‎Manuel relatif aux conditions et aux possibilités actuelles du jeu de l'histoire‎

‎Ivrea 1976 1x22x13cm. 1976. Broché.‎

‎Bon état ex-libris sur la page titre intérieur propre bonne tenue dos insolé‎

‎Etudes sur Cournot. ‎

‎ 1927 Vrin, Paris, 1927. Un volume in-8 broché, 151 pages. Bon état, exexmplaire non coupé. ‎

‎ La librairie est ouverte du mardi au samedi de 9h30 à 12h30 et de 13h30 à 19h00. Commandes par courriel ou téléphone. Envoi rapide, emballage soigné. ‎

‎The Rational Expectations Revolution: Readings from the Front Line (The MIT Press)‎

‎MIT Press 1994 530 pages 15 42x3 1x22 81cm. 1994. Broché. 530 pages.‎

‎proche du très bon état trace d'étiquette sur le 4e plat intérieur propre‎

‎Paving Wall Street: Experimental Economics & the Quest for the Perfect Market: Experimental Economics and the Quest for the Perfect Market‎

‎Wiley 2002 336 pages 16 1x2 87x23 67cm. 2002. Cartonné jaquette. 336 pages.‎

‎Très bon état cependant marquages de bibliothèque étiquette sous rhodoïd intérieur propre‎

‎Élémens d'Économie Politique [i.e. Elements of Political Economy]. Traduits de l'anglois par J.T. Parisot. - [FOUNDING CLASSICAL ECONOMICS IN FRANCE]‎

‎Paris, Bossange Frères, 1823. 8vo. Completely uncut in the original printed wrappers. A bit of wear to spine and extremities, and internally a bit of light brownspotting, but overall a very nice copy in the rare and fragile original wrappers. VIII, 318 pp.‎

‎The very rare first edition of the first French translation of the seminal main work by the co-founder of classical economics (together with Ricardo) and a main popularizer of utilitarianism James Mill. The work is considered the first textbook of Ricardian economics as well as the first popular exposition of the principles of classical economics. As such the work, and the important translations of it into the other main languages of Europe - French and German -, came to exercise a profound influence on later economis.The work originally appeared in English in 1821, and apart from the first edition, the present first French translation constitutes the most important edition of the work. ""In Elements of Political Economy, James Mill describes his ideas (in the Schumpeterean sense) using economic thought and economic analysis. He uses examples of the Industrial Revolution (industry) and the agricultural industry surrounding England. The utilitarian economist, father of John Stewart Mill, discusses his theory of velocity of circulation of money, the interest from capital as the result of wages of labor (against Ricardian theory), and many other economic principles. James Mill historically writes ""the aggregate of commodities, taken all together, there is neither fall nor rise"" an issue later paraphrased by Karl Marx in his Das Kapital."" (Review - from the 1999-edition of the work).""James Mill, (1773 - 1836), Scottish philosopher, historian, and economist. He was prominent as a representative of philosophical radicalism, a school of thought also known as Utilitarianism, which emphasized the need for a scientific basis for philosophy as well as a humanist approach to politics and economics. His eldest son was the celebrated Utilitarian thinker John Stuart Mill.... His Elements of Political Economy (1821), an especially precise and lucid work, summarizes the views of the philosophical radicals..."" (British Encycl.).‎

‎Moral grundet paa Nytte- eller Lykkeprincippet. Oversat og indledet ved G. Brandes. - [THE STARTING POINT FOR THE WELFARE STATE]‎

‎Kjøbenhavn (Copenhagen), Gyldendal, 1872. 8vo. Contemporary brown half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Capitals worn and wear along edges. Internally a bit of light scattered brownspotting, but overall very nice. With numerous pencil-underlinings as well as pencil-markings, and -annotations, the latter in Høffding's hand (the underlinings possibly in Brandt's). With the ownership signature of Harald Høffding to front free end-paper and with a later presentation-inscription from Frithiof Brandt (signed F. B.) underneath. Recent ownership signature in pencil to foot of front free end-paper (1973). (2), VIII, 85, (1) pp. ‎

