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PITON, Frédéric.

Strasbourg illustré, ou panorama pittoresque, historique et statistique de Strasbourg et de ses environs.

Strasbourg, Chez l'Auteur, 1855.

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300 €

The first edition.

LEROUX, Pierre.

Malthus et les économistes ou y aura-t-il toujours des pauvres ?.

Boussac, Imprimerie de Pierre Leroux, 1849.

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New edition printed by the author in his printing house in Boussac.
Pierre-Henri Leroux (1797 - 1871) is an editor, philosopher, theoretician of socialism. In 1843, Leroux obtained a patent to create a printing press in Boussac, he settled there, brought his family and friends, then, over the months, disciples seduced by his theories and by the way of life of the community that he founded in this small town in Creuse.
“Yes, it is capitalist industry that kills; it is not, as Malthus says, Nature.” (p.60)

Copy which was bound for François Barrier, central personality of the Fourierist movement, he adhered to the Fourierist doctrine in 1843. He was, in 1845, one of the founders of the Phalansterian project of the African Agricultural Union and became the main leader and financial support from the Lyon School of Society in the 1850s. He created a “Fourierist” bank which notably financed the Texas phalanstery. In 1864, he left Lyon and his career as a surgeon to go to Paris to reorganize the School of Society and devote himself to writing Fourierist treatises.

MALEBRANCHE, Nicolas.

Entretiens sur la Metaphysique & sur la Religion.

Rotterdam, Reiner Leers, 1688.

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300 €

First edition.
The Entretiens sur la métaphysique et sur la religion are the most accomplished of all Malebranche's works. A true literary work, demonstrating a magnificent mastery of the art of dialogue, these fourteen conversations are a model of pedagogy.

[FOURIERISME].

Le Phalanstère en Algérie : Banquet du 7 avril 1848. Journée électorale du 9 avril. Plan d'organisation du travail.

Alger, Imprimerie de A. Bourget, 1848.

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This booklet provides a record of the commemorative banquet held in Algiers on April 7, 1848, to honor the memory of Fourier. Organized by the leading members of the Sig colony and chaired by administrator Jules Duval, the event featured speeches from various prominent figures. Subsequent sections detail the events of April 9th, election day, when Algiers' Fourierists deliberated on the statutes of a Phalansterian circle aimed at uniting them and selecting a representative for the National Assembly. The booklet concludes with an extensive treatise on the organization of labor within the Agricultural Union and the colony's governing statutes.

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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350 €

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.

CABET, Etienne.

Voyage en Icarie.

Paris, Au Bureau du populaire, 1848.

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350 €

Fifth edition.
Major work by Cabet in which he describes his socialist utopia.
Etienne Cabet places himself alongside Charles Fourier or Robert Owen among the promoters of alternative social projects. Cabet is the first philosopher to describe himself as a communist.
In 1849, Cabet went to the United States to try to found an Icarian community there.

Copy which was bound for François Barrier, central personality of the Fourierist movement, he adhered to the Fourierist doctrine in 1843. He was, in 1845, one of the founders of the Phalansterian project of the African Agricultural Union and became the main leader and financial support from the Lyon School of Society in the 1850s. He created a “Fourierist” bank which notably financed the Texas phalanstery. In 1864, he left Lyon and his career as a surgeon to go to Paris to reorganize the School of Society and devote himself to writing Fourierist treatises.

[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.

[COMITE NATIONAL DES ECRIVAINS] MALHERBE, Henry || CLAUDEL, Paul || ARAGON, Louis.

Un Village de France.

Paris, La Bibliothèque française, [1945].

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350 €

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.

GIDE, Charles.

Conférences sur l'Economie politique.

s.l., Ecole supérieure de guerre, 1908-1912.

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350 €

First edition.
Conferences on Political Economy given to student officers at the Ecole Supérieure de Guerre between 1908 and 1912, on the eve of the First World War.
Charles Gide (1847-1932), is a French economist and teacher. He is the historical leader of the French cooperative movement, the theoretician of the social economy, and the uncle of the writer André Gide.
The subjects of these conferences vary each year of the course:
1908: The Budget
1909-: The Strikes
1910: Tariff Wars and Trade Treaties 1
912: The Causes of the War

Bound with the following we will find the International Law course given Free School of Political Sciences (SciencesPo) by Louis Renault (Nobel Peace Prize in 1907) and written by trainee officers who were auditors.

