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rigide. Zustand: Bon. Nouvelle Edition, 2 vol. in-8 reliure de l'époque demi-maroquin vert, tranches marbrées, Longchamps, Paris, 1812, 2 ff. (faux-titre et titre), XII pp., 1 f. n. ch., 507 pp. et 558 pp. Complet. Bel exemplaire. L'auteur, l'abbé de Levizac, était originaire d'Albi. Vicaire général de Saint-Omer quand éclata la Révolution Française, il se réfugia en Hollande puis à Londres, où il devint professeur de français pour le compte de grandes familles anglaises. Il mourut à Londres en 1813. Cf. Quérard, V, 282 Langue: Français.…

Couverture rigide. Zustand: Très bon. Ed. originale. 1 volume relié plein veau foncé granité époque, dos à nerfs orné, caissons dorés, tranches marbrées (coins légérement émoussés), 12 pages (avertissement), 354 pages, et 3 faux-feuillets non-chiffrés. Ex-dono autographe XVIIIe signé Alexandre de Cheppe (étudiant en chirurgie). Edition originale de cette oeuvre ou l'on remarque une nouvelle méthode pour former la jeunesse, et une dissertation sur la Langue Française. Bel exemplaire.…

First Edition. in contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges red, green silk marker, from the library of Claude Lebédel. 12mo (165 x 90 mm), engraved frontispiece portrait and pp. xii, 502, [2], Extracts of some twenty works by the Abbé de Saint-Pierre, utopian, diplomat, academicien and economist, prophet of the League of Nations, best known for his Projet pour rendre la Paix perpetuelle en Europe, 1713-17. 'Some of his other schemes called for the inauguration of political, economic and demographical statistics; the establishment of an official press; the reformation of taxation by the institution of a tax graduated according to income or, as he proposed in another project, according to capital; the suppression of begging; the improvement of the judicial system; the building of roads; the creation of a system of public instruction; the vocational and professional training of children; the elimination of most of the inequalities between the sexes in matters of education; and certain advanced innovations in pedagogical method' (Palgrave III, 345). This selection of his works, selected and edited by Pons-Augustin Alletz, includes essays on population, social welfare, hospitals, child care, finance, commerce and education. 'The works of this 'homme de bien', as he was called in his time, are rare and difficult to collect' (ibid). Cioranescu 58718; Kress 7163; Goldsmiths 11219; Higgs 6527; Einaudi 934; INED 43.…