CORNEILLE (Pierre). - Lot 37

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CORNEILLE (Pierre). - Lot 37
CORNEILLE (Pierre). Nicomède tragedy. Paris : Charles de Sercy, 1652. - In-12, olive basane, boards decorated with a gilt decoration à la Duseuil, spine with decorated nerves (19th century binding). Counterfeit from Troy published one year after the original. White marks and rubbing to the binding. The mention "on the printed copy" has been covered on the title and the second I with the date has been scratched. Last leaf browned. Attached is a collection of 8 18th century plays, bound in contemporary marbled basane, with smooth grotesquely decorated spine. Contains: - FAVART (Charles-Simon). Soliman second, comedy in three acts, in verse. First performed by the Comédiens Italiens Ordinaires du Roi, on April 9, 1761. And given to the Theatre on December 19 of the same year. Paris : Duchesne, 1775. - BEAUMARCHAIS. Les Deux amis, ou le négociant de Lyon, drama in five acts in prose. First performed at the Théâtre de la Comédie Française in Paris on January 13, 1770. Paris : veuve Duchesne, 1774. - BEAUMARCHAIS. Le Barbier de Séville, ou la précaution inutile, comedy in four acts. Represented & performed on the Theatre of the Comédie Française at the Tuileries, on February 23, 1775. Toulouse : Jean-Florent Baour, 1779. - MARSOLLIER DES VIVETIERES (Benoît-Joseph). L'Officieux, comedy in three acts and in prose. Represented, by the Comédiens Italiens Ordinaires du Roi, on August 18, 1780. Paris : veuve Duchesne, Le Jay, 1780 [missing pages 27 to 30]. - RACINE (Jean). Phèdre, tragedy. New edition. Bordeaux: Pierre Phillippot, 1779. - ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques). Le Devin du village, comic opera. Paris, 1773. - DUBUISSON (Pierre Ulric). Nadir, or Thamas-Kouli-Kan, tragedy in five acts. Represented, for the first time, on the Theatre of the Nation, on August 31, 1780. Paris: Veuve Duchesne, 1780 [Unbound leaves F2 and F3]. - GLUCK. Orphée et Euridice, opera with great spectacle, dedicated to the queen. Paris: Le Jay, 1779. Some wear and minor spotting, otherwise a well preserved copy.
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