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Photo [CRAUFURD, Quintin]. 

[CRAUFURD, Quintin]. 

Histoire de la Bastille. 

sl, sn, 1798.
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500 €

First edition in french.
With an appendix containing a discussion of the prisoner in the iron mask.

Photo D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond. 

D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond. 

Mélanges de littérature, d'histoire et de philosophie. 

Amsterdam, Zacharie Chatelain et fils, 1773.
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300 €

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.

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 DAIN, Charles || CONSIDERANT, Victor || D'IZALGUIER, Eugène. 

DAIN, Charles || CONSIDERANT, Victor || D'IZALGUIER, Eugène. 

Trois discours prononcés à l'Hôtel-de-Ville, par MM. Dain, Considerant et d'Izalguier faisant complément à la publication du Congrès historique. 

Paris, P.-H. Khrabbe, 1836.
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300 €

First edition.

This book contains three speeches based on the ideas of Charles Fourier and his theory of the Utopian Socialism.
- "Quel est le but de l'Histoire", delivered at the "congrès historique", on the 15th november 1835, by Charles Dain (1812-1871, lawyer in Paris, close to the ideas of Victor Considerant, and who campaigned for the abolition of slavery).
- "Déterminer par l'Histoire si les diversités physiologiques des peuples sont entre elles comme les diversités des systèmes sociaux auxquels ces peuples appartiennent", delivered at the "congrès historique", on the 11 december 1835 by Victor Considerant (1808-1893, philosopher and economist polytechnician).
- "Loi de corrélation de la forme sociale et de la forme esthétique", delivered by Eugène D'Izalguier.

Photo DAIN, Charles || FOURIER, Charles. 

DAIN, Charles || FOURIER, Charles. 

De l'Abolition de l'Esclavage suivi d'un article de Fourier. 

Paris, Au bureau de la Phalange, 1836.
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750 €

First edition.
Offprint from the magazine La Phalange.
The text by Charles Dain is followed by the article Remède aux divers esclavages by Charles Fourier.
Of Guadeloupean origin, Charles Dain (1812-1871) led the campaign for the abolition of slavery, although he himself was a slave owner. He sat in the Constituent Assembly in 1848.

Charles Dain's work is bound second to last, along with 4 other brochures:
- RICHARDSON, Essai sur le mal ou le péché, Paris, Treuttel et Wurtz, 1840. (4)-133-(1) pages. First edition in french.
- [CONSIDERANT], Théorie générale de Fourier : Coup d'œil sur la théorie des fonctions, Lyon, [Nourtier], [1841]. 16 pages (without the original printed covers wich was also the title page).
- CANTAGREL, Mettray et Ostwald. Etude sur ces deux colonies agricoles, Paris, Librairie de l'école sociétaire, 1842. 65 pages.First edition
-BERBRUGGER, Conférences sur la Théorie sociétaire de Charles Fourier en septembre 1833. Lyon, Babeuf, 1833. 105 pages. First edition.

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 DAUDET, Ernest. 

DAUDET, Ernest. 

Madame Royale. 

Paris, Hachette, 1912.
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60 €

First edition.

Presentation copy to Gilbert Augustin-Thierry.

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 DE BEAUVOIR, Simone. 

DE BEAUVOIR, Simone. 

La Force des choses. 

Paris, Gallimard Nrf, 1963.
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50 €

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 [DE FOIX, Marc Antoine]. 

[DE FOIX, Marc Antoine]. 

L'Art d'élever un Prince. 

Paris, Vve Claude Thiboust, 1688.
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150 €

Collection of maxims supposed to be used for the education of the Duke of Burgundy.

Photo DE GASPARIN, Agénor. 

DE GASPARIN, Agénor. 

La Conscience. 

Paris, Michel Levy, 1872.
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50 €

First edition.

Photo DE GAULLE, Charles. 

DE GAULLE, Charles. 

La France et son armée. 

Paris, Berger Levrault, 1945.
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250 €

First edition.
One of 250 on vellum paper, ours n°93.

Photo [DE LOLME, Jean Louis]. 

[DE LOLME, Jean Louis]. 

Constitution de l'Angleterre. 

Amsterdam, E. Van Harrevelt, 1771.
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160 €

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

Photo DE MARTONNE, Edouard. 

DE MARTONNE, Edouard. 

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

Paris, Forest, 1922.
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100 €

New edition.
Rare atlas for the French West Africa.

Photo DE SAINCT JULIEN, Pierre. 

DE SAINCT JULIEN, Pierre. 

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

Paris, Nicolas Chesneau, 1581.
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2800 €

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.

Photo DEHERAIN, Henri. 

DEHERAIN, Henri. 

Le Soudan Egyptien sous Mehemet Ali. 

Paris, Georges Carré et C. Naud, 1898.
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75 €

First edition.
Henri Dehérain, was curator at the library of the Institut de France (1919-1934), editorial secretary of the Journal des savants of which he became deputy director in 1937, he devoted his thesis to Sudan under Mehemet-Ali and became famous for his works on the Orient and travelers in Syria.

Presentation copy.

Photo DELANDINE, Antoine François. 

DELANDINE, Antoine François. 

Tableau des prisons de Lyon, pour servir à l'histoire de la tyrannie de 1792 et 1793. 

