C[alvi], F[rançois] d[e], [Frianoro, Rafaele] | On the character of "the mischievousness and cheatings of those who run the world to the expense of others"

C[alvi], F[rançois] d[e], [Frianoro, Rafaele]

Two works on thieves and vagabonds

C[alvi], F[rançois] d[e]. Histoire Generale des Larrons, Divisee en Trois Livres. Lyon: C Rigaud & Philippe Borde, 1640. 18mo (178 x 115 mm). 3 volumes in 1, title pages with woodcuts, tables of contents, running titles, woodcut headpieces, inhabited initials; property stamp to initial title, some foxing and browning throughout. Vellum-backed marbled boards, title handwritten at spine in black ink, name stamped into bottom edge; dampstain to rear endpapers, rubbed at extremities, hinges a little cracked, chipping to head and foot of spine. — [Frianoro, Rafaele]. Le Vagabond. Paris: Jacques Villery, 1644 [with] Desfontaines [Mary, Nicolas]. Entrentien des Bonnes Compagnies. Np, nd. 18mo (170 x 115 mm). Title with woodcut, Entrentien des Bonnes Compagnies bound in at end, running titles, handwritten note laid in; some browning, stray spots. In vellum, title handwritten at spine in black ink, "vagabond" handwritten at top edge in black ink; binding worn with some staining.

Two scarce, seventeenth-century works offering entertaining accounts of notable thieves, vagabonds, charlatans, and beggars. Frianoro's volume is bound with Desfontaine's work containing 184 brief anecdotes related to theft and larceny.