Cléry, (Jean-Baptiste) - Journal de ce qui s'est passé à la Tour du Temple pendant la captivité de Louis XVI, roi de France. London, l'imprimerie de Baylis, sold by the author 1798. In-8° half cloth, 239 pp. 1 ff. 2 plates hors-texte and 1 facsimile in fine. Second-issue first edition, addressed to No. 6 Lisle street, London. Tourneux, 3551. Bound at the end: Mémoires particuliers, formant avec l'ouvrage de Mr Hue et le Journal de Cléry, l'histoire complète de la captivité de la famille royale à la tour du Temple. Paris, Audot, January 21, 1817. 1 ff., iv, 77 pp. 2 hors-texte plates. Ex. libris "Chateau de Montrevost" Ex. libris Villard. Good condition, wide margins.

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