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Softcover, 215 x 140 mm, publisher’s grey wrappers, lettering in double-fillet frame to front, lettering to spine, pp.: [1-6] 7-268 [2]; tamizdat. Stamps: 1) РУССКАЯ БИБЛИОТЕКА, THE RUSSIAN LIBRARY, 14, SAWREY PLACE, BRADFORD; 2) Православная Церковь Покрова Пресв. Богородицы, Манчестер, Англия — The Orthodox Church of the Holy Virgin, Manchester, Eng.; 3) ДАР ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВА ИМЕНИ ЧЕХОВА при Восточно-Европейском Фонде. Title-page: ВЛАДИМИР НАБОКОВ | Другие берега | {publisher’s device} | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО ИМЕНИ ЧЕХОВА | Нью-Йорк • 1954 || Contributors: Издательство имени Чехова [Chekhov Publishing House] (NY) Владимир Владимирович Набоков [Vladimir Nabokov] (Russian-American, 1899 – 1977) – author
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Hardcover, 20.7 x 13.5 cm; original blue buckram, embossed gilt lettering on front cover and spine, geometrical elements to the front, pictorial endpapers. Collated 16mo: 1816, i.e. 288 leaves plus double-frontispiece and 8 leaves of plates at p. 224, pp.: [2] 3-542 [2]. Title-page: ВЛАДИМИР | НАБОКОВ | КРУГ | {publisher’s device} | Ленинград | «Художественная литература» | Ленинградское | отделение | 1990 || ISBN 5-280-00953-9 Contributors: Владимир Владимирович Набоков [Vladimir Nabokov] (Russian-American, 1899 – 1977) – author Андрей Георгиевич Битов [Andrei Bitov] (Russian, 1937 –2018) – preface Никита Ильич Толстой [Nikita Tolstoï] (Russian, 1923 – 1996) – compilation, comments Геннадиев, Андрей Борисович (Russian, b. 1947) – artist
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Hardcover, 210 x 147 mm, black cloth with geometrical (avant-garde style) lettering to front cover and spine, pictorial endpapers, pp.: [1-7] 8-510 [2]. Chair of the editorial board of the almanach Каверин, Вениамин Александрович [Kaverin, Veniamin] (Russian-Jewish, 1902 – 1989) Print run 50,000 copies. ISBN 5-7000-0161-6. It was the first more or less uncensored publication in the Soviet Union. Submitted for typesetting on September 27, 1988, signed to print on January 2, 1989. Referenced as: Moskva-Petushki, in Vest’: Sbornik. Proza, poėziia, dramaturgiia, Knizhnaia palata, Moskva 1990: 418-506 [complete edition]. Contributors: Венедикт Васильевич Ерофеев [Venedikt Yerofeyev] (Russian, 1938 – 1990) – author.