[MANUSCRIT] [Congrégation de Notre Dame de Rheims].

Recueil de prières.

Rheims, s.n., [v. 1700].

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Manuscript from the beginning of the 18th century emanating from the Congrégation de Notre Dame de Rheims, a convent founded in 1638 by the order of the "Chanoinesses of Saint-Augustin of the Congrégation Notre-Dame"
This manuscript written in a perfectly legible handwriting but sometimes random spelling, brings together different prayers and meditations on death, birth, baptism, entry into religion, the anniversary of the taking of the veil...
There are also some extracts from the Rule of this order as well as Sentences from St Augustine.
Rare testimony to the spiritual life of this discreet monastic order.

[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.

[JESUITES].

Réunion de trois volumes reliés regroupant des textes à propos de la controverse sur les Jésuites.

Sorbon, s.n., 1762.

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Set of three identically bound volumes grouping together texts about the controversy over the Jesuits which raged during the years 1761 and 1762.
We find in particular:
"Special history of the Jesuits in France" by Abbé Minard is a priest Jansenist of Libourne "Report of the constitutions of the Jesuits" by La Chalotais who is attorney general in the Parliament of Brittany, fiercely opposed to the Jesuits. He proposes here a memoir in charge of the constitutions of the Society of Jesus. "Reply to the apologies of the Jesuits", "The badly defended Jesuit" by Abbé Platel.

[LALOURCE, Jean-Charlemagne].

Mémoire à consulter et consultation pour Jean Lioncy, créancier & syndic de la Masse de la raison de commerce établie à Marseille, sous le nom de Lioncy frères & Gouffre, contre le corps et société des PP. Jésuites.

[Paris], P. Alex. Le Prieur, 1761.

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350 €

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Memoir on the financial scandal that affected Antoine Lavalette, a Jesuit missionary priest in Martinique. To restore the treasury of the Jesuit mission in Martinique, he set up some commercial operations which failed and was heavily indebted to the sieurs Lioncy and Gouffre, merchants from Marseille. They obtained justice from the tribunal of Aix, but the Parliament of Paris took up the case and used it as a pretext to proclaim the banishment of the Society of Jesus from France in 1762.

[MOIR, John] || [HASTINGS, Warren] || [SOULÈS, François].

Affaires de l'Inde depuis le commencement de la Guerre avec la France en 1756 jusqu'à la conclusion de la Paix en 1783.

Londres et Paris, Buisson, 1788.

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350 €

First edition.
Beautiful fold-out map of India, Cochinchina and the Indonesian islands.
The book recounts France's loss of influence in India during and after the Seven Years' War which saw the fall of the first French colonial empire, and India's shift to English influence.

YRWIN, Eyles.

Voyages à la Mer Rouge, sur les cotes de l'Arabie, en Egypte, et dans les déserts de la Thébaide.

Paris, Briand, 1792.

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350 €

Second french edition.
Eyles Yrwin (1751-1817) was an Irish writer who joined the East India Company and then became the Company's superintendent in China.

[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.".

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.

[MINISTERE DES COLONIES].

Notices à l'usage des émigrants.

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

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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.

BORNIER, Philippe.

Conférences des ordonnances de Louis XIV [...] Avec les anciennes ordonnances du Royaume, le droit écrit & les arrêts.

Paris, Chez les Associez choisis par ordre de sa Majesté, 1719.

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Numerous handwritten notes slipped in the text.

[LESCONVEL, Pierre de].

Anecdotes secrètes des Règnes de Charles VIII et de Louis XII. Avec des notes historiques.

La Haye, J.Neaulme, 1741.

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350 €

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.

[HISTOIRE DE LA MEDECINE].

Etat général des unions faites des biens et revenus des maladeries, leproseries, aumoneries et autres lieux pieux aux hopitaux des pauvres malades.

Paris, Denys Thierry, 1705.

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400 €

First edition.
In order to rationalize aid to the sick, the power of Louis XIV issued numerous decrees aimed at merging the various aid centers that existed at the time. Each town, district, religious order then had its own institution. This work contains, city by city, the institutions that must meet and the list of related edicts and decrees.

