Le Palais-Royal. Première Partie. Les Filles de l’Alée-des-Soupirs. And: Seconde Partie. Les Sunamites. And: Troisième Partie. Les Converseuses

by Nicolas-Edme Rétif de la Bretonne

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First edition

First edition. With folding plate to each volume. 280, 248, 288 pp. 3 vols. 12mo. Full red morocco gilt, spines gilt, gilt turn-ins and marbled endsheets, a.e.g., by Belz-Niedrée. Bookplate of Ross Ambler Curran. Faintest traces of rubbing. Fine. Rives-Child, p. 313. Item #345509 The famed sociological account of the girls of the Palais-Royal and a chronicle of high-class prositution, by the great observer of

• Binding: Leather

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