OGER-BLANCHET
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LA BRUYÈRE] - Les Caractères de Théophraste, traduits du gre…
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516
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LA BRUYÈRE] - Les Caractères de Théophraste, traduits du gre…
See original version (French)
Estimate €150
Voluntary lot
Description
LA BRUYÈRE] - Les Caractères de Théophraste, traduits du grec avec les caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle. 9th ed. The Hague, Adrien Moetjens, 1696. In-12, (12) ff, 500, XXXIV pp. (Discours à l'Académie), qqs. yellowed quires, contemporary gran. brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated.
TCH III, 811. Counterfeit of the 9th and last edition published during the author's lifetime, probably printed in Lyon and not in The Hague, which explains the presence of passages on the League of Augsburg in the 5th and 6th editions and on William of Orange in the 4th edition, which were subsequently removed.
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