Au bureau des Révolutions de Paris

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and nine fine figures drawn and engraved by Ransonette illustrating crimes and executions.
Contemporary half tawny sheep with corners, smooth spine with gilt title-label and roulettes. Rubbed. Lacking at head. Corners slightly bumped. Frontispiece doubled. Title page with some stains.
Extremely pamphleteer in nature, the crimes of the popes trace and catalog pope by pope the abuses committed in the name of papal authority, but without great historical precision.
Born in 1746, Lavicomterie had begun his career as an author with strictly literary works, but at the time of the Revolution, his anticlericalism and anti-royalism brought