Benjamin Constant Author (8 results)

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 70 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.15 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 3rd printing edition. 128 pages. 7.75x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Soft Cover. Condition: Used-Acceptable. Le Livre De Poche Classiques. 192 pp. Text in French. Well bound copy with clean text. Pages are tanned. Moderate external wear with creased front cover.

Hardcover. Octavo, vii, 298 pages. In Good minus condition. Spine is brown with gold print. Boards in brown cloth; wear to spine caps and corners, toning to spine. Text block has has gilt top edge, spotting to edges. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait and plates (one folded). NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column W. 1405558. FP New Rockville Stock.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original royal navy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 8½'' x 6¼''. Contains [xii] 290 printed pages of text with 6 full-page monochrome illustrations. A little foxing to the fore edges. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with short closed tear to the bottom of the spine, rubs to corners and spine ends, not price clipped 18/-. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. FRANCE [Literature & History).

8vo. ½ p. on bifolium. With autograph address. To Augustine Émilie Victorine Destutt de Tracy, Madame de Laubespin, the youngest daughter of Antoine Destutt de Tracy and sister-in-law of Georges Washington de La Fayette, asking her about the specifics of the "sad ceremony that I desire to attend" and whether he will there meet La Fayette or where he might otherwise find him: "Oserais-je vous prier, Madame, de me faire savoir si la triste cérémonie à laquelle je désire assister aura lieu demain & à quelle heures, & si je trouverai Monsieur Georges La Fayette, où dans quel lieu je pourrais le rencontrer". - A classical liberal of the early 19th century, Constant defined the concept of liberty as a condition of existence that allowed the individual to turn away interference from the state or society. His ideas influenced the Trienio Liberal movement in Spain, the Liberal Revolution of 1820 in Portugal, the Greek War of Independence, the November uprising in Poland, the Belgian Revolution, and liberalism in Brazil and Mexico. - Traces of folds. Some browning. With a tear to the address leaf.

Small 4to. 1½ pp. on bifolium. With autograph address and traces of seal. To a lawyer named Malandain, urging him to take action in an affair concerning a widow named Jullien, as it impedes Constant's payment by a C. Arnault, whom he accuses of "misrepresenting his fortune" in order to "frustrate his creditors". Constant sees his interests at risk: "Je comptais avec certitude sur une réponse à ma dernière lettre. Vous me mandiez dans votre précédente que vous déviez revoir la veuve Jullien le 14, & nous sommes au 30. Je vous prie instamment de presser l'issue de cette affaire. Je vous répète ce que je vous ai mandé précédemment. Cette affaire seule m'empêche d'être payé de C. Arnault, que j'ai raison de croire occupé à dénaturer sa fortune, pour frustrer ses créanciers. Vous voiez combien de plus longs retards seroient préjudiciables à mes intérêts". - The second part of the letter concerns another ongoing affair concerning compensation payments by a Mr. Coquereaumont. Constant suspects that his adversary has moved without indicating his new address: "J'ai écrit de nouveau à mon ci-devant homme d'affaires mais son silence me fait croire qu'il a changé domicile. Je vous ai expliqué, Citoyen, ce qu'il m'avait mandé relativement aux réparations de Coquereaumont. Il se trouvait qu'il m'ait transmis des détails erronés, et qu'il eut consenti des réparations, ce qui doit pouvoir le constater par un acte signé de lui, [.]". - The great thinker and politician Constant was notoriously short of cash throughout his life. In 1816 he fell out with his long-term partner Madame de Staël, not least due to his gambling debts; towards the end of his life King Louis Philip I provided him with a large sum to settle his debts. - With recipient's note in ink and tears from breaking the seal. Some foxing and browning.