(LP) & LE FEBVRE & TESSIER. Observations De La Société Royale
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1 ABEILLE, (L.P.) & LE FEBVRE & TESSIER. Observations de la Société Royale d'Agriculture sur la question suivant, qui lui a été proposée par le Comité d'Agriculture & de Commerce de l'Assemblée Nationale. L'usage des domaines congéables est-il utile ou non au progrès de l'agriculture? Rédigées par MM. Abeille, l'Abbé Le Febvre & l'Abbé Tessier. Lues le dix-sept Mars 1791. No place, (1791). (2), 64 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. € 350 Musset-Pathay 1414; INED 8; Kress S.5337; not in Goldsmiths; not in Mattioli. First edition. Detailed definition of the 'domaine congéable', its usages and customes in Bretagne where they have survived. Abeille demontrates with the use of the 'Coutume de Bretagne' that the farmers with a 'domaine congéable' were doing well and contributed to the prospering of agriculture and the population. Abeille concludes that this system of 'withdrawable property' is favorable to the multiplication of property and that this farming-system is by consequence contributing to the progress of agriculture. A 'domaine congéable' was the system whereby land was leased for a period of usually nine years. If the contract was not renewed the farmer had a right to be reimburesed for all that he had constructed, improved etc. The advantage of the system was that the farmer benefitted from his work and the improvements he introduced on the land he had leased. Nevertheless, the insecurity of the system caused many complaints and these were clearly present and voiced in the cahiers of 1789. The system survived principally in the 'Basse Bretagne.' 2 AMENDEMENT proposé sur la motion de M. le Comte de Mirabeau, concernant la Caisse d'Escompte. No place, 1789. 16 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. € 225 Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Martin & Walter. First edition. Defense of the 'Actionnaires' who were accused of being the principal cause of the troubles of the Caisse d'Escompte in a motion presented earlier by Mirabeau. 3 AUZOU, (L.N.) Discours en refutation des mandemans de plusieurs évêques de France, au sujet du choléra, prononcé le dimanche 6 mai 1832, en l'église paroissiale de Clichy. Clichy, Librairie catholique française, Paris, Chez Ledoyen, 1832. 23 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. € 175 Azou founded, together with the abbé Chatel, the Eglise Catholique Française, which was of a socialist tendency. Any publication of this school is rare. The current text deals with the cholera epidemic that ravaged at the time and denounces those who represent God as the source of this epidemic in punishment of the ungrateful human kind. The author argues that God is the God of the living and not the dead, and that reward and punishment await in another life, not in this one. 4 BABBAGE, CH. Science économique des manufactures, Traduit de l'Anglais de Ch. Babbage, sur la troisième édition, par M. Isoard. Paris, A la librairie Orientale de Dondey-Dupré, 1834. xxiii, (1), 392 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, a bit rubbed. € 500 Goldsmiths 28497; not Einaudi; not in Kress. First edition of Isoard's translation of the second part of Babbage's Economy of Machinery and Manufactures - the domestic and political economies of manufactures - published just a year after Biot's first translation into French. This translation is taken from the important third edition containing the final text of the classic treatise on the economics of the manufacturing industry. Isoard's translation differs from the translation by Edouard Biot. While Biot chose to translate the entirety of Babbage's work, Isoard was more selective, with the aim of reaching a wider and more varied readership than Biot. He therefore dropped technical chapters on mechanics, translated much of the technical vocabulary into layman's terms, and rearranged many of the paragraphs in order to improve the continuity of each subject. The Economy of Machinery and Manufactures was Babbage's 'brilliant and utterly original foray into political economy ... Adam Smith had analysed the sources of increases in labour productivity to be found in the division of labour: Babbage took this fundamental principle of economic growth and applied it to the individual firm. His obvious first-hand knowledge of a wide variety of industrial and business processes, combined with general analysis of production systems, made the work a tour de force. At a time of anxiety and ambiguity over the reception of new technology, he also offered authoritative policy statements on a wide range of machinery issues, including patent reform, export of machinery, crises of over production, and technological unemployment. The book's intellectual position in relationship to political economy was not, however, easily apparent, and few apart from J.S. Mill and Karl Marx appreciated its significance to their discipline' (Maxine Berg in the introduction to the Pickering Masters edition of Babbage's works, 1989). 