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263 - MIRABEAU, Count of] – The Secret History of the Court of Ber…
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MIRABEAU, Count of] – The Secret History of the Court of Berlin, or Correspondence of a French Traveller, from 5 July 1786 to 19 January 1787. Posthumous work. S. l. (Alençon, Malassis the Younger), 1789. 2 vols. in-8, (2) folios, XVII, 318 pp.; (2) folios, 376 pp., some foxing or yellowing, particularly on the endpapers, marbled green morocco plate from the publisher, triple gold thread on the covers, decorated ribbed spine, gilt edges. M W 24476. JAMMES (Bûcher) 571. PEIGNOT I, 321. First edition. Disavowed by Mirabeau, who was on a diplomatic mission to the Court of Berlin from 1786 to 1787. ‘Condemned as offensive by the diplomatic corps, this libel was burnt by the executioner’s hand.’
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About the sale The Jean Demaux Collection – Part 2
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