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‎Le Vilebrequin de Me. Adam, Menuisier de Nevers. Contenant toutes sortes de Poësies gallantes, tant en Sonnets, Epistres, Epigrammes, Elégies, Madrigaux, que Stances, & autres Pièces autant curieuses, que divertissantes, sur toutes sortes de sujets. Dedié à Monsieur le Prince. A Paris, chez Guillaume de Luyne, 1663. In-12 de 295pp. (1)f.‎

‎ P., Guillaume de Luyne, 1663 ; petit in-12. 23ff.-528pp.-3ff. (erreur de pagniation). Veau brun de l'époque, dos à nerfs, filets dorés, pièces de titre en papier manuscrite (XIXe s. ?). Coiffes arassées, coins frottés, cuir craquelé, page de titre montée sur onglet. Note manuscrite ancienne sur le contreplat inf. vantant les mérites de la poésie de Me Adam. ‎

‎Edition originale précédant celle en 295pp. publiée la même année. Elle présente la particularité d'avoir une numérotation erronnée après la page 240, la pagination reprend au numéro 351. Le texte est cependant parfaitement complet comme viennent le confirmer l'enchainement des vers, les signatures des cahiers (qui se suivent) et la réclame de fin de page qui renvoie bien au premier mot de la page suivante. Cette édition du second recueil de poésies d'Adam Billaut (après Les Chevilles, en 1644) a été établie par son ami Augustin François Berthier, prieur de Saincaize (Nièvre) qui aprend la mort du poète en 1662 au moment ou il rédige la préface du volume. Il préparait aussi la publication du "Rabot" qui ne sera finalement pas imprimée. Berthier a également laissé une oeuvre inédite qui ne sera publiée qu'au XIXe siècle. Celui qu'on surnoma ironiquement le "Virgile du rabot" était né à Nevers en 1602. De modeste extraction, il eut à lutter contre les préjuger de sa condition, même s'il fut loué de son vivant par de nombreux auteurs (Ménard, Scudéry, De Thou... et même Corneille), et parfois aidé financièrement par le Prince de Gonzague, Richelieu, ou l'abbé de Marolles, il dut retourner à son état de menuisier à Nevers après avoir tenté sa chance à Paris. Ce n'était pas, en effet, un poète de cour, et ses vers sont emprunt de simplicité, d'humour et d'une modernité qui les rendent si agréablement lisibles aujourd'hui. ‎

‎Le vilebrequin de Me Adam menuisier de Nevers‎

‎ Paris, Guillaume de Luyne, 1663. In-12, (44)-528-(6) pp. (erreur pagination p. 240 et sqq.), reliure veau brun postérieure, dos orné, jolis bandeaux, lettrines et culs-de-lampe (dos frotté, coiffes arasées, mors fendus mais exemplaire solide ; manque un feuillet au Privilège). ‎

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‎ * Voir photographie(s) / See picture(s). * Membre du SLAM et de la LILA / ILAB Member. La librairie est ouverte du lundi au vendredi de 14h à 19h. Merci de nous prévenir avant de passer,certains de nos livres étant entreposés dans une réserve. ‎

‎The Correspondence of Adam Smith‎

‎Oxford University Press 1977 472 pages in8. 1977. Cartonné jaquette. 472 pages.‎

‎Très Bon Etat de conservation intérieur propre bonne tenue avec sa jaquette‎

‎Morgane Drame en cinq actes et en prose‎

‎. "Chamuel, Editeur ""Paris, 1894, in-8 broché, couverture rempliée. 231pp. Première édition en librairie. Un des 100 exemplaires numérotés sur papier des Manufactures Impériales du Japon, seul grand papier annoncé. Petites rousseurs sur les plats de couvertures, dos légèrement bruni. Très bon état. (Clouzot, 276 : L'édition originale de Morgane; Saint-Brieuc, Imp. Guyon-Francisque, 1866, in-8. Tiré à petit nombre, hors-commerce et rare)."""‎

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‎Formulaire pratique à l'usage des mécaniciens et des outilleurs : Aide-mémoire pour techniciens d'ateliers par I.-P. Adam ... 13e édition - 14e éd‎

