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La Vita di Pietro Aretino scritta dal conte Giammaria Mazzuchelli Bresciano. Padua, Comino, 1741
First Edition. 8vo, engraved portrait frontispiece and pp. viii, 303, [1] colophon, [4] advertisements, in contemporary glazed cream paper boards, darker labels on spine lettered in gilt.
Brunet III, 1563.
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Le Bachelier de Salamanque,
ou les Memoires de D. Cherubin de la Ronda, tirés d'un Manuscrit Espagnol, par Monsieur Le Sage.
Paris, Valleyre, 1736.
First Edition. 12mo, (155 x 84mm), pp. [viii], 378, [5], with three engraved plates, one to accompany each section, outer corner of text dampstained in the last few leaves and some light browning to the prelims, in contemporary or slightly later free-style tree calf with an attractive simple gilt border on the covers, the spine stained green, gilt in compartments with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, Chiswick bookplate.
Jones p. 59; Cioranescu 39528 (giving p. 383); Cohen-de Ricci c. 635; Tchemerzine VII, 206.
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Le Cabriolet. Avec le Passe-Tems des Mousquetaires, ou le Tems Perdu. Par M.D.B**. The Hague, 1760.
[bound after:] MASSAC, Pierre-Louis-Raymond de (1728-1770).
Les Amusemens des Gens d’Esprit. A Amsterdam, chez Arkstée & Merkus. 1756.
Second Editions. Two works in one volume, 12mo (164 x 90 mm), Massac: pp. xii, 268; Mailhol & Des Biefs: pp. [iv], [5]-158, some pages considerably browned, in contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco spine lettered in gilt, with the later bookplate of Mr. le Vicomte Emile de Guizelin.Mailhol: OCLC lists BN, BL, Wurttembergische Landesbibliothek, Princeton & Chicago. No copies of earlier editions of Le Cabriolet in OCLC; Des Biefs 1755 edition held at Koninklijke Bibliotheek and Universitätsbibliothek München.
See MMF 55.29; Cioranescu 41349; for Des Biefs see Cioranescu 23092-23093; Gay II 661-662;
Massac: OCLC lists Cambridge, Bodliean, Dresden and Chicago only. Cioranescu 43457.More details Price: £3,000.00 -
Le Cochon Mitré; Dialogue. 1689.
Manuscript in Ink. 8vo (135 x 95mm), pp. 32, neat calligraphic manuscript on vellum, with pen and ink frontispiece of a pig in a bishop’s mitre, text in black and red, all pages ruled in red and blue with characters and initials in red, decorative floral title-page vignette, head and tail-pieces and decorative initial at the start of the text, with catchwords and signatures throughout, bound in eighteenth century green goatskin, decorated double filet to covers enclosing an elaborate border of flowers and dots, flat spine with similar decoration, ruled into compartments and with red morocco label lettered in gilt, with yellow moire endpapers and simply ruled gilt dentelles, gilt edges, some wear to binding and lower joint slightly cracking, a small scuff on the front cover and the extremities rubbed.
Cioranescu 110953; Bibliothèque Clérico-Galante, p.48.
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Le Guerrier Philosophe;
ou Memoires de M. le Duc de. Contenant des reflexions sur divers Caracteres de l’Amour, & quelques Anecdotes curieuses de la derniere Guerre des Francois en Italie.
1744.
First Edition. Two volumes in one, (168 x 95 mm), pp. [iv], xxii, 324; [iv], 535, ie. 335, [1] errata, tear from second half-title with loss of corner to margin but not touching text, in contemporary blonde polished calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label lettered in gilt, with an unknown heraldic bookplate, red edges and marbled endpapers.
OCLC lists Gottingen and Mecklenburg only.
Cioranescu 34737; Jones p. 85.
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Le monde, son Origine, et son Antiquité. [-De l’Ame et de son Immortalité - Essai sur la Chronologie.]
Première [Seconde] Partie.
Londres, 1751.
First Edition. Three parts in one volume, 12mo, (168 x 100mm), pp. xii, 244; [iv], 172; 72, some leaves in the final part dust-soiled along the lower edge, prior to binding, in contemporary polished calf, triple filet to covers, flat spine continuously gilt with brown morocco label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, with the decorative engraved bookplate of the ‘Bibliothèque de Henri Tardivi’.
Darnton, The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France 1769-1789, no. 452; Cioranescu 11384 & 45100-45101 & 39047-39048.
