Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX, Valentin Jean-Antoine [...]

Oeuvres poétiques de Boileau

Alfred Mame & fils, Tours 1870, 18,5x28,5cm, relié.

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Edition illustrée d'eaux-fortes de Valentin Foulquier.
Reliure en demi maroquin noisette à coins, dos  à cinq nerfs orné du paraphe doré du grand bibliophile Roger de Cormenin répété cinq fois, quelques frottements sur les nerfs, plats de papier [...]

120 €

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First edition

Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX

Oeuvres diverses du Sr Boileau Despreaux : avec le traité du sublime, ou du merveilleux dans le ...

Chez Denys Thierry, à Paris 1701, In-4 (19x25cm), (16) 446pp. ; 200pp. (6), relié.

Last edition of the works of Boileau corrected and published during the lifetime of the author. The latter admits to prefer this ultimate edition in his preface. This edition is also the first to bear the name of the author.

500 €

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Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX

Oeuvres de Boileau

De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné, Paris 1821, 13x21,7cm, 4 volumes reliés.

New illustrated edition of a frontispiece and 12 figures from new drawings drawn and engraved by various artists including Claude Marie François Dien.
Bindings in half blond morocco, back with four nerves adorned with boxes, double boxes and golden irons, cold nets highlighting the nerves, [...]

200 €

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Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX

Oeuvres complètes

De l'imprimerie de Mame frères, Paris 1810, In-8 (12,5x20cm), CXXXVI 368pp. et (4) 492pp. et (4) 379pp., relié.

Second edition of this edition.
Bindings in full rooted rowan of time. Smooth backs decorated with an iron in the sun, 2 caissons to the grotesque and a fleuron. Double frieze framing on the boards. Title and tomato pieces in red morocco. Head cap of Volume 2 partially cropped, but slightly. [...]

200 €

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Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX

Oeuvres de Boileau avec un nouveau commentaire par M. Amar

Chez Lefèvre, à Paris 1821, 15,5x24,5cm, 4 volumes reliés.

New edition with a commentary by Jean Augustin Amar of Rivier, and illustrated with a portrait of the author engraved frontispiece by Ligon after Rigaud and 6 figures inset

450 €

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Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX

Oeuvres

Chez Les libraires associés, à Paris 1772, in-8 (12,5x21,5cm), (4) cxvi ; 431pp. et (6) 617pp. et (10) 340pp. et (6)

New edition, illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by Picart Winkeles, 2 allegorical figures by van der Meer (the Epistle and the poetic art) and 6 figures after re-engraved by Picart Vinkeles to the lectern, 4 thumbnails title by van der Meer and by F. de Bakker. This edition is also published [...]

600 €

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Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX

Oeuvres poétiques suivies d'oeuvres en prose, publiées avec notes et variantes par P. Chéron

Chez Jouaust, Librairie des Bibliophiles, Paris 1876, 11x18cm, 2 volumes reliés.

New edition, one of 500 numbered copies on Holland paper.
Binders half morocco pine green with corners, back with five nerves decorated with nets and coffered cold embellished with gold floral patterns, tail golden dates, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, heads [...]

100 €

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Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX & LONGIN (Pseudo-Longin)

Traité du Sublime ou du merveilleux dans le discours, traduit du grec de Longin par M. D***.

Chez la Veuve de Claude Thiboust et Pierre Esclassan 1694, In-12 (9x16cm), (2) 231pp., relié.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece. Title page in red and black. Bilingual edition with translation in glance.
Binding full marbled fair calf contemporary. Back with nerves decorated with florets 5 boxed.

400 €

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