351 - Cramer, CF On My Fate. (Manuscript for Friends). Altona and Leipzig, Kaven, 1795. 4 leaves, 292 pages. Small octavo. Contemporary paper binding with red spine label (scuffed, one outer hinge cracked).

Cramer, CF On My Fate. (Manuscript for Friends). Altona and Leipzig, Kaven, 1795. 4 leaves, 292 pages. Small octavo. Contemporary paper binding with red spine label (scuffed, one outer hinge cracked). Goedeke IV/1, 1090, 30.- Second, substantially revised and expanded edition.- Johann Andreas Cramer (1752-1807) was a professor in Kiel. As a supporter of the French Revolution, he first announced in a Hamburg newspaper in 1793 his intention to translate the texts of the Parisian mayor and Girondin, Pétion de Villeneuve, who had voted for the execution of Louis XVI. In 1794, Cramer was dismissed from the University of Kiel and banished from the city.- This edition additionally includes a chapter on Cramer's departure from Kiel and a treatise on freedom of the press.- Rear endpaper removed. Slightly browned in places and slightly foxed, small inscription on title page.