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La nouvelle Heloise, ou, Lettres de deux amans, habitans d'une petite ville au pied des Alpes

Title: La nouvelle Heloise, ou, Lettres de deux amans, habitans d'une petite ville au pied des Alpes / par J.J. Rousseau.
Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
Publication: A Neuchatel et se trouve a Paris : Chez Duchesne, libraire, rue Saint Jacques, au Temple du Goût, MDCCLXIV [1764]

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	t. 1	Text	Restricted use	*KGV 13-93 t. 1	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
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Description

4 volumes : illustrations; 17 cm (8vo)

Alternative Title

Julie, ou, La nouvelle Heloise
Lettres de deux amans, habitans d'une petite ville au pied des Alpes
Julie
Recueil d'estampes pour La nouvelle Héloïse.

Note

Originally published in 1761 under title: Lettres de deux amans, habitans d'une petite ville au pied des Alpes (A Amsterdam : Chez Marc Michel Rey). See McEachern 1A.
Previously printed in 12mo with same paging (McEachern 17A); beginning at v. 2, page 225, the two impressions were printed from the same setting of type. See McEachern, pages 296-297.
Signatures: Tome I: pi² A-2B⁸ 2C⁴; t. II: pi² A-2B⁸ 2C⁴ (-2C4); t. III: pi² A-2D⁸; t. IV: pi² A-Z⁸ 2A⁸ (-2A8).
Tome I: iv, 408 pages, [3] leaves of plates; t. II: [4], 405, [1] pages, [4] leaves of plates; t. III: [4], 432 pages, [3] leaves of plates; t. IV: [4], 382 pages, [3] leaves of plates.
Illustrations: 13 prints : etching, engraving ; full-page. Frontispiece to v. 1 engraved by Joseph de Longueil after C.N. Cochin; others engraved by Jacques Aliamet, P.P. Choffard (2), J.J. Flipart, Noël Le Mire (3), L.S. Lempereur, Longueil, Jean Ouvrier (2) and Augustin de Saint Aubin, after H.F. Gravelot. Except for frontispiece to v. 1 (new) and last plate ("L'amour maternel," replacing depiction of Julie's deathbed), the plates were originally published separately in 1761 under title Recueil d'estampes pour La nouvelle Héloïse (A Paris : Chez Duchesne); numbered in plate 1-12e. See McEachern, R1.
Title pages printed in red and black.
Type flower ornaments on title pages, in v. 1 enclosing epigraph (2 lines of verse from Petrarch). Type flower and woodcut headpieces; type flower tailpieces; ornamental initials. For details, see McEachern.

Indexed In (note)

BnF
Dufour, T. Rousseau
Sénelier, J. Rousseau
Gagnebin, B. Notices bibliographiques (In Rousseau, J.-J. Works, 1959-1995, v. 2, p. 1961-1994)
McEachern, J.E. Rousseau
Delignières, É. Cat. raisonné de l'œuvre gravé de Jacques Aliamet

Provenance (note)

Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (armorial superexlibris on front boards).

Binding (note)

Contemporary mottled sheep; spine gilt; gilt superexlibris on front boards; red morocco spine labels.

Call Number

*KGV 13-93

OCLC

5262160

Author

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, author.

Title

La nouvelle Heloise, ou, Lettres de deux amans, habitans d'une petite ville au pied des Alpes / par J.J. Rousseau.

Publisher

A Neuchatel et se trouve a Paris : Chez Duchesne, libraire, rue Saint Jacques, au Temple du Goût, MDCCLXIV [1764]

Edition

Nouvelle edition, revue, corrigée & augmentée de figures en taille douce, & d'une table des matieres.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

BnF FRBNF39376840 http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39376840g

Dufour, T. Rousseau, 99

Sénelier, J. Rousseau, 380

Gagnebin, B. Notices bibliographiques (In Rousseau, J.-J. Works, 1959-1995, v. 2, p. 1961-1994), p. 1974-1975, no. 13

McEachern, J.E. Rousseau, v.1, no. 17B

Delignières, É. Cat. raisonné de l'œuvre gravé de Jacques Aliamet, 208

Binding

Contemporary mottled sheep; spine gilt; gilt superexlibris on front boards; red morocco spine labels. NN

Provenance

Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (armorial superexlibris on front boards). NN

Local Note

Martin J. Gross Collection.

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Place of Publication

Switzerland Neuchâtel.

France Paris.

Added Author

Duchesne, Nicolas-Bonaventure, 1711?-1765, publisher.

Aliamet, Jacques, 1726-1788, engraver.

Choffard, Pierre-Philippe, 1730-1809, engraver.

Flipart, Jean Jacques, 1719-1782, engraver.

Le Mire, Noël, 1724-1801, engraver.

Lempereur, Louis Simon, 1728-1807, engraver.

Longueil, Joseph de, 1730-1792, engraver.

Ouvrier, Jean, 1725-1784, engraver.

Saint-Aubin, Augustin, 1736-1807, engraver.

Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773, illustrator.

Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790, illustrator.

Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, 1743-1812, former owner.

Martin J. Gross Collection.

Added Title

Recueil d'estampes pour La nouvelle Héloïse.

Research Call Number

*KGV 13-93

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