RACINE (Jean): Esther. Tragédie Tirée de l'Escriture Sainte, Paris: Denys Thierry, 1689. - In-12, brown calf, ornate ribbed spine (period binding). First edition in-12, published the same year as the original in-4. The illustration features a frontispiece reproducing, but inverted, the frontispiece of the original in-4, engraved by Sébastien Leclerc after Charles Le Brun. Copy in contemporary binding. Headcap worn, wear and tear, corners dulled. Provenance: Mademoiselle Heron, with her signature on the title and page 1. - Pierre François Tumereau, with handwritten ex-dono on title. - Handwritten bookplate in Latin "Petrus Josephus Franciscus Dordeumé (?) Martrensis" - Félix Trébuchet, de Châteauneuf, with handwritten bookplate on first white endpaper and page 50.