Paris Question, First Edition (26 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; xviii, 187 pages ; 22 cm ; ISBN 9780394571904, 9780571141180, 0394571908, 0571141188 ; LCCN 88021564 ; LOC No BX4668.H82 S66 1988 ; Dewey 909.7/092/4 ; sea-green and blue cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; This lively and elegant book by the acclaimed historian Jonathan D. Spence reconstructs an extraordinary episode in the early intercourse between Europe and China. It is the story of John Hu, a lowly but devout Chinese Catholic who in 1722 accompanied a Jesuit missionary on a journey to France -- a journey that ended with Hu's confinement in a lunatic asylum. At once a triumph of historical detective work and a gripping narrative, The Question of Hu deftly probes the collision of two cultures, with their different definitions of faith, madness, and moral obligation. ; Jonathan D. Spence was born in Surrey, England on August 11, 1936. He received a B.A. in history from Clare College, Cambridge University and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. As a historian specializing in Chinese history, he wrote several books including The Search for Modern China, The Death of Woman Wang, and The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci. The Gate of Heavenly Peace won the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Henry D. Vursell Memorial Award of the American Academy-Institute of Arts and Letters.; Contents: The question -- Departure -- The ocean voyage -- Landfall -- In the province -- Paris -- Orleans -- The road to Charenton -- Release -- Return ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st. ed., 1st printing ; xii, 337 p. ; 23 cm. ; LCCN 86008769 ; 9780198203100, 9780198204152, 9780198264507, 0198203101, 0198204159, 019826450X ; OCLC 25492425 ; LC B765.G74 S68 1986 Dewey 189/.4 ; blue cloth in dustjacket ; Robert Grosseteste was one of the most independent and vigorous Englishmen of the Middle Ages--a medieval Dr. Johnson in his powers of mind and personality. Of humble birth, he lived for many years in obscurity and emerged only late in life as a national figure, deeply conservative and profoundly critical of the contemporary world. As a scientist, theologian, and pastoral leader, he was rooted in an English tradition going back beyond the Norman Conquest. This comprehensive study of one of England's great intellects by the late Sir Richard W. Southern of Oxford University is an important contribution to the history of ideas. ; Contents: Part I: Grosseteste and the European Scene -- 1. The Grosseteste problem -- I. Divergent views -- II. Contemporary witnesses: Matthew Paris; Roger Bacon; A member of Grosseteste's household: fr. Hubert -- III. Later historical reconstructions -- 2. Grosseteste and the pattern of scholastic thought -- I. The problem of spurious texts -- II. Symptoms of an independent mind -- (1) An unscholastic answer to a scholastic question -- (2) The tentative approach -- (3) The importance of insight -- (4) Consideration -- (5) Imagination -- (6) Grosseteste's scholarly vision -- 3. Two patterns of education -- I. The continental road to success -- II. The English alternative -- (1) The social environment -- (2) The intellectual environment -- 4. Outlines of a provincial career -- I. Early and middle years -- II. The Oxford years -- III. The message of a despised source -- 5. The English scientific tradition -- I. The forerunners: Adelard of Bath; Daniel of Morley; Alfred of Shareshill -- II. Scope and limits of scientific thought -- (1) The natures of earthly things -- (2) The stars -- Part II: Grosseteste's Thoughts on Nature, Man and God -- 6. Towards a chronology of Grosseteste's thought -- I. Grosseteste's early theological development -- (1) Phase I: comments on Psalms 1 to 54 -- (2) Phase 2: comments on Psalms 55 to 79 -- (3) Phase 3: comments on Psalms 80 to 100 -- II. Grosseteste's earlier scientific writings -- (1) Works to be considered for rejection: De fluxu et refluxu maris De generatione stellarum -- (2) Works to be considered for earlier dating: De Cometis; Computus I, II, and III The commentary on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics; The commentary on Aristotle's Physics -- III. Grosseteste's later scientific writings: De luce -- IV. A skeleton chronology -- 7. Grosseteste's scientific vision -- I. Grosseteste's view of the heavens: De Sphera; De Cometis -- II. The Posterior Analytics and the natural world -- (1) The entry of the Posterior Analytics into Western thought -- (2) Grosseteste and the problems of nature: The scintillation of stars; The origin of sound; The flooding of the Nile; The cause of thunder; Biological reflections; Falling leaves; The initial irrigation of the earth -- (3) Grosseteste's account of scientific knowledge -- 8. From science to theology -- I. Grosseteste's change of direction -- II. Grosseteste's theological assets -- (1) His scientific method -- (2) His scientific knowledge -- III. Grosseteste's theological deficiencies and their remedy -- (1) Origin of his Greek studies -- (2) His programme of reading -- IV. Grosseteste's theological index -- (1) Nature of the plan -- (2) When did he make it? -- (3) How could it be used? -- V. Grosseteste's theological development -- (1) Secular sources and their use -- (2) (2) The theological sources and their development: Latin sources; Greek sources: Joan of Damascus; Denys the Areopagite; Basil the Great -- 9. Grosseteste's theological vision -- I.A theology of creation -- II. Centrality of man --III. Unity of God and nature -- IV. Necessity of God's entry into nature -- V. Chateau d'Amour; FINE/FINE. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Quarter bound in calf over marbled boards, gilt titles, rubbed at the extremities. Ten titles in total with 183 pages, 135 pages, 168 pages, 31 pages 72 pages, 23 pages, 46 pages etc several hundred in total. All are from Paris in 1848, 49 or 50.

