MAQUET, Auguste; ARNOULD, Auguste and ALBOIZE, Jules-Édouard - Lot 26

MAQUET, Auguste; ARNOULD, Auguste and ALBOIZE, Jules-Édouard. History of the Bastille from its foundation in 1374 to its destruction in 1789. Followed by : Le donjon de Vincennes depuis sa fondation jusqu'à nos jours. Published in Paris by Administration de librairie in 1844. 8 volumes in-8, half red basane, smooth spines decorated with triple filets, gilt title and tomaison. Contemporary binding. 335; 350; 326; 347; 344; 337; 364; 264 pages, 33 hors-texte steel engravings (6 in vol. I, 5 in vol. II including a plan of the Bastille, 3 in vol. III, 3 in vol. IV, 5 in vol. V, 3 in vol. VI, 4 in vol. I for the Vincennes dungeon and 4 in vol. II). Rubbing, leather browned in places. Rousseurs. New edition, illustrated with 33 steel engravings. It consists of a study by Auguste Maquet (Tome I to VI) on the history of the Bastille, "from its foundation in 1374 to its destruction in 1789, its prisoners, its governors, its archives; details of the tortures and torments used on prisoners; revelations on the inner regime of the Bastille; dramatic, gloomy, scandalous adventures; escapes; police archives."Followed by a 2-volume study by Auguste Arnould and Jules-Édouard Alboize (Volumes VII and VIII), devoted to the Donjon de Vincennes from its foundation to the present day. A fascinating history of the two famous Parisian fortresses, complete in 8 uniformly bound volumes.