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4 volumes 8vo (195 x 121 mm) title printed in red and black, VIII pp., 1 unn.l. (with ‘explication des figures’ and errata volumes I-II), 466 pp., 3 unn.ll. (including 2 unn.ll. with printer’s privilege and 1 unn.l. with errata for volumes III-IV), 2 engraved plates after Eisen for volume I ; 2 unn.ll. (half-title and title), 407 pp., 1 engraved plate after Eisen for volume II; 2 unn.ll. (half-title and title), 384 pp. [pp. 358-361 omitted], 1 engraved plate after Eisen for volume III; 2 unn.ll. (half-title and title), 455 pp., 1 engraved plate after Eisen for volume IV. Contemporary red morocco, triple gilt filet on covers, spine elaborately gilt with raised bands, inner gilt border, gilt edges.
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McEachern, Émile, IA; Sénelier, 758; Tchemerzine-Scheler, V, 545; de Diesbach, Bibliothèque Jean Bonna, le XVIIIe siècle, no 141; de Marez Oyens & Alderson, Be Merry and Wise, Pierpont Morgan Library, no. 11.
First edition, first printing, printed in Paris by Duchesne, under the name of Jean Néaulme in La Haye. A magnificent copy bound in contemporary red Morocco. This copy in accordance with the details given by McEachern.
A copy complete with the 5 required engravings, the first of which is engraved by Longueil and bearing the date 1762. No copy of volume one is known to have a half-title.
Copies in fine 18th century red morocco are of great rarity. A very fine copy.
Provenance: Bernard Malle (his discrete stamp).
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