{"product_id":"suite-du-menagiana-tome-ii-amsterdam-1713","title":"Menagiana, Tomes II and III, Amsterdam, Pierre de Coup, 1713 and 1716","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo volumes of the Menagiana, the collected table talk of the Paris scholar Gilles Menage, half of the four-volume Amsterdam edition printed by Pierre de Coup between 1713 and 1716.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSold together, in the matching calf they were bound in three hundred years ago.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMenage spoke beautifully, and after he died in 1692 his friends wrote down what they remembered him saying, and printed it. de Coup's Amsterdam edition ran to four volumes with an engraved frontispiece by Jacobus Schijnvoet: Menage in a medallion held aloft by Fame, Minerva pointing at it. Menage is usually named as the model for Vadius, the pedant in Moliere's Les Femmes savantes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTome II: Suite du Menagiana, ou Bons Mots, Rencontres agreables, Pensees judicieuses et Observations curieuses de M. Menage, troisieme edition augmentee, Amsterdam, Pierre de Coup, 1713, with the Memoires pour servir a la vie de M. Menage in the preliminaries. Tome III: Menagiana ou les Bons Mots et Remarques critiques, Amsterdam, Pierre de Coup, 1716, complete to page 599, Fin du Tome III. Both titles printed in red and black with de Coup's monogram device; the Schijnvoet frontispiece in each. Duodecimo. Volumes I and IV are not present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe copies\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary calf by one binder, spines gilt in compartments with fleurons, lettered MENAGIAN with the tome number. Tome II: headcap lost, leather loss at the lower front corner by the joint, boards rubbed, firm. Tome III: headcap and the top of the spine lost, title compartment worn nearly blank, leather loss at the upper front corner, joints starting. Paper toned, light foxing. Condition graded Fair for the pair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat you receive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth volumes, each with its own annotation card and accession number, IM-0051 and IM-0052. Ships boxed and insured.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"In Memoriam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52875599610168,"sku":"IM-0051","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1012\/5715\/0776\/files\/IM-0051-01-pair-spines.jpg?v=1789377334","url":"https:\/\/inmemoriamantiques.com\/products\/suite-du-menagiana-tome-ii-amsterdam-1713","provider":"In Memoriam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}