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Hôtel des Ventes de Clermont-Ferrand

140 - 8 works in 10 volumes:
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8 works in 10 volumes: - LOYSEAU (Charles). Treatise on the Removal and Abandonment of Property by Mortgage, together with a Treatise on Annuities. Latest edition. Geneva, Albert, 1621, in-4, 8 unnumbered folios – 432 pp. – 6 unnumbered folios – 67 pp. for the Treatise on the Guarantee of Annuities. Contemporary fawn calfskin, gilt fillet binding, decorated ribbed spine. – Binding worn, cover almost detached, upper panel missing. A few passages underlined. Handwritten Maleteste bookplate on the endpaper. Eviction is the abandonment of possession of property, whether voluntary or forced. - MABLY (Gabriel Bonnot de). On Legislation, or the Principles of Laws. Amsterdam, 1789, 2 volumes in-8, 222pp. – 220pp. Bound in the period in a single volume of light-coloured, grain-textured sheepskin, ribbed spine, decorated panels, title label, red edges. - A fine copy. - CORMON (J.-L. Barthélemy). Portable and Pronunciation Dictionary, Spanish–French and French–Spanish, for the use of both nations. Second edition. Paris, Cormon and Blanc, 1803, 2 volumes in-8, 2ff.-XXVIII-776pp. – 2ff.-XXVII-692pp. Marbled fawn sheepskin, ribbed and decorated spine, red edges. - The title labels are missing; a few quires are loose; 3 misplaced leaves (at the beginning of Volume 1). - LEONARD (Nicolas-Germain) and A.-M.-H. BLIN de SAINMORE. [Two works in one volume]. 18th century, 8vo. Bound in the period in tortoiseshell-coloured sheepskin, with gilt framing, decorated ribbed spine, title labels, marbled edges. - Headbands torn off by 1 cm, a few scattered small foxing spots, a brown stain on the inner margin of 5 folios of the preface to *La Requête des filles de Salency*... LEONARD (N.-G.): Pastoral Poems, followed by *La Voix de la Nature* (The Voice of Nature), a poem, *Lettres de Sainville & de Sophie* (Letters from Sainville and Sophie), and other pieces in verse and prose. Geneva and Paris, Lejay, 1771; X-222 pp. – 1 folio of tables. Beautiful Rococo frontispiece title page, included in the pagination, engraved in intaglio by de Ghendt after Marillier; 2 vignettes and 2 tailpieces by Eisen, engraved in intaglio by Aliamet and de Ghendt. Léonard was born in Guadeloupe in 1744. He held the post of lieutenant-general there. (Cohen, col. 622). BLIN de SAINMORE (A.-M.-H.). Joachim, or The Triumph of Filial Piety. A drama in three acts in verse, followed by a selection of miscellaneous poems. Amsterdam, and available in Paris: Delalain, Le Jay, Ruault, Brunet, 1775; 230 pp. – 1 folio. - 1 illustration by Marillier, engraved by Duflos. Following Joachim: ‘Requête des filles de Salency, à la Reine’; numerous poems, epigrams and occasional verses. (Cohen, col. 154). - GARRIGUES (A.-J.-M.). Théorie du bonheur. Paris, Le Normant; Versailles, published by the author, 1819, in-8, 2ff.-194pp. Light-coloured, full-grain sheepskin, smooth spine, red title label, gilt fleurons and trelliswork, marbled edges. (Contemporary binding). – Well bound, interior fresh. One joint split. - DELILLE (Abbé Jacques). The Man of the Fields, or the French Georgics. Strasbourg, Levrault, 1800, 8vo, 2 folios–XXIX pp., followed by pages 30 to 265 – frontispiece. Contemporary binding in mottled fawn sheepskin, with a gilt framing frieze; smooth spine decorated with a fine gilt lattice pattern, red title label, gilt edges. - Inner hinge slightly open, upper cap slightly rubbed. First edition. - The Imitation of Christ. New edition. Chalon-sur-Saône, Delorme, 1805, 8vo, VII–359 pp. Bound in contemporary fawn-coloured, veined sheepskin, plain spine with decoration, title label. - Label from the stationer Matheron. Some slight rubbing to the binding, a few scattered small stains, paper very slightly yellowed. - [HOME (Henry, Lord Kames)]. *Elements of Criticism*. The eighth edition. With the author’s latest corrections and additions. London, Vernor and Hood, 1805, 2 volumes in-8, X–418 pp. (pagination error on pp. 392–395) - IV-458pp. Blue-tinted paper half-leather bindings, spines covered in white paper, title handwritten on the spines, entirely untrimmed. (As published). - Old handwritten bookplate on the endpaper: Geo. Smith, St John, Oxon. Interior of the volumes fresh and with full margins. Endpapers soiled or torn.
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