Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 89

Price Realized: $ 250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(FRENCH REVOLUTION.) Révolutions de Paris, dédiées à la Nation. 61 (of 225) numbers, with 23 (of ?) engraved plates and maps. 8vo, approximately 210x135 mm, original wrappers, worn, some covers detached, one or both covers missing from about half; varying soiling and foxing, scattered stains; uncut. [Paris], August 1789-June 1793
Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

Illustrated weekly edited by Louis-Marie Prudhomme, published from 12 July 1789 to 28 February 1794, "perhaps the most influential of the papers in Paris . . . When freedom of the press began to be curtailed under the Terror, Prudhomme chose to suspend publication of the newspaper voluntarily"--Hanson, Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, pages 273-74.
This group consists of numbers 6, 27, 28, 30-37, 39-54, 56, 59, 61-66, 68, 69, 71, 78, 85, 86, 88, 90-93, 96-101, 148, 150, 152, 154, 165, 168, 170, 180, and 204.