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1702108045Amsterdam : Chez Henri Schelte 1702. 160x100mm. frontispice titre grav - 8 ff. 315 pages 4 gravures n/b hors texte frontsipice identique celui du tome premier titre grav - 342 pages - 5 ff. 1 gravure n/b hors texte lettrines bandeaux culs-de-lampes reliure basane. Reli en plein veau dÕpoque. Dos nerfs dorrures au dos passes. Manque de cuir sur les coiffes et sur les plats par endroits. Taches brunes sur quelques pages. 489 Chez Henri Schelte unknown
1705Boileau1<p><strong>BOILEAU DESPRÉAUX Nicolas 1636-1711</strong></p><p>Autograph letter signed " Despreaux " to Claude Brossette<br />Paris 6 March 1705 3 p. small in-4° in black ink on laid paper<br />Reinforced central fold small tears on margins without gravity<br />Several words crossed out by Boileau</p><p><strong>A long spiritual letter from the poet enriched with an epigram and a verse from <em>Le Cid</em> – Boileau elaborates in detail on his <em>Odes</em> and <em>Epigrams</em> the quintessence of the spirit of the Grand Siècle</strong></p><p><strong><em>" You say nothing about the four verses I wrote for the other infamous engraving I mentioned to you. Do you think they are bad Yet they have pleased everyone to whom I recited them "</em></strong></p><p><strong><u>Remarkable rediscovery of one of the rare letters to Brossette still in private hands believed to have been 'lost since 1858' Pléiade</u></strong></p><p><em>" Je ne m'estendrai point ici Monsieur en longues excuses du long temps que j'ay esté sans respondre a vos obligeantes Lettres puis qu'il n'est que trop vrai qu'un très facheux rhume que j'ay eu accompagné mesme de quelques fievre m'a entièrement mis hors d'estat depuis trois semaines de faire ce que j'aime le mieux a faire</em><em> je veux dire de vous réscrire. Me voila enfin restabli et je vais macquitter d'une partie de mon devoir. <strong>Je suis fort aise que votre illustre Physicien a l'aide de son microscope ayt trouvé de quoy justifier le vers du Lutrin que vous attaquiés et ayt rendu a la Guespe son honneur</strong></em>. <em>Car bien qu'elle soit un peu decriée parmi les Hommes on doit rendre justice a ses Ennemis et reconnoistre Le merite de ceux mesmes qui nous persecutent.</em> <em>Je vous prie donc de faire bien des remercimens de ma part a Mr Puget et de lui bien marquer lestime que je fais des excellentes qualités de son esprit qui n'ont pas besoin comm</em>e<em> celles de la guespe de microscope poue estre veües</em>¹.<strong><em>Vous faictes a mon avis trop de cas des deux Epigrammes que je vous ay envoiées et sur tout de celle a Mr Le Verrier qui n'est qu'un petit compliment très simple que je me suis crû obligé de lui faire pour empescher qu'on ne me crûst Auteur</em></strong>² <strong><em>des quatre vers qui sont au bas de mon portrait et qui sont beaucoup meilleurs que mes deux Epigrammes n'y ayant rien sur tout de plus juste que ces deux vers</em></strong><br /><em>J'ay sceu dans mes Escrits docte enjoués sublimes </em><br /><em>Rassembler en moi Perse Horace et Juvenal</em><br /><em>Supposé que cela fust vrai Docte respondant admirablement a Perse</em> <em>enjoué a Horace et sublime a Juvenal. Il les avoit faicts d'abord indirects et de la maniere dont vous me faictes voir que vous avés pretendu les rajuster mais cela les rendoit froids et c'est par le conseil de gens tres habiles qu'il les mit en stile directe</em> <em>la prosopopée ayant une grace qui les anime et une fanfaronnade mesme pour ainsi dire qui a son agrement. <strong>Vous ne me dites rien des quatre vers que j'ay faicts pour Lautre infame gravûre dont je vous ay parlé. Est-ce que vous les trouvés mauvais</strong></em>³ <strong><em>Ils ont pourtant réjoui tous ceux a qui je les ay dits</em></strong><em>. Mais pour vous satisfaire sur l'histoire que vous me demandez de l'Epigramme de Lubin</em> <em>Je vous dirai que Lubin est un de mes parens qui est mort il y a plus de vingt ans et qui avoit la folie que j'y attaque. Il estoit Secretaire du Roy et s'appelloit Mr Targas.