[René-Louis de Voyer ARGENSON]
Essais dans le goût de ceux de Montagne, composés, en 1736, par l'Auteur des Considérations sur le Gouvernement de France.[Essays, civil, moral, literary & political. Written after the manner of M. de Montagne: interspersed with characters, portraits & anecdotes]
s. n. [chez Moutard]|A Amsterdam [Paris] 1785|12.4 x 19.7 cm|Relié
First edition limited to only 250 copies, which were not offered for sale but given to the author's close circle. This former minister under Louis XV composed these essays in 1736, and his son, the Marquis de Paulmy, had them published nearly fifty years later.
Contemporary half brown calf, grained paper boards, spine with five raised bands decorated with five compartments featuring double gilt fillets, red morocco lettering piece, red speckled edges.
€500