BIBLIOTHEQUE AMUSANTE ET INSTRUCTIVE, contenant des Anecdotes Interessantes & des Histoires curieuses tirees des meilleurs Auteurs

by Jean Pierre Niceron, Francois Duport Du Tertre

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First edition

Paris: Chez Duchesne, 1753. First edition enlarged editions were published in 1755 and 1757 . 12mo. 12 , 343, 1 , 48 “Le Commentateur amusant” , 20 “Justes plaints” pp. OCLC seems to locate but one copy in the United States Harvard , through 11 records; none of the records seem to describe the two caption-titled additions at the rear. Contemporary mottled calf joints cracked, rubbed , spine richly gilt with ornaments and rules,

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