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‎Scarce first edition of the first Danish translation of Mill’s seminal “Utilitarianism”, translated by the great Georg Brandes and with the most excellent provenance, namely that of the founder of the welfare principle, which laid the groundwork for the welfare state as we know it today, Harald Høffding, with his numerous handwritten notes, annotations, and markings, and later given to someone by Høffding’s pupil, the important Danish philosopher Frithiof Brandt. Mill’s “Utilitarianism” constitutes a classic within the field of moral and political thought and is considered ""the most influential philosophical articulation of a liberal humanistic morality that was produced in the nineteenth century."" (Encycl. Of Philosophy). Originally published as a series of three separate articles in 1861, it was collected and printed as a single work under the canonical title in 1863. This publication is now considered the classic exposition and defense of Utilitarianism in ethics, a revolution within moral philosophy. The work was translated into Danish by the immensely influential literary critic Georg Brandes, by many considered the greatest intellectual of his time. Brandes played a key role in introducing especially German and British thought to Scandinavia, most notably the works by such thinkers as Darwin and Nietzsche. He is also the first to translate Mill’s works and make them accessible to a Scandinavian readership. His translation of “Utilitarianism” appeared in 1872 and was responsible for spreading the utilitarian philosophy to a wider audience in the North, indirectly - through Høffding - contributing to the formation of the welfare state that the Scandinavian countries are so famous for. It was through the reading of primarily Mill and Bentham that Harald Høffding came to develop his welfare principle, a principle that he is the first in the world to work out, and the principle upon which the modern welfare state is founded. He is primarily inspired by Mill’s Utilitarianism, but comes to largely replace the conceptions of utility and happiness using instead the welfare principle as a specification of the yardstick that must be used to evaluate actions. “The object of the welfare-principle is not the individual or momentary inclination, rather the lasting vital necessities of the human race, and therefore it places the point of judgment at the effects of an action.” (Thyrring Andersen, p. 105). “In the abandonment of the Christian ethics, positivism had to try to give the grounds for a morality which does not seek refuge with a divine authority. The contribution of Harald Høffding lies in a continuation of the utilitarianism in Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mills, whose normative theories on ethics claim that the correct ethically is the one that compared to the other options produces the greatest amount of positive values. And that means that the ethical values of an action depend on its ability to increase the amount of happiness. The principle of utility is formulated this way: The greatest possible happiness for the greatest possible number of people. Among the problems in this ethics are how different forms of values can be compared, which yardstick they can be measured by, and how a just and/or fair distribution of boons can be based.” (Thyrring Andersen, p. 104). Høffding had his starting point in Utilitarianism, but he transcended the more narrow principle of happiness. His welfare principle does not identify the supreme good with the happiness of the individual, “but considers the utmost purpose of being as the appearance of men of sterling characters, who have a feeling of happiness in working for the common good. … a decisive precondition of this was the commandment concerning charity in the Gospels and the historical development of this in Christianity.” (Thyrring Andersen, p. 109). Georg Brandes was the leading intellectual of his time in Denmark and must be credited with bringing European thought to Scandinavia, not only through his incredibly popular and famous lectures, but also through his own writings and not least through his translations of the most important works of the period into Danish. In Denmark, Brandes was synonymous with “the modern breakthrough” and therefore, for most, also the symbol of democracy and what we today would call welfare-thinking. At a closer look, however, Brandes was also in many ways an anti-democrat and so influenced by the thoughts of Darwin and especially Nietzsche that his views came to be very much opposed to those of a society based on a welfare principle that Høffding came to develop. “[I]t was Høffding who was the first in the world to work out a welfare-principle, namely in his “Etik” (Ethics) in 1887. Today, Høffding is not widely known, but in his lifetime and up to the 1950ties he was an internationally famous philosopher, whose works were translated into many languages and who was several times nominated for the Nobel Prize.” (Andersen, A.T.: The Dialogic and Religious Theme of Welfare in Harald Høffding…, p. 104). His great work ""Etik"", in which he developed the welfare-principle, constitutes an ethical system. Here, Høffding discusses the principal questions in order to develop a scientific ethics, or a moral science if one will, analyzes the ethical principles that are expressed in ethical assessments, and on the basis hereof develops an individualistic and a social ethic that was way ahead of its time, but which found great resonance within the reading public. The book had an enormous impact. It appeared five times in Høffding’s life-time, sold extremely well, and was quickly translated into German and French – “Denmark had gotten its first internationally known and acknowledged philosopher, several decades before Kierkegaard had his breakthrough on the international scene.” (Koch, Dansk filosofi i positivisments tidsalder, p. 41 – translated from Danish). “Høffding became a mentor to many – not least because of the humanity that marks this book [i.e. Ethics] and because of the well-balanced treatment it gives of the social and political questions of the time, of the relationship between the sexes and between church and state, just to mention a few of the “important life conditions” it deals with. Students in personal crisis contacted him, and people in difficult circumstances wrote to him for advice. Not least because of his ethical view, he came to appear as the old, wise man of the nation… His influence in the neighboring countries was also great. For instance, his ethical considerations in the years around 1900 came to play a significant role for the young Swedish social democrats and for their conception of a coming welfare state.” (Koch, Dansk filosofi i positivisments tidsalder, p. 60 – translated from Danish). The opposing views of the two intellectual giants of late 19th century Denmark would develop into a public feud that is now known as “the great debate”, an acrimonious exchange between the two concerning the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche (running from August 1889 to April 1890). “The significance of the dispute is due largely to the fact that it constitutes the earliest public interpretation and evaluation of Nietzsche’s philosophy.” (William Banks: “The Great Debate”: Nietzsche, Culture, and the Scandinavian Welfare Society”, 2024, p. 133). The feud was begun by Brandes after having read Høffding’s “Ethics” from 1887, where he presented his welfare principle for the first time, a welfare principle he had developed under the influence of Mill’s Utilitarianism that Brandes had translated an published 15 years earlier. Brandes, ultimately, wholeheartedly joins the views of Nietzsche and dissociates himself not only from the welfare principle of Høffding, but also from the ideal of Utilitarianism. Frithiof Brandt (1892–1968) was a student and follower of Høffding. He succeeded Høffding as professor in philosophy and held the chair of professor of philosophy and psychology at the University of Copenhagen from 1922 to 1958. During his lifetime, Brandt was a significant figure in Danish philosophy and psychology, most notably with his works on Kierkegaard, and especially in Danish cultural life. “Harald Høffding, the Danish philosopher and historian of philosophy, was born in Copenhagen and lived there throughout his life. From 1883 to 1915 he was professor of philosophy at the University of Copenhagen. Høffding received a degree in divinity in 1865, but he had already decided not to take orders. A study of Søren Kierkegaard's works, and especially of his views on Christianity, had led to an intense religious crisis ending in a radical break with Christianity. Høffding sought in philosophy a new personal orientation and gradually developed into an extraordinarily many-sided liberal humanist. His philosophical development was influenced during a stay in Paris (1868–1869) by the study of French and English positivism… his activity as a scholar ranged over every branch of philosophy, including psychology. His works display a vast knowledge, a keen eye for essentials, and a critically balanced judgment. They were translated into many languages and widely used as textbooks. By the turn of the twentieth century Høffding's reputation was worldwide and he knew personally many leading thinkers. He was the outstanding Danish philosopher of his day, and in 1914 the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters assigned him the honorary residence of Gammel Carlsberg, where he lived to the end of his life. The residence later passed to the physicist Niels Bohr, a younger friend of Høffding.” (Frithiof Brandt, Encyclopaedia of Philosophy). “The Danish philosopher Harald Høffding was the first in the world to work out a welfare-principle. He expressed a dialogic and democratic standpoint, a fellowship and an ideal concerning equality, and consequently a distinct philosophical basis for the realization of the formation of the welfare state.” (Andersen, A.T.: The Dialogic and Religious Theme of Welfare in Harald Høffding…, p. (103).).‎

