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‎Towards silence‎

‎Oxford University press | London 1968 | 14 x 21.50 cm | broché‎

‎Edition originale. Une petite trace de pliure en angle supérieur droit du premier plat, deux claires mouillures en têtes des versos des plats de couverture. Rare envoi autographe signé d'Edward Lucie-Smith, en français, sur la page de faux-titre : "... si vous commencez votre connaissance de la poésie anglaise chez moi, j'ai peur que ça sera la fin en même temps que le commencement ! ". Signature manuscrite d'Edward Lucie-Smith sur la page de titre. - Photographies et détails sur www.Edition-Originale.com -‎

‎Relation Historique de l’Expédition, contre les Indiens de l'Ohio en MDCCLXIV. Commandée par le Chevalier Henry Bouquet, Colonel d'Infanterie, & ensuite Brigadier- Général en Amérique ; contenant ses Transactions avec les Indiens, relativement à la délivrance des Prisonniers & aux Préliminaires de la Paix ; avec un Récit introductoire de la Campagne précédente de l’an 1763, & de la Bataille, de Bushy-Run. On y a joint des Mémoires Militaires contenant des Réflexions sur la guerre avec les Sauvages : une Méthode de former des établissemens sur la Frontiere : quelques détails concernant la contrée des Indiens : avec une liste de nations, combattans, villes, distances, & diverses routes. Le tout enrichi de Cartes & Tailles-douces. Traduit de l'Anglois, Par C. G. F. Dumas. « D’intéressantes ‘Réflexions sur la Guerre avec les Sauvages de l’Amérique Septentrionale’ occupent les pp. 89-147 : on y trouve notamment le nom des différentes nations indiennes qui vivaient en Amérique du Nord, avec le nombre approximatif de leurs combattants ».‎

‎De la bibliothèque de Louis de Monteynard, secrétaire d’Etat à la guerre de 1771 à 1774. Amsterdam, chez Marc-Michel Rey, 1769. In-8 de xvi pp., 147 pp., (9), 3 planches hors-texte dont 1 dépliante, 3 cartes dépliantes. Plein veau marbré, filet à froid encadrant les plats, dos à nerfs orné, pièce de titre rouge, tranches rouges. Reliure de l'époque. 200 x 120 mm.‎

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‎Première édition en français, traduite par le philologue Charles-Guillaume Dumas d'après l'édition donnée à Londres trois ans plus tôt. 2 jolies figures gravées d'après Benjamin West, représentant la conférence entre les Indiens et le colonel Bouquet en octobre 1764, et la reddition des captifs anglais en novembre de la même année, et 4 cartes et plans dépliants, dont un plan de la bataille de Bushy Run et une carte du cours de l'Ohio & du Muskingum. Le colonel Henry Bouquet (1719-1765) s'illustra durant la guerre de Pontiac (du nom d'un chef indien allié des Français), conflit opposant de 1763 à 1766 les Anglais aux tribus indiennes de la région des Grands Lacs, de l'Illinois et de l'Ohio. Rédigé par le révérend William Smith d'après les papiers de cet officier et publié pour la première fois à Philadelphie en 1765, le récit raconte l'expédition victorieuse de Bouquet à la bataille de Bushy Run (1763) qui mit fin au siège de Fort Pitt. Selon Field, il s'agit de la première victoire des Anglais sur des Indiens armés de fusils. L'édition contient une courte biographie de Bouquet par Dumas. D'intéressantes Réflexions sur la Guerre avec les Sauvages de l'Amérique Septentrionale occupent les pp. 89-147: on y trouve notamment le nom des différentes nations indiennes qui vivaient en Amérique du Nord, avec le nombre approximatif de leurs combattants. (Field, An Essay towards an Indian bibliography, n°1443). A translation of Smith's "Historical Account," taken from the London, 1766 edition. For another issue of the same sheets, see below "Voyage Historique." The maps and plates are re-engraved from the London edition of 1766, the two parts of the map appearing separately. West's two plates are re-engraved by "P. V. S." An adaptation of the "Marche du Colonel Bouquet," or "topographical plan," is in Avery, vol. 4/1908, p. 374. The preface includes a biographical sketch of Bouquet by Dumas. It is translated, into English in "The Olden Time," vol. I, pp. 203-207, May, 1846, and pp x—xvi of it are translated in the Cincinnati 1868 edition of the "Historical Account." Sabin, n°84647. Très bel exemplaire de cet Americana illustré de 2 gravures de l'éminent peintre Benjamin West (1738-1820), le père de l'école américaine. De la bibliothèque Louis-François de Monteynard (1713-1791), secrétaire d'Etat à la guerre de 1771 à 1774, avec son ex-libris armorié gravé.‎

