ILLUSTRÉS. XVIIIe siècle
Set of 12 volumes in-8 and in-12, bound.
BOILEAU (Nicolas). Works. In Amsterdam, by François Changuion, 1729. 4 volumes in-12, lemon morocco, smooth decorated spines, gilt edges, restorations to headdresses, bits and corners (contemporary binding). Illustration engraved on copperplate by Bernard Picart. - LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Fabulæ selectæ. Rothomagi [Rouen], apud Lud. Le Boucher, Laurent Dumesnil, 1775. 2 volumes strong in-8, brown marbled calf, spine with ornamented ribs, gilt edges (contemporary binding). Bilingual edition giving the text of La Fontaine and a Latin translation by Jean-Baptiste Giraud. Illustration engraved on copperplate without text after Jean-Baptiste Oudry, reproducing in reduction the plates of the 1755-1759 edition of Les Fables choisies. - LOUVET DE COUVRAY (Jean-Baptiste). Les Amours du chevalier de Faublas. Sold in Paris, at the author's house, year VI [1797-1798]. 4 volumes in-8, brown veined calf, smooth spines, scratched ex-libris on the first covers (contemporary binding). Illustration engraved on copper after several artists including Clément-Pierre Marillier. - SAINT-LAMBERT (Jean-François de)]. The Seasons. Amsterdam, s.n., 1775. In-8, tortoiseshell calf, spine with decorated nerves, used binding with a tear in the upper headdress (binding of the period). Illustration engraved on copperplate out of text after Jean-Michel Moreau dit
Moreau le jeune. - WATELET (Claude-Henri). The art of painting. In Paris, from the printing house of H. L. Guérin & L.-F.
Delatour, 1760. Small in-8, glazed tortoiseshell calf, smooth decorated spine, the preliminary explanation of the figures announced in the table is missing as often (binding of the time). Illustration engraved by the author (frontispiece outside the text and vignettes in the text).
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