DANICAN (Auguste). Le Fléau des tyrans et des septembriseurs - Lot 138

DANICAN (Auguste). Le Fléau des tyrans et des septembriseurs, ou Réflexions sur la Révolution française ; Ouvrage dans lequel on traite de la Souveraineté du peuple, de l'Esclavage, de la Liberté, de la Royauté, de la République, des Économistes, des Chevaliers du Temple, Illuminés & Franc-maçons, &c. &c. &c. By a true patriot of 89. Lausanne, et se trouve à Paris, chez les Marchands de nouveautés, 1797. In-8, shagreened basane, smooth ornate spine, red titles, marbled edges (contemporary binding). First edition, with an unsigned engraved frontispiece, of this pamphlet in which the author criticizes the Revolution: "All these heroes of civism have never thought for a moment of the true interest of the people; they have devoured each other, & for a long time, the successors of the virtuous Louis XVI have pirouetted between his crown & the scaffold. The edifice of the republic was built on corpses and ashes. Auguste Danican (1764-1848), a general sentenced to death for leading the royalist insurrection of 13 Vendémiaire An IV, went into exile in England. According to Quérard, Supercheries littéraires, he was the son of André Danican, composer and famous chess player known as Philidor. Armorial wetstamp of Charles Henneguier on title. Minor spotting on title and frontispiece. Small chip to one spine. Subsequently bound: PAGÈS. Nouveaux dialogues des morts entre les plus fameux Personnages de la Révolution française et plusieurs Hommes célèbres, anciens et modernes, morts avant la Révolution. Paris, Laurens jeune, 1800. Curious dialogues between Catilina and Robespierre, Marat and Mirabeau, Calonne and Necker, Christopher Columbus and Lavoisier, etc. Handwritten bookplate on the false title, which shows some angular restoration. Marginal staining to about ten leaves.