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RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicolas Edmé (1734-1806). Le paysan perverti, ou les dangers de la ville. The Hague, et se trouve à Paris: chez Esprit, 1776. 4 volumes comprising 8 parts in one volume, 12°, titles within a typographical border (a little browning and staining), 20th-century vellum-backed boards (a little discoloured). A counterfeit of the first edition of the same year. Rives Childs no.9, pp. 235-36.
[VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de]. Recueil de piéces en vers et en prose. Amsterdam [Paris: Lambert], 1750. 12°, 19th-century red polished calf (a little rubbed). FIRST EDITION of Memnon and Des embellissemens de Paris. Bengesco 1427.
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[VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de]. Recueil de piéces en vers et en prose. Amsterdam [Paris: Lambert], 1750. 12°, 19th-century red polished calf (a little rubbed). FIRST EDITION of Memnon and Des embellissemens de Paris. Bengesco 1427.
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