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LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, François, duc de (1613-1680)]. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales. Cinquième édition augmentée de plus de cent nouvelles maximes . Paris: Claude Barbin, 1678. 12° (153 x 83mm). Woodcut ornaments. (Without preliminary blank.) Red morocco by Thibaron-Joly, red morocco liners, marbled free endpapers, gilt over marbled edges, later gilt supralibros (upper joints slightly cracked). Provenance : purchased from L. Giraud-Badin, 1929. Fifth edition with definitve text containing 504 maxims, the last edition published in the author's lifetime. Brunet III, 845; Cioranescu 40234; Tchemerzine VII, 58.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, François, duc de (1613-1680)]. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales. Cinquième édition augmentée de plus de cent nouvelles maximes . Paris: Claude Barbin, 1678. 12° (153 x 83mm). Woodcut ornaments. (Without preliminary blank.) Red morocco by Thibaron-Joly, red morocco liners, marbled free endpapers, gilt over marbled edges, later gilt supralibros (upper joints slightly cracked). Provenance : purchased from L. Giraud-Badin, 1929. Fifth edition with definitve text containing 504 maxims, the last edition published in the author's lifetime. Brunet III, 845; Cioranescu 40234; Tchemerzine VII, 58. L[A] R[OCHEFOUCAULD], [F.] duc de. Memoires . Cologne: Pierre van Dyck, 1664. 12° (129 x 70mm). Sphere device on title, woodcut ornaments. (Quire A waterstained at bottom margin.) Red morocco gilt by Allo, sides with arms of the marquis de Villneuve, gilt over marbled edges. Provenance : Hélion-Charles-Edouard de Villeneuve, marquis de Trans et de Flaysoc (1827-93, arms on binding) -- Henri Bordes (ex libris) -- purchased from Georges Andrieux, 1926. Fourth edition. Olivier describes Villeneuve as 'une des plus curieuses figures de son temps' who formed 'une incomparable collection qu'il fit magnifiquement relier'. Olivier XVI, 1649; Brunet III, 848; Tchemerzine VII, 45. (2)