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1783001533<p>Imprimerie du Vatican 1783. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 32mo 5x 3.1inches pp263. Hardcover issued without dust jacket. Binding of black letter spine with decorative gilt titles over black boards in very good condition with some rubbing to edges. Inside all pages in very good condition with a little toning and the very odd spot of foxing. The book is in 11 parts each dealing with different sexual practices or perversions with titles in Hebrew or Greek: Anagogy; Anelytroid; Ischa; Toproid; Thalaba sodomy; Anandryne female homosexuality; Akropody circumcision; Kadhesch; Behemah bestiality; Anoscopy; Linguanmania nymphomania. Mirabeau wrote and published this work whilst imprisoned and sentenced to death for seduction during which time he met the Marquis de Sade who was also writing erotic works; however the two disliked each other intensely. The book was immediately banned and copies destroyed but the authorities could not stop the work being widely circulated. The preface of this copy states " 2 other manuscripts which have the same merit and which are both interesting; they will be completed to print within 2 months". An excellent copy of this notorious work from an equally notorious author. Very scare indeed. <br /><br /></p> Imprimerie du Vatican hardcover
1783321855Rome: Vatican 1783. hardcover. iv 192 pages. Copper engraved title-page vignette with 2 cupids. 8vo full contemporary brown mottled calf gilt-decorated spine rather worn rubricated edges. Rome: Vatican 1783. First Edition. Very good.<br/> <br/> Written while Mirabeau was imprisoned in the castle of Vincennes. Erotika was included in the Papal Index of prohibited books.<br/> <br/> Vatican unknown
1783180319007Rome actually Neuchatel Switzerland: De l'Imprimerie du Vatican Francois Mallet 1783. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. iv 192 pp. Original red boards spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with light wear to boards and foxing. British publisher novelist book collector and bibliographer Michael Sadleir's copy with his small bookplate on paste down. <p>A rare work of erotica written in prison in Paris while the author was sentenced to die for "abduction and seduction." Erika Delbecque Special Collections Librarian at University of Reading writes of this book: <p>Organised by different sexual practices and perversions into eleven chapters including topics such as bestiality ‘Béhéma’ female homosexuality ‘L’Anandryne’ and nymphomania ‘La Linguanmanie’ it purports to offer a history of human sexual behaviour. Mirabeau draws on quotes from the Bible and ancient sources to provide historical examples of each sexual practice and attacks the corruption of the clergy and the aristocracy in the process. De l'Imprimerie du Vatican (Francois Mallet) hardcover
1792002715Paris: Le Jay 1792. Second edition. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. 2 176 pp. Plain wrappers partially uncut. Scattered light foxing. Le Jay unknown
178322332Rome i.e. Paris or Neuchatel: de l'imprimerie du Vatican 1783. First edition 8vo pp. iv 192; title-page vignette 2 cupids; bound in modern dark brown morocco gilt a.e.g. by Wood; light wear a few contemporary manuscript notes fine. A compendium of curiosities culled from ancient writings in an effort to present indelicate subjects such as onanism tribalism etc. in a manner acceptable to the general public. Written while Mirabeau was imprisoned in the castle of Vincennes the book was according to Kearney pursued with such vigor by the authorities that only fourteen copies of the first edition have survived - a number almost assuredly inaccurate. Following a second edition of 1792 Errotika was included in the Papal Index of prohibited books. "A further edition was ordered to be destroyed in 1826 by the Royal Court of Paris and for 'outrages against public morality and good manners' there were two other prosecutions in 1856 and 1868" Kearney. The book was published in several subsequent editions and was included by Apollinaire along with some of Mirabeau's other prison writings in his scholarly edition of 1910 issued in the Bibliotheque des Curieux series. Barbier II 172. Graesse IV 535. Kearney Private Case 1190. Kearney Erotic Literature p. 80. Not in Brunet. de l'imprimerie du Vatican unknown
1787C181678London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson 1787. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Vol. 1. only. Bound in full contemporary leather worn with front board detached otherwise very good. G. G. J. and J. Robinson, hardcover
1787209922Dublin: Whitestone Byrne Cash Moore and Jones 1787. hardcover. very good. 2 volumes bound in 1 503 pages scattered foxing 8vo rebound in mottled calf slightly rubbed with tan leather labels. Dublin: Whitestone Byrne Cash Moore and Jones 1787. Very good .<br/> <br/> Whitestone, Byrne, Cash, Moore, and Jones unknown
