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[FÉNELON (François de SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE-FÉNELON, dit) (1651-1715)]

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[FÉNELON (François de SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE-FÉNELON, dit) (1651-1715)]
Les Avantures de Télémaque, fi ls d'Ulysse par feu Messire François de Salignac, de la Motte Fenelon [...] Nouvelle édition conforme au manuscrit original, et enrichi de fi gures
Rotterdam, chez Jean Daniel Beman & Jean Hofhout 1741. In-12, [bl. ff.] - [*1] to LXXII - 1 map on folding leaf - engraved frontispiece -
480 pp. - a-[a12], b-[b10] - [3 ff.], in French and Dutch (privilege).
Full brown speckled calf, spine gilt, red morocco title-piece, gilt roulette on the edges, red edges, marbled paper end-papers (period binding).
Illustrated edition with numerous vignettes, culs-de-lampe and 10 unsigned off-text intaglio figures, enriched with a "Carte des voyages de Télémaque par le Sr Rousset".
Privilege in Dutch and dedicatory epistle by Jean Hofhout to Guillaume-Charles-Henry Friso, prince of Orange and Nassau, at the beginning of the volume.
Contemporary handwritten mention in pencil on the front flyleaf, in Latin and French.
(Binding in used condition, rubbing on boards and spine, corners dull).