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Photo BOUILLIER, Francisque. 

BOUILLIER, Francisque. 

Histoire et critique de la révolution cartésienne. 

Lyon, Boitel, 1842.
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150 €

First edition.
Francisque Bouillier (1813-1899) was a French philosopher known above all for his studies on Cartesianism.

Photo CHEVREAU, Urbain. 

CHEVREAU, Urbain. 

Histoire du Monde. 

Paris, Michel Clouzier, 1717.
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750 €

"The vast genius of our author has embraced & deepened the particular history of all the nations. It goes into the detail of all the Monarchies & of all the Republics. We see there the origin, the progress & the decadence of all the States "(extract from the preface).

Photo [COUSIN D'AVALLON, Charles-Yves]. 

[COUSIN D'AVALLON, Charles-Yves]. 

Histoire du général Pichegru, précédée d'une notice sur sa vie politique et militaire; et suivie des anecdotes, traits intéressans et réponses remarquables de ce général. 

Paris, Barba, an x - 1802.
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150 €

First edition.

General Jean-Charles Pichegru (1761-1804) had a brilliant career in the revolutionary army, but an attempt to plot with the monarchists caused his death.

Photo [JOUBERT, (Abbé) ]. 

[JOUBERT, (Abbé) ]. 

Histoire des révolutions de Pologne, depuis la mort d'Auguste III jusqu'à l'année 1775. 

Varsovie, s.n., 1775.
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350 €

First edition.
In this work, Joubert provides a detailed account of the revolutions in Poland during that period, covering the formation of the Confederation of Bar, the implementation of the May 3rd Constitution, and the political instability that followed. He also provides an insight into the motivations of the revolutionaries and the struggles of the nobility in maintaining their power. Joubert's work is seen as an important source of information and understanding of the Polish Revolution and the events of the 18th century.

Photo SAY, Horace. 

SAY, Horace. 

Histoire des relations commerciales entre la France et le Brésil. 

Paris, Guillaumin, 1839.
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2000 €

First edition.
Following the establishment of the Portuguese court in Brazil (1808) and the opening of ports to foreigners, an immense country opened up to international trade.
Brazil then aroused the interest of French economists who saw it as a testing ground for liberal ideas.
Horace Say predicted an upcoming economic boom in Brazil and drew from it an economic model for the future French colonial empire which then began to develop.

Presentation copy to Philip Taylor, English business manager based in Marseille. The Say and Taylor families, both Protestants, have been friends since the young Says’ study and work stay in England. They found themselves around the sugar industry, Horace Say's uncle founded the Say sugar factory (current Béghin-Say), and Philip Taylor the elder, a British machine designer, sold equipment, particularly in France for sugar refineries.

Photo SAINT DISDIER, Alexandre-Toussaint Limojon de. 

SAINT DISDIER, Alexandre-Toussaint Limojon de. 

Histoire des Négotiations de Nimègue. 

Paris [Hollande], Claude Barbin, 1680.
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300 €

Counterfeit edition of the title à la sphere (probably Dutch), taken from the Barbin edition in Paris.

The peace of Nijmegen marks the end of the Dutch war, it places France at the forefront of European geopolitics. On this occasion, France annexed Franche-Comté. It is the triumph of Louis XIV as a warrior king.

Beautiful copy in morocco.

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 LANGLOIS, Jean Baptiste. 

LANGLOIS, Jean Baptiste. 

Histoire des croisades contre les Albigeois. 

Paris, Jean Guilletat, 1703.
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250 €

First edition.

Photo BOULANGE, Abbé Théodore. 

BOULANGE, Abbé Théodore. 

Histoire de Saint François de Sales, sa vie, ses vertus, ses institutions. 

Paris, Julien, Lanier et Cie, 1848.
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30 €
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 [MALINGRE, Claude]. 

[MALINGRE, Claude]. 

Histoire de Louys XIII. Roy de France et de Navarre : contenant les choses mémorables arriuees, tant en France qu'és pays estrangers, durant le temps de l'auguste régence de la reyne sa mere, & depuis sa majorité [...]. 

Paris, Jean Petit-Pas, 1616.
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300 €

First edition.

This book deals with the very beginning of the reign of Louis XIII (1601-1643) known as "Le Juste", son of Henri IV and Marie de Médicis.

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 ADVIELLE, Victor. 

ADVIELLE, Victor. 

Histoire de la ville de Sceaux depuis son origine jusqu'à nos jours. 

Sceaux, Charaire & fils, 1883.
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80 €

First edition.

Photo [MUSSET-PATAY, Victor Donatien de]. 

[MUSSET-PATAY, Victor Donatien de]. 

Histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de J.- J. Rousseau. 

Paris, J. L. J. Brière, 1822.
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90 €

Bibliographical book on Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778).

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 GABOURG, Amédée. 

GABOURG, Amédée. 

Histoire de la révolution et de l'Empire. 

Paris, Jacques Lecoffre et Cie, 1846-1851.
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180 €

First edition.

