Publication Date: 1831
Seller: Mats Rehnström Rare Books SVAF, ILAB, Stockholm, Sweden
Condition: Good. Leipzig. C. H. Reclam, 1831. 8:o. 70,(2 blanks) pp. Sewn as issued with contemporary marbled backstrip. Uncut and mainly unopened. Slight foxing. Small ink note and green stamp on half title: "ex-libris Kurt Heinig". Stamp of Arbetarrörelsens arkiv and ball pen notes on title. The anonymous author pleads for different means to prevent revolutions: freedom of speech and press, full religious freedom, free enterprise and public access to financial and legal records. The second and last part of the work concerns the control of riots without bloodshed - the author proposes the use of water cannons. The work was published against the background of unrest in several German cities following the French July Revolution in 1830. Kurt Heinig (1886-1956) was a German social democratic politician. After Hitler's assumption of power in 1933, Heinig fled to Denmark, and, following the German occupation of that country in 1940, to Sweden. He died in Stockholm in 1956.