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SAINT-FOIX, Germain Francois Poullain de. Oeuvres Commplettes, Paris: chez la Veuve Duchesne, 1777. 6 volumes, 8°. Engraved frontispieces in volumes I and II, half titles and titles printed in red and black (a few spots). Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering-pieces (extremities rubbed). Provenance: unidentified armorial bookplate.
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de (1547-1616). Le Don Quichotte, Paris: chez Méquignon-Marvis, 1821. 4 volumes, 8°. Half titles, folding engraved map at end of last volume with routes coloured by hand (some mainly marginal spotting and browning). Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with red and green morocco labels (rubbed). Comprises volumes 6 - 9 of a set of Cervantes' Oeuvres Complètes.
With c. 200 other mostly French 17th, 18th and 19th-century books, either individual volumes or in part sets, the vast majority in contemporary calf or morocco bindings, and including Fénélon's Oeuvres (Paris, 1787-92, volumes III - IX only), finely-bound in polished contemporary tree calf gilt.
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de (1547-1616). Le Don Quichotte, Paris: chez Méquignon-Marvis, 1821. 4 volumes, 8°. Half titles, folding engraved map at end of last volume with routes coloured by hand (some mainly marginal spotting and browning). Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with red and green morocco labels (rubbed). Comprises volumes 6 - 9 of a set of Cervantes' Oeuvres Complètes.
With c. 200 other mostly French 17th, 18th and 19th-century books, either individual volumes or in part sets, the vast majority in contemporary calf or morocco bindings, and including Fénélon's Oeuvres (Paris, 1787-92, volumes III - IX only), finely-bound in polished contemporary tree calf gilt.
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