LINGUET, SIMON NICOLAS HENRI, FRENCH LAWYER AND JOURNALIST (1736-1794);
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Sans editeur /No editor, Amsterdam, MDCCLXII (1762) First edition. Linguet´s first book. 8vo in a contemporary, marbled full leather binding. Spine with red morocco label and gilt flowers. Red edges. Slight edge-wear and a small opening in front joint below (ca. 10 mm.), else a binding in very good condition. Old autographed name and notes inside front board and on front free end-paper. A few pages with folds and some pages in the end mildly foxed. Else only occasional spots. This is the first book Simone Nicolas Henri Linguet published 26 years old. He became a journalist and lawyer who opposed many things in society, which led to exile, prison, and in the end the guillotine. He was guillotined in Paris on the 27th of June 1794. Before that he had also published "Memoires sur la Bastille", in 1789. He was emprisoned in the Bastille for two years, 1780-82.
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