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LCS-10400Rare réunion de deux textes recherchés de Guez de Balzac, dont son chef-d’œuvre Aristippe, reliés en vélin de l’époque à recouvrement. I -Paris, Augustin Courbé, 1657.II - Paris, Augustin Courbé, 1658. Soit 2 titres reliés en 1 volume in-12 de: I/ (49) ff. y compris le frontispice, le titre, l’épitre, la table, et le faux-titre, pp. 3 à 387, (1) p.bl. et (10) ff.; II/ (6) ff., pp. 3 à 278, (14) ff., (3) ff.bl. Plein vélin de l’époque à recouvrement, dos lisse avec le titre manuscrit. Reliure de l’époque. 132 x 75 mm.
1834144251834 Paris, Mme Charles-Béchet, 1834-1835, 4 vol. in 8 de (4)-401-(3)pp. ; 361-(3) pp. et (4) pp. de catalogue des oeuvres de Balzac ; (4)-386-(2) pp. ; 398-(2) pp., rel. d'ép. légèrement postérieure, cart. plein papier vert raciné, dos passés, pièces de titres tommées de chagrin bordeaux, Tome I : taches marginales pp. 12 et 221 et manque de papier marginal p. 85, rousseurs à quelques cahiers. Tome II : petite déchirure p. 326. Tome IV : petite déchirure p. 345, quelques rares taches et rousseurs. Dans l'ensemble bon ex. entièrement non rogné, dans un cartonnage d'attente, le tome IV fait partie des quelques exemplaires imprimés sur papier fin de couleur (beige dans le cas présent), que l'on rencontre séparément (et qui sont fort recherchés (Clouzot, p. 21).
182846405323Paris, Mame et Delaunay-Vallée, 1828 ; 4 volumes petit in-8, brochés, couvertures muettes roses, pièces de titre imprimées collées aux dos, préservés dans deux étuis-chemise, papier marbré. (Étuis modernes). 2 ff., IV pp., 232 pp. - 2 ff., 239 pp. - 2 ff., 207 pp. - 2 ff., 215 pp.ÉDITION ORIGINALE DE LA TRADUCTION FRANÇAISE de The Wild Irish boy, le deuxième roman de Maturin paru en 1808. “Maturin n’était pas seulement pasteur ; il était aussi irlandais. Autant que sa profession, sa nationalité affecta sa vision fantastique du monde (...) En 1808 déjà, il s’était interessé - d’assez loin il est vrai, aux réalités nationales : il avait voulu, dans son jeune sauvage irlandais, donner la réplique à la Sauvage Irlandaise de Miss Owenson.Cet ouvrage extrêmement rare présente en outre un intérêt bibliophilique car il fut IMPRIMÉ PAR BALZAC. Voir Hanotaux-Vicaire, Balzac imprimeur p. 461 n°152.Précieux exemplaire broché, à l’état de parution, préservé dans d’élégants emboîtages.
19015000Boston: Little Brown and Company 1901. Octavo 34 volumes. The Centanary edition. Three quarters red leather gilt titles and tooling to the spine top edge gilt gilt ruled to the front and rear panel marbled endpapers frontispiece to each volume with tissue guard present. Illustrated by various artists. In near fine condition. A stunning set. "One of the great novelists of all literature" Balzac's genius consists in his dynamic unflagging creative vigour; his superabundant imagination" his masterly portrayal of passions and his grasp of such widely differing subjects" Harvey & Heseltine 44-45. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
192230919Paris: Rene Kieffer 1922. First Thus. Hardcover. near fine. Quint. Quint. First Thus. Hardcover. Kieffer René 1876-1963. Le Pere Goriot by Honoré de Balzac 1799-1851. Paris: Rene Kieffer 1922. 4to. 317pp. 1 of only 50 numbered copies in a total edition of 450. this being No 17 on Vélin de Cuve bound with an original aquarelle by Quint & an extra suite en bistre at the rear. 140 colour illustrations by Quint. In an exquisite Kieffer Binding. Full burgundy morocco with tan sand & mossy green onlay stamped in gilt at the spine & with ornate silver diamond burst "art déco" mosaic on both covers. Marbled endpapers gilt dentelles description inscribed by Kieffer. Kieffer ticket on the verso of the ffe. Original full page watercolour bound in before the title page. Top edge gilt others uncut. A very fine lovely example of one of Kieffer's elegant show bindings. Carteret Le trésor du bibliophile. Livres illustrés modernes 1875 à 1945: "A much sought after edition Rene Kieffer hardcover
