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Les elemens, ou, Premieres instructions de la jeunesse / par Étienne de Blégny, expert juré ecrivain pour les verifications des ecritures contestées.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection LB14 .B4 1735
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blégny, Étienne de.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Early works to 1800.
- Education.
- Calligraphy--Early works to 1800.
- Calligraphy.
- Penmanship--Early works to 1800.
- Penmanship.
- Arithmetic--Early works to 1900.
- Arithmetic.
- Letter writing, French--Early works to 1800.
- Letter writing, French.
- French language--Orthography and spelling--Early works to 1800.
- French language.
- French language--Orthography and spelling.
- Penn Provenance:
- Castello di Rivara (label)
- Gattinara, Mercurino Arborio di (label)
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 20 pages, 40 unnumbered leaves, 323 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Elémens
- Premières instructions de la jeunesse
- Place of Publication:
- A Paris : Chez Guillaume Cavelier ..., MDCCXXXV [1735]
- Contents:
- La bonne metode d'écrire
- Nouveaux exemplaires d'ecriture d'une beauté singuliar
- Exemplaires d'ecriture italienne batarde
- Les regles de l'ortografe
- Formulaire de petits actes
- Petit essai de lettres
- L'aritmétique facile.
- Notes:
- The Nouveaux exemplaires d'ecriture and Exemplaires d'ecriture italienne batarde are entirely engraved by Claude Auguste Berey. Each has separate divisional t.p. The t.p. to the Nouveaux exemplaires is in later state, with the engraver's name altered from Berey to Beroy.
- This ed. is identical to one published in 1735 by Jean de Nully.
- Signatures: [superscript pi]A-B⁸ A-V⁸ X⁴ + [40] leaves of engraved plates.
- Page 79 misnumbered 97.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for Special Collections.
- Bound in full contemporary mottled calf; 5 raised bands on spine; gold-stamped spine panels; red morocco label on spine with title stamped in gold; marbled endpapers; all edges red; green silk marker.
- Cited in:
- Gumuchian 5170 & 5171
- OCLC:
- 13872717
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