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67 - [LA ROCHEFOUCAULD (François VI de)].
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Estimate €1,000 - €1,200
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[LA ROCHEFOUCAULD (François VI de)]. Reflections, or Moral Sentences and Maxims. Sixth, expanded edition. Paris, Claude Barbin, 1693, in-12, [4] unnumbered folios (one blank folio, title page, preface to the reader), 195 pp., [13] unnumbered pages of table of contents, pebbled calfskin, decorated spine, edges speckled with red and brown (contemporary binding). An edition, partly original, containing 554 maxims The previous edition, published in 1678, contained 504 maxims. La Chapelle Bessay’s Preliminary Discourse, omitted after 1665, has been restored in this edition. A fine copy.
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About the sale A SCHOLAR-COLLECTOR’S LIBRARY Part 1: Old Books, 19th and 20th Centuries – Regionalism – Printed by La CORRERIE
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Auction time 10/13/2026 at 2:30 PM
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