[MAILLY (Louis de). Les Entretiens des cafés de Paris, et les différens qui y surviennent. Trévoux, Étienne Ganeau, 1702. In-12, orange morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Hardy). Very rare first edition of this curious collection of interviews, filled with amusing or gallant anecdotes which offer a very lively picture of Parisian cafés at the time of Louis XIV. The volume is adorned with a handsome intaglio frontispiece showing the interior of a Parisian café, with seated figures sipping drinks and others playing cards or trictrac, and a woodcut vignette repeated at the head of each chapter, which also depicts a café scene. A bastard of the House of Mailly and godson of Louis XIV, the Chevalier de Mailly (1657-1724) also wrote an adaptation of Les Aventures des trois princes de Serendip and some twenty fairy tales. A very fine copy, finely bound in Hardy's pamphlet, with full margins, carefully gilt on witnesses. From the Gustave Mouravit library (1938, I, n°367), with his stamp and a note signed by him on a flyleaf.