Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales, Paris, 1678, brown morocco by David in Jansenist style

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

Lot Details

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LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, FRANÇOIS DE. Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales. Paris: Claude Barbin, 1678


DEFINITIVE FIFTH EDITION, the final edition published within the author's lifetime.


La Rochefoucauld added new material to each of the editions of his Maxims which followed the first, published in 1665. For a copy of the first edition, first state of this text, see the previous lot.

12mo (154 x 80 mm). Roman type, 23 lines plus headline. collation: [π]3 A-R8-4: 107 leaves (only, of 108; lacking initial blank). Woodcut initials and ornaments.


binding: Brown morocco (158 x 94 mm) by David, Jansenist style, spine with 5 bands, title in second compartment, gilt inner dentelles, edges gilt, marbled endpapers.


acquisition: Purchased in 1986 from John Fleming, New York. references: Tchemerzine VII, 45

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