OEUVRES COMPLETES (13 Volumes)
by De Florian, Jean Pierre Claris
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
-
Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Leibzig: Chez Gerard Fleischer. Good+. 1810. Hardcover. Nouvelle Edition. Thirteen volumes bound in half leather over clean marbled boards. Special binding with royal insignia: Gilt embellished spine including a "Royal Crown" over the letter "A" at the top. Marbled endpapers and engraved frontispiece in each volume. Text blocks tight, clean and intact. #1, Nouvelles, 326pp; #2, Numa Pompilius, 299pp ; #3, Theatre, 294pp; #4, Myrtil et Chloe Pastorale, 203pp; #5, Estelle, Roman Pastoral, 265pp; #6, Precis Historique Surles Maures D'Espagne, 288pp; #7, Gonzalve De Cordoue, 221pp; #8, Fables, 269pp; #9, Don Quichotte de la Manche, 287pp; #10, Don Quichotte de la Manche, 329pp; #11, Don Quichotte de la Manche, 312pp; #12, Imitations et Traductions, 416pp; #13, L'enfant D'Darlequin Perdu et Retrouve Comedie. Jean Pierre Claris de Florian was most noted for his fables and also his abridgement of Don Quixote. Some spine lables are fully or partly missing. Vols. 4 #5 have a scuff mark on the cover. Vol. 7 has a small hole in leather near spine heel. Literature, Poetry; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 3821 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13504
- Title
- OEUVRES COMPLETES (13 Volumes)
- Author
- De Florian, Jean Pierre Claris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Publisher
- Chez Gerard Fleischer
- Place of Publication
- Leibzig
- Date Published
- 1810
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Poetry;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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- Marbled boards
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...