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[A COPY OF CLÉMENT DE RIS’S WORK, INCLUDING A LETTER FROM LA…
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31
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[A COPY OF CLÉMENT DE RIS’S WORK, INCLUDING A LETTER FROM LA…
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
[A COPY OF CLÉMENT DE RIS’S WORK, INCLUDING A LETTER FROM LA SAUVAGERE TO CLÉMENT DE RIS’S GRANDFATHER A FEW DAYS AFTER THE END OF THAT DARK AFFAIR]
LA SAUVAGERE
A collection of essays, or historical and critical studies on the time when the solitary Saint Florent lived at Mont-Glonne, in Anjou, on certain works by the ancient Romans newly discovered in this province and in Touraine, on the ancient course of the Loire, from Tours to Angers and that of the River Vienne, on the alleged tomb of Turnus in Tours, the site of ‘Caesaro dunum’, the first capital of the ‘Turones’ under Julius Caesar, the Ponts de Cé and the camp near Angers, attributed to that emperor, and that of Chênehutte, three leagues below Saumur, with new observations on the spontaneous growth of shells at the Château des Places, drawings of a collection of fossil shells from Touraine and Anjou, new ideas on the Falunière of Touraine and several letters from M. de Voltaire, relating to these various subjects... Paris, Veuve Duchesne and Veuve Tilliard, 1776. 8vo, blue half-morocco with corner pieces, spine decorated with gilt lines and gilt crowned initials CR, gilt head, untrimmed copy (Dupré). Lvi pp., 171 pp., [3] pp. 2 folding maps and 5 double plates engraved on copper. A copy belonging to Count Clément de Ris, bearing his signature and a few lines on the first blank page. Rare. A very fine copy.
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