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PERRAULT, Charles - Les Hommes illustres qui ont paru en Fra…
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PERRAULT, Charles - Les Hommes illustres qui ont paru en Fra…
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Estimate €600
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PERRAULT, Charles - Les Hommes illustres qui ont paru en France pendant ce siècle: avec leurs portraits au naturel. Paris, Ant. Dezallier, 1696-1700. 2 vol. in-folio, frontispiece, portrait of Charles Perrault, (4) ff. 100 pp, (1) f., following 2 ff. pag. 15-16 and 65-66, 2 portraits (Arnauld and Pascal) ; (2) ff. 102 pp, (1) f. 103 portraits engraved in intaglio, contemporary gran. brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, beginning of a split at one hinge.
TCH V, 182. First edition. Ex. which seems to be on large paper. Portrait of Perrault engraved by Edelinck. Frontispiece engraved by Edelinck after Bonnet and 103 intaglio portraits by Edelinck, Duflos, R. Nanteuil, J. Lubin, Simonneau, etc. The lives of Arnauld and Pascal deleted by the censor were replaced by those of Thomassin and Du Cange, but reinstated at the end of volume I. Bookplate of the Maison de Saint-Lazare in Paris (18th century). This house hospitalised lepers and young people of bad conduct.
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