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Ballanche Pierre SimonABAA

1841S11031Paris:: H.-L. Delloye 1841. 1841. 8vo. 442 6 36 4 30 6 44 4 250 54 pp. Occasional scattered foxing not affecting legibility. Quarter gilt-stamped red leather over red marbled paper-backed boards all edges marbled; cover edges and corners gently rubbed. Near fine. According to a pencil note on the free rear endpaper the ink signature and inscription below is that of Alexis Guignard Comte de Saint-Priest 1805-51 a French diplomat and historian of the Academie Francais. This work contains two stories: Antigone and L'Homme Sans Nom. Antigone a re-working of Sophocles' original story achieved popularity in France because it was seen as a reflection of the suffering of Louis XIV's daughter the Duchesse d'Angpuleme but Ballanche's actual muse was Juliette Recamier a beautiful and brilliant Parisian who hosted a rather famous salon. In her Ballanche perceived "a kindred unhappiness." Her "incapacity for happiness he argued is a sign of the awareness of a fallen creature of its divine origin and its nostalgia for a celestial home" McCalla 49. He saw her beauty as a reflection of her moral perfection. L'Homme Sans Nom centers on a "nameless man" who is on the council that votes for the regicide of Louis XIV in 1793; wary of inflaming political public opinion because of the recent assassination of the Duc de Berry by a Bonapartist Ballanche limited the first 1820 edition of the story to a run of 100 copies. He intended his new work "as advice for the King and a small circle of political leaders" rather than the general populace" McCalla 78. Ballanche was a French philosopher who favored a view of history in which mankind achieves "progress through ordeals." Essentially "a past epoch could possess its own rightness and legitimacy even as it had lost the right to continue" which he described in his work Palingenesie Wikipedia. "He is considered by some French critics as a great writer and profound thinker but by others his writings are regarded as mystical and obscure" Thomas 253. McCalla Arthur. A Romantic Historiosophy: the Philosophy of History of Pierre-Simon Ballanche. Leiden The Netherlands: Brill 1998; Thomas J. "Ballanche Pierre-Simon." Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology Part One. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott 1871. H.-L. Delloye, 1841. hardcover books

Jeff Weber Rare Books · Suisse225,00 $US≈ 190,37 €

Cameron SimonABAA

FROM DOCUMENT NO. 229 OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 3D SESSION 25TH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES CONTAINING ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUD "IN RELATION TO THE SETTLEMENT OF THE CLAIMS OF THE HALF-BREED RELATIVES OF THE WINNEBAGOE INDIANS" IN WHICH CASE THE COMMISSION OF GENERAL SIMON CAMERON WAS SET ASIDE. Caption-title: TO THE MEMBERS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. EXECUTION OF TREATY WITH THE WINNEBAGOES.

185529528Harrisburg 1855. 48pp. Stitched in original printed blue title wrappers spine-chipped. Two stab holes in blank left margin. Light scattered foxing old vertical fold Very Good. <br/><br/> This document says Howes was reprinted "to discredit" Cameron a Pennsylvania kingmaking politician who avidly stuffed his pockets with the spoils of a panoply of public offices. In 1838 President Van Buren made him an Indian Commissioner in charge of settling the Winnebago Indian land claims. The appointment ended in scandal when he used his own bank's notes as part of the adjustment. He became derisively known as "The Great Winnebago Chief." The front wrapper quoting from the St. Louis Reporter calls Cameron's activities "infamous speculation." <br/> Bibliographers-- generally recording only a 38-page pamphlet under this title-- conclude that this pamphlet was printed in 1839. That seems unlikely. Original House Document 229 was printed during the 25th Congress in 1839. This reprint was published to thwart Cameron's designs on a U.S. Senate seat and was probably printed in 1855: he was running for the Senate that year and a related pamphlet entitled a Rejoinder to the Defence Published by Simon Cameron also issued in 1855. Each of them exposes Cameron's shady business dealings during his term as Indian Commissioner. "Plot of Simon Cameron and fellow rascals to defraud these Indians of half a million dollars frustrated by a young army officer E.A. Hitchcock" Howes. <br/>OCLC 38259958 2- PA State Boston Athen. as of May 2019. Field 1686 and Howes W569 38pp. unknown books

David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC · États-Unis375,00 $US≈ 317,29 €