‎H. Adam 1977 in12. 1977. Cartonné.‎

‎proche du très bon état bonne tenue intérieur propre‎

‎Recherches sur la Nature et la Cause de la Richesse des Nations. Traduction nouvelle avec des notes et des observations ; par Germain Garnier.‎

‎A Paris, chez H. Agasse, 1802. 5 vol. in-8, veau raciné glacé, dos lisse orné, pièces de titre et de tomaison en maroquin brun, tranches marbrées (reliure de l'époque). ‎

‎Édition originale de la traduction de Germain Garnier considérée comme la meilleure. La préface contient un exposé sommaire des doctrines d'Adam Smith.Germain Garnier fut ancien secrétaire de Mme Adélaïde ; préfet de Seine-et-Oise, ministre d'État et membre du conseil privé du roi Louis XVIII, il expose dans ses notes (rassemblées dans le cinquième volume) sa théorie des richesses immatérielles, vulgarisée par la suite par Say et Destutt de Tracy ; ces notes ont été à leur tour traduites en anglais et incorporées dans l'édition anglaise de 1805. Portrait d'Adam Smith gravé par B.L. Prévost.Bel exemplaire. Infimes petits défauts à trois coiffes.Kress, B 4604 ; Goldsmiths, 18412 ; Einaudi ,5340 ; PMM, 211. ‎

‎[Manuscrit]. Anne Comnène.‎

‎S.l.n.d., , (vers 1893). Manuscrit in-4 à 25 lignes sur belle page de 132 ff. (16 x 20 cm) montés en 1 album, demi-vélin ivoire à coins, titre enluminé sur le dos (reliure de l'époque). ‎

‎Manuscrit autographe non daté signé Paul Adam (1862-1920).Roman historique fin-de-siècle qui emprunte à l’instar d’Aphrodite de Pierre Louys ou des Contes de la décadence romaine de Jean Richepin son sujet à l’Antiquité tardive : la princesse byzantine Anne Comnène (1083 - v. 1153), premier enfant de l’empereur Alexis Ier et de l’impératrice Irène Doukas, qui laissa un long poème épique l’Alexiade l'une des principales sources d’information sur l’histoire politique de Byzance de la fin du XIe au début du XIIe siècle.Manuscrit abondamment biffé et corrigé, d'une grande lisibilité, dont le texte intégral est conforme à l'édition originale (Firmin-Didot, 1893) qui joignait l'histoire de l'impératrice d'Orient Irène (752-803) sous le titre Princesses byzantines, par Paul Adam. La très pieuse Irène. Anne Comnène. ‎

‎Musée du Chasseur, ou Collection de toutes les espèces de gibier de poil ou de plume qu'on chasse au fusil avec la description de leurs caractères, leurs mœurs etc. Dirigé par un chasseur naturaliste et lithographié par Victor Adam.‎

‎Paris, Armand Robin, 1838. 2 vol. grand in-8 de (4)-VIII-224 pp., 36 planches lithographiées coloriées hors texte ; (4)-227-(2) pp., XVI pp. (supplément), 36 planches lithographiées coloriées hors-texte, demi-chagrin brun à coins, dos muet à quatre nerfs, non rogné (reliure moderne). ‎

‎Édition originale peu commune de cet album du peintre et lithographe Victor Adam (1801-1886) illustré de 72 planches lithographiées et coloriées, en quatre séries numérotées : pour le tome I, "Gibier de plume" n°1 à 20 et "Gibier de poil" n°1 à 16 ; pour le tome II, "Oiseaux de rivage" n°1 à 20 et "Oiseaux d'eau" n°1 à 16. Exemplaire complet du feuillet d'explication des "bois de cerfs" (relié par erreur en fin du tome II) et du supplément paginé I-XVI à la suite de la page 124 (tome II). Erreurs de pagination sans manque : au tome I, la pagination 137-156 n'existe pas tandis que la pagination 97 à 104 est répétée.Ex-libris manuscrit "Louis Béraud" à l'encre du temps. Rousseurs, quelques pâles mouillures.Thiébaud, 6 : « Ce bel ouvrage devient de plus en plus rare » ; Souhart, 1 ; Nissen ZBI 18 ; Ronsil 14 ; Schwerdt I, p.3. ‎

‎Janvier 1830. Promenade pittoresque dans Paris.‎

‎Paris, Bichebois & cie, Chaillou-Potrelle, Rittner ; London, Tilt, 1830. 7 lithographies (19 x 13 cm) en feuilles, sous couverture verte illustrée. ‎

