470 - BELLEGARDE (Jean-Baptiste Morvan, Abbot of). The Characters of Epictetus with an Explanation of Cebes’ Table. Trévoux: Ganeau, 1700. In-12, 6 leaves, XXXVI–216 pp., 5 leaves, brown grained calfskin, decorated ribbed spine, title label in red morocco, gilt roulette on the edges, marbled edges (contemporary binding).

BELLEGARDE (Jean-Baptiste Morvan, Abbot of). The Characters of Epictetus with an Explanation of Cebes’ Table. Trévoux: Ganeau, 1700. In-12, 6 leaves, XXXVI–216 pp., 5 leaves, brown grained calfskin, decorated ribbed spine, title label in red morocco, gilt roulette on the edges, marbled edges (contemporary binding). First edition of the translation of Epictetus’s *Characters* by Abbé Morvan de Bellegarde (1648–1734), a Jesuit, writer, and historian. Preface to the Prince of Dombes, Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, for whom Estienne Ganeau (1667–1734) served as the official printer in Trévoux. Upper spine split along the spine for 4 cm; corners worn; old marginal water stain affecting 18 folios at the beginning; small paper loss at the corner of one folio; a few annotations; otherwise a fine copy. Ex-libris “Maire-Savary”—possibly Antoine-Marie Maire-Savary, a lawyer at the Parliament of Paris and a judge on the Revolutionary Tribunal during the trial of Marie-Antoinette in 1793.