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1788010138A Londres; et se trouve A Paris: Chez Le Jay & Maradan 1788. Book. Very Good Plus. Vellum. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Four volumes bound in contemporary full vellum red morocco labels back with gilt lettering and devices marbled end papers. Provenance; with the bookplates of Francesco Rizzo Patarol 1749-1807 front paste downs of Vols. I III and IV whose noble family built the Rizzo Patarol palace in Venice which was at one time the seat of the Savoy embassy then the French embassy. A Very Good Plus set light soiling to vellum uniform browning. Vol. I: xliv 522 pp. 8 tables 7 of them fold-out. Vol. II: 2 566 4 pp. 34 tables 25 fold-out. Vol. III 710 pp. 2 fold-outs at p. 34 plus engraved Metropolis of Scotland Colledge fold-out plate tipped in at p. 449. Vol. IV: 4 560 1 pp. 14 fold-outs. An oversize and heavy set extra postage will be requested for priority mail or international orders. Chez Le Jay & Maradan Hardcover
1788GRALMIRA19London: 1788. 1788. 7 Volumes of text in 8 in 8vo. plus folio atlas. with half-titles. engraved frontis. portrait & 1 other engraving in text volumes. atlas containing 10 double-page engraved maps 93 engraved plates some folding & 60 tables some folding. text volumes bound in 19th century quarter sheep spines defective one cover detached several joints cracked internally very good except for some faint embrowning. the atlas uncut in original bds. spine wanting covers worn some dampstaining to plates & tables. First Octavo Edition of the text also published in quarto format. An exhaustive work published following Mirabeau's secret mission to the court of Prussia at Berlin in 1786 dealing with geography population agriculture natural resources manufactures commerce revenues and expenses military affairs religion &c. Mirabeau was assisted in its compilation by Jakob Mauvillon and J.Thibault de Laveau. The numerous statistical tables are separately bound in the atlas volume together with ninety-three engraved military diagrams and ten double-page engraved maps by Edme Mentelle. An extensive bibliography of eighty-nine works is given in Volume I. Kress B1448-49. Cioranescu 45224. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair. London: 1788. Hardcover
178865686à Londres London: Chez J. Johnson 1788. Fine. Chez J. Johnson à Londres London 1788 - relié First edition second issue. The first of 1784 contains only 212pp. against 403 for this one which has been expanded with the translation of Price's work: ""Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution"". Turgot's letter and Price's book benefit from a half-title. Later modern binding. Pastiche blonde cardboard Bradel binding. Smooth spine with pink sheep title and volume labels. Spine lightly darkened. Rubbing. Uncut copy bound directly from the original wrappers. The first 2 leaves browned. Scattered browning. Last leaf with lack to lower right corner. The Order of Cincinnati a modern order of chivalry was instituted by Washington to reward the French and Americans at the end of the War of Independence. The creation of this order was initially criticized in the United States itself as contrary to the democratic principles of equality. Mirabeau's work then residing in England takes up these criticisms and extends them to all noble heredities. The translation of Richard Price's work major in the history of American democratic ideas was requested by Benjamin Franklin. A letter from Turgot attached to the whole asks Americans to be more scrupulous in the future regarding democratic principles. Chez J. Johnson unknown
178410515London: J. Johnson 1784. Paper wrappers. Overall very good condition. Written by Mirabeau at the suggestion of Benjamin Franklin this is an critique of the Society of the Cincinnati expanded from a work by Aedanus Burke of South Carolina. Howes 653aa calling this "another issue" published the same year as the first edition. OCLC states "The imprint is false being a repetition of that on the French edition printed in London; probably printed in Paris" OCLC: 4949019. <br /> <br /> The Society was a veterans' organization founded by Henry Knox and Frederick Steuben to preserve the memory of the revolutionary struggle and pursue the common interest in outstanding pay and pensions. However it was considered to be opposite to American principles. Burke's pamphlet accused the Society of conspiracy to recreate the hereditary governments of Europe. While the accusations were unjustified they played an important role in the political debates of the 1780s including the efforts to revise the Articles of Confederation. It was not permitted to be printed in Paris.<br /> <br /> 8vo xii 203pp entirely untrimmed original Dutch marbled wrappers spine missing lt. general foxing. Front cover detached backed on a piece of printed text dated 30 Novembre 1773 Francois-Charles. L.S. Baron Vander Heyden de Blisia Vt. Signe de Chestret." Slt. marked back cover just barely attached string bound. A very authentic period binding housed in a later protective box. Howes M653aa; OCLC 4949019. J. Johnson unknown