‎Suite complète de 7 lithographies en noir du peintre et lithographe Victor Adam (1801-1886), et de Sabatier et Bichebois.La planche 7 et dernière n'a pas d'encadrement. La couverture porte une vignette lithographiée d'après Adam intitulée Costumes parisiens.Belle suite lithographiée de scènes de Paris enneigé : Thermomètre de l'ingénieur Chevallier, Château d'eau, Chauffoir public, La Seine au pont de la grève, Champs Élysées, Pont Neuf, Chantier de bois à brûler.Petites rousseurs ; marge supérieure de la couverture brunie. Timbre sec « Bichebois aîné Paris » sur chaque planche. ‎

‎Adam Mickiewicz et la pensée française 1830-1923. Témoignages des Ecrivains français sur Adam Mickiewicz choisis et publiés par Stanislaw Piotr KOCZOROWSKI.‎

‎ P., Gebethner et Wolff, 1929 ; in-8, br. -83pp.-2ff. Bon état.‎

‎EDITION ORIGINALE. Tirage limité à 600 ex. Envoi de lauteur. Avec des textes de George SAND, SAINTE-BEUVE, Jules MICHELET, Victor HUGO, etc. On joint un article de presse, signé Paul Lorquet, sur l'érection d'un monument à Mickiewicz sur la place de l'Alma à Paris. ‎

‎Lectures on Jurisprudence (The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith)‎

‎OXFORD UNIV PR 1978 654 pages in8. 1978. Cartonné jaquette. 654 pages.‎

‎Bon état avec sa jaquette intérieur propre bonne tenue‎

‎The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Glasgow Edition of the Works of Adam Smith)‎

‎Oxford University Press 1976 442 pages in8. 1976. Cartonné. 442 pages.‎

‎proche du neuf‎

‎An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: 2 Volumes (Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith)‎

‎Oxford University Press 1976 1096 pages in8. 1976. Cartonné jaquette. 2 volume(s). 1096 pages.‎

‎Très bon état intérieurs propres bonne tenue avec leur jaquette‎

‎Fables de Florian‎

‎ Paris, Houdaille et Cie, s.d. In-4, XII-288 pp. 111 pl., cartonnage de l'éditeur lithographié en or et en couleurs par A. Jourdan d'après V. Huysmans, dos long illustré (frottements, taches et rousseurs). ‎

‎Édition illustrée de 111 planches et de vignettes en noir dans le texte de Victor Adam. Elle comprend une notice biographique sur Florian de Charles Nodier. Étiquette de la librairie de Charles Savy à Lyon, ex-libris manuscrit A. Vincent. * Membre du SLAM et de la LILA / ILAB Member. La librairie est ouverte du lundi au vendredi de 14h à 19h. Merci de nous prévenir avant de passer,certains de nos livres étant entreposés dans une réserve. ‎

‎The Michelson Echelon Diffraction Grating‎

‎Londres, Adam Hilger, 1901, in-8, 16 pp, Broché, couverture rose imprimée en noir, Brochure illustrée de schémas et de reproductions en noir sur les réseaux de diffraction Michelson Echelon. Quelques aches aux plats de couverture. Couverture rigide‎

‎Bon 16 pp.‎

‎Premières poésies 1856-1858‎

‎Bruxelles, Paul Lacomblez, 1893, in-12, 222 pp, Broché, couverture originale imprimée, Deuxième édition de ce recueil des premiers poèmes composés par l'auteur alors qu'il n'avait encore que dix-neuf ans, réédité alors que Villiers de L'Isle-Adam est décédé depuis quatre ans déjà. Il contient les Fantaisies nocturnes, Hermosa, Les Préludes et le Chant du calvaire. Premier plat de couverture détaché, quelques minuscules déchirures à la couverture. Couverture rigide‎

