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Des Graften von Mirabeau Sammlung einiger philosophischen und politischen Schriften, die Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerica betreffend : nebst einem Schreiben von demselben an den Uebersetzer : aus dem französischen.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection E202.1.A7 B955 1787
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti, comte de, 1749-1791.
- Standardized Title:
- Considerations sur l'Ordre de Cincinnatus. German. 1787
- Language:
- French
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Society of the Cincinnati.
- Penn Provenance:
- Rosengarten, J.G. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- vi, 324 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (engraving) ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin und Libau : Bei Lagarde und Friedrich, 1787.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Considérations sur l'ordre de Cincinnatus, ou Imitation d'un pamphlet anglo-américain, par le Comte de Mirabeau, suivies de plusieurs pieces relatives à cette institution, &c.
- Translator's pref. signed: Johann Brahl.
- Sébastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort is given as joint author by Quérard and Barbier. Cf. also Oeuvres choisies de N. Chamfort, 1892, t. 1, p. xxiv, where Chamfort is said to be the real author.
- Based on a pamphlet entitled "Considerations on the Society of the Order of Cincinnatus," issued in Philadelphia, 1783. It was signed "Cassius" and is supposed to have been written by Aedanus Burke.
- "Einzelne Anmerkungen zu dem Werke des Herrn Dr. Price", largely the work of G.J.B. Target: p. [253]-306. Cf. Mémoires de Mirabeau, 1834-35, t. 4, p. 160.
- Errata: [2] p. at end.
- Contains:
- Sammlung einiger philosophischen und politischen Schriften.
- OCLC:
- 185066105
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