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MONTLOSIER, François Dominique de Reynaud.
Opinion de M. De Montlosier sur le nouveau Serment demandé à l'Armée.
[Paris], [Imprimerie Nationale], [1791].
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75 €
TERRIER-SANTANS, Edmond.
On se bat sur terre.
Paris, Les Editions de France, 1930.
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30 €
COCHIN, Henri.
Oeuvres de feu Mr Cochin écuyer, avocat au Parlement, contenant le recueil de ses mémoires et consultations.
Paris, De Nully, 1751-1756.
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500 €
Henri Cochin (1687-1747) was a famous jurisconsult, considered the model of eloquence of the bar.
Set published from 1751 (original edition) to 1753 by Nully for the first four volumes. Volumes 5 and 6 are from Durand in 1764 and 1766.
ST OUEN, Madame de.
Oeuvres choisies de Stanislas Roi de Pologne.
Paris, J. Carez, 1825.
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90 €
First edition.
During the reign of Charles X, his great-grandson, we rediscover the character of Stanislas King of Poland and Duke of Lorraine who was an enlightened aristocrat and patron of the lights.
MASSILLON, Jean-Baptiste.
Oeuvres choisies de Massillon.
Paris, Delestre-Boulage, 1823-1825.
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300 €
Beautiful copy for this edition bringing together Massillon's sermons.
Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1663-1742) was bishop of Clermont and academician, he is often compared to Bourdaloue and Bossuet.
Voltaire, who had Le Petit Carême read to him during his meals, said of him: “The preacher who knew the world best; more flowery than Bourdaloue, more pleasant, and whose eloquence smacks of the man of the court, the academician, and the man of wit; moreover, a moderate and tolerant philosopher. ».
MOLE, François-René || DAZINCOURT || FLEURY.
Observations pour les comédiens français sur la pétition adressée par les auteurs dramatiques à l'Assemblée nationale.
Paris, Imprimerie Prault, 1790.
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150 €
First edition.
Continuation of a debate initiated by Beaumarchais in 1777, opposing the interests of authors to those of the Comédie Française. This resulted in the laws of 18 and 19 January 1791 and 19 and 24 July 1793 establishing authors' rights.
RENAN, Ernest.
Nouvelles études d'histoire religieuse.
Paris, Calmann-Levy, 1884.
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50 €
First edition.
Ernest Renan (1823-1892), historian in most of the work has been devoted to the history of religions.
In this work Renan compiles some considerations on comparative mythologies, Buddhism, St Francis of Assisi, Galileo, Spinoza and Port Royal.
LEPAGE, P.
Nouveau Style de la procédure civile dans les cours d'appel, les tribunaux de première instance, de commerce, et dans les justices de paix ou Le Code Judiciaire mis en pratique par des formules.
Paris, Hacquart, 1806.
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160 €
First edition.
Updating of the civil procedure following the creation of the Code Napoleon.
"It was not enough to have perfected the civil laws, to have made them uniform for the whole of France, and to have methodically drafted them in a single Code; it was still necessary to reform the Civil Procedure [...] The work that we are publishing aims to facilitate the means of being promptly informed in this part of the laws; the new Judicial Code is sufficiently demonstrated therein "(extract from the preface).
RANDOUIN-BERTHIER, Vicomte || OISE.
Nouveau précis statistique sur la canton de Chaumont - Extrait de l'annuaire de 1859.
Beauvais, Imprimerie d'Achille Desjardins, 1859.
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50 €
First edition.
The book is bound in with "Précis statistique sur le canton du Coudray-Saint-Germer, arrondissement de Beauvais (Oise). (Extrait de l'annuaire de 1841)" and "Précis statistique sur le canton de Formerie, arrondissement de Beauvais (Oise)".
VALIN, René-Josué.
Nouveau Commentaire sur l'Ordonnance de la Marine du mois d'Août 1681.
La Rochelle, Jerôme Légier, 1766.
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250 €
Second edition.
