L' Esprit du Chevalier Folard

£750 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Superb unsophisticated copy of Folard’s commentaries on Polybius, this edition uncommon with no copies recorded on OCLC and five copies only on RLIN, NY Public Library, Harvard, Chicago, Northwestern and Brigham Young. Large and ornate armorial bookplate of Joseph Ulric Göldlin de Tieffenau to the front pastedown, his name and rank as “Major du Regt. de Jennes” and the date 1763 added in manuscript. A wonderful copy with provenance to a Swiss military family, a near contemporary engraved carte de visite for “L’Avoyer du Mulinen” is loosely inserted.

• Year: 1760

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