GESSNER, SALOMON. Mort d'Abel, poëme. Paris: Defer de Maisonneuve 1793. 4to, 342 x 259 mm. (13 7/17 x 10 3/16 in.), red crushed levant morocco, covers with gold-tooled borders and cornerpieces of flower tools and leafy sprays arranged symmetrically on a gold-stippled ground and punctuated by six small onlaid blue morocco circles, spine in six similarly decorated compartments, blue morocco doublures with wide gold-tooled border, dark red silk liners, marbled inner endleaves, edges gilt on the rough, by Charles de Samblanx, stamp-signed on upper doublure, slipcase (worn), lacking final blank leaf, repaired marginal tear to O4, very faint marginal foxing to frontispiece and plate 3 . First edition of Hubert's prose translation, frontispiece and 5 stipple-engraved plates by Colibert, Casenave and Clément after Monsiau, all color-printed "à la poupée", the plates in the first state, before numbering. Cohen-de Ricci 436.
GESSNER, SALOMON. Mort d'Abel, poëme. Paris: Defer de Maisonneuve 1793. 4to, 342 x 259 mm. (13 7/17 x 10 3/16 in.), red crushed levant morocco, covers with gold-tooled borders and cornerpieces of flower tools and leafy sprays arranged symmetrically on a gold-stippled ground and punctuated by six small onlaid blue morocco circles, spine in six similarly decorated compartments, blue morocco doublures with wide gold-tooled border, dark red silk liners, marbled inner endleaves, edges gilt on the rough, by Charles de Samblanx, stamp-signed on upper doublure, slipcase (worn), lacking final blank leaf, repaired marginal tear to O4, very faint marginal foxing to frontispiece and plate 3 . First edition of Hubert's prose translation, frontispiece and 5 stipple-engraved plates by Colibert, Casenave and Clément after Monsiau, all color-printed "à la poupée", the plates in the first state, before numbering. Cohen-de Ricci 436.
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