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Etienne Neaulme

Etienne Neaulme

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  1. A fine copy in contemporary full red morocco
    Morale des princes, traduite de l'italien du comte J.B. Comazzi
    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 volume 4 chipped; a few small wormholes, mostly affecting the lower sections of the bindings.

    A handsome copy of this uncommon work.

    Giovanni Battista Comazzi (Mantua, 1654 – Vienna, 1711), an Italian historian, poet, and political theorist, presents here a study of Roman emperors from Caesar to Constantius Chlorus: "Il prend les traits principaux de la vie de chaque prince, il en cherche les vues et les causes, et juge, d'après les principes, s'ils ont eu tort ou raison, et pourquoi ; ainsi chaque fait historique donne occasion à une maxime morale" (Nouvelles littéraires, 20 juillet 1754).

    €1,800
  2. Contes chinois ou les avantures merveilleuses du Mandarin Fum-Hoam
    Thomas-Simon GUEULLETTE
    Contes chinois ou les avantures merveilleuses du Mandarin Fum-Hoam
    Chez Etienne Neaulme|à Utrecht 1733|7 x 13 cm|3 volumes reliés
    New edition, rare, after the original Parisian edition of 1723, and illustrated with 8 unsigned figures, 4 for each volume. Title pages in red and black. At the end Catalogue des livres qui se trouvent chez Jean Neaulme (32 p.).
    Contemporary full marbled brown calf bindings. Raised band spines with ornament. Red morocco title labels, tan morocco volume labels. Tail of volume II partly torn away. Lower joint of volume I split at head. Two lacks to upper board of volume II. Upper joint of volume I cracked at head. Missing one endleaf before title. A good copy.
    The title "Oriental Tales" would truly be more accurate to describe this bewildering collection, where the stories are embedded within one another, taking us from one country to another. Thus we find numerous tales about Persia, some about India, others about the kingdom of Canaan (Cochinchina, Laos...). Everything begins with the king of Canaan's desire to send a harem as an offering to the king of China. The reader finds himself in Persia with the ambassador of the king of Canaan and two dervishes, one of whom turns out to be a girl, and the other the king of Georgia. The essential narration is handled by the mandarin Fum-Hoam, but the tales and stories concern Persia and neighboring countries more. The marvelous is not absent from these tales of unbridled invention: one can notably see Fum-Hoam transformed into a flea. Gueullette made a specialty of writing oriental tales and produced several quite important collections that all had lasting success, not only in France, but also in England, Germany, and even Russia. One cannot distinguish what in Gueullette stems from compilation, borrowing or even plagiarism, and what comes from the author's pen. One thing is certain, reading the Arabian Nights translated by Galland (whose first collection appeared in 1704) profoundly marked him and he holds an important place alongside 18th-century tales by Crébillon, Hamilton and others, for whom the Orient was an inexhaustible source of inventions and moral transgressions.
    €1,000
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