Louis-Charles de LAVICOMTERIE
Les crimes des papes depuis S. Pierre jusqu'à Pie VI
Au bureau des Révolutions de Paris|à Paris 1792|12 x 20 cm|relié
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 him to the position of deputy where he voted for the death of Louis XVI. Besides the crimes of the popes, Lavicomterie would publish other highly engaged works such as the Crimes of the German Emperors, the crimes of the Turkish emperors as well as the crimes of the kings of France.
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 him to the position of deputy where he voted for the death of Louis XVI. Besides the crimes of the popes, Lavicomterie would publish other highly engaged works such as the Crimes of the German Emperors, the crimes of the Turkish emperors as well as the crimes of the kings of France.
€250