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106 - BOILEAU-DESPREAUX, Nicolas – Miscellaneous Works by Sieur D*…
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BOILEAU-DESPREAUX, Nicolas – Miscellaneous Works by Sieur D***, with *Treatise on the Sublime or the Marvellous in Discourse*, translated from the Greek by Longinus. New, revised and expanded edition. Paris, Widow of Louis Billaine, 1683. In-12, (9) folios including a frontispiece and one illustration, 283 pages and 2 illustrations included in the pagination, (15) folios; (8) leaves, pp. 17–190, (6) leaves, 1 plate, 18th-century marbled fawn calf, triple gold thread on the covers, decorated ribbed spine. TCH I, 750. Partly original edition, additionally containing Epistles VI to IX, the last two cantos of *Le Lutrin* (V and VI), D***’s (Dacier’s) remarks on Longinus and a new preface.
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About the sale The Jean Demaux Collection – Part 2
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Auction time 09/16/2026 at 2:00 PM
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