‎The Reconstruction of Western Europe 1945-51 (University Paperbacks)‎

‎Routledge 1987 550 pages 15 4x3x22 8cm. 1987. Broché. 550 pages.‎

‎proche du très bon état intérieur propre tranche légèrement ternie‎

‎Theories of Organizational Structure and Process‎

‎Thomson Learning 1982 480 pages 16 69x23 19x2 82cm. 1982. Cartonné. 480 pages.‎

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‎bon état bonne tenue quelques rousseurs sur la tranche intérieur propre‎

‎Lettres sur la dépravation de lordre légal. Première partie [- Lettres sur la restauration de lordre légal. Seconde partie]. A Londres, Wilcox, 1769. - (issued after:) ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques. Discours ..... qui na point encore été imprimé, sur cette question. Quelle est la Vertu la plus nécessaire aux Héros; & quels sont les Héros, à qui cette Vertu a manqué?‎

‎A Amsterdam, Chez J.H. Schneider, 1769. Titles to the Mirabeau printed in red and black, with attractive engraved vignettes. Three volumes bound in one. [4, half-title and title for the Mirabeau], 23, (1) blank [for the Rousseau, including half-title and title]; 186; (2) blank, (6, half-title, title, Avant-Propos), 256 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, a bit worn, top of spine chipped, red edges. Einaudi 3944 (Schneider issue, defective, lacking the fifth letter in second volume of the Mirabeau, and 4900 for the Rousseau); Tchemerzine-Schéler, iv, 756; not in Goldsmiths, Higgs, INED or Kress; not in OCLC or RLIN. For the Lettres sur la législation (1775), of which OCLC locates only 3 copies (Library of Congress, Chicago, Boston), see Goldsmiths 11229; Higgs 6196; INED 3201. First editions in book form, exceptionally rare. The Mirabeau was published again in 1775 under the title Lettres sur la législation ou l'Ordre légal, dépravé, rétabli et perpétué par L. D. H. (L'Ami des Hommes), by which name the work is known today. '"The science of economics is in fact the science of the natural order"; but, the theory of the net product having been elucidated long since, Mirabeau, with the assistance of physiocratic theories, here demonstrates that in social policy truth is to be found solely in nature.'The Ami des Hommes (as Mirabeau often styled himself) thus lays the foundations of a true social order according to the laws of nature (property, liberty, restoration of order) and then goes on to expose the means of keeping it alive, that is by teaching citizens of all classes (both the productive and unproductive classes) the juridical and social principles that the Économistes hold dear (the duties of the landowner, the agricultural system, the use of the Tableau économique, etc.).'This work lays down in detail the moral philosophy of the physiocrats who maintain that the physical social order is identical to the economic order; and that the economic order is wholly entailed by the agricultural one' (INED on the Lettres sur la législation, our translation).The 1769 (possibly pirated) edition is known in two issues; the other is by Schneider in Amsterdam. Both reproduce Mirabeau's text as it originally appeared in the Ephémerides du Citoyen of 1767, but omit the final part of the work (which was published in the Ephémerides from September 1768 - June 1769 and was included in the Lettres sur la législation in 1775). According to Schéler, in his annotated copy of Tchemerzine, there are only a few copies known (he states 3 or 4), regardless of issue, which contain Rousseau's Discours (one could still argue a case for the book's rarity even without the Rousseau consideration). The intention that the two texts be issued together is supported by a printed note at the foot of the final page of the Rousseau: 'On mettra ce Discours à la tête des Lettres sur la Dépravation & la Restauration de l'Ordre légal' (interestingly, there also exists a third issue of the Discours, by Marc Michel Rey in 'Amsterdam', i.e. Lausanne selon Dufour, which does not have this note). The unsolved bibliographical mystery is thus whether Mirabeau and Rousseau decided to have their works published together, or whether the double issue was merely commercial speculation on the side of the publishers. Mirabeau and Rousseau did know each other, Rousseau briefly lived in a property of Mirabeau and there exists correspondence between the two man.Unlike vol. II in the copy described by Schéler (which had an extra page of text pasted onto the blank verso of F1), that of our copy is continuously paginated and collates: p2 A2 B-D12 E6 F-M12, with an initial blank.To our knowledge, there is no copy of the Mirabeau in North America. Apart from that of the Einaudi collection, we were able to locate only 3 copies: the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague (Schneider), the Feltrinelli library in Milan (Wilcox), and the Biblioteca Estense in Modena (Wilcox). All the libraries also have Rousseau's Discours.In spite of the title's announcement that it had not previously been printed, Rousseau's work was first published in 1768 in volume VIII of Fréron's Année littéraire; it appeared in book form the following year, and Dufour denotes two issues: Amsterdam (i.e. Lausanne), Marc Michel Rey (258), and Amsterdam, Schneider (259). As with the Mirabeau, the Rousseau is very rare: OCLC locates a copy of the Rey issue at Linköping only; NUC also locates an Amsterdam printing (no publisher given), at Wisconsin; it is not listed in RLIN. - With a burnhole to page 135/6 with slight loss; inner margin of half title to the Mirabeau a bit damaged. Title label to spine reads "Oeuvres de Rousseau. Tom VI." ‎

‎Natural Images in Economic Thought: Markets Read in Tooth and Claw (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics)‎

‎Cambridge University Press 2008 636 pages in8. 2008. Broché. 636 pages.‎

‎Très Bon Etat de conservation intérieur propre bonne tenue‎

‎The Debate Over Stabilization Policy (Raffaele Mattioli Lectures)‎

‎Cambridge University Press 1986 284 pages in8. 1986. Cartonné jaquette. 284 pages.‎

‎Comme neuf avec sa jaquette intérieur propre bonne tenue‎

‎Florentine Public Finance in the Early Renaissance 1400-1433 (Harvard Historical Monographs 65)‎

‎Harvard university press 1971 256 pages 14 55x2 77x20 37cm. 1971. Cartonné jaquette. 256 pages.‎

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‎Très Bon état dos insolé intérieur propre bonne tenue‎

‎Considérations sur l'organisation sociale, appliquées à l'état civil, politique et militaire de la France et de l'Angleterre; à leurs moeurs, leur agriculture, leur commerce et leurs finances, à l'époque de la paix d'Amiens.‎

‎Paris, Chez Migneret, 1802. 3 volumes. x (misnumbered xii), 349, (1) pp.; (4), 322, (2) pp.; (4), 335, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spines gilt in compartments, red label and gilt lettering, gilt ornamental border on sides. Kress B.4568; INED 3230bis; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. The first volume deals with political science; volume two with population and economics, the colonies and slavery, agriculture and commerce; the third volume deals with finances, mendicity and prisons. The work was published on the occassion of the peace of Amiens with the hope of establishing a rapprochement between France and England. It is interesting to note that the absence of a commercial agreement with the peace of Amiens is considered to be one of the causes of its failure within little more than a year and that Mondénard deals with the subject of economics and commerce in relation to the peace of Amiens (see: Coquelin & Guillaumin, vol. 2, p. 199, and the Historical Dictionary of Napoleonic France, 1799-1815, p. 16).'Ouvrage principal de Mondénard. Celui-ci, émigré en Angleterre, le publia anonymement à son retour. Conservateur, farouche défenseur de la propriété et de la grande culture, il s'en prend aux excès de la Révolution mais accepte quelques-uns de ses principes. Idées justes, notamment sur les rapports entre la machine et l'emploi' (INED). - Some scribbling on half-title of first volume, handwritten name and date on title of first volume. ‎

‎Histoire du Libre-échange en Angleterre ‎

‎in 12 broché,titre,188 pages 4 pages de catalogue Germer-Baillière & Cie (1883) édition originale de la traduction française par GRAVEZ.Bibliothèque utile LXXIX.rousseurs sinon très bon état ‎