‎Bon 222 pp.‎

‎Geschichte der brownischen Lehre in drey Aufsätzen‎

‎Frankfurt am Main, Andreäische Buchhandlung, 1796, in-12, 64-45-72 pp, Cartonnage ancien, Rare. Étude en trois essais (chaque partie a son titre propre) sur la doctrine brownienne, traduit de l'italien par Melchior Adam (1742-1803) : 1. Discours sur la doctrine brownienne par Giovanni Rasori (1766-1837). 2. Sur la maladie des bêtes à cornes l'épizootie par Peter Deho. 3. Sur la doctrine brownienne par Joseph Frank (1771-1842). John Brown (1735-1788), médecin écossais, est le créateur d'un système de pensée médicale vitaliste, connu sous son nom, le Brownisme : pour lui, la vie résultait d'une réaction active et perpétuelle de l'individu à son environnement. Cette théorie dite "de l'excitabilité" eut un fort retentissement en Allemagne. Ex-libris manuscrit à l'encre (1907). Auréole intérieure sur les premiers feuillets. Cartonnage usé, dos manquant. Couverture rigide‎

‎Bon 64-45-72 pp.‎

‎"Vers et prose ""défense et illustration"" de la haute littérature et du lyrisme en prose et en poésie. Les poètes fantaisistes. T. II Juin-Juillet-Août 1905. Paul Fort directeur / André Salmon secrétaire."‎

‎Vers et prose Paris, 1905, in-4 broché, 220pp.-6pp. Liste des abonnés à la revue Vers et Prose-1f. Paul Claudel : Les Muses, ode/ Viélé-Griffin : Tantale / Barrès : Autour de mon clocher (préface) / Francis Jammes : l'âne de Sancho Pança/ Paul Adam : Irène et Jean/ Abert Mockel : l'éternelle fiançée/ Stefan George / Stuart Merill / Jean Moréas / [Paul Fort / André Salmon] Saint-Pol-Roux / Tornouel / Omar Khayyam / Mécilas Golberg / Albert Saint-Paul / Valère Gille / Tancrède de Visan / Tristan Klingsor / Henri Delormel / Henri Ghéon / William Morris / Dowson / Robert de Souza / E. de Castro. Bon exemplaire.‎

‎Histoires souveraines‎

‎ Bruxelles, Edm. Deman, 1899. In-4, 367 pp., demi-maroquin à coins vert, dos à nerfs orné de filets dorés, couverture conservée (couverture restaurée, les 2 premiers ff. en cours de débrochage, quelques petites rousseurs éparses). ‎

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‎Édition originale collective posthume, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam étant décédé une décennie auparavant. Elle est illustrée de 20 bandeaux et 20 culs-de-lampe Art nouveau de Théo van Rysselberghe et a été tirée sur papier vergé. Voir photographie(s) / See picture(s) * Membre du SLAM et de la LILA / ILAB Member. La librairie est ouverte du lundi au vendredi de 14h à 19h. Merci de nous prévenir avant de passer,certains de nos livres étant entreposés dans une réserve. ‎

‎Untersuchung der Natur und Ursachen von Nationalreichthümern, Aus dem Englischen. 2 Bände. - [THE SEMINAL FIRST TRANSLATION OF 'WEALTH OF NATIONS']‎

‎Leipzig, Weidmann, 1776-78. 8vo. Bound in two nice uniform contemporary half calf bindings with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front free end-papers and a small embossed stamp to front free end paper on volume 1 (""Buchhändler u. Antiquar Carl Helf""). Stamp to p. 1 of both volumes. Spines with light soiling and capital on volume 1 lacking a small part of the leather. A few light brown spots throught. A fine set. VIII, 632 pp"" XII, 740 pp.‎

