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QUESNAY, François - Will, J. G., & Jean-Charles François (engrs.) Pair of engraved portraits of François Quesnay.Paris : 1747 & 1767
The first of these two portraits, engraved by J.G. Will after a painting by J. Chevallier in 1745, depicts Quesnay seated, surrounded by books and papers. That of François, engraved in 1767 after a painting by Frédoux, is particularly interesting, employing a variety of artistic styles. Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 110063
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PANASSIÉ, Hugues. Histoire des Disques Swing.Geneva : 1944
First edition. History of the label founded by Charles Delaunay and Panassié in 1937 to provide for the needs of the burgeoning French jazz market, here with a superb inscription from Panassié to the half-title; "To Paul and Gloria, faithful friends and unfaithful correspondents! Know that I often regret not having heard these discs without having... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 91511
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AYROUARD, Jacques. Recueil de plusieurs Plans des Ports et Rades et de quelques Cartes particulières de la Mer Méditerranée,[Paris or Marseille?] : 1732-46
First and only edition of this uncommon collection of charts, including the first printed chart of Monaco, a large folding map of Marseilles, and accurate charts of most of the ports, harbours and bays of the region. Ayrouard's work forms a working "waggoner" for the coast, recording soundings, anchorages, and pilotage notes on rocks and reefs, and... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 106965
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AYROUARD, Jacques. Recueil de plusieurs Plans des Ports et Rades et de quelques Cartes particulières de la Mer Méditerranée,[Paris or Marseille?] : 1732-46
First and only edition of this uncommon collection of charts, including the first printed chart of Monaco, a large folding map of Marseilles, and accurate charts of most of the ports, harbours and bays of the region.
Ayrouard's work forms a working waggoner for the coast, recording soundings, anchorages, and pilotage notes on rocks and reefs,... Learn More£18,000.00Stock Code: 66701
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TURGOT, Anne Robert Jacques (trans.); TUCKER, Josiah. Questions importantes sur le commerce,London [i.e Paris?] : 1755
First edition in French of the second part of Tucker's Reflections on the Expediency of a Law for the Naturalization of Foreign Protestants (1752), translated by Turgot in his first published piece on economics. Tucker wrote the first part of his tract in 1751 in support of Robert Nugent's bill to relax British naturalisation laws against foreign protestants,... Learn More£5,500.00Stock Code: 127430
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QUESNAY, François - ALBON, C. C. F., Comte de. Eloge historique de M. Quesnay.Paris : 1775
Very rare first edition in book form of this obituary of Quesnay, which first appeared in the Nouvelles ephémérides économiques, in May 1775. Another edition, by Cailleau, appeared later the same year. Albon here gives an outline of physiocratic teaching, and points out Quesnay's influential distinction between the natural and the legal right, something... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 107291
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ÉPRÉMESNIL, Jaques Duval d'. Correspondance sur une question politique d'agriculture.Amsterdam & Paris : 1763
First edition of this printed correspondence between Épremesnil and Dupuy d'Emportes of the Academy of Florence, concerning agricultural issues, in which Éprémesnil stresses the importance of free trade. Épremesnil (1745-1794) later had an important role in pushing for the summoning of the Estates General, before defending the monarchy in the French... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 123202
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ÉPRÉMESNIL, Jaques Duval d'. Correspondance sur une question politique d'agriculture.Amsterdam & Paris : 1763
First edition of this printed correspondence between Épremesnil and Dupuy d'Emportes of the Academy of Florence, concerning agricultural issues. Épremesnil (1745-1794) later had an important role in pushing for the summoning of the Estates General, before defending the monarchy in the French Revolution, and subsequently being guillotined. The book... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 127720
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas Tabula Itineraria a Sues usque ad Dsjabbel el Mokatteb et Montem Sinai.c.1770, Latin.
