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671S. l. (Paris) : 1768-1769. LA CAISSE D'ESCOMPTE DE LOUIS XV : LE DESSOUS DES CARTES !
- s.d. (septembre 1983), 21,5x28cm, une page sur un feuillet. - There is a long-standing myth that if two economists discuss any topic, they will have at least three opinions about it. Autograph manuscript signed, one a page written in black ink on a sheet of yellow lined paper and bearing in highlight, by the hand of the author: "Draft 8 - Preface for French edition 8 - Price Theory"; numerous erasures and corrections. At the top left of the sheet, in ballpoint pen, autograph signed: "For Bernadette Platte, Milton Friedman". Extremely rare autograph manuscript signed by the 1976 Nobel Prize winner, one of the most influential economists of the 20th century, whose entire archives are now kept at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University. The few Friedman manuscripts still in private hands are particularly desirable and sought after. Important theoretical text of the first two paragraphs of the preface to Price and economic theory, first French translation, published in 1983 by Economica editions, of Price Theory. Completed on September 7, 1983 at Stanford University, this original version in English is completely new. Price Theory, Friedman's major work (Chicago, Aldine Press, 1962) whose definitive version was published in 1976, the year Friedman won the Nobel, is a fundamental essay directly inspired by his courses at Chicago University. For his first publication in France, seven years later, Friedman therefore undertook to compose a completely new preface intended for this public less naturally won over to monetarist ideas than the Americans. Our manuscript, the final version of a text that required eight rewrites as evidenced by the exergue, still bears multiple repentances underlining the attention paid by Friedman to the reception of his work by the French readership. Spearhead of Ronald Reagan's economic policy, Friedman's theory of prices comes from a long tradition of French and Anglo-Saxon thinkers whom the economist takes care to quote in this manuscript: "From the French physiocrats and Adam Smith to Léon Walras and Alfred Marshall to Maurice Allais and Paul Samuelson, a body of theory has been elaborated and refined that essentially all economists accept and use in their analysis of the problems for which it is relevant". As a connoisseur of the French spirit, Friedman thus insists on the connection between the economic liberalism of his famous "school of Chicago" and the philosophy of the Enlightenment, dear to the intelligentsia of the old continent. It is moreover in homage to this French critical spirit that he opens his preface with an ironic anecdote on the relativity of economic theories: "There is a long-standing myth that if two economists discuss any topic, they will have at least three opinions about it". We note, however, that he replaces the real author of this trait, who is none other than Churchill, with an anonymous "long-standing myth". The repetitions and redactions on our manuscript show Friedman's temptation to analyze the origin of this myth: "This myth rests like most myths" is crossed out and replaced by an irrevocable "Whatever small element of validity this myth may have with respect to some topics, it has none whatsoever with respect to the core of economics... price theory. " The second paragraph of our manuscript is an apology for the monetarist theories defended by Friedman which, at the beginning of the 1980s, had just borne fruit: their application by the American Federal Reserve led to a sharp decline in inflation and a historic rise of the dollar. At the height of his influence, Friedman then saw his works, including Price Theory, republished, taught around the world and translated into several languages. He emphasizes here the central importance of his theory for understanding the world market: "For price theory seeks to understand how the actions of hundreds of millions of people spread around the surface of the globe interact through a market to determ
- s.d., 21,4x27,2cm, 9 pages sur 8 feuillets. - "In the end, 5 hours of work for example to produce - per man - all that is necessary to man." n.d., 21,4x27,2cm, 9 pages on 8 leaves. Complete autograph manuscript in French by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. 