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‎A L’APPEL DE LA LIBERTE – LE CAHIER NOIR – ANGLETERRE.‎

‎ Editions de Minuit clandestines, collection « Témoignages » Trois brochures in-16 reliées en un volume demi-chagrin rouge à bandes, dos orné de croisillons dorés, tête or, plats de parchemin, titré sur le premier plat, couverture conservée, 91, 48, 64 pages. A l’Appel de la liberté a été imprimé « sous l’oppression à Paris 30 juillet 1944 » Ce récit, dernier livre clandestin des Éditions de Minuit, échappa in extremis à une perquisition de la Gestapo. C’est le récit par Georges Adam, dirigeant avec Eluard et Claude Morgan des Lettres françaises clandestines, de son internement et de son évasion en 1940. Le volume est enrichi de cet envoi autographe : « Pour Jacqueline Alric / en souvenir des réunions clandestines (si peu !) / du Comité du Textile / Georges Adam (Hainaut) » Le Cahier noir de François Mauriac, « publié aux dépens de quelques lettrés patriotes » a été imprimé (avec une grande élégance) le 15 août 1943.Angleterre (d’Alcuin à Huxley), essai sur la tradition anglophile en France, « publié sous l’oppression aux dépens de quelques lettrés patriotes » a été imprimé le 22 septembre 1943.‎

‎Un conte, une lettre -‎

‎ Le Nyctalope, 1980 - un volume broché (14x19 cm) sous couverture rempliée, 33 pages - un portrait gravé en frontispice de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam - tirage limité à 342 exemplaires : 1/333 sur vergé ivoire - couverture légèrement passée sinon bon état - ‎

‎Ces pages proviennnent d'un dossier de brouillons de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, elles ne sont ni datées, ni numérotées et le titre a été donné par E. Drougard qui présentait le texte dans la revue l'Arche de 1946 - ‎

‎A l'appel de la liberté -‎

‎ Paris : Editions de Minuit, 30 juillet 1944 - In-16 broché sous couverture imprimée à rabats, 94 pages non coupées - bon état - Edition originale clandestine - ‎

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‎Georges Adam (sous le pseudonyme de Hainaut qui fait référence à sa province natale) fut l’un des principaux animateurs de la presse clandestine parisienne. Quelques jours avant la libération de Paris, une perquisition de la Gestapo faillit empêcher la parution de l’Appel de la liberté. Ce récit, dernier livre clandestin des Éditions de Minuit, s’inspire de son internement et de son évasion en 1940. Ses activités de résistant allaient valoir à ce compagnon de route le poste de rédacteur en chef des Lettres françaises libres, publication qu’il saura rendre attrayante et diversifiée. (Maitron) ‎

‎Manuel du portrait - ‎

‎ Paris : Editions Mana (Collection Marcel Natkin), 1938 - un volume 18,2x28cm broché sous couverture illustrée, de 72 pages illustrées dans et hors texte de photographies par Man Ray (2 photos hors texte), Cellerier, Paul Adam, Pierre Boucher et Schall - 9 pages de publicités in-fine - titre manuscrit au dos sinon exemplaire en bon état - ‎

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‎CONTES CRUELS.‎

‎ Calmann-Lévy, 1883. In-12, demi-maroquin havane à coins, dos à cinq nerfs, tête dorée, non rogné, couverture conservée, 352 pages. (Devauchelle). Edition originale dont il n'a pas été tiré de grand papier. Bel exemplaire exempt de rousseurs et finement relié par Devauchelle dans un maroquin de qualité. Ex-libris gravé de Jean Herbert.‎

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‎VILLIERS DE L’ISLE-ADAM & LE THEATRE DE L’AME.‎

‎ Paris, A Rebours, n° spécial 45-46, in-8, broché, 107 pages, illustrations en noir in et hors texte. Edition originale. Tirage limité à 200 exemplaires (n° 167) plus quelques hors commerce. Etat de neuf.‎

‎EDITION ORIGINALE ‎

‎Vers et prose. Défense et illustration de la haute littérature et du lyrisme en prose et poésie. Tomes XXV et XXVI:avril-septembre 1911. ‎

