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ORLEANS (Louis-Philippe d').
L. S..
Palais-Royal [Paris], 21 février 1757 in-4, [2] pp. n. ch., en feuille.
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Missive envoyée par le duc d'Orléans, Louis-Philippe "le Gros" (1725-1785) à Daniel-Charles Trudaine (1703-1769), administrateur des Ponts et Chaussées, lui demandant la construction d'un chemin entre Bagnolet et Bondy en passant par Noisy-le-Sec :"(...) un chemin dont la construction me seroit très utile pour aller de Bagnolet à Bondy. Cette traverse est impraticable pendant presque toute l'année, et indépendamment de l'avantage que je tirerois de la construction de ce chemin, il seroit de la plus grande utilité pour les habitans des villages voisins, qui offrent des voitures sur les lieux".Le château de Bagnolet, bien patrimonial des Orléans, était en effet passé de Françoise-marie de Bourbon, duchesse d'Orléans (1677-1749) à son fils Louis, puis à son petit-fils Louis-Philippe en 1752. Ce dernier ne le gardera pas longtemps, puisqu'il le revendit en 1769 pour acquérir le château du Raincy, mais la présente lettre semble attester qu'il s'y rendait assez souvent entre 1752 et la revente.En tant qu'administrateur des ponts et chaussées, Trudaine, économiste éclairé, faisait alors réaliser plusieurs milliers de kilomètres de routes royales (actuelles routes nationales) reliant Paris aux frontières et aux principaux ports de mer. Ce réseau routier était alors considéré comme l'un des meilleurs d'Europe. - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT
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Original handwritten letter for ”Min Kjære Carl” [i.e. My Dear Carl], signed ”din Onkel K” [i.e. Your Uncle K.]. - [ORIGINAL LETTER BY KIERKEGAARD, ONE OF ONLY EIGHT KNOWN ON PRIVATE HANDS]
Dated ”Berlin.” ”D. 8 Dec. 41”. 8vo. Closely written in a small, neat, Gothic script on both recto and verso, 34 lines to each. Two vertical and three horizontal folds. Neat restoration to a few of the folds. All words are legible, and the letter in overall very good condition.SKS notes that it goes for all letters that have been folded to an envelope and sealed that the opening of it has caused small damage to the manuscript. In this case, the damage is absolutely minimal, with a tiny paper flaw at the second horizontal fold at lines 3-4 from the bottom (see SKS note 3 to Letter 171).
A lengthy and truly magnificent original handwritten letter from Kierkegaard to his nephew Carl Lund, written during Kierkegaard’s first stay in Berlin right after the termination of his engagement to Regine. Original letters by Kierkegaard are of the utmost scarcity and only eight are known on private hands.In all, 318 of Kierkegaard’s letters are known, either preserved or otherwise rendered. Of these, 21 are now lost, and of the 297 still extant ones, 289 are in public institutions, almost all in Denmark. The remaining eight letters are on private hands, this being one. Needless to say, letters by Kierkegaard hardly ever appear on the market, and we have been able to trace merely two at auction or in the trade over the last 50 years.SKS has divided all of Kierkegaard’s letters into 14 groups, of which one contains the letters to the Lund family, consisting in 37 letters sent to Kierkegaard’s nephews and nieces, being children of his sisters Petrea (married to Ferdinand Lund) and Nicoline (married to Christian Lund). Of the 37 letters, eight are written during his seminal first stay in Berlin. The earliest of these letters is the present one, for Carl Lund, dated December 8, 1841, less than six weeks after Kierkegaard left for Berlin.We know from Henriette Lund (see her Erindringer fra Hjemmet) that it was of great importance for Kierkegaard to correspond with his nephews and nieces while he was abroad. Shortly before he left, he gathered his nephews and nieces and collectively urged them to write to him while he was away. They all agreed, but in tears that he was leaving the country – as was Kierkegaard himself. And they kept their promises, as is evident from the Kierkegaard letters that are still preserved. Sadly, none of the letters from his nieces and nephews have been preserved. Kierkegaard had a very close relationship with his nieces and nephews and undoubtedly wanted to stay in contact with them to follow their development, keep in touch with his family, and to uphold the close connection with them while abroad. But the correspondence was also important to Kierkegaard for another reason. He hoped to hear news about Regine. And the more he could rely on news from Copenhagen, the more he could hope to hear glimpses of news, however small, about his one big love, the one he left Copenhagen because of. Having