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17512605210193Chez Briasson David Le Breton Durand A Paris; Amsterdam 1751 - 1777 1751. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. The Organization of Enlightenment Thought: The Revolution in Ideas. A first edition of this foundational encyclopedia of 18th century knowledge. A massive thirty-five volume set. Large folios volumes 39.5 x 25 cm. Bound in 18th-century French calf. Spines gilt with raised bands. One volume non-uniformly bound in light calf. <br> The set includes: Encyclopedie Paris: 1751-57 & Neuchatel 1765. 17 volumes; Recueil de planches. Paris: 1762-72. 11 volumes 1 2 part I 2 Part II 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 11; Supplement a l'Encyclopedie. Paris & Amsterdam: 1776-77. 5 volumes including the Suite de recueil de planches; Table Analytique. Paris: 1780. <br> Profusely illustrated with engraved plates. <br> Diderot's famous Encyclopedie was initially a modest translation of Chambers's Cyclopaedia. It grew as a project into a massive project which attempted to collect human knowledge from a rationalistic perspective instead of by nature or theology. In organizing knowledge from a position where human reason was paramount the supremacy of the Church was imperiled. As a result the Encyclopedie was widely controversial and placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum by the Catholic Church. In discussing fundamental philosophical issues such as on political authority and natural rights articles in the Encyclopedie shifted the basis of governmental authority from the divine right of Kings to radical concepts popular consent was the basis of legitimacy and the ideals of a social contract. The work was banned by the King of France. It spread the foundational ideas of the French Revolution and enlightenment thinkers. "No encyclopaedia perhaps has been of such political importance or has occupied so conspicuous a place in the civil and literary history of its century. It sought not only to give information but to guide opinion." "It was a war machine; as it progressed its attacks on both the church and still more on despotic government as well as Christianity itself became bolder and more undistinguished and it was met with persecution and opposition unparalleled in the the history of encyclopedias." - Encyclopedia Britannica 11th ed p. 1483. "A monument in the history of European thought; the acme of the age of reason; a prime motive force in undermining the ancien regime and in heralding the French Revolution" Printing in the Mind of Man 200. Refs: Grolier/Horblit 25b; Norman 637; PMM 200. <br> Includes: 17 v. : ill. ; 41 cm. supplement 4 volumes plates 11 volumes plates supplement 1 volume. Table Analytique 1 volume. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Chez Briasson, David, Le Breton, Durand, A Paris; Amsterdam (1751 - 1777) hardcover
1764148170London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt in the Strand 1764. First edition in English of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's magnum opus; a seminal treatise on political philosophy and precursor of the French revolution. Twelvemo bound in full contemporary calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands morocco spine labels lettered in gilt triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles all edges gilt marbled endpapers 3pp. advertisements at end. In near fine condition. Exceedingly rare with only a handful of copies traced in auction records exceptionally rare and desirable. "The Contrat Social remains Rousseau's greatest work. Rousseau believed passionately in what he wrote and when in 1789 a similar emotion was released on a national scale the Contract Social came into its own as the bible of the revolutionaries in building their ideal state. Still in print translated into every language in cheap editions and paperbacks it remains a crucial document of egalitarian government" Printing and the Mind of Man 270 discussing the 1762 first edition. Written in 1762 Rousseau's seminal work provided a philosophical justification for revolutionary change by promoting the principles of popular sovereignty the general will equality liberty and political participation. Rousseau argued that legitimate political authority comes from the consent of the governed rather than from divine right or hereditary monarchy. This idea inspired French revolutionaries to demand a government that represented the will of the people. Upon publication the distribution of The Social Contract in France was prohibited and Rousseau fled the country to avoid imprisonment. It was primarily Rousseau's chapter on civil religion rather than his ideas on liberty and sovereignty that caused the controversy. Immanuel Kant one of the most influential moral philosophers in Western philosophy acknowledged his debt to Rousseau's work in political philosophy of which The Social Contract is perhaps the closest to a complete statement. Kant wrote “I myself am a researcher by inclination. I feel the entire thirst for cognition and the eager restlessness to proceed further in it as well as the satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed this alone could constitute the honour of humankind and I despised the rabble who knows nothing. Rousseau has set me right. This blinding prejudice vanishes I learn to honour human beings and I would feel by far less useful than the common labourer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart a value to all others in order to establish the rights of humanity†Refl. 20:44. Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, in the Strand paperback
1762187978Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey 1762. Developing the social contract First edition of the definitive version of Rousseau's greatest work a potent influence on liberal republican and French revolutionary thinking. Where Rousseau's Second Discourse 1755 explained how people had lost their liberty in the past the Principes considered how they might recover it in the future. The work develops the model of a government made legitimate by following the general will of its subjects. In so doing it tackles the problem of securing political co-operation among people with separate wills. The concept of the general will followed as an artificially constructed pledge to dissolve individual natural rights. Shortly after the printing had begun Rousseau requested that the title page vignette of Justice be replaced by one of Liberty and that the 24-line note on civil marriage on page 324 be excised completely for fear of French censors. He also judged the title page too crowded hence the transposition of the first part of the title "Du Contract Social" to a separate half-title. Bound after Rousseau's work is the Profession de foi du vicaire Chrétien Berlin: Chez Jean Neaulme 1764 by Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey 1711-1797 a key figure in the German Enlightenment and a committed opponent of Rousseau 2 works bound in 1 vol. octavo 199 x 119 mm pp. iv viii 324; pp. viii 144 14. Engraved title vignette of Liberty by Boily after Bolomey in Principes engraved initials head- and tailpieces. Profession bound without ten engraved plates. Contemporary calf spine ruled and decorated in gilt and with red morocco label marbled endpapers edges red red silk book marker. Light rubbing several marks to boards minor foxing to outer leaves contents crisp and clean small loss to lower outer corner of final leaf of Profession: a very good copy indeed. Dufour 133; En français dans le texte 162; Printing and the Mind of Man 207; Tchemerzine V p. 543. hardcover
