- RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE (Nicolas-Edme). The work of Restif de La Bretonne. Paris, Editions du Trianon, 1930-1932, 9 vol. in-8, with 48 plates hors-texte, stapled in filled covers, uncut. One of the 25 first copies on Annam, numbered at the press (10/25), with a double suite of the hors-texte engravings (generally fixed / flying). This collective is misleading, apart from La Vie de mon père, preserved in its entirety, it offers only extracts from the other works, not counting those it voluntarily omits. However, it is necessary to be satisfied with it in the absence of any complete published work. I. The Nights of Paris. La Semaine nocturne. Twenty Nights of Paris. Text and bibliography by Henri Bachelin. Six original copperplates and woodcut portrait by Gérard Cochet (XLIII-397 pp., with a frontispiece and 6 off-text copperplates). - II. Les Contemporaines, followed by Les Françaises, Les Parisiennes, Le Palais-Royal, L'Année des dames nationales. Texts and notes by Henri Bachelin. Original copperplates by Gaston Goor (489-[2] pp., with 5 plates (6 in the loose suite, lacking the one on page 41). - III. Le Pornographe, followed by Le Mimographe, Les Gynographes, Le Thesmographe, Le Nouvel Abailard, Le Nouvel Emile, Philosophie de Monsieur Nicolas, Les Posthumes. Texts and notes by Henri Bachelin. Original copperplates by Georges Ripart (451 pp., with 6 hors-texte plates under serpents, in two states - in colour and in black). - IV. La Vie de mon père, followed by Lucile, Le Pied de Fanchette, La Fille naturelle, Adèle de C***. Text and notes by Henri Bachelin. Original copperplates by Gaston Nick (513 pp., with 6 hors-texte plates, in two states - in colour and in black - except plate III, only in black). - V. Le Ménage parisien, followed by La Femme infidèle, Ingénue Saxancour. Text and notes by Henri Bachelin. Original copperplates by Carlo Farneti (498-[3] pp., with 6 plates outside the text, in two states - in colour and in black). - VI. The Peasant and the Peasant Woman Perverted. Text and notes by Henri Bachelin. Original copperplates by Pierre Gandon (483-[4] pp., with 5 plates outside the text, in two states - in colour and in black). - VII.-VIII. Monsieur Nicolas, or The Human Heart Revealed. Text and notes by Henri Bachelin. Original copperplates by P. Dubreuil and P. Noël (486-[3] and 427-[3] pp., with 12 plates out of the text, in two states - in colour and in black). - IX. My calendar, followed by Morality, Religion, Politics, My works. Text and notes by Henri Bachelin. Frontispiece by Pierre Gandon (295-[2] pp., with a frontispiece in two states - in bistre and in black). Cioranescu, XVIII, 52 624. Rives Child, p. 347, no. 8.