[DUCHESNE]. Code de la police ou Analyse des règlemens de po - Lot 36

[DUCHESNE]. Code de la police ou Analyse des règlemens de police. Paris, Chez Prault, 1758, in-12, red morocco, gilt plate stamped on the boards, arms in the center, ribbed spine decorated with arms, gilt edges (period binding). Collation: 1 f. title n. o.c., 4 pp. epistle "À Monsieur de Tourny...", 41 pp. o.c. [iii]-xLiij, 5 pp. n. o.c. (Approbation / Privilège / État des codes), 507 pp. with pagination errors. Second edition, revised, corrected and enlarged. The 18th century saw the police organized both from a legislative point of view and through specialized literature. This trend began with Delamare's Traité de police, published in 1707, 1710 and 1719. It was followed by a series of codes and dictionaries summarizing the ordinances issued. Duchesne's Code de la police was part of this movement. It covers a wide range of areas, the police being the pivot of social order and the instrument of public action. Pp. 249 to 251 refer to regulations governing the sale of libraries, printing works and bookshops. A well-preserved present-day copy bearing the arms of Henri Léonard Jean-Baptiste Bertin (1720-1792). In 1757, he was appointed to the lieutenancy-general of the Paris police, a position he held until 1759. He was then replaced by Antoine Raymond Jean-Gualbert Gabriel Sartine (1729-1801), comte d'Alby. Bertin won the esteem of his administration, the king and Madame de Pompadour. The volume is decorated with one of Dubuisson's plates, also found on a copy of the 1757 Armorial des principales maisons et familles du royaume, bearing the arms of Madame Adélaïde (cf. no. 35). This plate is reproduced in G. Barber's book on James A. de Rothschild's library at Waddesdon Manor. The copy is set in a modern slipcase. The two epistle leaves are a little shorter in margins. Dimensions: 165 x 94 mm. Provenances: Comte de Béarn (Cat. III, 1921, no. 190), with his bookplate; Cortland F. Bishop (Cat., The Magnificent French Library formed by the late Cortland F. Bishop, 1948, no. 103), with his bookplate; René Escande de Messières, with his bookplate. Barbier, I, 623; Maurepas (A. de) - Boulant (A.), Les Ministres et les Ministères du siècle des Lumières (1715-1789), pp. 246 and 290-291; Barber (G.), The James A. de Rothschild bequest at Waddesdon Manor. Printed books and bookbindings, I, p. 326 (Dubuisson plate).