‎(CAPMARTIN DE CHAUPY, B.)‎
‎Observations sur le refus que fait le Chastelet de reconnoître la Chambre Royale.‎

‎En France, 1754. (2), 258 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering. Conlon 54:522; Catalogue de l'Histoire de France, v, p. 242, 2610. First edition. Bertrand Capmartin de Chaupy (1720-1798) shows himself in this work 'le champion de l'autorité la plus absolue' (Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, vii, p. 1070.) Apart from this work, he published another work, opposing the Parlement in the matter of the "Grand Conseil" and for these two works he was exiled. He went to Rome where he studied Antiquity, collected an important collection of ancient money, and published a work in which he showed he had discovered the country house of Horatius. This work was an important topographical study of Rome and the roman country side. His exile being terminated in 1776 he returned to Paris with his collections (antique and medals) and an important library. - Small stain in upper margin of title-page and first few pages, copy with wide margins, rare. ‎

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