edition.

William Godwin (1756-1836) is a British philosopher, precursor of anarchism and inspiration for the utilitarian movement.
This book is part of the controversy between Godwin and Malthus about the principle of population. For Malthus, the mathematical growth of the human population occurs at a rate greater than that of access to resources.
For Godwin, the "improvement of Man" (in fact technical progress) will make it possible to compensate for population growth, he says:
"if the earth, in all its habitable parts, could be made as fertile as China, it would be enough to feed a population of nine thousand million people" (volume II, p.212).

A debate that is still current.

Photo SAY, Jean Baptiste. 

SAY, Jean Baptiste. 

Cours complet d'économie politique pratique. 

Paris, Rapilly, 1828-1829.
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450 €

First edition.
Jean Baptiste Say is considered one of the fathers of economic science.
This course is a compilation of his teaching given at the chair of industrial economics at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers
He defends a liberal economic thought: he puts forward private property, free competition and a role of the State as limited as possible. In fact, it is a direct extension of the French school of liberal political economy.

A seventh volume of correspondence appeared in 1833 after the author's death.

Photo [JANSÉNISME]. 

[JANSÉNISME]. 

Affaire de Douai : Recueil de 13 pièces. 

s.l., s.n., 1691-1692.
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450 €

Collection of pieces published during the Douai Affair, which opposed the Jesuits and Jansenists. This began in 1688 when Jacques Gilbert, professor at the theology faculty of Douai, was relieved of his duties and exiled by letter of cachet following a course given on "Grace" (a theme dear to the Jansenists).

Volume I :
– Avertissement touchant les plaintes de Mr. Arnauld (1691). (12) pages.
– Secrets du parti de Mr. Arnauld, découverts depuis peu. Troisième édition. (1692). (12)-71 pages.
– Lettres À Mr. Arnauld sur ses plaintes adressées à Monseigneur l’Evêque d’Arras [etc.]. (1691). 72 pages.
– Réponse du P. Payen de la Compagnie de Jésus à la troisième plainte de Monsieur Arnauld. Nouvelle Édition revue corrigée. [sans date.]. 24 pages.
– Remarques sur l’écrit intitulé, Relation sommaire de ce qui s’est passé dans l’affaire de quelques Théologiens de Doüay. Nouvelle Édition. (1692). 48 pages.
– Réponse d’un prélat de la Cour de Rome à la lettre d’un Abbé sur la Censure des 31 propositions. (1691). 24 pages.
Volume 2 :
– Plainte de Mr. Arnauld Docteur de Sorbonne, à Monseigneur l’Evesque d’Arras (1691). (2)- 68 pages.
– Seconde plainte de Mr. Arnauld Docteur de Sorbonne aux RR. PP. Jésuites. (1691). 43 pages.
– Troisième plainte de Mr. Arnauld Docteur de Sorbonne à son Altesse Monseigneur L’Evesque et Prince de Liège. (1691). 24 pages.
– Quatrième plainte de Mr. Arnauld Docteur de Sorbonne, aux RR. PP. Jésuites. (1692). 128 pages.
– Lettre de Mr. de Ligny à un de ses amis. (1692). 57 pages.
– Lettres du Faux-Arnauld à Mr. de Ligny. (1692). 36 pages.
– Le Vain triomphe des Jésuites. (1692). 45 pages.

Photo BARRAUD, Pierre-Constant. 

BARRAUD, Pierre-Constant. 

Recherches sur les coqs des églises. 

Paris, Derache, 1850.
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450 €

First edition.
Pierre-Constant Barraud (1801-1874) is an archaeologist and titular canon of the diocese of Beauvais. He signed several studies on church furniture. In this booklet he recalls that the symbol of the rooster has been used since primitive Christianity.

Photo [HELVETIUS, Claude-Adrien]. 

[HELVETIUS, Claude-Adrien]. 

De l'Esprit. 

Paris, Durand, 1758.
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450 €

First edition in B state.
Major work by Helvetius which caused a scandal upon its publication and was condemned to be burned. Too radical for its time, the book was nevertheless widely read thereafter.

Photo DORMOY, Emile. 

DORMOY, Emile. 

Théorie Mathématique des assurances sur la vie. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1878.
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450 €

First edition.
Emile Dormoy, a Polytechnique and mining engineer, will manage the Soleil-Vie insurance company.
He leaves us this important treatise on mathematics for the use of actuaries in which he notably devotes a chapter to the Theory of deviations.
He describes there before Wilhelm Lexis what will be known as the "Lexis Ratio".
The law of deviations subsequently developed by Bachelier will be one of the bases of financial mathematics.

Photo [JULLIEN et al.]. 

[JULLIEN et al.]. 

Revue Encyclopédique, ou Analyse Raisonnée des Productions les Plus Remarquables dans la Littérature, les Sciences Et les Arts. 

[Paris], [Gide], 1819.
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450 €

First edition.
Head of series of this royalist gazette which will be published until 1820.

Photo [HERBIN DE HALLE, Pierre Etienne]. 

[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).