broken off his engagement (see more about Regine and the engagement below, after Section II in vol. II), Kierkegaard almost immediately flees Copenhagen and the scandal surrounding the broken engagement. He leaves for Berlin, the first of his four stays there, clearly tortured by his decision, but also intent on not being able to go through with the engagement. This, his first stay in Berlin, is one of legend. It is a determining factor for his life as an author, with Regine as the inevitable and constant backdrop. It is here that it all really begins. It is here he begins writing Either-Or, parts of which can be read as an almost autobiographical rendering of his failed engagement. Kierkegaard left for Berlin on October 25th, 1841 and returned on March 6th, 1842, with large parts of the manuscript for Either-Or in his suitcase. We have the young existentialist genius in the making, broken and awoken by a self-torturing decision to leave his only beloved, spending four and a half months in a foreign city having fled a horrifying scandal in his hometown and finding himself as an author. This is possibly one of the most interesting and moving periods in Kierkegaard’s personal life, and holding in one’s hand a letter from him from this period cannot but move the heart of any Kierkegaard enthusiast.The present letter, written merely six weeks after having left Copenhagen, is both interesting and in many ways touching. It is written for Kierkegaard’s then 11-year old nephew Carl, who was the youngest living child of Nicoline and Christian Lund (see Index of Personal Names for the Lund family tree) and is affectionately signed “Your uncle K”. The letter is warm and personal and shows us a side of Kierkegaard that we never see in his presentation inscriptions and that is not evident in his printed works.We see him as a caring uncle, one who makes sure to mention things from Berlin that are amusing for a child to hear about – vivid descriptions of things you would not see in Copenhagen. Of Thirgarten and of various animals here. Of how in Berlin they use dogs to pull carriages with milk from the countryside, like small horses, and how once, Kierkegaard saw a young boy acting as coachman for one of these carriages, speeding through the city. We also see him as an engaged uncle, who knows his nephew well and also cares about his intellectual progress. He is obviously concerned with Carl’s writing and spelling abilities, but he also tells him not to worry too much about writing well enough or spelling correctly – “you writevery well and with the exception of one letter, everything is so grammatically and calligraphically well that a Master of Arts could have put his name to it”.It is clear that he is not writing to a very young nephew, but to one who is old enough to understand slightly philosophical considerations, such as musings over time passing – “Time changes everything, and so it has also… changed you… In the light of this, you can now also understand how much it pleases me that you, in spite of this complete transformation, this metamorphosis… will remain unchanged in your relation to me”.The provenance of this extraordinary letter, perhaps the only Kierkegaard-letter one will ever have the opportunity to buy, is the Høyernielsen-family, descendants of Kierkegaard’s sister Nicoline.The letter is no. 171 in SKS. SKS 28: 281-82.
Den Kongelig Danske og i Henseende til alle Slags Maader fuldstændige Koge Bage og Sylte-Bog. - [LANDMARK SCANDINAVIAN COOK BOOK]
Kjøbenhavn, Rothe, 1766. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands. Wear to extremities. Boards with scratches and leather on spine cracked with loss of the gilt ornamentation. Inner hinges split. Internally with occassional marginal brownspotting, but generally a good copy. (4), 555 pp. + frontispiece.
First edition of this seminal work of Danish culinary literature - the most influential printed Danish cookbook of the eighteenth century and one of the earliest to combine royal-court gastronomy with more ordinary household practice and a key document in the transmission of French culinary reform to northern Europe. The work became highly influential and went through 18 editions. A professional cook from Itzehoe in Danish Holstein, Looft systematised more than 750 recipes, ranging from soups and meats to tarts and dairy dishes - the first Danish work to include an entire section on vegetables. Showing a deep knowledge about the modern French and English kitchens of La Chapelle and Menon - Looft even introduces the omelette into Danish cookery. While rooted in the Danish-German household tradition the book reflects an international awareness and marks the transition from baroque opulence to Enlightenment refinement in Scandinavian gastronomy.
