Joseph de MAISTRE Lot n° 19

Letters to a Russian gentleman, on the Spanish invasion. Paris, Méquignon fi ls aîné, 1822. In-8 of (3) ff, 169 pp, contemporary binding in red half morocco, smooth spine decorated with gilt leaves and fl eurons and titled various works, yellow edges. First edition. Joint, in the same binding : Considérations sur la FranCe. New edition, the only one revised and corrected by the author; followed by the Essay on the generating principle of political constitutions and other human institutions. Third edition, revised and corrected. Paris, Potey, 1821. In-8 of XIV, 367, (1) pp. New edition, revised by the author, to which the editor has added the Essay on the generating principle of political constitutions, originally published in 1810. It is also enriched with the letter of M. O., General in the service of S. M. the emperor of all the Russias, addressed to De Maistre after the reading of the Considerations, and a Postscript of the author. Nice copies belonging to a set of De Maistre's works, uniformly and elegantly bound at the time (volumes not tipped in).