1762149605Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey 1762. Rare first edition type B of Rousseau's greatest work. Octavo bound in full contemporary sheepskin gilt tooling to the spine in eight compartments within raised bands burgundy morocco spine label lettered in gilt stamped turn-ins marbled endpapers engraved vignette of Liberty to the title page by Boily after Bolomey all edges red ribbon bound in. Provenance: Perrotin-Grandville notary in Le Mans ownership inscription to the title page. In very good condition with scuffing to the boards splitting to the rear lower hinge. Exceptionally rare in a contemporary binding. "The Contrat Social remains Rousseau's greatest work. Rousseau believed passionately in what he wrote and when in 1789 a similar emotion was released on a national scale the Contract Social came into its own as the bible of the revolutionaries in building their ideal state. Still in print translated into every language in cheap editions and paperbacks it remains a crucial document of egalitarian government" Printing and the Mind of Man 270 discussing the 1762 first edition. Written in 1762 Rousseau's seminal work provided a philosophical justification for revolutionary change by promoting the principles of popular sovereignty the general will equality liberty and political participation. Rousseau argued that legitimate political authority comes from the consent of the governed rather than from divine right or hereditary monarchy. This idea inspired French revolutionaries to demand a government that represented the will of the people. Upon publication the distribution of The Social Contract in France was prohibited and Rousseau fled the country to avoid imprisonment. It was primarily Rousseau's chapter on civil religion rather than his ideas on liberty and sovereignty that caused the controversy. Immanuel Kant one of the most influential moral philosophers in Western philosophy acknowledged his debt to Rousseau's work in political philosophy of which The Social Contract is perhaps the closest to a complete statement. Kant wrote “I myself am a researcher by inclination. I feel the entire thirst for cognition and the eager restlessness to proceed further in it as well as the satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed this alone could constitute the honour of humankind and I despised the rabble who knows nothing. Rousseau has set me right. This blinding prejudice vanishes I learn to honour human beings and I would feel by far less useful than the common labourer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart a value to all others in order to establish the rights of humanity†Refl. 20:44. Marc Michel Rey paperback
176254730A la Haye Chez Jean Néaulme Recte: Paris Duchesne 1762. 8vo. Bound in four beautiful uniform contemporary full mottled calf bindings with gilt title-and tome-lables to richly gilt spines. Gilt line-border to edges of bords. Lovely patterned edges. Spines and some corners lightly and expertly restored barely noteable. Occasional very light brownspotting or dusting but overall very nice and clean. Printed on good heavy paper with wide margins. An excellent copy. 2 VIII 2 466 6 pp. 4 407 1 pp. 4 384 pp.; 4 455 1 pp. 5 engraved plates used as frontispieces and facing p. 141 of vol. 1 respectively. The first plate "Thétis" in the variant state without title as described in MacEachern. Fully complete exactly as described in MacEachern. With all the misprints: Vol. 1: 88 as S8 443 as 433 465 as 46; vol. 2: 356 as 256 357 as 257; vol. 3: 383 as 363; vol. 4: 336 with first 3 broken according to McEachern this is just the case in some copies. With the usual cancelled leaves: Vol 1: Av B4; vol. 2: H3 N6 called I6. The final leaf ends with "FIN" and has no grapes MacEachern: "The grapes appear in three different forms.". <br/><br/><em>The very scarce actual first edition being the rarer more sought-after nicer 8vo-edition as opposed to the much more common 12mo edition which was printed about simultaneously but which seems to have appeared later the 8vo format also being the one preferred by Rousseau himself and the format in which he wanted his great work to appear.This magnificent work constitutes the climax of Rousseau's genius as well as the most important work on education since Plato. In Émile Rousseau poses an entirely new approach to education and the upbringing of children. His thoughts were exceedingly controversial the work was burnt by the executioner immediately after its first appearance and Rousseau had to flee the country due to a warrant for his arrest. The printing history of "Émile" is extremely complicated and has been a matter of intense dispute for many decades. Until Maceachern's bibliography from 1989 the edition that has now been established as the "Second Paris octavo" MacEachern 4A was generally considered the first printing of the work but there is no longer any dispute about the fact that the present edition is in fact the actual first 1A. The first edition appeared in both 8vo1A and 12mo1B and it seems to be generally accepted that the 8vo-edition was distributed first but that parts of the 12mo-edition may have been in printing a bit earlier. Rousseau himself seems to have preferred the 8vo-edition and wished for his great work to appear as this form first "The question of the format gave rise to some dissension for while Rousseau felt that the work was more suited to the octavo format Duchesne preferred to print a duodecimo and only a limited number of the more expensive octavo. Rousseau finally agreed to Duchesne's plan with reluctance declaring that in his opinion Duchesne was committing an error of judgment and that the octavo would certainly be the more sought after of the two formats." - MacEachern pp. 18-19. Rousseau himself was more involved in the coming-to-be of "Émile" than perhaps any other author has been in any other book. Throughout the entire process there were a large number of misunderstandings between himself and Duchene which more than once endangered the printing and publishing of this seminal work and which has contributed greatly to the extremely complicated bibliographical data of it. In fact up until very late in the process Rousseau did not believe that the work was actually going to be finished and it took several instances of mediation between the two to keep the work on tracks. Finally however the work was a reality and with it one of the greatest works of Western culture had been born.Rousseau's "Émile" constitutes the most significant modern treatise on the education