<p>Published posthumously in 1699 Jean de La Bruyère's Dialogues Posthumes examines the suppression of Quietism within the Catholic Church through satirical dialogues. Though critical in tone the text displays moments of literary sympathy toward Fénelon a central figure in the Quietist debate. As a first edition the book marks a distinct intersection of religious conflict and rhetorical strategy during the late 17th century. Good. Full leather binding shows modest corner rubbing with the text block firm and complete. Sextodecimo 16mo single volume. Collation: 11 382pp 1. No illustrations. First edition. References: not cited. #28937. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.</p> Charles Osmont hardcover
à Paris: Chez Charles Osmont 1699. Fine. Chez Charles Osmont à Paris 1699 8 x 14 cm relié First edition rare. Contemporary full brown sheep binding spine with raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons. Headcaps eliminated joints of first cover lightly rubbed. Rear endpaper split very light worming to a few leaves without loss. All posthumous books by La Bruyère died in 1696 were completed by his editor Louis Ellies Dupin who wrote two dialogues for this work. La Bruyère takes part in this book in the theological quarrel between Bossuet and Fénelon defender of quietism. The author criticizes quietism in an ironic tone modeled on Pascal's provincial letters. First edition of a work by the famous author of the Caractères. Chez Charles Osmont hardcover
à Paris: Chez Charles Osmont 1699. Fine. Chez Charles Osmont à Paris 1699 10 x 16.50 cm relié First edition. Tchemerzine VI 331. Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Worn headcaps. Overall rubbing. Large brown stain on upper cover. 3 corners slightly bumped. Pp. 158 to 168 foxed. All posthumous works by La Bruyère died in 1696 were completed by his editor Louis Ellies Dupin who wrote two dialogues for this work. La Bruyère takes part in this book in the theological quarrel between Bossuet and Fénelon defender of quietism. The author criticizes quietism in an ironic tone modeled on Pascal's Provincial Letters. Chez Charles Osmont hardcover
French and European Publications Inc 2035-02-01. hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! French and European Publications Inc hardcover
Paris: Rene Kieffer Ducros & Colas. 1926. Interior clean and crisp. Binding: Full original blind-stamped morocco boards in compartmentalized design with central radiating motif. Spine with 4 raised bands blind-tooled compartments and design matching boards gilt lettering. Marbled pasted and free endpapers. Top edges gilt. Front and bottom edges deckled. Notes: Limited edition 98/550.<br>Text in French.<br>Jean de la Bruyere 1645 – 1696 was a French philosopher and moralist noted for his satire. <br><br> Size: Quarto 285 x 200 mm Illustration: A fine example of this translation of Theoprastus the Greek philosopher and successor to Aristotle. With 19 plates of woodcuts after Georges Bruyer and many other vignettes and in-text illustrations. Bottom edges of leaves blind-stamped with publisher’s name. With Rene Kieffer’s label fixed to verso of front free endpaper and publication ticket-strip dated guarded at back. Pages: P. Blank 6. Pictorial title. Blank 3. Half title. Blank. Justification du Tirage. Blank. Title. Blank. P. 1-333. Blank. Colophon. Blank 4. Leaf with black pictorial stamp. Publisher’s ticket. Blank 6. Category: Book Classics; Book Caricatures; Book Philosophy; Rene Kieffer, Ducros & Colas. hardcover
A Paris: PanckouckeChez Hochereau 1765. Fine. Panckoucke Chez Hochereau A Paris 1765 21.80 x 29.10 cm relié New edition and first deluxe edition in quarto format on large Dutch paper. A handsome portrait of La Bruyère engraved by Cathelin as frontispiece. A title vignette by Gravelot and two fine headpieces by the same. Title page in red and black. Full contemporary glazed lavallière calf binding. Smooth spine decorated. Brown morocco title label. Upper joint split at head and tail with loss of leather. A few narrow cracks along the upper joint. Surface wear at bottom of upper board 2 small ones at bottom of lower board. Both upper corners discretely restored. Copy overall quite fresh printed on fine paper despite some scattered foxing. Fine and carefully produced edition reproducing the Costes edition of 1739 for the text and notes as well as the key to the Characters. The Discourse to the French Academy forms the final text. PanckouckeChez Hochereau hardcover
Paris: Librairie de Bibliophiles 1881. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 4.5". None. A French edition of Bruyere's collection of satirical and critical essays in the original French. In the original French. Complete in two volumes. 'Caracteres' is a work of literary criticism and satirical essays. This was a popular work during it's time though it also brought much criticism from the likes of Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle and Thomas Corneille. Written by Jean de la Bruyere a French philosopher who was known for his satire. Edited by Damase Jouaust a French printer and publisher. With a preface by Louis Lacour a French librarian and historian. Bookplate to the front pastedowns 'Thomas Herbert Lewin'. Lewin was a soldier writer and an administrator in India. In a half calf binding with marbled paper to the boards. Some light marks to the front board of Volume II. A little bumping to the extremities. Some very minor marks to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright with some spots. Some pages of Volume I are uncut to the fore edge. Very Good Indeed Librairie de Bibliophiles hardcover
