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[VOLTAIRE].
Questions sur l'encyclopédie par des amateurs.
[Neufchatel], s.n., 1771-1773.
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550 €
New expanded edition.
Little-known book by Voltaire, his Questions on the Encyclopedia having been included in the Philosophical Dictionary of the Kehl edition which now makes reference.
"This attempt with an encyclopedic vocation claims to supplement, even amend and correct the great work of the Age of Enlightenment" (Mervaud, "L’Encyclopédisme des Questions sur l’Encyclopédie de Voltaire?”).
Composite copy with volumes published from 1771 to 1773.
BAUDIN, Pierre-Charles-Louis.
Rapport et projet de décret sur la propriété des auteurs dramatiques.
Paris, Imprimerie nationale, [1792].
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250 €
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Draft decree of the National Convention for the application of the laws of January 13 & July 19, 1791 aimed at governing the rights of dramatic authors.
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.
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.
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.
PETIT RADEL, Louis Charles François.
Recherches sur les bibliothèques anciennes et modernes jusqu'à la fondation de la bibliothèque Mazarine, et sur les causes qui ont favorisé l'accroissement successif du nombre des livres.
Paris, Rey et Gravier, 1819.
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250 €
First edition.
First edition. Very interesting history of the Mazarine library by the one who was its curator during the Restoration.
Note the chapters on the history of medieval libraries, a subject little known at the time.
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.
COURNOT, Augustin.
Recherches sur les principes mathématiques de la théorie des richesses.
Paris, L. Hachette, 1838.
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12500 €
First edition.
Landmark in economic theory.
Cournot is considered a pioneer in mathematical economics. He was among the first to formalize economic theories using mathematical equations.
He proposed basing economic theory not on elementary algebra but on the branch of analysis dealing with arbitrary functions, subject to certain conditions.
His work focused on a theory of price equilibrium in a free market.
Though largely ignored in his time, his research on equilibria between two producers, now known as "Cournot equilibria," would later be generalized under the term "Nash equilibria" or "Nash-Cournot equilibria," earning John Forbes Nash the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994.
Cournot's work is bound after the following:
URBAIN, Introduction to the Study of Political Economy, Paris, Bossange Père, 1833.
THIERRY, Augustin.
Récits des temps mérovingiens précédés de considérations sur l'histoire de France.
Paris, Furne et Cie, 1864.
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50 €
New edition.
Augustin Thierry is one of the first modern historians to work directly on ancient source.
[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.
[REVOLUTION].
Recueil de 19 plaquettes sur les fêtes et célébrations révolutionnaires.
London, Cadell, 1790-1799.
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Set of pamphlets on the subject of the celebration of revolutionary festivals.
We have somewhat forgotten today that the Revolution, by putting aside religion, had proposed a whole paraphernalia of festivities to replace traditional festivals. We thus rediscover the Festivals of youth, Spouses, Modesty, agriculture..., celebrated in dedicated Temples (of the Law, of the Supreme Being...).
- DE MOPINOT, Proposition d'un Monument à élever dans la Capitale de la France, Paris, Laurens Junior, 1790. (4)-24 pages
- CHARRON, Discours relatif à la cérémonie du Serment Civique prononcé par les citoyens du district de Bonne-Nouvelle, [1790]. 14 pages.
- Règlement sur l'ordre, & la marche de l'Armée Marseillaise, pour la prestation du Serment, le 14 juillet 1790, [1790]. 8 pages.
- Fédération des françois, Extrait du registre des délibérations du conseil général de la commune de Montpellier, Montpellier, Picot, 14 juillet 1790. 16 pages.
- Lettre de Jean-Baptiste Cloots à Mme de Beauharnois le 15 juillet 1790. [35-52] pages.
- LAFAYETTE, Grande Réjouissance de la cessation des entrées dans la capitale détail de la marche des troupes, extrait de l'ordre donné le 29 avril 1791. 4 pages.
- [HERAULT DE SECHELLES],Recueil des six discours prononcés par le président de la Convention nationale aux sis stations de la Fête de l'unité & de l'indivisibilité de la république, Paris, Chaudrillié, 1793. 8 pages.
- Fête civique célébrée à Aix La Chapelle, le 30 frimaire An III, Beauvais. 24 pages.
- TERRAL, Réflexions sur les fêtes décadaires, 1795. 15 pages.
