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All auctions / Books, Maps & Manuscripts / ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques). Works. Paris and Amsterdam, Defer d - Lot 156
ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques). Works. Paris and Amsterdam, Defer de Maisonneuve; [later] J. E. Gabriel Dufour, 1793–1800. 18 large quarto volumes, red long-grain half-maroquin, red paper covers adorned with a garland of foliage as a border, spine decorated with a scattering of clovers and stars within a lattice of dotted lines (Meslan). A luxurious edition printed by Didot the Younger on vellum paper, collated from the original manuscripts. Portrait of Rousseau as the frontispiece of Volume I, engraved by Langlois; 5 frontispieces by Cochin and Monsiau; and 29 engravings by Choffard, Lemire, Patas, Pauquet, Ponce, Cochin, Pillement, Monsiau, etc., 24 music plates, a folded illustration, and a facsimile letter. Beautiful Meslan binding, untrimmed and uncut. Ex-libris by Duchesne de La Sicotière. Edges frayed in places. Waterstains, sometimes significant.
Estimate:£1,286.07
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