‎J'ai été ouvrier en URSS (1932-1935). Traduit de l'anglais par Emmanuel Rinon.‎

‎ 1937 Paris, Plon (Collection "Actualités"), 1937, in 8° broché, 94 pages ; couverture illustrée. ‎

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‎Fouilles dans la Vallée du Formans (Ain) en 1862. Documents pour servir à l'histoire de la Campagne de Jules Cesar contre les Helvètes recueillis et annotés par J.E. Valentin-Smith accompagnées de Cartes et de Figures par A. Steyert daprès MM. Guigue, Cadot, Martin Daussigny.‎

‎ Lyon, Brun, 1888, grand in 8° broché, VII-155 pages ; couverture fanée. ‎

‎Exemplaire enrichi d'un envoi de Valentin-Smith à Mr Thiollier, sur la première garde.PHOTOS sur DEMANDE. ...................... Photos sur demande .......................... ‎

‎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

‎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)‎

‎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 nice contemporary half calf bindings with four raised bands and gilt leather title label to spines. Volume one lacking one cm of upper part of spine. Volume two with a small tear to lower part of spine. Both volumes with light brown spotting throughout, however, mainly affecting first and last five leaves of both volumes. A fine set. (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.).""‎

‎Recherches sur la Nature et les Causes de la Richesse des Nations. Traduit de l'Anglois de M. Smith [by Blavet]. 2 Tomes.‎

‎Londres, Pierre J. Duplain, 1788. 8vo, Two nice uniform contemporary full calf bindings with gilt spines. Some loss of leather to back hinge and lower capital of volume one and minor loos of leather to spine of volume two, all due to worming. Worming is not bad and does not affect anything but outer layer of small parts of the bindings. Apart from the worming a very nice, fresh and clean copy indeed. (8), IV, 503" (4), 496 pp. With both half-titles, the advertisment, both prefaces and the table of contents.‎

‎Rare early French translation of Adam Smith's political and economic classic, the ""Wealth of Nations"". Translated by Blavet. The present edition constitutes the third reprint of the second French translation. The second French translation was done by Blavet and is the first translation into French of which the translator and publisher are known. ""The reprint of Blavet's version appeared at Yverdon in 1781 in 6 volumes 12mo, and at Paris in the same year in 3 volumes 12mo, and again at London and Paris in 1788 in 2 volumes 8vo [the present edition], and revised and corrected, with Blavet's name as translator, at Paris An, ix (1800-01) in 4 volumes 8vo.He [Blavet] had no intention of publishing it until his friend M. Ameilhon happened to complain of scarcity of interesting articles for his Journal de l'Agriculture, du Commerce, des Arts et des Finances, which had just come under the control of the Mercantilist. It struck him that he might offer it to him which he did, with the explanation that it was far from perfect. It was accepted, and appeared in the issues of the Journal between January, 1779, and December 1780. He did not anticipate that it would go further. The edition of 1788 likewise appeared without his knowledge or consent, and was still more marred by errors than that of Yverdon"". (Lai, Cheng-chung. Adam Smith Across Nations: Translations and Receptions of The Wealth of Nations, Clarendon Press, UK, 2000). 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. Considering the groundbreaking views presented in ""Wealth of Nations"", it comes as no surprise that the work was considered part of the revolutionary cultural development in France. As Adam Smith's friend, the Marquis of Lansdowne, said after quoting Smith's work: ""With respect to French principles, as they had been denominated, those principles had been exported from us to France, and could not be said to have originated among the population of the latter country."" (Quoted in: Rae, p. 291). The ideas of Adam Smith were often considered so dangerously closely connected with French ideas at the time that the term ""political economy"" almost became synonymous with questions concerning the constitution of governments. ""The French Revolution seems to have checked for a time the growing vogue of Smith's book and the advance of his principles in this country, just as it checked the progress of parliamentary and social reform, because it filled men's mind with a fear of change, with a suspicion of all novelty, with an unreasoning dislike of anything in the nature of general principle."" (Rae, p. 293). There can be no question that this seminal work greatly influenced French opinion at the time.‎