Interesting map of the Gulf of Suez, showing mountains of the south Sinai and St Catherine's Mount North to the left. Decorated cartouche at top left. Learn More£145.00Stock Code: 52979
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas Plan de la septentrionale du Golfe arabique et de la ville Suesc1750.
Map of the northern end of the Red Sea, with compass showing north to the right, with inset of the town of Suez. Text on map in French and German. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 52997
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Carte particuliere des Isles Moluques.Paris : 1752
An attractive small map of the Moluccas Islands or Maluku. Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French navy upon the creation of France's hydrographic office, the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine. As befits a maritime chart, all place names and general information is coastal, and there is no real attempt to engrave... Learn More£45.00Stock Code: 78062
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Carte Particuliere des Isles Moluques.Paris : 1753
An attractive small map of the Moluccas Islands or Maluku. Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French navy upon the creation of France's hydrographic office, the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine. As befits a maritime chart, all place names and general information is coastal, and there is no real attempt to engrave... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 78095
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SAVARY, Jacques. Dictionnaire universel de commerce:Paris : 1723-30
First edition, complete with the supplementary volume, of the first commercial dictionary, produced by the two sons of Jacques Savary, author of Le Parfait Négociant. Savary wrote on commercial topics with considerable authority in that he made a large fortune through commerce. He suffered both politically and financially from the disgrace of Fouquet... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 89895
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DAHL, Roald; JAQUES, Faith (illus.) Complete set of the original illustrations for Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.1972–73
The complete set of original artwork by Faith Jaques for Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, comprising all 60 published pen-and-ink drawings and the strikingly attractive wraparound colour cover design, extensively annotated by her, including queries for Roald Dahl. Faith Jaques (1923-1997) was commissioned to create new illustrations for the UK... Learn More£87,500.00Stock Code: 133005
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PRÉVERT, Jacques. Paroles.Paris : 1945 [i.e. 1946]
First edition, first printing, one of 324 copies on rives paper, Jacques Brunius's copy of one of Prévert's best known collection of poems. They were first published separately in various magazines from around 1930, and were, partially and amateurishly, collected by students from Rheims at the end of the war. The poems were officially gathered in 1945... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 140435
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PEUCHET, Jacques. Vocabulaire des termes de commerce,Paris : 1801
First edition, scarce: Library Hub lists only three copies in British institutional libraries (British Library, Manchester and National Library of Scotland). Jacques Peuchet (1758-1830), was a French jurist and economist, whose important works on population were drawn upon by Malthus. Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 97378
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Carte des Isles du Cap Verd.Paris : 1746
An attractive map of the Portuguese colony of Cape Verde in the Atlantic, with a very decorative cartouche. Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French navy upon the creation of France's hydrographic office, the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine. As befits a maritime chart, all place names and general information is coastal,... Learn More£85.00Stock Code: 78176
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Carte des Isles du Cap Verd.Paris : 1746
An attractive map of the Portuguese colony of Cape Verde in the Atlantic, with a very decorative cartouche. Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French navy upon the creation of France's hydrographic office, the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine. As befits a maritime chart, all place names and general information is coastal,... Learn More£50.00Stock Code: 78177
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ROBBINS, Lionel - RUEFF, Jacques. L'Age de l'inflation.Paris : 1963
First edition, first printing, presentation copy to the British economist Lionel Robbins, inscribed by the author on the half-title "à Lionel Robbins, ton amis Jacques Rueff".
A nice provenance: Robbins, along with Keynes, was the leading British economist during the inter-war period; at the London School of Economics, he "dominated the economics... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 142269
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SAVARY, Jacques. Pareres, ou Avis et Conseils sur les plus importantes Matières de Commerce.Paris : 1688
First edition of the author's continuation of his manual on mercantile trade, Le Parfait Négociant (1675). Savary wrote on commercial topics with considerable authority in that he made a large fortune through commerce. He suffered both politically and financially from the disgrace of Fouquet (1661), who was his patron, but he later made good his name... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 116183
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WILLIAMS, Helen Maria (trans.); SAINT-PIERRE, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de. Paul and Virginia.London : 1795
First edition in English, translated by the celebrated bluestocking Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827) "amidst the horrors of Robespierre's tyranny", as she explains colourfully in her Preface; it became "the standard English edition well into the nineteenth century" (Deborah Kennedy, Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution, 2002, p. 122). The... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 127769
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QUESNAY, François - BELLIAL DES VERTUS, le Sieur de (attrib.) Essai sur l'administration des terres.Paris : 1759
First edition of a work which has been attributed to Quesnay since it expresses many Physiocratic beliefs, in particular those relating to agriculture and its importance to the country's economy.