‎Le Conseil d'Etat‎

‎Gallimard 2002 112 pages 12x1x18cm. 2002. Broché. 112 pages.‎

‎Bon état‎

‎Ramses: Un monde post-américain‎

‎Dunod 2010 17 2x1 8x24cm. 2010. Broché.‎

‎Très bon état - légères marques de lecture et/ou de stockage mais du reste en très bon état- expédié soigneusement depuis la France‎

‎De l'Esprit des Loix ou du Rapport que les loix doivent avoir avec la Constitution de chaque Gouvernement, les Moeurs, le Climat, la Religion, le Commerce, &c. à quoi l'Auteur a ajouté des Recherches nouvelles sur les Loix Romaines touchant les Successions, sur les Loix Françaises, & sur les Loix féodales.‎

‎A Genève, Chez Barillot & fils, (1748). 2 volumes. (8), xxiv, 522, (2, errata) pp.; (4), xvi, 564 pp. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, triple gilt fillet on sides, spines richly gilt with raised bands, labels with gilt lettering, red edges, a very nice copy. Printing and the Mind of Man 197; En Français dans le Texte 138; Cabeen 97; Conlon 48:672; Tchemerzine-Scheler, iv, pp. 929-930; INED 3253; Kress 4920; Goldsmiths 8375; Le Petit 496-497. First issue of the second edition, probably printed by Prault in Paris, only one month after the first edition, in December 1748, and the only one with errata. The first edition can be recognized through various points: the name of Barillot is written with a double 'r'; the title reads 'Loix Féodales'; there are numerous cartons (all listed by Tchemerzine and Le Petit) and no errata. Here the name of Barillot is written with one 'r', the title reads 'Loix féodales' and there are no cartons present, the text is modified and this copy contains in volume one the errata for both volumes. Montesquieu was one of France's most influential Enlightenment authors. His writing resonates with the values of human freedom, moderation, and toleration, while demonstrating a realist and detailed attentiveness to the complexity of rules, customs, physical forces, and human motivations that shape social and political life. The Esprit de Loix is his major work and Hume, a correspondent of Montesquieu, praised the work as "the best system of political knowledge that, perhaps, has ever yet been communicated to the world." The main significance of Montesquieu as a political theorist may be his success in recognizing the embeddedness of state institutions in a wide web of human practices, such as religion, commerce, customs, and morals. Political effectiveness depends on the state's ability to recognize and work with the complexity of human associational life, and this in turn requires political moderation (Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, iii, pp. 83-88). Jonathan I. Israel calls the book, in his Radical Enlightenment (p. 12) "a landmark of moderate Enlightenment."'In many ways one of the most remarkable books of the eighteenth century, 'The Spirit of the Laws', owing in the main to the high plane of generalization on which it is written, defies easy classification and for that reason has never enjoyed a great popularity. So, too, its author puzzled his contemporaries, and very diverse opinions were passed on him and his work even by the philosophes, whose predecessor Montesquieu was. It took him four years to write the book and when it was finished all his friends advised him not to publish it. Montesquieu paid no attention and it was printed in Geneva in the autumn of 1748. It consists of six main sections, the first dealing with law in general and different forms of government, and the second with the means of government, military matters, taxation, and so on. The third deals with national character and the effect on it of climate: a subject of peculiar originality and the one most discussed at the time. The fourth and fifth deal with economic matters and religion; the last is an appendix on law - Roman, feudal and modern French. The most distinctive aspect of this immense syllabus is its moderation. The scheme that emerges of a liberal benevolent monarchy limited by safeguards on individual liberty was to prove immensely influential. His theories underlay the thinking which led up to the American and French revolutions, and the United States Constitution ..... is a lasting tribute to the principles he advocated' (PMM). Despite the succes of the work Montesquieu was severely attacked. He published his Défense two years later but he could not prevent his Esprit des Loix being put on the Index (29 November 1751) and its condamnation by the Sorbonne. ‎

‎Rapport fait à l'Assemblée nationale au nom du comité des finances. Le 18 novembre 1789. Paris, Baudouin, 1789. With 7 tables (nrs 5-7 on 8 separate pages) - (Bound with:) MONTESQUIOU-(FEZENSAC, A.P.) de. Rapport fait au nom du comité des finances, à la séance du 12 mars 1790, sur le Mémoire de M. le premier ministre des finances, du 6 du même mois. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1790). - (Bound with:) MONTESQUIOU-(FEZENSAC, A.P.) de. Rapport sur la dette publique, fait à l'Assemblée nationale au nom du comité des finances. Le 27 août 1790.‎

