BAILLY, Mémoires d'un témoin de la Révolution, 1804
BAILLY, Jean-Sylvain.
Mémoires d'un témoin de la Révolution, ou Journal des faits qui se sont passés sous ses yeux, et qui ont préparé et fixé la Constitution française.
Paris, Levrault, Schoell et Cie, 1804.
Three volumes 8vo (198x124 mm), (4)-335 pages / (4)-388 pages / (4)-374-(1) pages. binding : Contemporary full sheep, gilt flat spines. Binding rubbed. Halftitle and tile restored on volume I.
First edition. Posthumous work by Jean Sylvain Bailly who was the first mayor of Paris during the French Revolution, in July 1789. He was a victim of the Terror and guillotined in 1793.