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VOLTAIRE La Henriade. Nouvelle édition, considérablement augmentée. Amsterdam, par la Compagnie, [Rouen?], 1759. 2 volumes in 1 vol. in-12, glazed marbled fawn basane, ribbed spine decorated with gilt fleurons. Bound in contemporary style, lower headband worn. A good copy. Off-text frontispiece portrait, 10 off-text intaglio figs, LII-222 pp.; 2 folded off-text maps, 305 pp. Some foxing. Bengesco describes an edition similar to this one, but dated 1752. This copy has been bound at the end with La Henriade travestie en vers burlesques by Fougeret de Montbron (Berlin, 1758). Bengesco I, n°378. Girard De Propiac : Beautés De L'histoire Des Croisades et Des Différens Ordres Religieux et Militaires Qui En sont nés, Paris, 1820. 1 vol. in-12, glazed blond basane, smooth spine decorated, coat of arms of the Collège Royal de Marseille on the upper cover. Contemporary binding. Together, 2 volumes.
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VOLTAIRE La Henriade. Nouvelle édition, considérablement augmentée. Amsterdam, par la Compagnie, [Rouen?], 1759. 2 volumes in 1 vol. in-12, glazed marbled fawn basane, ribbed spine decorated with gilt fleurons. Bound in contemporary style, lower headband worn. A good copy. Off-text frontispiece portrait, 10 off-text intaglio figs, LII-222 pp.; 2 folded off-text maps, 305 pp. Some foxing. Bengesco describes an edition similar to this one, but dated 1752. This copy has been bound at the end with La Henriade travestie en vers burlesques by Fougeret de Montbron (Berlin, 1758). Bengesco I, n°378. Girard De Propiac : Beautés De L'histoire Des Croisades et Des Différens Ordres Religieux et Militaires Qui En sont nés, Paris, 1820. 1 vol. in-12, glazed blond basane, smooth spine decorated, coat of arms of the Collège Royal de Marseille on the upper cover. Contemporary binding. Together, 2 volumes.
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