Adolphe Thiers - Histoire de la Révolution française - 1850-1854

An exciting 9-volume illustrated set of this edition, a vast historical synthesis devoted to the events that shook France between 1789 and the end of the revolutionary period -

Thiers undertakes to recount the Revolution as a complex sequence of political, social, economic and military crises, from the collapse of the Ancien Régime to the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, giving particular emphasis to parliamentary debates, changes of regime, conflicts between factions, the European wars and the great political and military figures -

The work begins with France on the eve of 1789, when the monarchy faced a deep crisis linked to state debt, fiscal difficulties, inequalities among the estates and the growing challenge to absolutism -

Adolphe Thiers - Histoire de la Révolution française - 1850/1854 - Tome II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII et IX - Manque le tome I - Furne et Cie -
560 Pages per book approximately
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Good condition of the bindings, volumes in their original red half-maroquin, wear from use, some minor defects on the covers (sunscald covers), speckled edges, spine with faux nerves finely decorated, gilded titles, pagination and author’s name -

Good interior condition, light foxing, some stains, a beautiful vignette on the title pages, pretty headings, a fine initial, works enriched with beautiful engravings in black off-text including a frontispiece, marbled endpapers in decent condition, vast set -

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