Essai historique et philosophique sur les principaux ridicules des differentes nations
Subtitle: Suivi de quelques poesies nouvelles
By: Par M. G... Dourx...
Publisher: Chez Rey.
Published: 1766
Place of publication: A Amsterdam [i.e. Paris?]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Booksellers' catalogs; Superstition; Humor; World history
Other titles: Ridicules des differentes nations.; Ridicules des nations.
Notes: Attributed to Sebastien Marie Mathurin Gazon-d'Ourxigné by Barbier and Cioranescu.

Possibly a false imprint. Probably printed in France; p.1-4, 3rd count, contain advertisements by 'Durand, libraire, rue S. Jacques'

Barbier gives place of publication as Peking and Paris : Durand neveu, 1766; According to Cioranescu and BN, first printed without "Epitre", p. [1]-80, 4th count, Amsterdam, 1766.

"Chapitre V. Des Américains et des Africains", p. 52-61, 2nd count, also contains religious customs of the Natches Indians, Peruvians, Mexicans, and Hottentots.

"Epitre de Didon a Enée", and other epitres, p. [1]-80, 4th count, have divisional title pages.

Signatures: pi² A-M⁸⁻⁴ N⁶ ²A-²F⁸⁻⁴ ²G⁴

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces.

Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes, 5550.

Cioranescu, A. 18. s., 30543.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full vellum.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Louisa D. Sharpe Metcalf Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Biblioteca Banzi: bookplate on front pastedown.