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There is an index at the end of each volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe history is written in four divisions: 1. From the Navigation of the Gauls to Charlemagne; 2. From Charlemagne to the Crusades; 3. From the Crusades to Louis XIV; 4. From Louis XIV to Louis XVI.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe manuscript is composed of a half-title; a title-page with an ornament designed with the arms of France; a presentation leaf to the King with the autograph signature of the author; a preface of five pages with ornamental head-piece and letter; a frontispiece signed 'J.Ft.fec. 1777' displaying in an ornamental medallion a portrait of Theodoric or Thierry, the 15th King of France (679), with the following legend in French beneath: 'drawn at the Saint-Wast monastery, in Arras, which he founded and where he is interred'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e8vo (16.7 x 10.8 cm). 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Exceedingly rare, this collection provides the only witness that we have of these flags, which were all destroyed by decree in 1792 owing to the monarchical symbols they contained. A finely coloured copy, highlighted and stencilled in gold, and bound in a style similar to those made by Bozerian. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was first described when presented to the National Assembly on 7 October 1790 by Raymond Augustin Vieilh de Varennes, most likely the artist, whose work was engraved by Jean-Michel Moreau (Moreau le Jeune). This copy was most likely presented to Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793), the first revolutionary Mayor of Paris, by Pierre Francois Palloy (1755-1835), who called himself 'Palloy Patriote'. The autograph letter tipped-in to the work is from Bailly to Palloy thanking him for his gift and recommending him for his patriotism: 'Je recois avec rensibilité le nouveau présent de tu Palloy. Il donne tous les jours de nouvelles prevues de patriotisme, et il acquiert tous les jours des nouveaux droits à ma reconnaissance je le prie d'agréer me remerciements et mes compliments, J.S. Bailly'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePalloy was a building contractor who only two days after the storming of the Bastille on 14th July 1789 secured the contract to demolish the prison. While he removed most of the building over the subsequent months, Palloy profited from the possession of it by conducting tours, showing the public around the basements and dungeons with skeletons as props, and by writing speeches and arranging celebratory festivals and theatrical reconstructions of the day the Bastille fell, all for a fee. He sold parts as souvenirs, including replica Bastilles made from the stones of the building itself. The creator of this work, Vieilh de Varennes, an artist and publisher, was also contracted as 'Garde-magasin général des démolitions de la Bastille' and was undoubtedly also connected to Palloy, and thus likely involved in the work's presentation to Bailly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe work is extra-illustrated with a very rare engraving, mounted as a frontispiece, by Moreau le Jeune engraved by Dambrun, and published by Vieilh de Varennes. The background depicts the marquis de La Fayette and the storming of the Bastille, while in the foreground the people of Paris are mounting a portrait of Bailly on a pedestal beneath a bust of Louis XVI. The image also shows workers beginning the demolition of the Bastille.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBailly was elected Mayor of Paris shortly after the storming of the Bastille. A renowned astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader of the early part of the Revolution, he presided over the Tennis Court Oath, and was himself the first to take the oath (as beautifully depicted in a drawing by David). He served as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to 1791 but was subsequently guillotined in 1793 during the Reign of Terror. The work has a second loosely inserted plate, unsigned, of the Champs de Mars, ironically where Bailly was later executed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIrwin Laughlin (1871-1941) likely acquired the book whilst stationed at the US embassy in London from 1912 to 1919. Prior to that, the book was in the possession of the gentleman collector Sir William Augustus Fraser (1826-1898), a member of the Society of Dilettanti, whose library was sold by Sotheby's in 1901. 'The chief items were extra-illustrated books and books with autograph inscriptions by distinguished persons' (ODNB).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVery rare. 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The art editor for the magazine was Warrant Officer David Barker, co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Anzac Book\u003c\/em\u003e and illustrator of its cover. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eKia-Ora Coo-ee\u003c\/em\u003e was founded in Cairo as a not-for-profit publication to 'gather and dispense all interesting information concerning the different Units in Egypt, Palestine, Salonica and Mesopotamia... to present to those loved ones far away a reflection, however slight of the conditions and strange surroundings in which their sons live' and 'to preserve also for time incidents, strange, bizarre, pathetic and historical'. 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