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Le passe-temps agréable ou nouveaux choix de bons-mots, de pensées ingénieuses, de Rencontres Plaisantes, D'une partie n'avait pas encore été mise au jour. Enriched with an elite of the most lively Gasconnades which do not make in the Gasconniana, and of some New Gallant Stories. The whole with Reflexions. Rotterdam, Jean Hofhout, 1719. 2 vols. in-12. Full contemporary calf, gilt arms in the centre of the boards, spine gilt, red morocco title-pieces. Frontispiece to the first volume. New edition increased by more than double, on the 1815 edition. This compilation might have been written by a Sieur de Rochefort, or by Cartier de Saint-Philip, according to Barbier. Copy of François-Emmanuel-Joseph de Bavière, marquis de Villacerf, known as the chevalier, then the Comte de Bavière. Dull corners, beginning of cracks and small leather losses at the jaws. Barbier, III, 801 - 802. O.H.R. pl. 1995.
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Le passe-temps agréable ou nouveaux choix de bons-mots, de pensées ingénieuses, de Rencontres Plaisantes, D'une partie n'avait pas encore été mise au jour. Enriched with an elite of the most lively Gasconnades which do not make in the Gasconniana, and of some New Gallant Stories. The whole with Reflexions. Rotterdam, Jean Hofhout, 1719. 2 vols. in-12. Full contemporary calf, gilt arms in the centre of the boards, spine gilt, red morocco title-pieces. Frontispiece to the first volume. New edition increased by more than double, on the 1815 edition. This compilation might have been written by a Sieur de Rochefort, or by Cartier de Saint-Philip, according to Barbier. Copy of François-Emmanuel-Joseph de Bavière, marquis de Villacerf, known as the chevalier, then the Comte de Bavière. Dull corners, beginning of cracks and small leather losses at the jaws. Barbier, III, 801 - 802. O.H.R. pl. 1995.
