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Les saisons, poëme.

1782ref. 428Amsterdam, 1782, 8 X 13 cm., relié, 236 pp. Sixième édition revue et corrigée. Demi-basane fauve marbrée à dos lisse orné de filets dorés et décors floraux, et pièce de titre rouge. Importantes épidermures, accrocs au dos et pièce de titre fendue. Taches, déchirures et plis sur les gardes, tache rouge sur la tranche de gouttière. Exempt de rousseurs.

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Les saisons. Poemes

1782ref. 43051A Londres A Londres, 1782. In-16 relié plene basane blonde. Dos lisse orné de fleurons dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge. Roulette et filet doré sur les plats. Tranches dorées. Roulette intérieure. Un feuillet blanc, faux titre, titre gravé daté de 1781, titre, 177 pages et un feuillet blanc. Très bon état

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Les saisons. Poëme

1823ref. 99913167Entrelacs Paris, chez Janet et Cotelle, 1823. In-8 plein veau glacé vert olive de l'époque, dos à nerfs soulignés d'entrelacs dorés, fleurons estampés à froid entre nerfs, plats estampés à froid et doubles filets dorés, large roulette intérieure, toutes tranches dorées, gardes de papier vert. Gravure en frontispice par Desenne gravée par Roger. IX + 457 pages. Contient également : Pièces Fugitives, Contes et fables orientales. Très légères rousseurs, sinon bel exemplaire dans une très jolie et élégante reliure.

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SAINT-LAMBERT Jean-François deLivre Rare Book

Les saisons. Poëme

1796ref. 164261De l'Imprimerie de P Didot l'Ainé A Paris, De l'imprimerie de P Didot l'Ainé l'an IV de la république, 1796. In-4 relié pleine basane. Dos à nerfs orné à motis dorés, double filet doré sur les plats, tranches rouges, sous étui. Un feuillet blanc, faux titre, titre avec vignette, XXIV + 406 pages + table, un feuillet blanc. Gravures dessinées par Chaudet et gravées par Morel. Contient Les Saisons, Pieces Fugitives, Contes, et Fables Orientales. Bien complet des 4 gravures. Très bon état

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Les saisons. Poëme. Sixième édition, revue et corrigée

1777ref. 185481777 Amsterdam (Lyon), 1777, sans nom d'éditeur (Cazin), in-18 de (4)-191 pp., rel. d'ép. plein veau glacé fauve, 1 frontispice gravé, dos lisse orné de fers dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, tranches dorées, encadrements de triple-filets dorés sur les plats, petit trou de vers en tête du dos, sinon bel ex.

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Les Saisons, poème, suivi de : L'Abenaki, Sara TH..., Ziméo., contes, pièces fugitives et fables orientales

ref. 19701Amsterdam, 1773, in-12 de (4)-XXXVI-215 pp.-240 pp., rel. d'ép. plein veau fauve granité, dos à nerfs orné de fers dorés, pièce de titre de mar. rouge, bon ex.

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SAINT-LAMBERT (François de)Livre Rare Book

Les saisons, Poëme

1785ref. 203861785 Paris, Pissot, 1785, in-12 de (4)-XXIV-399-(3) pp., reliure de l'époque de plein veau glacé fauve, dos lisse richement orné d'un décor de palette dorée, pièce de titre de maroquin vert, encadrements de triple-filets dorés sur les plats, bel exemplaire.

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Les saisons, poëme, par Saint-Lambert. [suivi de] Oeuvres mêlées de Saint-Lambert.

1814ref. 18750Clermont, Imprimerie de Pierre Landriot, 1814. 2 volumes in-18, demi-basane vert sapin, dos lisses ornés de filets et fleurons dorés, tranches marbrées.

