MIRABEAU (TIBULLE). Elégies, avec des notes et recherches de mythologie, d'histoire et de philosophie ; suivies des Baisers de Jean Second ; traduction nouvelle, adressée du Donjeon [sic] de Vincennes, par Mirabeau, l'aîné, à Sophie Ruffey. With 14 figures. Tours, Letourmy, Paris, Berry, an III - an IV (1795-96), 3 vol. in-8, [2], with 15 hors-texte plates (two frontispiece portraits of Mirabeau and Sophie by Voysard and Delagrave after Borel, and 13 figures by Elluin and Dupréel after Borel and Marillier),paperback, contemporary blue paper cover. First edition of this version composed by Mirabeau during his stay from 1777 to 1780 at the Château de Vincennes. (Small angular wetness on the frontispiece of Volume 1).