LITERATURE]. Various mixtures, in the form of a Dictionary, in which are contained a great number of good words chosen from the ancients and the moderns, serious and enjoined, intermingled with short and remarkable historical events, fine and delicate thoughts, moral phisical maxims and reflections, and erudition; An exact choice of the best Latin and French verses mottoes &c. In French, manuscript on paper. France, [1713]. 11] ff, pp. 3-104, [1] blank ff, [3] ff, [3] blank ff, 62 pp, volume in-4. Bound in contemporary fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated, edges speckled. Boards rubbed, covers torn off, corners worn. The author did not go beyond the letter "A" with for example "friendship at all times", "ingenious address of a French ambassador", "arts, their inventors" "coats of arms, their origin"... The last 62 pages are a "Discourse on marriage and conjugal love" dated 21 August 1713 . The author has just celebrated his 40th wedding anniversary and declares himself an expert on the subject: "I have been married for forty years, I even married by inclination, having married a young and beautiful girl of a very honest birth and conduct; I even loved her for a long time before marrying her; I had all the pleasures that I had promised myself; so I must know what the state of marriage and conjugal love consists of.