of man surpassed only by Plato's "Republic". The comparison with Plato is all the more apt seeing that both works grow out of and are meant to remedy lacunae in the political philosophy of their authors.The conclusion to Rousseau's work on the social contract also written during Rousseau's stay in Montmorency had pointed to a predicament of political thought: that only if man were himself naturally inclined to freedom could he make use of political freedom. "Émile" is the analysis of the conditions under which a child can develop into a free human being. As such it presents the conclusion to Rousseau's earlier works on inequality political freedom and servitude.The paradox of Émile is that while the development of human nature must be natural if the child is to develop into a free human being steering that development in the right - that is free - direction requires constant intervention which moreover must be hidden from the child. Rousseau details this intervention in his analysis of the five stages in the education of the child covering the period from birth to the age of 25.Being one of the most influential thinkers of the 18th century Rousseau is considered one of the indirect causes of the French Revolution. In Rousseau one certainly finds one of the most influential spokesmen for 18th century thought and it is primarily the thoughts of him and Voltaire that are put into action with the Revolution."The first and last of these i.e. Héloise and Émile with their sentimental expression of deism gave much offence and Rousseau like Voltaire was forced to flee to Prussia. Restless and locally unpopular he fled again to England where he had a great welcome. Hume who had offered him asylum looked after him patiently." PMM 207 Printing and the Mind of Man.The totalitarian tendency of Rousseau's philosophy of education has been noted by a number of philosophers in recent times most famously Karl Popper.McEachern: 1A </em> unknown
176172018Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey 1761. First edition of the first best-selling novel in history which made Jean-Jacques Rousseau the world's first celebrity author. Octavo six volumes bound in contemporary full calf gilt titles to the spine marbled edges marbled endpapers. An exceptional piece of literary history. A retelling of the legendary love affair between French nun Heloise d'Argenteuil and theologian Peter Abelard Rousseau's groundbreaking novel Julie or the New Heloise became an instant best-seller. Publishers could barely keep up with the high demand for copies of the story which evoked an unprecedentedly passionate response from readers particularly high-society women from whom Rousseau is known to have received thousands of love letters. Publishers capitalized on the unequivocally high demand for the novel by renting it to readers at a rate per day and even per hour. Due to its content the book was placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum List of Prohibited Books deemed lascivious and anti-clerical by the Roman Catholic Church. Although it was presented as a novel the book exists as a philosophical treaty on autonomy and authenticity as moral values which Rousseau perhaps argued to be ethically superior to rational and commonly-held moral principles. Arthur Schopenhauer cited Julie or the New Heloise as one of the four greatest novels ever written along with Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Cervantes' Don Quixote. Historian Robert Darnton has argued that Julie 'was perhaps the biggest best-seller of the century.' Marc-Michel Rey unknown books
1765973631765 2 pages in-8, Motiers, 28 avril 1765, adresse et cachet de cire au dos du second feuillet.Intéressante missive de Rousseau à son libraire après la parution des Lettres écrites de la Montagne.Panckoucke contacte Rousseau dès 1761 pour lui faire part de son enthousiasme à la lecture de La Nouvelle Héloïse. C'est le début d'une relation épistolaire cordiale d'une vingtaine de lettres, entretenue par le jeune libraire désireux d'obtenir l'édition des oeuvres complètes. Mais ce rapport de soutien mutuel se gâte à la parution des Lettres de la Montagne qui rencontrent un accueil hostile. Rousseau s'étonne du peu d'engagement de Panckouke, d'autant que celui-ci lui rapporte maladroitement les calomnies qui circulent à Paris tout en reconnaissant n'avoir pas encore lu l'ouvrage... La réponse de Rousseau est cinglante :... "Vous êtes jeune et françois, Monsieur, je sais ce qu'un homme de mon âge doit passer au vôtre ; mais quand on a l'étourderie de votre nation, l'on doit en avoir aussi la politesse. Quand on veut juger un livre sans le lire et condamner l'auteur sans l'entendre, il faudroit du moins en s'adressant à lui-même employer des termes plus mesurés."Puis, le philosophe en revient à un échange plus formel : l'achat d'estampes de l'Histoire Naturelle de Buffon dont Panckouke est l'éditeur. Après de "très humbles salutations" il ajoute un post-scriptum d'explications affectives : "J'ai le plus vrai regret de cette brouillerie car je vous aime véritablement, et je vois que vous êtes dans cette affaire la dupe de quelques fourbes qui feignent de m'aimer pour me nuire plus à coup sûr."...Typique de la sensibilité du philosophe, cette lettre a été publiée dès 1789 par fragments dans le Mercure de France. Superbe et très rare document.
1765973631765 2 pages in-8, Motiers, 28 avril 1765, adresse et cachet de cire au dos du second feuillet.Intéressante missive de Rousseau à son libraire après la parution des Lettres écrites de la Montagne.Panckoucke contacte Rousseau dès 1761 pour lui faire part de son enthousiasme à la lecture de La Nouvelle Héloïse. C'est le début d'une relation épistolaire cordiale d'une vingtaine de lettres, entretenue par le jeune libraire désireux d'obtenir l'édition des oeuvres complètes. Mais ce rapport de soutien mutuel se gâte à la parution des Lettres de la Montagne qui rencontrent un accueil hostile. Rousseau s'étonne du peu d'engagement de Panckouke, d'autant que celui-ci lui rapporte maladroitement les calomnies qui circulent à Paris tout en reconnaissant n'avoir pas encore lu l'ouvrage... La réponse de Rousseau est cinglante :... "Vous êtes jeune et françois, Monsieur, je sais ce qu'un homme de mon âge doit passer au vôtre ; mais quand on a l'étourderie de votre nation, l'on doit en avoir aussi la politesse. Quand on veut juger un livre sans le lire et condamner l'auteur sans l'entendre, il faudroit du moins en s'adressant à lui-même employer des termes plus mesurés."Puis, le philosophe en revient à un échange plus formel : l'achat d'estampes de l'Histoire Naturelle de Buffon dont Panckouke est l'éditeur. Après de "très humbles salutations" il ajoute un post-scriptum d'explications affectives : "J'ai le plus vrai regret de cette brouillerie car je vous aime véritablement, et je vois que vous êtes dans cette affaire la dupe de quelques fourbes qui feignent de m'aimer pour me nuire plus à coup sûr."...Typique de la sensibilité du philosophe, cette lettre a été publiée dès 1789 par fragments dans le Mercure de France. Superbe et très rare document.
