la veuve Regnard

New edition, the best and most complete published of this author, with the musical scores of the songs. It contains 5 engraved titles by De Sceve, a portrait of the author as frontispiece after Duflos and 5 figures by De Scève, all on strong paper. Some engravings are 1 cm shorter in the lower margin, as the volume has not been trimmed. 60 pages of engraved musical score, with the words of the songs and Christian poetry. A handsome, well-printed edition.
Contemporary full marbled and glazed calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title-label, black wax volume label. Red edges. A small lack to the lower joint at the head of volume I. Worming at the foot of volume II.

First edition, rare.
Contemporary blonde polished calf binding. Decorated smooth spine. Red morocco title-label. One tiny lack at foot. One corner bumped. Traces of rubbing. Handsome copy.
Bookplate of O.P. Laurentii.
A novel in which two great novelistic tendencies of the 18th century intersect: the libertine novel and the sentimental novel. For the author, what is proper to man is not enjoyment but the dissatisfaction of desire which drives him to always desire, the only solution to this drama being resolvable only through love, which would be the possible path of an alternative to the dissatisfaction of desire.