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8°., Engraved frontispiece, 23 ff., 368 pp., title in red and black. Contemporary full calf Later Augsburg imprint with the French translation and notes by Amelot de la Houssaie (1634-1706). The frontispiece shows a courtier in a palace sitting at a desk with books and an ink stand etc. - BOUND WITH: Feneleon, François de Salignac de la Mothe. Demonstration de l'existence de dieu, tirée de la connoissance de la nature, & proportionnée à la foible intelligence des plus simples. Nouvelle edition. Amsterdam, Jean Bernard Hartung, 1721. XXXII, 183 pp., 4 ff., lacking the portrait at the beginning. - Both works with some browning, little spotting, binding rubbed, spine with small loss but solid, the main work by Gracian is complete, the other just added (not considered in the price of the volume).