Live auction - Lot 1490

Les âmes rivales, histoire fabuleuse.

[PARADIS DE MONCRIF, François-Augustin]

€ 250 / 300

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Lot description

A Londres [Paris, Prault], 1738

16mo: [4]-75-[1 bl.] pp.

Contemp. calf, gilt arms on covers, richly gilt spine, gilt sides, red edges, marbled endpapers, red silk marker.

Rare short novel by Paradis de Moncrif (1687-1770). Woodcut "sphere" mark on title.
Ref. Conlon 38:645. - ESTC T131169. - BGL I:93.
Bound with: [Montesquieu] - Le temple de Gnide. Ibid., 1738. 109-[3 bl.] pp. Early ed. (1st 1725) of Montesquieu’s (1689-1755) veiled apology of love, called by Madame du Deffand "l’Apocalypse de la galanterie". Woodcut "sphere" mark on title. Ref. ESTC T131170. - Cp. Conlon 25:567 (1st ed.). - BGL III:1185-1186.
Prov. On covers gilt arms of Mademoiselle de Nantes (1673-1743, daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan, and wife of Louis III de Bourbon-Condé) with Arenberg arms stamped on. - "Edmé[-Pierre] Hermitte" (18xx-19xx, friend of P. Claudel) (mod. bookpl.). - Gabriel Hanotaux (1853-1944, French diplomat and historian; his 1929 sale lot 556, with his bibliogr. note front flyleaf).