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268 - ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques). OEuvres.
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Estimate €300 - €400
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ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques). OEuvres. A fine copy of Rousseau's works illustrated with plates and scores in a binding by Bozérian. Paris, Didot l'aîné, an XI (1801). 20 volumes in-8, blond calf, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets and historiated irons, black title-piece and author, red tomaisons in a shield, boards decorated with a double gilt fillet, sides decorated with a gilt fillet, inner gilt roulette, marbled flyleaves and endpapers, all edges gilt (Bozérian). Approximately 300 pages per volume, 21 engraved plates, 28 plates of scores, 1 facsimile. Rubbing from use and minor loss of gilding. Some foxing in places. Beautiful edition of Rousseau's works illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author by Saint-Aubin, 21 plates engraved by Dupréel, most of them after Moreau, 28 plates of scores of which 14 folded and a folding facsimile of a handwritten letter by Rousseau placed in the eighteenth volume. The plates are taken from the collection of figures engraved under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Dupréel after Moreau, Le Barbier and Chasselat, published in twelve issues. As is often the case, our copy contains around twenty of the 64 engravings. A beautifully fresh set in fine bindings by Bozérian. T1 Fx-t, frontispiece, t., VIII, 314 pp; T2 298 pp; T3 423 pp; T4 298 pp; T5 337 pp, 2 plates; T6 426 pp, 3 plates; T7 532 pp, 2 plates; T8 408 pp; T9 475 pp, 4 plates, 14 pp. of scores; T10 342 pp, 1 folding table, 1 folding score; T11 412 pp, frontispiece ; T12 299 pp. 13 folding scores ; T13 431 pp. 3 plates ; T14 355 pp. 2 plates ; T15 504 pp. ; T16 416 pp. 1 plate ; T17 352 pp. 3 plates ; T18 464 pp. 1 folding facsimile ; T19 519 pp. ; T20 428 pp. frontispiece.
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About the sale Prestige sale - Antiquarian and collectible books
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Auction time 06/15/2026 at 2:00 PM
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