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TOCQUEVILLE (ALEXIS DE)
"Oeuvres complètes 11: Oeuvres diverses" [spine title], 19 offprints and similar in one vol., [1839-52]

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT

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TOCQUEVILLE (ALEXIS DE)

"Oeuvres complètes 11: Oeuvres diverses" [spine title], 19 offprints and similar in one vol., green morocco gilt, Tocqueville arms on covers, t.e.g., 8vo, [1839-52]

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Additional copies of 9 of the offprints included here appear in other lots in this section, and are referenced as "OD". Items appearing only in the present volume comprise: Discours... dans la discussion du crédit de 10 millions demandé pour les affaires d'Orient, 12pp. [OC, vol. 3, ii, pp.255-65; OD 1], Veuve Agasse, 1839; Discours [sur la question d'Orient], 20pp. [OC, vol. 3, ii, pp.288-301; OD 4], 1840; Discours... projet d'adresse au roi, 20pp., ink-stained [OC, vol. 3, ii, pp.338-52; OD 7], 1843; Discours... du projet de loi sur la régence, 8pp. [OC, vol. 3, ii, pp.138-41; OD 8], 1842; Discours... Loi relatif au crédit, 20pp. [OC, vol. 3, ii, pp.375-388; OD 9], 1842, the last 4 all Panckoucke; A messieurs les électeurs... de Valognes, single sheet [OC, vol. 3, ii, pp.79-80; OD 11], Valognes, Carette-Bondessein, 21 July 1846; Rapport... relatif aux crédits extraordinaires demandés pour l'Algérie, 104pp. [OC, vol. 3, i, pp.308-79, there omitting the last 4pp.; OD 12], A. Henry, May 1847; Discours... réponse au discours de la couronne, 16pp., ink-stained [OC, vol. 3, ii, pp.745-58; OD 16], Panckoucke, 1848; 'Des Revolutions dans les Societes nouvelles', pp.322-334 extracted from Revue des deux Mondes, footnote by the editor that Tocqueville "a bien voulu nous communiquer ce fragment" [OD 17], [c.1840]; A messieurs des électeurs du canton de Montebourg, single sheet, pasted down [OD 19], A. Guyot & Scribe, 1852; all but OD 11 Paris-published.

Mostly author's offprints, not mentioned in the OC and only two with bibliographical records (OD 11 in the BNF, and OD 12 in the Institut de France). OD 19 seems to be entirely unrecorded, appearing neither in OC or WorldCat. OD 17 is publicity for the second two volumes of Democratie en Amerique; it starts with the beginning of Chapter 21 but then changes to a different part of the text we have not identified.

Provenance: Alexis de Tocqueville; by descent to his nephew Comte Christian de Tocqueville (1862-1924), arms on covers and bookplate.

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