Les Caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle. Tome I [+ II] by La Bruyère, Jean de, 1645-1696 - 1922

"Portrait et fleurons dessinés et gravés sur bois par J.-L. Perrichon." "Exemplaire no. 1300." Two volumes. First published 1688; expanded fourth edition of 1689. "Table des noms" at end of vol. 2. Portrait of the author at beginning of Vol. 1; a coat of arms at beginning of Vol. 2. (See Wikipedia for a sketchy biography of the author and "sarcastic portraiture" of his contemporaries.) Handsomely bound, with original grey paper wraps, in dark-green leather, spines sunned to red, with gold spine lettering & marbled endpapers; top edge gilt; part unopened; near fine. Stock#Lopes027.