LOT 3676
13th December 2022
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LOT 3676
[MAUREPAS, Jean Frederic Phelypeaux de.] Les Etrennes de La Saint-Jean. Troyes: Oudot, 1751. Third edition, 8vo (152 x 84mm.) Androgynous woodcut portrait in blue, title in blue and black. (Toning, occasional browning, notes verso the front-free endpaper in manuscript French.) Near contemporary calf, gilt lettering and repeating floral motif to spine (some loss to tail of spine panel, endpapers replaced). Note: a compendium of jokes and anecdotes put together by the 'Société du Bout-du-Banc', a salon of aristocrats and writers who met for dinner at the home of actress, Jeanne-Francois Quinault, and that included Voltaire, Duclos, Diderot and Rousseau. - And a further five volumes (including Voltaire's 'La Pucelle D'Orléans, Poeme', 2 vols., 1780, 12mo, and [Gaston Jean-Baptiste's] 'Roger Bontems, en Belle Humeur', 1734, 8vo) (6).
Hammer price: £100
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