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[FRENCH REVOLUTION]. PIERRE MANUEL. La Police De Paris Dé Voilée, L'un Des Administrateurs De 1789. 2 Vols. Paris: J. B. Garnery / Strasbourg: Treuttel / London: J. de Boffe, L'an second de la Liberté [1791?]. 8vo. Modern cloth, leather spine labels (scuffed), cloth very good. Text block untrimmed (generous margins), occasional light foxing and some fore-edge margins soiled, slight worming in Volume I largely in margins of pages 306-321 (few letters affected but minor loss), and margins of pages 345-369 (no loss). Vol I: half-title, engraved frontis, title, 5-11,[1], [1]-402 plus 2 page table, errata leaf. 3 folding tables (2 attached together). Vol. II: half-title, title, [1]-230 plus 3 page publisher's catalog. 2 folding table. Complete. First Edition.

Estimate $250-350

PROVENANCE: Estate of Ambassador and Mrs. William H.G. FitzGerald, Washington, DC, by descent from Ignaz Petschek and Nikodem Caro, Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Sold for $225


       
 

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