Giovanni Battista COMAZZI
Morale des princes, traduite de l'italien du comte J.B. Comazzi
Neaulm|The Hague 1754|9.5 x 16.5 cm|4 volumes reliés
First edition of the French translation by Jean-Baptiste Dupuy-Demportes of the work originally published in 1689 under the title "La Morale dei principi osservata nell'istoria di tutti gl'imperadori, che regnarono in Roma" (cf. Quérard II, 260. Barbier III, 353b. Conlon VII, 54-572. Hoefer XI, 314).
Contemporary full red morocco bindings, spines with five raised bands decorated with gilt fillets and double gilt panels with gilt floral tools, boards framed by gilt roll-tooled floral and bird motifs, gilt fillets on the board edges, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, all edges gilt over marbling.
Some gatherings bound out of sequence in volumes 1 and 3; headcap of volum
€1,800