173821797Brussels 1738. 4to. Gilles Stryckwant Contemporary mottled calf sewn on 6 cords richly gold-tooled spine gold-tooled board edges red sprinkled edges Dutch-marbled endpapers front straight-combed in red blue yellow green and white; back matching except swirled green ribbon marker. With a woodcut coat of arms of Austria on title-page woodcut headpieces tailpieces initials 2 series and factotums and decorations built up from typographic ornaments. 6 109 1 blank pp. First edition of a collection of sacred songs in verse selected from his own works by Jean Baptiste Rousseau 1671-1741 most of them based on psalms and a few on other biblical texts. Born in Paris Rousseau published his Cantates françoises around 1705 and established a good reputation for his lyrics. His lampoons and some obscene verses supposedly written by him occasionally got him into trouble but he had a promising career ahead of him when he published his Oeuvres in 1712. In that year however a dispute over offensive verses supposedly written by him forced him into exile in Brussels. He lived there and elsewhere abroad for the rest of his life sometimes publishing selections of his work such as the present one and returning to Paris only for a clandestine visit around the time he published the present collection. Although his poetry appears to have sold fairly well and his lyrics continued in demand with musicians he remained in financial straits his exile perhaps making it difficult to gain the patronage essential to success in that day. Rousseau gained greater fame posthumously especially as the creator of the "French cantate" and is still considered the best French lyricist of the period. With the author's signed autograph presentation inscription to l'Abbé Cochard on an endleaf and a couple corrections in the text also in his hand. With one quire slightly browned and further occasional minor foxing or a small marginal stain but otherwise in very good condition and with generous margins. The chemicals used to mottle the leather have eaten away its surface in places and the spine has been repaired at the head foot and hinges but the binding is now structurally sound.l H.A. Grubbs Jean-Baptiste Rousseau: his life and works p. 226; not in Cioranescu; Tchemerzine. hardcover
17831289301783. First Edition. ROUSSEAU Jean-Jacques. The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau: With the Reveries of the Solitary Walker. London: J. Bew 1783. 12mo period-style full paneled brown calf gilt red morocco spine labels. $8800.Rare first edition in English of Rousseaus magnificent Confessions and Reveries its sequel and complement considered among Rousseaus finest works.""Confessions was published only posthumously; it was some time before Rousseau's ideas seeped into the drinking water. In his own day he was provocative but also outlandish. As Leo Damrosch put it Rousseau was after all understood to be 'describing a state of nature that never existed a political system that never could exist and an educational scheme that never should exist.' Social inequality the will of the people inalienable rights were meaningless concepts when Rousseau began ranting about them. Imagination was out of fashion; he was tiptoeing around the as-yet-undiscovered unconscious. He advocated idleness in the age of Adam Smith. If he suffered for being so much out of step with his own century he can too easily be overlooked in ours. Without founding a schoolit would have been inappropriateRousseau stands squarely if unsystematically at the root of democracy autobiography Romanticism child-centered education even psychoanalysis"" Stacy Schiff.Rousseau's ""devastatingly intimate"" self-portrait has become one of ""the landmarks of the literature of personal revelation and reminiscence"" and the model for modern autobiography Brereton 107; Drabble 851. His Confessions is filled with candid and critical personal descriptions of himself and others; he did not intend for it to be published until the end of the century but it was published within four years of his death. ""The publication of the Confessions in 1782 only reinforced the intensely personal bond that Rousseau's countless disciples felt with him nothing could shake their faith in his essential moral purity. The breathtaking candor of his admissions of vice as well as virtue strengthened their view that he was the greatest honnete homme of their century"" Schama Citizens 160. First published in French in Geneva in 1782. As is usually the case these two volumes contain the first half of the Confessions; the second half was not published until 1789 in French with the English translation appearing in 1790. Owner signature of ""Mary Bisshopp 1795"" to title page of Volume I with her small bookplate to versos of both title pages. Small engraved armorial bookplate tipped to final leaf of text. Bookplates of leading British book collector Eric Quayle with his note on the first one: ""This is the first English edition and is very rare. E.Q."" Quayle published large-format and well-illustrated guides to book collecting based on his own collection which still act as signposts for new collectors and important references for the experienced.Interior fresh. Very handsomely bound. unknown
174660957(Unsigned, and no date, but penned between 1746 and 1751). 1 leaf 4to (25,5 x 19 cm), off-white paper in fine condition. Fully penned on both recto (24 lines) and verso (5 lines).