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Hardcover, 217 x 142 mm, pictorial boards and spine, lettering; pictorial endpapers, collated 16mo: 1-1816, i.e. 288 leaves; pp.: [1-4] 5-573 [3], pictorial title, section titles, and frontispieces within collation. Print run 3000 copies. Title-page: ВЕНЕДИКТ ЕРОФЕЕВ | МОСКВА – | ЭДУАРД ВЛАСОВ | Бессмертная поэма | Венедикта Ерофеева | «МОСКВА – ПЕТУШКИ» | МОСКВА ВАГРИУС 2002 || Contents: Венедикт Ерофеев. Москва – Петушки. Поэма. (pp. 13-119); Эдуард Власов. Бессмертная поэма Венедикта Ерофеева «Москва – Петушки»: Спутник писателя (121-574). Contributors: Ерофеев, Венедикт Васильевич [Yerofeyev, Venedikt] (Russian, 1938 – 1990) – author Власов, Эдуард Ю. – author/commentary Попов, Евгений Анатольевич (Russian, b. 1946) – preface Муравьёв, Владимир Сергеевич (Russian, 1939 – 2001) – editor Гусейнов, Вадим Владимирович (Russian, b. 1962) – artist
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スラブ社会文化論シリーズ||スラブ シャカイ ブンカロン シリーズ ; 第4号 Softcover, grey publisher’s wrappers with black lettering, in silver dust jacket with black lettering and vignette; pp. [8] [i] ii-iii [iv] [1] 2-293 [5]; 257 x 183 mm. DJ Front: Эдуард ВЛАСОВ | БЕССМЕРТНАЯ ПОЭМА | ВЕНЕДИКТА ЕРОФЕЕВА | МОСКВА ПЕТУШКИ | {vignette} | СПУТНИК ПИСАТЕЛЯ | Slavic research center | Hokkaido university || Title-page: Эдуард ВЛАСОВ | БЕССМЕРТНАЯ ПОЭМА | ВЕНЕДИКТА ЕРОФЕЕВА | МОСКВА ПЕТУШКИ | {vignette} | СПУТНИК ПИСАТЕЛЯ | ИЗДАНИЕ ПЕРВОЕ, | ИСПРАВЛЕННОЕ И СОКРАЩЕННОЕ || Contributors: Ерофеев, Венедикт Васильевич [Yerofeyev, Venedikt] (Russian, 1938 – 1990) – author Власов, Эдуард Ю. – author/commentary
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Softcover, light brown wrappers with French flaps, 163 x 110 mm, pp. [1-6] 7-357 [3]. Title-page: Venedikts Jerofejevs | MASKAVA | – | GAILĪŠI | No krievu valodas tulkojis | Uldis Tīrons | {Publisher’s device} | LIEPNIEKS & RITUPS || Translated from Russian by Uldis Tīrons Original title: Венедикт Ерофеев. Москва — Петушки Contributors: Ерофеев, Венедикт Васильевич [Yerofeyev, Venedikt] (Russian, 1938 – 1990) – author Uldis Tīrons (Latvian, b. 1956) – translator
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Softcover, 200 x 126 mm, publisher’s pictorial wrappers, pp. [2] 3-126 [2]. ISBN: 5-85965-006-X. Title-page: ВЕНЕДИКТ | ЕРОФЕЕВ | — | МОСКВА–ПЕТУШКИ | Рига {R Rakstnieks} 1991 || Print run 50,000 copies. Contributors: Ерофеев, Венедикт Васильевич [Yerofeyev, Venedikt] (Russian, 1938 – 1990) – author Dainis Breikšs [Дайнис Брейкшс] (Latvian, b. 1942) – artist Муравьёв, Владимир Сергеевич (Russian, 1939 – 2001) – preface
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The true first edition in original parts, published in four issues of the Soviet magazine «Трезвость и культура», Москва, Профиздат (Sobriety and Culture, Moscow, Trade Union Publishing): Part 1 in № 12/1988, pp. 26-38; Part 2 in № 1/1989, pp. 26-37; Part 3 in № 2/1989, pp. 28-39; Part 4 in № 3/1989, pp. 30-35. Each issue: 260 x 200 mm; 64 pages, in pictorial wrappers, stapled. Print run: 12/1988 — 800,525 copies; 1/1989 — 626,970 copies; 2/1989 — 635,115 copies; 3/1989 — 639,810 copies. The first part was submitted for typesetting on October 10 and signed to print on November 28, 1988. This makes it the first officially published 'Soviet' edition; however, it lacks the author's foreword and was substantially censored. Reference: Id., Moskva-Petushki, “Trezvost’ i kul’tura”, 12 (1988): 26-38 [introduction by S. Chuprinin, censured edition]. Id., Moskva-Petushki, “Trezvost’ i kul’tura”, 1 (1989): 26-37; 2 (1989): 28-39; 3 (1989): 30-35 [censured edition]. Contributors: Ерофеев, Венедикт Васильевич [Yerofeyev, Venedikt] (Russian, 1938 – 1990) – author Чупринин, Сергей Иванович (Russian, b. 1947) – preface Басыров, Гариф Шарипович (Russian, 1944 – 2004) – artist
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Softcover, publisher’s pictorial wrappers, stapled, 215 x 145 mm, pp.: [2] 3-38 [2], a few in-text and five full-page illustrations within collation; 8vo: 28 34, i.e. 20 leaves. Title-page: В. ГАУФ | {vignette} | КАРЛИК | НОС | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО ДЕТСКОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | МИНИСТЕРСТВА ПРОСВЕЩЕНИЯ РСФСР | ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1955 || Print run 200,000 copies. Contributors: Wilhelm Hauff [Вильгельм Гауф] (German, 1802 – 1827) – author. Шабанов, Иван Васильевич (Russian, 1906 – 1973) – artist.