‎ Paris, directeur : Paul Fort ; rédacteur en chef : André Salmon. Un volume 16,8x25cm broché de 222 pages sur papier vergé. Dos frotté sinon exemplaire en bon état. ‎

‎Entre 1905 et 1914, la revue Vers et Prose de Paul Fort a publié tous les grands noms de la littérature. On y trouve tous les genres, toute l'Europe, toutes les écoles : Jarry, Valéry, Apollinaire, Claudel, Gide, Zweig, Stevenson, Mallarmé, etc.. C'est la revue où s'est élaborée la modernité. Between 1905 and 1914, the review Vers et Prose by Paul Fort published all the great literary names. Every genre, every school, every european litterature appeared in it. This undeservedly-forgotten review, compared by Jules Romains to the salons of Mme du Deffand, is a little-known site of modernity. ‎

‎Vers et prose. Défense et illustration de la haute littérature et du lyrisme en prose et poésie. Tome XIX: octobre-novembre-décembre 1909. ‎

‎ Paris, directeur : Paul Fort ; rédacteur en chef : André Salmon. Un volume 16,8x25cm broché de 132 pages sur papier vergé. Exemplaire en bon état. ‎

‎Entre 1905 et 1914, la revue Vers et Prose de Paul Fort a publié tous les grands noms de la littérature. On y trouve tous les genres, toute l'Europe, toutes les écoles : Jarry, Valéry, Apollinaire, Claudel, Gide, Zweig, Stevenson, Mallarmé, etc.. C'est la revue où s'est élaborée la modernité. Between 1905 and 1914, the review Vers et Prose by Paul Fort published all the great literary names. Every genre, every school, every european litterature appeared in it. This undeservedly-forgotten review, compared by Jules Romains to the salons of Mme du Deffand, is a little-known site of modernity. ‎

‎Cinéma dadaïste et surréaliste - ‎

‎ Catalogue de l'exposition itinérante organisée par le Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, en 1976 - un volume 20x24cm broché sous une couverture illustrée d'après un dessin de Fernand Léger - 64 pages illustrées - bon état - ‎

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‎Dictionnaire général du surréalisme et de ses environs.‎

‎ Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1982. Un volume 20,1x27cm pleine toile sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs, de 464 comprenant plus de 1350 entrées avec 640 illustrations dont 41 en couleurs. Exemplaire en bon état. ‎

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‎Excellent ouvrage de référence. ‎

‎Hermès. Recherches sur l’expérience spirituelle. N°1, printemps 1963.‎

‎ Lausanne (Suisse): Les Amis d’Hermès. Directeur Jacques Masui. Un volume 16,6x22,5cm broché de 120 pages. Bon état. ‎

‎Fondée en 1933, Hermès s'interrompit avec la guerre en 1939. Relancée par Jacques Masui, cette seconde série, fera paraître deux livraisons par an de 1963 à 1970. ‎

‎Mickiewicz, la France et l'Europe - Sous la direction de François-Xavier Coquin et Michel Maslowski - ‎

‎ Paris : Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme / Institut d'études slaves, 2002 - un volume 21x25,2cm broché à l'italienne, de 423 pages abondamment illustrées en couleurs, résumés anglais, index et bibliographie in-fine ‎

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‎Si j'étais roi. Opéra en trois actes. Partition pour piano seul. ‎

‎ Paris : Alphonse Leduc, (ca 1870). Plein chagrin rouge avec filets et petites lyres en écoinssons gravés à froid sur les plats, dos lisse avec décor floral et lyre gravés à froid, titre et auteur dorés, date de la reliure dorée en bas du dos (1913), tranche supérieure dorée, 79 pages. Partition gravée, imprimerie Moucelot montée sur onglets. Quelques rousseurs sinon bon état, élégante reliure. ‎

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‎Mickiewicz par lui-même - ‎

‎ Paris : Institut d'études slaves, 2000 - un volume 16x24cm broché sous couverture illustrée en couleurs, de 288 pages - bon état - ‎

‎La vie paroissiale en France au XIVème siècle - ‎

‎ Préface et averissement de Gabriel Le Bras - Paris : Sirey (Collection "Histoire et sociologie de l'Eglise"), 1964 - un volume 13,4x20cm broché de 325 pages - bon état - ‎

