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Photo BESSE, Pierre de. 

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 [DU HAILLAN, Bernard de Girard]. 

[DU HAILLAN, Bernard de Girard]. 

Discours sur les causes de l'extrême cherté qui est aujourd'hui en France, & sur les moyens d'y remédier. 

Paris, A l'olivier de Pierre L'Huilier, 1574.
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15000 €

First edition.
After the end of the Middle Ages when prices reached historically low levels, the 16th century was marked by historic price inflation.
In 1563 the Paris Chamber of Accounts undertook a study on the "increase in the price of all things" in relation to "the depreciation of currencies", which gave rise to the controversy between Malestroit ("Les paradoxes du seigneur de Malestroict sur le faict des monnoyes ", 1566) and Jean Bodin (Response to the paradoxes of M. de Malestroict, 1568).
Our booklet, attributed to Bernard de Girard du Haillan who was finance secretary to the Duke of Anjou, feeds into this debate.
Haillan defines seven causes causing the rise in prices (instead of the 4 retained by Bodin). The first of these being the abundance of gold in Europe.
"The first cause, therefore, of dearness is the abundance of gold and silver, which in this Kingdom is greater than it ever was."
In fact, since the beginning of the 16th century, thanks to their conquests in the Americas, Spain and Portugal have doubled the quantity of gold circulating in Europe.
To the abundance of gold is added for Haillan the monopolies of the Merchants, the increase in international trade, the consumption of luxury by the Princes, it thus overlaps the 4 causes of the dearness defined by Bodin in 1568. But he adds : An overconsumption of wine and meat which nibbles the agricultural surface allocated to other foodstuffs; the increase in taxes which weigh on the peasants decreases the areas under cultivation; the periods of infertility that France had just experienced in previous years.
In fact, we find in Haillan's text all the terms of the quantitative theory of money as it will be formalized in 1910 by Fisher (MV = PY) who relates the price level to the quantity of money exchanged and resource production.

These debates around the high cost will lead during the Etats généraux of 1577 to the testing of the establishment of a monetary policy and the adoption of the Ecu as the currency for kingdom account. ("M. de Malestroit and the quantitative theory of money", Revue économique, 1987, 38-4, pp. 853-876).

Photo MEDONI, François. 

MEDONI, François. 

Un Voyage sur le Lac Majeur et description de ses abords. 

Lugan, François Veladini, 1835.
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400 €

Second edition.
Edition printed at the expense of Pierre Miani, mechanic of the Verban steamboat. The Verban was the first steamboat to sail on Lake Maggiore and among the first European steamers to navigate inland waters. It was then a question of promoting the tourist interest of such navigation.

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.

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 GARNIER, Francis Xavier Paul. 

GARNIER, Francis Xavier Paul. 

Traité des chemins de toute espèce, comprenant les grandes routes, chemins de halage, vicinaux et particuliers, arbres et fossés qui les bordent, les rues et les places publiques ; suivi d'un appendice au régime des eaux. 

Paris, Imprimerie Pillet ainé, 1827.
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100 €

Third edition signed by the author.

Photo GUYARD DE BERVILLE, Guillaume François. 

GUYARD DE BERVILLE, Guillaume François. 

Histoire de Pierre Terrail dit le chevalier Bayard sans peur et sans reproche. 

Paris, De Hansy, 1773.
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100 €

Story of the famous french knight.

Photo BOSSUET, Jacques-Benigne. 

BOSSUET, Jacques-Benigne. 

Discours sur l'histoire universelle depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'à l'empire de Charlemagne. 

Paris, Pierre Didot, (1803) An XI.
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80 €

Beautiful stereotype edition by DIdot, the most famous french printer.
This in-18 edition is complete in two volumes.

Photo ALBERONI, Jules. 

ALBERONI, Jules. 

Testament Politique Du Cardinal Jules Alberoni, Recueilli De Divers Mémoires, Lettres & Entretiens De Son Eminence. 

