Staël, Madame la baronne de - [Posthumous publications]. 1/ - Lot 61

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Staël, Madame la baronne de - [Posthumous publications]. 1/ - Lot 61
Staël, Madame la baronne de - [Posthumous publications]. 1/ Considerations on the main events of the French Revolution. Posthumous work, published by M. le duc de Broglie and M. le baron de Staël. Paris, Delaunay, Bossange et Masson, 1818. 3 volumes in-8, half brown calf, smooth spines decorated with double gilt fillets, red morocco parts, speckled edges - x, 440 pp. (one leaf restored); [2 ff.], 424 pp.; [2 ff.], 395 pp, [1 f.] errata (spotting in the lower margin, stain on one leaf). First edition. The first major book of the century that presents an overview of the revolutionary events, their beginnings (Necker's ministry has a large place) and their aftermath (it stops in 1815). A. Sorel specified the place that this work holds: "The Considerations would not contain historical parts of first order that they should remain like the most invaluable documents... It is the history of the spirit of 1789; it is more than the history, it is the resurrection. 2/ - Unpublished works, published by his son. Paris, Treuttel et Würtz, 1821. 3 volumes in 8°, same binding as the previous work, 3 plates rubbed - xvj, 360 pp., portrait in frontispiece. "Ten years of exile". A declared opponent of Napoleon, Germaine de Staël was exiled first from Paris and then from France. She made Coppet a center of political opposition, but above all Germaine de Stäel traveled throughout Europe; [2 ff.], iij, 360 pp., [1 f.] "Essais dramatiques". Certainly the most misunderstood part of Germaine de Staël's work; [2 ff.], 402 pp, tear without missing the table leaf. "Mélanges": two plays (Jane Grey and Sophie ou les sentimens secrets), newspaper articles, epistles, translations.
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