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CHODERLOS DE LACLOS (Pierre-Ambroise-François).
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CHODERLOS DE LACLOS (Pierre-Ambroise-François).
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Lot no. 33
CHODERLOS DE LACLOS (Pierre-Ambroise-François).
Les Liaisons dangereuses. Letters collected in a society, and published for the instruction of some others.
London [Paris], 1796. - 2 volumes in-8, 195 x 123 : frontispiece, 415 pp. 7 plates ; frontispiece, (2 ff.), 398 pp. 6 plates. Red morocco, gilt roulette framing the boards, smooth spine decorated, gilt edges, slipcase (contemporary binding, later slipcase).
Sought-after first edition illustrated with two frontispieces and 13 plates, engraved on copper after Monnet, Mademoiselle Gérard and Fragonard fils. Much rarer than its 1812 reprint.
Copy on fine laid paper, in contemporary red morocco, in rare condition. It comes from the library of the German banker Jean Furstenberg (1890-1982).
"A member of a Berlin banking family and a banker himself, Jean Fürstenberg fled to France in 1938, Frenchifying his name at the time. As soon as he settled in Paris, he donated his collection of first editions of German works from the pre-classical and classical eras to the Bibliothèque nationale, a collection of 696 volumes kept in the Rare Book Reserve [...] Jean Furstenberg was also a keen collector, showing a particular interest in incunabula, French illustrated books and bindings from a very young age, a collection that he was always careful to make accessible through the publication of works and the organisation of exhibitions (with catalogues). In 1981, Jean Furstenberg set up a foundation at his château in Beaumesnil, in the Eure region, where he opened a bookbinding museum. Part of his collection was sold to Dr Otto Schäfer in 1974 and put back on the market when Schäfer's library was sold in December 1995. Some of the foundation's collections of prints, drawings, incunabula and old books were sold at Drouot on 16 and 17 November 1983. In 1959, along with Julien Cain (1887-1974), administrator of the Bibliothèque nationale, he founded the Association internationale de bibliophilie". (BNF notice, reliures.bnf.fr website).
Tear without loss to the plate on page 207 in the first volume, without damage to the engraving. The third plate of the same volume has been brought back. Angular tear to folio D4 of the second volume, without damage to the text. Rousseurs.
Provenance: Signature A.R. Boucht dated 1820 on the endpapers. - Jean Furstenberg, with ex-libris. - Otto Schäfer (Sotheby's sale, 7 December 1995, no. 352).
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