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CHAMOUSSET (Claude-Humbert Piarron de). Œuvres complettes, contenant ses projets d'humanité, de bienfaisance et de patriotisme: précédées de son éloge. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Ph.-D. Pierres, 1783. 2 volumes in-8, porphyry calf, triple gilt fillet, ornate smooth spine, title and appendix pages, interior roulette, gilt edges (period binding). Collective edition of the works of Chamousset (1717-1773), the philanthropist who first conceived the idea of medical mutual aid associations, i.e. our current social security system. It is decorated with 9 fold-out paintings. It includes a memoir on Louisiana and the profits that can be made in this colony, the Plan d'une maison d'association, the Mémoire politique sur les Enfans, a Plan d'administration des hôpitaux du royaume & pour le bannissement de la mendicité, a Mémoire concernant les ouvriers & les domestiques, a memoir on grain. The third part of Volume II is devoted to healthy beverages, healthy foods and preservatives against disease. Engraved armorial bookplate of the Marquis d'Aligre. Small light wetness on a few leaves. Binding restored (headbands, spines and corners).

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CHAMOUSSET (Claude-Humbert Piarron de). Œuvres complettes, contenant ses projets d'humanité, de bienfaisance et de patriotisme: précédées de son éloge. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Ph.-D. Pierres, 1783. 2 volumes in-8, porphyry calf, triple gilt fillet, ornate smooth spine, title and appendix pages, interior roulette, gilt edges (period binding). Collective edition of the works of Chamousset (1717-1773), the philanthropist who first conceived the idea of medical mutual aid associations, i.e. our current social security system. It is decorated with 9 fold-out paintings. It includes a memoir on Louisiana and the profits that can be made in this colony, the Plan d'une maison d'association, the Mémoire politique sur les Enfans, a Plan d'administration des hôpitaux du royaume & pour le bannissement de la mendicité, a Mémoire concernant les ouvriers & les domestiques, a memoir on grain. The third part of Volume II is devoted to healthy beverages, healthy foods and preservatives against disease. Engraved armorial bookplate of the Marquis d'Aligre. Small light wetness on a few leaves. Binding restored (headbands, spines and corners).

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