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Photo LAVOREL, Jean Marie. 

LAVOREL, Jean Marie. 

Cluses et le Faucigny, étude historique. 

Annecy, J. Nierat, 1888-1889.
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250 €

First edition.

Photo RAVERAT, Achille. 

RAVERAT, Achille. 

Haute-Savoie, promenades historiques, pittoresques & artistiques en Genevois, Sémine, Faucigny et Chablais. 

Lyon, Chez l'Auteur, 1872.
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90 €

First edition.

Photo BONNAIRE, Felix. 

BONNAIRE, Felix. 

Mémoire sur la statistique du Département des Hautes Alpes. 

Gap, J. Allier, An IX [1801].
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200 €

First edition.
Felix Bonnaire was the first prefect of the Hautes Alpes between 1800 and 1802.
Memoirs following the Chaptal law which establishes the prefectures and sub-prefectures, this is a report sent by the prefects to the Ministry of the Interior on the department for which they are then responsible.
A veritable mine of information on statistics, geography and daily life in the Hautes Alpes at the beginning of the 19th century.

Photo SIBOUR, Ernest. 

SIBOUR, Ernest. 

Centralisation industrielle excessive ses causes, ses effets : Industries & Métiers disparus ou qui sont en décadence dans le chef-lieu du département des Hautes-Alpes. 

Gap, Jean, 1890.
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60 €

First edition.
Book that studies the upheavals that the steam engine caused in the artisanal fabric of the Hautes Alpes. "In a word, we are trying to bring out the effect produced by this new direction, this irresistible impulse given to industry by the steam engine which has annihilated the manual production of the workman in many localities, without any compensation for them." (from the preface).

Photo ROBERT-MULLER, C. || ALLIX, André. 

ROBERT-MULLER, C. || ALLIX, André. 

Les Colporteurs de l'Oisans (un type d'émigration alpine). 

Grenoble, Jues Rey, 1925.
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100 €

First edition.

Photo MALTHUS, Thomas. 

MALTHUS, Thomas. 

Essai sur le principe de population ou exposé des effets passés et présens de l'action de cette cause sur le bonheur du genre humain; suivi de quelques recherches relatives à l'espérance de guérir ou d'adoucir les maux qu'elle entraine. 

Paris, J.J. Paschoud, 1809.
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1000 €

First edition in french.
Main work of Malthus translated into French by Pierre Prevost on the fourth English edition.
At the origin of Malthusianism which advocates a voluntary restriction of births so that population growth remains in line with the growth of wealth.

Photo [LORRAINE]. 

[LORRAINE]. 

Recueils de 40 plaquettes historiques ou archéologiques sur la Lorraine. 

Nancy, s.n., 1848-1888.
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550 €

Several dozen historical or archaeological plaques on the history of Lorraine in each volume.

Most of them are presentation copies dedicated to Count Edouard de Warren (1811-1898), a scholar from Lorraine.


