BAILLET (Adrien) Jugemens des Savans sur les principaux ouvrages des...
BAILLET (Adrien)
Jugemens des Savans sur les principaux ouvrages des auteurs. Revised, corrected & increased by M. de La Monnoye. Paris, Moette ; Le A3166 ; Morisset ; Prault ; Chardon, 1722.
7 volumes in-4; portrait of the author engraved by Edelinck in frontispiece. Slight light banding to first few leaves of first volume.
Contemporary fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red title-pieces and tomaisons, small lack at one head, triple cold fillet on the boards, gilt roulette on the edges, red edges. Attached : MÉNAGE (Gilles) : Anti-Baillet ou Critique du livre de Mr Baillet intitulé Jugemens des savans. Paris ; Charpentier ; Moette ; Le A3166 ; Prault ; Chardon, 1730. In-4, contemporary speckled tawny calf, spine decorated with nerves, double fillet on the sides, gilt roulette on the edges, red edges. The Anti-Baillet de Ménage was originally published in 1688.
Second enlarged edition, partly original. Adrien Baillet was librarian of the lawyer general Lamoignon. He offers one of the most curious types of the man of letters, the scholar, whose whole life is concentrated in his books and literary compositions.
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BAILLET (Adrien)
Jugemens des Savans sur les principaux ouvrages des auteurs. Revised, corrected & increased by M. de La Monnoye. Paris, Moette ; Le A3166 ; Morisset ; Prault ; Chardon, 1722.
7 volumes in-4; portrait of the author engraved by Edelinck in frontispiece. Slight light banding to first few leaves of first volume.
Contemporary fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red title-pieces and tomaisons, small lack at one head, triple cold fillet on the boards, gilt roulette on the edges, red edges. Attached : MÉNAGE (Gilles) : Anti-Baillet ou Critique du livre de Mr Baillet intitulé Jugemens des savans. Paris ; Charpentier ; Moette ; Le A3166 ; Prault ; Chardon, 1730. In-4, contemporary speckled tawny calf, spine decorated with nerves, double fillet on the sides, gilt roulette on the edges, red edges. The Anti-Baillet de Ménage was originally published in 1688.
Second enlarged edition, partly original. Adrien Baillet was librarian of the lawyer general Lamoignon. He offers one of the most curious types of the man of letters, the scholar, whose whole life is concentrated in his books and literary compositions.
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