POPE (Alexandre). Essay on Man. Translated [...] into - Lot 124

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POPE (Alexandre). Essay on Man. Translated [...] into - Lot 124
POPE (Alexandre). Essay on Man. Translated [...] into François by M. D[e] S[ilhouette]. S. l., 1736. In-16, calf, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). XXXI + 112 pp. FIRST FRENCH EDITION by Étienne de Silhouette. Woodcut finial on title (signed "P."), entablature (signed "F.") and two culs-delampe (the second signed "N"). A VERY FIRST EDITION, the text of which has been modified and corrected in the edition cited by Barbier. The words "es-" (p. 7) handwritten as "espace", and "de Chartres?" (p. 90) corrected to "Charters?" as in the copy preserved in the Tolosana Library. Tolosana. From the libraries of - Charles Louis de Lorraine (1696-1755), prince de Marsan, with engraved armorial bookplate, & - Pierre Dumesnil, with handwritten bookplate ("Non mei fiducia sed ejus") on flyleaf. First jaw split over two cm and head cap damaged. Barbier, II, 234 (who cites the edition published the same year in London by Pierre Dunoyer and in Amsterdam by Jean Frederic Bernard.
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