Voyage de messieurs de Bachaumont et de La Chapelle. Avec un mélange de piéces fugitives, tirées du cabinet de monsieur de Saint Evremont.

12mo: [4]-270-[2] pp. (age-toned, some foxing).

Mod. vellum, gilt black leather title-label on spine, all edges marbled (sl. soiled).

First edition of this account of a journey in Languedoc, which was reprinted many times, followed by several - and somewhat curious and rarer - playful texts in poetry and prose: e.g. "Le réformateur à la mode", "Le petit mary", "Sur deux filles couchées ensemble", "Centuries de Nostradamus". Printer's mark on title.
Ref. STCN 171698096. - Cp. Brunet I:1796-1797, Cioranescu 18584.
Prov. Napoléon Fourgeaud-Lagrèze (1831-1876), lawyer in Dordogne, vice-president of the Ariège Council, founder of the "Périgord littéraire" (ex-libris gr. à la devise "Res optimae res pessimae"). - E. Lallement (ex-libris).
Joined, same format: [Pascal, Blaise] under pseud. Montalte, Louis de - Les provinciales ou Les lettres ecrites [...] a un provincial de ses amis, et aux R.R. P.P. jesuites. Sixiéme edition [...]. Cologne, N. Schoute [i.e. Amst., D. Elzevier], 1666. [24]-476 pp. (a few water stains and spotting). Contemp. marbled calf (strongly rubbed, turn-ins missing, headband loosening). Third ed. printed by the Elsevier of Amsterdam, enlarged with a "Lettre d'un avocat du parlement à un de ses amis", about the Inquisition in France (not by Pascal, but attributed to the lawyer and Jansenist polemist Antoine Le Maistre (1608-1658), brother of Isaac-Louis Le Maistre de Sacy). Ref. Willems 1372. - Tchemerzine-Scheler V:69. - STCN 214203549. (2 vol.)