</em>ⴠ<em>Javois dit lui vivant le mot dont j'ay composé le sel de mon Epigramme qui ma esté faicte quenviron depuis deux mois chés moi a Auteuil ou couchoit l'Abbé de Chasteauneuf.</em>ⵠ<em>Je m'estois ressouvenu le soir en conversant avec lui du mot dont il est question. Il l'avoit trouvé fort plaisant et sur cela <strong>nous estions convenus l'un et lautre qu'avant tout pour faire une bonne Epigramme il falloit dire en conversation le mot quon y vouloit mettre a la fin et voir s'il frapperoit</strong>. Celui ci donc l'ayant frappé je le lui rapportai le lendemain au matin construit en Epigramme telle que je vous lay envoiée. Voilà l'histoire. Le monument antique que vous m'avés faict tenir est fort beau et fort vrai</em>.ⶠ<em>Mon dessein estoit de le porter moi mesme a l'Academie des inscriptions mai j'ay sceu qu'il y avoit deja longtemps qu'il y estoit et que les Academiciens mesme sestoient deja fort exercés sur cette excellente relique de l'Antiquité. Je ne scay pas pourquoi vous me faictes une querelle d'Allemand sur la preeminence qu'a eu autrefois Lyon au dessus de Paris</em>.ⷠ<strong><em>Est ce que Paris a jamais nié que du temps de Cesar non seulement Lyon mais Marseille Sens Melun ne fussent beaucoup plus considérables que Paris et qu'est ce que de cela Lyon scauroit conclure contre Paris sinon ce vers du Cid</em></strong>⸠<strong><em><u>Vous estes aujourd'hui ce qu'autrefois je fus</u>.</em></strong><em> Je vous conjure de bien marquer Mr de Mezzabarba</em>⹠<em>dans les lettres que vous lui escrivés le cas que je fais de sa personne et de son merite. Je ne scay si vous avés veû la traduction qu'il a faite de mon Ode sur Namur. Je ne vous dirai pas qu'il y est plus moi mesme que moi mesme mais je vous dirai hardiment que bien de j'aye sur tout songé a y prendre l'esprit de Pindare</em>. <em>Mr de Mezzabarba y est beaucoup plus Pindare que moi. Si vous n'avés point encore receû de lettre de Mr Le Verrier cela ne vient que de ma faute et du peu de soin que j'ay eu de le faire ressouvenir comme je devois de vous rescrire mais je vais disner aujourd'hui ches lui et je reparerai ma negligence</em>. <em>Vous pouvés vous asseurer d'avoir au premier jour un compliment de sa facon. Adieu mon illustre Monsieur croiés que c'est tres sincerement que je suis</em><br /><em>Vostre très humble et tres obeissant serviteur</em><br /><em>Despreaux</em></p><p><em>Monsieur</em><br /><em>Soufrés que je fasse ici en particulier et hors d'œuvre mon compliment a Mr Perichon "</em></p><p>1 – The said "Wasp" makes its appearance in <em>Le Lutrin</em> Boileau's mock-epic which he published between 1672 and 1674. The passage to which the poet alludes is:<br /><em>" Tel qu'on voit un Taureau qu'une Guespe en furie </em><br /><em>A piqué dans les flancs au dépens de sa vie " </em>Pléiade p. 193 v. 7 & 8<br />Boileau had already responded two years earlier to his correspondent's criticism of this very passage in a letter he sent on May 26 1703: <em>"I well remember however that you strongly attacked what I say in my Lutrin about the Wasp which dies from the very sting with which it wounds its enemy."</em></p><p>2- <em>"</em> <em>Au joug de la Raison asservissant la Rime</em><br /><em>Et mesme en imitant toujours original</em><br /><em>J'ay sceu dans mes Escrits docte enjoués sublimes </em><br /><em>Rassembler en moi Perse Horace et Juvenal</em> <em>"</em> Pléiade p. 272<br />Brossette recounts that an engraver wishing to place a few verses beneath a portrait of Boileau asked the poet to compose them himself. To this Boileau replied: <em>"I am neither vain enough to speak well of myself nor foolish enough to speak ill of myself."</em> Even if he tries in vain to deny it Boileau is indeed the author of the epigram pretending to find himself too highly praised. He even complains about it in Poem no. XII <em>Pléiade</em> p. 245.</p><p>3- <em>"The other infamous engraving"</em> is a portrait of Boileau by an artist whose name he did not know. Plainly very displeased the poet lashes out in his earlier letter of January 12 1705 in these terms: <em>"</em>it<em> resembles me less than the Great Mogul."</em> The four lines to which he here alludes are found in that same letter:<br /><em>" Du celebre Boileau tu vois ici l'image.