75 - [18th-CENTURY LITERATURE].

[18th-CENTURY LITERATURE]. LOT: 18th-century literature and arts. 3 titles in 4 volumes, period bindings with scuffing. - [CHETWOOD, William Rufus / CASTELMAN, Richard] / BOYLE, Robert. The Travels and Adventures of Captain Robert Boyle. Amsterdam: Wetsteins & Smith, 1730. 2 in-12 volumes, in contemporary speckled fawn sheepskin. - BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE. Vows of a Solitary Man, to Serve as a Sequel to Studies of Nature. 248 pp. (paginated 148 without loss) and Sequel to *Vows of a Solitary to Serve as* with *The Indian Cottage* (1792) in continuous pagination pp. (5)-252-396. Followed by *Cfé de Surate* (1)-398-411, followed by *La Chaumière indienne* LVI with notes, foreword, and preamble, and 72-(1) pp., Paris: Didot Jeune, 1789. In-12, contemporary fawn sheepskin with root grain. Smooth, rubbed spine; cap ends missing; a few scattered foxing spots. Pagination errors but no pages missing - GAILLARD DE LA BATAILLE. Memoirs or Adventures of Monsieur le Comte de Kermalec. The Hague, published at the expense of the Company, 1740. In-12. Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller and lover of bookbindings, a flutist, and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the decorative arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were staged primarily in the Paris region.