RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE (Nicolas-Edme). La Découverte australe - Lot 250

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RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE (Nicolas-Edme). La Découverte australe - Lot 250
RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE (Nicolas-Edme). La Découverte australe par un Homme-volant, ou Le Dédale français. Printed in Leipsick, and now in Paris, s.d. [1781]. 4 volumes in-12, black half-chagrin, spines decorated with filets and cold scrolls in the caissons, gilt title, speckled edges (Binding circa 1880). First edition of this famous utopian and satirical novel, decorated with 23 attractive and curious intaglio figures. A fine copy, complete with the 5 diatribes (pp. 337-422) and the 5 unencumbered leaves at the end of volume IV (note on Les Contemporaines, table and list of retivian works). Without the often-missing faux-tittre of Volume I. Small brown ink stain on edge of 8 leaves at end of volume III, minor rubbing to binding.
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