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[SABATIER, Jean-Joseph (1756-1820)]

Lot 39
22.05.2025 15:00UTC +02:00
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Event locationFrance, Paris
ID 1421911
Lot 39 | [SABATIER, Jean-Joseph (1756-1820)]
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€ 15 000 – 20 000
[SABATIER, Jean-Joseph (1756-1820)]
Vues consolantes et impartiales sur la situation actuelle de la chose publique en France, & ses moyens de prospérité. Paris : Prault, 1789.

L’état de la France en 1789 – l'exemplaire le plus pertinent, celui destiné à la reine Marie-Antoinette, relié à ses armes. Une autre édition parut l’année suivante – elle est beaucoup plus courante que celle de 1789, dont nous n’avons retrouvé que cinq exemplaires en institutions publiques, la plupart étant en reliures postérieures et n’ayant pas de provenance particulière. La bibliothèque municipale de Versailles conserve l’exemplaire de Louis XVI, relié en maroquin vert à ses armes (Rés. in-4 I 448 d). Les fers utilisés pour le dos de la reliure sont identiques à celui de la reine, et disposés de la même manière sauf deux caissons qui sont inversés. Le présent exemplaire est cependant en bien meilleure condition (le dos de celui du roi est très insolé).
Fils d’un procureur au Parlement de Toulouse, administrateur du département des hôpitaux, représentant des Jacobins Saint-Dominique, Jean-Joseph Sabatier était avant tout un économiste, qui signa nombre de mémoires adressés à l’Assemblée constituante. Sabatier brosse ici un portrait de la France en 1789, abordant “l’impôt et son arbitraire”, le commerce des grains en particulier, “les mesures à prendre pour détruire la mendicité”, une “surveillance plus particulière à donner à l’administration des hôpitaux”, ou encore les “secours nécessaires aux cultivateurs”. Bulletin Morgand, mai 1907, n°5, livre n°828.

In-4 (252 x 196 mm). Édition originale. Reliure de l’époque : maroquin rouge, armes de Marie-Antoinette au centre des plats (OHR, pl. 2508, fer n°14), triple filet doré en encadrement, dos à nerfs, caissons ornés aux petits fers, pièce de titre de maroquin vert, double filet doré sur les coupes, gardes de tabis bleu ciel, tranches dorées (légers frottements, habile restauration à la coiffe de tête et à la pièce de titre, légères griffures aux plats).

The most fitting copy of a book describing the economic and social state of 1789 France: the copy presented to Queen Marie-Antoinette, bound with her gilt arms. King’s Louis XVI copy is held by the Bibliothèque de Versailles ; its binding ornamentation is similar to the Queen’s, but the condition is way less pristine than the present copy.
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Books, Books and manuscripts
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