BLEGNY, Etienne de. Les Elémens ou Premières Instructions de la Jeunesse, Paris: chez Jean de Nully, 1732, 8°, engraved portrait, 32 plates of calligraphy by C. A. Berey and 8 engraved leaves headed "Instructions morales d'un Pere à son fils" and "Regles de la ciuilité" (a few leaves shaved), contemporary speckled calf (rebacked).

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BLEGNY, Etienne de. Les Elémens ou Premières Instructions de la Jeunesse, Paris: chez Jean de Nully, 1732, 8°, engraved portrait, 32 plates of calligraphy by C. A. Berey and 8 engraved leaves headed "Instructions morales d'un Pere à son fils" and "Regles de la ciuilité" (a few leaves shaved), contemporary speckled calf (rebacked).

Probably the second edition of Blegny's school-book instructing the young in writing, orthography, letter-writing and arithmetic with sections on the moral code and etiquette including table manners.

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