ANOTHER PICAROS' BREVIARY - Lot 85

ANOTHER PICAROS' BREVIARY [F[rançois] D(e) C(alvi)]. HISTOIRE GENERALE DES LARRONS Divisée en trois livres. I) - Contenant les cruautez & meschancetez des Voleurs. 2) - Des ruses & subtilitez des Coupeurs de Bourses. 3)- Les finesses, tromperies, & stratagèmes des Filous. by F. D. C. Lyonnois. Rouen, Jacques Cailloué, 1657. Three parts in a large in-8 volume (4 ff, 270 pp. // 8 ff, 209 pp // 4 ff, 236 pp), full bottle-green morocco, ribbed spine decorated with gilded caissons, triple fillet on covers, interior lace, gilded edges (Binding signed Petit successeur de Simier), jaws rubbed, spine unstained but good copy. qq. piq. This work appeared in three separate parts from 1623 to 1625. The first collective edition dates from 1636. Here we have the three parts reunited with separate titles and pagination. It recounts 73 murders, thefts and swindles... Picaros are back in the spotlight! Brunet III, 204. Nodier, 1200 had a 1709 edition.