185851941Librairie Nouvelle 1858. Fine. Librairie Nouvelle 1858 11 x 17 cm relié New edition single volume from the complete works. Reading binding in half green percaline squared spine glued paper title labels skillful restorations to joints corners slightly bumped modest contemporary binding. Copy presented in tobacco calf chemise smooth spine decorated with double gilt fillets date at foot tobacco calf-backed slipcase the ensemble signed by Goy & Vilaine. Precious autograph inscription signed by Ewelina Hanska ""Madame de Balzac Princesse Hanska"" to Angelo de Sorr. Angelo de Sorr pseudonym of Ludovic Sclafer is a Bordeaux writer and friend of Aurélien Scholl Charles Monselet and the Goncourt brothers. He published in 1855 Les Pinadas which met with great acclaim. This first novel about the Bordeaux moors was praised notably by Théophile Gautier who declared: ""Its author a disciple of Balzac has revealed to us the superstitions and customs of these strange lands."" Other critics subsequently noted the Balzacian influences in the novel. Thus Paul d'Amby in L'Artiste: ""The author of Les Pinadas has been keenly concerned with Balzac's manner and we approve his choice of guide."" When Madame Hanska offers him this story of a genius who died at his task Angelo Sorr has just published Les Inutiles whose style is again compared in the press to his model: ""One senses a preoccupation with Balzac's manner; the master's path is the right one; we would not turn anyone away from it and we esteem M. de Sorr's talent"" in La Correspondance littéraire 1858. Moving inscription from the famous epistolary lover and ephemeral wife of Balzac who thus cultivates the memory of her lover who died barely a few months after their marriage. Their long-distance love story was summarized thus by Gonzague Saint Bris: ""eighteen years of love sixteen years of waiting two years of happiness and six months of marriage."" Eight years after the poet's death this moving dedication from the legatee to the disciple testifies to the strength of a love that knew how to resist all separations. Librairie Nouvelle unknown
1838CLL-836Paris, Chez l'éditeur, 1838 2 volumes in-8 de 354 pp., (3) ff. - 337 pp. (verso bl.), (6) ff. de tables, errata, article et catalogue, demi-maroquin prune à grain long à coins, filets dorés sur les plats, dos à nerfs ornés de filets, roulettes et palettes dorés, couvertures conservées, entièrement non rogné (Franz).
183560079Werdet | Paris 1835 | 14.50 x 23 cm | 2 volumes reliés
633272Maxime Cottet-Dumoulin Paris 1949
186722781Paris Michel Lvy Frres 1867 4 volumes in-4, bradel demi-toile bleue, plats de papier scrotel; non rogns, couvertures imprimes.Seconde dition populaire de ces Suvres compltes abondamment illustre par les meilleurs artistes de l'poque.
1985313204London: Published by J.M. Dent and Co 1985. 38 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters red morocco t.e.g. Bookplate. About fine. 38 vols. 8vo. Ursule Mirouet 1895 La Grande Breteche and Other Stories 1896 The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau 1896 Beatrix 1896 The Chouans 1896 The Unknown Masterpiece and Other Stories 1896 A Harlot's Progress Volume I 1896 A Harlot's Progress Volume II 1896 The Peasantry 1896 The Country Parson 1896 Modeste Mignon 1896 Pierette and the Abbe Birotteau 1896 The Atheist's Mass and Other Stories 1896 A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 1897 The Unconscious Mummers and Other Stories 1897 WITHOUT:About Catherine de Medici 1897 The Lily of the Valley 1897 A Daughter of Eve and Letters of Two Brides 1897 The Seamy Side of History 1897 Lost Illusions 1897 A Marriage Settlement and Other Stories 1897 Cousin Pons 1897 Seraphita 1897 The Thirteen 1897 Parisians in the Country 1897 At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 1897 The Jealousies of a Country Town 1898 The Middle Classes 1898 The Member for Arcis 1898 A Father's Curse 1898 A Gondreville Mystery 1898 A Princess's Secrets 1898 The Country Doctor 1900 The Quest of the Absolute 1901 Old Goriot 1903 The Wild Ass's Skin 1903 A Bachelor's Establishment 1904 Eugenie Grandet 1905 A Woman of Thirty 1907. Bookseller Inventory # 101962. Published by J.M. Dent and Co unknown books
