French Novels.- Riccoboni (Marie Jeanne) Les Vrais
French Novels.- Riccoboni (Marie Jeanne) Les Vrais Caracteres du Sentiment, ou Histoire d'Ernestine, first edition, Liege, D. de Boubers, 1765 bound with Hawkesworth (John) Ariana ou la Patience Récompensée. Histoire..., first edition, half-title (a little stained), Londres, et se vend a Paris, Laurent Prault, 1757 and [Martigny (Comte de)] Voyage d'Alcimédon, ou Naufrage qui Conduit au Port, ?third edition, Nancy, J.B.Hiacinthe Leclerc & Paris, Merlin, 1768 and [Falconet (Ambroise)] Le Début ou les Premieres Aventures du Chevalier de⁂, ?first edition, L[ondres], et se vend à Paris, Rozet, 1770, together 4 works in 1 vol., contemporary sheep-backed blue paste-paper boards, spine gilt in compartments with spider's web motif and green roan label, rubbed, spine worn at head and with gouge to lower compartment, label split and chipped, lower joint split at head, [Martin, Mylne & Frautschi 65.40, 57.7, 51.38 & 70.45], 8vo & 12mo
⁂ WorldCat lists only one copy of the first title (Bibliothèque Nationale) and two of the second (Bib. Nat. & Harvard).
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French Novels.- Riccoboni (Marie Jeanne) Les Vrais Caracteres du Sentiment, ou Histoire d'Ernestine, first edition, Liege, D. de Boubers, 1765 bound with Hawkesworth (John) Ariana ou la Patience Récompensée. Histoire..., first edition, half-title (a little stained), Londres, et se vend a Paris, Laurent Prault, 1757 and [Martigny (Comte de)] Voyage d'Alcimédon, ou Naufrage qui Conduit au Port, ?third edition, Nancy, J.B.Hiacinthe Leclerc & Paris, Merlin, 1768 and [Falconet (Ambroise)] Le Début ou les Premieres Aventures du Chevalier de⁂, ?first edition, L[ondres], et se vend à Paris, Rozet, 1770, together 4 works in 1 vol., contemporary sheep-backed blue paste-paper boards, spine gilt in compartments with spider's web motif and green roan label, rubbed, spine worn at head and with gouge to lower compartment, label split and chipped, lower joint split at head, [Martin, Mylne & Frautschi 65.40, 57.7, 51.38 & 70.45], 8vo & 12mo
⁂ WorldCat lists only one copy of the first title (Bibliothèque Nationale) and two of the second (Bib. Nat. & Harvard).
