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Photo [BLANCHET, Jean]. 

[BLANCHET, Jean]. 

L'Homme éclairé par ses besoins. 

Paris, Durand, 1764.
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150 €

First edition.
The work of a philosopher who was won over to the ideas of the Lumières, Blanchet is resolutely modern: the 18th century is marked by the reign of science and the arts, and the passions of modern man are the subject of vibrant praise, including self-esteem, because it is they which allow the realization of the great projects of humanity, which a Diderot would not deny.

Photo [GAZAIGNES, Jean-Antoine]. 

[GAZAIGNES, Jean-Antoine]. 

Annales de la Société des soi-disans Jésuites ; ou Recueil historique-chronologique de tous les actes, écrits, dénonciations, avis doctrinaux, requêtes, ordonnances, mandemens, instructions pastorales, décrets, censures, bulles, brefs, édits, arrêts, sentences & jugemens émanés des tribunaux ecclésiastiques & séculiers. Contre la doctrine, l'enseignement, les entreprises & les forfaits des soi-disans Jésuites, depuis 1552, époque de leur naissance en France, jusqu'en 1763. 

Paris, s.n., 1764-1769.
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First edition.
The Annales de la Société des soi-disans Jésuites is a collection of historical acts, documents, and letters that was published between 1764 and 1771 to denounce the place of the Order of Jesuits in French society. The collection was produced by the Abbé Jean-Antoine Gazaignes and consists of five volumes (Last is missing in our copy). It contains information about the founding of the order, its doctrines, its activities, and its various political movements. The Annales are of great importance for understanding the history of the Jesuits and their influence on French society. The Annales have also served as the basis for many historical works and studies on the Jesuits and their role in French history.

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 VALIN, René-Josué. 

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.

Photo [ACCARIAS DE SERIONNE, Jacques]. 

[ACCARIAS DE SERIONNE, Jacques]. 

Les Intérêts des Nations de l'Europe, dévelopés relativement au Commerce. 

Leide, Elie Luzac, 1766.
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1000 €

First edition.
Work written in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War when Europe was seeking a new political balance. For Accarias this had to go through trade, he proposed a program of specific reforms – lowering of customs duties, reduction of tax pressure, in particular on essential goods, control of public credit and liberalization policy. agriculture and national economies... This economic program was based on pre-Smithian French and British literature and promoted radical liberalism.

Photo ANDRÉ, Yves-Marie || FORMEY. 

ANDRÉ, Yves-Marie || FORMEY. 

Essai sur le Beau Avec un Discours Préliminaire et des Réflexions sur le Goût par M. Formey. 

Amsterdam, J.H.Schneider, 1767.
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75 €

Yves-Marie André (1674-1765) was a Jesuit priest, philosopher and in charge of a chair of mathematics in Caen.

Photo DOMAT, Jean. 

DOMAT, Jean. 

Les Loix civiles dans leur ordre naturel le droit public, et legum delectus. 

Paris, Veuve Savoye, 1767.
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250 €

"Civil laws in their natural order" is considered a monument of French civil law and is one of the sources that will lead to the Napoleonic Civil Code
. The 1767 folio edition is one of the best editions of the "Domat" in the 18th century.
The title of the book will inspire in Montesquieu his "De l'Esprit des lois".

Photo REID, Thomas. 

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.

Photo OCELLUS, Lucanus. 

OCELLUS, Lucanus. 

De la nature de l'univers Avec la Traduction Françoise & des Remarques, par M. l'Abbé Batteux. 

Paris, Saillant, 1768.
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150 €

First edition of the Batteux's translation in french. With the text in greek.
Bound after, Timée de Locres "De l'Ame du Monde" and Aristote "Lettres d'Aristote à Alexandre sur le Système du Monde", also with the translation of Batteux.

Photo [VOLTAIRE]. 

[VOLTAIRE]. 

L'Homme aux quarante ecus. 

[Genève], s.n., 1768.
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1750 €

The rare first edition, first issue with the errata.