1907313204London: Published by J.M. Dent and Co 1907. 38 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters red morocco t.e.g. Bookplate. About fine. 38 vols. 8vo. Ursule Mirouet 1895 La Grande Breteche and Other Stories 1896 The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau 1896 Beatrix 1896 The Chouans 1896 The Unknown Masterpiece and Other Stories 1896 A Harlot's Progress Volume I 1896 A Harlot's Progress Volume II 1896 The Peasantry 1896 The Country Parson 1896 Modeste Mignon 1896 Pierette and the Abbe Birotteau 1896 The Atheist's Mass and Other Stories 1896 A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 1897 The Unconscious Mummers and Other Stories 1897 WITHOUT:About Catherine de Medici 1897 The Lily of the Valley 1897 A Daughter of Eve and Letters of Two Brides 1897 The Seamy Side of History 1897 Lost Illusions 1897 A Marriage Settlement and Other Stories 1897 Cousin Pons 1897 Seraphita 1897 The Thirteen 1897 Parisians in the Country 1897 At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 1897 The Jealousies of a Country Town 1898 The Middle Classes 1898 The Member for Arcis 1898 A Father's Curse 1898 A Gondreville Mystery 1898 A Princess's Secrets 1898 The Country Doctor 1900 The Quest of the Absolute 1901 Old Goriot 1903 The Wild Ass's Skin 1903 A Bachelor's Establishment 1904 Eugenie Grandet 1905 A Woman of Thirty 1907. Bookseller Inventory # 101962. Published by J.M. Dent and Co unknown
1658EXP2-B-12London: Thomas Dring 1658. Leather. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". None. An English translation of Jean-Louis Guez Balzac's letters. A very scarce work. Not seen at auction for over thirty five years. With a portrait frontispiece of Balzac. With two title pages the first title page is in Red and Black and with the title 'Balzac's Remaines or his Last Letters' the second is 'The Choyce Letters of Monsieur de Balzac.' One of these title pages is clearly a cancel. The running title of the work is 'Choise Lettres' and therefore it is likely the cancel is the red and black title page. There are two copies held at the British library one with the first title page and one with the second title page. It is unusual to have both. Wing B616. Collated using both British library copies of this work Complete. From the antiquarian library of Christopher Rowe. Christopher Rowe was a schoolmaster in Norwich and then in Bristol. Throughout his career he inspired many to love literature history and music. He was a specialist on 17th century printer and bookseller Humphrey Moseley and began his unfortunately unfinished PhD dissertation on him. Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac was a French author noted for his epistolary essays. This volume comprises of his letters to notable courtiers which gained him a great reputation. This work mostly contains his letters to Jean Chapelain a French Poet who organized and founded the Academie Francaise. In a full calf binding. rebacked with original boards preserved. Externally generally smart with rubbing to the extremities and to the head and tail of spine. Small worm holes to the tail of spine and also to the head. The worming only seems to have slightly affected the front endpaper at the gutter and the rear hinge. Both hinges are slightly strained but firm. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown Christopher Rowe. Internally firmly bound. Pages are age toned with light spotting throughout. Very Good Thomas Dring hardcover
193324641Paris Bibliophiles du Papi 1933 In-4, maroquin havane, plats orns de deux grandes arabesques centrales mosaques en maroquin bleu fonc et bleu clair, rappel du dcor sur la pice de titre en maroquin bleu ornant le dos sans nerfs; encadrements intrieurs, doublures et gardes de soie moire bleue, tranches dores, non rogn, couverture imprime. Etui (Madeleine Gras).113 lithographies in texte en noir par Lucien Jonas, suivies de portraits, autographes, preuves et couvertures relatives Csar Birotteau reproduits en fac-simil. Tirage unique limit 110 exemplaires numrots sur vlin la forme.
1831144231831 Paris, Gosselin, 1831 pour les "Romans et contes...", 1832 pour les "Nouveaux contes...", 4 volumes in 8 de 400 pp. ; (4)-418 pp. ; (4)-396 pp., (4)-425-(1) pp., 4 frontispices sur Chine, élégante reliure d'époque demi-veau glacé vert-olive, dos (légèrement passés) à faux-nerfs ornés de roulettes dorées, motifs romantiques et larges roulette dorées, infimes rousseurs, très bel ex. entièrement non rogné et non lavé.