178439553London i.e. Paris: J. Johnson St. Paul's Church-Yard 1784. Original blue patterned wrappers spine wrappers shorn stitched untrimmed. xii 203 1 blank pp. Mild occasional foxing binding a bit shaken. Very Good. <br /> <br /> Howes calls this "another issue" of the first edition. OCLC declares "The imprint is false being a repetition of that on the French edition printed in London; probably printed in Paris" OCLC 85860350 noting facsimiles. Lathrop Harper noted "The book was of course not allowed to be printed in France and the writer was living in London at this time" Harper Catalog 224 - 154. <br /> As a hereditary organization limited to officers of the American Revolution and their eldest male descendants the Order reflects "the true seat of nobility" inconsistent with a new republican society. <br /> Alarmed the author says the Society will quoting from the version in English language "strip the middle and lower ranks of life of all influence and of all importance; consign them to the most palpable contempt and reduce them to the completest nullity." This "military nobility" will inevitably become "a civil nobility and an aristocracy the more dangerous because being hereditary it will perpetually increase in the course of time and will gather strength from the very prejudices it will engender; because originating neither in the constitution nor the law the law has provided no means to controul it and it will incessantly overbear the constitution." <br /> Howes M653aa. OCLC 4949019. J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard unknown
178641762Philadelphia: Printed by T. Seddon 1786. A new edition with considerable corrections. 19th c. three quarter morocco over marbled boards. A very good untrimmed copy; chips to spine ends; scuffed tips owners bookplates on front end-papers and first blank; tight binding. iv 68 pp. 8vo. First American edition. "The Society was not greeted so warmly in the United States. Within months of the adoption of the Institution critics began to charge that the members planned to use the Society to impose a hereditary aristocracy on the new American republic. The leading critic was a South Carolina judge Aedanus Burke. In a pamphlet titled Considerations on the Society or Order of Cincinnati published in Charleston in late 1783 and soon republished all over the country Burke charged that the Cincinnati would form an American aristocracy dominating the government and extinguishing the liberties of the people. Dozens of other critics soon joined Burke and resolutions denouncing the Cincinnati were introduced into several state legislatures. At a moment when Americans were deeply anxious about the future of their untried experiment in republican government the Society of the Cincinnati stirred fears of a conspiracy to seize power and create a new aristocracy as the first step toward re-establishing a monarchy over America" societyofthecincinnati.org. Mirabeau picks up this argument in his "highly controversial imitation" of Burke's work which was suggested to Mirabeau by Ben Franklin" See Echeverria & Wilkie The French Image of America. Provenance: Frank Maier whose collection of American First editions was auctioned in 1909 bookplate Ganevoort-Lansing Collection to NYPL Tiffany & Co. bookplate and William S.S.Horton M.D. manuscript collector armorial bookplate. Sabin 49395. Howes M653. Evans 19803. Echeverria & Wilkie: 786/49 JCB III: 3084. Printed by T. Seddon hardcover
178810516London: J. Johnson St. Paul's Church Yard; & chez C. R. Hake a` Rotterdam 1788. Hardcover. Very good condition. A spectacular copy in original blue marbled paper wraps with the printed title label and spine intact and untrimmed. Howes 653a De l'Imprimerie de T. Spilsbury Snow-hill." on the last page. This edition includes the first translation into French of Richard Price's "Observations on the importance of the American Revolution and the means of making it a benefit to the world". Price was a London based pamphleteer known for supporting a formal declaration of independence by America.<br /> <br /> Mirabeau's important work opposing the Order of Cincinnati in the newly formed United States. The "Order of the Cincinnati" was considered inimical to American principles and this rare piece gives Mirabeau's views on the subject. It was not allowed to be printed in Paris. It was based on an anonymous American pamphlet by Aedanus Burke one of the Chief Justices of South Carolina which condemned the proposed Order of Cincinnati Considerations on the Society or Order of Cincinnatus Philadelphia 1783" and signed "Cassius". Howes M-653a; OCLC: 1184167359. In a half maroon morocco slipcase gilt title on spine slightly marked. Overall a spectacular copy. J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard; & chez C. R. Hake, a` Rotterdam hardcover
