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L'Utopie de Thomas Morus, Chancelier d'Angleterre; idée ingenieuse pour remedier au malheur des hommes; & pour leur procurer une felicité complette. Cet ouvrage contient le plan d'une république dont les lois, les usages, & les Coutumes tendent uniquement `a faire faire aux societez humaines le passage de la vie dans toute la douceur imaginable. République, qui deviendra infalliblement réelle, des que lès mortels se conduiront par la raison. Traduit nouvellement en François par Mr. Gueudeville & ornée de tres belles figures
by More, Thomas
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About This Item
Leiden: Pierre van der Aa, 1715 First edition of this translation, the third into French (Others had appeared in 1550 and 1643), of More's major work. It contains all the plates; that at K2, depicting "a man and a woman in state of nature approving each other before marriage" (Gibson) is often removed. In our copy, the couple's nakedness has instead been obscured with smears of ink. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt-decorated spine with burgundy morocco spine label, edges stained red. Twelvemo. Engraved frontispiece and sixteen fine engraved plates, one engraved headband. Title printed in red and black. Joints starting to crack near foot of spine, preliminary and terminal leaf lightly browned. Otherwise a very good copy. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Jean-Pierre de Bougainville (1722-1769), who was secretary of the Académie Française from 1749, and who was associated with many of their publications. His library was auctioned in a ten-day sale in August, 1769. The lengthy introduction includes an account of More's life, the original preface by the author, and a letter to More from the humanist Jerome Busleiden.
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- Bookseller
- Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13132
- Title
- L'Utopie de Thomas Morus, Chancelier d'Angleterre; idée ingenieuse pour remedier au malheur des hommes; & pour leur procurer une felicité complette. Cet ouvrage contient le plan d'une république dont les lois, les usages, & les Coutumes tendent uniquement `a faire faire aux societez humaines le passage de la vie dans toute la douceur imaginable. République, qui deviendra infalliblement réelle, des que lès mortels se conduiront par la raison. Traduit nouvellement en François par Mr. Gueudeville & ornée de tres belles figures
- Author
- More, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Contemporary mottled calf, gilt-decorated spine with burgundy morocco spine label, edges stained red
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition of this translation, the third into French (Others
- Publisher
- Pierre van der Aa,
- Place of Publication
- Leiden:
- Date Published
- 1715
- Pages
- [cxlvi], 372 + 48 pp. publisher's catalogue.
- Size
- Twelvemo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Los Angeles, California
About Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
Our office is located in Los Angeles on West Third Street, between the Beverly Center and Farmer's Market. Though we gave up an open shop after more than thirty years, we welcome serious customers and dealers. We are normally open from 10 to 6 Monday through Saturday. Since some of our less expensive books are located in a temperature-controlled storage area offsite, you may want to call ahead of time to insure that the book you want to see will be available. We feature a stock strong in literature, history, Western philosophy, women's studies, education, history of science and fine printing and artists' books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. We have books from the 15th to the 20th century in all prices ranges. We do appraisals for income tax and insurance purposes. We purchase individual books and libraries. Proprietor: Carol Sandberg
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- First Edition
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- Spine Label
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- Bookplate
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- Headband
- A strip of colored material attached to the text block at the top of the spine of a hard cover book. The same treatment applied...
- Fine
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- Calf
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- Morocco
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