Torgny Schunnesson Rare Books

Gellert, (Christian Füchtegott)

Gellert, (Christian Füchtegott); Leçons de morale (I-II) ou lecture académiques faites dans l'université de Leipsick. On y a joint des refléxions sur la Personne & les Écrits de l´auteur. Le tout traduit de l´Allemand. 2 volumes. Utrecht, J. van Schoonhoven & Cie. / Leipsick, Héritiers Weidman et Reich, MDCCLXXV (1775). Nouvelle Édition, revue & corrigée.
Two hardbound 8vo volumes in contemporary light brown half leather bindings with richly decorated spine. Mildly bumped corners and a few small spots to edges, else fine charming bindings. Exlibris and old notes inside front board, exlibris stamp on flyleaves and old autographed names on halftitle and title from the nobel Swedish nobel family Leijonhufvud. A small hole with a spot p. 433. Old handwriting also on an empty, interfoliated page in the first volume. As frontispiece an engraved portrait of C. F. Geller after Graff. The first dedication page with engraved vignett . Frontispiece, (II), XXX, XXXII, (VI), (VIII), 252 p- + (IV), p.257-590, (93), (III).