Lot n° 87
Estimation :
100 - 150
EUR
Paris - Lot 87
Paris
[MERCIER (Louis-Sébastien)]
Tableau de Paris. Nouvelle édition. Amsterdam, se., 1783.
6/12 volumes in-8 paperback. Untrimmed copy. Contemporary gray soft cover.
The work depicts the mores, routines, abuses, excesses and vices of 18th-century Paris (literature and theaters, the Palais Royal, financiers, the pawnshop, women's fashions, gluttony, etc.); a fine analysis of the little people, bourgeoisie and nobility of the capital on the eve of the Revolution.
The complete work comprises 12 volumes (the last 4 were published later).
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