Bindings, French, 18th-Century -- Piganiol de la Force: Nouvelle Description des Chateaux et Parcs de Versailles et de Marly, Paris, chez Poirion, 1751, 2 vols., 8vo, eighth edition, 15 engraved folding plates, contemporary marbled calf, flat spines with gilt decoration [Cohen de Ricci 801; Berlin Kat 2485] -- Leibniz (Gottfried W.): Essais de Theodicée sur la Bonté de Dieu, La Liberté de l'Homme et L'Origine du Mal, tr. Chevalier de Jaucourt, Amsterdam, chex François Changuion, 1747, 2 vols, 8vo, contemporary calf, spines gilt with raised bands [Ravier 431] -- Du Bos (L'Abbé): Reflexions Critiques sur la Poesie et sur la Peinture, Paris, chez Pissot, 1755, 3 vols. 8vo, sixth edition, contemporary marbled calf, flat gilt spines; and 22 others finely-bound in leather or vellum, including works by the elder Mirabeau, De Lolme, V. la Croze and other works in translation. (28)

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Bindings, French, 18th-Century -- Piganiol de la Force: Nouvelle Description des Chateaux et Parcs de Versailles et de Marly, Paris, chez Poirion, 1751, 2 vols., 8vo, eighth edition, 15 engraved folding plates, contemporary marbled calf, flat spines with gilt decoration [Cohen de Ricci 801; Berlin Kat 2485] -- Leibniz (Gottfried W.): Essais de Theodicée sur la Bonté de Dieu, La Liberté de l'Homme et L'Origine du Mal, tr. Chevalier de Jaucourt, Amsterdam, chex François Changuion, 1747, 2 vols, 8vo, contemporary calf, spines gilt with raised bands [Ravier 431] -- Du Bos (L'Abbé): Reflexions Critiques sur la Poesie et sur la Peinture, Paris, chez Pissot, 1755, 3 vols. 8vo, sixth edition, contemporary marbled calf, flat gilt spines; and 22 others finely-bound in leather or vellum, including works by the elder Mirabeau, De Lolme, V. la Croze and other works in translation. (28)

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