190921430Paris L. Carteret 1909 In-4, maroquin vert bouteille long grain, plats orns d'un large encadrement de filets dors gras et maigres avec fers rocaille aux angles, dos nerfs richement orn de mme, filets et roulettes dors sur les coupes; encadrement pouss or l'intrieur, doublures et gardes de papier marbr, tranches dores sur brochure, couverture illustre (Chambolle-Duru).Charmant livre illustr par Franois Schommer. Tirage limit 375 exemplaires numrots. Un des 75 premiers exemplaires sur vlin du Marais, comportant toutes les illustrations en deux tats dont celui avec remarques. Trs belle reliure dcore de Chambolle-Duru.
185851941Librairie Nouvelle | 1858 | 11 x 17 cm | relié
1658CLL-344Paris, Augustin Courbé, 1658 Petit in-4 de (3) ff., 244 pp., (10) de tables et privilège, vélin ivoire, titre manuscrit à l'encre brune au dos, tranches nues (reliure de l'époque).
1848145572Paris: Chez Louis Chlendowski 1848. Finely bound edition of the final volume of 'La Comédie Humaine' from the library of Czar Alexander II of Russia. Octavo three volumes bound in half crushed morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spines in five compartments. In very condition with some rubbing to the spines and bookplates to the front pastedown of each volume royal bookplate 'A.H.' to the pastedown of each volume loss to the spine of volume I with Russian lettering exposed underneath. From the library of Emperor of Russia King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland ÐлекÑаÌндр II ÐиколаÌевич or Alexander II. Alexander's most significant reform as emperor was the emancipation of Russia's serfs in 1861 for which he earned the title Alexander the Liberator. Other reforms of his included reorganizing the judicial system setting up elected local judges abolishing corporal punishment promoting local self-government through the zemstvo system imposing universal military service removing some privileges of the nobility and promoting university education. He was also unique in his foreign policy mainly his pacifism his support of the United States and his opposition of Great Britain; Alexander backed the Union during the American Civil War and sent warships to New York Harbor and San Francisco Bay to deter attacks by the Confederate Navy and sold Alaska to the United States in 1867 fearing the remote colony would fall into British hands if there were another war. The Tsar's assassination by revolutionaries in 1881 triggered the major suppression of civil liberties in Russia and the return of police brutality. His plans for a parliamentary body and constitution were then also abandoned by his son Alexander III. Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright considered one of the founders of realism in European literature. Full of personality and humanity Balzac imbued life into all of the characters and settings in his writing. His magnum opus 'La Comédie Humaine' a vast series of interconnected novels presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life. The character whose name appears in the title of this work 'Vautrin' whose real name is Jacques Collin appears in several novels of 'La Comédie humaine' inspired by the historical character of Eugène-François Vidocq a former criminal who later became chief of the Paris police. In prison Collin earns the nickname 'Trompe-la-Mort' 'Cheats Death' creating a life as 'Vautrin' after his escape. Although he was a supporter of the Crown Balzac paints the revolutionaries of the 'Comédie' series in a sympathetic light - even though they are the center of the book's most brutal scenes. This was the first book Balzac released under his own name and it gave him what one critic called "passage into the Promised Land"establishing him as an author of note and providing him with a name outside his past pseudonyms. Chez Louis Chlendowski hardcover
1839(LCPCLIT-0035)(Un très rare roman de Balzac en édition originale. Un exemplaire en reliure signée strictement de l'époque) BALZAC HONORE DE. (Tours, 1799 - Paris, 1850) "LE CABINET DES ANTIQUES SCENE DE LA VIE DE PROVINCE". 1839, Paris, H. Souverain. 