Lot 95
95
GESSNER, SALOMON. Mort d'Abel, poëme. Paris: Defer de Maisonneuve 1793. 4to, 342 x 259 mm. (13 7/17 x 10 3/16 in.), red crushed levant morocco, covers with gold-tooled borders and cornerpieces of flower tools and leafy sprays arranged symmetrically on a gold-stippled ground and punctuated by six small onlaid blue morocco circles, spine in six similarly decorated compartments, blue morocco doublures with wide gold-tooled border, dark red silk liners, marbled inner endleaves, edges gilt on the rough, by Charles de Samblanx, stamp-signed on upper doublure, slipcase (worn), lacking final blank leaf, repaired marginal tear to O4, very faint marginal foxing to frontispiece and plate 3. First edition of Hubert's prose translation, frontispiece and 5 stipple-engraved plates by Colibert, Casenave and Clément after Monsiau, all color-printed "à la poupée", the plates in the first state, before numbering. Cohen-de Ricci 436.

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GESSNER, SALOMON. Mort d'Abel, poëme. Paris: Defer de Maisonneuve 1793. 4to, 342 x 259 mm. (13 7/17 x 10 3/16 in.), red crushed levant morocco, covers with gold-tooled borders and cornerpieces of flower tools and leafy sprays arranged symmetrically on a gold-stippled ground and punctuated by six small onlaid blue morocco circles, spine in six similarly decorated compartments, blue morocco doublures with wide gold-tooled border, dark red silk liners, marbled inner endleaves, edges gilt on the rough, by Charles de Samblanx, stamp-signed on upper doublure, slipcase (worn), lacking final blank leaf, repaired marginal tear to O4, very faint marginal foxing to frontispiece and plate 3. First edition of Hubert's prose translation, frontispiece and 5 stipple-engraved plates by Colibert, Casenave and Clément after Monsiau, all color-printed "à la poupée", the plates in the first state, before numbering. Cohen-de Ricci 436.