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VOLTAIRE
The private life of the King of Prussia. Ou Mémoires pour servir à la vie de Mr de Voltaire, écrits par lui-même. Amsterdam, Chez les Héritiers de MM. Rey, 1784. Small in-12, blue morocco, tiple gilt fillet, ornate smooth spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Period binding). Attractive small-print edition of Voltaire's Mémoires, decorated with an unsigned engraved portrait of Frederick II of Prussia (Bengesco, II, p. 436). A delightful copy, from the Pixérécourt (1838, n°2133) and Édouard Rahir (VI, 1938, n°1857) libraries. Spine slightly faded.
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