RADO Diastar Integral gents chronograph reference 538.0592.3, Switzerland around 2005, quartz, case in steel partial gold-plated, ceramic-bracelet with butterfly buckle, case back screwed-down 4-times, black dial with gilded hour-indices and Arabic numerals, gilded luminous hands, constant second and date at 6, measures approx. 36 x 30 mm, length approx. 21,5 cm, condition 2

MALON (Benoit, under the direction of): La REVUE SOCIALISTE. Paris, Librairie de la "Revue Socialiste" [Rédaction et Administration, pour le vol. 1], [1885]-1895, 21 volumes. 15 by 23.5 cm. Each volume represents a semester of the journal, which appeared twice a month, and runs to between 600 and 800 pages. Period half-basin with 4 burgundy spines for the first 17 volumes, black for the last 4. Spines sunned in burgundy binding, minor binding defects (not serious). A few leaves torn but not missing, scattered foxing, paper sometimes slightly foxed. There is no false-title or title for vols. 2, 3 and 4, which are continuously paginated, following vol. 1. Head of collection covering 10 years of this important journal founded in January 1885 by Benoît Malon, the theorist of integral syndicalism. It appeared until 1914. It covers the entire period during which Benoît Malon was the Revue's director (1885-1893). Benoit MALON was a friend of Eugène VARLIN, a member of the International Working Men's Association. During the Commune, he organized the defense during the bloody week. Exiled to Switzerland, his socialism became more reformist, and his thinking more anarchist. Back in France, he became a Freemason, and became a theoretician of non-Marxist socialism. To the affirmation of class struggle, he added the cult of law and justice, and the appeal to a feeling of universal human brotherhood, which would inspire JAURES. B.N., Cat. collectif des périodiques IV-p. 344. A rare set from these first 10 years, with an immense wealth of content, the magazine's aim being to be open to all human culture (philosophy, politics, economics, international news, literature, etc.) and to all components of socialism.