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The Fable of the Bees; together with The Fable of the Bees. Part II.

1732ref. 158464London: Printed for J. Tonson 1732 & 1733. Private vices as public virtues Seventh edition stated sixth of the first part second edition of the second part of Mandeville's best-known work demonstrating through a parable of bees renouncing all luxury and seeing their hive collapse that the Christian ascetic philosophy cannot lead to a prosperous economy and social system and consequently that individual vices of vanity and greed are virtues for the community. The work originated in 1705 as a poem titled The Grumbling Hive expanded into the first book-length edition in 1714 and revised by Mandeville in further editions. Part II first published in 1729 matches the length of the first part and comprises six dialogues in which Cleomenes instructs Horatio as to the Fable's true meaning. Mandeville's implication that religion was damaging to social welfare was contentious and in 1723 the work was declared a public nuisance by the grand jury of Middlesex and Mandeville himself accused of blasphemy. Undeterred he addressed his accusers in the London Journal and published a pamphlet defending himself against such charges; the contents of this "Vindication" are included in the present edition of Part I along with Mandeville's Essay on Charity Schools claiming that educating the poor above their station was in nobody's interest and his Search into the Nature of Society further espousing the Fable's themes. Mandeville would spend the rest of his life justifying his work to its many critics yet it was still characterized well after his death as "the wickedest cleverest book in the English language" in the diary of Henry Crabb Robinson June 1812. The book had an enduring influence on the science of economics in pointing out what was self-evident to many but never before put so boldly - that expenditure on luxuries the incentives created by the desire for social betterment and the need for profit all form the basis of the economic system and social order around it. Adam Smith though denouncing Mandeville in his Theory of Moral Sentiments followed his central thesis that the individual's self-interest works to the good of the whole. Keynes was influenced by Mandeville in his notion of the "paradox of thrift" that withholding spending reduces demand and harms the economy. Friedrich Hayek in a lecture of 1966 to the British Academy called Mandeville a "Master Mind" in recognising that individuals seeking to advance their own interests create a "spontaneous order" which can form a society without the need for a controlling state. 2 vols octavo 191 x 121 mm. Contemporary calf ruled in gilt with vol. numbers to third compartments vol. I with manuscript label in second compartment. Contemporary ownership signature of one Alexander Duff to title pages. Light rubbing and slight chip at head of spine of vol. II small loss bottom fore corner of Part I leaf L1 2D7. Very good copies. ESTC N8073 & T77578. unknown

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Mandeville, Bernard de (1670-1733) ; Jean Bertrand, translator; Princ Alladro Kastriotit Juan Pedro Aladro y Kastriota (1845-19Biblio.com

La fable des Abeilles ou Les Fripons devenus honnestes gens. Avec le commentaire où l'on prouve que les vices des particuliers tendent à l'avantage du public.Traduit de L'Anglois "The Fable of the Bees." sur la sixieÌme Edition. First edition. .

ref. 51-5870Londres Amsterdam: aux dépens de la Compagnie 1740. . 4 volumes in-12 de 2-22-333-2-267 et 2-282-2-270 pages basane fauve dos lisses ornés tranches rouges reliure de l'époque. Coiffes et coins rapés ressaut d'un feuillet au tome 1. Only the later 1750 edition is in OCLC.Edition originale de la traduction française par Jean Bertrand de l'ouvrage le plus célèbre de Mandeville. Ce dernier soutient que la guerre le vol la prostitution l'alcool et les drogues la cupidité etc. contribuent finalement « à l'avantage de la société civile ».Ex-libris Princ Alladro Kastriotit. Juan Pedro Aladro y Kastriota 1845-1914 dit Aladro Kastrioti par les Albanais né Juan de Aladro de Perez y Valasco noble espagnol diplomate et prétendant au trône d'Albanie. Il a revendiqué la descendance de la famille Kastrioti par l'intermédiaire de sa grand-mère paternelle une noble qui vivait à l'époque de Charles III.Bernard Mandeville or Bernard de Mandeville was an Anglo-Dutch philosopher political economist satirist writer and physician. Born in Rotterdam he lived most of his life in England and used English for most of his published works. He became famous for "The Fable of the Bees.".Provenance: Estate of Joaquin Romero Maura. Mr Maura great-grandson of a five-time prime minister of Spain lived in the UK for most of his life and co-directed the Iberian Centre with the illustrious historian Sir Raymond Carr. Joaquín Romero Maura – died lin June 2022 at the age of 81 at a senior home in Zaragoza Spain. The historian – who held a PhD from Oxford University – was widowed and childless. He had been a confidante of the former Spanish king.Joaquín Romero Maura Niza 1940-Zaragoza 5 de junio de 2022 fue un historiador español. Destacó por su obra La rosa de fuego un estudio sobre el obrerismo barcelonés de la primera década del siglo xx. Londres, (Amsterdam): aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1740 unknown

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Bernard MandevilleBiblio.com

2 Vols The Fable of the Bees: or Private Vices Publick Benefits. With an Essay on Charity and Charity-Schools. And A Search into the Nature of Society.

