LA BRUYERE, Jean de

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LA BRUYERE, Jean de
Les Caractères de Théophraste traduits du grec, avec les caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle. Tenth edition. Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1699. In-12 (162 x 95 mm) of 16 ff.n.ch., 52, 662, XLIV pp. 3 ff.n.ch. Brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, spotted edges (contemporary binding). Tchemerzine-Scheler, III, 809; Brunet, III, 720. First posthumous edition. The author died on the night of 10-11 May 1696 and continued to work on the ninth edition, for which he prepared four more boxes after the printing. This tenth edition thus contains the model for all subsequent editions until 1845. Tchemerzine indicates, quoting Claudin, that it would be printed in Lyon. A very good copy, the headpieces and corners skilfully restored. Provenance: signature Roche Vaureal on the title as well as some notes in the text.
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