1767164209The Hague: chez les Libraires associés 1767. Handbook of Physiocracy including the Tableau économique First edition of Mirabeau's own abridgement of his and Quesnay's Philosophie rurale 1763 the first textbook of the physiocratic school. The Philosophie rurale presented "perhaps the most complete and magisterial account of the views of the Physiocratic school" Higgs p. 57. The Eléméns condenses the work into a more manageable textbook format aiming at a broader dissemination and understanding of the system. Importantly the Eléméns contains as a folding plate the Tableau économique first published in 1758 in a minute number of copies and reproduced in Mirabeau's L'Ami des hommes in 1760 and in the Philosophie rurale. The Tableau économique is cited as the earliest attempt to visualize a comprehensive model of the economic system illustrating the flow of goods and money and the interdependence of the agricultural manufacturing and commercial sectors. It is credited as "the most important and famous work of Physiocracy and has often been regarded as a summary of the entire corpus of Physiocratic economics" New Palgrave IV p. 23. Provenance: 19th-century bookplate of Isaac Iselin to the front pastedown; 20th-century note of authorship to front free endpaper; half-title with 20th-century library stamps of the Basel section of Schweiz Vereinigung für Sozialpolitik noted as bequeathed by the Austrian labour economist Stephan Bauer 1865-1934 and of the political science seminar of the University of Basel. Duodecimo 162 x 89 mm. Engraved folding Tableau économique at rear. Contemporary vellum spine lettered in gilt red sprinkled edges. Slight browning half-title loosening a little short closed tear to inner margin of table. A very good copy. Einaudi 3948; Goldsmiths' 10275; Higgs 3977; INED 3197; Kress 6477. Henry Higgs The Physiocrats 1963. hardcover
179878406Paris An VI - 1798. 205x130mm. XIX - 593 388Êpages 9 reliure demi-basane. plats papier marbrÂŽ. PiÂce de titre au dos craquelÂŽ. Reliure fragile. Plats frottÂŽs. Rayures au crayons ˆ papier sur les premiÂres et derniÂres pages du tome II sans atteinte du texte le tome II contient 8 planches gravÂŽes et e frontispice. Le tome I contient 3 planches gravÂŽes et le frontispice. Tome III sans figures. 1450 unknown
1798D7144Paris 1798. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary tan calf boards ornately gilt-ruled gilt-stamped detail in spine compartments gilt-stamped lettering in black leather spine label a.e.g.; 3 volumes large 8vo 148 x 234 mm; with half-titles and 15 engraved plates each in 2 states uncolored and color-printed. Latin text with French translation and notes by Victor de Riquetti Marquis de Mirabeau. Lovely bindings in excellent condition just a few small scuff marks here and there. And equally lovely plates -- some light dampwrinkling along top edge of some leaves in Volume 2; a few leaves toned in Volume 3. A handsome set. Cohen-de Ricci 993. <br/><br/> hardcover
1798211771Paris: Rue S. Andre Des Arts No. 46 1798. Brown leather boards scuffed and chipped on edges with heavy rubbing. Pages still white but foxing. Spinecover has chipped off 5" laid in book. Sheet edges gilt all sides. Text in French. Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rue S. Andre Des Arts No. 46 Hardcover
17987041405Paris: rue S. Andre-des-Arts No. 46 An 6 = 1798. Full leather marbled endpapers. Ex-Library light foxing and occasional small marginal stains spine tops of volumes 1 & 2 chipped 1 is light all hinges intact but leather is somewhat weak in many with some resultant cracking some rubbing of extremities esp. corners: VG. 8vo. Frontispiece engravings in each volume 12 additional engravings. There are 3 more engravings than described in the preliminary text. TEXT IN FRENCH. TEXTE EN FRANCAIS. Cette edition contient 3 estamples plus que celles demandees par le texte preliminaire. rue S. Andre-des-Arts, No. 46 hardcover
1795009014Tours and Paris: chez Letourmy and Berry 1795. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Translated Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "traduction nouvelle adresse´e du Donjeon de Vincennes par Mirabeau l'aine´ a` Sophie Ruffey." No dates published 1795-96. A portrait of Mirabeau engraved by Voysard after Borel frontispiece to volume I; portrait of Sophie engraved by Elluin after Borel frontispiece of volume II; engraving by Dupreel after Marillier frontispiece of volume III 12 figures out of text engraved by Elluin after Borel. Finely bound in contemporary green straight-grain morocco all edges gilt gilt inner dentelles with added ruling and decorative gilt acorn motifs at corners on paste downs & flyleaves armorial book plate. Very Good corners and spine ends rubbed spines darkened light soiling to boards modest scattered toning. Laid into Vol. I an engraved portrait of Mirabeau engraved by Mariage after F. Bonneville that appears to have been taken from another publication. A handsome set in period binding. chez Letourmy and Berry Hardcover