174660957Unsigned and no date but penned between 1746 and 1751. 1 leaf 4to 255 x 19 cm off-white paper in fine condition. Fully penned on both recto 24 lines and verso 5 lines. <br/><br/><em>This magnificent manuscript leaf in Rousseau's hand constitutes notes on marriage rituals taken from "Rituel des Chartres" which was printed in Paris in 1531. This manuscript leaf is part of a grandiose project that Rousseau was working on with his employer Madame Dupin during his years as her secretary. The project was that of writing the history of womankind. With its focus on gender equality the work is nothing less than pioneering and would no doubt have been a work of seminal importance in the history of feminism and women's rights had it ever been published. The manuscript ended up comprising more than 2.000 pages but was never printed. Louise Marie Madeline Fontaine Dupin 1706-1799 was one of the most famous salonnieres of the 18th century renowned for the beauty as well as her intelligence. Rousseu met her in 1743 and took an instant liking to her. In 1745 she offered him the position as her private secretary and tutor to her son. During his six years in her employment he spent most of the time working on the grandiose project of the history of women until it was abandoned in 1751. "In the years between 1745 and 1749 Jean Jacques Rousseau was employed by Louise Marie Madeline Dupin as a research assistant on her ambitious project to delineate in print the history of women. After years of labor by Rousseau and Madame Dupin her "Ouvrage sur les Femmes" was shelved unfinished. The research notes drafts and fair copies written by Rousseau and his employer were stored at the chateau of Chenonceaux essentially forgotten until their sale at a series of auctions held between 1951 and 1958." Harry Ranson Center University of Texas </em> unknown
1789138603Paris: Basset c. 1789. Rousseau as revolutionary icon A striking full-length portrait of the philosopher seated on a tree stump and hard at work on the Contrat Social. At his feet two doves presumably evicted from their stump discuss matters. The print is by the Parisian firm of Basset which was a leading source of popular prints during the Revolution. Rousseau was claimed as a foundational influence by many revolutionary leaders and in 1794 they arranged for his remains to be transferred to the Panthéon in Paris. Hand-coloured copperplate engraving. Image size: 70 x 52 cm. Framed size: 85 x 66.5 cm. Presented in a handmade gilt frame with conservation acrylic glazing. Light toning and chipping to extremities not touching impression: in very good condition. Bachelin 185; Girardin p. 35. unknown
17772308270001Geneva: Pellet 1777-79; Neuchatel: La Societe Typographique 1777. troisieme. Hardcover. Very Good. The Organization of Enlightenment Thought: The Revolution in Ideas 41 of 45 volumes. Quartos 25 x 19.5 cm. Bound in handsome catspaw calf. All edges red. Good bindings and covers. Clean unmarked pages. Includes Vol. 1-36 of the Encyclopedie important note: lacks 3 text volumes 23 30 31; Vol. 37-38: Recueil de planches pour la nouvelle edition du dictionnaire raisonne des sciences des arts et des metiers; lacks the final plate volume v.39 Vol. 40-45 Table Analytique Et Raisonnee Des Matieres. <br> Diderot's famous Encyclopedie was initially a modest translation of Chambers's Cyclopaedia. It grew as a project into a massive project which attempted to collect human knowledge from a rationalistic perspective instead of by nature or theology. In organizing knowledge from a position where human reason was paramount the supremacy of the Church was imperiled. As a result the Encyclopedie was widely controversial and placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum by the Catholic Church. In discussing fundamental philosophical issues such as on political authority and natural rights articles in the Encyclopedie shifted the basis of governmental authority from the divine right of Kings to radical concepts popular consent was the basis of legitimacy and the ideals of a social contract. The work was banned by the King of France. It spread the foundational ideas of the French Revolution and enlightenment thinkers. "No encyclopaedia perhaps has been of such political importance or has occupied so conspicuous a place in the civil and literary history of its century. It sought not only to give information but to guide opinion." "It was a war machine; as it progressed its attacks on both the church and still more on despotic government as well as Christianity itself became bolder and more undistinguished and it was met with persecution and opposition unparalleled in the the history of encyclopedias." - Encyclopedia Britannica 11th ed p. 1483. Geneva: Pellet, 1777-79; Neuchatel: La Societe Typographique hardcover
174660377(Unsigned, and no date, but penned between 1746 and 1751). 1 leaf 4to (25,5 x 19 cm), off-white paper in fine condition. Penned on both recto (21 lines) and verso (6 lines) in columns taking up half the pages.
