MANDEVILLE (Bernard de).Livre Rare Book
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175042931A Londres, chez Jean Nourse, 1750. 4 vol. in-12 de (2)-XXXIII-(1)-396 pp. ; (4)-362 pp. ; (2)-LXVI-(2)-339 pp. ; (4)-361-(1) pp., veau moucheté, dos lisse orné à la grotesque, double filet d'encadrement doré sur les plats, pièces de titre et de tomaison en maroquin vert, tranches dorées (reliure de l'époque).
1729r029F.023GB: J Roberts 1729. DISBOUND TEXT No covers. Text commences at title page and ends on last index page with FINIS at base. Last numbered page is 432. 2 and 32 and 432 and index. Library stamps on title page and last page. Title page deatched and slight damage at inner margin. Else a very good clean tight text most suitable to rebind. . 1st Edition. Hardback. Good/No DW. J Roberts Hardcover
1727133505London: A. Moore 1727. First edition in French of Mandeville's A modest Defence of publick stews or an essay upon whoring as it is now practis'd in these kingdoms a treatise against prostitution being an expansion of his pragmatic approach to morality first espoused in The Fable of the Bees. Octavo 161 x 95 mm. Contemporary mottled calf boards with blindstamp double rule border spine decorated gilt in compartments red morocco label gilt rule to board edges marbled endpapers red edges. Small chip at head of spine extremities lightly rubbed occasional light spotting; a very good copy. hardcover
1767130765Cosmopoli: All'Insegna della Riforma. Nel secolo della dissolutezza. 1767. First edition in Italian of Mandeville's A modest Defence of publick stews or an essay upon whoring as it is now practis'd in these kingdoms a treatise against prostitution being an expansion of his pragmatic approach to morality first espoused in the Fable of the Bees. Octavo 170 x 110 mm. Contemporary vellum red morocco label lettered gilt "Opuscoli vari". Spine label chipped occasional light foxing paper unevenly browned. Kaye I p. xxxi. OCLC locates 3 copies only at the Clark Library UCLA New York Public Library and the Bibliothèque nationale. hardcover
1727431G0236London: Woodman Lyon and C. Davis 1727. Book. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxiv 384 viii pp. Recased in leather. Raised bands and periphery of boards decorated with gilt. Title page printed in red and black. Bookplate inside front board. Several incidents of peeling and sticker remnant to decorated front endpaper. Small faint numeric ink stamp at bottom of title page. Call numbers on backstrip scarcely visible. Moderate wear. Binding firm. Woodman, Lyon and C. Davis Hardcover
172911<p>Barnard Mandeville published a pamphlet on "the Grumbling Hive" in 1705. This was then included in "The Fable of the Bees" in 1714 which itself went through six editions and important additions</p><p>A second volume was published in 1729 in the form of a dialogue between Horatio and Cleomenes and presents a proposed history of civil society based upon Mandeville's views of human nature.</p><p>Mandeville was a leading public intellectual of the early 1700's. His influence continues as an a icon of Libertarianism Hayek himself a follower. In the eighteenth century his respondents and critics is a long list including Adam Smiith and Rousseau.</p><p>His thesis that Vice was a productive force in the economic wellbeing of a comunnity seems harmless on its face but Mandeville presented his view while critiqueing his own society both in its moral hypocricy and the failure to produce results</p><p>Vol. of this set isthe sixth and last edtion wih all the added essays etc from the precedin geds.</p><p>Then in 1729 Maneville published Fable of the Bees Part II. These six dialogue were quickly reprinted. This is Vol ii of this set and completes Mandevilles authorized text.</p><p>This set is the final definitive edition of Mandevilles unfolding editions of the Fable</p> vol 1, Tonson; vol 2.Roberts hardcover
17251299141725. First Edition. MANDEVILLE John. The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile Kt. Which Treateth of the Way to Hierusalem; and of Marvayles of Inde with Other Ilands and Countryes. London: Printed for J. Woodman and D. Lyon and C. Davis 1725. Octavo contemporary calf sympathetically rebacked raised bands. $5000.First edition first issue large paper copy one of only 350 copies printed of the definitive English translation of a fantastical medieval travel narrative that helped shape European thought on the Near Middle and Far East. One of the most popular travelogues of the Middle Ages Mandeville's Travels describes a 34-year-long voyage by a pseudonymous 14th-century English knight who allegedly journeyed from St. Albans to the Holy Land Egypt Arabia India Cathay Tartary and the realm of Prester John. The text is largely fictitious drawn from a variety of unreliable sources and the actual compiler is still unidentifiedbut ""the book remains and is none the less delightful for the mystery which attaches to it and in the history of English literature it stands as the first or almost the first attempt to bring secular subjects within the domain of English prose and that is enough to make it mark an epoch"" Pollard Travels ""Bibliographical Note"". The text was originally known via French and Latin manuscripts and first appeared in print in Dutch circa 1470; the present edition marks the first printed appearance of this English translation ""publish'd entire from an Original MS. in the Cotton Library"" which established itself as the most authoritative version. With tipped-in title page printed in red and black. ESTC notes that the work was ""printed by William Bowyer; his records show 350 copies printed."" ESTC T100822. Howgego I M39. Catalogue of the Interesting Contents of Walton Hall Property of the Late Edward Hailstone 1294. Elaborate black and gilt leather armorial bookplate of Edward Hailstone 1818-1890.Minor foxing; slight wear to original leather. A handsome copy. hardcover