Paris: Estienn & Michallet 1699. Tenth. Good-. <p>Jean de La Bruyere 1645 â€" 1696 was a French philosopher and moralist who was noted for his satire The plan of "Les Caracteres" is thoroughly original if that term may be accorded to a novel and skillful combination of elements exists in it The treatise of Theophrastus may have furnished the concept but it gave little more With the ethical generalizations and social Dutch paintings accompanying his original La Bruyere combined the peculiarities of the Montaigne Essais of the Pensees and Maximes of which Pascal and La Rochefoucauld are the masters respectively and lastly of that peculiar seventeenth century product the "portrait" or elaborate literary picture of the personal and mental characteristics of an individual The result was quite unlike anything that had been seen previously and it has not been exactly reproduced since although the essay of Addison and Steele resembles it very closely especially in the introduction of fancy portraits La Bruyere's privileged position at Chantilly provided him with a unique vantage point from which he could witness the hypocrisy and corruption of the court of Louis XIV As a Christian moralist he aimed at reforming people's manners and ways by publishing records of his observations of aristocratic foibles and follies which earned him many enemies at the court In the titles of his work and in its extreme desultoriness La Bruyere reminds the reader of Montaigne but he aimed too much at sententiousness to attempt even the apparent continuity of the great essayist The short paragraphs of which his chapters consist are made up of maxims proper of criticisms literary and ethical and above all of the celebrated sketches of individuals baptized with names taken from the plays and romances of the time These last are the greatest feature of the work and that which gave it its immediate if not its enduring popularity They are wonderfully piquant extraordinarily lifelike in a certain sense and must have given great pleasure or more frequently exquisite pain to the apparent subjects who in many cases were unmistakable and most recognizable</p> <p>This stated tenth edition volume is bound in full leather featuring raised bands and gilt tooling and lettering on the panels The work is adorned with an engraved portrait frontispiece titled "Tout Espirit orgueilleux qui s'aime Par mes lecons se void gueri; Et dans mon livre si cheri Apprend a se hair soy-mesme" The title page is printed in red and black The work is bound with "Discours Prononce Dans L'Academie Francoise" The book shows mild to moderate signs of age and wear with light rubbing/scraping to the boards as well as a section of material lacking from the spine cover The spine also shows some edgewear/cracking Text is clear and crisp through mild age toning The title page has been trimmed at the top with no obstruction to the text Endpapers show previous owner inscriptions and labels </p> 652 xliv pp. Estienn & Michallet unknown
Paris Librairie des Bibliophiles 1872 73. 8° radiertes Fronti. Portrait des Autors XLVIII 296 S.; 324 S Brauner Maroquin-Bd. der Zeit signiert: Hardy Buchrücken goldgeprägt Rundumgoldschnitt. Vorsätze m. reicher floraler Zierleiste u. marmoriertem Papier. Ein Band min. beschienen sehr schöne Exemplare. Nr. 91 von 100 numerierten Exemplaren auf Whatman-Papier. Das Portrait vom franz. Maler François Léopold Flameng 1856 -1923.Über den pariser Buchbinder Hardy ist leider wenig bekannt- Jean de La Bruyère 1645-1696 war ein französischer Schriftsteller. Der als Moralist zu den großen französischen Klassikern gerechnete Autor stammte aus einer bürgerlichen wohl erst seit kurzem in Paris ansässigen Familie und erhielt nach einem Jurastudium in Orléans 1665 die Zulassung als Anwalt am höchsten Pariser Gericht dem Parlement. 1671 beerbte er mit seinen drei jüngeren Geschwistern einen reichen Onkel und kaufte 1673 in Caen ein Amt in der Finanzverwaltung das ihn pro forma adelte ihm aber keine Präsenz vor Ort abverlangte. Er lebte vielmehr weiter als Rentier in Paris und dilettierte als Privatgelehrter.Als Randfigur im hochadeligen Milieu wurde er zu dessen scharfem Beobachter und bereicherte in der Folge die Theophrastschen „Charaktere“ um die Darstellung sozialer Typen der eigenen Zeit wobei er mit Vorliebe bestimmte adelige und pseudoadelige Verhaltensweisen aber auch allgemeine menschlich-allzumenschliche Schwächen Manien und Ticks aufs Korn nahm. 1688 ließ er ein Bändchen erscheinen mit dem Titel «Les Caractères de Théophraste traduits du grec avec les caractères ou les mœurs de ce siècle».Das Werk war dank seiner Thematik seiner Einteilung in kurze gut lesbare Abschnitte sowie seiner pointierten oft ironischen Formulierungen sofort ein Erfolg und La Bruyère erweiterte es von einer zur nächsten der neun Auflagen die rasch aufeinander folgten; die letzte kurz nach seinem Tod. In Paris zirkulierten bald auch Schlüssel die einzelne Figuren als Porträts bekannter Zeitgenossen zu identifizieren versuchten. 010 Paris, Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1872, 73 unknown
Paris: Lefevre imprimerie de Jules Didot aine imprimeur du roi 1823. Tre volumetti 8x12 cm di 4-XLI-266-1 pp ; 4-277-3 pp e 4-327-1 pp. In lingua francese. Bella LEGATURA in piena pelle marrone filo di cornice dorata ai piatti e cornice a secco floreale; medaglione floreale a secco al centro dei piatti; dorso a nervi ornato e dorato; risguardi in carta marmorizzata; tagli marmorizzati. Condizioni molto buone. Lefevre (imprimerie de Jules Didot aine, imprimeur du roi) unknown
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