Les avantures de Telemaque, fils d' Ulysse : Composees par feu Messire Francois de Salignac, De la Motte Fenelon, ...
1725, New Edition. A Rotterdam : Chez Jean Hofhout. Very good copy in the original, full aniline calf. Professionally and period sympathetically re-backed with the original label laid back. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 535 pages; Nouvelle edition. Augmentee & corrigee sur le manuscrit original de l'auteur, avec des remarques pour l'intelligence de ce poeme allegorique. Physical description lix, [3], 535, [27] p., engr. frontis. plate, [10] plates : ill., plates, map (fold.) ; 12mo. Notes "Ode": pp. [1]-[5] at end. Includes index.Ramsay's "Discours de la poesie epique, et de l'excellence du poeme de Telemaque": pp. [xviii]-lix. Title page in red and black, with woodcut device. Subjects; Education of princes. Telemachus (Greek mythology) - Early works to 1800. Voyages, Imaginary. Other names; Ramsay, (Andrew Michael), Chevalier 1686-1743. Language; French. Item #193687
Price: €390.00