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Les principes du clavecin Reprint

1972ref. 432795-LI22Genève : Minkoff Reprints ca. 1972. Hardcover. Good. Original gilt lettered burgundy leather gilt lettered spine numerous illustrations in b/w unpaged oblong circa 31x23cm.; Several very light stains on rear board. Genève : Minkoff Reprints hardcover

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Les Saisons Poëme

1775ref. 322710Amsterdam 1775. Septiéme Édition. Engraved frontispiece and 6 plates after Moreau engraved by Delaunay Duclos Prévost and Simonet & Le Bas one fleuron on the title by Choffard & 4 etched vignettes head-pieces by Choffard. These vignettes are in two sates one being the "Tiarge à port." xxxvi 467 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full modern full brown morocco a.e.g. for Hatchards Piccadilly Fine. Septiéme Édition. Engraved frontispiece and 6 plates after Moreau engraved by Delaunay Duclos Prévost and Simonet & Le Bas one fleuron on the title by Choffard & 4 etched vignettes head-pieces by Choffard. These vignettes are in two sates one being the "Tiarge à port." xxxvi 467 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cohen-de Ricci 925 unknown

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Les Saisons.

1782ref. 187211782. A Londres s.. Cazin 1782. Un vol. au format in-16 163 x 83 mm de 1 f. bl. 1 frontispice grav n.fol. 133 pp. et 1 f. bl. Reliure postrieure de demi-basane fauve dos lisse orn de filets gras froid piÂce de titre de maroquin brique titre dor toutes tranches mouchetes. Belle impression sortie des presses d'Hubert-Martin Cazin. L'exemplaire s'ouvre sur un joli frontispice sign B. Cheraux et Duponchel. Les ditions Cazin taient trÂs rputes pour leur qualit mais aussi pour leur caractÂre licencieux qui valut lՎditeur la saisie des livres une amende et deux sjours la Bastille. Chef dÃ•Ãuvre de la Posie descriptive du xviiieÊsiÂcle Voltaire nÕhsite pas ranger ''Les Saisons'' parmi les ÇÊouvrages de gnieÊÈ affirmant mÂme : ÇÊCÕest le seul ouvrage de notre siÂcle qui passera la postritÊÈ. La publication des ''Saisons'' ouvrit d'ailleurs tout droit son auteur les portes de l'Acadmie. Oeuvre extrÂmement soigne - souvent brillante - certains passages tendent l'absolue grandeur la Posie vraie. Constitu de quatre chants le poÂme parcourt le cercle de lÕanne ; avec ses phnomÂnes mtorologiques le cycle des saisons de la vie des travaux de la campagne etc. L'un de ces Contes reli la suite intitul "Zimo'' met en scÂne les NÂgres-marons de la Jamaque laissant ainsi prjuger de l'volution des ides sur l'esclavage : "Peuples polis peuples sÂavants prenez-y garde vous n'aurez une morale de bons gouvernements & des moeurs que lorsque les principes du droit naturel seront connus de tous les peuples; . Vous sÂaurez que votre argent ne peut vous donner le droit de tenir un seul homme dans l'esclavage''. Li aux Encyclopdistes Ã mentionn comme lÕauteur anonyme des articles ÇÊfasteÊÈ ÇÊfamiliaritÊÈ ÇÊfermetÊÈ ÇÊflatterieÊÈ ÇÊfantaisieÊÈ ÇÊfrivolitÊÈ ÇÊfragilitÊÈ Morale ÇÊfrivolit & gnieÊÈ Littrat. de lÕEncyclopdie de Diderot et DÕAlembert Ã l'auteur frquenta les salons de Mesdames dՃpinay de Lespinasse Geoffrin et du Deffand et les dners de Mlle Quinault. En 1752 il entama avec Sophie dÕHoudetot qui tait la belle-sÃur de Louise d'pinay et qui inspira une grande passion Jean-Jacques Rousseau une liaison qui devait durer prÂs dÕun demi-siÂcle. Durant la Rvolution franÂaise il se retira Eaubonne auprÂs de Sophie dÕHoudetot. On lÕappela dÂs lors ÇÊle sage dÕEaubonneÊÈ. Devenu mlancolique il ne trouvait alors plus satisfaction que dans de rcurrents excs de gourmandise. Manuel du Cazinophile XLVII. Angles et coupes lims. Petit dfaut affectant chacun des mors infrieurs. Quelques rares rousseurs dans le texte. Infime manque en marge du dernier feuillet. Nonobstant bonne condition. b42961 unknown

