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121 - ENGLISH DETECTIVE NOVELS. A collection of 8 works by various…
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ENGLISH DETECTIVE NOVELS. A collection of 8 works by various authors. Set of 21 in-12 volumes. 1) HERVEY (Elizabeth). The Story of Ned Evans. Paris, Michel and Billois, 1800. 4 tomes in 2 in-12 volumes, in contemporary half-basane. 4 frontispieces. 2) HERVEY (E.). The Mourtray Family. Paris, Ouvrier, 1802. 4 tomes in 2 in-12 volumes, in contemporary half-basane. 4 frontispieces. 3) MUSGRAVE (Agnès). Edmond de la Forêt... Paris, Langlois, Year VII (1799). 4 volumes in-12, contemporary half-basane. First edition of the translation by F. Soulès. 4 frontispieces. Mylne Martin 99127. 4) MACKENZIE (Anna-Maria). Dusseldorf, or the Fratricide. Paris, Lemierre, Year VII (1799). 3 volumes in-12, contemporary half-basane. 3 frontispieces by Challiou. 5) MATURIN (Charles Robert). *Les Albigeois*. A historical novel set in the twelfth century. Paris, Gosselin, 1825. 4 volumes in-12, contemporary cloth binding. First edition in French. Stamp of a German princely library. 6) LEE (Sophie). *Le Souterrain* or *Matilde*. Paris, Barrois, 1786. 3 volumes in-12, contemporary half-basane. First edition in French. From the library of the Count of Bentheim, with ex-libris and stamp. 7) HELME (Elizabeth). *La Caverne de Sainte Marguerite*. Paris, Tavernier, 1803. 4 tomes in 2 in-12 volumes, contemporary half-basane. 4 frontispieces. 8) [ANONYMOUS]. *La Caverne d’Astolpho*, a Spanish story translated from the English. Paris, Bechet, 1816. 2 tomes in one in-12 volume, in contemporary half-basane. First edition of the translation by Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret. From the library of Pierre François Rayer (1793–1867), physician to Louis Philippe and later to Napoleon III.
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About the sale Xavier de Planhol Library – The Origins of the Novel
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