9 pages on 8 leaves in black ink. Traces of horizontal and vertical folds. A small piece of paper missing in the center of two leaves. Exceptional unpublished manuscript by Saint-Exupéry, to be compared with his political and economic reflections in Carnets (1989, p. 43). Personally affected by the 1929 crisis, Saint-Exupéry "the self-taught writer" writes passionately about the economy and puts forward reform strategies. The manuscript features a lot of mathematical formulas and equations, along with remarks "To make the ideas clear about what is happening today" (p. 1), on the national economic system and the labor market. These unpublished pages testify to Saint-Exupéry's great intellectual curiosity, his insatiable need for innovation in all fields of knowledge: mechanics, technology, politics, economics... Saint-Exupéry writes on capitalist reform, as he was an outspoken critic of the system which he later personified in The Little Prince "businessman" character. He develops theories where the State becomes the only employer, banker, and overall production manager: "If the State pays all the salaries including those of the administrations and considers itself as owner of all the products (nothing to be changed within the capitalist system in the sense that it can pay to the administrations special bonuses returning in their salaries and according to the quality as well as the quantity. He disburses an amount X. He sells (having taxed his stocks so that they express Y)". His reflection is directly related to the stock market crash that bankrupted the Aéropostale, the pioneering airline company where Saint-Exupéry had displayed his talents as an aviator-writer. One also remembers the splendid lines from Terre des Hommes on the value of work: "The greatness of a profession is perhaps, above all, to unite men: there is only one true luxury, and that is human relations". Concerned about a better distribution of wealth, he develops throughout the pages several labor market and pension system theories, halfway between Keynes and Marx. The writer was well aware of the value of labor having himself spent long hours on his aircrafts' mechanics. He details his views on the duration of a working day "In the end, 5 hours of work for example to produce - per man - all that is necessary to man. With little work and it is possible to supply men with everything that is - and can with the increase of luxury - become necessary to them", and makes calculations on savings, pensions, purchasing power. His novels and personal writings contain numerous references to labor and hopes for a more equal human community: "Saint-Exupéry was also a man of his time, passionate about modernity, especially technical innovation, who constantly tried to reflect on all the problems that arose from it. Hence the countless notebooks, notes, and scattered sheets of paper that he constantly filled in and carried in his pockets and trunks, with which he might one day have written a book. (Jean-Claude Perrier) Rare manuscript from a true Humanist, a talented artist, aviator, novelist, political and economic thinker. Saint-Exupéry tries to build a harmonious social order and lay the theoretical groundwork for an ideal society. [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Manuscrit autographe complet d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. 9 pages sur 8 feuillets à l'encre noire. Traces de pli horizontaux et verticaux. Un petit manque au centre de deux feuillets. Exceptionnel manuscrit inédit de Saint-Exupéry, à rapprocher de ses réflexions politico-économiques publiées dans les Carnets (1989, p. 43). Alors que les effets de la crise de 1929 se font ressentir en France, celui qu'on a surnommé "l'écrivain autodidacte", se passionne ici pour l
1961159a8097Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1961. Third Impression. Hardcover. Good in Good dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Hayek upon front free endpaper to Swedish journalist Arvid Fredborg. A National Review Panel ranked this work as the ninth best non-fiction book of the twentieth century. "A positive statement of the principles of society that in scope and breadth is more like a new Wealth of Nations. A thorough exposition of a social philosophy which ranges from ethics and anthropology through jurisprudence and the history of ideas to the economics of the modern welfare state." - Publisher. Third printing. x 570 p. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. An attractive signed example of this influential work. Cody & Ostrem B-12 Pressman p.180.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; LOC # 59-11618 Von Hayek Friedrich A. The Constitution of Liberty Arvid Fredborg social philosophy ethics anthropology jurisprudence history of ideas economics modern welfare State Arvid Fredborg; Signed by Author . The University of Chicago Press hardcover
182248285Paris, Bossange père"" Londres, Martin Bossange et Comp., 1822 & 1823. 8vo. [Traité:] Two lovely contemporary, uniform half calf bindings with gilding and blindstamped ornamentations to spines. ""E. C."" in gilt lettering to top of spine on both volumes + [Sommaire:] a bit later red half cloth with marbled paper over boards. Gilt title to spine. [Traité]: signed by the author on verso of half-title in vol. 1: ""Ch Fourier"". Title-page of vol. 1 with a small light brown stain (probably candle-starin), far from affecting lettering. Both volumes in lovely condition, with only very light occassional brownspoting. LXXX, 592 pp."" VIII, 648 pp. [Sommaire:] Title-page slightly browned, evenly. Otherwise very nice, clean, and fresh. 16 pp, pp. (1329) -1448 + 4 ff. (= (A8 (unnumbered) - on two leaves, first recto and second verso blank) + B8, C8, D8, E8).A lovely set.
