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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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3000 €

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.

TERRASSON, Jean.

Dissertation critique sur l'Iliade d'Homère.

Paris, François Fournier, 1715.

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150 €

First edition.

[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.

[HELVETIUS, Claude-Adrien].

De l'Esprit.

Paris, Durand, 1758.

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450 €

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.

ROMEYER-DHERBEY, Gilbert.

Une Trace infime d'encre pâle : six études de littérature & philosophie mêlées.

Paris, encre marine, 2003.

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50 €

First edition.

Presentation copy to Guy Samama.

BOUILLIER, Francisque.

Histoire de la philosophie cartésienne.

Paris, Ch. Delagrave et Cie, 1868.

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80 €

Third edition.

MERCIER, Louis-Sébastien.

L'Homme sauvage.

Amsterdam, Zacharie, 1767.

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Dutch edition published the same year than the original Parisian edition.
A work which caused a sensation upon its release, taking up the ideas of Rousseau, this novel is in line with the myth of the Good Savage.
Driven by the Spanish invasion, an Indian takes refuge in an unknown valley in South America with his two young children. He raises them in the bosom of good nature, in innocence and virtue, and they all live happily until they welcome into their health a young European who brings into this Eden, like the serpent of Genesis, the vices of civilization.

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.

BOURDET, Eugène.

Vocabulaire Des Principaux Termes de La Philosophie Positive: Avec Notices Biographiques Appartenant Au Calendrier Positiviste.

Paris, Germer Baillière, 1875.

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100 €

First edition.
In the last quarter of the 19th century, the positivism of Auguste Comte gradually transformed into a true religion "of humanity" which rethought all the rites and structures left by the Christian church. These mutations are accompanied by a new vocabulary that Eugène Bourdet presents to us.

[ESPIARD DE LA BORDE, François-Ignace].

L'Esprit des nations.

La Haye, Isaac Beauregard, 1753.

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100 €

Third edition.

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.

BONNET, Charles.

Essai Analytique sur les facultés de l'âme.

Copenhage et Genève, Cl. Philibert, 1769.

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300 €

Second edition.

DUPREEL, Eugène.

Les Sophistes: Protogoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias.

Neuchatel, Editions du Griffon, 1948.

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50 €

First edition.

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.

HAMELIN, Gabriel || LE CANU.

Philosophia.

[Caen], s.n., [v. 1730].

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300 €

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.

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.

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.

[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].

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.

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.

[MAROQUIN] Marquesa de Tolosa.

Tratado de educacion para la nobleza.

Madrid, Manuel Albarez, 1796.

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Translation into Castilian from French by the Marquise de Tolosa.

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.

PASCAL, Blaise.

Pensées de M. Pascal sur la religion et sur quelques autres sujets qui ont été trouvées après sa mort parmy ses papiers.

Paris, Guillaume Desprez, 1670.

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750 €

Counterfeit of the Pensées, with the same collation of the first edition.
This edition with a slightly different title was spotted by Tchermerzine (V,71).

[DIDEROT].

Pensées philosophiques.

Aux Indes, Bedihuldgemale, 1749.

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150 €

Work considered one of the most important of the Lumières movement.

ERASME.

Les Colloques.

Leiden, Pierre Vander Aa, 1720.

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300 €

First edition of the French translation of the Erasmus colloques by Gueudeville.
This edition is sought after for the engravings by Hooge placed at the beginning of the chapter.

Our copy incomplete of 4 text sheets but complete with all the engravings.

[ISLAM].

Les Lois morales, religieuses et civiles de Mahomet extraites du Koran.

Paris, Victor Lecou, 1850.

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150 €

Translation in french by Claude Etienne Savary.

DE BEAUVOIR, Simone.

La Force des choses.

Paris, Gallimard Nrf, 1963.

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50 €

First edition.
Common paper.

Autobiographical account of the period from the end of WWII to 1960. The story includes the time of the publication of The Second Sex, which makes her very famous, the Cold War, or the war in Algeria which she describes as a “personal drama”.

[VOLTAIRE].

Le Caffé ou l'Ecossaise, comédie par Mr. Hume.

Londres [Genève], [Cramer], 1760.

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500 €

First edition.
Piece which was mainly aimed at Fréron, the literary critic and enemy of Voltaire.

Fine copy in signed morocco by Gruel.

[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.

[LE CLERC, Jean].

Réflexions sur ce que l'on appelle bonheur et malheur en matière de loteries, et sur le bon usage qu'on en peut faire.

Amsterdam, Georges Gallet, 1696.

