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390 - SIEYÈS, Abbé Emmanuel-Joseph]: What is the Third Estate? S.
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Estimate €300 - €500
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SIEYÈS, Abbé Emmanuel-Joseph]: What is the Third Estate? S.l., n.p., 1789. Small 8vo, [1] fol., 127 pp. ‘1°. What is the Third Estate? Everything. 2°. What has it been hitherto in the political order? Nothing. 3°. What does it demand? To become something’ (p. 1). This pamphlet, which was reprinted three times that month and sold in 30,000 copies over that period, laid the foundations for a National Constituent Assembly. First edition of this seminal text. Copy removed from its binding, with slight marginal water-staining that does not affect the text.
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About the sale Original comic strips and comic books, antique and modern books – Afternoon sale at 2 pm
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Auction time 09/09/2026 at 2:00 PM
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