Paris, Bossange père" " Londres, Martin Bossange et Comp., 1822 & 1823. 8vo. [Traité:] Two lovely contemporary, uniform half calf bindings with gilding and blindstamped ornamentations to spines. ""E. C."" in gilt lettering to top of spine on both volumes + [Sommaire:] a bit later red half cloth with marbled paper over boards. Gilt title to spine. [Traité]: signed by the author on verso of half-title in vol. 1: ""Ch Fourier"". Title-page of vol. 1 with a small light brown stain (probably candle-starin), far from affecting lettering. Both volumes in lovely condition, with only very light occassional brownspoting. LXXX, 592 pp." " VIII, 648 pp. [Sommaire:] Title-page slightly browned, evenly. Otherwise very nice, clean, and fresh. 16 pp, pp. (1329) -1448 + 4 ff. (= (A8 (unnumbered) - on two leaves, first recto and second verso blank) + B8, C8, D8, E8).A lovely set.
189348290S.-Petersburg, A Benke, 1893. 8vo. Bound with the original printed green front wrapper in a beautiful green half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Front wrapper brownspotted. Bottom 3 cm. of p.1-2 cut off, shaving a few lines off. A few underlinings to the first leaves. XVI, 353, (1) pp. + 29 tables, numbered I-XVI (with a,b,c's: IIIa-b, IVa-h, Va-c, VIa-b, VIIa-b, Xa-bXIIIa-b), on 16 leaves, 12 of which folded, most of them large + 2 leaves of explanation in between.
S.-Petersburg, A Benke, 1893. 8vo. Bound with the original printed green front wrapper in a beautiful green half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Front wrapper brownspotted. Bottom 3 cm. of p.1-2 cut off, shaving a few lines off. A few underlinings to the first leaves. XVI, 353, (1) pp. + 29 tables, numbered I-XVI (with a,b,c's: IIIa-b, IVa-h, Va-c, VIa-b, VIIa-b, Xa-bXIIIa-b), on 16 leaves, 12 of which folded, most of them large + 2 leaves of explanation in between.
Edizione originale. Al recto della prima sguardia, nel margine superiore, nota di antico possessore, non disturbante; sporadici punti di foxing, di rado toccano il testo; un bellissimo esemplare in solida legatura strettamente coeva. «A groundbreaking work on monetary economics, a masterpiece of analysis of value and prices» («Books That Made Europe», p. 134). Opera prima di Ferdinando Galiani (1728-1787, noto come l’abate Galiani) considerato un vero e proprio classico dell’economia dato l’immenso valore che ebbe presso i suoi successori. A Parigi, come segretario dell’ambasciata napoletana, intrattenne rapporti di amicizia con i maggiori intellettuali della capitale, tra cui Diderot e M.me d’Épinay. L’opera, composta da Galiani a soli 23 anni, uscì anonima per paura della censura, e l’autore riconobbe la paternità sul trattato solo una trentina d’anni dopo. Il frontespizio reca la data 1750, ma il volume fu stampato l’anno successivo, quando venne dato il privilegio di stampa. Della prima edizione furono stampate diverse tirature, con l’inserimento di alcuni cancellantia e varianti: nel nostro esemplare a p. 31, r. 8 si legge la lezione corretta «vivere. Qual cosa adunque più giusta, che il proccurarsi anche con grande, e lungo stento» in luogo di «vivere. Non è dunque sempre degno di biasimo chi con grande stento»; il foglio Bb3 è un cancellans, e ancora si vede il lacerto del foglio sostituito; le pagine finali non numerate sono 5. L’esemplare apparterrebbe dunque alla seconda tiratura corretta. -- «Il Della moneta viene considerato “il capolavoro uscito dalla discussione sulle monete a metà del secolo” (Venturi, Settecento riformatore, p. 490) [...]. Molti economisti e storici del pensiero economico di fine Ottocento o del primo Novecento, soprattutto italiani, hanno individuato in queste intuizioni sia elementi anticipatori delle teorie marginaliste del valore, sia di quelle precedenti di stampo ricardiano e marxiano. È il caso di ricordare soltanto il favorevolissimo giudizio di L. Einaudi, che ravvisa tra l’altro nel Galiani “germi delle teorie gosseniane, della gerarchia dei beni, della loro sostituzione, della decrescenza della utilità delle successive dosi di un bene”; nonché quello altrettanto entusiasta di J.A. Schumpeter, per il quale il Galiani eleva la fatica “alla dignità di unico fattore di produzione, la considera l'unica circostanza ‘che dà valore alla cosa’”» (DBI) Books That Made Europe, p. 134; Biblioteca Luigi Einaudi, 2329 ; Kress Library of Business and Economics, 5034; Catalogue of the Library of Piero Sraffa, 1935; Goldsmith 8528; Palgrave II-178; Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis, pp. 300-302.