First Edition. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; [4], 62, [2] pages ; 24 cm (8vo). Subjects; Romanies Europe Origin. Bronze Europe. 3 Kg.

[1962], 1st American edition. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 144pp. Map, notes, tables, bibliography, index. The dust jacket spine and edges are slightly discolored, there is underlining in the introduction. Contributors include Malcolm Anderson (The Right and the Social Question in Parliament, 1905-1919), David Shapiro (The Ralliement in the Politics of the 1890's), D.R. Watson (The Nationalist Movement in Paris, 1900-1906). Publisher series: St Antony's Papers 13. Locale: ; Paris. (History--France).

First Edition. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; [4], 62, [2] pages ; 24 cm (8vo). Subjects; Romanies Europe Origin. Bronze Europe. 1 Kg.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Neuf. Dust Jacket Condition: Neuf. prima edizione. News Catalogue Contact & About Partners Downloads Pictura Nova(PICT 3) F. Healy Rubens and the Judgement of Paris: A Question of Choice 343 p., incl. 8 colour + 170 b/w ill., 190 x 250 mm, 1997 ISBN: 978-2-503-50443-8 Languages: English Hardback The publication is available. Retail price: EUR 92,00 Ruben's renderings of the Judgement of Paris mark every stage in his career, so that this survey, including familiar and unfamiliar works, allows an insight into his entire artistic development. The Judgement of Paris - the tale of the shepherd-prince who gave Venus the prize in a beaty competition - was variously treated by classical writers and became a favourite theme for artists. No painter seems to have responded to the ancient story with more intelligence and entousiasm than Peter Paul Rubens, who devoted at least eight pictures to it. A Judgement of Paris marks every stage in Rubens'career, so that the present survey, which includes familiar and unfamiliar works, allows an insight into his entire artistic development. Since his illustrations of the subject were intended for a variety of contexts, this study also adresses many aspects of Rubens's practice and production, as well as touching on his later reputation. Rubens's response to the theme is also seen in relation to earlier literary and pictorial tradition. Paris's decision had set a problem for moralists - for his choice had led, indirectly, to the onset of the Trojan War. Some commentators held that the young man, who had two other goddesses to choose from, should have preferred Minerva, patron of learning, or at least had opted sensibly for wealth, in the person of Juno. Allegorical readings has some influence on the depiction and interpretation of the theme in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is shown how Rubens came to favour the Venetian artistic convention which focussed on the moment prior to Paris's decision, thus effectively rejecting the interpretation of the Judgement as a moral condemnation. Rubens came to see the myth as a universal image of the problem of choice. But also, more specifically, he seems to have associated Paris with the artist as arbiter of beauty - the final theme explored in this illuminating book. Size: 190 x250 mm.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page: "For Charlie Hodge, / Who shares my (eucharistic) enthusiasm for good bread and fine wine, / with esteem & affection, / Steve K." Sorry, can't say whether it's inscribed to the singer Charlie Hodge or some other Charlie Hodge. Bound in green cloth-covered boards with a gold-lettered spine. The book is tight, square, and unmarked; corners sharp, spine ends unbumped. The dust jacket is not priced. Brodart protected. Signed by Author(s).

couverture souple. Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes | s. l. [Paris] s. d. [1870] | 15.50 x 25 cm | agrafé | Edition originale. Sous couverture muette. Rare. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] First edition. Plain paper cover. Rare. *.

