Jean-François BARRIERE. Tableaux de genre et d'histoire, peints par différens maitres, ou morceaux inédits sur la Régence, la jeunesse de Louis XV, et le règne de Louis XVI. Paris, Ponthieu et Cie ; Leipzig, Ponthieu, Michelsen et Cie, 1828. In-8, long-grained blue half-maroquin with corners, spine with 4 nicely decorated bands (Purgold).
Quérard, Louandre and Bourquelot, I-165 /// (2f.)-XVI-391.
Collection of texts on various subjects, including Rupture entre M. le régent et Mme de Parabère et leur raccommodement, a Conversation de Mme la duchesse de Tallard, unpublished correspondence from Diderot to his friend Falconet, a Conversation entre M. de Choiseul et Mme de Guémenée, unpublished letters from the Chevalier de Lille to the Prince de Ligne, Conversations du marquis de Bouillé avec le grand Fréderic, Joseph II et Louis XVI and a Secret Letter from Mirabeau to the King in 1790.
One of the very few copies on pink paper. According to a handwritten note on one of the endpapers, only 3 copies were printed on this paper.
A very fine copy, finely bound by Purgold.
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