POLAND - Rulhière, Cl[aude-Carloman de]. Histoire de l'anarchie de Pologne, et du démembrement de cette république (...). Suivie des Anecdotes sur la révolution de Russie, en 1762. 4 vols. Paris, Dersenne et al, 1807. 8°. Half-leather bindings of the time, each with 2 gilt spine labels (signed Grosclaude, Metz; slightly rubbed and spotted, one spine stronger). Monglond VII, 641. - First edition, published posthumously. - Rulhière (1735-1791) accompanied the French ambassador Baron de Breteuil as legation secretary to St. Petersburg in 1760, where he witnessed the coup d'état of Catherine II in 1762. After a trip there in 1776 he began to write a history of Poland, which remained unfinished and only appeared in the present version. - Minimally foxed in places.

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