Scholarship, both past and present, remains divided on its authorship. Higgs refused to acknowledge the work to be Quesnay's (he lists it as by le... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 118440
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CHEVANES, Jacques de. L'Incredulité scavante, et la credulité ignorante:Lyons : 1671
First edition, a reply to Gabriel Naudé's sceptical Apologie pour tous les grands personnages, qui ont été faussement soupçonnés de magie, recently republished in 1669.
Jacques de Chevanes (c.1608-1678) of Autun had personal experience of a witch-hunt in Burgundy in 1648/9, and the present work includes extracts from a 1670 interview with... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 84955
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RODRIGUES GIRÃO, João. Litterae iaponicae annorum M.DC.IX et X. ad R. admodum piae mem. P. Claudium Aquavivam generalem praepositum Societatis Iesu A.R.P. Provinciali eiusdem in Iapone Societ. missae.Antwerp : 1615
Second Latin edition of this relation concerning the Jesuit mission to Japan during the years 1609 and 1610, the first Italian edition was published by Bartolomeo Zanetti in Rome, 1615, and the first Latin edition, translated by Halloix, appeared in Douai, 1615. The report was addressed to the Superior General of the order, Claudio Acquaviva (1543-1615)... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 87948
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BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas. Carte hydrographique de la Baye de Cadix.1761
Interesting chart of the Bay of Cadiz by the famed French cartographer and hydrographer Jacques-Nicholas Bellin. The map shows the Bay of Cadiz, indicating the city of Cadiz with Fort St Sebastien as well as smaller towns and villages along the coastline.
Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French Navy upon the creation... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 55686
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ROBBINS, Lionel - RUEFF, Jacques. Les Dieux et les Rois.Paris : 1967
First edition, first printing, presentation copy to the British economist Lionel Robbins, inscribed by the author on the half-title: "Pour Lord Robbins, pour l'économiste, pour l'artiste, pour le philosophe, pour l'ami Jacques Rueff" (translated "For Lord Robbins, for the economist, for the artist, for the philosopher, for the friend").
A nice... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 142274
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DAHL, Roald; JAQUES, Faith (illus.) Original artwork for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.London : [c.1973]
Original cover artwork, signed by the artist on the verso, for the first paperback edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, annotated with printing details to the margins and depicting Willy Wonka, Charlie and the other Golden Ticket-winners gathered around the Everlasting Gobstopper Machine. Original artwork for Roald Dahl's books is rare, and... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 142906
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BERNHARD, Edmond & Jacques de Vergnies. Apologie du Jazz.Brussels : 1945 [printed September, 1944]
First edition. Attractive and uncommon. Paean to jazz with prefaces by the Belgian jazz pianist John Ouwerx, and the composer and journalist Jacques Stehman. Edmond Bernhard became a well-known film-maker and lecturer on cinema. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 143451
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BOUTHER DE PERTHES, Jacques. Petit Glossaire,Paris : 1835
First edition of this glossary on bureaucratic matters by French archaeologist and writer Jacques Bouther de Perthes (1788-1868), who was one of the first to establish the presence of prehistoric man in Europe.
