‎Ernest d'Hervilly‎
‎HISTOIRES DIVERTISSANTES‎

‎Chronique burlesque, ou recueil D'Histoires divertissantes et d'avantures comiques.‎

‎A Londres, Pierre du Noyer, 1742. 12mo. Bound in a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Crowned super ex-libris to front board. Paper-label pasted on to top of spine and boards. A nice and clean copy. (12), 308 pp.‎

‎First edition of this collection of humorous scandalous and entertaining stories, primarily set in Normandy and Picardy, focusing on priests and nuns. Not in Barbier.‎

‎Contes Moraux, Histoires Divertissantes & Romans.‎

‎LAW B.. 1779. In-12. Relié plein cuir. Etat d'usage, Couv. défraîchie, Mors fendus, Intérieur acceptable. 419 pages. Reliure plein veau, muette.. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.04-XVII ème siècle‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 840.04-XVII ème siècle‎

‎La Tyrannie heureuse ou Cromwel politique. Avec les artifices & intrigues dans tout le cours de sa conduite. Par le Sieur de Galardi. A Leyde, Chez Jean Pauwels, 1671. With sphere on title and a folding engraved frontispiece. - (Followed by:) ARANDA, E. DE. Diverses histoires morales et divertissantes. Du Sr. Emanuel d'Aranda.‎

‎A Leyde, Chez Jean Pauwels, 1671. Sphere on title. Two volumes in one. (16), 108 pp.; (8), 127, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, handwritten title and date to spine. Willems, Annexes, 2065; BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700, G-86; Brunet v, col. 1751-2. First edition, and according to Willems printed by Foppens in Brussels, one of two editions, this one without the errata and Pauwels spelled as Pauvvels. Ferdinand de Galardi was a Spanish diplomat and was active at the French and English courts, where he spent most of his adult life. The present work is a methodical treatise against Cromwell and is favorable to the Stuarts and the catholics in the Netherlands. The author wrote a number of other books on English, Spanish and Portugese politics and on diplomacy and belongs to the theorists of diplomacy. He was also the one who claimed that Spanish diplomats were inferior to their French counterparts because their recruitment depended more on high birth and wealth than on merit and experience.Second work: Willems, Annexes, 2059; not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700.Originally published as Relation de la captivité et liberté du sieur Emanuel de Arande, mené esclave à Alger en l'an 1640 ..... (Willems 1974), an account of the author's time in slavery between 1640 and 1642. A new edition was published in 1671, augmented to three parts. The present work is the separate publication of this third part, according to Willems destined for those who had already purchased earlier editions in two parts only. - Signature on title and front paste down: Johann S. Bans (?), ex-libris Bibl. Hammer of Stockholm, recto first blank, and ex-libris Froissart verso first front blank. Scribbling to front paste down, binding loosening ‎