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Reflexions ou, Sentences et maximes morales : Augmentées de plus de deux cens nouvelles maximes. Et Maximes & pensées diverses.

Accession number
PML 65788
Creator
La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de, 1613-1680.
Published
Suivant les copies imprimées à Paris, Chez Claude Barbin & Mabre Cramoisy, 1692.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Robert Metzdorf.
Notes
Includes Maximes et pensées diverses [par mme. de Sablé]; Pensées diverses [par l'abbé d'Ailly].
Maximes et Pensées diverses has separate half-title, pagination and signatures; Pensées diverses has separate half-title.
Printed in Holland. Cf. Tchemerzine.
Engraved frontispiece, with caption "Reflextions Morales."
Includes also "Discours sur les Reflections ou Sentences et maximes morales" ascribed to Segrais and others.
Page 147 incorrectly numbered 471.
Library's copy lacks 30 preliminary pages of part 1.
Library's copy housed in blue cloth clamshell box.
Description
[34], 168, [8], 49, [7] pages : illustration ; 12 x 7 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of James Lowther Lonsdale; bookplate of John Roland Abbey; Robert Metzdorf.
Binding
Contemporary English Somber binding, gilded edges.
Classification
Department