[Bretonne (NIcolas Edmé Restif de la)] Les Posthumes; Lettres reçues après la mort du Mari, par sa Femme, qui le croit à Florence, 4 vol., half-title to vol.,1, engraved frontispiece to each vol., vol.2 F7-9 replaced with 4 cancels (as per Paul Lacroix, p.427), vol.3 2 chips to frontispiece, 1 just fractionally within border; C7&8 upper corners torn with loss, not affecting text; and with final f. with lower corner torn with loss of a few letters recto, all vol. a few tears and staining, contemporary contemporary calf, rather worn, but holding firm, [Rives-Child, XLVI-1, pp. 342-343; Paul Lacroix, XLVIII, pp. 425-429], Paris, Chez Duchêne, 1802; and vol.1-3 only (of 4) of his Les Veillées du Marais, 12mo (7)

⁂ The rare first edition of this work largely based on the tales of the Countess Beauharnais.