Miscellaneous parts 1788-1789. Set of 14 pieces bound in 1 v - Lot 375

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Miscellaneous parts 1788-1789. Set of 14 pieces bound in 1 v - Lot 375
Miscellaneous parts 1788-1789. Set of 14 pieces bound in 1 vol. in-8, marbled basane, spine decorated with ribs, triple gilt fillet framing on the covers, red morocco title and tomaison pieces (period binding). BERGASSE (Nicolas). Letter from M. Bergasse on the Etats Généraux. S.l.n.d. VIII-55 pp. Lawyer linked with the salons des philosophes, Nicolas Bergasse (1750-1832) becomes famous during the Kornmann trial which opposes him to Beaumarchais. Author of a Letter on the Estates General, he was elected to them by the third state of the seneschal palace of Lyon. Letter of February 12, 1789. BEAUMARCHAIS (Pierre-Augustin Caron de). Letter to Milord*** concerning Mr. Bergasse and his observations in the case of Mr. Kornmann. No place, 1788. 16 pp. Cordier, 418. BEAUMARCHAIS (Pierre-Augustin Caron de). Letters of the Sirs de Beaumarchais and Daudet, quoted at the Audience of March 14, 1789, in the Case of Sieur Kornmann. Preceded by a few Reflections & a narrative relating to these Letters, &c. Without place, 1789. (4)-59 pp. Cordier, 424. STAEL-HOLSTEIN (Germaine Necker, baroness of). Letters on the Works and Character of J.J. Rousseau, by Mrs. Baroness of Stael-Holstein, Wife of the Swedish Ambassador to the King of France, only daughter of Mr. Necker. At the Temple of Virtue. At the first Restorer of France. 1789. (VI)118 pp. A different edition from the clandestine edition published under this title the same year, "which has the merit of lifting the anonymity of the work and clearly indicating the name and qualities of the author". Lonchamp, 10: Letter from a provincial Magistrate to Mr. Bergasse, on his character, on his principles relative to the States-General, on the Spirit which reigns in his Writings, & principally in his Memoirs on the Kornmann Affair. No place, 1789. (4)-103 pp. Anonymous document. BRISSOT DE WARVILLE (Jacques Pierre)]. Letter to the Emperor, on the atrocity of the tortures which he substituted as a softening of the death pena
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