Volume 1 (28 pieces) :
- MEAUME, Histoire de l'Ancienne chevalerie lorraine, 1870
- NOLLET-FABERT, Le Général d'Huart, 1851
- CHAUTARD, Notice sur Claude de Lorraine dit le Chevalier d'Aumale à propos d'un jeton, 1872
- SAINT-VINCENT, La Légende de Maxéville, sd
- SAINT-VINCENT, Considérations sur l'histoire des académies, 1854
- [O'REILLY], Les Deux procès de Jeanne d'Arc, sd
- GUERLE, Madame de Grafigny, 1882
- MARTIN, Le P. Abram historien de l'université de Pont-a-mousson et ses deux traducteurs Ragot et le P. Carayon, 1888
- COUVENT DE SAINT-LAURENT, Les Bénédictins anglais de Dieulouard, 1884
- [Anonyme], Plaisirs de la Cour de Lorraine pendant le carnaval, 1881
- MOREY, Tombeau de Henri de Lorraine comte d'Harcourt, 1863
- MOREY, Recherches sur l'emplacement et la disposition d'ensemble du Chateau du Duc Raoul à Nancy, 1865
- MOREY, Les Statuettes dites de Terre de Lorraine, 1871
- MOREY, Ex Voto du Duc Antoine de Lorraine en reconnaissance des victoires qu'il remporta en Alsace sur les rustauds en 1525, 1880
- MOREY, Les Artistes lorrains à l'étranger, 1883
- MOREY, La Vapeur d'eau utilisée comme force motrice en lorraine, 1884
- QUINTARD, Sur un Mèreau inédit du chapitre de la collégiale de Saint-Georges, 1868
- QUINTARD, Médaille commémorative de l'affaire de Nancy: Le Sou Thuillié, 1869
- QUINTARD, Le Cimetière franc du Champ des Tombes à Pompey, 1878
- GERMAIN, Notes Historiques sur la maison de Lorraine, 1882
- GERMAIN, La Croix d'affranchissement de Frouard, 1882
- GERMAIN, Notice sur le tombeau de Warin de Gondrecourt autrefois dans l'église saint-etienne, 1882
- GERMAIN, Les Tombeaux de l'Eglise de Lenoncourt, 1882
- [Anonyme], Plaque de Foyer aux armes de François Taafe, comte de Carlinford, 1882
- LE MERCIER DE MORIERE, Un Livre de Liturgie du xvè siècle ayant appartenu au chateau de Gombervaux, 1884
- LE MERCIER DE MORIERE, Les Testaments au profit de l'Eglise de Toul, 1884
- LE MERCIER DE MORIERE, Recherches sur la famille des armoises et en particulier sur la branche de Neuville, 1881
- LE MERCIER DE MORIERE, L'Origine de la Maison de Chambley, 1882

Volume 2 (12 pieces) :
- BENARD, Tribulations d'un prêtre optant, 1875
- [Anonyme], Notice sur l'Eglise de Saint-Nicolas de Port, 1848
- [Anonyme], Bénédiction et inauguration de la nouvelle église paroissiale de Saint Epvre, 1871
- LA FLIZE, Notice historique de la Cathédrale-primatiale de Nancy, 1849
- SEILLIERE, Rapport présenté à la commission du monument de Dom Calmet à Senones, 1873
- SEILLIERE, Compte-rendu des fouilles entreprises pour retrouver les restes de Dom Augustin Calmet, 1868
- JACQUINOT, Le Doyen Nicolas Guyot jurisconsulte lorrain, 1884
- WIENER, Yves-Dominique Collin graveur et peintre en miniature, 1885
- BARDY, Le Comte de la Suze et la seigneurie de Belfort, 1885
- VICTOR DE SAINT-MAURIS, Etude Sommaire sur l'Ancien Duché de Luxembourg, 1865
- [Anonyme], Inauguration du buste du Comte de Serre érigé sur sa maison natale à Pagny-Sur-Moselle, 1886
- WIENER, Recherches sur l'industrie cartière en Lorraine, 1884.

Photo THIERY, Claude Emile. 

THIERY, Claude Emile. 

De l'amour des Lorrains pour leurs princes. 

Nancy, N. Collin, 1869.
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150 €

First edition.

Presentation copy to Count Warren (1811-1898).

Photo LEONARD, M de. 

LEONARD, M de. 

Relation exacte et impartiale de ce qui s'est passé à Nancy le 31 août [1790] et les jours précédens. 

Nancy, Mme Henry, 1790.
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300 €

First edition.
What will become "L'Affaire de Nancy" is an episode of the Revolution during which the soldiers of the Nancy garrison mutinied against their officers.

Photo ST OUEN, Madame de. 

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.

Photo PERRIN DE DOMMARTIN, François. 

PERRIN DE DOMMARTIN, François. 

Le Héraut de Lorraine. 

Nancy, Crépin-Leblond, 1902.
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75 €

First edition.
Description of the coats of arms of the main Lorraine surnames.

Photo [LESZCZYNSKI, Stanislas]. 

[LESZCZYNSKI, Stanislas]. 

