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ESPRIT ( Jacques )

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ESPRIT ( Jacques )

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
ESPRIT ( Jacques ). Discourses on the deceitfulness of human virtues. Done out of French by William Beauvoir, A.M. and Chaplain to His Grace James Duke of Ormond. To which is added, The Duke de la Rochefoucaut's Moral Reflections. Printed for And. Bell … R. Smith … and J. Round, 1706FIRST EDITION THUS, pages (16), 211, 220 - 432 ; (4), xvi, 80, 77(bis) - 95, (1, blank), (8), complete thus in spite of erratic pagination, 2 parts, separate title-pages and signatures, in 1 vol, 8vo, neatly bound in recent paper boards : lightly browned and with a small section of worming in three signatures, but not with any serious loss : a very good copy.Not in the Newberry Check List of Courtesy Books. Includes a 10-page chapter 'Of the Courage of Duelling". Esprit (1611-78), French man of letters whose gifts of conversation admitted him to society, notably to the salons of Mme de Rambouillet and Mme de Sablé. La Rochefoucauld’s intention was to publish a volume of maxims or reflections in collaboration with Mms de Sablé and Jacques Esprit but when they were published in 1664 they were the work of La Rochefoucauld alone.ALSO WITH THIS LOT: BLAIR ( Hugh ). Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres. In three volumes. Dublin : Printed for Messrs. Whitestone, Colles, Burnet, Moncrieffe … (and nine others), 1783.FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages vi, (1), (1, blank), 429, (3, blank) : (4), 444 : (4), 389, (1, blank), (34, index), 3 vols, 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt spines, with red and blue labes, gilt : headbands slightly chipped, labels a little rubbed and the foot of one upper joint worn, but still a strongly bound and very good copy. First Irish edition of Blair’s Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, first published in London and Edinburgh earlier the same year. The publication of these lectures established Blair's position as the literary pope of Scotland. They express the canons of taste of the ime in which Addison, Swift and Pope were recognised as the sole models of English style.(4)FRENCH LITERATURE; ENGLISH PRE 1801; DUBLIN PRINTED; ENGLISH LITERATURE; SCOTTISH LITERATURE; ; ; ; ; ; ;