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50 - GOMEZ (Madeleine-Angélique de).
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Estimate €100 - €120
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GOMEZ (Madeleine-Angélique de). *La Jeune Alcidiane*. Paris: G.-D. David, Henry, 1733. 3 volumes in-12, speckled brown sheepskin, spine with decorated raised bands, marbled edges (18th-century binding). 4 pp., 439 (3) pp. – 2 ff., 514 pp., 1 f. – 2 ff., 454 pp.  First edition. “This is the conclusion of a novel published in 1651 by Gomberville under the same title,” says Quérard, whilst the preface presents the novel as a sequel to *Polexandre* by the same Gomberville.  From the Amyot de Viviers library, with a handwritten bookplate on the title pages. Small wormholes in the leather; otherwise a fine copy. Quérard III, p. 406.
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About the sale Xavier de Planhol Library – The Origins of the Novel
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Auction time 09/30/2026 at 2:00 PM
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