‎LA VILLE INCONNUE.‎

‎ Paris, Ollendorff, 1911, in-12 broché, 446 pages. Edition originale de ce roman colonial situé au Soudan égyptien. Bel exemplaire de premier tirage, exempt de mention, très frais.‎

‎EDITION ORIGINALE ‎

‎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.).""‎

‎"... et c'est moi, Juliette !" - Madame Adam, 1836-1936.‎

‎ Gif-sur-Yvette, SAGA (Société des amis de Gif et d'alentour), 1988 pt in-4° à l'italienne (24 x 16), 160 pp, 68 gravures et portraits en noir, 16 pl. en couleurs hors texte, liste des œuvres de Juliette Adam in-fine, reliure toile éditeur, jaquette illustrée, bon état. Edition originale numérotée sur beau papier (non justifiée)‎

‎Sur la célèbre femme de lettres, polémiste, salonnière féministe et républicaine Juliette Adam, née Lambert (1836-1936). — Juliette Adam veuve de Alexis La Messine en 1867, épouse l'avocat Edmond Adam, député de la gauche républicaine, fondateur du Crédit foncier, préfet de police en 1870, puis sénateur. Juliette Adam qui, toute jeune, prend la succession de Marie d'Agoult à la tête du plus célèbre salon républicain, et qui garde jusqu'aux années 1930 une influence prépondérante grâce à son génie d'hôtesse. Elle fit et défit des carrières, promut Gambetta, soigna Guizot, protégea Henri Rochefort. Femme d'influence, Juliette Adam se veut l'incarnation de la Grande Française, déterminée à rendre à la France abaissée son rang en Europe. Amie de George Sand, de Julie-Victoire Daubié et de Marie-Anne de Bovet, elle se détache de Gambetta lorsqu'il accède à la présidence de la Chambre, et elle se tourne vers la littérature. En 1879, elle fonde La Nouvelle Revue, qu'elle anime pendant vingt ans. Elle y publie notamment les premiers romans de Paul Bourget ou Le Calvaire d'Octave Mirbeau. Elle encourage également les débuts littéraires de Pierre Loti, d'Alexandre Dumas fils et de Léon Daudet. Conduite par une santé prétendument chancelante, qui ne l'empêchera pas de vivre presque centenaire, elle découvre Golfe-Juan où elle achète en 1858 un terrain pour y construire une villa lançant la vogue de cette station balnéaire. Le 5 août 1882, elle achète à Gif-sur-Yvette (Essonne) le domaine de l'Abbaye où elle vit de 1904 jusqu'à sa mort en 1936. Elle se convertit au catholicisme en 1905 et est inhumée au cimetière du Père-Lachaise. ‎

‎""Om Beskatning"" (+) ""Om Jordbrukets förfall i Europa, efter Romerska Väldets undergäng"" (+) ""Om Handelsbalancen"" (+) ""Om Jordbruks-systemet I en Rikshushållning, samt om Economisterne I Frankrike"" (+) ""Om Pappers-myntet I Norr-Amerika Kolonierne, före... - [""THE EARLIEST APPEARANCE IN SWEDISH OF A NUMBER OF TRANSLATIONS FROM ADAM SMITH""]‎

‎Stockholm, Henrik A. Nordström, 1797-1801. 8vo. Uncut, partly unopened in the original wrappers. In 22 volumes as issued. Last volume name written on title-page, otherwise an exceptionally fine, clean and untouched set rarely seen in this condition. (4),102 pp." (2),182 pp. (2),107 pp. (2),157,(1) pp. (2),176,(4) pp. (4),138,(2) pp. (2),205,(1) pp. + 1 folded table (2),188 pp (2),190 pp. (2),89,(4) pp. (4),135,(1) pp. (2),116,(1) pp. (2),157 pp. (2),120 pp. (2),151,(1 blank,10) pp. + 1 folded map (2),215 pp. + 1 folded table (2),131,(5) pp. (4),207 pp. (2),183,(1) pp. + 1 folded table (2),218 pp. (2),144,(4) pp." (6),449,(1) pp. + 5 folded plates.""Om Beskatning"", Part: 36, 37, 38:Pp. 145-177""Om Jordbrukets förfall i Europa, efter Romerska Väldets undergäng"", Part: 27, 28. Pp. 93-120""Om Handelsbalancen"", Part: 25,26. Pp. 92-114""Om Jordbruks-systemet I en Rikshushållning, samt om Economisterne I Frankrike"", Part: 25-26. Pp. 43-92""Om Pappers-myntet I Norr-Amerika Kolonierne, före Revolutionen"". Part: 27-28. Pp.57-62""Om Krono-jord"". Part: 29,30,31. Pp 139-146.""Theorien för statsskulder"". Part: 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49 & 50. Pp. 151-161.‎

