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Catalogue
72
Books
from the Past
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46.
FELLOWES, W[ILLIAM] D[ORSET], Paris; During the Interesting
Month of July, 1815, A Series of Letters, Addressed to a Friend
in London. London, Printed for Gale and Fenner, 1815. First edition.
$1,200
8vo; pp. v, 165, [1] (Adverts); engraved title vignette portrait
of Napoleon; engraved frontispiece portraits of five court personages,
and two engraved plates, all hand-coloured; later blue paper-covered
boards; light offsetting from plates; a very good copy.
COPAC; Harvard; Yale (Beinecke); NYPL. William Dorset Fellowes'
connections as a fringe member of the British court afforded him
a tour of Paris unlike others. His observations of both the political
and social scene following the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, and
the restoration of Louis XVIII to the throne, include descriptions
of well-known locations, such as the state rooms at Versailles after
it had been vacated by its former tenants. Not mentioned is that
the month was less interesting for Fellowes' wife and daughter,
whom he abandoned for a woman he met on the trip (Burke's peerage).
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A Justification of the French Discoveries in the Pacific
First English Edition, and a Large-Paper Copy
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47. [FLEURIEU, CHARLES-PIERRE-CLARET, comte de]. Discoveries
of the French in 1768 and 1769, to the South-East of New Guinea,
with the Subsequent Visits to the same Lands by English Navigators,
who gave them new Names. To which is prefixed, An Historical Abridgement
of the Voyages and Discoveries of the Spaniards in the same seas.
By M. * * *, formerly a captain in the French Navy. London, John
Stockdale, 1791. First edition in English. $3,000
4to; pp. xxiv, 323, (1) (Errata); 12 folding engraved charts; recent
quarter-calf and marbled boards; very faint waterstain at edge of
upper corner; little offsetting from the charts; complete with half-title
and, overall, a fine copy printed on large paper, with very wide
margins.
Cox II, p. 304; Ferguson I:105. This is the first edition in English,
following the original printing in French in 1790. The author surveys
the discoveries of Bougainville, Surville, and other explorers of
the island chain off the southeast coast of New Guinea, including
the Louisiade archipelago, the Solomon islands, the New Hebrides,
etc. Fleurieu's given reasons for publishing his work was to justify
and defend the French discoveries from the supposedly false claims
of the English navigators, particularly those of John Shortland.
Also included are summaries of some of the earlier voyages of the
Spaniards in the area.
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48.
[FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY PAMPHLET]. PRÉVOST, NICOLAS (d.
1799?). Réponse a la Queue de Robespierre. Par Un Franc
Républicain. Paris, l'Imprimerie republicaine, rue du Marche-Palu,
No. 20, [1794]. $475
8vo; pp. 8. Unbound pamphlet, little dusty; uncut; upper corners
of leaves little curled; signed Marie et Prevost at end of tract;
publisher's advert above colophon.
BNF; Oxford; NYPL. "La Queue de Robespierrre" was written
by Jean Claude Hippolyte Méhée de la Touche in 1794,
condemning Maximilien de Robespierre (1758-1794), who was a prominent
leader of the French Revolution. The "Réponse"
was probably written by Nicolas Prévost, an author and printer
who published French Revolutionary tracts in Paris from 1792-1796.
A scarce, ephemeral work.
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49.
[FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY PAMPHLET]. Extrait des Registres du
Parlement de Bordeaux, Du 21 Décembre 1787. A Libourne, [s.n.],
1787. $300
8vo; pp. 28; 8; 2. Caption title; imprint from colopon. Sewn as
issued; little dusty, untrimmed edges; headpiece. Pagination: 1-28,
[1]-8, 29-30. Three pieces.
BNF. Contents: Très-Humbles et Très Respectueuses
Remontrances, Qu'Adressent au Roi, notre très-honoré
& souverain Seigneur, les Gens tenant sa Cour de Parlement de
Bordeaux, à Libourne; Très-Humbles et Très
Respectueuses Remontrances, Qu'Adressées au Roi par le Parlement
de Navarre, Sur la Translation du Parlement de Bordeaux à
Libourne; Lettre du Parlement de Bordeaux au Parlement de Paris.
Du 21 Decembre 1787.
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50.
[FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY PAMPHLET]. TENNIS COURT OATH. Extrait
du Procès-Verbal de l'Assemblée nationale. Du Samedi
20 Janvier [sic], [i.e.Juin] 1789. A Paris, Chez Baudouin, 1789.
$400
8vo; pp. 18. Unbound pamphlet; edges uncut; caption title; cover
title date erroneously given as 20 Janvier 1789; pencilled correction
above month.
BNF. Account of the events leading to the Tennis Court Oath of 20
June, 1789 (Le Serment du Jeu de Paume), when the États-généraux
met to discuss reforms that were to be presented to Louis XVI. Since
the doors to their meeting hall (Menus Plaisirs) were barred by
representatives of the king, they reconvened to an indoor tennis
court near Versailles to draw up resolutions that were to lead to
a constitution. They took a solemnn oath not to disband until the
National Assembly had drafted such a constitution - a dramatic act
of defiance. The names of the National Assembly members who signed
the Oath also appear in the pamphlet.
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