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Photo [LAMY, François]. 

[LAMY, François]. 

Le nouvel athéisme renversé, ou réfutation du sistême de Spinosa tirée pour la plupart de la conoissance de la nature de l'homme. 

Paris, Jean de Nully, 1696.
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900 €

Rare first edition in a morocco bilding with gilt arms on covers.

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 SCHNEIDEWEIN, Johann. 

SCHNEIDEWEIN, Johann. 

Johannis Schneidewini j.u.d. clarissimi, et academiae Wittergensis Professoris quondam publici, & Celeberrimi, in quatuor institutionum imperialium D. Justiniani libros. 

Cologne, Wilhelmi Metternich, 1698.
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100 €

Comments on the Justinian code which is the basis of the Western legal system by Johann Schneidewein who was a student of Martin Luther.

Photo [MANUSCRIT] [Congrégation de Notre Dame de Rheims]. 

[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.

Photo [MANUSCRIT]. 

[MANUSCRIT]. 

Philosophiae libeo primua logicam et methapi complectena. 

s.l., s.n., [v. 1700].
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300 €

Original manuscript.
Philosophy course which classically takes up the teachings of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, there is for example a pretty drawing of the porphyry tree presenting the Aristotelian categories.

Divided into two parts (each complete): Logic and Metaphysics.

Writer, date and location unknown.

Photo LOHNER, Tobias. 

LOHNER, Tobias. 

Instruction practica quarta pastorum continens doctrinas, & industrias ad pastorale. 

Dillingen, Joann Caspari Bencard, 1701.
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250 €

Manual for priests.

Photo SAVARY, Jacques. 

SAVARY, Jacques. 

Le Parfait Négociant ou instruction générale pour ce qui regarde le commerce. 

Lyon, Jacques Lyons, 1701.
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150 €

Fifth edition.
A famous merchant born in 1622 in Doué (Anjou) from a noble family, Savary became a wealthy merchant and retired from business at the age of 36. He was chosen by Colbert to be one of the writers of the commercial code of 1673 which was called "Code Savary". He wrote in 1675 the "Perfect trader" which is the compilation of the knowledge he had gathered for the drafting of the ordinance. The legal solutions are clear, sensible, practical, honest. The book is a business bible whose importance Max Weber underlined. This work became a classic, reprinted many times and translated into German, English and Italian.

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 MOULINIER, Jean. 

MOULINIER, Jean. 

Le grand trésor des marchands, banquiers et négocians, des financiers, de la noblesse, et de tous Seigneurs tant Ecclesiastiques que Seculiers, du trésor royal, des Officiers de Robe & d’Épée, de la bourgeoisie, et des Arts et Mêtiers.
Avec un nouveau Traité sur le Commerce. 

Bordeaux, Simon de la Court, [1704].
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500 €

First edition.
Moulinier proposes a geometric method of calculating "Inner Discounts" as well as a new journal model for keeping double-entry accounting.
Rare work missing from usual bibliographies (Einaudi, Goldsmith)
Copy signed at the end.

Photo [HISTOIRE DE LA MEDECINE]. 

[HISTOIRE DE LA MEDECINE]. 

Etat général des unions faites des biens et revenus des maladeries, leproseries, aumoneries et autres lieux pieux aux hopitaux des pauvres malades. 

Paris, Denys Thierry, 1705.
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400 €

First edition.
In order to rationalize aid to the sick, the power of Louis XIV issued numerous decrees aimed at merging the various aid centers that existed at the time. Each town, district, religious order then had its own institution. This work contains, city by city, the institutions that must meet and the list of related edicts and decrees.

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 TRONCHAY, Michel. 

TRONCHAY, Michel. 

Vie de M. Lenain de Tillemont, avec des reflexions sur divers sujets de morale, et quelques lettres de pieté. 

Cologne, s.n., 1711.
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150 €

First edition.
Michel Tronchay (1668-1733) was for many years the secretary of the historian Lenain de Tillemont (1637-1698) with whom he worked on his monumental ecclesiastical history.
From this collaboration he draws this book of moral reflections very imbued with Jansenism.

Photo TERRASSON, Jean. 

TERRASSON, Jean. 

Dissertation critique sur l'Iliade d'Homère. 

Paris, François Fournier, 1715.
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150 €

First edition.

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 BORNIER, Philippe. 

BORNIER, Philippe. 

Conférences des ordonnances de Louis XIV [...] Avec les anciennes ordonnances du Royaume, le droit écrit & les arrêts. 

Paris, Chez les Associez choisis par ordre de sa Majesté, 1719.
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350 €

Numerous handwritten notes slipped in the text.

Photo Justinus (Justin) || Abrahamo Gronovio. 

Justinus (Justin) || Abrahamo Gronovio. 

Justini Historiae Philippicae cum integris commentariis Jac. Bongarsii, Franc. Modii, Matth. Bernecceri, M. Z. Boxhornii, Is. Vossii, J. Fr. Gronovii, J. G. Graevii, T. Fabri, J. Vorstii, J. Schefferi, et excerptis aliorum. Curante Abrahamo Gronovio. 

Lugduni Batavorum [Leyde], Theodorum Haak, 1719.
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100 €

This book deals with ancient history and was written by Justinus, a Roman historian of the 3rd/ 4th century AD.
Latin text.

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 [HOET, Gérard] || [PICART, Bernard] || [HONDT, Pieter de] || [SAURIN, Pierre] ||. 

