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BINDING -- PYRKER, Johann Ladislav. Perle dell' Antico Testamento Poemetti Sacri, translated by Carlantonio Gambara, Brescia: Bertoni & Co., 1824.
2 volumes, 8° (218 x 134mm.), three engraved plates, BOUND FOR MARIE-LOUISE, EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH, AS DUCHESS OF PALMA, in contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with wide decorative borders of roll-tools including flower-heads and foliage, enclosing the centrally-placed crowned 'M L' monogram flanked by a wreath of laurel and oak branches, spine in six unequal compartments, lettered in the second and fifth, decorated in the others, gilt turn-ins, blue glazed endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Marie-Louise, as Duchess of Palma (binding); Calvin Bullock (bookplate).
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2 volumes, 8° (218 x 134mm.), three engraved plates, BOUND FOR MARIE-LOUISE, EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH, AS DUCHESS OF PALMA, in contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with wide decorative borders of roll-tools including flower-heads and foliage, enclosing the centrally-placed crowned 'M L' monogram flanked by a wreath of laurel and oak branches, spine in six unequal compartments, lettered in the second and fifth, decorated in the others, gilt turn-ins, blue glazed endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Marie-Louise, as Duchess of Palma (binding); Calvin Bullock (bookplate).
DEDICATION COPY. (2)
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