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Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description
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Le Temple de Gnide. Paris: Didot jeune, l'an troisième [1794]
8vo (12 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.; 324 x 248 mm). Large-paper copy. Color-printed engraved frontispiece and 9 plates after Charles Eisen by Le Mire (from the 1772 edition) and 2 color-printed engraved plates after Le Barbier by Thomas (for "Arsace et Ismenie"), most plates finished by hand; one plate spotted. Contemporary polished calf gilt, possibly by Lefebvre, marbled endpapers, gilt edges; rubbed.
8vo (12 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.; 324 x 248 mm). Large-paper copy. Color-printed engraved frontispiece and 9 plates after Charles Eisen by Le Mire (from the 1772 edition) and 2 color-printed engraved plates after Le Barbier by Thomas (for "Arsace et Ismenie"), most plates finished by hand; one plate spotted. Contemporary polished calf gilt, possibly by Lefebvre, marbled endpapers, gilt edges; rubbed.
Literature
Cohen-de Ricci 728-29
Condition
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