DULAURE (Jacques-Antoine). Liste des noms des ci-devant nobl - Lot 91

DULAURE (Jacques-Antoine). Liste des noms des ci-devant nobles, nobles de races, robins, financiers, intrigans, & de tous les aspirans la noblesse, ou escrocs d'icelle ; avec des notes sur leurs familles. Paris, Garnéry, An II. 3 parts in one volume in-8, half marbled basane, smooth spine decorated, red title page (Binding of the period). Partly first edition of this pamphlet published in fascicules, many of which have been lost (Tourneux, n°20664). The nobility had just been abolished in France; and Dulaure, who clearly understood that an ordinance of the National Convention would not suffice to uproot in a single day an institution that had been linked for centuries to the fate of the monarchy, and deeply established in the mores of the nation, attempted to justify this revolutionary measure, by branding the forehead of the nobility with a red-hot iron (Paul Lacroix, Dissertations relatives à l'histoire de France, I, 1856, p. 231). Following, by the same author: Vie privée des ecclésiastiques, prélats, et autres fonctionnaires publics, qui n'ont pas prêté leur Serment sur la Constitution civile du Clergé. Pour faire suite à la Liste des nobles. Paris, Garnéry, L'An II de la Liberté, 1791. First part only, of three (Tourneux, n°15633). From the library of the Duc de Bauffremont, with engraved armorial bookplate. Some brown spots. Upper hinge cracked, one jaw split and damage to headpieces.