First edition

François BERNARD

Histoire et vie de Madame la Comtesse Du Barry

AuPont-aux-Dames 1775, In-8 (13,5x21,3cm), 72pp., relié.

Counterfeit of The Kythera Gazette or secret story of the Countess du Barry, published the same year, attributed to François Bernard, who would have worked here with Pidansat de Mairobert.
Binding late nineteenth half hazelnut glossy calf. Back decorated with 5 small flowers. title [...]

180 €

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First edition

[François BERNARD]

La gazette de Cythère ou histoire secrète de madame la comtesse du Barry

Paris 1775, 11,5x18cm, relié.

New edition.
Binding to bradel full moire silk burgundy, smooth spine red leather piece having two marginal snags, guards and contreplats silk shimmering burgundy, bordeaux head, signed binding Thiebaut.
The engraved frontispiece is lacking in our copy and has been replaced by a portrait of [...]

100 €

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First edition

[François BERNARD]

La gazette de Cythere, ou avantures galantes et recentes, arrivées dans les principales villes de ...

S.n., Londres 1774, in-8 (11,5x20,5cm), XI (1) 260pp. (2) ; (1bc.) 88pp., 2 parties reliées en un volume.

First edition, illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece and a portrait of Madame du Barry. The second part is entitled: Precis History of the Life of Mad. the Comtesse du Barry. Limited edition the author is Jean Frédéric Bernard by Barbier. Full mottled calf iced contemporary. Smooth back [...]

350 €

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