The Hague, widow Le Vier and Pierre Paupie, 1740. In 4th. 2 parts in 1 volume, each with its own title page, elegant allegorical figurative frontispiece engraved by Schley, title page printed in red and black characters and with allegorical engraved vignette, light browning, partially detached frontispiece, original binding in mottled brown calfskin, friezes on the spine floral and title in gold, front plate detached, defects. Ex libris by de la Bouraliere on the pastedown, another glued to the flyleaf.
Specialist Notes
Original edition by the French scholar and bibliographer, which had considerable success. Prosper Marchand was a Huguenot publisher and journalist who fled France in 1709. The work was printed in the year of the three hundredth anniversary of the invention of the printing press.
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