PINEAU.
Memoir on the danger of hasty burials, & on the necessity of a regulation, to protect citizens from the misfortune of being buried alive. In which one reports Observations of people buried & opened alive, both in the Dioceses of Poitiers and La Rochelle and elsewhere (...) Niort, Pierre Elies, 1776. 1 vol. in-8. Full contemporary red morocco, gilt coat of arms in the centre of the covers, triple gilt fillet in the frame, spine with ornamented false-nerve, green morocco title-piece, gilt edges, inner scroll. 136pp, [1]f.
First edition. Printed in Niort.
Long handwritten note on Mémoires sur le danger des inhumations, on the first and last blank leaves.
>Beautiful copy bearing the arms of Armand-Thomas Hue, marquis de Miromesnil, who was appointed first president of the Parliament of Rouen in 1757.
O.H.R. pl. 2311, n°1.
