COLNET DU RAVEL, Charles Joseph. L'hermite du Faubourg Saint - Lot 261

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COLNET DU RAVEL, Charles Joseph. L'hermite du Faubourg Saint - Lot 261
COLNET DU RAVEL, Charles Joseph. L'hermite du Faubourg Saint-Germain, or observations on French mores and customs at the beginning of the 19th century by M. de Colnet, author of L'art de dîner en ville. Following the collection of French manners by M. de Jouy. Tome premier [- second], Paris: Pillet aîné, 1825. 2 volumes in 2 volumes in-12 of [4], 344 p., frontispiece, 16 vignettes and 4 culs-de-lampe in the text (volume I); [4], 340, [4, Pillet catalogue] p., folding map, 4 vignettes and 6 culs-de-lampe in the text (volume II). Paperback, blue printed covers. Complete with the steel-engraved frontispiece by P. Adam after Desenne and the folding map of Paris decorated with six views of Paris. Provenance: princess Charles de Rohan. GR stamps under closed crown (Guémené, Rohan) on the false title of each volume. Signature of the princess Charles de Rohan (Berthe de Rohan, wife of her uncle the prince of Guémené) on the false title of volume II. The best chronicles of the great satirist C. J. Colnet de Ravel are gathered here. They had been published as chronicles in the Gazette de France.
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