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Wrappers. 8vo. 48 pp. Fine. Contents in English.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Wrappers. Small 8vo, 46 pp. Illustrated, centerfold spread of two pages of First Army firsts showing progress of the Army from Normandy to Paris to German territory to the contact with Soviet soldiers. About very good condition, front cover and first two pages with a diagonal wrinkle in the top right corner. From the library of Shepard Stone.…

First Edition. Small 8vo. Polished red wrappers. Very early date for one of these guides; No. 1, published in 1867, is the earliest listed in WorldCat. Very good, fresh condition, right edge of front wrapper and title page with 3/4" tear. Printed by the Oneida Community. Rear with advertisements for several publications by John Humphrey Noyes, including a guide to "Male Continence, or Self Control in Sexual Intercourse." Despite the reputation of the community for "free love," a term in fact coined by Noyes, recent scholarship shows that sexual activity was paradoxically tightly controlled in a hierarchical manner by Noyes. Search our listings using the keyword Utopianism for related items.…

First edition, complete in six volumes. An extremely important pre-Revolutionary publication, issued just months before the fateful convocation of the Estates-General of 1789. This six-volume set assembles extensive historical accounts and documentary evidence concerning the French Estates-General and other national assemblies, tracing their precedents, procedures, and constitutional significance. Printed under the false imprint âLa Hayeâ but in fact published in Paris by Buisson, the set reflects the atmosphere of 1788 â" a France on the brink of political crisis, where public discourse turned urgently to questions of representation, sovereignty, and the rights of the nation. Volumes like this were intended as both historical compendia and political armaments, providing deputies and pamphleteers with the ammunition to challenge absolute monarchy and shape a new constitutional order. The survival of all six volumes together, in matching contemporary bindings, is scarce. The gilt spines, though rubbed, retain their decorative appeal, and the interiors are generally crisp with only light toning. Institutionally, this work is held in major research libraries and is frequently cited in scholarship on the political culture of 1788â"1789. For collectors of Revolutionary France, this is a cornerstone piece: a tangible artifact of the intellectual and constitutional debates that directly led to the French Revolution. Complete six-volume 1788 edition of Des Ãtats Gà nà raux et autres Assemblà es Nationales, published on the eve of the Revolution, a foundational text in the debates leading to 1789. Good; bindings rubbed and spines worn at extremities, but sound; interiors generally clean, occasional light foxing; marbled endpapers intact. Contemporary half calf over mottled boards, spines gilt in compartments with ornamental tools and titles in gilt, marbled endpapers. Some rubbing and wear to spine caps and corners, but bindings uniform and attractive.…