- BARRE (Joseph). General history of Germany. Paris, Charles-J.-B. Delespine, Jean-Thomas Hérissant, 1748, 10 volumes in 11 large vols. in-4, with engraved headpieces at the beginning of each part, 2 frontispieces (including a portrait of Frederic-Augustus III of Saxony, by Daullé after Silvestre) and a large folded map with coloured outlines, half blond calf, spine with false nerves, gilt scrolls, aubergine morocco title-pieces and gilt gilt on the headpieces and on the spine cover (binding around 1820). (small epidermal marks). Ex libris with the motto Faire et Taire of the Renouard de Bussieres family (Alsace). Unique edition of this monumental history of the Germanic corps, which earned its author a not always appropriate fame.