ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques) - Lot 722

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ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques) - Lot 722
ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques) Émile ou de l'Éducation ; by J.-J. Rousseau, citizen of Geneva. Amsterdam, Néaulme, 1762. 4 volumes in-12 : 2f, 466pp (2 plates out of text) / 2f, 407pp (one plate out of text) / 2f, 381pp (one plate out of text) / 2f, 455pp (one plate out of text). Complete with the 5 plates out of text. Contemporary fawn calf, spines smoothly decorated, red title and endpapers, accidents to the headpieces, red edges. Spine of volume I reinforced with adhesive. In 1762, the condemnation of Emile by the Parliament of Paris forced Rousseau to flee France and to settle in Neuchâtel under the protection of the King of Prussia. The work is not only a manual of education, but a philosophical treatise on the goodness of human nature (Tchemerzine V, 545 and 546). Joined : BEAUMARCHAIS (Pierre Augustin CARON de) : Collection of 6 pieces and memoirs of which 4 by Beaumarchais : - 1/ Mémoire pour Dame Anne-Rose Cabibel veuve du Sieur Jean Calas, marchand à Toulouse demandeurs en cassation d'un arrêt du Parlement de Toulouse du 9 mars 1762 (138pp.) - 2/ Reflections for Dame Anne-Rose Cabibel widow of Sieur Jean Calas, merchant in Toulouse, plaintiff in cassation of a judgment of the Parliament of Toulouse of March 9, 1762 (11pp.) - 3/ Memorandum to be consulted for Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, esquire, counselor-secretary of the King, & Lieutenant-General of the Hunts in the bailiwick & Captaincy of the Varenne of the Louvre, great venery & falconry of France, accused (42pp.) - 4/ Supplement to be consulted, for Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, esquire, King's counselor-secretary, & Lieutenant-general of the Hunts in the bailiwick & Captaincy of the Varenne du Louvre, great venry & falconry of France, accused in corruption of judge & slander (64pp.) - 5/ Addition to the supplement of the memorandum to be consulted, for Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, squire, counselor-secretary of the King, & Lieutenant-general of the Hunts in bailiwick & Captaincy of the Varenne of the Louvre, great venery & falconry of France, accused: serving as a response to Mme Goezman, accused; to Sieur Bertrand d'Airolles, accused; to Sieurs Marin, Gazetier de France, & Darnaud Baculard, conseiller d'Ambassade, assigned as witnesses (78pp.) - 6/ Fourth memorandum to be consulted for Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, squire, counselor-secretary of the King, Lieutenant-General of the Hunts, &c. accused of corruption of a judge. Congtre M. Goezman, judge accused of subornation & forgery; Madame Goezman, & Sieur Bertrand, accused; Sieurs Marin, Gazetier; Darnaud-Baculard, conseiller d'Ambassade & consorts (1098pp.). In-4, contemporary marbled fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red title-piece, headband removed, gilt fillet on the edges, red edges. - LOMÉLIE (Louis de): Beaumarchais and his time. Studies on the society in France in the 18th century. Paris, Lévy frères, 1858. 2 volumes in-8, ½ blue chagrin signed POUILLET, spine ribbed and unstained, gilt irons and titles, folds and bumps on boards.
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