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Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse.
by Fénelon, Francois
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- Hardcover
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Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris: Chez les Freres Estienne, 1768. 2 vols., 12mo, pp. [iv], xlviii, 380, [4]; [iv], 480 + frontispiece, 24 plates and a folding map. Contemporary marbled sheep, spines divided by raised bands, brown morocco labels, other compartments tooled in gilt, edges red, marbled endpapers. A touch of toning to first and last leaves. A little rubbed, joints starting, corners worn. Amorial wax seals of Lindesay family and ownership signatures of P. Lindesay, Musselburgh, to pastedowns, signatures of P. Lindesay also to title-pages beneath earlier struck-through signature, ownership inscriptions of George Paterson dated 1841 to half-titles. A scarce printing of Fénelon’s popular novel, which Worldcat records in just 2 locations, both in Switzerland, in a worn but still attractive contemporary binding. This copy belonged to a P. Lindesay of Musselburgh, most likely Sir Patrick Lindesay (1778-1839), soldier and colonial administrator, the namesake of 2 mountains and one river in Australia.
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- Bookseller
- McNaughtan's Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6185
- Title
- Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse.
- Author
- Fénelon, Francois
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chez les Freres Estienne
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1768
- Keywords
- Literature French Novel
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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