SCUDÉRY (Madeleine de).

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SCUDÉRY (Madeleine de).
Clelie. Roman history [...]. A Paris, Chez Thomas Jolly, 1666, & A Paris, Chez Augustin Courbé, 1660 (1st part), A Paris, Chez Augustin Courbé, 1655 & 1662 (2nd part), A Paris, Chez Augustin Courbé, 1657 (3rd part), & A Paris, Chez Augustin Courbé et Jean Blaeu, 1658 & 1661 (4th & 5th parts). Together 5 parts in 10 volumes in-12, calfskin, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). Four engraved title-frontispieces (volumes 1, 3, 7 & 9), a portrait of the duchess of Longueville to whom the work is dedicated, a plate at the head of each of the volumes (except in the 6th), the "Carte du Tendre" folded in the middle of the first one and four other plates at the head of books III in volumes 4, 6, 8 and 10. Damage to bindings; tear with damage to text in a page of the dedication and a few other accidents inside volumes (one with a small lack of text on f. to 5 of vol. I); "Carte du Tendre" consolidated by laminating; title-page of book 2 or continuation of part 3 (vol. 6, with perhaps a plate on v°) and title-frontispiece of vol. 5 (portico with Longueville arms) lacking.
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