LA BRUYÈRE (Jean de)
The Characters of Theophrastus, translated from the Greek. Avec les Caractères ou les Mœurs de ce siècle. Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1688. In-12, brown calf, ornate spine (period binding).
First original edition, containing 418 characters.
A copy of the third printing (no copies of the first printing are known, with the original text without boards), with the errata leaf.
Old handwritten bookplate on title.
Covers restored, otherwise a pleasant copy in contemporary calf.
