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ROUSSEAU, Jean Baptiste (1670-1741). Oeuvres ... nouvelle édition; avec un commentaire historique et littéraire, Paris: chez Lafêvre, 1820. 5 volumes, 8° (198 x 129mm.), half titles, engraved frontispiece portrait of Rousseau in volume I by D. Elvaux (some spotting throughout), contemporary mottled calf, gilt tooled border on sides, spines lavishly decorated gilt in compartments, red and green morocco lettering-pieces (front joints of vol. II cracked, lightly rubbed), marbled edges; bookplate of W. G. Coesvelt.
SAINT-REAL, César Vichard de. Oeuvres ... nouvelle édition, Amsterdam: François l'Honoré & fils, 1740. 6 volumes, 12° (168 x 99mm.), engraved frontispiece in each volume, titles printed in red and black with engraved vignettes, 8 engraved plates, vignettes, woodcut headpieces (a few occasional light spots, margins of last few leaves in vol. VI very lightly waterstained), contemporary green morocco, gilt Greek-tool border on sides, flat spine ruled in gilt with floral motif in 4 compartments and lettered in 2, gilt turn-ins (spines lightly darkened), g.e. Brunet V, 59.
With 22 works of French literature in 39 volumes, including Publius Cornelius Tacitus' Nouvelle Traduction de deux Ouvrages (Lyon, 1706, translated by Philip V of Spain, his arms on covers), Lord Alfred Douglas' Poèmes (Paris, 1894, PRESENTATION COPY), and André Maurois' Ariel ou la vie de Shelley (Paris, 1923, PRESENTATION COPY). (50)
SAINT-REAL, César Vichard de. Oeuvres ... nouvelle édition, Amsterdam: François l'Honoré & fils, 1740. 6 volumes, 12° (168 x 99mm.), engraved frontispiece in each volume, titles printed in red and black with engraved vignettes, 8 engraved plates, vignettes, woodcut headpieces (a few occasional light spots, margins of last few leaves in vol. VI very lightly waterstained), contemporary green morocco, gilt Greek-tool border on sides, flat spine ruled in gilt with floral motif in 4 compartments and lettered in 2, gilt turn-ins (spines lightly darkened), g.e. Brunet V, 59.
With 22 works of French literature in 39 volumes, including Publius Cornelius Tacitus' Nouvelle Traduction de deux Ouvrages (Lyon, 1706, translated by Philip V of Spain, his arms on covers), Lord Alfred Douglas' Poèmes (Paris, 1894, PRESENTATION COPY), and André Maurois' Ariel ou la vie de Shelley (Paris, 1923, PRESENTATION COPY). (50)
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