75 - SCUDERY (Madeleine de). *Conversations on Various Subjects*. Fifth edition. Amsterdam, Daniel Du Fresne, 1686. 2 volumes in one in-12 volume, 19th-century havana calf, spine with 4 raised bands, triple fillet framing the covers, marbled edges. Frontispiece, (13) ff., 175 pp.; 210 pp.

SCUDERY (Madeleine de). *Conversations on Various Subjects*. Fifth edition. Amsterdam, Daniel Du Fresne, 1686. 2 volumes in one in-12 volume, 19th-century havana calf, spine with 4 raised bands, triple fillet framing the covers, marbled edges. Frontispiece, (13) ff., 175 pp.; 210 pp. Copper-engraved frontispiece featuring the coat of arms of Marie-Anne of Bavaria, wife of the Grand Dauphin. Dutch edition, published a few years after the original Parisian edition by Claude Barbin in 1680, comprising 14 conversations dealing notably with conversation itself, pleasures, the art of speaking or remaining silent, complacency, dissimulation, idleness, and even mockery.