Venetijs [Venice], Per Joane & Gregoriu fres de Gregorijs [Joannem & Gregorium fratres de Gregorijs], [1492]. 4to. Bound in a beautiful contemporary blindstamped full calf binding with brass clasp, neatly recased preserving most of the old binding. First leaf browned, a bit soiled, and with a small library stamp. Back free end-paper with professional repair in lower outer margin. A bit of minor dampstaining to a few leaves, but overall very nice and clean (possibly carefully washed). A fine copy. 227 [numbered] ff. + 5 (last blank) ff.
In-8 gr., 64 volumi + 3 di Indici, in 79 tomi, uniforme legatura in mz. pelle coeva con fregi e tit. oro al dorso (solo la IV serie ha 1 vol. in mz. pelle mod. e la V serie ne ha 12 in mz. pergamena). Importante e celebrata collezione di cui offriamo la "raccolta completa", composta da 5 serie cosi’ suddivise: - Serie I: 13 volumi (”Trattati complessivi”). Vi è pure contenuta la seconda ediz. italiana delle "Ricerche sopra la natura e le cause della ricchezza delle nazioni" di Adam Smith (1851). - Serie II: 13 volumi in 12 tomi + Indice della I e II serie diretta da Francesco Ferrara (”Trattati speciali”). - Serie III: 15 volumi in 24 tomi + Indice (”Raccolta delle più pregiate opere moderne italiane e straniere di economia politica” diretta dal Prof. Gerolamo Boccardo). Vi sono pure contenute: la prima ediz. italiana del "Capitale" di Carlo Marx (1886) e la prima italiana dei "Principii di Sociologia" di Herbert Spencer (1881-87-99). - Serie IV: 10 volumi in 14 tomi + Indice (Serie diretta da S. Cognetti De Martiis). Vi è pure contenuta la prima ediz. italiana dei "Principii di economia" di A. Marshall (1905). - Serie V: 13 volumi (tutto il pubblicato). Serie diretta da Pasquale Jannaccone. Cfr. Cat. Storico delle edizioni Pomba e Utet, pp. 360/370 - Cat. Biblioteca Einaudi. Il ns. esemplare è ben conservato. "Raro trovare la collezione completa".
