Traite des causes physiques et morales du rire relativement a l’art de l’exciter

by Louis Poinsinet De Sivry

$400 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey, 1768. 12mo. ii , 134, 1 pp., including errata. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards with bookmark ribbon. A very good copy with minor foxing. Item #15995 First edition of a treatise on laughter published anonymously in 1768, and translated into English the following year.As laughter has always represented a mystery in the

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