174660377Unsigned and no date but penned between 1746 and 1751. 1 leaf 4to 255 x 19 cm off-white paper in fine condition. Penned on both recto 21 lines and verso 6 lines in columns taking up half the pages. <br/><br/><em>This magnificent manuscript leaf in Rousseau's hand constitutes notes taken from the seminal work of Dionysos Halicarnassos on the foundation of Rome more particularly on the story of Rome herself the alleged mother of Romulus and Remus and how they named the city after their mother. This manuscript leaf is part of a grandiose project that Rousseau was working on with his employer Madame Dupin during his years as her secretary. The project was that of writing the history of womankind. With its focus on gender equality the work is nothing less than pioneering and would no doubt have been a work of seminal importance in the history of feminism and women's rights had it ever been published. The manuscript ended up comprising more than 2.000 pages but was never printed. Louise Marie Madeline Fontaine Dupin 1706-1799 was one of the most famous salonnieres of the 18th century renowned for the beauty as well as her intelligence. Rousseu met her in 1743 and took an instant liking to her. In 1745 she offered him the position as her private secretary and tutor to her son. During his six years in her employment he spent most of the time working on the grandiose project of the history of women until it was abandoned in 1751. "In the years between 1745 and 1749 Jean Jacques Rousseau was employed by Louise Marie Madeline Dupin as a research assistant on her ambitious project to delineate in print the history of women. After years of labor by Rousseau and Madame Dupin her "Ouvrage sur les Femmes" was shelved unfinished. The research notes drafts and fair copies written by Rousseau and his employer were stored at the chateau of Chenonceaux essentially forgotten until their sale at a series of auctions held between 1951 and 1958." Harry Ranson Center University of Texas </em> unknown
178275964à Genève Geneva: S. n. 1782. Fine. S. n. à Genève Geneva 1782 12 x 19 cm 2 volumes reliés Rare and genuine posthumous first edition of the first six books of the Confessions the remaining volumes not appearing until 1789. Several other editions were issued shortly thereafter but the evidence provided by the commentary published in the June 1782 issue of the Journal Helvétique clearly establishes that this separately printed edition known as the ""large type"" issue is indeed the very first F. Michaux ""L'Édition originale de la première partie des 'Confessions' de J.-J. Rousseau"" in Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France 35th Year No. 2 1928 pp. 250-253. Contemporary half calf bindings flat spines tooled with gilt fillets and decorated with beige morocco title and volume labels marbled paper boards all edges blue. A handsome copy of this seminal text of the autobiographical genre preserved in a contemporary binding. S. n. hardcover
1788000382<p><strong>A significant edition of the philosopher's collected works. Complete set in rare amber-coloured bindings with the hand-coloured botanical plates twice bound in volume 38 and also in volumes 5 and 6.</strong></p><p><strong>Description:</strong> 39 vols. in 38 contemp. buff calf; gilt palmette borders to boards gilt meander roll to turn-ins; spine decorated with paired gilt fillets guilloches and dotted lines enclosing a gilt stylised sun symbol; with two contrasting red morocco lettering pieces and an escutcheon bearing the number of vols.; marbled endpapers. Octavo: 21 × 13 cm; pp.: vol. 1–4 <em>La Nouvelle Héloïse</em> 488; 468; 488; 484 vol. 5–6 <em>Lettres élémentaires sur la bontanique</em> 393 22 ll.; 286 16 ll. 287–507 6 ll. vol. 7–9 <em>Politique</em> 479; 485; 459 vol. 10–14 <em>Émile</em> 413; 361; 450; 384 vol. 15–17 <em>Sciences arts et belles-lettres</em> 485; 476; 538 vol. 18 <em>Théatre</em> 444 vol. 19–22 <em>Musique</em> 456; 460; 459; 397 vol. 23–26 <em>Confessions</em> 472; 406 2; 414; 478 vol. 27–28 <em>Pièces diverses</em> 434; 408 vol. 29–30 <em>Philosophie</em> 463; 515 vol. 31–35 <em>Lettres sur divers sujets</em> 480; 428; 433; 434; 534 vol. 36 <em>Pensées et maximes</em> 480 vol. 37 vols. xxxvii-xxxviii <em>Recueil des oeuvres de musique</em> 319 vi vol. 38 <em>Recueil de plantes coloriées</em> 45 ll. title-page and plate descriptions. With 41 frontispieces 144 plates of which are: 43 full-page plates 13 fold-out plates with sheet music 44 hand-coloured botanical plates double-bound in volumes 5 6 and in volume 38 and numerous illustrations in the text. Blue silk bookmarks. All edges gilt.</p><p><strong>Ref.:</strong> Brunet iv 1422; Cohen/R. 910–11; Dufour ii 33; Stewart 2012 p. 128–42</p><p><strong>Condition:</strong> Bindings occasionally somewhat stained and show light wear to the extremities. Endpapers occasionally lightly browned partly up to the first few pages and around the plates. Textblock occasionally stained more in some parts hardly any in others. A few coloured plates with slight offsetting to versos. Cohen/R. lists 3 frontispieces for volume 37 whereas there are only 2 in this copy. However Cohen/R. contradicts himself by listing a total of 42 frontispieces but only mentioning 40 in the descriptive text. On the whole a very well preserved copy despite occasional minor blemishes.</p><p><strong>Notes:</strong> The primary editor Louis-Sébastien Mercier 1740–1814 was a great admirer of Rousseau. His motivation for publishing the <em>Oeuvres complètes</em> stemmed from his deep admiration for Rousseau whose ideas on the social contract and popular sovereignty deeply influenced revolutionary thought. After Rousseau's death in 1778 Mercier wanted to create a monument to Rousseau "that would be worthy of him and would last longer than marble and bronze" Stewart 2012 p. 128. As primary editor working with notable figures such as Abbé Gabriel Brizard François de L'Aulnaye and Pierre Le Tourneur Mercier organised Rousseau's writings thematically into a complete work. This edition is based on the Geneva edition of 1780–82 but includes revisions and additions some of which are based on Rousseau's own preparations. Among many other previously unpublished texts Rousseau's <em>Confessions</em> appear in full for the first time in this edition.</p><p>This ambitious project was undertaken at a time of intense political and social upheaval. In order to finance the publication the volumes were sold by subscription. As a result it is not uncommon for volume 38 with its hand-coloured botanical plates to be missing from the complete edition. Hand-coloured plates were very expensive to produce. They were an expensive and luxurious addition and were often sold separately. It is likely that volume 38 was added to our copy at a later date. This is supported by the slightly different binding and the fact that the 44 botanical plates already appear in volumes 5 and 6.</p> [Poinçot] hardcover
