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172 - [GAYOT de PITAVAL (Fr.)]. Famous and interesting cases, toge…
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[GAYOT de PITAVAL (Fr.)]. Famous and interesting cases, together with the judgements that decided them. Compiled by Mr ***, barrister at the Parliament. Paris, Delaulne, Cavelier, 1734–1743, 20 volumes in-12. Contemporary brown grained calf bindings, ribbed spines, decorated panels, red edges. - Handwritten ink bookplate on each volume (flyleaf or half-title page): ‘G. Cogniasse-Dubreuil, residing in the Faux Bourg Boucherie district of Limoges’. Volume II has been handled; 4 quires are slightly loose; a few worn caps; some scuffing; bumped corners and rubbed edges on the first 5 volumes as well as volumes XII & XIII; slightly bumped corners on the other volumes; insect damage to the margin of the last leaf of volume VII (table of contents) without affecting the text; 2 folios 467/470 of Volume XI detached; interior of the volumes in satisfactory condition. This famous compilation, a rival to those by Richer and Garsault, covers several subjects per volume. The author is named in the privilege. A folded plate in volume 12: the Rye family tree. Volume I begins with the famous case of Martin Guerre, and also contains the ‘Bourbonnaise’ case of Saint-Géran, ‘a child claimed by two mothers’; in Volume II: the case of Urbain Grandier and the possession of the Ursulines of Loudun; the Cinq-Mars affair is recounted in Volume VIII; Volume XI contains the story of the Constable of Bourbon; Volume XIII contains ‘A Negro’s Claim for Freedom against his Master who Brought him to France’, followed by the Code Noir, as well as the story of the Duke of Montmorency; Volume XVI contains the dispute between Furetière and the members of the Academy, with verses by La Fontaine and Furetière’s reply; Volume XVII: Mary Stuart; Volume XVIII: “Jews condemned for a heinous crime… "; Volume XX: "The story of the assassination of Sieur de Riancourt"; etc. General table in Volume XX. (Saffroy III, 49481 (1738–43 edition): "contains numerous documents on the entailed estate of Rye" (Volume XII) – Quérard III, p. 297 – Cioranescu 30521 – Barbier I, col. 541).
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About the sale ANTIQUE AND MODERN BOOKS at 11.00 am and 2.00 pm
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Auction time 10/29/2026 at 11:00 AM
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