ESTC n30361, well held in France and the UK; California State, Wisconsin-Madison, DLC, UCLA, Chicago and North Carolina in America. OCLC adds Princeton and Stanford.
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Le Passe-Tems Agréable,
ou Nouveaux Choix de Bons Mots, de Pensées Ingénieuses, de Rencontres Plaisantes, dont une partie n’avoit point encore été mise au jour, Enrichi d’une Elite des plus Vives Gasconnades, Qui ne sont point dans le Gasconniana, Et de quelques Nouvelles Histoires Galantes, Le tout avec des Réflexions. Nouvelle Edition, augmentée de plus de double. Première Partie [-Seconde].
1758.
New Edition, ‘double the size of the last’. Two volumes, 12mo, pp. [xiv], 228; [ii], 216, in contemporary mottled calf, flat spines gilt in compartments with floral vignette, red and olive green morocco labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges red, green silk markers.
OCLC lists Louisiana State University; not in RLIN.
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Le Sacrifice De L’Amour; ou La Messe de Cythere; suivi du Sermon prèché a Gnide, et d’un nouveau Dictionnaire d’Amour, dans lequel on trouvera plusieurs pièces inédites ou peu connues, telles que l’Art de prendre les oiseaux, ou les leçons de l’amour, poëme anacréontique; les articles les plus piquans du Dictionnaire d’Amour du berger Sylvain; la plus grande partie de ceux du Dictionnaire d’Amour qui parût à la Haye, en 1741; et une foule de morceaux extraits des meilleurs écrivains anciens et modernes. ‘Sybaris’, ie. Bordeaux, ‘l’Imprimeur Ordinaire du Plaisir’, 1809.
First Edition. 12mo (183 x 100 mm), 8vo, pp. [xvi], 17-313, [2] errata, [1] blank; some foxing and browning in the text, uncut throughout recased in contemporary marbled wrappers with later card pastedowns, lacking free endpapers.
OCLC lists BN, BL, Cambridge, Amsterdam, McGill and Stanford.
Cioranescu 42536; Gay III, 1059.
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Le Sopha, Conte Moral.
Première [-Second] Volume.
‘Gaznah’, ie Paris, 1742.
Second Edition. Two volumes, 12mo in eights and fours, (162 x 92mm), pp. [vi], 298; [vi], 264, title pages in red and black, in contemporary calf, spines gilt in compartments, head of spines chipped, upper joint of first volume cracking, other joints beginning to show some wear, extremities bumped, red morocco labels lettered and numbered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, with the bookplate of Anthony Conyers Surtees in volume one.
Jones p. 79; Tchemerzine IV, p. 193 (b) and p. 194 (figs. I & II); Gay III 1135; see Cioranescu 21744.
OCLC lists McGill, Arkansas, Yale, Harvard, Texas, Bodley & V&A; RLIN adds Princeton and Penn.
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Le Soupé des petits-maîtres, Ouvrage Moral. Première [-Seconde] Partie. ‘Londres’, ie Paris, circa 1772.
First Edition. 12mo (164 x 90 mm), pp. xxiv, [25]-144; vi, [7]-104, text damp-stained and browned in part, in a modern pastiche binding of blue quarter calf over blue boards, spine gilt in compartments, lettered in gilt, inscribed in a contemporary hand on both title-pages ‘Cte de Cunha, Liva de Bulhaco
MMF 70.32; Gay III 1139 (a detailed entry: 'livre rare et curieux pour l'histoire des moeurs du XVIII siècle'). Neither Cioranescu (who lists a Soupir, ouvrage moral, Londres 1772, no. 15126) nor Quérard, who calls Cailhava 'un des meilleurs auteurs comiques de son temps', list this work.
ESTC t1330851, listing the British Library, Taylorian and Illinois only. A later edition is also listed under the title Le Soupé, ouvrage moral, [1780?], at the Taylorian and Stanford only.
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Le Veritable Pere Josef
Capucin, nommé au Cardinalat. Contenant l’histoire anecdote du Cardinal de Richelieu.
Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Butler, 1704.
Second edition, first under this title. 12mo, pp. [iv], 589, [11], some light browning to text, in contemporary polished calf, triple gilt ruled border to covers, spine chipped at head and foot, otherwise attractive, richly gilt in compartments with a brown morocco label lettered in gilt, all edges marbled, blue marbled endpapers, with a barely readable ownership inscription on the title page and ‘Bibliothèque de Gaignal’ in a contemporary hand in brown ink on the final free endpaper.