- LAMBRECHTS, Discours prononcé au temple de l'Eternel [...] jour de la fête dédiée à la Pudeur, [1795]. 4 pages
- Discours Décadaires pour toutes les fêtes de l'Année Républicaine publiés par numéro (n° I à VI), Paris, Ecoles républicaines, An II 1794. 96 pages.
- BAUDIN, Discours prononcé [....] à l'occasion de la Fête funèbre célébrée en l'honneur des Députés morts victimes de la tyrannie, [1795]. 19 pages.
- CHOMPRE, Discours prononcé décadi D germinal An IV [...] au temple de la Loi pour la fête de la jeunesse, Bruxelles, Pauwels, 1796. 17 pages.
- Fête des arts : Projet relatif à la translation des objets d'arts conquis en Italie, Paris, Pougens, 1798. (2)-6 pages.
- HANNUS-TUPPIN, Discours prononcé le jour de la Fête de l'agriculture, [1798]. 15 pages.
- MULOT, Discours prononcé à la Fête des Epoux, Mayence, André Crass, An VII 1799. 22 pages.
- BARADELLE, Discours prononcé pour la Fête du Dix Aout au temple de l'Etre suprême, Paris, Lamberté, [1799]. 14 pages.
- Discours prononcé au Temple de la Paix le 23 thermidor an 7 [1799]. 7 pages
- Procès verbal de la fête anniversaire de la fondation de la République célébrée à Paris, le 1er vendémiaire an 8, [1799]. 24 pages.
[MANUSCRIT] [Congrégation de Notre Dame de Rheims].
Recueil de prières.
Rheims, s.n., [v. 1700].
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Manuscript from the beginning of the 18th century emanating from the Congrégation de Notre Dame de Rheims, a convent founded in 1638 by the order of the "Chanoinesses of Saint-Augustin of the Congrégation Notre-Dame"
This manuscript written in a perfectly legible handwriting but sometimes random spelling, brings together different prayers and meditations on death, birth, baptism, entry into religion, the anniversary of the taking of the veil...
There are also some extracts from the Rule of this order as well as Sentences from St Augustine.
Rare testimony to the spiritual life of this discreet monastic order.
GALLAND, Julien-Claude.
Recueil des rits et cérémonies du pelerinage de la Mecque, auquel on a joint divers ecrits relatifs à la religion, aux sciences & aux murs des Turcs.
Paris, Desaint & Saillant, 1754.
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1000 €
First edition.
Book which brings together five different essays, of which Julien-Claude Galland (probably died in 1765), the nephew of Antoine Galland, is only the interpreter.
The one who gives its wording to the title is a translation from the Arabic of Sheikh Chemfeddin el Buhouky the Shafeite. The others are: "Muslim catechism translated from the Arabic of the sheikh or Dr. Aly son of Iaakoub", "Translation of a Dissertation by Zehny effendy on the sciences of the Turks", "Relation of the island of Chio" and " Relation of the walk of Sultana Esma, daughter of Sultan Ahmed, when she was taken to her husband Iaakoub Pasha.
[LORRAINE].
Recueils de 40 plaquettes historiques ou archéologiques sur la Lorraine.
Nancy, s.n., 1848-1888.
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550 €
Several dozen historical or archaeological plaques on the history of Lorraine in each volume.
Most of them are presentation copies dedicated to Count Edouard de Warren (1811-1898), a scholar from Lorraine.
