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Rémy DELAUNEY

Histoire d'un pou françois ; ou l'espion d'une nouvelle espece, tant en France qu'en Angleterre. Contenant les portraits des personnages interessans dans ces deux royaumes, & donnant la clef des principaux evénemens de l'an 1779, & de ceux qui doivent arriver en 1780

De l'Imprimerie Royale, AParis 1781, In-8 (14x22cm), 115pp., relié.

First edition.
Binding half calf blonde with small corners ca 1820. Back smooth 5 cold iron and nets. Golden title. Some pale foxing, especially in title page. Back rubbed. Good copy.
Autobiographical memoirs of a louse, which goes from head to head, embellishing his confessions of philosophical reflections, is found on the head of the queen, then on that of Benjamin Franklin. It is essentially a political satire of business between France and the United States, there are fictitious dialogues, especially between the Minister of Marine and Benjamin Franklin. It is unveiled a great project to seize England to share it between France, Spain and the United States. This curiosity was written after Benjamin Franklin's delegation to France in 1778, commissioned by the American Congress; it was on this occasion that Louis XVI signed the treaty which recognized the independence of the United States as a nation, and that England signed the independence of the thirteen colonies.
Ex libris engraved of the twentieth with the motto Nec ridendo vellicat.

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