Lausanne, Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1754.
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60 €

First edition.
Jules Alberoni (1664-1756) man of the Church and of the State, in the service of the Duke of Vendôme and Philippe V of Spain.

Photo DAUDET, Ernest. 

DAUDET, Ernest. 

Madame Royale. 

Paris, Hachette, 1912.
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60 €

First edition.

Presentation copy to Gilbert Augustin-Thierry.

Photo CICERON. 

CICERON. 

Lettres de Cicéron à M. Brutus et de M. Brutus à Cicéron. 

Paris, Frères Barbou, An II [1793].
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50 €

French-latine edition.

Photo LESCURE François Adolphe Mathurin de. 

LESCURE François Adolphe Mathurin de. 

Marie-Antoinette et sa Famille. 

Paris, Ducrocq, 1879.
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50 €

70 compositions by Delort, Du Paty, Gerlier, Monginot, Scott, Tofani, and engraved by F. Méaulle.

Photo JAURES, Jean. 

JAURES, Jean. 

Histoire Socialiste (1789-1900) : La Constituante (1789-1791). 

Paris, Jules Rouff et Cie, [1900].
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950 €

First edition.
First volume of the series devoted by Jaurès to the history of socialism. This first part is dedicated to the constituent assembly covering the revolutionary period 1789-1791.

Beautiful autograph dedication of Jaurès on the false title to "Charles Guyeisse and the free pages".
Charles Guieysse became a socialist activist at the turn of the 19th century, in 1901 he founded the journal Pages Libres, a small 24-page weekly review under the sign of Dreyfusism.

Photo [MINISTERE DES COLONIES]. 

[MINISTERE DES COLONIES]. 

Notices à l'usage des émigrants. 

Paris, Service des renseignements commerciaux et de la colonisation, 1895-1896.
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350 €

Complete set of notices published by the Ministry of Colonies of the Third Republic.
They group zone by zone practical advice intended for the future colonists with geographical, climatic (what clothes to bring), administrative (papers to provide) indications.

Plantations in Tonkin and Annam (2 maps).
New Caledonia. (1 card)
The Senegal. (1 card)
Cochinchina. (1 card)
Obock and the Somali Coast Protectorate. (1 card)
French Congo. (1 card)
Establishments on the West Coast of Africa. (1 card)
Productions in Madagascar. (3 cards)
The Coffee Plantation in New Caledonia.
Indo-China: The Mining Regime of Annam and Tonkin.
Cocoa trees in the Congo.
The Trade of Cochinchina and Cambodia.
Import trade in New Caledonia in 1894-1895.

Photo HAVET, Ernest. 

HAVET, Ernest. 

Le Christianisme et ses origines. 

Paris, Calmann Levy, 1880.
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150 €

First edition.
Havet was a friend of Ernest Renan, during the work and the themes they dealt with are quite similar.
Renan, during Havet's funeral, will say in his praise: "The illustrious colleague to whom we say the last farewell today was an eminent servant of the greatest work of our century, the obstinate search for the truth. [...] He believed, and I believe like him, that the time of the unofficial veils is past, that it is useless to distinguish between the truths good to speak and those which are not. ".

Photo STRAUSS, David Friedrich. 

STRAUSS, David Friedrich. 

Vie de Jésus ou examen critique de son histoire. 

Paris, Librairie philosophique de Ladrange, 1856.
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120 €

New French edition translated by Emile Littré on the last German edition. Strauss's works precede those of Renan on the historical approach to the life of Jesus. This book caused a scandal when it was first published in Germany and led to its author being dismissed from his post as philosophy tutor at the Protestant seminary in Tübingen.
Inspired by the Hegelian philosophy of history, this book founded the movement of the Young Hegelians which will inspire all left movements in Germany in the nineteenth century.

Photo BERT, Paul. 

BERT, Paul. 

