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50 DURKHEIM, Émile. De la division du travail social. Paris: Ancienne Librairie Germer Baillière et Cie, Félix Alcan Éditeur, 1893 A founding text of sociology First edition of the author’s first major work and one of the founding texts in the field of sociology. The Division of Labour in Society was Durkheim’s dissertation, which built on the ideas of August Comte to analyze the way that societies maintain order and how this changes as they progress from primitive to industrial modes of organization. Octavo. Original blue-green wrappers printed in black, rebacked preserving covers, laid down, spine plain. With the 32 pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear. Ownership stamp of A. Hamon to title page in purple ink, monogram stamp to front cover and title page also in purple ink. Endpapers browned, else contents bright and clean. A good copy. ¶ Lukes 1893b. £2,500 [131862] 51 DUSSAUSOY, Maille. Le citoyen désinteressé, ou diverses idées patriotiques, concernant quelques établissemens et embellissemens utiles à la ville de Paris . . . première partie [& seconde partie]. Paris: Chez Gueffier [& La Veuve Duchesne and Panckoucke, in second part], 1767–68 A crisp copy in a fine contemporary binding First edition of Dussausoy’s programme of public works, the main purpose of which was to provide labour for the
idle masses and to inspire patriotism by installing honorary monuments of monarchs and men of military and political renown across Paris, with chapters on the causes of depopulation and the degeneration of the French nation (and how to remedy both). Dussausoy additionally recommends a series of improvements to key Parisian landmarks, including the creation of a “Galerie des hommes illustres” in the Louvre – an important contemporary precedent to d’Angiviller’s Grand hommes series ( c .1777); the enlargement of halls and markets; the relocation of the Comédie-Française (accompanied by an engraved folding street map); and ideas on the reconstruction of the Paris Opera House after the devastating fire of 1763. The frontispiece to the first volume, “l’Incendie de l’Opera”, is by the celebrated French engraver Hubert-François Gravelot. 2 volumes, octavo (196 × 120 mm). Contemporary speckled sheep, twin red morocco spine labels, compartments ruled with floral motifs and scrollwork in gilt, edges sprinkled red, blue silk bookmarkers. Engraved frontispieces to both volumes, 3 plates and 1 table to volume I (3 of which folding), 1 folding table to vol. II, engraved head- and tailpieces. Armorial bookplates of the Bouhier de l’Écluse family to front free endpapers verso, early ownership inscription to title page of vol. II, slightly cropped in the binding process. Extremities mildly rubbed with a couple of areas of minor wear, a few small instances of stripping to sheep, front inner hinge of volume 2 cracked but firm, some paper reinforcement to half-title of vol. I and frontispiece of vol. II, otherwise a bright, clean copy, the binding in particularly fine condition. ¶ INED 1685. Joseph Marie Quérard, La France littéraire, ou Dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, historiens, et gens de lettres de la France, &c , 1826–42. £1,750 [122620]
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