Volume 1 (28 pieces) :
- MEAUME, Histoire de l'Ancienne chevalerie lorraine, 1870
- NOLLET-FABERT, Le Général d'Huart, 1851
- CHAUTARD, Notice sur Claude de Lorraine dit le Chevalier d'Aumale à propos d'un jeton, 1872
- SAINT-VINCENT, La Légende de Maxéville, sd
- SAINT-VINCENT, Considérations sur l'histoire des académies, 1854
- [O'REILLY], Les Deux procès de Jeanne d'Arc, sd
- GUERLE, Madame de Grafigny, 1882
- MARTIN, Le P. Abram historien de l'université de Pont-a-mousson et ses deux traducteurs Ragot et le P. Carayon, 1888
- COUVENT DE SAINT-LAURENT, Les Bénédictins anglais de Dieulouard, 1884
- [Anonyme], Plaisirs de la Cour de Lorraine pendant le carnaval, 1881
- MOREY, Tombeau de Henri de Lorraine comte d'Harcourt, 1863
- MOREY, Recherches sur l'emplacement et la disposition d'ensemble du Chateau du Duc Raoul à Nancy, 1865
- MOREY, Les Statuettes dites de Terre de Lorraine, 1871
- MOREY, Ex Voto du Duc Antoine de Lorraine en reconnaissance des victoires qu'il remporta en Alsace sur les rustauds en 1525, 1880
- MOREY, Les Artistes lorrains à l'étranger, 1883
- MOREY, La Vapeur d'eau utilisée comme force motrice en lorraine, 1884
- QUINTARD, Sur un Mèreau inédit du chapitre de la collégiale de Saint-Georges, 1868
- QUINTARD, Médaille commémorative de l'affaire de Nancy: Le Sou Thuillié, 1869
- QUINTARD, Le Cimetière franc du Champ des Tombes à Pompey, 1878
- GERMAIN, Notes Historiques sur la maison de Lorraine, 1882
- GERMAIN, La Croix d'affranchissement de Frouard, 1882
- GERMAIN, Notice sur le tombeau de Warin de Gondrecourt autrefois dans l'église saint-etienne, 1882
- GERMAIN, Les Tombeaux de l'Eglise de Lenoncourt, 1882
- [Anonyme], Plaque de Foyer aux armes de François Taafe, comte de Carlinford, 1882
- LE MERCIER DE MORIERE, Un Livre de Liturgie du xvè siècle ayant appartenu au chateau de Gombervaux, 1884
- LE MERCIER DE MORIERE, Les Testaments au profit de l'Eglise de Toul, 1884
- LE MERCIER DE MORIERE, Recherches sur la famille des armoises et en particulier sur la branche de Neuville, 1881
- LE MERCIER DE MORIERE, L'Origine de la Maison de Chambley, 1882
Volume 2 (12 pieces) :
- BENARD, Tribulations d'un prêtre optant, 1875
- [Anonyme], Notice sur l'Eglise de Saint-Nicolas de Port, 1848
- [Anonyme], Bénédiction et inauguration de la nouvelle église paroissiale de Saint Epvre, 1871
- LA FLIZE, Notice historique de la Cathédrale-primatiale de Nancy, 1849
- SEILLIERE, Rapport présenté à la commission du monument de Dom Calmet à Senones, 1873
- SEILLIERE, Compte-rendu des fouilles entreprises pour retrouver les restes de Dom Augustin Calmet, 1868
- JACQUINOT, Le Doyen Nicolas Guyot jurisconsulte lorrain, 1884
- WIENER, Yves-Dominique Collin graveur et peintre en miniature, 1885
- BARDY, Le Comte de la Suze et la seigneurie de Belfort, 1885
- VICTOR DE SAINT-MAURIS, Etude Sommaire sur l'Ancien Duché de Luxembourg, 1865
- [Anonyme], Inauguration du buste du Comte de Serre érigé sur sa maison natale à Pagny-Sur-Moselle, 1886
- WIENER, Recherches sur l'industrie cartière en Lorraine, 1884.
[LE CLERC, Jean].
Réflexions sur ce que l'on appelle bonheur et malheur en matière de loteries, et sur le bon usage qu'on en peut faire.
Amsterdam, Georges Gallet, 1696.
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600 €
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Jean Le Clerc (1657-1736) was a Protestant theologian and pastor. He was a member of the Remontrants, disciples of Arminius, breaking with Calvinism on questions of grace and predestination. The lottery and games of chance, then very popular in the Netherlands, were an ideal subject for reflection on these subjects. By rejecting any idea of an "invisible hand" behind chance or good fortune, he ends up with an ultimately very modern definition of chance:
"Tous ces mots ne sont que des termes négatifs, comme je l'ai dit, & qui ne servent qu'à faire comprendre que l'effet, dont on parle, n'est pas la production d'une cause nécessaire & déterminée à la produire".
In other words, we speak of chance where we do not know the sum of the causes that determine the effect that we observe.
LEONARD, M de.
Relation exacte et impartiale de ce qui s'est passé à Nancy le 31 août [1790] et les jours précédens.
Nancy, Mme Henry, 1790.
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300 €
First edition.
What will become "L'Affaire de Nancy" is an episode of the Revolution during which the soldiers of the Nancy garrison mutinied against their officers.
[MANUSCRIT].
Remarques sur le Gouvernement du royaume durant les trois règnes de Henri IV, de Louis XIII, de Louis XIV.
s.l., s.n., [v. 1750].