4to. pp [iv], iii, 192. Yellow boards with 'Shantung' written on spine in pencil. Hand-drawn map inside. Unpublished typescript thesis, one of presumably only a handful printed.(Thesis submitted for the degree of Bachelor of Letters in The University of Oxford) Very good minus. Pages clean and unmarked throughout. Some soiling at boards.

Condition: New. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. . . . . .

Couverture souple. Condition: Satisfaisant. Edition originale. Paris, impr. d'Hippolyte Tilliard, 1833 ; in-4, (6), 37 pp., broché, couverture muette moderne, rousseurs éparses essentiellement marginales, petite mouillure angulaire, état satisfaisant. Edition originale rare. Philippe Frédéric Blandin (1798-1849) succèda à Richerand dans la chaire d'opérations et d'appareils de la Faculté de médecine de Paris. Il fut chirurgien de l'Hôtel-Dieu et chirurgien consultant du Roi.

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Edition originale.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2 vols, First Edition, finely bound in full brown calf, , red labels by Leighton, a very fine copy,

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Edition originale. Paris, Béthune et Plon, 1835 ; in-4, 47 pp., (1) p. (errata), broché, couverture muette moderne, quelques rousseurs (plus importantes sur la page de titre), bon état. Edition originale de cette thèse de concours dont le jury était présidé par Jules Cloquet. Elle comporte des données historiques précieuses, avec de très nombreux auteurs cités. Adolphe Alexandre Lenoir (1802-1860), qui avait été reçu premier à l'internat des hôpitaux de Paris, fut reçu 2ème à ce concours. Il devint ainsi agrégé de chirurgie à la Faculté de médecine de Paris puis chirurgien des hôpitaux de Paris.

1st Ed. Royal 8vo. 605pp. French text. Ownership inscription of 'Ed. Farès Paris 1931' to half title, some light browning, bound in red cloth with gilt cloth with gilt lettered label to spine. No. 1588 of 2000 Copies. US$74.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Edition originale. 1 vol. in-8 (17 x 24,5 cm), LXXIV, 1077 pp., demi-percaline de l'éditeur, reliure légèrement défraîchie, intérieur en très bon état. Ce volume est en grande partie consacré à la rachianesthésie (les autres sujets traités lors de ce congrès, moins développés, concernent les résultats éloignés du traitement chirurgical de l'ulcère du duodénum, et les suites éloignés de la trépanation du crâne pour lésions traumatiques) . La rachianesthésie fit en effet l'objet d'un grand débat à ce Congrès de chirurgie. A la suite d'une vaste enquête internationale, Forgue et Basset établissent, dans ce rapport remarquable et devenu classique, les indications, les avantages et les contre-indications de la rachianesthésie. Ce rapport occupe les pages 199-367 de ce volume. Il existe, à la suite de ce rapport, de nombreuses communications de différents auteurs exposant leur expérience de la rachianesthésie (pp. 367-564). REFERENCES : Schulte am Esch J & ?Goerig M: The History of Anaesthesia: The Fourth International Symposium on the History of Anaesthesia, 1998, ?p. 493: "In 1928, the French Association of Surgery asked Professors Forgue and Basset to prepare a report on spinal anesthesia for its annual meeting. These rapporteurs collected 104 datasets including 222,467 cases treated with spinal anesthesia. THIS REMARKABLE REPORT WAS A LANDMARK IN THE HISTORY OF SPINAL ANESTHESIA."; Parsloe C: Deliberate total spinal anesthesia: proponents and techniques (1901-1948), International Congress Series, 2002, 1242, 169-172: "The first and subsequent spinal anesthesias were for operations on the lower extremity. Within 2 years, Tuffier used spinal to operate on the abdomen and kidney. Other surgeons began to explore the possibility of using deliberate total spinal anesthesia. In 1901, Morton described the use of spinal anesthesia for operations on all regions of the body. Le Filliâtre in 1901, Chaput in 1907, Jonnesco in 1908 and Koster in 1928 also used high levels of analgesia in what was called general spinal anesthesia. This was meant as distinctive from general inhalation anesthesia. It is remarkable that large series of operations on the thorax, neck and head were performed with deliberate total spinal anesthesia. After 1930, with admonition from Forgue and Basset, the use of total spinal anesthesia declined. They stated that the safety of spinal anesthesia resided in lower levels and suggested no total spinal, not even a high spinal, should be administered. The first anesthesiologists who used total spinal anesthesia for purposes of deliberate hypotension and decreased blood loss were Griffith and Gillies.".

