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BALZAC (JEAN LOUIS GUEZ): Letters of Mounsieur de Balzac. 1. 2. 3. and 4th parts. Translated out of French into English. By Sr Richard Baker Knight, and others. Now collected into one Volume, with a methodicall table of all the letters.
London, Printed for John Williams, and Francis Eaglesfield..., 1654. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, four parts in one volume, pp. [xxii], 142, [ii], 119 [120 blank], [ii], 144, [xxii], 72 [73 - 74 contents], with separate title-page for each part and additional engraved title-page preceding letter-press title-page, contemporary calf; no blank leaves before engraved title, upper front joint cracked and worn, corners worn. With a contemporary autograph "John Ellison" on title-page and "J Ellison" on front paste-down end-paper. Balzac's letters to his sister about his niece and women in general are full of contemporary pieties and surprising assertions, e. g., "if there be some Flowers, and some Perfumes that please them not, what likelihood is there, that Brimstone and Salt peter can please them, and that their humour can have anything in common with these violent substances? It is true perhaps, that sweetnesse and mildnesse have their excesses; but yet, even those excesses are more lawfull than the justest temper of shrewishnesse and incivility; at least in a woman, they are much more commendable: and it becomes her better to dissemble that she knows, than discover verities that are odious...." Wing B 614.
Offered for GBP 275.00 = appr. US$ 449.90 by: John Price Antiquarian Books - Book number: 4524
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