![RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicolas Edmé (1734-1806). Le Paysan Perverti, ou les Dangers de la Ville; Histoire récente, mise au jour d' après les véritables Lettres des Personnages. The Hague: Chés Esprit, 1776. 8 parts in 4 volumes, 8 engraved frontispieces and 74 plates by Berthet and Leroi after Binet (a few plates trimmed and laid down, some plates cropped at foredge, a few short tears, occasional light spotting and staining); La Paysane Pervertie ... Par l'Auteur du Paysan Perverti. The Hague: "Chés la d.me Veuve Duchesne," 1784. 8 parts in 4 volumes, 8 engraved frontispieces and 30 plates (some mainly marginal staining, wormtrack at upper margin towards end); Les Figures de la Paysane Pervertie. [no place: no publisher, [n.d.]. Wood-engraved decorations. Together 3 works in 9 volumes, 12° (166 x 95mm). Uniformly-bound in 19th-century green morocco-backed boards, spines gilt in compartments (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Ph.-L. de Bordes de Fo](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CSK/2006_CSK_04069_0194_000(113513).jpg?w=1)
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RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicolas Edmé (1734-1806). Le Paysan Perverti, ou les Dangers de la Ville; Histoire récente, mise au jour d' après les véritables Lettres des Personnages. The Hague: Chés Esprit, 1776. 8 parts in 4 volumes, 8 engraved frontispieces and 74 plates by Berthet and Leroi after Binet (a few plates trimmed and laid down, some plates cropped at foredge, a few short tears, occasional light spotting and staining); La Paysane Pervertie ... Par l'Auteur du Paysan Perverti. The Hague: "Chés la d.me Veuve Duchesne," 1784. 8 parts in 4 volumes, 8 engraved frontispieces and 30 plates (some mainly marginal staining, wormtrack at upper margin towards end); Les Figures de la Paysane Pervertie. [no place: no publisher, [n.d.]. Wood-engraved decorations. Together 3 works in 9 volumes, 12° (166 x 95mm). Uniformly-bound in 19th-century green morocco-backed boards, spines gilt in compartments (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Ph.-L. de Bordes de Fortage (armorial ex-libris sticker). cf. Brunet IV, 1250; Cohen-de Ricci pp.871-873. (9)
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