(ROUSSEAU Jean-Jacques) - Lot 397

Lot n° 397
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(ROUSSEAU Jean-Jacques) - Lot 397
(ROUSSEAU Jean-Jacques) LE BEGUE DE PRESLE Achille-Guillaume : Relation or notice of the last days of Mr. Jean Jacques Rousseau ; circumstances of his death and what are the posthumous works, which one can expect from him ; with an addition relative to the same subject by J.H. de MAGELLAN. B. White/ J. Johnson/ P. Elmsly/ W. Brown London 1778. E.O. On the flyleaf, two handwritten page fragments pasted down: the second caption the first composed of 8 lines in tight handwriting: "fragment of the new Heloise by J. J. Rousseau, written in his hand, detached from his manuscript". Work also stuffed with an autograph letter signed by the author, relating to his emoluments, and its envelope, complete with its wax seal, mounted on tab of a card for the "translation of J.J. Rousseau to the Pantheon", an engraving after Guérard, representing a couple and their boatman accosting in the island of poplars in Ermenonville, and an engraving of Rousseau leaning against a rock, flower in hand, in the forest (after Dessenne engraved by Frilley". Bound in full brown long-grain morocco, boards decorated with gold framing, smooth spine decorated with gold fillets and floral motifs, title in the Chinese style, three gilt edges, triple-edged gold framing on the back covers, fresh interior, bookplate of Henri Huchet, Count of La Bédoyère, binding without covers and signed Bauzonnet-Purgold
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