Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 100

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
FRENCH LITERATURE. Group of 6 works in 11 volumes. Various formats, various contemporary gilt leather bindings, mostly minor wear; internal as condition noted below. Bookplates of Francis John Hughes. Vp, 1664-1789
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[La Rochefoucauld, François, Duc de.] Mémoires de M. D. L. R. sur les Brigues à la Morte de Louys XIII [etc.]. [4], 400 pages. Ruled in red throughout. Contents generally clean. "Cologne: Chez Pierre van Dyck" [i. e., Brussels: François Foppens], 1664.

[Pascal, Blaise.] Les Provinciales . . . Septième Édition. [24], 476, [4] pages, including 2 blanks at end. Scattered foxing, marginal dampstaining at beginning and end. "Cologne: Chez Nicolas Schoute" [i. e., Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevier], 1669

[Sallengre, Albert.] Mémoires de Littérature. Engraved frontispiece and 5 portraits. [12], 207, [1]; [4], 211-464, [10]; [4], 240; [4], 299, [5] pages. 4 parts in 2 volumes. Dark stain in lower inner corners through much of Volume 2. The Hague: Henry du Sauzet & Paris: Antoine Urbain Coustelier, 1715

Montaigne, Michel de. L'Esprit de Montaigne. [4], xxvi [i. e., xxxvi], 372, [2]; [4], 401, [2] pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. Wormtrail affecting text through opening leaves in Volume 2. Berlin: Estienne de Bourdeaux, 1753

[Prévost d'Exiles, Antoine-François, Abbé.] Le Monde Moral. viii, 267, [1]; [4], 286, [2] pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. Occasional browning. Geneva, 1760

Rabelais, François. Oeuvres . . . Nouvelle Édition. 3 frontispieces and 3 plates. [4], lxxxxviii, [2], 236; [4], 375, [1]; [4], 422 pages, including half-titles. 3 volumes. Occasional toning or browning, small piece torn from contents leaf Q5 in Volume 2 affecting a couple of words. The Hague & Paris: Hôtel Bouthillier, 1789.