rigide. Condition: Bon. 2 vol. in-8 reliure demi-percaline brune, Bureaux de la Réforme Sociale, Paris, 1886, 632 pp. ; 580 pp. : La Réforme Sociale. Bulletin de la Société d'Economie Sociale et des Unions de la Paix Sociale (Sixième Année. Deuxième Série, Tomes I et II - Année 1886 Complète). Fondée par P.-F. Le Play [ Contient notamment : ] La mission léguée par Le Play à l'Ecole de la paix sociale (Focillon) ; L'industrie maraîchère aux environs de Paris (Urbain Guérin) ; La colonisation de la Nouvelle-Calédonie (Moncelon) ; Les livres de raison en Allemagne et le Tagebuch d'Albrecht Dürer) ; La Zadruga, la famille patriarcale et le régime de Communauté dans les Balkans depuis l'Indépendance (Gabriel Ardant) ; La question des petits logements à Lyon (Jules Michel) ; Les Etats-Unis avant l'émancipation d'après un livre récent (Saint-Girons) ; La famille collective chez les Bohêmes et les Poonais au XIIIe siècle (Bogisic) ; L'ouvrier faïencier de Nevers (Toytot) ; La Société Française au Canada (Fabre) ; La Chine et ses population rurales, par le Général Tchenk-Ki-Tong ; La corporation des tisseurs lyonnais (Guise) ; etc. Figure importante de la sociologie française, l'ingénieur et réformateur social Pierre Guillaume Frédéric Le Play (1806-1882) vit sont oeuvre poursuivie par de nombreux disciples, dont on retrouvera souvent les signatures dans la revue : Adolphe Focillon, Charles de Ribbe, Émile Cheysson, Alexis Delaire, Henri de Tourville, Claudio Jannet, Edmond Demolins ou Paul de Rousiers. Henri de Tourville et Edmond Demolins (qui dirigera la revue jusqu'en 1885 et sera le fondateur de l'Ecole des Roches) prendront ensuite leurs distances avec l'héritage de Le Play et fonderont la revue "La Science Sociale" cette même année 1886. Bon état (qq. rouss.) Langue: Français.

Paris, Plon,Nourrit et Cie , 1874 - Edition Originale - In-8,16 x 23 cm - Broché (en partie débroché)- VII-429 pages - Frais, bon exemplaire - Envoi rapide et soigné - Réf. 27759 Présentation:La chute de Robespierre au 9 thermidor est une sorte de révolution de sérail, à laquelle demeurent étrangers l'opinion du dehors et les partis divers, girondin, constitutionnel ou royaliste. C'est une querelle intestine survenue dans la bande qui s'était emparée de la France et la terrifiait depuis deux ans, une « brouillerie de famille », dit énergiquement M. de Maistre. A peine la nation ose-t-elle assister à la lutte en spectatrice, se gardant bien de se prononcer, tant qu'elle ignore de quel côté sera la victoire. Livres 286090465343.

in-8, [4]-VIII-199 pp., tableaux in-t., bradel demi-percaline verte à coins, pièce de titre et filets dorés sur le dos, date en pied (reliure postérieure). Anecdotiques rousseurs. Edition originale peu courante.Petit memorandum à succès, pertinent et fort bien rédigé, pour qui voulait se lancer dans le commerce, dit, aujourd'hui, international.Bien documenté son ouvrage évoque notamment les relations commerciales et le potentiel des Amériques ainsi que les différents types de commerce favorables selon les pays.Kress, C.1540. - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT - LIEN DE PAIEMENT, NOUS CONSULTER.

In-8 de VIII-(271)-284 pp., demi-percaline bordeaux, pièce de titre (Lemardeley). Édition originale et seule édition tirée à 125 exemplaires. Procès intenté à un libraire parisien par un libraire de Versailles « pour l'extrême vilité des prix obtenues à l'aide d'affirmations mensongères et réitérées » lors d'une transaction. Les noms des deux libraires Roustan et Savy sont dissimulés sous les pseudonymes de Natsuor et Sapor. Les ouvrages concernés provenaient de la bibliothèque du naturaliste Lelorgne de Savigny. Dans une deuxième partie, l'auteur dénonce la « bande noire », association clandestine de libraires opérant dans les ventes publiques de livres pour se rendre maîtresse des prix. Reliés à la suite : Les trois compléments à pagination suivie (pp. 273 à 288).BERNARD (abbé). Sophronius. Quatrième et dernière lettre. Résumé des débats. Paris, Versailles, Roustan (1864). In-8 de 15 pp. Des rousseurs.

