Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 76

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(FRENCH REVOLUTION.) La Vicomterie de Saint-Samson, Louis de. Les Crimes des Rois de France, depuis Clovis jusqu'à Louis Seize . . . Nouvelle Édition. Etched frontispiece, hand-colored at a later date, and 4 plates. [4], 484 pages, including half-title. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine darkened, morocco lettering piece chipped, joints rubbed; later owner's pencil notes on front endleaves and a few text leaves, blank outer margin of title trimmed. Paris: Bureau des Révolutions de Paris, 1792

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"La Vicomterie's stated goal in the preface was to show that the French monarchy had perpetrated an unending series of crimes against the French people for more than a thousand years"--Lilly Library, "Liberty, Equality . . . or Death" 108.