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NECKER, Jacques. Sur le compte rendu au roi en 1781.Lyon : 1788
The octavo Lyon-Bernuset issue. This is Necker's vehement defence against accusations made by his successor, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, who claimed that Necker's tenure as comptroller-general of finances was not the success it was generally perceived as, and that Necker's celebrated Compte rendu - a balance sheet of his administration which gave... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 126503
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BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas. Carte du détroit de Gibraltar.1761
Interesting chart of the strait of Gibraltar by the famed French cartographer and hydrographer Jacques-Nicholas Bellin. The map shows the Spanish coast and African land on the other side of the strait. Map orientation shows north to the left, large detailed annotated inset plan of the fortress of Gibraltar, also tide charts in the Straits. Decorative... Learn More£695.00Stock Code: 55685
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BOURDÉ DE VILLEHUET, Jacques. Le Manœuvrier,Paris : 1765
First edition of this important influence on the development of English naval thought; "divided into 4 pts: manoeuvring of ships, evolutions, miscellaneous marine matters, signalling, and also a glossary of terms. It was later translated by David Steel and incorporated into his Elements and practice of rigging and seamanship 1794" (Craig). "Though less... Learn More£6,250.00Stock Code: 118003
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MIRÓ, Joan; Rita Hayworth (recipient) - PRÉVERT, Jacques & G. Ribemont-Dessaignes. Joan Miró.Paris : 1956
First edition, first printing. Miro has drawn and signed a self-portrait of himself meeting Hayworth across the endpaper and half title page in his inimitable style in black ink and watercolour. Prévert has inscribed across the same two pages "á Rita Hayworth, En amitié d'un soir... et de layt???, Jacques Prévert" with a drawing of a flower; Ribemont-Dessaignes... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 131185
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PANASSIÉ, Hugues. Histoire du vrai jazz, original holograph manuscript.[Paris? : 1950s]
The original holograph manuscript of Histoire du vrai jazz (History of true jazz, published Paris, Éditions Robert Laffont, 1959) by the influential French jazz critic, historian and record producer Hugues Pannasié (1912-1974), here very attractively and imaginatively presented, the spine of the box labelled "La vraie histoire du jazz" ("The real... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 123995
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Carte des Isles du Cap Verd.Paris : 1746
An attractive map of the Portuguese colony of Cape Verde in the Atlantic, with a very decorative cartouche. Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French navy upon the creation of France's hydrographic office, the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine. As befits a maritime chart, all place names and general information is coastal,... Learn More£85.00Stock Code: 78179
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WILLIAMS, Helen Maria (trans.); SAINT-PIERRE, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de. Paul and Virginia.London : 1795
First separate edition in English, translated by the celebrated bluestocking Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827) "amidst the horrors of Robespierre's tyranny", as she explains colourfully in her Preface; it became "the standard English edition well into the nineteenth century" (Deborah Kennedy, Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution, 2002, p. 122).... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 144669
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BOURDÉ [DE VILLEHUET, Jacques]. Manuel des Marins, ou Explication des Termes de Marine.Lorient : 1773
First edition. Born in St. Malo in 1732, Bourdé spent his entire career in the employ of the Compagnie des Indes based at Lorient. His reputation was made by the publication in 1765 of Le Manoeuvrier, which he had submitted for the approbation of the Academie des Sciences. An English translation was published in 1788 and Bourdé joined Hoste and... Learn More£1,800.00Stock Code: 42930
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LACAN, Jacques. De la psychose paranoïaque dans ses rapports avec la personnalité.Paris : 1932
First edition of Lacan's first published work. Lacan's ground-breaking thesis, particularly its central narrative of the story of the woman he named Aimée, immediately attracted the attention of the Surrealists. "To this thesis," Dali wrote in 1933, "we are indebted for giving us, for the first time, a global and homogeneous idea of the paranoid phenomenon,... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 59379
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QUESNAY, Francois. Magnificent autograph letter signed, to François Véron Duverger de Forbonnais.[Versailles] : 1758
One of two known letters of Quesnay's correspondence with Forbonnais, giving a valuable insight into Quesnay's working methods. The letter concerns two works, one by Quesnay, the other by Forbonnais.
