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MARMONTEL, Jean-Franois (1723-1799). Les Contes Moraux. Paris: 1765. 3 volumes, 8 (188 x 117mm). Half-titles. Engraved titles, portrait of Marmontel and 23 plates, bound with a duplicate set of plates from a 12 edition. Modern morocco, elaborately gilt, g.e., by de Samblanx & Weckesser. First issue with errata. Cohen/de Ricci 686.
Alain Rene LE SAGE (1668-1747). Aventuras de Gil Blas. Valencia: Benito Montfort, 1788-1789, vols.I-IV (of 7), 4 (204 x 146mm). Half-titles. (Old vertical crease in half-title in vol.I.) Later morocco gilt by Riviere, g.e. Provenance: Reginald Huth (inscription dated 1880, armorial bookplate). Vols.I-IV contain the complete text to 'Gil Blas'. Palau 136299.
Jacques de SAULX, comte de Tavannes. Memoires. Paris: Jean-Baptiste Langlois, 1691. 12 (156 x 89mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of the author. Later olive morocco gilt by Pagnant, covers panelled with fillets, dots and flower-head tools, the central panel with the design built up from various flower-head tools and circles and dots, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in one, the others with repeat pattern of small tools, gilt turn-ins, g.e. FIRST EDITION. Cf. Brunet V.149.
Hieronymous MORLINI. Opus morlini, complectens novellas, fabulas et comoediam. Paris: 1799. 8 (166 x 103mm). One woodcut illustration. Contemporary blue straight-grained morocco gilt, g.e. "dition tire 55 exemplaires": Brunet III.1910; and five other works in 8 volumes (Jean de la Bruyere, Les Characteres de Theophraste, Paris: 1694, 12; Gabriel Legouv, La mrite des femmes, Paris: 1809, 12; Longus, Daphnis et Chlo, in French, London: 1878, small 8; Giovanni Boccaccio, Il Decameron, in Italian, Amsterdam: 1665, 12). (17)
Alain Rene LE SAGE (1668-1747). Aventuras de Gil Blas. Valencia: Benito Montfort, 1788-1789, vols.I-IV (of 7), 4 (204 x 146mm). Half-titles. (Old vertical crease in half-title in vol.I.) Later morocco gilt by Riviere, g.e. Provenance: Reginald Huth (inscription dated 1880, armorial bookplate). Vols.I-IV contain the complete text to 'Gil Blas'. Palau 136299.
Jacques de SAULX, comte de Tavannes. Memoires. Paris: Jean-Baptiste Langlois, 1691. 12 (156 x 89mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of the author. Later olive morocco gilt by Pagnant, covers panelled with fillets, dots and flower-head tools, the central panel with the design built up from various flower-head tools and circles and dots, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in one, the others with repeat pattern of small tools, gilt turn-ins, g.e. FIRST EDITION. Cf. Brunet V.149.
Hieronymous MORLINI. Opus morlini, complectens novellas, fabulas et comoediam. Paris: 1799. 8 (166 x 103mm). One woodcut illustration. Contemporary blue straight-grained morocco gilt, g.e. "dition tire 55 exemplaires": Brunet III.1910; and five other works in 8 volumes (Jean de la Bruyere, Les Characteres de Theophraste, Paris: 1694, 12; Gabriel Legouv, La mrite des femmes, Paris: 1809, 12; Longus, Daphnis et Chlo, in French, London: 1878, small 8; Giovanni Boccaccio, Il Decameron, in Italian, Amsterdam: 1665, 12). (17)
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Please note that this lot is as catalogued, comprising 13 volumes and not 17 as stated at the end of the description.