See Cioranescu 59193.
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Le Ville lucchesi con altri opuscoli in versi e in prosa
di Filandro Cretense.
Parma, Stamperia Reale, 1783.
[with:] Versi per la promozione al vescovato di Piacenza del paFirst editions. Two works in one volume, 8vo (200 x 140 mm), pp. [ii], [viii], 195, text printed within decorative border throughout, page numbers also set in a typographical surround, the text block small within a large page, followed by Versi: pp. 24, unpressed throughout, with a small hole to the lower blank margin of the first three leaves, traces of adhesive to lower edge of pp. 97-114, in contemporary block-stamped paste-paper boards in olive green with pattern of black and gold squares, the surface of the paper worn at extremities, binding very slightly sprung, contemporary manuscript shelf mark in ink on the rear pastedown and with contemporary manuscript additions to the errata of the first work, possibly in the same hand.
I. Brooks 239, var. A; Cerati VIII, 195.
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Le Voyageur Philosophe dans un Pais inconnu aux habitans de la Terre. Par Mr. de Listonai. Tome Premier [-Second]. Amsterdam, aux dépens de l'Editeur, 1761.
First Edition. Two volumes, 12mo, (182 x 105mm), pp. xxiv, 339, [1] errata; vi, 384, title pages in red and black, as often with this book, some of the gatherings were printed on cheaper paper and are consequently browned (Vol I, F & N, Vol. 2, N), in contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments, brown and black morocco labels lettered and numbered in gilt, marbled endpapers, red edges.
Hartig p. 57; not in Gove; Lewis, Utopian Literature in the Pennsylvania State University Libraries, p. 195; see Versins p. 540.
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Les A Propos de Societé ou Chansons de M. L****. Tome I [-II]. Paris, 1776.
First Editions. Three volumes, 8vo, (180 x 105 mm), engraved frontispiece and engraved title-page to each volume and pp. [iii]-x, 302; 316; [iii]-vi, 319, [1] errata, each volume with additional engraved head- and tail-piece, all by Moreau, engraved by Launay, Simonett, Duclos and Martini, additional vignettes throughout the text, in contemporary green morocco, triple gilt fillet to covers, spines gilt in compartments, two red morocco labels on each spine, lettered and numbered in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, with the ex libris of Henri Bonnasse and an unidentified one with the monogram ‘CC’ (?) on the front pastedown and the bookplate of the Goncourt brothers, designed by Gavarni and engraved by Jules de Goncourt, on the front endpaper of the first volume, with the inscription in red ink, ‘Une des plus delicates illustrations de Moreau, de Goncourt’, from the library of Claude Lebédel.
Cioranescu 37506 and 37505; Cohen-de Ricci 604.
Bibliothèque des Goncourt, 391: ‘Bel exemplaire. Les illustrations par Moreau de ces deux ouvrages sont très remarquables’.
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Les Bijoux Indiscrets. Tome Premier [Second]. ‘Monomotapa’, ie Paris, 1748.
Second Edition. Two volumes, 12mo, (160 x 92mm), engraved frontispiece and pp. [viii], 288; [iv], 332, four further engraved plates in volume one and two further in volume two, wanting the final leaf, ‘Avis au Relieur’, marginal tear on I, 239, in contemporary half sheep over speckled boards, spines gilt in compartments with green morocco labels lettered and numbered in gilt, attractive colourful patterned endpapers, edges marbled.
Adams, Bibliographie des Œuvres de Diderot, BI2; Tchemerzine IV p. 430 B; Jones p. 97; Darnton Check List 62; see also Cioranescu 24057; Darnton, Forbidden Best-Sellers, p. 90; Gay I, 303; Cohen-de Ricci c. 303.
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Les Bijoux Indiscrets. Tome Premier [Second]. ‘Monomotapa’, ie Paris, 1748.
First Edition. Two volumes, 12mo (162 x 90 mm), engraved frontispiece bound facing the text and pp. [viii], 370; [iv], 420, five further engraved plates in volume one and two further in volume two, engraved vignettes on the titles, text fairly browned and damp-stained in places, title-page vignettes of canopy with cherub facing to the left (76 x 59), frontispiece with the figures to the left and the trees to the right, bearing the legend 'Imagination prenoit la plume des mains de la folie, et l'amour lui dictoit', in modern green vellum, red morocco labels on spines lettered in gilt, red edges.
