Gabriel de MABLY

Gabriel de MABLY

Born1709
Died1785
LanguageFrench
NationalityFrance
Publiciste, historien et philosophe. Abbé
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  1. From Year III to the July Monarchy
    Entretiens de Phocion sur le rapport de la morale avec la politique
    Gabriel Bonnot Abbé de MABLY

    Entretiens de Phocion sur le rapport de la morale avec la politique

    De l'imprimerie de Didot le jeune|Paris 1794 (An III)|23.50 x 32.30 cm|relié

    New edition of Mably’s Entretiens de Phocion, printed by Didot le jeune in Year III [1795] on vellum paper in large quarto format. It is illustrated with two hors-texte plates after Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune, etched by Giraud and finished respectively by Dambrun and Dupréel. The text is followed by Mably’s Remarques and accompanied by Plutarch’s Life of Phocion in Amyot’s translation.

     

    Copy bearing the crowned monogram of Louis-Philippe. Later binding executed under the July Monarchy in full red straight-grain morocco, attributable to the Simier workshop. Smooth spine decorated with two large rocaille tools arranged vertically, black morocco...

    €1,800
  2. Entretiens de Phocion, sur le rapport de la morale avec la politique
    Gabriel Bonnot Abbé de MABLY

    Entretiens de Phocion, sur le rapport de la morale avec la politique

    S. n.|à Amsterdam 1763|10 x 16.50 cm|relié
    Second edition, published the same year as the first, and like it with the Amsterdam imprint alone.
    Full marbled blonde calf binding. Smooth spine, decorated. Red morocco title label. Headcap worn. Upper joint cracked at head. One corner bumped. Rubbed. A good copy.
    This is undoubtedly the best work by Mably (1709-1785), historian, moral and political philosopher, who was later considered one of the first communist theorists. Presented as a translation from Greek and dialogues between Phocion, leader of Athens, and Aristias, a young citizen. Mably develops at length the relationship between morality and politics and arrives at the idea that private property is the foundation of...
    €300
  3. De la manière d'écrire l'histoire
    Gabriel Bonnot Abbé de MABLY

    De la manière d'écrire l'histoire

    Alexandre Jombert|Paris 1783|9.50 x 17 cm|relié

    First edition.
    Full marbled blonde calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with 4 acorn tools in compartments. One corner slightly bumped. Lacks at head of upper joint due to worming, same at foot, but over 4cm. Traces of rubbing. Good copy.
    In the form of conversations, Mably details the necessary milestones for writing history and the goals it must set; The author posing the reader's interest as fundamental data for any successful historical work.

    €250
  4. Observations sur l'histoire de la Grèce
    Gabriel Bonnot Abbé de MABLY

    Observations sur l'histoire de la Grèce

    par La Compagnie des libraires|à Genève [Geneva] 1766|9.50 x 17 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Contemporary glazed purple calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated. Red morocco title label. Triple fillet frame on covers. Beginning of crack to lower joint at head. A slight lack to headcap. Handsome copy despite the noted defects.
    These reflections on the customs and government of the Greeks is in fact an enlargement and deepening of a book published earlier (1749): Observations on the Greeks. Mably thus justifies this updated work in his preface: "Il m'arrive souvent aujourd'hui de louer ce que j'ai blâmé dans mes premières Observations, & de blâmer les mêmes choses que j'ai louées; c'est qu'il y a eu un temps où je regardois de certaines maximes sur la...
    €300
  8. Entretiens de Phocion
    Gabriel Bonnot Abbé de MABLY

    Entretiens de Phocion

    Chez Heidegguer & Compagnie|Zurich [Zurich] 1765|-|relié
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