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166 - ROLAND, Mrs. — *Appeal to Impartial Posterity*, by Citizen Roland, wife of the Minister of the Interior, or *A Collection of Writings She Composed During Her Imprisonment at the Abbaye and Sainte-Pélagie Prisons*; printed for the benefit of her only daughter, deprived of her parents’ fortune, whose assets remain under sequestration. Paris, Louvet, 1795. 4 parts in two vols., 8vo, VIII, 128 pp.; IV, 106 pp.; (1) f., 116 pp.; (2) ff., 139 pp., a few foxing spots, flamed calfskin with the publisher’s monogram, gold thread and garland on the covers, plain decorated spine, gilt edges.

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ROLAND, Mrs. — *Appeal to Impartial Posterity*, by Citizen Roland, wife of the Minister of the Interior, or *A Collection of Writings She Composed During Her Imprisonment at the Abbaye and Sainte-Pélagie Prisons*; printed for the benefit of her only daughter, deprived of her parents’ fortune, whose assets remain under sequestration. Paris, Louvet, 1795. 4 parts in two vols., 8vo, VIII, 128 pp.; IV, 106 pp.; (1) f., 116 pp.; (2) ff., 139 pp., a few foxing spots, flamed calfskin with the publisher’s monogram, gold thread and garland on the covers, plain decorated spine, gilt edges. MW 29788. TOURNEUX IV, 25113. First edition. Published by Louis-Augustin-Guillaume Bosc, custodian of Mme Roland’s manuscripts, which he had hidden during the Reign of Terror in the hermitage of Sainte-Radegonde, near Saint-Prix (Seine-et-Oise). Included: Unpublished letters from Mlle. Phlipon and Mme. Roland, addressed to the Cannet sisters, from 1773 to 1780; published by Auguste Breuil. Paris, W. Coquebert, 1841. 2 vols., in-8. -- Autograph letters from Madame Roland, addressed to Bancal-des-Essarts, a member of the Convention. Published by Mme Henriette Bancal-des-Essarts, and preceded by an introduction by Sainte-Beuve. Paris, Renduel, 1835. 8vo. Set of 3 vols. bound in fawn half-calf, with epigraph and colophon. -- ROLAND, Mme. — Memoirs of Madame Roland, with a biographical sketch, notes, and historical clarifications. Paris, Baudouin frères, 1820. 2 vols. in-8, XLVIII, 451, 540 pp., a few foxing spots, half-calf in the period’s typical fawn color, smooth spine decorated with gold thread. FIERRO 1282. First edition published in the Collection of Memoirs Relating to the French Revolution.

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In Gratitude to Women in Literature—A Library Dedicated to Women's Literature
Tuesday, November 17
02:00 PM
22, rue Drouot
75009 Paris, France

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