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DU TILLIOT (J.B. Lucotte). MEMOIRES POUR SERVIR A L'HISTOIRE DE LA FETE DES FOUX, qui se fait autrefois dans plusieurs Eglises... Lausanne and Geneva, Marc-Michel Bousquet and Company, 1741. In-4° of 6-112 pages, brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). One of the rare copies on large paper and in-4° format. This curious work on the society of fools, established in Cleves in 1381 and which spread all over France : Mère folle de Dijon, Abbé des conards d'Evreux... is illustrated with 12 surprising engraved plates showing standards, guidons, carriages, seals, clothes... Endpapers missing, spine blackened, small stain on one plate, bottom margins soiled. (Dorbon 1431).
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DU TILLIOT (J.B. Lucotte). MEMOIRES POUR SERVIR A L'HISTOIRE DE LA FETE DES FOUX, qui se fait autrefois dans plusieurs Eglises... Lausanne and Geneva, Marc-Michel Bousquet and Company, 1741. In-4° of 6-112 pages, brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). One of the rare copies on large paper and in-4° format. This curious work on the society of fools, established in Cleves in 1381 and which spread all over France : Mère folle de Dijon, Abbé des conards d'Evreux... is illustrated with 12 surprising engraved plates showing standards, guidons, carriages, seals, clothes... Endpapers missing, spine blackened, small stain on one plate, bottom margins soiled. (Dorbon 1431).
