LE MONNIER (Abbot Guillaume-Antoine). Fêtes des bonnes-gens - Lot 38

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LE MONNIER (Abbot Guillaume-Antoine). Fêtes des bonnes-gens - Lot 38
LE MONNIER (Abbot Guillaume-Antoine). Fêtes des bonnes-gens de Canon et des Rosières de Briquebec. Avignon, Et se vend au profit des Rosières de Briquebec ; Paris, l'abbé Le Monnier, Prault, Jombert&Cellot, Veuve Vallat-la-Chapelle, 1777. In-8, marbled calf, smooth spine decorated, interior roulette, red edges (Binding of the time). First edition, with a frontispiece drawn and engraved on copper by Moreau le jeune. The work ends with the Discours d'un nègre marron... (7 pp.), which is a vibrant plea against slavery, and with an unnumbered page giving a list of the publications of abbé Le Monnier (1721-1797). Handwritten ex-libris on the first endpaper and verso of the frontispiece. Important paper restoration on the last endpaper. Hinges rubbed, spines restored.
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