1729ref. 1016H31London: J. Tonson; J. Roberts 1729-1732. Leather. Very Good. 8" by 5". None. A uniformly bound two-volume set of Mandeville"s controversial "Fable of the Bees" pairing the sixth edition with the first edition of Part II a provocative defence of private vice as a source of public prosperity. Uniformly bound in contemporary full calf sympathetically rebacked with later calf. A complete two-volume set of Mandeville"s controversial masterpiece bringing together the sixth edition of the original work with first edition of the separately published second part. Volume I: ESTC No. N8073. Volume II: ESTC No. T78343. Mandeville"s notorious social and economic satire positing that self-interest and vice may unintentionally generate public prosperity. Mandeville"s notorious work opens with the satirical poem "The Grumbling Hive; or Knaves Turn"d Honest" in which a prosperous hive collapses after its inhabitants are made virtuous. The volume also includes "An Inquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue" "An Essay on Charity and Charity-Schools" and "A Search into the Nature of Society." Part II continues the argument in a series of six dialogues between Horatio and Cleomenes answering critics of the first part and further developing Mandeville"s views. Bernard Mandeville 1670-1733 was a Dutch-born physician philosopher and satirist who settled in England. The Fable of the Bees was condemned by moralists and presented by a grand jury as a public nuisance. This work became widely regarded as one of the 18th century"s most provocative attacks on moral idealism. Uniformly bound in contemporary full calf sympathetically rebacked with later calf. Externally smart. Rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in slight loss to cloth. Slight discolouration to perimeters of calf boards. Slight rubbing to boards with the odd mark. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste downs. Slight discolouration from binder's glue to endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Small 1 inch closed tear to fore edge of R8 not affecting the text. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot; light scattered spotting to first and last few leaves. One or two light marks to fore edge. Slight cockling to leaves. Very Good J. Tonson; J. Roberts hardcover

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Mandeville, John (fl 14th c)Biblio.com

Joanne de Mandavilla Qual tratta delle piu maravegliose cose e piu notabile che si trovino e come presentialmente ha cercato tutte le parte habitabile del mondo & ha notato alcune degne cose che ha vedute en esse parte