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Les Saisons

ref. 0259016640.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback

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Les Saisons: Poëme Classic Reprint

ref. 0265493137.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover

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Les Saisons: Poëme Classic Reprint French Edition

ref. 0428304494.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover

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Les Saisons pöeme The Seasons. Followed by Abenaki Sara Th. Ziméo Fugitive Pieces and Oriental Fables

1796ref. 71224Paris: De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné 1796. Fine. De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné Paris 1796 23 x 31.50 cm relié New edition revised by the author illustrated with 4 copper-engraved plates by Morel after drawings by Chaudet Cohen col. 927. A sumptuous publication from the press of Pierre Didot l'aîné the foremost printer of his day. This edition is distinguished from all previous ones by its entirely renewed illustration in a neoclassical spirit in keeping with the aesthetic of the Directoire period. It is the first to have been revised by the author himself. Contemporary binding in full red morocco spine with five raised bands richly decorated with gilt dentelles fillets and fleurons boards framed with a double gilt dentelle gilt roll on the turn-ins and headbands pastedowns and doublures framed with a gilt dentelle of marbled paper all edges gilt. The first edition of Les Saisons published in 1769 had secured Saint-Lambert's reputation and earned him a seat at the Académie française with the support of Voltaire who wrote of the poem: « C'est le seul ouvrage de notre siècle qui passera à la postérité. » The present edition appears at a singular moment: two years after the abolition of slavery voted by the Convention on 4 February 1794 and at a time when Saint-Lambert then eighty years old was himself revising his work for the last major edition of his lifetime. The choice of Didot as printer whose productions then represented the pinnacle of French typographical luxury and the very date of publication lend this volume a significance that goes well beyond a simple reprint. The work contains in addition to the long poem in four cantos devoted to the seasons and its preface on bucolic and pastoral poetry the tales L'Abénaki Sara Th. Ziméo the Pièces fugitives and the Fables orientales. The latter open with a ""Préface de Saadi"" an explicit attribution new to this edition relative to those of 1769 and 1775 of the free adaptation of the preface to the Gulistan the ""Rose Garden"" 13th century that has appeared in the collection since the first edition. It is in this author-revised edition that Saint-Lambert publicly acknowledges his debt to Persian literature at the very moment when the first complete French translation of the Gulistan had just appeared abbé Gaudin 1789. It is through Ziméo included in the collection since the first edition of 1769 that Saint-Lambert's work occupies a singular place in the literary history of the Enlightenment. One of the rare texts of this period to stage a slave insurrection where Voltaire in Candide had sketched only a solitary figure of revolt this tale constructs an African hero of full epic dignity and predates both the insurgent figure in Louis-Sébastien Mercier 1771 and the celebrated antislavery passage of the Histoire philosophique des deux Indes attributed to Diderot which did not appear until the 1780 edition. It is worth noting however that this 1796 edition unlike its predecessors does not reproduce the ""Réflexions sur les Nègres"" that followed Ziméo in the editions of 1769 and 1775 a text in which Saint-Lambert had argued that the faults attributed to Africans « sont de l'esclavage » and not of nature. This omission occurring barely two years after the abolition decree remains difficult to interpret with certainty: an editorial choice dictated by the luxurious format of the publication a calculated discretion in a still unstable political climate in which the colonial question was far from settled under the Directoire. unless this very absence of advocacy is precisely the sign of the triumph of the humanist ideals for which the author no longer needed to argue having been fully vindicated by the Convention which voted the abolition of slavery on 4 February 1794 16 Pluviôse Year II. A fine copy in a handsome contemporary binding of full red morocco of the definitive edition revised by the author published two years after the abolition of slavery. De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné hardcover

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Les Saisons poeme. Nouvelle edition. Puissant mes chants etre afreables a l'homme vertueux et champetre et lui rappeler quelquefois ses devoirs et ses plaisirs! Wieland. A Londres. M. DCC. LXXXII.

