MAURIN, Albert. Galerie historique de la Révolution française (1787 à 1799). Published in Paris by the Bureau de la société des travailleurs réunis in 1849. 5 volumes in-4, midnight blue half-basane, guilloche-edged spines framed with cold and gilt fillets, titling and tomaison in gold lettering, speckled edges. Contemporary binding. XVI and 460 pp; 474 pp; 469 pp; 551 pp; 577 pp, 62 plates of engraved portraits under serpents, including 1 separate frontispiece on each volume. Overall rubbed, some jaws partially split, a few small wormholes, scratches on the boards, some foxing, light spotting on some volumes. First edition of this important gallery of revolutionary figures, consisting of a series of biographical notes often preceded by a full-length portrait. Complete sum of the 5 volumes in 5 volumes, composed as follows: Volume 1: Louis XVI, Necker, Calonne, Loménie de Brienne, Bailly, Marie-Antoinette, Malesherbes, Mirabeau, Thouret, Cazalès, Bouillé, Maury, Lafayette, Barnave, Le Duc d'Orléans, Dumouriez, Pétion, Mme de Lamballe,Mlle Sombreuil, M et Mme Roland. Volume 2: Brissot, Vergniaud, Barbaroux, Custine, Marat, Charlotte Corday, Cathelineau, Bonchamps, Charette, Laroche Jaquelein, Danton, Camille Desmoulins, Fabre-d'Eglantine, Hébert, Chaumette, Mme Elisabeth, Robespierre, Catherine Théot, Saint-Just, Cambon, Fouquier-Tinville. Volume 3: Collot-d'Herbois, Barrère, Hoche, Jourdan, Marceau, Boissy-d'Anglais, Puisaye, Sieyes, Mme Tallien, Barras, Carnot, Babeuf, Pichegru, Bonaparte, alphabetical and biographical table from the historical gallery of the French Revolution. Volume 4: History of Napoleon, 1st consul and emperor. Volume 5: Continuation and conclusion. A solid copy, identically bound and complete with plates in fine condition.