Author: Aubert de La Chesnaye Des Bois, François-Alexandre.
Title: Lettres sur les Moeurs, les usages et les coutumes des Hollandois, comparés avec ceux de leurs voisins.
Description: A Amsterdam: Chez Cesar Noël Guerin, Libraire sur le Heeregragt, n.d. (probably after 1759]. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 2 volumes. I: [viii], 192pp.; II: [iv], 192pp. 48 letters. Weekly publication, every Monday. This imprint not recorded. Contemporary stiff vellum. Sgard, Journaux, 827. Each letter is identical to the ones published by Jean François Jolly, and bear his name at the end of each letter (including the historiated woodcut initials). The preface, though identically worded, is typographically reset, The large vignette at the beginning of the preface has also been replaced. Since Guerin's life or working life covers the span 1759 to 1790, this edition must have been printed either in 1759 or any time before 1790. A highly uncommon item in very good condition. Very Good.

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