Honoré d' URFÉ
L'Astrée, pastorale allégorique, avec la clé
Chez Pierre Witte • Chez Didot|à Paris 1733|9.50 x 16.50 cm|5 tomes reliés en 10 volumes
New and latest early edition corrected by Abbé Souchay. It is illustrated with 60 figures including ten frontispieces, all engraved by Guelard after drawings by Gravelot and Rigot.
Contemporary bindings in full brown grained calf, spines with five raised bands decorated with red morocco title and volume labels as well as gilt compartments and fleurons, gilt arms of Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon stamped at the foot of the spines, endpapers and pastedowns of combed paper, gilt roll on leading edges, all edges speckled red.
Head caps missing on three volumes (3, 5 and 10) and partially damaged on three others (1, 4 and 8), that of the tail of the first volume absent and
Contemporary bindings in full brown grained calf, spines with five raised bands decorated with red morocco title and volume labels as well as gilt compartments and fleurons, gilt arms of Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon stamped at the foot of the spines, endpapers and pastedowns of combed paper, gilt roll on leading edges, all edges speckled red.
Head caps missing on three volumes (3, 5 and 10) and partially damaged on three others (1, 4 and 8), that of the tail of the first volume absent and
€1,500