Voltaire's only work on economics.
Written as a criticism of the physiocracts and the work of Le Mercier de la Rivière in particular, it was sufficiently controversial to be condemned and ordered to be burned by Parliament in 1768.

Photo VERTOT, Abbé René Aubert. 

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.

Photo [GALIANI, Ferdinando] || [DIDEROT, Denis]. 

[GALIANI, Ferdinando] || [DIDEROT, Denis]. 

Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds. 

Londres, s.n., 1770.
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1200 €

First edition.
Book revised and published by Diderot from a manuscript by Ferdinando Galiani, in which the latter expresses reservations about the free trade in grain adopted by the edicts of 1763 and 1764.
Galiani is indeed opposed to the export of wheat outside France, while French regions may still experience periods of famine.
This is one of the first criticisms of nascent economic liberalism.
What will be worth to him to be strongly attacked by the spirit of time, Turgot judging that the step of Galiani is representative of the stubborn refusal, and obscurantist, of the scientific novelty.

Photo ZACCARIA, Francesco Antonio. 

ZACCARIA, Francesco Antonio. 

Istituzione antiquario-lapidaria o sia introduzione allo studio delle antiche latine iscrizioni in tre libri proposta. 

Roma, Zempel, 1770.
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100 €

First edition.
Italian book for the good understanding of ancient Latin inscriptions. It contains in particular a list of the Latin abbreviations used on the ancient engraved stones.

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 [DE LOLME, Jean Louis]. 

[DE LOLME, Jean Louis]. 

Constitution de l'Angleterre. 

Amsterdam, E. Van Harrevelt, 1771.
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160 €

First edition.
Political analysis of the English Constitution, highlighting the differences between the English political system and the continental political systems of the time. De Lolme also addresses topics such as the role of the monarchy, the electoral system and the legislative process.

Photo RESTOUT, Jean-Bernard. 

RESTOUT, Jean-Bernard. 

Galerie Françoise ou Portraits de Hommes et des Femmes Célèbres qui ont paru en France gravés en taille-douce par les meilleurs
artistes, sous la conduite de M. Restout,
avec un abrégé de leur vie, par une société de lettres. 

Paris, Herissant Le Fils, 1771-1772.
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950 €

First edition.
A rare well complete copy with the 40 engraved portraits.
A very good copy.

Photo REGEMORTES, Louis de. 

REGEMORTES, Louis de. 

Description du nouveau pont de pierre, construit sur la rivière d'Allier a Moulins; avec l'exposé des motifs qui ont déterminé son emplacement, et les dessins et détails relatifs à sa construction. 

Paris, Lottin, 1771.
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2000 €

First edition.
Monumental impression for the description of the Moulins bridge built from 1754 to 1762 under the direction of Louis de Règemortes, engineer of bridges and roads: Plans, sections, elevations and maps.
Note the impressive fifth plank measuring over 1.80m long representing the foundations of the bridge.
"The work that has illustrated his name is the construction of the Moulins bridge, for which several unsuccessful attempts had been made in the previous century. The success of the project drawn up by Louis de Règemorte is mainly due to the establishment of a general masonry base. , strongly defended against the action of water, with unsinkable longitudinal levees attached to the wedges, to prevent the disastrous effect of scouring and flooding which had brought the ruin of the works undertaken on the same point from 1679 to 1689. " Tarbé de Saint-Hardouin (Biographical notes on the engineers of the bridges and roads since the creation of the body, in 1716, until our days, Baudry, 1884)

The now "Pont Règemortes" still crosses the Allier more than 250 years more late proof of the success of the engineer.

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 [VOLTAIRE]. 

[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.

Photo PUFENDORF, Samuel. 

PUFENDORF, Samuel. 

Le Droit de la nature et des gens, ou Système général des principes les plus importants de la morale, de la jurisprudence et de la politique. 

Leyde, J. de Wetstein, 1771.
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400 €

Translation from Latin by Barbeyrac of the major work of Baron de Pufendorf.
By substituting natural law for divine law, he influenced all the political thought of the Enlightenment, first and foremost Rousseau and Diderot.

Photo D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond. 

D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond. 

