[BRISSOT-GOUPIL]. ESSAIS HISTORIQUES SUR LA VIE DE MARIE-ANTOINETTE D'AUTRICHE, Reine de France, pour servir à l'histoire de cette princesse. In London, 1789 and in Versailles, at the Montensier, Hôtel des Courtisanes (1789). 2 parts of 140 and 151 pages, bound in 1 volume in-18, marbled basane, spine ribbed and decorated (modern binding) First edition decorated with 2 portraits (repeated) of Marie-Antoinette and 6 light figures out of text engraved on copper and not signed. This pamphlet where the Queen is openly blamed for her intrigues and for the harm she was supposed to do to France, was written at the request of the Duke of Orleans. The 2 parts together are rare (Gay II, 169-71, indicates only 5 engravings).

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