WITH PICARTS ENGRAVINGS. FONTENELLE, (B. LE BOUVIER) DE. Oeuvres diverses... nouvelle edition, augmentée & enrichie de figures gravées par Bernard Picart le Romain. I-III. La Haye (chez Gosse & Neaulme) 1728-29. Folio (359x233 mm.). 3 engraved frontispieces, 3 titles printed in red and black with engraved vignettes, 3 engraved plates and about 180 engraved vignettes by Bernard Picart le Romain. Text within frames. Contemporary polished brown calf, worn, on upper covers traces of erased or faded text, probably related to the "Chateau de Chemilly", gilt borders, gilt inner borders, gilt edges of covers, cracks in the joints, richly gilt spines in seven compartments, partly some smaller damages at head and foot, red edges. Endpapers and some of the last leaves dampstained in inner margins. Otherwise some foxing and staining, a few leaves browned. 3 volumes. Vol. II and III with bookplate: "Chateau de Chemilly, ancien Conseiller de la Cour des Aides de Paris". Photo. Sander 720; Cohen column 407-408.
WITH PICARTS ENGRAVINGS. FONTENELLE, (B. LE BOUVIER) DE. Oeuvres diverses... nouvelle edition, augmentée & enrichie de figures gravées par Bernard Picart le Romain. I-III. La Haye (chez Gosse & Neaulme) 1728-29. Folio (359x233 mm.). 3 engraved frontispieces, 3 titles printed in red and black with engraved vignettes, 3 engraved plates and about 180 engraved vignettes by Bernard Picart le Romain. Text within frames. Contemporary polished brown calf, worn, on upper covers traces of erased or faded text, probably related to the "Chateau de Chemilly", gilt borders, gilt inner borders, gilt edges of covers, cracks in the joints, richly gilt spines in seven compartments, partly some smaller damages at head and foot, red edges. Endpapers and some of the last leaves dampstained in inner margins. Otherwise some foxing and staining, a few leaves browned. 3 volumes. Vol. II and III with bookplate: "Chateau de Chemilly, ancien Conseiller de la Cour des Aides de Paris". Photo. Sander 720; Cohen column 407-408.
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