182 - 7 works, 8 volumes:
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7 works, 8 volumes: - [COLLECTIVE]. A collection of various orations and poems submitted to the Académie Française for the prizes of the year M.DCCV. With a few speeches delivered at the Academy on various occasions. Paris, Coignard, 1705, in-12, 3ff.-236pp.-2ff. Contemporary brown calf binding, ribbed spine, decorated panels, title label. – Some scuffing to the binding, a knock to one edge, marginal tear on page 39. – MARMONTEL (Jean-François). Moral Tales. Followed by a defence of the theatre. [Followed by] Continuation of the Moral Tales... Avignon, Chambeau, 1761, 2 volumes in-12, 194 pp. – 1 f. - 203 pp. – and 1 folio – 74 pp. for the Continuation... Contemporary brown sheepskin, smooth, decorated spines, title labels. - Copy slightly faded, headbands torn off, interior of the volumes in fair condition, traces of bookplates. - [BAILLET (Adrien)]. Authors disguised under foreign names; Borrow, Suppose, Feign at will, Cipher, Reverse, Turn around, or Change from one language to another. Paris, Dezallier, 1690, in-12, XXVI-1f.-615pp. (pagination errors in section Y). Contemporary brown calf binding, decorated ribbed spine, red edges. - Headbands torn, hinges split and open, corners rubbed, paper very slightly yellowed. First edition of the first French bibliographical treatise on anonymous and pseudonymous publications. - [MAUVILLON (Eléazar de)]. French and German Letters. Or military, literary and critical reflections on the French and the Germans. A work equally useful to officers and men of letters of both nations. London, François Allemand. [No place], 1740, in-12, 4ff. unnumbered–397pp. Fawn calfskin, decorated ribbed spine, title label. (Contemporary binding). – Corner tear on page 1, with loss of text. Faded binding. First edition. – DU CERCEAU (R. P. Jean-Antoine, S.J.) (1670–1730). The Conspiracy of Nicolas Gabrini, known as de Rienzi, Tyrant of Rome in 1347. Posthumous work... New edition. Paris, Veuve Etienne, 1748, 12mo, XXIV–598 pp. Brown veal leather with a grained finish, decorated ribbed spine, title label and (fictitious) volume number, coat of arms at the tail (unidentified, a lion… superimposed on a field of seven bars), red edges. (Contemporary binding). - Bound at the head is a pre-printed prize certificate awarded by the College of Nevers to Charles-François Guillier in the year 1764. Paper very slightly yellowed. (Sommervogel II p. 978). - GARDIN DUMESNIL (J.-B.). Latin Synonyms, and their Various Meanings, with Examples Drawn from the Best Authors; modelled on the French Synonyms by Abbé Girard... Paris, Simon, Brocas, 1777, in-12, XLVIII–522 pp.–2 unnumbered folios. Contemporary marbled fawn sheepskin binding, ribbed spine, decorated panels, title label, red edges. - A fine copy. Upper margin of the flyleaf trimmed by 2 cm. First edition. - [Jesuits] - [ANONYMOUS]. An account of events demonstrating the system of independence which the Bishops have, over the centuries, opposed to the unchanging principles of the King’s sovereign justice over all his subjects (sic) without distinction; & the necessity of allowing secular judges to act against their undertakings, in order to uphold the observance of the laws, & public tranquillity. S.l., (1753), 12mo, 380 pp. contemporary calf, worn. - Interior in fair condition, headbands and edges worn. A folio edition was published simultaneously (Barbier IV, 727 – Quérard II, p.166 – Conlon VII, 53.550). Attributed to Abbé H.-Ph. Chauvelin.

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182 - 7 works, 8 volumes: See original version (French)

182 - 7 works, 8 volumes:
See original version (French)