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Émile ou de l’éducation. 4 vols Rousseau, J(ean) J(acques).
Émile ou de l’éducation. 4 vols.

. Émile ou de l’éducation. 4 vols.

Titles in red and black. With 5 engr. plates after Eisen. Title, VIII, 1 leaf, 464 pp., 1 blank leaf; half title, title, 407 pp.; half title, title, 384 pp. (without blank pp. 359/60); half title, title, 455 pp. 8vo. Contemp. calf, vol. I with edges gilt. – La Haye (i.e. Paris), Jean Néaulme (i.e. Duchesne), 1762.

Second Duchesne edition in the year of the first edition. Here the 8vo version ending with p. 464 and being delivered prior to the 12mo version. Vol. I with the explication of the plates and the eight erratas, of which six were already corrected in this version. The work, one of the most important statement about education ever and a pioneering treatise on psychology, was forbidden in Geneva and Paris suddenly after it’s publication. – Dufour 190; McEachern 4A; Cohen/de R. 903. – Outer hinges of vols. I and IV cracking (still firm), boards rubbed. Inside some dampstain. Vol. I in a slightly divergent binding. Good in all. – Best.-Nr. 22320

CHF 900.—
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Rousseau, J(ean) J(acques).
Oeuvres. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée, et augmentée de plusieurs morceaux qui n’avoient point encore paru. 11 vols. (all published).

. Oeuvres. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée, et augmentée de plusieurs morceaux qui n’avoient point encore paru. 11 vols. (all published).

With engr. frontispiece in vol. II, 13 copper plates in vols. V–VIII (accompanying the „Nouvelle Héloise“), and 5 engr. plates in vols VIII–XI (accompanying „Emile“), all by Gravelot. 12mo. Contemp. half calf over r raised bands, spine with red label, gilt. – Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1773.

Third Amsterdam-Rey edition of Rousseau’s selected works after the ones of 1769 and 1772, considered by Dufour as forgery. It does not contain the musicological writings. – Dufour 383. – Fine set. – Best.-Nr. 24863

CHF 750.—
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
Correspondance générale. Collationée sur les originaux. Annotée et commentée par Théophile Dufour. 20 Bde. (alles).

. Correspondance générale. Collationée sur les originaux. Annotée et commentée par Théophile Dufour. 20 Bde. (alles).

Titles in red and black. With 120 plates all together. 8vo. Orig. wrappers, unopened and uncut. – Paris, Armand Colin, 1924–34.

Vols. I, II, VIII, IX, XIII, XVII u. XX with defects to wrappers. – Good set in all. – Best.-Nr. 4654

CHF 350.—
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ROUSSEAU. – Barruel-Beauvert, (Antoine Joseph) Comte de.
Vie de J(ean) J(acques) Rousseau, précédée de quelques Lettres relatives au même sujet.

. Vie de J(ean) J(acques) Rousseau, précédée de quelques Lettres relatives au même sujet.

431 pp. Large 8vo. Contemp. calf with red and green spine labels, boards surrounded by gilt tooled ornamental bordure. – Londres, n. pr., 1789.

First edition of the first biography on J. J. Rousseau by the French officer and nobleman Barruel-Beauvert (1756–1817). Although being a traditional royalist an opponent to all revolutionary events in 1790 and the following years, Barruel-Beauvert was a great admirer of Rousseau and his ideas of freedom. – (Bound with:) Prosopée de J. J. Rousseau ou Sentimens de Reconnoissance des Amis de l’Instituteur d’Emile à l’Assemblée Nationale de France, à l’occasion de son Décret du 21 décembre 1790, qui vote une statue à la mémoire de l’Auteur du Contrat Social, et décrete que la veuve de J. J. Rousseau sera nourrie aux dépens de l’Etat. 16 pp. Paris, Les libraires et les marchands de nouveautés, 1791. – (And:) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Éloge qui a concouru pour le prix de l’Académie Française. 60 pp. Paris, Grégoire, 1790. – (And:) J. F. Bilhon, Eloge de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Seconde édition. (4), 66, (2) pp. Paris, Bailly and Bacot, an VII (1798/99). – (And: Granié, Pierre). Lettre au citoyen D(ussaulx) sur l’ouvrage in titulé mes rapports avec J. J. Rousseau. 8 pp. Paris, Desenne, Dejour, and Levacher, n. d. – Second flyleaf with contemp. ms. index. Somewhat browned or foxed throughout. Nice copy in all in a beautiful contemporary binding. – Best.-Nr. 15666

CHF 1410.—
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