Lot 250
ROCHEFOUCAULD Maxims and Moral Reflections Boston 1793

Estimate: $100 - $150

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LA ROCHEFOUCAULD [Boston edition] Maxims and Moral Reflections

Offered for sale by Adam Langlands of 'Shadowrock Rare Books' - for more information please contact him via email at adamlanglands@gmail.com 

Francois, Duc de LA ROCHEFOUCAULD (1613-1680). [Boston edition] Maxims and Moral Reflections. By the Duke de la Rochefoucault [sic.]. A new edition, revised and improved. Boston: printed by Isaac Larkin, for Ebenezer Larkin, jun., 1793. Duodecimo, signed in sixes (5 x 3 1/4 in; 127 x 83mm). Pp. [i-]xii; 13-141[-142] + 2pp. publisher's advertisements. (Stitching weak). Contemporary sheep, green leather label to spine (worn, covers detached, suffed [see images]).

Quite an early US edition of the 17th/18th-century bestseller. "To study men, it is more neccessary than to study books" (p.85). ESTC W30999 (7 copies); Shipton & Mooney, 46804