Le petit Paroissien complet, Tours: Imprimerie de Mame [ca. 1836], 8°, half title (spotted), contemporary red morocco, gilt tooled border, black morocco onlays forming flower heads, spine gilt in compartments, contrasting morocco lettering-piece. With the first French edition of Swedenborg's Les Merveilles du Ciel et de l'Enfer et des terres planétaires et astrales (Berlin, 1782), the second issue of Richard Rowlinson's edition of Petri Abelardi, Abbatis Ruyensis et Heloissae (Oxford, 1728), the second issue of the first Italian edition of Gray's Elegy (Padua, 1772) and 10 other works in 12 volumes. (16)

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Le petit Paroissien complet, Tours: Imprimerie de Mame [ca. 1836], 8°, half title (spotted), contemporary red morocco, gilt tooled border, black morocco onlays forming flower heads, spine gilt in compartments, contrasting morocco lettering-piece. With the first French edition of Swedenborg's Les Merveilles du Ciel et de l'Enfer et des terres planétaires et astrales (Berlin, 1782), the second issue of Richard Rowlinson's edition of Petri Abelardi, Abbatis Ruyensis et Heloissae (Oxford, 1728), the second issue of the first Italian edition of Gray's Elegy (Padua, 1772) and 10 other works in 12 volumes. (16)

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