[Rarebooks] FS: Early 18th Century Literary Satire

[Norman Kane]

We Can offer:

LA BIZARDIERE, MICHEL DAVID, SIEUR DE.   CARACTERES DES AUTEURS ANCIENS ET 
MODERNES, ET LES JUGEMENS DE LEURS OUVRAGES.  Paris:
Gregoire DuPuis, 1704.  The scarce first edition.  Old calf, approx. 6 1/2 
X 3 1/2 inches, spine elaborately gilt, joints starting to split but still 
tight, signature and bookplate of the
Dutch author, Frenny De Graaff, title page has printer's mark and the 
author's name inked in a small, neat hand. Not in OCLC; NUC lists copies at 
Harvard, Yale, Newberry & the Library of Congress.  (The Gods render 
judgement on, among many others, Descartes, Corneille, Tacitus, Ovid, 
Juvenal, Petronius, Horace, Rousseau, Aretino, Boileau, et al.)
$175.00

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