[MIRABEAU Comte de] - Lot 147

[MIRABEAU Comte de] Series of 6 pamphlets against Mirabeau bound in suite, each anonymous. Copy from the library of the Goncourt brothers: - Vie publique et privée de Honoré-Gabriel Riquetti, comte de Mirabeau. Paris, Hôtel d'Aiguillon, 1791. New edition, corrected and enlarged since his death, dedicated to the friends of the monarchical constitution. Sepia frontispiece portrait. 122 pages. Poisonous biography in fine condition. Bound in: Imprimerie impériale, Maroc; Chez le Jay, au bonnet de Moïse, à la grotte flamande, au Palais Royal, Par is; Au cercle du commerce, & au parterre de la comédie, Marseille. 64 pages. Some foxing in margins. - Mémoires secrets sur la vie civile, morale et politique du ci-devant souverain des Français, grand homme Honoré-Gabriel Riquetti. De l'imp. de l'Ami des hommes, des rois et des empires, aux Champs-Elysées. 39 pages. - General confession of the late Gabriel-Honoré Riquetti, ci-devant Comte de Mirabeau (...) to his feal friend and worthy colleague Talleyrand, ci-devant l'Evêque d'Autun. Followed by a letter to Madame Lejay. De l'imprimerie des Mécontens, April 9, 1791. 23 pages. - Dementia, agony, and will of the Comte de Mirabeau, ex-gentilhomme, degraded from the honors of the bourgeoisie. Du fouloir du Comte de Mirabeau, Paris, 1790. 8 pages. - Orgie et testament de Mirabeau. S.n.s.l. 1791. 31 pages. In fine condition, presented in a half red morocco binding, slight traces of rubbing on the nerves, spine with 5 nerves, title "Mirabeau" in gold lettering, gilt head, binding signed Lortic at the foot of the spine. On flyleaf, bookplate of the Goncourt brothers by Gavarni with the initials E (Edmond) and J (Jules), above the bookplate the handwritten summary, in red ink, of this assemblage, then commented "Réunion des pamphlets les plus violents contre le tribun populaire", signed "de Goncourt".