‎First, however partial, translation of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations in Swedish rarely seen in this condition, thus making it the very first opportunity for Swedish speakers to study Adam Smith. A more lengthy translation was made in 1909 - 1911 but to this day a full Swedish translation has not been made.""Von Schulzenheim [nobleman, physician, country squire and politician] also published shorter articles in the review 'Läsning I blandade ämnen', an organ of the opposition to the absolutist and obscurantist regime of Gustavus IV Adolphus. The editor of the review was count Georg Adlersparre, an army officer and a political writer who in 1809 was to become one of the prime-movers behind the dethronement of the king. Adlersparre to was an admirer of Adam Smith. In 1799-1800 he published in the 'Läsning' his own Swedish translation of several selections from Wealth of Nations. In some cases Adlersparre added footnotes, making it easier for the readers to apply Smith's ideas to Swedish conditions. Those translations, to the best of my knowledge, were the first ones of Wealth of Nations in Sweden. They were followed by translations of other parts of Wealth of Nations, published in 1800 amd 1808. This time the translator was Erik Erland Bodell, an official of the Swedish Customs and thus, if you like, a colleague of Adam Smith."" ( Cheng-chung, Adam Smith Across Nations). Despite the comparatively late translation into Swedish, it still had a profound influence, not on economists since they were well aware of the original work in English, but upon politics and public opinion in general: ""There are few things more striking to the modem student of the history of ideas in Sweden than the negative phenomenon that Sweden was almost entirely uninfluenced by this fact and thus remained almost unaffected by English economic thought during a period when its superiority was most evident. As far as I am acquainted with the Swedish economic discussion and our popular economic literature of the 1860's and 1870's, there is almost no trace of any influence from English writers. [...]Of Adam Smith we have still only one abbreviated translation of his famous work and that was published as late as during this century"" and, as far as I know, nothing of Ricardo's or Malthus' exists in Swedish, nor do any of the major economic works of J.S. Mill."" (Heckscher, A survey of economic thought in Sweden, 1875-1950).The journal was preceded by Adlersparre's ""Läsning för landtmän"" 1795-96. The content is a mixture of literature, agriculture, law, philosophy and politics. Apart from the many contributions by Swedish authors, ""Läsning i blandade ämnen"" also contains texts by Kant, Gibbon and De Lolme OCLC lists copies at Yale, Minnesota, and Texas. ‎

‎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.‎

‎Tableau critique des Moeurs angloises - Traduction de la Feuille périodique intitulée The World by Adam-Fitx-Adam -‎

‎ 1761 La Haye - Cuissard - 1761 - 1 volume in12 de 12 - 216 pages - Reliure pleine basane d'époque - dos cinq nerfs ornés de fleurons - tranches rouges - petits accrocs à la coiffe supérieure - coins un peu émoussés - Bon exemplaire -‎

‎Rare ouvrage - ‎

‎ Chez les passants (Fantaisies, Pamphlets et Souvenirs), couverture et frontispice de Félicien Rops. Édition originale. Reliure d'époque parfaitement conservé. ‎

