BOYER (Jean Baptiste de), Marquis d'Argens: - New Memoirs establishing A True Knowledge of Mankind, by discovering the Affections of the Heart, and the Operations of the Understanding, In the various Scenes of Life: Being A Critical Inquiry into the Nature of Friendship and Happiness. An Essays on other Important Subjects. Interspersed with Letters from the Baron de Spon, the Emperor's Minister at Berlin.... And Two Novels, Spanish and French, shewing the Tragical Effects of Jealousy; the dissembling Arts of Coquetry; and the unhappy State of the Comedian. With Thoughts on the Art of Beautifying the Face, By Mademoiselle Cochois, The Favour both of the Court, and the Theatre, of Berlin.

London: Printed for D. Browne...and A. Millar..., 1747. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 12mo. pp. vii [viii - xxiv Contents], 261 [262 adverts]; [xii], 274, one engraved plate in volume 1, hideously rebound in totally unsuitable and undescribable plastic of some sort (I don't want to know what it is); title-pages and last page of text soiled. A translation of Nouveaux memoirs, pour servir a l'histoire de l'esprit et du cœur which Boyer (1703 - 1771) published in 1746. ESTC 113949 locates only the BL copy in these islands, but 10 copies in North American libraries: CaOTU, CtY-BR, CSmH, CU-A, DLC, ICU, MH, PPL, and SSL.

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