Telemachus
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Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storefurthermore, some old handwritten texts on the front cover and inside owner’s namesvery fine! the book is in top condition, there are 24 books in 1 volumeoriginal binding and endpapers, blind stamps on the boardsbook in original parchment bindingrare and beautiful item for a bookcase, the book is in very fine antiquarian conditionpictures are part of descriptioncatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikivery fine binding with spine title and originally drawn raised bandsoverall a magnificent bookthe main work has 576 pages, the dimensions are 21 × approxthere seem to be no other defects than the normal signs of age, for risk of buyerfeitama - telemachus, uit het fransch van den heere fenelon in nederduitsche vaerzen overgebragt, en in dezen tweeden druk verbeterd, onder de zinspreuk studio fovetur ingeniumno trading on sundaythe binding is neat, beautiful frontispiece is presentplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
88 €
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Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeinside in good condition, light soiling, lovely headbands, complete of the frontispiece and 10 wonderfully executed out of text plates, marbled endpapersdelivery service provided by chronopost within a few daysa nice edition of this book that combines the educational novel and the anti-absolutist political manifestomessire françois de salignac de la mothe fénélon - les aventures de télémaque, fils d'ulysse - xl + 448 pagesthis novel, both an epic and a treatise on morality and politics, caused both fénelon's disgrace at court and his immediate and subsequent famethus, montesquieu described it as “livre divin de ce siècle” and was inspired by it by adopting the same process of disassociation in his “lettres persanes”binding in good condition, work in its period brown full leather binding, covers and spine in good condition, adorned ribbed spine, gilded titling on a morocco label, lovely and elegant bindingthis implicit criticism of louis xiv' s absolutism immediately appeared as a transparent manifesto in favour of natural law versus divine lawcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteand for good reason: fénelon tells of the wanderings of telemachus, accompanied by mentor, avatar of minerva - pretext for a moral and political education, which was also seen at the time as a satire of the reign of louis xiv
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