ESTIENNE (Henri)

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ESTIENNE (Henri)
Apology for Herodotus. Or Treatise on the conformity of ancient wonders with modern ones. The Hague, Henri Scheurleer, 1735. 2 volumes in 3 volumes in-12, of 2 ff.n.ch. (frontispiece and title), XXXVI and XLVIII pp.,200 pp. and 24 ff.n.ch.; 2 ff.n.ch. (frontispiece and title), pp. 201-624; 2 ff.n.ch. (frontispiece and title), 2 ff.n.ch., 434 pp., and 3 white ff. bound between pp. 180-181, 258-259 and 352-353: red morocco, Jansenist, inner lace, blue morocco lining, double endpapers, golden edges, untrimmed (Cuzin - Marius Michel gilder). The most complete edition made on the first one: augmented with all the curiosities of the later ones, with comments by Jacob Le Duchat (1658-1735), French scholar and philologist. 3 copper-engraved frontispieces and a title vignette repeated in each volume. This famous satire by Henri Estienne († 1598), denouncing the vices of his time, especially those of the Church people, first appeared in 1566. (Rahir, Bibliothèque de l'amateur, p. 420 - Cohen, col. 364.) Very beautiful copy in morocco lined by Francisque Cuzin, adorned with a remarkable golden interior lace with small irons by Marius Michel Sr. From the libraries Marigues de Champs-Repus (cat. 1893, no. 249: "Relié sur brochure"), and Ferdinand Brunetière (1849-1906), famous critic and director of the Revue des deux mondes, with ex-libris.
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