ARNOULD A. - PUJOL ALBOIZE. HISTORY OF THE BASTILLE. From its foundation in 1374 to its destruction in 1789. Followed by LE DONJON DE VINCENNES, from its foundation to the present day... by MM. Aboize and Aug. Maquet. PARIS, BOOKSHOP ADMINISTRATION, 1844. Eight volumes, in-8, cherry calf half-bindings. Smooth ornamented spines with gilt titles, flat covers dressed in red percaline. Attacks on the skin of several volumes, if not good copies. 32 serpentine steel engravings, 4 of which are frontispieces.
Vol. I - VI: The Bastille, its prisoners, its governors, its archives, details of tortures and torments, internal regime, escapes, police archives. Vol. VIII - VIII: Vincennes, royal house, fortress, state prison, history of the main prisoners, the dungeon, the dungeons, the torture chamber.
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