Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
Title: La Nouvelle Heloise, ou Lettres de Deux Amans, habitans d'une petite ville au pied des Alpes; recueillies et publiées par J.J. Rousseau. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée de figures en taille douce et d'une table des matières.
Description: A Neuchatel et se trouve à Paris: chez Duchesne, libraire, 1764. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Four volumes. I: IV, 408pp.; II: [4]-405pp.; III: [4]-432pp.; IV: [4]-382pp. I: []2, A8-Z8, Aa8-Bb8, Cc4; II: []2, A8-Z8, Aa8-Bb8, Cc4 (Cc4 blank); III: []2, A8-Z8, Aa8-Dd8; IV: []2, A8-Z8, Aa8 (Aa8 blank). First separate and first counterfeit [?] of the second original edition of La Nouvelle Héloïse. First edition with this title printed by the publisher Duchesne, limited to 750 copies and first edition illustrated jointly by Cochin and Gravelot. With the half-titles. Title-pages in red-and-black. Contemporary calf. First edition illustrated jointly by Cochin and Gravelot with a frontispiece by Cochin engraved by De Longueil and 12 plates by Gravelot engraved by Aliamet, De Longueil, De Saint-Aubin, LeMire, Lempereur and Ouvrier. Good.

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