Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Oeuvres complètes (33 volumes) - 1782-1789

An edition of the French-language complete works of the Swiss-French philosopher, writer and musician Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) is offered: [Jean-Jacques Rousseau] – Collection complète des œuvres de J.J. Rousseau, Citoyen de Genève – Zweibrücken: Chez Sansan et Compagnie, 1782-1783 + Sécond supplement à la Collection des œuvres de J.J. Rousseau, Citoyen de Genève – Genève: zonder uitgever, 1789 – in total 30 + 3 = 33 volumes – total ca. 10.000 pp. – half-leather bindings The later volumes 31-33 contain a ‘Sécond supplement’, the first ‘Supplement’ encompassed volumes 25-30. Volume 18 contains a number of plates with music scores. All volumes bear a 20th-century ex-libris of the Dutch historian Klaas Potjewijd, most volumes also show traces of earlier libraries, such as stamps from the ‘Casino in Mannheim’. Condition: a beautiful set, unread or neatly read, with traces of conservation in various conditions. The leather spines have become too dry and occasionally miss a piece. From volume 12 the frontispiece is loose, occasionally also a page is loose in other volumes.

Estimate:£169.23

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