[Nicolas-Edme RÉTIF DE LA BRETONNE]. 4 P.S., 1785-1788; 1 page in-8 partly printed each. Censorship cards. Orders given by the Garde des Sceaux (signed Vidaud or Maissemy) to the vicomte de Toustain-Richebourg (friend and last censor of Rétif de la Bretonne) to examine the manuscripts and to give his judgment. October 4, 1785 for Monsieur Nicolas; on the back, note a.s. from Toustain-Richebourg notes: " It is a kind of moral and philosophical review of the life, the feelings and the works of this ingenious and fertile writer. I believe that we can allow its printing", March 12, 1788; the work will be published only from 1794. April 22, 1788 for Les Provinciales, or very exemplary of the girls and women of 434 cities of the kingdom. - December 15, 1788 for Les Provinciales, suite des Parisiennes. - December 15, 1788 for the Thermografe and the Glossografe, 5th and 6th volume of the Idées singulières.