Les caracteres de La Bruyere / precedes d'une notice par M. Suard.
Paris : Furne, Jouvet et Cie, 1868. First Edition. Very good copy in the original full leather. Gilt-title label, gilt-crossed raised bands to spine, with spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. Gilt border and vignette to front panel. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Light water stain evident in right-hand margin up to p.250, and in last few pages. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 443 pages; Physical description: xv, 443 p. : front (port) ; 23 cm. Subjects: La Bruyere, Jean de, 1645-1696 -- Caracteres. Characters and characteristics -- Character sketches -- Maxims, French -- Aphorisms and apothegms. Includes: Reflexions ou sentences ou maximes morales de la Rochefoucauld (1678): p. 347-443. Language: French. Item #193666
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