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PITOU, Louis-Ange. ~ L’Urne des Stuarts et des Bourbons, ou, le Fond de ma conscience sur les causes et les effets des vingt-un Janvier, des XVIe., XVIIIe. et XIXe. siècles, chez les deux peuples, précédé d’une notice historique sur les grands événemens des 21 juin, 10 août et 2 septembre 1792… Paris: chez L.A. Pitou, Libraire de S.A.R. Madame la duchesse d’Orléans, 31 August, 1815.

8vo (200 × 120 mm), pp. xxiv, 430 [actually 432], [2], pp. xxi-xxiv bound after half-title and title, complete with engraved frontispiece. Contemporary quarter sheep. Rubbed. A very good copy. From the books of the late Martin Stone (1946-2016).

First edition. Royalist conter-revolutionary journalist Pitou was arrested no less than 18 times during the revolutionary period before being deported to Cayenne for his royalist sympathies. L’Urne des Stuarts et des Bourbons was written on his escape and return to France.

£300


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