[BRIZARD, Gabriel] Fragment de Xénophon, nouvellement trouvé dans les ruines de Palmyre; et déposé au Museum Britannicum à Londres, Paris: Ph.-D. Pierres, 1783, 24°, FIRST EDITION, 52pp., with half title (light spotting to title), early 19th-century straight-grained green morocco gilt, with contemporary manuscript list of the true identity of the allegorical characters on front blank, bookplate of Robert, Marquis of Crewe. [Sabin 8138. A satire on the American Revolution] -- Franois-Joseph de LAGRANGE-CHANCEL. Amasis, Tragédie, Paris [Rouen printed] : la veuve de Pierre Ribou, 1729, 12°, ASSOCIATION COPY with pasted on slip signed by the playwright, Marie-Joseph Chénier (1764-1811), reading: "prété moi, mon cher ami, l'amasis de la grange Chancel, fructidor, an 12," [4] + 72pp., 19th-century polished calf gilt by E. Niedrée with Lord Houghton's crest, g.e. -- Henri-Joseph DULAURENS. L'Evangile de la Raison, [containing the "Testament de Jean Meslier"], An X [1802/03], 8°, second edition, xiv + [2] + 224pp. (small burn hle to upper margin of title), contemporary blue diced calf, flat spine lettered and ornamented in gilt, with a contemporary manuscript note to front free endpaper stating that Mestier's Testament "été sévèrement proscrit par la police et condamné au feu," bookplate of Robert, Marquis of Crewe. With 8 other volumes, including 2 works by Sylvain Maréchal in one. (6)

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[BRIZARD, Gabriel] Fragment de Xénophon, nouvellement trouvé dans les ruines de Palmyre; et déposé au Museum Britannicum à Londres, Paris: Ph.-D. Pierres, 1783, 24°, FIRST EDITION, 52pp., with half title (light spotting to title), early 19th-century straight-grained green morocco gilt, with contemporary manuscript list of the true identity of the allegorical characters on front blank, bookplate of Robert, Marquis of Crewe. [Sabin 8138. A satire on the American Revolution] -- Franois-Joseph de LAGRANGE-CHANCEL. Amasis, Tragédie, Paris [Rouen printed] : la veuve de Pierre Ribou, 1729, 12°, ASSOCIATION COPY with pasted on slip signed by the playwright, Marie-Joseph Chénier (1764-1811), reading: "prété moi, mon cher ami, l'amasis de la grange Chancel, fructidor, an 12," [4] + 72pp., 19th-century polished calf gilt by E. Niedrée with Lord Houghton's crest, g.e. -- Henri-Joseph DULAURENS. L'Evangile de la Raison, [containing the "Testament de Jean Meslier"], An X [1802/03], 8°, second edition, xiv + [2] + 224pp. (small burn hle to upper margin of title), contemporary blue diced calf, flat spine lettered and ornamented in gilt, with a contemporary manuscript note to front free endpaper stating that Mestier's Testament "été sévèrement proscrit par la police et condamné au feu," bookplate of Robert, Marquis of Crewe. With 8 other volumes, including 2 works by Sylvain Maréchal in one. (6)

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