PRÉVOST (Antoine-François). Mémoires et avantures d'un homme - Lot 60

PRÉVOST (Antoine-François). Mémoires et avantures d'un homme de qualité, qui s'est retiré du monde. ÀParis, chez la veuve Delaulne, 1728. 2volumes in-12, tomésI etII. -Continuation of Mémoires et avantures d'un homme de qualité, qui s'est retiré du monde. Ibid, 1729, 2volumes in-12 tomés IIetIV, then in Amsterdam, aux dépens de la Compagnie [des presses de la veuve Delaulne], 1731, 2volumes in-12 tomés VetVI, then ibid, 1733, one volume in-12 without tomaison. -Altogether 7 volumes in 4 volumes in-12, ornate brown granite calf; bindings a little worn with boards occasionally stained, spotting in volumeV; a few stains, spotting and marginal ink marks in volumeVII (period binding). I-II: (4of which the second blank)-274-(2dof which the second blank)-262-(2)pp. -III-IV: (2dof which the second blank)-372-(2dof which the second blank)-234-(2)pp. -V-VI: 330-(16)-268-(2dof which the second blank)pp. -VII: 469-(one blank)pp. First edition of volumes I toVI, and new edition of volumeVII long considered the original of Manon Lescaut (Brun, n°I, II, V, XVI). Provenance: de Montesquiou family (copper-engraved armorial bookplate), then "P.Gaudron le jeune" (handwritten bookplates from the 18th century on the titles, with handwritten notes on the titles and some endpapers). -Baron de LaChaise (ex-libris vignette).