ASSEMBLY OF NOTABLES OF 1787. - Together 2 volumes. - Lot 102

ASSEMBLY OF NOTABLES OF 1787. - Together 2 volumes. In all, a collection of 12 works and a few manuscripts (approx. 80 leaves) on the Assemblée des notables of 1787, constituting a comprehensive account of this political event, whose failure led to the convening of the Estates-General. - 1st collection: [CALONNE and DUPONT DE NEMOURS]. Collection des mémoires présentés à l'Assemblée des notables. Versailles, Pierres, 1788-1788. 4 parts in one volume in-4, half marbled basane, ornate spine, red and green titles, red speckled edges (Binding of the period). First edition, complete in four divisions, with 2 folding tables (INED, n°913). "The appearance of such documents from official sources is a historic event" (Stourm, p. 133). The first two and last two divisions do not follow each other in the volume, and are bound with 10 appendices, including the following: LISTE des notables composant l'Assemblée partagée en sept bureaux, avec leurs demeures à Versailles. Versailles, De l'Imprimerie de Ph.-D. Pierres, 1787. - DISCOURS du Roi à l'Assemblée des notables, tenue à Versailles le 22 février 1787. Ibid. - DISCOURS pronounced by order of the King and in his presence by M. de Calonne... Ibid. - ÉTAT des logemens des notables qui composent l'Assemblée indiquée au 22 février 1787. Ibid. Various handwritten documents from the period (approx. 80 leaves in all), in the form of comments on the meetings of the 1787 Assembly, have also been added to this collection. Upper hinge cracked and jaws brittle, top cover missing. - 2nd collection: [DUPONT DE NEMOURS]. Observations présentées au Roi par les Bureaux de l'Assemblée des notables, sur les Mémoires remis à l'assemblée ouverte par le Roi, à Versailles, le 23 février 1787. Versailles, Ph.-D. Pierres, 1787-1788. In-4, marbled basane, ornate spine, gilt label on tail, red and green titles, red edges (Binding of the period). First edition, complete in four parts. Rubbing to binding. The Collection des mémoires... and the Observations..., complementary series each divided into four parts, were published by order of the king and printed for notables, and distributed to them alone.