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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 ) . The work is very rare – WorldCat locates only four copies, three in the USA and one in France. Duodecimo in 4s and 8s (151 × 88 mm). Later mottled sheep to style, spine ruled and decorated in gilt with red morocco label, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges. Woodcut map of Europe to title page. Joint and extremities lightly rubbed with colour retouched, minor wear at foot of spine, beginning of split to front joint, light toning to contents, still a very good copy. ¶ Toma Mastnak, “Abbé de Saint- Pierre: European Union and the Turk”, History of Political Thought , vol. 19, no. 4, 1998, pp. 570–98. £1,750 [144854] 140 SAINT-PIERRE, Charles-Irénée Castel, abbé de. Les Rêves d’un Homme de Bien, qui peuvent être réalisés. Paris: Chez la veuve Duchesne, 1775 First edition of this collection. Published by the agronomist Augstin Alletz, the work gathers Saint-Pierre’s proposals for the reform and improvement of society. Saint-Pierre’s writings proved an important influence on the Enlightenment, especially on Rousseau. Duodecimo (165 × 94 mm). Contemporary quarter sheep, red and brown morocco spine labels, spine richly gilt to compartments, marbled paper sides with vellum tips, marbled endpapers, pink edges. Portrait frontispiece. Half-title and imprimatur leaf present. Light abrasion to front covers and around extremities, light creasing to a few page corners, else a very nice copy. £450 [127155]
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139 SAINT-PIERRE, Charles-Irénée Castel de, abbé de. Projet pour perpetuer la paix et le commerce en Europe. Utrecht: Antoine Schouten, 1713 Proposing a European Union First edition, very rare, of Saint-Pierre’s project for perpetual peace in Europe, one of the first proposals for a form of European union, and of international organization as the means to achieve peace. “His most famous project was that for European union, and because the new political order he imagined was meant to establish perpetual peace in Europe, Saint-Pierre has been celebrated as the greatest ‘pacifist’ of the eighteenth century. He has been characterized as ‘the first great propagandist of the peace idea’ who succeeded in ‘popularizing, or even ‘democratizing’, the idea of peace” (Mastnak, pp. 570). Rousseau later published an abridgement of the work. Kant, who published his own proposal for perpetual peace through an international organization, extensively cited Saint-Pierre. Though this is his best known work, Saint-Pierre (1658–1743) wrote on a range of political, economic, and moral topics. “Some of his other schemes called for the inauguration of political, economic and demographic 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;
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