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François de Salignac de Lamotte FÉNELON. Aventures...

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François de Salignac de Lamotte FÉNELON. Aventures de Télémaque Paris, Lequien, 1820. 2 volumes in-8, blue half-maroquin with long grain and small corners, spines with 5 nerves very nicely decorated with gilt and cold with nets, rolls and fleurons (Simier R. du Roi). Brunet, II-1216 /// I. (2f.)-XXIV-367 / II. (2f.)-359. A portrait and 24 hors texte figures by Moreau le jeune engraved on copper by De Ghendt, Girardet and Simonet. The figures are here before the letter and two of them are before the signatures. Corners and edges a little rubbed, some foxing to one plate. Attached : Jean de LA BRUYÈRE. Les Caractères, followed by the Caractères de Théophraste, translated from Greek by the same author. Paris, Lefèvre, 1818. 2 volumes in-8, blond calf, boards decorated with a diamond-shaped set of black fillets and a gilt roulette, spine with 5 nerves richly decorated, inner roulette, gilt edges (Simier R. du Roi). A portrait-frontispiece engraved on steel by Leroux. Boards rubbed with loss of decoration, some freckles.