The first part of the letter deals with Forbonnais' Recherches et Considerations sur Ies Finances de la France, which was anonymously published... Learn More£75,000.00Stock Code: 86329
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NECKER, Jacques. Collection complette de tous les ouvrages …Utrecht : 1781
First edition of this collection of works by and about Jacques Necker, presenting a variety of contemporary opinions, both positive and negative, on his time and influence as finance minister for Louis XVI (1777-81). Despite proving to be a popular and capable reformer he had enemies at court who, led by Marie-Antoinette, plotted his dismissal in 1781.... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 126500
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Carte de Paraguay,Paris. : c1756
A pleasant map of Paraguay, published by the eminent Frenchman cartographer, Jacques Bellin's "Le Petit Atlas Maritime". The map extant is from the western (Pacific) coastline of Chile/Peru across to Buenos Aires, then northward to Rio de Janeiro. Learn More£95.00Stock Code: 66686
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NECKER, Jacques. State of the Finances of France, laid before the King.London : 1781
First edition in English, originally printed in France the same year under the title Compte Rendu au Roi. Jacques Necker (1732-1804) was the finance minister to Louis XVI, popular among the people for his commoner background and perceived financial acumen. Published as the French involvement in the American Revolutionary War was still ongoing, Necker... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 137896
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MAC CARTHY, Jacques. Choix de voyages dans les quatre parties du monde,Paris : 1821-22
First edition of this rich account of voyages worldwide up to the date of publication, with an expansive and detailed glossary, presented here in an attractive contemporary binding.
Originally from Ireland Jacques Mac Carthy (1785-1835) went into service in the French army in 1800, became a battalion commander, and in 1830 became head of the... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 146684
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BARZUN, Jacques. Race: A Study in Superstition.New York : 1965
Second edition, revised. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For Lionel & Diana, with ever affectionate thoughts, this dull old book that faithfully reflects the dull old friend who sends it, Jacques. Dec 22/64". Literary critic Lionel Trilling (1905-75) worked at Columbia during the same period as Barzun, and for thirty years the two... Learn More£775.00Stock Code: 61792
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QUESNAY, François. Traité de la gangrène.Paris : 1749
First edition. An early work by the French Enlightenment economist François Quesnay (1694-1774), intellectual leader of the physiocrats, the first systematic school of political economy. He is best known for his important Tableau économique (1758). Quesnay originally trained as a physician and, at the time of publication of the Traité de la gangrène,... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 96589
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BUTE, John Crichton-Stuart, 4th marquess of. Moorish Recipes.Edinburgh : 1954
First edition, limited to 185 copies, this numbered 21 on the limitation slip mounted on the front pastedown, no copies of this limited edition traced institutionally. Perhaps the earliest English cookbook devoted solely to Arab cuisine, with detailed instructions for some 80 dishes.
"The first purpose of this book is to provide, for those Europeans... Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 139749
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BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas. Carte réduite d'une partie de l'Ocean Atlantique.1775
A magnificent sea chart of the south part of the Atlantic Ocean, covered in rhumb lines. Showing south parts of African, Portuguese, Spanish and French coast, Cape Verde Islands, Canary Islands and Azores on the east and parts of North American coast and West Indies on the west. Extensive lists of islands, ports and capes on the east and west coasts... Learn More£695.00Stock Code: 55688
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BRISSOT DE WARVILLE, Jacques-Pierre; CLAVIÈRE, Étienne; CONDORCET, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de (eds.) Le Moniteur. Numéro I-IV.[No place : 1788
First edition, the first four numbers of Le Moniteur, a political journal edited by Brissot de Warville, Clavière, and Condorcet, all published. Issues two and four consider taxation, proposing the abolition of all existing taxes and their replacement by equally distributed voluntary subsidies.