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Hardcover volume, 175 x 130 mm, in grey cloth with blue lettering in blind border with volutes to corners, blue lettering to spine; collated 8vo: [1]8, 1-258 262, i.e. 210 leaves plus 8 plates, incl. frontispiece portrait of the author, extraneous to collation, pp.: [i-iv] v-xiv [2] [2] 3-401 [3], errata slip tipped in. Print run 5,300 copies. Title-page: ШАРЛЬ МОНТЕСКЬЁ | ПЕРСИДСКИЕ | ПИСЬМА | Вступительная статья | Л. Е. Гальперина | ACADEMIA | 1936 || Title verso: CHARLES MONTESQUIEU | Lettres persianes | Переплет П. Г. Пастухова || Catalogue Raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова 840 (p. 280). Contributors: Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de (French, 1689–1755) Гальперин, Лев Ефимович (Russian-Jewish, 1872 – 1951) Пастухов, Павел Георгиевич (Russian, 1889 – 1960)
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Hardcover volume, 17 x 14 cm; bound in red buckram with gilt lettering in geometrical frame, black label with gilt lettering and fillets to flat spine. Print run 150,000 copies. Collation: 18 2-1316, i.e. 200 leaves plus 8 plates incl. frontispiece portrait of the author, pp. [2] 3-397 [3]. Title-page (red and black): МОНТЕСКЬЁ | ПЕРСИДСКИЕ | ПИСЬМА | {fleuron} | — | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО | ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | МОСКВА • 1956 || Title verso: MONTESQUIEU | LETTRES PERSIANES | 1721 | Перевод с французского | под редакцией | Е. А. ГУНСТА | Вступительная статья | С. Д. АРТАМОНОВА || Contributors: Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de (French, 1689–1755) – author Артамонов, Сергей Дмитриевич (Russian, 1915 – 1989) – author preface Гунст, Евгений Анатольевич (Russian, 1901 – 1983) – translator
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Hardcover volume, 8vo, 200 x 140 mm, bound in light blue cloth with vignette to front, cream printed label and lettering to flat spine; pictorial dust jacket, black lettering to spine, publisher’s device to back, and black lettering to flaps. Print-run 5,000 copies. Faux frontispieces, binding, and dust jacket designed by Н. В. Кузьмин. Collation: 1-388 394, i.e. 308 leaves plus 12 plates extraneous to collation, incl. frontispiece portrait of the author [1-7] 8-611 [5], errata slip tipped in. Title-page (blue and black): АЛЬФРЕД ДЕ МЮССЕ | ТЕАТР | Перевод, вступительная | статья и комментарии | А. В. Федорова | ACADEMIA | 1934 || Contre-title (blue and black): ФРАНЦУЗСКАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА | Под общей редакцией | А. М. Эфроса | АЛЬФРЕД ДЕ МЮССЕ | (1810 – 1857) | СОЧИНЕНИЯ | ACADEMIA | Москва – Ленинград || Title verso: ALFRED DE MUSSET | THÉÂTRE | Фронтисписы титулов, | переплет и супер-обложка | Н. В. Кузьмина || Catalogue Raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова 653 (p. 250). Contents: Венецианская ночь, или Свадьба Лауретты; Андреа дель Сарто; Фантазио; Любовью не шутят; Лоренцаччо; Подсвечник; Не надо биться об заклад; Молча за дело; Всего не предусмотришь; Беттина (пер. Е. Геркена) Contributors: Musset, Alfred de (French, 1810–1857) – author Фёдоров, Андрей Венедиктович (Russian, 1906 – 1997) – translator Геркен, Евгений Георгиевич (Russian, 1886 – 1962) – translator Кузьмин, Николай Васильевич (Russian, 1890 – 1987) – artist Эфрос, Абрам Маркович (Russian-Jewish, 1888 – 1954) – editor