5 textes reliés en un volume in-12, demi-veau havane de l'époque, dos lisse orné de filets, palettes et fers spéciaux dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, tranches citron. 1- Edition originale. A l'occasion du vote du budget et de la dotation de la liste civile, "les plus retentissantes attaques de Cormenin contre le régime. Il y satirise la monarchie de Louis-Philippe avec une verve éclatante et sans mesure (.)" (P. Bastid, 'Cormenin', p. 117). 2- Edition originale de la réponse de Cormenin à Lingay (cf. n° 4). 3- Violente critique de la Charte de 1830. La lettre sur la liste civile (1) porte un envoi de Cormenin "A Monsieur le docteur Wassen électeur de l'arrondissement de Joigny", signé par Cormenin, "député de l'Yonne". "La liste civile dévoilée" (5) comporte un ex-dono manuscrit. Bel exemplaire, frais, très bien relié à l'époque.

London, Francis Griffiths, 1914, 1st (only) ed., 44,(1) pag., original grey wrappers printed in black and red, 25,5 x 16,7 cm. = Very rare. WorldCat locates only 3 copies (all in Canada), with no copies traced on the market. Published simultaneously in French and English. Divided in the two parts; the first part being a list of desiderata which was read on Monday, February 16th 1913 at the Conference organised by the "Nationalities and Subject Races Committee", and comprises what the author considers to be the minimum of the claims urged by the Ukrainian educated classes. The second part is an explanatory memorandum, giving in a simple form the whole of the Ukraine question in modern times, including the compromise reached between Poland and Ukraine in February 1914. Contains as an appendix the article Marlborough and a Crown by George Raffalovich as printed in "The Commentator", February 12th and 19th, 1913.

1st Edition. First edition, FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT OF ANTONIADI'S 1909 MAP OF MARS. In 1930, Eugène Michel Antoniadi (1870-1944), a Greek/French astronomer published a work also, as is the work offered here, entitled La Planète Mars based on research he had conducted in 1909. Antoniadi's volume contained what is considered the first accurate modern map of Mars. Antoniadi's map, however, had first appeared in print 20 years earlier in a 1910 volume of La Nature, Revue des Sciences et de leurs Applications à l'Art et à l'Industrie - this volume. Authored by Emile Touchet, secretary of the Societe Astronomique de France, the article is a thorough review of the history of research about Mars. The offering here is that 1910 volume of La Nature and, again, it houses the first appearance in print of Antoniadi's famous 1909 map of Mars. As did many in the scientific community in the early 1900s, Eugène Michel Antoniadi, a Greek/French astronomer, accepted Giovanni Schiaparelli's 1877 depiction of Mars as a planet laced with canals. He had no reason not to. "During the planetary opposition in 1909, [however], Antoniadi observed Mars at the celebrated 33-inch Meudon Observatory telescope, the largest in Europe. Although he observed for only nine nights during a month-long stay. he reported seeing Mars so clearly at times that the linear appearance of the canals dissolved into an intricate mess of smaller, irregular details, and he noted that 'the geometrical "canal" network is an optical illusion" (Mapping the Mars Canal Mania: Cartographic Projection and the Creation of a Popular Icon", Imago Mundi, 58:2, 2006). What Antoniadi witnessed at Meudon in 1909 "convinced [him] that Martian canals were an illusion, a psychological artifact of human perception" (Linda Hall Museum, Scientist of the Day - Eugène Michel Antoniadi, March 1, 2017). Antoniadi's research and mapping, wrote the planetary historian William Graves Hoyt "combined with later photographic work with large telescopes at prime locations tended to reduce the canal controversy, if not the question of Martian life, to the status of an historical curiosity'" (Sheehan, Mars: The Lure of the Red Planet, pp. 174-175). However the idea that canals existed remained, in large part due to Lowell, as part of human imagination until the 1960s when it was finally felled by the Mariner voyages to mars (Imago Mundi). NOTE: Because Touchet's article is an historical review of research about Mars, it includes other the work of other astronomers as well. CONDITION & DETAILS: Complete volume. 4to. [6], 214pp., [4]. Tightly and solidly bound in the publisher's maroon binding, the volume has some scuffing at the edge tips though no more than would be appropriate for its age. Gilt-lettered and -ruled at the spine. Marbled endpapers.The interior is clean throughout. Very good.

