[Rarebooks] FS: Bohours' "Arts of Logick and Rhetorick" London: 1728

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Bouhours, Dominique. THE ARTS OF LOGICK AND RHETORICK, Illustrated by Examples Taken Out of the Best Authors... in All the Polite Languages... To Which Are Added, Parallel Quotations Out of the Most Eminent English Authors... London: Printed for John Clark and Richard Hett et al. 1728. First edition of this second English translation. xxxii,418,(16)pp. Index. Plus (2)pp. publisher's ads. Title printed in red & black. Old calf, worn, rebacked, old spine compartments laid back down. Title & text with some soiling & foxing, and some slight damp stains. Cont. ownership signature of Philip Ph. Livingston at top of title, and his engraved bookplate on front pastedown & his rubber stamped name in the margin of one leaf.	$850.00 (trade discount allowed)
Bouhours (1628-1702) was a Jesuit professor and a friend of Boileau, La Fontaine, Racine, etc. This second translation contains new citations from English writers and as such is nearly a new work. Philip PH. Livingston was a British Colonel in Jamaica circa 1770.


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