Eight French titles in 18 vols.

Published in Paris (4x), Geneva (3x) and Luxemburg, various contemp. bindings, all 12mo.

Including nicely bound sets. Comprises a.o.: (1) (François-Jean Villemain d'Abancourt). Maria, fille naturelle de la la Comtesse D'***, ou l'Enfant de l'infortune.Vita misero longo, felici brevis. Seconde edition. Paris, Hedde/ Roux, an IX (1800/1801), 2 vols., XII,132; 750 [= 150] pp., both vols. w. engr. frontisp., original unif wr. w. paper letterpress label on spine, 12mo size (quires w. 6 lvs. each). A very fine, untrimmed copy, exactly as it left the printing office. (2) Gaspard Guillard de Beaurieu. L'élève de la nature. Nouvelle édition. Paris, Dupart, 1796, 2 parts in 1 vol., 215,(1);198 pp., w. 2 engr. frontisp., contemp. half calf. gilt spine w. mor. letterpiece, 12mo. Occas. sl. browned. Upper joint splitting in lower compartment of spine; corners sl. worn. A good copy, with a very rare original indication in pen of the binder, on a ticket pasted on the final page: "Mr. Fouché, 1/2 reliure". And 6 others similar in 15 vols., incl. Les liaisons dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos (Geneva, 1782, 4 attractively bound vols.), Lettres Persanes by Montesquieu (Geneva, 1777, 2 vols.) and La vie et les amour du chevalier De Faublas by J.B. Louvet (Paris, 1796, 13 parts in 3 vols. (total 8 works in 18 vols.)