Jullien jean auguste

1775 · 15547 — A Londres: 1775 Most complete edition. This work was first published in 1761 in a one volume edition that contained two parts. Other editions appeared in 1762 and 1766 but this appears to be the first printing of the complete work in six parts. Contemporary mottled calf. Gilt spine with red morocco label edges stained red. . Three volumes in one twelvemo. Some staining to preliminary blanks a little light foxing. A good clean copy. Desboulmiers 1731-1771 was a soldier turned writer whose exuberant style brought him immense popularity. This work is not in fact a history of famous women of his age but a series of short novels dealing with the amatory adventures of courtesans. Desboulmiers was the author of novels plays a history of the comic opera 1769 and a seven-volume history of the Italian theatre 1769. He also translated Hume's works Pensées philosophiques morales critiques littéraires et politiques de M. Hume 1767.