DNA. - [SIGNED AND NUMBERED]
(No place), Nemo, 1987. Large4to (275 x 210 mm). In the original black printed wrappers. Signed ""Kvium 1987"". Number 77 out of 200. Small mark to lower inner margin of back wrapper, otherwise a very nice and clean copy. (8) pp. + 4 engraving.
Rare early signed and numbered exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of Michael Kvium’s exhibition DNA at Galerie Nemo in July 1987, one of the artist’s earliest solo exhibitions in Germany marking the beginning of Kvium’s international recognition. Includes a short biographical note and reproductions of Kvium’s grotesque and surreal imagery characteristic of his 1980s period when he began exploring the human body as a metaphor for moral and existential distortion. Kvium studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen (1979–1985) and is one of the one of the most sought after modern Danish artists.
Die Leiden des jungen Werthers. Zweynte ächte Auflage. 2 parts. - [THE MAIN WORK OF THE STURM UND DRANG-ERA. - THE WORLD'S FIRST CULT BOOK]
Strassburg & Hanau, 1775. 8vo. Two parts both in the original blank boards. A number a previous owner's name in near contemporary hand to verso of front boards. Boards with a few stains and internally with light occassional brownspotting, but overall a good unsophisticated copy. 95 pp. pp. 97-192.
Very scarce early edition (D2a) of Goethe's monumental novel-debut, which immediately became a major success and one of the most influential and popular books of the 18th century. The novel caused Goethe almost overnight fame. The style of writing has influenced an entire generation of writers. No other of Goethe's works has been so widely read by his contemporaries, and no other work in general has been of as great importance to the Sturm und Drang-period" the work also caused the so-called ""Lesesucht"" (the important and wide-ranging debate in late 18th century on misreading and on dangerous and harmful literature). The impact it had on not only literature, but on almost all aspects of life at the time, was immense and unheard of. Werther might well be the first cult-figure ever"" -a true ""Werther-Fieber"" broke loose, resulting in a distinct Werther-fashion (yellow trousers, yellow waist-coat, blue coat, high turned-down boots, round felt hat and un-powdered hair, as described by Goethe in the novel), Werther-perfume, Werther-cups etc. Numerous people susceptible to influence actually killed themselves in sympathy with the suffering Werther or overwhelmed by the gulf that separates the outer from the inner world suggested in the novel (the first copycat-suicides of the world, -many of the bodies were found with the book in their hands), and the work incited the romantic urge for revolution"" the work is also said to have been Napoleon's favourite novel, which he carried with him at all times. Goethe himself was very surprised by the impact of the work, and said about it: ""Die Wirkung dieses Büchleins war groß, ja ungeheuer, und vorzüglich deshalb, weil es genau in die rechte Zeit traf."" (Dichtung und Wahrheit). This literary masterpiece may be called the first German novel of world literary class, and it not only seems like a modern work of fiction, it is a work which has irreversibly shaped the feeling of life which is specific to modern man. Hagen 89 (D2a).
Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en général. Traduit de l'anglois. - [THE FOUNDATION OF ECONOMIC THEORY]
A Londres, Chez Fletcher Gyles, dans Holborn, 1755. 12mo (17x10 cm). Bound in a nice, contemporary full mottled calf binding with five raised bands to richly gilt spine. All edges of boards with a single gilt line-decoration. Beautiful marbled edges. Very neat and professional restorations to hinges and upper capital. A single tiny worm-hole to middle of spine and a supeficial, barely noticeable, crack down the middle. Old paper-label to lower compartment of spine. One corner a bit worn. Small ex libris to inside of front board, ex libris stamp to half-title. Contemporary owner's name crossed out at title-page. Internally exceptionally nice and clean. Small worm-hole to inner margin of about 60 leaves towards the end, only just touching the edge of a very few letters, otherwise not affecting lettering at all. (4), 430, (6, -Table des Chapitres) pp.
