French Revolution - Lot 711

Lot 711
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French Revolution - Lot 711
French Revolution [RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE (Nicolas Edme)] L'Année des dames nationales; ou Histoire, jour-par-jour, d'une femme de France. Geneva; Paris, Les Libraires, 1791-1794. 12 volumes in-12 in continuous pagination; illustrated with 31 copper-engraved plates out of text (12 in frontispieces (11 of which are double compartment)). One of them represents the execution of Charlotte Corday. Paperback, under soft pink covers of the time, title and month vignettes on spine. Copy with all margins. Very rare first edition; fascinating work of Restif on the mores during the Revolution. In these stories, the author relates anecdotes about famous or lesser known women, collected for the first ones from the Marquis de La Grange, former officer of the Musketeers, and for the second ones by means of a survey in many cities with the help of his editors.
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