[BACKER (Georges de)]. DICTIONARY OF FRENCH PROVERBS. Brusselles, Georges de Backer, Printer and Merchant-library, 1710. In-12 of 317-1bl. pages, brown calf, gilt arms in the centre of the boards, spine gilt, numbered label on the back (period binding). First edition with the explanation of several hundred proverbs of the time, their meanings, and part of their origin. The whole drawn and collected from the best authors of this last century. Dry binding. (Barbier, I, 970). EXEMPLAIRE WITH THE ARMS OF THE DUKE OF LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, with the stamp of the library of La Roche Guyon on the title.

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