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Oeuvres de Monsieur Nivelle de la Chaussée, de l'Académie françoise
by La Chaussée, Nivelle de
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Paris: Prault, 1762. Nouvelle édition, corrigée & augmentée de plusieurs pièces qui n'avoient point encore paru, 5 volumes bound in 3, 16mo; woodcut printer's devices, head- and tail-pieces; full contemporary mottled calf, elaborately gilt-tooled spines in 6 compartments, red morocco gilt spine labels, all edges red, marbled endpapers; general wear, top hinge of Vol. I cracked, losses to leather, most substantially so to the third volume; contemporary armorial bookplates of Fr. Com. Kinsky with the House of Kinsky coat of arms to front pastedowns; a good, sound set. Collected works by the French playwright who perfected the "comédie larmoyante" ("tearful comedy"). Additonal Supplément aux oeuvres de Monsieur de la Chaussée, Amsterdam: 1762, bound at end after Vol. V. Brunet III, pp. 727-728: "Les exemplaires en papier de Hollande sont les seuls qui conservent de la valeur"; Graesse IV, p. 63.
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- Bookseller
- Rulon-Miller Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43506
- Title
- Oeuvres de Monsieur Nivelle de la Chaussée, de l'Académie françoise
- Author
- La Chaussée, Nivelle de
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Prault
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1762
- Keywords
- French , Plays , , Drama
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Spine
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- Calf
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- Morocco
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- Gilt
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