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[AUGER (Athanase, Abbé)]. Harangues drawn from Herodotus, Thucydides, the Greek histories of Xenophon, his Retreat of the Ten Thousand, and his Cyropedia, inserted in an abridgment of the Histories of these same authors, with Notes on the text of the Harangues of Thucydides. Paris, Nyon l'aîné & fils, 1788. 2 vol. in-4, green morocco, finely decorated ribbed spines, red marble title-pages, gilt garland framing the covers, gilt edges (period binding). Slight rubbing or scuffing, dark spots at bottom of first cover of volume 2. A rare and fine copy in contemporary morocco of the large paper edition in-4 vellum.

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[AUGER (Athanase, Abbé)]. Harangues drawn from Herodotus, Thucydides, the Greek histories of Xenophon, his Retreat of the Ten Thousand, and his Cyropedia, inserted in an abridgment of the Histories of these same authors, with Notes on the text of the Harangues of Thucydides. Paris, Nyon l'aîné & fils, 1788. 2 vol. in-4, green morocco, finely decorated ribbed spines, red marble title-pages, gilt garland framing the covers, gilt edges (period binding). Slight rubbing or scuffing, dark spots at bottom of first cover of volume 2. A rare and fine copy in contemporary morocco of the large paper edition in-4 vellum.

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