GRACIAN (Baltazar): The Man of Court. Translated... Lot 41

GRACIAN (Baltazar): The Man of Court. Translated and commented by Sieur Amelot de la Houssaie, the former secretary of the French Embassy in Venice. The Hague. Abraham Troyel, 1696. In 16°. Full contemporary basane binding. Spine with nerves. Small damages. We join : [PALISSOT] Petites lettres sur de grands philosophes. Paris, 1757. 1 vol. in-12. Full red morocco binding. Smooth spine, decorated with "pomegranate" motifs. Triple gilt filets on the sides. Endpapers of dominoté paper. First edition in which Diderot, in particular, is very badly treated. Palissot had already printed his comedy Les Originaux which had raised indignation. His Petites Lettres exasperated even more the party of the philosophers of which he made fun more by opportunism than by conviction.