</em><br /><em>Quoi c'est là diras tu ce Critique achevé </em><br /><em>D'où vient le noir chagrin qu'on lit sur son visage </em><br /><em>C'est de ce voir si mal gravé. "</em></p><p>4- Pierre Targas married a cousin of Boileau Élisabeth Colin in 1647. Boileau made him the dedicatee of his Epigram LXVII <em>"The Lover of Clocks"</em> which he composed in December 1704.</p><p>5- François de Castagner Abbé de Chateauneuf 1645–1709 was Voltaire's godfather.</p><p>6- In his letter of February 12 Brossette enclosed an inscription "engraved on an ancient altar in the form of a pedestal which had been discovered in recent days in Lyon on the hill of Fourvière by peasants digging in the ground.</p><p>7- Boileau's reaction to the latest letter sent by Brossette who writes to him: <em>"You see Sir that in those times our Lyon was already a considerable city adorned with the title of colony and municipium and admitted to the honors and privileges of the Roman people whereas your Lutetia perhaps did not yet even dare aspire to the name of city."</em></p><p>8- <em>The Cid</em> Act I Scene 2 Don Diègue to the Count:<br /><em>" Je le sais vous servez bien le roi :</em><br /><em>Je vous ai vu combattre et commander sous moi.</em><br /><em>Quand l'âge dans mes nerfs a fait couler sa glace</em><br /><em>Votre rare valeur a bien rempli ma place ;</em><br /><em>Enfin pour épargner les discours superflus</em><br /><em>Vous êtes aujourd'hui ce qu'autrefois je fus. "</em></p><p>9- This is the translation of Boileau's ode <em>On the Capture of Namur</em>.</p><p>A lawyer from Lyon Claude Brossette 1671–1743 met the poet during a stay in Paris in 1698. Admirer of Boileau's poetry he was authorized by the poet to consider publishing his works with commentary. The edition rich in notes did not appear until 1716 five years after the poet's death. Brossette also left a <em>Journal</em> published by Laverdet in 1858 in which his relationship with Boileau is recounted.<br />Of the seventy-five letters from Boileau to Brossette that have been catalogued more than half are now held in the collections of the Historical Library of the City of Paris.</p><p><strong><u>Boileau's letters to Brossette considered among the finest in the poet's correspondence are exceedingly rare on the open market</u></strong></p><p><u>Provenance:</u><br />Private collection</p><p><u>Bibliography:</u><br /><em>Correspondance entre Boileau Despréaux et Brossette</em> éd. Auguste Laverdet J. Techener 1858 n°CVIII / <em>Œuvres poétiques</em> t<em>. </em>2 Imprimerie générale Paris 1872 p. 178 /<em> Bibliographie générale </em>éd. Émile Magne Giraud-Badin Paris 1929 p. 11 <em>/ Œuvres complètes</em> éd. Françoise Escal Pléiade pp. 694-696 – n°XLVIII / <em>Littérature classiques Juvénal en France au XVI</em><em>ᵉ</em><em> et au XVII</em><em>ᵉ</em><em> siècle</em> Pascal Debailly printemps 1995 p. 45<br />The transcription in the <em>Pléiade</em> based on Laverdet's edition contains errors in several places. Here we restore Boileau's original spelling as it stands.</p>
177255442à Paris: Chez Les libraires associés 1772. Fine. Chez Les libraires associés à Paris 1772 12.50 x 21.50 cm 5 volumes reliés New edition printed on laid paper and illustrated with a frontispiece drawn by Bernard Picart dit le Romain and engraved by Vinkeles. Also includes two allegorical figures by van der Meer as frontispiece to l'Epitre and l'Art poétique 6 figures after Picart re-engraved by Vinkeles for Le Lutrin and four title vignettes by van der Meer and one by F. de Bakker. Contemporary bindings in full speckled blonde calf smooth spines decorated with red straight-grained morocco title and volume labels fleurons and triple gilt fillets gilt striations on headcaps gilt fillets on leading edges marbled endpapers and pastedowns all edges speckled blue. Gilt initials at foot of spines. Headcap of volume 1 slightly rubbed discreet worming on tailcap of volume 1 and on title label as well as at foot of joint of second board of volumes 3 and 5 traces of rubbing on boards slight lack to first board of volumes 1 and 3 small dark stains on spine and second board of volume 1 corners somewhat rubbed. Very small wormhole to upper margin of leaves of volume 2. Fresh copy free from foxing. Chez Les libraires associés hardcover