The great naval ordinance of July 31, 1681, also called the naval code or simply royal ordinance of 1681, also known as Colbert's Ordinance, is a major French royal ordinance drawn up on July 31, 1681 under the reign of Louis XIV, which codifies comprehensively the uses in maritime transport (merchant marine). Inspired by the customs and statutes of the United Provinces (Amsterdam and Antwerp), it was established under the aegis of Colbert; its principles were adopted into positive law in 2006.
MARTAINVILLE, Alphonse-Louis-Dieudonné de.
Nous mourons de Faim, le Peuple est las il faut que ça finisse !.
s.l., s.n., [1794].
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150 €
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[MINISTERE DES COLONIES].
Notices à l'usage des émigrants.
Paris, Service des renseignements commerciaux et de la colonisation, 1895-1896.
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350 €
Complete set of notices published by the Ministry of Colonies of the Third Republic.
They group zone by zone practical advice intended for the future colonists with geographical, climatic (what clothes to bring), administrative (papers to provide) indications.
Plantations in Tonkin and Annam (2 maps).
New Caledonia. (1 card)
The Senegal. (1 card)
Cochinchina. (1 card)
Obock and the Somali Coast Protectorate. (1 card)
French Congo. (1 card)
Establishments on the West Coast of Africa. (1 card)
Productions in Madagascar. (3 cards)
The Coffee Plantation in New Caledonia.
Indo-China: The Mining Regime of Annam and Tonkin.
Cocoa trees in the Congo.
The Trade of Cochinchina and Cambodia.
Import trade in New Caledonia in 1894-1895.
Notes additionelles sur le dernier ouvrage de M. de Calonne intitulé De l'état de la France, present et futur.
Paris, De l'imprimerie d'un Royaliste, 1790.
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75 €
CHATEAUBRIAND, François René de.
Note sur la Grèce.
Paris, Le Normant père, 1825.
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450 €
First edition.
[CONSIDERANT, Victor].
Nécessité d'une dernière débâcle politique en France.
Paris, Au dépot, rue Jacob, 1836.
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1200 €
First edition.
Victor Considerant (1808 - 1893), was a French philosopher and economist from the Polytechnic, internationalist and follower of Fourierism. After a political career under the July Monarchy, under the Empire he went into exile in Belgium and Texas where he created the phalanstery of La Réunion, the experiment was a failure and he returned to France in 1869.
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.
[RELIURE A FERMOIRS].
Missel Romain.
Limoges, Eugène Ardant, [v.1900].
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200 €
[RELIURE MAROQUIN].
Missel Romain.
Limoges, Dalpayrat et Depelley, 1892.
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200 €
Copy print with colors on japan paper.
[LACRETELLE, Pierre-Louis].
Mémoire sur l'institution des bureaux des finances, et l'utilité de leurs fonctions.
s.l., s.n., 1789.
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60 €
First edition.
Book on the history of the institution of the finance corps by Pierre-Louis Lacretelle (1751-1824), who was a member of Parliament during the Revolution and the French Consulate.
PUGNET, Jean-François-Xavier.
Mémoires sur les fièvres de mauvais caractère du levant et des antilles, avec un aperçu physique et médical du Sayd, et un essai sur la topographe de Sainte-Lucie dédiés à l'empereur.
Lyon, Reymann, An XII - 1804.
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500 €
Jean-François-Xavier Pugnet (1765-1846) was a French military doctor who distinguished himself during the Egyptian campaign, first at the Rosette hospital and then at Cairo where he was confronted with the plague. He then went to the West Indies to study yellow fever and compare it to Levant fevers.
He compiles his observations from 1802, here the most complete edition plus the part on Saint Lucia.
The folding plate takes up a low relief collected in Egypt in a tomb representing the fertilization of the Earth by the Sun.
MOORE, Thomas || PARISOT, J-T.
Memoires sur la vie privée, politique et littéraire de Richard Brinsley Shéridan.
Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1826.