1782ref. 19781782. : 8 . 4 Blank pages / 1 Blank pages / 1 Blank pages / 21 Roman numbered pages / 1 Blank pages / 187 Pages / 5 Blank pages Binding: Contemporary Half Leather 24mo Height cm: 134 CM Width cm: 82 CM Thickness cm: 11 CM hardcover

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Les Saisons poëme. The Seasons. Followed by Abenaki Sara Th. Ziméo Fugitive Pieces and Oriental Fables

1775ref. 48828Paris: S. n. 1775. Fine. First illustration of Zimeo the first Black insurgent hero in French literature S. n. Paris 1775 - relié Seventh edition first to illustrate Zimeo adorned with 7 plates by Moreau le Jeune: a frontispiece and 4 plates for Les Saisons engraved by Delaunay Duclos Prévost and Simonet and 2 plates for the Contes Poésies fugitives and Fables orientales together with 4 headpiece vignettes by Choffard. Our copy is further enriched with separate pulls of the title-page ornament and Choffard's vignettes. Nineteenth-century binding in full midnight-blue morocco. Five-raised-band spine decorated with pastoral flowers vine wheat and billhook game and hunting horn. and gilt compartments. Triple gilt fillet and geometric gilt lace border to boards. Wide gilt lace border to doublures of marbled paper. Upper joint rubbed. The first edition of Les Saisons published in 1769 with illustrations by Gravelot and Le Prince had secured Saint-Lambert's reputation and earned him a place at the Académie française. The present seventh edition Cohen/Ricci Sp. 926; Sander 1779 retaining the fictitious imprint « Amsterdam » concealing a Parisian printer is the first to include an illustration for Zimeo the anti-slavery philosophical tale that had been part of the volume since the first edition:Moreau's frontispiece captioned ""j'aimerai deux blancs dit-il"" gives a face for the first time to the first Black insurgent hero in French literature.The volume contains in addition to the long poem in four cantos devoted to the seasons and its preface on bucolic and pastoral poetry the tales L'Abénaki Sara Th. Zimeo the Pièces fugitives and the Fables orientales. The Fables orientales open with a prefatory text constituting a free adaptation of the preface to Saadi's Gulistan the « Rose Garden » 13th century. This adaptation is not yet attributed to Saadi in the table of contents it would be in the 1796 edition yet it represents one of the rare French versions of this text available between André du Ryer's partial translation 1634 and the first complete translation by the abbé Gaudin 1789. It is above all through the anti-slavery philosophical tale Zimeo included in the collection since the first edition that this work by Saint-Lambert holds a singular place in European literary history. This philosophical tale is one of the rare Enlightenment texts to stage a slave insurrection where Voltaire in Candide had sketched only a solitary figure of revolt. Drawing on Aphra Behn's Oroonoko 1688 translated into French by La Place in 1745 Saint-Lambert constructs a Black hero endowed with full epic dignity and appends to the narrative « Réflexions sur les Nègres » in which he systematically dismantles racial prejudice asserting that the faults attributed to Africans « sont de l'esclavage » and not of nature. Chronologically Zimeo precedes the figure of the rebel in Louis-Sébastien Mercier 1771 and the celebrated anti-slavery passage of the Histoire philosophique des deux Indes attributed to Diderot which did not appear until 1780. The present 1775 edition is precisely the first to furnish the tale with an illustration: Moreau le Jeune's frontispiece depicting Zimeo rescuing two white captives gives a visual image for the first time to Saint-Lambert's Black hero at the very moment when the abolitionist debate was beginning to gather momentum in France. From the libraries of Francis Kettaneh 18971976 and Irwin Laughlin 18711941 with their bookplates. Francis Kettaneh a businessman born in Lebanon was one of the great American bibliophiles of the twentieth century whose bookplate bears the motto Mehr Licht Goethe's last words. Irwin Boyle Laughlin an American diplomat served as United States Minister Plenipotentiary to Greece 19241926 and subsequently as Ambassador to Spain 19291933; a passionate collector of eighteenth-century French art and books he commissioned the construction of S. n. hardcover

