Pierre Eralied [ed.] - Lettres de Madame de Maintenon - 1757
No. 83539899
Nicolas, Sieur Despreaux Boileau - Oeuvres diverses avec le Traité du sublime ou du merveilleux dans le discours - 1674
No. 83539899
Nicolas, Sieur Despreaux Boileau - Oeuvres diverses avec le Traité du sublime ou du merveilleux dans le discours - 1674
Quarto: 1 frontispiece, (2) ff., pages 1 to 142, (4) ff., pages 143 to 178, 1 second frontispice, (1) leaf of privilège, (4) ff. of Preface, 102 pages., (5) ff.
Bound in later hard vellum.
With delightful frontispiece by Landry, and a second frontispiece by Chauveau before the start of the Lutrin.
Along with the first IX satires, the Discours au Roy and the Discours sur la Satyre, the volume contains the first four Epistres, l'Art poétique, and the first 'chants' of Le lutrin.
Scarce first edition (Tchemerzine, I, 745). A lovely copy with wide margins and in exceptional condition, with just a few areolae here and there.
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