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147 - LELONG (Jacques) and FEVRET de FONTETTE.
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Estimate €200 - €300
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LELONG (Jacques) and FEVRET de FONTETTE. *Historical Library of France*, containing a catalogue of printed and manuscript works dealing with the history of this kingdom or relating to it, with critical and historical notes by the late Jacques Lelong [...] New edition, revised, corrected and considerably expanded by Mr Fevret de Fontette [...]. Paris, published by Thomas Herissant, 1768, 1769, 1771. 3 folio volumes, in contemporary fawn calfskin, with decorated raised bands on the spine and red edges. The first three of five volumes of this rich historical bibliography. The edge of Volume 1 is cracked. Volume 1: Geography and natural history. Ecclesiastical history. – Volume 2: Chronology of the kings of France. Political history of France (kings, Valois, Bourbons, law...). - Volume 3: Political History of France (treatise...). Civil History of France (provinces, Switzerland...). French colonies (Louisiana, Canada...). Genealogy. Historical memoirs on certain historians of France.
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About the sale In preparation – The Jean-Paul Delon Bookshop Collection, Part I (Bibliography – Scholarship – Bibliophilia)
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Auction time 10/05/2026 at 2:00 PM
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