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MARANA (G. P.). L'ESPION DANS LES COURS DES PRINCES CHRÉTIENS, ou Lettres et mémoires d'un Envoyé secret de la Porte dans les Cours de l'Europe [etc.]. Cologne, Kinkius, 1715. Three volumes bound in a large in-12 volume of ivory vellum with visible stitching and small flaps, smooth mute spine, red edges (Binding of the period). FOURTEENTH EDITION, enlarged and enriched with figures, of the first 3 volumes of this six-volume series. 10 steel-engraved PLATES, including 7 h.-t. figures and 3 fold-outs: map of Europe, map of Paris and view of the Dardanelles and Constantinople. A RARE FRICHE copy, preserved in its 1st vellum binding.

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MARANA (G. P.). L'ESPION DANS LES COURS DES PRINCES CHRÉTIENS, ou Lettres et mémoires d'un Envoyé secret de la Porte dans les Cours de l'Europe [etc.]. Cologne, Kinkius, 1715. Three volumes bound in a large in-12 volume of ivory vellum with visible stitching and small flaps, smooth mute spine, red edges (Binding of the period). FOURTEENTH EDITION, enlarged and enriched with figures, of the first 3 volumes of this six-volume series. 10 steel-engraved PLATES, including 7 h.-t. figures and 3 fold-outs: map of Europe, map of Paris and view of the Dardanelles and Constantinople. A RARE FRICHE copy, preserved in its 1st vellum binding.

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