‎First German edition, also being the very first overall translation, of Adam Smith's ground-breaking main work, the ""Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations"". This seminal first translation of the work was undertaken by J.F. Schiller, who finished the first part of the translation in time for it to appear as soon as 1776, the same year as the original English edition. The second part appeared in 1778, the same year as the exceedingly scarce first French translation. This first German translation has been of the utmost importance to the spreading of Smith's ideas throughout Europe, and, after the true first, this must count as the most important edition of the work.""The influence of the Wealth of Nations [...] in Germany [...] was so great that 'the whole of political economy might be divided into two parts - before and since Adam Smith"" the first part being a prelude, and the second a sequel."" (Backhouse, Roger E., The Methodology of Economics: Nineteenth-Century British Contributions, Routledge, 1997.)""The first review of the translation, which appeared in the Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen for March 10, 1777, by J. G. H. Feder, professor of Philosophy at the University of Göttingen, was very favorable. In the words of the reviewer: ""It is a classic"" very estimable both for its thorough, not too limited, often far-sighted political philosophy, and for the numerous, frequently discursive historical notes,"" but the exposition suffers from too much repetition."" (Lai, Cheng-chung. Adam Smith Across Nations: Translations and Receptions of The Wealth of Nations, Clarendon Press, UK, 2000).Until 1797, [...], the work of Adam Smith received scant attention in Germany. While Frederick II was living, Cameralism held undisputed sway in Prussia, and the economic change which began with the outbreak of the French Revolution had still not gained sufficient momentum to awake the economic theorists from their dogmatic slumber."" (Lai, Cheng-chung. Adam Smith Across Nations: Translations and Receptions of The Wealth of Nations, Clarendon Press, UK, 2000).Various German economist read the german translations and was inspired by it.""Christian Garve, [...], must be considered as among the important contributors to the spread of Smith's views. Himself a popularizer of philosophical doctrines, he was early attracted by the Scotch writers and became one of their foremost exponents in Germany."" In 1791 Garve began a second translation of the Smith's work and in the introduction to the the translation he wrote: ""It (Smith's work) attracted me as only few books have in the course of my studies through the number of new views which it gave me not only concerning the actual abject of his investigations, but concerning all related material from the philosophy of civil and social life"". Georg Sartorius, August Ferdinand Lueder and, perhaps the most important economist of the period, Christian Jacob Kraus, were all important figures in the spread of Smith's thought. ""The most significant of Kraus' works and that also which shows his conception of economic science most clearly is the five-volume work entitled State Economy. The first four volumes of this work are little more than a free paraphrase of the Wealth of Nations"". Kraus was: ""to a large extent responsible for the economic changes which took place in Prussia after 1807, in so far as they can be ascribed to Smithan influence."" (Lai, Cheng-chung. Adam Smith Across Nations: Translations and Receptions of The Wealth of Nations, Clarendon Press, UK, 2000).Kraus wrote of the present volume: ""[T]he world has seen no more important book than that of Adam Smith.... [C]ertainly since the times of the New Testament no writing has had more beneficial results than this will have.... [Smith's doctrines form] the only true, great, beautiful, just and beneficial system."" (Fleischacker, Samuel , A Third Concept of Liberty, Princeton University Press, 1999.)_____________Hailed as the ""first and greatest classic of modern thought"" (PMM 221), Adam Smith's tremendously influential main work has had a profound impact on thought and politics, and is considered the main foundation of the era of liberal free trade that dominated the nineteenth century. Adam Smith (1723-1790) is considered the founder of Political Economy in Britain, mainly due to his groundbreaking work, the ""Wealth of Nations"" from 1776. The work took him 12 years to write and was probably in contemplation 12 years before that. It was originally published in two volumes in 4to, and was published later the same year in Dublin in three volumes in 8vo. The book sold well, and the first edition, the number of which is unknown, sold out within six months, which came as a surprise to the publisher, and probably also to Smith himself, partly because the work ""requires much thought and reflection (qualities that do not abound among modern readers) to peruse to any purpose."" (Letter from David Hume, In: Rae, Life of Adam Smith, 1895, p. 286), partly because it was hardly reviewed or noticed by magazines or annuals. In spite of this, it did evoke immense interest in the learned and the political world, and Buckle's words that the work is ""in its ultimate results probably the most important book that has ever been written"", and that it has ""done more towards the happiness of man than has been effected by the united abilities of all the statesmen and legislators of whom history has preserved an authentic account"" (History of Civilisation, 1869, I:214) well describes the opinion of a great part of important thinkers then as well as now. Kress S. 2567Goldsmith 11394Menger 521Not in Einaudi‎

‎Untersuchung der Natur und Ursachen von Nationalreichthümern, Aus dem Englischen. 2 Bände. - [THE SEMINAL FIRST TRANSLATION OF 'WEALTH OF NATIONS']‎

‎Leipzig, Weidmann, 1776-78. 8vo. Bound in two nice uniform contemporary half calf bindings with five raised bands, black title-label and gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label to upper compartment (Catalogue-number from an estate-library). Light wear to extremities, otherwise a very nice set. VIII, 632 pp" XII, 740 pp.‎