5 (BAILLY, J.-S.) Discours et mémoires, par l'auteur de l'Histoire de l'astronomie. A Paris, Chez De Bure, 1790. With folding table. 2 volumes. (4), 454 pp.; (4), 434 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, marbled boards. € 600 Martin & Walter 1192. First collective edition of previously published pieces, rare. Volume 1 contains eulogies of Corneille, Molière, Leibnitz, Captain Cook, etc., volume 2 contains reports on magnetism, on the project of a new Hôtel-de-Dieu, etc., for the greater part edited and signed collectively with Franklin, Le Roy, Guillotin, Lavoisier, a.o. Jean-Sylvain Bailly was a brilliant scientist and a politician. His scientific successes brought him admission to the prestigious Académie des Sciences in 1763, and he was later admitted to the Académie française and appointed to the Académie des Belles-Lettres by the king, at which time he was the only man together with de Fontenelle, to hold the distinction of membership of all three academies. The first volume of the present work, although not considered to be a literary masterpiece, reveals Bailly's theory of government: he loved the king and respected the institution of the monarchy, but he also believed fervently in a meritocracy, which was neither present nor possible under an absolute monarchy. Bailly researched the theories of Mesmer and his disciples and unmasked them as charletans and he reported on the conditions in the hospitals and slaughterhouses. During the Revolution Bailly led the assembly in taking the oath that created the National Assembly, was elected the first President of that body, and somewhat later he was named mayor of Paris. The events on July 17, 1791, (Champs de Mars massacre) lead to his resignation as mayor of Paris and his execution 2 years later. 6 BAILLY - (MENARD DE SAINT-JUST, S.P.) Eloge historique de Jean Sylvain Bailly, au nom de la République des Lettres, par une société de gens de lettres; suivi de notes et de quelques pièces en prose et en vers. A Londres, Dans le Strand, Chez S.P. Rinistad-Stumear, 1794. (4), 266 pp. 12mo. Modern half calf, gilt lettering to spine, marbled boards, top edge gilt, uncut. € 400 Martin & Walter 23884; Tourneux, iv, 21736. First edition, very rare. Jean-Sylvain Bailly, scientist and politician (1736-1793). He was president of the National Assembly and mayor of Paris. Bailly set up an observatory in the upper story of the Louvre's south gallery and began to make observations of the comets and the planets Mars and Venus. His successes brought him admission to the prestigious Académie des Sciences in 1763. In 1771 Bailly published a masterful dissertation in which he explored a new theory on the satellites of Jupiter. Bailly surfaced as the spokesman for the Third Estate and when the Third Estate retired to the tennis court Bailly led the assembly in taking the famous oath that created the National Assembly. Bailly remained firm in his belief that the "nation when assembled cannot be given orders". He was later found guilty as responsible for the Champ de Mars massacre and executed. - Ex libris Bibliothèque Paul Lacombe on front paste-down, printed in 25 copies only, and printed on "papier vélin." 7 BAUDEAU, N. Idées d'un citoyen sur l'administration des finances du Roi. A Amsterdam, 1763. - (Preceded by: ) (DARIGRAND, E.F.) L'anti-financier, ou relevé de quelques-unes des malversations dont se rendent journellement coupables les Fermiers Généraux, & des vexations qu'ils commettent dans les Provinces: servant de réfutation d'un écrit intitulé: Lettre servant de Réponse aux Remonstrances du Parlement de Bordeaux; précédée d'une epitre au Parlement de France, Accompagnées de Notes Historiques. A Amsterdam, 1763. With engraved frontispiece. - (Bound with: ) (DARIGRAND, E.F.) Supplément à l'Anti-Financier, ou exposé de quelques nouveaux Abus commis par les Employés dans la partie des Domaines & Contrôles. No place, no date. - (Bound with: ) REPONSE à l'Auteur de l'Anti-Financier. A la Haye, 1764. 4 works in 1 volume. iv, 156 pp.(4), 60, 107, (1, blank) pp.; (2), 26 pp.; 24 pp. 8vo. Contemporary paper-covered boards, spine gilt with gilt lettering, red edges, slightly rubbed. € 1250 First work: INED 281; not in Goldsmiths; not in Kress, not in Einaudi; not in Higgs (the latter three citing variant issues); Weller, ii, p. 165. First edition, one of three different editions from the same year, no priority established. One of the works whose publication was due to Roussel de la Tour's Richesse de l'État . Baudeau's proposals for financial reform are close to those proposed by Roussel de la Tour. 'Projet de réforme totale de l'administration des finances tendant au même but d'ailleurs que la Richesse de l'État , qui venait de paraître avec un grand retentissement.