Photo BOUILLIER, Francisque. 

BOUILLIER, Francisque. 

Histoire de la philosophie cartésienne. 

Paris, Ch. Delagrave et Cie, 1868.
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80 €

Third edition.

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 VOLTAIRE. 

VOLTAIRE. 

Histoire de la guerre de MDCCXLI. 

La Haye, s.n., 1756.
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150 €

Second edition published without the agreement of Voltaire, whose manuscript was stolen from him by the Marquis de Ximénès.

Photo MARGUERITTE, Paul et Victor. 

MARGUERITTE, Paul et Victor. 

Histoire de la guerre de 1870-71. 

Paris, Georges Chamerot, [1903].
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30 €

Book on the Franco-Prussian War (from 19 July 1870 to 28 January 1871) which ended with the defeat of France and the loss of Alsace and Lorraine.

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 NAKOULA EL-TURK || DESGRANGES, Antoine Jérôme. 

NAKOULA EL-TURK || DESGRANGES, Antoine Jérôme. 

Histoire de l'expédition des Français en Égypte. 

Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1839.
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600 €

First edition.
Work printed in French and Arabic, reproducing the Nakoula manuscript and its translation into French by Desgranges ainé Niqula Nicolas Yusuf al-Turk (1763-1828) was a scholar, historian and poet at the court of Emir Bashir Shihab II. He was born in Dayr al-Qamar (in present-day Lebanon) and accompanied Napoleon's expedition to Egypt. He wrote an account of it, which was reproduced and translated here into French by Desgranges for the first time.

Photo [FRERON, Elie-Catherine]. 

[FRERON, Elie-Catherine]. 

Histoire de l'empire d'Allemagne, et principalement de ses révolutions. 

Paris, Herissant, 1771.
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600 €

First edition.
Beautiful ensemble for this History of the German Empire attributed to Fréron which was undoubtedly a counter-proposal to the Annals of the Empire since Charlemagne written by Voltaire.

Photo CERVANTES, Michel de. 

CERVANTES, Michel de. 

Histoire de l'Admirable Don Quichotte de la Manche. 

Paris, Delongchamps, 1825.
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250 €

Neat print for this classic of Iberian literature here in the French translation by Filleau de Saint-Martin with an essay on the life and works of Cervantes by M. Auger. The frontispieces are engraved after illustrations by Deveria.

Photo ERCKMANN, Emile || CHATRIAN, Alexandre. 

ERCKMANN, Emile || CHATRIAN, Alexandre. 

Histoire d'un Paysan 1789-1815. 

Paris, J. Hetzel, 1872.
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50 €

The tumultuous history of the revolution and the empire seen through the eyes of a peasant from Lorraine.
Printed on two columns and illustrated by Théolphile Schuler.

Photo JAURES, Jean. 

JAURES, Jean. 

Histoire Socialiste (1789-1900) : La Constituante (1789-1791). 

Paris, Jules Rouff et Cie, [1900].
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950 €

First edition.
First volume of the series devoted by Jaurès to the history of socialism. This first part is dedicated to the constituent assembly covering the revolutionary period 1789-1791.

Beautiful autograph dedication of Jaurès on the false title to "Charles Guyeisse and the free pages".
Charles Guieysse became a socialist activist at the turn of the 19th century, in 1901 he founded the journal Pages Libres, a small 24-page weekly review under the sign of Dreyfusism.

Photo RAVERAT, Achille. 

RAVERAT, Achille. 

Haute-Savoie, promenades historiques, pittoresques & artistiques en Genevois, Sémine, Faucigny et Chablais. 

Lyon, Chez l'Auteur, 1872.
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90 €

First edition.

Photo MASPERO, Gaston. 

MASPERO, Gaston. 

Guide du visiteur du Musée du Caire. 

Le Caire, Imprimerie de l'institut français, 1902.
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60 €

First edition.
First guide of the new Cairo museum installed since the end of 1902 place Tharir.

Photo LAVERDANT, Gabriel-Désiré. 

LAVERDANT, Gabriel-Désiré. 

Grégoire VII ou le Pape et l'Empereur au moyen âge. 

Paris, Vrayet de Surcy, 1860.
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200 €

First edition.
Presentation copy to François Barrier.
Gabriel Désiré Laverdant (1810-1884), was director of the Phalange in 1840, he was one of those Fourierists who sought the rapprochement of the Fourierist movement with the Catholics, he called himself a "phalansterian Catholic".

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 Agricultural Union of Africa and became the main animator and financial supporter of the Societary School of Lyon in the 1850s. He created a "Fourierist" bank which would notably finance the Texas Phalanstery. In 1864, he left Lyon and his career as a surgeon to join Paris to reorganize the Societary School and devote himself to writing Fourierist treatises.

Photo MARTIN, Benjamin. 

MARTIN, Benjamin. 

Grammaire des Sciences Philosophiques, ou Analyse abrégée de la Philosophie moderne, appuyée sur les expériences. 

Paris, Briasson, 1749.
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600 €

First french edition.

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