[Rarebooks] FS: Remarkable travel guide to the underside of Paris. London: 1708

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(PARIS) AN AGREEABLE CRITICISM, OF THE CITY OF PARIS AND THE FRENCH; Giving 
an Account of Their Present State and Condition: Their Virtues and Vices... 
Levity. Their Women. Their Beggars, Writers, Booksellers... Taverns... Trades 
People... Bridges, Buildings... Consumption of Food, &c. Being a Translation of 
an Italian Letter, Written Lately from Paris, by a Sicilian, to a Friend of His 
in Amsterdam... With Further Remarks... by a French Gentleman. The Third 
Edition Corrected. London: Printed for J. Chantry, J. Phillips, and B. Bragg. 
1708. 8vo. (2),80pp. 19th c. half calf over marbled boards, black morocco spine 
label, front hinge split but holding soundly. Bookplate on front pastedown.     
$750.00 (trade discount allowed)
The third and final edition (the 1st is 1704) of a very interesting text 
largely regarding the “low-life” of Paris. OCLC records only 2 copies each, for 
all three editions.

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