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BOSSUET. DISCOURSE ON UNIVERSAL HISTORY. Paris, Didot l'aîné, 1784. Four volumes in-18 green bronze morocco, triple gilt fillet on the boards, smooth spine decorated with an iron "au dauphin", title and supra-libris "C. Dauphin" in red morocco, gilt edges (Binding of the period). Missing the supra-libris of vol. IV. NICE EDITION printed by Didot l'aîné by order of King Louis XVI "for the education of M. le Dauphin". BEAUTIFUL EDITION in morocco with a gilt iron "au dauphin" repeated on the spine and a supra-libris on the tail of the spine "C. Dauphin". Ex-libris of the De Malherbe family, in hermines with six roses gules 3, 2 and 1, with the motto "Ma foy mon roy", pasted on the first flyleaf of the first three volumes, then ex-libris "Fernand J. Heitz" on the flyleaf of volume IV.
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BOSSUET. DISCOURSE ON UNIVERSAL HISTORY. Paris, Didot l'aîné, 1784. Four volumes in-18 green bronze morocco, triple gilt fillet on the boards, smooth spine decorated with an iron "au dauphin", title and supra-libris "C. Dauphin" in red morocco, gilt edges (Binding of the period). Missing the supra-libris of vol. IV. NICE EDITION printed by Didot l'aîné by order of King Louis XVI "for the education of M. le Dauphin". BEAUTIFUL EDITION in morocco with a gilt iron "au dauphin" repeated on the spine and a supra-libris on the tail of the spine "C. Dauphin". Ex-libris of the De Malherbe family, in hermines with six roses gules 3, 2 and 1, with the motto "Ma foy mon roy", pasted on the first flyleaf of the first three volumes, then ex-libris "Fernand J. Heitz" on the flyleaf of volume IV.
