Jean-Joseph MOUNIER
Recherches sur les causes qui ont empêché les François de devenir libres, et sur les moyens qui leur restent pour acquérir la liberté. - Appel au tribunal de l'opinion publique. Du rapport de M. Chabroud, et du décret rendu par l'Assemblée nationale le 2 octobre 1790. Examen du mémoire du Duc d'Orléans, et du plaidoyer du comte de Mirabeau, et nouveaux éclaircissemens sur les crimes du 5 et du 6 octobre 1789[Research into the Causes that Prevented the French from Becoming Free, and on the Means Still Available to Them for Acquiring Liberty. – Appeal to the Tribunal of Public Opinion. On the Report by M. Chabroud and the Decree Issued by the National Assembly on 2 October 1790. Examination of the Memoir of the Duke of Orléans and of the Plea of the Count of Mirabeau, with New Clarifications on the Crimes of 5 and 6 October 1789]
Gattey • Maire de Mars • Bergeret|Geneva • Paris • Lyon • Bordeaux 1792|12.4 x 20.4 cm|2 volumes reliés
Rare first edition (cf. Martin & Walter 25 395).
Contemporary half-sheepskin bindings, the spines smooth and gilt-ruled in double fillets, boards covered in rose-papered pasteboard, red sheepskin lettering-pieces and green volume labels, yellow edges; corners rubbed, bindings of the period.
Some rubbing and faint staining to the spines and boards with small losses to the rose paper, a tiny hole at the head of the spine of the first volume, scattered foxing and a few marks to the edges, not affecting the text.
Bound at the end of volume II is another work by the same author: "Appel au tribunal de l'opinion publique. Du rapport de M. Chabroud, et du décret rendu par
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