‎Under the sanction of the directors. Report of the directors to a special general meeting of the Chamber of commerce and manufactures at Manchester. on the injurious effects of restrictions on trade, and the necessity of immediate changes in our commercial policy ; arising out of the report and evidence of the select committee of the House of Commons on import duties, during the last session of Parliament. 11th March 1841‎

‎Londres, Pelham Richardson, Ridgway, Manchester, White & Carter, 1841 in-8, 24 pp., dérelié. ‎

‎Vigoureux plaidoyer en faveur du libre-échange et opposé aux droits de douane excessifs : "Is it fitting that we should go on sacrificing our greatest national interests to the practice of giving protection to the private interests of a comparatively small portion of the community ? Shall we look in silence and unconcern on the singular anomaly of a country presenting the greatest natural advantages for commerce and manufactures, - a boundless demand for its productions, - the means of illimitable employment, with the most industrious, skillful, and enterprising population in the world, sinking into pauperism ?"Fils d'un marchand de Manchester, John Benjamin Smith (1794-1879) fut président de la Chambre de commerce de cette ville de 1839 à 1841, avant d'entamer une carrière politique qui lui permit de siéger à la Chambre des Communes de 1847 à 1874 sans interruption, comme membre du parti libéral.Un seul exemplaire au CCF (BnF). - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT - LIEN DE PAIEMENT, NOUS CONSULTER.‎

‎The Beautiful Book‎

‎ 1962 Sans lieu ni date (New York, Dead Language Press/Piero Heliczer, vers 1962) 20 pages non paginées 225x188mm, sous couverture en papier fort, agrafé ; 19 tirages argentiques originaux 55x55mm, obtenus par contact à partir des négatifs, sont collés sur les pages 1 à 11, 13 à 19, et sur le troisième de couverture.Couverture en sérigraphie en deux couleurs d’après un dessin de Marian Zazeela, une des artistes apparaissant dans les mises en scène photographiques.Etui et chemise (Devauchelle)Jack Smith a traversé comme une comète l’underground new-yorkais des années 60 à 80 marquant de sa royale estampille l’expression d’une génération d’artistes parmi lesquels Andy Warhol, Nan Goldin, Robert Wilson ; son œuvre cinématographique majeure, Flaming Creatures, réalisée en même temps que le Beautiful Book, fut pourchassée durant trente années par toutes les censures du monde, pour entrer, après la mort de l’artiste, au panthéon des cinémathèques.Les exemplaires du Beautiful Book (probablement pas plus d’une centaine), assemblés à la main et vendus dans le milieu du Lower East Side new-yorkais de l’époque, n’ont guère résisté à l’épreuve du temps.Edition originale, très bel exemplaire.Flaming Creatures PS 1 1997, entièrement reproduit dans le catalogue. Söhm p. 25, reproduit. Hasselblad 190-191(104151) ‎

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‎ Très bon ‎

‎La nouvelle forêt‎

‎Gosselin | Paris 1831 | 10 x 16.50 cm | 4 volumes reliés‎

‎Edition originale française. Rare. Le roman est paru à Londres en 1829. Reliures en demi basane brune de l'époque. Dos lissse orné de filets. Pièces de titres noires et de tomaisons rouges. Coiffes supérieures des tomes 1,2 et 4 arasées, coiffe de queue du tome 4 idem. Ensemble frotté. Manque le faux titre du tome 1. Feuillet de titre du tome 1 doublé en marge droite. Rousseurs. Horace Smith (1779-1849), était fils d'un avocat, après des début littéraires poétiques il devint courtier en bourse. Fortune faite, il rédigea une série de romans historiques, dont La nouvelle forêt. - Photographies et détails sur www.Edition-Originale.com -‎

‎Photographie originale représentant Vladimir Nabokov de profil‎

‎S. n. | s. l. s. d. [circa 1955] | 5 x 8 cm | une photographie‎

‎Photographie originale en noir et blanc représentant Vladimir Nabokov. Tirage argentique d'époque. Mention manuscrite postérieure au stylo bille au dos du cliché : "photo Clayton-Smith mention obligatoire". La photographie servit d'illustration au catalogue de l'année 1959 d'Olympia Press, éditeur de Nabokov, dans le cadre de la réédition deLolita. Beau portrait de profil de l'un des écrivains les plus sulfureux du XXème siècle. - Photographies et détails sur www.Edition-Originale.com -‎

‎"Automne ou la chasse dans les bois". Costume de chasse de Larsen (La Gazette du Bon ton, 1922 n°7)‎

