AVANTURES DE TELEMAQUE. FILS D’ULYSSE. OU, SUITE DU QUATRIEME LIVRE DE L’ODYSSEE D’HOMERE. TOME I & II. (ONE VOLUME)
A La Haye: Chez Adrien Motjens, 1705.
16mo. Full Leather. An early copy of the Avantures de Telemaque, Fils d’Ulysse, or the “Adventures of Telemachus, son of Ulysses,” published six years after the First. Written by Francois Fenelon while he was tutor of Louis, Duke of Burgundy. The work served as a didactic tool for the future ruler, the young ‘Fils de France,’ as well as a not-so-subtle critique of absolute monarchy and King Louis XIV. Literary historian Jean-Claude Bonnet is quoted as stating, that the Avantures is “the true key to the museum of the eighteenth century imagination;” an instant bestseller, Telemaque went through numerous editions. Text in French. Two volumes in one; additional title page for Tome II; pagination and collation reset. Title pages in black and red; with seventeen engraved plates throughout. Some offsetting to the type of signature Bb, suggesting the leaves were sewn in before they were dry; previous owners’ names in ink on the rear flyleaves and first title page; lacking endpapers. [26], 272, [2], 328 pp. Full leather, with raised bands, leather label, and tooling in gilt in compartments. (Jean-Claude Bonnet, La Naissance du Pantheon: Essai sur le culte des grands hommes.).
Good binding.
Item #284756
Price: $750.00