La voix libre du citoyen ou observations sur le gouvernement de Pologne. 

s.l., s.n., 1749.
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350 €

First french edition.
Translated from Polish by the pimple of Solignac.
In 1736, at the end of a war of succession which opposed French and Russian interests, Stanislas I, King of Poland, abdicated.
It is therefore as a free-speaking citizen that he writes his observations on the government of Poland.
Prince philosopher he writes in his preface:
"[our ancestors] established a fair balance between the power of Majesty, & the rights of liberty. They claimed that our Kings by the Majesty of their character, could contain liberty to prevent it from going as far as license, and that liberty, by the authority of our constitutions, could repress the ambition of our kings, if it ever led them to despotism. This salutary order no longer exists.".

Photo ADVIELLE, Victor. 

ADVIELLE, Victor. 

Histoire de la ville de Sceaux depuis son origine jusqu'à nos jours. 

Sceaux, Charaire & fils, 1883.
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80 €

First edition.

Photo DION, Adolphe (Comte de). 

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.

Photo SAINT DISDIER, Alexandre-Toussaint Limojon de. 

SAINT DISDIER, Alexandre-Toussaint Limojon de. 

Histoire des Négotiations de Nimègue. 

Paris [Hollande], Claude Barbin, 1680.
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300 €

Counterfeit edition of the title à la sphere (probably Dutch), taken from the Barbin edition in Paris.

The peace of Nijmegen marks the end of the Dutch war, it places France at the forefront of European geopolitics. On this occasion, France annexed Franche-Comté. It is the triumph of Louis XIV as a warrior king.

Beautiful copy in morocco.

Photo [POLITIQUE]. 

[POLITIQUE]. 

Etudes Contemporaines : 9 essais politiques. 

Paris, Dentu Dumineray, 1859-1861.
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250 €

9 political essays published mainly in the Contemporary Studies collection of the publisher Dumineray.
From the year 1860, the emperor gradually left more and more powers to the parliamentary assemblies and political life came alive, as evidenced by these essays.

Volume I :
PRESSENSE, Le Pouvoir temporel est il nécessaire à la religion ? , Paris, Dentu, 1859 (34 pages)
D'HAUSSONVILLE, Lettre aux conseils généraux, Paris, Dentu, 1859 (36 pages)
DE BROGLIE, Une Réforme administrative en Afrique, Paris, Dumineray, 1860 ((6)-242-(1) pages)
PREVOST-PARADOL, Les Anciens partis, Paris, Dumineray, 1860 (48 pages)

Volume II:
[Anonymous], La Liberté religieuse et la législation actuelle, Paris, Dumineray, 1860 ((4)-244 pages)
D'HAUSSONVILLE, Lettre au Sénat, Paris, Dumineray, 1860 (48 pages)
LEONCE DE LAVERGNE, La Constitution de 1852 et le décret du 24 novembre 1860, Paris, Dumineray, 1860 (48 pages)

Volume III:
DELPRAT, L'Administration et la presse, Paris, chez les principaux libraires, 1861 (44-(1) pages)
ODILON-BARROT, De La Centralisation et de ses effets, Paris, Dumineray, 1861 (viii-247-(1) pages).

Photo FLAMAND-GRETRY, Louis Victor. 

FLAMAND-GRETRY, Louis Victor. 

Description complète de la Ville de Saint-Denis. 

Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1840.
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150 €

First edition.
Researched book on the history of the city of Saint-Denis, our copy complete with all the plates.


bound with the following :
FLAMAND-GRETRY, Itinéraire historique, géographique, topographique, statistiques, pittoresque et biographique de la vallée de Montmorency (première partie) , Montmorency, Chez l'Auteur, 1835. (4)-325-(1) pages and 17 plates.

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 [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 [LE CLERC, Jean]. 

[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.

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 [BOESNIER DE L'ORME, Paul]. 

[BOESNIER DE L'ORME, Paul]. 

Le Mexique conquis. 

Paris, Desaint et Saillant, 1752.
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450 €

First edition.
Book relating the conquest of Mexico by Cortes. The author's will is to correct Antonio de Solis's History of the Conquest of Mexico by redacting uncertain or improbable facts.
"The customs, the characters, all the main events, the only ones worthy of passing down to posterity, are preserved; the order of the times are respected. The details suppressed, changed, embellished, are those which, according to Solis, haven't any basis other than uncertainty or conjecture. " (extract from the preface).