In this volume, the fourth number is the 50-page... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 51530
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MALLET DU PAN, Jacques. Memoirs and Correspondence of Mallet du Pan,London : 1852
First edition in English of this important work on the French Revolution, originally published in French the previous year. Jacques Mallet du Pan (1749-1800) was a Swiss-born journalist, who "had been a firm supporter of the French Revolution in its moderate phase. In fact, from 1789 to 1792 he directed the political writings of the great newspaper... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 133489
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BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas. Carte du détroit de Gibraltar1761
Interesting chart of the strait of Gibraltar by the famed French cartographer and hydrographer Jacques-Nicholas Bellin. The map shows the Spanish coast and African land on the other side of the strait. Map orientation shows north to the left, large detailed annotated inset plan of the fortress of Gibraltar, also tide charts in the Straits. Decorative... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 60654
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Carte des Isles du Cap Verd.Paris : 1746
An attractive map of the Portuguese colony of Cape Verde in the Atlantic, with a very decorative cartouche. Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French navy upon the creation of France's hydrographic office, the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine. As befits a maritime chart, all place names and general information is coastal,... Learn More£85.00Stock Code: 78178
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HERBERT, Claude Jacques. Essai sur la police générale des grains.London : 1753
First edition of Herbert's work on the grain trade. McCulloch calls the work "in all respects, an excellent treatise; and may, indeed, be safely placed at the head of the works on commerce that had appeared in France, or anywhere else on the Continent, previously to the era of Quesnay and the Economists. It is clearly and ably written; and contains... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 127715
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WORCESTER, Edward Somerset, second marquess of. A Century of Names and Scantlings of such Inventions,London : 1746
A most attractive copy of the second edition, considerably less common than the first of 1663. This is a fascinating catalogue of inventions, albeit eclectic and rather sketchy, by the ingenious Edward Somerset, second marquess of Worcester, which includes his self-styled "admirable and most forcible Way to drive up Water by Fire" apparently an early... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 144848
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. La Ville de Cayenne.<br><br>Paris : 1753
Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French navy upon the creation of France's hydrographic office, the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine. As befits a maritime chart, all place names and general information is coastal, and there is no real attempt to engrave anything of note inland of the coastal areas. Over a 50-year... Learn More£85.00Stock Code: 77879
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. L'extremité méridionale de Mindanao.Paris : 1773
An attractive small map of the Southernmost part of Mindanao, in the Philippines. Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French navy upon the creation of France's hydrographic office, the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine. As befits a maritime chart, all place names and general information is coastal, and there is no real... Learn More£65.00Stock Code: 78092
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Carte du Golphe de St. Laurent.Paris : 1757
An interesting map of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, with a very decorative cartouche. Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French navy upon the creation of France's hydrographic office, the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine. As befits a maritime chart, all place names and general information is coastal, and there is no... Learn More£165.00Stock Code: 78234
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas Carte des Isles Kouriles.Paris : [c.1750]
Map of the Kuril islands North of Japan but controlled by Russian since Second World War, with a very decorative cartouche in the lower right corner. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 79109
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Coste Occidentale d'Afrique,Paris : 1739
Attractive map of the West Coast of Africa showing the Cape of Good Hope. Decorative cartouche in centre.
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CHIQUET, Jacques. LE ROYAUME DE HONGRIE.c.1719.
Map of Hungary, including modern day Yugoslavia, Rumania and Bulgaria. List of Hungarian kings at lower centre, title cartouche at top right. In the early eighteenth century, French cartography overtook the Dutch in terms of accuracy and design. Chiquet's delightful Nouveau et Curieux Atlas was typical product of the time. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 53277
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CHIQUET, Jacques. L'EMPIRE D'ALLEMAGNE Divise en ses dix Cercles.c.1719.
Map of Germany showing the different provinces - 'cercles' as the map refers to them, with a list of the emperors at lower left and title cartouche at upper right. In the early eighteenth century, French cartography overtook the Dutch in terms of accuracy and design. Chiquet's delightful Nouveau et Curieux Atlas was typical product of the time. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 53278
