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Oeuvres en vers de Mr Boileau Despréaux avec des éclaircissemens historiques donnez par Lui-même.

Oeuvres en vers de Mr Boileau Despréaux
-20%
Réf. 76684
 1300.00
 1040.00

BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX (Nicolas)

Genève  -  Chez Fabri & Barrillot  -  1716

  • Bookbinder : Raparlier
  • Format : In-4.
  • Number of volumes : 2 tomes.
  • Binding : Bound.
  • Collation : Tome 1: XXVIII-506 pp. Tome 2: 427 pp.

Bound in full red morocco. Spine decorated with gilded boxes. Decorated boards "à la Duseuil". All edges gilt. Large inner lace. Decorated with 1 portrait of the author as a frontispiece after Rigaud and 1 portrait of Philippe d'Orleans after Santerre, all by Chereau and 6 figures out of text by Chereau. Decorated with woodcut headbands and footnotes. Some white traces of wax on the binding. Binding signed Raparlier. Very nice freshness of the paper.

One of the most complete editions of Boileau's works.

Volume 1: Satires, Epistles of the poetic art, the Lutrin, Odes, Sonnets, Epigrams, Latin Poetry and Poetry. Volume 2: Traité du sublime, Réflexions critiques, various speeches, letters, and various prefaces to successive editions of Boileau's works.

Very nice set.

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