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Avantures de l'Abbé de Choisy Habillé en Femme. Quatre fragments inédits, à l'exception du dernier qui a été publié sous le titire: Histoire de la Comtesse des Barres, précédés d'un avant-propos, par M. P.L. [Paul Lacroix]

Avantures de l'Abbé de Choisy Habillé en Femme. Quatre fragments inédits, à l'exception du dernier qui a été publié sous le titire: Histoire de la Comtesse des Barres, précédés d'un avant-propos, par M. P.L. [Paul Lacroix]

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Avantures de l'Abbé de Choisy Habillé en Femme. Quatre fragments inédits, à l'exception du dernier qui a été publié sous le titire: Histoire de la Comtesse des Barres, précédés d'un avant-propos, par M. P.L. [Paul Lacroix]

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Paris: Jules Gay, 1862. First edition, No. 74 of 115 copies. 119pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Half tan calf and marbled boards, with the original yellow printed wrappers bound in. First edition, No. 74 of 115 copies. 119pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Memoirs of a Cross-Dressing Monk: One of 115 Copies. Memoirs of an eighteenth-century cross-dresser, published here for the first time (except for one fragment) from manuscript located in the library of Arsenal. Gay-Lemonnyer I 315

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Avantures de l'Abbé de Choisy Habillé en Femme. Quatre fragments inédits, à l'exception du dernier qui a été publié sous le titire: Histoire de la Comtesse des Barres, précédés d'un avant-propos, par M. P.L. [Paul Lacroix]
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(Curiosa)
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119pp. 1 vols. 12mo
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Used - Half tan calf and marbled boards, with the original yellow printed wrappers bound in
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First edition, No. 74 of 115 copies
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Jules Gay
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Paris
Date Published
1862
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