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Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'histoire de la république des lettres en France, by Bachaumont, Louis Petit [de]; Pidansat de Mairobert, Mathieu-François

Keywords: Anecdotes, Cultural news, France, Periodical Literature

Parisian category: Chronologie

Illegality: Darnton’s Corpus (150 copies requested in 25 orders); Poinçot’s Inventory of the Bastille (France, 1789)

Acquired: 16 full copies

Sold and Given: 20 full copies

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Full title: Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'histoire de la république des lettres en France, depuis 1762 jusqu'à nos jours ou journal d'un observateur, par feu M. de Bachaumont
Edition type (by origin): Place of publication unknown

Author(s): Bachaumont, Louis Petit [de]; Pidansat de Mairobert, Mathieu-François
Language(s): French
Publication: London [?]
Details: 1 volume, in-12°

LFB Catalogue 1787
STN Catalogue 1785

Notes: Attribution - printed version of the manuscript newsletter. Edition(s), and numbers not identified. Fauche-Borel Catalogue (1787) gives (London, 1785, 24 vols.). Probably a Swiss edition and if so likely to have been published in Geneva: French police believed an edition was being produced there (information courtesy of Louise Seaward).