[EPICTETUS, SOCRATES, PLUTARCH & SENECA]. Les Morales d' - Lot 84

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[EPICTETUS, SOCRATES, PLUTARCH & SENECA]. Les Morales d' - Lot 84
[EPICTETUS, SOCRATES, PLUTARCH & SENECA]. Les Morales d'Epictete de Socrate de Plutarque et de Seneque. Au Chasteau de Richelieu, De l'Imprimerie d'Estienne Migon, " Professeur en Mathematique & Imprimeur [...] pour le faict de la Milice ", 1653. In-12 (93 x 144 mm), red morocco, gilt fillet framing the boards, crowned "A R" in the center, ornate ribbed spine, gilt edges (period binding). Printed eleven years after the Cardinal's death in a clandestine printing house set up in the Château de Richelieu, using small typeface known as caractères d'argent. - Tchemerzine Bibliographie d'éditions originales II, 830; - "Everyone knows that this lovely volume was published by Desmarets and printed with typefaces of great delicacy and sharpness, whose origin I believe I can trace back to the famous Sedan fonts." (Nodier Description raisonnée d'une jolie collection de livres, 72 [For an ex. bound by Koehler]); - BNF Catalogue de l'exposition du siècle de Louis XIV, 137. VERY GOOD EXEMPLAIR IN AN EARLY MAROQUIN BINDING WITH THE CHIFFRE OF Armand Jean du Plessis (1629-1734), 2nd DUC DE RICH ELI EU, general of the galleys of France.
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