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SAINT-MARC, Jean Paul André de (1728-1818). Oeuvres. Geneva and Paris: Monory, 1775.
8o (206 x 138 mm). Engraved title and vignettes on first and final text leaves by Charles Gaucher after Charles Eisen, portrait of the author by Gaucher, engraved plate by Gaucher after Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune, vignette on I7 by François Rolland Elluin after Clemént Pierre Mareillier, woodcut head- and tail-pieces by Jean Michel Papillon. Contemporary French red morocco gilt, flat spine à la grotesque, edges gilt, by Derome le jeune, with his paper label. Provenance: Emmanuel Martin (bookplate); Robert Hoe (bookplate); T.J. Coolidge, Jr. (bookplate); acquired from David O'Neal, 1984.
FIRST EDITION of this scarce collection of letters, poems and tales by the French librettist saint-Marc, LARGE-PAPER COPY ON HOLLAND PAPER from the library of Emmanuel Martin and cited by Cohen-De Ricci. After his career as a member of the French Guard, Saint-Marc wrote libretti and was the author of Adele de Ponthieu, a drama set to music by Niccolò Piccini Vito. Brunet Supplement I:563; Cohen-de Ricci 927.
8o (206 x 138 mm). Engraved title and vignettes on first and final text leaves by Charles Gaucher after Charles Eisen, portrait of the author by Gaucher, engraved plate by Gaucher after Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune, vignette on I7 by François Rolland Elluin after Clemént Pierre Mareillier, woodcut head- and tail-pieces by Jean Michel Papillon. Contemporary French red morocco gilt, flat spine à la grotesque, edges gilt, by Derome le jeune, with his paper label. Provenance: Emmanuel Martin (bookplate); Robert Hoe (bookplate); T.J. Coolidge, Jr. (bookplate); acquired from David O'Neal, 1984.
FIRST EDITION of this scarce collection of letters, poems and tales by the French librettist saint-Marc, LARGE-PAPER COPY ON HOLLAND PAPER from the library of Emmanuel Martin and cited by Cohen-De Ricci. After his career as a member of the French Guard, Saint-Marc wrote libretti and was the author of Adele de Ponthieu, a drama set to music by Niccolò Piccini Vito. Brunet Supplement I:563; Cohen-de Ricci 927.