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[EULOGIES - COLLECTION]. A collection of five pieces in one in-8° volume, porphyry sheepskin, smooth spine with decoration (contemporary binding). • LA HARPE (Jean-François de). Eulogy of François de Salignac de La Motte-Fenelon […] A speech that won the prize of the Académie Française in 1771. (45 + [III] pp.) • MAURY (Jean-Sifrein). Eulogy of François de Salignac de La Motte-Fenelon […] A speech that received the runner-up prize, as judged by the Académie Françoise, in 1771. (60 pp.). • [MASSON de PEZAY (Alexandre Frédéric Jacques)]. Eulogy of François de Salignac de La Motte-Fenelon […] A speech submitted for the Académie Française prize in 1771. (27 pp.) Paris: Published by the Widow Regnard, Printer, & Demonville, Bookseller, 1771. • LA HARPE (Jean-François de). Eulogy of Racine. Amsterdam. Also available in Paris, published by Lacombe, Bookseller, 1772. ([IV] + 99 pp.) • [NECKER (Jacques)]. Eulogy of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, A Speech That Won the Prize of the Académie Française in 1773. Paris: J.B. Brunet, Printer-Bookseller, & Demonville, Bookseller, 1773. ([VIII] + 135 pp.). First edition of one of Necker’s very earliest publications. A handwritten leaf from the period has been bound in limina, listing the “pieces contained in this volume.” The cap is damaged; the spine is rubbed and shows signs of worm damage; the half-title page has a paper defect and a tear (Eloge de Racine); an engraved bookplate has been removed from the inside front cover.
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