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BARBANCOIS (M. de) – A collection of all manner of things, b…
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222
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BARBANCOIS (M. de) – A collection of all manner of things, b…
See original version (French)
Estimate €80 - €120
Voluntary lot
Description
BARBANCOIS (M. de) – A collection of all manner of things, begun on 15 August 1776 by M. de Babançois. Manuscript, Published by the author, 1776; small quarto, approximately 400 pp. (of which only 74 are written), green paper binding, plain spine with decoration, edges painted red. These texts consist of reflections, reading notes and recipes. This manuscript contains: A description of a hyena or beast of Gévaudan, focusing chiefly on its exploits and death. A surprising and marvellous work on mechanics. *L’école des pages*, a heroic-comic poem. A remark on the unicorn. A description and discovery of the xocohuitzler (?). Description of how an island emerged from the Gulf of Santorini in the archipelago. Description of a cave at Arcy in a village one lieu from Burgundy. How papivores make their paper. Songs. Household secrets. Epitaph for Marshal de Saxe. A sonnet by Debarreaux. An epitaph to Sarazin by M. Scarron. A remedy for tapeworms and a different remedy. The origin of the Montesquieu fault through marriage in 1942 to the Branaçois family.
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