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XENOPHON (c.430-c.354 B.C.) -- CHARPENTIER, François, translator (1620-1702). Les choses memorables de Socrate traduit du grec en franc¸ois ... Avec la vie de Socrate, Nouvellement composée & recueillie de plus celebres Autheurs de l'Antiquitié. Paris: Augustin Courbé, 1650.
8° (180 x 112mm). Additional engraved title, title vignette, portrait of Socrates in the text. (Without blank Cc8, occasional faint spotting and browning.) Contemporary red morocco with black marbling, covers with outer frame of gilt triple fillet enclosing a central gilt cartouche containing the monogram of François Molé, gilt spine with raised bands, gilt edges. Provenance: François Molé (1625-1712, abbot of Sainte-Croix de Bordeaux; binding) -- Comte Stanislas d'Imécourt (19th-century engraved armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FRENCH TRANSLATION BY CHARPENTIER, illustrated with an engraved portrait of socrates as well as a small medallion portrait at the beginning.
A SUPERB COPY BOUND AT THE TIME BY MACÉ RUETTE FOR FRANÇOIS MOLÉ ,WITH HIS COAT OF ARMS GILT ON SIDES.
François Molé (1625-1712) was the third son of the French statesman and renowned bibliophile Mathieu Molé. Abbot of Sainte-Croix in Bordeaux and Maître des Requêtes to Louis XIV, he took over the major part of his father's library, which enjoyed great renown during his day.
This present volume was bound with a very particular red marbled morocco, which was specially imported from Constantinople by order of the French minister Colbert.
Books from the library of Molé are scarce on the market.
(Soultrait 17th century 323.)
8° (180 x 112mm). Additional engraved title, title vignette, portrait of Socrates in the text. (Without blank Cc8, occasional faint spotting and browning.) Contemporary red morocco with black marbling, covers with outer frame of gilt triple fillet enclosing a central gilt cartouche containing the monogram of François Molé, gilt spine with raised bands, gilt edges. Provenance: François Molé (1625-1712, abbot of Sainte-Croix de Bordeaux; binding) -- Comte Stanislas d'Imécourt (19th-century engraved armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FRENCH TRANSLATION BY CHARPENTIER, illustrated with an engraved portrait of socrates as well as a small medallion portrait at the beginning.
A SUPERB COPY BOUND AT THE TIME BY MACÉ RUETTE FOR FRANÇOIS MOLÉ ,WITH HIS COAT OF ARMS GILT ON SIDES.
François Molé (1625-1712) was the third son of the French statesman and renowned bibliophile Mathieu Molé. Abbot of Sainte-Croix in Bordeaux and Maître des Requêtes to Louis XIV, he took over the major part of his father's library, which enjoyed great renown during his day.
This present volume was bound with a very particular red marbled morocco, which was specially imported from Constantinople by order of the French minister Colbert.
Books from the library of Molé are scarce on the market.
(Soultrait 17th century 323.)
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