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PRADT (Dominique Dufour, baron de). L'Europe après le congrès d'Aix-la-Chapelle, faisant suite au congrès de Vienne. Paris, F. Béchet aîné, 1819. In-8, blue cardboard, spine decorated with fillets, untrimmed (period binding). First edition. The Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, signed on June 26, 1816, fixed the border between France, Luxembourg and Belgium (then part of the Netherlands). [Bound with, by the same author:] Les six derniers mois de l'Amérique et du Brésil. Paris, F. Béchet, February 1818. The author reviews events in the second half of 1817 in Brazil and South America, where insurrections and a war of independence against Portuguese and Spanish authorities were taking place. Corners, edges and spines rubbed.

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PRADT (Dominique Dufour, baron de). L'Europe après le congrès d'Aix-la-Chapelle, faisant suite au congrès de Vienne. Paris, F. Béchet aîné, 1819. In-8, blue cardboard, spine decorated with fillets, untrimmed (period binding). First edition. The Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, signed on June 26, 1816, fixed the border between France, Luxembourg and Belgium (then part of the Netherlands). [Bound with, by the same author:] Les six derniers mois de l'Amérique et du Brésil. Paris, F. Béchet, February 1818. The author reviews events in the second half of 1817 in Brazil and South America, where insurrections and a war of independence against Portuguese and Spanish authorities were taking place. Corners, edges and spines rubbed.

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