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964 - BOILEAU DESPREAUX. MISCELLANEOUS WORKS, including the treatise on the sublime or the marvelous in discourse…
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BOILEAU DESPREAUX. MISCELLANEOUS WORKS, including the treatise on the sublime or the marvelous in discourse… Amsterdam, H. Schelte, 1702 2 parts in 1 in-8 volume, stiff vellum with a small overcover (contemporary binding). A Dutch counterfeit of the Paris edition, and the last one revised by the author, whom he regarded as his “favorite.” It is illustrated with 7 BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS and a frontispiece in each part. Numerous handwritten annotations from the period. A fine copy. (Tchemerzine I, 761) Bound together with: - PERRAULT (Ch.). ILLUSTRIOUS MEN who lived in France during the 17th century. Paris, Dezallier, 1701. 2 volumes (Tchemerzine V, 182e, Dutch edition). Loynel bookplate. Handwritten annotations. A fine copy.
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