D'AUDIFFRET, Charles Louis Gaston.

Système Financier De La France.

Paris, Guillaumin et Cie, 1854.

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400 €

Second edition.
French politician, administrator and economist, Gaston d'Audiffret, was president of the Court of Auditors and one of the founders of the CIC.

[JESUITES].

Remontrances au parlement et 10 autres pièces.

Paraguay [i.e. Paris], Imprimerie royale de Nicolas Ier, 1761.

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400 €

First 12mo edition.
Set of pamphleteering pieces against the Jesuits published during the controversy over the Jesuits which raged during the years 1761 and 1762.
The following pieces are particularly noteworthy:
- Remontrances au parlement with a folding map of France.
- Les Jésuitiques
- L'Apparition du Cardinal Bellarmin
- Advis secrets de la Société de Jésus.

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.

GUEPIN, Ange.

Histoire de Nantes.

Nantes, Prosper Sebire, 1839.

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400 €

Second edition.
Book searched on the history of Nantes. Drawings by Peter Hawke.

Our copy with an autograph dedication of the son of the author F.C. Guépin dated October 1873 to his nephew Charles Guieysse (socialist activist, close to Charles Peguy).

NECKER, Jacques || [GRIMOARD, Philippe-Henri de].

Lettre du marquis de C* [Caraccioli], à M. D'A* [d'Alembert].

Paris, [s. n.], 1781.

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This harsh pamphlet was published as part of a political campaign against Necker, then Finance Minister of Louis XVI, in the spring of 1781. It ended with the minister's resignation on May 19th1781.

This fictional letter features Louis-Antoine Caraccioli and D'Alembert, questioning the reasons for Necker's popularity. It is traditionally attributed to Philippe-Henri de Grimoard (Barbier and BNF).

This letter is bound with six other texts related to Necker :

1) Mémoire donné au roi, par M. Necker. 1778. (4)-50 pages ---
2) Observations modestes d'un citoyen, sur les opérations de finances de M. Necker [...] 98 pages --
3) Suite des observations d'un citoyen 45 pages ----
4) Lettre du marquis de C, à M. D'A. Paris le 1er Mai 1781 51 pages ---
5) Lettre d'un ami, à M. Necker 23 pages ----
6) Les comment 45 pages ----
7) Compte rendu au roi, par l'abbé Terray 18 pages ----.

DAMOREAU, Estienne.

Traité des négociations de banque et des monnoyes étrangères.

Paris, Guillaume Cavelier-Pissot, 1727.

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400 €

First edition.

A practical book for bankers, traders and merchants working in Europe at the beginning of the 18th century. Its subjects are numismatics, the explanation of exchange rates and conversions and the explanation of bank negotiations, illustrated by many plates.

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.

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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450 €

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.

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Economics, Philosophy, Law, Political Science, History and Theology

PITON, Frédéric.

Strasbourg illustré, ou panorama pittoresque, historique et statistique de Strasbourg et de ses environs.

The first edition.

LEROUX, Pierre.

Malthus et les économistes ou y aura-t-il toujours des pauvres ?.

MALEBRANCHE, Nicolas.

Entretiens sur la Metaphysique & sur la Religion.

First edition.The Entretiens sur la métaphysique et sur la religion are the most accomplished of all Malebranche's works. A true literary work, demonstrating a magnificent mastery of the art of dialogue, these fourteen conversations are a model of pedagogy.

[FOURIERISME].

Le Phalanstère en Algérie : Banquet du 7 avril 1848. Journée électorale du 9 avril. Plan d'organisation du travail.

FOURIER, Charles.

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

CABET, Etienne.

Voyage en Icarie.

[MOSCH, August Wilhelm (von)].

Tactique de l'Infanterie et instruction sur le choix d'une Position & sur les Dispositions des Manoeuvres.

[COMITE NATIONAL DES ECRIVAINS] MALHERBE, Henry || CLAUDEL, Paul || ARAGON, Louis.

Un Village de France.

GIDE, Charles.

Conférences sur l'Economie politique.

[MANUSCRIT] [Congrégation de Notre Dame de Rheims].

Recueil de prières.

[JOUBERT, (Abbé) ].

Histoire des révolutions de Pologne, depuis la mort d'Auguste III jusqu'à l'année 1775.

[JESUITES].

