Lot 26
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BATTEUX, Charles (1713-1780). Les Quatre poetiques: d'Aristote, d'Horace, de Vida, de Despréaux, avec les traductions & des remarques. Paris: Saillant & Noyon, and Desaint, 1771. 2 volumes, 8º (215 x 137mm). With half-titles. Engraved frontispiece in volume I by A. de Saint Aubin after Cochin. Contemporary French green morocco gilt, triple fillets on sides, flat spines with ornate floral tooling in longitudinal frame of double fillets, red lettering and numbering pieces, gilt turn-ins and board edges, blue endpapers, gilt page edges (spines a little rubbed at head and with one or two small wormholes, slight age discolouration to covers). Provenance: Felix Durosier (armorial bookplate) -- Princes Fürstenberg (morocco and paper label ).
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BATTEUX, Charles (1713-1780). Les Quatre poetiques: d'Aristote, d'Horace, de Vida, de Despréaux, avec les traductions & des remarques. Paris: Saillant & Noyon, and Desaint, 1771. 2 volumes, 8º (215 x 137mm). With half-titles. Engraved frontispiece in volume I by A. de Saint Aubin after Cochin. Contemporary French green morocco gilt, triple fillets on sides, flat spines with ornate floral tooling in longitudinal frame of double fillets, red lettering and numbering pieces, gilt turn-ins and board edges, blue endpapers, gilt page edges (spines a little rubbed at head and with one or two small wormholes, slight age discolouration to covers). Provenance: Felix Durosier (armorial bookplate) -- Princes Fürstenberg (morocco and paper label ).

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BATTEUX, Charles (1713-1780). Les Quatre poetiques: d'Aristote, d'Horace, de Vida, de Despréaux, avec les traductions & des remarques. Paris: Saillant & Noyon, and Desaint, 1771. 2 volumes, 8º (215 x 137mm). With half-titles. Engraved frontispiece in volume I by A. de Saint Aubin after Cochin. Contemporary French green morocco gilt, triple fillets on sides, flat spines with ornate floral tooling in longitudinal frame of double fillets, red lettering and numbering pieces, gilt turn-ins and board edges, blue endpapers, gilt page edges (spines a little rubbed at head and with one or two small wormholes, slight age discolouration to covers). Provenance: Felix Durosier (armorial bookplate) -- Princes Fürstenberg (morocco and paper label ).

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