Éloges lus dans les séances publiques de l'Académie françoise

by Jean Le Rond d' Alembert

$400 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Paris: Panckoucke, 1779. First edition, 12mo, pp. xxxiv, vi, 559, 5 ; contemporary full calf, red morocco label on gilt-decorated spine; extremities rubbed, small cracks starting at the tops of the joints; all else good and sound, or better. Contains biographical eulogies of Massillon, Despréaux, Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Bossuet, Abbé de Dangeau, De Sacy, La Motte, Fénelon, Abbé de Choisy, Destouches, Fléchier,

• Binding: Leather

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