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ERASMUS. EISEN.
See original version (French)
44
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ERASMUS. EISEN.
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
ERASMUS. EISEN.
*In Praise of Folly*. Translated from the Latin of Erasmus by M. Gueudeville. New edition, revised and corrected in accordance with the text of the Basel edition.
[Paris], 1751.
In-12. Contemporary porphyry calf, plain spine with decoration, gilt edges (binding scuffed and joints worn; title partially handwritten as it was subsequently cut in two; some soiling but interior remains fresh).
Copy printed on large-format paper. With full margins.
With the frontispiece reprinted on a separate leaf, a fine title vignette, a vignette and colophon, and 13 engravings by Charles Eisen
Text by Erasmus translated from the Latin by Nicolas Gueudeville (in a version revised and corrected based on the Basel edition), with notes attributed to or revised by Anne-Gabriel Meunier de Querlon.
Enclosed:
[DORAT].
Letter from the Count of Comminges to his mother, followed by a Letter from Philomela to Progne.
Paris: Sébastien Jorry, 1764.
Small 8vo. Contemporary fawn calfskin, smooth spine with decoration (spine rubbed and head worn, but interior remains fresh).
Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné.
Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller with a passion for bookbinding, a flautist and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and Academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were mainly staged in the Paris region.
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