La Politique positive: revue occidentale.
Sémérie, Eugène (ed.).
Ernest Leroux, Éditeur · Paris / Versailles · 1873
28.5 x 23 cm. Green Half cloth hardcover, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Première année (1872–1873): faux-titre, titre, 382 pages, 2 pages index (nos. 1–24). Deuxième année (1873): 112 pages (nos. 25–31, 16 avril – 16 juillet 1873). Text in French. Pages toned throughout, spots/ foxing, as expected for the period; few pages with some restorations, binding firm; (very) good condition, see pictures.
Complete run of this rare positivist periodical, nos. 1–31, being the entirety of its publication history; after no. 31 (16 July 1873) the journal ceased permanently. Issues of the second year carry dual dating: Gregorian and the Positivist Calendar of Auguste Comte (e.g., '22 Archimède, An 85'). Director: Eugène Sémérie (1832–1884); published under the Comtean motto 'Ordre et Progrès'; administration at Versailles, boulevard du Roi 7; Paris distributor Ernest Leroux, rue Bonaparte 28. Cf. HathiTrust catalog record 000681871.