143 - LA DIXMERIE, Nicolas Bricaire de and BEAUHARNAIS, Fanny de. Lettres sur l'Espagne, ou Essai sur les mœurs, les usages et la littérature de ce royaume.

LA DIXMERIE, Nicolas Bricaire de and BEAUHARNAIS, Fanny de. Lettres sur l'Espagne, ou Essai sur les mœurs, les usages et la littérature de ce royaume. Important description of eighteenth-century Spain, augmented by an anecdote by Fanny de Beauharnais. Paris, Librairie économique, 1810. 2 volumes in 2 volumes, havana half-chagrin, spine ribbed, cold-stamped fillets and gilt caissons. XX, 351 pp. ; 372 pp. Spines spotted, corners and boards rubbed, some foxing. Extensive description of Spain in 58 letters by Nicolas Bricaire de la Dixmerie (1731-1791), prolific author and member of the famous "Neufs Sœurs" Masonic lodge, where he sponsored Voltaire's initiation in 1778, for which he published a eulogy a year later. This picture of 18th-century Spain is enlarged with an anecdote and pieces by Fanny de Beauharnais, a woman of letters at the end of the 18th century and aunt of Hortense de Beauharnais. Bookplates, two of which are embossed with arms, naming "A G du Plessis" and "La Morandière", and a third modern one naming "Frédéric et Anne Max". A good copy in contemporary binding.