‎Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1790. Together 3 pieces bound in 1 volume. (2), 63, (1) pp.; 28 pp.; (2), 20 pp. 4to. Modern boards. First work: Not in Kress (cf.: B.1606); not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter 24968; Stourm, p. 162: 'Grand rapport souvent cité. Exposé général de la situation. Enumération des dettes du pays, spécialement des dettes 'criarde'. Recettes et dépenses annuelles. Nouvelle contribution des privillégies évaluée à 30 millions. Gestion des biens du clergé. Besoins extraordinaires'. - First pages with a few spots.Second work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter 24971; Stourm, p. 163: 'Important étude de la situation financière'. Stourm knows an 8vo edition only. Third work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter 24972; Stourm, p. 163: 'Les origines de la dette actuelle sont entachées de faillites. Tableaux des capitaux exigibles et de leurs intérêts'. All first editions. Anne-Pierre, Marquis de Montesquiou-Fezensac (1739-1798), writer and general. In April 1792 he was promoted to lieutenant-general and a month later was dispatched to the marquis de Lafayette's army. A year later Dumouriez selected him as commander for the Armée du Midi. With this army he crossed the Italian frontier to Savoy. A dispute with the Convention led to the accusation of compromising the Republic's dignity, and choosing not to face a trial, Montesquiou withdrew to the canton of Zürich where he remained until after 9 Thermidor. In 1797 he returned to France a became a member of the Constitutional Circle, which opposed the Clichyens, a right-wing political grouping (Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799, ii, pp. 676-677.) ‎

‎Collection of twenty-three works by Montesquiou-Fezensac, bound in‎

‎two volumes. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments, gilt lettering to spines. Interesting and nice collection of scarce tracts dealing with the finances of France in the early years of the revolution. Contains: MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) Aux trois ordres de la Nation. No place, (1789). 30 pp. - (Followed by:) MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) Mémoire sur les Assignats, ou Supplément aux Mémoires sur les Finances du Royaume. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Didot l'ainé, Octobre 1791. 36 pp - (Followed by:) MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) Lettre de Montesquiou, Député à l'Assemblée Nationale, A M***. A Paris, ce 11 novembre 1790. (Drop-head title). No place, (1791). 11, (1) pp.- (Followed by:) MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) Réponse de M. Montesquiou, à MM. Bergasse, Maury, &c. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1791. 12 pp. - (Followed by:) MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) Réponse de M. Montesquiou à M. Mirabeau l'Ainé Sur la fabrication des Assignats. (Drop-head title). No place, (1790). 8 pp. - (Followed by:) MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) Réponse de M. de Montesquiou à la réplique de M. Bergasse. A Paris, Chez P. Didot l'aîné Et Desenne, 1791. (2), 51, (1) pp. - (Followed by:) MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) Lettre ..... à M. Clavière, sur son ouvrage intitulé: De la conjuration contre les finances de l'Etat, et des moyens à prendre pour en arréter les effets. (Drop-head title). A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Du Pont, (1792). 32 pp. - (Followed by:) MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) Motion faite à l'Assemblée Nationale, Le 17 Mai 1791, ..... , sur les moyens de remédier à la rareté du numéraire. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1791. 12 pp. - (Followed by:) MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) Opinion .... Sur les Assignats-Monnoie. (Drop-head title). (Paris, De l'Imprimerie Nationale, (1790). 12 pp. - (Followed by:) MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) Opinion .... , Sur la liquidation de la dette publique. (Drop-head title). A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Nationale, (1790). 32 pp. - (Followed by:) MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) Opinion ..... Sur l'organisation du trésor publique. Le 10 Mars 1791. (Drop-head title). A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Nationale, (1791). 8 pp. - (Followed by:) MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) Mémoires sur les finances du Royaume, Présentés à l'Assemblée Nationale, à la Séance du 9 Septembre 1791, ..... Avec des Pièces Justificatives. