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an old picture of a factory with smoke coming out of ita drawing of a large building with a clock on ita picture of a picture of a city with a lot of smoke coming out of itan old picture of a city with a lot of people on itan old picture of a painting of a man on a horse and a woman on a horsedrawing of a group of people on a boat in a rivera drawing of a man standing on a horse in front of a group of peoplea drawing of a large crowd of people standing in front of a buildingan old black and white photo of a man in a suit and tiean old black and white photo of a man in a suit and tietwo books sitting on top of each other in front of a white backgroundan old book with a black and white title on itan old book with a drawing of a woman and a man on the grounda drawing of a large room with people sitting at tablesan old drawing of a large room full of people in formal attirea drawing of a large group of people walking down the streeta drawing of a crowd of people gathered outside a building
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847 - [Pictures of the Revolution]. Complete collection of *Histor…
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Estimate €1,400 - €1,500
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[Pictures of the Revolution]. Complete collection of *Historical Pictures of the French Revolution*, comprising one hundred and thirteen instalments, in three volumes [...] Paris, Auber, printed by Didot the Elder, and completed by Charles, Year XIII – 1804. 3 folio volumes, with 224 engraved plates (including 3 frontispieces by Copia and Malapeau after Fragonard the Younger, 153 views of revolutionary events, two paintings – on the value of assignats; on the new concordat constituencies – and 66 portraits in the ‘noire’ style by Le Vachez in engraved frames, with captions at the bottom), marine-coloured half-shagreen with morocco trim, smooth spines, red title labels (J.-M. Durand). Scattered foxing in vol. II. ‘Imperial’ edition (almost definitive), a completely revised version of this famous iconographic series on the Revolution, regularly updated since 1791 to reflect political developments. It offers an exceptional account of how contemporaries perceived the events of the Revolution, whilst illustrating the successive rewritings of history in the wake of changes of regime. I. [2] leaves, vj pp., 36 pp. [Preliminary Discourses], 272 pp., with 78 plates, including a frontispiece (leaves 265–266 torn across the width). II. [2] ff., pp. 273–580, with 78 plates, including a frontispiece. III. [2] ff., 27 pp., 12 pp., 9 pp., 32 pp., 9 pp., 22 pp., 12 pp., 8 pp., 4 pp. [text of the various constitutions of France since 1791, the Concordat, the senate decree on the Consulate for life, and the general table], with a frontispiece, a table of ecclesiastical districts and 66 plates (a tear along the side of the portrait of Carrier). Tourneux I, 283.
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About the sale MONTIGNAC – 31st BOOK SALE – Day 2 of 4 – Nos. 550 to 1084
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Auction time 08/20/2026 at 11:00 AM
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