- A few lvs. wormholed in lower blank margin. Upper corners bumped.

= Kress 7203; Goldsmiths 11453. Apocryphal memoirs, aiming to demonstrate the bad management of Terrai, a hard-liner on deficit reform and member of the triumvirate, with Maupeou and the Duc d'Aiguillon, that ruled France and promoted centralized government at the expense of traditional liberties and vested interests.

(Essuile, J.F. de Barandiery-Montmayeur de). Traité des Communes, ou Observations sur leur origine & état actuel, d'après les anciennes Ordonnances de nos Rois, les Coutumes, Edits, Déclarations, Arrêts & Règlements intervenus sur cette matiere (...). Paris, Colombier, 1777, XVI,395,(1)p., 2 fold. tables, contemp. gilt calf w. mor. letterpiece.

- Title-p. foxed. Binding trifle worn along edges. = Goldsmiths 11547; cf. Kress 6726 (ed. 1770).

AND 2 others.