Lot 396
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DEMOUSTIER, Charles Albert (1760-1801). Lettres à Émilie sur la mythologie. Paris: Renouard, 1809. 6 parts in 3 volumes, 8° (207 x 128mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait by M. Tardieu after Pajou fils, 36 plates by Delvaux, Trière, de Ghendt, Thomas, and Simonet after J.M. Moreau, 34 in two states, with half-titles. (Offsetting from plates.) Dark blue straight-grained morocco by Canape, sides with gilt roll-tool border featuring swans, urns and flowers, outer and inner lines of stars, later gilt supralibros at centre, spine compartments with many small tools centering on a circle, gilt turn-ins with palmettes, gilt edges. Provenance: purchased from Gougy, 1925.
DEMOUSTIER, Charles Albert (1760-1801). Lettres à Émilie sur la mythologie. Paris: Renouard, 1809. 6 parts in 3 volumes, 8° (207 x 128mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait by M. Tardieu after Pajou fils, 36 plates by Delvaux, Trière, de Ghendt, Thomas, and Simonet after J.M. Moreau, 34 in two states, with half-titles. (Offsetting from plates.) Dark blue straight-grained morocco by Canape, sides with gilt roll-tool border featuring swans, urns and flowers, outer and inner lines of stars, later gilt supralibros at centre, spine compartments with many small tools centering on a circle, gilt turn-ins with palmettes, gilt edges. Provenance: purchased from Gougy, 1925.

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DEMOUSTIER, Charles Albert (1760-1801). Lettres à Émilie sur la mythologie. Paris: Renouard, 1809. 6 parts in 3 volumes, 8° (207 x 128mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait by M. Tardieu after Pajou fils, 36 plates by Delvaux, Trière, de Ghendt, Thomas, and Simonet after J.M. Moreau, 34 in two states, with half-titles. (Offsetting from plates.) Dark blue straight-grained morocco by Canape, sides with gilt roll-tool border featuring swans, urns and flowers, outer and inner lines of stars, later gilt supralibros at centre, spine compartments with many small tools centering on a circle, gilt turn-ins with palmettes, gilt edges. Provenance: purchased from Gougy, 1925.

LARGE PAPER COPY with illustrations after Moreau le Jeune in two states. Ray considered Demoustier's Lettres à Emilie to be among the best work of Moreau's 'last phase'. The binding by Canape is of the highest possible quality. Brunet II, 593; Vicaire III, 174; cf. Ray, French p. 88. (3)

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