1537ref. 5104Venice: per Aluise Torti 1537. A rare Italian edition of John Mandeville's "Travels". The first Italian edition appeared in 1480 at Milan. Hardcover. Fine. An unsophisticated copy bound in its original carta rustica binding soiled surface wear small losses at head of spine and small defect at foot. Contents shaken title soiled mild damp-staining and soiling to the text very slim worm-trail in lower margin of some gatherings just entering the text in a few places. Title page with woodcut border. Small stains on lsv. 2-4 and B8. A wildly successful collection of medieval travelers' tales to the Holy Land China India and other exotic lands both real Ethiopia and imagined the land of the Amazons embellished with accounts of strange peoples and fantastic animals all narrated by a certain John Mandeville based so he claims on his own experiences and offered as a guide for would-be travelers. "The actual author of the tales remains as uncertain as the existence of the English knight Sir John Mandeville himself. The book originated in French about 1356-57 and was soon translated into many languages an English version appearing about 1375. The narrator Mandeville identifies himself as a knight of St. Albans. Incapacitated by arthritic gout he has undertaken to stave off boredom by writing of his travels which began on Michaelmas Day September 29 1322 and from which he returned in 1356."EB "The book was a contemporary bestseller providing readers with exotic information about locales from Constantinople to China and about the social and religious practices of peoples such as the Greeks Muslims and Brahmins. The book first appeared in the middle of the fourteenth century and by the next century could be found in an extraordinary range of European languages. Its wide readership is also attested by the two hundred and fifty to three hundred medieval manuscripts that still survive today. One scholar even insists that "few literate men in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries could have avoided coming across the Travels at some time." Among others Chaucer borrowed from it; Christopher Columbus apparently consulted the work as did Sir Walter Ralegh. "The sources that lie behind the work are so many and varied that a better alternative title for the work than 'Mandeville's Travels' might have been 'Mandeville's Library'. The two most important works behind the book were written in the 1330s by authentic clerical travelers. The primary source for the first part of the Book travel to and around Jerusalem is the Liber de Quibusdam Ultramarinis Partibus a.k.a. the Itinerarius by the German Dominican William of Boldensele whereas that for the second part travel farther east is Friar Odoric of Pordenone's Itinerarius which tells of the Franciscan's missionary experiences in China and India. Portions of many other works also apparently known to the Mandeville-author primarily in French translation were also used to make up the Book: these include some of the most learned and influential reference works of the Middle Ages such as Vincent de Beauvais' Speculum Historiale and Speculum Naturale and Brunetto Latini's Li Livres dou Tresors as well as older authorities such as Macrobius and Isidore of Seville. Scholars have also identified material taken from other travel books and from writings as varied as saints' lives Jacobus of Voragine's Legenda Aurea historical romances those about Alexander and at least one scientific work John of Sacrobosco's De Sphaera. The author's skill as a compiler is revealed in the deftness with which he melds these various sources into a convincing whole principally by means of the voice and personality of his narrator: the alert energetic and always eager to instruct Sir John Mandeville. "The Book begins with a preface that seems to present the work as a guide for pilgrims to Jerusalem a well-known medieval genre. Sir John announces that in addition to the Holy Land he has journeyed to stranger non-biblical lands including Ethiopia and India and promises to tell of "many diverse folk of manners and diverse laws and shapes". The Book proper opens with a description of Constantinople and the routes by which to go there. Dramatic contrasts in subject matter such as the description of St. John the Evangelist's tomb at Ephesus followed by a story of a woman changed into a dragon who can return to human shape only with a knight's kiss enliven the Book. "Sir John then gives various routes to Jerusalem and outlines the sights along their ways. After a large section about Egypt the works tells about the Holy Land itself. Important surrounding sites are recorded such as Bethlehem but it is Jerusalem that is described in most detail especially those places associated with major Jewish figures such as David and with the life and death of Christ. At times the account reads very much like a guide for travelers: we are told of the spatial relationship of one building to another and specific points of their individual architecture. Sir John emphasizes that Jerusalem is now controlled by Muslims and he records a long conversation that he had with their Sultan who details the many moral failings of contemporary Christians that have caused God to deprive them of the Holy Land. "Although Jerusalem may be at the center of the world and the ultimate aim of religious pilgrims it cannot hold such an insatiable traveler as Sir John. He is soon away to more remote and exotic climes and cultures. After passing through Armenia he continues further east through the land of Job the country of the Amazons and Ethiopia some of whose people have only one foot which in addition to propelling them quickly serves to shade their bodies from the sun. Sir John eventually reaches the lands around India with their various and exotic religions - some worship snakes lines 1586-87 and others allow themselves to be crushed under the wheels of a chariot bearing their idol lines 1655-59. After a discussion of the roundness of the world lines 1687-1778 and mention of additional marvels such as men and women with heads like dogs lines 1854-68 or others with both male and female genitals lines 1892-95 Sir John arrives in China and describes the almost unimaginable wealth luxury and pomp at the court of the Great Khan with a full account of the realm's particular laws and customs lines 1968-2017 2100 ff. As he continues on Sir John encounters additional strange beings and practices and after a warning about the dangers that Jews will pose at the time of the Antichrist lines 2366-82 he describes Prester John an emperor and a priest who though allied with the Khan is a Christian but not a Catholic lines 2392 ff. Near the end of his Book Sir John describes a kind of ideal society: that of the Brahmins and Synoplians who even though they lack Christian revelation follow its essential precepts by natural law and whose faith simple life and love and charity toward one another make them beloved of God lines 2573-2637. After observing gold-digging ants in Ceylon passing by but not being able to visit the Earthly Paradise lines 2681-2706 and describing the Tibetan practice by which a son honors his dead father by offering his body to birds and the flesh of his head to special friends lines 2763-83 Sir John having circumnavigated the earth returns home to England to rest in his old age. "Debate about the identity of the author also continues. Some popular English opinion still holds out for Sir John Mandeville - there is a plaque in his honor in St. Albans Cathedral and a Fleet Street veteran has recently taken up his cause - but scholars have also suggested other candidates including Jean d'Outremeuse a notary of Liège and Brother Jean de Long of the Benedictine Abbey Church of St. Bertin. It seems unlikely that we shall ever be certain about the authorship of the Book. Indeed applying the term author to this work is imprecise and somewhat misleading. Obviously someone first assembled the materials we know as The Book of John Mandeville but as has been noted he borrowed rather than created most of those contents. Rather than a wholly original author Mandeville is best considered a compiler one who collects and rearranges the writings of others into a new form. Just as whoever first put together the Book combined and rewrote previous texts the work he produced proved equally malleable for it was itself in turn adapted abridged and supplemented by later redactors in a variety of ways including but not limited to the kinds of alterations to the narrative voice we have already discussed. What we call the Book resists precise definition because it differs from version to version as well as from text to text within a particular version. The Book of John Mandeville refers less to a single stable entity than to what Iain Higgins in the most illuminating current study of the work has called a "multi-text." The original composition of the Book did not fix the work because it was so quickly and variously transformed by those who received it." Kohanski and Benson The Book of John Mandeville: Introduction 2007. per Aluise Torti hardcover