The book is illustrated with two maps of America after Robert de Vaugondy.

Photo JEANNIN, Pierre. 

JEANNIN, Pierre. 

Les Négotiations de Monsieur le Président Jeannin. 

Amsterdam, Andre de Hoogenhutsen, 1695.
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500 €

Close to Henri IV, Pierre Jeannin will participate in the drafting of the Edict of Nantes.
He will express all his negotiating skills during the Franco-Savoyard war which he ended by negotiating the Treaty of Lyon.

One of the most important French works relating to diplomacy under the reign of King Henry IV.

Photo TOURNET, Jean. 

TOURNET, Jean. 

Coustumes de la Prevoste et Vicomte de Paris. 

Paris, Gervais Alliot, 1627.
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350 €

Second edition.
The version commented by Jean Tournet of the Coutume de Paris will be the legal reference throughout the seventeenth century.
The Coustumes de Paris, revised in 1605, constitute the body of legal texts which will apply to the jurisdiction of the Parliament of Paris (and therefore almost to all of France) until the drafting of the Napoleonic Civil Code. They are, moreover, one of the major sources of inspiration for the Civil Code.

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BESSE, Pierre de. 

L' Héraclite chrestien c'est a dire les regrets & les larmes du pêcheur penitent. 

Paris, Nicolas du Fossé, 1612.
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450 €

First edition.
Pierre de Besse, preacher from the beginning of the 17th century was inspired by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, whose legend, peddled by Diogenes Laerce, said that he was perpetually in tears in front of the fate of men to draw from it a Christian Heraclitus desperate for the sins of the Men.
He will publish 3 years later the "Christian Democrite" showing a hilarious Democrite in front of the world as it is.

These two books did a lot to popularize the archetypes of a weeping Heraclitus and a laughing Democritus, which can be found in many works of art throughout the 17th century. One thinks in particular of the "Weeping Philosopher" of Rubens painted around 1636, or the Democrites of Velasquez and Rembrandt.

Engravings by Leonard Gaultier, famous french painter.

Photo MABLY, Gabriel Bonnot de. 

MABLY, Gabriel Bonnot de. 

Des principes des négociations, pour servir d'introduction au droit public de l'Europe, fondés sur les traités. 

La Haye, s.n., 1757.
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750 €

First edition.
Gabriel Bonnot de Mably was Condillac's brother, although today less known than his parent, his innovative work of political philosophy places him among the precursors of what will become communism. In particular, he proposed to limit land ownership rights.
As a fine geopolitical analyst, he published his Treaty of Negotiations at the start of the Seven Years' War, after the overthrow of the alliance which will set Europe (and the world) on fire.

"His concepts of power, of world legal order, of moralizing the relations between people, peoples and states, undoubtedly still have a lot to teach us." Florence Gauthier, Extract from the preface for the reissue of the text in 2003

Our copy bearing the arms of Emmanuel Dieudonné de Hautefort (1700-1777), a diplomat who was french ambassador to Vienna from 1749 to 1752 and who was therefore at the heart of European diplomacy in this troubled period of the 18th century. It was indeed during this period that negotiations between France and Austria began to initiate a European diplomatic revolution.

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 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 PETIT RADEL, Louis Charles François. 

PETIT RADEL, Louis Charles François. 

Recherches sur les bibliothèques anciennes et modernes jusqu'à la fondation de la bibliothèque Mazarine, et sur les causes qui ont favorisé l'accroissement successif du nombre des livres. 

Paris, Rey et Gravier, 1819.
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250 €

First edition.
First edition. Very interesting history of the Mazarine library by the one who was its curator during the Restoration.

Note the chapters on the history of medieval libraries, a subject little known at the time.

Photo LACOUR-GAYET, Georges. 

LACOUR-GAYET, Georges. 

L'Impératrice Eugénie. 

Paris, Albert Morancé, 1925.
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200 €

First edition.
Interesting biography devoted to the Empress Eugenie by the historian Georges Lacour-Gayet shortly after the death of Eugenie.
The book is illustrated by numerous reproductions (letters, photos, paintings ...).
Copy on Hollande numbered n ° 17/25.

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