Michel de LA BIZARDIERE
Caractères des auteurs anciens et modernes, et les jugements de leurs ouvrages
Chez Grégoire Dupuis|Paris 1704|9 x 16.50 cm|relié
First edition, rare.
Contemporary full brown calf binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt compartments, red morocco title-label, all edges speckled. Head and tail of spine worn and one corner extensively damaged. Two raised bands cracked.
A sometimes fierce satire of the literary world. In a fictional Greece, at Delphi, under the aegis of Apollo, the author orchestrates the most improbable encounters. We see parading first the ancient authors, then the moderns, Descartes, Spinoza, and few authors are spared by the author's sallies.
Contemporary full brown calf binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt compartments, red morocco title-label, all edges speckled. Head and tail of spine worn and one corner extensively damaged. Two raised bands cracked.
A sometimes fierce satire of the literary world. In a fictional Greece, at Delphi, under the aegis of Apollo, the author orchestrates the most improbable encounters. We see parading first the ancient authors, then the moderns, Descartes, Spinoza, and few authors are spared by the author's sallies.
€250