STATES OF CORSICA. - Set of 2 volumes. 1780 and... Lot 30

STATES OF CORSICA. - Set of 2 volumes. 1780 and 1784, bound in stiff parchment, smooth spines with brown title-pieces, vestiges of leather fastenings, red edges (modern binding in the taste of the period with old title-pieces preserved). LES ASSEMBLEES DES ÉTATS DE CORSE EN 1777 ET 1779 : PROCES-VERBAL de l'Assemblée générale des États de Corse convoquée à Bastia le onze mai mil sept cent soixante-sept. In Bastia. Printed by Sébastien-François Batini. 1780. in-folio, bilingual French and Italian printing, DCXI [miscoded CDXIX]-(one blank) pp. marginal wetness on first few leaves with small tears. - PROCES-VERBAL de l'Assemblée générale des États de Corse convoquée à Bastia le vingt-cinq mai mil sept cent soixante-dix-neuf. At Bastia. Printed by the widow Batini. 1784. In-folio, ccccxxxi [incorrectly numbered ccccxxix] pp; some marginal wetness. Corsica was a land of States: meeting annually, these were made up of the island's five bishops and eighteen principal parish priests, twenty-three deputies of the nobility, and twenty-three deputies of the third, appointed by provincial assemblies which were themselves dominated by assemblies of pièves made up of notables and common fathers (pièves were districts made up of communities and villages headed by podestat-majors endowed with a certain power of justice, police and moral guardianship). Their deliberations mainly concerned financial, fiscal and legal matters. Sessions of the Estates of Corsica were chaired by the Intendant of Corsica and the Governor of Corsica, in this case Claude-François-Bertrand de Boucheporn and Louis-Charles-René de Marbeuf respectively. It's worth noting that CHARLES BONAPARTE (father of the Emperor), who was a deputy for the nobility at the States of Corsica in 1771, 1772 and 1777, enjoyed good relations with Boucheporn, and was even friendly with Marbeuf. Provenance : Bibliothèque de l'Ordre des Avocats de Bastia (ex-libris stamps on titles and margins of several leaves). - Xavier Versini (triple ex-libris in each volume, i.e. his signature on the title and p. 11, and his initials on p. 26).