172 - [GAYOT de PITAVAL (Fr.)]. Famous and Interesting Cases, with the Judgments That Decided Them. Compiled by Mr. ***, Attorney at the Parliament.

[GAYOT de PITAVAL (Fr.)]. Famous and Interesting Cases, with the Judgments That Decided Them. Compiled by Mr. ***, Attorney at the Parliament. Paris, Delaulne, Cavelier, 1734–1743, 20 volumes in-12. Contemporary brown grained calfskin bindings, ribbed spines, ornate panels, red edges. - Handwritten ink bookplate on each volume (endpaper or half-title page): “G. Cogniasse-Dubreuil, residing in the Faux Bourg Boucherie district of Limoges.” Volume II shows signs of handling; 4 quires are slightly loose; a few worn caps; some scuffing on the leather; bumped corners and rubbed edges on the first 5 volumes as well as on volumes XII & XIII; slightly bumped corners on the other volumes; insect damage on the margin of the last leaf of volume VII (table of contents) without affecting the text; 2 leaves (467/470) from Volume XI are loose; the interior of the volumes is in satisfactory condition. This famous compilation, a rival to those by Richer and Garsault, covers several topics per volume. The author is named in the privilege. A folded plate in Volume 12: the Rye genealogy. Volume I begins with the famous case of Martin Guerre and also contains the “Bourbonnaise” case of Saint-Géran, “a child claimed by two mothers”; in Volume II: the case of Urbain Grandier and the possession of the Ursulines of Loudun; the Cinq-Mars affair is recounted in Volume VIII; Volume XI contains the story of the Constable of Bourbon; Volume XIII contains “A Negro’s Claim for Freedom Against His Master Who Brought Him to France,” followed by the Code Noir, as well as the story of the Duke of Montmorency; Volume XVI contains the dispute between Furetière and the academicians, along with La Fontaine’s verses and Furetière’s reply; Volume XVII: Mary Stuart; Volume XVIII: “Jews condemned for a heinous crime... "; Volume XX: "The Story of the Assassination of Sieur de Riancourt"; etc. General table in Volume XX. (Saffroy III, 49481 (1738–43 edition): "contains numerous documents on the entailed estate of Rye" (Volume XII) — Quérard III, p. 297 — Cioranescu 30521 — Barbier I, col. 541).