(18th-Century Writers). 6 works: - Lot 105

(18th-Century Writers). 6 works: - POLLIO (J.). An Anecdotal and Critical Bibliography of the Works of Jacques Casanova. Paris, 1926. In-8, 234 pp., [1 f.], portrait, plates, facsimiles, paperback, largely untrimmed. The author, who served as a “plenipotentiary” minister, describes the works and provides a wealth of previously unknown information on the history of each work and its author. Printed in a run of 680 numbered copies; this is copy 1/80 on Arches laid paper from the first edition. FOISSET (Th.). Le Président de Brosses. History of Letters and Parliaments in the 18th Century. Paris, Olivier-Fulgence, 1842. In-8, 595 pp., paperback, untrimmed. Like-new condition. - SETH (Catriona). The Creole Poets of the 18th Century: Bertin, Léonard, Parny. Rome, 1998. In-8, 324 pp., paperback. Published in the “Bibliographies of French Writers” series. - BLANC (Olivier). Marie-Olympe de Gouges: A Humanist at the End of the 18th Century. n.p., 2003. 8vo, 270 pp., paperback, flap cover. “In 1981, Olivier Blanc published an initial biography of the author of the Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizens, which brought to light one of the most remarkable figures of the Revolutionary era—yet one who had been mysteriously absent from overviews of the subject. Here, the author builds upon the foundations of that earlier work, which has been fully updated and expanded.” Includes a section of black-and-white and color illustrations. - CAYLUS. Facéties du comte de... de l'Académie des inscriptions. With a bio-bibliographical note by Octave Uzanne. Paris, Quantin, 1879 (Reprint, Plein Chant, 1997). In-8, XLVI, 246 pp, paperback. The author “gives voice to the common folk of the streets of Paris by recounting their daily lives, loves, and labors with a realism that is entirely his own...”. The print run of this reprint was limited to 300 copies. - BAZIN (Christian). Malesherbes, or the Wisdom of the Enlightenment. Paris, Picollec, 1995. In-8, paperback, 313 pp.