Lot no. 123
[BUSSY-RABUTIN]. HISTOIRE AMOUREUSE DES GAULES.
Liège, s.d. [Brussels, François Foppens, 1665].
Small in-12 of [2]-190-69-1bl.-3-1bl. pages, stiff vellum, smooth spine titled in ink (contemporary binding).
A lively and scandalous chronicle of the mores of the reign of Louis XIV between 1640 and 1660, one of the first editions, known as "à la croix de Malte", with the continuation of Ardelise's history in separate pagination and the final 3-page key revealing 47 names. A partially unbound copy in its original Dutch binding. (Tchemerzine II, 153 , a) (Willems n°2012) (Brunet I, 1422).
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