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PASCAL, Blaise (1623-62). Pensées ... avec les notes de M. de Voltaire. Geneva [but Paris: Cazin], 1778. 2 volumes, 18° (135 x 75mm). Half-titles, engraved portrait of the author. (Occasional light soiling.) 19th-century brown morocco gilt, later supralibros, smooth gilt floral spines, uncut. Provenance: L. Giraud-Badin, 1926.
LABORDE, Jean-Benjamin de (1734-1794). Recueil de pensées et de maximes. Paris: P. Didot, 1791. 18° (130 x 70mm). (Some light spotting). Near contemporary straight-grained green morocco, later gilt supralibros within dotted borders, flat spine with repeated fleuron, gilt turn-ins, pink silk liners, gilt edges. Provenance: P. Brunet (book label) -- L. Giraud-Badin, 1935. FIRST EDITION OF CONSIDERABLE RARITY. Only one copy located (BnF). Brunet III, 713: 'il n'a été tiré que quelques exemplaires'. (3)
LABORDE, Jean-Benjamin de (1734-1794). Recueil de pensées et de maximes. Paris: P. Didot, 1791. 18° (130 x 70mm). (Some light spotting). Near contemporary straight-grained green morocco, later gilt supralibros within dotted borders, flat spine with repeated fleuron, gilt turn-ins, pink silk liners, gilt edges. Provenance: P. Brunet (book label) -- L. Giraud-Badin, 1935. FIRST EDITION OF CONSIDERABLE RARITY. Only one copy located (BnF). Brunet III, 713: 'il n'a été tiré que quelques exemplaires'. (3)