OGER-BLANCHET
743
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RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicolas- Edme - Le Fin-Matois ou Hist…
See original version (French)
743
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RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicolas- Edme - Le Fin-Matois ou Hist…
See original version (French)
Estimate €300
Voluntary lot
Description
RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicolas- Edme - Le Fin-Matois ou Histoire du Grand-Taquin. Translated from the Spanish by Quévédo; with historical and political notes, necessary for a perfect understanding of this author. The Hague, 1776. 3 parts in one vol. in-12, VIII, 208 pp; 214 pp, (1) f.; 176 pp, without the last 4 ff. (Analyses and List of the author's works), contemporary marbled fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated.
CHILD RIVES 224. First edition and only edition cited. The faux-title bears: Oeuvres choisies de Don François de Quévédo. Translated from the Spanish; in three parts. Containing Le Fin-Matois, Les lettres du chevalier de l'Epargne, La lettre sur les qualités d'un mariage. The third part is a sequel composed by Restif de la Bretonne: ''I composed a third part, in which I finished Quevedo's novel with seven chapters entirely of my own composition, with notes, with an abridgement of Quevedo's life, with a notice of his works, and with the much-appreciated piece on the Inquisition of Cuenca.'' (My Works, p. 32).
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