Item #47973 Oeuvres ... Nouvelle edition. Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Molière.
Oeuvres ... Nouvelle edition

Oeuvres ... Nouvelle edition

Paris: [Pierre Praul] avec privilege du Roy, 1734. First edition in quarto, 6 volumes, engraved vignette title pages, engraved portrait of Moliere by Coypel arfter Lépicié, 33 engraved plates by F. Boucher after Laurent Cars, plus numerous (and often large) engraved head- and tailpieces; contemporary full calf neatly rebacked, computer-generated labels (but actually rather o.k.) lettered in gilt on spines, a.e.g.; very good and sound. This copy is in the first state with the reading "Comteese" in Vol VI, p. 360, line 12. Includes "Memoirs sur la vie & les ouvrages de Moliere [par J.L.I. de La Serre]" in volume I. Brunet III, 1798; Cohen-de Ricci 712-14; Brunet III, 16798: "Édition assez belle, et la première un peu remarquable que l'on ait donnée de notre grand comique." Item #47973

Price: $3,500.00