177245004à Paris: Chez Les libraires associés 1772. Fine. Chez Les libraires associés à Paris 1772 12 x 21 cm 5 volumes reliés New edition illustrated with a frontispiece by Picart engraved by Winkeles 2 allegorical figures by van der Meer the Epistle and the Poetic Art and 6 figures after Picart re-engraved by Vinkeles for Le lutrin 4 title vignettes by van der Meer and one by F. de Bakker. This edition also appeared in Amsterdam published by Changuion. Picart's figures were taken from the 1718 edition they are printed on thick paper. Contemporary full scaled calf binding. Richly decorated spine with raised bands head and tail rolls. Green morocco title and volume labels. Triple fillet frame on covers. Green painted edges. One tear with lack at head of volume I; headcap of volume II worn down; lack at head of volume III. Several corners bumped. Lower right corner worn. Despite the noted defects handsome binding with very decorative appearance. Fresh copy with wide margins. After the great edition of Boileau's works published in 1718 in folio format and given the success fine editions of this author followed one after another in 1722 1729 1745 with variants. This last edition well printed whose subtle typographical variations suggest the reduction of a folio has been revised and the spelling has been modernized; the pamphlet Boileau aux prises avec les jésuites has been restored and a life of the author has been added. Finally one cannot emphasize enough the critical quality of this edition which takes up the abundant and judicious remarks and commentaries of Saint-Marc from the 1745 edition. Chez Les libraires associés hardcover
174746934à Paris: Chez DavidChez Durand 1747. Fine. Chez David Chez Durand à Paris 1747 11.20 x 18 cm reliés New edition and first given by Saint-Marc with his remarks and commentaries. It is illustrated with a portrait by Rigaud engraved by Daullé 5 fleurons on the titles by Eisen and engraved by Boucher 39 vignettes by Eisen and engraved by Avéline by La Fosse unsigned 25 unsigned tailpieces and 6 figures by Cochin for Le lutrin. Contemporary full marbled and glazed calf bindings. Spine with raised bands decorated. Red morocco title label and beige morocco volume labels. Joints of volume I cracked at head. Lower joint of volume III cracked at foot. Joints of volume V cracked. Restorations to headcaps and joints of the 5 volumes. Paper uniformly yellowed. Saint-Marc's first edition is one of the best critical editions of Boileau's work. Saint-Marc did not purely abrogate the contribution of different editions but used them judiciously to create his own. He restored Brossette's commentaries and gathered the various notes from previous editions. Saint-Marc's notes and commentaries constitute a large part of the work and accompany the text very intelligently without vain erudition. 19th century armorial bookplate of A. Aubaret. Chez DavidChez Durand hardcover
1716015537Geneve Geneva: Chez Fabri & Barrillot 1716. First Edition First Impression . Tree Calf. Good. F. Chereau. 1716 First Edition. Complete in Two volumes. Size quarto 506 and 427 pages plus index in volume II. Attractive Tree calf binding with triple borders to covers five raised bands to the spines with gilt titles and volume numbers in second and third compartments and elaborate gilt work in remaining compartments gilt decoration to cover edges and inner turn-ins page edges waxed red marbled paste-downs and end-papers. Condition good-very good a little rubbing to corners and edges front hinge cracked on volume I leather chipped at head and tail of spine with loss on Vol 1 no loss on vol 2 a few spots to first and last few pages in each volume toning to a few pages and some offsetting but generally in very clean condition throughout. Title pages printed in red and black finely executed engraved portrait frontispiece in volume 1 and 6 full page engravings all executed by F. Chereau. Ornamental headpieces and tailpieces and decorated initial capitals etc. Text is in French a nice set. Size: 4to - over 9" - 12" tall <br/> <br/> Chez Fabri & Barrillot unknown