1835PHO-1099Paris, Bellizard, Barthes, Dufour et Lowell ; Londres, Bossange, Barthes et Lowell ; Saint-Petersbourg, Fd. Bellizard et Cie, 1835-1841. 18 volumes de texte in-8 et un atlas in-folio TEXTE : 18 volumes in-8, relié plein cuir tacheté époque, dos lisse orné avec pièce de titre rouge et auteur et tomaison vertes, filet sur les plats, adhésif, frottements, défauts d'usage .., rousseurs dans le texte. ATLAS : Paris. Bellizard, Dufour etc. 1844. Imprimé chez Thierry Frères. Reliure époque, dos lisse. Grand in-folio (555x375mm) il est composé d'un titre, d'une listes des cartes, d'une carte générale de l'Empire Ottoman avec les contours aquarellés (690x550mm), de 21 cartes particulières (dont une sur 2 feuilles et 2 à double page dépliantes représentant les états de l'empire ottoman et les états limitrophes (845x590mm et 845x545), de 13 plans de batailles ou de siège, et de 3 plans de villes dont un grand plan dépliant de Constantinople (690x670mm) par G. Heck et Lon. Plée et gravée par U. Muschani. Reliure avec défauts, réparation au dos, fente intérieure, petite mouillure angulaire, une carte et un feuillet détaché
Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper to Swedish journalist Arvid Fredborg, dated 1982 in Berlin. 570 pages. A National Review Panel ranked this work as the ninth best non-fiction book of the twentieth century. "A positive statement of the principles of society that in scope and breadth is more like a new Wealth of Nations... A thorough exposition of a social philosophy which ranges from ethics and anthropology through jurisprudence and the history of ideas to the economics of the modern welfare state." - Publisher. Moderate wear to clean and unmarked book. Binding sound. Dust jacket in poor condition with numerous defects.. Book
xx,853,viii,899 pages. Index in each volume. First printing. Reflections and recollections of Paul Warburg [1868 - 1932], considered by many to have been the main driver behind the establishment of the Federal Reserve System in 1913. Warburg was reluctant to publish this work until, in the autumn of 1928, "I became convinced that the Federal Reserve System had entered upon a gravely critical period in its career, and that for the discussion about to ensue it was highly important that certain vital facts in the origin and growth of the System be adequately understood." - viii [v1]. Gilt lettering upon spines. Average wear to publisher's navy cloth. Bookplate of prior owner, a Dutch doctor, inside each front board. Laid in is the original handwritten purchase receipt, dated 1931, issued by an Amsterdam book dealer. Front free endpaper of volume 2 neatly removed. Bindings and hinges intact. Dust jackets not included. A sound copy of this essential chronicle of early twentieth century American central bank history. Masui p.1431, Rist p.321. Book
In-8 p. (mm. 201x133), 115 volumi, mz. pelle coeva, fregi e titolo oro su doppio tassello al dorso. Di questo importante periodico mensile, che raccoglie la sintesi di opere o articoli pubblicati in Italia e all'estero, offriamo una "raccolta completa delle prime 30 annate", dal 1824 (Anno I, n. 1, luglio) al 1853. Rilegata per trimestri, la raccolta comprende la I Serie (1824/1825 - 1844, primo semestre) e la II Serie (1844, secondo semestre - 1853), completata, per il 1833, dal "Bullettino di Notizie Statistiche ed Economiche Italiane e straniere" in 1 vol. Gli "Annali", destinati a "far conoscere i progressi delle precipue scienze sociali e del miglior essere materiale delle varie popolazioni", ebbero fra i collaboratori: C. Cattaneo, L. Serristori, C. Cantù, D. Promis, L. Cibrario, M. Gioja, P. Cusotdi, F. Marmocchi, A. Zuccagni Orlandini, A Bianchi Giovini, G.D. Romagnosi, D. Sacchi, F. Aporti, C. Cavour, C. Correnti e numerosi altri, tra cui molti autori stranieri. Più in particolare per la collaborazione di Carlo Cattaneo vedi “Diz. Biogr. Italiani,XXII, pp. 425,433-434. Esemplare ben conservato.
