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ANDELY, B. d' "Mémoire sur la question hollando-belge considérée dans ses rapports avec le droit des gens // La raison du plus fort n'est pas toujours la meilleure". Brussels August 1839 In-4° square: [4]-238 pp. black and brown ink, qqs rare corrections and/or additions by the same hand. Midnight-blue chagrin with Romantic decoration of the epoch, bold and thin gilt fillets and set of cold irons encircling the boards, smooth spine framed with gilt fillets and fleurons with gilt title throughout, gilt fillet on the edges and chasses (min. rubbing, top board slightly yawning). Very good condition. Autograph manuscript of an unpublished memoir with autograph dedication by the author to Duke Ferdinand-Philippe d'Orléans (1810-1842), eldest son of King Louis-Philippe I, who distinguished himself militarily when the citadel of Antwerp was taken from the Dutch in 1832. The unknown author is highly critical of the Treaty of the XXIV Articles or Treaty of London of April 19, 1839, which definitively established international recognition of Belgium's independence and determined the conditions for separation from the Netherlands, and which he considers "a diplomatic blunder [...] deplorable" (p. 203). He defends the idea that "Belgium gave in to an unfounded panic by submitting to the acceptance of a treaty which it was in its honor and interests to reject, at least as far as the stipulations which entailed the dismemberment of a territory were concerned" (p. 196). He makes some interesting and still topical observations on the right of the great powers to intervene in the affairs of "weaker" states. "Belgium's violent separation from Holland was a private, internal quarrel, which concerned only those directly concerned" (p. 197). In conclusion, he calls for better defense, in the name of justice and morality, of "the principle of non-intervention" (p. 94), a concept coined by Talleyrand in 1830 during talks on Belgian independence. Prov. Ferdinand-Philippe d'Orléans (dedication and ex-libris stamp with his monogram).

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ANDELY, B. d' "Mémoire sur la question hollando-belge considérée dans ses rapports avec le droit des gens // La raison du plus fort n'est pas toujours la meilleure". Brussels August 1839 In-4° square: [4]-238 pp. black and brown ink, qqs rare corrections and/or additions by the same hand. Midnight-blue chagrin with Romantic decoration of the epoch, bold and thin gilt fillets and set of cold irons encircling the boards, smooth spine framed with gilt fillets and fleurons with gilt title throughout, gilt fillet on the edges and chasses (min. rubbing, top board slightly yawning). Very good condition. Autograph manuscript of an unpublished memoir with autograph dedication by the author to Duke Ferdinand-Philippe d'Orléans (1810-1842), eldest son of King Louis-Philippe I, who distinguished himself militarily when the citadel of Antwerp was taken from the Dutch in 1832. The unknown author is highly critical of the Treaty of the XXIV Articles or Treaty of London of April 19, 1839, which definitively established international recognition of Belgium's independence and determined the conditions for separation from the Netherlands, and which he considers "a diplomatic blunder [...] deplorable" (p. 203). He defends the idea that "Belgium gave in to an unfounded panic by submitting to the acceptance of a treaty which it was in its honor and interests to reject, at least as far as the stipulations which entailed the dismemberment of a territory were concerned" (p. 196). He makes some interesting and still topical observations on the right of the great powers to intervene in the affairs of "weaker" states. "Belgium's violent separation from Holland was a private, internal quarrel, which concerned only those directly concerned" (p. 197). In conclusion, he calls for better defense, in the name of justice and morality, of "the principle of non-intervention" (p. 94), a concept coined by Talleyrand in 1830 during talks on Belgian independence. Prov. Ferdinand-Philippe d'Orléans (dedication and ex-libris stamp with his monogram).

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