Fable Bees by Bernard Mandeville, First Edition (6 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. NOTE: A second part was published later. DISBOUND TEXT (No covers). Text commences at title page, last numbered page is 477. 16 and 478 pages. Two library stamps on title page and one on last leaf. Title page detached and a bit browned on leading edge. Else very good clean tight text most suitable to rebind.

8vo, pp. [ii], xix, [iii], 364, [12] index; slightly dampstained in places, very light worming at head towards end; in contemporary calf, rebacked. First edition, reissue, with a cancel title identifying the author. After the Fable of the Bees, this is perhaps Mandeville's best-known work. On publication in 1720, it was almost immediately translated into French (1722), Dutch (1723) and German (1726). Dealing with various aspects of religious history and thought, Mandeville describes the development of the Christian church, and analyses the political status of the church in England. The book met with particular success in Germany. See Kaye I xxxi and note 3. Provenance. Signet Library, Edinburgh, with gilt stamp in centre of both covers.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. DISBOUND TEXT (No covers). Text commences at title page and ends on last index page with FINIS at base. Last numbered page is 432. (2 and 32 and 432 and index). Library stamps on title page and last page. Title page deatched and slight damage at inner margin. Else a very good clean tight text most suitable to rebind.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Full leather, five raised bands, tooled covers, with 18th Century bookplate on front pastedown. Very scarce copy of this title, which is, in fact, an entirely new work. Very Good.

8vo, pp. [ii], xi, [ix], 240; last leaf of contents heavily foxed, else a clean copy, old calf, rebacked; with new endpapers. First edition. In this work Mandeville responds to ethical criticisms of his most important work, The Fable of the Bees - particularly the first part, An enquiry into the origin of moral virtue. He uses the same characters, Horatio and Cleomenes, and the same dialogue form as in the second part. The present work is in large measure a continuation of the earlier book, defending the cynical vein with a display of learning and reasoning on the nature of religion and power which many found hard to refute. 'If you can assure men of the Justice of their Cause. the Business is done. their own Wickedness will be no Obstacle to it' (p. 172). Kaye, Fable of the Bees, I xxxi. Provenance. Erased and illegible, but still visible, oval library stamp on last leaf; the same library stamp has been erased from the title, more effectively.

Condition: Good. . 4 volumes in-12 de [2]-22-333-[2]-267 et [2]-282-[2]-270 pages, basane fauve, dos lisses ornés, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque). Coiffes et coins rapés, ressaut d'un feuillet au tome 1. Only the later 1750 edition is in OCLC.Edition originale de la traduction française par Jean Bertrand, de l'ouvrage le plus célèbre de Mandeville. Ce dernier soutient que la guerre, le vol, la prostitution, l'alcool et les drogues, la cupidité, etc. contribuent finalement « à l'avantage de la société civile ».Ex-libris Princ Alladro Kastriotit. Juan Pedro Aladro y Kastriota (1845-1914), dit Aladro Kastrioti par les Albanais, né Juan de Aladro de Perez y Valasco, noble espagnol, diplomate et prétendant au trône d'Albanie. Il a revendiqué la descendance de la famille Kastrioti par l'intermédiaire de sa grand-mère paternelle, une noble qui vivait à l'époque de Charles III.Bernard Mandeville, or Bernard de Mandeville, was an Anglo-Dutch philosopher, political economist, satirist, writer and physician. Born in Rotterdam, he lived most of his life in England and used English for most of his published works. He became famous for "The Fable of the Bees.".Provenance: Estate of Joaquin Romero Maura. Mr Maura, great-grandson of a five-time prime minister of Spain, lived in the UK for most of his life and co-directed the Iberian Centre with the illustrious historian Sir Raymond Carr. Joaquín Romero Maura ? died lin June 2022 at the age of 81, at a senior home in Zaragoza, Spain. The historian ? who held a PhD from Oxford University ? was widowed and childless. He had been a confidante of the former Spanish king.Joaquín Romero Maura (Niza, 1940-Zaragoza, 5 de junio de 2022) fue un historiador español. Destacó por su obra La rosa de fuego, un estudio sobre el obrerismo barcelonés de la primera década del siglo xx.