[French Revolution]. [Industry, Commerce, Navy]. GUILLIAUD ( - Lot 27

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[French Revolution]. [Industry, Commerce, Navy]. GUILLIAUD ( - Lot 27
[French Revolution]. [Industry, Commerce, Navy]. GUILLIAUD (Christophe). Memoir on the Use of All Metals in the Department of the Loire; a region that nature has designated for us to surpass, in quality, goods of the same kind manufactured by the English and the Germans. [Followed by]: - Excerpt from a treatise on the means of raising all of France’s manufacturing and commerce to the highest degree of splendor and public utility. [Followed by]: 3. Improvements to the Ships of the French Navy. Lyon and Paris, Cutty and Du Pont, 1796–1797. 3 parts in 1 vol., in-4, [2] f., 88 p.; [1] leaf, 50 pp.; [1] leaf, 18 pp., contemporary light brown half-basane, vellum corners, smooth spine, gilt fillets, salmon-colored title label (minor scuffing on the spine and edges, rare foxing). A rare collection of three treatises, originally printed separately and here compiled by their author under a general title for presentation to the authorities. Christophe Guilliaud (1755–1821), a manufacturer in Saint-Étienne who sold hardware and weapons, contributed to the improvement and expansion of the arms factories in Saint-Étienne. A revolutionary who later opposed the Convention, he was arrested upon the surrender of Lyon, imprisoned in Orange, and sentenced to death; he was spared by the fall of Robespierre (according to D. Saint-Pierre, entry in the Ac. des SBLA de Lyon). (Polak 4229 for the third dissertation).
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