‎Comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Chez les passants (Fantaisies, Pamphlets et Souvenirs), couverture et frontispice de Félicien Rops, Paris, Comptoir d'Édition, Librairie de l'Art Indépendant, 1890, 320 p., relié, 11,8 x 18,5 cm. Édition originale sur papier d'édition après 15 exemplaires sur papier Japon. Charmante reliure de l'époque en demi-percaline chinée bleue, pièce de titre brune avec nom de l'auteur et titre dorés, dos lisse avec fleuron et date de publication en queue dorés, relié à la Bradel. Couvertures et dos bien conservés. Couverture bien conservée avec le médaillon ovale du graveur belge Félicien Rops, répété sur le catalogue de la librairie de l'art indépendant en fin d'ouvrage (p. 307), encadrant la figure d'une sirène avec la devise : Non hic piscis omnium (ce n'est pas le poisson de tous). Il s'agit du cartouche intitulé Poisson rare (Exsteens 422). Selon Hélène Védrine : "La réussite de cette devise [...] tient sans doute à la singularité de la figure qui prend à contre-pied le précepte horacien de la monstruosité d'une imagination incontrôlée. [...] Poisson rare propose la représentation d'une muse étrange, bigarrée, inutile et nuisible, incarnant le principe de l'hétérogénéité, où se mêle l'inspiration débridée du peintre et du scripteur. En elle se combinent sous un mode logogriphique les espèces inattendues de la sirène, du vampire et de la sphinge féline, que le texte du motto ne vient en rien élucider en la désignant sous le terme de "piscis". Ce texte ajoute au dévoiement, faisant allusion à l'interprétation idéogrammatique du terme désignant le poisson, ἰχθύς, dans se liraient les différents noms du Christ. Là se réalise le principe de confuse complémentarité de la sentence et de la figure, de l'âme et du corps de la devise. [...] En ce sens, le Poisson rare de Rops constitue une impresa artistique et restitue, conformément à la dimension héroïque de la devise, le projet élitiste, intime et esthétique du graveur." Extrait de l'ouvrage Anamorphoses décadentes / L'Art de la défiguration (1880-1914), Études offertes à Jean de Palacio, sous la direction d'Isabelle Krzykowski et de Sylvie Thorel-Cailleteau, Presses Universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002, p. 96-97. Le frontispice de Félicien Rops représente un personnage squelettique déposant la tête coupée de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam au tombeau sur lequel est inscrit "Tribulat Bonhomet RIP" en référence au personnage du docteur du recueil de nouvelles éponyme de Villiers paru en 1887. Il représente les armes du comte Villiers de l'Isle-Adam et reprend l'inscription du tombeau de l'ancêtre du comte Philippe Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, grand maître de l'ordre des Hospitaliers de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem, mort à Malte en 1534 : Hic jacet virtus victrix fortunae. Selon Félicien Rops, le frontispice de Chez les passants est sa pire réalisation en la matière. Sa correspondance révèle toutes les difficultés et empressements qu'il a eu à réaliser cette illustration à la demande de la veuve de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam pour que paraisse cette édition posthume préparée par Stéphane Mallarmé et Joris-Karl Huysmans. Dans une lettre à Armand Rassenfosse du 17 novembre 1889, Félicien Rops évoque d'abord de nombreux problèmes liés au vernis utilisé et au manque de temps : "Je devais faire au galop & même au triple galop, pour venir en aide à la veuve de Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, un bout de frontispice pour son livre : Chez les Passants et j’ai voulu le faire avec notre nouveau vernis. J’ai décalqué mon croquis avec un crayon dur, puis j’ai fait mordre le trait. J’ai reverni à nouveau après la morsure, qui était d’ailleurs un peu trop forte, pour un simple trait, et j’ai ensuite ajouté au crayon tous les travaux. À la remorsure tous les travaux premiers ; le trait, se sont mis à remordre partout, même sur la pierre tombale o[ù] vous pourrez lire : Tribulat Bonhomet, car je vous envoie une épreuve du 2e État et une épreuve du 3e état. Dans ce troisième état, la planche a été a peu prèssauvée à l’aide de la pointe sèche et de la roulette." Puis, dans