Apr 24, 2006 - Sale 2076

Sale 2076 - Lot 111

Price Realized: $ 345
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
[GOUDAR, ANGE, attributed to.] Le Procès des Trois Rois, Louis XVI. de France-Bourbon, Charles III. d'Espagne-Bourbon, et George III. d'Hanovre, Fabricant de Boutons, plaidé au Tribunal des Puissances-Européenes. Folding engraved plate showing the 3 Kings on trial. 192 pages. 8vo, contemporary mottled sheep, flat spine gilt with ornamental tooling and morocco lettering piece, ends chipped. "Londres: chez George Carenaught," 1780

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First published the same year. "Aimed especially at Great Britain, this satire of the three major powers in the American War is in the form of a mock trial, which finds Great Britain guilty of starting the war . . . B. Franklin, who is supposedly shown in the frontispiece, represents the U.S. and makes two speeches (pp. 59-65, 102-107), the latter of which is a translation of almost all the Declaration of Independence"--Echeverria & Wilkie 780/60A.