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PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph. What is property? or...

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PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph. What is property? or Research on the principle of law and government. First memoir. Paris, Librairie de Prévot, 1841. In-12 of xx, 314, [2] pp. half tan basane, long spine decorated with gilt fillets, gilt title (Binding of the time). Second edition, partly original because enriched with a new preface of 20 pages (the original edition, extremely rare, having been printed in only a few copies by César Bajat for the members of the Academy of Besançon). From the library of Marcel Békus; stamp of the literary salon of the bookseller Blosse, with its label of loan modality. Numerous critical notes formerly carried in ink. Half-mark on the first 4 leaves. Attached, by the same author: Théorie de la propriété. Appendix: Projet d`exposition perpétuelle. Paris, Bruxelles, [etc.], Librairie Internationale, A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven Cie, 1866. Large in-18 of III, 1 bl, 310 pp. Raspberry half calf, spine with 4 false nerves, t. p. in green morocco (Binding of the time). First edition of the last essay of P.J. PROUDHON, published after his death. From the library of P. R. Méry, with his engraved bookplate. Spine unstained, small lack of calf on the upper board. Also enclosed : CHAM. Proudhon en voyage [followed by Souvenirs des Elections de 1849]. 60 cartoons. Paris, Bureau du Chiravari, no date. In-14 of 14, [2] ff. Recto only. Sewn.