Michael HUBER, Salomon GESSNER
Choix de poésies allemandes [Avec] Daphnis et le premier navigateur [Avec] Idylles et poëmes champêtres
Humblot • Vincent et Jean-Marie Bruyset|Paris(deux premiers textes) • et Lyon 1766, 1764 et 1762|10 x 16.50 cm|3 ouvrages reliés en 5 volumes
New editions. One frontispiece engraved by De Longueil after Watelet and 4 title fleurons engraved by Watelet for the Choix de poésies (cf. Cohen, col. 500). One frontispiece engraved by Watelet after Pierre, 5 head-vignettes engraved by Marguerite Le Comte (4) and Watelet (1) and one tailpiece for Daphnis (cf. Cohen, col. 436). One frontispiece, 10 head-vignettes and 2 tailpieces engraved by Watelet for the Idylles (cf. Cohen, col. 431).
Contemporary full grained calf bindings. Smooth spines decorated with blind fillets, unidentified gilt numbers at foot. Blind fillet frame to boards. All edges speckled red.
Small hole in the blank of the title of volume
Contemporary full grained calf bindings. Smooth spines decorated with blind fillets, unidentified gilt numbers at foot. Blind fillet frame to boards. All edges speckled red.
Small hole in the blank of the title of volume
€450