Réflexions sur les passions et sur les goûts
By: par M. de B***
Contributors: Firmin-Didot (Firm)
Publisher: Chez Didot, quai des Augustins, près le pont S. Michel, à la Bible d'or
Published: 1738
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 130
Subjects: Love; Early works to 1800; Poetry; Curiosity; Country life
Notes: Prose and poetry.

By F.-J. de P. de Bernis.

2 bibliographic volumes in 1 physical volume.

The 2 parts with continuous pagination and register.

The first part with imprint date 1741, the second part with imprint date 1738.

The second part without "par M. de B***" on title page; according to Barbier, the first volume, with "par M. de B***" on title page, is a second issue.

"Approbation" and 'Privilège du roi" on 2 final leaves, dated 1738.

Monogram title vignette; head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Rare Book copy: Contemporary mottled calf binding, spine with raised bands, compartments ornamented in gilt, gilt-stamped red morocco lettering-piece; marbled endpapers.

Rare Book copy: Bound with: Epitre à mes dieux Penates -- A Paris : Chez Didot, libraire, quai des Augustins, à la Bible d'or, MDCCXXXVI [1736] and Epitre sur la paresse, à M. de *** -- [Paris?] : [publisher not identified], [1738?].

Barbier, A.A. Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes (3. éd.), IV, column 168

Quérard, J.M. France littéraire, I, page 293
Table of contents: title: Réflexions sur l'amour. Réflexions sur la metromanie; title: Réflexions sur la curiosité, le goût de la campagne, l'amour de la glorie & la médisance.