First edition of one of the most important works in the history of economic thought. Cantillon’s work is a pioneering attempt to describe the economy as an interdependent system governed by underlying laws of cause and effect. The author is considered a pioneer of economic theory who anticipated and influenced the likes of Smith, Malthus, Turgot, Quesnay, Mirabeau, etc., etc. and this, his only published work, is considered the first actual work of theoretical economics, an absolutely ground-breaking work which by Jevons was characterized as the ""Cradle of Political Economy"". Cantillon introduces the concept of the entrepreneur as a central economic agent, provides the first analytical model of the circular flow of income and articulates what later became known as the “Cantillon Effect” - the uneven impact of monetary expansion on prices and wealth distribution. Richard Cantillon (1680-1734), though his name is probably of Spanish descent, was an Irishman, and he spent most of his life in France. He was a man of secrecy, and little is known about his life and work. He wrote his only published book, the seminal ""Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général"" between 1730 and 1734 but never saw it published, as he was murdered in 1734 (when he was robbed and his house was set on fire, presumably by his former cook whom he had dismissed ten days earlier), and the book had to await posthumous publication. There is evidence that Cantillon wrote much more than this single work, but the ""Essai"" seems to be the only one that survived the fire in his house on the night of his death. The work was finally published for the first time in French, anonymously, in 1755, and it is not known whether Cantillon actually wrote the manuscript in French and that the mention of translation on the title-page is false (e.g. to avoid French censorship), or whether he wrote the manuscript in English and translated it into French himself"" in all cases, the work circulated in French manuscript form, before it was published, and an English manuscript has never been found. ""In any case, the ""Essai"" is a work of genious, and it was undoubtedly written by Cantillon"" (Brewer, p. 19). After having had an immense influence on the Physiocrats and the French School, directly influencing Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot , François Quesnay, Jean-Baptiste Say, Victor de Riquetti marquis de Mirabeau, Adam Smith, etc., the ""Essay…"" soon sank into obscurity only to be rediscovered by Jevons in the 1880'ies, and throughout the late 19th and the 20th century it has become increasingly evident that the present work is indeed a pioneering work, which directly and indirectly influenced almost all later economic theory. ""Richard Cantillon was a key figure in the early development of economics. He was one of the first to see economy as a single inter-connected system and to try to explain how it worked, and the first to present a coherent theory of prices and income distribution. He made major contributions to monetary theory and to the theory of balance of payments adjustment. The Physiocrats, writing only a few years after the (delayed) publication of Cantillon's one surviving work, the ""Essai sur la nature du commerce en general"", took many of their ideas very directly from it. Adam Smith probably learnt from Cantillon's ""Essai"" , as well as from the Physiocrats. There is thus a direct line of intellectual descent from Cantillon's ""Essai"" to Smith's ""Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations"", and to modern economics."" (Brewer, p. 1). ""Cantillon predated the Physiocrats in two ways. First, he used the term ""entrepreneur"" and emphasized the role of this figure in economic life. Business people, Cantillon said commit themselves to definite payments in expectation of uncertain receipts"" this risk taking is remunerated by profit, which competition tends to reduce to the normal value of the entrepreneurs' services. Second, writing a generation before Quesnay constructed his ""Tableau Economique"", Cantillon stated: ""Cash is therefore necessary, not only for the Rent of the landlord... but also for the City merchandise consumed in the country... The circulation of this money takes place when the Landlords spend in detail in the City the rents which the farmers have paid them in lump sums, and when the Entrepreneurs of the Cities, Butchers, Bakers, Brewers, etc. collect little by little the same money to buy from the Farmers in lump sums Cattle, Wheat, Barley, etc."" Cantillon developed a theory of value and price. His emphasis on the role of land and labor, on supply and demand, and on the fluctuations of price around intrinsic value makes him a direct forerunner of classical economists... Cantillon anticipated classical economic thought in several other ways. For example, he stated, ""Men multiply like mice in a barn if they have unlimited Means of Subsistence."" The classical economist Thomas Malthus held a similar view. Also, Cantillon analyzed interest as a reward for the risk taken in lending, based on profits that the entrepreneurs can make by borrowing and investing... In addition, Cantillon focused on the productivity of a nation's resources..."" (Brue, pp. 59-60). See: Anthony Brewer, Richard Cantillon: Pioneer of Economic Theory, 1992 Stanley L. Brue, The Evolution of Economic Thought. Sixth Edition, 2000 Kress: 5423.Einaudi 846. Goldsmiths’ 8989 Higgs, Bibliography of Economics, 938.