1767274London: T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt 1767. Mixed Editions. Riviere Fine Full Polished Calf. VERY GOOD to NEAR FINE. A beautifully preserved curated collection of Rousseau's works bound in uniform fine polished full calf by the prestigious Riviere and Son.<br /> <br /> Condition: VG to NF. Exterior and binding - FINE. All volumes collated and complete including half-titles plates as called for and publisher ads.<br /> <br /> BOOK INFO<br /> <br /> A 17-volume set put together from various editions published between 1767 - 1819. Mixed editions. Text in English. Duodecimos 12mo 6 5/8" x 4 1/4". Collated and complete. Uniformly bound by Riviere circa late 19th to early 20th century in exceptionally preserved fine binding: polished full calf with double fillet gilt paneling with corner fleurons; spine with gilt-lettered black and burgundy morocco spine labels and compartments richly tooled and ruled in gilt; all cover edges with gilt rolls; gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers; all page edges stained yellow. Verso of FFEP in each volume stamped "Bound by Riviere and Son". A gorgeous set!<br /> <br /> Emilius and Sophia Or A New System of Education four volumes published by T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt in London in 1767. First published in English in 1762-1763 this is an early edition. Six copperplate engravings. Ads at back of volume IV.<br /> <br /> Miscellaneous Works five volumes published by T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt in London in 1767. First collected edition of Rousseau's essays letters and miscellaneous works in English. Includes famous essays such as "Dissertation on the Effects of Cultivating the Arts and Sciences" "A Dissertation on the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind" and letters to contemporaries and vocal critics such as Voltaire. Ads at back of volume IV.<br /> <br /> Eloisa: Or a Series of Original Letters four volumes published by T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt in London in 1769. Fourth edition in English. Frontispiece in each volume. Ads at back of volume IV.<br /> <br /> Confessions of J.J. Rousseau with Reveries of a Solitary Walker added four volumes published by Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Browne in 1819. New edition. Ads at back of volume II.<br /> <br /> CONDITION REPORT<br /> <br /> Exterior and binding: FINE. Firmly bound tight pages sharp corners. Minimal rubbing or wear. Leather is colorful bright and supple. A few of the volumes' exteriors could be considered Near Fine if being picky due to some shallow scratches on the boards. Exceptional overall for a 19th century full calf fine binding. <br /> <br /> Interior: VG to VG Offsetting from gilt scroll turn-ins in each volume per usual. Pages with varying degrees of toning by set with the Confessions of Rousseau more heavily toned to light browning due to the poor paper quality used by the printer. Foxing varies from light and scattered to more moderate and frequent the latter in Confessions in particular. Confessions of Rousseau has multiple areas of marginal insect nibbling. A few pages of insect nibble or marginal wear in the other titles' volumes. Professionally closed tear on page 105 of volume 3 in Miscellaneous Works. Other usual signs of handling over the centuries - some stray marks thumbing small ink blots or infrequent smudge or crease. No writing ex libris marks or bookplates.<br /> <br /> All in all a beautiful uniformly bound collection of mixed edition sets of Rousseau's most important works with bindings in a superior state of preservation.<br /> <br /> ABOUT THE AUTHOR & HIS INFLUENCE<br /> <br /> Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778 was a Genevan philosopher philosophe writer and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political economic and educational thought.<br /> <br /> Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality which argues that private property is the source of inequality and The Social Contract which outlines the basis for a legitimate political order are cornerstones in modern political and social thought. Rousseau's sentimental novel Julie or the New Heloise 1761 was important to the development of preromanticism and romanticism in fiction. His Émile or On Education 1762 is an educational treatise on the place of the individual in society. Rousseau's autobiographical writings—the posthumously published Confessions completed in 1770 which initiated the modern autobiography and the unfinished Reveries of the Solitary Walker composed 1776–1778—exemplified the late 18th-century "Age of Sensibility" and featured an increased focus on subjectivity and introspection that later characterized modern writing. T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt unknown
178275964S. n. | à Genève 1782 | 12 x 19 cm | 2 volumes reliés
176268672Amsterdam: Chez Jean Néaulme 1762. Aamsterdam i.e. Paris: Chez Jean Néaulme 1762.<br> <br> First edition twelvemo issue priority between this and the octavo is still subject to discussion. Four twelvemo volumes 6 1/2 x 3 7/8 inches; 164 x 100 mm. 2 viii 2 466; 4 407 1 blank; 4 357 1 blank 361-384; 4 455 1 blank 4 "Privilegie" pp. Bound with no the half-title in Volume I as usual but with them present in Vols. II-IV as called for. Blank leaf P12 excised in Volume III as usual. Leaf H4 misbound between H8 and H9 in volume II. Five engraved plates including frontispiece in each volume by De Longueil Louis le Grand and J.J. Pasquier after Ch. Eisen. Titles printed in red and black.<br> <br> Contemporary calf. Boards triple-ruled in gilt with floral corner devices. Spines stamped in gilt and each volume with two red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. Gilt board edges. Marbled endpapers. All edges dyed red. Some rubbing to boards and edges. Spines with some flaking. Boards with some soiling mainly volume IV. Some chipping to heads and tails of spines and some light repair to head and tail of spines of volumes I and IV. A marginal tear to leaves N9 and N10 of volume II tear just barely touching text on N9 and not touching text on N10. Overall a very good and crisp copy.