Accession number:
PML 198394
Published:
A Paris : Chez Gissey, ruë de la vieille Bouclerie. Chez Bordelet, ruë Saint Jacques. Chez Ganeau, ruë Saint Jacques, MDCCXXXIX [1739]
Credit:
Donated by Mrs. Jayne Wrightsman in honor of Mrs. Annette de la Renta.
Description:
4 unnumbered pages, 157 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 47 pages ; 17 cm (8vo)
Notes:
With a half title.
Anonymous; by G.-H. Bougeant.
"Lettre à Madame la comtesse D***, pour servir de supplément à l'Amusement philosophique sur le langage des bêtes" (47 pages at end, as issued?) by F.A. Aubert de La Chesnaye-Desbois; dated "Ce 20. Mari 1739."
"Approbation" ([3] pages following page 157).
Ornamental vignette on title page; headpieces; initials.
Binding:
Red morocco, tooled in gilt with arms of Marie-Antoinette as Dauphine.
Provenance:
Marie Antoinette, armorial binding; Grace Whitney Hoff (1862-1938), bookplate (Catalogue II: no. 317); Binoche (Paris), auction 9 Nov. 2006, lot 72; Jayne Wrightsman (1919-2019), New York, purchased from Patrick Sourget, 2010.
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