17291102170065A La Haye - Chez Pierre de Hondt 1729. Hardcover. Very Good. Three volumes of a four volume set. French published by A La Haye in 1729. 16mo. Excellent condition. Clean unmarked pages. Good binding and covers bound in contemporary calf some minor rubbing. Spines solid with five raised bands. Gold gilt lettering and decorations on the spine. Inside cover labelled with the crest of the Campbells of Netherplace a noble family from Scotland. Tome Second: 5 407 2 pp. Tome Troisieme: 5 407 2 pp. Tome Quartrieme: 5 308 2 pp. Nicolas Boileau was an influential French poet during the late 1600s and early 1700s credited with reforming the French poetical style. These volumes published 18 years after his death were part of a set of his complete works. A La Haye - Chez Pierre de Hondt hardcover
170164519à Paris: Chez Denys Thierry 1701. Fine. Chez Denys Thierry à Paris 1701 19 x 25 cm relié Last edition of Boileau's works corrected and published during the author's lifetime. The author admits preferring this final edition in his preface which is why it came to be called: La favorite. This edition is also the first to bear the author's name. It is illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece by Landry and 2 figures by Chauveau dated 1678 as well as an ornamental initial and headpiece. Complete though pagination jumps from 232 to 241. Title page in red and black. Contemporary binding in full speckled brown sheep. Spine with raised bands decorated. Brown sheep title label. Surface wear to upper cover. Lacking leather along lower border. Rubbing. Good copy. The first part contains: ""Satires"" ""Epistres"" ""L'art poëtique en vers"" ""Le Lutrin poëme heroïcomique"" ""Odes epigrammes et autres poësies"" ""Reflexions critiques sur quelques passages du Theteur Longin"" and ""Lettre a Monsieur Perrault""; the second: ""Le traité du sublime ou du merveilleux dans le discours"" translation of Longin. Chez Denys Thierry hardcover
1737283451Parisiis: Sumptibus Bartholomaei Alix 1737. Full Leather. Good binding. The works of Nicolas Boileaus Despreaux translated into Latin. Bound in morocco with lettering and decoration stamped in gilt in compartments. Front board detached and now reinforced with leather bands across the top and bottom of the spine. Wear to the spine. Toning and previous owner’s names to the title page and pastedown. Lacking front endpaper. Good binding. Sumptibus Bartholomaei Alix unknown
176536691765. : 8 . Binding: Contemporary Full Leather Sextodecimo 16mo Height cm: 17 CM Width cm: 11 CM Thickness cm: 3 CM hardcover
173269141à Amsterdam: Chez Henry Du Sauzet 1732. Fine. Chez Henry Du Sauzet à Amsterdam 1732 9.50 x 16.80 cm relié Statement of second edition revised and corrected. Title page in red and black. The first edition appeared in Latin in 1700. Full brown speckled calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated. Red morocco title label. Tail headcap worn. Upper joint cracked at tail. One corner bumped. Very fresh copy. 18th-century engraved armorial bookplate of Mr. Varenne. The first flagellants appeared in the 11th century and the movement gained renewed vigor during the Black Death in Europe thus reaching its peak during the 14th century. This movement was quickly condemned by the church as heretical and millenarian. The movement quickly became anarchic and a threat to order both of the church and of society. The pope handed them over to the inquisition in 1349 and the King of France Philip V banned flagellants under penalty of death. Chez Henry Du Sauzet hardcover
1717022203Amsterdam: David Mortier Libraire 1717. Book. Poor. Full-Leather. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Brown leather binding. The pages have soil spotting and foxing throughout. There are several names/address plus a name label on the front end paper. There is a short note on the back end paper. The cover has wear. The spine is mostly missing and has some tape on it. Volume 2 only. Tome Second. The book is in French. David Mortier, Libraire Hardcover
