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[CURIOUS NARRATIVES] AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE PLAGUE AT MARSEILLES ... FAITHFULLY TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL FRENCH BY A PHYSICIAN, LONDON: FOR M. BILLINGSLEY, A. DODD AND J. FOX, 1721, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 136 [i.e. 132]pp., large folding engraved frontispiece (wear to folds and old repairs) [ESTC, which does not call for a frontispiece, states that pp. 61-64 are lacking in the BL copy. In this copy, the pagination jumps from p. 59 to p. 64 on the one leaf H2. There is no H3 or H4, but pagination on I1 continues with p. 65. The text follows on and appears complete] [bound with:] A Faithful and Exact Narative [sic] of the Horrid Tragedy lately acted at Thorn, in Polish Prussia, by the contrivances and instigations of the Jesuits ... second edition, London: printed and sold by J. Roberts and A. Rocayrol, [n.d.], 8°, [2] + 37 + 30 [i.e. 29]pp., large folding engraved frontispiece. [The last 30 pages were not included in the first edition of ca. 1725. The second edition is apparently unrecorded in ESTCm] [bound with:] Antonio PEREIRA DE FIGUEIREDO. [De Terrae Motu et Incendio Olisiponensi. English and Latin] A Narrative of the Earthquake and Fire of Lisbon by Antony Pereira ... an eye-witness thereof, London: for G. Hawkins, 1756, 8°, FIRST EDITION, Latin and English texts on facing pages each with its own pagination: Latin 20pp., English 20 [i.e. 19]pp., folding engraved frontispiece (with heavy soil mark) [RARE. Only 2 copies recorded in ESTC], together 3 works in one volume, earlier 19th-century red straight-grained half morocco over buff boards, spine gilt lettered "Curious Narratives 1721 1756" (extemities rubbed).