‎Lucien Vogel éditeur | Paris 1922 | 19.50 x 24.50 cm | une double page‎

‎Estampe originale en couleur, tirée sur papier vergé, signée en bas à gauche de la planche. Sur un double feuillet, texte de Georges Armand Masson "Le bain des enfants" illustré de 5 croquis dans le texte d'Helen Smith. La Gazette du bon ton, l'une des plus belles et des plus influentes revues de mode du XXème siècle, célébrant le talent des créateurs et des artistes français en plein essor de l'art déco. Célèbre revue de mode fondée en 1912 par Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton a paru jusqu'en 1925 avec une interruption durant la Guerre de 1915 à 1920, pour cause de mobilisation de son rédacteur en chef. Elle se constitue de 69 livraisons tirées à seulement 2000 exemplaires et est illustrée notamment de 573 planches en couleurs et de 148 croquis représentant des modèles de grands couturiers. Dès leur parution, ces luxueuses publications «s'adressent aux bibliophiles et aux mondains esthètes» (Françoise Tétart-Vittu «La Gazette du bon ton» in Dictionnaire de la mode, 2016). Imprimées sur beau papier vergé, elles utilisent une police typographique spécialement créée pour la revue par Georges Peignot, le caractère Cochin, repris en 1946 par Christian Dior. Les estampes sont réalisées grâce à la technique du pochoir métallique, rehaussées en couleurs et pour certaines soulignées à l'or ou au palladium. L'aventure commence en 1912 lorsque Lucien Vogel, homme du monde et de la mode - il a déjà participé à la revue Femina - décide de fonder avec sa femme Cosette de Brunhoff (sur de Jean, le père de Babar) la Gazette du bon ton dont le sous-titre est alors «Art, modes et frivolités». Georges Charensol rapporte les propos du rédacteur en chef: «En 1910, observe-t-il, il n'existait aucun journal de mode véritablement artistique et représentatif de l'esprit de son époque. Je songeais donc à faire un magazine de luxe avec des artistes véritablement modernes [...] J'étais certain du succès car pour la mode aucun pays ne peut rivaliser avec la France.» («Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel» in Les Nouvelles littéraires, n°133, mai 1925). Le succès de la revue est immédiat, non seulement en France, mais aussi aux Etats-Unis et en Amérique du Sud. À l'origine, Vogel réunit donc un groupe de sept artistes: André-Édouard Marty et Pierre Brissaud, suivis de Georges Lepape et Dammicourt ; et enfin ses amis de l'École des beaux-arts que sont George Barbier, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, ou Charles Martin. D'autres talents viennent rapidement rejoindre l'équipée: Guy Arnoux, Léon Bakst, Benito, Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, Chas Laborde, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Raoul Dufy, Édouard Halouze, Alexandre Iacovleff, Jean Émile Laboureur, Charles Loupot, Charles Martin, Maggie Salcedo. Ces artistes, inconnus pour la plupart lorsque Lucien Vogel fait appel à eux, deviendront par la suite des figures artistiques emblématiques et recherchées. Ce sont ces mêmes illustrateurs qui réalisent les dessins des publicités de la Gazette. Les planches mettent en lumière et subliment les robes de sept créateurs de l'époque : Lanvin, Doeuillet, Paquin, Poiret, Worth, Vionnet et Doucet. Les couturiers fournissent pour chaque numéro des modèles exclusifs. Néanmoins, certaines des illustrations ne figurent aucun modèle réel, mais seulement l'idée que l'illustrateur se fait de la mode du jour. La Gazette du bon ton est une étape décisive dans l'histoire de la mode. Alliant l'exigence esthétique et l'unité plastique, elle réunit pour la première fois les grands talents du monde des arts, des lettres et de la mode et impose, par cette alchimie, une toute nouvelle image de la femme, élancée, indépendante et audacieuse, également portée par la nouvelle génération de couturiers Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas... Reprise en 1920 par Condé Montrose Nast, la Gazette du bon ton inspirera largement la nouvelle composition et les choix esthétiques du « petit journal mourant » que Nast avait racheté quelques années auparavant : le magazine Vogue. - Photog‎

‎Cours complet d'optique‎

‎Chez La veuve Girard chez Charles Antoine Jombert | à Avignon se vend à Paris 1767 | 20 x 25.50 cm | relié‎

