[CHODERLOS DE LACLOS]. Les Liaisons dangereuses, ou Lettres recueillies dans une Société, et publiées pour l'instruction de quelques autres. Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, Durand Neveu, 1782, 4 parts in-12 bound in 2 vols, 171-1 bl., 161-1 bl., 155-1 bl., 176-[1] (Editor's note)-1 bl. p., full contemporary brown calf, richly decorated ribbed spine, titles and tomaisons. Among the 16 editions published in the year of the original, and among these one of the 12 with the address of Durand Neveu, edition "I" according to Max Brun, which with the following one ("J"), among other peculiarities, has smaller type and thus fewer pages (Max Brun, Biblio. des éditions des " Liaisons dangereuses " portant le millésime 1782, in Le Livre et l'Estampe, n° 33, 1963). A fine copy of this uncommon edition.

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