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Les Saisons Poeme

1775ref. 1410060011Amsterdam 1775-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. 7th edition. xxxvi 467 pages 7 plates 4 vignettes 23 cm. Bound in contemporary full red Moroccan leather. Gilt lettering to spine. Gilt tooling to board edges. Inliad gilt tooling to inside board extremities. Contemporary blue page ends. AEG. Good binding and cover. Wear to extremities. Slight soiling to spine. Owners bookplate on FEP. Clean unmarked pages. Cohen-de Ricci 926; Brunet V 52; BMC XXII 435.475 Jean Francois de Saint-Lambert was a French poet philosopher and military officer. Saint-Lambert began writing poetry in his adolescence though in all his life he read his works in salons and to his friends but did not rush to publish them. The Seasons his major poetical work The Season was begun in October 1733 but did not appear in print until 1769. Saint-Lambert's poetry is workmanlike and conventional typical of the latter half of the 18th century. His writings on society politics and moral philosophy are derivative a pale reflection of the ideas of the Philosophes the French Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire and Rousseau whom he lived among. Amsterdam hardcover

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Les Saisons poëme. The Seasons. Followed by Abenaki Sara Th. Ziméo Fugitive Pieces and Oriental Fables

1775ref. 38316à Amsterdam: S. n. 1775. Fine. First illustrated edition of Ziméo a pioneering anti-slavery tale of the Enlightenment S. n. à Amsterdam 1775 14 x 23 cm relié Seventh edition first issue of Moreau le Jeune's illustrations adorned with 7 plates: a frontispiece and 4 plates for Les Saisons engraved by Delaunay Duclos Lebas and Prévost and 2 plates for the Contes Poésies fugitives and Fables orientales together with headpiece vignettes by Choffard reprinted from the first edition of 1769. Contemporary full calf binding. Richly decorated smooth spine. Red morocco lettering-piece. Boards in mottled calf with Greek-key border added at a later date during restoration. Worn corners. A split to the upper joint extending 5 cm. A very good copy overall. The first edition of Les Saisons published in 1769 with illustrations by Gravelot and Le Prince had established Saint-Lambert's reputation and secured his election to the Académie française with the support of Voltaire. The present seventh edition Cohen/Ricci Sp. 926; Sander 1779 is a reprint of the 1769 edition retaining Choffard's headpiece vignettes but distinguished by the addition of 7 plates by Moreau le Jeune absent from all earlier editions and the use of laid paper in place of the fine paper of the original. It is also the first edition to illustrate Ziméo: Moreau's frontispiece captioned ""j'aimerai deux blancs dit-il"" gives for the first time a face to the first Black insurgent hero in French literature.The volume contains in addition to the long poem in four cantos devoted to the seasons and its preface on bucolic and pastoral poetry the tales L'Abénaki Sara Th. Ziméo the Pièces fugitives and the Fables orientales. The Fables orientales open with a preliminary text constituting a free adaptation of the preface to Saadi's Gulistan the ""Rose Garden"" 13th century. This adaptation is not yet attributed to Saadi in the table of contents an attribution that would appear only in the 1796 edition yet it represents one of the rare accessible French versions of this text in the interval between André du Ryer's partial translation 1634 and the first complete translation by the Abbé Gaudin 1789. It is above all through the anti-slavery philosophical tale Ziméo included in the collection since the first edition that this work by Saint-Lambert occupies a singular place in the literary history of the Enlightenment. First published in 1769 it is one of the rare texts of the period to stage a slave insurrection at a moment when Voltaire in Candide had only sketched a solitary figure of revolt. Saint-Lambert constructs an African hero endowed with full epic dignity and follows his narrative with ""Réflexions sur les Nègres"" in which he dismantles racial prejudice asserting that the faults attributed to Africans ""sont de l'esclavage"" and not of nature. Chronologically Ziméo predates the figure of the rebel in Louis-Sébastien Mercier 1771 and the celebrated anti-slavery passage in the Histoire philosophique des deux Indes attributed to Diderot which appeared only in the expanded edition of 1780. A copy in contemporary binding first issue of Moreau le Jeune's illustrations and first illustrated edition of the Enlightenment's pioneering anti-slavery tale. S. n. hardcover