Photo HUME, David. 

HUME, David. 

Histoire de la maison de Plantagenet sur le trône d'Angleterre, depuis l'invasion de Jules César, jusqu'à l'avènement de Henri VII. 

Amsterdam, s.n., 1765.
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450 €

First edition in french.

Photo [BOESNIER DE L'ORME, Paul]. 

[BOESNIER DE L'ORME, Paul]. 

Le Mexique conquis. 

Paris, Desaint et Saillant, 1752.
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450 €

First edition.
Book relating the conquest of Mexico by Cortes. The author's will is to correct Antonio de Solis's History of the Conquest of Mexico by redacting uncertain or improbable facts.
"The customs, the characters, all the main events, the only ones worthy of passing down to posterity, are preserved; the order of the times are respected. The details suppressed, changed, embellished, are those which, according to Solis, haven't any basis other than uncertainty or conjecture. " (extract from the preface).

The book is illustrated with two maps of America after Robert de Vaugondy.

Photo BESSE, Pierre de. 

BESSE, Pierre de. 

L' Héraclite chrestien c'est a dire les regrets & les larmes du pêcheur penitent. 

Paris, Nicolas du Fossé, 1612.
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450 €

First edition.
Pierre de Besse, preacher from the beginning of the 17th century was inspired by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, whose legend, peddled by Diogenes Laerce, said that he was perpetually in tears in front of the fate of men to draw from it a Christian Heraclitus desperate for the sins of the Men.
He will publish 3 years later the "Christian Democrite" showing a hilarious Democrite in front of the world as it is.

These two books did a lot to popularize the archetypes of a weeping Heraclitus and a laughing Democritus, which can be found in many works of art throughout the 17th century. One thinks in particular of the "Weeping Philosopher" of Rubens painted around 1636, or the Democrites of Velasquez and Rembrandt.

Engravings by Leonard Gaultier, famous french painter.

Photo GRANIER, Camille. 

GRANIER, Camille. 

Le Contrôle des services pénitentiaires [suivi de] Le Marché des services pénitentiaires [suivi de] Les Commissions de surveillance. 

Paris, Berger-Levrault et Cie, 1894-1895.
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450 €

First editions.
Suite of three texts by Camille Granier then inspector general of prisons.

Photo [NOUGARET, Pierre Jean-Baptiste]. 

[NOUGARET, Pierre Jean-Baptiste]. 

Histoire de la Révolution française, et des malheurs qu'elle a occasionés, depuis l'époque de la formation des États-Généraux, en 1789, jusqu'au 18 brumaire de l'an VIII (1799). 

Paris, Lerouge, 1803.
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450 €

First edition.

Historical book about the French Revolution. Rare.

Photo DAUMAS, Eugène, Général. 

DAUMAS, Eugène, Général. 

La Femme Arabe. 

Alger, Adolphe Jourdan, 1912.
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450 €

First edtion.
Rare copy of this book by Eugène Daumas (1803 - 1871), who was General of division and director of affairs of Algeria at the French Ministry of War in 1851. He wrote a sociological study of the Arab Woman, according to his own observations.

Photo CHATEAUBRIAND, François René de. 

CHATEAUBRIAND, François René de. 

Note sur la Grèce. 

Paris, Le Normant père, 1825.
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450 €

First edition.

Photo BIELFELD, Jacques-Frédéric (Baron de). 

BIELFELD, Jacques-Frédéric (Baron de). 

Institutions politiques. 

La Haye, Pierre Gosse, 1760.
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450 €

First edition.
Baron Bielfeld was an advisor to Frederick II of Prussia, his work consists mainly of reflections on national governance.
His work had a significant impact on both political science and statistics. He would be the first to introduce the word "statistics" to replace the term political arithmetic.

Photo GOUJON, Abel. 

GOUJON, Abel. 

Histoire de la Ville et du Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, suivie de Recherches Historiques sur les dix autres Communes du Canton. 

Saint-Germain, Imprimerie Abel Goujon / Ledoyen, 1829.
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450 €

First edition.

Photo [MAROQUIN AUX ARMES]. 

[MAROQUIN AUX ARMES]. 

L'Office de la Semaine sainte. 

Paris, Jean-Baptiste Garnier, 1752.
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450 €

Morocco with the arms of Marie Leszczynska, wife of Louis XV, Queen of France and Navarre from 1725 to 1768.

Photo MOULINIER, Jean. 

MOULINIER, Jean. 

Le grand trésor des marchands, banquiers et négocians, des financiers, de la noblesse, et de tous Seigneurs tant Ecclesiastiques que Seculiers, du trésor royal, des Officiers de Robe & d’Épée, de la bourgeoisie, et des Arts et Mêtiers.
Avec un nouveau Traité sur le Commerce. 

Bordeaux, Simon de la Court, [1704].
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500 €

First edition.
Moulinier proposes a geometric method of calculating "Inner Discounts" as well as a new journal model for keeping double-entry accounting.
Rare work missing from usual bibliographies (Einaudi, Goldsmith)
Copy signed at the end.

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