[Rarebooks] FS: History of the French Revolution, Phila., 1794 .

[Norman Kane]

We can supply:

ANON.  A NEW AND CONCISE HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE FROM ITS 
COMMENCEMENT TO THE EXECUTION OF THE GIRONDE PARTY AND THE DEATH OF THE 
DUKE OF ORLEANS.  COPYRIGHT SECURED ACCORDING TO LAW.  Philadelphia: 
[Lydia?]  Hoff and Derrick, 1794.  First (only) edition.  Old 
leather-backed boards, rubbed, wear at top of spine, blank corner of title 
gone, old name at top of p.[3]. Frontispiece (tear repaired with old paper 
on verso) of the execution of Louis XVI showing the guillotine about to do 
its work.  iv, [9]-164pp. (as noted by the ESTC.)
Evans 27364.  (An uncommon early American account of these earth-shaking 
events published by a short-lived Phila. publisher. OCLC gives the 
publisher's name as Lydia Hoff.)
$225.00


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