[SÉNAC DE MEILHAN (Gabriel). Du gouvernement, des mœurs, et des conditions en France avant la Révolution, avec le caractère des principaux personnages du règne de Louis XVI. Hambourg, B. G. Hoffmann, 1795. Small in-8, red half-maroquin with corners, smooth spine decorated, blue edges (pastiche binding). Rare first edition, published without an author's name. This is Sénac de Meilhan's political testament, written during the author's emigration. The main people he portrays here are Maurepas, Turgot, Saint-Germain, Necker and de Brienne. Appreciated by Senancour and Stendhal, this work was considered by Sainte-Beuve as "one of the best of this emigration literature". A fine copy.