[Labadie]. - Les Aventures de Pomponius chevalier romain, ou - Lot 265

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[Labadie]. - Les Aventures de Pomponius chevalier romain, ou - Lot 265
[Labadie]. - Les Aventures de Pomponius chevalier romain, ou l'histoire de notre temps. New edition increased by a collection of pieces concerning the minority of Louis XV. In-12, bound in full contemporary calf, with boards stamped with arms, spine very ornate, title-piece - small pale wetness in the outer margin of pp. 1-23 of Pomponius and affecting mid-page pp. 47 to 73 of the Collection - [6 ff.], 264 pp. followed by: Recueil de pièces touchant la Régence, 127 pp.(of which pp. 84-127 have been bound before pp. 1-84). Arms of the Marquis de Laguiche, Claude-Elisabeth (1685-1758) (Burgundy) - OHR pl. 942 fer no. 1. This satire against the regent Philippe d'Orléans, was published by the abbé Prévost (E.O. in 1724). This novel with a key tells the adventures of the Roman Pomponius, of his trip to the moon, of his discovery of the library of the lost virginities, of the valley containing the vials of the lost spirits of the earth, and other utopias, the key of which is given in the "Ducatiana". The work was put on the index.
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