In antiquarian bookselling, politics is read through the very forms of debate: treatises on government, speeches and addresses, pamphlets and manifestos, the correspondence of sovereigns, ministers or revolutionaries, and the minutes and official acts that accompany changes of regime. From Antiquity to modern democracies, philosophers, jurists and reformers have sought here the foundations of authority and the duties of the citizen.
The bibliophile interest of such material often lies in the rarity of these occasional texts, printed in the urgency of events, as well as in their provenance or the signature that authenticates them. Here the collector finds the living trace of the ideas and institutions that have shaped the contemporary world.
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Mémoires présentés à Monseigneur le Duc d’Orléans, Régent de France. Contenant les moyens de rendre ce Royaume très puissant et d'augmenter considérablement les revenus du Roi et du Peuple.