Lettres d' Abailard et d' Héloise, nouvelle traduction, Paris: chez l' Editeur, 1782. 2 volumes, 8° (204 x 126mm.). Half titles, parallel text in French and Latin. Contemporary burgundy crushed morocco gilt, covers with double gilt fillet border, spines gilt with repeated floral motifs, gilt edges. (Some very light scuffing). Provenance: C. Pieters (bookplate); Robert Hoe (ex-libris sticker); "Exemplaire en Grand papier de Hollande provenant de la Collection de Mr. (?)Duriez" (early inscription laid down on front pastedown).

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Lettres d' Abailard et d' Héloise, nouvelle traduction, Paris: chez l' Editeur, 1782. 2 volumes, 8° (204 x 126mm.). Half titles, parallel text in French and Latin. Contemporary burgundy crushed morocco gilt, covers with double gilt fillet border, spines gilt with repeated floral motifs, gilt edges. (Some very light scuffing). Provenance: C. Pieters (bookplate); Robert Hoe (ex-libris sticker); "Exemplaire en Grand papier de Hollande provenant de la Collection de Mr. (?)Duriez" (early inscription laid down on front pastedown).

With C. Dorat's Les Baisers, précédes du Mois de Mal (The Hague, 1770), illustrated by Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen. (3)

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