May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 133

Price Realized: $ 120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(GENEVA.) Édit de Pacification de 1782. Imprimé par Ordre du Gouvernement. viii, 220 pages. 8vo, contemporary red calf gilt with municipal arms of Geneva on covers, flat spine divided by false bands into 7 compartments, with green leather lettering piece in one and floral tool in the rest; contents clean. Säfstaholms Bibliothek bookplate. [Geneva, 1782]

Additional Details

Legislation enacted following the suppression of the 1782 revolution against aristocratic rule in Geneva. Bound in front is an 8-page Lettre des . . . Ministres Plénipotentiaires de leur Majesté . . . de la République de Berne, aux Magnifiques Seigneurs les Syndics et Conseil de la République de Genève, dated 13 November 1782; at end is a 4-page Édit du 21 Novembre 1782.