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Photo PERROT, Georges. 

PERROT, Georges. 

Souvenirs d'un voyage en Asie mineure. 

Paris, Michel Levy frères, 1864.
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250 €

First edition.
Travel diary in Greece, Turkey and Anatolia.

Photo [VOLTAIRE]. 

[VOLTAIRE]. 

Souvenirs de Madame de Caylus. 

Amsterdam, Marc Michel Rey, 1770.
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200 €

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

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

Photo 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 PITON, Frédéric. 

PITON, Frédéric. 

Strasbourg illustré, ou panorama pittoresque, historique et statistique de Strasbourg et de ses environs. 

Strasbourg, Chez l'Auteur, 1855.
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300 €

The first edition.

Photo [NECKER, Jacques]. 

[NECKER, Jacques]. 

Suite des observations du citoyen. 

s.l., s.n., [v. 1781].
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50 €

This booklet was published after the publication of the "Compte-rendu au roi" by Necker in 1781.
The author questions the management of France's finances by Necker.

Photo NECKER, Jacques. 

NECKER, Jacques. 

Sur le compte rendu au Roi en 1781. Nouveaux éclaircissemens. 

Lyon, Bernuset, 1788.
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90 €

Edition published the same year as the first one.

In this book, Necker (1732-1804, Minister of Finance of Louis XVI) defends his report to the King published in 1781 and reacts to the attacks of Charles de Calonne (1734-1802, Minister of Finance of Louis XVI between 1783 and 1787), his successor.

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 AZUNI, Domenico Alberto. 

AZUNI, Domenico Alberto. 

Système Universel Des Armemens En Course Et Des Corsaires En Tems De Guerre Suivi D'un Précis des moyens propres à diminuer les dangers de la navigation des Neutres. 

Gènes, Bonaudo, 1817.
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1000 €

First edition.
Dominique Albert Azuni was president of the chamber of the Genoa company under the Empire and a specialist in maritime law.
This work is a real law manual of the privateer in which we explain his rights and duties.

An unusual work on corsairs at the time when Surcouf was sailing the seas.

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 KOCH, Christoph Wilhelm von. 

KOCH, Christoph Wilhelm von. 

Tableau Des Révolutions De L'Europe, Depuis Le Bouleversement De L'Empire Romain En Occident, Jusqu'À Nos Jours. 

Paris, Gide fils, 1814.
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150 €

Interesting summary of European history decorated with 7 maps enhanced with colors and 154 genealogical tables of European dynasties.

Photo [MOSCH, August Wilhelm (von)]. 

[MOSCH, August Wilhelm (von)]. 

Tactique de l'Infanterie et instruction sur le choix d'une Position & sur les Dispositions des Manoeuvres. 

Dresde, Frères Walther, 1787.
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350 €

First edition published with the agreement of the author.
August Wilhelm von Mosch (1735-1815) was a Prussian major general. The Prussian army was renowned since Frederick II for its rapid troop movements and the use of the Oblique Order (military maneuver consisting of reinforcing and advancing one of its wings first, while stealing the other wing). This required perfect mastery of maneuvers by the officers.

Photo ALBERONI, Jules. 

ALBERONI, Jules. 

Testament Politique Du Cardinal Jules Alberoni, Recueilli De Divers Mémoires, Lettres & Entretiens De Son Eminence. 

Lausanne, Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1754.
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60 €

First edition.
Jules Alberoni (1664-1756) man of the Church and of the State, in the service of the Duke of Vendôme and Philippe V of Spain.

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 POMPERY, Edouard (de). 

POMPERY, Edouard (de). 

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

Paris, Capelle, 1841.
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300 €

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

Photo [JOLY DE MAIZEROY, Paul-Gédéon]. 

[JOLY DE MAIZEROY, Paul-Gédéon]. 

Théorie de la guerre. 

Lausanne, Aux dépens de la Société, 1777.
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500 €

First edition.
Inventor of the term "strategy", it is with the Theory of War (1777) that Maizeroy completed his work of theorization, because although History is much less present there, it is a manual intended for instruction of young officers on elementary tactics and major tactics.
In this work he states that the use of thin or deep order is a choice belonging to the general and thus gives more flexibility to systems on the battlefield.
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Photo MILTON, John || [SALAVILLE, Jean-Baptiste]. 

MILTON, John || [SALAVILLE, Jean-Baptiste]. 

Théorie de la royauté, d'après la doctrine de Milton. 

s.l., s.n., 1789.
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200 €
Photo FOURIER, Charles. 

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.

Photo FOURIER, Charles. 

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).

Photo GAMA MACHADO, José Joaquim da. 

GAMA MACHADO, José Joaquim da. 

Théorie des ressemblances ou essai philosophique sur les moyens de déterminer les dispositions physiques et morales des animaux. 

Paris, H. Fournier et Cie, 1844.
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600 €

First edition.
Third part alone of the four parts that appeared over a period of almost thirty years. The first part appeared in 1831, the last in 1858. The subject, on the border between natural history and philosophy, consists in applying a rigorous analogy between animal forms and human psychology. In the tradition of Lavater, Gall and the physiognomists, the physical configuration of the organ is revealing of personal dispositions. Da Gama Machado was a commander and gentleman of the Royal House of the King of Portugal; he lived surrounded by his birds, which he cherished.

