S.l., Steidl, (2008). Un vol. au format pt in-4 (227 x 192 mm) non paginé. Reliure d'édition de pleine percaline ébène, sous jaquette illustrée.
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Première édition agrémentée de la reproduction de nombreuses photographies. ''Les mots correspondent plus aux pensées, l'image du photographe est toujours drapée d'un éclat romantique''. Très belle condition.
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LUCAS (Charles) - Recueil provenant de la bibliothèque personnelle de Charles Lucas
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Ensemble de 62 pièces reliées en 4 volumes in-8°, 3 de demi-chagrin vert, dos à nerfs et un de demi-maroquin vert, dos lisse orné d'un décor romantique doré (reliures de lépoque).
Précieux recueil de 62 pièces (dont 15 en double), composé en partie de ses propres uvres, constitué par Charles Lucas pour sa bibliothèque personnelle. Chaque volume est précédé d'un index de sa main.Charles Lucas (1803-1899) est l'homme "qui, sans conteste, pendant le XIXe siècle, a le mieux incarné les ambitions et les ambiguïtés de la réforme pénitentiaire (...) et a fondé la Science des prisons" (J.G. Petit).Il personnifia le libéralisme pénal de la Restauration, jetant les bases d'un système pénitentiaire qui récusait l'emprisonnement perpétuel. Guizot le nomma inspecteur des prisons dès le changement de régime, en 1830. Il demeura trente-cinq ans à ce poste.À partir de 1830, l'engouement pour l'amélioration du système pénitentiaire suscita des centaines d'ouvrages. Charles Lucas se constitua une très riche bibliothèque spécialisée, augmentée des nombreuses brochures que l'inspecteur général des prisons recevait. On trouve ici une importante réunion de 21 plaquettes traitant de la colonie agricole du Val d'Yèvre qu'il avait fondée, en 1841, pour recevoir des jeunes délinquants. Après avoir acheté 140 ha de marais au Val dYèvre près de Bourges, Charles Lucas soumit son projet au ministère de lIntérieur qui ne le retint pas. En 1846, il décida de se lancer personnellement dans "laventure". La construction coûta 450.000 francs et lEtat alloua 80 centimes par jour et par colon qui furent transférés de la prison de Fontevraud dès 1847 : 100 en 1850 puis 400 en 1860. En 1865, Charles Lucas devenu aveugle fut remplacé par son fils docteur en droit. En 1872, la colonie fut louée, puis acquise par lEtat et "nationalisée". La loi de 1912 sur les tribunaux pour enfants entraîna une réduction progressive des effectifs jusquen 1924 pour le Val dYèvre ferma définitivement.
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SEGUIN (Armand), PERIER (Casimir), LEVIS (Pierre-Marc-Gaston, duc de)
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Ensemble de 21 documents en un volume in-8, pleine basane racinée de l'époque, dos lisse orné de caissons dorés, pièce de titre rouge, roulette dorée sur les coupes.
Recueil de 21 documents important pour l'histoire économique et financière de la période.Chimiste de formation, mais aussi médecin, homme d'affaires, industriel et financier, collaborateur de Lavoisier et inventeur d'un procédé de tannage novateur, Armand Séguin (1767-1835) fit fortune pendant la Révolution comme fournisseur des armées. Il fut l'un des bailleurs de fonds de Napoléon avait d'être disgracié et emprisonné sous l'Empire. Fort de son expérience, personnalité écoutée et influente, Seguin intervint publiquement à de nombreuses reprises sur les questions financières pendant la Restauration.Dos endommagé, défauts aux mors, coiffes et coins, rousseurs éparses.
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High Holborn, for the Council by Edward Truelove, 1871. Small 8vo. Near contemporary quarter cloth with silver lettering to front board. Binding with signs of use, but overall good. One closed marginal tear and title-page with a few brownspots, otherwise very nice and clean. 35 pp.