178957115Paris Chez Baudouin Imprimeur de l'Assamblée Nationale 1789. 8vo. Bound in an exquisite later red half morocco with gilt spine. Top edge gilt. 1 f. title-page 8 pp. "Déclaration des droits de l'Homme en société" 6 pp. "Articles de Constitution" 1 f. "Réponse du Roi" 1 f. blank. Woodcut head-pieces. Title-page slightly bowned otherwise in excellent condition. A truly excellent copy. <br/><br/><em>The exceedingly scarce true first printing in an incredibly rare form of off-print/separate printing of one of the most important and influential documents in the history of mankind namely the French Human Rights Declaration containing also the articles for the first French Constitution. This groundbreaking publication constitutes a monumental change in the structure of the human world providing all citizens with individual rights that we now take for granted. This monument of humanist thought appeared in the "Procès verbal de l'Assemblée Nationale" copies of which are also very difficult to obtain. There however the two parts appeared without a title-page and without the final blank which together constitute a form of wrappers for this off-print/separate printing of which only five or six other copies are known and which is present in merely one or two libraries world-wide. As far as we now only one other copy has been on the private market and that did not have the blank back wrapper. This exceedingly rare separate printing of the Human Rights Declaration with the Constitution was intended for the inner circle of those participating in its creation and was limited to a very restricted number of copies - all of which will have been owned by the creators of the Declaration. This epochal document is just as important today as it was when it was formulated during the French Revolution in 1789 and since 2003 the Declaration has been listed in the UNESCO Memory of World Register - "This fundamental legacy of the French Revolution formed the basis of the United Nations Declaration of 1948 and is of universal value". Few other documents in the history of mankind has done as much to determine the way we live and think the way Western societies are structured and governed and few other documents have had such a direct impact upon our constitutional rights and the way we view ourselves and others in society. It is here that we find the formulation of liberty and equality upon which so much of Western political and moral thought is based - that all "men are born and remain free and equal in rights" Article 1 which were specified as the rights of liberty private property the inviolability of the person and resistance to oppression Article 2; that all citizens were equal before the law and were to have the right to participate in legislation directly or indirectly Article 6; no one was to be arrested without a judicial order Article 7; Freedom of religion Article 10 and freedom of speech Article 11 were safeguarded within the bounds of public "order" and "law" etc. etc.The content of the document that were to change the Western world for good emerged largely from the ideals of the Enlightenment. "The sources of the Declaration included the major thinkers of the French Enlightenment such as Montesquieu who had urged the separation of powers and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who wrote of general will-the concept that the state represents the general will of the citizens. The idea that the individual must be safeguarded against arbitrary police or judicial action was anticipated by the 18th-century parlements as well as by writers such as Voltaire. French jurists and economists such as the physiocrats had insisted on the inviolability of private property." Encycl. Britt.The key drafts were prepared by Lafayette working at times with Thomas Jefferson. In August 1789 Honoré Mirabeau played a central role in conceptualizing and drafting the Declaration. On August 26 1789 in the midst of The French Revolution the last article of the Declaration was adopted by the National Constituent Assembly as the first step towards a constitution for France. "In 1789 the people of France brought about the abolishment of the absolute monarchy and set the stage for the establishment of the first French Republic. Just six weeks after the storming of the Bastille and barely three weeks after the abolition of feudalism the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen French: La Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen was adopted by the National Constituent Assembly as the first step toward writing a constitution for the Republic of France.The Declaration proclaims that all citizens are to be guaranteed the rights of "liberty property security and resistance to oppression." It argues that the need for law derives from the fact that ".the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights." Thus the Declaration sees law as an "expression of the general will" intended to promote this equality of rights and to forbid "only actions harmful to the society." www.humanrights.com. This sensational document became the crowning achievement of the French Revolution; it came to accelerate the overthrow of the "Ancien Régime" and sowed the seed of an extremely radical re-ordering of society. The Declaration interchanged the pre-revolutionary division of society -in the clergy the aristocracy and the common people- with a general equality - "All the citizens being equal in the eyes of the law are equally admissible to all public dignities places and employments according to their capacity and without distinction other than that of their virtues and of their talents" From Article VI upon which today's society is still based. It is hard to imagine a work that is more important to the foundation of the society that we live in today. </em> unknown
