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1849WRCLIT20209Paris: Chez L'Auteur 1849. 16pp. Self wrappers. Extracted. Modest dust soiling a couple creases but a very nice copy. First edition of this polemic by a self- proclaimed "Disciple de Fourier." The NUC locates only four copies. Not in Goldsmiths. Chez L'Auteur unknown books
182024467Paris: Chez Crochard 1820. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Fine. Two papers by famous scientists describing theories of the cooling of the earth. Laplace's article "Sur la Diminution de la durée du jour par le refroidissement de la terre" pp. 410-417 1820; Fourier's article "Extrait d'un Memoire sur le Refroidissement seculaire du globe terrestre" pp. 418-438. 448 pp. 8vo. Quarter leather binding with brown leather spine and marbled boards. Spine has four raised bands with black leather patch title with gold embossed titling. A very nicely executed later binding originally published in wraps. Light wear at edges. Ex-Library with small ink stamp on title page and at base of page 5. Very clean within. Chez Crochard unknown books
1845042401West Roxbury MA: Brook Farm Press 1845. Newspaper. Good. 8 individual issues of the Brook Farm newspaper issued weekly. Browning occasional light dampstains many pages splitting at the folds chipping and wear and a few small tears to the edges of a few of the issues scattered foxing. Complete pages 1-127. Articles on Fourier including Cosogony by Fourier translated for the Harbinger in two parts and the first two parts of The New Industrial World by Fourier labor unions famine in Ireland and Consuelo by George Sand in parts the first 14 chapters. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Philosophy; Antiquarian & Rare; Boston; Inventory No: 042401. <br/><br/> Brook Farm Press unknown books
187819110Cambridge: At the University Press 1878. First English Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First English Edition. xxiii 1-blank 466 2 24 pages. 2 leaves pages 309-12 with shallow horizontal tears at the top margin not affecting text. Original publisher's brown cloth. Carefully erased ink signature from title page resulting in thinned paper. Acid ghosting from endpapers on title page and last page of publishers ads in rear. Minor wear at the corners a few minor bubbles in the cloth one small scrap to front cover and fraying to the head/tail of the spine panel. Gilt lettering and Cambridge University device on spine still bright. Translated from the French by Alexander Freeman with notes. An above average copy of an important work. Cloth. At the University Press unknown books
184721693Paris: Librairie Phalanstherienne 1847. Second edition. enlarged. 8vo pp. 127 12 page catalogue. Some light water staining and dust staining to the paper wrappers which are bound in modern calf backed boards. Rare the OCLC locates just one copy in the US ZGM and another in the UK EVE. The widow of a cloth merchant Vigoureux met utopian socialist Charles Fourier in 1822. After mainintaining a long correspondence she became Fourier's leading female advocate and zealous propagandist becoming the deciding voice in the L'Ecole Societaire. She died in 1865 at a Phalanstere commuity founded by her son-in-law in Texas. The Parole de Providence was first published in 1834 as a response to the theories of Lamennaise in which she apologized for the bloody violence in Lyon and Paris which she explained was the opposit of Fourier's theory of social harmony. The Melanges the last 50 pages are articles from the magazines La Phalange and La Democratie Pacifique published between 1838 and 1846. Included is the essay: "Resurrection. Aux Femmes de France" and "La Foi L'Esperance et la Charite" etc. Librairie Phalanstherienne unknown books