[A COPY BELONGING TO CLÉMENT DE RIS, INCLUDING A LETTER FROM - Lot 31

[A COPY BELONGING TO CLÉMENT DE RIS, INCLUDING A LETTER FROM LA SAUVAGERE TO CLÉMENT DE RIS’S GRANDFATHER A FEW DAYS AFTER THE CONCLUSION OF THAT DARK AFFAIR] LA SAUVAGERE A collection of essays, or historical and critical studies on the time when the solitary Saint Florent lived at Mont-Glonne, in Anjou; on certain works by the ancient Romans recently discovered in this province and in Touraine; on the ancient course of the Loire, from Tours to Angers and that of the Vienne River, on the alleged tomb of Turnus in Tours, the site of “Caesaro dunum,” the first capital of the “Turones” under Julius Caesar, the Ponts de Cé and the camp near Angers, attributed to that emperor, and that of Chênehutte, three leagues downstream from Saumur, with new observations on the spontaneous growth of shells at the Château des Places, drawings of a collection of fossil shells from Touraine and Anjou, new ideas regarding the Falunière of Touraine, and several letters from M. de Voltaire concerning these various subjects... Paris, Veuve Duchesne and Veuve Tilliard, 1776. 8vo, blue half-maroquin with corner pieces, spine decorated with gilt lines and gilt crowned initials CR, gilt headband, untrimmed copy (Dupré). Lvi pp., 171 pp., [3] pp., 2 folding maps, and 5 double copperplate engravings. A copy belonging to Count Clément de Ris, bearing his signature and a few lines on the first blank page. Rare. A very fine copy.