Lot n° 368
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Jean-Henri Maubert de Gouvest, Letters of Knight Robert Talb - Lot 368
Jean-Henri Maubert de Gouvest, Letters of Knight Robert Talbot, from the suite of the Duke of Bedford in Paris in 1762. On France, as it is in its various departments: with a number of interesting peculiarities affecting its men in place. Put in French by M. Maubert de G. Secretary of the late Elector King Auguste III. In Amsterdam, by François Changuion, 1766. 2 volumes in one vol. in-12 of XIV-(2)-334 pp. ; (6)-362 pp., Havana calf, smooth spine decorated, title coin in Havana morocco (binding of the period). First edition. Fictitious correspondence from an English knight offering the political, social and moral picture of France in 1766. It is the pretext for the publicist Maubert de Gouvest, exiled in Amsterdam, to show the superiority of the English constitutional monarchy over French absolutism, through considerations on finance, parliaments, administration, penal laws, but also the Jesuits, the arts, etc.. Ex-libris " of the Library of the Château de la Grange ". Nice copy.
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