‎Edition originale française dans la traduction de Esprit Pézenas, et illustrée de 73 planches dépliantes gravées par Faure et disséminées à l'intérieur des 2 tomes (astronomie, chambre obscure, télescope...). La première édition anglaise est parue en 1738 sous le titre A compleat system of opticks. Des additions viennent compléter l'ouvrage de Smith sur les découvertes en optiques qui ont été faites depuis la publication. Reliures en plein veau marbré d'époque. Dos à nerfs orné. Pièces de titre en maroquin rouge et de tomaison en maroquin noir. Coiffes arasées. Manque en queue du tome I le long du mors supérieur. Mors ouverts en tête. Mors supérieur ouvert en queue au tome I et fendu au tome II. 4 Coins émoussés. Manque à la pièce de tomaison du tome I. Ensemble frotté. Etiquette de bibliothèque dans le 5e caisson avec la lettre N. Le plus important et le plus complet traité sur l'optique du XVIIIe. Il est à la fois un ouvrage populaire de vulgarisation et un traité scientifique et se compose de parties bien distinctes. La première, intitulé Traité populaire est un résumé de tous les phénomènes de l'optique avec ses expériences ; la seconde partie est une application de la géométrie dans la théorie de la lumière et de l'optique, la troisième section de l'ouvrage est un traité de méchanique appliqué à l'optique et destiné principalement aux artistes avec les procédés pour fabriquer des miroirs, lentilles, chambres obscures, verres polies... La quatrième partie est une histoire de l'astronomie et de ses découvertes. On notera que pour l'auteur, la lumière à un caractère corpusculaire malgré les doutes de Newton à ce sujet. Tampon en page de titre : Bibliothèque centrale Artillerie. - Photographies et détails sur www.Edition-Originale.com -‎

‎Recherches sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations.. Publié avec introduction, notes, résumés marginaux par Edwin Cannan. Avec un portrait en héliogravure hors texte. Tome premier [seul paru]‎

‎Paris, Alfred Costes, 1950 in-8, LI pp., 394 pp., avec un portrait-frontispice, broché, non coupé. ‎

‎Unique partie publiée de cette édition, qui est en fait intéressante pour ses pièces liminaires, parues en anglais dès 1904 (Preface, introduction, notes, marginal summary to : An Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations by Adam Smith). L'économiste britannique Edwin Cannan (1861-1935) était spécialiste de l'histoire de la pensée économique. - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT - LIEN DE PAIEMENT, NOUS CONSULTER.‎

‎ 2001 Paul Smith, 2001, 362x255mm, 24p., agrafé sous couverture photographique.12 photographies en couleurs pleine page de Miles Aldridge, sans texte. (105015) ‎

‎Une saison en enfer‎

‎ Paris, Gallimard, 2023, en feuilles sous emboîtage. Tirage de 99 exemplaires numérotés (n°29) comportants une lithographie originale en tirage pigmentaire signée par Patti Smith. ‎

‎ Neuf ‎

‎Things oriental and things western Winter ’56- ‘57‎

‎ Tokyo/Georgia, publie par Onion Press Kast and Group Attack / Olivant House, 1956, 183x128mm, 60p, broche, couverture souple. Imprimé à Kyoto par Shiyosha, pages de gardes en papier Japon Minowa avec des feuilles de bambou et poudre argent. ‎

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‎15 compositions de Yu Suwa dont deux en couleur en impression lithographique sur papier fort, 13 pages de textes et poèmes de Vincent Smith.Tirage limité à 500, exemplaire signé par Yu Suwa, dédicace à Toshio Ueda (*), une lettre autographe signée, découpée et collé sur la page du faux titre par le dédicataire. Suwa annonce à Ueda l’envois du livre à part et prie de bien vouloir le lire. Le livre est publie simultanément au Japon et en Amérique en tant que numéro WINTER ‘56- ‘57 de « KAST » et numéro 2 de la nouvelle formule de « OLIVANT » en décembre 1956.* Ueda Toshio (1900-1982). En 1927, Ueda lance la revue surréaliste « Rose. Magie. Théorie. » avec Seiichi Fujiwara, Katsue Kitazono, Kazuhiko Yamada, Tamotsu Ueda, Taruho Inagaki et rédige un texte intitulé « A NOTE DECEMBRE 1927 », co-signé par son frère Tamotsu et Katue Kitasono (imprimé sur un feuillet et insére au n°1, vol.2).Selon Kitazono, la traduction a éte envoyée aux surréalistes de Paris (Louis Aragon, Paul Eluard, Andre Breton et Antonin Artaud).Ce texte est connu comme le premier manifeste surréaliste au Japon. Bon ‎

