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[EYMERY, ALEXIS] DICTIONNAIRE DES GIROUETTES, ou nos contemporains peints d'apres eux-mems . par une societe de girouettes.
Paris, Alexis Eymery, 1815. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix-[x], 11-441; hand-colored frontis.; pages slightly browned with scattered foxing, else good or better in modern quarter calf gilt over brown marbled boards. Published shortly after the Battle of Waterloo, this volume by a “society of weathercocks” lists prominent personages who were political “weathercocks” during the previous 25 years of France's turbulent political and military history.
Offered for US$ 375.00 by: Rulon-Miller Books ABAA/ILAB - Book number: 13201