1819 Instructions Générales En Forme De Catéchisme Antiquarian Religious Book

1819 Instructions Générales En Forme De Catéchisme Antiquarian Religious BookInstructions Générales En Forme De CatéchismePar Ordre de Mire Georges-Lazare Berger De Charancy eveque de MontpellierPublished by Chez Bonnet Fils Imprimeur Libraire: Avignon 1819Volume 1 OnlyLight wear and fading to cover and spine as shown. Light ageing to pages which are typically clean with only minor foxing to a few pages with examples shown. Binding is very good with no loose pages. A nice copy in good to very good condition overall. Please study photos to understand condition. Happy to provide more photos on request.Size 17cm x 11cm x 4cm - 588 Pages

1788 Lettres de Mademoiselle Aïssé Lausanne & Paris Antique French History Book

Lettres de Mademoiselle Aïssé

ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF TITLE PAGE

"Letters of Mademoiselle Aïssé to Madame C…, containing several anecdotes of the history of the time from the year 1726 to 1733, preceded by a very short account of the life of Mademoiselle Aïssé, to aid understanding of her letters, with notes, some by Monsieur de Voltaire. New corrected and enlarged edition, with the portrait of the author."

Published by Chez Jean Mourer Libraire: Lausanne 1788

"This elegant late-eighteenth-century edition of Lettres de Mademoiselle Aïssé presents the celebrated correspondence of Charlotte Élisabeth Aïssé, a Circassian woman brought to France in childhood and later renowned for her intelligence, wit, and emotional candour within the salons of early Enlightenment Paris. Her letters, written between 1726 and 1733, offer an intimate portrait of aristocratic life under Louis XV, revealing the private thoughts, moral reflections, and emotional struggles of a woman navigating love, health, and social constraint with remarkable honesty and literary grace.

The present edition is preceded by a concise biographical narrative designed to aid understanding of the letters, and is supplemented with scholarly notes, some attributed to Voltaire, underscoring the contemporary literary esteem in which Aïssé was held. The engraved portrait frontispiece, finely executed and integral to the edition, reinforces the work's status as both a literary and aesthetic artefact of the French Enlightenment, bridging personal memoir with broader historical anecdote.

Printed in Lausanne and Paris in 1788, on the eve of the French Revolution, this volume occupies a compelling cultural moment, preserving the voice of a woman whose lived experience illuminates the tensions between sentiment, virtue, and society in ancien régime France. It is a refined and evocative survival of eighteenth-century epistolary literature, appealing particularly to collectors of French Enlightenment works, women's literary history, and pre-Revolutionary European culture."

General wear and minor damage to covers. Endpapers very clean and possibly replaced at some point. Light ageing to pages which are typically clean. Binding is very good with no loose pages. A nice copy in good to very good condition overall. Please study photos to further understand condition.