RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicolas Edme. Lot n° 112

Ingénue Saxancour, or The Separated Woman: a story that demonstrates how dangerous it is for girls to marry stubbornly and hastily, despite their parents. Written by herself. Liège and is located in Paris, Maradan, 1789. 3 volumes in-12 (156 x 99 mm) of 248 pp. for volume I; 2 ff.n.ch., 240 pp. for volume II; 2 ff.n.ch., 260 pp., 4 ff.n.ch. for volume III; beige semi-percaline with corners, smooth back (binding from the first half of the 19th century). Rives-Childs, XXXV; Lacroix, XXXVI; de Diesbach, Bonna Library, 18th century, 126. Original edition. "This book is the rarest of all Restif's books, either because the edition was destroyed en bloc, or because the copies were systematically sought to be destroyed one after the other... The entire edition had to be cut off and the 249-252 apges of Volume III are almost always missing" (Lacroix). Good well bound and complete copy of pp. 249-252 of Volume III. Rare freckles. Sources: ex-libris armoured count Gregoriy Alexandrovitch Stroganoff with the motto "Terram opes patriae sibi nomen" - Russian Library of Siberia Sibirscago Bibliothek (wet stamp on the titles).