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BOURSAULT, Edme - Letters of respect, obligation and love.
See original version (French)
473
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BOURSAULT, Edme - Letters of respect, obligation and love.
See original version (French)
Estimate €150
Voluntary lot
Description
BOURSAULT, Edme - Letters of respect, obligation and love. Paris, Jean Guignard, 1683. In-12, frontispiece, (11) ff, 324 pp, yellowed paper, full gilt, spine gilt, ivory morocco (BRANY).
Amusing frontispiece showing Cupid in relation with Mercury. Dedicated to Louvois, Minister of State. Contains the famous letters (and replies) to Babet dictated perhaps by a real affair with a 19 year old girl.
See original version (French)
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