[VANEL, Claude [- SAUVAL, Henri]] Les galanteries des rois de France [...]. Cologne Pierre Marteau [c. 1730] 3 vols. in-12 : 223, 277 (i.e. 267), 234 pp. ; 9 h.-t. (qqs piqsures). Bottle-green morocco s. R. Petit, triple gilt fillet around covers, gilt ribbed spines, double gilt fillet around edges, gilt int. dent, gilt tr. over marbling. Very fine copy. Uncommon edition (orig.: 1694) of this loose collection of anecdotes about the French court from Pharamond to Louis XIV, illustrated with 9 unsigned copper engravings: 1 allegorical frontispiece ("La France soumise au pouvoir de l'amour"), 3 titles and 5 plates (2 placed in front. in t. II and III). The text of t. I and II is attributed to C. Vanel, historiographer and magistrate in Montpellier; t. III is a later addition taken from "L'histoire des bordels de la cour et de Paris" by historian Henri Sauval. Ref. BGL II:376. - Cp. Cohen 418. Prov. Perrin du Lac (armorial bookplates s. "FP" in each vol.).