[HOET, Gérard] || [PICART, Bernard] || [HONDT, Pieter de] || [SAURIN, Pierre] ||. 

Figures de la Bible. Taferelen der voornaamste Geschiedenissen van het oude en nieuwe testament. 

La Haye, Pieter de Hondt, 1728.
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6000 €

First edition.
One of the most beautiful illustrations of the Bible in the eighteenth century.
This remarkable iconograph of the Bible in which Gérard Hoet and Bernard Picart mainly participated includes 214 full-page plates (29 double-page), the legend of which is written in Hebrew, English, German, Latin, French and Dutch.
The two frontispieces are captioned in French, the rest of the text is written in Dutch. Each chapter ends with a beautiful engraved cul-de-lampe.
This set of prints was first started by Picart in 1720 with the assistance of the Dutch painter Gérard Hoet, for what would undoubtedly become the pinnacle of the "Figures of the Bible". The Figures of the Bible are collections of engravings, which represent or signify Scripture through cycles of prints covering the entire Bible, a single Testament, or even a single biblical book. It is a genre that became popular with printing in the sixteenth century.
Pierre de Hondt, recovers the engravings of Picart, who with his multilingual legends already had a desire for European distribution, to accompany texts by Pierre Saurin (cf. Brunet). Everything is newly decorated with typographic ornaments.

Beautiful copy of Talleyrand at Chateau de Valençay with his ex libris in each volume.

Photo VOLTAIRE. 

VOLTAIRE. 

La Henriade. On y a ajouté la critique de ce poème.
[relié à la suite] :
- Essai sur les Guerres civiles de France. 1729. De Merville , La Haye. 

La Haye, Gosse Néaulme, 1728.
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200 €

First edition in french of the "l'essai sur les guerres civiles de France. ".

Photo LOCKE, John. 

LOCKE, John. 

Essai philosophique concernant l'entendement humain, où l'on montre qu'elle est l'étendue de nos connoissances certaines, et la manière dont nous y parvenons. 

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1729.
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300 €

Second edition augmented of the french translation.
Major work by John Locke in which he develops an empiricist theory of knowledge that opposes the innate ideas of Descartes.

Photo HAMELIN, Gabriel || LE CANU. 

HAMELIN, Gabriel || LE CANU. 

Philosophia. 

[Caen], s.n., [v. 1730].
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Original manuscript.
Philosophy course given in Caen by Professor Le Canu (?) around 1730.

The writer was Gabriel François Hamelin de Préfosse (1713-1776) who was a doctor of medicine in Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue.

Photo [RELIGION] || [EGLISE CATHOLIQUE]. 

[RELIGION] || [EGLISE CATHOLIQUE]. 

Propre de l'Eglise royale et paroissiale de S. Paul, suivi de L'office du Saint Nom de Jésus, titulaire des deux compagnies de Charité. 

Paris, Joseph Bullot, 1732.
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150 €

First edition.
Both texts in Latin and French on two columns.
Hanwritten note on the first endleaf, by the owner.

Photo LA CLEDE, Nicolas (de). 

LA CLEDE, Nicolas (de). 

Histoire générale de Portugal. 

Paris, Theodore le Gras, 1735.
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600 €

First edition in-12 published at the same time as the quarto edition.
Very complete set of three folding maps (two for Portugal, one for Brazil).

Photo [MAROQUIN]. 

[MAROQUIN]. 

Manuel du Chrétien. 

Cologne, Aux dépens de la compagnie, 1740.
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150 €
Photo [LESCONVEL, Pierre de]. 

[LESCONVEL, Pierre de]. 

Anecdotes secrètes des Règnes de Charles VIII et de Louis XII. Avec des notes historiques. 

La Haye, J.Neaulme, 1741.
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350 €
Photo WEIS, Jean-Martin. 

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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4000 €

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...).

Photo [PECQUET, Antoine]. 

[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.

Photo [RELIURE MAROQUIN]. 

[RELIURE MAROQUIN]. 

Petit Eucologe, ou livre d'Eglise, à l'usage des fidèles du Diocèse d'Auxerre. 

Auxerre, François Fournie, 1746.
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150 €

Pleasant copy in morocco from the period of this Auxerre printing.

Photo Ordre de la Visitation Sainte-Marie. 

Ordre de la Visitation Sainte-Marie. 

La manière de donner l'habit et de recevoir a la profession les Soeurs de la visitation de Sainte Marie. 

Paris, Claude Hérissant, 1748.
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Photo MALEBRANCHE, Nicolas. 

MALEBRANCHE, Nicolas. 

De la Recherche de la Vérité. 

Paris, Bordelet, 1749.
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250 €

During the publication of this treatise (first ed. : 1675), the first published by Malebranche, his contemporaries especially retained Cartesianism: dualism of thought and extension, rule of evidence, method using the Regulae of Descartes, influence of Dioptrics and the Treatise on Man, Cartesian physics. Even the concept of the soul, a simple occasion for the movements of the body, could be drawn from the Cartesians La Forge and Cordemoy. Malebranche still appears as one of many Cartesians trying to relate to Augustinianism. The break with Cartesianism came with the publication of Enlightenments on the Search for Truth (1678). Until then centered on man, Malebranche's thought here operates a theocentric reversal. From now on, everything starts from God. All physical relationships, like all moral values, are only the expression of an immutable Order.
Many figures in the text.

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