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DIDEROT, Denis (1713-84)]. Les Bijoux indiscrets . Au Monomotapa [i.e. Paris: 1748]. 2 volumes, 8° (166 x 95mm). Engraved title vignettes and 7 plates. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, morocco lettering pieces (spines with slight abrasions). FIRST EDITION. Cohen-de Ricci 303; Sander 477; Tchemerzine IV.430 -- [BERINGTON, Simon (1680-1755). Memoires de Gaudence de Luques, prisonnier de l'Inquisition ... enrichis des scavantes remarques de M. Rhedi. Translated by Milts. Amsterdam: 1753. 4 vols in 2. 8° (158 x 93mm). 4 plates and 4 vignettes engraved by Fessard. Contemporary red morocco gilt, with ARMS OF GUILLAUME II DE LAMOIGNON, Chancellor of France, [Olivier 2018 fer 1] on sides, within a dentelle border, spine gilt with two morocco labels (some minor restoration, spine faded). Cf. Gove, Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction pp.295-300. -- [RUSTAING DE SAINT-JORY, Louis (d.1752)]. Les femmes militaires, ou relation historique d'une isle nouvellement de'couverte. Par le C.D*** . Paris: chez Didot, 1739. 8° (164 x 95mm), 6 engraved plates by Fessard after Riquard and Six. (Small burnhole in Bb5.) Contemporary calf, spine gilt. Provenance : Giovanni Diojelli (signature inside upper cover) Cf. Gove, op.cit . p.292 -- USSIEUX, Louis d'. Nouvelles Françaises . Amsterdam & se trouve a Paris: chez Brunet, [last 4 parts: chez Nion & Belin], 1775-83. 15 parts in 3 volumes, 8° (200 x 125mm). Engraved and woodcut title vignettes and fleurons, 14 engraved plates, 22 vignettes and culs-de-lampe by Martini, Desrais, Binet, (probably lacking first plate in vol.III). Later calf gilt, spines gilt, each with two morocco lettering pieces. Cohen-De Ricci 1000, all the volumes in first edition. (8)