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Les avantures de Pomponius, chevalier roman, ou, L'histoire de notre tems.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PQ1989.L2 A93 1724
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Labadie.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Orléans, Philippe, duc d', 1674-1723.
- Orléans, Philippe.
- Courts and courtiers.
- History.
- France--History--Regency, 1715-1723--Early works to 1800.
- France.
- France--Court and courtiers--Early works to 1800.
- Penn Provenance:
- Beauchamp, Pierre Robert de (bookplate) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 222 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (12mo)
- Other Title:
- Avantures de Pomponius, chevalier roman
- Histoire de notre tems
- Fingerprint:
- esui r-X. u-on elte (3) 1724 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- A Rome [that is, Holland?] : Chez les heritiers de Ferrante Pallavicini, MDCCXXIV [1724]
- Notes:
- Ficitious imprint. Cf. Weller.
- Signatures: *⁸ A-I¹² K⁴ (leaves *8 and K4 blanks).
- Title in red and black.
- Woodcut title vignette (device), initial and tail-pieces; type ornament head-pieces.
- "C'est une pièce satyrique sur la vie du duc d'Orléans, qui sert pour l'histoire de la régence de Louis XV ... On croit que le fonds de l'ouvrage est d'un père Labadie, bénédictin ... & que l'abbé Prevôt ... l'a seulement revu & corrigé ..."--Lelong, Bibl. histr. de la France, v. 2, p. 687.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Amy Comegys Memorial Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward P. Mally, W'83 and Julia Lang Mally, W'83 Endowment for Rare Books and Manuscripts Collections.
- RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2016 from Amanda Hall Rare Books.
- RBC copy has armorial bookplate of Pierre Robert de Beauchamp on front pastedown.
- RBC copy bound in contemporary full mottled calf; gold-tooled cover edges; gold-tooled spine panels; red morocco label with brief title stamped in gold on spine; marbled endpapers; all edges red; green silk marker.
- Cited in:
- Weller, E.O. Falsche Druckorte, II, p. 88
- OCLC:
- 12122108
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