DOLÉANCES, ~ souhaits et proposition des loueurs des carrosses de places & des loueurs des carrosses de remises; avec prière au public de les insérer dans les cahiers de la ville de Paris. [Presumably Paris, c.1789.]
8vo (187 × 113 mm), pp. 30; some light spotting; later quarter calf, upper joint starting at head; bookplates of Paul Lacombe (see below) and Édouard Mahé (1905–1992, artist and engraver).
First edition, listing the various grievances of 48 Paris coachmen against certain monopolistic rights enjoyed by other coaches, from the library of Paul Lacombe (1848–1921), bibliographer and collector. The sale of his library, including shelf after shelf of books about Paris, took place across four days in June 1922; five more days of sales followed early the next year. The present work was part of lot 2133 (31 Jan. 1923), in the section ‘Voitures et Postes’. Lacombe’s bookplate was etched, with drypoint, by his friend François Courboin (1865–1926, by day sous-bibliothécaire in the Bibliothèque nationale’s print department) and shows the bouquinistes’ stalls by the Pont Neuf, which Lacombe must have constantly haunted.