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MANDEVILLE, Sir JohnBiblio.com

Tractato dele più maravigliose cose e più notabile che si trovino in le parte del mondo redutte e colte sotto brevita in lo presente compendio del strenuissimo cavalier Ioanne de mandavilla anglico.

ref. 112964Venice Manfredo Bonelli 26 January 1505. . 8vo; title within decorative woodcut border 4-line decorative woodcut initial to A2 2-line initials elsewhere some toning and soiling small repair to fore-edge of title bookplate to front pastedown; later full vellum gilt lettering to spine on brown morocco title-piece minor worming to extremities and endpapers; collation: A-EE4; ff. 112. Rare 16th-century Italian edition of the world's first best-selling travel book. Although largely fictitious the journeys are based upon travellers' tales extant in the fourteenth century and as such are of considerable interest. Purchas considered Sir John Mandeville to be akin to Marco Polo in terms of importance 'the greatest Asian Traveller that ever the World had' Pilgrimes III p65. His travels take the reader through Turkey Armenia Persia Tartary Arabia India and China and gave many Europeans their first taste of the Near and Middle East as well as the East Indies. Little is known of Mandeville himself however he claims to have been an English Knight who travelled between 1322 and 1356 serving under both the Sultan of Egypt and the Great Khan. Although traditionally attributed to Mandeville in reality the work was an English version of a text known as Itinerarium of which the original ascribed to Jean d'Outremeuse was probably written in Anglo-Norman French. All pre-1725 editions of Mandeville are scarce and editions such as this in a vernacular language particularly so. We can trace only 4 copies in institutional collections worldwide: 1 in the British Isles BL 1 in North America Houghton Library Harvard and 2 in Italy Biblioteca Regionale Universitaria Messina and Biblioteca Comunale Augusta Perugia. USTC 839970. Venice, Manfredo Bonelli, 26 January 1505. hardcover

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MANDEVILLE, John [= Jehan d'OUTREMEUSE].Biblio.com

The voyages & travels of Sir John Mandevile Knight to the Holy Land and to Hierusalem: as also to the lands of the Great Caan and of Prestor John: to Inde and divers other countries: .

1696ref. H2NF22FJOYPMLondon: Richard Chiswell Benjamin Walford Matthew Wotton George Conyers printing probably shared by 2 printers one possibly Samuel Roycroft 1696. Gold-tooled red goatskin morocco by Robert Riviere in London ca. 1875/80 with 5 false bands on the spine each board with a double frame of double and triple fillets and 2 different sets of 4 corner pieces author and title in gold in 2nd and 3rd of 6 spine compartments the others with gold-tooled decorations and the date and place of publication at the foot gold-tooled turn-ins gold fillets on board edges straight-combed endpapers gilt edges stamped on the back of the free marbled endleaf in sans-serif capitals: "Bound by Riviere". 4to 19.5 x 15.5 cm. With a woodcut ship on the title-page with a griffin on the sail and about 60 woodcut illustrations in the text mostly about 5.5 x 8 cm plus about 10 repeats each with a thick-thin border. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. A rare 17th-century English edition with about 60 different woodcut illustrations of a classic and partly fictional 14th-century account of travels presented as voyages of Sir John Mandeville through Turkey Egypt Ethiopia Syria Persia Arabia India and the East Indies. It was originally written in French and is thought to have been compiled from various sources by Jehan d'Outremeuse 1338-1400 of Liege. It includes many well-known stories and illustrations of monstrous people and animals in exotic lands: a man with only one enormous foot that he can use as a parasol a dog-headed man a man with his face in his chest a girl who turns into a dragon griffins nine-meter giants ants that gather gold diamonds that mate and give birth to baby diamonds and much more that spoke to the imagination. The book also includes genuine descriptions of the regions covered and gave many Europeans their first notions of the Near East Middle East India and East Indies. The part on Arabia includes an account of the birth of Mohammed.With early owner's inscription and bookplates along with a loosely inserted signed autograph letter ca. 1900. 8 leaves with their margins extended at the fore-edge and foot the title-page and last page somewhat worn and dirty but further in good condition with a few minor fedects. The spine is slightly faded but the binding is still very good.l Arber Term catalogues II p. 593 item 8; ESTC R217088 5 copies; J.O. Halliwell ed. Voiage and travaile of Sir John Maundevile 1866 p. xvi item 2 from the Grenville library; Wing M417 same 5 copies; cf. for the story in general: Cambridge history of English literature 1976 pp. 78-87. Richard Chiswell, Benjamin Walford, Matthew Wotton, George Conyers, [printing probably shared by 2 printers, one possibly Samuel unknown

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