Lyon: Chez Bernuset, 1780. Read More about Vraie Méthode pour Apprendre Facilement a parler, a Lire et a Écrire l'Anglois, ou Grammaire...

Paris: Librairie Plon, [1933]. Read More about Henriette d’Angleterre et La Cour de Louis XIV

A Leide: chez les Elzevirs, 1648. First Elzevier edition. The celebrated memoirs of the foremost French Renaissance historian (1445-1509), notable as an important analysis of 15th century culture, politics and personality. "...The graphic style of his narrative and above all the keenness of his insight into the motives of his..... Read More about Les Memoires de Messire Philippe de Commines, Sr. d'Argenton

Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1858. Second edition. Known as Biron, Armand Louis de Gontaut, Duc de Lauzun was a French soldier and politician, who participated in the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars. Read More about Mémoires du Duc de Lauzun (1747-1783) Publiés entièrement conformes au manuscrit avec une...

Paris: Librarie du Figaro, Docks de la librairie, imprimerie générale de Ch. Lahure, n.d. [1870s]. Profusely illustrated edition in a handsome binding, of Blanc's monumental history of the French Revolution, which was originally published in 12 volumes 1847-1862. Read More about Histoire de la révolution Française

Paris: Desaint et Saillant .. 1752. First edition. Handsome copy of this curious retelling of Cortez in the third person that includes two folding engraved maps. Read More about Le Mexique Conquis

a la Haye: Jean van Duren, 1741. Second edition. First published Paris (Didot) 1740. Read More about Parallèle des Romains et des François par rapport au gouvernement

[Brest?]: 16 September, 1814. Bourayne writes to fellow navy director, de Gay, regarding artilliery depots during the Napoleonic wars - a year before the Battle of Waterloo Bourayne was highly regarded by Napoleon, who made him Baron of the Empire just prior to the writing of the letter. He continued..... Read More about Letter, Signed. To Monsieur de Gay in Brest

[N.p.]: 1785. Second edition. Unrecorded Second Edition. Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville (1754-1793), French journalist, prolific pamphleteer, and revolutionary, much influenced by Rousseau. Brissot was imprisoned briefly in the Bastille for writing a seditious pamphlet. He visited the Netherlands, Switzerland, England, and the United States. Interested in humanitarian projects, he..... Read More about L'Autorité législative de Rome anéantie, ou Examen rapide de l'histoire & des sources du...

Paris: Chez Prault, 1750. Nouvelle edition. Dictionary of taxation and finance. Read More about Dictionnaire des Aydes ou les Dispositions

London: J. Owen, 1796. Unauthorized first edition, issued a day before the authorized edition published by F. and C. Rivington; second state of page iii. Read More about Thoughts on the Prospect of a Regicide Peace, in a Series of Letters

London: Printed by T. Giller, Salisbury-Square, for R. Phillips, 1801. First Edition in English. The author was Professor of Mathematical Astronomy at Copenhagen. Much on Astronomy, pp. 213-257 on National Observatory and Public Observatories. Read More about Travels in the French Republic; containing a Circumstantial View of the Present State of...

N.p. [London?]: n.d. [1787?]. UNCUT. “Originally a magistrate, he became, 9th November 1783, comptroller-general of the finances, which office he held till 8th April 1787, and in which he proved himsefl singularly incompetent.” — Palgrave. This is his defence of his financial administration, issued several times in 1787, both in..... Read More about Requête au Roi, adressée à sa Majesté…avec les pièces justificatives