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LA BRUYÈRE, Jean de (1645-1696). Les Caractères de Theophraste traduits du grec: avec les caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle. Neuvième édition. Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1716. 12° (164 x 93mm). [32], 52, 662, xliv, [6]p. Michallet's monogram on title, woodcut opening initials and head-pieces. (Pen trials washed from title and on a11r, L6 and Ff1 with bottom margin slightly defective, a few bottom margins in quire X slighly stained, occasional light soil marks.) Blue morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet, gilt-lettering and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt and marbled edges, red silk marker, later gilt ex libris. Ninth edition, lightly corrected but not augmented by the author who died on 10 or 11 May 1696. Brunet III, 720; Cioranescu 37515; Tchemerzine VI, 326.
LA BRUYÈRE, Jean de (1645-1696). Les Caractères de Theophraste traduits du grec: avec les caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle. Neuvième édition. Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1716. 12° (164 x 93mm). [32], 52, 662, xliv, [6]p. Michallet's monogram on title, woodcut opening initials and head-pieces. (Pen trials washed from title and on a11r, L6 and Ff1 with bottom margin slightly defective, a few bottom margins in quire X slighly stained, occasional light soil marks.) Blue morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet, gilt-lettering and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt and marbled edges, red silk marker, later gilt ex libris. Ninth edition, lightly corrected but not augmented by the author who died on 10 or 11 May 1696. Brunet III, 720; Cioranescu 37515; Tchemerzine VI, 326.

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LA BRUYÈRE, Jean de (1645-1696). Les Caractères de Theophraste traduits du grec: avec les caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle. Neuvième édition. Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1716. 12° (164 x 93mm). [32], 52, 662, xliv, [6]p. Michallet's monogram on title, woodcut opening initials and head-pieces. (Pen trials washed from title and on a11r, L6 and Ff1 with bottom margin slightly defective, a few bottom margins in quire X slighly stained, occasional light soil marks.) Blue morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet, gilt-lettering and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt and marbled edges, red silk marker, later gilt ex libris. Ninth edition, lightly corrected but not augmented by the author who died on 10 or 11 May 1696. Brunet III, 720; Cioranescu 37515; Tchemerzine VI, 326.

With 3 other editions of the same work, published by Michallet in Paris: 1690. (Browned.) Fifth edition; 1692. Seventh edition; and 1697. 2 volumes in one. Tenth edition. All 12°. Respectively bound in morocco by Cuzin, Thibaron-Joly, and Balmes.

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