[Éloges & panégyriques]. Recueil réunissant 11 pièces publiées à Paris au XVIIIe siècle.

[Eulogies & panegyrics]. Collection of 11 pieces published in Paris in the 18th century. Fort in-8, contemporary fawn half-calf, spine with 5 nerves, garnet-red title-piece, decorated boards, red edges (one headband uncovered, the other torn off, worn edges and corners; light wetness on the whole volume). In the middle of this volume is a poem against slavery: - DOIGNY DU PONCEAU. Discours d'un nègre à un Européen, a piece that competed for the prize of the Académie françoise... P., Demonville, 1775, 15 p. And the volume contains: - THOMAS. Eloge de Henri-François d'Aguesseau. P., Regnard, 1763. - GAILLARD. Praise of Rene Descartes. Regnard, 1765. - CHAMFORT. Praise of Molière. Regnard, 1769. - DURBAN]. Praise of J.-B. Colbert. Brunet, 1773. - [DAGUES DE CLAIREFONTAINE]. Praise of Abraham Duquêne. Nyon, 1766. - REYRAC. Speech... in the church of Pompignan on the day of its blessing. Villefranche de Rouergue, Vedeilhié, 1762. - LA HARPE. Praise of Nicolas de Catinat. Demonville, 1775. - THE BEAUTIFUL. Eulogy of M. the count of Argenson. Panckoucke, 1765. - CERUTTI]. Portrait of the late monseigneur the Dauphin. P., Lottin, 1766; title and 2 engraved portraits. - BOURLET DE VAUXCELLES. Funeral Oration of Louis XV. Saugrain, 1774. - THOMAS, ROHAN. Discourses pronounced in the Académie françoise... at the reception of Mr. Thomas. Regnard, 1767.