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8°., 149; 111 pp., 1 engraved portrait (possibly from another edition) loosely added. Contemporary boards Uncommon printing of the second edition, here both parts in two volumes published still in the very year of the travel of the Emperor Joseph II. to France in 1777. The first volume is dedicated to his stay in Paris, the second relates his travels to Normandy, Brittany, Bordeaux, the South-East with a visit to Voltaire in Ferney etc. The Emperor came incognito as "Graf von Falkenstein" and behaved in a distinctly simple and modest way which gave cause to a lot of praise. The purpose of his stay was to discuss possible annexations of parts of Bavaria and Switzerland. He also wanted to have a closer look at his sister Marie Antoinette s involvement in politics. - Titles with old inscriptions by a previous owner (George Ferdinand Ravy, docteur en droit, Bern), printed on nice paper, first volume with some marginal loss to the last quarter (possibly by mice) but all far from the text, very wide-margined, altogether nice.