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Handwritten copy of a work published anonymously by Pierre Marteau in 1688. Barbier attributes the book to Gratien de Courtilz but adds: "Dubious".
The content is rather discourteous towards the monarchs, of whom inglorious episodes are recounted: the lack of merit of Louis XIII (Richelieu having governed for him), Louis XIV preferring the beds of his mistresses to the battlefields... This doubtless explains why handwritten copies were able to circulate under the cloak of the laughers. In fact, two other similar handwritten copies can be found in public libraries.
What remains is a very pretty manuscript, in a perfectly legible late 17th century handwriting.
[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.
CALONNE, Charles-Alexandre de.
Réponse de M. de Calonne à l'écrit de M. Necker, publié en avril 1787; contenant l'examen des comptes de la situation des finances, rendus en 1774, 1776, 1781, 1783 & 1787; avec des observations sur les résultats de l'Assemblée des Notables.
Londres, T. Spilsbury, 1788.
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This edition was published the same year as the first one.
Charles de Calonne (1734-1802) was Necker's successor as finance minister to Louis XVI. In this book, he presented his administration and responded to Necker's violent attacks.
[SOLIGNAC].
Réponse de M. Solignac, aux observations de M. Mirabeau l'aîné, relativement à l'essai de la proportion de l'or à l'argent, qui seroit la plus convenable dans la monnoie de France.
[Paris], [J. Girouard], [1790].
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50 €
First edition.
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...).
[JESUITES].
Réunion de trois volumes reliés regroupant des textes à propos de la controverse sur les Jésuites.
Sorbon, s.n., 1762.
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350 €
Set of three identically bound volumes grouping together texts about the controversy over the Jesuits which raged during the years 1761 and 1762.
We find in particular:
"Special history of the Jesuits in France" by Abbé Minard is a priest Jansenist of Libourne "Report of the constitutions of the Jesuits" by La Chalotais who is attorney general in the Parliament of Brittany, fiercely opposed to the Jesuits. He proposes here a memoir in charge of the constitutions of the Society of Jesus. "Reply to the apologies of the Jesuits", "The badly defended Jesuit" by Abbé Platel.
SENART, Gabriel-Jérôme || DUMESNIL, Alexis.
Révélations puisées dans les cartons des comités de Salut Public et de Sûreté Générale; ou Mémoires (inédits) de Sénart, agent du Gouvernement Révolutionnaire publiés par Alexis Dumesnil.
Paris, les principaux libraires de France et de l'étranger, 1824.
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60 €
Secon edition.
Very good copy.
VERTOT, Abbé René Aubert.
Révolutions de Portugal.
Paris, Nyon, 1768.
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100 €
Very good copy of this book on the Portuguese Revolution of 1640 whose quality of writing made the success.
[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.
FROMENTIN, Eugène.
Sahara et Sahel.
I - Un été dans le Sahara.
II - Une année dans le Sahel.
Paris, Plon, 1879.
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600 €
First illustrated edition.
One of the 100 copy on papier vélin.
The 12 etchings are in our copy in four state (definitive, before the letter, before the letter and bistre and before the letter on china paper.
CARADEUC DE LA CHALOTAIS, Louis René.
Second compte rendu sur l'appel comme d'abus, des constitutions des jésuites [suivi de] Remarques sur un écrit intitulé : compte rendu.
s.l., s.n., 1762.
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Two memoirs on the debate in France on the order of the Jesuits which will lead to their banishment by the Parliament of Paris in August 1762.
WRONSKI, Hoëné.
Sept manuscrits inédits, écrits de 1803 à 1806.
Paris, A dépot des ouvrages de l'auteur, 1879.
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550 €
First edition published after the death of Wronski.
POULLE, Nicolas Louis.
Sermons de Monsieur l'Abbé Poulle, prédicateur du Roi.
Paris, Mérigot le jeune, 1781.
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120 €
Seconde edition.
[SOCIALISME].
Social Credit Looks Forward.
Nottingham, The Social Credit Co-ordinating Centre, [1949].
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75 €
First edition.
Report of the conference called by the Social Credit Co-ordinating Centre.
Social Credit is an economic doctrine of socialist inspiration developed by Hugh Douglas in the early 1920s. It aims to index monetary creation not on debt creation but on economic production. The result is the generation of a "national dividend" paid back to citizens in the form of a universal basic income.
Among the contributors we will find: Philip Mairet, Thomas Robertson, H. Norman, T.M. Heron.
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