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Germain-François Poullain de SAINT-FOIX Essais historiques sur Paris

Germain-François Poullain de SAINT-FOIX

Essais historiques sur Paris

Chez Duchesne, A Londres & se trouve à Paris 1765, in 12 (10,5x17,5cm), (6) iv, 287pp. et (4) 263pp. et (4) 282pp. et (4) 269pp. (1) et 293pp. (1), 5 volumes reliés.


third edition statement. The 6th and 7th volumes published in 1777 do not relate to the trials Paris, since they contain the Turkish Letters, and various parts, including the Iron Mask.
Binders posterior half slightly brown sheepskin. Back smooth decorated with two florets and 2 coffered grotesque. Parts of title and volume number of black calf. open tail upper joint Volume 1. Lacks the tail joints Volume II, Volume 5. ditto corners rubbed. Pretty decorative ensemble.
It is difficult to give an exact idea of ??a book whose title does not actually aware of the book, as the material is abundant, sometimes extravagant. Mercier affirmed itself against criticism, he had striven to trace and retrieve the history spirit of the people of Paris, since the great history of Paris had already been made. And indeed, by which these trials were criticized is precisely what makes the brand and originality among all books on Paris; Saint - Foix having received incredible stories, not the great history, but of the common people, popular legends ...

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Réf : 59141

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