[CURIOSA - SEDAINE (Michel Jean) - POINSINET (Antoine-Alexan - Lot 68

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[CURIOSA - SEDAINE (Michel Jean) - POINSINET (Antoine-Alexan - Lot 68
[CURIOSA - SEDAINE (Michel Jean) - POINSINET (Antoine-Alexandre-Henri)]. The Temptation of Saint Anthony, with figures and music. [Followed by]: For the day of Saint Peter. [And of]: The Potpourri of Loth, decorated with figures and music. London, 1782. - 3 parts in one volume in-18, 142 x 93 : frontispiece, 11 ff., 8 plates ; (1 f.), 5 pp. 1 plate ; frontispiece, 11 ff. ill-leafed 12, 16 and 24 pp. of engraved music, 8 plates. Jansenist lemon morocco, spine ribbed, gilt lace inside, untrimmed (P. R. Raparlier). Dutel, A-1050 - Pia, Les Livres de l'Enfer, col. 1405. - Fontaine, Cazin, l'éponyme galvaudé, p. 206. New edition, enlarged with the piece entitled Pour le jour de Saint-Pierre, illustrated with two frontispieces and sixteen plates by Antoine Borel, which are an inverted reduction of the figures published the previous year in the in-8 format, plus a new engraving illustrating Pour le jour de Saint Pierre . There are several free figures. The edition also includes forty pages of engraved music. As for the 1781 edition, it is not an edition published by Cazin (see Fontaine). This is a rare untrimmed copy with very wide margins. It was bound at the end of the 19th century by Paul-Romain Raparlier, son of Romain Raparlier. All the engraved music has been gathered at the end. Traces of wetness on the boards, slight bump on the edge of the first plate. Scattered foxing.
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