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200 €
First edition in French thanks to the translation of Parisot.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an Irish politician and playwright. Entered Parliament in 1780 with the support of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, this great orator and eminent figure of the Whig party remained there until 1812.
[BRET, Antoine].
Mémoires sur la Vie De Mademoiselle De Lenclos.
Amsterdam, François Joly, 1751.
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75 €
Edition given the same year as the first edition.
Ninon de Lenclos was a courtesan, a woman of wit, a letter writer and a French woman of letters. A cultured and independent aristocrat, she hosted a salon on rue des Tournelles in Paris which brought together the great minds of the time, men and women alike.
The first part is a biography, the other two parts consist of correspondence with the Marquis de Sévigné.
VIENOT DE VAUBLANC, Vincent Marie (Comte de).
Mémoires sur la Révolution de France, et recherches sur les causes qui ont amené la révolution de 1789 et celles qui l'onht suivie.
Paris, G-A Dentu, 1833.
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250 €
First edition.
In a long and eventful career, he was successively a monarchist deputy under the Revolution and during the Directory, proscribed under the Terror, prefect of Napoleon, Minister of the Interior of Louis XVIII and to finish his political life, ultra-royalist deputy.
LINGUET, Simon Henri Nicolas.
Mémoires sur la Bastille et la détention de l'auteur dans ce chateau royal.
Londres, T. Spilsbury, 1783.
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80 €
Edition published the same year as the original without the frontispiece of the original edition.
[PECQUET, Antoine].
Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'Histoire de Perse.
Amsterdam, Aux Dépens De La Compagnie, 1746.
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300 €
This book is a satire of the political and gallant intrigues of the court of Louis XIV, in the form of false "Mémoires" (Persia becomes France and all the protagonists are named with oriental names). The key to the understanding is given at the end of the text.
In reality, this satirical book deals with the History of France and Europe from the death of Louis XIV to the reign of Louis XV.
It is also the first book, in which the story of the famous "Iron Mask" is mentionned.
Following the publication, the author was jailed in La Bastille.
GRETRY, André-Ernest.
Mémoires ou essai sur la musique.
Paris, Prault, 1789.
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150 €
First edition.
The Memoirs of Gretry constitute a document of particular importance for the musical and literary history of the 18th century. There are indeed many details concerning not only the life of Gretry, his feelings, his musical works, but also music in general, comedy, painting, travel .... and various writers and composers.
MONTRESOR, Claude de Bourdeille de.
Mémoires de monsieur de Montresor. Diverses pièces durant le ministère du Cardinal de Richelieu. Relation de Monsieur de Fontrailles.
Leyde, Jean Sambix, 1667.
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150 €
Claude de Bourdeille, Count of Montrésor (1606-1663) favorite of Gaston d'Orléans played a role in many intrigues and plots of the seventeenth century. He participated in particular in the Cinq-Mars plot to assassinate Richelieu.
COMMINES, Philippe de.
Mémoires de Commines.
Paris, Belin-Leprieur, 1843.
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40 €
Précédées d'une notice biographique par Belin.
[JOLY DE MAIZEROY, Paul-Gédéon].
Mémoire sur les opinions qui partagent les militaires, suivi Du Traité des armes défensives, corrigé et augmenté.
Paris, Claude Antoine Jombert, 1773.
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600 €
First edition of this book written by the inventor of "strategy".
Maizeroy's work was intended to theorize the art of war, in this book he returns to: the great maneuvers, a historical review of the interest of artillery, logistics, and the course of battles of Preston and Falkirk.
MAHY DE CORMÉRÉ, Guillaume-François de.
Mémoire sur les finances et sur le crédit, pour servir de suite aux Recherches & considérations nouvelles sur les finances.
Paris, Chez l'auteur - Moutard - Desenne, 1789.
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150 €
First edition.
Guillaume-François de Mahy, Baron de Cormeré was a civil servant in the general control of finances during the Necker administration. In this book, he gave his analysis of the functioning of finance in France during the monarchy.
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