Rare books - Literature, French

Lot Comprises:

Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, ca 1455-ca 1536

Theodor Harmsen, "Drink from this fountain": Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples inspired humanist and dedicated editor, Amsterdam, Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, 2004, fol., publisher's green paper wrappers

Jean de La Fontaine, 1621-1695

René de Rochambeau, Bibliographie des œuvres de La Fontaine, (Paris, 1911), reprint New York, Burt Franklin, 1970, 4to., publisher's navy cloth

Jules Le Petit, Bibliographie des principales Éditions Originales d'écrivains français du XVe au XVIIIe siècle, 1888, reprint New York, 1966, 4to., red cloth, plain edges

Avenir Tchermerzine, Bibliographie d'éditions originales et rares d'auteurs français des XVe, XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Paris, (1927‐1933), 1977 (reprint with annotations of Lucien Scheler), 5 vols., 4to., publisher's grey cloth

Eugène Despois & Paul Mesnard, Oeuvres de Molière, (Paris, 1893), reprint New York, 1970, 4to., black cloth, plain edges

Roger Duchêne, Les précieuses, ou, Comment l'esprit vint aux femmes, Paris, Fayard, 2001, 4to., publisher's colored paper wrappers

Suzanne Dulait, Inventaire raisonné des autographes de Molière : avec fac-similés de tous les autographes dont on possède encore l'original ou la reproduction figurée, Geneva, Droz, 1967, 8vo., publisher's paper wrappers

Eva Rose Guggemos, The Stolen Texts of Molière: An Exhibition of Plagiarized, Pirated & Misappropriated Works from the Walter L. Pforzheimer Collection, New Haven, 2005, square 4to., publisher's printed wrappers

Paul Lacroix, Bibliographie Moliéresque, 2. éd. rev., cor. et considérablement augm., Paris, A. Fontaine, 1875, 4to., contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, head‐ edge gilt, second edition

Paul Lacroix, Bibliographie Moliéresque, 2. éd. rev., cor. et considérablement augm., Paris, A. Fontaine, 1875, 4to., contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, second edition

Paul Lacroix, Bibliographie Moliéresque and Iconographie Moliéresque, 2. éds. rev., cor. et considérablement augm., Paris, A. Fontaine, 1875 and 1876, 4to., contemporary brown half morocco over marbled boards, second editions

Thomas Franklin Currier & Ernest L. Gay, Catalogue of the Molière Collection in Harvard College Library : acquired chiefly from the library of the late Ferdinand Bôcher, A.M., Professor of Modern Languages (Bibliographical contributions, 57), Cambridge, Library of Harvard University, 1906, 4to., green cloth gilt

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