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Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bouhours, Dominique, 1628-1702.

Contributor:

Veuve Mabre-Cramoisy, printer.

Swift's Library and Reading Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Maxims--Early works to 1800.

Maxims.

Genre:

Advertisements -- France -- Paris -- 17th century.

Penn Provenance:

Waring, Jos., 1700 (autograph) (RBC copy)

Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy 1 and 2)

Elias, Susan Homans (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy 1 and 2)

Physical Description:

22 unnumbered pages, 357 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 16 cm (12mo)

Edition:

Nouvelle edition augmentée.

Place of Publication:

A Paris : Chez la veuve de Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, imprimeur du Roy ..., 1692.

Notes:

First edition pub. in 1689. Cf. BN vol. 17, col. 251.

Latin quotations given in side notes, together with source.

Engraved frontispiece signed by Adriaan Schoonebeck.

Title page printed in red and black with engrav. device.

Signatures: *¹²(-*12) A-P¹² (P12 blank).

Woodcuts: head- and tail-pieces.

With side- and shoulder-notes.

Includes index.

Advertisements on prelims. p. [17]-[22].

Local Notes:

This title is part of The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift: a Partial Replication, a collection given to the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2005 in memory of Susan Homans Elias and in honor of the late Heinz J. Vienken.

Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy 1 bound with: Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662. Pensées de M. Pascal sur la religion, et sur quelques autres sujets. Amsterdam : Chez Henri Wetstein, 1699. [B1901 .P4 1699].

Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy 1 wanting last blank leaf (P12).

Cited in:

NUC pre-1956, 69, p. 221

OCLC:

27112275