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ANTOINE DE SAINT-GERVAIS (A.). HISTORY OF THE FRENCH EMIGRAN…
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-GERVAIS (A.). HISTORY OF THE FRENCH EMIGRAN…
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Estimate €80 - €120
Voluntary lot
Description
ANTOINE DE SAINT-GERVAIS (A.). HISTORY OF THE FRENCH EMIGRANTS, from 1789 to 1828. Paris: Hivert, 1828. Three volumes, in-8½, in Empire green Russian leather, smooth spine divided by gilt fillets, gilt title, straw-coloured edges (contemporary binding). Light foxing. FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest histories of counter-revolutionary emigration, from July 1789 until the accession of Charles X, which saw the departure of nearly 140,000 French people for abroad – TILLY (A. de). MEMOIRS OF COUNT ALEXANDRE DE TILLY to serve as a history of manners at the end of the 18th century. Paris, published by Les Marchands de nouveautés, 1828. Three in-8 volumes in tan cardboard binding, smooth spine divided by gilt fillets, title label (contemporary binding). FIRST EDITION of these famous memoirs by one of Marie-Antoinette’s pages. This is one of the most interesting documents on the private life of the aristocracy under Louis XVI – CONDÉ (L.-J. de Bourbon, Prince of). JOURNAL OF THE PRINCE OF CONDÉ’S EMIGRATION 1789–1795. P., Bloch, 1924. Large quarto, paperback. FIRST EDITION published by the Count of Ribes. 2 PORTRAITS in heliogravure. Print run limited to 400 copies. ONE of the 300 numbered copies on Isère vellum. SET OF 3 VOLUMES.
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