[Alexis PIRON (1689-1773)]. Manuscript, Recüeil de toutes sortes de pieces de littérature tant en prose qu'en poësie, 18th c.; 480 pages folio, parchment bound. Following various pieces of verse (Vadé, Piron, Grécourt, etc.) or prose (Duclos), 28 letters by Piron, followed by other pieces, including Virgile en bourguignon. Marginal notes in pencil by a scholar. After the table, an epistle by Marmontel to Miss Guimard has been copied. At the head, a portrait of Piron has been mounted. This collection comes from the sales Vaillant de Meixmoron (1869, n° 3137), Clément-Janin (1886, n° 355), then Henri Baudot (1900, n° 724). A period copy of Bontan de Retor, opéra grionche de Piron (1714), with variants and corrections, followed by the Requaite de Jaiquemar et de sai fanne, ai messieu de lai Chambre de ville de Dijon (1714) (small in-fol. of 38 p., cart.) is joined...