[Bi-weekly political newspaper] Gazette de Leyde (1770-1774)

Nouvelles extraordinaires de divers endroits in 2 volumes with more than 90 numbers and/ or supplements, published by Etienne Luzac. Leiden. 1770-1774. The Gazette de Leyde was a political newspaper published between 1680 and 1811. At the end of the 18th century, especially in the 1770s and 1780s, the Gazette de Leyde was one of the leading political newspapers in the western world. Published entirely in French and with an extensive Dutch and international readership.

2 volumes. Small 4to, red morocco, uniformly bound, title on spine in red, black and gilt stamping, boards with embroidery in gilt stamping, marbled endpapers and altogether more than 600 unnumbered pages. This collection paints a highly interesting political and economic image of the western world at the time with i.a. numerous articles (here indicated with pencil or paper bookmark) on the American revolution and the run-up to the American war of independence. Incomplete and various nos. with damage. Bindings with traces of use (total 2).