Rotterdam

First editions of both volumes. Rare gathering of these two works in uniform binding. Printed in 2 columns.

Contemporary full mottled brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Brown sheep title label. Defects first volume: Headcap torn away, joints split at tail, 3 corners bumped, dampstain on upper cover. Second volume: Lack at head, upper joint split, tailcap torn away, lower joint split at tail, dampstains on lower cover, 2 corners bumped, strip of leather torn away on lower cover. Lacking marbled endpapers before half-title and at end. Both volumes very fresh overall. Blue stamp on title pages: Institution Pelletin or Felletin. Manuscript ex libris S...

New edition.

Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Richly decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label reading: Recueil de Gesvre. A small cut of a few millimeters to the upper joint at the head. Surface wear to the spine and cracks in the middle of the spine. A tear with loss to the tail compartment. 2 corners slightly bumped. Rubbing.
Bookplate: From the library of citizen Lemoine Giraudais.
Famous trial for impotence and frigidity. Emilie de Mascranny brought proceedings against her husband to annul their marriage to which she had brought a dowry of one million seven hundred thousand livres, on grounds of impotence. The trial caused a great...

Second edition partly in first edition, rare. The original was published in Paris in 1723, the author being unsatisfied with his work proposed this second edition revised and expanded with a second part, Suplémant au projet de taille tarifée, in which he responds to the objections of his detractors.

Contemporary full speckled brown sheep binding. Spine with five raised bands richly decorated with gilt compartments and fleurons, blonde morocco title label. Gilt rolls on the leading edges and headcaps. All edges speckled red. Head slightly worn, first band very slightly visible at the joint, a small amount of bookworm damage affecting the last compartment as well as the tail...

Second edition after the original of 1766, published by the same publisher.

Half emerald morocco binding from the mid-19th century. Spine with raised bands decorated with 5 flowers and fillets.

The work is a libertine entertainment on elegance and fashion in novelistic form; it is the story of an elegant man and his tribulations in society.