Mélanges de littérature, d'histoire et de philosophie. 

Amsterdam, Zacharie Chatelain et fils, 1773.
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300 €

New edition.
Compilation of D'Alembert's text begun in the midst of the Encyclopédie crisis and during the years when its publication was banned. He constantly refers to it and publishes some of the articles there. D'Alembert also fuels, through these texts, the controversy with Rousseau on the status of Literature.

Photo EBERHARD, Jean Auguste || SOCRATE. 

EBERHARD, Jean Auguste || SOCRATE. 

Examen de la Doctrine touchant le salut des payens, ou nouvelle apologie pour Socrate. 

Amsterdam, E. Van Harrevelt, 1773.
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125 €

First edition in French.
Eberhard is a German Protestant philosopher and theologian, disciple of Leibniz he was one of the most virulent opponents of Kant.

Photo [JOLY DE MAIZEROY, Paul-Gédéon]. 

[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.

Photo [EON DE BEAUMONT, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste]. 

[EON DE BEAUMONT, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste]. 

Les Loisirs du Chevalier d'Éon de Beaumont, ancien Ministre Plénipotentiaire de France, sur divers sujets importans d'Administration. 

Amsterdam, s.n., 1774-1775.
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1750 €

First edition.
Autobiography of the Chevalier d'Eon, the most famous transvestite in the history of France. But beyond the incredible story of his cross-dressing at the court of Elizabeth of Russia which turned into an international incident, the Chevalier d'Eon was a diplomat who frequented European courts during the reign of Louis XV. This autobiography, published the day after the scandal during which he publicly claimed to be a woman, is centered around his stay at the court of Angleterere.

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 DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector. 

DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector. 

Traite sur la Cavalerie. 

Paris, Imprimerie de Guillaume Desprez, 1776.
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7500 €

First edition of this famous treatise on cavalry, one of the most spectacular ever published.

The treatise itself, adorned with a beautiful frontispiece by Pierre Charles Ingouf, depicting Louis XVI reviewing the mounted troops, a title vignette by Macret, and four headings and three tailpieces engraved by various artists after Van Blaremberghe, is illustrated with 11 copper-engraved tactical plates, seven of which are double-page spreads and one folded.

This copy bears the coat of arms of the Duke of Condé, second in the list of 69 subscribers to the work, after the Duke of Chartres, who was the author's godfather.

Text volume only. The atlas, bearing the coat of arms of the Prince of Condé, was sold at the 1988 Biennale des Antiquaires, Librairie Léonce Laget, Paris, and then at Christie's in 2016.

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 JUSSIEU DE MONTLUEL, François Joseph Mamert de. 

JUSSIEU DE MONTLUEL, François Joseph Mamert de. 

Instructions faciles sur les conventions ou Notions simples sur les divers engagements qu'on peut prendre dans la société & leurs suites. Ouvrage utile aux gens d'affaires, bourgeois, négociants, & à tous chefs de famille. Et aux jeunes gens qui se destinent au Palais. Suivi des Réflexions sur les Principes de la Justice. 

Riom, Leclerc, 1777-1779.
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70 €
Photo [BAUDRAND, Barthélemy]. 

[BAUDRAND, Barthélemy]. 

L'ame affermie dans la foi, et prémunie contre la séduction de l'erreur ; ou preuves abrégées de la religion à la portée de tous les esprits & de tous les états. 

Lyon, Frères Perisse, 1779.
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60 €

Fourth edition.

Barthélemy Baudrand (1701-1787) was a French Jesuit priest, and a spiritual writer well known in his time.

Photo NIEBUHR, Carsten. 

NIEBUHR, Carsten. 

Voyage de M. Niebuhr en Arabie et en d'autres pays de l'orient. 

En Suisse, Chez les libraires associés, 1780.
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1500 €

Second edition in french.
Travel journal of scientific exploration that King Frederick V of Denmark has to send to Egypt, Arabia and Syria. Our copy sees all its maps enhanced with colors, in particular the large folding map of the Red Sea, as well as certain engravings of landscapes.

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