Live auction - Lot 1095

FÉNELON, François de

Les avantures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse [...] Oder deutliche und zum Nutzen der Jugend recht eingerichtete wunderbare begebenheiten Telemachs [...].

Frankfurt & Leipzig, Johann Conrad Wohler, 1769

€ 120 / 180

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8vo: 14-344-302-56 pp.

Contemp. mottled calf, gilt orn. spine on 5 raised bands, red leather title label, marbled endpapers.

Later edition (first 1699) of this pseudo-historical and at the same time utopian novel by the French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer Fr. Fénelon (1651-1715). lllustrated with a front., an author's portrait, one fold. engr. map and 24 full-page pl. Text in French with explanations and references at the end in German. Printed in gothic and roman type. Title in red & black.
Ref. VD-18 (mentions 62 pp. at the end and not the 58 we have). - Worldcat.
Joined: 1. Rapin, R. - Oeuvres diverses. Amst., A. Wolfgang, 1693. 2 vol., 8vo: [38]-432, 460-[16] pp. Contemp. calf (corners sl. bumped), gilt orn. flat spines (joints rubbed), marbled edges, marbled endpapers. Vol. 1: "Les comparaisons des grands hommes de l'antiquité [...]". Vol. 2: "Les reflexions sur l'éloquence, la poëtique, l'histoire et la philosophie (...)". Ref. Barbier I:653. - DBS VI:1456:46. - STCN. [Bound with at the end of vol. 1]: Blondel, Fr. - Comparaison de Pindare et h'Horace. Ibid., id. 78 pp. Ref. STCN. - 2. Boileau, N. Fr. de - Oeuvres. Avec des eclaircissemens historiques, donnez par lui-même. Amst., Fr. Changuion, 1743. 4 vol., 8vo: n.c., sold w.a.f. Contemp. calf, gilt border on covers (corners sl. bumped), gilt orn. spines on 5 raised bands (def. at heads and tails), red edges, marbled endpapers. (7 vol.)

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Lot 1095

Les avantures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse [...] Oder deutliche und zum Nutzen der Jugend recht eingerichtete wunderbare begebenheiten Telemachs [...].

FÉNELON, François de

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