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Edmond ABOUT. *Le Progrès*. Paris, Hachette, 1864.
See original version (French)
187
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Edmond ABOUT. *Le Progrès*. Paris, Hachette, 1864.
See original version (French)
Estimate €60 - €80
Voluntary lot
Description
Edmond ABOUT. *Le Progrès*. Paris, Hachette, 1864.
In-8, blue half-maroquin, ribbed spine decorated with gilt panels, gilt head, dedicatory inscription.
[2 ff.], 489 pp., [1 f.]
First edition. The work is dedicated to George Sand, who had advised him to undertake this project. Inscription: ‘To my dear friend Alexandre’ [Dumas the Younger].
Labour, law, association, towns and the countryside, the State, property, the budget, the non-values of land, the non-values of society, progress in the arts and letters, education, repression, politics and war… or how a nineteenth-century writer envisaged issues that remain relevant today.
Spine worn, a few foxing spots.
See original version (French)
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