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600 €

First edition.
Jean Le Clerc (1657-1736) was a Protestant theologian and pastor. He was a member of the Remontrants, disciples of Arminius, breaking with Calvinism on questions of grace and predestination. The lottery and games of chance, then very popular in the Netherlands, were an ideal subject for reflection on these subjects. By rejecting any idea of an "invisible hand" behind chance or good fortune, he ends up with an ultimately very modern definition of chance:
"Tous ces mots ne sont que des termes négatifs, comme je l'ai dit, & qui ne servent qu'à faire comprendre que l'effet, dont on parle, n'est pas la production d'une cause nécessaire & déterminée à la produire".
In other words, we speak of chance where we do not know the sum of the causes that determine the effect that we observe.

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Philosophy

DESCARTES, René.

Specimina Philosophiae: Seu Dissertatio de Methodo Recte regendæ rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandæ: Dioptice, et Meteora.

TERRASSON, Jean.

Dissertation critique sur l'Iliade d'Homère.

First edition.

[MANUSCRIT].

Philosophiae libeo primua logicam et methapi complectena.

[HELVETIUS, Claude-Adrien].

De l'Esprit.

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.

ROMEYER-DHERBEY, Gilbert.

Une Trace infime d'encre pâle : six études de littérature & philosophie mêlées.

First edition.Presentation copy to Guy Samama.

BOUILLIER, Francisque.

Histoire de la philosophie cartésienne.

Third edition.

MERCIER, Louis-Sébastien.

L'Homme sauvage.

MALEBRANCHE, Nicolas.

De la Recherche de la Vérité.

BOURDET, Eugène.

Vocabulaire Des Principaux Termes de La Philosophie Positive: Avec Notices Biographiques Appartenant Au Calendrier Positiviste.

[ESPIARD DE LA BORDE, François-Ignace].

L'Esprit des nations.

Third edition.

D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond.

Mélanges de littérature, d'histoire et de philosophie.

BONNET, Charles.

Essai Analytique sur les facultés de l'âme.

Second edition.

DUPREEL, Eugène.

Les Sophistes: Protogoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias.

First edition.

EBERHARD, Jean Auguste || SOCRATE.

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

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.

HAMELIN, Gabriel || LE CANU.

Philosophia.

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.

MARTIN, Benjamin.

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

First french edition.

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.

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.

[VOLTAIRE].

Souvenirs de Madame de Caylus.

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.

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.

GRETRY, André-Ernest.

Mémoires ou essai sur la musique.

[MAROQUIN] Marquesa de Tolosa.

Tratado de educacion para la nobleza.

Translation into Castilian from French by the Marquise de Tolosa.

BARBEYRAC, Jean.

Traité du jeu, où l'on examine les principales questions de droit naturel et de morale qui ont du rapport à cettematière.

PASCAL, Blaise.

Pensées de M. Pascal sur la religion et sur quelques autres sujets qui ont été trouvées après sa mort parmy ses papiers.

Counterfeit of the Pensées, with the same collation of the first edition.This edition with a slightly different title was spotted by Tchermerzine (V,71).

[DIDEROT].

Pensées philosophiques.

Work considered one of the most important of the Lumières movement.

ERASME.

Les Colloques.

First edition of the French translation of the Erasmus colloques by Gueudeville. This edition is sought after for the engravings by Hooge placed at the beginning of the chapter. Our copy incomplete of 4 text sheets but complete with all the engravings.

[ISLAM].

Les Lois morales, religieuses et civiles de Mahomet extraites du Koran.

Translation in french by Claude Etienne Savary.

DE BEAUVOIR, Simone.

La Force des choses.

First edition.Common paper.Autobiographical account of the period from the end of WWII to 1960. The story includes the time of the publication of The Second Sex, which makes her very famous, the Cold War, or the war in Algeria which she describes as a “personal drama”.

[VOLTAIRE].

Le Caffé ou l'Ecossaise, comédie par Mr. Hume.

First edition.Piece which was mainly aimed at Fréron, the literary critic and enemy of Voltaire.Fine copy in signed morocco by Gruel.

[VOLTAIRE].

Questions sur l'encyclopédie par des amateurs.

[LE CLERC, Jean].

Réflexions sur ce que l'on appelle bonheur et malheur en matière de loteries, et sur le bon usage qu'on en peut faire.

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.

First edition.

Presentation copy to Guy Samama.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Traité du jeu, où l'on examine les principales questions de droit naturel et de morale qui ont du rapport à cette
matière.

Counterfeit of the Pensées, with the same collation of the first edition.
This edition with a slightly different title was spotted by Tchermerzine (V,71).

First edition of the French translation of the Erasmus colloques by Gueudeville.
This edition is sought after for the engravings by Hooge placed at the beginning of the chapter.

Our copy incomplete of 4 text sheets but complete with all the engravings.

First edition.
Common paper.

Autobiographical account of the period from the end of WWII to 1960. The story includes the time of the publication of The Second Sex, which makes her very famous, the Cold War, or the war in Algeria which she describes as a “personal drama”.

First edition.
Piece which was mainly aimed at Fréron, the literary critic and enemy of Voltaire.

Fine copy in signed morocco by Gruel.