<br> <br> The publication history of the book is complicated. According to McEachern "In November 1761 publisher Nicolas-Bonaventure Duchesne signed an agreement with Jean Néaulme a Dutch publisher chosen. to undertake an edition parallel to Duchesne's for distribution outside France. Duchesne's first edition appeared in two formats: a duodecimo with the false imprint 'A Amsterdam Chez Jean Neaulme' and an octavo with the false imprint 'A La Haye Chez Jean Néaulme.' The sheets of the duodecimo edition were printed first and the pages then re-imposed for printing in octavo." Although it is suggested that the twelvemo edition was printed first but the octavo edition may have been issued first McEachern goes on to say "the question of the order of printing has not yet been resolved to everyone's satisfaction." McEachern Bibliography of the Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau 16-17<br> <br> A first edition of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 1712-1778 seminal work on education. While Jean Néaulme of Amsterdam is given as the printer it was in actuality printed by Parisian printer and publisher Nicolas Bonaventure Duchesne. When this work was published in the spring of 1762 it was banned by the Paris parliament and burned in public in Rousseau's home town of Geneva and in Paris forcing Rousseau to flee. This title was referred to by Goethe as "the natural gospel of education" and had great influence on Rousseau's European contemporaries especially educators. Despite the controversy Émile contributed mightily to the Romantics appreciation of nature and to the notion of the "noble savage."<br> <br> "To be good is to exist in accordance with the intrinsic potentialities of one's nature and Émile seeks to trace the natural development of a human being brought up in the country away from the nefarious influence of contemporary social life. From this point of view the work is not just a manual of education but as Rousseau himself points out a philosophical treatise on the goodness of human nature. It is less concerned with laying down the practical details of a specific pedagogic method than with describing the fundamental principles which underlie the whole of man's development from infancy to maturity. Rousseau's ultimate object is to teach the art of living for man's first duty he says is to be human" The Encyclopedia of Philosophy.<br> <br> McEachern 1b. Dufour 187. Printing and the Mind of Man 207 note entry for the Du contract social.<br> <br> HBS 68672.<br> <br> $5000. Chez Jean Néaulme unknown
178269349Geneva: N.p. 1782. Full Description:<br> <br> ROUSSEAU Jean-Jacques. Les Confessions de J.J. Rousseau suivies des Rêveries du promeneur solitaire. Geneva: no publisher 1782.<br> <br> First edition of the first six books of the Confessions and first edition of all of the Reveries of a Solitary Walker. Two works in two octavo volumes 7 1/2 x 5 inches; 190 x 126 mm. 4 471 1 blank; 4 279 1 blank 300 pp. Woodcut head-pieces. Bound with both half-titles.<br> <br> Contemporary full marbled calf. Boards single-ruled in blind. Both spines tooled in gilt and with red morocco spines labels lettered in gilt. All edges red. Some very minor rubbing to edges. Volume II with some very minor worming to the first few signatures not affecting text. A paper flaw to outer corner of A4 not affecting text and a few instances of minor marginal dampstaining. Otherwise internally very clean. An exceptionally clean and bright copy in an absolutely exquisite contemporary binding.<br> <br> These first six books of the Confessions were the first part of the eagerly anticipated work to appear in print; they were rushed to the press as soon as available though the final six books appeared only in 1789 in a collected edition of Rousseau's works. Although the identification of the first edition has long been a contended question Tchémerzine argued that it is "probable" that this edition is "the first separate edition" but R.A. Leigh following J. Calemard in 1927 has conclusively proven that the present edition is in fact the true first. Formerly it was generally supposed that the first edition consisted of Volumes 19 and 20 of the posthumous collected works published in Geneva in 1782. However the work of Leigh and Calemar shows that the edition at hand is the first appearance in print of any part of this work that this edition was the first on the market and that it preceded the subscriber's copies of the Oeuvres posthumes. The latest research is close to that of Dufour the standard Rousseau bibliographer who assigns this edition a number prior to that of collected works but does not take a definite stand on priority. This edition was on sale by the end of April 1782 and was rapidly pirated.<br> <br> Tchmerzine X p. 63 b. Dufour 1.238 nos. 340 and 350. Senelier 1.898. See R.A. Leigh Unsolved Problems in the Bibliography of J.-J. Rousseau Cambridge: 1990 pp. 133-140 and figs. 62-64.<br> <br> HBS 69349.<br> <br> $4500. N.p. unknown
1795155072Paris: Didot jeune 1795. Uncut in boards First Didot edition the grandest edition of Rousseau's treatise noted for its size and elegant typography. First published in 1762 "The Contract Social remains Rousseau's greatest work. With no particular learning no gift for logic and a total lack of practical experience he yet contrived to write a work of compelling eloquence. His work had the most profound influence on the political thinking of the generation following its publication. It was after all the first great emotional plea for the equality of all men" PMM. Folio pp. viii 237 3. Uncut in contemporary pink paste paper boards spine lettered in pencil. Spine a little sunned and soiled very minor edge wear closed tear to front cover and to pp. 133/4 neatly repaired contents fresh. An excellent copy. Dufour 158. Printing and the Mind of Man 207 first edition. hardcover
1777601674 vol. in-12 reliure demi-basane marbrée, Chez Marc-Michel Rey, Amsterdam, 1777, xi-338 pp. (dernier f. de table paginé 337-338 monté par erreur en fin du tome 4) ; 2 ff., 255 pp. ; 2 ff., 240 pp. ; 2 ff., 318 pp., avec 5 planches hors texte, non signées
17822405280035Geneva: Societe Typographique 1782. Hardcover. Very Good. Handsome Set in a Fine Binding 16 volume set. 4to Quartos 26 cm. Bound in fine crimson straight grain morocco. Gilt ruled spines and covers. All edges gilt. Gilt turn downs. Blue silk moire fabric end papers. Minor shelf wear. Bindings sound. Generally clean pages. Numerous illustrated plates frontispieces musical notation. Vols. 3 5 have dark stains on the outer covers. Contents: T.1. Ouvrages de politique; t.2. Julie; ou La nouvelle Heloise; t.3. La nouvelle Heloise cont. Les Amours de Mylord Edouard Bornston; t.4. Emile; t.5. Emile cont. Emile et Sophie; t.6-7. Melanges; t.8. Theatre poesie et musique; t.9. Dictionnaire de musique; t.10. Confessions. Reveries du promeneur solitaire; t.11. Rousseau juge de Jean-Jacques; t.12. Pieces sur diverssujets & un recueil de lettres; t. 13-15. Supplement a la collection des oeuvres de J.J. Rousseau. t. 16 Second supplement Les confessions. <br> This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Geneva: Societe Typographique hardcover
