(Sallengre, Albert-Henri de (ed.)). — Pièces échapées du feu.

“À Plaisance” (= The Hague(?), The Netherlands), no publisher, 1717, (16),292,(4) pag., woodcut vignette on title, 19th cent. richly gilt dark blue halfmorocco, marbled endpapers, small octavo (15 x 9,5 cm.).= A scarce work of considerable literary merit including. Only 1 copy in STCN (The Hague) and 2 more in WorldCat (Cambridge . Provenance: Georges Petit. Rare first edition of a collection of miscellaneous literary writings in verse and prose, compiled by this Dutch lawyer and journalist of French origin who died in 1723 at the age of only 29. Gay/ Lemonnyer III, p.740: "Ce recueil est attribue a Sallangre; il contient d'abord une piece satirique en prose. C'est un dialogue intitule Polichinelle demandant une place a l'Academie. Elle est dit-on, de Malezieux. Puis, des nouvelles en prose, des lettres mi-partie vers et prose, des pieces de vers, odes, fables, epitres et d'assez jolis contes". Also including Remarques sur l'Angleterre, written in 1713 by Monsieur de S.G. [Dubois de Saint-Gelais?].