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LITERARY HISTORY OF FRANCE , in which the origin, progress, …
See original version (French)
92
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LITERARY HISTORY OF FRANCE , in which the origin, progress, …
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
LITERARY HISTORY OF FRANCE
, in which the origin, progress, decline and revival of the sciences are discussed…
Paris: published by Osmont; Hurat; Clousier [and others], 1733–1756–....
17 quarto volumes, in uniform but not identical bindings in contemporary speckled fawn calfskin (normal wear and tear to the bindings, foxing).
Bibliography:
Brunet, III, 205.
Description:
First edition of the first 10 volumes of this ‘very important work’.
‘The 12 volumes published by the Benedictines are no longer easily found; the 12th volume in particular had become rare; but it was reprinted in 1830…’ (Brunet).
A vast publication constituting a first-rate source of historical and literary scholarship, the fruit of the labour of a group of Benedictine monks from the Congregation of Saint-Maur.
See original version (French)
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