Book Aux Armes de Philippe d'Orléans: the importance of Religious Opinions by Necker, 1788, full red morocco In 8

A jewel of History... This unique piece comes from the Library of Louis Philippe d'Orléans; a unique text in the first edition of Necker (Minister of Louis XVI). Full red morocco, friezes on the covers with the Prince's Arms, large format in 8, ribbed spine decorated with gilded fleur-de-lys irons, paper endpapers with gilded ramage; strong Dutch paper, red edges. Printed in London and located in Paris, Hôtel de Thou, rue des Poitevins in 1788. First edition of this important work in which Necker denounces social inequalities and promotes tolerance a year before the outbreak of the "French Revolution". On the Importance of Religious Opinions by Necker is a work which gave rise to a collusion between the deposed Minister and the Prince, by Marie Antoinette and the one who wanted to take the place of the King, supported by the People of Paris: Louis Philippe d'Orléans , then Philippe Egalité after 1792, guillotined on November 6, 1793, he is the Father of King Louis Philippe 1st. This book and its membership are explained by the collusion between the two men, and the interested complicity of the Ambitious Prince and the Minister who diverted the money for the benefit of his mentor; a rare and unique piece of History both in terms of the text of the Statesman and the provenance of the one who was of Royal blood and his accomplice, it is therefore not surprising that this work was in his library. An Important and extremely valuable piece for the History of the approaching Revolution and this tragic end of the 18th Century which was so eventful.....

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