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1791. With 59 leaves with tables. 81, (1) pp. - (Followed by:) MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) Plan de travail. Présenté à l'Assemblée Nationale, au nom du Comité des Finances, .... (Drop-head title). (A Paris), Chez Baudouin, Imprimeur de l'Assemblée Nationale, (1790). 20 pp. - (Followed by:) MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) Rapport fait à l'Assemblée Nationale, Au nom du Comité des Finances, ...., Le 18 Novembre 1789. A Paris, Chez Baudouin, Imprimeur de l'Assemblée Nationale, (1789). With 7 folding tables on 19 leaves.(2), 25, (1) pp. - (Followed by:) MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) Rapport fait à l'Assemblée Nationale, Au nom du Comité des Finances, ...., Le 26 Septembre 1789. (Drop-head title). A Paris, Chez Baudouin, Imprimeur de l'Assemblée nationale, 1789. 24 pp. - (Followed by:) MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) Rapport fait à l'Assemblée Nationale, Au nom du Comité des Finances, ...., Le 26 Février 1790. (Drop-head title). A Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale, (1790). 11, (1) - (Followed by:) MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) Rapport fait à l'Assemblée Nationale, Au nom du Comité des Finances, ...., A la Séance du 15 Mars 1790, Sur le Mémoire de M. le Premier Ministre des Finances, du 6 du même mois. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1790. (2), 29, (1) pp. - (Followed by:) MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) Rapport sur la Dette Publique fait à l'Assemblée Nationale, Au nom du Comité des Finances, Le 27 Août 1790, .... A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1790. 31, (1) pp. - (Followed by:) MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) Rapport fait à l'Assemblée Nationale, Sur l'ordre de liquidation & de remboursement de la dette publique, au nom des Commissaires réunis des Finances & d'Aliénation. (Drop-head title). A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Nationale, (1791). 32 pp. - (Followed by:) MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) État des dépenses publiques pour l'année 1791. Publié au nom du Comité des Finances, et suite du rapport du 6 Février 1791. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1791. With 13 folding tables. 8, 12 pp. - (Followed by:) MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) Rapport fait à l'Assemblée Nationale, au nom du Comité des Finances, ...., Sur la demande faite par la Municipalité de Paris, d'une avance de fonds. (Drop-head title). (Paris), De l'Imprimerie Nationale, (1791). 7, (1) pp. - (Followed by:) MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) Rapport fait au nom des Comités des Finances et de l'Extraordinaire, ..... , Dans la Séance du 17 Avril 1791. (Drop-head title). (Paris), De l'Imprimerie Nationale, (1791). 7, (1) pp. - (Followed by:) MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, (A.P. MARQUIS DE.) Rapport des Commissaires de l'Assemblée Nationale, Envoyés dans les Départemens de la Meuse, de la Moselle et des Ardennes, ..... , le 13 Juillet 1791. 16 pp.Kress, numbers B.2159, B.1861, B.1606, and B.1863, owns only the items 6, 13, 14 and 16; Martin & Walter, 24935, 24940, 24951, 24943, 24944, 24946, 24952, 24960, 24962, 24963, 24964, 24959, and numbers 24967-24977; Mattioli 2469 (item 10) and 2470 (item 14).Anne-Pierre, Marquis de Montesquiou-Fézénsac was a writer and general. He was born in 1739 to a noble family of the Périgord. He was elected to the Estates General as a representative of the nobles from the bailliage of Meaux. Although a close friend of Provence and presumably an advocate of his viewpoint, Montesquiou-Fézénsac proposed that nobles should surrender their priviliges in taxation. Because of his willingness to speak out on matters of taxation and finances he was selected, in 1789, for the Committee of Finances in the National Constituent Assembly, and soon became its rapporteur. He was named president of the Constituent Assembly on 14 March 1791. In May 1791 he was promoted lieutenant-general, served under Lafayette, and in February 1792 was given the command of the Army of the South. In September of the same year he completed the conquest of Savoy, but in November 1792 he was accused of royalist leanings, and had to take refuge in Switzerland. In 1795 his name was erased from the list of emigrés and he returned to Paris, where he died on 30 December 1798. ‎

