Paris - Lot 650

Lot 650
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Paris - Lot 650
Paris [MERCIER (Louis-Sébastien)] Tableau de Paris. New edition. Amsterdam, se., 1783. 6/12 volumes in-8 bound. Untrimmed copy. Soft grey cover of the time. The work depicts the mores, the routines, the abuses, the excesses and the vices of the population of Paris in the 18th century (literature and theaters, the Palais Royal, financiers, the pawnshop, women's fashions, gluttony, etc.); fine analysis of the little people, the bourgeoisie and the nobility, of the capital on the eve of the Revolution. The complete work counts 12 volumes (the last 4 were published later).
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