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Les liaisons dangereuses, ou Lettres recueillies dans une société, & publiées pour l'instruction de quelques autres. Par M. C..... de L... Premiere (-quatrieme) partie..
A Amsterdam; et se trouve à Paris, : Chez Durand neveu, libraire, à la Sagesse, rue Galande., M.. DCC. LXXXII. [1782]
4 v. in 2 (248 ; 242 ; 231, [1] ; 257, [1] p.) ; 17 cm. (12mo)
First edition, second impression B according to Brun, with the author's corrections.
Signatures: v. 1: A-K¹² L⁴ -- v. 2: A-K¹² L⁴ -- v. 3: A-I¹² K⁸ (K3,4 signed F3,4) -- v. 4: [A]⁴ B-L¹² M⁶ (-M6).
With half-titles.
Brun, Choderlos, 1B
Contemporary ownership inscription on title pages of each volume as bound: Borne D'Altier, i.e. an unidentified member of the Borne d'Altier family of the Chateau du Champ in the Cévennes region.
C20th booksellers' notes and prices in pencil on front endpapers of v. 1, and loosely inserted C21st bookseller's description.
Bound in two volumes. Contemporary 18th century French marbled calf in-board bindig; smooth spines with gold-tooled spine compartments; red morocco spine labels in second and third compartments; single gilt fillet along board edges; marbled endpapers; red-stained text block edges.
Aristocracy (Social class) Fiction.
Man-woman relations Fiction.
French fiction 18th century.
Borne d'Altier family former owner.
Netherlands Amsterdam.
France Paris.
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B53168