David Adams, Bibliographie des œuvres de Denis Diderot 1739-1900, BII; Tchemerzine II: 922 (IV, 430a); Jones p. 97; Darnton Check List 62; see also Darnton, Forbidden Best-Sellers, p. 90; Gay I, 303.
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Les Confessions
de J. J. Rousseau, suivies des Réveries du Promeneur Solitaire. Tome Premier [-Second]. [with:] Second Supplément a la Collection des Oeuvres de J. J. Rousseau, Citoyen de Genève. Tome Premier [-Second]. [with:] Seconde Partie des Confessions de J. J. Rousseau. Suivie d’un nouveau choix de Lettres de l’Auteur. Tome Premier.
Geneva, 1782-1789.
First Edition of volumes III and IV; Volumes I and II same year as the First Edition. Five volumes, 12mo, (164 x 92mm), pp. [iv], 316; [iv], 396; 439, with the final page beginning ‘ses mortelles’; 403, with the last line of the final page beginning ‘cette lecture’; [ii], 444, in near-uniform contemporary speckled morocco, joints weakening, some signs of wear with staining and rubbing, with some careful restoration, spines gilt with red and green morocco labels lettered in gilt, with the contemporary ownership inscription of Elizabeth Bateman in each volume, trimmed close with some loss in the final three volumes.
Tchemerzine, V, 563; see also Cioranescu 54642-54643.
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Les Etrennes de la Saint-Jean.
Troisième Edition, Revûe, corrigée & augmentée par les Auteurs de plusieurs Morceaux d’esprit qui n’ont point encore paru.
1751 (altered in manuscript to 1752).
‘Third Edition; Second Edition, ‘revue & augmentée’. 12mo, (150 x 85mm), pp. xvi, 197, neat and probably contemporary alteration of the date on the title page to 1752 (MDCCLII, viz., one ‘I’ added) in dark brown ink in a contemporary hand; with the woodcut portrait of the printer, ‘Monsieur ou Madame Oudot’, title page and woodcut page printed in green and black; pp. 166, [4], including woodcut frontispiece printed in brown, title page printed in brown and black with woodcut peapod vignette, in contemporary red morocco, triple fillet border to covers, flat spine simply gilt in compartments, yellow morocco label lettered in gilt, pink and gilt embossed endpapers, gilt edges, with the bookplate of Henry B. H. Beaufoy.
Cioranescu 16247; 16251 (Troyes 1739); Cohen-de Ricci 209; Gay I 182; Jones p. 79 and p. 69.
OCLC: Les Etrennes de la Saint-Jean: University of Connecticut, DLC, Maryland, Princeton, Pennsylvania State, Vanderbilt and Göttingen.
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Les Etrennes de la Saint-Jean. Seconde Edition, Revûë, corrigée & augmentée par les Auteurs de plusieurs Morceaux d’esprit. Troyes, la Veuve Oudot [ie Paris, Duchesne], 1742.
First Edition, Large Paper Copy (satirically designated ‘Seconde Edition, Revûë, corrigée & augmentée’). 12mo, (175 x 100 mm), pp. xii, 264, frontispiece woodcut portrait of the printer, ‘Mr. ou Me. Oudot’ printed in blue with the caption and verse in black, title page and printed in blue and black, with the vignette of books, ‘Au Livre Bleu’, printed in blue; a large paper copy printed on papier vélin, in contemporary diced calf by Bozerian Jeune, single gilt fillet to covers with gilt garland of circles, spine gilt in compartments with simple tooling and rules, lettered in gilt, signed ‘Bozerian Jeune’ at the foot of the spine, marbled endpapers, paper shelf mark label, gilt edges: headcap and upper joints skillfully restored, some wear to extremities, from the library of Claude Lebédel.
Cioranescu 16247; Cohen-de Ricci 209; Gay I 182; Jones p. 79.
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Les foiblesses d’une jolie femme,
ou Mémoires de Madame de Vilfranc, Ecrits par elle-même. Première [-Seconde] Partie.
Amsterdam, Belin, 1779.
Second Edition? Two parts in one volume, 12mo, (160 x 87mm), pp. viii, 94; [iv], 103, wanting the final advertisement (?) leaf to the first volume, in contemporary quarter calf over imitation leather boards, flat spine gilt in compartments, green morocco label (surface rather chipped) vertically lettered in gilt, head of spine chipped.
See Cioranescu 48442; MMF 79.28; Gay II 226 (under ‘faiblesses’).
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