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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2003 Mar 29 @ 10:30UTC+01:00 : BST/CET
CORNEILLE, Pierre; THOMAS à KEMPIS.- L' Imitation de Jésus-Christ. Traduite & paraphrasée en vers françois. 1654-1656. 3 parties en 1 vol. in-12°. Relié par De Samblanx-Weckesser : plein maroquin bleu foncé, plats sertis d'un triple filet doré, dos fleuronné doré à nerfs, roul. dorée sur les coupes et remplis, gardes et doubles gardes de papier marbré, tranches dorées. Sous étui bordé.
Rare exemplaire constitué de 3 parties illustrées au total de 2 frontispices et 115 gravures.
(1).- Première partie. Imprimée à Rouen, par L. Maurry, pour Robert Ballard à Paris, 1656, [24 dont front.]-240 pp. et 37 gravures à pleine page. Soit les Livre I, 25 chapitres et Livre II, 12 chapitres (complet) d'une édition qui ne connut jamais de suite, "les libraires ayant dès lors fait paraître des éditions contenant plusieurs parties avec pagination suivie" (# Picot 125),
(2).- Livre troisième. Paris, Ballard, 1654, [12 dont front.]-180 pp. et 30 gravures à pleine page faisant suite à celles des 2 premiers livres de l'éd. de 1653. Soit Livre III, chapitres 1-30 (# Picot 124),
(3).- Dernière partie. Imprimée à Rouen par L. Maurry, pour Ballard, 1656, [12 dont front.]-306-[6] pp. et 48 gravures à pleine page. Soit Livre III, chapitres 31-54 et Livre IV, 18 chapitres (# Picot 127).
Provenance : Jean Jacobs (ex-libris).
Très bel ex. en belle condition. 900 Euros
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