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Crait+Muller Charenton-Vincennes

317 - Mirabeau [Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, Count of].
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Estimate €150 - €250
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Description
Mirabeau [Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, Count of]. – On Letters of Arrest and State Prisons. A posthumous work, composed in 1778, Hamburg, no publisher, 1782. 2 volumes in-8, bound in full pale calfskin with smooth, decorated spines, title and volume number labels in red morocco, red edges, signature at the end ‘Gaudreau rel. de la rei[ne]’ – 1 damaged top cap, weakened clasps – XIV pp. (title page, note to the reader), [1 folio, title of Part 1], 366 pp., [1 folio errata]; 237 pp. (including the general title, the title of Part 2, and the table of contents). First edition, falsely described as posthumous, as Mirabeau did not die until 1791. Handwritten contemporary bookplate on the title pages: ‘A. Ruffray’. No stranger to the royal prisons, Mirabeau made the most of his imprisonment in the Vincennes dungeon from 1777 to 1781 to write this essay, which caused a great stir and established him as a champion of liberty.
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