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MANUSCRIPT] - Lot 245
MANUSCRIPT] ANONYMOUS] Based on *The Man of the Court* by Baltasar Gracián, translated and annotated by Sieur Amelot de la Houssaie, former secretary of the French embassy in Venice. New edition, Lyon: François Barbier, 1693. A substantial in-8 volume in full calfskin, entirely handwritten, reproducing Gracian’s text from (32), 355 pages. A collection of aphorisms originally published in 1647. Dedication on the first few pages, undeciphered. Fluid and clearly legible handwriting. Red and black ink. Traces of moisture; ink bleed-through making a few pages difficult to read. Rounded corners, split spines, missing sections on the spine.
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