[French Revolution]. Collection of 4 Memoirs and corresponde - Lot 174

[French Revolution]. Collection of 4 Memoirs and correspondence on the Revolution. 1/ DURAND DE MAILLANE (Pierre-Toussaint). Histoire de la Convention nationale, suivie d'un fragment historique sur le 31 mai, by Comte de Lanjuinais. Paris, Baudouin Frères, 1825, in-8, (4)-XII-388 pp. half contemporary basane, spine faded. -1 f. slightly torn, slight wetness in the inner margin of ¼ of the ff., 1 f. slightly stained, scattered foxing, handwritten bookplate in contemporary pen on title. Pp. 293 to 312: Les 31 mai, 1er et 2 juin 1793. Fragment par M. le Comte de Lanjuinais, avec un de ses discours prononcés le 2 juin, et le récit détaillé de cette même journée, publié par le même, en juin 1793. Pp. 313 to 384: Pièces. First edition. Tourneux 485; Martin and Walter 12433. "This history has a double interest: it is the history of the Convention by a member of La Plaine, one of those who had one of the principal roles on 9 Thermidor." (Rép. Dorbon 14334). 2/ PÉTION DE VILLENEUVE (Jérôme), BUZOT (François-Nicolas-Louis) and BARBAROUX (Charles-Jean-Marie). Mémoires inédits de Pétion et mémoires de Buzot et de Barbaroux accompagnés de notes inédites de Buzot et de nombreux documents inédits sur Barbaroux, Buzot, Brissot, etc.. Preceded by an introduction by C.A. Dauban. With facsimile of an autograph by Barbaroux and portraits of Pétion, Buzot, Brissot, Barbaroux, engraved by Adrien Nargeot. Paris, Henri Plon, 1866, in-8 of 1 frontispiece (portraits)-(4)-LXXVI-544 pp. + 1 facsimile h.t. ; early 20th century half-basane, spine ribbed (faded). -Foxing on frontispiece, half-title and title. Pp. 1 to 103: Mémoires de Buzot (3rd edition); pp. 105 to 253: Mémoires de Pétion (original edition); pp. 255 to 542: Mémoires de Barbaroux (4th edition), with a note on Brissot. Fierro 1156, 249 and 70; Tourneux 22013. 3/ (Staël-Holstein, Erik Magnus). Diplomatic correspondence of Baron de Staël-Holstein, Swedish ambassador to France, and his successor as chargé d'affaires, Baron Brinkman. Documents inédits sur la Révolution (1783-1799) recueillies aux Archives royales de Suède et publiés avec une introduction par L. Leouzon Le Duc. Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1881, in-8 of (4)-XLVI-(2)-416-(1) pp. + 1 f. of errata ; contemporary half-chagrin, with corners, spine ribbed. -Light brown spots. First edition. "Staël-Holstein (Erik Magnus, Baron de) (1749 - 1802). Swedish. Military career from 1766. Attached to Paris, 1778, where he became chargé d'affaires, minister plenipotentiary, ambassador, 1783 and where, for twenty years, he was to deploy a diplomatic activity and finally die. Highly favored by Queen Marie-Antoinette, he was no less sympathetic to the liberal principles of the French Revolution of 1789, but Gustav III, hostile to these same ideas, recalled him in 1792, and appointed him ambassador to Copenhagen, where his mission was short-lived. On the death of Gustav III in 1795, the Regent of Sweden, the Duke of Sudermanie, sent Baron de Staël-Holstein back to Paris. As the only representative of a monarchy to the French Republic, he was charged with making the following declaration before the Convention: "I have come on behalf of the King of Sweden, within the national representation of France, to pay a resounding tribute to the natural and imprescriptible rights of nations". Nevertheless, he was recalled in 1799 by Gustavus Adolphus, who had come of age. His duties thus came to an end, but he decided to join Mme de Staël in Switzerland, and died in Poligny before reaching the border." (Dict. diplomatique V-pp. 1050-1051). 4/ BILLAUD-VARENNE (Jacques-Nicolas). Revolutionary curiosities. Billaud Varenne, member of the Comité de Salut Public. Unpublished memoirs and correspondence accompanied by biographical notes on Billaud Varenne and Collot-d'Herbois by Alfred Begis. Preceded by two portraits. Paris, Librairie de la Nouvelle Revue, 1893, in-8 of X-455 pp. + 2 portraits h.t. ; full modern cloth, basane title-piece on spine, covers preserved. First edition. Fierro, no. 151; Tulard, no. 156. "Secretary of the Jacobin Club in April 1792, commissioner of the insurrectionary Commune on August 9, 1792, deputy to the Convention, regicide, Billaud-Varenne contributed to Robespierre's downfall. But remaining a Jacobin, he was arrested on 13 Ventôse, An III, and transferred to French Guiana". (Fierro).