ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques). OEUVRES COMPLETES. - Lot 98

ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques). OEUVRES COMPLETES. Paris, Poinçot, 1788-1803. 40 volumes in-8, shagreened basane, smooth spine decorated, gilt edges (period binding). Collective edition of Rousseau's works, decorated with a portrait, 40 FRONTISPICES and 43 out-of-text FIGURES by Moreau, Marillier, Monnet, Le Barbier, etc., and 13 fold-out music plates. Volume 37 contains 319 pages of engraved music and arias, and volume 38 offers 43 BOTANICAL PLATES FINALLY COLORED at the time by Aubry, followed by Lettres sur les ouvrages by Mme la baronne Stael-Holstein (Au temple de la vertu, 1789). Original and unpublished correspondence with Mme Latour de Franqueville and M. Du Peyrou. Paris, Giguet et Michaud (1803) forms the last 2 volumes (spines very slightly different). Pages browned on the 5 volumes of letters, minor blemishes, a pleasant copy (Tchémerzine V, 568).