PAINE, Thomas Recueil des divers écrits de Thomas Paine, Secrétaire du Congrès Américain, et membre de la Convention Nationale en 1792, sur la politique et la legislation (...) [trsl. from the English]. 1793 F. Buisson, 8vo, old red wr. (worn and...
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700 / 900
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Invendu
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loosening), [4]-336 pp. (some spotting). Good uncut copy.
Collection of political writings by Thomas Paine (1737-1809). Engr. frontisp. portrait of author. Ref. BnF. BL. Joined : Id. - Droits de l’homme, seconde partie, réunissant les principes et la pratique [trsl. from the 3rd English ed.]. Paris, Buisson & Testu, 1792, 8vo, old red wr. (loosening), [4]-iv-224 pp. (some spotting and soiling). Good uncut copy. 2nd part of the famous “Rights of Man”, a defense of the French (and American!) Revolution and its principles: “the textbook of radical thought and the clearest of all expositions of the basic principles of democracy” (Printing and the Mind of Man). Pt. 2 includes proposals for schemes of taxation, including one for the abolition of the poor-rate. Ref. PMM 241. BnF. Not in BL, Goldsmiths, Kress, Sabin. (2 vol.)
Collection of political writings by Thomas Paine (1737-1809). Engr. frontisp. portrait of author. Ref. BnF. BL. Joined : Id. - Droits de l’homme, seconde partie, réunissant les principes et la pratique [trsl. from the 3rd English ed.]. Paris, Buisson & Testu, 1792, 8vo, old red wr. (loosening), [4]-iv-224 pp. (some spotting and soiling). Good uncut copy. 2nd part of the famous “Rights of Man”, a defense of the French (and American!) Revolution and its principles: “the textbook of radical thought and the clearest of all expositions of the basic principles of democracy” (Printing and the Mind of Man). Pt. 2 includes proposals for schemes of taxation, including one for the abolition of the poor-rate. Ref. PMM 241. BnF. Not in BL, Goldsmiths, Kress, Sabin. (2 vol.)
