Garanties a demander a l' Espagne.

Paris, Béchet Ainé, 1827.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, contemporary tree calf (wear at corners, minor rubbing and other slight wear at foot of spine, but sound), flat spine gilt with crimson morocco lettering piece, marbled endleaves. Woodcut initials within laurel wreath on title-page. Rectangle, about 3 x 1.5 cm., clipped from near upper outer corner of half-title leaf. Slightly larger piece cut from upper outer corner of title-page. Otherwise in good to very good condition. viii, 160 pp., 20 pp. advertisement. *** FIRST EDITION. Discusses why Spain is on the verge of war, arguing that "La tranquillité de l'Europe, l'état intellectuel et moral de cette contrée demandent l'abolition de ces deux grandes difformités sociales, le despotisme et le monachisme espagnols" (p. 81). There are references to the Philippines, America, and relations with England, France and Portugal.The advertisements are Catalogue de la Libraireie de Béchet Aniné, éditeur des Œuvres de MM. de Pradt, ancien archevêque de Malines; de Benjamin–Constant, du viconmte d'Arlincourt, Guizot . . . Quai des Augustins, Nº 47, Octobre 1826. Pradt (1759-1837) was born in Allanches (Auvergne) and received a doctorate of theology from the Université de Paris in 1786. In 1789 he was elected to the États Généraux, where he defended the interests of the clergy until fleeing to Germany after the outbreak of the French Revolution. For the next decade he lived in Hamburg and Münster, where he published several works critical of the Revolution. Returning to France in 1800, Pradt soon earned Napoleon's favor, and with it the offices of bishop of Poitiers (1805) and archbishop of Malines (1808). He undertook several diplomatic missions for Napoleon but, unable to serve church and state equally, found the work increasingly repugnant. Pradt renounced his office in 1816, immediately placing his pen in the service of liberal ideas and against monarchy. Of Pradt's 50 or so published works, all but a handful appeared from 1816 or later. Among his many works are Des colonies et de la révolution actuelle de l'Amérique (1817), Des trois derniers mois de l'Amérique Meridionale et du Brésil (1817) and Les six derniers mois de l'Amérique et du Brézil (1818).*** On the author, see Nouvelle biographie générale XL, 970-3. NUC: NcD, NN, NWM.