Auction 354 Old & Rare Books - General History & Topography
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FRANCE -- STAËL-HOLSTEIN, (A.L.G.). Réflexions sur le suicide, suivies de la défense de la Reine, publiée en août 1793 ; et de lettres sur les écrits et le caractère de J.J. Rousseau. Paris, H. Nicolle & Mame Frères, 1814. (6), vii-xii, 270 pp. Cont. full marbled cf., w. raised bands, brown label, gilt coat of arms of 'The Soc. of Writers to the Signet' on both sides, & sprinkled edges.

Collection of works by the French author baroness Anne Louise Germaine Stael-Holstein (1766-1817), famous for her Salon and known for her political influence. It includes a treatise on suicide, which was first published in 1813, followed by a pamphlet on the execution of Marie Antoinette in 1793 (pp. 101-141). At the end eulogical reflections on the writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau (pp. 143-270) (first edition 1788). - Very fine copy. Lonchamp, L'Oeuvre imprimé de Madame Germaine de Stael, 110; Schazmann, Bibliographie des Oeuvres de Mme de Staël, 50; Cioranescu III, 60647.

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