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VERY RARE - SCARCE EARLY EDITION - FIRST ISSUE
RARE LIMITED EDITION of a CELEBRATED WORK
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140 ENGRAVED PLATES - 44 HAND COLORED BOTANICAL PLATESOEUVRES COMPLETES DE J. J. ROUSSEAU
Nouvelle édition
Classée par ordre de matières, et ornée
De quatre-vingt-dix gravures.
Edited by L. S. Mercier, G. Brizard and F. H. S. de l\'Aulnay

P‎ARIS; POINCOT] : 1788-93 [published date: 1788 - 1793]. A New edition, 39 volumes in 38 volumes (Complete). 8vo. 8\" x 5.25\" inches (LxB). Pp. (2), 488; 468; 488; 484; 393; 507; 479; 487; 459; 413; 361, (4); 450; 384; 475; 485; 476; 538; 444; 456; 460; 459; 397; 472; 406, (2); 414; 478; 434; 408; 463; 515; 480; 428; 433; 434; 534; 480; 319, vi pages; vi, + 44 single sided hand colored botanical plates each with a leaf of descriptive text. There are 83 engraved plates after Moreau, Marillier, Le Barbier, Leclerc, Nageon, Boucher et Wheatly. There are 13 foldout engraved sheet music plates - in volumes 20, 21 and 22. Volume 37 is a fully engraved music collection. Volume 38 is fully engraved with 44 single sided hand colored botanical plates each with a leaf of descriptive text. Volume I also contains an Introduction by Mercier, and Voyage a Ermenonville by Le Tourneur. Fine original contemporary full fine tree calf leather bindings, gilt decorated spines with two brown gilt lettered morocco labels. A complete set of Rousseau\'s works in the original French, with engraved title pages, - 83 full-page illustrations, and 44 hand-colored botanical plates, 13 folding engraved music plates, plus one volume of engraved music, in full contemporary ornately gilt tree calf leather bindings.
The thread of Rousseau\'s influence as a philosophical thinker can be traced in almost every treatise of modern philosophy even today. His general philosophy focused on the emotional and passionate side of man, which he felt was lacking in most earlier discussions of the human condition. Rousseau thought that man was essentially good, a “noble savage” when found in the “state of nature” (that is, before the advent of civilization and society), and that people are made unhappy by an “artificial” and “corrupt” society. This complete set includes La Nouvelle Héloïse, Lettres élémentaires sur la botanique, Politique, Émile, ou de léducation, Sciences, arts et belles lettres, Théâtre et poésies, Musique, Les Confessions, Pièces diverses, Philosophie, Lettres, Ésprit, maximes et principes, Les Consolations des Miseres de Ma Vie ou Recueil de Romances, Recueil des Oeuvres de Musique, and the scarce Recueil de plantes coloriées, pour servir à l’intelligence des lettres élémentaires sur la botanique (often lacking in other sets). The illustrator, Rococo artist Jean-Michel Moreau (aka Moreau le Jeune), also produced engravings for the works of Voltaire and provided pen and wash drawings for Diderot’s famous Encyclopédie. It was his work on Rousseau, however, that influenced his future illustrations; especially those of stylish contemporary life, depicting “a highly idealized vision of aristocracy based on the philosophy of Rousseau” (Heller-Greenman). “It is difficult to think of any other artist who illustrated the classical authors of his country on so wide a scale… His is the greatest name among French illustrators of the 18th century” (Ray, 87). Text in French. Brunet IV, 1442. Graesse VI, 176. Texts and plates very clean and bright, with only occasional faint spots of foxing. A Scarce book set. Complete as issued. Extremely rare. A classic work. There are numerous close-up pictures of the contents given below; please click on them for a detailed description (See Scans below). Please take some time to view the 50+ pictures in detail, in order to gain a full idea of the contents and condition.

Tomes I à IV. - La Nouvelle Héloïse. Pp. (2), 488; 468; 488; 484 pages.
Tomes V et VI. Lettres élémentaires sur la botanique.
Tomes VII à IX. Politique.
Tomes X à XIV.Emile, ou de l\'éducation.
Tomes XV à XVII.Sciences, Arts et Belles Lettres.
Tome XVIII. Théâtre et Poésies
Tomes XIX à XXII. Musique. 13 ENGRAVED FOLDOUT MUSIC SHEETS
Tomes XXIII à XXVI. Les Confessions.
Tomes XXVII et XXVIII.Pièces diverses.
Tomes XXIX et XXX. Dialogues.
Tomes XXXI à XXXV. Lettres.
Tome XXXVI.Pensées et Maximes.
Tome XXXVII. Recueil de Musique. Pp. 319, vi pages. FULLY ENGRAVED MUSIC SHEETS.
Tome XXXVIII.Plantes de Botanique. Pp. vi, + 44 single sided hand colored botanical plates each with a leaf of descriptive text. : 44 planches gravées coloriées. 44 HAND COLORED BOTANICAL PLATES.

