REGIMENT DE LA CALOTTE. Manuscript, [Mémoires pour servir à - Lot 420

REGIMENT DE LA CALOTTE. Manuscript, [Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la Calotte], ca. 1750; 461 pages in-4 (pag. 41 to 495) [and 6 p. of tables], contemporary brown basane binding (worn). Amusing collection (of which the beginning is missing) of about 90 pieces of satirical verse and prose, malicious patents, letters patent, rulings, petitions and humorous acts, fanciful catalogs of libraries, pinning down a quantity of personalities, the Regent, Louis XIV, and often Voltaire... Following, in another hand, 63 pieces mainly related to religious polemics, against the Jesuits, on the affair of the Unigenitus bull, on the Jansenists, or on the war of the parliaments, etc. Table at the end of the volume.