‎Traité pratique sur le dressage & domptage des chevaux rétifs et vicieux.. Plus de trente illustrations. Déposé par Nat. Behrens & Norton B. Smith à l'époque de leurs représentations au Crystal Palace de Londres le 20 juin 1902. Revu et augmenté‎

‎Bruxelles, Imprimerie Ad. Mertens, s.d. in-12, 110 pp., avec des illustrations en noir dans le texte, broché sous couverture illustrée. ‎

‎Petit traité de dressage des cas difficiles. L'auteur semble avoir été un dresseur itinérant qui exerça surtout dans le Nouveau monde.Aucun exemplaire au CCF. - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT - LIEN DE PAIEMENT, NOUS CONSULTER.‎

‎Les seigneurs de l'instrumentalité, tome 2.‎

‎ Reliure toile de l'éditeur, 20X13 cm, 1974, 387 pages, illustrations de Pierre Lacombe, un des 6000 exemplaires numérotés, collection du club du livre d'anticipation, éditions opta. Nom et date sur la page de garde et sur la page de titre, bon exemplaire.‎

‎Les seigneurs de l'instrumentalité, tome 3.‎

‎ Reliure toile de l'éditeur, 20X13 cm, 1974, 371 pages, illustrations de Pierre Lacombe, un des 6000 exemplaires numérotés, collection du club du livre d'anticipation, éditions opta. Nom sur la page de titre, bon exemplaire.‎

‎The Beautiful Book (reprint)‎

‎ 1962 (NY : Dead Language Press/Piero Heliczer, 1962 ca.) 20 pages non paginées 22.5x18.8cm, sous couverture en papier fort, agrafé ; 19 photographies originales 55x55mm, obtenues par contact à partir des négatifs, sont collées sur les pages 1 à 11, 13 à 19, et sur le troisième de couverture.Reprint New York Granary Books 2002, 200 exemplaires numérotés.Couverture d’après la sérigraphie en deux couleurs sur un dessin de, Marian Zazeela, une des artistes apparaissant dans les mises en scène photographiques.Un des 200 exemplaires numérotés du reprint auquel l’éditeur à ajouté une feuille volante d’informations. Flaming Creatures PS 1 1997, Andy Warhol Museum Pittsburg Penn, Berkeley Art Museum CA, Kunstwerke Berlin. Entièrement reproduit dans le catalogue. Söhm p. 25, reproduit.Neuf. (102554) ‎

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‎Jack Smith a traversé comme une comète l’underground New Yorkais des années 60 à 80 marquant de sa royale estampille l’expression d’une génération d’artistes parmi lesquels Andy Warhol, Nan Goldin, Robert Wilson ; son œuvre cinématographique majeure, Flaming Creatures, réalisée en même temps que le Beautiful Book, fut pourchassée durant trente années par toutes les censures du monde, pour entrer, après la mort de l’artiste, au panthéon des cinémathèques. (102554) ‎

‎Entretiens sur l'Economie Politique, ou éléments d'Economie Politique dégégée de ses abstractions d'après Adam SMITH, SAY, MALYHUS, MILL, etc...‎

‎ 1825 Paris, Boulland, 1825, in 12 broché, 452 pages ; couverture effrangée, plats détachés. ‎

‎RARE. ...................... Photos sur demande .......................... ‎

‎BIG EGO‎

‎ 1978 disque Etats Uis, 1978, Giorno Poetry System GPS 012-013, 2 disques 33trs, 30cm, sous pochette ouvrante, conception et photographies de Les Levine.The Dial-a-Poem poets Big Ego.Avec, Helen Adam, Laurie Anderson, Robert Ashley, Jim Brodey, Otis Brown, William S. Burroughs, Jackie Curtis, Mona DaVinci, Kenward Elmslie, The Fugs, John Giorno, Philip Glass, Anthony J. Gnazzo, Ted Greenwald, Steve Hamilton, Bernard Heidsieck, Joe Johnson, Michael Lally, Denise Levertov, Robert Lowell, Meredith Monk, Eileen, Myles, Frank O'Hara, Claes Oldenburg, Joel Oppenheimer, Ron Padget, Ishmael Reed, Ed Sanders, Harris Schift, Patti Smith, Lorenzo Thomas, Steve & Gloria Tropp, Anne Waldman, Larry Wendt, Robert Wolson & Christopher Knowles. (103164) ‎