Fontenelle | Oeuvres diverses, The Hague, 1728-1729, 3 volumes, contemporary calf

Bernard de Fontenelle

Oeuvres diverses... nouvelle édition. The Hague: Gosse & Neaulme, 1728-1729

3 volumes, 4to (273 x 211mm.), half-titles, engraved frontispiece portrait, 5 engraved plates, engraved head- and tailpieces, all by Bernard Picard, contemporary calf gilt, spines gilt in compartments, red edges, bindings slightly worn, some joints repaired, some joints cracking

LITERATURE:

Cohen-De Ricci 407 ("Superbes illustrations")

PROVENANCE:

Jacobus Solis Cohen, bookplate; sale, Parke-Bernet, 22 October 1945, lot 237; lot 405, extract from a Parke-Bernet sale catalogue loosely inserted