484 BIS. [BILLET (Adrien)]. Authors disguise under foreign n - Lot 484

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484 BIS. [BILLET (Adrien)]. Authors disguise under foreign n - Lot 484
484 BIS. [BILLET (Adrien)]. Authors disguise under foreign names; borrow, assume, pretend for pleasure, cipher, reverse, flip, or switch from one language to another. Paris, Antoine Dezallier, 1690. In-12, XXVI-[2]-615 pp., brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, edges speckled with red (contemporary binding). First edition of this "Barber" before the letter, which was to serve as an introduction to a great Francois collection of disguised authors that never saw the light of day. The Jansenist scholar Adrien Baillet (1679-1706) is an important figure of rational de-mythification: his talents were employed both in the field of hagiology (where he proved to be much more rigorous than the Bollandists) and in that of bibliography (hence the title). Cioranescu, XVII, 9294. Lack of upper headdress, some rubbed if not good ex.
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