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HEIBERG, P[eter] A[ndreas]:
Précis Historique et Critique de la Constitution de la MonarchieDanoise [Precise history and critique of the Constitution of the Danish Monarchy].
Paris, Jeunehomme-Crémière, 1820.
Tall Narrow 8vo., 109 pp. with blank end leaves pasted inside covers; half-leather with gilt spine, marbled boards (spine ends chipped, overall very good).

First edition as a rare offprint, as published in the "Journal général de législation et de jurisprudence, 3e Livraison et suivantes", here published with its own title page and printed motto "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Shakespeare." The original print is Heiberg's first draft of his later book "The Introduction of Autocracy in Denmark in the Year 1660", Drammen 1828.

(FRENCH REVOLUTION) TABLEAU des Prisons de Paris, sous le regne de Robespierre [by Philippe Edme Coittant]. Paris: chez l'Editor, 1797. Two volumes bound as one, the first volume with a full-page engraved frontispiece of a guillotine showing various piles of severed heads. Thick 8vo., [iii] 222, [i] 271 pp.; early red boards (sides and edges rubbed), spine gilt-ruled with leather label affixed. First edition, a very rare work in commerce, OCLC records several similar titles but with different pagination. This early depiction of the Guillotine machine with its severed heads piled below must have been quite sensationalized to be illustrated at this time.