ROUSSEAU Jean-Baptiste

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ROUSSEAU Jean-Baptiste
Oeuvres. [Paris, Didot], 1743. 3 vol. in-4, 23,5 x 31cm, [1]f., XXIV +516 pp., [5] ff. & [1]f., 580 pp., [6] ff. & [1]f., 478 pp, [3] ff. frontispiece, contemporary binding in lemon morocco, lace in frame and arms in the center, gilt on the boards, spine entirely decorated with gilt designs, gilt roulette on the edges, inner gilt roulette, edges gilt on marble. Very elegant edition, at the fictitious address of Bruxelles, given by the abbé Joseph Seguy, governor of the prince of Wurtemberg, and perfectly printed by Didot with the famous typeface of Fournier le Jeune. The vignettes, culs-de-lampe and initials, drawn and engraved by Cochin, are "of a very remarkable execution" (Cohen). Beautiful portrait-frontispiece of the author engraved by G. F. Schmidt after J. Aved, that "one finds sometimes" (Cohen). A fine copy in large paper bound in lemon morocco with the arms of the great Saxon bibliophile Henri de Calenberg (1685-1772), field marshal and chamberlain of the emperor, who owned a splendid library of which "most of the volumes were bound in red, yellow, violet, blue, green, lemon and other precious ligatures" according to the catalog of his sale in 1773. Handwritten ex-dono at the bottom of the title of the first volume to Dom Robert van Adorp, abbot of Saint-Adrien de Grammont (East Flanders). The copy passed then in the libraries of the great bibliophile from Lyon Joseph Renard (bookplate), of A. Hénin, goldsmith in Paris (bookplate engraved by Edmond-Eugène Valton), then of P. Brunet (bookplate). Scattered spotting. Portrait of the author engraved by Étienne Jehandier Desrochers after Auger Lucas (cut at the throat) added at the head of the second volume. Boards stained. Cohen 902 ("Magnificent edition").
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