(Anonym) - Diogene conteur ou les Lunettes de verit. Suivies de La Bibliothque Naturle & d'un Recueil de contes & posies. (With the device:) Si vous avez la verit dire, vous ferez fort bien de l'enveloper dans des Fables; elle en plaira beaucoup plus..... Le vrai a besoin d'emprunter l'aparence du faux, pour tre agrablement reu dans l'esprit humain. Fontenelle.

No place, no publisher, 1764 8vo (17x11 cm). Contemporary mottled calf, spine with ribbons, gilt in compartments, with morocco title-label a few rubbings, mainly to spine, with loss of small pieces of the upper-layer of the leather); decorated endpapers; edges painted red. x,228 pp. including 2 titles with woodcut-vignettes, and 3 woodcut head-pieces. The 'Prface' printed in civilit character. (Inner-margin last leaf partly damaged and restored). - Not in Barbier, Dictionnaire des Anonymes. - WorldCat: 5 copies - Rare . Gewicht/Weight: 600 grs.

EUR 250.00 [Appr.: US$ 293.68 | £UK 218.5 | JP¥ 43362] Book number 49929

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