‎Mémoire sur la situation actuelle de la Compagnie des Indes; par M. l'Abbé Morellet. Seconde édition. Se trouve à Paris, chez Desaint, 1769. With 1 engraved folding table. - (Followed by:) (NECKER, J.) Réponse au Mémoire de M. l'Abbé Morellet, sur la Compagnie des Indes, Imprimèe en exécution de la Délibération de M.rs les Actionnaires, prise dans l'Assemblée générale du 8 Août 1769. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1769. - (Followed by:) (MORELLET, A.) Examen de la réponse de M. N** au mémoire de M. l'Abbé Morellet, sur la Compagnie des Indes; par l'Auteur du Mémoire. Septembre 1769.‎

‎Se trouve à Paris, Chez Desaint, 1769. Three volumes. [2], 260, xxvi, [2] pp.; [2], 50 pp.; [4], 151, [1] pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled paper covers, a bit worn, an uncut copy. First work: Kress 6662; Einaudi 4023; Higgs 4700n; INED 3306; Goldsmiths' 10546; Sabin 50596. Second, enlarged and best edition of the work, first published in the same year. "This controversy took place when the affairs of the French East India Company were in the most disordered state possible. Morellet, who contended for the abolition of the Company and the opening of the trade, had a decided advantage over his oponent (Necker), who appeared as the defender of the Company. The controversy was terminated by government adopting the suggestions of Morellet. The latter, indeed, had been invited to write his first Mémoire by M. d'Invaux, then Comptroller-general; and on the accession of Turgot to the ministry, he received a pension of 2000 livres a year for his services on this occasion" (McCulloch, p. 114-115).Morellet, by conviction a persistent supporter of free trade, here gives a succint history of the Compagnie des Indes and shows how the directors were benefitting to the detriment of the state. The privileges of the Compagnie des Indes were suspended on August 13, 1769.The supplementary xxvi pages at the end contain various texts further documenting Morellet's arguments, among which a text by Gournay, covering the pages x-xxvi and which is entitled: "Observations sur le rapport fait à M. le Contrôleur-Général, par M. de S*** le 26 juin 1755, sur l'état de le Compagnie des Indes; par feu M. de Gournay, Intendant du Commerce."Second work: Kress 6665; INED 3370; Higgs 4701; Sabin 52216; McCulloch, p. 114-115; not in Einaudi; not in Goldsmiths'.First edition.Necker replied to Morellet's Mémoire with the present work in August 1769 pointing out that the Compagnie was an institution created by the state, for state interests rather than for the interests of the stockholders. The state, after the reorganization of 1725, completely dominated its operations. Funds granted by the king to the company were neither controlled by the stockholders nor granted for their particular interest. These funds were used for the goals of the state, either for warfare or for expenditures that were properly those of the sovereign, not of a commercial company. Necker furthermore argued that the company's commerce in the Indies had always been profitable except during the Seven Years' War.Third work: Kress 6660; Einaudi 4021; Higgs 4702; INED 3300; Goldsmiths' 10543; Sabin 50595.First edition.Morellet's response to Necker. Morellet was in no doubt employed to make out a particular case (see the note to the first text), but in none of the contemporary replies to his pamphlet is any serious argument found to discredit his chief facts: that a commercial company which is not self-supporting ought to be abandoned and that there are more important uses to which the public revenue can be put than in maintaining a company which is bankrupt if left to itself (see: Cambridge Modern History, vol. vi, pp. 549-550).Loosely added to these three volumes:ARRET du Conseil d'État du Roi, Concernant le Commerce de l'Inde. Du 13 août 1769. Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1769. 4 pp. 4to. Disbound.This is the original edition of the important royal edict terminating the activities of the Compagnie des Indes (see note to the first work)EXAMEN des décisions de M. l'Abbé Morelet (sic), sur les trois Questions importantes qui sont le sujet de son Mémoire. No place, no date. 40 pp. 4to. Side-stitched, uncut.Conlon 69:224.Anonymous text strongly refuting the opinions of Morellet.Very nice and good volumes, rather large with ample margins (270 x 220 mm.) ‎

