GRANDVAL (Nicolas Racot de)] The Punished... - Lot 659 - Briscadieu

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GRANDVAL (Nicolas Racot de)] The Punished... - Lot 659 - Briscadieu
GRANDVAL (Nicolas Racot de)] The Punished Vice or Cartouche. Poem. New edition more beautiful, more correct & increased by the author. Amsterdam, de Ruyter, 1738. In-8 : 2f., 118pp. illustrated with 17 plates (one in frontispiece). With a slang-french and French-slang dictionary in fine. Small paper tears in the margins of some leaves; leaves sometimes slightly thin and fringed. Contemporary marbled brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, fawn title page, gilt roulette on the edges, rubbing, dull corners. Heroic and parodic text inspired by Louis Dominique Garthausen, known as "Cartouche", a famous Parisian brigand who was beaten on the Place de Grève (now Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville)(Cohen 449).
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