‎First German edition, also being the very first overall translation, of Adam Smith's ground-breaking main work, the ""Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations"". This seminal first translation of the work was undertaken by J.F. Schiller, who finished the first part of the translation in time for it to appear as soon as 1776, the same year as the original English edition. The second part appeared in 1778, the same year as the exceedingly scarce first French translation. This first German translation has been of the utmost importance to the spreading of Smith's ideas throughout Europe, and, after the true first, this must count as the most important edition of the work.""The influence of the Wealth of Nations [...] in Germany [...] was so great that 'the whole of political economy might be divided into two parts - before and since Adam Smith"" the first part being a prelude, and the second a sequel."" (Backhouse, Roger E., The Methodology of Economics: Nineteenth-Century British Contributions, Routledge, 1997.)""The first review of the translation, which appeared in the Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen for March 10, 1777, by J. G. H. Feder, professor of Philosophy at the University of Göttingen, was very favorable. In the words of the reviewer: ""It is a classic"" very estimable both for its thorough, not too limited, often far-sighted political philosophy, and for the numerous, frequently discursive historical notes,"" but the exposition suffers from too much repetition."" (Lai, Cheng-chung. Adam Smith Across Nations: Translations and Receptions of The Wealth of Nations, Clarendon Press, UK, 2000).Until 1797, [...], the work of Adam Smith received scant attention in Germany. While Frederick II was living, Cameralism held undisputed sway in Prussia, and the economic change which began with the outbreak of the French Revolution had still not gained sufficient momentum to awake the economic theorists from their dogmatic slumber."" (Lai, Cheng-chung. Adam Smith Across Nations: Translations and Receptions of The Wealth of Nations, Clarendon Press, UK, 2000).Various German economist read the german translations and was inspired by it.""Christian Garve, [...], must be considered as among the important contributors to the spread of Smith's views. Himself a popularizer of philosophical doctrines, he was early attracted by the Scotch writers and became one of their foremost exponents in Germany."" In 1791 Garve began a second translation of the Smith's work and in the introduction to the the translation he wrote: ""It (Smith's work) attracted me as only few books have in the course of my studies through the number of new views which it gave me not only concerning the actual abject of his investigations, but concerning all related material from the philosophy of civil and social life"". Georg Sartorius, August Ferdinand Lueder and, perhaps the most important economist of the period, Christian Jacob Kraus, were all important figures in the spread of Smith's thought. ""The most significant of Kraus' works and that also which shows his conception of economic science most clearly is the five-volume work entitled State Economy. The first four volumes of this work are little more than a free paraphrase of the Wealth of Nations"". Kraus was: ""to a large extent responsible for the economic changes which took place in Prussia after 1807, in so far as they can be ascribed to Smithan influence."" (Lai, Cheng-chung. Adam Smith Across Nations: Translations and Receptions of The Wealth of Nations, Clarendon Press, UK, 2000).Kraus wrote of the present volume: ""[T]he world has seen no more important book than that of Adam Smith.... [C]ertainly since the times of the New Testament no writing has had more beneficial results than this will have.... [Smith's doctrines form] the only true, great, beautiful, just and beneficial system."" (Fleischacker, Samuel , A Third Concept of Liberty, Princeton University Press, 1999.)_____________Hailed as the ""first and greatest classic of modern thought"" (PMM 221), Adam Smith's tremendously influential main work has had a profound impact on thought and politics, and is considered the main foundation of the era of liberal free trade that dominated the nineteenth century. Adam Smith (1723-1790) is considered the founder of Political Economy in Britain, mainly due to his groundbreaking work, the ""Wealth of Nations"" from 1776. The work took him 12 years to write and was probably in contemplation 12 years before that. It was originally published in two volumes in 4to, and was published later the same year in Dublin in three volumes in 8vo. The book sold well, and the first edition, the number of which is unknown, sold out within six months, which came as a surprise to the publisher, and probably also to Smith himself, partly because the work ""requires much thought and reflection (qualities that do not abound among modern readers) to peruse to any purpose."" (Letter from David Hume, In: Rae, Life of Adam Smith, 1895, p. 286), partly because it was hardly reviewed or noticed by magazines or annuals. In spite of this, it did evoke immense interest in the learned and the political world, and Buckle's words that the work is ""in its ultimate results probably the most important book that has ever been written"", and that it has ""done more towards the happiness of man than has been effected by the united abilities of all the statesmen and legislators of whom history has preserved an authentic account"" (History of Civilisation, 1869, I:214) well describes the opinion of a great part of important thinkers then as well as now. Kress S. 2567Goldsmith 11394Menger 521Not in Einaudi‎

