French Letters and Correspondence: A collection of leather bound books, 18th - 19th centuries, to include: Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne. In Three Books With Marginal Notes and Quotations. And An Account of the Author's Life. With a short Character of the Author and Translator, by a Person of Honour. Made English by Charles Cotton, Esq,. Fourth Edition, 3 Vols., full leather bound, London: Printed for Daniel Brown and others, 1711; Lettres de Monsieur L’Abbe Le Blanc, Historiographe de Bastimens du Roi., new edition, 3 Vols., full leather bound, Amsterdam, 1751; Fragmens de Lettres Originales De Madame Charlotte-Elizabeth de Baviere, Veuve de Monsieur Frere unique de Louis XIV., de 1715 à 1720. 2 Vols., quarter leather bound, Hamburg: Chez Maradan, 1788; and various other books (45)

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