LITERARY CRITICISM, HISTORY & POLITICS. LABAT,... Lot 7

[LITERARY CRITICISM, HISTORY & POLITICS]. LABAT, François de, Chevalier de Vivens (1687-1780) Notes, remarques et mémoire sur l'Histoire. Approx. 70 pp. various formats, (s.l.n.d [Bordeaux]). Remarques & critiques historiques diverses, sur les mœurs et les coutumes, sur la généalogie d'Aubigné, sur l'assemblée de notables, sur la pucelle d'Orléans, sur Charles Ier, sur les origines des peuples, sur la Bretagne, sur le traité du Portugal, sur les peuples du nord, sur les Turcs et les Grecs, sur St Domingue et sur les Celtes. Notes, remarks and memoir on history. Approx. 50 pp. various formats, (s.l.n.d [Bordeaux]). Remarks on population, large cities and manufactures, animal economy, militias, various peoples' customs, education (of the Collège de Guyenne in particular) and generation. Moral & political observations on the bad year 1748. 15 pp in-8 (s.l.n.d[Bordeaux]). If in the bad years that preceded this one, someone had taken the trouble to [ ] write good observations, we would have benefited, & the people would have suffered less. This is what has determined me to write these remarks, so that those who come after me may derive some benefit from them [ ] . Extracts, copies and literary and historical remarks. Approx. 50 pp various formats, (s.l.n.d[Bordeaux]). Discours sur la poésie pastorale et sa théorie, édits envoyés au parlement le 17 août, mainly excerpts and copies of letters as well as literary remarks on various works. Critique based on the work Voyage du tour du monde, translated from Italian by Gemelli Careri. 13 pp in various formats, (s.l.n.d. [Bordeaux]). Review of volumes III, IV, V and VI. Diogène Laërce, French translation after Giles Boileau. 9pp various formats (s.l.n.d. [Bordeaux]); copy of the translation with autograph annotations and criticisms by the author. A singular practice, it was a constant custom as early as the 13th century to rebury those who could not satisfy. Strong set of thoughts, reflections and miscellaneous fragments. Approx. 70 pp, various formats, (s.l.n.d. [Bordeaux]). Sur la bonne union en société, sur les causes physiques de la décadence de l'esprit et du génie, sur l'émulation, sur l'envie la paresse et l'orgueil, sur la guerre, l'éducation, sur le point d'honneur et la tolérance, sur les systèmes, sur la morale, sur la vanité, les femmes et l'orgueil, sur la providence, la mémoire, sur les Scythes, histoires singulières, sur l'éloquence [ ].