LA CALPRENEDE, Gauthier de Costes de Cassandre

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A fine copy of the famous novel "Cassandra" including five frontispieces
A fine copy of the famous novel Cassandra, preserved in its uniform contemporary vellum bindings.

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Paris, Antoine de Sommaville, A. Courbé, Toussaint Quinet et la Veuve Nicolas de Sercy, 1648-1647-1650-1645.

10 parts bound in 10 volumes 8vo [173 x 115 mm] : I/ (8) ff., 426 pp. ; II/ (1) l., 470 pp., (1) l. ; III/ (8) ff., pp. 1 to 464, IV/ pp. 465 to 999 ; V/ (8) ff., 554 pp., (3) ff. ; VI/ 574 pp., (1) l. ; VII/ (8) ff., 645 pp. ; VIII/ (3) ff., 438 pp., (1) bl.l., 208 pp., ink stain in the upper margin of 30 ff. ; IX/ pp. 1 to 632 ; X/ (1) l., 4 pp., (1) bl l.., pp. 633 to 1213.

Bound in contemporary vellum, handwritten title on spines.

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This set comprises the original edition of the last four volumes. Tchemerzine, III, 820-823 ; Brunet, III, 725 ; Rahir, La Bibliothèque de l’amateur, 482.

The illustration consists of 5 finely engraved frontispieces after Chauveau.

A very fine complete set preserved in its original uniform vellum bindings.

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Paris, Antoine de Sommaville, A. Courbé, Toussaint Quinet et la Veuve Nicolas de Sercy, 1648-1647-1650-1645.