$308
French Imprints, Five Titles in Eight Volumes, 1784-1818. L'Esprit des Esprits, ou Pensees Choisies , London and Brussels: Flon, 1784, 12mo, full contemporary sprinkled calf gilt-stamped armorial binding, 4 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. [Jean-Francois Vauvilliers's] Abrege de l'Histoire Universelle en Figures , Paris: Duflos le Jeune, 1785, large octavo, entirely engraved, printed on rectos only throughout, bound in full contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, 7 1/4 x 5 in. Apuleius's Les Metamorphoses, ou l'Ane d'Or , Paris: Jean-Francois, Bastien, 1787, in two large octavo volumes, frontispiece, added title pages in Latin, and ten engraved plates, bound in later half red morocco and marbled paper boards, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. Francoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourte de Grafigny's Lettres d'une Peruvienne , Paris: Didot l'aine, 1797, in two 12mo volumes, frontis portrait by Launay, and full page engravings by Coiny, bound in uniform contemporary calf, boards gilt-rolled, spines gilt in compartments with red and green lettering pieces, onlays, and geometric designs, a.e.g., 5 x 3 in. [and] Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon's Oeuvres , Paris: Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1818, in two large octavo volumes, engraved frontis by Aubin, full-page engravings, contemporary half green calf, 8 1/2 x 5 in. (8)
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-11-16