178510514London: J. Johnson 1785. Hardcover book. Good overall. An English edition of the work Howes 653 "another edition L 1785 12 284". Written by Mirabeau at the suggestion of Benjamin Franklin this is a critique of the Society of the Cincinnati expanding on from a work by Aedanus Burke of South Carolina. The Order of Cincinnatus was founded in 1783 as a fraternal hereditary society dedicated to commemorate the American Revolutionary War and membership was made up of officers and descendants of military officers who had served in the Continental Army. Burke's pamphlet accused the Society of conspiracy to recreate the hereditary governments of Europe. While the accusations were unjustified they played an important role in the political debates of the 1780s including the efforts to revise the Articles of Confederation. <br /> It was not allowed to be printed in Paris.<br /> <br /> 8vo xii 284pp. Early quarter brown calf with marbled boards rubbed outer hinge cracking. All edges untrimmed internally very good a bookplate has been removed from ffep leaving some marks. Howes M-653. OCLC 6621734. J. Johnson hardcover
1788011A41Chez J. Johnson St. Paul's Church-Yard London; chez C. R. Hake a Rotterdam Londres: 1788. 1788 pp. xii 403. 8vo. 205 mm. Original full leather binding. Spine quite worn and should be replaced or restored. Old bookplate of the Connecticut Historical Society Released for Sale. Full Title: Considerations sur L'Ordre de Cincinnatus ou Imitation D'un pamphlet Anglo-Americain. Suivies De plusieurs Pieces relatives a cette Institution; D'une Lettre signee du General Washington accompagnee de Remarques par l'Auteur Francois; D'une Lettre de feu M. Turgot Ministre d'Etat en France au Docteur Price sur les Legislations Americaines; & de la Traduction d'un Pamphlet du Docteur Price intitule: Observations on the importance of the American Revolution and the means of making it a benefit to the world; accompagnee de Reflexions & de Notes du Traducteur. Howes M 653. This is an enlarged edition of a work first published in 1784. It is based on a pamphlet entitled "Considerations on the Society or Order of Cincinnatus" issued in 1783 at Philadelphia. The original pamphlet was signed "Cassius" and is supposed to have been written by Edanus Burke though some give Sebastien Roch Nicholas Chamfort as a joint author. The notes on Price's very important 'Observations' were largely the work of Guy Jean Baptiste Target 1733-1806. The hereditary and quasi-aristocratic character of the Revolutionary War veterans' Society of the Cincinnati was strongly opposed by Franklin and others. Franklin was unable due to his sensitive political and diplomatic roles to attack the organization directly. Apparently "he engaged two of his friends Chamfort and the young Mirabeau to translate an American attack upon the Society Aedanus Burke's Considerations on the Society or Order of Cincinnatus and to incorporate into the translation an essay in letter form that Franklin had himself written to his daughter which demonstrated mathematically the absurdity and moral and social evil of aristocracy or "descending honor." Mirabeau's book Considerations sur l'Ordre de Cincinnatus published in London in 1784 through the efforts of Franklin and later translated into English created a great furor for it attacked an organization headed by such respectable figures as Washington Lafayette and Rochambeau and at the same time struck convincingly and cleverly at the foundations of the existing French social order." - Echeverria Mirage in the West pp. 56-57. This enlarged edition includes a French translation of Price's book and Mirabeau's comments on it. It includes details which did not appear in the English version and is an important document in the history of the Revolutionary War era. RARE. PRICE JUST REDUCED FR-VOYAGES Language: eng. Signed by Authors. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Chez J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard (London); chez C. R. Hake, a Rotterdam, Londres: 1788. hardcover
