Les Oeuvres Diverses de M. de G*** [Two Volume Set]

Amsterdam: Pierre Moriter, 1746. Very Good. Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Mortier, Libraire, sur la Bourse, a l'Envie, 1746. Nouvelle Edition. Four volumes bound in two; 12mos; full contemporary calf, gilt spines in six compartments, all edges red, marbled endpapers; bound without final blank at end of Vol. I, else collated complete; title pages printed in red and black, woodcut devices, initials, head- and tail-pieces. Light scuffing to leather margins with brief exposure to corners, else a Very Good and sound set.

Uncommon and early posthumous edition of the works of French poet Jean-Baptiste Willard de Grécourt (1684-1743), including madrigals, epigrams, and fables in the tradition of Aesop or La Fontaine: The Ant and the Cat; The Bee and the Owl; the Wasp and the Andouille.