une lettre du 24 décembre au même, ce jugement sévère sur son oeuvre sur l'impression réalisée par Nys qui a fini d'achever le mauvais traitement accordé au fronstipice : "Je vous envoie le frontispice du livre : Chez les Passants de Villiers. C’est fort mauvais, et même l’un des plus mauvais frontispices de mon œuvre. Ce malheureux cuivre a éprouvé tous les accidents possibles, et pour comble, Nys, pressé, l’a fort mal tiré. Mais enfin, puisque vous en désirez une épreuve, je vous l’expédie. Remarquez que la tête qui se trouve dans la main du fantôme est presqu’illisible. C’est encore un accident de la dernière heure. En coupant les marges, l’ouvrier avait enlevé d’un coup de burin le nez et un des verres des lunettes du Bonhomet ! C’etait complet !!" Jugement sévère que l'on retrouve dans une lettre adressée à Eugène Demolder le 4 février 1890 : "– Mon opinion sur mon Bonhomet ? frontispice de chez les Passants ? – Très mauvais ce frontispice : voilà. C’est lourd, veule & l’idée est quelconque. Un mauvais Rops !!" L'ouvrage a paru sous la direction de Stéphane Mallarmé et J.-K. Huysmans au Comptoir d'Édition dont on confie au poète Henri de Régnier l'évocation : "Il y avait en 1890, au numéro 9 de la Chaussée d'Antin, une étroite boutique dont la devanture offrait au passant un étalage de livres, accompagnés de tableaux et de gravures d'un symbolisme qui ne laissait aucun doute sur les tendances de la maison. Cette boutique avait d'ailleurs déjà un passé littéraire. Edouard Dujardin y avait installé les bureaux de la Revue Indépendante, et ces bureaux avaient reçu plus d'une fois la visite de Stéphane Mallarmé, de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, de Paul Verlaine, de Jules Laforgue. Cette brillante collaboration n'avait pas cependant suffi à assurer la durée de la publication d'Edouard Dujardin qui, passée aux mains de François de Nion, avait abandonné la Chaussé natale où l'éditeur Edmond Bailly avait établi son « Comptoir d'édition » devenu bientôt la « Librairie de l'Art Indépendant », d'où sortirent plusieurs volumes maintenant non sans rareté et qui portent pour marque un médaillon ovale encadrant la figure d'une sirène dessinée par Félicien Rops, avec la devise : Non hic piscis omnium. Cette boutique de la Chaussée d'Antin n'était pas un lieu ordinaire. La porte poussée, on se trouvait en présence d'une forte dame à cheveux blancs, d'un petit homme à lunettes d'or, Edmond Bailly lui-même. Or Edmond Bailly, personnage singulier, n'était pas seulement éditeur, il était occultiste et musicien. Il composait des mélodies et rédigeait une revue de science ésotérique. J'ajoute qu'il était poète et qu'on le disait ancien artilleur de la Commune, mais il n'était resté révolutionnaire qu'en poésie et en musique et c'était pour satisfaire ce goût qu'il publiait des ouvrages de symbolistes. Aussi fus-je un de ses auteurs, et les auteurs d'Edmond Bailly entretenaient avec lui d'excellentes relations, de même qu'il en avait de fort bonnes avec l'au-delà ! La boutique de la Chaussée d'Antin servait souvent de point de réunion et de lieu de rencontre à un petit groupe d'écrivains au nombre desquels je me trouvais. On allait chez Bailly causer de littérature. Parfois on y interrogeait les esprits au moyen d'une sorte de trépied en bois auquel les mains imposaient des soubresauts alphabétiques. Edmond Bailly dirigeait les expériences tout en caressant la chatte Aziza. Parfois, il se dérangeait pour satisfaire un client qui s'en allait en emportant sous son bras l'Upanishad du grand Aranyaka, traduit du sanscrit par Ferdinand Hérold, soit l'Antre des Nymphes, de Porphyre, traduit du grec par Pierre Quillard, soit les Chansons de Bilitis, de Pierre Louys, soit la Damoiselle élue, de Claude-Achille Debussy, que Bailly avait luxueusement éditée." Magnifique exemplaire, parfaitement conservé. ‎

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‎Pont-à-Mousson Haguenthal éditeur 0 in 8 oblong (13,5x26) 1 volume reliure cartonnée verte de l'éditeur, plat supérieur illustré d'une grande composition lithographiée. Album renfermant 12 planches lithographiées par Victor Adam. Victor-Vincent Adam, 1801-1867, lithographe français. Bon exemplaire ‎

‎Bon Couverture rigide ‎