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Les Saisons

1796ref. 132071796. unknown

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LES SAISONS. Poeme

1823ref. 184679Paris: Janet et Cotelle 1823. Nouvelle edition ornee d'une gravure. Oeuvres de Saint-Lambert. Pp. x458last blank engraved frontispiece title page decoration; med. 8vo; in a contemporary binding by Thouvenin in full rose calf spine decorated in gilt and black between raised bands lettered directly in gilt and stamp-signed 'Thouvenin' near foot the boards with single black rule outer border with tiny gilt corner ornaments flanking a wider border in blind of criss-crossing gridwork filled with tiny rosettes and a larger trellis pattern in black with gilt pointilles edges of boards richly gilt two slight scars near centre of lower board the central spine panel a trifle faded; a.e.g.; marbled endpapers dentelles richly gilt; outer leaves slightly offset a little light foxing; Janet et Cotelle Paris 1823. New edition. Joseph Thouvenin the Elder 1791-1834 was the leading French binder of the Restoration era. This binding was probably executed at the time of the book's publication 1823 as the signature stamp is in Thouvenin's later style. His earlier works were stamp-signed 'Relie Par Thouvenin'. After 1820 the signature stamp consisted only of his surname as in the present volume. In this edition Les Saisons which was first published in 1769 is followed by fugitive poems stories and 'fables orientales'. The poet soldier and philosopher Jean-Francois Marquis de Saint-Lambert 1716-1803 was a friend of Voltaire and Diderot. Janet et Cotelle unknown

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LES SAISONS. Poeme

1796ref. 184326Paris: Pierre Didot l'aine l'an iv de la republique 1796. Pp. ivxxiv4062table of contents engraved frontispiece and 3 plates title page vignette; demy 4to; in a contemporary armorial binding of full crimson morocco spine lettered and decorated in gilt the boards decorated in gilt & blind featuring the gilt arms of Louis-Henri-Joseph 9th and last Prince of Conde at centre edges a trifle worn; a.e.g.; ribbon marker; dentelles decorated in gilt blue moire silk endpapers; upper hinge starting and lower hinge tender small damp stain at top edge of lower pastedown a few leaves faintly browned a little light foxing; Pierre Didot l'Aine l'an iv de la republique Paris 1796. Published in the fourth calendar year of the French Republic - hence the two dates on the title page. At that time the Prince de Conde 1756-1830 was in exile fighting in the Rhineland and Southern Germany in campaigns against the Republic. During 1795-6 his headquarters were a rallying point for royalist emigres wanting to overthrow the Republic and restore the French monarchy. In this edition Les Saisons which was first published in 1769 is followed by fugitive poems stories and 'fables orientales'. The plates after Antoine-Denis Chaudet were engraved by Morel. Pierre Didot l'aine l'an iv de la republique unknown

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LES SAISONS. Poeme

1775ref. 184668Amsterdam: N 1775. Septieme edition. Text in French. Pp. 260 engraved frontispiece with tissue guard title page vignette and 4 plates 4 pictorial headpieces ornamental head & tailpieces; med. 8vo; later full crimson morocco by Bayntun the spine lettered and decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands boards with gilt rule border and inner panel with delicate corner ornaments edges decorated in gilt; t.e.g. others uncut; ribbon markers; dentelles decorated in gilt; marbled endpapers bookplate of British politician and diplomat Duff Cooper designed by Rex Whistler incorporating a bust of Lady Diana Cooper as Artemis on the upper pastedown the dentelles slightly offset onto free endpapers a little light foxing and occasional faint soiling; Amsterdam 1775. Seventh edition. First published in 1769. The plates are after Moreau le jeune Jean-Michel Moreau 1741-1814; the pictorial headpieces are after Pierre-Philippe Choffard 1731-1809. Jean-Francois Marquis de Saint-Lambert 1716-1803 poet philosopher and soldier was a friend of Voltaire and Diderot. He was admitted to the Academie Francaise in 1770. N unknown