Exceedingly rare first edition (with the names of Lucraft and Odger still present under ""The General Council"") of one of Marx' most important works, his seminal defense of the Paris Commune and exposition of the struggle of the Communards, written for all proletarians of the world. While living in London, Marx had joined the International Working Men's Association in 1864 - ""a society founded largely by members of Britain's growing trade unions and designed to foster international working class solidarity and mutual assistance. Marx accepted the International's invitation to represent Germany and became the most active member of its governing General Council, which met every Tuesday evening, first at 18 Greek Street in Soho and later in Holborn. In this role, Marx had his first sustained contact with the British working class and wrote some of his most memorable works, notably ""The Civil War in France"". A polemical response to the destruction of the Paris Commune by the French government in 1871, it brought Marx notoriety in London as 'the red terror doctor', a reputation that helped ensure the rejection of his application for British citizenship several years later. Despite his considerable influence within the International, it was never ideologically homogenous... (homas C. Jones: ""Karl Marx' London"").The work was highly controversial, but extremely influential. Even though most of the Council members of the International sanctioned the Address, it caused a rift internally, and some of the English members of the General Council were enraged to be seen to endorse it. Thus, for the second printing of the work, the names of Lucraft and Odger, who had now withdrawn from the Council, were removed from the list of members of ""The General Council"" at the end of the pamphlet. ""[Marx] defended the Commune in a bitterly eloquent pamphlet, ""The Civil War in France"", whose immediate effect was further to identify the International with the Commune, by then in such wide disrepute that some of the English members of the General Council refused to endorse it."" (Saul K. Padover, preface to Vol. II of the Karl Marx Library, pp. XLVII-XLVIII).""Written by Karl Marx as an address to the General Council of the International, with the aim of distributing to workers of all countries a clear understanding of the character and world-wide significance of the heroic struggle of the Communards and their historical experience to learn from. The book was widely circulated by 1872 it was translated into several languages and published throughout Europe and the United States."" (The Karl Marx Archive)Marx concluded ""The Civil War in France"" with these impassioned words, which were to resound with workers all over the world: ""Working men's Paris, with its Commune, will be forever celebrated as the glorious harbinger of a new society. Its martyrs are enshrined in the great heart of the working class. Its exterminators history has already nailed to that eternal pillory from which all the prayers of their priests will not avail to redeem them.""The address, which was delivered on May 30, 1871, two days after the defeat of the Paris Commune, was to have an astounding effect on working men all over the world and on the organization of power of the proletarians. It appeared in three editions in 1871, was almost immediately translated into numerous languages and is now considered one of the most important works that Marx ever wrote. "" ""The Civil War in France"", one of Marx's most important works, was written as an address by the General Council of the International to all Association members in Europe and the United States.From the earliest days of the Paris Commune Marx made a point of collecting and studying all available information about its activities. He made clippings from all available French, English and German newspapers of the time. Newspapers from Paris reached London with great difficulty. Marx had at his disposal only individual issues of Paris newspapers that supported the Commune. He had to use English and French bourgeois newspapers published in London, including ones of Bonapartist leanings, but succeeded in giving an objective picture of the developments in Paris. ...Marx also drew valuable information from the letters of active participants and prominent figures of the Paris Commune, such as Leo Frankel, Eugene Varlin, Auguste Serraillier, Yelisaveta Tornanovskaya, as well as from the letters of Paul Lafargue, Pyotr Lavrov and others.Originally he intended to write an address to the workers of Paris, as he declared at the meeting of the General Council on March 28, 1871. His motion was unanimously approved. The further developments in Paris led him, however, to the conclusion that an appeal should be addressed to proletarians of the world. At the General Council meeting on April 18, Marx suggested to issue ""an address to the International generally about the general tendency of the struggle."" Marx was entrusted with drafting the address. He started his work after April 18 and continued throughout May. Originally he wrote the First and Second drafts of ""The Civil War in France"" as preparatory variants for the work, and then set about making up the final text of the address.He did most of the work on the First and Second drafts and the final version roughly between May 6 and 30. On May 30, 1871, two days after the last barricade had fallen in Paris, the General Council unanimously approved the text of ""The Civil War in France"", which Marx had read out.""The Civil War in France"" was first published in London on about June 13, 1871 in English, as a pamphlet of 35 pages in 1,000 copies. Since the first edition quickly sold out, the second English edition of 2,000 copies was published at a lower price, for sale to workers. In this edition [i.e., MECW], Marx corrected some of the misprints occurring in the first edition, and the section ""Notes"" was supplemented with another document. Changes were made in the list of General Council members who signed the Address: the names of Lucraft and Odger were deleted, as they had expressed disagreement with the Address in the bourgeois press and had withdrawn from the General Council, and the names of the new members of the General Council were added. In August 1871, the third English edition of ""The Civil War in France"" came out, in which Marx eliminated the inaccuracies of the previous editions.In 1871-72, ""The Civil War"" in France was translated into French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Flemish, Serbo-Croat, Danish and Polish, and published in the periodical press and as separate pamphlets in various European countries and the USA. It was repeatedly published in subsequent years....In 1891, when preparing a jubilee German edition of ""The Civil War in France"" to mark the 20th anniversary of the Paris Commune, Engels once again edited the text of his translation. He also wrote an introduction to this edition, emphasising the historical significance of the experience of the Paris Commune, and its theoretical generalisation by Marx in ""The Civil War in France"", and also giving additional information on the activities of the Communards from among the Blanquists and Proudhonists. Engels included in this edition the First and Second addresses of the General Council of the International Working Men's Association on the Franco-Prussian war, which were published in subsequent editions in different languages also together with ""The Civil War France"". (Notes on the Publication of ""The Civil War in France"" from MECW Volume 22). Only very few copies of the book from 1871 on OCLC are not explicitly stated to be 2nd or 3rd editions, and we have not been able to find a single copy for sale at auctions within the last 50 years.
LAVOISIER (Antoine-Laurent), TURGOT (Anne Robert Jacques), NECKER (Jacques), ETC - POUDRES & SALPETRE
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Ensemble de 13 documents reliés en un volume in-4, cartonnage marbré à la Bradel, pièce de titre de veau blond en long (rel. moderne).
Exceptionnel ensemble, en édition originale, de ces 13 documents: les principales mesures législatives et décisions publiques concernant le salpêtre et les poudres, depuis le rapport fondateur du 4 avril 1686 sur la qualité des poudres jusqu'à la prise en main, par Turgot, pour le compte de l'Etat, de la fabrication stratégique de la poudre et ses développements sous la responsabilité de Lavoisier. Turgot, contrôleur général des Finances, décida en 1774 de créer la Régie des poudres et salpêtres, organisme public qui succède à la Ferme des poudres, société privée. En 1775, il nomma quatre régisseurs, parmi lesquels Lavoisier. Réagissant en scientifique, celui-ci fit de nombreuses expériences pour améliorer la fabrication des poudres et la récolte de salpêtre. Nommé directeur de la Régie en 1776, ses efforts furent récompensés : l'Etat réalisa de considérables économies; la poudre française devint la meilleure d'Europe et les stocks suffisants pour envisager l'avenir militaire avec sérénité.Cf. 3 à 5- Les trois actes officiels par lesquels le bail des poudres était résilié; l'exploitation, la fabrique et la vente des poudres et salpêtres étant transférés à une Régie. Les mesures furent prises sur l'initiative de Turgot.Les sieurs Lefaucheux, Clouet, Lavoisier et Barbault de Glatigny "auront [désormais] l'administration générale de la régie & service des poudres & salpêtres dans toute l'étendue du royaume".8- Edition originale de cet arrêt pris par Necker, alors contrôleur général, à la suite des propositions de Lavoisier et des 'régisseurs des Poudres'. Il vise à mettre fin aux excès des dispositions prévues par le 'Droit de fouilles' (cf. item n°2) chez les particuliers et à favoriser l''art de la nitrification'.9- Édition originale. La décision officielle qui reconduit pour six années le mandat de Régisseurs des Poudres & Salpêtres à Lavoisier, Lefaucheux, Clouet et Barbault de Glatigny.
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CARDOT (Victor-Philippe-Eugène), LOMBARD (Adolphe), MARGERIE (Amédée de), MIGNARD (Prosper), ROUSSET (Gustave), SIMONNET (Jules), TISSOT (Claude-Joseph)
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