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RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicolas-Edme - Les Veillées du Marais…
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RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicolas-Edme - Les Veillées du Marais…
See original version (French)
Estimate €800
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RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicolas-Edme - Les Veillées du Marais ou Histoire du grand Prince Oribeau, Roi de Mommonie, au pays d'Evinland ; de la vertueuse Princesse Oribelle, de Lagenie : Tirée des Anciénnes-Annales-Irlandaises, recenment-translatée en-français. By Nichols Donneraill, of the County of Korke, Descendant of the Author. Printed at Waterford (Paris), Capital of Mommonie , 1785. 4 parts in 4 vol. in-12, 236 pp. 237-496 ; 268 pp. 269-556, several russets, red morocco, binding on pamphlet, triple gilt thread on covers, spine ribbed, int. dent, gilt head (BELZ-NIÉDRÉE).
DRUJON 963. RIVES CHILDS 286. Unique edition of this roman à clef containing several small realistic tableaux and scenes of Parisian streets. It was one of those that the author had the most difficulty in having approved by the censors because of the malicious allusions that did not spare the royal family. Restif would later agree when he made this revelation in Mes Ouvrages: ''The names are anagrammatised in this work: for it must be admitted here that the allusions to our royal family, so dreaded by Terrasson, were true...''
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