- Lot 185

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- Lot 185
[LOUIS XVI ]- Lot of 21 official publications, placards, prints and pamphlets relating to the trial of Louis XVI. Various formats, in ff. or modern marbled paper binding (Some spotting, foxing, marginal tears without loss and frayed edges (placards and print), rare wetness, rare handwritten annotations...). CONTAINS: - 7 PUBLICATIONS OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION, in-8° and pet. in-4°, including: "Défense de Louis, prononcée à la barre... par le citoyen Deseze, l'un des défenseurs officieux...". P., Imprimerie nationale, 1792. Attached: excerpt from an official publication (pp, 115-116) with the printing order signed by Osselin. - 3 decrees (arrest, judgment, condemnation of Louis Capet). Angers, Mame, 1792-1793. Adorned with woodcuts. - "Adresse des citoyens de la commune de Rouen, à la Convention nationale..." Ibid, [1793]. On the first counter-revolutionary demonstrations following the trial of the king. - "The National Convention to the French..." Ibid, [1793]. Announces the beheading of the king. - "Procès-verbal... Séance du mardi 22 décembre 1793... envoyé aux 84 départemens". Niort, Lefranc-Élie, 1793. Contains the "Acte énonciatif des crimes de Louis, dernier roi des Français". - 2 PLACARDS, in-f°, typogr. frame. "Testament de Louis XVI". P., Bonneville, [1793]. Portrait of the royal family in medallion. - Idem. P., Bance aîné, [1793]. Engraved medallion vignette pasted at head, engraved coat of arms at bottom Sarcifu, after Fious. "Tragic end of Louis XVI...". P. et Strasbourg, merchants de nouveautés, [1793]. 18.5 x 23 cm (rather heavy spotting). - 1 revolutionary pamphlet: "Acte de contrition de messieurs les gardes-du-corps de Sa Majesté Louis XVI, ou Les cartes rebattues". London, 1789. Ornamented with a curious satirical frontispiece showing a citizen mounted on a guard and pulling his ears saying "well, J[ean] F[outre], will you still say long live the nobility?". - 10 ROYALIST PAMPHLETS, 1789-1793, including: "Address of the 150 communes of Normandy to the National Convention, on the judgment of Louis XVI". [Rouen ?, 1792]. - "List of the impious and sacrilegious regicides who voted... for the murder of Louis XVI, King of France". S.l., [1793] - "Ode on the death of Louis XVI king of France... New and more correct edition". S.l., 1793. - "The three regicides, Jacques Clément, Ravaillac and Damien, at the Club des Jacobins. S.l., From the printing house of the Jacobist Club, year II of the Tyranny.
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