‎Suivre le courant et découvrir l'essentiel de la vie‎

‎DAUPHIN BLANC 2012 262 pages 15x23x2cm. 2012. Broché. 262 pages.‎

‎Très bon état - livre issu de destockage - pouvant présenter d'infimes traces de stockage - Expédié soigneusement dans emballage adapté‎

‎The Economic Theory of Modern Society‎

‎Cambridge University Press 2010 360 pages 15 2x2 6x23cm. 2010. Broché. 360 pages.‎

‎Très bon état‎

‎Tables for Renewing and Purchasing of Leases. As also for Renewing and Purchasing of Lives. With other Necessary Tables for Computing of Interest, either Simple or Compound + Tables of Simple Interest, Exactly Computed For 1 to 12 Months, and For 1 Da... - [AGE-RELATED RENT AND LEASING]‎

‎London, J. Brotherton, 1735. 12mo. Bound in one beautiful contemporary full mottled calf binding with four raised bands and red title-label with gilt lettering to spine. Single gilt line-border to boards, inside which a lovely blindstamped ornamental border to one side. All edges of boards with blindstamped ornamentations. P. 1 has a contemporary neat inscription reading: ""Exam.d Morris"" - in the author's own hand? Macclesfield copy, with the armorial bookplate of Earls of Macclesfield to pasted down front end-paper and Shirburn Castle (seat of the Earls of Macclesfield) armorial blindstamp to first four leaves Ex-libris. A lovely, clean, and crisp copy. IV, 48 + (2), 92 pp.‎

‎Exceedingly scarce first edition of Morris' book of tables for renewing and purchasing leases in relation to age, being the most accurate and comprehensive list of tables published at the time. The work was considered controversial due to the proposed fall in rent in relation to age, which was seen as a discrimination against young people"" a concept which today has been implemented in virtually all aspects of banking and insurance. ""As late as 1735, Gael Morris, a writer of commercial manuals on annuities and leases, explained that annuities could frequently be purchased cheaper on lives aged between 30 and 40 than on lives under 25 because 'the Hazards of Persons between 15 and 25 are so many' - a conclusion making some intuitive sense but strictly at odds with the lessons taught by Halley's table. There seems to have existed, in short, a deep reluctance to embrace the discovery that the value of annuities and land leases made for the duration of a life (or lives) varied predictably with the age(s) of the lessee(s)."" (Clark, Betting On Lives: The Culture of Life Insurance in England, 1695-1775, p. 116).Gael Morris worked as a mathematician and astronomer and was the assistant of British astronomer James Bradley for several years, where he helped to compute tables of planetary orbits.The work is of the utmost scarcity, with only five copies listed on OCLC (two in the US) and merely one copy listed at auction within the last 40 years (being this copy). Goldsmith: 7269.Hanson: 4767Macclesfield: 1455‎

‎Joseph A. Schumpeter, historian of Economics. Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought‎

‎London-New York, Routledge 1996 xi + 324pp., 24cm., publisher's hardcover, handwritten publishing date on title page, else in very good condition, ISBN 0-415-13353-X, E100947‎

‎L'économie collectiviste‎

‎Paris, R.Pichon et R.Durand-Auzias 1939 210pp., dans la série "L'économie politique contemporaine, collection dirigée par Bertrand Nogaro" vol.XVII, br.orig., cachet, bon état, E41547‎