‎Recherches sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations‎

‎ Londres et Paris, chez Pierre J. Duplain, 1788. 2 vol. in-8, [4]-IV-503-[5] pp. + [4]-496 pp., basane marbrée fauve, dos à nerfs orné de caissons dorés, pièce de titre rouge, tranches rouges (épidermures, coiffes supérieures arasées, quelques taches, rousseurs, marques de lecture au crayon). ‎

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‎Nouvelle édition de la traduction par l'abbé Blavet du traité de Smith. Il s'agit de son plus célèbre ouvrage, paru pour la première fois au Royaume-Uni en 1776. Il rencontre un succès immédiat et pas moins de cinq éditions en anglais sont publiées durant la vie de l'auteur. Entre 1778 et 1843, il sera publié 17 éditions françaises. Cet ouvrage est considéré comme le premier de l'économie moderne et du libéralisme. Ex-libris manuscrits aux titres F[rançois] L[ouis] de Barville et Ch[ar]les de Sailly. Lai, Adam Smith Across Nations; 80 Economic Bestsellers before 1850, XXVI. Voir photographie(s) / See picture(s) * Membre du SLAM et de la LILA / ILAB Member. La librairie est ouverte du lundi au vendredi de 14h à 19h. Merci de nous prévenir avant de passer,certains de nos livres étant entreposés dans une réserve. ‎

‎Corregio Ein Trauerspiel von Oehlenschläger‎

‎ Stuttgart, J.G. Cotta, 1832. In-12, 198 pp., veau vert, filets dorés en encadrement sur les plats, dos long orné de filets et d'arabesques dorés, pièce de titre rouge, tranches dorées (épidermures, petit manque à la coiffe supérieure, coins émoussés, rousseurs). ‎

‎Troisième édition en allemand de cette pièce de théâtre du poète et dramaturge danois Adam Oehlenschläger. Elle met en scène Le Corrège, Michel-Ange et Jules Romain. Voir photographie(s) / See picture(s) * Membre du SLAM et de la LILA / ILAB Member. La librairie est ouverte du lundi au vendredi de 14h à 19h. Merci de nous prévenir avant de passer,certains de nos livres étant entreposés dans une réserve. ‎

‎Axël - Oeuvres complètes de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam IV‎

‎Mercure de France 1923 in8. 1923. Broché.‎

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‎couverture ternie tranche fanée ternie sous rhodoïd intérieur propre‎

‎Undersøgelse om National-Velstands Natur og Aarsag. Af det Engelske oversat og med nogle Anmærkninger oplyst af Dræbye. 2 Deele. [Anden Deel:] Hertil er føiet Gourvenør Pownals Brev til Forfatteren i hvilket nogle af de i dette Værk fremsatte Læresætn... - [FIRST DANISH EDITION OF ""THE WEALTH OF NATIONS""]‎

‎Kiøbenhavn [Copenhagen], 1779-80. 8vo. Two very nice contemporary brown half calf bindings with raised bands, gilt ornamentations and gilt leather title- and tome-labels. Volume two with a bit of wear to upper capital. Corners slightly bumped. Pencil annotations to verso of title-page in volume one" title-page in volume two mounted to cover up a small hole caused by the removal of an old owner's name. Internally very clean and bright. All in all a very nice, clean, fresh, and tight copy. Engraved (by Weise, 1784) armorial book plate to inside of front boards (Gregorius Christianus Comes ab Haxthausen). (12), 575" (8), 775, (3, - errata) pp.‎