189629709Lausanne: F. Rouge Éditeur Librairie de l'Universit 1896-1897. 2 volumes. Rare First Edition. The First Major Work by this very important economist. Illustrated with numerous tables and graphs throughout. 8vo in a fine French binding of three-quarter burnt-red morocco over marbled boards spines lettered gilt on two gilt ruled black morocco labels additional gilt ruling at the ends. viii. 430: 4 426 pp. A very fine and attractive set of this rare first edition the handsome bindings as mint the text fresh and clean with just the lightest hint of age a superior set indeed. RARE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE GREAT MODERN CLASSICS OF ECONOMICS IT WAS IN THESE COURSES THAT PARETO BEGAN HIS DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT OF 'PARETO EFFICIENCY' WHICH HELPED CREATE THE FIELD OF MICROECONOMICS AND CHANGED ECONOMICS FROM A PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY TO A PRACTICAL ONE.<br> In 1893 Pareto succeeded Léon Walras to the chair of Political Economy at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland where he remained for the rest of his life. He was he first to discover that income follows a power-law probability distribution of wealth in a society fitting the trend that a large portion of wealth is held by a small fraction of the population the 'Pareto distribution'.<br> Pareto's legacy in the study of economist is profound. Much in response to his efforts the economics evolved from a branch of moral philosophy as viewed by Adam Smith into a data intensive field of scientific research and mathematical equations. F. Rouge, Éditeur, Librairie de l'Universit hardcover
177947455Kiøbenhavn [Copenhagen], 1779-80. 8vo. Two very nice contemporary brown half calf bindings with raised bands, gilt ornamentations and gilt leather title- and tome-labels. Volume two with a bit of wear to upper capital. Corners slightly bumped. Pencil annotations to verso of title-page in volume one" title-page in volume two mounted to cover up a small hole caused by the removal of an old owner's name. Internally very clean and bright. All in all a very nice, clean, fresh, and tight copy. Engraved (by Weise, 1784) armorial book plate to inside of front boards (Gregorius Christianus Comes ab Haxthausen). (12), 575" (8), 775, (3, - errata) pp.
177860523Leipzig, Weidmann, 1776-78. 8vo. Bound in two nice uniform contemporary half calf bindings with five raised bands, black title-label and gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label to upper compartment (Catalogue-number from an estate-library). Light wear to extremities, otherwise a very nice set. VIII, 632 pp" XII, 740 pp.
[Blagoev-translation:] Sofia, [presumably 1910 but august 1909 stated on last leaf of preface] & [Ba [Blagoev-translation:] 8vo. In a contemporary full cloth binding with red leather title-label with gilt lettering to spine. Spine with wear and light soiling to extremities. Hindges a bit weak First 10 leaves with stain in margin, otherwise a good copy. (6), XXXI, (1), 675, (1) pp.{Bakalov-translation:] 8vo. In contemporary half calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Wear to extremities and hindges a bit weak Repair to inner margin of title-page. Internally fine and clean. XXX, (2), 598, (2) pp. + frontiespiece of Marx. Withbound is ""Karl Marx and His Time"": (1)-180 pp.
[Kapitalut:] Balchik, Izdanie na Krist'o Ivanov, 1905. [Speech On the Question of Free Trade:] Sofia 8vo. In contemporary red half calf. Extremities with wear. Previous owner's name in contemporary hand to upper part of both title-pages. Light browning throughout and a few occassional underlignings in text, mainly in ""A speech on free trade"". [Kapitalut:] XXXVIII, 122 pp. [Rech za...:] 27, (1).
Kiøbenhavn [Copenhagen], 1779-80. 8vo. Two very nice contemporary brown half calf bindings with raised bands, gilt ornamentations and gilt leather title- and tome-labels. Volume two with a bit of wear to upper capital. Corners slightly bumped. Pencil annotations to verso of title-page in volume one" title-page in volume two mounted to cover up a small hole caused by the removal of an old owner's name. Internally very clean and bright. All in all a very nice, clean, fresh, and tight copy. Engraved (by Weise, 1784) armorial book plate to inside of front boards (Gregorius Christianus Comes ab Haxthausen). (12), 575 " (8), 775, (3, - errata) pp.
