Rétif de La Bretonne, [Nicolas-Edme]. - Le Quadragenaire ou - Lot 198

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Rétif de La Bretonne, [Nicolas-Edme]. - Le Quadragenaire ou - Lot 198
Rétif de La Bretonne, [Nicolas-Edme]. - Le Quadragenaire ou l'âge de renoncer aux passions (ou l'homme de XL ans au fx-titre). Geneva, Vve Duchêne, 1777. 2 volumes in-12 bound in one volume in full contemporary calf with smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, title-piece - spines cracked, headbands wiped off 12 pp. (fx-title, list of figures, title and table on the v°, to the reader, presentation of the work), 244 pp. ; 244 pp. [6 ff. list of the author's works]. Complete with 15 engravings h-t after Dutertre (the first 2 engraved by Bacquoy and Berthet). First edition and one of the copies bearing Restif's name on the title of the first volume "Par N.-E Rétif-de-la-Bretone", a particularity that Rives Childs mentions (according to Lacroix), without having seen it.
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