Nicodeme dans la lune, ou la revolution pacifique. Folie en prose mêlée d'ariettes et de vaudevilles

First edition. Rare.
In original wrappers. Lacking right corner of title page (the letter E of "lune" is therefore missing), and lower right corner.
A satire of the French Revolution. Cousin Jacques was the pseudonym of the journalist Beffroy de Reigny to whom he owed his celebrity. He is the author of comic pieces on the French Revolution and the political and social transformations of his time.