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Set of history books. 1/ - Velly (T I-XI), Villaret (T XII-X…
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219
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Set of history books. 1/ - Velly (T I-XI), Villaret (T XII-X…
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
Set of history books.
1/ - Velly (T I-XI), Villaret (T XII-XXIII), Garnier (XXIV-XXX). - Histoire de France depuis l'établissement de la monarchie, jusqu'au règne de Louis XIV. Paris, Vve Desaint, Nyon, 1761-1786. Complete with 30 volumes in-12, bound in full shagreened calf, ornate spines, fawn title-pieces - 18 damaged headpieces, 14 boards with piercings, beginning of a split at 1 jaw, 24 pierced corners (text not collated).
2/ - Mably [Gabriel Bonnot abbé de]. - Obsevations sur l'histoire de France. New edition continued to the reign of Louis XIV, and preceded by the historical eulogy of the author, by M. l'abbé Brizard. Kehll, 1788. 4 volumes in-12, full calf with ornate smooth spines, title and appendices (in red and green) - small holes in the boards of T I - [2 ff.], 483 pp. ; [2 ff.], 383 pp. ; [2 ff.], 370 pp. ; [2 ff.], 402 pp., [2 ff.].
3/ - Mémoires en forme de lettres pour servir à l'histoire de la vie de feu Messire Louis-François-Gabriel d'Orléans de La Motte, évêque d'Amiens. Second edition, revised and corrected. Malines, P.J. Hanic, 1785. 2 volumes in-12, full calf, spine ribbed and decorated - XXIV, 282 pp. ; [2 ff.], 400 pp., [1 f.].
4/ - [Voltaire] - Siècle de Louis XIV. Nouvelle édition, revue et augmentée, à laquelle on a ajouté un précis du siècle de Louis XV. Amsterdam, Aux Dépens de La Compagnie, 1771. 3 volumes in-12 (out of 4), full calf with ornate ribbed spines, title and appendices - 2 damaged headpieces, 1 damaged spine, spidermooring, corners pierced - [4 ff.], 490 pp; [1 fx-title, lacking the title and 2 ff. of the table], 502 pp; [4 ff.], 467 pp.
5/ - Bentivoglio. - History of the Flanders wars... Translated by M. Loiseau l'aîné, canon of the church of Orléans. Paris, Desaint, 1759. 4 volumes in-12, full calf, spine ribbed and decorated, title and appendices - tears to the headpieces of volume IV and epidermis to the appendices - xxxviii, 510 pp. (last n. o.) ; [2 ff.], 476 pp. ; [2 ff.], 509 pp. ; [2 ff.], 560 pp.
6/ - [Voltaire] - History of Charles XII King of Sweden. Eighth edition... Basle, Chr. Revis, 1740. 2 volumes in-12 bound in 1 volume, full calf, spine ribbed, title-piece - first spine parted, headbands faded - XVI, 238 pp. ; [2 ff.], 222 pp. (including 2 pp. of the bookseller's catalogue).
7/ - Proyard. - Histoire de Stanislas premier, roi de Pologne, duc de Lorraine et de Bar. Lyon, P. Bruyset-Ponthus, Paris, P. Berton, au Puy, Crespy & Lacombe, 1784. 2 volumes in-12, bound in full calf, spines with ornate nerves, title and appendices - small tears to headpieces - vii, 477, [2] pp. ; [2 ff.], 413, [3] pp.
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Ref. : E0710 - 5
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