1785751L23London: W Faden 1785. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 9" by 5.5". Not Stated. A very scarce English language edition of this political writing regarding the free navigation of the Scheld. Written by one of the leaders of the early stages of the French revolution Honore Gabriel Riqueti. ESTC reference no: T83504. A very scarce work This translation is of Mirabeau's 'Doutes sur la liberte de l'Escaut reclamee par l'empereur'. Engraved vignette to the title page. With the folding map which has been rebacked with linen. Bookplate of the City of Westminster to the front pastedown. The Scheldt river flows through northern France Western Belgium and southwestern part of the Netherlands with its mouth at the North Sea. Access to this river was the subject of the brief Kettle War of 1784 and during the French Revolution. This book looks at this issue of access to the river. In a half morocco binding. Externally generally smart. Patches of rubbing to the spine and extremities. Small loss to the head and tail of spine. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright. A few chips to the title page and to a2 and A1. Pages are clean. Very Good W Faden hardcover
178265195A Hambourg Hamburg: S. n. 1782. Fine. S. n. A Hambourg Hamburg 1782 12 x 20 cm In-8 relié First edition. The second part is regarded as rare since Prussia ordered the manuscript to be seized and the copies burned although in fact the second part is found in many sets. Contemporary full mottled brown calf binding. Spine with raised bands richly gilt. Red morocco lettering-piece. Lower headcap partly torn. Abrasion to the lower cover with loss along the joint. Two corners rubbed. A brown stain in the upper margin of p. 49 about 2 cm. Loss in the margin at the corner of p. 144 not affecting the text. Marbled endpaper with a cut along the outer margin. Some gatherings browned. A good copy. The work written during and after Mirabeaus arrest and imprisonment at Vincennes is both a plea and an indictment against arbitrary justice and power. « J'entreprends de parler des emprisonnements arbitraires et des prisons d'état. » The volume contains numerous historical commentaries and substantial documentation on arbitrary authority and judicial practice. In the second part Mirabeau deals more specifically with prison life and incarceration. He also reflects on the English constitution and argues that our own history condemns the use of lettres de cachet just as it makes kings the sole representatives of the people. A rich source of material on prisons and imprisonment. S. n. hardcover
17841Publisher unknown 1784.<br /><br />Mirabeau's classic and important work against injustice and the exercise of arbitrary and absolute power. Widely read at the time it added fuel to the fire of the coming French Revolution. This 1784 edition includes the second part of this famous work dealing with life in prison which was to be destroyed by the Prussian authorities at the request of the French government and may be considered rare. This edition also includes L'Éspion Dévalisé by Baudouin de Guémadeuc attributed to Mirabeau. 630 pages. 20 cm x 12.5 cm x 4 cm. Contemporary French calf binding; no foxing on the great majority of pages. Unknown hardcover
178228912AB1782. 2 Teile in 1 Bd. Hamburg o. Vlg. 1782. 8°. XIV 2 366 1 S.; 237 S. 1 Bl. Halblederbd. d. Zt. mit Rückenvergoldung u. goldgepr. Rückentitel bestossen. Graesse 535. - Holzmann/Bohatta 53. - Das anonym erschienene Werk Mirabeaus entstand während der durch seinen Vater veranlassten Inhaftierung und ist wie "Essai sur le despotisme 1775" gegen die despotisch ausgeübte Staatsgewalt mit ihrer Unterdrückung gerichtet. In seinen staatsphilosophischen Werken plädiert er für Freiheit und Volksbildung als Grundvoraussetzung jeder sozialen Harmonie. - Vorsätze leicht stockfleckig. Durchgehnd gebräunt. Gelenke am Kopf des Einbandes über 4 cm geplatzt. Rücken mit mehreren kl. Wurmlöchern. unknown
1787002322sl Paris 1787. Volume in 8o di 147 pagine. SENZA RILEGATURA. Prima edizione; First Edition. Einaudi 3931. unknown
1788ZB1314872A Londres Paris: Lejay 1788. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 SALE item 2 vols. quarto measuring 10 x 8 inches; xliv 522 566 pp. frontis. portrait of Frederic in the first volume; uniformly bound in contemporary full leather bindings dry and very worn hand stamp to each title page else internally clean and tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. A Londres Paris: Lejay hardcover
1788ZB1326673A Londres 1788. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 SALE item 7 vols. in eight; frontis. portrait of Frederic in the first volume; contemporary marbled boards & leather backstrips however now lacking all of the leather spine coverings; masonic book plate to the front paste down and small hand stamp to the title page of each volume occasional foxing else internally clean and tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. A Londres hardcover
