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Sale 2683 - Lot 109

Estimate: $ 700 - $ 900
Molière [aka Jean-Baptiste Poquelin] (1622-1673)
Les Oeuvres, Three Sets.

1) Paris: Chez Thomas Jolly, 1666; first collected edition, two octavo volumes each with added engraved titles, bound in uniform contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, recornered and housed in a custom folding box; a nicely preserved set, contents clean (two preliminary leaves in each volume with clean horizontal tears); all integral blanks present; ex libris H.R. Creswick, Librarian of Cambridge University, with bookplates; 5 7/8 x 3 1/2 in. [offered with] volume one only of the same edition.

2) Amsterdam: Chez Jacques le Jeune, 1675, first Ezevier edition of the collected works, five 12mo volumes; engraved frontispiece in first volume; divisional title pages for separate plays with earlier imprint dates throughout; uniformly bound in full contemporary mottled calf, gilt-tooled spines (joints and endcaps damaged in some volumes, boards becoming detached); 5 1/4 x 3 in.

3) Paris: Coompagnie des Libraires Associes, 1773, six large octavo volumes, illustrated with 33 full-page plates after Moreau le Jeune; portrait of the author bound as frontispiece in the first volume; bound in full contemporary marbled calfskin, gilt-tooled spines, marbled endleaves (some joints cracked and reglued (tightly in some cases)); ex libris Albert Pascal, Eduard Bullrich, and Alain de Suzannet, with bookplates; purchased from Lucien Goldschmidt in 1982; 8 x 5 in. (14 volumes in total)

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.
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