[PREVOST, Abbé]. Mémoires et avantures d'un homme de qualité, qui s'est retiré d…

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[PREVOST, Abbé].

Mémoires et avantures d'un homme de qualité, qui s'est retiré du monde. The Hague, M. G. Merville & J. Vander Kloot, 1757. 8 parts in 2 vols. in-12. Full contemporary calf, gilt arms in the centre of the boards, spine with ornamented faux-nerves, title-pieces in havana morocco and tomes in green morocco. >Copy with unidentified arms. Misses at the lower head of volume I, small rubs to the binding. Barbier, III, 220.

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