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(Ortigue de Vaumière, P.) L'art de plaire dans la conversation. Suivant la copie imprimée à Paris. (No place, no printer), 1692. With engraved frontispiece. 5 lvs., 314 pp., 17 lvs. 12mo. Contemporary blind-tooled calf (spine-ends and corners damaged, rubbed). (# 5304)

EUR 175,-

Barbier I, 293. Rare edition of this often reprinted defence of the French language against its various dialects. About the ways to relate a story, the conversation with ladies, about good and bad words, how to behave at the dinner-table, etc. The French author Pierre Ortigue de Vaumière lived from ca. 1610 until 1693. - Slight waterstain to a few leaves, browned.


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