1765006630aux Dépens de la Compagnie: Utrecht. 1765. `New Edition`. . Hard. Very Good. 16mo; 6 3/4". Title page bears decorative border. Chapter head and tail vignettes with decorated initials. Very good. Recently rebound in full polished calf with five raised bands to spine and contemporary red gilt lettered label to spine. Light foxing throughout. A nice sound copy. <br/> <br/> aux Dépens de la Compagnie: Utrecht. unknown
170261112Amsterdam Henri Schelte 1702. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label to top of spine. Light wear to extremities scratches to boards. Spine-ends chipped. Internally fine and clean. 22 315 5 342 10 pp. 9 fullpage engravings. <br/><br/><em>Beautiful later edition first published the year before in 1702 of Boileau-Despréaux's collected works. Brunet I 1058: "Jolie reimpression de l'in-4. de 1701 dans laquelle sont ajoutes les passages des poetes latins imites par l'auteur le Chapelain decoiffe et les deux satires faussement attribuees a Despreaux." </em> hardcover
170263233Amsterdam Henri Schelte 1702. 8vo. In contemporary full sprinkled calf with gilt lettering to spine. Binding with light wear front board partly detached. Ex-libris pasted on to front free end-paper. Internally with light occassional browning otherwise a nice copy. 22 315 1 342 10 pp. frontispiece and 6 plates. unknown
1702118455Amsterdam: Henri Schelte 1702. Nouvelle Edition. Leatherbound. Very good. 2 vols. in one: 22 315 342 10 p. 17 cm. 9 full-page engravings vignette at top of p. 1 in first section 2 title page vignettes other small decorations. Title pages in red and black. Full leather. Gilt trim on spine. Spine ends chipped spine leather cracking corners worn. Bookplate on front pastedown ink inscription from 1727 on front free endpaper. Pages neat and clean. French text. <br/><br/> Henri Schelte hardcover
175763231Kjøbenhavn Borup 1757. 8vo. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with four raised bands. Binding with some scratches. Ex-libris pasted on to verso of front board. A nice and clean copy. 24 202 pp. frontispiece. <br/><br/><em>Uncommon first Danish translation of Boileau's Satires with a preface by Norwegian bishop Gunnerus.Bibliotheca Norvegica 3151.Biblioteca Danica IV 284 </em> hardcover
1713380173Venice: Presso Paolo Baglioni 1713. 1st. Hardcover. Fair/None. Vellum covers spine covering gone sewn binding still intact holding all there. 277 pages Italian text. Charles Boileau born Beauvais France 1648 – 28 May 1704 Paris was a French ecclesiastic and preacher. Record # 380173 Presso Paolo Baglioni hardcover
171265104London: E. Sanger athe Post-House and E. Curil at the Dial and Bible both in Fleet-street 1712. Full Leather. Very Good. 20 x 12.5 cm. Octavo. Two volume set. clviii 16 324pp and .189 3 267pp 17 index errata. Frontispiece is both volumes. Bound in old full brown leather. Complete with 7 plates in volume 1 and one plate the frontispiece in volume 2.Spine label of volume 2 shows some chippping. Some rubbing to outer hinges. A companion volume was also published not present here. Uncommon work. Works of poetry epistles translation of Longinus biography of Boileau-Despreaux. letters ESTC T143904. E. Sanger athe Post-House, and E. Curil at the Dial and Bible, both in Fleet-street unknown
170866489London: printed for R. Burrough and J. Baker at the Sun and Moon in Cornhill E. Sanger and E. Curll at the Post-House at the Middle Temple-Gate and at the Peacock without Temple-Bar 1708. Second edition in English and the first edition first issue of this translation; 8vo pp. 22 122; uncut; engraved frontispiece by Van der Gucht after Knight; contemporary if not original marbled paper wrappers which are quite torn and creased with losses; the text block with curls at the edges is sound and clean. Boileau was an influential critic of French poetry and The Lutrin ostensibly the first mock-heroic poem which concerns the quarrel between two ecclesiastical dignitaries about where to place a lectern in a chapel is sometimes said to have given Alexander Pope a model for The Rape of the Lock. With an account of Boileau's writings and a notice of this translation by Nicholas Rowe 1674-1718 and the translation itself by John Ozell. Foxon O-282. printed for R. Burrough and J. Baker, at the Sun and Moon in Cornhill, E. Sanger and E. Curll, at the Post-House at the Middle T unknown
