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GRACIAN, Baltasar - The Court Man.
See original version (French)
506
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GRACIAN, Baltasar - The Court Man.
See original version (French)
Estimate €250
Voluntary lot
Description
GRACIAN, Baltasar - The Court Man. Translated from the Spanish by Sieur Amelot de la Houssaye. With notes. Paris, Veuve Martin & Jean Boudot, 1684. In-4, front by Le Pautre, (32) ff, 326 pp, (9) ff, motto on front slightly trimmed, stamp of an abbey on title page, 3 first ff. yellowed, brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, headpieces and hinges partly rest.
LOSADA GOYA n°226. First French edition, dedicated to the King. The frontispiece depicts him as a warlord holding the plan of a citadel in one hand and a book in the other. The Spanish original appeared in Huesca in 1647. L'Homme de Cour has been compared with Les Caractères by La Bruyère, both of which enjoyed parallel success, with eight editions of Les Caractères up to 1694 and as many of L'Homme de Cour. This important preface by Amelot de La Houssaye (1634-1706) is a genuine introduction to the work of Baltazar Gracian, who was still little known in France. In 1714 he published his own Réflexions, Sentences et Maximes Morales put in a new order with those of La Rochefoucauld and Madame de Sablé. Ex-libris of the historian Godefroy de Montgrand (1822-1897).
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