(Mercy, Joseph Aloys). Berlin nights. Two volumes. VIII, 372 pp., 1 Bl; VIII, 355 pp., 2 Bl. 17 x 10.5 and 17.5 x 11 cm respectively. Cardboard tape d. C. (bending) with paper backplate or modern half-line tape. Leipzig and Züllichau, Darnmann, 1803. Hayn-Gotendorf I, 299 and IX, 55: "Extremely rare and sought". Zopf-Heinrich p. 367. Kosch X, 868. – First edition. "This rare work depicts remarkable events and conditions of the old Berlin and its surroundings in 104 nights in satyric narratives and observations" (H.-G.). The anonymous author Joesph Aloys Mery (1764-1833) was secretary and registrator at the Royal Lottery in Berlin. – A little flaky, title of part II somewhat unsettled and completely raised, this band also with moisture margins, the closing page there in the bow with transparent stripes indisputably reinforced.