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8 works in 10 volumes: - LOYSEAU (Charles). Treatise on Foreclosure and Abandonment by Mortgage, with a Treatise on Annuities. Latest edition. Geneva, Albert, 1621, in-4, 8 unnumbered folios—432 pp.—6 unnumbered folios—67 pp. for the Treatise on the Guarantee of Annuities. Contemporary fawn calfskin, gilt fillet binding, decorated ribbed spine. - Binding worn, cover nearly detached, upper panel missing. A few passages underlined. Handwritten Maleteste bookplate on the endpaper. Eviction is the abandonment of possession of property, whether voluntary or forced. - MABLY (Gabriel Bonnot de). On Legislation, or the Principles of Laws. Amsterdam, 1789, 2 volumes in-8, 222 pp. – 220 pp. Bound in period style as a single volume in light-colored, grain-textured sheepskin, with a ribbed spine, decorated panels, title label, and red edges. – A pleasant copy. - CORMON (J.-L. Barthélemy). Portable Dictionary and Pronunciation Guide, Spanish-French and French-Spanish, for the Use of Both Nations. Second edition. Paris, Cormon and Blanc, 1803, 2 in-8 volumes, 2ff.-XXVIII-776pp. - 2ff.-XXVII-692pp. Marbled fawn sheepskin, ribbed and decorated spine, red edges. - Title labels missing; a few loose quires; 3 misplaced leaves (beginning of Volume 1). - LEONARD (Nicolas-Germain) and A.-M.-H. BLIN de SAINMORE. [Two works in one volume]. 18th century, 8vo. Bound in the period in tortoiseshell-patterned sheepskin, with gilt framing, decorated ribbed spine, title labels, and marbled edges. - Headbands torn off by 1 cm, a few scattered small foxing spots, a brown stain on the inner margin of 5 folios of the preface to *La Requête des filles de Salency*... LEONARD (N.-G.): Pastoral Poems, followed by *The Voice of Nature*, a Poem, *Letters from Sainville & Sophie*, and other Pieces in Verse and Prose. Geneva and Paris, Lejay, 1771; X-222 pp.—1 folio of tables. Beautiful Rococo frontispiece title page, included in the pagination, engraved in intaglio by de Ghendt after Marillier; 2 vignettes and 2 tailpieces by Eisen, engraved in intaglio by Aliamet and de Ghendt. Léonard was born in Guadeloupe in 1744. He held the position of lieutenant general there. (Cohen, col. 622). BLIN de SAINMORE (A.-M.-H.). Joachim, or The Triumph of Filial Piety. A drama in three acts in verse, followed by a selection of miscellaneous poems. Amsterdam, and available in Paris: Delalain, Le Jay, Ruault, Brunet, 1775; 230 pp.—1 folio. - 1 illustration by Marillier, engraved by Duflos. Following Joachim: “Petition of the Daughters of Salency to the Queen”; numerous poems, epigrams, and occasional verses. (Cohen, col. 154). - GARRIGUES (A.-J.-M.). Theory of Happiness. Paris, Le Normant; Versailles, published by the author, 1819, in-8, 2ff.—194 pp. Light-colored, grain-textured sheepskin, smooth spine, red title label, gilt fleurons and trelliswork, marbled edges. (Contemporary binding). - Well bound, interior fresh. 1 split in the jaw. - DELILLE (Abbé Jacques). *L'Homme des champs, ou les Géorgiques françoises*. Strasbourg, Levrault, 1800, 8vo, 2 leaves–XXIX pp., followed by pages 30–265—frontispiece. Contemporary binding in granite-patterned fawn sheepskin, with a gilded framing frieze; smooth spine decorated with a fine gilded lattice pattern, red title label, gilt edges. - Inner hinge slightly open; upper cap slightly rubbed. First edition. - The Imitation of Christ. New edition. Chalon-sur-Saône, Delorme, 1805, 8vo, VII–359 pp. Bound in contemporary fawn-colored, grain-textured sheepskin, smooth spine with decoration, title label. - Label from the paper merchant Matheron. Some slight rubbing on the binding, a few scattered small stains, paper very slightly yellowed. - [HOME (Henry, Lord Kames)]. *Elements of Criticism*. The eighth edition. With the author’s last corrections and additions. London, Vernor and Hood, 1805, 2 volumes in-8, X-418 pp. (pagination error on pp. 392–395) - IV-458 pp. Blue-tinted paper half-leather bindings, spines covered with white paper, title handwritten on the spines, entirely untrimmed. (State of first publication). - Old handwritten bookplate on the endpaper: Geo. Smith, St. John, Oxon. Interior of the volumes is fresh and with full margins. Endpapers soiled or torn.