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Very beautiful copper engraving bernard picart aristaios forces protheus to speak the truth approxare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikioriginal print size of the slab: approxour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Nicolas boileau despréaux - œuvres de nicolas boileau despréaux - pages - bindings in very good condition, old restorations to the headcap, tailcap and corners, work in its period full calfskin binding, covers and spine in good condition, red pigmented edges, ornate ribbed spine, gilded titling and volume numbers, small label near the headcaps - interior in good condition, light dirt, lovely banners and end pieces, beautiful initial letters, marbled endpapers, work illustrated with fine figures by bernard picart the roman - delivery service provided by chronopost within a few days - read moreare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiadmirer and friend of molière for ten years, familiar with furetière and chapelle, he was in the last quarter of the century the colleague and privileged collaborator of racineour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitea charming edition of nicolas boileau, poet, translator, polemicist and theorist of literature, he was considered in his time and for posterity as the legislator or the "régent du parnasse" for his " impassioned intransigence "as a poet, he endeavoured to define taste, and sought to establish in a clear and precise way the laws and resources of classical poetrycatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Superstitions anciennes et modernes, préjugés vulgaires qui ont induit les peuples à des usages et à des pratiques contraires à la religionhe entered the king’s musketeers in and, at the height of his military career, was knighted in the king’s orders, governor of arras and marshal of franceplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethe first volume contains the traite des superstitions by jean-baptiste thiers (), the first confidential edition of which dates from , and the histoire critique des pratiques superstitieuses qui ont séduit les peuples et embarrassé les savans by pierre le brun (), see guaita(table), 12 platesthis curious collection of occult texts was an immediate success in the european aristocratic circle and it is not uncommon to find folio copies with arms[lebrun (pierre) & thiers (jean-baptiste)]good overall condition, worn headbands, rubbed corners,superficial tears on hinges, paper sometime darkened, other minor defectscohen announces 13 plates and indeed, there is an additional plate, showing a superstitious rosary and a charm which makes one lose sight, in certain copies of which title page differs from this onethis is the case of these volumes, wearing the gilt the arms of louis de gand-vilain known as louis de gand de mérode de montmorency, prince of isenghien ()one can also find on the title page a stamp from the company of jesus at the avignon residenceour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethe marquis de brancas was also an scholar bibliophilethe text is illustrated with 12 plates, the content of which reflects the vast field of the topics: the turkish oracle, the wheel of pius iv, the water test, the test of the wand, various experiments by the wand, representations of the planets of the solar and zodiacal system, hippomans, hand of glory, mandrake, talisman of the planets, jew holding mezuzoth, image of veronica, wheel of life and death, bucket of solomon, talisman medals, magic plants, artificial mandrake, table of ten sephiroths in the shape of circles, celestial hebrew alphabet, the mairs or the three northern fates, etcwhile in the present edition, the engraving is signed by picart, it is dated and illustrates a sun darting its rays on a plain with the motto "foecundis ignibus ardet", like the copy from the esoteric library by eric gruaz which also contains only 12 platesthe second volume gathers various dissertations, in part due to father le brun, the dissertation sur l'inscription du grand portail du convent des cordeliers de reims and the traité des superstitions qui regardent les sacremens, by jthe copy still has two engraved ex-libris, one glued to the reverse side of the front cover bearing the arms of jean-baptiste de gaumont (), adviser to the court of aid and intendant of finances (); the other on the reverse side of the title page: louis-henri de brancas-forcalquier, second marquis de céreste, sovereign prince of the island of nissiros (), french soldier who was elevated to the dignity of marshal of france inas a matter of fact, the vignette then illustrates putto watering a nursery with the motto "cura et labore"; it is not signed(caillet, ; cohen, 135; dorbon, ; ohr, for arms)in-folio leather bound with gilt arms on covers, 2 volare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiit is likely that there were two separate editions in , one with 12 plates and the other 13catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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