[ARGENSON (René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy d'). Essays in the taste of those of Michel Montagne, or The Leisure of a Minister of State. Brussels, and is in Paris, Buisson, 1788. In-8, blond basane, smooth spine decorated, double gilt fillet on the covers (period binding). A good copy. Third edition, using the exact title of the original which was published in 1785. Son of the dreaded police lieutenant of Paris, René d'Argenson, Louis-René d'Argenson, Minister of Foreign Affairs, could be a gentle dreamer who has been compared to the Abbé de Saint-Pierre. He was close to Voltaire and the Encyclopedists. (Cioranescu, XVIII, 8395.) Unidentified arms stamped in the 19th century on the centre of the upper cover.

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