Apologues et contes orientaux, etc. par l'auteur des variétés morales et amusantes

Paris, Debure fils aîné, 1784; small 8vo, half-title, frontispiece portrait, title, LVI, 285 pages and approbation. Bottle-green half-morocco, spine with 5 raised bands, decorated compartments, author and title gilt. Copy complete with the frontispiece engraved by Augustin de Saint-Aubin. 19th-century binding with minor defects, scattered foxing at the beginning and end of the volume, marks from a bookplate on 3 pages. First edition of the last work of Abbé Blanchet (1707 - 1784). A good copy despite the noted defects.