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La Fontaine, Jean de.
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description
- Contes et nouvelles en vers. Amsterdam, 1762.
- paper
2 volumes, 8vo (177 x 110mm.), "Fermiers-généraux" edition, engraved portrait of La Fontaine and Eisen by Rigaud and Fiquet, 80 plates by Eisen engraved by Aliamet and others, 4 vignettes and 53 culs-de-lampe by Choffard, contemporary French red morocco gilt, slipcase, slight adhesion in some upper margins of volume 1 and a few lower margins of volume 2, bindings slightly rubbed
Provenance
de Loimeau, bookplate; Constantin Carathéodory, bookplate
Literature
Cohen-de Ricci 558