2 tomes en 2 volumes in-8° (204x132 mm) (dimensions pages 198x124 mm) I : (3) ff. (faux-titre, titre, second titre), 321, (1) pp. (pp. 17 à 20 de dédicace mal placées après les titres), (1) f. (table) ; II : (2) ff. (faux-titre et titre), 267, (1) pp., (2) ff. (table). (I : (3) ff., 1(7), 1**(2), 2-17(8), 18-19(4), 20(8), 21-22(4) ; II : (2) ff., 1-7(8), 8-9(4), 10-17(8), 18(4), 19(2)) Reliure en demi-basane brune strictement de l'époque. Plats de carton marron décoré. Dos lisses avec titres et numéros de tomaison dorés. Gardes de papier blanc. Reliure signée "Cheminal ainé" en queue des dos. Edition Originale, très rare. Petits frottements aux coins et sur les coupes des reliures. Tout petit manque de cuir au mors inférieur du second plat du t. II. Des brunissures éparses et trace de mouillure claire sur les 4 premiers ff. du t. II. Sinon bel exemplaire, en reliure signée de l'époque, de ce très rare ouvrge. Exemplaire conforme à celui conservé à la BNF. Paru en 1838 (du 22 septembre au 8 octobre) sous le titre "Les rivalités en province" dans Le Constitutionnel (huit chapitres en onze feuilletons), ce roman a été édité en volume chez Souverain en 1839. "Dans le Cabinet des Antiques, l'auteur dresse un tableau de la vieille noblesse de province, ruinée par la Révolution et oubliée par les Bourbons restaurés. Le marquis d'Esgrignon, sa soeur et ses amis incarnent ce groupe social déjà représenté par le chevalier de Valois de La Vieille Fille. La jeune génération de cette classe, incarnée par le fils du marquis d'Esgrignon, causera sa perte, entraînée dans le tourbillon de Paris, où elle mène joyeuse vie et se ruine. Le Cabinet des Antiques forme une suite de La Vieille Fille, bien que les noms des protagonistes ne soient pas exactement les mêmes (Du Croisier est Du Bousquier, le chevalier est de Valois), et si la ville n'est pas mentionnée, les rues et les lieux sont bien ceux d'Alençon. On se perd en conjectures sur cette anomalie : protéger certains personnages trop proches ou, au contraire, attirer la curiosité du public par trop de transparence". (Source Wikipedia) Apparemment un seul exemplaire dans les collections publiques françaises (BNF). L'un des très rares exemplaires conservés dans une reliure strictement de l'époque ; celui-ci conservé dans une reliure signée. Il y a cinq ans, l'un des très rares exemplaires en reliure de l'époque est passé sur le marché au prix de 4.500,00 € (Libr. Cam. Sourget cat. 23/2017 n° 45). (Carteret, I, 74 ; Vicaire, I, 211) (LCPCLIT-0035) (2.300,00 €)
18422910PARÃÂS: Furne - J.J Dubochet et Ciel.- J. Hetzel et Paulin 1842-1848. 4º .- Encuadernación de época en media piel ChagrÃÂn papel de aguas en planos lomera con pequeños nervios y adornos dorados.- 17 tomos.- Entre 457 y 728 páginas por tomo.- Ilustradas con un total de 121 láminas fuera de texto la primera retrato de Balzac grabado en cobre por A. Lemoine y las 120 restantes xilografÃÂas de Daumier Celestin Nanteuil Henri Monnier Tony Johannot Gavarni y otros. 17 tomoss del total de 20. Los tres últimos aparecieron muy posteriormente en 1855 para completar las obras que ya habÃÂan sido previstas en 17 tomos. Primera edición ilustrada y con el tÃÂtulo general de Obras. Contiene: Scénes de la Vie Privée - Scénes de la Vie de Province - Scénces de la Vie Parisienne - y Scénes de la Vie Politique - Scénes de la Vie Militaire et Scénes de la Vie de Campagne - Études Philosophiques - y - EtudesAnalytiques - Scénes de la Vie Parisienne. Graesse vol. I p. 284 en nota - Brunet cita la edición posterior de 1853 Furne - J.J Dubochet et Ciel.- J. Hetzel et Paulin unknown
188674980Paris: Motteroz 1886. Fine. Motteroz Paris 1886 16 x 25 cm relié sous étui Illustrated edition with 8 original full-page engravings after Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret by Le Rat. 120 numbered copies on vélin satiné our copy one of 100 nominative. Beige morocco by Marius Michel mint green morocco doublures framed with a gilt floral frieze decorated with inlaid morocco pieces and fillets on the boards moiré silk endpapers original wrappers preserved double gilt fillets on the edges all edges gilt case lined with morocco moiré paper boards superb binding signed Marius Michel. Bookseller's ticket label glued on a guard. Our copy includes a suite of 8 full-page etchings. A very nice copy superbly set by Marius Michel in doubled morocco. Motteroz hardcover
1899ST19567-188Paris: A. Roquette 1899. No. 75 OF 125 COPIES on papier vélin. 260 x 160 mm. 10 1/4 x 6 1/4". 3 p.l. i-iv 32 pp. 3 leaves. <br/> VERY ELEGANT GREEN STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO BY MERCIER stamp-signed as "successor to Cuzin" on the front turn-in the covers with a large central filigree lozenge framed in the Romantic style in black and gilt the smooth spine similarly decorated very attractive salmon pink watered silk doublures framed by wide densely gilt dentelles free endpapers covered in the same watered silk all edges gilt. In a rather toned and slightly worn marbled slipcase. WITH AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR BY FRANÇOIS COURBOIN signed by the artist along the lower right and 25 hand-colored prints by Courboin in the text with printed tissue guards. A Large Paper Copy. Carteret V p. 21. Spine uniformly sunned to tan as expected but the binding especially lustrous and entirely unworn; faint offset from the illustration onto the half title but very clean and fresh with immense margins and with almost no signs of use.