[SMOLLETT, TOBIAS], Histoire et avantures de sir Williams Pickle. Ouvrage traduit de l’Anglois, par l’Auteur Des Moeurs.

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Two (of four) parts in one binding: part one and two. French translation (by l'Auteur Des Moeurs = François Vincent Toussaint) of the English original ‘The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle’. A picaresque novel by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett (1721-1771), first published in 1751 and revised and published again in 1758. It tells the story of an egotistical man who experiences luck and misfortunes in the height of 18th-century European society.