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D'ORLEANS, Joseph. Histoire des Révolutions d'Angleterre. Paris: Claude Barbin, 1693. 3 volumes, 4° (239 x 178mm). 8 engraved portraits, woodcut ornaments (one portrait detached, occasional spotting). Finely-bound in French 18th-century red morocco-backed mottled calf boards, covers with gilt roll-tool floral border, spines decorated in gilt, g.e. Provenance: Ludovici Alexandri Pauli Goupy, early signature on titles; armorial bookplate of Baron de Mackau. Brunet II, 822.
Lettres Chinoises, ou Correspondance Philosophique, Historique et Critique, entre un Chinois Voyageur & ses Correspondants à la Chine, en Moscovie, en Perse & au Japon. The Hague: Pierre Paupie, 1766. 6 volumes, 12° (140 x 80mm). Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces (extremities lightly rubbed, foot of spine of vol. II torn, piece torn away from spine of vol. V).
With 3 other 18th-century French works in 4 vols. including de la Clede's Histoire Générale de Portugal (Paris, 1735, 2 vols.) and Cugnot's La Fortification de Campagne (Paris, 1769). (13)
Lettres Chinoises, ou Correspondance Philosophique, Historique et Critique, entre un Chinois Voyageur & ses Correspondants à la Chine, en Moscovie, en Perse & au Japon. The Hague: Pierre Paupie, 1766. 6 volumes, 12° (140 x 80mm). Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces (extremities lightly rubbed, foot of spine of vol. II torn, piece torn away from spine of vol. V).
With 3 other 18th-century French works in 4 vols. including de la Clede's Histoire Générale de Portugal (Paris, 1735, 2 vols.) and Cugnot's La Fortification de Campagne (Paris, 1769). (13)
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