Lot 37
  • 37

French literature--Bernard, Pierre-Joseph.

Estimate
1,800 - 2,200 GBP
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Description

  • L'art d'aimer. [Paris, ?1775], engraved title-page, 7 engraved plates--Museus. Héro et Léandre, pöeme. Setos [i.e. Paris], 1774, title-page printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece--Freron, Elie Catherine. Adonis. London and Paris: chez Musier, 1775, engraved title-page, engraved plate, engraved head- and tailpiece, 3 works in one volume, 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, flat spine gilt, red morocco lettering-piece
Longus. Pastoralium de Daphnide et Chloë. Paris [i.e. Amsterdam], 1754, 4to, engraved frontispiece, 29 engraved plates, contemporary red morocco gilt
Imbert, Barthelemi. Historiettes ou nouvelles en vers. Amsterdam [i.e. Paris], 1774, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page, engraved illustrations, nineteenth century calf gilt
Ibid. Les bienfaits du sommeil, ou les quatre rêves accomplis. Paris, chez Brunet, [1776], 8vo, engraved title-page, engraved headpiece, 4 engraved plates, original wrappers, housed in custom-made box
Du Buisson, Paul Ulric. Le Tableau de la volupte. Cythere [Paris], 1771, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved plates, engraved tailpieces, contemporary red morocco gilt
[Turpin de Crissé, Comtesse de, Nicolas François Guillard, Charles-Henri Fusée de Voisenon, and Charles Simon Favart] Journée de l'amour, ou heures de Cythere.Gnide (i.e. Paris), 1776, 4 engraved plates, engraved tailpieces, nineteent century citron morocco gilt by Chambolle-Duru, [Bibliotheque Genard, bookplate]
Saint-Marc, Jean Paul Andre de. Oeuvres. Geneva, 1775, 8vo, engraved additional title-page, engraved portrait, engraved plate, engraved tailpieces, twentieth century brown morocco gilt, housed in a custom-made slipcase
Du Rosoi. B-F. Les sens, pöeme. London [i.e. Paris], 1766, 9 engraved plates, contemporary calf gilt
Missel de Paris. Paris: chez les Libraires associés, 1779, 8vo, contemporary red morocco elaborately gilt
together 11 works in 9 volumes

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