<br/> <br/> A visual delight inside and out this is a bibliophile's copy of Balzac's slice-of-life classic luxuriously illustrated including with an original watercolor and in a beautifully decorated binding. The gently humorous tale here follows a "man of science" as he attempts to make a dinner engagement but gets distracted by the tempting booksellers along the Seine and an argument with a professional rival. The binding is part of an important French tradition: the work of the binder Cuzin who died in 1890 was so well known and so highly esteemed that he was responsible for establishing what was called the "Cuzin style." Devauchelle says that the Cuzin tradition was sustained in its finest form by his celebrated successor Emile Mercier who signed bindings from this period including the present work "Mercier successeur de Cuzin." Beyond the binding the illustrations here provide a second highlight as the engraver librarian and print historian François Courboin 1865-1926 provides a depiction of Paris and its inhabitants in the first quarter of the 19th century. The original watercolor on the half-title depicts the world-weary main character seated in an overstuffed chair in his night cap with slippered feet being served a cup of tea. Both the watercolor and the printed illustrations in the text are done with soft pleasing colors by an extremely careful hand. A. Roquette unknown
16591257501659. First Edition. BALZAC Jean-Louis Guez de. Aristippus or Monsr. de Balsac's Masterpiece. Being a Discourse Concerning the Court Englished by R.W. London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Nat. Eakins and Tho. Johnson 1659. 12mo 18th-century full speckled calf sympathetically rebacked; pp. 16 159 17. $2600.First edition in English of Aristippe a treatise on wisdom in political administration a collection of ""sound if somewhat pessimistic opinions some of them commonplaces from ancient authors on ethics politics and literature"" Harvey & Heseltine.Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac ""retired to his estate of Balzac in 1624 where he spent the greater part of the remainder of his life in affectation of antique wisdom"" Harvey & Heseltine 46. In the present treatise Aristippus is presented as the fount of wisdom a ""learned wise man a gentleman of an exquisite judgment and of a consummate experience of the Catholic Religion a French man by birth and originally from Germany of fifty-give years of age or thereabouts."" ""Dubbed 'the hermit of Charent' or 'the great letter writer of France' by his contemporaries repaired to his manor near Angoulême when his Parisian ambitions were disappointed and from there he sent to Paris and throughout Europe eloquent letters in which the models of modern prose were forged heir to all the philosophical knowledge of the humanist age he kept strong ties with the salon of the Hôtel de Rambouillet and the poet Vincent Voiture and through his correspondence his opinions influenced the formation of French classical style in Paris"" Hollier A New History of French Literature 296. First published posthumously in French in 1658. Wing B612. Early owner ink signature to title page.Tiny chip to lower margin of title page the occasional spot of foxing to text. A nicely rebacked extremely good copy. unknown
190032685Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son 1900. The Memorial Edition of which there have been printed 100 Copies; Lettered A to Z and 1 to 74. Issued in the Interest of La Société des Gens de Lettres for the Prix Barrie-Balzac No. 33. PRINTED THROUGHOUT ON JAPANESE VELLUM. Over 400 Plates in 2 States Frontispieces COLORED and UNCOLORED Plates in text in 2 states as well Remarqued on Japanese vellum and Unremarqued on tissue tipped onto Japanese vellum Etchings after Paintings by Adrien Moreau Louis-Eduard Fournier etc. 51 vols. 8vo. Bound in original gray cloth with paper title labels identifying this as the "Definitive Edition" minor wear. Lacking Parisian Life vol. 6 vol. 6 of 53 and Philosophical Studies vol. 1 vol. 42 of 53. The Memorial Edition of which there have been printed 100 Copies; Lettered A to Z and 1 to 74. Issued in the Interest of La Société des Gens de Lettres for the Prix Barrie-Balzac No. 33. PRINTED THROUGHOUT ON JAPANESE VELLUM. Over 400 Plates in 2 States Frontispieces COLORED and UNCOLORED Plates in text in 2 states as well Remarqued on Japanese vellum and Unremarqued on tissue tipped onto Japanese vellum Etchings after Paintings by Adrien Moreau Louis-Eduard Fournier etc. 51 vols. 8vo. George Barrie & Son unknown
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