Lyon, Joseph Daval, 1797.
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120 €

First edition.
The Author deputy of the States General opposed the Republicans, which earned him to be imprisoned during the Terror.
On his release from prison after 9 Thermidor, he gave this striking testimony from inside Lyon prisons.

Photo DELAUNAY, Abbé || DENIS, Ferdinand. 

DELAUNAY, Abbé || DENIS, Ferdinand. 

Appendice à l'Imitation de Jésus-Christ, Suivi de Auteurs présumés de l'Imitation par M. l'Abbé Delaunay.Histoire de l'ornementation des manuscrits par M. Ferdinand Denis. Catalogue bibliographique indiquant les manuscrits reproduits dans l'Imitation et les imprimés cités dans l'Histoire de l'ornementation des manuscrits. Index des manuscrits avec l'indication des noms dessinateurs et des chromographes. Grande danse Macabre. 

Paris, L. Curmer, 1858.
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150 €

First edition.

Very fine binding, with elegant ornamentations in gold.

Photo [DELBARE, François Thomas]. 

[DELBARE, François Thomas]. 

L'Observateur royaliste, ou Annales destinées à servir à l'histoire secrète de la Révolution depuis son origine jusqu'à nos jours. 

Paris, Gide fils, 1819.
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1500 €

First edition.
Rare royalist gazette adorned with a beautiful plate of political caricature.
This engraving is very inspired by the work of the englishman James Gillray, we will particularly note the use of speech bubbles which only became the norm in France at the end of the 19th century.
Our volume includes the first three issues, only published.
Talleyrand's copy.

Photo DELCAMPE || FOUQUET, Samuel. 

DELCAMPE || FOUQUET, Samuel. 

L'Art de monter à cheval, qui monstre la belle & facille méthode de se rendre bon homme de cheval. 

Paris, Jacques le Gras, 1664.
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600 €

Second edition enlarged by a second part from Samuel Fouquet to treat horse diseases.
The best edition of this classic treatise on horse riding.
The author was a squire in the grand stable of Louis XIV.

Photo [DEPUTES ULTRAROYALISTES]. 

[DEPUTES ULTRAROYALISTES]. 

Recueil d'opinions et de discours des membres siégeant au côté droit de la chambre des députés , pendant la session de 1818. 

Paris, Adrien Egron, [1819].
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750 €

First edition.
Set of speeches or opinions delivered by the conservative right during the 1818-1819 session of the Chamber of Deputies under the Restoration. We find there all the big names of what was the ultraroyalist movement of the time: Villèle, La Bourdonnaye, Bonald...

Rare copy of Talleyrand which then disliked by Louis XVIII is in the liberal camp.

Photo DESCARTES, René. 

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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3000 €

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.

Photo DEVILLE, Étienne. 

DEVILLE, Étienne. 

Funérailles de Henri II d'Orléans - Duc de Longueville - Gouverneur de Normandie (11 mai 1663). 

Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1909.
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70 €

First edition.
Offprint and presentation copy to Mr. Beranger.

Etienne Deville (1873-1944) was historian and curator of the Lisieux Museum and Library.

Photo DION, Adolphe (Comte de). 

DION, Adolphe (Comte de). 

Montfort-L'Amaury : son Eglise, ses vitraux, son cimetière. 

Tours, Deslis frères, 1892.
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40 €

First edition.

Presentation copy.

Photo DOMAT, Jean. 

DOMAT, Jean. 

Les Loix civiles dans leur ordre naturel le droit public, et legum delectus. 

Paris, Veuve Savoye, 1767.
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250 €

"Civil laws in their natural order" is considered a monument of French civil law and is one of the sources that will lead to the Napoleonic Civil Code
. The 1767 folio edition is one of the best editions of the "Domat" in the 18th century.
The title of the book will inspire in Montesquieu his "De l'Esprit des lois".

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 DOURDIN, Jacques. 

DOURDIN, Jacques. 

Textiles artificiels, étude de leur situation présente et de leur avenir. 

Paris, imprimerie Paul Dupont, 1947.
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250 €

First edition.
Jacques Dourdin is the first to import the method of opinion polls in France. The method was popularized during the thirties in the United States by Doctor Gallup.
The French firm Jacques Dourdin proposed to provide industrialists and traders with all the information they wanted, thanks to the method of surveys by sample.
He thus delivers the first rational studies of the French market.
This pamphlet presents a survey on the need and acceptance of artificial textile fibers (rayon and fibranne) by the French market.

Numbered copy (n°861).

Photo DROCHON, Jean-Emmanuel. 

DROCHON, Jean-Emmanuel. 

La Petite Eglise, essai historique sur le schisme anticoncordataire. 

Paris, Maison de la bonne presse, 1894.
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250 €

First edition.
Reference work on the history of the Little Church, a group of groups of faithful who refused the concordat of 1801.

Copy printed on beautiful japan paper.

Photo DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector. 

DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector. 

Traite sur la Cavalerie. 

Paris, Imprimerie de Guillaume Desprez, 1776.
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7500 €

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.

Photo [DUCANCEL, Charles-Pierre]. 

[DUCANCEL, Charles-Pierre]. 

La Bibliothèque royaliste. 

[Paris], [Gide], 1819.
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500 €

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

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