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OGER-BLANCHET

181 - MAILLY, Louis, Chevalier de] – Adventures and Love Letters, …
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Estimate €150
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MAILLY, Louis, Chevalier de] – Adventures and Love Letters, including A Stroll through the Tuileries. Containing several stories and a number of most delightful details. Volume II: *The Happy Shipwreck*, a sequel to *Adventures and Gallant Letters* and *A Stroll through the Tuileries*. Amsterdam, N. Etienne Lucas, 1718. 2 volumes in one in-12 volume, frontispiece, (4) folios, 280 pp.; frontispiece, (3) folios, 146 pp., (15) folios. (Et. Lucas’s catalogue), yellowed paper, fawn calfskin, triple gold thread on the covers, decorated ribbed spine, gilt internal teeth, gilt edges (NIÉDRÉE). GAY I, 324. LEVER 84. First edition 1697. ‘Amusing tales set during the grape harvest at Suresnes, at the Bezons fair, in the Bois de Boulogne, at the baths at Porte Saint-Bernard, etc., where we see two illustrious magistrates in love with the same woman, and who, far from being jealous, mutually agree to make each other happy in their love affairs.” Ex-libris of the bibliophile Charles Cousin.
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About the sale The Jean Demaux Collection – Part 2
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Auction time 09/16/2026 at 2:00 PM
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