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Two hardcover volumes, 8vo, 200 x 140 mm each, uniformly bound in cream cloth with gilt triple fillet frame to front, same blind to back, and blind volutes to corners, gilt lettering, fillets and blind fleurons in compartments to flat spine; cream dust jacket with red lettering and black vignette to front, black spine with cream lettering to spine, publisher’s device to back, and black lettering to flaps. Print-run 5,300 copies. Besides these two volumes, Academia later published volumes 5 (1936), 3, 4, and 8 (1937); other volumes were published in 1939-47 by ОГИЗ-Гослитиздат. Vol. 1: 1-318 324, i.e. 252 leaves plus 13 b/w plates extraneous to collation; pp.: [1-7] 8-501 [3]. Title-page (red and black): ДЕНИ ДИДРО | СОБРАНИЕ СОЧИНЕНИЙ | ТОМ I | ФИЛОСОФИЯ | Редакция и вступительная статья | И. К. Луппола | Перевод И. Б. Румера, | В. К. Сережникова, П. С. Юшкевича | Примечания А. Н. Лаврентьева | ACADEMIA | 1935 || Vol. 2: 1-368 374, i.e. 292 leaves plus 14 b/w plates extraneous to collation; pp.: [1-7] 8-582 [2]. Title-page (red and black): ДЕНИ ДИДРО | СОБРАНИЕ СОЧИНЕНИЙ | ТОМ II | ФИЛОСОФИЯ | Редакция и вступительная статья | И. К. Луппола | Перевод В. К. Сережникова и П. С. Юшкевича | Примечания М. Д. Цебенко| ACADEMIA | 1935 || In both volumes: Contre-Title: ФРАНЦУЗСКАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА | ДЕНИ ДИДРО | (1713 – 1784) | СОБРАНИЕ СОЧИНЕНИЙ | в десяти томах | Под общей редакцией | И. К. ЛУППОЛА | ACADEMIA | Москва – Ленинград || Title verso: DENIS DIDEROT | OEUVRES CHOISIES | Супер-обложка и переплет | Б. В. Шварца || Catalogue Raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова 723, 724 (pp. 261-2). Contributors: Denis Diderot (French, 1713 – 1784) Луппол, Иван Капитонович (Russian, 1896 – 1943) – killed in GULAG Румер, Исидор Борисович (Russian-Jewish, 1884 – 1938) – killed in GULAG Серёжников, Виктор Константинович (Russian, 1873 – 1944) – killed in GULAG Юшкевич, Павел Соломонович (Ukrainian-Jewish, 1873 – 1945) Цебенко, Мария Дмитриевна (Russian, ? – 1957) Шварц, Борис Владимирович (1906 – 1967) Лаврентьев, А. Н.
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Anonymous manuscript half bound in green sheepskin, gilt lettering to spine, 382 x 325 x 65 mm, 424 pp. with pp. 368-400 blank, thick graph paper, tissue samples pasted throughout. According to the seller: “Important treatise on weaving decorated with numerous drawings, sketches, diagrams and samples of laminated fabrics (satin, silk, damask, velvet, etc.). Elegant work, beautiful writing in italics, all pages in a framing net. It contains chapters on the history of silk, the silkworm (hatching, transformation, etc.), silk spinning, dyeing, warping, folding, heddles, different types of mesh, satin, satin drifts, damask for dresses, royal damask for furnishings, velvet, etc. etc.”
