[GAYOT DE PITAVAL (François)]. Famous and Interesting Cases, - Lot 131

[GAYOT DE PITAVAL (François)]. Famous and Interesting Cases, with the Judgments That Decided Them. New edition, revised, corrected, and expanded to include several important documents that have been recovered. Paris, Durand [later: Poirion, Legras], 1739–1752. 20 in-12 volumes, fawn calfskin, decorated spine, red edges (contemporary binding). A famous collection of legal cases of all kinds relating to crimes of adultery, murders, annulments of marriage, contestations of wills, etc. Among the most interesting stories are those of the impostor Martin Guerre, the poisoner Marquise de Brinvilliers, Urbain Grandier—condemned as a sorcerer and as the instigator of the possession of the nuns of Loudun— a nun alleged to be a hermaphrodite, Cinq-Mars and De Thou, a girl accused of witchcraft, a coquette from the opera, and even a parricide committed by two children. A fold-out genealogical chart in Volume XII. Copy from the library of attorney Maurice Garçon (1889–1967). Split edges and missing page caps. Pages 377–378 are missing from Volume VII and pages V–VI from Volume XI; there is a tear with text loss on pages 411–412 in Volume XVII.

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