Recueil de pièces curieuses sur les matières les plus intéressantes
By: par Albert Radicati, comte de Passeran
Contributors: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Publisher: Chez la veuve Thomas Johnson et fils
Published: 1736
Place of publication: A Rotterdam
Language: fre
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Controversial literature; Clergy; Christianity; Church and state; Catholic Church; Humor; Politics and government
Notes: Includes 5 titles, the first 4 by Radicati himself; the fifth is a translation of Swift's "A modest proposal."

The first three parts with half titles, the fourth with a separate title page with false impritn: "A Rome, par Nicolas Macchiavel ... MDCCXXVIII," the fifth with caption title.

Signatures: *⁵ A⁸(A7+chi1) B-2A⁸.

Title vignette; head- and tail-pieces; initials; side notes.

Rare Book copy: Contemporary full calf binding, spine gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered spine label, rebacked, with original spine laid down.

Includes bibliographical references.

Quérard, J.M. France littéraire, VI, page 621
Table of contents: title: I. Discours moraux, historiques et politiques; title: II. Histoire abregée de la profession sacerdotale ancienne & moderne; title: III. Nazarenus et Lycurgos mis en parallele; title: IV. Récit fidelle et comique de la religion des canibales modernes; title: V. Projet facile, équitable et modeste pour rendre utile à nótre nation un très grand nombre de pauvres enfans, qui lui font maintenant fort à charge.