(History). Abbé de Choisy. "Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de Louis XIV. Utrecht, Van de Water, 1727. In-12 bound in full contemporary basane, spine richly decorated. Color endpapers. 515 pages (1 ff blc). Slight rubbing on the boards and corners without gravity. Good copy well bound. Posthumous first edition. Joint / Mr Perrault. "Les hommes illustres qui ont paru en France pendant ce siècle. Augmented with the praises of Messrs Arnauld and Pascal ". Paris, Dezallier, 1698. In-16 bound in full contemporary basane, spine with richly decorated nerves. Colored endpapers. Pagination starting at folio 25 and ending at page 240. Preface and table. Complete. Slight lack of leather on the second plate, the cover a little fragile. Nice copy, well bound.

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