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[Reflections or Sayings and Moral Maxims, fourth edition, revised, added to since the third]. Reimpression of the fourth edition with supplement. 2 volumes in 1, 12mo., endpaper, title, [3pp.], [3pp.] privilege du Roy, 110pp., blank, title, 28pp., part title, 32pp., part title, pp-35- 66, [22pp.], endpaper, engraved bandeaux and a fleuron on each of the two title pages. In contemporary full calf, 6 spine compartments and 5 raised bands, richly gilt and with titles in ruled gilt boxes, all edges speckled in red, French text, contemporary manuscript signature on foot of title with initials either side of the fleuron in dark Havana ink, French text. A Lyon, chez Benoist Vignieu. M. DC. XC, [1690], £1,800.00 Text a bit browned, binding a bit rubbed. Rare, there are but two copies on WorldCat at Oxford and in BnF. Brunet III, 845, Claudin 470 ? describing it as an ' E?dition rare ' pointing to a long note on the subject in an eminent Paris dealer Duplessis's catalogue from 1856 (as do Brunet & Marc- hand). Marchand 18, Tchemerzine IV, 45. The contemporary autograph on the title partly reads: 'Iacobi Nicolai de Guid[?]'. The great moralist La Rochefoucauld's most enduring work, published in Lyon, a decade after his death. Includes a contribution from the great salonnie?re De Sable? (who wrote her maxims before him and whom Duplessis rated just as highly). D'Ailly's authorship was little known in bibliographies until relatively recently, he also frequented her salon. Maxims include ones on infidelity, ? galanteries ' and flattery. 243574. …