‎The extremely scarce first Danish edition of Adam Smith's seminal main work, ""the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought"" (PMM 221), the main foundational work of the era of liberal free trade. This publication constitutes the first Danish work worth mentioning in the history of economic thought - in spite of the great interest in political economy that dominated Danish political thought in the last quarter of the 18th century. The value of Smith's work was not immediately recognized in Denmark at the time of its appearance and a quarter of a century had to go by for its importance to be acknowledged and for Danish political economy to adapt the revolutionizing theories of Adam Smith. Few copies of the translation were published and sold, and the book is now a great scarcity. As opposed to for instance the German translation of the work, Smith concerned himself a great deal with this Danish translation. As is evident from preserved correspondence about it, he reacted passionately to it and was deeply concerned with the reaction to his work in Scandinavia (see ""Correspondence of Adam Smith"", Oxford University Press, 1977).- As an example, Smith writes in a letter to Andreas Holt on Oct. 26th, 1780: ""It gives me the greatest pleasure to hear that Mr. Dreby has done me the distinguished honour of translating my Book into the Danish language. I beg you will present to him my most sincere thanks and most respectful Compliments. I am much concerned that I cannot have the pleasure of reading it in his translation, as I am so unfortunate as not to understand the Danish language."" The translation was made by Frants Dræby (1740-1814), the son a whiskey distiller in Copenhagen, who mastered as a theologian and was then hired by the great Norwegian merchant James Collett as tutor to his son. There can be no doubt that Dræbye's relation to the Collett house had a great impact upon his interest in economics. In the middle of the 1770'ies, Dræbye accompanied Collett's son on travels throughout Europe, which took them to England in the year 1776, the same year that the ""Wealth of Nations"" was published for the first time. Through the Colletts, Dræbye was introduced to the mercantile environment in England and here became thoroughly acquainted with English economics and politics at the time. It is presumably here that he gets acquainted with Adam Smith's freshly published revolutionary work. When Dræbye returned to Denmark at the end of 1776, he was appointed chief of the Norwegian secretariat of the Board of Economics and Trade. He began the translation of the ""Wealth of Nations"" that he brought back with him from England immediately after his return.""WN [i.e. Wealth of Nations] was translated into Danish by Frants Dræbye and published in 1779 (three years after the first English edition). The translation was initiated by Andreas Holt and Peter Anker, who were acquainted with Smith. Dræbye was a Dane who lived mainly in Norway, reflecting the fact that Norway was much more British-oriented than Denmark proper (Denmark and Norway were united until 1814, when Sweden took Norway away from the Danes"" in 1905 Norway became an independent state). Norwegian merchants lived from exporting timber to Britain and tended on the whole to be adherents of a liberal economic policy, whereas the absolutist government in Copenhagen was more German-oriented and had economic views similar to those in contemporary Prussia."" (Cheng-chung Lai (edt.): ""Adam Smith Across Nations"", p. (37)). The last quarter of the eighteenth century in Denmark was dominated by a lively discussion of monetary policy and the institutional framework best suited to realize that policy. There was a vital interest in questions of economic concern, and contemporary Danish sources refer to the period as ""this economic age"" and state things such as ""never was the world more economically minded"" (both from ""Denmark and Norway's Economic Magazine""). During this period, Smith's revolutionary ideas did not play a major role, however, and only at the beginning of the 19th century did Danish politicians and economists come to realize the meaning of Smith's views. ""Without exaggeration it can essentially be said that a quarter of a century was to pass from the time of the publication of the book in Denmark before Danish political economy fully made Adam Smith's theories and points of view its own. It took so long a time because the economic conditions as a whole in the years from 1780-1800 did not make desirable or necessary the changing of their concepts. That glorious commercial period had to pass before it was understood that we had altogether too little help in our own natural resources and that a different course was, therefore, necessary. Only when one had come so far could the new thinking find a nourishing soil so that it could develop strength with which to push aside the old ideas.""(Hans Degen: ""On the Danish Translation of Adam Smith and Contemporary Opinion Concerning It."" Translated by Henrietta M. Larson. In: Adam Smith Across Nations, p. 51). This first Danish translation is one of the very earliest translations of ""Wealth of Nations"""" it is only preceded by the German (1776-78) and the extremely scarce French (1778-79). As a comparison, the Italian translation does not appear until 1790-91, the Spanish 1792, the Swedish 1800-1804, the Russian 1802, etc.Adam Smith Across Nations: A4 - nr. 1. ""All five books were translated"" appears to be a complete translation. The long letter from Governor Pownall to Adam Smith (25 Sept. 1776) is added as the Appendix (vol. 2, pp. 683 ff.).""(PMM 221 - first edition)‎