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30 - DUCLOS: Reflections on the Customs of This Century.
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Estimate €100 - €120
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DUCLOS: Reflections on the Customs of This Century. 1751. 12mo in contemporary marbled calf, decorated ribbed spine, red edges (small tear to the lower corner) 26/02/2026 New 12mo edition of the most famous work by the writer and historian Charles Pinot Duclos, published in the same year as the first edition. According to the 1822 Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes, ‘the edition without a place of publication, 1751, in-12, large type”, our copy, “is to be preferred to the one bearing the name of Prault, 1751, which contains a dedicatory epistle to the king”.
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Auction time 06/26/2026 at 2:00 PM
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