1791015877Paris: Lejay e poi Devaux 1791-92. .Precedée de tous les Discours et Ouvrages du meme Auteur prononcés ou publiés en Provence pendant le cours des élections. Par M. Etienne Méjan. - 5 volumi 125x21 cm in mezza pelle coeva dorso liscio ornato e dorato con tassello di titolo rosso fenditura alla cerniera del vol 1 e in coda la dizione Bibliothèque de Michel Chevalier. Ex libris di Chevalier anche all'interno di ognuno dei 5 volumi. Piatti con carta marmorizzata usure tagli gialli -Paginazioni: Vol 1: 4-396-IV pagine; ritratto di Mirabeau in antiporta. Una tavola ripiegata di tabelle fuori testo che si riferisce però al tomo 5. Vol 2: 4-514-IV pagine. Vol 3: 4-436-VII pagine. Vol 4: 4-362-II pagine. Vol 5: 538 pagine. Ricercata raccolta -sconosciuta allEinaudi e al Kress- degli interventi di Mirabeau allAssemblea Nazionale dal 1789 al 1791 pubblicata subito dopo la sua morte. Contiene numerosi pezzi di soggetto economico e finanziario per esempio: "Sur la proposition faite par M. Necker douvrir un emprunt de 30 millions"; "Sur le nouveau imprunt de 80 million proposé par M. Necker"; Discours sur la caisse descompte in polemica con Necker; Sur le papier monnoie; Motion pour létablissement dune caisse nationale; Discours sur le projet de banque nationale présenté par M. Necker; Discours sur le retour des Indes; numerosi interventi soprattutto nel IV vol. sulla emissione di assignats. Ma i discorsi potevano toccare naturalmente altri argomenti come "Sur les droits à donner aux Juifs et aux comediens" sic; "Discours sur le droit de paix et de guerre"; Eloge funebre de Franklin". Il 5° volume contiene per la prima volta in edizione completa uno dei più importanti lavori economici di M. le Observations préliminaires sur le premier rapport du comité des monnoies presentate il 12 dicembre 1790. Pp.11-224. Un errore del rilegatore ha spostato le pagg. 209-224 quaderno O dopo pag. 368. Inoltre la tabella fuori testo sui saggi delloro è stata per errore inserita allinizio del tomo 1. Proprio il saggio di Mirabeau venne poi ripreso e ripubblicato da Michel Chevalier nel suo "De la baisse probable de lor." Paris Capelle 1859 Einaudi 1050. Esemplare quindi di straordinaria provenienza. Mirabeau avait à cette date 41 ans. Il avait en finances des connaissances etendues mai sourtout dexcellents conseillers qui lui preparaient ses papiers. Ses idées en matière monétaire mériteraient une étude trés attentive: on sait che sa volumineuse Constitution monetarire a passé longtemps pour un classique de la littérature monetaire et Michel Chevalier la publiait encore en 1859: Guy Thuillier Les idées monetaires au debut de la Révolution: Mirabeau et la réforme monetaire de 1785 Roma Accademia dei Lincei 1979 pp.7. Lejay e poi Devaux unknown
1788199759No place. 1788. 1st edition. Publisher's plain stiff wraps paper spine label. Covers lightly soiled and worn heel of spine repaired contents very good untrimmed. 8vo. French text. Engraved title page with portrait. paperback
1788263089Londres 1788. hardcover. very good. 3 titles bound together. 183 72 142. 8vo 3/4 vellum backed green boards covers worn. Londres: 1788. Very good . Scarce.<br/> <br/> unknown
1788260481788. A Londres s.ÂŽ. Lejay 1788. Un fort vol. au format in-folio 433 x 277 mm de 3 ff. n.fol. 10 cartes gravÂŽes sur double-page 93 planches gravÂŽes tableaux et 1 f. bl. Ne subsiste plus de la reliure que le carton des plats. Important atlas au format in-4 comportant 10 sur 10 grandes cartes gravÂŽes sur double-page dressÂŽes par Mentelle Pays-Bas autrichiens Tyrol BohÂme-Moravie Etats entre la BaviÂre et la BohÂme Carte gÂŽnÂŽrale d'Allemagne Monarchie prussienne ˆ l'orient de Weser Possessions du roi de Prusse ˆ l'ouest du Weser Carte de la Haute-Saxe et de la Lusace Haut et Bas-Rhin BaviÂre. L'ouvrage recÂle en outre 93 sur 93 planches gravÂŽes dont double-pages ainsi que de nombreux tableaux dont dÂŽpliants. ''La parution de cet ouvrage fit faire banqueroute au libraire Lejay''. in QuÂŽrard. QuÂŽrard VI La France littÂŽraire p. 158. Petit travail de ver affectant les fonds de cahiers des feuillets liminaires ainsi que plus lÂŽgÂrement des cartes. L'une prÂŽsente des plissures une autre un petit manque angulaire ; une derniÂre des rousseurs. Chacune une discrÂte cerne marginale. Deux tableaux manquants. Plusieurs feuillets dÂŽsolidarisÂŽs. Quelques petites altÂŽrations ÂŽparses dans le corps d'ouvrage. Du reste belle condition. b42961 unknown
178956166Imprimé à Rome Rome: S. n. 1789. Fine. S. n. Imprimé à Rome Rome 1789 13 x 19 cm relié The rare first edition probably printed in Paris anonymously by Mirabeau according to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Half morocco binding in faded red with long grain from the late 19th century signed L. Lemardeley with a tool at head and tail gilt title rubbing the binding bears the title: Stephan Bordese - Blanc et bleu which indicates that the work has been rebound. Handsome copy. Avis charitable aux moines so that they enrich the state and population by ceasing their gluttony at the expense of the people. The author promises the different monastic orders a monument to their glory if they comply with his prayers. Anticlerical libel violently attacking the monks. Armorial bookplate: Rose. S. n. unknown
179117118AParis, J. P. Roux & Compagnie, 1791. Ca. 18,3 x 12 cm. 2 Blätter, 76 Seiten. Mit Heftstreifen geheftet (Rückenbroschur).
