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Ivoire - Clermont Vassy Courtadon Thomas

231 - VILLEMAIN (Abel-François) 7 works, 10 volumes:

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€50 - 90

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VILLEMAIN (Abel-François) 7 works, 10 volumes: - Course in French Literature... An Overview of 18th-Century Literature. New edition. Paris, Didier, 1876, 4 volumes, in-8. Contemporary wine-colored half-shagreen bindings, corner pieces, ribbed spines, gilt heads. - Spines slightly faded, margins slightly yellowed. - Essays on the Genius of Pindar and on Lyric Poetry in Relation to the Moral and Religious Elevation of Peoples. Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1859, in-8, 2ff.-614pp. Contemporary wine-red half-shagreen binding, corner pieces, ribbed spine, gilt head. - Spine faded, minor scuffing on the binding. - Selected Studies on Contemporary Literature. Paris, Didier, 1857, 8vo, 2 folios–XI pp.–462 pp. Bound in contemporary wine-colored half-shagreen, corner pieces, ribbed spine, gilt head. - Spine faded, slight scuffing on the binding. First edition. - Studies in Ancient and Foreign Literature. New edition. Paris, Didier, 1877, 8vo, 2ff.-395pp. Bound in contemporary wine-colored half-shagreen, with corners, ribbed spine, and gilt head. - Spine faded, slight scuffing on the binding. - Studies in Modern History. New edition. Paris, Didier, 1875, in-8, 2ff.-XVIpp.-420pp. Bound in the period in wine-colored half-chagrin, with corners, ribbed spine, and gilt head. - Spine faded, slight scuffing on the binding. - *La Tribune Moderne*. M. de Chateaubriand. His Life, His Writings, and His Literary and Political Influence on His Time. Paris, Lévy, 1858, 8vo, 2 leaves–4 pp.–560 pp. Bound in wine-colored half-chagrin, corner pieces, ribbed spine, gilt head. (Late 19th-century binding). - A few rare pinholes. First edition. - Cicero’s *The Republic*. Translated from the text discovered by M. Mai, with a preliminary discourse and historical supplements. New edition, revised and corrected... Paris, Didier, 1858, in-8, 2ff.-LXVIpp.-403pp. Bound at the time in wine-colored half-chagrin, corner pieces, ribbed spine, gilt head. - Spine faded, minor scuffing on the binding.

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Antique and Modern BOOKS
Thursday, October 29
11:00 AM
19 rue des salins
63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France

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