LA BRUYÈRE, Jean de (1645-1696). Les Caractères de Theophraste traduits du grec: avec les caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle. Sixième édition . Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1691. 12° (161 x 89mm). Title in red and black with Michallet's monogram, woodcut opening initials and head-pieces. (O11v, O12r, S3r and X3r with lettering slightly affected by small stains.) Red morocco by David, triple gilt fillets, gilt spine compartments and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt and marbled edges, silk marker, later gilt ex libris. Provenance : purchased from L. Giraud-Badin, 1932.
LA BRUYÈRE, Jean de (1645-1696). Les Caractères de Theophraste traduits du grec: avec les caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle. Sixième édition . Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1691. 12° (161 x 89mm). Title in red and black with Michallet's monogram, woodcut opening initials and head-pieces. (O11v, O12r, S3r and X3r with lettering slightly affected by small stains.) Red morocco by David, triple gilt fillets, gilt spine compartments and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt and marbled edges, silk marker, later gilt ex libris. Provenance : purchased from L. Giraud-Badin, 1932. Sixth, and for the first time, much enlarged edition with 77 new characters. For the first time the work of Theophrastus himself is printed in smaller type than the original contributions of La Bruyère. Brunet III, 720; Cioranescu 37512; Tchemerzine VI, 318.
LA BRUYÈRE, Jean de (1645-1696). Les Caractères de Theophraste traduits du grec: avec les caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle. Sixième édition . Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1691. 12° (161 x 89mm). Title in red and black with Michallet's monogram, woodcut opening initials and head-pieces. (O11v, O12r, S3r and X3r with lettering slightly affected by small stains.) Red morocco by David, triple gilt fillets, gilt spine compartments and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt and marbled edges, silk marker, later gilt ex libris. Provenance : purchased from L. Giraud-Badin, 1932.
LA BRUYÈRE, Jean de (1645-1696). Les Caractères de Theophraste traduits du grec: avec les caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle. Sixième édition . Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1691. 12° (161 x 89mm). Title in red and black with Michallet's monogram, woodcut opening initials and head-pieces. (O11v, O12r, S3r and X3r with lettering slightly affected by small stains.) Red morocco by David, triple gilt fillets, gilt spine compartments and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt and marbled edges, silk marker, later gilt ex libris. Provenance : purchased from L. Giraud-Badin, 1932. Sixth, and for the first time, much enlarged edition with 77 new characters. For the first time the work of Theophrastus himself is printed in smaller type than the original contributions of La Bruyère. Brunet III, 720; Cioranescu 37512; Tchemerzine VI, 318.
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