Note Flaws: Many bindings rubbed and labels chipped, heavy wear to spine ends-corners of many volumes. SOLD AS IS.

All bindings boards fully intact-attached. All original fine full tree calf leather bindings - Unsophisticated set.

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CONDITION REPORT: A rare book set in the original contemporary full fine tree calf leather bindings, gilt (faded) decorated spines with two brown gilt lettered morocco labels (chipped) (See Scans below) some wear/tear, scuffing, rubbling, chipping to covers, spine, ends & corners (See Scans below), pages with age toning, soiling, minor spotting, are clean & bright (See Scans below), the bindings are tight & intact (See Scans below). The leather is smooth & supple to the touch (See Scans below). Note Flaws: Many bindings rubbed and labels chipped, heavy wear to spine ends-corners of many volumes. SOLD AS IS. Previous owners bookplates on the front pastedowns, perforated Lib. stamp on all the title pages (See Scans below). A scarce title (See Scans below). See, click & enlarge the 100+ pictures below to get a better idea of condition etc.There are many close-up pictures for your kind perusal. Please click on any of the 50+ images above & below in the listing for enlarged close-up pictures of details, virtues & flaws (See Scans below).

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Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (6 April 1671 – 17 March 1741) was aFrenchdramatist and poet, particularly noted for his short cynicalepigrams. Rousseau was born in Paris, the son of a shoemaker, and was well educated. As a young man, he gained favour withBoileau, who encouraged him to write. Rousseau began with thetheatre, for which he had no aptitude. A one-act comedy, Le Café, failed in 1694, and he was not much happier with a more ambitious play, Le Flatteur (1696), or with the opera Venus et Adonis (1697). In 1700 he tried another comedy, Le Capricieux, which had the same fate. He then went with Tallard as an attaché to London, and, in days when literature still led to high position, seemed likely to achieve success. His misfortunes began with a club squabble at the Café Laurent, which was much frequented by literary men, and where he indulged in lampoons on his companions. A shower of libellous and sometimes obscene verses was written by or attributed to him, and at last he was turned out of the café. At the same time his poems, as yet printed only singly or in manuscript, acquired him a great reputation, due to the dearth of genuine lyrical poetry betweenJean Racine andAndré de Chénier. In 1701 he was made a member of the Académie des inscriptions; he was offered, though he had not accepted, profitable places in the revenue department; he had become a favourite of the libertine but influential côterie of the Temple; and in 1710 he presented himself as a candidate for theAcadémie française. Verses more offensive than ever were handed round, and gossip maintained that Rousseau was their author. Legal proceedings of various kinds followed, and Rousseau ascribed thelampoon toBernard-Joseph Saurin. In 1712 Rousseau was prosecuted for defamation of character, and, on his non-appearance in court, was condemned to perpetual exile. He spent the rest of his life in foreign countries except for a clandestine visit to Paris in 1738; he refused to accept the permission to return which was offered him in 1716 because it was not accompanied by complete rehabilitation.Prince Eugene of Savoy and other persons of distinction took him under their protection during his exile, and at Soleure he printed the first edition of his poetical works. He metVoltaire inBrussels in 1722. Voltaire\'s Le Pour et le contre is said to have shocked Rousseau, who expressed his sentiments freely. At any rate the latter had thenceforward no fiercer enemy than Voltaire. His death elicited fromJean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan an ode that was perhaps better than anything of Rousseau\'s own work. That work may be roughly divided into two sections. One consists of formal and partly sacred odes and cantatas of the stiffest character, of which perhaps the Ode a la fortune is the most famous; the other of brief epigrams, sometimes licentious and always, or almost always, ill-natured. As anepigrammatist Rousseau is inferior only to his friendAlexis Piron. The frigidity of conventional diction and the disuse of all really lyrical rhythm which characterize his period do not prevent his odes and cantatas from showing at times true poetical faculty, though cramped, and inadequate to explain his extraordinary vogue. Few writers were so frequently reprinted during the 18th century, but even in his own centuryLa Harpe had arrived at a truer estimate of his real value when he said of his poetry: \"Le fond n\'est qu\'un lieu commun chargé de déclamations et même d\'idées fausses. Besides the Soleure edition mentioned above, Rousseau published an issue of his work in London in 1723.

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