SEGUIN, Sébastien. Précis historique sur la féodalité et l'o - Lot 40

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SEGUIN, Sébastien. Précis historique sur la féodalité et l'o - Lot 40
SEGUIN, Sébastien. Précis historique sur la féodalité et l'origine de la noblesse ; et analyse des débats entre les Wighs [Sic] et les Torys français. By Sébastien Seguin, former magistrate, Paris : chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1822 ; Vesoul : imprimerie de Cl. Fred. Bobillier, 1822. In-8 (21 x 14 cm.) of [4], 78 p. Paperback, printed cover, untrimmed. Spine secured by a strip of beige paper, lack of paper on the lower edge of the cover, corners corned, foxing. By the officer of the bailiwick of Vesoul Sébastien Seguin (born in Vesoul, 1759 - died in Jalerange, 1828). With an obligatory printed Warning pasted to the upper back cover, signed by the author, who complains about the printer: "The manuscript, delivered to the press for the time of the electoral assemblies of the Haute-Saône, was first entitled: Light idea of feudalism and the origin of the nobility... Subsequently, Analise of the debates between the French Wighs and Toris... See p. 30... Then, by means of a sort of transaction, Historical sketch of, etc.; but it pleased the Aristarchus, the printer, despotically to decorate his typographical work with a title in his own way, even to distort the name of Burke, author of the epigraph... Moreover, to suppress a very interesting note on Polish serfdom... Finally, in order to completely wither this work, he affected several incorrectnesses, which are not in the original. For example, he assimilates a danger to a position that he makes imminent instead of eminent, etc." (Signed: the councilor Seguin de Vesoul).
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