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Hardcover album 387 x 300 mm, bound in orange half-calf over green paper with vertical black zig-zag and embossed gilt rings, by Isy Brachot of Brussels; includes a photographic portrait of D. H. Lawrence pasted to front green ffl verso, ms title-page, six pages of ms text with a woodcut portrait of the same to page 2, 27 plates (including eight double-page), one blank leaf followed by ten pages of ms text and back green ffl with text to recto, 49 leaves total, plates on thick wove paper, text on Canson & Montgolfier watermarked laid paper, all unpaginated; in a slipcase. The title page indicates: “Vertés, a fashionable and popular designer from 1940 to 1960 […] attempted to illustrate in 1959 the famous novel by D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover, but not getting along with his publisher, he sold his sketches for two thousand dollars to count Charles de Kerchove de Denterghem (1819 – 1882). Further, the t.p. reads: Les esquisses, lit-on encore sur cette page, furent reliées par Isy Brachot de Bruxelles. Elles furent classées par lui sans ordre, comme elles venaient. En préface figurent un bref résumé du roman, un historique des difficultés qu'il connut, un compte rendu de sa victoire finale. En postface sont transcrits, en langue originale, les scènes illustrées par Vertès dans l'ordre où elles se trouvent écrites, ainsi qu'une appréciation de l'art de Vertès. Michel Vokaer’s Bibliographie de Marcel Vertès (1967) does not mention this collection of sketches; however, it says that the artist had produced two test etchings for Lady Chatterley’s Lover around 1936, which remained unpublished. The gouaches were drawn in the US, and the texts accompanying them are in English, so one could suppose that the prospective publisher—who remains unknown—was American. Contributors: Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) David Herbert Lawrence (British, 1885 – 1930)
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Hardcover volume 295 x 240 mm, pictorial front cover and purple spine with gilt embossed lettering, back cover with orange lettering, craft endpapers, pp.: [1-6] 7-255 [1], profusely illustrated. Exhibition catalogue with 123 reproductions of Japanese woodblock prints. Title-page: The Riddles of | UKIYO-E | Women and Men in Japanese Prints 1765–1865 | Chris Uhlenbeck / Jim Dwinger / Josephine Smit | {publisher’s device LUDION} || Table of contents: Preface; Introduction; Beauties; Shunga; Legends; Kabuki; INDEX; LIST OF WORKS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; AUTHORS.
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Unbound, unpaginated volume in illustrated French flapped wrappers, 360 x 270 mm, printed on mother-of-pearl Japanese paper, collated 154 + 142, 60+28, 44 leaves in-folio, folded in half, profusely illustrated with original colour lithograph, in a grey cloth clamshell box (390 x 290 x 90 mm) with inside pocket for CD (lacking), embossed vignette to front; limited edition of 284 copies, signed copy № 59 of 50 copies printed on Japon Nacré paper numbered 30-80. Includes 13 double-page colour plates signed by the artist, enriched with an original watercolour drawing on the back of the title-page, with autograph dedication "A Monsieur et Madame Kuhn Amicalement A Bonnefoit". Title-page (black and sanguine): GEORGES BRASSENS | VÉNUS | CALLIPYGE | Préface de Pierre Louki | Lithographies originales de | Alain BONNEFOIT | ÉDITIONS LATOUR – MARTIGNY || Colophon : Achevé d'imprimer | le 8 novembre 1993 | sur les presses de Pierre Jean Mathan | Boulogne-sur-Seine. | Les lithographies ont été tirées | dans les ateliers de Jean-Claude Perrin | Arts-Litho à Paris. | L'emboitage est de Piero Dallai | à Forence. || Deluxe edition of a collection of 13 songs by Brassens, illustrated with more than thirty original lithographs by Alain Bonnefoit, Contributors: Alain Bonnefoit (French, b. 1937) – artist Georges Brassens (French, 1821 – 1981) – author poetry Louki, Pierre (French, 1920 – 2006) – author preface Éditions Latour (Martigny) – publisher Pierre Jean Mathan (Boulogne-sur-Seine) – printer Jean-Claude Perrin, Arts-Litho (Paris) – lithorgapher Piero Dallai (Forence) – slipcase
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Softcover, cream French flapped wrappers, 242 x 192 mm, glassine dust jacket, lower and outer margins untrimmed, red lettering to front wrapper CONTES LIBERTINS | DU | DIX-HUITIÈME SIÈCLE; in a double slipcase; 10 full-page colour intaglio prints, incl. frontispiece, and 10 half-page coloured prints after Antoine Calbet; pp.: [1-8] 9-223 [224] [6], total 115 leaves plus ten plates with tissue guards extraneous to collation. Copy enhanced with a full suite of 32 uncoloured intaglio prints, and 12 refused plates: Title-page (red and black): CONTES LIBERTINS | DU DIX-HUITIÈME SIÈCLE | PRÉSENTÉS PAR EDMOND PILON | TRENTE-DEUX ILLUSTRATIONS EN COULEURS | DE | A. CALBET | {fleuron} | PARIS | LE VASSEUR & Cie, ÉDITEURS | 33, Rue de Fleurus || Limitation: 587 copies, of which 32 on Japon Impérial (№№ 1-32), 65 on Hollande Van Gilder (№№ 33-97), 490 on Velin a la forme de Rives (№№ 98-587). 25 copies were printed on top of this print run for collaborators, numbered in Roman letters. This copy is № 77 on watermarked Van Gilder Zonnen paper. Colophon: LE TEXTE DE CET OUVRAGE A | ÉTÉ IMPRIMÉ SUR LES PRESSES | DE CL. JACOUB ET Cie. | LES ILLUSTRATIONS, GRAVÉES PAR L. MACCARD, ONT ÉTÉ | TIRÉES EN TAILLE-DOUCE | PAR A. PORCABEUF ET Cie. | ACHEVÉ D'IMPRIMER, A | PARIS, LE 12 OCTOBRE 1936. Table of contents: Histoire de madame Allain – Notice sur le comte de Caylus. Histoire de Cidal Acmet – Notice sur l'abbé Prevost Aline, reine de Golconde – Notice sur le chevalier de Boufflers Cosi-Sancta – notice sur Voltaire. Cécile, Marine et Bellino – Notice sur Casanova de Seingalt Histoire de Babet – Notice sur l'abbé Du Laurens Histoire de Fanny Hill – Notice sur John Cleland. Louise et Thérèse – Notice sur Rétif de La Bretonne Contributors: Pilon, Edmond (French, 1874 – 1945) – compiler Le Vasseur & Cie – publisher Calbet, Antoine (French, 1860 – 1942) – artist Cl. Jacoub et Cie – printer/text Maccard, Louis (French) – engraver Porcabeuf, Alfred (French, 1867 – 1952) – printer/plates Authors: Caylus, Anne Claude de [comte de Caylus] (French, 1692 – 1765) Prévost d'Exiles, Antoine François [Abbé Prévost] (French, 1697 – 1763) Boufflers, Stanislas Jean, chevalier de (French, 1738 – 1815) Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (French, 1694 – 1778) Casanova, Giacomo Girolamo (Italian, 1725 – 1798) Laurent, Henri-Joseph [Abbé Du Laurens] (French, 1719 – 1793) Cleland, John (British, c. 1709 – 1789) Restif [Retif] de la Bretonne, Nicolas Edmé (French, 1734 – 1806)