Réunion de trois volumes reliés regroupant des textes à propos de la controverse sur les Jésuites.

[LALOURCE, Jean-Charlemagne].

Mémoire à consulter et consultation pour Jean Lioncy, créancier & syndic de la Masse de la raison de commerce établie à Marseille, sous le nom de Lioncy frères & Gouffre, contre le corps et société des PP. Jésuites.

[MOIR, John] || [HASTINGS, Warren] || [SOULÈS, François].

Affaires de l'Inde depuis le commencement de la Guerre avec la France en 1756 jusqu'à la conclusion de la Paix en 1783.

First edition.Beautiful fold-out map of India, Cochinchina and the Indonesian islands. The book recounts France's loss of influence in India during and after the Seven Years' War which saw the fall of the first French colonial empire, and India's shift to English influence.

YRWIN, Eyles.

Voyages à la Mer Rouge, sur les cotes de l'Arabie, en Egypte, et dans les déserts de la Thébaide.

Second french edition.Eyles Yrwin (1751-1817) was an Irish writer who joined the East India Company and then became the Company's superintendent in China.

[LESZCZYNSKI, Stanislas].

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

TOURNET, Jean.

Coustumes de la Prevoste et Vicomte de Paris.

[MINISTERE DES COLONIES].

Notices à l'usage des émigrants.

BORNIER, Philippe.

Conférences des ordonnances de Louis XIV [...] Avec les anciennes ordonnances du Royaume, le droit écrit & les arrêts.

Numerous handwritten notes slipped in the text.

[LESCONVEL, Pierre de].

Anecdotes secrètes des Règnes de Charles VIII et de Louis XII. Avec des notes historiques.

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.

[HISTOIRE DE LA MEDECINE].

Etat général des unions faites des biens et revenus des maladeries, leproseries, aumoneries et autres lieux pieux aux hopitaux des pauvres malades.

D'AUDIFFRET, Charles Louis Gaston.

Système Financier De La France.

Second edition.French politician, administrator and economist, Gaston d'Audiffret, was president of the Court of Auditors and one of the founders of the CIC.

[JESUITES].

Remontrances au parlement et 10 autres pièces.

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.

GUEPIN, Ange.

Histoire de Nantes.

Second edition.Book searched on the history of Nantes. Drawings by Peter Hawke.Our copy with an autograph dedication of the son of the author F.C. Guépin dated October 1873 to his nephew Charles Guieysse (socialist activist, close to Charles Peguy).

NECKER, Jacques || [GRIMOARD, Philippe-Henri de].

Lettre du marquis de C*** [Caraccioli], à M. D'A*** [d'Alembert].

DAMOREAU, Estienne.

Traité des négociations de banque et des monnoyes étrangères.

First edition. A practical book for bankers, traders and merchants working in Europe at the beginning of the 18th century. Its subjects are numismatics, the explanation of exchange rates and conversions and the explanation of bank negotiations, illustrated by many plates.

REID, Thomas.

Recherches sur l'entendement humain, d'après les principes du sens commun.

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.

First edition.
The Entretiens sur la métaphysique et sur la religion are the most accomplished of all Malebranche's works. A true literary work, demonstrating a magnificent mastery of the art of dialogue, these fourteen conversations are a model of pedagogy.

First edition.
Beautiful fold-out map of India, Cochinchina and the Indonesian islands.
The book recounts France's loss of influence in India during and after the Seven Years' War which saw the fall of the first French colonial empire, and India's shift to English influence.

Second french edition.
Eyles Yrwin (1751-1817) was an Irish writer who joined the East India Company and then became the Company's superintendent in China.

Second edition.
French politician, administrator and economist, Gaston d'Audiffret, was president of the Court of Auditors and one of the founders of the CIC.

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.
Book searched on the history of Nantes. Drawings by Peter Hawke.

Our copy with an autograph dedication of the son of the author F.C. Guépin dated October 1873 to his nephew Charles Guieysse (socialist activist, close to Charles Peguy).

Lettre du marquis de C* [Caraccioli], à M. D'A* [d'Alembert].

First edition.

A practical book for bankers, traders and merchants working in Europe at the beginning of the 18th century. Its subjects are numismatics, the explanation of exchange rates and conversions and the explanation of bank negotiations, illustrated by many plates.