Sale 15BP02 | Lot 473

RESTIF, NICOLAS-EDMÉ [RÉTIF DE LA BRETONNE]. Tableaux de la bonne compagnie, ou, Traits caractéristiques, anecdotes secretes, politiques, morales & littéraires recueillies dans les sociétés du bon ton, pendant les années 1786 & 1787

Catalogue: Rare Books, Autographs & Photographs
RESTIF, NICOLAS-EDMÉ [RÉTIF DE LA BRETONNE]. Tableaux de la bonne compagnie, ou, Traits caractéristiques, anecdotes secretes, politiques, morales and littéraires recueillies dans les sociétés du bon ton, pendant les années 1786 and 1787

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Lot 473

. Paris: s.n., 1787. First edition. Two volumes, three-quarters calf of the period, mottled paper sides. 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches (14.5 x 8.5 cm); [vi], 210 pp. 192 pp., with 16 plates in total, titled in French and German engraved by Moreau le jeune. Light wear to bindings, occasional slight toning or minot spotting of the text, in all a pleasant unsophisticated copy. With an early, possibly contemporary French armorial bookplate (unidentified) on the pastedowns.
Childs XXXIX; Cohen-De Ricci 880.


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