L'Instruction religieuse dans l'école conférence faite au cirque d'hiver...le 28 aout 1881 sous la présidence de M. Gambetta. 

Paris, Picard-Bernheim et Cie, [v. 1881].
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75 €

Paul Bert (1833-1886) succeeded Jules Ferry at the Ministry of Public Instruction and Worship from 1881 to 1882. Anticlerical, he was one of the founders of the "free, secular and compulsory school".

Photo LAVISSE, Ernest || RAMBAUD, Alfred. 

LAVISSE, Ernest || RAMBAUD, Alfred. 

Histoire générale : La Révolution française 1789-1799. 

Paris, Armand Colin, 1896.
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50 €

First edition.
Eighth volume of General History edited by Lavisse and Rambaud. The volume is devoted mainly to the French Revolution and the decade 1789-1799.
The point of view of the work is quite modern, it is a collection of articles by researchers on specific points of history and in an unprecedented way, for a history of the French revolution, many chapters are devoted to the history of other countries during the same period. What was happening in Indoustan in 1789?.

Photo RENAN, Ernest. 

RENAN, Ernest. 

Nouvelles études d'histoire religieuse. 

Paris, Calmann-Levy, 1884.
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50 €

First edition.
Ernest Renan (1823-1892), historian in most of the work has been devoted to the history of religions.
In this work Renan compiles some considerations on comparative mythologies, Buddhism, St Francis of Assisi, Galileo, Spinoza and Port Royal.

Photo RETZ, Cardinal de. 

RETZ, Cardinal de. 

Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz - Edition collationnée sur les manuscrits authentiques de la Bibliothèque Royale (avec les fragments restitués). 

Paris, Heuguet, 1842.
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50 €

Expanded edition of unpublished letters and facsimiles.
Memories important to the history of the Fronde.

Photo PIERRE-VICTOR. 

PIERRE-VICTOR. 

Les Evangiles et l'histoire. 

Paris, G. Charpentier, 1879.
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50 €

First edition.
Victor Courdaveaux (1821-1891), said Pierre-Victor, was professor of foreign literature at the University of Besançon. "The thought which made me write this book is essentially political" (extract from the preface.

Photo THIERRY, Augustin. 

THIERRY, Augustin. 

Récits des temps mérovingiens précédés de considérations sur l'histoire de France. 

Paris, Furne et Cie, 1864.
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50 €

New edition.
Augustin Thierry is one of the first modern historians to work directly on ancient source.

Photo THIERRY, Augustin. 

THIERRY, Augustin. 

Lettres sur l'Histoire de France, Dix ans d'études historiques. 

Paris, Furne et Cie, 1849.
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50 €

New edition.
Augustin Thierry is one of the first modern historians to work directly on ancient source.

Photo DE GASPARIN, Agénor. 

DE GASPARIN, Agénor. 

La Conscience. 

Paris, Michel Levy, 1872.
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50 €

First edition.

Photo RENAN, Ernest. 

RENAN, Ernest. 

L'Eglise chrétienne. 

Paris, Calmann-Levy, 1873.
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40 €

First edition.
Ernest Renan (1823-1892), historian in most of the work has been devoted to the history of religions, his major work remains his History of the origins of Christianity published in 7 independent volumes from 1863 to 1883.
This volume (the sixth in the series) looks at the beginnings of the construction of the Christian church and covers the period 117-161 AD.
As always with Renan, this work is a monument of erudition and remains a reference on the history of early Christianity.

Photo OLLIVIER, Emile. 

OLLIVIER, Emile. 

Le 19 janvier, compte rendu aux électeurs de la 3ème circonscription de la Seine. 

Paris, A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie, 1869.
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40 €

First edition.
Republican senator for the Seine, Ollivier attempted a route from the center that led him to discuss with the Emperor.
This book explains his political position to the voters of the Seine on the eve of the elections of 1869, however he will be defeated.

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