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Photo FOURIER, Charles. 

FOURIER, Charles. 

La Fausse industrie morcelée, répugnante, mensongère, et l'antidote, l'industrie naturelle, combinée, attrayante, véridique, donnant quadruple produit. 

Paris, Bossange, 1835.
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First edition.
The last and most enigmatic of Charles Fourier's books. First volume (on 2) only.
Fourierist exegetes see the beginnings of a planetary ecology, Fourier inventing a practical ecosophy source of wealth and abundance.
Like pagination, the speech is often disjointed, linking demonstrations and free discussions moving from one subject to another.

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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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 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 TAINE, Hippolyte. 

TAINE, Hippolyte. 

Les Origines De La France Contemporaine. 

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1887-1894.
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Major work by Hippolyte Taine in which he places the French Revolution in the long history of France.
This work had a very significant impact, and Taine's interpretations have enjoyed and continue to enjoy a certain success today, in France and abroad.
The Origins of Contemporary France remains an important book for the history of French political thought.
Our homogeneous bound set (various editions) complete with three parts: The Ancien Régime, The Revolution, The Modern Regime.

Photo [CODE JUSTINIEN]. 

[CODE JUSTINIEN]. 

Codicis Iustiniani Imp[er]atoris cu[m] varijs su[m]marijs diuina p[ro]mulgatio. 

Paris, François Regnault, 1518.
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Pretty post-incunabula edition with headings printed in red.

According to Renouard this is the typographical material of Pierre Olivier.
The Justinian Code is the most complete corpus of Roman law, rediscovered and completed during the Renaissance, it will serve as the basis for European law.

Photo BOUTMY, Emile || RIBOT, Alexandre. 

BOUTMY, Emile || RIBOT, Alexandre. 

Cours d'Histoire Constitutionnelle donnés à l'École libre des sciences politiques. 

s.l., s.n., 1886.
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Original manuscripts.
Rare and well-preserved set of two constitutional history courses given at Sciences Po Paris in 1886 by the founders of the school: Emile Boutmy and Alexandre Ribot.
Perfectly readable and careful manuscripts by a writer who will remain unknown who was a listener of Emile Boutmy's course on the Constitution of the United States in May-June 1886 and the course on the French Constitution since 1789 given by Alexandre Ribot in February-March 1886.
Created by Emile Boutmy in the aftermath of the 1870 defeat and the Paris Commune, the École Libre des Sciences Politiques (now known as Sciences-Po) aimed to teach political science as a positive science. She will form the elite of french politicians until today.
1886 was the last year in which Boutmy gave his course on the Constitution of the United States; we know a transcription of it in the notes left by Pierre de Coubertin who was also a listener of this course the same year. A comparison of the transcription of Coubertin's notes and our manuscript leads us to believe that our collection is more faithful (seems to be a word for word transcription) of Boutmy's teaching.

Alexandre Ribot's course on the French Constitution (second part of a more extensive course on European constitutions) leaves an important part on the birth of the Third Republic whose constitutional laws were only passed in 1875.

Photo GODWIN, William. 

GODWIN, William. 

Recherches sur la population, et sur la faculté d'accroissement de l'espèce humaine ; contenant une réfutation des doctrines de M. Malthus sur cette matière. 

Paris, J-P. Aillaud, 1821.
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First french edition.

William Godwin (1756-1836) is a British philosopher, precursor of anarchism and inspiration for the utilitarian movement.
This book is part of the controversy between Godwin and Malthus about the principle of population. For Malthus, the mathematical growth of the human population occurs at a rate greater than that of access to resources.
For Godwin, the "improvement of Man" (in fact technical progress) will make it possible to compensate for population growth, he says:
"if the earth, in all its habitable parts, could be made as fertile as China, it would be enough to feed a population of nine thousand million people" (volume II, p.212).

A debate that is still current.

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 CABET, Etienne. 

CABET, Etienne. 

Histoire populaire de la Révolution française. 

Paris, Pagnerre, 1839-1840.
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First edition.
Etienne Cabet is a French political thinker who was the first, in 1840, to define himself as a “communist”.
His history of the French Revolution is conceived in opposition to the history given by Tiers, which Cabet considers a bourgeois view of the Revolution.
Cabet tells its story from the point of view of the People and for the People. He offers a version that could be described as Marxist before Marx.
The first half of the first volume is devoted to the History of the French until 1789, a work which is reminiscent, a hundred years in advance, of Howard Zinn and his Popular History of the United States.

Photo MARY-LAFON, Jean-Bernard. 

MARY-LAFON, Jean-Bernard. 

Histoire politique, religieuse et littéraire du Midi de la France, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours. 

Paris, Paul Mellier, 1845.
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300 €

Mary Lafon is favorably cited as "one of the rare writers who have understood the history and doctrine of the Albigensians", thanks to his knowledge of the language of the people he studied.
The religious issue is thus at the center of his history of the south and remains a valuable source for the history of the Waldensian and Albigensian heresies.
A very complete copy of the 3 maps enhanced with watercolor.

Photo SAY, Jean Baptiste. 

SAY, Jean Baptiste. 

Cours complet d'économie politique pratique. 

Paris, Rapilly, 1828-1829.
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450 €

First edition.
Jean Baptiste Say is considered one of the fathers of economic science.
This course is a compilation of his teaching given at the chair of industrial economics at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers
He defends a liberal economic thought: he puts forward private property, free competition and a role of the State as limited as possible. In fact, it is a direct extension of the French school of liberal political economy.

A seventh volume of correspondence appeared in 1833 after the author's death.

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 [JANSÉNISME]. 

[JANSÉNISME]. 

