Letters from Mons. La V---- at London, to a friend at Paris; during the course of Monsieur de Bussy's negociation, in the year 1761. Translated from the French.

London, J. Williams, 1763.

1 p. l., 46 p. 21 cm.

LWL 49 1609 6:9: Horace Walpole's notes, including (on title-page): Supposed to be written by Wilkes. June.

Pretends to be a translation.--cf. Monthly Review. v. 29, p. 79.

Strawberry Hill Sale, day iii, lot 110, to Thorpe, £36.15.0; offered in Thorpe's Supplement for 1842; purchased by Henry Labouchere, later Baron Taunton; sold by his grandson at Sotheby's, 2 December 1920 (Stanley Sale), lots 454-5, to Quaritch, £248; sold by Quaritch to Sir Leicester Harmsworth.

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June 01, 2002