Lot 92: EISEN, CHARLES-DOMINIQUE-JOSEPH. 1720-1778; and CHARLES-LOUIS DE SECONDAT MONTESQUIEU, BARON DE. 1689-1755. Le Temple de Gnide. Paris: Didot jeune, 1794.

EISEN, CHARLES-DOMINIQUE-JOSEPH. 1720-1778; and CHARLES-LOUIS DE SECONDAT MONTESQUIEU, BARON DE. 1689-1755.
Le Temple de Gnide. Paris: Didot jeune, 1794. 8vo. Large-paper copy. Half-title, color-printed engraved frontispiece and 9 plates after Charles Eisen by Le Mire (from the 1772 edition) and 2 color-printed engraved plates after Le Barbier by Thomas (for "Arsace et Ismenie"), most plates finished by hand; one plate spotted. Contemporary polished calf gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges; rubbed. Provenance: Jacques Levy (his sale, Sotheby's 20 April 2012, lot 240).BEAUTIFUL LARGE-PAPER COPY OF THE SECOND ILLUSTRATED EDITION, in fine contemporary calf, the frontispiece and two places after Le Barbier printed in color. "These magnificent illustrations are some of the finest Eisen ever drew" (Salomons 138). Brunet III:1861.