Affaire de Douai : Recueil de 13 pièces. 

s.l., s.n., 1691-1692.
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Collection of pieces published during the Douai Affair, which opposed the Jesuits and Jansenists. This began in 1688 when Jacques Gilbert, professor at the theology faculty of Douai, was relieved of his duties and exiled by letter of cachet following a course given on "Grace" (a theme dear to the Jansenists).

Volume I :
– Avertissement touchant les plaintes de Mr. Arnauld (1691). (12) pages.
– Secrets du parti de Mr. Arnauld, découverts depuis peu. Troisième édition. (1692). (12)-71 pages.
– Lettres À Mr. Arnauld sur ses plaintes adressées à Monseigneur l’Evêque d’Arras [etc.]. (1691). 72 pages.
– Réponse du P. Payen de la Compagnie de Jésus à la troisième plainte de Monsieur Arnauld. Nouvelle Édition revue corrigée. [sans date.]. 24 pages.
– Remarques sur l’écrit intitulé, Relation sommaire de ce qui s’est passé dans l’affaire de quelques Théologiens de Doüay. Nouvelle Édition. (1692). 48 pages.
– Réponse d’un prélat de la Cour de Rome à la lettre d’un Abbé sur la Censure des 31 propositions. (1691). 24 pages.
Volume 2 :
– Plainte de Mr. Arnauld Docteur de Sorbonne, à Monseigneur l’Evesque d’Arras (1691). (2)- 68 pages.
– Seconde plainte de Mr. Arnauld Docteur de Sorbonne aux RR. PP. Jésuites. (1691). 43 pages.
– Troisième plainte de Mr. Arnauld Docteur de Sorbonne à son Altesse Monseigneur L’Evesque et Prince de Liège. (1691). 24 pages.
– Quatrième plainte de Mr. Arnauld Docteur de Sorbonne, aux RR. PP. Jésuites. (1692). 128 pages.
– Lettre de Mr. de Ligny à un de ses amis. (1692). 57 pages.
– Lettres du Faux-Arnauld à Mr. de Ligny. (1692). 36 pages.
– Le Vain triomphe des Jésuites. (1692). 45 pages.

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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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 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 BARRAUD, Pierre-Constant. 

BARRAUD, Pierre-Constant. 

Recherches sur les coqs des églises. 

Paris, Derache, 1850.
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First edition.
Pierre-Constant Barraud (1801-1874) is an archaeologist and titular canon of the diocese of Beauvais. He signed several studies on church furniture. In this booklet he recalls that the symbol of the rooster has been used since primitive Christianity.

Photo NECKER, Jacques. 

NECKER, Jacques. 

Compte rendu au Roi par M. Necker Directeur général des Finances Au mois de janvier 1781. 

Paris, Imprimerie du cabinet du roi, 1781.
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First edition.
This first edition was not put on the market but distributed to a privileged few before the publication of the work by the Imprimerie royale. It contains two watercolor folding maps showing the divisions of tax and drafts on French territory and a folded table of Income and expenses carried to the Royal Treasury. The “Report to the King” is one of the “economic bestsellers” of the Ancien Régime. (The printings of the Imprimerie royale were distributed to the public in some forty thousand copies). It remains a source of primary importance for the financial and fiscal history of France. In this famous plea for transparency in public finances, Jacques Necker (1734-1802), Minister of Finance to Louis XVI from 1776 to 1781, details the functioning of royal finances, the principles of its administration and the financial situation of the country. But the author also reveals the lists of pensions paid by the State to certain members of the nobility, with the names of their beneficiaries and their amounts. The scandal that followed the publication of the work led the minister to resign on May 19, 1781.


Bound with the followin pieces :
- Les Comment, ou Abrégé des objections faites contre le compte rendu par M. Necker en forme de questions, En France, 1781
ii-16 pages.
- Mémoire donné au roi par Monsieur Necker en 1778, En France, 1781
32 pages.

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 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 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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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 [RELIURE A FERMOIRS]. 

[RELIURE A FERMOIRS]. 

Missel Romain. 

Limoges, Eugène Ardant, [v.1900].
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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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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.

Photo COCHIN, Henri. 

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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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.

Photo TARDIEU, Ambroise || VUILLEMIN, A. 

TARDIEU, Ambroise || VUILLEMIN, A. 

Atlas Universel de Géographie ancienne et moderne. 

Paris, Furne et Cie, 1858.
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Beautiful maps mounted on tabs in the middle (card size: 417x540 mm).

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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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 CHOPART, Louis Narcisse. 

CHOPART, Louis Narcisse. 

Essais sur les évolutions navales suivis de quelques tables. 

Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1839.
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First edition.
Chopart will be Vice-Admiral of the French Navy, he will participate in particular in the Algiers expedition in 1830. His book is in line with the tactics of the 18th century sailing navy, but as a former student from polytechnique he constantly uses geometric tools to demonstrate his movements. Beautiful printing on quality paper for this naval tactics book.

Photo MASSILLON, Jean-Baptiste. 

MASSILLON, Jean-Baptiste. 

Oeuvres choisies de Massillon. 

Paris, Delestre-Boulage, 1823-1825.
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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. ».

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 SAVARY, Jacques. 

SAVARY, Jacques. 

Pareres, ou Avis et Conseils sur les plus importantes Matières du Commerce. 

Paris, Jean Guignard, 1688.
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750 €

First edition.
The “Pareres” follows the “Parfait négociant” by the same author, published in 1675 and which became the bible of trading in the eighteenth century.

Photo [HELVETIUS, Claude-Adrien]. 

[HELVETIUS, Claude-Adrien]. 

De l'Esprit. 

Paris, Durand, 1758.
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First edition in B state.
Major work by Helvetius which caused a scandal upon its publication and was condemned to be burned. Too radical for its time, the book was nevertheless widely read thereafter.

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