L'ELOGE DE LA FOLIE, TRADUIT DU LATIN...NOUVELLE EDITION REVÛE ET CORRIGÉE SUR LE TEXTE DE L'EDITION DE BASLE. ORNÉE DE NOUVELLES FIGURES. AVEC DES NOTES

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[Paris]. 1751.. [6],xxiv,222,[2]pp. Quarto. Full deep plum straight-grain morocco, elaborately stamped in blind, lettered and ruled in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, gilt borders on endsheets, a.e.g. Title in red and black. Frontis and fourteen engraved plates, engraved head- and tail-pieces. Extremities a bit worn, narrow scrapes at fore-tips of lower board, armorial bookplate on pastedown, slight offset from plates to facing pages; a very good copy. First edition of this translation, accompanied by notes by Meunier de Querlon. The frontis, plates, title- vignette and head- and tail-pieces are engraved by various hands after designs by Charles Eisen. This is a large-paper copy (23.8 x 17.4 cm), with the fourteen plates inlaid into larger sheets, and with the frontis framed and etched by P.F. Martenasie under the direction of "Mr. Le Bas." SALOMONS, pp.98-9. COHEN-DE RICCI (VI), pp.348-9.

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