MIRABEAU (Honoré-Gabriel Riquetti, comte... - Lot 194 - Rossini

MIRABEAU (Honoré-Gabriel Riquetti, comte de). Estates-General. Prospectus. N°I and II. Paris, Le Jay, and Versailles, Blaizot, s.d. [1789]. Set of 3 pieces in a small in-4 volume, 2 and 8 pages, bradel half red morocco, gilt Phrygian cap at head and tail (Modern binding). Tourneux, n°10203. - Sgard, n°412. All that appeared of this short-lived journal written by Mirabeau, i.e. the first two issues and the prospectus. The two published issues contain critical reflections on the presentation of the deputies to the King on May 2, on the opening of the Estates-General and on Necker's speech on May 5. The prospectus appeared in April, and the journal was condemned and banned by decree of the Council, and the bookseller had to return the subscriptions. The blank leaf of the prospectus, bearing the name of a subscriber at the time, a lawyer at the Conseil, has been preserved. Enclosed: - MÉMOIRES secrets sur la vie civile, morale et politique du ci-devant souverain des Français, grand homme Honoré-Gabriel Riquetti, dévoilés & dialogués par lui-même à la diète générale des rois de France, tenue aux Champs-Élysées, sur les affaires politiques et critiques présentes du royaume, pour servir à l'histoire de la révolution actuelle de la France. Aux Champs-Élysées, De l'Imprimerie de l'Ami des hommes, des rois et des empires, s.d. Booklet in-8, 39 pages, bradel 19th-century cardboard. Staining to last two leaves. - VIE publique et privée de Honoré-Gabriel Riquetti, comte de Mirabeau...Paris, Hôtel d'Aiguillon, 1791. Plaquette in-8 of 2 ff. 95 and 11 pp. in 19th-century green half cloth. Portrait of Mirabeau engraved by Alexandre Massard.