Ventes live - Lot 1517
Jérusalem délivrée. Traduit par Lebrun.
Paris, Bossange, Masson & Besson, an II de la République [1793]
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Description du lot
2 vol., 8vo: front.-[2]-364, front.-[2]-351 pp.; 20 pl. (some foxing, sm. lack in bl. margin to p. 342 of vol. II).
Contemp. marbled calf, covers ruled with a triple gilt fillet, gilt orn. flat spines, gilt roll-stamp to the edges, gilt inside dentelle, blue paper on pastedowns and flyleaves, red sprinkled edges (occ. sl. traces of use). Nice copy.
Illustrated with 2 frontispieces by Henriquez after H.-F. Gravelot, 20 copper-engr. plates, 2 different title vignettes and 2 tail-pieces at the end of the volumes. In a translation (1st: 1774) of Charles-François Lebrun (1739-1824), 1st duc de Plaisance, French statesman. He was created Arch-Treasurer and Prince of the Empire by Napoleon I.
Ref. Cohen 976.
Prov. Michel Wittock (mod. armorial bookpl.).