(MERVEILLEUX but previously ascribed to SOLIGNAC, PIERRE-JOSEPH DE LA PIMPIE DE).

Amusemens des eaux de Schwalbach, des bains de Wisbaden et de Schlangenbad (...)

Liege, Everard Kints, 1740.

8vo. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label to upper part of spine. Light wear to extremities and internally with light occassional marginal browning. A nice copy. (8), 320 pp. + 4 folded plates. 

Later (possibly third) edition of Merveilleux’s famous political satire on the scandals of the life at the Palatinate Court in Mannheim under Charles III Philip – it is one of the earliest works on thermal tourism.
It was first published in 1738.

Order-nr.: 60980