Lot n° 85
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Result
: 120EUR
FÉNELON. Explanation des maximes des saints sur la vie intér - Lot 85
FÉNELON. Explanation des maximes des saints sur la vie intérieure. A Paris, chez Pierre Aubouin, Pierre Emery, Charles Clousier, 1697. In-12, [18] f., 372 p., forest-green morocco, 5-ribbed spine, gilt author, title, place and date, gilt coat of arms at left corner of upper board, double gilt fillet, gilt edges, inner lace [Dupré] (spine a little unstained, minor rubbing at edge of one cuff; without errata leaf).
First edition of this polemical work, which led to Fénelon's disgrace.
A first-edition copy, with the error "la perfections" (p. 48).
Provenance: gilt coat of arms on upper cover; bookplate Louis Gallavardin, Lyon, engraved by Stern; small monogrammed CV stamp in blue on last f.; bibliographical annotations in pencil and descriptive catalog card glued to endpapers.
A fine copy, perfectly established by Dupré.
(Tchemerzine, III, 167).
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