1722356602A la Haye Paris: Chez Isaac Vaillant / Pierre Gosse / Pierre de Hond T 1722. Nouvelle Edition revue corrigee. Hardcover. Good. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Bernard Picart. A perfectly serviceable set of all four volumes of the works of the mid-17th century French poet and critic Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1 November 1636 – 13 March 1711; he is alleged to have been influenced greatly by the Roman poet and critic Horace. A quartet of handsome little tomes nothing fancy but complete and sturdy. French language throughout and with fine engravings by Bernard Picart including a fine publisher device at title page and engravings at frontis. Gorgeous headers tails and initials. Scuffing to tips and edges spine heads and feet now protected in stiff plastic jackets. Gilt lettering over burgundy leather at label of one volume rubbed away on other three. Previous owner's penned inscriptions at first free endpapers from 1725 David Belhune. Lightly wavy texts light soiling to endpapers else clean unmarked and tightly bound. Bound in full leather five raised bands to spines; the set stands upright quite easily. Tome Premier: xlvi 3 4-436 pp.; Tome Seconde: viii 2 4-407 pp.; Tome Troisieme: Frontis matter 4-407 pp.; Tome Quatrieme: Frontis matter 2-308 pp.Member I.O.B.A. C.B.A. and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes and for sets. Chez Isaac Vaillant / Pierre Gosse / Pierre de Hond T hardcover
1782357138Paris France: Aux Depens de la Compagnie 1782. Hardcover. Good. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy bound in a tan vellum over boards some cracking to front joint remains of penned lettering to spine rubbing to scuffing of tips and edges. Penned notations inside front flap Raymond F. Boileau Le Havre from L'Abbe Merio" and on first free endpaper "6 Oct. 1918 en souvenier xxx Merio// Ch. Aum." Additional penned inscription inside rear flap. Lovely black-and-white engraved heads tails and initials and a fine publisher device to title page. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux 1 November 1636 – 13 March 1711 often known simply as Boileau "was a French poet and critic. He did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry in the same way that Blaise Pascal did to reform the prose. He was greatly influenced by Horace" according to his Wikipedia entry. He was the fifteenth child of Gilles Boileau and sibling to other famous siblings. When their father died he was left a small fortune and devoted himself largely to reading and writing letters. Frontis matter 6-360 pp.Member I.O.B.A. C.B.A. and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes and for sets. Aux Depens de la Compagnie hardcover
171377793London: Bible both in Fleet-street 1711-1722. Very Good. 1713. Hardcover. Complete in 3 volumes including the scarce 3rd volume - bound in contemporary decorative paneled calf bindings which are rubbed and worn but complete and bright internally with engravings. Previous owner bookplate present in Vol 1 & II. . Bible, both in Fleet-street, 1711-1722. hardcover
173715960Amsterdam: Henri Schelte. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1737. Hardcover. Full smooth calf rubbed through at gussett peeling at right tip five raised panels gilt decoration within boxes red morocco title label contents very good indeed clean and tight. SCARCE. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 480. pages . Henri Schelte hardcover
171178214London: E. Sanger. Very Good. 1711. Hardcover. Complete in 3 volumes including the scarce 3rd volume - bound in contemporary decorative paneled calf bindings which are rubbed and worn but complete and bright internally with engravings. Previous owner bookplate present in Vol 1 & II. . E. Sanger hardcover
