Causes amusantes et connues.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Estienne, Robert, 1723-1794.

Contributor:

Edward W. Lanius Book Fund.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Law--Anecdotes--Early works to 1800.

Law.

Law--France--Cases--Early works to 1800.

France.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Penn Provenance:

Lebédel, Claude (former owner) (RBC copy)

Dugard, R. J. (stamp) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 17 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

ntun nse- s,u- etta (3) 1769 (R) v.1

n-ar s,s. uir: moMa (3) 1770 (R) v.2

Place of Publication:

A Berlin [i.e Paris] : [s.l.], 1769-1770.

Notes:

Fictitious imprint; printed in Paris. Cf. Weller.

Signatures: v. 1: pi1 a⁸(-a8) A-R¹² S⁶ ; v. 2: pi1 [par.]⁶ A-S¹² T¹⁰.

Pagination: v. 1: [2], xij, [2], 420 p., [5] leaves of plates ; v. 2: [2], xij, 451, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates.

Engraved plates.

Woodcut title ornaments, head- and tail-pieces.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward W. Lanius Book Fund.

RBC copy: v. 1 has bookseller's ms. notes in pencil on front free endpaper; v. 2 has paper slip with bookseller's ms. description of this copy laid in.

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2016 from Amanda Hall Rare Books.

RBC copy formerly owned by Claude Lebédel; each volume has stamp ("Ex Libris R.J. Dugard") on front pastedown.

RBC copy: v. 1: has wormhole in tail inner corner of leaves K8-M2; v. 2 has wormhole in tail inner corner of frontispiece plate and leaves pi1-[par.]6.

Cited in:

Weller, E. Falschen und fingierten Druckorte, II, p. 182

OCLC:

12078553