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Congrès Politique, ou Entretiens Libres des Puissances de l' Europe; sur le Bal Générale Prochain, London: chez T. R. Delorme, 1772. 8°, half title, 2 folding engraved plates (first plate with small hole and repaired on verso, second plate more crudely repaired on verso with adhesvive tape). Contemporary speckled calf gilt (rebacked, extremities rubbed, scuffed). Loosely-inserted are 2 letters relating to the unknown authorship of the work.
AVILER, Ausgustin Charles d' (1653-1700). Cours d' Architecture qui Comprend les Ordres de Vignole, Paris: Nicolas Langlois, 1691. Part One only (of 2), 4° (212 x 162mm). Additional engraved title and 78 plates only, 17 double-page or folding. Contemporary calf (rather worn, spine lacking). cf. Berlin Kat. 2388; Fowler 32.
With 21 other 17th-, 18th- or early 19th-century French works in 34 volumes including Levayer de Boutigny's Tarsis et Zelie, nouvelle edition (The Hague, 1720, 3 vols., contemporary armorial calf), Charles Henault's Nouvel Abregé Chronologique de l' Histoire de France ... quatriéme édition (Paris, 1752), Boileau Despréaux's Oeuvres (Paris, 1788, 3 vols., contemporary armorial morocco) and Correspondance Secrète de Charette, Stofflet, Puisaye, Cormatin ...[etc.] (Paris, [1799], 2 parts in one vol., contemporary calf stamped "Bibliotheque de Monsieur de Guillaumanches-Duboscage"). (35)
AVILER, Ausgustin Charles d' (1653-1700). Cours d' Architecture qui Comprend les Ordres de Vignole, Paris: Nicolas Langlois, 1691. Part One only (of 2), 4° (212 x 162mm). Additional engraved title and 78 plates only, 17 double-page or folding. Contemporary calf (rather worn, spine lacking). cf. Berlin Kat. 2388; Fowler 32.
With 21 other 17th-, 18th- or early 19th-century French works in 34 volumes including Levayer de Boutigny's Tarsis et Zelie, nouvelle edition (The Hague, 1720, 3 vols., contemporary armorial calf), Charles Henault's Nouvel Abregé Chronologique de l' Histoire de France ... quatriéme édition (Paris, 1752), Boileau Despréaux's Oeuvres (Paris, 1788, 3 vols., contemporary armorial morocco) and Correspondance Secrète de Charette, Stofflet, Puisaye, Cormatin ...[etc.] (Paris, [1799], 2 parts in one vol., contemporary calf stamped "Bibliotheque de Monsieur de Guillaumanches-Duboscage"). (35)
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