Presentation copy to Achille Comte (1802-1866).

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 [JESUITES][ABRESSEVIN, Claude]. 

[JESUITES][ABRESSEVIN, Claude]. 

Tout le monde a tort, ou jugement impartial d'une dame philosophe, sur l'affaire présente des jésuites [Suivi de] Remarques sur le livre intitulé, extrait des assertions dangereuses & pernicieuses en tout genre...[Suivi de] Préjugés légitimes contre le livre intitulé: extrait des assertions dangereuses...[Suivi de] Réponse aux objections publiées contre l'institut des jésuites. 

Avignon, Aux dépens des libraires, 1762.
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100 €

Four memories 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.
The point of view here is that of the company of Jesus.

Photo FOURIER, Charles. 

FOURIER, Charles. 

Traité de l'association domestique-agricole (T1) (+) Sommaire du traité de l'association domestique-agricole ou attraction industrielle. 

Bossange, Paris, 1822.
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750 €

First edition.
Copy signed by the author.
This treatise was intended, in the author's mind, to replace his theory of the four movements, the publication of which had met with little success.
He describes in a more practical way the phase of Harmony, in fact, it is the Rule (in the monastic sense) of his Phalanstery. Man is total there: cultivating his vegetable garden in the morning, composing poems in the afternoon, craftsman in the evening. Life is very finely regulated there: constant activity, dietetics (which he calls Gastrosophy), sexuality. Among the Fourierists, the union is free, each lustful preference accepted, but taxonomic passion of the moment, each sexual taste is classified, subdivided, organized... Fourier thus defines seventy-six types of cuckolding...
With the Supplement to the foreword paginated LXV-LXXX which is found in few copies.

Bound after, the rare "Sommaire" :
[FOURIER, Charles]. Sommaire du traité de l'association domestique-agricole ou attraction industrielle. Paris, Bossange, 1823. 16-[1329-1448] pages. Bound without the first (instruction pour le vendeur ...) and last (appendice aux conclusions) leaves, as well as leaves B8-8E found in some copies between pages 8 and 9.

Photo BOICEAU, Jean || DANTY, N. 

BOICEAU, Jean || DANTY, N. 

Traité de la preuve par témoins en matière civile, contenant le commentaire de Me Jean Boiceau sur l'article 54 de l'ordonnance de Moulins. 

Paris, Guillaume Cavelier, 1697.
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150 €

First edition.
Book which largely takes up the work of Jean Boiceau de la Borderie on testimonial evidence.

Photo GARNIER, Francis Xavier Paul. 

GARNIER, Francis Xavier Paul. 

Traité des chemins de toute espèce, comprenant les grandes routes, chemins de halage, vicinaux et particuliers, arbres et fossés qui les bordent, les rues et les places publiques ; suivi d'un appendice au régime des eaux. 

Paris, Imprimerie Pillet ainé, 1827.
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100 €

Third edition signed by the author.

Photo ABOT DE BAZINGHEN, François. 

ABOT DE BAZINGHEN, François. 

Traité des monnoies, et de la jurisdiction de la cour des monnoies, en forme de dictionnaire, qui contient l'histoire des monnoies des anciens peuples Juifs, Gaulois & Romains, (.) de France (.) de l'Asie, l'Afrique, l'Amérique (.) l'Europe (.). 

Paris, Guillyn, 1764.
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250 €

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 BARBEYRAC, Jean. 

BARBEYRAC, Jean. 

Traité du jeu, où l'on examine les principales questions de droit naturel et de morale qui ont du rapport à cette
matière. 

Amsterdam, Pierre Humbert, 1709.
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750 €

First edition.
Philosophical dissertation around the game, its dangers and its abuses all the moral, economic and social facets related to the practice of games are discussed. Barbeyrac writes at a key moment when the notion of chance (behind which hides divine intervention) gradually gives way to what will become a theory of games and probabilities.

Photo SACHET, Adrien. 

SACHET, Adrien. 

Traité théorique et pratique de la législation sur les accidents du travail. 

Paris, J.-B. Sirey, 1909.
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75 €

Fifth edition, completely revised and updated with new legislation and case law (1909).
Presentation copy to "Monsieur Duboin, conseiller à la Cour de Cassation.".

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 [COMITE NATIONAL DES ECRIVAINS] MALHERBE, Henry || CLAUDEL, Paul || ARAGON, Louis. 

[COMITE NATIONAL DES ECRIVAINS] MALHERBE, Henry || CLAUDEL, Paul || ARAGON, Louis. 

Un Village de France. 

Paris, La Bibliothèque française, [1945].
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350 €

First edition.
Presentation copy signed by Aragon to Jacques Faizant.
The National Writers' Committee is an organ of the literary resistance, an emanation of the National Writers' Front, close to the French Communist Party.
Led by Aragon, the committee brings together many great French authors.
This publication in the aftermath of the war aims, through the example of an “ordinary” French village, at the abuses committed by the Nazis. Thus, Plomion in Aisne, where on August 31, 1944 fourteen inhabitants aged 16 to 72 were shot by the SS.
The photos of the victims are accompanied by a text by Henry Malherbe and a poem by Paul Claudel. Amusing send-off from one of the most fervent communist writers to the one who was on the front page of Le Figaro for decades.

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