3 ouvrages reliés en un volume in-8 (182 x 112 mm), demi-maroquin acajou à coins, dos à nerfs orné de compartiments garnis d'un décor d'encadrement doré, titre doré, tête dorée (rel. fin XIXe). 1- Edition originale, exemplaire bien complet du frontispice gravé par Ch. Baquoy : "Satyre, tu ne le connais pas", qui n'a été joint qu'à un nombre réduit d'exemplaires. L'ouvrage a été imprimé à Paris, sous la fausse adresse de Genève, par les soins de Diderot pour le compte du libraire Pissot. "Le livre qui rendit Rousseau célèbre"; son succès foudroyant propulsa le Citoyen de Genève sur l'avant-scène de la République des Lettres. En répondant par la négative à la question mise au concours par l'Académie de Dijon, Rousseau prend le contre-pied de ses contemporains pour dénoncer un ordre social fondé sur le luxe et les inégalités, corrompu et bafouant les véritables valeurs. Et de démontrer que les progrès indéniables des sciences et des arts ne se sont pas accompagnés d'un progrès moral. La descendance de cet essai sera immense. "Une force insoupçonnée et sincèrement rebelle apparaît dans ce Premier Discours, une pensée novatrice qui sonne juste. Et la lumière que Rousseau jette sur l'homme et sur le lien social va contribuer à remettre en cause une certaine idée du progrès" (Jacques Berchtold). (Dufour, n°13. Gagnebin, III, p. 1854-1855). 2- Edition originale. (Conlon, 'Ouvrages relatifs à J.J. Rousseau', n°2). 3- Edition originale de la réponse de Rousseau à la brochure de Stanislas Leszczynski (cf. ci-dessus). (Dufour, n°23, p. 24). Mors légèrement frottés. Très bon exemplaire, frais, grand de marges, bien relié.

Paris, Genève, Dentu, Georg, Didot, 1860 - 1861, Le 7 opere (in realtà 8 perchè lo scritto di La Guéronnière è presente in 2 copie) legate in volume unico, in-8, mezza pelle rossa coeva, dorso a 5 nervi con titolo collettivo (Brochures politiques) e monogramma coronato in oro negli scomparti, sguardie marmorizzate, taglio superiore dorato. L'opera di D'Azeglio, è in edizione originale (quella con indicazione "Malte, décembre 1859" secondo Parenti è posteriore e fu impressa a Firenze da Le Monnier con luogo e data falsi. Questa riporta nella prefazione la data Torino, 20.11.1859) ed espone il suo programma di liberale moderato e federalista per una riforma in vista della futura unità d'Italia. La 2a opera, sullo statista e riformatore Ivan Széchenyi, è redatta dallo scrittore e patriota ungherese altrimenti noto per l'impegno in difesa dei diritti civili. La 3a, a firma del giornalista e politico bonapartista, anche senatore nel luglio 1861, espone il punto di vista di Napoleone III sulla questione romana e sull'unità d'Italia. L'ardita tesi sostenuta dal monarchico e legittimista La Rochejaquelein nella 4a è invece quella che la Francia non debba abbandonare la Chiesa di Roma, col rischio paradossale che Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia possa divenire capo religioso d'Italia sul modello inglese. Tesi fondante dell'anonimo estensore della 5a è che, essendo la causa italiana legata agli interessi europei e la Francia paladina delle libertà nazionali, si debba creare una confederazione fra gli stati della penisola italiana; resa questa indipendente, si risolverà la questione romana, si gratificherà il Piemonte, e si salverà l'avvenire del Regno delle due Sicilie. Anonima anche la 6a, dietro cui si cela il Debrauz; nato Alois Anton Dobrauz a Trieste nell'allora Impero austro-ungarico, e divenuto giornalista e latore di trattative segrete fra Napoleone III e Francesco Giuseppe per lo scambio fra le provincie austriache in Italia ed i pricipati danubiani di Moldavia e Valacchia. Lo scritto alla fonte della risposta di Debrauz è legato nel volume per ultimo (pur precedente per data e contenuto); apparso anch' esso anonimo, è opera del sansimonista Charles Duveyrier, che vi caldeggia la cessazione del conflitto austro-piemontese tramite amichevole cessione delle Venezie da parte dell'Austria all'Italia (contro indennità) al fine di evitare una guerra europea. Ricordiamo che il Regno d'Italia con a capo Vittorio Emanuele fu proclamato dal Parlamento il 17. marzo 1861. Tutti gli scritti, tranne uno, sono in 1a edizione. Diverse pagine presentano timbro fiscale imperiale del dipartimento della Senna, da 5 centesimi. Ottime condizioni.