OGER-BLANCHET
500
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FURETIÈRE, Antoine - Plan et dessein du poeme allégorique et…
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500
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FURETIÈRE, Antoine - Plan et dessein du poeme allégorique et…
See original version (French)
Estimate 250 €
Voluntary lot
Description
FURETIÈRE, Antoine - Plan et dessein du poeme allégorique et tragico-burlesque, intitulé Les Couches de l'Académie. Amsterdam, Perre Brunel, 1687. Pet. in-12, 60 pp, some russeting, new endpapers, contemporary fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated.
TCH II, 403. First edition. Furetière was expelled from the Académie Française on 22 January 1685 for his intention to publish a rival dictionary. Allegory relating the circumstances of the genesis of the dictionary of the Academy. According to Furetière, it would be born in the form of a vile foetus.
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