[ RECUEIL FACTICE XVIIIe s. ] - [FONTENAY (Claude de NONNEY de)] - Letters on the Education of Princes. With a Letter from MILTON, in which he proposes a new way of raising the Youth of England. Edinburgh, John True-Man, 1746. Following: FONCEMAGNE (Etienne LAUREAULT de). Letter on the political Testament of Cardinal de Richelieu. S.l.n.n., 1750. Following: [VOLTAIRE/FREDERIC II] - Letter of an Academician of Berlin to an Academician of Paris. Berlin, Etienne de Bourdeaux, 1753. RARE Handwritten bookplate: "ex bibliotheca de Crozat". The whole bound in 1 volume in-12 granite calf, triple gilt fillet in frame, spine ribbed and decorated, title-pieces, speckled edges (binding of the time). Small beginning of a crack at one of the spines. Expert Jean-Louis Beauvais

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