Prima edizione, secondo e definitivo stato (Dufour “type B”). Eccezionale esemplare in legatura coeva senza alcuna sofisticazione: qualche normale segno del tempo non ne pregiudica in alcun modo l’aspetto e la solidità complessiva (alcune escoriazioni agli angoli e ai piatti; minima mancanza alla testa del dorso; principio di rottura fermato alla cerniera anteriore; urto all’angolino superiore del pietto anteriore). Ai margini esterni di alcune pagine, localizzati punti di foxing e leggere bruniture che non intaccano il testo; fascicolo A lievemente allentato; un leggero alone di umidità al margine esterno dell’antiporta e del frontespizio. Molto buoni i margini (197 x 124 mm). Con una firma dell’epoca che consente di stabilire un prezioso terminus ante quem per la legatura: al risguardo anteriore, in elegante grafia, «Em. Barbezat», con tutta probabilità un notaio di Fleurier (Neuchatel) che si occupò della vendita di un importante lotto di 220 libri nel febbraio 1886. «The basis for a legitimate political order within a framework of classical republicanism» (Books that made Europe, p. 146). «The “contract Social” remains Rousseau’s greatest work [...]. It had the most profound influence on the political thinking of generation following its publication. It was, after all, the first great emotional plea for the equality of all men in the state» (PMM, n. 207). -- La prima edizione ebbe una storia piuttosto travagliata: alcuni ripensamenti dell’autore introdussero varianti in corso di tiratura, con il risultato di complicare oltremodo la ricostruzione bibliografica. Gli studiosi che si sono occupati del caso hanno potuto ricostruire un punto di partenza — che appare quasi ‘ideale’ stante la sua rarità (non ci risulta censito in istituzioni o biblioteche private) — e un punto di arrivo, tra cui si collocano alcuni esemplari ibridi che sono il risultato del comporsi spesso casuale delle copie in tipografia. Il nostro esemplare appartiene senza dubbi allo stato definitivo, contenente tutte le correzioni d’autore (Dufour «type B»; Leigh «3rd state»), e caratterizzato dai seguenti dettagli: – frontespizio con la bella stampa della ‘Giustizia seduta con cappello’ (immagine che sostituisce, secondo la volontà di Rousseau, quella della ‘Giustizia in piedi’), privo della parte incipitaria del titolo, «Du contrat social», spostata assieme al punto e virgola finale alla carta d’occhietto; – ultimo fascicolo X (pp. 321-finis) senza la nota a piè di pagina sul «matrimonio civile in Francia», anch’essa rimossa per volontà autoriale, con il catalogo di Rey in fine e le minute varianti che, secondo la certosina ricostruzione di Leigh, configurano l’ultimo stato della composizione del testo. -- Gli interventi di Rousseau erano tutti volti ad evitare che l’opera venisse proibita dalla censura. Cosa che, nonostante tutto, accadde, costringendo l’autore a fuggire in Inghilterra e non per questo fermandone in alcun modo la diffusione, assicurata da un fiorire di edizioni pirata nel formato in 12°: gli ultimi censimenti parlano di almeno undici edizioni con data ‘1762’; e un totale di ventotto edizioni ora del 1782. Dufour, Recherches bibliographiques sur J.-J. Rousseau, n. 133; Leigh, Unsolved Problems in the Bibliography of Rousseau; Printing and the Mind of Man, 207; Books That Made Europe, p. 146; En français dans le texte, n. 162
Leipzig, Weidmann, 1776-78. 8vo. Bound in two nice uniform contemporary half calf bindings with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front free end-papers and a small embossed stamp to front free end paper on volume 1 (""Buchhändler u. Antiquar Carl Helf""). Stamp to p. 1 of both volumes. Spines with light soiling and capital on volume 1 lacking a small part of the leather. A few light brown spots throught. A fine set. VIII, 632 pp" " XII, 740 pp.
186856148St Petersburg, I. I. Glazunov, 1868. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with with embossed boards. Three raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Spine with wear. Small label pasted on to top left corner of pasted down front free end-paper. Removed stamp to half-title and title-page with stamp and a a few number written to top of title-page. A few light occassional underlining in pencil, otherwise internally fine and clean. (1)-515, (1), IV pp.
177950523Kiøbenhavn [Copenhagen], 1779-80. 8vo. Two nice contemporary half calf bindings with four raised bands and gilt leather title label to spines. Volume one lacking one cm of upper part of spine. Volume two with a small tear to lower part of spine. Both volumes with light brown spotting throughout, however, mainly affecting first and last five leaves of both volumes. A fine set. (12), 575"" (8), 775, (3, - errata) pp.
